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ADVERTISE IN THE McDOWELL TIMES, IT'S A PAYING INVESTMENT. VOLUME 12 THE CLOSING EXERCISES Bramwell Graded And High School Hard Successful Year---'The Kentucky Belle Beautifully Rendered---Prof. S. H. Guss Addresses Graduates Bramwell, W. Va., May 25.—The Bramwell Graded and High School closed its term Saturday night. Friday evening the pupils rendered a drama entitled "The Kentnedy Belle," and so successful was the rendition of the play that there were nearly one hundred requests that it be repeated. So insistent were the people of Bramwell, Simmons and vicinity that the play be repeated until Prof. R. O. Clarkson, Principal and the pupils agreed to comply with the numerous requests and the play will be rendered on the 28 The graduating exercises were held in the Bluestone Baptist Church Saturday night in the presence of a crowded house. The essays, solos and declamations were excellently rendered, each participant showing careful study and thorough preparation. The address to the graduating class was delivered by Prof. S. H. Guass, of the West Virginia Colored Institute. The speech was able and filled with wholesome advice. The speaker not only warned the graduates of the danger of thinking they knew enough but he assured them that they had simply began to prepare for life and its works. He paid a beautiful tribute to the Negro parents for the many sacrifices they are making in order that the children might obtain an education and be better fitted for life they were, and the professor told the parents of their duty to the children, the state and society. The speech was able, eloquent, and received by the audience with prolonged applause. Rev. R. H. McKoy, President of the Golden Rule Association delivered the diplomas and gave each member of the class some excellent advice. Music by class—"If we were you and you were us." were us." Invocation.....Rev. R. H. McKoy Music, class....."As we go through life" Salutatory.....Willie Ann Robinson Essay....."Why I'm proud of West Va." Hayden Andrew Morris. Solo—"I'll change the shadow to sunshine Julia Annette Holly. Essay—"Fraois Tousaint L'Overture" Lelia Claria, Pate Essay ..... "The women of our Race" Britches Irland Anderson Beatrice Trine Anderson Valedictory..... Julia Annette Holly Music, class..... "A Valedictory" Address to Graduates—Prof. S. A. Guss Solo—"Till the sand of the desert grow cold."—R. O. Clarkson. Presentation of Diplomas, Rev. R. H. McKoy. R. C. Clarkson, Principal Emmet A. Woods Maynard J. Holly Fannie V. Turner Ethel M. Kendrix CLASS ROLL Beatrice Irene Anderson Julia Annette Holley, Hayden Andrew Morris, Leila Clark Pate, Willie Ann Robinson, Elvira Julia Smith. PROF. CLARKSON MAKES GOOD. This is the most successful year in the history of the Bramwell Colored Graded and High School and Prof. R. C. Clarkson, the principal, assisted by an able corps of teachers has done very commendable work in bringing the school to its present high standing. The parents have co-operated with the teachers and the result is increased attendance, excellent discipline and the largest number of graduates ever turned out at one time. The proceeds derived from the play and exercises will be deposited in bank for the purpose of purchasing a piano for the school during the next term. SAME CONDITION HERE All Want "Puff" Without Price. (Sage of the Potomac in the Washington Bee.) Now speakin' on this advertisin' proposition, I notice that white merchant recognize antiracite newspapers as real banged up mediums, and if the shrewd white merchant uses them for advertisin' his wares I can't see for my life why these charcoal lozengers can't recognize a good thing when they see it. Last Monday I drapped into Chase's Weekly Sting office to go over the exchanges, and I, just for curiosity, went through their advertisin' columns to find how many white merchants were usin' them. In twenty choc- The McDowell Times. olate weeklies examined I counted 416 white men's advertisements, and only about 62 dinges' advs. showin' that the white merchant knows a good thing when he sees it while a chocolate colored individual what's in business is too slow to catch on. But the chocolate lozenger sure likes to have colored newspaper puff him up for nothin'. When a colored newspaper has somethin' nice to say about the near statemen which a seal-brown completion, or about the anthracite colored merchant, they go around to their neighbors and borrow their papers, mark the item and send it off to show their friends out of town how popular and prominent they are in town. But to pay for an advertisement why that's agin their ethics. If all the mercants here would advertise in the anthracite paper, and you know there aint but one—The Bee, William Calvin would sure give you some new newspaper. And you sure would get the worth of your money when you advertised in The Bee. Now William Calvin didn't ask me to write this. SMILE Smile, and your work smiles with you, Frown, and your work looks gloomy, Sigh, and the days are long and lonely, But a smile brings sunshine in a world so roomy. Smile, while the clouds pass over, And the rain comes beating down, Smile, when the rent comes due, And the landlord calls around. Smile, when your path looks thorny, Laugh, when your work is complete, And Nature joins in with you, When the world moves on so neat. Smile, when you are all alone, Smile, when you can't grin. For even a smile is loved by the stones Whose sweet sunshine they drink in. Smile, when you are down and out, And the world looks down on you, Smile, and the sun shines brighter about, And the flowers will spring anew. By smiling, when life's journey is ended, A greater world comes in view, By smiling, you will pass over a bridge suspended, To a city more lovely and true. B. A. HENSLEY, Pikeville, Ky. TOO MANY COUNTRY SCHOOLS IN WEST VIRGINIA --- "Facts and Fallacies about Consciidation of Schools in West Virginia" is the title of a timely publication prepared by L. J. Hanifan, state supervisor of rural schools, and just issued as a state document by M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of Schools. This pamphlet shows that although 178 one-room schools have been consolidated with other rural schools or abandoned outright within the past two years, there are yet in West Virginia, according to the opinion of the county superintendents, 566 one-room country schools that could be consolidated or abandoned without any great inconvenience to the scholars. This is a situation that every board of education should give careful consideration at their next annual meeting. For since it costs about $400 to run each school, it can easily be seen that the people are spending in the neighborhood of $200,000 for the support of schools that are not really needed for the education of our children. Better spend this money to improve the schools that are really necessary. A great many schools are being supported with an average daily attendance of from three to twelve children, all of whom could easily walk to a nearby school. In many places a half-dozen schools could be combined into a central graded school so that two or three teachers could teach the same children that six are now teaching. This is poor economy. The bulletin gives one concrete example where three teachers taught 28 children in three separate schools at a total cost of $1,200. The board of education simply closed two of these schools and provided that these 28 children should all attend the school that was most centrally located. The next year one teacher taught the one school of 28 pupils at a total cost of $400. By this rearrangement the board was able to save the district $800, or spend this amount to better purpose. The last few pages of the bulletin give a detailed account of the consolidation effected in the past in the different counties. It is a document that may well claim the attention of all who are in any way interested in the improvement of rural schools in West Virginia. Doubtless it is free to any one who is interested enough to drop Mr. Hanifan or Sept. Shawkey a postal requesting a copy. MRS. PHILLIPS ENTERTAINS Bramwell, May 25 — The home of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips was the scene of a beautiful party Saturday night in honor of Prof. S H. Guss of the West Virginia Colored Institute, who delivered the graduating address at the Bramwell Graded School earlier in the evening. Cards were played and refreshments served. Everyone present enjoyed a most pleasant evening. The guests were Profs. Guss and Clarkson, Mr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hill, Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Brown, Mrs. Mary E. Stevall, Mrs. Tomba. KEYSTONE, WEST VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, $ MAY 29, 1914 CHRISTIANITY AND RACE PREJUDICE That the color line is in vogue at the Sacred Temple—a Christian institution for the portrayal on the screen of sacred acenes—is regretable. But it is not startling. Color prejudice has elevated its cobrahead in many ways in the so-called churches of Christ in this so-called "land of freedom." Sixty years ago slavery was preached from the pulpit. Sixty years ago ministers of the Gospel vied with others in the ownership of slaves and the active advocacy of the slave regime. The Episcopalian Church was especially notorious for the defence of slavery. The Christianizing and civilization propaganda of the Christian Church among the colored race of mankind consisted largely in curbing the slave's desire for freedom and making him more tractable with the admonition that he be "kind and gentle and obedient as was the Lord Jesus." These slave-owning preachers did not fear to misrepresent the Bible to show that the bondage of the black man was the will of God. Christianity as taught by some white people has been a farce and a sepulchral lie. But this is not the fault of the gentlest and wisest of religions. The tenets that Christ taught and practised in the streets of Jerusalem are as wholesome and practicable today as then. They consisted simply in "doing unto others as you would they should do unto you." Yet they have sinned the most who have preached and professed this Gospel. True, the Mohammedans put to the sword or galley those who would not accept their proffered faith, but they at least offered in Mahonet's name an alternative: "Believe, and thou art free." In the eyes of the Christian, however, the black man was just so much negotiable flesh. If he believed so much the better. He would be the more submissive to their chains. Their tenet of Christianity was, "Believe in the gentleness and humility of Jesus and be thou submissive to our yoke." That the white man's brand of Christianity has suffered no material change with the advance of time is evident. Christian nations are still engaged in the slave traffic. Colored people are still being wrongly used at the hands of people who profess the gentle, loving Christ. Discrimination, segregation, race prejudice, lynching, legal murders and wrongly unnameable as uncountable are still being practised in this world of ours by those who preach the Christ and redemption. Does the Sacred Temple believe in one God, or does it offer one God for those occupying the lower floor and another God for the colored people it segregates to the gallery? - Amsterdam News. In McDowell County, Says Cooper Will Carry Wayne County. Hon. Walter R. Cook, Special Deputy Forest, Game and Fish Warden, of Rockview, W. Va.. is in McDowell County this week looking after the business of his office. Any information, assistance or protection desired of his Department, he is ready and willing to give the same. Mr. Cook's address is Rockview, Wyoming County, W. Va. In an interview with a representative of The McDowell Times, Mr. Cook said that beyond a doubt the sentiment in Wyoming county is strongly favorable to the nomination of Edward Cooper by the Republicans for Congress. He spoke of the work being done by Mr. Cooper to develop the resources of Wyoming and the favorable impression made by the Bramewell candidate when he was at Pineville some time ago. The Deputy Game Warden is sure that Mr. Cooper will get a majority of the Republican votes in Wyoming county for the nomination for Congress. Hon. W. Cook is a strong Republican and believes the Republican party will win in West Virginia this year as formerly. ANNOUNCEMENT Of the Thirteenth Annual Commencement of the BLUEFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE May 32 to June 3, 1914. 2:30 p. m. Commencement Sermon, Dr. M. W. Gilbert, President Salem Uni- versity, Salem, Alabama. Vice President 8:00 p. m. Annual Musicale, assisted by Mr. H. T. Burleigh of New York. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3. 8:00 p. m. Commencement Exercises Address to graduates, Dr. M. W. Gilbert. Presentation of Diplomas by Hon. J. B. Finley of the State Board of Regents. Mrs. Julia Broadenax of Tams, on the Winding Gulf, was in the city Saturday for a few hours. She was visiting Mrs. Syphon of Landgraff. THE MEXICAN SITUATION San Antonio, Texas.—The Mexican Revolution which has impoverished Mexico and resulted in untold misery and slaughter of human beings, not only now presents a problem for this country, but the influx of Mexican refugees into this country who have fled and are fleeing from their country to escape conscription, presents a very grave and menacing problem for the Negroes especially of this State, and even for those as far West as Kansas. These thousands of Mexicans that have arrived, and are arriving daily into Texas constitute a menace to Negro labor in that they are driving the Negro out of employment on city work, public buildings, railroad construction work, farm work and other work upon which the Negro has heretofore almost exclusively been employed. In this city the Mexican population has increased to quite one-third of the total city population. In nearly all the construction work here, and to a large degree throughout the state, the Mexican has driven the Negro out because he works cheaper, and is able to live cheaper than the Negro, the Negro being unable to adjust himself to the filth and squalor to which the Mexican peon is indifferent. Not only is the Mexican driving the Negro' out of construction work, but as drivers of delivery wagons, autos, carts, he is even found serving as porters and cleaners around railroad stations. Practically all the railroads running through Texas, as well as city lines, are employing Mexicans on construction work to the exclusion of Negroes. In Houston, Temple, Waco, Dallas, Fort Worth and other Texan towns the Mexican peon threatens to supplant Negro labor. Even in Missouri and Kansas the Mexican peon as a railroad construction hand is beginning to present a menacing problem for unskilled Negro labor. The Mexican peon lives cheaply in shacks with scarcely no furniture. So scant is the furniture in their homes that when they decide to vacate one house to occupy another, they can almost imitate the legendary Arab, who in the silence of the night folded his tent and quietly stole away. The moving of a Mexican from one house to another is but a matter of a few moments. Many of their homes do not even contain chairs—they squat on the floor as the Red Men squat in their tepee. There is nothing common between the Mexican peon, who has arrived, and is arriving in this state daily, and then slowly but surely moving northward, and the American Negro. The Negro down here regards himself as being superior to the grossly illiterate and greasy Mexican peon, and the peon, taciturn and exclusive, gives no indication of a desire to affiliate with the Negro. He indicates no desire to affiliate with any race. They are content to be left alone with their own. On all the railroads, no matter how filthy or dark of skin, and some of them are very, very dark, the Mexican peon rides in the same coach with the whites, and that too without complaint from the whites, while Negroes no matter how cleanly and gently attired, or how cultured, are forced into the small compartment labeled "For Negroes." Verily the Mexican Revolution, which has emptied into America's melting pot thousands upon thousands of Mexican peons, presents a most seriously menacing problem to the unskilled Negro laborer, not alone in this state but in sister states lying to the north whose railroad lines run into and through this, the Lone Star State. And this menace, fully realized and appreciated by the race, suggests to the Local Negro Business Lengues in this section increased activity, and greater race cooperation. The Mexican, who for the past three years has revealed in the murder and outrage of Americans on Mexican soil, and confiscation of American property located in the Astec county, are now free to cross the Rio Grande, and once over the divide, southern municipalities, southern railroads and corporations reward these bridges of yesterday with employment in preference to Negro who heretorefo has been the strong, willing and docile oak. This country will soon have, if not already, a Mexican problem on the north side of the Rio Grande more serious than the one now confronting it on the south side. FAMOUS TROUBADOURS Prof. Eph. Williams and his famous Troubadours will be with us again Monday, June 1st. This show is the greatest aggregation of Negro artists ever got together under one management, and for nine years Prof. Williams and his artists have delighted thousands of people, old, young, white and black in every state in the United States with "Sillas Green from New Orleans," the trained ponies and best Negro comedy following the saw-dust trail. This show presents some attractions not to be found in any other show. It is clean, interesting, amusing and high class in every particular. OFFICIAL REPUDIATES PITTSBURGH SLANDER Charleston, W. Va., May 26.—Dr. S. L. Jepson, the secretary of the State Board of Health, has repudiated the alleged interview with him, widely circulated in West Virginia newspapers, to the effect that representatives of his organization had found the hookworm to be epidemic in the Pocahontas coal fields. This interview was originally printed in the Pittsburgh Post and was copied by West Virginia papers. When the letter of Dr. Stiles, the noted hookworm expert, claiming that the disease was prevalent in the southern part of the State, was made public, Governor Hatfield, the coal operators in that section and the members of the State Board of Health indignantly denied the expert's assertions. Then immediate steps were taken to prove that the statements were untrue. A bacteriologist from the State University was sent to the Pocahontas region. A few days ago, according to Dr. Jepson, a representative of the Pittsburgh paper called on him and was told that there was no evidences that the cases of hookworm there were other than sporadic. Soon after this interview appeared in which Dr. Jepson was quoted as saying that whole families were effected and that conditions in that region were very bad. In a letter received in Charleston today from Dr. Jepson it is stated that the reverse of this was told to the representative of the Pittsburgh paper. Governor Hattfield and other State officials are indignant that the papers of the State should have been unconcealed used as mediums to circulate the false interview. Dr. Jepson says that no coal field is wholly free from this disease and that the West Virginia fields are in better condition than most regions where coal is mined. NEGRO FARMERS WORK ROADS NEGRO FARMERS WORK ROADS Martinsville, Va., May 35.—The proclamation by Governor Stint, for all patriotic citizens of Virginia to work on the public roads, one day, was generally observed in this section and in some respects mostly by the colored farmers, and those who are patrons of rural route No. 3, eminting from Martinsville deserve special mention for their untiring work on the day specified by the Governor, (May 28). Below you have the names of the colored men, most of whom own their homes, have fine horses and mules, good wagons, and in fact are good farmers. They worked the road the entire distance through their neighborhood that is traveled by their rural letter carriers, putting it in the best condition ever, since the installation of free delivery. Wm. M. Preston, Taylor Preston, W. S. Preston, Sam King, Henry Dandridge, Patrick Marshall, John Staples, Dan Smith, Wm. J. Preston, Prince Cahill, Mack Cahill, Noah Cahill, Wallace Hairston, Robert Walker, John Baker, Mack Baker, A. J. Hairston, Geo. W. Dillard, John Spencer, Wm. Dandridge, S. L. Dodson, Abe Mitchell, and others. These people appreciate the privilege of answering the call of Governor Smart to show their progressive interest in the welfare of their county and state. However, these patriotic citizens used a school for their children, there being none at present. Two schools could be supplied with children if they had busses and teachers. They desire schools and should have them. FRANCE NOW ADMITS JOHNSON IS CHAMP Self styled boxing authorities abroad have decided that Jack Johnson is the real champion and have sanctioned his match with Frank Moran. How any one could dispute the fact that Johnson is the champion of the heaviest is something that cannot be explained. Never was there a fighter with a better claim to the title than Johnson. He beat Jim Jeffries, whom everyone conceded to be the greatest of all, and since that time no man has appeared who could be regarded as Johnson's equal. The trouble with Johnson is that he has a flock of enemies to contend with, and as the result of this has seldom been given his just dues. Because of his domestic affairs Johnson has been in bad with the public for a long time, but it is scarcely fair to judge a man's fighting ability by what takes place in his private life. Throw aside the prejudice and Jack Johnson stands out as a champion in all the word impies. The big black is a natural-born fighter, and did not get at the top by any boosting from the press agent. His color was against him, and he had a hard row to boe. When he stepped in the ring with Jeffries at Reno he proved that he was as game a man as has ever worn a shirt. All kind of threats were made against Johnson, but he did not wilt. He went in the ring and fought his fight, defeating the great Jeffries with ease. After the contest he acted the part of a good sport and said nothing but kind words about Jeff while the latter took on a grouch and gave out that he was doped. Had Johnson taken the same course as Jeffries after the contest he would have been put down as a quitter. The big black has done nothing to be branded as a coward. He is there with the goods and should whip such fellows as Moran without much trouble. Of course it would be better pleasing to all to have a white heavyweight champion, but let him be as good a fighting machine as the black man he whips. ITALY AND ABYSSINIA Reports from Aden indicate that, after eighteen years of quiet, trouble is brewing between Italy and Abysinia. The rumor seems to rest mainly on the fact that two hundred field guns were landed at the port of Djibouti, supposedly for the Abysinian Government. The difficulty between the two countries has always been that of the boundary line. Italian colonial holdings in West Africa, near the mouth of the Red Sea, have been considered by Abysinia as a perpetual menace, and possibly as a beginning of the subjection of the African kingdom to Italian rule. The ultimate probability of such an outcome is not great in fact, for England has always maintained the friendliest relations with King Menelik, at times accepting an alliance with him against the "Mad Mullah" of the Soudan. At the same time the Italians will not forget easily the disastrous defeat of General Baratieri in 1886, when 400 white and 200 native troops were killed or seriously wounded. The result of the defeat was a provisional treaty of peace, recognizing the absolute independence of Abbyssinia and fixing the boundary line of Italian possessions near the outpost colony of Eritrea. The opportunity was also improved by England for fixing the Egyptian-Abyssinian line. In the present trouble, if it exist, no authoritative word has yet come of the immediate cause for renewed hostility. At the same time it is known that the Italian Government has from time to time hoped to divert national attention from political issues at home by starting s foreign war—a trick turned none too cleverly in the case of Tripoli. vention. "Let us see what the election of a Democratic legislature means. It means first that it can pass any act by a bare majority over a governor's yeto and can therefore do as it please to do? "It is hardly necessary to remind those of you who live in Charleston and southern West Virginia that the same men are running, controlling and dominating the Democratic party as were the leaders of the same when the Republicans came into power in 1897. I am speaking in the seats of the mighty, where the Chilton-Mac-Corkle-Holley dynasty is perennial and flourishes like a green bay tree. The only guide we have is the lamp of experience. The leopard does not change his spots nor West Virginia Democracy its purpose. "It is important that those who are not Democrat, yet who for any reason would directly or indirectly make the doubtful experience of giving the Democratic party control of this state, should pass and reflect. This is a state south of the Mason and Dixon's line and that means, regrettable as the fact is, that a political victory and control by the Democratic party of this state would mean political reprisals not dreamed of in Northern States. Registration acts, introduced and passed by the Democrat in recent legislatures, means the disfranchisement of tens of thousands of black and white men. All the ingenuity of Virginia or Georgia election laws would be enacted into our laws to disfranchise and disqualify those who are obnoxious to the Democratic leaders. The redistricting of the state for legislative, congressional and other purposes, under the census of 1910 has not been made, owing to division of power between the two houses." LYRIC OPENS The Lyric Theatre, under the management of W. Bank, opened its doors again Tuesday night of this week. The house was crowded from 7 to 10 o'clock and the people seemed much pleased with the pictures. There was some complaint about the quality of the music, but Mr. Bank assured his pat-ons that it would be up to the standard as soon as he could make suitable arrangements with high class musicians. The public seemed to be highly pleased at the privilege of seeing a good show for 5 and 10 cents when they have seen so many indifferent ones for 10 and 15 cents. The competition between the Hip and the Lyric will be fierce and both will be compelled to give good shows and reasonable prices if they hope to divide the crowd. --- ARCHIVES and HISTORY DEPT. CIRCULATION OF ANY WELLA STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. NUMBER 13 National Capitol Events of Interest From the Seat of Government WILL HAKNESS THE GRAND CANYON Ralph H. Cameron, of Phoenix, Arizona, is in Washington, and he has unfolded the greatest plan ever proposed to reclaim any section of the country—for Cameron is going to do nothing less than harness the power of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and he has a hydroelectric development project which in comparison makes the Niagara Falls and Keokuk Dam developments look like children's ships in mud puddles. Mr. Cameron is the man who built the Bright Angel trail on the rim of the Grand Canyon, and people said it was "Cameron's folly." But that was years ago before the hundreds of thousands of tourists got their first real thrills in life entering Arizona by this only passage way from the north down what has become the most famous scenic route in the world. When the people of Arizona tired of promises of statehood, and wanted "the goods delivered," they sent Kalp, Cameron to Congress. He stayed here three years, and at the end of that time he went back home—but not to the home that had been the "Territory of Arizona," but to the "State of Arizona," which he had promised he would secure "or never again ask for political office." Thirty two years ago Cameron quit clerking in Hovey's store in Boston, and went to Arizona; where he became one of the first of the sheriffs who have furnished the inspiration which present-day moving picture men thrive upon. The Grand Canyon hydro-electric development project has been Ralph Cameron's dream for seventeen years. It means that nearly $50,000,000 will be expended, and that 200,000 horse power will be secured. This wondrous power will be distributed over 2,500,000 acres of land, and will reclaim most of it, as it has been established that there is an abundance of underlying water, and this will be pumped for irrigation purposes and for mining projects, whose difficulties have been in the lack of power and water. The Rosevelt Dam replains 250,000 acres—one-tenth of the Grand Canyon project. The last engineers in the United States have O. K.'d the new project, and it seems assured. THE FIERY SENATORS It is not because they belong to different parties, but just simply because they no not like one another, that Senators Ashurst of Arizona and Bristow of Kansas "come together" so frequently. Ashurst was making a plea for an appropriation for exterminating the prarie dogs a few days ago, when Bristow suggested that the Arizona solon was prompted by a desire so secure jobs for his constituents. There-upon Ashurst used such forcible language us to stretch the dignity of the Senate. Some months ago Senator Ashurst had occasion to criticise Bristow, and the latter stirred up a temperateous sea of trouble by calling attention to the large number of telegrams Ashurst had sent out at government expense. This caused an inquiry into the use of the telegram service by Senators, and the disclosures were so astonishing that it was found necessary to put an outside limit on the amount any Senator might have charged to the government. INSIST THAT IT CAN BE DONE The Administration leaders have not weakened in their demand for adjournment of Congress shortly after the first of July. The conviction in the United States Senate, that the only direct track to legislation is through long drawn out discussions before committees and the Senate itself, has been shocked, and some of the solons are rather resentful of a plan which boiled down simply means that the Senate must be rushed. The theory of the Administration men is that with the carrying out of the proposed legislative program the case of the Democratic party can be put up to the people of the country in midsummer. According to the Wilson idea, the voters will be obliged to do justice to Administration and therefore return a Democratic Congress. Of course the Republicans and Progressives figure it out altogether differently—but you must remember that they are the minority in Washington, and have to be satisfied with the leaves. DENIES WITHDRAWAL OF PAT- RONAGE There are a few Democrats who jumped over the traces of Administration policies and among these was Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, who left President Ransdell on the tariff bill on account of free sugar. For many weeks a report has been going around that the President withheld patronage from the Louisiana Senator in consequence of his revolt. Ransdell says there is not a word of truth in the yarn, and since Louisiana people are back at the hem of the Presidential garment, they no doubt find comfort while allaying the fears of Senators Walsh of Montana, O'Gorman of New York, and other Dems, orcats. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION BE RATHER THAN SEEM TO BE WHITTICO & HILL PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS. M. T. WHITTICO, Editor. T. EDWARD HILL, Business Mgr. Articles of more than ten lines will be charged 10 cents per line. Published every Friday in the interest of the Negro Race---His Civil and Po- tical Rights. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year in advance.....$1.50 Six months in advance.....75 Three months in advance.....45 One month in advance.....2 Single copy.....05. ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED BY REQUEST Special rates to churches, schools and colleges. Subscribers changing their Post Office address must notify the publishers or else his subscription will be collected just the same as if he had not. Entered as Second Class Matter March 22, 1904, at the Post Office at Keystone W. Va., under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. FRIDAY MAY 29, 1914. OH YES. THEY ARE PATRIOTIC In another column of this issue we publish a communication from a prominent white man of Henry county, Va., praising the patriotism of the Negroes of his section for responding to the call of Gov. Stuart to work the roads for one day. In that same article this white man calls attention to the fact that these same colored people have no school for the education of their children and he might have gone farther and stated that they are denied the right to vote for the men who govern them. Yet these Negroes are patriotic. Yet they respond to every call of duty, whether it is paying taxes to support schools which their children cannot attend, working roads over which they have no control, fighting for a country which does not protect them in the employment of life, liberty and property, and responding to every call whether made by a constable, governor or president. This is sublime patriotism. Blind and foegetful patriotism. Part i o t i s m which brings no reward. Negroes all over the country during all the years of its existence have done more than their duty toward state and nation, yet here we have one sample of the treatment accorded them in return - property owners, good citizens, children denied the right of education and God knows conditions are much worse further South. How the Negro can be patriotic and loyal under these conditions is the mystery of the race. PLAY SQUARE WITH ALL The Republican convention held in Charleston last week was a success in every respect and through the efforts of Hon. L. O. Wilson and other Negro leaders the resolutions were amended so as to put the Republican party of West Virginia on record against the disfranchisement laws of the South and assert that representation in Congress and in the Electoral College should be based on the actual vote cast. This was the contention of the McDowell Times prior to the convention and we are pleased that the convention did not hesitate to put it in their platform and it is to be hoped that when the Republican party again comes into power in Congress, as it surely will, that it will enforce these great war amendments and protect the Negro in the enjoyment of his rights. The day is at hand when platform pledges must be kept, or the failure of any party to do so will subject it to the just condemnation of the voters and the retirement of the leaders to private life. The Republican party of West Virginia can win with the Negro, and without him it is doomed to certain defeat, so it behooves the great party of Lincoln to be fairer with the Negro in the future than in the past, because the old campaign arguments will not keep the Negro in line as formerly. MEDICAL SOCIETY The West Virginia Medical Society convenes in this city Thursday of next week and Friday the clinic will be held at the Harrison Hospital in Kimball. The society is composed of a majority of the Negro physicians and surgeons of the State and they will discuss topics not only of interest to the profession but of far-reaching importance to the general public. The Negro physician is doing much for the advancement of his people. He is teaching them how to conserve their health by living clean lives in sanitary surroundings. The people of Keystone, Kimball and adjacent towns should do everything possible to make the visit of the medical society to this section an enjoyable one. The Flat Top Medical Association and the ladies of this vicinity are sparing no time or expence to properly entertain the visitors. The night session on June 4th will be open to the public. Subjects will be discussed relating to the public health and every man and woman in Keystone and vicinity should attend. Send us your Job Work CUT THIS OUT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE THE GULDEN RULE The tenth annual meeting of the Golden Rule Beneficial and Endowment Association which convenes in Tazewell, Va., June 2, is expected to be the greatest session of this splendid organization ever held and every member of the order should attend and bear the reports of the officers and committees. The Golden Rule Association is a West Virginia institution and is doing a splendid work for the race. During the ten years of its existence, thousands of dollars have been paid out in sick and death benefits and much valuable property has been acquired and every obligation promptly met. The investment department is among the soundest in the state and handsome dividends are paid stockholders every year. This institution should have the support of every man and woman interested in the economic progress of the race. Rev. McKoy, the president, Mr. Miller, the secretary, and all the leading officers are conservative business men, worthy of confidence. They are doing everything possible to make the Golden Rule a strong creditable institution and they should have the co-operation of all people who desire to see Negro institutions success and multiply. Attend the Tazewell meeting. While The McDowell Times wants to please its readers, it nevertheless, is opposed to leaving the principles of right and duty just to please its readers. All churches, if they are right, are advising the way to one and only one Heaven. Then how and why preachers of different denominations are fighting one another so bitterly is a question too hard to answer. --- The leading De mcrats of today are not wanting the colored man to vote the Democratic ticket. The big-hearted Democrats of this country, and there are some very fine, clean and honest Democrats, politically, are opposed to that parnicious policy of disfranchisement to which the Democratic party is committed. Alter all, it is a very poor man who is too mean and self-cohecited to lay aside personal feelings and for the common good of the masses, get together and build up a strong institution which has for its object practical usefulness for the whole people. Preachers are the bitterest enemies to a cause of unity. If preachers are too selfish' prejudiced and jealous to advocate, preach an practice the principles of peace, unity and good will among the people who in the low eternal regions of punishment will do it? Oh, you hypocrites, deceivers, misleading creatures of strife instead of peace, do right—lay down personal landation and for the good of the people do right. You women ought to have pride, dignity and high tone spirits enough to hold civil conversation 5 minutes at least without talking ugly about your next door neighbors. Everybody is asking everybody else, "How is politics? Who is going to be the next so and so for the next so and so office?" Time will tell. GUAND RALLY AT ALGOMA Last Sunday was a successful day for the Baptist patient at Algoma under Rev. L. A. Watkins. The amount re: 'r' on their rally was $196.84. To meet was of 10 days duration. Rev. Nesbitt, D. D., assisted in the services, 25 addition to the church: was the result, 9 of which we for Baptism. Mr. Bailey rnd Misses Robinson, Clifford and White, teachers in the Elmfield Colored Institute, were guests of Miss Nannie Watkins at Algoma. When you read, read THE TIMES FREEDOM GAINED Successful Point of Law Scooed by Attorney D. Robert Tomlinson. William Brown, William Spradley, Jim Thomas and Frank Alexander were charged before Squite A. C. Huffard with being persons not of good fame. The justice convicted the accused men of the crime and imposed a fine of $1.00 and costs against them, and ordered them to work on the county road for a period of 12 months. The accused men were then sent to the county road to work, and were there working for two weeks, when Atty. Tomlinson was employed to have them released under a writ of babacas corpus. The lawyer thereupon filed his petition in an informal way and cited Chap. 153, Sec. 1 of the Code of W. Va. of 1906 for his support of his contention for the discharge of the accused men, and after a lengthy argument by the Assistants Prosecuting Attorney and Attorney Tomlinson, His Honor Judge Strother, ordered the accused men to be discharged and released from working on the county road, because the Justice had exceeded his jurisdiction in fining and sentencing the accused men to work on the county road on such a charge. ODD FELLOWS TURN OUT AT ELBERT. Last Sunday a large crowd of Odd Fellows belonging to Elbert Lodge, No. 7835, with members from neighboring lodges turned out and had their annual Thanksgiving Sermon preached. Rev. G. W. Woody preached the sermon and right well did he quit himself. The ladies of the House hold of Ruth also turned out and by their beautiful regalia made a strong impression. Collection was lifted by Messrs. R. W. Harris and J. E. Whittle. C. G. Mayo was master of ceremonies. Editor M. T. Whittico was called on and made one of the best ten minutes speeches it has been our pleasure to hear. He held the great crowd breathlessly silent during the whole time, except to be interrupted by laughter and applause. Collection amounted to about $20. Insurance Combination sick, injury, accident and death benefit protection at minimum cost. $2,000 death benefit; $1,000 for loss of limb or eyesight; from $5,000 to $15,000 weekly sick or accident benefit; $100 emergency relief benefit. Cost is $6,00 per year; no other dues nor assessments. In this insurance all men and women are placed upon an equal basis, regardless of occupation. Each person makes the same form of application, pays the same amount of premium and receives the same amount of benefit. Men and women between the ages of 16 and 60 are accepted. No restriction as to occupation, only railroad men employed on track, and municipal house cannot be accepted. Claims and within sixty days anywhere in the U.S. can apply or Europe. O11 reliable insurance company. $100,000 on state deposit as a protection for policy-holders and to guarantee the payment of claims. For further free information address Gustave E. Werner, Secretary and General Manager, Box 23, Buffalo, N. Y., state age, sex, occupation and mention Dept. B, 93. Republican Club to Hold Weekly Meeiings. Slab Fork, W. Va. May 27, 1914. To The McDowell Times, Keystone, W. Va. Please publish for us that our Republican Club will meet each Friday night of every week at the colored school house Yours very truly, J. R. CLARK, President. JAMES H. KING, Secretary. UT FOR FUTURE ger buy beer in West Vir will get the best beer and NOTICE OF APPLICA TION FOR FRANCHISE To Whom It-May Concern: This is to give notice that on the 30th day of April, 1914, the undersigned Elkborn Valley Traction Company, a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of West Virginia, filed with W. M. White, Recorder of the City of Keystone, McDowell, county, West Virginia, its application in writing to the Common Council of the said City of Keystone for a franchise to construct, maintain and operate a street railroad upon, along, across and beside certain streets, uses roadways, alleys and bridges within the corporate limits of the said City of Keystone. The said application fully sets forth the names of the streets, avenues, roadways, leys and bridges desired to be used for the said street railroad and fully sets forth the obligations and undertakings offered to be made out by the undersigned corporation and the said application is now on file in the office of the said Recorder. All citizens, corporations, firms and persons interested in the granting or refusing of the said franchise are hereby notified that at a regular meeting of the Common Council of the said City of Keystone to be held the 1st day of June, 1914, at 8 o'clock in the Council Chamber of said City of Keystone the undersigned corporation will ask the Common Council of said city to grant to the said franchise in accordance with the provisions of said application or with such terms and provisions as the said Common Council may deem proper and expedient. If, for any reason, the said Common Council shall fail to hold a meeting on the date named the matter will be called up for consideration at the first regular meeting of the said Common Council held thereafter. ELKHORN VALLEY TRACTION COMPANY By C. C. Hale, Secretary. H J CAPEHART At ty-at-Law Phone 61 KEYSTONE, W. VA Fractice in all the Courts Order of Publication, WEST VIRGINIA: At Rules held in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of McCowell County on the first Monday in May, 1914. Abram Hawks. The object of this suit is to obtain from the defendant by the plaintiff a divorce A VINCULO MATRIMONI And it appearing from an affidavit now on file with the papers in this cause, that the defendant is a non-resident of the state of West Virginia; it is therefore ordered that the said defendant do appear at the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of McDowell county within one month from the date of the first publication of this order, and do what is necessary to protect her interest herein. And it is further ordered that a copy of this order be published once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper published in McDowell county, and that a copy of the same be posted at the front door of the court house of McDowell county for twenty days before decree is rendered. A copy. Teste: B. HAMPTON GRAY, Deputy for W. Burbridge Payne, Clerk. Froe & Canchart, P. O. ORDER OF PUBLICATION WEST VIRGINIA At Raleigh held in the Clemson Dowell County, on the first day in May, 1911. The object of this suit is to obtain from the defendant by the plaintiff a divorce. And it appearing from on affidavit now on file with the papers in this case, that the defendant is the plaintiff, the County within one month from the date of the suit, originate, it is therefore ordered that the said defendant do appear at the Clerk's office of the County within one month from the date of the suit, this order, and do what is necessary to protect this order, and do what is necessary to protect it. And it is further ordered that a copy of this order be published once a week for four successions in some newspaper, published in McDowell County for a copy be posted at the front door of the court house McDowell County for Twenty days before decree is made. A copy, Teste; B. HAMPTON, GRA Deputy for W. Burberry, Clerk, H J. Capacht REFERENCE ginia, buy it in Ports- the fastest service. DON'T FAIL 10th Annual Meeting Of The Which Convenes In North Tazewell, W June 2, 191 this being the only original institution of its kind with an uninterrupted success from the time of merits for it the heartiest support of its even as friends. North Tazewell, Va. June 2, 1914 This being the only original institution of its kind in the State with an uninterrupted success from the time of its organization, merits for it the heartiest support of its every member as well as friends. Endowment Department The Endowment Department of the Golden Rush has lived up to its every promise; has paid off it has ever come against it, and stands ready to negotiation that might come against it now. Ecobligations on paper is as good as the gold on the Nursery Department of this association has available record in that it has not only protected it but has greatly stimulated them to action and along fraternal lines till this department has fully. People all over Virginia and West Virginia are going to this 10th Annual Meeting which will be best meeting ever held. You only have to look at the roll of officers and tell how highly in esteem this association is he The Endowment Department of the Golden Rule Association has lived up to its every promise; has paid off every claim that has ever come against it, and stands ready to pay every obligation that might come against it now. Every dollar of its obligations on paper is as good as the gold dollar itself. The Nursery Department of this association has made a most enviable record in that it has not only protected the little children but has greatly stimulated them to action and to such activities along fraternal lines till this department has grown enormously. People all over Virginia and West Virginia are getting ready to go to this 100th Annual Meeting which will be the biggest and best meeting ever held. You only have to look at the roll of officers and members to tell how highly in esteem this association is held. Stock Department ow is the time, when money seems to be sney. The safest investment ever made is wh out shares of stock with the Golden Rule n is paying a most flattering dividend. Th e best property in Bramwell and Bluefield Now is the time, when money seems to be scarce, to make money. The safest investment ever made is where the man takes out shares of stock with the Golden Rule Association which is paying a most flattering dividend. They have some of the best property in Bramwell and Bluefield that is owned in Mercer county. This association has as an attestation of its unimpeded unceasing progress, money enough in the bank to enter into some very substantial business of a creditable nature and that upon a cash basis measured in dollars by the thousands. We advise any man who wants to make and save money to get ready to meet with the stockholders in their annual meeting at Tazewell and take out several shares of stock; thereby have your money help you make more money. Don't forget the date and place, June 2, 1914, at the town of North Tazewell, Va. Some of the best people in the world live in Tazewell, Va., and will treat you white. They are all O.K.. They will make it pleasant for you so go and be at ease. Get ready. So important is any meeting connected with this institution, till he who fails to attend each meeting may readily concede that he has missed a rare treat. These are golden days for the Golden Rule Association This institution is growing every day because it has able honest and straightforward men at the head of it. Men like Rev. R. H. M. Coy, P. W. White, G. S. Miller and others are not picked anywhere every day. That's the reason the Golden is so strong. Attend the meeting. Man is mere drift on the sea of time until he secures a home for himself and for those he is responsible. The securing of a home is an obligation from which no man is ever released. It is a duty that he not only owes himself and family but the community at large. COMPLETE ABSTRACT OF TITLE FURNISHED TO EACH PURCHASER LOTS SELLING FAST. COME AT ONCE AND TAKE YOUR CHoice A Beautiful Home for a Mere Trifle The Institute Building and Land Company has made it possible for every colored man in West Virginia to own a home in the most beautiful spot of the Kanawha Valley for the smallest trifle. This company composed of the leading colored men of West Virginia has purchased Two Hundred Acres of Land just eight miles from Charleston, at a cost of $25,000.00, in order that every colored man in the state may purchase a home at a small price and on reasonable terms and in a section where the greatest opportunities for the cultivation of education and home life are offered. Only $10 Down and $10 a Month This great tract of land has been laid off in lots, with wide streets and avenues and sell from $100 and upward, with only $10 down and the balance payable in monthly payments of $10 cash. Locals And Misses Belva Lockwood and Mae Viola Harris, daughters of W. H. Harris, special agent for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, will graduate from the Teachers Course in Bluefield Colored Institute next Wednesday. Rev. W. H. Harris, of Richmond, Va., father of W. H. Harris, Jr. will attend the graduating exercises of the Bluefield Colored Institute next week. Rev. Harris taught school at Coaldale and pastored at Good vill some years ago and has many friends in this section who will be glad to see him again. The hearts of Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Young have been made to rejoice and the home has been lighted up by the presence of a fine young nine pound son last Tuesday. Mother and baby doing well. Dr. R.C. Harrison was present on the arrival of this new guest and made him permanently welcome to this home. Mrs. Sarah Mansfield made a hurrying trip to her her home in Henry county, Virginia, Thursday, to be with her sick uncle, but he is much better now. She returned Saturday night. Don't fail to attend the ten annual session of the Golden Rules at Tazewell, next Tuesday and Wednesday, June 2-3. Everybody is getting ready to witness the eighth annual meeting of the State Medical Association in Keystone and Kimball on the 4th and 5th of June. Some of the brainsest men of the race will be present. Don't forget now that this will be a meeting of the most important and influential professional men of the country. White Woman a Negro's Heir The will of James Patton, an ex-slave, who died at St. Joseph, Mo., bequeaths life insurance of $1,000, several hundred dollars in the bank and a house and lot to Miss Edith Raines, a school teacher of Minneapolis, Minn. Patton accompanied the Raines family when it removed from Alabama to Missouri and during recent illness Miss Raines cared for him. She was made the sole beneficiary in his will. Home! Home Home! THE CROWNING GLORY OF EVERY MAN IS THE ACQUISITION OF A HOME The Institute Building and Land Company Main Office: K. of P. Building Room 2, Phone 2414, Charleston, W. Va. Wilcoe News The town of Wilcoe is doing well despite the tact that times generally are dull. Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Younger a fine son. Mother and son doing well. The Odd Fellows of this town and Gady turned out with the Elbert Lodge last Sunday. The Wilcoe Cornet Band made music for the Odd Fellow turn out. Mrs. Harrison Hemphill, who has been indisposed for some time is much improved. Prof. R. J. Wormley made a trip to Graham, Va., where he is instructing the Graham band. The wife of Mr. Swanson of Maybeury died here Sunday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Andrew Clark and was buried Monday at 2:30 p. m. COAL OPERATORS TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS For Love Feast, Get Together and Acquainted Meetting—C. R. Boardman, Committeeman. Under the direction of Hon. C H. Boardman, General Manager for the Tidewater and King Coal and Coke Companies, the coal operators both of the Flat Top and New River coalfields, will meet next Tuesday, June 2, at White Sulphur Springs. Mr. Boardman is committeeman on arrangements and is sparing no pains to make this one of the most successful business meetings ever held by a body of men. The object is only for the purpose of "getting together and getting acquainted." Rather the meeting is what we usually call an old Methodist Goodfellowship meeting. The very fact that such a goodwill meeting is planned by such a body of able representative men as the above named business men means much and deserves the compliments of everybody. The fact that this arrangement is in the hands of such an able, fair and impartial man as Mr. Boardman again speaks volumes for a good meeting. We do up to date Job Work. G. E. FERGUSON, President Building Room 2, Phone 2414 HIAWATHA BLUEFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE By the Student Choral Society Assisted by Mr H. T. Burleigh Tuesday Evening, June 2nd, 1914 ADMISSION 35 CENTS Tickets for Sale at BRIDGEFORD PHARMACY Keystone, W. Va. H. HEMP HILL First Class Tailor Wilcoe, W. Va. Box 72 ALL ORDERS GUARANTEED This beautiful site adjoins the West Virginia Colored Institute, one of the leading institutions in this country for the education of colored youths. Hundreds of boys and girls have left this institution and are doing a great work for their race and country. No other section in the state offers such advantages, being accessible to Charleston and the coal mines of the Kanawha Valley, street cars on either side with the Kanawha and Michigan Railway in the center. One attractive feature of our contract is that we agree to make a good and sufficient deed to the widow or orphans of a purchaser should he die before paying for his lot. This is done if the purchaser dies within ten minutes after purchasing lot. C. W. SMITH, Sec. and Treas. I have for sale 3 lots in Graham, Virginia, that I am offering at $200 each. These lots are high and dry, fenced and in good shape for building purposes. Situated near the street car line, 2 corner lots and 1 middle lot. Street on each side. Near East Graham. Call on or write SAMUEL SOLINS Attorney-at-Law Welch, West Virginio LOTS FOR SALE West Virginia Colored Institute Deed to Widow or Orphans Genuine Negro Comedies "The Funny Side of Life" SILAS GREEN FROM NEW ORLEANS Newest Songs, New Music, New Dances, New Comedy, Special Scenery, Beautiful Costumes, High Class Specialties, Nothing Old. The Best in the World----30 Colored Artists. Trained Ponies, Watch for Parade, Teeming with Attractions. Showed in every state and city of importance in America. UNDER CANVASS, MONDAY, JUNE 1st, Keystone, W. Va. Branch Office: Institute, W. Va. Wanted In M. P. house or with dance orchestra. Will locate or travel. Have full line of traps, bell and M. P. effects. Address--- DON'T FORGET "The Rivals" At B. C. I. Friday evening, May 29, 1914, at 8 o'clock. A comedy full of wit and humor. Laugh and grow fat. The characters wear the most elaborate costumes of the period of the play. Admission 15c. Reserved seats 25c. Buy your tickets now. Don't forget the grand spectacular play. Come on and see.