Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Officers of the General Batist State Association of Illinois Committee on Nomination beg to report as follows: Moderator Eld. J. E. Thomas. 1st Vice Mod. " W. P. Washington. 2nd Vice Mod. Eld. C. w. Norment. Recording Sec. Eld. P. B. French Corresponding Sec. Ec. J. B. McCray. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Armstead. Added Members Eld. F. Bomar Cairo Eld. J. E. Haywood Chicago Eld. Jas. Swanson Maywood State Missionary H. E. Mewilliams. State Mission Board Chairman Dr. C. C. Phillips Cor. Sec. Eld. J. D. Davis Treasurer Eld. J. E. Haywood Other Members Eld. S. H. Pruitt Descon R. Lewis Sister Sallie Thomas Chicago Sister M. Hudgin Cairo Sister J. w. winston Otimstead Sister Carrie Casly Shawnet on Urish Jenkins Rev. J. A. Royal Ch, " L. Drane Chicago Rev. A. J. Bowers Dewmaine Rev. D. Johnson Dewmaine " B. H. Hubter Evansten " K. V. Howard Grand Chain " Robt. Grey Marphysboro " J. L. Martin Colps Descon J. Simpson Hallidayboro " J. Baker Brookport Eld. Thomas Morris Metropolis Bro. Chas. Skates Mound City Descon J. L. Taborn Educational Board Chairman Dr. B. J. Prises Chicago Cor. Sec. Sis. Frankie Jenkie Cairo. Sister willie Greyer Colps Sister Emma Farrew Cairo " J. M. Owens Sparta Eld. J. B. McCrary Metropolis Committee on Nomination C. C. Phillips J. E. Hoywood G. H. Mitchell F. Bomar Sister Stella Duprec " willie Greer " M. B. Taylor Elder H. C. Armstead " H. E. Mewilliams Members of various Committees of National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated) Foreign Mission Board H. E. Mewilliams, D. D. Chicago, Ill. Home Mission Board J. B. McCrary, S. T. B. Metropolis, Ill. Educational Board Dr. B. J. Prince, Chicago, Ill. Evangelical Board Elder F. Bomar, Cairo, Ill. B. Y. P. U. Board Dr. W. P. washington, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Benefit Board Elder James Swanson, Maywood, Ill. Publishing Board Dr. J. F. Thomas, Chicago, Ill. Resolutions J. E. Haywood, Chicago, Ill. State of the Country Elder H. C. Armstead, Pulaski, Ill. Vice President Dr. C. C. Phillips, Golconda, Ill. Brookport, Ill. Nov. 6, 1917. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Editor of the Metropolis Gazette, Metropolis, Ill. Sir:—Following are the names of those who were neither absent nor tardy in the Brookport Schools for the month of October. Primary Room, Edgar S. B. McCraary teacher: Earline Jordan, Clifford Shelton, Orthel Dougherty. Intermediate and Grammar Grades, Lee R. Crim, Principal, Ethel Wheeler, Leona Givens, Naomi Davis. W. Henry Carlye, Nora Taylor Yoors vory truly, Prof. Williams, City Supt. NEGROES MUST BE WAITED ON Law Provides Penalty For Cafe Owners Refusing To Serve Them Mayor Threatens To Revoke License of Any Advertising "No Admittance." City, state and army authorities are likely to invoke the aid of an illinois law, it was said today if Rockford restaurants, hotel and theater proprietors or others catering to the public, refusing t) serve negro officers or soldiers, or in any way discriminate against them on account of their color An act of 1911 in the Illinois statues which may be relied upon for prosecution of anyone found guilty of discrimination against the negro soldier. That all persons within the jurisdiction of said state of Illinois shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodation, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants eating houses, hotels, soda fountains, saloors, barber shops, bath rooms, cafes, bicycles (bicycle) rinks, elevators, ice cream parlors or rooms, railroads, omnibuses, teages, street cars boats, funeral hearse's and public conveyances on land and water, a d all other places of public accommodations and amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all citizens. A stiff penalty is prescribed The text of the law governing the penalty, in part, follows: shall be for every offense forfeit and pay the sum not less than $25, nor more than $500 to the person agreed * * * and shall also, for every such offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not to exceed $500, or shall be imprisoned not more than one year, or both * * * The person convicted, however cannot be made the defendant in both a civil and criminal action. He can be prosecuted on only one of the charges. Will Include Jitneys. The law, it is held, is broad enough to include jitneys operating between Rockford and Camp Grant. Although the law has been on the statues since 1911, no thought of it has been given by local merchants because the conditions were different until the selection of Rockford as a national army cantonmen and sending of several thousand negro soldiers here. Of the seven or eight hotel and restaurant proprietors interviewed today by a Register-Gazette reporter asking them what they intended to do relative to serving negro soldiers, each intimated a desire not to wait upon colored men but all declared that they would do so. Signs Not Tolerated. One restaurant proprietor yesterday put up a sign in the window, which read that the place MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." did not cater to and would not serve negroes. Within a short time, he said, the police department ordered him to remove the sign, notifying that Mayor Rew said he would revoke the restaurant's license unless the order was obeyed. Other restaurant owners setting aside certain tables for the negroes, while others are serving them the same as white patrons. —Rockford-Gazette The law enacted in 1911 is a good one and comes at an oportune time. The framers of the law were broad minded men of their day and time. This law should be executed not only in Rockford but in every other city where a negro, is refused the same rights and privileges of any other citizen. We look upon any individual as being low and contemnable who would refuse to accord to an American citizen any right guaranteed to him under the law, because of his color. We consider any many who refuse to serve that class of men who are preparing to defend the American Flag and his country against a foreign toe while many of just such so-called men are at home with their families at a safe distance from the enemy, too cowardly to offer their services, except it would be against a poor weak race, who has done nothing amiss, but on the other hand has always proven to be true and tried when this country needed men with hearts of store and nerves of steele, Jim Crowism and segregation is a menace to this country and those who attempts to practice it, and have less confidence in any one who attempts to practice it or advocates it than we have in a "clecker." Mayor Rew, of Rockford, has the courage of his conviction and regards his oath of office, and is not like most of our city and state officials looking for the popular chord. NOTICE To the Ministers of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association, Greeting: In keeping with the resolution passed by the Mts Olive Baptist Asssciation in its last session, when convened with the Siloam Missionary Baptist church Unioaville, to form an Alliance of Ministers with the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, for the protection of the Baptist churches in Southern Illinois. Therefore, in keeping with the said resolution endorsing the recommendation coming from the East Mt. Olive Association, each minister is urged to be present at our next Executive Board meeting which convenes with the Shiloh Baptist church, Future City, Thursday before 4th Sunday in November 1917, to organize said ministers alliance. Done by order of the Moutut Olive Baptist Association. Don't fail to read the advertisement of the Mt. Vernon Car Shop Mlg Co, Mt. Vernon, Ill. for laborers. Plenty of work for the winter. Will be put on Sale at a 15 per cent Reduction Come in and let us help you save money. J. Spieldoch & Co. SAM LANG. Manager The Club Convention The Club Convention of the First Baptist Church will convene Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Mrs. Lillie A. Towle, President Mts. Bessie M. Cork, Recorder. Praise Service The following Topics to be discussed: 1. What can be done to arouse the christians of the church to actual church duties.—Opened by Mrs. Lillie A. Towle. 2. The Club Convention—Its success and failue—Opened by Mrs. Ruth Nichols. Saturday Night Unfinished business, election of officers Entertainment. Program of Club Convention Sunday November 18. Segregation Unwarranted JUSTICE AT LAST Negro Segregation in South Abolished Supreme Court's Decision Against Louisville Affects Many Other Cities Washington, Nov. 5,—Louisville's Negro segregation ordinance was today declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The decision affects similar ordinan- ces in Baltimore, Richmond, St. Louis and many other Southern cities. In rendering the opinion, Justice Day said: "The authority of the state to pass laws in the exercise of the police power, having for their object the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare is very broad and has been affirmed in numerous and recent decisions of the court. But it is equally well established that the police power, broad as it is, cannot justify the passage of a law or ordinance which runs counter to the limitations of the federal constitution "That there exists a serious and difficult problem arising from a feeling of race hostility which the law is powerless to control and to which it must give a measure of consideration, may be freely admitted. But this solution cannot be promoted by depriving citizens of their constitutional rights and privileges. The right which the ordinance unnulled was the civil right of a white man to dispose of his property if he saw fit to do to a person of color and of a colored person to make such disposition to a white person. "We think this attempt to prevent the alienation of the property in question to a person of color was not legitimate exercise of the police power of the state and in direct violation of the constitution." St Louis, Nov. 5. - The Negro segregation ordinance of St. Louis never has been operative, as its enforcement was enjoined by the federal distret court. A S. S. Contest. A Sunday School Contest of the Unity Baptist S. S. Brookport, First Baptist and Antioch Baptist S. S. Metropolis, commencing on the 3rd Sunday in Nov. and to continue up to and including the 1st Sunday in Jan. 1918. The contest will be for attendance and collection. A prize is to be awarded to the winning school. The schools are to report each week through The Gazette, as to attendance and the collection. The arrangements as to terms of contest will be arranged by pastors and Superintendents. This is done with a view of increasing the attendance of the schools. Notice Future City, Ill. Nov. 11, '17. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Dear Sir, we received your card concerning the Executive Board and the pastor had me to inform you that there had been no change made, so we are looking for you all Thursday before the 4th Sunday in Nov. Wm. Young, Pastor. Susie Lawton, Clerk. Qualities Widely Apart. Admiration and familiarity strangers.—George Sand. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON PRINT BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MOCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY NOV. 16, 1917. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Interested as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. MOCRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contrib- sors must be known to us in every in- tance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year. $1.50 1x Months. 75 Three Months. 40 Single Copy. 05 la Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. KINKY Hair Made to Grow Long, Soft Silky KINKY STARRING says her hair was tappy and short until she used Exelento, and saw she can be as it is all inches long, soft and all. Don't be fooled all your life by using some fake preparation which claims to straighten kinky hair. You are just fooling yourself by using it. Kinky hair cannot be made straight. You must have hair first. Now this EXELENTO POMADE is a Hair Grower which feeds the scalp and roots of the hair and makes kinky nappy hair grow long, soft and silky. It deems dandruff and stops Falling Hair. Price 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Writes for Particulars EXELENTO MEDICINE CO. ATLANTA, GA. (Please pay up) your subscription. Can you afford to loose your race papers for want of support? It is up to you. What are you going to do about it Mr. non payer? Decide by paying up please. If you have any Race pride and leve for truth, you will pay your subscription. We are toiling day and night to give you the news. We solicit your patronage at the Leader 9:00 Pearl St. We are pleased with the many nice things said of the Gazette, but we appreciate the money you owe us the more. Remember, the paper is $1.50 per year. The paper has taken another raise, postage will be higher, 3c for stamps and 2c for post cards. So please pay up. Any one writing to this office on private matter and requiring an answer must enclose a stamp. Notice. Notice is hereby given to all those who are in arrest for The Gazette, that we will be compelled to cut you off our list Nov. 15 and if not paid by that time the account will be given out for collection. We are giving you fair warning as we would like to retain you on our list. You need the paper and the money to operate the plant. If you can't pay all pay a part and have to the 1st of Jan. to pay up in full. NOTICE Eldr J. H. Hilly, Missionary for Mt. Olive Baptist Associia- tion postoffice address, is Colp, Ed. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the ooly positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Fried Fish every day at the Grand Leader Cafe. The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards, Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church advertisements. Thanksgiving will be observed by pastor McCrary, and members at Brookport. Preaching at 10:30 a.m. and prayer and praise service. Dinner will be served in the basement at 12:30. A splendid musical and literary program at night. Something doing every minute in the basement; be sure to be there and meet your friends. Watch for the announcement later. Mrs. Ruth Donlow, will have one side and probably Mrs. Janie Wimbly the other. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the Ministers and Deacon's Union will meet with the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association with the Shiloh Baptist church, Future City, Thursday before the 4th Sunday in November, and we hope each member of board will be present SPARTA. ILL Editor Gazette:- It is so pleasing to say some thing from time to time through the columns of your worthy paper concerning our church and S. S. Our S. S opened at 9:00 a.m. by Miss Willie B. Browning. The lesson was reviewed by Rev. D. G. Hutson. Rev. P B. French reat scripture lesson at 11:00 from James and chapter. Prayer was offered by Rev. Hutson, then the pastor introduced Re. W. Williams of Centralia, who preached a strong sermon from Rom 7:24. At 8:00 Rev Williams preached another strong sermon from Aets 1:6. We apreciate the visit of Rev. Williams very much. The sewing circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Sallie Willinms this week. The carnation club will meet at the residence of Mrs. Mattie Haynes this week. The golden leaf club will meet at the home of Mrs. Bessie Britton Easy to Pronounce. The easiest word to pronounce the English language is said to "murmur." It is simply an expul- of the breath repeated Qualities Widely Apart. Admiration and familiarity are strangers.—George Sand. Good Advice. Since thou art not sure of a minute, do not throw away an hour.—Karin Jimmie and a German Boy Clash—Must Do Three Things to Save Country. It was a warm evening, so Uncle Dan went out to a lawn seat under the spreading branches of the great tree that suggested the farm's name of Oak Hill. Billie and Jimmie had been laying for him, so Uncle Dan was captured by the boys on short order. "Say, Uncle Dan." Billie began. "We had a red-hot argument at school yesterday with Carl Newman. Carl said that German schools were miles ahead of our schools and that no one could come up to the educated German. Well, Jimmie got hot under the collar and handed it back to him good and plenty. Jimmie said if their education taught them to torpedo Lusitanias, sink hospital ships, murder hundreds of women and children, make slaves of the Belgians, poison wells, destroy fruit trees and commit all sorts of crimes, then we did not want that kind of education here. What do you think about it, Uncle Dan? I told Jimmie you spent a lot of time in Europe and knew all about schools, so give us your opinion." "Well," replied Uncle Dan, deliberately, "the German schools are very thorough; they furnish exceedingly valuable and practical instruction. The industrial training given there is probably the best to be found. The schools as a whole, however, in my opinion, appeal to the head only, and never to the heart. The aim and trend is to make the individual blindly submissive to the Prussian plan of world dominion; they teach that it is the destiny of Germany to rule the world, and that to the glory and advance of Germany, in this plan, all things must give way; that the kaiser as head of the state, can do no wrong if he carries forward the plan of world control. Some of the greatest teachers and preachers even defend and justify her heartless crushing of Belgians and the many other atrocious crimes she has committed in this war. Thank God, our American education reaches both the head and the heart. It is an education with a soul, and we must maintain the high ideals we have fixed. In a word, in Germany, the people are taught that they exist for the government, while here the government exists to serve the people." "Just wait a minute." Interrupted Billie. Say that over again slowly, so I can write it down." Uncle Dan, smilingly, complied. Billie exclaimed: "Now, we will hand that nut out for Carl to crack. Carl, you know," continued Billie. "has a very smart father who keeps him posted on the German arguments. Carl said our government was only an experiment anyway; that it would not last twenty years, and that it might burst up any old time. Jimmie asked him if Germany was so mighty good, why they did not go back there to live." "Our government will go on forever, won't it. Uncle Dan?" "Now," said Uncle Dan, "you are raising a big question, and one that has troubled me for years. Our government is still in the experimental stage; in fact, it is the greatest experiment ever undertaken, and if popular government is to be successful, a few things must be done, otherwise, to paraphrase the great Lincoln, the government of the people, by the people and for the people, will perish. It is my firm conviction," said Uncle Dan, in a very impressive manner, "that if our country is to go on, as we hope and pray, we must very quickly do at least three things, and I will name them in the order of importance as it appears to me: "First, adopt compulsory universal military training of all young men physically fit before they reach the age of twenty years. "Next, require that every foreigner who comes here to live must, within a reasonable time, say a year, declare his intention of becoming an American citizen and take the necessary steps to do so, thereby, from that moment, assuming all the obligations of citizenship of our country, and that means he must defend our fing upon equal terms with our native born, and if he is not willing to do this, he should be sent back from whence he came. "That's the stuff," exclaimed Billie. "And, finally, enact such legislation as will make voting compulsory. Popular government is based upon the participation of all and the rule of the majority, and democracy cannot continue and be successful unless we live up to the spirit of the institution. "The first step, however, is the passing of the Chamberlain bill for universal military training. If you will get the leading citizen, and especially the editor of your paper, to write personal letters to your congressman and both senators, urging their support, it will help enormously. "I see by the morning papers," said Uncle Dun. "that the Rotary clubs of the entire country, the livest, most efficient organization to be found, have unanimously decided to get back of the Chamberlain bill and give it loyal and enthusiastic support. They will work with the Universal Military Training league to accomplish this important piece of legislation, which will do more than anything else to make us a real nation with a common viewpoint, bring us back to sane living, and teach us the patriotism of service." Philosopher Regards Passing Away as Only Natural and Good—Fears the Unnatural. They were discussing death, a little group of men, all of them in the best of health and the glory of living. Men of the world, in a sense, and enjoying life to its utmost, the subject of death was introduced by the announcement that a widely-known man with whom all of them had been acquainted had passed away. One of the party, according to the Columbus (O.) Dispatch, said he hated to think of death, that he was actually afraid to think of it. He so loved life that death seemed a terrible enemy, and he would like to escape it. But the philosopher of the party—only he was not known as a philosopher until he delivered his little preachment—said he could not understand such an attitude toward death. "I am not afraid of anything that is natural," he said. "It is the unnatural that alarms me. It would be unnatural to live forever, and I would hate to be sentenced to such a punishment. But death is natural; I am not afraid of it. Billions of people have died; they are dying every day. Little children have died and old men and women, and the birds and beasts all pass away, and the fishes in the streams, and every living thing upon the earth is to die. Why, then, should a great bulk of a chap like myself, one who has had and is having his time, why should I fear death?" Not afraid of that which is natural? If only all of us could understand that the natural is good and the unnatural bad, what a splendid world it would be for everything and everybody. CURIOUS LEGACIES ARE LEFT Man Willa Wife a Farthing, to Be Forwarded to Her in an Unstamped Envelope. A gentleman lately left "the large oaken walking-stick, with silver head bearing verses alluding to it having been a sapling grown from an acorn planted on my great-grandfather's wedding day," to his nephew, and to his sister "the damask tablecloth with figures and armorial bearings commemorating the marriage of Louis IV. of France." A Liverpool lady, who died lately, left to her nephew—nephews seem to be specially favored—her doormats, except parlor mats and the ocloth in the hall. Perhaps she feared he might sell the ocloth and go in for riotous living on the proceeds. The will of an eccentric lady contained the following clause: "As to my sisters, nieces, nephew, brother-is-law, cousin, nothing shall come from me to them but a bag of sand to rub themselves with. None deserve even a goodbye. I do not recognize a single one of them." Dear old thing! Meantest of all, however, was the man who left his wife a farthing, with directions that it should be forwarded to her in an unstamped envelope!—Titt-Bits. Curious Timekeepers. To ascertain the time at night, the Apache Indians employed a gourd on which the stars of the heavens were marked. As the constellations rose in the sky, the Indian referred to his gourd and found out the hour. By turning the gourd around he could tell the order in which the constellation might be expected to appear. The hill people of Assam reckon time and distance by the number of quids of betel-nuts chewed. It will be remembered how, according to Washington Irving, the Dutch colonial assembly was invariably dismissed at the last puff of the third pipe of tobacco of Gov. Wouter Van Twiller. A Montagnis Indian of Canada will set up a tall stick in the snow when traveling ahead of friends who are to follow. He marks with his foot the line of shadow cast, and by the change in the angle of the shadow the on-coming party can tell, on arriving at the spot, about how far ahead the leader is. Flowers of the States. Twenty-six states of the Union have adopted state flowers—official or formally agreed upon emblems. Massachusetts is not one of them, although there is a sort of growing idea, amounting almost to common consent, that the trailing arbutus is our state flower, says the Boston Transcript. If it is, we have that emblem in common with the province of Nova Scotia. Connecticut has a legally adopted flower, and it is in many respects the finest possessed by any state in the Union. It is the mountain laurel. There are flowers more beautiful than our laurel of the woods, but its bloom is so easily conventionalized, so bright and so decorative, that it is peculiarly fitted for emblematic purposes. Time to Work Hard When fortune begins to smile upon you is the time you will have to spunk up most. Then it is that most folks begin to take it easy—and fail. Getting into the public eye is a challenge to make good. There are thousands of others in the same business. You must surpass them or remain one of the crowd. If the place you occupy gets crowded you must spunk up a little more. Put on a little more steam, a little more brains and push are needed. Maybe the other fellow is at his limit now. Keep on pushing to the front. The courage with which you strive will receive its reward. Work with brain and hand and the victory is bound to be yours.—Pennsylvania Grit. AN EYE-OPENER FOR DIETIST Woefully Discouraged When He Bees Array of "Eats" Consumed in "One-Arm" Lunch. The man who reads all the good health stories in the magazines and regards himself as an adept amateur dietist ate lunch recently in a "one-arm hash house" downtown, says the Indianapolis News. Usually he eats at home, and the experience was a novel adventure for him. Nearby, filling his own chair and encroaching on the arm of the chair next him, sat a big man, hale and hearty, consuming a piece of apple pie, three doughnuts and a big cut of cake. Opposite, galloping through a cut of roast beef, mashed potatoes, a cheese sandwich and stewed prunes, was a young fellow, a bookkeeper's stoop hunching his shoulders and an indoor pallor spread over his face. Tall, bony and ascetic, the man in the long, black coat dabbed in a bowl of chicken broth and a plate of wafers, while the plump stenographer at his elbow ate a plate of beans and a French pastry with relish. The capable office manager of a woman's employment bureau, who sat near the door, was carefully masticating boiled hominy, a chicken sandwich, a lettuce salad and a dish of fresh fruit while conversing on office management with the vice president of an insurance company who was getting away with raw oysters, sausage and sauerkraut and strong black coffee. Finishing his most carefully selected lunch, the amateur dietist left the lunchroom with a baffled expression, paused on the curb, shook himself together and muttered to himself: "Well, Til he jiggered! Irving Cobb sure said something when he wrote, 'What is the moral of it all? You can search me!'" WHY NEGROES ARE RELIGIOUS Solace Was Found In the Gospel Brought to Them by Missionaries or Taught by Masters. The negro sought a channel for artistic solace, into which he could throw the symbolism of his racial longing. He found it in the religion brought to him by missionaries or taught him by his masters. Here he was free to dream his dreams and create his visions of future happiness, for no master could punish him for praising God. Thus he "found religion," and in religion he found no mood of his simple soul unnourished. It is, then, not so hard to understand why the negro's folkong is, in its superficial form, so predominantly religious. The "spirituals" of the camp meeting show a quite uncelebrastical variety of style and mood, a variety, in fact, co-extensive with the emotional range of simple peasant life. They include lively dances, bitter lamentes, paeans of joy and majestic, organlike anthems. In the Bible stories which are retold in ballad form in some of the spirituals the negro found expression for his buoyant, genial humor. Nearly all the familiar moods of folkong, from the gayest to the most profoundly tragic, are to be found under the religious veil which permitted the slave to live his own varied emotional life without interference from his master.—New Republic. All Circus Rings Same Size Railway tickets are the same size all over Britain and the continent and America-viz., two and one-quarter inches—and have been so for the last 50 years. This surely indicates a world wide tendency to standardize. Every builder's ladder is built to scale, and the fireman's ladder is on the scale of the seaman's run up the rattles, not the bricklayer's trudge up the wooden rungs. But perhaps the greatest triumph of standardizing is that of the circus. London Tit-Bits says: There are big and little circuses in the world, but the ring is always of the same diameter, for the bareback rider has discovered the exact angle at which he can square the circle. No matter whether it be a ring cut in the turf or a luxuriously appointed theater, the circus ring never varies a foot. Natural Liberty. The natural liberty of man, by entering into society, is abridged or restrained, so far only as is necessary for the great end of society, the best good of the whole. In the state of nature every man is, under God, judge and sole judge of his own rights and of the injuries done him. By entering into society he agrees to an arbiter or indifferent judge between him and his neighbors; but he no more renounces his original right than by taking a cause out of the ordinary course of law, and leaving the decision to referees or indifferent arbitrators. In the last case he must pay the referees for time and trouble. He should also be willing to pay his just quota for the support of government, the law and the Constitution—Samuel Adams. Learn to Listen Men like the girl who can chatter, but they love the girl who can listen. There are so few of us who learn this in early youth. But as we get older we realize that people in general would rather talk to a good listener than to be entertained by the most brilliant conversationalist in the world. If you are not popular with men and with women, make up your mind to find out why you are not. Study yourself and try to realize if you are disloyal, unsympathetic, opinionated or selfish.—Exchange. NOTICE. The blank pages of the Gazette are caused by reason of American Press Association with whom we had a contract to furnish inside pages selling out to the Western Newspaper Union without giving us time to arrange with the other company We will be able to give you better service shortly. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association according to the adjournment of the Board meeting at Unionville, last September will meet with the Shiloh Missionary Baptist church, Future City. Thursday before the 4th Sunday in November. We are praying for a great meeting and invite all the members to join us at that time and place in a spirit of meekness and prayer. Prepare good strong gospel sermons and come prepared to bombard Satan's camp and Sin as never before. Cry aloud and spare not, and make this meeting worthy of the name in every particular. To the Ministers. Let each minister come prepared to do his christian duty, to give liberally for the expense of the meeting, to be able to do this have your church to send not less than $100 by you or in a letter for said purpose. To the Churches Let's be all that word "Missionary" stands for. Be true to the cause for which Jesus died, and think of the foot prints of the Baptists stained with blood, from John the Baptist and through all the ages until now for the principles set forth in the Bible and send up 5c per member this quarter for the missionary. We have a man out on field looking out for the waste places and his family is looking to him, while he is depending on you. Do all you can for the District and State work this year. I know you are loyal to Christ and your Association. Commence now to collect your money. Let us go through the gates, gather up the stones and lift up a Standard for the people The only way to get the genuine New Home Sewing Machine is to buy the machine with the name NEW HOME on the arm and in the leg. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company. ORANGE, MASS. Unanswered. "George," she asked. "If we were both young and single again would you want me to be your wife?" "Now, my dear," he absent-mindedly replied, "what's the use of trying to start a quarrel just as we have settled down to enjoy a quiet evening?"—Chicago Record-Herald Dignaz tells us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take them." Officers of the General Batist State Association of Illinois Committee on Nomination beg to report as follows: Moderator Eld. J. P. Thomas, 1st Vice Mod. " W. P. Washington. 2nd Vice Mod. Eld. C. w. Norment. Recording Sec. Eld. P. B. French Corresponding Sec. Ed. J. B. McCrary. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Armstead. Added Members Eld. F. Bomar Cairo Eld. J. E. Haywood Chicago Eld. J. w. Swanson Maywood State Missionary H. E. Mcwilliams. State Mission Board Chairman Dr. C. C. Phillips Cor. Sec. Eld. J. D. Davis Treasurer Eld. J. E. Haywood Other Members Eld. S. H. Pruitt Deacon R. Lewis Sister Sallie Thomas Chicago Sister M. Hudgin Cairo Sister J. w. winston Otmnetown Sister Carrie Casly Shawnetown Urish Jenkins Rev. J. A. Royal Chicago " L. Drane Chicago Rev. A. J. Bowers Dewmaine Rev. D. Johnson Dewmaine " B. H. Huhter Evansten " K. V. Howard Grand Chain " Robt. Grey murphysboro " J. L. Martin Colps Deacon J. Simpson Hallidayboro " J. Baker Brookport Eld. Thomas Morris Metropolis Bro. Chas. Skates Mound City Dsacon J. L. Taborn Educational Board Chairman Dr. B. Prize Chicago Cor. Sec. Sis. Frankie Jenkie Cairo. Sister willie Greyer Colps Sister Emma Farrow Cairo " J. M. Owens Sparta Eld. J. B. McCrary Metropolis Committee on Nomination C. C. Phillips J. E. Heywood G. H. Mitchell F. Bomar Sister Stella Duprec " willie Greer " M. B. Taylor Elder H. C. Armstead " H. E. Mewilliams Members of various Committees of National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated.) Foreign Mission Board H. E. Mewilliams, D. D. Chicago, Ill. Home Mission Board J. B. McCrary, S. T. B. Metropolis, Ill. Educational Board Dr. B. J. Prince, Chicago, Ill. Eangelical Board Elder F. Bomar, Cairo, Ill. B. Y. P. U. Board Dr. W. P. washington, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Benefit Board Elder James Swanson, Maywood, Ill. Publishing Board Dr. J. F. Thomas, Chicago, Ill. Resolutions J. E Haywood, Chicago, Ill. State of the Country Elder H. C. Armstead, Pulaski, Ill. Vice President Dr. C. C. Phillips, Golconda, Ill. Brookport, Ill. Nov. 6, 1917. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Editor of the Metropolis Gazette, Metropolis, Ill. Sir:—Following are the names of those who were neither absent nor tardy is the Brookport Schools for the month of October. Primary Room, Edgar S. B. McCrary teacher: Earline Jordan, Clifford Shelton, Orthel Dougherty. Intermediate and Grammar Grades, Lee R. Crim, Principal, Ethel Wheeler, Leona Givens, Naomi Davis. W. Henry Carlye, Nora Taylor Yoors vory truly, Prof, Williams, City Supt. Subscribe For The Gazette. ```markdown ``` Race Love. As I go about my daily occupation to and fro in the streets of this busy city watching the multitude that throng the highways, the majority of which are going on in the mad rush of haste floating with the tide of disgrace down to degredation. My soul grows in pain of grief because my people make up a large number of those who live on the lowest scales of life. Hence, we become aroused over the matter of Race love and pride which should claim the attention of every rational minded colored citizen of America. Were I to somewhat express my attitude towards my people as a race I would sound the alarm aloud with awakening power, but language canno, express it; however as an humble servant of God I'm forced to try to say something on this most important subject, not to master it but to give vent to my soul. I rejoice to note the rapid progress of our people in the few years since freedom; they have accomplished much good. They achieved great victory for both God and man, they are becoming more enlightened spiritually, intellectually and morally, which brings to my soul joy and happiness. But amid these encouraging thoughts I find yet a continued yearning within to see the black race spread itself in power, for there is much room for improvement and reformation among us. There are so many people who indulge in wrong rather than right it seems that they allow the undeveloped nature to predominate over the higher, and thus becomes enslaved by such, but however low they may be and whatever practice this or we the better thinking class must remember one thing and that is, they are our people. If they are bad, they are bad boys and girls, husbands and wives, so why not try to make them good? Regaruless to what the conditions are I believe we should love God well enough to reach down and lift up fallen humanity. We should lay aside some of self pride and to take up race pride. Some of us have so much self pride we think it a disgrace to try to save others. Too much self pride is bosh. I believe we as christians should pull off our low quarter shoes and put on boots sometimes that will go down into the ditches and secluded places where sin and darkness abound, carry the light with us and let our people know we love them and would have them look up and live. Look yonder behind that heavy curtain of shame, there are our boys and girls, some of them just out of school and where are they today? Listen, don't you hear the groans of our people in darkness? They are crawling to a high mountain of sin for resort and thus being slaved by the thousands, naked, hungry and without a shelter. Can't you see them falling down to eternal night and some of them crying for help? They are beckoning you and I. These are our brothers and sisters. Do we hear them? If so, let METRODOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 16, 1917. HOWE them know by hastening to their rescue. Are we willing to forsaken all and follw Christ to the savof the souls of men and the elevation of the Negro race. Where is the woman of today some of them have descrated themselves beneath the trap doors of unchastity forgetting they are responsible for the present and future generation by keeping the life blood of the nation pure and clean, its hon or untarnished, it hopes undimed and its strength conserved. Some of them are yet asleep in spite of this noonday age. But it's up to ns to see them we can do so if we will know its disgusting at times to meet men and women who care nothing far life, they care not for themselves or any one else. I know its a little embarrassing to stoop as low as we'll have to stoop to reach some of our pepie, but regardless to these things we should put God in the lead, pull off our kid gloves roll up our sleeves, get busy in trying to save them if possible. I feel that I am responsible in part for the error of our people as I believe as all other christians, because here is much to do and a part for cacit of us however small the task may be, we are responsible for that which we can do. There are people who will not go to church or any other plce of elevation, hence they never hear the gospel unless it is carried to them. The class that really needs what I am endeavoring to set forth in this subject doubtless will not get it simply because they know nothing and care nothing for a colored newspaper. Then what shall we do, how can we reach them? I believe we'll have to organize the missionary system but even in that there must be a real missionary spirit, race pride and love, together with courage enough to back it up, before we can succeed for fear and doubt stands between us and success simply because other races have impeded our progress, hence we would do good we fear even to start, and too, as our people are ready to block our way with stumbling stones, not realizing to retard one's success means hindering the entire Negro race. But regardless to these stumbling stones victory is ours if put our trust in God He will bring it to pass. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Shall we as civilized citizens of America as wide awake business minded men and women of the Negro race avail our selves in earnestness to fast and pray to our Father for a down trodden race of black faces. Can we prove to other races that we do possess a power of influence which stands for the saving of a nation. There is something for each of us to do in helping to develop our race from barbarism to civilization tho we be citizen. of America which is said to be the center of civilization, there is yet among us an uncultured class who seem to be void of an undestanding so no slumber or tarry by the way for by the way we are confronting the perils in the history of the world. We as a race are inclosed within tho walls of a crisis; the nations at large are against us and if we put not our trust in God we will PRINT Laborers Wanted! Laborers Wanted! "WANTED: Laborers for our Lumber Yard; Colored laborers for our foundry; also men for repairing freight cars; good wages; piece work; no trouble; now is the chance to get steady work for the winter. Apply to Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. Co. Mt. Vernon. Ill. The Club Convention The Club Convention of the First Bar will convene Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock Mrs. Lillie A. Towle, President Mts. Bessie M. Cork, Reco Praise Service The following Topics to be discussed: 1. What can be done to arouse the chris church to actual church duties.—Opened by A. Towle. 2. The Club Convention—Its success Opened by Mrs. Ruth Nichols. of the First Baptist Church on at 2:00 o'clock. Towle, President M. Cork, Recorder. be discussed: rouse the christians of the s.—Opened by Mrs. Lillie n—Its success and failue— s. The Club Convention of the First Baptist Church will convene Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Mrs. Lillie A. Towle, President Mts. Bessie M. Cork, Recorder. Praise Service The following Topics to be discussed: 1. What can be done to arouse the christians of the church to actual church duties.—Opened by Mrs. Lillie A. Towle. 2. The Club Convention—Its success and failure—Opened by Mrs. Ruth Nichols. Saturday Night Unfinished business, election of officers Entertainment. Program of Club Conven- Sunday November 18. Sunday Morning Program by the Juveniles Sermon Contribution Sunday Afternoon Session Sermon, Rev. I. S. Stone, of A. M. E, chur- Sunday Evening Session Song Invocation... Elder J. Song Paper... Miss Reading... Miss' Owl Solo... Mrs. Amal Reading... Mrs. K Instrumental Solo... Miss N Reading... Mr. On Paper... Mrs. Fr Solo... Mrs. Ma Paper... Mrs. H Reading... Miss Garn Solo... Mrs. Eliza Paprr... Mrs V Paper... Mrs. J Instrumental Solo... Mrs. H Paper... Mrs. Address... Mr. E. S. Reading... Mrs. Paper... Mrs. I Song Closing Remarks... Rev. G. Contribution. Reports Installation of officers. Elder J. B. McCrary, Master of Ceremonies. Club Convention December 18. Morning A. M. E, church Sing Session Choir Elder J. B. McCrary Choir Miss Ruby Smith Miss Ollie Williams Mrs. Amanda Kimball Mrs. Ruth Nichols Miss Naomi Alston Mr. Ontre Cowper Mrs. Frances Smith Mrs. Mary E. Jones Mrs. Hattie Beard Miss Garnet Winnmon Mrs. Elizabeth Alston Mrs. Vienna Ford Mrs. Julia McCane Mrs. H. G. Burke Mrs. Laura Long Mr. E. S. B. McCrary Mrs. Ora Brown Mrs. Irene Haynes Choir Rev. G. W. Rowlett of Ceremonies. Program of Club Convention Sunday November 18. Sunday Morning Program by the Juveniles Sermon Contribution Sunday Afternoon Session Sermon, Rev. I. S. Stone, of A. M. E, church Sunday Evening Session Song ..... Choir Invocation ..... Elder J. B. McCrary Song ..... Choir Paper ..... Miss Ruby Smith Reading ..... Miss' Ollie Williams Solo ..... Mrs. Amanda Kimball Reading ..... Mrs. Ruth Nichols Instrumental Solo ..... Miss Naomi Alston Reading ..... Mr. Ontrue Cowper Paper ..... Mrs. Frances Smith Solo ..... Mrs. Mary E. Jones Paper ..... Mrs. Hattie Beard Reading ..... Miss Garnet Winnmon Solo ..... Mrs. Elizabeth Alston Paprr ..... Mrs. Vienna Ford Paper ..... Mrs. Julia McCane Instrumental Solo ..... Mrs. H. G. Burke Paper ..... Mrs. Laura Long Address ..... Mr. E. S. B. McCrary Reading ..... Mrs. Ora Brown Paper ..... Mrs. Irene Haynes Song ..... Choir Closing Remarks ..... Rev. G. W. Rowlett Contribution. Reports Installation of officers. Elder J. B. McCrary, Master of Ceremonies. of the Master through the darkest day. May we have race pride and love to lift up our people as a race. God grant how soon the day may come when love will abound, where the chilly streams now flow, when the Afro-American race will come united together as one great family, no longer as babes but a full grown race. The brass paper fastener which is still used for thick documents was patented in 1887 by a government clerk by the name of G. W. McGill. Yet it was not new, for the Romans used a similar device 2,000 years ago and the modern appliance was a resurrection. ```markdown ``` --- be the prey of all other nations to perish in their sight, but as for myself, dear sisters and brothers, I shall endeavor by the help of God to do everything in my power to uplift fallen humanity and strengthen the cause of Christ, for I learn more and more of how we are ostracised by other races. African blood boils within my veins as my heart broadens for Ethiopia. If necessary I would be willing to jeopardise my life to the last drop of blood in my body for the elevation of the Negro race Once more, my heart leaps for joy when I think of the real acts Idea Not Modern. Notice To the Sisterhood of the Woman's Educational and Missionary Society, of Southern Illinois. Greeting: After attending one of our glorious meetings held at Unionville, with Silicon Baptist church, I feel grateful to say that the good Master was with us all the way. The meeting was very interesting. We were blessed both Spiritually and financially, owing to the number of missing circles. Our most efficient president, Mrs. M. J. Blake, with her corps of officers who were filled with the true missionary zeal, wide awake and on to need of the field May the Lord bless her in her labors, and being as a true example for others to follow. We were much encouraged by our loving moderator, pastors of disrict so much until I feel to rejoice and to go on and do more for the Master. I feel keenly the responsibility end sacredness of the work in hand. Now dear Sisters, this victory cannot be won on flowery beds of ease, but by prayer, hard work and righteous living. Let us strive harder this year, as never before to help foster the educational work as preparedness is the slogan of the hour, therefore let us take on new life and fresh courage. Let us pray for our missionaries on the field; Sisters Laura Leake, and N. Brooks, and others who are laboring so enthusiastically. Dear Sisters, let us stsnd by our editor and manager of The Gazette, so when we meet in Duquoin, next Sept. we can shout and sing All hail the power of Jesus name, Let angels prostrate fall. Bring forth the royal diadem. And crown Him Lord of all Yours for the Master, M. Hudgins, Cor. Sec. 2809 Commercial Ave., Cairo, Ill. NOTICE The Executive Board of the State Women Educational Missionary Association, will convene with Paul Chapel Baptist church Marion, Ill., Nov. 17. 1917. Rev. J. D. Davis, pastor. All members of the Board are expected to be present. The $2.00 assessment that is due from each circle represented in our State work last May, that has not paid their assessment is expected to respond at this session. Additional Members: Berta Adams.....Dewmaine Naomi Alston.....Metropolis Ora Johnson.....Murphysboro M. J. O. Connor.....Carbondale Lula May Oliver.....Murphysboro Hester Corneal.....Centralia Esta Smith.....Marion Ora Street.....Grayson Ruth Rowley.....Golconda Minaie Paine.....Shawneetown Anna Oweni.....Spatta Naomi Taborn.....Carrier Mills M. B. Taylor. Thought and Kindness Best. It is not written blessed is he that feedth the poor, but he that considereth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.—John Runkin.