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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY 1128 1022 Who was n Of The East to be Held Devotiona called to ord bondale. Appointm General re Topic—The S. S. Oper Sermon Devotiona tion of visiro Paper, by Black-boat Devotiona Sermon by Devotiona Meeting c ley, Ca Appointm eral remarks Topic, The Opened by Paper, by ercise by the Sermon, M. B. JOHN H. KOTTER Who was nominated for Assessor and Treasurer. Of The East Mt. Olive B. Y. P. U. and Teacheys' Institute, to be Held with the Shiloh Baptist Church, Freeman, Ill. April 28-30 B. Y. P. U. Friday Devotional by Clifford, and Freeman messengers. Meeting called to order by the president, sister D. G. McClain, Carbondale. Devotional, by Carbondale and Murdhysboro messengers. Sermon by Rev. A. J. Bowers, Carbondale. Saturday Morning, Teachers' Institute. Devotionals by Grand Tower and Pittsburg, messengers. Meeting called to order by the president Bro A. H. Bredley, Carbondale. Appointment of committees, miscellaneous matters and General remarks by the president. Vocal Solo, Mrs. Katie Black, Carbondale Serrion, Dr. C. C. Phillips, Goleonda. Sermon. Resolution Sermon, Elder J. H. McQueen, Dewmine Report of Resolution committee. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank the voters one and all who supported me last Tuesday and gave me such a large majority over my opponent thus approving of the way I conducted the business of your office. I shall continue to serve and not betray your confidence, and will D. G. McClain, Pres. B. Y. P. U. Elder J. H McQueen (Instructor) A. H. Bradley, Pres. of S S Institute. endeavor to make you a good officer. Making Dad Popular. A man is known by the company he keeps. Also the seventeen-year-old daughter.—Manitoba Free Press. Read The Gazette. PROGRAM MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." SOUTHERN MAN DIS= CUSSES DIXIE CONDITION REV. RICHARD B. REED MAKES STRONG ARGUMENT AGAINST THE SOCIAL EQUALITY GHOST Richmond, Virginia Planet Produces Entire Address Delivered] The South's Meaning of Social Equality. Ladies and Gentlemen: We are met today to commemorate not only the greatest moral victory in the life of our nation but the greatest of any nation since deprivancy lifted bigots t oleadership among he divisions of men from whose decisions no appeal could be effectively made save through blood. I believe the day will come when our nation will cease to lag behind the civilized nations of earth in recognition of the great triumph of righteousness 59 years ago and will take the lead in proclaming it one of the great victories of Christian civilization since God drew the line between right and wrong. It is generally conceded that American slavery was one of the blackest crimes ever infested any nation; men were born to cruel servitude, bloody lash and the auction-block; women were born victims to rapers, forced immorality, eternal severance of children, the witnessing of the lash cracking the skull of husband and to a life of tourtue and shame. When the pillars of this system were cracked by moral warfare of good people backed by armed forces of a brave nation the scandal had to be atoned for in blood and the scavenger lost his sword; the victory at once became one of the greatest moral triumphs of human history and Lincoln fell heir to the ages. The South's Meaning I am to speak today on: "The South's meaning of social equality." I cannot give a comprehensive exegesis on this false doctrine in a limited address; will have to be brief on points takep up, and necessarily leave untouched many things of paramount interest. I am not to speak on "Social Equality," for that is a private matter of individuals, as to whom they consider socially endowed to enjoy the selecities of their homes and private functions and no law can rightfully function in the private choice of law-abiding individuals who make choice of other individuals as their social friends and comrades. But I am to point out some of the things the South means by parading this ghost up and down the land. Tersley speaking this might be explained to those of us, who know the South from skin to marrow in a few words; for we know that this bug-bear is a trick of the South to gain behind a mask what she lost on the field of battle; it is a southern propaganda launched to leaven the nation with southern ideas touching the Colored people that they might see with a different eye and play hands off while southern madness rages. The South does not want us to be free, nor enjoy the blessings of citizenship; she wants us to be proscribed against and to become a football for mankind. As she dug herself out of the rebel stinch into which the war had flung her, she played well a double game, she must regain her place power and influence in the Federal Government and at the same time work out a system by which she can keep the colored people down. They bowed to the terms of the conquerer and came back with ha in hand, but in their secret council, launched their propaganda under its real purpose from the despised Yankee. The South was too small of mould and narrow of soul to prove a good loser; to ungrateful to b gracious; had gone too far in wrong doing to be reformed in two generations, so she must follow the gruesome business of human slavery. The fact that she had driven a peepole in slavery for two and a half centuries without pay, kindness, friendship, and human protection counted for nothing, they must be reinslaved. So under the slogan of "social METROPOLIS, SC REV M The Ladie Report of As bel s flung game power Gover work keep 20 equality" they started out to poison the North's mind agains an unprotected people. "White Suppremacy," they cried; "White Superior," they proclaimed. "White women must be protected from niggers." it is a pity the North ever gave evidence to this false alarm with the abuse of slave owners and slave drivers against women in chains an open book before them. An old man in Virginia told me a few weeks ago of a save owner near Lynchburg by the name of Flood who was the father of his grandchild. That was common. Thousands of people now living can tell how these southern gentlemen tied slaves to trees and beat them into unconsciousness for being non submissive to beastly passion. The things told at this late day are not printable, but they still keep up the cry of white women living in perpetual fear, which statement has no foundation in fact. Some two weeks ago when the Anti-Lynching Bill came up in the house, Con. Garret of Tennessee said the bill should be "Entitle a bill to encourage rape." With three million mullatoes in this country the world evidently knows the white men of the South need no Federal encouragement along his line. In many places white people don't want colored people to live on nice streets but are perfectly willing to send missionaries to Africa or build up schools in he black belt but no charity at home so far as their immediate community is concerned. And Southern members of Congress have used the cry of social equality as a mighty weapon in Congress against our sacred rights and year after year we see northern members become passive when the southerners are lying on us faster than a mule can kick. In our own State foreigners and redheaded halfbakes feel privileged o insult us in public places many of whom refused to defend the Government in battle but insult those who did defend it. My friends the ballot must be our weapon in Connecticut, as well as in the general government. Every two years we make a trip to the Capitol to ask for Civil Rights bill to be turned down; we come back and wait another two years. In a close election in this state the colored peoplpep could turn it either way if we were organized. We should know every man whose influence and vote have been inimical to our interest, whether commissioner, mayor or state or national representative. We should know them. Republicans and the Colored Folks Last year when we with white friends asked the Judicary Committee to make a favorable report on our bill the late Mr. Spooner told me that he thought every member of the committee was a Republican, but they turned us down, knowing that if it had been favorably reported it would very likely have been made a part of the law. Here are the names of the committee: Senators Delaney, chairman; Brown, house chairman, Mr. Buckley, Union Clerk of committee; Mr. Darbie Kilningly, law clerk; Milton C. Isebell, Ansonia; Messrs. Williamson, Darien; Sherwood, Wesport; Perry, New Haven; Hill, Orange; Campbell, Enfield; Nickerson, Cornwall; Wall, Torrington; Barry, Griswold; Storrs, Ansonia. This is the committee that gave us the black eye and we must remember them o the extent that if any of them coms up for office in th future we must resent their action at the ballot box. If going into places of public accommodation is social equality, then again, we want it. Two short months ago the President of the United States went arm in arm with a southern Democrat to Birmingham to deliver himself on the race question and the world knows how well it was done. No man can say that Mr. Harding did not have a chance to prove himself a diplomator wory of his steel but the south had been feeding him with this false doctrine of social equality and he lost the opportunity of fulfilling his UNDERTAKING A SPECIALTY NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC! This is to inform you that the Meeting Company will still continue its new manager during the absence of the Crary, the Licensed Embalmer and gone to Chicago, to better equip him of work in order that he might be able to look after the interests of our people. During his absence the business ful and prompt attention, under the superintendency of a competent Licensor. We will guarantee satisfaction and both as to work and price, and all we trial, and WE will convince you of the above statement. 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Judge Napier said it was rumored that certain public officials belonged to the Klan, and charged the jury that if they found such to be the case they should cite such officers for removal from office. BEAUMONT, Tex., March 30.—No man who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan can work for the city of Beaumont, according to a formal statement of Mayor B. A. Steinghagn, made public today. From New Orleans Times-Picayun. The KuKlux Klan did not find the latch string hanging out at Greensville, Miss. On the contrary, invasion of that section by Col. Jos. G. Camp, of Atlanta, the orgination's lecturer, proved to be a decided boomerang. Col. Camp, formerly of the Lyceum Bureua and probably sent out by the Klan because of his peruasive platform genius, only succeeded in setting the stage for an anti-Ku Klux demonstration that will not soon be forgotten. It must have been humiliating to the "speaker of the day" to hear himself and his "Invisible Empire" so scathingly denounced at his own meeting by former Senator Leroy Perck while the meeting's adoption later of resolutions indorsing Senator Percy's remarks and condemning the order surely did not afford Col. Camp a large measure of added comfort. It was a rbuke whie hall persons inelining to Ku Klux methods would do well to note and should serve as a warning to other such lecturers to give this section of Mississippi a wide brth. We believe moreover that Senator Percy expressed the general sentiment of the entire state. The farm labor problem in the Delta and elsewhere has been hard enough to solve without adding the demoralization of which masked mobs are capable. We can conceive of no device that could more surely depopulate a section of Negro workers. Mississippi does not require an "Invisible Empire" to enforce its laws nor does Louisiana, nor does America. --- 1922 own prophecy. Everywhere freedom of speech is a fact colored leaders have dissented from Mr. Harding's harmful course on social equality. Go has never made one man greater in his creation than another; infinite Wisdom has never cursed one of its creatures of the human race by creating people of this country were not prepared to hear the President of the United States commit himself as he did at Birmingham. I went to Mr. Harding's front porch during the campaign, when the southernners were trying to destroy him and heard his words; he spoke in southern states before his election but did not once commit himself on this mythical question of social equality. Not Cursed of God We are not cursed of God because the President says so, and as for us dividing our vote, his prayer will be answered unless he runs again and this is not likely. The question may be appropriately asked why did Mr. Harding go to Alabama asking Democrats to "Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote." He is president of the United States and has it in his power to let the black man vote; Congress is Republican about two to one why not ask his Congress to let us vote? If he is willing to be the big brother of the world and to disarm the warring nations of earth, why not instruct the Republicans in Congress to support the Bill of Congressman Tinkham which is meant to do the very thing Mr. Harding is asking his enemies to do? If he wants the colored people to vote in the South give orders to his Congress, and stop losing so much time with southern white-washed Democrats, for Mr. Harding and all his cabinet will be in some other world before one Solid Southern State will be carried by the Republican prty without the vote of the colored people. We want full rights unfettered, unproscribed in common with all other people; if this is social equality, we want it. JURY ORDERED TO SHOW NO FAVOR TO PUBLIC KLAN MEN Texas Special Inquiry of 3-K Activities Is On—Anctlier Town Puts Dan on Klansmen WICHITA FALLS, Texas, April 1.—A thorough investigation of activities of theKu Klux KI an in Wichita County was ordered by Judge E. W. Nappier in a charge to a spec- CENTS. A KLAN BOOMERANG Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER. GEO. L B. McCRARY, EDITOR MRS. EDGAR MCCRARY ASS'T. EDITOR FRIDAY APR. 14. 1922. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Snutterered as second-class mail mat- at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B.Mo- RY, 903 Pearl St. Metropolis, Ill. The names and addresses of contrib- tors must be known to us in every in- tance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity week TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....50 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. 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She has property here and is looking after taxes and visiting friends. Rev. Thomas Turner paid the Gazette office a visit Tuesday and left on his mission work Wednesday. Mrs. Beulah Howard of Unionville was in the city Wednesday the guest of Mrs M. J. McCrary. Mrs. Nancy Crippins, and Mrs. Izora Rodgers and Cyrus were Paducah shoppers Wednesday. Boyd McCane, was a Paducah shopper Wednesday. The primary election passed off quietly Tuesday without a cross word so far as we were able to learn, of course there were disappointed persons and candidates, and great surprises. The ones nominated are as follows: Osro Shirk, Sheriff Fred Smith, County Judge John H. Kotter, Assessor and Treasurer J. D. Angely, Co. Commissioner H. G. Burke, Precinct Com. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act of Congress of Aug. 24. 1912. Of Metropolis Weekly Gazette published weekly at Metropolis, Illinois for April 1922 State of Ill., Massac County ss. 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That the known bondholders, mortagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortages, or other securities are none. J. B. McCrary, owner. sworn and Subscribed before me this 1st day of April 1922 A. D. Moore. My commission expires June 8, 1922. Executive Board Meets Moderator J. B. McCrar, at- METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL Cartarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure cartarrhal deafness, and that is by a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tubes When this tube inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this tube to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Many cases of deafness are caused by catarrh, which is an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Catarrah Peafness that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine, Circulars free. All Druggists, 75c. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. By Associated Negro Press. FARM WANTED-Wanted to hear from owner of a farm for sale, give lowest price, and full particulars L. Jones, Box. 551, Olney, Ill. tended the Board meeting of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association at Macedonia Baptist church, Harrisburg, last week and found Rev C. W. Scates the pastor and his church wide awake and planning to build in the near future. Rev Wm. Graves, pastor of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, and some of his members were visitors. The meeting was a success and from the reports of the pastors present of their work and from the report of district missionary Turner the district as a whole is in a very good condition, in fact, we are having peace and the Lord is blessing the work as never before Rev. J. D. Davis, Moderator of the East Mt. Olive Association stated that the State Association has purchased a tract of land in Golconda, containing 300 acres with a brick house located thereon for $20,000.00 for an Old Ministes' and Old Folks' Home and it is necessary to report $1,500.00 to the State meeting at Centralia, in May to meet the obligation of the purchasing committee it is to be hoped that every Baptist give one dollar for this cause. Rev J. D. Davis, of Colp, is solicitor and will receipt you for same. As we have not seen any minutes of the State meeting we are at a loss to know what the plums are It appears that our churches in this end of the State and our Association have been grossly neclected for some cause by the corresponding secretary. How do you expect to have the churches and pastors cooperate in the work if they are not informed as to the plans of operation. While in Harrisburg, we were house guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Moore and daughter Miss Daisy. The brethren all express themselves as being well cared for during their stay. Rev. John Taborn was late arriving but made a report as to his work as missionary on the field and as he is unused to tee hardships of a missionary life, he seemed to look upon the dark side of the picture and his report was not so favorable. Harrisburg. Dear Edito: Allow space to say that Macedonia Baptist church is doing fine under the leadership of our efficient pastor Eld. C. W. Scates. Quite an improvement has been made since he has been our midst. Last week was a high week with us, and an enjoyable one. Beginning Friday April 17th, we entertained the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. We certainly enjoyed their stay Much business was transacted and important topics discussed which was beneficial to all concerned. At 7:30 p. m. Dr. C. W. Turner, mayor of the city delivered the welcome address which was responded to by Elder J. D. Davis, of Colp. Afterwhich Mrs. Edna Scates, wife of the pastor sang a solo. Elder M. C. King, pastor of the First Baptist church, Md. City, delivered a soul stirring sermon with Elder Pannell and D. L. Braxton alternates. Good services Saturday a. m. Recreation from 1:30 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. Devotionals by the congregation for 30 minutes then music by choir. Eld. James Housley preached a strong sermon Sunday was a high day. Elder P. B. French, vice moderator preached for us Sunday a. m. and night Sunday at 3:00 p. m. our pastor preached the sermon for Queen Esther Court No. 41. Elder C. W. Scates. Henry Washington, Clerk Sparta. Dear Editor: Please let me have space in the paper to say that our pastor Rev. P. B. French is attending the Ministers and Leacons' Union at Harrisburg this week. We had a high day in Zion today, Rev. Wilkins an evangelist preached for us at 11:00 a.m., a strong gospel sermon from Mark 16:15. All were made glad who heard him. At 5:00 we had a good B. Y. P. U. with our president Sister F. Sneed presiding. At night Rev. N. M. Raterree of Eden, Free Baptist church filled the stand and preached a very able setmon from Judges 11-35. He made an earnest appeal to the unsaved. Those on the sick list are sisters Annie Owens, Foster, Philista Foster, Madison and Ceretta Harris. Our slogan now is a new church and we certainly need help over in 'Macedonia.' Sister M. Pearson who has spent the last four weeks at the bedside of her daughter Mrs. Gaiters in St. Louis, is at home again and reports her daughter much better at this writing. A good many of the people of Alabama who have been here to work in the mines have gone back home." The teachers of Vernon school attended the Teachers' Association last week in East St. Louis, and report a nice meeting and a large attendance. Reporter, In Memoriam In sad but loving Memory of our dear mother, Mollie Claybrooke, who departed this life, April 12, 1920. "Sad were the hours of that unhappy day. When God called our loving mother away. A loving mother, so good and kind No friend like her on earth we'll find For every one she did her best, May God grant her eternal rest." Mesdames Lena M. Phillips, Emma C. Simmons Elizabeth O'neil Pearl F. Singleton Bessie M. Cork Love P. Renfro. Elder G. W. Prince, expects to leave for St. Joseph, Mo., Monday April 17, to conduct a revival for his btother for two weeks. SENATOR McCORMICK VICIOUSLY DEFENDS ANTI-LYNCHING LAW Says, "Our Common Conscience and WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5. "I do not believe that you or other members of the committee on judiciary will want to see the adjournment of the present session of Congress without reoprting an antilynching bill." The foregoing ringing declaration comes from Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, in a letter of clear-cut and frank statements of the subjects of anti-lynching legislation, Senator McCormick, it will be recalled, introduced a bill early in the present session, urging federal action against lynching. Sen. Curtis, of Kansas, also introduced a bill. It is plain to be seen from Senator McCormick's letter that what he desires most of all is action. As one of the most prominent members of the steering committee, Senator McCormick may be regarded as speaking with authority. The Senator's letter was addressed to Senator Knute Nelson, chairman of the judiciary committee and follows: 3.500 Lynchings in 35 Years "I venture to call to your attention the two bills introduced on April 12, 1921, during the extraordinary session of Congress, by Senator Spencer and myself, and the House (Dyer) bill, read and referred to your committee on January 27th of this year. At the same time I may note that during the 66th Congress I introduced on the 24th of March, and Senator Spencer introduced on the 21st of the following April, bills like those introduced by us during the extrardinary sessin of the present Congress: "The mesaures, all of them ask to put an end to lynching, which continues in this country, a blot upon our civilization, a menace to all law and to all constituted authority. I do not seek to argue the respective mertis of the several bills to which I referred, or to labor the question of constitutionality in connection with the Dyer bill. I am willing to support any anti-lynching bill which the committee will report and I do ot doubt that Senator Spencer is of the same mind. I write o urge consideration of the bills and action by the committee. "During the last thirty-five years there have been nearly 3,500 lynchings in the United States. Whatever may be true of the past, today lynching and race rioting is not local or sectional, but a national issue. During the last two or three years there have been lynchings as there have been outbreaks of violence, between mobs of both races, from the Lakes to the Gulf and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. I do not believe that you or the other members of the committee on Judiciary will want to see the adjournment of the present session of congress without repoprating an anti-lynching bill. Our common conscience and common judgment demand that Congress act to stamp out lynching." "Lynch Law Must Go." That slogan is being universally adopted by editors and various organizations as the call to action on this important legislation. It has been recommended that this slogan be placed conspicuously in the newspapeprs and kept there until final passage of the bill in which Colored Americans are more vitally interested. Garden Seed For Free Distribution. The office of The Gazette has received a mail pouch of garden seed for free distribution. Seed are sent out every year from the Agricultural department at Washington, D.C. This year Congressman Thos. S. Williams, sent them direct to this office for distribution. Call and get them. Ordained Brother A. H. Robinson, of this city was ordained to the gospel ministry Sunday night at the First Baptist church. He was examined and passed on Saturday night. The ministers who composed the council were Elders J. B. McCrary, Chairman; G. W. Rowlett, Catechiser; Thos. Morris, G. W. Prince, and Bro. G. W. Long, Clerk. The sermon was delivered by G. W Prince, pastor; the prayer was offered by J. B. McCrary, G. W. Rowlett presented the Bible, Thos. Morris, delivered the charge After the hand of fellowship benediction by Elder Robinson. Mr. and Mts. Wm. White of Brookport, will leave next week for Almeda California, to spend a few weeks she informs us. Mrs. Celia Thomas, of Urbana, is still in the city. A number of our men left for Toledo, Ohio to handle ties. the 13th. PUBLICATION NOTICE State of Illinois, Massac County, as. Circuit Court of Massac County, April term, A. D. 1922. In the matter of Grace Grooma vs Fannie Strong, Maggie Williams and unknown heirs of Margaret Tossey, deceased—Bill for Petition in chancery. Affidavit of the non-residence of unknown heirs of Margaret Tossey, deceased, one of the defendants above named, having been filed in the office of the Clerk of said Circuit Court of Massac County, notice is hereby given to the said non-resident defendants, that the complainant has filed a bill of complaint in said Court on the Chancery side thereof on the 9th day of March A. D. 1922, and that a summons thereupon issued out of said Court against said defendants, returnable on the 10th day of April, A. D. 1922, as is by law required. Now, therefore, unless you, the said unknown heirs of Margaret Tossey, deceased, shall personally be and appear before the said Circuit Court of Massac County, on the first day of the next term thereof to be holden at Court House in the City of Metropolis in said County, on the 10th day of April, A. D. 1922, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same, and the matters and things therein charged and stated, will be taken as confessed and a decree entered against you according to the prayer of said bill. LOREN SMITH, Clerk of the Circuit Court. W. L. Krone, Complainant's Solicitor Dated March 9th, A. D. 1922. PUBLICATION NOTICE State of Illinois, Massac County, as. Circuit Court of Massac County, April term, A. D. 1922. Jessie V. Shaw vs. George W. Shaw—Bill for Divorce and Custody of Child, in Chancery. Affidavit of the non-resident of George W. Shaw the defendant above named, having been filed in the office of the Clerk of said Circuit Court of Massac County, notice is hereby given to the said non-resident defendant, that the complainant has filed her bill of complaint in said Court on the Chancery side thereof on the 9th day of March A. D. 1922, and that a summons thereupon issued out of said Court against said defendant, returnable on the 10th day of April A. D. 1922 as is by law required. Now, therefore, unless you, the said George W. Shaw shall personally be and appear before the said Circuit Court of Massac County, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at the Court House in the City of Metropolis in said County, on the 10th day of April A. D. 1922, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same, and the matters and things therein charged and stated, will be taken as confessed, and a decree entered against you according to the prayer of said bill. LOREN SMITH Complainant's Solicitor. Dated March 9th, A. D. 1922. East St. Louis Gazette The Metropolis Gazette Publishing Co., has Established a Branch Office East St. Louis, Ill., where a Job Office will be operated under competent management. Splendid inducements have been assured us by the leaders of the city. 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There have been great and important additions to its news gathering facilities, both at home and abroad. There have also been added a number of new daily features. There is always a good continued story, news of the world in photographs, daily comic cartoons and many other regular features for men, women and children. For particulars we urge you to read the advertisement, and then send in your orders at once to the Globe Printing Co. Publishers St. Louis, Mo. --- DALLAS, Texas, April 6.—The constituted law authorities in this city seemed almost at their wits end yesterday in their fight to gain control of the city government. For some time efforts have been made to prosecute members of the Klan for alleged crimes and acts of outlarwry, but not much headway has been made. The officers who would enforce the regular law, find a hard fight on their hands on account of the influence of of the "Invisible Empire." There seems to be so many city employees and other officials connected with the city government, that to rout the Klan means wrecking the city. The club is the little tug of the city years up to 12. Mr. is the leader and the great work and much success. Rev. C W. Cole funeral of Mr. Major of the Smith's Merion Saturday April 8. 14:14. We say our ing a marvelous work hope that he will more in the future th Things took a little change last night, after the citizens of the town formed an anti-Ku Klux Klan Organization and threatened to "clean out" the City Hall and put fearless men in office. Following this threat the u Klux Klan in Dallas was asked to disband today by Mayor S. R. Aldredge in a statement in which he also requested all municipal employees who are members of the Klan to resign from that organization at once. The mayor urged that harmony be restored between Klan and anti-Klan factions in the city. "The Ku Klux Klan is a mistake, and should have no pplace among us," Mayor Aldredge said, adding that he would not brand all those who "have enlisted in it as disloyal citizens or unworthy men." The Klan has brought discord to a peaceful city, and an organization which brings "forth such fruit is wrong and should not exist," he declared. Prairie Point. Miss. I ask for space to say that I am delighted to be sitting in my mother's home, Mrs. Margaret Taylor, and I feel blessed and am thankful to Jehovah to allow my mother and I to see each other face to face and talk to each other once more in life. I wish to say I was at Cedar Grove Baptist church again at S. S and was appointed to open the same and teach the Bible class. Bro. Walter Price taught the catechism, Brother Sam Taylor the primary class, etc.. Rev. I. L. Latham a young ordained preacher delivered a strong sermon, text Mark 4:3. Soon after the preaching service the meeting was dismissed. Mrs. Anna Williams the pastor's wife called the grand body of the United Women's organization to order by reading Matt. 5, chaprer. I wish to say here, Mrs Williams simplified each verse and made her words plain and sent them home to the heart of the hearers. A short but fine program by her two little girls and they certainly read with much interest. J. J. Taylor. Please send me some papers to sell. Du-Ouoin Dear Editor: Please allow space in your valuable paper to say a few words: The S. S. was opened at the usual hour. The lesson was 2. Kings 11:11-17. Subject the Lord Preserves Jonah. The pastor preached a glorious sermon at 11:00 to a large audience. At 2:30 the Elks had their annual sermon, Rev. Cole preached a grand sermon $16.04 was raised At 6:00 B. Y. P. U. was in session, all was combined and the lesson was taught by the captain of company B. Mr. C. H. Freeman. At 7:30 O'clock night services were opened, the attendance was large our pastor preached a glorious sermon; subject. Christ's limitation on the cross. On Monday night the Helping hand club gave an entertainment and reported a good success. Wednesday night is our prayer meeting night. Thursday night the Silver leaf club gave an entertainment and reported a good suc- cess. The club is organized by the little tots of the church from 3 years up to 12. Miss Mary Sims is the leader and they are doing great work and we wish them much success. Rev. C W. Cole preached the funeral of Mr. Majors a member of the Smith's Merorial church on Saturday April 8. Text, Job 14:14. We say our pastor is doing a marvelous work here and we hope that he will do more and more in the future than he has in the past. Pray for our success. The Elks made the church a present of $16 04. John Hagger, a poor man passing through asked the church for aid and the church gave him $6 30 to help him to return home to his relatives. Miss A. Thomas is improving nicely. Mrs. D. Bradshaw is able to be out again, Mrs. A. Cansler is ill. Ollie M. Hooks, Reporter, Rev. C. W. Cole. McKenzie, Tenn. Please allow space in your paper for a few words: Enon Baptist church had a revival. Last Sunday and night Rev. J. C. Benjamin Porter preached two soul stirring sermons and a good crowd day and night; collection $27.50 Sunday School at 9:30; preaching at 11:00; B. Y. P. U. at 6:30; Prayer meeting Thursday night. We are trying to check the young people and get them interested in church work to make them better in the future than in the past. Mrs. Jennie Noland and son Calvin of Mound City returned home Sunday after spending two weeks in this city with Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Rodgers and stepmother. We hated to see them leave. Mrs. Mary Thomas is still on the sick list. Mrs. Delia Rushen spent Sunday in Henry Station with her Mrs Bettie Smith. Mr. Tobe Bell and S. M. Mc Doodle spent Sunday in Gleason, with Rev. J. D. Williams pastor of the C. M. E. church. Tuesday night April 18 at 7:30 everybody is invited to hear him. His subject is, the purpose to better colored people. Mr. Handy Patemos Diner was guest of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rodgers Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gibson of Mound City, Ill., are still visiting in our city and we are glad to have them with us. The Supt. Rev. T. A. Goodnor is planning to make the children happy on Easter Sunday. God bless and save the girls and boys. C. R. Kodgers. NOTICE. All Sunday Schools composing the Mount Olive Baptist S. S. Convention will meet April 5, to 8th 1922 with Eberneezer Baptist church, Chicago; Dr. C. H. Clark pastor. All schools are expected to represent. We cannot let the Banner of the S. S's. Mt. Olive Convention trail in the dust. 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The sisters met at four o'clock in the Missionary work and held a great meeting after discussing the 14th chapter of Chronicles. Remarks by the pastor and deacon H. P. Hunter. The time was pleasantly spent. Violet Thompson, Pres.; Ada Barker, Sec. Dollie Bland. Reporter. A CALL 1248 Ashland Ave., Evanston, Ill., Mar. 10, 1922 My dear co-worker: It is the desire of the President of the State-Sunday School Convention, (Bro. J. Ward Greer, that I remind you and your Sunday-School that the 2nd Annual Session convenes at Ebenezer Baptist Church (of which Dr. C. H. Clark, is pastor) Tuesday and Wednesday April 4th and 5th. 1922, At 10 O'clock a. m. The Program Committee has arranged an interesting Program for the occasion, The B. Y. P. U. will convene Thursday and Friday, April 6th and 7th. The Programs are now in the hands of the Printers and will be ready for distribution in a few days. I trust that you will be represented in both departments. 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McCrary is agent for Dr. Walker's Sure cure for Indigestion and Dyspepsia. 50c and $1.00 bottles. $1.10 by mail. We can cheerfully recommend it. Phone 364 eral good than in the case of other industries. The spirit of American democracy is unalterably opposed, alike to enacted special privilege and to the special privilege of unequal opportunity that arises automatically from the failure to correct glaring economic inequalities. I am opposed to the injection of government into business, but I do believe that it is an essential function of democratic government to equalize opportunity so far as it is within its power to do so, whether by the repeal of archaic statutes or the enactment of modern ones. If the anti-trust laws keep the farmers from endeavor scientifically to integrate their industry while other industries find a way to meet modern conditions without violating such statutes, then it would seem reasonable to find a way for the farmers to meet them under the same conditions. The law should operate equally in fact. Repairing the economic structure on one side is no injustice to the other side, which is in good repair. We have traveled a long way from the old conception of government as merely a defensive and policing agency; and regulative, corrective, or equalizing legislation, which apparently is of a special nature, is often of the most general beneficial consequences. Even the First Congress passed a tariff act that was avowedly for the protection of manufacturers; but a protective tariff always has been defended as a means of promoting the general good through a particular approach; and the statute books are filled with acts for the benefit of shipping, commerce, and labor. Now, what is the farmer asking? Without trying to catalogue the remedial measures that have been suggested in his behalf, the principal proposals that bear directly on the improvement of his distributing and marketing relations may be summarized as follows:— First: storage warehouses for cotton, wool, and tobacco, and elevators for grain, of sufficient capacity to meet the maximum demand on them at the peak of the marketing period. The farmer thinks that either private capital must furnish these facilities, or the state must erect and own the elevators and warehouses. Second: weighing and grading of agricultural products, and certification thereof, to be done by impartial and disinterested public inspectors (this is already accomplished to some extent by the federal licensing of weighers and graders), to eliminate underpaying, overcharging, and unfair grading, and to facilitate the utilization of the stored products as the basis of credit. Third: a certainty of credit sufficient to enable the marketing of products in an orderly manner. Fourth: the Department of Agriculture should collect, tabulate, summarize, and regularly and frequently publish and distribute to the farmers, full information from all the markets of the world, so that they shall be as well informed of their selling position as buyers now are of their buying position. Fifth: freedom to integrate the business of agriculture by means of consolidated selling agencies, co-ordinating and co-operating in such way as to put the farmer on an equiv footing with the large buyers of his products, and with commercial relations in other industries. When a business requires specialized talent, it has to buy it. So will the farmers; and perhaps the best way for them to get it would be to utilize some of the present machinery of the largest established agencies dealing in farm products. Of course, if he wishes, the farmer may go further and engage in flour-milling and other manufactures of food products. In my opinion, however, he would be wise to stop short of that. Public interest may be opposed to all great integrations; but, in justice, should they be forbidden to the farmer and permitted to others? The corporate form of association cannot now be wholly adapted to his objects and conditions. The looser cooperative form seems more generally suitable. Therefore, he wishes to be free, if he finds it desirable and feasible, to resort to co-operation with his fellows and neighbors, without running afoul of the law. To urge that the farmers should have the same liberty to consolidate and co-ordinate their peculiar economic functions, which all industries in their fields enjoy, is not, however, to concede that any business integration should have legislative sanction to exercise monopolistic power. The American people are as firmly opposed to industrial as political autocracy, whether attempted by rural or by urban industry. For lack of united effort the farmers as a whole are still marketing their crops by antiquated methods, or by no methods at all, but they are surrounded by a business world that has been modernized to the last minute and is tirelessly striving for efficiency. This efficiency is due in large measure to big business, to united business, to integrated business. The farmers now seek the benefits of such largeness, union and integration. The American farmer is a modern of the moderns in the use of labor saving machinery, and he has made vast strides in recent years in scientific tillage and efficient farm management, but as a business in contact with other businesses agriculture is a "one horse shay" in competition with high power automobiles. The American farmer is the greatest and most intractable of individualists. 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