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THE NEGRO STAR FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE VOL. XIII NO. 28. THE NEGRO'S UPWARD PATH Is Now Turning To His Own History By Authors Of His Own Race By The Negro Associated Press The enlightened attention which the Negroes are directing to the instruction of their children on literature of their own is one of the most commendable manifestations of their newly awakened race-consciousness. Within recent months there have appeared several noteworthy publications to provide the needful literature and suitable guidance and stimulus. The Brownie's Book, a monthly magazine for colored children, filled with pictures and poems from colored writers, for and about colored children, began with January 1920, (2 West 13th Street, New York.) First Steps and Nursery Rhymes in a recent Colored Child's book by an able Negro author of (Chicago Colored Child Book Pub. Co., 4700 State Street.) The Up-Reach Magazine (4345 Vincenness Ave., Chicago) is a new school journal, the object of which is to encourage the study of Negro history, art, and literature in the Negro schools. These new publications are born of a new spirit and new ambition. It is as if the colored people of our country were saying: "Let us acquaint our children with the achievements of our own Race, that their pride of Race may be duly stimulated. Let us instill into them our ideals and our spirit, that race consciousness may develop. Let us encourage our children to hope and aspire, by setting before them great examples of Negroes who succeeded." This is commendable, the principle is sound. Before me is an anthology from Negro writers, with the title of the Upward Path, designed for a school reader. The selections exhibit a good variety in form and matter and the book is well proportioned and tasteful. Fully half a hundred authors are represented, biographical notes of whom are appended. Racial, of course, it is, else there were no excuse for its existence; but racal in no objectionable sense. Not a selection, not a sentence, in the book has a suggestion that tends to array race against race or to stir up bitterness. The purpose of the book is manifestly to increase the colored child's spiritual riches and minister to his growth in the virtues that are fundamental. The use of this book in Negro schools would greatly contribute to the development of that character in the Negro which we of the white race have so often expressed a desire to see. It is to be hoped that our state boards of education will take this view of the matter and that they will place this reader in the hands of colored school children, as a prescribed book. It would be an act of justice, as well as of grace, that would do much toward promoting inter-racial good will. Note:—The Upward Path. A Reader for Colored Children. With an Introduction by Robert R. Moton, Compiled by Myron T. Pritchard and Mary White Ovington. Harcourt Bruce and Howe, New York. LEADERSHIP THAT COUNTS Dr The Negro Associated Press This good old groun of ours has been blessed from "amazing grace to present opportunity" in the matter of "Leadership." We have leaders who shine; leaders who eclipse—that is to say, their leadership is anternal eclipse so far as their influence reaching the masses is concerned. Now and then there comes upon the scene of action, that rare creature of human existence, a leader who leads. Such a man is to be found in Dr.W. W. Lucas, formerly of Mississippi, now a resident of Chicago. Dr. Lucas is nationally known because of his official activities connected with the Methodist Enisco REPRESENTATION IN NATIONAL CONVENTIONS Is a Dangerous National Disease For Which a Remedy Must Be Found By The Negro Associated Press The question of a fair and equitable basis upon which to apportion delegates to the National Political Conventions, especially those of the Republican Party, has been considered and discussed for more than thirty years. The subject is one which grows out of abnormal conditions, the responsibility for the existence of which is difficult to determine. That it is a dangerous and malignant National disease, for which an effective remedy should and must be found, cannot and will not be denied. But there must be an accurate diagnosis of the disease before an effective remedy can be prescribed. Each and every day of the week that the National Republican Convention of 1920 was in session at Chicago, The Tribune of that city, both editorially and through communications, not only called attention to, and clearly pointed out the disease, but it also suggested a remedy for the same. Attention was called to the fact that it is unfair, unjust and inequitable to allow representation from certain states, wholly out of proportion to the voting strength of the party in those states, as revealed by the official returns. The states in question were designated by The Tribune. pal Church covering a period of years both in Sunday School and Epworth League Departments. He is a brilliant orator and has a highly developed sense of humor, the kind that fills one with good cheer. But Dr. Lucas is both a philosopher and student of affairs, and every bit of humor he "turns loose" always has behind it a driving point for a lesson of truth. He has the extraordinary ability to rise to the occasion, and by force of eloquent reason, illuminates subjects with facts that cannot be disputed. All know what he told the great General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Des Moines, that resulted in the election of two bishops. Dr. Lucas is now giving his entire time in promoting the interests of the Cooperative Society of America, an organization that is attracting nation-wide attention in promoting systematic investments and better understanding between the people of the country. In this work Dr. Lucas has sufficient responsibilities in this field to keep any one person busy. But does he stop there? Not by a long shot. In some manner, Dr. Lucas is on the lookout for those who come to Chicago from the South, and who in some way have been unfortunate in their experiences below the line, for such worthy persons, (assisted by Mrs. Lucas) there are always extended hands of welcome, words of encouragement and material assistance. There is no makeshift about it (it is genuine "Good Samaritan" helpfulness. There is no stopping, as has been proved in numerous instances, until all concerned are properly looked after. With that kind of unselfish spirit, there is no wonder that Dr. Lucas has become a hero and an unquestionable leader in a brief time in the busy center of Chicago. He has glory and success enough to say "soul take thine ease, but he is to the manner born and must lead his people least they perish. More power to Dr. W. W. Lucas, "and may his tribe increase." THE NEGRO AND THE RESULTS By The Negro Associated Press The result of the campaign just closed has come to us through a vale of tears. Much of the old-time WICHITA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1920 CHARGED WITH ATTEMPT OF MURDER OF MAYOR Prominent Race Man Is Being Sought By Band of White Outlaws By Negro Associated Press Union Springs, Ala. Nov. 3.—Bullock County officials, their number augmented by over 100 "leading citizens," all heavily armed, for four or five days have been conducting a man hunt with John L. Thomas, a wealthy colored real estate dealer of Union Springs, as their objective. Thomas, it seems, has brought down upon his head the prejudice of the community because, in addition to being one of the wealthiest Negroes of Bullock County, for the past 12 years he has been dealing in farm lands on an extensive scale, selling them to colored people generally. In fact, he is mostly responsible for bringing up the increase of the number of acres of land owned by colored people in this county. A misleading report was sent out from Union Springs to the effect that Thomas attempted to murder the E. E. L. Cope, former Mayor of the town, Capture by others than duly constituted officers of the law, it is believed, will be followed by summary execution. Mr. Thomas enjoyed the confidence and had the encouragement of the late Booker T. Washington in all of his varied activities. Un'on Springs is only a few miles from the Tuskegee Institute. The whites in this section have become more violent as the colored people of this and adjoining counties have continued to secure education and property. enthusiasm of the Negro for Republican cause was shrouded in a mist of inexplainable uneasiness. There was no lack of loyalty for the ticket and showed small disposition to turn a deaf ear to the call to rally around the Republican flag. But there was a lack of hearty spirit in the response, a sort of apathetic interest in the outcome of the election which presents aspects of discontent that 40ebode a future break from the traditional political moorings of the Negro. How far this break will go or how soon it will happen is not for discussion at this time. The instances of Negroes standing for the United States Senate in Maryland and on Virginia might, with slight variations be cited as the beginnings of the break. But they caused so slight a ripple in the current of election events that not much importance can be attached to the part they played in shaping the future political course of the Race. It is true that relics of the "old guard" were in very active evidence around the general headquarters in New York and in Chicago. Yet this in no wise gives substantial inkling of the ferment of discontent that has been ranking in the breasts of rank and file since the passing of the momentous June Contention. The Frank O. Lowden shadow awoke grave fears in the minds of many; the strength of the "ily whites" sentiment which nominated Senator Harding was unquestionably, contributory to the feelings of uneasliness that has since grown to the dimensions of out-spoken discontent. Narrowed, however, to a close consideration of the question at issue in this convention there lies a situation so small in compass that it almost defies detection among the more expansive objects at hand. A short, stocky brown-skin man sat at a small desk in the publicity department of the National headquarters in the Auditorium Hotel in the city of Chicago and dispensed favors with the bated breath of a man who places a thousand dollar value on a one dollar ring. But he was all powerful and a wheel in the machinery of an organization that was bent in minimizing the presence of the Nogro in the councils of the Republican (Continued on Page Four) LIEUT. CLIFFORD RESIGNS The Policy of Discrimination Practiced by Present Administration Is Un-American And Despicable In the Extreme By The Negro Associated Press Washington, D. C., Nov. 5.—Lieut. J. Williams Clifford, former officer of the 376th Infantry, 92nd Division, A. E. F., who for over a year has looked after the interests of the colored service men in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, recently tendered his resignation as their special Representative because of continual limitations of his official duties by white superiors. In an interview recently, Lieutenant Clifford said: "Little by little certain officials in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance have attempted to give my section trouble simply because of their bitter hatred for the Negroes. Upon one occasion it was claimed that a personal letter was sent out from my office in a franked envelope without a stamp, although the envelope was never produced. Another time I was ordered to stop signing letters written in my section to colored soldiers, and friends because they wished them to be signed by a white man. This I refused to do and I was given to understand that if I did not do so, they would get someone who would carry out their orders. It was only after a two weeks' sight that I was permitted to sign my name to letters originating in my section. Later I was forced to send my dictated letters down to another office where a white high school graduate approved and signed them, signing my own signature to my own letters before they were sent out. This was all done because there was fear that I would persist in helping Negro ex-service men in matters pertaining to their Insurance, Death Claims, and Allotment Claims in a way that might embarrass the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. "Realizing that there was need for a colored man in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to look after the Insurance, Compensation, and Allotment Claims of Colored soldiers, I succeeded in having myself appointed to the position during the present administration. My official designation has been Special Representative of the Colored Soldier, and Sailors in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. By articles in Negro newspapers and magazines and through the enrollment of Social Workers, Young Men's Christian Associations, Yourn Women's Christian National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Fraternity Organizations, Urban League Workers, and the other Community Service Organizations, I have been able to stimulate interest in Government Life Insurance among colored discharged soldiers to the end that millions of dollars worth of Insurance have been saved and added to the economic strength of the Negro race. This work, according to letters over the signatures of my superiors has been carried on very efficiently. In fact it has been the common talk in the Bureau that the Colored Servicemen's Section for its size is one of the most efficient Units in this entire institution. "The policy of segregation and discrimination enforced by the present Administration is Un-American and despicable in the extreme. Merit and ability count for naught if you have a black face. In most every Government Department the colored members of my race are huddled together in some obscure corner or room and kept away from the other employees just as if they were infected with some infectious disease, Colored Soldiers who fought on the bloody battlefields of France, and contributed to the glorious American victory, who are now working in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance are not permitted to eat with the other employees of the Building of the War Risk Restaurant." PLEA FOR RACE LIBERTY AND JUSTICE MADE BY A. O. SMITH, OF NEW ORLEANS, BEFORE THE N. A. A. C. P. An Address Prepared for the Louis- inna State Convention of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, by A. O. Smith, of New Orleans, La. As a race what part are we playing in this Government? What is expected of us to be recognized suffraglists? The approach of the condition of our own country, especially the Southland, is such that I have not time to plead the cause of my race, but my heart goes out for the whole people. Famine is almost striking us in the face. Let us as a people, think and act wisely. With millions and millions of uncultivated land, now causing a shortage of agricultural products we must find a plan of populating this country. You no longer can look to Europe for labor. Just the cause that in depopulating the Southland, the opposite will repopulate it. The black man is your asset, can you hold him? We had just as well look at things as they are: No labor, no crops, no black man, no labor. My white friends in the rural districts with a plenty of children looking in the warehouses of sugar, and the price of sugar has reached one dollar per pound, would it not be far better that you see to it that your black neighbor is better treated? Instead of continued persecution which is driving him from this country, one by one, ten by ten, why not give them justice? Can you not see that such a course will bankrupt the South? Do you not love your home and the South? If so, do that which will raise its financial standing higher. If you hold to the same idea that you held to in 1861, you will bankrupt your country as you did in 1871, possibly not to recover in the next quarter of a century. Don't forget that the man of color is your only hope of real labor. Without him your fields will grow up in weeds, and weeds are not productive of wealth. We, the people, have too much politics, and not enough justice in dealing with each other. Less politics and more justice will be the saving power of this Southland. From a great famine in a land carrying therichest soil of any country in the world, the same thing that drove the Pilgrim Fathers from their homes and country into a wild and unsettled land, will drive the labor which is your financial asset from you, loss of which will completely ruin us financially. We have no demands to make, neither do we have any threats to offer. At the bar of justice we plead for liberty. We have been pleading for the last half century. We often implore you and your justice, when we should be talking to our God. He has never turned a deaf ear. You know what you have done. No man or woman is free who is not allowed to vote. Any man that votes you in congress and yet you cannot vote to send him there, represents you as a slave. It is tarsation without representation. My dear white brother, the black man has not been truthful to you in regard to this contentment. Thinking that he was happy when he was one of the most miserable of all mortals. How could he be happy when his daughters were assaulted without the semblance of the law to protect the virtue? In some parts of the country it is not known that black or race women have any virtue, if father or brothers try to protect the honor of their families, it means that another black man has gone to the Great Beyond. If we do not stop so much politics and get down to the real science of government, our banks will be as longly as our saloons and will be as poorly patronized. I am not a leading man of my race, but with your consent or guarantee of citizenship, I will plead with those of my PRICE, FIVE CENTS race that are here not to leave the land of their birth? I shall try to induce those that have left to return. O. They will not stay on any other basis, neither will they return. We have said so often that it was my race that spilt the first blood for American Independence, by Crispus Attucks, a race man, but that does not seem to satisfy you of our real worth as citizens. I will say to you again, you were trying to keep us in bondage. We were in the field cultivating the crops, to keep your families from want. In 1861 when Old Glory was about to trail in the dust, we again gave our lives for the honor of the Stars and Stripes of this Country. Yet, it does not seem to satisfy you for our citizenship. In 1865 when the Southland was in bankruptcy, we were your asset. Our labor redeemed the financial credit of this country. Does that satisfy you that we should be allowed our full citizenship? In state or national distress, it is my race that is called as your true and tried friend. It was my son, my son by race, whose blood mingled with the blood of your sons, in the trenches in France. My son lost his life trying to make it possible that you might look your son in the face once more. But he could not do it. Feeling that your father would be as proud of his heroism that he would not stop until you saw that true Democracy was given to every American citizen, be he foreign or native born. This is our last appeal. We like you to be the Supreme Court. For more than fifty years, this case has been before you. Yes, but your people want social equality and that we will never stand. All of the social equality that I have ever seen observed has been on the part of the white man. Costing in tears and heart aches from his own race more than he will ever be able to heal. Saying nothing of the black mothers who have had but one person to whom to carry their pleadings, to no man, no woman, she fervently offered herself to God. For the honor of her daughters, God is good, Divine Providence is placing the ballot in the hands of woman, who will protect woman from the nefarious practice of some men. The black girl or girl of color will have to be the wives of our sons and their sons will be our grandsons. Are you willing to protect the rights and virtues of all son-bearing women? Are you willing as true patriots of the government of which you are a citizen, to help make the suffrage of the boys that honored the Stars and Stripes popular and for their kin, who died with your sons on foreign fields of battle? Let us purify our civilization by asking the Federal Government to build two institutions and to appoint a board of examiners to pass on the sanity or diseases of men who are charged with rape. The act is so unnatural to the organization of man that all such cases should be handled by a federal board. Let no guilty man escape. If diseased let us find a preventative that does not compromise our civilization, that we will not be ashamed, when our missionaries embark to carry civilization and religion to heathen countries. For the Scriptures have said, if the blind lead the blind all will fall in the dutch. Mob violence only hardens persons for any rash act, instead of one criminal you often have found 500 to 1000 murderers. He who held the clothes were guilty as those who stoned Stephen to death. If we are in earnest about blotting out lynching or lynch law, let the Federal government hold the parish or county for $5,000, the minimum for each individual lynched and $100,000 the maximum amount. During a mob any person found within one (Continued on Page Four) "WHITE SUPREMACY" IS . BEING THREATENED White supremacy is being threatened. This is most direful news from the front. How can white supremacy be threatened? Is not this particular brand of supremacy backed by the traditions of a social development 1800 years in length? Is it not being sustained by a race which got its start at least 2,000 years since? And measured in the terms of the infinite years is so high a mountain of social experience that one grows dizzy contemplating the extent of the inches presented. Supremacy is sustained only by the possession of supreme powers. If the supremacy of the white race is being threatened it is because that supremacy deserves to be threatened. The fact of the matter is that the white race has been weighed on the social balance and found to be sadly lacking in these social qualities which make for permanent social dominance. "White supremacy" is but another variation of the "Blues." Quit singing them and go earnestly to work in the effort to make the world truly safe for Democracy. --- A white man bumped into a Negro in the city of Pittsburg last week and a full ripe race riot ensued. The police were called out and were obliged to use clubs and revolvers to disperse the contending crowds. I called it a "full ripe" race riot. It wasn't. A real race riot is an incident where the "nigger" turns on his heels and runs. When the "nigger" faces the mob and fights back then the occasion becomes a "problem." Citizen's Conference On Negro Education By The Negro Associated Press Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3—A Citizen's Conference on Negro Education has been billed by Dr. P. P. Claxton to meet in the Senate Chamber on the 19th and 20th of November. N. A. A. C. P. FIGHTS EXTRADITION CASE OF TOM RAY By The Negro Associated Press New York, N. Y., Nov. 3.—Walter F. White, assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., gave the following interview for the Associated Negro Press on the case of Tom Ray, of Wilkinson County, Georgia, whose extradition to Georgia for trial on charge of murder the Association is fighting. Ray is at present in custody in Wayne County jail, Detroit, Michigan. "Tom Ray, in self-defense killed a white man named Faulkner," said Mr. White, "in Wilkinson County, Georgia, after Faulkner had several times made attempt on Ray's life. Ray escaped to Canada later returning to Detroit where he was arrested. "Governor Sleeper of Michigan granted extradition to the Georgia authorities for Ray, although the last Negro for whom he granted extradition was lynched twelve hours after he had arrived in Kentucky. "Attorneys Wallis and Hinton and attorney W. Hayes McKinney acting for the Detroit Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., immediately applied for a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Hunt granted the writ but Ray was immediately rearrested when Georgia officers wired that an indictment was being forwarded "A hearing was held before Gov. Sleeper on the indictment on Wednesday, October 29. I testified at that time as an investigator of lynchings and as one of the compilers of the "Thirty Years of Lynching" showing that if Ray were taken back to the state of Georgia he would not only fall to receive a fair trial but would probably be lynchil immediately upon his return. "In spite of the facts presented Governor Sleeper said he saw no reason why Ray should not be returned. The attorneys for Ray immediately applied for a new writ of habeas corpus and in the event that fails the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will take the case to the Federal Court. "This case," White in conclusion, "ought to be of especial interest to colored people of the United States as it may establish a precedent in the denial of extradition to Southern States where Negroes accused of crime are lynched or denied justice." FRANCE HONORS NEGRO SOLDIERS By The Negro Associated Press Mouphois, France, Nov. 3.—France honored Nero soldier heroes last week by dedicating a monument in honor of the men who fell in the great battles of the late war. The monument stands in one of the most prominent squares in this city and is a beautifully sober and impressive piece of statuary. When the 272d United States Infantry left here its members left money in the care of General Quillet and other distinguished French officers were present. The United States was represented by Col. R. John West, Lieut. Col. T. Bentley Mott and other officers. KU KLUX TERROR IN S. CAROLINA By The Negro Associated Press Greenville, S. C., Nov. 3.—"Don't turn a wheel or we will burn," read a warning which had been posted on a cotton gin near Gray Court in Laurens County, last Saturday morning. In the meantime cotton remains unpicked in the surrounding fields throughout the country while Negro congregations in all the neighboring churches are holding meetings and praying for higher prices for cotton to prevent financial ruin and possible starvation. The cotton market remains unsteady and prices show a disposition to decline. BAPTIST HOLD CONVENTION By The Negro Associated Press Clarksville, Tenn., Nov. 3.—A delegation of more than 400 attended the Negro Baptist Convention held here last week. The meetings were held in the Mount Olivet Church. Addresses were made by prominent ministers and laymen who discussed various phases of the Race Problem. White Succeeds Negro Mets Death By The Negro Associated Press' Memphis, Tann., Nov. 3.—R. E. Norris lies at the point of death in a local hospital as a result of an attack on him by Negroes last Monday morning. Norris took the place of a discharged Negro foreman and thereby incurred the enmity of the Negroes who attacked him and fractured his skull during the altercation. Eight Negro men and women are being held pending the result of the attack. ORER OF MOSES CELEBRATION By Negro Associated Press Washington, D. C., Nov. 3—Sever hundred delegates, chiefly from the South, assembled in Washington to celebrate the fifty-third anniversary of the Ancient United Order of Moses. The celebration took place in the John Wesley A. M. E. Z. Church. A welcome address on the part of the Court of Calanthe was delivered by Mrs. Esther J. Murray. Mrs. Mason Layton was at her best extending a cordial welcome to the delegates on behalf of the various fraternal organizations of the city. In her address, she made strong points relating to the political situation and was received with round after round of applause. Mrs. Layton and Mrs. Murray were made life members of the Order, and were presented with badges. FARMER-LABOR PARTY MEETING By The Negro Associated Press Topeka, Kans., Nov. 3—An appeal to the colored voters of America to enroll under the banner of the Farmer Labor party and denunciation of foreign policies both of the Democratic and Republican parties marked an address here tonight by Perley P. Christensen, Farmer-Labor candidate for President. "The same imperialistic motives for the benefit of Wall street animated both the Democratic and Republican parties," said Mr. Christensen. "Of course this actual motive is always varnished with spurious veneer of morality to deceive the people. "We in America should have better taste than to talk of making the world safe for democracy. We, with our Burlesons, our Palmers, our deportations, our lynchings and our many discriminations against our colored brothers." THE JEW IS CLEVER By The Negro Associated Press Whether it is a matter of discretion or protection on the part of Jewish shop-keepers in the colored sections to employ Negro help is a question that cannot be fully ascertained. Lately it has been discov- ered that in the stores owned by Jews Colored residents of West Harlem are conducting the business and catering to the wants of their own race under the direction and supervision of Jewish superiors. The Jewish people and Negroes seem to be on good terms. This recent move to have their business handled by Negroe assistants convey the import that it is being done to insure their safety and preserve absolute tranquility in disputes arising out of business affairs. PROBLEMS OF THE WEST By The Negro Associated Press There is little doubt that the educated Negro and the Negro laborer could make their way in the West. There are Negroes in that section of the country now, and many of whom are prosperous. But this does not argue convincingly that the West is the land of promise for the Negro, any more than the North or East might prove to be. Taught to exercise the skill as that possessed by the Japanese, the Negro would probably find equal opportunities as a wage-earner in the West. But if he goes there he will perhaps find that he will be forced to combat the same racial distinctions against which he has so often protested elsewhere. Should he, by industry and thrift, be able to assume the rights of a landowner, he may discover that his encroachment is no more cordially regarded than is that of the Japanese at the present time, or than his own, or that of other ambitious members of the Negro race, has been in established industrial and social centers elsewhere. The problem in his caze, as in the case of the Japanese, is, a racial one. Current events in many ways constantly demonstrate the great effectiveness of our newspapers. They are today the greatest silent force in the development of our program of achievement. Journalistic progress among us has the admiration of our friends and fear of our enemies The people—the great masses—are backing up the newspapers in every possible way, and they have faith in what they "see in the papers." The story told of a well known orator who recently made a talk before a big crowd. He pleaded for his cause eloquently. After he had finished one of his hearers came forward with one of our newspapers in his hand, and this is what he said to the speaker, after grasping his hand: "Mr. Speaker, I know what you say is all right, but look what our newspaper says on the subject." And it was not what the speaker said. Having attained this magnificent confidence of the public, the newspapers will not retain it unless they keep always on the alert in giving the people the very best obtainable in news and editorial opinion. With all the splendid grip the Church has on the people, it is not today what it once was, and certainly not what it should be. Where the ministers are showing initiative, individuality, intelligence, unselfishness and moral force, they are even today, having tremendous success. Newspapers without a strong editorial page are like a house without a light, a furnace without fuel, or a wagon without wheels. Editorial opinion gives vitality and power to the newspaper. Public sentiment is molded, communities and nations are swayed by opinion. It is said that only a limited number of people read the editorial page. This is true, perhaps, and it is likewise true that only a limited number of people control the destinies of markind. Our newspapers have unlimited opportunities before them. They are everywhere in the ascendency. They must rise to the occasion and serve righteously the cause for which they exist. By The Negro Associated Press Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3—The Atlanta and Savannah conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church held an endowment rally last Tuesday and about $11,000 was raised for the endowment fund of Clark University. "BEATS" LAWYERS Macon, Ga., Nov. 3.—Edward Howard, a Negro is under arrest here charged with defrauding five white lawyers out of sums of money ranging from $5 to $20. Howard gave each lawyer an alleged damage claim against a railrod and then borrowed money from them. 1,500 Shopmen Strike Houston, Texas, Nov. 8. 1,5000 Southern Pacific shopmen struck here last week because four negro workmen were reinstated by the officials of the road. WATERBURIANS HAVE RALLY Waterbury, Conn., Nov. 8.—$5000 was raised by the congregation of the A. M. E. Zion church in a two days' thrive here last week Mayor Sandland set aside Friday and Saturday as Tag Days to assist in the drive. The Rev. P. K. Feniville is the pastor of the church. MORE SCHOOLS URGING NECESSITY Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 3. More schools for Negroes was declared to be a pressing necessity in this city by the conference of Negro Methodists recently held in this city. Dr. Gregg, the president of the Negro University at Wilberforce, Ohio, delivered a stirring address on the need for schools and urged the colored people to busy themselves in the matter of procuring them for their children. PRAIRIE VIEW COLLEGE HAS BEST EXHIBIT Dallas, Texas, Nov. 3.—One of the finest exhibits at the annual State Fair, now being held here, is that presented by the Prairie View State Normal College of Prairie View, a Negro school. This school is under the direction of the Argicultural and Mechanical College of Texas and enjoys a fine reputation among the educational institutions in the state. Dr. Robinson Elected Houston, Texas, Nov. 5.—Dr. M. E. Robinson has been elected president of the Negro Baptist Convention which closed its sessions here last Sunday night. Dr. Robinson, who succeeds himself is one of the best known Negro divines in the State of Texas. Valdostans Prepare For Fair Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 3-Colored Valdostans are making extensive preparations to be fittingly represented in Georgia-Florida Fair to be opened shortly here. Their efforts promise to be crowned with much success. Trenton, S. C., Nov. 3—At a recent meeting of the Mt. Canaan Baptist Association one of the features of the very successful convention was the rally for the benefit of Bett's Academy, a school that was established forty years ago on the line of Aiken and Edgefield by the late Alexander Bettis. In spite of the boll weevil and other drawbacks $4,000 was laid on the table for the school. $10,000 Improvements For Newport News Newport News, Va., Nov. 3—About $10,000 will be used by the city authorities to institute improvements in the Negro sections of the city. It will take at least six months to complete improvements. S Florence, Ala., Nov. 3—Florence boasts of a Negro who is the proud possessor of one successful store and 34 dwellings. Robert Buckingham is his name and he is one of Florence's reputable and highly respected citizens. Full military honors were accorded at the Arlington National Cemetery over the bodies of forty-eight white enlisted men, then over three colored soldiers, and finally over the graves of four officers, all of whom died overseas. The American Legion, American Red Cross, War Mother's Committee, the American Womens Legion, and detachments from the Army rendered the final tributes. There was an unusually large number of mourners. Topaka, Kansas, Nov. S.-B. J. Dotterweich, the manager of the Dotterwelch Concert series, has been charged with discrimination against prominent colored citizens of Topaka, who claimed to have been discriminated against by the manage- JORDAN & CARTER Tailors Makers of Fine Hand Tailored Garments, for Ladies and Gentlemen. 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Kellum, had a son born to them recently. Mr. and Mrs. Kellum presented the child with a gold lined silver cup and a $100 Liberty Bond. The child was the first Negro child born on the Kellum farm. MEMORIAL SERVICE Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3.—A memorial service for Aunt Caroline Bell was held on the Cox College Campus last Sunday afternoon.Aunt Caroline had been in the continuous service of the College for the past forty years. College girls sang several appropriate songs during the services. Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 3.—Mrs. Graham, the mother of John Graham, a Negro boy ten years old, whipped her son in the presence of Judge C. D. Blackwell last Tuesday morning. The whipping was the sentence of the Judge who had convicted the boy of beating a young Negro girl in a school fight. TOM RAY HELD BY Dr The Negro Associated Press Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 3.—Governor Sleeper of the state of Michigan has refused to deliver one Tom Ray, a Negro, to Sheriff of Wilkinson County because he is not convinced that Ray will not be lynched if he is returned to Georgia. Ray is charged with the murder of DeWitt Faulkner, a white farmer of Wilkinson County a few weeks ago. MINISTER CHARGE WITH THEFT By The Negro Associated Press Sparta, Ga., Nov. 3.—The Rev. G. W. Wynn, a prominent Negro preacher, was arrested last week and charged with stealing seed cotton from the field of S. N. McGee. He was bound over to the City Court which is now in session. The evidence is said to be strong against him. WAKE UP COMRADE White Supremacy has been seriously threatened by the insistence of Negroes that, as American, they art justly entitled to the possession of every aspiration which prompts American Citizens to the realizations of justice, knowledge and clean life conditions. This is indeed a horrifying situation. I did not know that "white supremacy was as slightly constructed as this confession indicates. I had thought "white supremacy" was SUPREME. To my utter amusement I discover it is as J. R. JOHNSTON S. S. JONES Mkt. 6745 Mkt. 6005 1048 N. Washington Avenue 1705 N. Topeka Avenue JOHNSTON & JONES Cement Contractors and Builders. All Kinds of Concrete Work Guaranteed Wichita, Kansas. rotten as the threads of an old worn out garment. Boasts long and loudly proclaimed, are mere bubbles that burst in the presence of the slightest zephyrs of social yarn of the part of the fellow down in the cellar of American life. "What pity 'tis, 'tis fruel!" And yet, in the language of a distinguished American statesman whose name I cannot recall at the present moment, "We should worry!" What we want to do is to go right on making substantial progress because it is the right thing to do and we will make for the sounder growth of everything in American life worth preserving. Why should we stand in one spot because some other fellow refuses to move forward? One thing is doubly certain, sustained reiteration never established the truth of anything that was not held up by the strength of clean and clear directed endeavor. When men talk of "supremacy" they must begin to think more and "feel" less. Our "brother-In-white" is making a grave mistake lying awake at nights worrying about the loss of "supremacy." What he needs most, I venture to mildly advance in the interim, is a long rest from his agitations in this connection. He lost a golden opportunity to make possible the maintenance of "white supremacy" when he introduced Negro slavery on the Western Hemisphere. Wake up, my comrade, your country needs you. Dr. Mary Warning, a distinguished physician and teacher in the City of Chicago, has just returned from a European meeting of an international meeting of Women. She told me a very interesting story of an experience she went through at Leamington, Spain in the public dining room of one of its hotels. "White Supremacy" is the motif of the story. When the American party was called to dinner it happened that at the table where two colored members were seated there were two vacant seats to which the headwaiter assigned two white American ladies. The ladies in question declined the honor when they discovered the two ladies of color seated among other ladies and left the dining room in high dungeon over the "Insult." The possession of good manners is one of the signs of social "supremacy." The recent news of the Island of Haiti is not reassuring. The Wilson "humanitarian program" is not running smoothly If Mr. Wilson was as "long" on practice as he is on preachment he would go down in history as one of the truly great Presidents who have graced the White House with their presence. But, words will not make a great President. LARGE CROWDS GREET SPEAKER Dr Negro Associated Press Minneapolis, Minn. Nqv. 3—Mrs. Ruth Harnes Carpenter, chairman of the Fifth District of the League of Women Voters, delivered a noteworthy speech at the regular meeting of the Colored Coupeil of the League last Tuesday night in the Mayor's reception room at the court house. A large and enthusiastic audience greeted the speaker. Entered as second-class matter June 12th 1919, at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The writer of any article must sign name whether or not it is to be published. Write on one side of paper. We reserve the right to reject any matter for publication.—Notify us at once, when you fail to receive your paper. We feel that the guiding hand of Providence has directed our course for the next four years. He has taken the government out of the hands of those who are not qualified to run it, those whose business visions are too limited to make contracts that will save the interest of the government nor encourage the poor people to do. The Corporations grew fat and spread their wings over the weak and came very near smothering the life out of them. We know every one hates a defeat, but from the reports of the elections throughout the country it was the wishes of nearly all for a change. Every northern state went straight for a Republican Administration, only the southern states went democratic, and the Republicans made better showing than ever before. It is not hard to see that no government nor person could last long, who made contracts to waste money and material and by force could not help themselves for fear of hurting the Corporation that had no interest in the poor nor the prosperity of the government. Then the moral tendency was bad, they were too selfish to use brain and spirit that had the experience unless they were Democrats; they were trying to use substitutes for Party sake and they have spread bitter poison through this country, that will mean much damage. They gave place for Jim-crowism in the Federal Government and proved to the world that Democracy, which was so willingly given to others was not interded for her own citizens, if their faces were black, under their administration. That a part of the Constitution was no more than a piece of paper, the same feeling that Germany had for the Belgians and the Treaty, still the administration felt so morally good that it could not stand to see a nation thousands of miles away trample law and order, and obligations under her foot. We won the world-wide Democracy and there was not enough of the spirit of God in the hearts of the Chiefs of the world to have prayer for direction to the Prince of Peace; and there has been more confusion in that land and this since the war than ever before. It has been more miserable for the bravest soldiers who brought victory by force through every known and unknown danger. But we feel kindly to those who have been the friends to all in what ever party they be, stand ready in this new day with this party, which promises better things, to do our part as a race, that the government may overcome and march on first, let this administration clear up prejudice in the Capital which is unconstitutional, then begin the laws to make it safe anywhere under the Stars and Stripes. As a race, we are not asking special favors, but make and force the law that will protect all men equally and we will like the government is founded on the spirit of the lowly Nazarene, whose mission was to save, lift and protect every person alike. If the Democrats will help this administration as well as they were helped, then great will be the change and blessings will be at every man's door. Harding, our President-elect has the spirit, let every one give place for the operation of that spirit. He holds the distinction of getting the SOCIETY AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Ben Topp, who spent attend school part of the week, due two years in Colorado Springs, have to illness. returned to Wichita. Mrs. Dave Starnes and children Miss Nellie Newton was unable to have returned from a two months' largest number of votes of any President we have ever had, which shows that he has the greatest support and we believe will do the greatest good. Florida, so far as we have heard yet was the only state to carry on lynching and burning during the election. They claim that Mose Norman wanted to vote without paying his poll tax and was refused. That would sound more like the truth if five more had not been lynched and no excuse given at all. They must have wanted to vote after paying their poll tax. Isn't it hard, that a man or race can not express his on its wishes without making some places famous for murder. No one knew that Ocoee, Fla., was on the map until it was disgraced, born into recognition a disgrace, with officers brave enough to capture a criminal, but did not have bravery enough to protect the integrity of the law, so passed into the Great Beyond to bear witness to the mockery of civilization. There is someone on this Educational Board, who is not a Christian nor has he enough education to make them broad, but are ready and anxious to crush out all opportunity for the Negro child to prove his worth to or against people on merit of physical or mental ability. Surely a race with 2000 years the start would not be afraid, of a race who has had only fifty years; if that is it, then it must be prejudice. If it is prejudice, then the journey to the end of superiority is about at an end, because no race can do its best in a race trying to hold another back. You will have to get behind to hold with much power, thus farther away from the goal. Instead of putting in more prejudice, they should not in more inspiration and encouragement and make them believe that they can out class any people, not that they can hold back any people, that is conceding the Negro's superiority to contest and do things. We need these members of the board for the good of both races, infact, we need a Negro on the Board of Education for the good of both races. We are especially proud of Profs. West and Barnett and their corps of teachers, who tell their children, "you can win, and you must win," and they do win in every Track Meet. Put the courage and the pep there, and there's enough volition in any child to strive to master. TENNESSEE is on the Lord's side with a Republican Governor, Alf Taylor, we are still longing for all the states to fall out with their wicked ways and come over on the Lord's side and live, even poor Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. S We are clipping from The Times Plaindealer of Birmingham, Ala., one of the best addresses we have ever read—"A Flea for Race Liberty and Justice" made by A. O. Smith, of New Orleans, La, delivered before N. A. A. C. P. Kansas took no chances on wiggl ing and wobbling, but-went solidly Republican, a fair chance to do without any excuse. visit in Butler, Mo., with relatives and report a pleasant trip. Mrs. Wm. Carter is at home again from a visit in Newkirk, Oklahoma. Don't fail to attend the Recital by Florence Cole 'Falbert, the celebrated Lyric Soprano at the St. Paul A. M. E. Church, Monday, evening. November 15th. The Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Edmond, with delegate, Mrs. Hattie Rogers, have returned from the conference which was in session at Kansas City. Great sessions were reported. Mrs. O. A. Briley has returned from Kansas City, and Chilocothe, where she has been royally entertained by her son and daughter. Florence Cole Talbert, the celebrated lyric soprano, winner of the diamond medal at Chicago Musical College, will appear in concert at the St. Paul A. M. E. Church, Monday Eve., Nov. 15th. The G. L. A. Club held their meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. S. W. Jones, an interesting business session was held. They also enjoyed a delicious luncheon served by the hostess. Mr. Geo. Lewis of Hot Springs, Ark., was a visitor in the city during the week, enroute to Oklahoma City. The Teachers' Association held at Hutchinson, Thursday and Friday of last week, proved quite a success in every way and so much so, in attendance that the good people of Hutchinson could barely find room for all. 'the Class' for the Teachers' Training Course at Calvary Baptist Church is growing rapidly. Many seem anxious to learn of Him and His Word. Mr. A. T. C. Mitchell spent Sunday and Monday in the city. He was enroute to Topeka, where he has accepted a position with The Plaindealer Pub. Co. While here he spent the time with his old friend and school mate, Wm. C. Dungy, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Sims. Mr. Mitchell is a former student of Tuskegee Institute and holds a certificate from the Department of Printing. Mr. J. W. Wilson was out Wednesday evening, cooked and served a real at-home-dinner for The Star family. The spread was one unexcelled, not only for taste but for style. Many years of experience have stood Mr. Wilson above the average in the profession, he not only knows how to cook, but what. The Star family is still wondering, when Miss Louise Newton peeped in on us during the week. The Alsbic Club met at the home of Mrs. W. A. Bettis last Tuesday afternoon. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Mary Carr, next Tuesday afternoon. All members are urged to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lee of 1109 N. Mosley Avenue were business callers of last evening. Mr. George Holley, the Pullman-service man of St. Louis, Mo., was in to see us yesterday on business. Mr. Holley is our real customer. There is no place in the city that looks more like business than the Manufacturing Plant of the Zachary's Zipp Cleaner on the corner of Ninth and Mosley. A cozy office in the front, with displays of the wonderful goods manufactured there, for all kinds of polishing and cleaning of furniture, tile, floors, woodwork and automobiles. In the rear is the compounding, mixing and filling department, with electric power and many other conveniences, making them able to turn out several Hundred Dollars worth per day. It is inspiring to see the well arranged plant. Mrs. Eddie Rollings is here in the city this week from Colo. Springs. Mrs. L. C. Beans of Henderson, Texas, has spent several days in our city, visitin gher cousin, Mrs. Johnson at 1220 N. Main St., she left for home on the 30th. She reported a pleasant stay in our city. Mrs. Beatrice Booker of 1751 Ohio Avenue was called to Topeka, on a very serious occasion, while there she witnessed the death of her infant grandchild, the son of her son, Mr. and Mrs. Caesar Chaptman. We sympathize with them in their grief. H尔 Blind Boone'..... Hear Blind Boone, one of the greatest musicians the world has brought forth, at the A. M. E. Church, Tuesday evening, Nov. 9th. He is a Wonder. Mrs. M. Johnson has been cripple for some time, due to a fall, but is much improved now, we are glad to say. Rev. J. R. Ransom is out of the city on business. Monday evening, Nov. 1, Mr. and Mrs. Limmie Forrest were entertained by their father and aunt, Mr. Limmie and Mrs. Carrie M. Thompson at their residence, 1831 N. Wabash, 25 were present and all enjoyed a delightful luncheon. Mr. J. A. Jackson, secretary of St. Mary Baptist Church, is requested by his mother and father who are living in Brownaville, Haywood County, Tennessee, to come to see them at once. They have been in ill health for several months. He will go, and while in that section of the country will visit some of his acquaintances and friends. Some of them were his school mates. Many of them have made good farmers. teachers, preachers, doctors and all of them are said to be good citizens. Opening of the Colored Children's Home. The Home for Colored Children, located at 808 E. 13th St., purchased by the City Federation of Colored Women's Club will be opened for public inspection Wednesday, November 17, 1920, from 4 to 10 p.m. The Ladies of the City Federation and Orphan Home Eard are working very earnestly and zealously to make this Home one which the citizens of Wichita will be pleased with, and the colored people in particular. They solicit your attendance at the informal opening on the above date. The Sacred Song Recital, at Calvary Captiol Church, given by Prof. E. M. Barnes last Monday night, was a decided success. Many of the numbers were his own composition. 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This Remedy is in tablet form, 6 months' treatment to the package. Mailed to any address in the World on receipt of $1.00 and postage, address: Pine Cone Remedy Co. Box 244 WICHITA, KANSAS A Plea For Race Liberty and Justice (Continued From Page One) quarter of a mile of the hanging on any other form that life was taken unlawfully unless it can be proven that it was his permanent home, such evidence will be sufficient proof of his guilt to serve not less than five years or more than twenty years in the federal pentitentiary. Any man who engages in a mob is an anarchist and attempts to destroy civilized government. Our government is divided into three parts: the executive, legislative and judicial. On these three pillars our government rests. He or she who attempts to act in any one of these three places without a sovereign right is an anarchist making a due attempt to overthrow this government. We are before you as a sinner stands before his God. God will not turn away a sin-sick sinner without showing him mercy. What are you going to do about our liberty? Without which we are slaves. Will you drive dian. This country supports the Infusing us citizenship? You have al- (Continued in next issue) Continued From Page One) Party. He played the part of his master's will. At least this is the claim of Negro men and women who are reputed to be personages of high standing as Republicans. This man, is accused of divers things, which, if true, must of necessity place him in the unenviable position of one who has bent himself on carrying out of a deliberated plan to reduce the Colored vote to a condition of political serfdom. Ordarily this would be beyond the ability of a man holding down an insignificant clerkship in the publicity department of a national political committee. But the situation is lifted off the plane of ordinary conditions by what has been termed the creation of a subordinate place for the "Colored-man-and-brother" in the councils of the Republican Party. The charge may be or it may not be true, yet there is enough of outspoken disapproval rampart all about the country to give it the temper of at least reasonable probability. It would be unfair, however, at this point not to say a word concerning the very creditable part that was played by a considerable number of men and women in the conduct of the campaign work done among the Negro voters. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Robert R. Church, Charles A. Cottrill, Perry W. Howard, Mrs. Lethin C. Fleming, and Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley in charge of the Chicago headquarters. In the East, William H. Lewis, Andrew Stevens, Robert Nelson, Isaac Mitten, William Matthews, George Harris, Fred Moore and Mrs. Mary Church-Terrell carrith on an intelligent campaign from the New York headquarters. "But what of the future?" is the question on the lips of many people black and white, who feel the need for the Negro becoming keenly alive to the duty which has come to him in the present crisis of alarming unrest sweeping disquietitude throughout the length and breadth of our beloved country. The stupidity of the Democratic Party.coupled with the insistence of its southern elements to keep alive the "color problem," will make it extremely difficult for the Negro to pull away from his Republican traditions. "And yet he is confronted with stern necessity of acquainting a "lily white" element in the Republican Party that he is determined, at all hazards and risk of immediate loss of social and economic profit to do the thing which he feels will make him, finally, a worth-while American Citizen, declares a Negro of prominence in a certain northern state. "Questions of rights and problems of duties now confront the Negro with increased importance. He must give jealous care to the maintenance of his rights, he must put serious thinking into the performance of his rights. Leadership will play a small and unimportant role in the operation of any new schedule of schemes unless it springs, literally out of the soul of the Race's aspiration to take hold to a high place among the American Citizenry," asserts another member of the Face who is rated among the thoughtful thinkers of our group. The Negro did an honest share of the work which resulted in the victory of Senator Harding. His labors, however, are not ended, they have just begun. A survey of the situation facing the Negro and the country alike betray the necessity for exercising the highest expression of patriotism at this time to the end that no backward steps will be taken in the conduct of public matters and no hindrances placed in the way of the progress of the common people. Kansas City, Kansas The Church of the Living God (C. W. F. F.- 387 Oakland Avenue, Elder J. II. Wright, Pastor. The Lord blessed us with some rain and it has done lots of good. Last Tuesday was a busy day at the voting, places and everything passed off very nicely. Last Sunday, Sunday School was fine and a good lesson was recited. Many interesting things were found in the lesson. The morning sermon was preached by the Pastor. He preached a powerful rermon, that was interesting to all. The Bible Band was fine, an interesting lesson was recited by all. The night sermon was preached by the Pastor. He used for his text Hebrews, 11:1. He spoke wonderfully, and told us many good things on the doctrine. When you are in the city, you are welcome to this Temple, don't forget to come whenever you are in the city. And while in the city, don't forget to stop by Mr. A. J. Robinson's place of business at 406 Freeman Avenue. He is engaged in a fine grocery business and restaurant. If you want something good, stop by and see him. He is a reader of The Negro Star, Mr. Robinson is a Negro business man. Do you want to keep up with the best news of the race? If so, subscribe for The Negro Star, you will then keep up with the latest news. Whenever you are in this city you are welcome to the Church of God. Now come and let us reason together saith the Lord. W. C. ARCH, 709 New Jersey Ave., K. C. K. New Hope Baptist Bright brave boys and lovable light-hearted girls assembled in Sunday School to study the World's Temperance lesson—Ihew Down the Corrupt Tree," Sunday morning. Much interest was manifested. At eleven a.m., Dr. E. T. Fishback, our minister, gave to the congregation a real treat sermon, worthy mn every detail. Text, Matt. 25:14. Subject, "The Democracy of Christian Service." The wide-awake B. Y. P. U., group as usual, had a good meeting. At the evening service our Pastor inspired by the Holy Spirit, chose a text from Majt. 11:27-30. Subject—"The Democracy of Christian Rest." The sermon was an invigorator to those who are real Christians doing real Christian service and worship. I wish you had been present, if you were absent. The funeral of Mrs. Hyde Johnson was attended at our Church, Monday at 2.00 p. m., our Minister officiating. Mrs. Johnson had been a member of New Hope for many years and a good citizen in the community, also. The floral tributes were many and beautiful. The Church extends sympathy, to all relatives who mourn her demise. Mrs. Botts of Carthage, Ill., and Mrs. Hollings of Slater, Mo., were present at the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Phillips of Des Moines, Iowa, was called to Wichita, to attend the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Johnson. After spending quite a few days in Wichita at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Bates, and visiting other Wichita friends, Mrs. Fannie Richardson departed for Chicago, Ill., Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs./Brandon anticipate the pleasure of having his brother and niece as guests in the near future. 15th Street M. E. The financial report of our school showed class No. 4 again in the lead last Sundav. Mrs. Mary Smith of 1808 E. Murdock was special dinner guest at the Parsonage a few days ago. At last Friday night's meeting, all the speakers received a round of applause and the last meeting of the Campaign in the North End closed with a free lunch and a snug sum to meet all the expenses of the occasion. Mr. H. B. Gibson gave the Illustrated lecture on Africa and African Life last Sunday night in connection with our regular service, and received many compliments for his original observations on that Dark Continent. Mr. Gibson will complete his series of stereoptican views next Sunday night, November 7th. Hear Him. St. Matthew C. M. E. We are grateful to Providence, our Bishop and Pastor for the return of Rev. H. H. Edmond. Sunday found him again our Shepherd for another year. Sunday School was fair, but inclement weather was somewhat a hindrance to attendance. Morning services were on the alert as well as the evening service. The Pastor at the rostrum for both services. Fair response was made to the collections of the day. Official Board was held Monday night. The Rev. Edmond introduced some of the plans for the year. We extend a hearty invitation to all to visit or attend our services. Delegates made reports of the Conference Sunday evening. Mr. Forest W. Limmle and Miss Josephine Webster were happily united in holy wedlock at the home of the bride, Sunday, October 31. The home was beautifully decorated. Many friends were present to witness the scene. Plenty of sweat music and singing was rendered and ice cream and cake was served. We wish for them a happy and pleasant sail on the matrimonial' sea. Rev. II. II. Edmond officiated.