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Darker Races Oppose "Gobbling Up" of African Colonies 371ST AND 372ND PRAISED BY FRENCH GENERALS FACTS THE AGE has the largest bona-fide list of paid up subscribers of any Negro weekly in the U. S. A. VOL. XXXII. NO. 20. Darker R 371ST A Territory Formerly by Germany R Diamonds, R Territory Formerly Dominated by Germany Rich in Gold, Diamonds, Rubber and Oil BY LESTER A. WALTON. In Patis during the month of December, Americans who secured an inkling from the "whispering galleries" as to what was going on in the inner circles, were inclined to think that the Peace Conference at any time was very apt to degenerate into a "piece conference" involving the parceling out of Germany's African colonies—unless the United States took a strong stand against this brand of diplomacy. Recent cable dispatches from the peace table convey the intelligence that there are diplomats who have not been wholly averse to engaging in the "dishing out" process. In Paris during the month of December, Americans who secured an inkling from the "whispering galleries" as to what was going on in the inner circles, were inclined to think that the Peace Conference at any time was very apt to degenerate into a "piece conference" involving the parceling out of Germany's African colonies—unless the United States took a strong stand against this brand of diplomacy. Recent table dispatches from the peace table convey the intelligence that there are diplomats who have not been wholly averse to engaging in the "dishing out" process. Even under the guise of such high-sounding terms as altruism and humanism which often cover a multi-tide of sins, it seems utterly impossible for those of the darker races to smile appiously at the program to gobble up the thousands of square miles of rich lands belonging to the Africans—a plan regarded by many Negroes as bold and malignant. This turning desire to invade the land of the African instead of turning a back to him comes with a suddenness both bewildering and alarming when it is realled that less than three months ago millions were participating in a bitter struggle to make the world (including Africa) safe for democracy. TERRITORY IN DISPUTE TOGOLAND 33,700 square miles SOUTHWEST AFRICA 322,400 square miles CAMEROONS 191,130 square miles EAST AFRICA 304,180 square miles discussing the disposition of the African Colonies said: "Two more points Although the Peace Conference has been in session only since the middle of January diplomats were "on the job" in Paris from various countries nine weeks before Christmas. They were getting a "lay of the land," as it were. One did not have to possess more than ordinary intelligence to readily see that the African Colonies would be one of the chief zones of concession at the conference. There were more rumors affronted in the French capital as to what this or that country wanted to do in connection with the colonies than any other vital international questions scheduled for discussion and adjudication. British Writers Interested. Since the signing of the armistice family publications in particular have made much space to the probable disposition of Germany's African Colonies, which very little has been said for presumption by high officials of government. In many of the ar-merica has been called upon to offer traditional aloofness" and with the other Powers in a plan to the colonies. The cry of Fallodon recently in POSTPONE FUNERAL TO LOCATE SAVINGS Albany, N. Y.—An effort is being made to locate the savings of the late Rev. Isaac Watkins, 80 years old, who was fatally burned in a fire on the evening of January 24. Although the deceased is supposed to have left quite a sum of money none has been found. M. L. Mills of the Albany Zion Mission, 17 Monroe going to find relatives of the with arrangements had been held services January 30, the postponed until February collecting an investigation into personal affairs hoping to enable information as to the cost of the savings in the mean- 15TH ON WAY TO UNITED STATES EXTRAORDINARY MIDNIGHT MASK AND W PRIDE OF of December, Americans who secured galleries" as to what was going on in to think that the Peace Conference at ate into a "piece conference" involving African colonies—unless the United ast this brand of diplomacy. Recent table convey the intelligence that there m wholly averse to engaging in the TERRITORY IN DISPUTE TOGOLAND 33,700 square miles SOUTHWEST AFRICA 322,400 square miles CAMEROONS 191,130 square miles EAST AFRICA 394,180 square miles discussing the disposition of the African Colonies said: "Two more points I would especially commend to careful and sympathetic attention. One is the possibility of applying the principle of trusteeship to those vast tracts, especially in Africa where no independent National Government of the native inhabitants can be formed. The other is the emphasis and earnest advocacy of the part to be taken by the United States in helping give effect to this principle of trusteeship, and in the council of the world. "Without the United States, any Council or League of Nations will soon be a little better than the old Concert of Europe, which was invariably spoiled by intrigue within and split into opposing groups. It would be as fatal as to the future of the world for the United States to relapse into the old idea of strict isolation, as it would be for any power to revive the German policy of separate conquest and domination. "We think the people of the United States must be conscious of the great and beneficial influence they have exercised on the history of the world by the part they have taken in this war; and we cannot believe that they will FORM HISTORIC LEAGUE IN MOBERLY, MISSOURI (Special to THE NEW YORK ACE) MORFELY, Mo.-The Historic Patriotic League has been organized here with the following officers: Licut. W. B. Coleman, president; Mrs. M. Etta Bolden, associate president; the Rev. S. E. Boone, secretary; the Rev. H. C. Vaughn, treasurer; Dr. H. A. Longdon, chairman of Vigilance Committee; S. W. Jefferson, chairman of Committee on Time and Place; George M. West, chairman of Program Committee MOTON ON ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL COMMITTEE Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, has been appointed a member of the Roosevelt, National Permanent Memorial Committee by Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican National Committee. The committee is in no sense partisan and action was taken by Mr. Hayes pursuant to a resolution adopted January 10, by the Republican National Committee in Chicago. "It is to be the means," said Mr. Hays, "of giving the friends of Colonel Roosevelt a large way of expressing their regard for him, believing that the Roosevelt spirit will be an increasing force in American life. The nature of the mentorial will not be determined until the committee has considered the suggestions which they ask from all. The expenses incident to the administration of the committee have been provided by friends, so that all money collected will be used for the memorial itself." NIGHT PERFORMANCE WIG CLUB OF RACE The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale background with a rough texture. There are no discernible features or elements that can be clearly identified. Reading from Left to Right—Corp. R. Smith, Sergt. H. Jordan, Pvt. M. R. Pinkney, Corp. John Gaines, Corp. George Beatty. Cannot Attend Conference to be Held in Paris in Feb'y The day after Negroes received word from Paris that French officials sanctioned the holding of a Pan-African Congress, the State Department at Washington issued an announcement that no passports would be issued to the various delegates who wanted to go to Europe to solve the race problem. The authorities at Washington declared that the French Government had not been approached on the subject. ON ROOSEVELT'S GRAVE Tuesday afternoon the Rev. D. L. Ferguson, who has been doing war work in France under the direction of the Y. M. C. A., visited the grave of Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay and placed on it a floral decoration, the gift of colored soldiers now in France. The Rev. Dr. Ferguson was stationed for nearly two years at St. Nazaire, France, where thousands of colored soldiers are located. He arrived in the United States a little over a week ago. A letter was received from Mrs. Roosevelt last week informing the Rev. Dr. Ferguson that she would be pleased to accept the floral tribute from the colored troops. Cannot Attend to be Held in The day after Negroes received cials sanctioned the holding of a Department at Washington issued a would be issued to the various deleto solve the race problem. The auth the French Government had not been The announcement: "The State D department has been approached by various colored delegations with a view to sending representatives to Paris to participate in a Pan-African congress composed of colored people from different parts of the world. The department has been in touch with the French Government on the subject and is now in a position to state that the French Government has not been approached, but does not consider this a favorable time to hold such a conference. In the circumstances the department will be unable to grant passports to persons desiring to proceed to Lafayette Theatre 123rd St. A 7th Avenue Tuesday Evening at Midnight MRS. CHAS. H. ANDERSON HARRY P. BURLINGHAM MOTHER SEEKS INFANT Mrs. Ethel Burke, 55 W. 137th street, has requested The Age to assist her in locating her six-weeks-old baby boy who was stolen in front of 101 W. 140th street on January 10. Mrs. Burke says she went upstairs to see the dentist about having some work done; that when she returned a few minutes later the baby and carriage were gone. The police were notified of the mysterious disappearance of the infant and an hour later the carriage was found at 183th street and Walton avenue, but the baby was missing. The mother is deeply grieved over the disappearance of her baby. I word from Paris that French offi- lan-African Congress, the State can announcement that no passports legates who wanted to go to Europe horities at Washington declared that n approached on the subject. Paris for the purpose of attending such a congress." On the other hand, the cablegram from Paris on Friday, January 31, read: "Clemenceau permits Pan-African Con- ference February 12, 13, 14. North, South America, West Indies, Africa, represented. Two of our delegates Haiti, Liberia, sit in Peace Conference." It is reported that the money which was to have been used in sending delegates abroad will now be applied in a practical way toward bettering conditions for the Negro in the United States. FEBUARY 11th, 1919 Clet Club Singing Orchestra SECTION II. Under Direction of R. G. GILbert Anderson Butee the Flap and Butee the Ace. Reserved Sessions: Lower Butee $12.00, Upper $10.00, Orchestra $1.00, 1st Ten Butee Balcony 78 cents, Balcony 66 cents. LIEUT. SANFORD GERMAN PRISONER FOUR MONTHS Paris, France.--Dr. R. R. Moton was recently addressing members of the Third Battalion, 371st Infantry, at Laval, France, when he was interrupted in the midst of his talk by a colored commissioned officer, who rushed forward and said: "Dr. Moton, Dr. Moton!" The officer proved to be Lieut. James E. Sanford, just been released from a German prison camp. Lieut. Sanford, who is a resident of Washington, D. C., was captured with French officers. August 19 last, while fighting in Avocourt Woods, near Verdun. The colored troopers were fighting side side with the French and making things warm for the Boche. Unconscious of all danger and anxious to gain a strategic position in the woods, Lieut. Sanford, while leading his men, was suddenly pounced upon by a party of Germans concealed behind camouflaged outposts. He was outnumbered and did not put up a strong resistance. With French prisoners he first was taken to Karlsruhe, Germany. During his incarceration he was transferred to three other German prison camps, none better than the other. The food, such as it was, was none too palatable or nourishing and the German guards were often brutal toward the colored lieutenant and his fellow prisoners. When Lieut. Sanford was liberated in December he had lost more than ten pounds. He was on his way to Grange, the regimental, headquarters of the 372nd, when he passed through Laval and saw Dr. Moton talking to the soldiers and could not restrain himself from going forward and saying howdy. When Lieut. Sanford was captured in August the 372nd Infantry had colored officers. He was much surprised to learn that shortly after the battle in Avocourt Woods all colored commissioned officers were transferred and white substituted. Lieut. Sanford told The Age correspondent that he had not heard from his family for several months, although he had written a number of letters which he was inclined to think had never been received. MME. C. J. WALKER QUITS NEWLY-FORMED LEAGUE Mine C. J. Walker Wednesday made the following announcement: "To the officers and members of the International League of Darker People. Owing to the fact that I do not expect to be in the city this winter and to the further fact that my physician has advised against my participation in public affairs, I herewith tender my resignation as treasurer and member of the above-named organization, to become immediately effective. I do, however, wish the league every success." (Signed) "MID. C. J. WALKER" WHITE MILITARY POLICE TRY TO SPREAD PREJUDICE (Special to The New York Acr) Paris, France--Members of the 92nd Division returning to America complain that the white military police have been active in a campaign to turn the French people against colored fighters in America. It is said, however, that the French just cannot get it into their minds as to what it is all about, for they know no color prejudices. The command of the division is accused of aiding in this plot to spread race prejudice in France by issuing orders which have been resented by all self-respecting colored troopers. In many instances white military police have relieved the military police of the division. In an order issued a short time ago the duties of the military police were made known and included: "To prevent enlisted men from addressing or holding conversation with the women inhabitants of the town." CENTENNIAL OF NEW YORK CONFERENCE A meeting sure to attract considerable attention, especially among the church-going populace, will be the centennial celebration of the New York annual conference, which will be held in Mother Zion Church, the Rev. J. W. Brown, pastor, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. It has been 100 years since the organization of the New York annual conference in New York City, Several hundred colored fighters will soon return to the United States with French decorations for exceptional gallantry under fire. The majority will bring along the Croix de Guerre; others will exhibit the much-coveted Medaille Militaire, among whom will be Sergeant Depew Pryor, Corporal Clifton Morrison and Private Clarence Van Allen, Massachusetts boys and members of Company L, 372d Infantry. Two colored regiments from America were brigaded with the 157th French Division—the 371st and the 372nd. Both did themselves proud. In the 371st made up chiefly of drafteres from South Carolina, seventy-one colored men were awarded the Croix de Guerre while some have been recommended to receive the Distinguished Service Cross from General Pershing. Four members of the 372nd won the Medaille Militaire and fifty-two the Croix de Guerre. This regiment is composed of battalions formerly in the National Guard from the District of Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio and Tennessee. A few days before Christmas, The Ace representatives found these two regiments in the footballs of the Vosges. The men had just received their French decorations and everybody was willing to talk about the rough manner in which the colored Americans of the 157th French Division had handled the Boche; so was General Goybet, commander of the division, who, seated in his headquarters at Bruyères, waxed enthusiastic in eulogy of his colored comrades-in-arms from America. ROSTER OF OFFICERS OF 370TH INFANTRY (Special to The New York Age) PARIS, France.—Following is the roster of officers of the 370th Infantry, formerly the old 8th Illinois, showing that with four exceptions the commissioned officers are colored men: Field and staff—Col. T. A. Roberts (white), commanding; Major James R. White, surgeon; Maj. W. H. Roberts (white), operation officer; Capt. Charles W. Fillmore, personnel officer; Capt. John H. Patten, adjutant; Capt. James E. Dunjill, assistant to adjutant; 1st Lieut. George Murphy, assistant to adjutant; 1st Lieut. Louis C. Washington, administrative officer; 2nd Lieut. Henry P. Cheatham, assistant to administrative officer; 2nd Lieut. Noble Sias- The first, second and third battalions of the 371st Infantry were quartered respectively in Bruyeres, Frimfontaine and Laval, and the three atalons of the 372nd were quartered respectively in Granges, Aumont and Jussupny Morale Higher. It was perfectly obvious to THE ACE representative that the morale was much higher among the men of the 372nd than the 371st. But the reason for this state of affairs was not difficult to diagnose. Members of the 372nd were permitted to go on leave and visit the various places of public accommodation in Granges and nearby towns, while the boys of the 371st bitterly complained that despite the excellent record they had made on the field of battle their regimental commander was opposed to giving them a leave. The impression was rife that the commissioned officers of the regiment, all white, did not look with favor on the boys meeting the French on terms of social equality. Time and space will not permit specific mention of deeds of valor performed by members of the two regiments in this article. Suffer to say, the colored boys from the North and the South "fought nobly." The following communications received by the regimental commanders of the 371st and 372nd infantry from General Goyet will give some idea of how American Negro fighters of the division conducted themselves in the trenches: October 17, 1954 Your troops have been admirable in their attack. You must be proud of the courage of your officers and men, and I consider it an honor to give them the courage to face the enemy. The bravery and dash of your regiments won the admiration of the Moroccan Division, who are themselves versed in warfare. Thanks to you. During these hard days the division was at all times in advance of all other divisions of the Army Corps. I am sending you all my thanks and I beg you to transmit them to your subordinates. I call on your wounded. Their morale is higher than my praise. (Signed) GOYBET. In transmitting you with legitimate pride the thankful and congratulations of the General Gannier Duployon (commander of the Army Corps), allow me, my dear friends of all ranks, Americans and French, to address you from the bottom of the heart of a chief and soldier, the expression of gratitude for the glory which you have lent to our good 187th Division. During these nine days of hard fighting you have progressed eight kilometers through powerfully organized defences, taken nearly five hundred prisoners, captured fifteen guns of different calibre, twenty minesweepers and nearly 189 machine guns, secured an enormous amount of engineering material and important supplies of artillery ammunition, brought down by your fire three enemy cannonets. The "Red Hand" sign of the division lies, thanks to you, becomes a bloody hand which took the Booth SPECIAL EDITION THE NEWS AS IT IS PRICE FIVE CENTS Colonies GENERALS d Win Medaille Croix de Guerre 371st Decorated lighters will soon return to the United for exceptional gallantry under fire. e Croix de Guerre; others will exhibit taire, among whom will be Sergeant Morrison and Private Clarence Van members of Company L, 372d Infantry. ROSTER OF OFFICERS OF 370TH INFANTRY (Special to THE NEW-YORK ACA) PARIS, France.—Following is the roster of officers of the 370th Infantry, formerly the old 8th Illinois, showing that with four exceptions the commissioned officers are colored men: Field and staff—Col. T. A. Roberts (white), commanding; Major James R. White, surgeon; Maj. W. H. Roberts (white), operation officer; Capt. Charles W. Fillmore, personnel officer; Capt. John H. Patten, adjutant; Capt. James E. Dunjill, assistant to adjutant; 1st Lieut. George Murphy, assistant to adjutant; 1st Lieut. Louis' C. Washington, administrative officer; 2nd Lieut. Henry P. Cheatham, assistant to administrative officer; 2nd Lieut. Noble Sissle, assistant to administrative officer; 1st Lieut. Park Tancil, dentist; 1st Lieut. John T. Clemons, chaplain. First Battalion—Capt. John T. Prout (white), commanding; 2nd Lieut. M. E. Stapleton (white), battalion adjutant; Capt. Spencer C. Dickerson, medical officer; 1st Lieut. Harry W. Jones, battalion supply officer. Company A—Capt. Stewart A. Betts, 1st Lieut. John L. McDonald, 1st Lieut. Robert L. Chavas, 2nd Lieut. Wyckan Tyler, 2nd Lieut. Howard F. Bell, 2nd Lieut. Willis Stearles. Company B—Capt. Stuart Alexander, 1st Lieut. Robert P. Hurd, 1st Lieut. Franklin McHarland, 1st Lieut. Samuel Ransom, 2nd Lieut. Freed K. Johnson, 2nd Lieut. Samuel Block. Company C—Capt. James H. Smith, 1st Lieut. Samuel S. Gordon, 1st Lieut. Harry N. Shelton, 1st Lieut. Arthur Jones, 2nd Lieut. Elmer J. Meyers, 2nd Lieut. Roy B. Tisdell. Machine Gun Company—1st Lieut. Devere J. Warner, 2nd Lieut. George C. Lacey, 2nd Lieut. Thomas A. Painter, 2nd Lieut. Bernard McGwin, 2nd Lieut. Homer C. Kelly, 2nd Lieut. Julian D. Rainey. Second Battalion—Major Rufus Stokes, commanding; 1st Lieut. Samuel A. McGowan, battalion adjutant; 1st Lieut. James L. Lawson, medical officer; 1st Lieut. Rufus H. Bacote, medical officer; 1st Lieut. William Nichols, battalion supply officer. Company F—Capt. Rufus Reed, 1st Lieut. Carter W. Wesley, 2nd Lieut. Edward Douglas, 2nd Lieut. Robert A. D. Birchett. Company G—Capt. George M. Allen, 1st Lieut. Durand Harding, 1st Lieut. Gerald C. Bunn, 1st Lieut. Harvey E. Johnson, 2nd Lieut. Clarence H. Bouchane. Company H—Capt. James C. Hall, 1st Lieut. Harry L. Allen, 1st Lieut. George L. Ames, 1st Lieut. Binga Diamond, 2nd Lieut. Lawrence Willette, 2nd Lieut. John A. Hall. Machine Gun Co. No. 2—Capt. Lilburn Jackson, 2nd Lieut. Frank T. Logan, 2nd Lieut. Junius Walthall, 2nd Lieut. William A. Barnett. Third Battalion—Lieut. Col. Ottis B. Duncan, commanding; 2nd Lieut. Stanley B. Norvell, battalion adjutant; 1st Lieut. Claudius Ballard, medical officer; 1st Lieut. William J. Warfield, battalion supply officer. Company I—Capt. Lorin O. Sanford, 1st Lieut. Howard R. Brown, 2nd Lieut. D. Lincoln Reid, 2nd Lieut. Edmund G. White, 2nd Lieut. Oswald Des Verney, 2nd Lieut. Harry J. Douglas. Company L—Capt. William B. Crawford, 1st Lieut. Frank Robinson, provost officer; 1st Lieut. Frank W. Bates, 2nd Lieut. James H. Peyton, 2nd Lieut. Luther Harris. Company M—Capt. Edw. W. Spearman, 1st Lieut. Osceola A. Browning, 1st Lieut. Jerome L. Hunnert, 2nd Lieut. Lawson Price, 2nd Lieut. Irving T. Hope, 2nd Lieut. Larkland F. Hewitt. Machine Gun Co. No. 3—Capt. Matthew Jackson, 1st Lieut. William C. P. Phillips, 2nd Lieut. Charles C. Jack- Returned Heroes Relate Exciting Experiences With the Hun Members of Old 15th Tell How Colonel William Hayward Won the Name of "Hell Man."-15 Wounded Arrive. Fifteen members of the 509th, formerly the old 15th New York Infantry, arrived in advance of Col. William Hayward's crack outfit Sunday on the battleship Connecticut. Four of the fighters were from New York, the rest from the South. Tales of how the old 15th "cut the Germans to pieces" and how Colonel Hayward won the name of "Hell Man" are told by the arrivals. Sergt. John Jamison, 137 W. 141st street, told of how Colonel Hayward led his men into fire and exposed himself. "At Bellean Wood we were fighting with the French, and the German-launched a counter attack to advance," he said. "It was getting hot for us. Colonel Hayward took the insignia of his rank off his shoulders and grabbing a title from a soldier, darted out ahead and led us through a storm from German artillery. WOUNDED AND GASSED INFANTRYMEN BACK (Special to The New York Ack) PHILADELPHIA, L. Many of the 138 wounded or gassed Niger infantrymen who returned aboard the Haverford Thursday were Philadelphiaans, and at least three of them were cited for bravery by the French. Most of them served through many of the hardest battles in which American troops fought. They were with the Ninety-third Division and nearly all were former National Guardmen from the Fifteenth New York, Eighth Illinois and other armies, made up of "A French General ordered us to retire. Colonel Hayward, who was under his command, replied to the General. 'I don't understand you.' The General raised both his hands over his head and shouted, 'Retire!' Colonel. He waved came back with 'Wah, they never retire. They go forward or they die!' We went forward. Private William Scott of No 10 East 15th street, who had all his teeth knocked out, told Boy L. Chambers of a German with a bolo knot. "We were in the Argonne, and it took through the Germans like hell." He said, "We stormed a trench, and fifteen well armed Germans dashed out. One of them grappled with me. My gun slipped from my grasp and something hit me over the head. Down I went, and the German jumped on me. We wrestled, and as I gained my feet, he jabbed his bayonet through the shoulder of my uniform. It did not cut me, but it felt cold, and I thought it about time to end the argument. So I got my bolo knife. And believe me, when I got my strokes, in there wasn't much of that German gentleman left." All of the colored soldiers who arrived were wounded. They are going to South CaCrohn. The other two New Yorkers were Corp Edward Bland, 930 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, a member of Company C, who was wounded in a knee, and Private William Tibbs of 330 West 124th street, Company K, who was gassed. RUTHERFORD BOY TELLS OF GOING OVER THE TOP Special to The New York Age Rutherford, N. J.-Sam Deas, a member of the old 15th New York Infantry, describes what happened September 26, 1918, as follows: "An order was given for our division to go over the top at 2 a.m. At 1 a.m. we entered the front lines and at 1:10 we were inspecting our ammunition. At 1:20 all was well and we were singing and telling stories. At 1:30 our captain came in and said, 'Kay we are going over at 1:30.' He then began advising us as to the danger of being cautious, picking up or handling various instruments of water." At 1:50 he looked at his watch, told us the time and said we had only ten minutes. Then I said my prayers and these words sounded in my ear: through 1 walk through the valley and shadow of death I will tear the coat on them at will. "As the words do away the captain said, 'Boys, alight, let's go and get 'em. Well, over we wails, rises in hand, blanks across our shoulders, plenty of ammunition of all kinds in bags strung across our shoulders. "At that moment the shells began to burst all around us and our comrades began to fall. You could hear their moans and groans. Words can't fully describe these awful moments. But those who were not killed or wounded went on and on, losing, yet garning all the time. "When the morn of October 18 came our captain said, 'Boys, we are relieved today,' then I was horribly passed, contracted the grippe and was taken to the hospital. "Those who were left went behind the lines. Thank God I have recovered." OIL! The Capitol Petroleum Company (A Producing Dividend-Paying Company) Now has holdings among the world's greatest producers of Mexico, beaded producing property in Kansas and Oklahoma. CERRO AZUL No. 4, THE WHEEL GREATEST OIL WELL, located south of Tampico, Mexico, the property of the Mexican Petroleum Company. The well was brought in February 10, 1916, and when capped seven days later the measured flow was above 260,000 barrels per day, and gushed with an eight-inch column of oil reached to a height of between 500 and 600 feet. The Mexican Petroleum Company also brought in some years ago, the celebrated "CABIANO No. 7," which has produced and marketed in seven years over fifty million (90,000,000) oil barrels. The Metropolitan Oil Corporation brought in one well with a production of 72,000 barrels per day. The Dutch-Shell Interests have individual producers of over 150,000 barrels of oil per day in this district. The Dutch-Shell produces single producers of over 100,000 barrels of oil per day. The Huasteca and Pearsona of England own wells guishing over 175,000 barrels of oil per day. These are only view of the tremendous oil guishers of the greatest oil field the world has yet discovered. Send for free literature and information, bank reference and map of Mexico, oil field, address all communications to FRED S. BURTON 2636 Welton Street Denver, Colo. WOUNDED AND GASSED INFANTRYMEN BACK (Special to The New York Ack) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Many of the 138 wounded or gassed Negro militiamen who returned aboard the Haverford Thursday were Philadelphia, and at least three of them were cited for bravery by the French. Most of them served through many of the hardest battles in which American troops fought. They were with the Ninety-third Division and nearly all were former National Guardmen from the Intretht New York. Eighth Illinois and other regiments made up of National Guard companies from Indiana, Ohio and New England States. The Philadelphia, with them were men who had volunteered when the regiments were being killed up. Gary C. K Robinson, one of the most seriously wounded, threw his cap into the air as he passed up the river at McKenna street, and ploughed. "Oh, dear! I may be sorry to see this old friend, for I certainly never expected to put my hands on its old cobble stones again." Holmes was cited for giving out and bringing in a messenger who had been seriously wounded and for taking up the job of messenger for the wounded man. This was in the fighting around Verdum in October. He lived on Christian street, near 2nd, before entering the army. Robert Sullivan, 1710 Beechwood street, was cited just before the close of the war in the fighting in the Argonne forest for capturing a machine gun nest. Captain Thomas Grundy, who commanded the colored fighters aboard the transport, said Sullivan went out with a detachment of thirty-five men to clean out machine gun nests at night. He said Sullivan was picked up later with two comrades, the last of the brave hand. They had fought on until they were all put out of the fighting. But they cleaned out many machine gun nests. William Oliver Jones, 1940 Wilder street, was shot in the hand rescuing a comrade. He was the third man who is known to have been cited. The colored men carried many souvenirs. Chief among them were canes carved by Sengalee Negroes who were French Colonial troops. The men on the Haverford did considerable fighting with the Sengaleses, they said, and received their canes. Many of the canes borne carvings of snakes, but many had grotesque figures of the Kaiser. Among the other Negroes were Henry E. Whitting, 414 South Hutchinson street; Isaac Gibson, 4126 North 18th street; and Howard Shakelford, 4226 Stewart street. They said they did not expect to be discharged for several weeks. All of them are able to get about now, though many of them were seriously wounded. DR. DU BOIS CABLES ABOUT CONFERENCE The Notes is in receipt of the following collegram from Dr W E B B-Drions in connection with the proposed Pan-African Congress "Clemencean perings: Pan-African Conference February 12, 13, 14 North, South America, West Indies and Africa represented Two of our delegates—Haiti, Liberia sit in peace conference, Carefully select I delegates welcome" NEGROES AIDED BY Two troops of colored soldiers stationed for demobilization at Camp Mills have been given an opportunity to acquire a knowledge of English and vocational subjects by the Jewish Welfare Board of Camp Mills was announced this week by the Jewish Welfare Board. A small building in which the Jewish Welfare Board formerly conducted its activities at the camp has been turned into a school house and the faculty includes camp officers, representatives of the Jewish Welfare Board and other welfare organizations. The subjects taught include besides English, bookkeeping, arithmetic and carpentry. The school was opened at the suggestion of Arthur K. Deutsch, head worker of the Jewish Welfare Board. Through a colored chapel at the camp the proposal was submitted to the Negro troops, who were the only soldiers stationed permanently at the cantonment, and when they enthusiastically accepted the plan, attendance was made compulsory by the morale officers of the camp. "CEC" STANTON, OLD TIME WAITER, DEAD (Special to The New York Age) WASHINGTON, D. C.—"Cec" Stanton is dead. At the "vanity table" in the Senate restaurant in the Capitol here, they mourn "Sec." He waited on that table, which gets its name by reason of the mirrors fronting it. Nobody, not even "Sec," knew what his real first name was, apparently. As a boy he played around the home of Secretary of War Stanton, member of Lincoln's cabinet. And everybody called his "Cec." "Cec" was endeared to the "vanity table" over which he had presided for many years, by his superstitions. The chief of these had to do with $2 bills Give "Cec" one in payment of a luncheon check, and he would at once tear off a corrier. Sometimes the same $2 bill was passed from hand to hand and given to "Cec" half a dozen times in a few minutes, just to see him exercise the evil spirit in it. For to him it was bad luck. HEROES OF 371at HEROES OF 371at Sergt. Joe Bell Sergt. Fred Brockington Sargent Long Sergt. Godray Ferguson Sergt. Daniel C. Hyman Sergt. James Liles Mess Sergt. Hubert Ross Sergt. Malvin Nix Sergt. Anderson Reed Mess. Sergt. Hubert Ross Sergt. Augustus Smith Sergt. Hudson S. Vaughn Corp. James Carr Corp. Jesse Williams Corperal Kearnee Corp. Lee Bacot Corp. 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Tillman Webster Pvt. Lewis Weston Pvt. James Wright Mechanic John Griffin (Special to THE NEW YORK ACE), BATTERMORE, Md.-The fate of John Snowden, condemned to die for the alleged murder of Lottie Brandon, an Annapolis white woman, seems to be sealed. Governor Harrington having refused a delegation of colored ministers last Saturday to commute his sentence. The woman was found dead about 18 months ago. Suspicion was not directed toward Snowden until two Annapolis colored women asserted that they saw the condemned man leave the murdered woman's house. The accused man was brought to Baltimore and despite a severe grilling by local detectives, he still maintained his innocence. Many white and colored people in and around Annapolis believed the man innocent. The surprise in the case came when the State asked that trial be had in another jurisdiction. The case was removed to Towson, and after a stubborn legal fight, a verdict of guilty in the first degree was brought in. Sufficient funds were contributed to carry the case to the Court of Appeals. The appellate court refused a new trial. In turning down the delegation of ministers, which was headed by the Rev. J. K. L. Diggs, Governor Harrington said he had weighted the evidence carefully and considered Snowden guilty. DEAN MOORE TOURING THE SOUTH. (Special to The New York Age) WASHINGTON, D.C.-Dean L. B Moore, Ph.D. of Howard University, has been granted a leave of absence for three months at the urgent request of prominent educational agencies in the North for the purpose of making a tour through the Southern States and assisting in mapping out a comprehensive program for the educational reconstruction of the South Dean Moore is the founder and the head of the College of Education at Howard University, and is everywhere recognized as an educational expert. 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Robertson Pvt. John A. Sullivan Pvt. Charles S. Sumner Pvt. John R. White SOLDIERS THREE; GAS, PNEUMONIA, WAR CROSS (Special to THE NEW YORK ACE) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Sergeant Alfred L. Edwards of the 370th Infantry has returned from France, where he had been gassed several times. He has been discharged from the hospital and will visit Boston and New York before setting down in this city. Corporal Pearl F. Webster died in France from pneumonia, saws the War Department. He was known as "Specks" and was a line baseball player, having played, with the Hillsdale Club last summer. Sergeant Colemore Duncan, 1888 Reed street, has just returned from France, where she received the croix de guerre and 400 francs from the French government for making a raid on the German trenches in face of a heavy gunfire and capturing a German officer Mr. Duncan has a wife and two sons RECOGNITION ACCORDED NEGRO TAX PAYERS (Special to The New York Acq) GREENSBORO, N. C.-Dr. James B Dudley has been appointed by Mayor Stafford to serve with a delegation of prominent white citizens as a commit- tee to decide whether Gensboro's city limits are to be extended. It is not usual that the municipalities give such reco- ognition to its Negro citizens, but allow- ing a representative of the Negro- some voice in one of the most impor- tant questions that engage the attention of this city, is in keeping with the gen- erally very liberal spirit and good in- terestful feeling that exist in Green- boro. It is the hope that with the grow- ing spirit of democracy, a larger ap- plication of this principle will lead to a more general recognition of the Nego- tax payer. Greenboro sets a splen- dial example. ORGANIZE "Y" Mr. Wurtz, TENN. The fine work done by the Y. M. C. A. through the National War Work Council has so impressed the faculty and students of the University of West Tennessee that they have just organized a student association. E. A. 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During seven months, we have lived as brothers-in-arms, sharing the same works, the same fatigue, the same dangers. Side by side we have participated in the great Champagne battle which was crowned with prodigious victory. "The 157th D. L. will never forget the irresistible dash, the heroic push of the colorful American regiments on the Crete des, Observatories, and in the plains of Montlouis. The most formidable defenses, the best organized machine gun nests, the most smashing artillery, barrages could not stop them. These elite regiments crossed all of it with a superb dislain of death, and thanks to their courageous devotion, the Red Hand Division, during nine days of hard struggle, always held the lead in the historic, advance of the Fourth Army. "Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the 371st and 372nd Infantry, I respectfully salute your glorious dead and I bow before your banners, which, on the side of the flag of the 333rd R. L. conducted us to victory." "Dear friends from America, after you have crossed the ocean anew, forget not the Red Hand Division. Our pure fraternity of arms has been soaked in the blood of the braves. These ties will be indisoluble. Keep a loyal memory of your General, so proud to have commanded you; and remember that his recognition and affection is acquired for always. (Signed), "General Goybet" BANQUET DR: MOTON IN BROYERES, FRANCE While in Bruyeres, France, a banquet was given in honor of Dr. R. R Moton at the Hotel Renaisseance by the non-commissioned officers of the 371st Infantry, Prof. H. O. Cook of Kansas City, Mo., who is temporarily engaged in Y. M. C. A. work, presided. Many appetizing French dishes were served and the evening was enjoyably spent. Short talks were made by Dr. Moton and Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones of the U. S. Bureau of Education. Those present were Sergeant Scott, Sergeant Marshall, Bandmaster Williams, Dr. Moton, Corporal McNorton, Sergeant Ward, Lester A. Walton, Prof. H. O. 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The occasion was the formal opening of the home of the Negro Welfare League (now the New Jersey Urban League) and the Phyllis Wheatley Home Association. The Rev. J. D. Bolden, third vice-president of the league, presided. Mr. Hamburg, first vice-president of the league, spoke of the rapid development of the work under such excellent leaders as Dr. Lusk, Miss Helen Pendleton, Miss Virginia Robinson, Wm. Ashby and others. Dr. Alexander of Orange spoke, warmly commending the work of the executive secretary, Mr. Ashby, and sounding a clarion call to the people of Newark to uphold the work so well started. Miss Josephine Pinyon and Miss Pendleton made brief talks. Prof. Alexander Burks rendered an original composition: Mrs. Ruth Reid a vocal solo, and two selections were rendered by a group of young ladies trained by Miss Clara Saddler. Mrs. Elmer P. Shruby is the capable and energetic matron of the home. GRAND MASTER AT ST. AUGUST TINE. St. Aloysius, Fri. A joint session of Mount Morr Lodge No. 20, Ancient Co., Lodge No. 12, and Domingo Lodge No. 410, F. & A. M. held at Benevolent Hall, Wednesday evening, January 22, with Diet. Dept. F. Coby presiding. Meeting was held for the purpose of receiving Grand Master D. D. Powell on his official visit. The following officers and Past Masters were present: D. M. Pappy, W. D. Thomas, R. Hesterman, W. S. Daniels, S. S. Simmons, Moses Wise, D. S. McMullen, F. B. Butler and Wm. Chambers. Brother R. B. F. Kelton was at the piano, Grand Master Powell was escorted in company with W. D. Thomas by D. M. Pappy. The Grand Master delivered an excellent address, telling of the advancement of the Jurisdiction. The Grand Master was the guest of Brother J. C. Jorden, Secretary of Ancient City Lodge No. 126. The Fall of the Mighty "Mr. Scattered lived like a prince till he went broke." "Yes. And even in his present circumstances he is more comfortable than most princes you read about."—San Francisco Chronicle. 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On Monday evening, January 26, Henry Highland Garrett No. 42, K. of P., installed for the ensuing term as liaison Sir Nathaniel A. Young, chancellor commander; Sir Joseph B. Carl, chancellor commander; Sir T. H. Lawrence, reserve fund secretary; Sir Pans C. Ward, keeper of records and salir Charles H. King, master of manor; Sir James P. McKrathr, master of chieques; Sir William H. Cockrell, deputy; Sir Willjatin M. McCillin, inner guard; Sir Bengamin Sharpe, outer guard; Grand Lodge appointee; Sir T. H. Lawrence. The lodge officers, were installed by the district deputy Grand Chancellor; Sir John M. Proctor, D.D. Chancellor; Commander of Sergeant Garry Lodge No. 36, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church of Huntington, and also former pastor of Calvary A. M. Church, this city. After the installation, a collation was arranged by a committee of five, which was held in honor of the Past Chancellor Commander Sir T. H. Lawrence, who has set the executive chair for sixteen months. VONKERS. N. Y. LONDON, N. Y.—The Rev. L. O. Grad, pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E. church, delivered excellent ser- vices both morning and evening to large congestioned Sunday. The Bible School at the afternoon hour was not only interesting but well attended. The Christian Endeavor Society was con- ducted by W. H. Hawkins at seven clock. Mrs. Dorothy Gregory, who was oper- ated on St. John's Hospital, is now well on the road to recovery at her Mom's street. Prof James W. Eichleberger, general director of the Sunday Schools of the A.M.I.Zion Church, held a con- ference with the Sunday School board at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church last Monday evening. Prof Eichleberger while in the city was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Borden. At the memorial service in honor of the Senior last week, a most excellent address was delivered by W. H.. Hawkins. The address was not only forceful but obsequious. Mrs. L. O. Grady and baby, who have been ill with influenza for several weeks, are both greatly im- proved. ELMIRA N. Y EMMA, N. Y—The death of Mrs. Charlotte Greene, which occurred Monday, January 27, after a few days' illness, was a shock to the community. The deceased is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Washington, and two sisters, Mrs. Louisa Condol of this city and Mrs. Cora Kelly of Buffalo. The funeral was held from Grace Church Wednesday at 10 o'clock, the Rev. T. Hemi涩idge officiating. Pall bearers were H. J. Brooker, G. T. Brook, Robert Mark Edward Vance, Judson Moore, Thomas Carter. Interment was in Woodrow Hill cemetery. W. F. Stewart was called to Jamestown the past week to the death of his brother-in-law, Richard Wickfield. Miss Mirna C. Jutes of Alden, her father, Robert Jutes, and Mrs. George Jones of Oswego were in Albira, attending the funeral of Mrs. Charlotte Greene, Strait St. in New York Camp Gordon, Albira, has returned to Elmira to reside. Mrs. S. E. Howard has recovered from a severe bronchial cold. Mrs. Howard received letters the past week from her son, Chrence Mabery Howard, who is in finance, stating that when the armistice was signed that the command, of which he is a member were enveloped in the last great drive that drove the Huns to their knees, Mr. Howard expects to return to Elmira soon. Little Geraldine Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Balan street, has been confined to the home with whooping cough. OUT OF TOWN CORRESPONDENCE SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.-Miss Geneva Jones of Glens Falls, N. Y., recently gave an enjoyable piano recital at the A. M. E. F. Zion Church. Her mother, Mrs. Jones, was also present. William Dutton of Lewiston, Me., has accepted a position here. Mrs. James Brown and daughter. Miss Goldie Brown, were recent visitors in Schenectady. James Brown and Mrs. Emma Watts are on the sick list. Mrs. Frances Brown has returned to Schenectady after spending two weeks with the Rev, and Mrs. E. U. A. Brooks. The twelve Saratoga boys who enlisted in the old 15th Regiment and went to France as the 369th Regiment, have met with the following casualties: Killed in action: Corp. John Anderson; wounded severely: Corp. Harold King, right arm; Corp. Rousseau Simmons, Private Vincent Taylor, Thomas Taylor, Augie Fowler, Grant Bannister, wounded in leg; Private George Simmons, knee wounded; Private Warren King, gassed; Privates William Simmons and Dennis Winston, wounded in arm; Private James Albert Curtis, leg and back wounded. The latter visited the city last week, having a furlough from the hospital at Camp Stuart, Va. He is the first of the twelve to return to this country. Mrs. Nellie King has received word from her son, Corp. Harold King, that he is improving and his arm is out of the splints. Wargen King, who was gassed, is rapidly recovering. A memorial service in honor of the late Theodore Roosevelt will be held next Sunday evening at the A. M. F. Zion Church. The following evening the P. S. K. Club will meet. On February 12, Lincoln's birthday will be observed at the church and R. W. Edwards, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, will speak. AUBURN N Y AURORN, N. Y.—Miss Wills, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Henney, of Virginia, and Mr. Stephens, of Philadelphia, are spending a few days in the city the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carol Johnson. Charles Whittaker, of Geneva, called on friends here Saturday. Mrs. Buckerton Richardson is all at her home in Cornell Street. James Anthoney, of Philadelphia, was in the city Monday. Miss Constance Ken, of Canastota, N. Y., is the guest of the Misses Charles for a few weeks. Mrs. E. P. Cooper entertained friends at luncheon Sunday. Prof. Lyndon H. Caldwell, of Syracuse, gave a pleasing piano rental at A. M. E. Z. Church last Thursday evening. He was accompanied by Mr. Bronson, of Syracuse. The Rey and Mrs. P. R. Fonvielle are receiving congratulations upon the arrival of a fine baby boy. The K. of P. dance, which was held at Malta Hall on Friday last, was a great success. The deaconess board gave Mrs. Josephine Watkins a surprise party in honor of her 71st birthday Mrs. Watkins was presented with a purse of silver. Elmer Winslow spent Sunday in Saturn, the center of friends. Mrs. Emma Nelson, who was married while at work at the rope factory, is convalescing. Clarence Malone, of Syracuse, was the last Thursday guest of Miss Bessie Fayson. John Hassell, of Rochester, was in the city on last Thursday. Leroy Stokes, of Syracuse, was in the city last week. Mr. Albert Persons and family, of Seneca Lake, are making their home in the city. Thousands have proven that Fair-Plex Ointment, applied as directed on the can, brightens or lightens their dark, swarthy, sallow skin to such a bright, light, soft, smooth tone as to please anybody. Fair-Plex is sold on a guaranteed money-back plan, only 25% at any drug store, or will be sent by mail for 30c, pont paid. If your dealer does not keep Fair-Plex, send $1.00 and we will send four boxes and two cakes of the soap recommended. ALBANY, N. Y.—Miss Carrie Lassiter has returned to the city after spending several months in Pennsylvania. The Rev. Isaac Watkins, 80 years old, who was burned to death a week ago at 10 Van Tromp street, will be buried Tuesday, February 4, at Graceland Cemetery. He was connected with the Zion Conference, further than that nothing could be learned of his people or business. Through the efforts of the Rev. Mr. Gumsh, 91 Israel A. M. E. Church, sufficient money was raised to bury him. Four persons were baptised and received into full membership in Israel A. M. E. Church. The Lord's Supper was administered to a large congregation and during the day $86.52 was raised. The Sunday School has opened a Christmas fund bank account. The Lady Usher's Club, Mrs. A. J. Oliver president, gave a home-made bakery sale Friday evening, which was a decided success. The Poverty party given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. Cobbs of Second street by the Earnest Workers Club of the Morning Star Baptist Church, was a big success. Net proceeds, $53.33, Mr. Cohen and Mrs. Pierce received prizes for being the poorest dressed. A Trench dinner was given by Miss R. Carter, missionary of Brooklyn, Thursday evening, February 6, for the benefit of M. S. Baptist Church. Boys in khaki were special guests. Program by the Red Cross Corps, of which Mrs. I. Banks is president. Songs, and recitations. ITHACA N Y IRVING, N. Y.—The Merrymakers' Club, organized under the direction of Walter Hill, made its first appearance at Calvary Baptist Church Friday evening. It was largely attended and well patronized by both churches. The object of the club is to perfect a closer union between the two colored churches. A musical program was beautifully rendered. A timely paper was read by R. Robinson of Cornell; subject, Prejudice. Its Origin, Symptoms and Cure. Mr. Robinson was heartily applauded. The brief address of the Rev. H. J. Johnson received special attention. The Church Aid Society of A. M. E. Zion Church, is being revived. Old members are registering and new ones are rapidly increasing. Mrs. Ora Spaulding, West Green street, is the acting president Mrs. C. Williams, 112 Cleveland avenue, has returned from Albion, where she attended the funeral of her aunt; Mrs. James Watkins. Miss Josephine Shaw, installing officer, Order of Calanthe, and Miss Ella Thompson, grand representative, visited Watkins and Auburn' lodges recently and installed the newly elected officers. Miss Ella Thompson has registered at McDowell School for Designers and Milliners in New York and will enter next month. The Eliza Peterson W. C. T. U. in January 16 at the home of Mrs. D. E. Small. Committees were appointed to outline work for the ensuing year. A canvass for new members is in progress. The annual meeting will be held in March. A candy pull was enjoyed by a number of young people at the home of Mrs. T. W. Valentine Tuesday evening. The colored woman's auxiliary is donating six sweaters to the local Red Knox. The regular quota for this month is six pairs of sox. The successful students in the regents' exam, at L. H. S. are Misses Lola S. Adams, Emma Adams, Banks, Irving and Messrs. Pennington, Hockins and Powell. Those who have registered in the music class under the direction of Prof. Caldwell are Misses Gladys Caroll, Alice Martin, Master Salter Mackens, Miss Louise Love, Mrs. Subly Douglass, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. A. Green, voice culture, Mrs. Maria Hill, West Clinton street, has returned from Binghamton, where she conferred the degrees upon members of the Court of Calanthe. Mrs. M. Washington, 112 Cleveland avenue, has returned from Johnson City, Tenn., where she made an extended visit to relatives. The B. Y. P. U. at Calvary Baptist Church held its regular session last Sunday evening with R. Robinson, president. Services at the A. M. E. Zion Church were well attended all day Sunday. There is a marked increase in attendance. Prof. L. H. Caldwell has charge of the handsome pipe organ. 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The university students rendered the program as follows: Vocal solos, Miss Myme Moon and Wm. C. Anderson; reading, Frederick C. Douglass; recitation, Miss Rosman Alston; short talk on Haiti, Sputter Nicholas; impromptu talks, Private Chas, Duncan, Clarance Maloney; remarks by Mr. Bondy and Master Lee of Rochester. Next Sunday will be the Roosevelt Memorial meeting. The Rev. P. K Fonville of Auburn will deliver the eulogy. Sam Lanford has been visiting friends in the city. G. N. Sidney, an old resident of this city for 64 years, departed this life on Tuesday, January 28. The Crowley Style Shop has another of our race women employed, Mrs. Clarence Cannon, 714 Orange street The K. of P. held the first of their series of socials last Monday in their rooms, 312 South State street. Several soldiers were present enroute to their homes after being discharged from Oswego Base Hospital No. 5. They were Corp. Thos. L. Bowser, Privates Arthur Carter, Oscar Parks, Robt. H Smith, 370th Infantry, all having been M. Israel Rue of Watertown was in the city last week. The following are reported on the sick list: Eugene Powell, Mrs. Emma Defrank who is quite all; Sergt. Foy, who was recently discharged from the army. On Monday, January 27, occurred the marriage of Miss Frances Crocker and Dr Nathaniel Green of Syracuse University. Miss Iona Kean has returned from Watertown. Mr. and Mrs. Jas Adams, 810 East Washington street who recently returned from New York, have removed their household furnishings to that city, where they will make their future home. Mrs. Lillian Roberts and, Mrs. Ida Dale were the guests of Mrs Dale's daughter and friends in Rochester last week. The membership of the N. A. A. C. P. is swelling so they have leased a hall in the Myers block, where their future meetings will be held. Henry Davis of Watertown spent a few days in the city. Private Fairfax was discharged from the army and has returned to his home on East Washington street. William Tenny is convalescent. Mrs. Laura McCoy, 411 Madison street, has returned to her home from New York after visiting her husband. Joe Logan of Oneida was in the city the past week. Mrs. Cherrie received word that her father is very ill in Boston. Walter Jamison has returned to his home. 516 East Washington street. Gilbert Roberts was visiting friends in the city. George Wilson is able to be our again. Little George Marion celebrated his sixth birthday Friday. About 4 children were present. Games and dancing were enjoyed, after which a dainty collation was served. MAKE YOUR OWN HAIR GROW Start a profitable and independent business or make in small quantity for your own use and save money. Ingredients pure and harmless; can be purchased anywhere. Formula and complete instructions sent postpaid for $1 currency or money order. Address Gov. Townsand, Dept. B, 1216 Pine'nt., Philadelphia Pa.—jan.12-4t. 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Miss Ethel Walker spent over Sunday at Watkins as the guest of her mother, Mrs. Irene Walker. Prof. and Mrs. C. M. Van Buren entertained their family and a few friends at a six-course dinner Saturday evening, in honor of their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. They received some very pretty gifts in pearls. Dr. E. D. W. Jones preached morning and evening last Sunday to a large and appreciative audience. Communion was administered at the morning and evening services. Collection for the day was $21.10. Word has been received from Corp. Stevens, Privates Bush, Bruce, Thompson and White, who are now in France, that they are getting along nicely and are looking for word for their return home soon. B. F. Bundy and Howard Lee are attending the three days' conference of men leaders of boys' work at Syracuse as delegates from A. M. E. Zion Church The women of the race have organized themselves into a body known as the African Welfare League, which may further develop into a Y. W. C. A. The officers are as follows: Mrs. Adam Morse, president; Mrs. W. R. Thomas, secretary; Mrs. R. V. Payne, corresponding secretary; Miss Mildred Hill, treasurer. J. G. Lee is a representative of the Boys' Welfare Council of Zion Church. Mrs. Hazel Cash graduated from East High School Thursday evening, January 30, also Miss Katherine Beard and Miss Bennett on last Friday evening, from West High School. Mrs. J. H. Jentons of Madison, Va. spent two weeks with her daughters, Mrs. Reddicks and Mrs. Simpson; 248 Caledonia avenue. Rochester Lodge No. 15, Knights of Pythias, will hold their eleventh annual reception and ball Friday evening, February 14, at Royal Minor Hall. The supper and drama given under the auspices of class No. 7 of Zion Sunday School was a financial and social success. The drama, entitled "A Proposal," written by Mrs. Jennie Janatte Brown, a member of the class, was well rendered. Musical and reading numbers preceded the drama Miss Celestine Kearney was president; Mrs. W. Henry Green, secretary. Company M of the 10th Regiment of the Rochester Patriarchy, No. 231, is preparing to visit New York City May 30 with George H. Wright, captain; W. J. Smith, first lieutenant. Miss F. Bennett delightfully entertained twelve of her friends at the Rose Room Friday evening in honor of her graduation from West High School. Mrs. Louise Beard of Pittsburgh is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Herndon, 154 Atkinson street. There will be a father and son dinner served at Zion Church Tuesday evening, February 11. WESTFIELD, N. I. WESTERHAM, N. J.—Services at St. Luke's A. M. F. Zion were well attended Sunday. In the morning the pastor, the Rev. J. H. Lewis, preached. In the afternoon, also evening Miss Hall, the vangest, had charge of the services. Two persons joined the church. Through an oversight, the name of Mrs. J. H. Lewis, who worked faithfully to make Women's Day a success, was omitted in last week's issue. Sunday services at the Bethel Baptist Church were well attended. The pastor, the Rev. Wm E. Smith, preached morning and evening. Communion was served to a goodly number. Two new members joined. The B. Y. P. U. was well attended. Topic: "Are You Afraid?" Opened by E. Wilson, paper. Miss M. Smith, piano solo, Mrs. H. T. Beame; solo, Miss M. Smith; literary subject led by the president, Chas W. Brown; topic: "Reconstruction of Africa." Mrs. Sarah Faulkner of Philadelphia who has been the guest, of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ball, 552 Downer street for the last two weeks, has returned. H. Leroy Franklin of Brooklyn, N. Y. was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ball, Sunday. Mrs. R. L. Robinson, 502 West Broad street, has returned after a few weeks' visiting in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Nelson, of 503 Dowerner street, have as guest W. F. Suber of the U. S. S. Snobunnish Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, 652 West Broad street, died on Saturday, Feb. 1, aged six years and two months, funeral services were held Tuesday from Bethel Baptist Church. Interment in Fairview Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. John Hammond have moved from Spring street to 529 Dowerner street. Mrs. William Robinson has moved from Ridley place to Elmer street. The children of Mr. and Mrs. H. Bullock, who have been ill with the "flu," are much improved. A musical and supper party was given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ball, 552 Downer street, Saturday evening, on their thirty-seventh wedding anniversary. Those rendering selections were Miss Anna Smith, Fred Smith, Proof John O'Flake, M. J. Seats, Westley Ray of Newark, Henry Brooks of S. Orange, and Mr. Wm. Reddick of Maplewood. Other guests present were Mrs. Laura Ray, Miss Minnie Wright of Newark, Miss Elaine Bean of Brooklyn, Mr. and Mrs James Christian, Miss K. Lloyd, Mrs. Frnest H. Keets, Mrs. A. Childs, Mr. and Mrs Jas, S. Jones, Miss Nellie Taylor, the Misses Manning, Miss Jennie Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. P. Jones, and Corporal Alexander Taylor of Westfield, N. J. The reception given by the Douglas Tennis Club on Friday evening was a decided success. PATERSOK, N. J. PARKER, N. J.—The Saint Augustine Presbyterian Church will have a memorial service in honor of ex-President Roosevelt on Sunday evening, Feb. 5. A good program will be rendered. The committee in charge of the arrangements are: Charles M., Walker, chairman; A. J. Jonce, John F. Lewis, Frank A. Walker, A. J. Walker, Mrs. Walter G. Hughes, Mrs. R. T. Walker, Miss C. E. Fields, John A. Huggs, secretary. Mrs. Dr. Cotton has returned home after a long stay in Washington, D.C.; cooking and feeling better. Mrs. Jessie White, 127 Lawrence street, wife of Private Adolph White who is in France, was buried on Tuesday afternoon. She eaves besides her husband her little daughter Florence. The Canaan Baptist Church is gaining grounds every week. The Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. are making good with their efficient teachers and superintendent, backed by the pastor, Dr. H. R. Cooper, who is on the job at all times. Sunday morning the pastor preached a powerful sermon on "The Great Commission." At night he preached again to a large congregation, on the subject, "God's Ability to do Things." Two persons came forward and joined the church. Entertainments will be given at the Canaan Baptist Church on Feb. 12 by Miss Susan Ruffin; on the 14th by the Rev. Stroud, and on the 20th by Mrs. Jessie Jones. ENGLEWOOD, N. I Easterwood N. J.- The mock conference at the Shiploh A. M. E. Zion Church Jan. 29.30, was a great success. The Conference was well attended and the receipts were $91.77. On Sunday, Feb. 2, the pastor, the Rev. N. B. Robinson, preached to an appreciative audience in the morning. Communion was served at night. The collection was $43.31. The Sunday School is rapidly increasing. Several entertainments are on foot for the Sunday School and church. The celebration of Lincoln and Douglass day, combined with the annual fair, will begin on Feb. 11th to the 14th. Several interesting speakers will appear. Among the speakers are Mrs. Besig Randolph and Hon. W. Irwin Glover, member of the Legislature. At Bethany Presbyterian Church the pastor, the Rev. Thos. J. B. Harris, preached in the morning from Gen. v. 24, and the Rev. George T. B. Davis of the Pocket Testament League preached in the evening. Two persons stood up as indicative of beginning in the Christian life. Mrs. Tracy of Cincinnati united with the church upon confession of faith. The Church Helpers and Willing Workers meet this week to perfect plans for the Spring rally. Word was received that the mother of Mrs. Lucinda Smith, whose home was in West Virginia, had passed away. Mrs. Smith is expected home this week. The Englewood Unit of the Circle for Negro War Relief combined with the Ridgewood Unit to entertain a group of our soldier boys at Camp Merritt Saturday night, Feb. 1. Mrs. Bessie Laws, 27 Demarest Avenue, is confined to her home with influenza. WANTED! ONE, HUNDRED MEN or more, not under 16, as students to join the RESERVE OFFICIER TRAINING CORPS at the A. & T. College, take courses, including MILITARY SCIENCE, leading to a Bachelor of Science in Mechanics, and Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. Special inducements will be offered for the return of students this season who are recently released from military or naval service. Write at once for catalogue of further information. National Training School DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA A School for the Training of Colored Young Men and Women For Service. Though it is young in history, the Institution feels a just pride in the work thus far accomplished, for its graduates are already filling many responsible positions, thus demonstrating the aim of the school to train men and women for useful citizenship DEPARTMENTS ALREADY ESTABLISHED In Equipment and Teaching Force it is Surpassed by Few Schools for the Training of Colored Youth in the South. For further information and Catalogue, address President Jas. E. Shepard, Durham, N. C. New French System taught where pupils can cut all the latest patterns by tape measure. Employment given to those who desire to remain in Asheville. Correspondence Course completed in three weeks. Open all year round. A. & T. College 100 HUTTON, N.J. The marriage of Miss Virahah Johnson, of Hilton, to Mr. Clarence Dickson, of Montclair, took place at the Hilton Christian Church Wednesday evening, January 22, the Rev. Mr. Floegard of Jersey City attending. "The bride and her attendants were beautifully gowned. The maid of honor-wag Miss Luella Jones of Jersey City, and best man Clarence Dees of Montclair; bridesmaids La Rema Johnson, sister of the bride, Marguerite Johnson of Plainfield, Edilb Kay of Newark. Usthers Cecil Cox of Newark, Wallace Cobb of Orange. Welding march was played by Miss Marjorie Venable of Plainfield. A duet, "O Promise Me," by Miss Beatrix Stokes and Mr. Percy Wallace. ELIZABETH. N. J. ELIZABETH, N. J.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas Oliver, 1047 Lafayette street, entertained a few friends at a dinner party Thursday evening, January 30. Covers were laid for twelve. Among the invited guests were the Misses Maria Thomas and Sarah Lewis of Glen Ridge, Mrs. Bertha Alexander of Montclair, Miss Elizabeth Banks of East Orange, Miss Martha Thomas and Miss Sylvia Rhodes, William Lewis and George Leech of Montclair, John Earley and Samuel Foster. The stewards' rally held on January 26 at Mt. Teman Church was a decided success. The Rev. Paul Singleton preached in the morning, the Rev. C. Wilson at the evening service Sunday. Mrs. Paul Singleton attended the missionary meeting at the 13th Avenue Church in Newark on January 16. Mrs. Solomon Brome, 613 Cameron place, is visiting her cousin, the Rev. Thomas H. Lee in Baltimore. Mrs. Fimmett Thomas, 287 West Broad street, was pleasantly surprised Tuesday evening by a number of friends. Dancing and refreshments were indulged in. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. L. Sears of Newark, Mr. and Mrs. H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Mockers, Mr. and Mrs. Slaten, Dr. and Mrs. Southerland, Dr. W. Rone, Dr. Kinnard, James Miller, W. Johnson, Mrs. A. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ruffin, Mrs. C. Gordon, Mrs. Cobbs, Mrs. M. Van Dyke, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ashby, Lawyer Smith, Lawyer Osmon, Mr. and Mrs. F. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. C. Clark, Mrs. P. Baxter of Newark, Mr. and Mrs. Post, Mrs. V. Woolsey, Mr. and Mrs. Kinnard, T. White, Nelson Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Steward, Mr. and Mrs. L. Freeman, C. Marick, Mr. Barman of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Parker of Orange, Miss R. Maulson, Miss S. Maulson, C. Vanderveer, A. Vanderveer. "Of course, you approve of 'freedom of the seas?'" "Thoroughly," answered Senator Sorghum. "It's as fine a phrase as ever came under my observation. All it wants now is to be supplied with an exact meaning"—San Francisco Chronicle. Fine Phrasing. Greensboro, N. C. THE HEATHEN AT HOME The leaders' of the various Protestant churches of the United States are planning to raise at least $300,000,000 within a period of five years for missionary effort, or as it is phrased, "for the enlightenment of the world." Dr. S. Earl Taylor, executive secretary of the Joint Ceritenary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, sets forth the scope of the work proposed, in a preliminary survey of world conditions. According to this survey, not the least important field will be home missions. Three important phases of this work are classed as follows: First, the treatment of the depressed, belated or so-called inferior classes; second, the teaching of religion to the laboring classes, and third, the activities with the Indians, Negroes, Mexicans, Maskans and similar groups of the country. Dr. Taylor's survey is quoted as bearing this message: The biggest piece of missionary work possible would be for the people in every Christian church to start tomorrow and be friendly, cordial, and helpful to the immigrants living at their doors. This would mean decent houses and more schools for them, and it would mean a moral education which so far they have not yet received. They are brought in touch with the worst side of American life, and that is the side that is uppermost in letter to their friends and in conversation when they return home. The failure so to apply Christianity is almost fatal. The cost to the War of the defense of Russia is inexplicable. That detection is due to many causes, but to none more than to the stories of exploitation told by returned Russian immigrants from America. There is more in the same strain, but nowhere do we find any reference to the spiritual needs of the white heathen in the South who form the mass of the lynchers and mob rioters. The absence of any form of religious restraint on the lawless character of this element of the population was strikingly shown in a letter printed in The Age of January 11, in which an exponent of this type bared his soul to the gaze of mankind. After a revelation of that sort, there should be no question as the greatest field for missionary effort in the world. Every cent of the millions it is proposed to raise could be laid out to advantage in seeking to implant the first seeds of Christianity among the white heathen of the South. "The biggest piece of missionary work possible would be," to convert the men who foster and spread the spirit of mob and lynch law to a belief in and the practice of justice and decency. Let the churches tackle this job with their $300,000,000, and we warrant they will find use for every cent of it. THE BOLSHEVIST MOVEMENT. A recent lynching in Texas has brought a communication to THE AGE, containing some newspaper details of this latest crime and some frank comment thereon. The details in which this lynching differed from the majority of such crimes was that the victim had been tried and convicted of the murder of a woman and her child. He was sentenced to be hanged February 21, but his attorneys filed notice of appeal. This appeal is said to have enraged the residents of the neighborhood where the crime was committed, and a mob was organized and the prisoner seized and burned in the public square of Hillsboro. The report concludes with the statement that between 300 and 400 persons, including dozens of women, looked on as the man was burned. That all the white women of the South do not look upon the burning of human beings with complacency is shown by a letter published in the Houston Post, in which the writer says: I do not agree with your lynching editorial. I do not believe public sentiment in the South is against lynching. Enlightened public sentiment may be, but enlightened public sentiment is in the minority. The majority of people in the South favor lynching and wink at lynchers. One of the most surprised people I ever saw was a dairman whom I gased patronizing because he had taken part in a lynching. He thought he had been doing a public duty! The trouble is we are all cowards. Little is said or done against a luching beforehand, even though all know it is imminent. After it is over polls and newspapers break into a pyrotechnical display of indignation. That, of course (pardon me, won't worth a damn. We don't try to stop the luching. We are afraid. The remedy. I suppose is by way of education. We don't know how unlightened we are in the South until we travel through other parts of the country. Newspapers could help by constantly ridiculing mobs. Rohdele is hard to stand up under. Mark Twain said a mob was made up of cowards. That is, of course. A mob merits does in mass what each member is too cowardly to do alone. But we shall have to work before the lynching, and not after. Mobs know that we secretly approve of them. Yeats for the abolition of lynching. Another woman, writing on the same subject, and evidently a member of the oppressed race, asks with every evidence of sincerity "Don't you think it very necessary for us to join the Bolshevist movement?" It is not hard to understand the depth of desperation that prompts such a cry from hard working and long enduring subjects of tyranny and abuse, as they find no glimmer of hope for improvement in the immediate future. But the Bolshevist movement does not appear to lead to anything better for them or for anybody else. Bolshevism may be, as one editor defines it, "merely a symptom of universal unrest," but its fruits do not recommend it to the Negro. The Bolshevistic practice of murder, and arson have already been monopolized by the white lynchers of the South. They have captured the Bolshevist movement so far as the United States is concerned and it would be impossible to compete with them in their lawless practices. The only hope for the Negro is in the eternal law of justice, which will work out to his relief in the long run. Let the lawless whites have a monopoly of the Bolshevist movement. THE AGE notes with satisfaction that Chairman Will H. Hays of the National Republican Committee has included a representative of the Negro race, in the person of Dr. R. R. Moton, as a member of the Roosevelt National Permanent Memorial Committee. This memorial committee is in no sense partisan and it is representative in the highest degree of the many activities in American life that were touched by Theodore Roosevelt. It includes all the former members of the Roosevelt cabinets, United States Senators and Representatives, Governors, National Committeemen, representatives of the army and navy, and in business and professional lines. This appointment is in keeping with a suggestion made in THE AGE, a few weeks ago, in answer to a correspondent who wanted to start a popular contribution to be turned over to such a committee. We, therefore, trust that the members of the race will justify their representation by a hearty interest in the movement. THE NEW YORK AGR. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919 People of African descent everywhere should be interested in the fact that one of the first great questions to come up before the Peace Conference was internationalization. And for the reason that, before the Peace Conference, "internationalization" is simply another way of saying "the African question," Internationalization and the African question mean one and the same thing, because the consideration of internationalization is concerned almost entirely with the status of the former German colonies in Africa. We said in this column some weeks ago that the question of Africa was sure to loom up large in the Peace Conference because of the international position held by it. We also expressed grave doubts that the question of the condition of the American Negro would be allowed to rise at the peace table because the Powers would be only too glad to regard it as a domestic question, a question between American citizens and their own government. We therefore reached the conclusion that the wisest step that could be taken by the colored people of the world would be to put the African question up to the Peace Conference so strongly that it would compel a consideration of the rights of Negro people everywhere. We arrived at this conclusion by simply looking facts in the face; and by doing so through ordinary, plain glasses rather than through rose-colored glasses. In our opinion, the best claim that the colored people of the world could put before the Peace Conference in behalf of Africa would be a claim for the internationalization of the former German Colonies. We held this opinion for the very evident reason that no questions regarding any new disposition of French and British possessions in Africa would arise; that these questions would be confined to the former German colonies; and that the question regarding the German colonies would come up in only three forms: the return of these colonies to Germany, their division among the Allies, or their internationalization. Of course, a great deal has been said about self-determination, but no group of people, in spite of all that has been said, is going to get self-determination as a result of petition or even plain justice; the only ones who will get it are those who are in a position to force it. The natives all over Africa can get self-determination as soon as they are in a position to force from their overlords. It seems to us that the quickest step by which they may reach such a position is through internationalization; through an internationalization which will give them a large and increasing share in their own government. Such an internationalization of the former German colonies should eventually lead to the whole of Central Africa being ruled by native Africans, and that in turn should lead to an Africa for Africans. And an Africa for Africans would make a great change for the better in the status of people of Negro blood all over the world. In the mean time, the American colored people should realize that the greatest advantage they have gained from the war is the opportunity and the right to fight more effectively at close quarters, here at home, for the things in the name of which the war was waged. RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION. There are many reasons that point to the probability that the law proposing a four year restriction on immigration will pass. The opinions as to the effect that the war will have on the tendency of immigration are conflicting. There are some who hold that the devastation in Europe would tend to drive hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the United States. There are others who hold that this same devastation will demand all of the labor in Europe for the purpose of rebuilding the countries that have suffered in the war, and that thousands of aliens in this country will want to go back to their former homes to take part in the rehabilitation. Both of these opinions are founded on good reasons. But it is clear that Congress believes that the tide, if regulated, would set in from Europe to the United States rather than from the United States to Europé. It strikes us that the diagnosis of the situation as made by Congress is the correct one. When we look into the matter we find that the countries which have suffered the greatest devastation are France and Belgium and Serbia. England was untouched, Germany was untouched, Austria was untouched, and the greater parts of Italy and Russia were untouched. And even in France and Belgium, where the most terrific fighting was done, no city of first importance was destroyed. It is likely that the Belgian cities of Antwerp (population 400,000) and of Brussels (population 800,000) AFRICA FOR THE NEGRO. To the Editor of LILI, NEW YORK AGE. There seems to be the beginning of a wave of justice through the world. Why not not the right thing? Such quibbles, as to whether the ancient Egyptians were colored or not, is not the question here. The dark skinned East Indian is a dark skinned white race according to many historians. All races and most individuals who have accomplished anything, and are not purely Mongolian, are white according to white historians, while colored historians bitterly contend that all dark skinned people not classified as Mongolian, Indian or Malay, are Negroes. Such views and so contrary, exist on many subjects. the Negro, even if a governor must be imported, just so he is a Negro. Negroes may be ignorant and may not as a whole understand 'business' and the compilation of affairs, and they did not understand modern warfare, but they were forced to learn. It is not argument; we call for, but for justice, and nothing but justice; and justice writes on the bosom of time: Africa for the blacks, under the protection of the League of Nations. THE AGE OVERSEAS To the Editor of THE NEW YORK AGE I note from my wrapper that my subscription to THE AGE expires with this month. I hasten to send herewith a check for renewal. It is hard for me to express in writing just the amount of pleasure I have gotten from the race's greatest paper during the bad months we have just passed through. My associates shared my pleasure. Each copy was read until almost completely worn out. I am with you in your fight for better things. May you and your staff enjoy the season's best. were handed back in just as good condition as they were before the war, perhaps better. It is true that Liege (population 175,000) in Belgium and Reims (population 115,000) in France were battered by artillery fire, but destruction was mainly wrought in small villages. So it seems that the demand for labor for the purpose of reconstruction will not be so great as to over-balance the hard conditions entailed by enormous war debts and the disruption of industry which will tend to make labor seek an easier field. Of course, many farms will have to be rehabilitated; but the farms of both France and Belgium are small; they are only gardens when compared with what Americans think of as farms. But devastation or no devastation, France and Belgium furnish very little immigration to the United States. During the fiscal year which ended June, 30, 1914, the immigration to the United States from both France and Belgium amounted to only 15,059. So whether the floating population of these two countries came to the United States or not would make very little difference. In the fiscal year 1914 the total immigration to this country amounted to 1,218,480, and the countries furnishing the bulk of it were as follows: The above countries as may be seen at a glance, are the ones that furnish the great bulk of the immigrants to the United States. And they are the countries, whether belligerent or neutral, that suffered practically no devastation in the war, and will therefore make no particular demands on labor for rehabilitation; at the same time they will suffer the hard conditions which will tend to make labor seek an easier field. The only one of these countries that might prove an exception is Russia. Nobody knows what is going on in Russia, and nobody knows definitely what has taken place there since the revolution. It may be that Russia is in such a deplorable economic state that emigration to this country would double and redouble if the doors were left open. On the other hand, it may be that the opening up of the country and the distribution of the land under the new regime might draw thousands of Russians now in this country back home. At any rate, it appears that Congress in its opinion that the tide would flow toward the United States rather than away from it is right. As to whether Congress is right in putting up the bars, especially at this time when the Peace Conference is considering a league of nations and all that goes with it, is another question. However, there is one phase of the situation which is vitally important to the colored people of the country. The war gave them the opportunity to get a foothold in the economic world; there have been many grave doubts about their ability to keep this foothold when fierce competition set in again. The question arose in many minds. "Will the Negro be able to keep his new job when the aliens from Europe come back looking for work?" Speaking purely from a motive of self interest, the American Negro can say that the passing of a law restricting immigration for four years is a good thing. In that period of time the colored man ought to be able to entrench himself so firmly in the industrial field that he cannot be easily driven out. In that period of time the colored man ought to be able to accomplish what seemed to be impossible during the war; and that is to so organize that he will cease to occupy the position of a seab, but will demand recognition as an industrial factor. TOBACCO NEXT From newspaper items, it appears that the United Cigar Stores Company in this city is not at all downhearted over the outcome of the prohibition amendment. In fact, that particular corporation is in smiles; and the reason is not far to seek. For many years, many of the choicest business corners in New York have been occupied by liquor saloons. These saloons could afford to pay the fancy prices demanded for these corners, and hardly any other class of business could afford to do it. Now the saloons are to be put out of business, and the rents for the choice stands which they occupied will naturally fall. The United Cigar Stores Company, while others were still wondering how it was that the amendment went through so rapidly, was going around quietly gathering in leases at reduced rents on the corners to be vacated. This was a good stroke of business, and it affords a good reason for this great corporation to smile to itself; that is, if a corporation ever smiles. But it is a smile that won't stay on forever. Is anybody simple enough to think that the people who put the prohibition amendment over on the country are going to stop at that? It must be remembered that the people who put prohibition over were so well organized, so zealous, and so well supplied with funds that they virtually compelled legislators to vote for the measure that the legislators themselves were opposed to. Now does anybody suppose that Anti-Saloon League, with the sweet taste of victory afresh in its mouth, with its determination to give the whole country the moral tone of a Sunday School, with its organization intact, and with its fingers still in touch with vast funds for reformation is going out of business? Not at all. The A. S. L. will now center upon some other great national curse, some other great vice that is eating out the vitals of the youth and the middle-aged and the old of the nation. What will it be? Will it be the social evil? Hardly; the social evil is a pretty tough nut to crack. It has been tried over and over again, but none of the laws from Moses to Parkhurst has been able to do much toward regulating it, much less abolishing it. No; the A. S. L. will not tackle the social evil; they will pick out an easy mark. They will pick out one on which they can not only arouse sentiment, but one against which a law can be enforced, if they get one passed. Thy will pick out an evil against which they can campaign even among the six-year-olders at school. That "evil" will be tobacco, especially in the form of the cigarette. So do not let the United Cigar Stores Company be too jubilant, and do not let them take any ninety-nine year leases on these choice corners; for their day is coming, and it may not be very far off In Flanders fields; the poppy is now Between the crosses; row on row That mark the graves where black men lie; Their souls, long waited to the day, Look down upon the earth below In Flanders fields, they shall not sleep No! For their murdered kin they keep A vigil through the day and night 'Til God Himself shall mourn from sight Such scenes as make our hearts keep In Flanders fields. SOUTHERN DENIAL Many of the Southern states are in a state of violent race against the World for having called attention to the inevitable consequences of their support of National Predation. The Columbia (S. C.) State goes on as to accuse the World of preying on a race war" against the white people of the South. It is becoming almost as important to discuss the institution of the South under which it once was to discuss the institution of human slavery, but the South well face the unpleasant fact that certain to be the chief victim of insensitive destruction of the most constitutional principle of State law. Since the withdrawal of the armed troops from the South under theFlags Administration fifty years ago, an attempt has been made to criticize the Fifteenth Amendment, which provides that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be abridged by the United States in count of race, color or position of servitude." Not has Congress ever exercised its power to enact legislation to enforce Section 2 of the Fifteenth Amendment, in respect to the sentiment in Congress, which But when the right to vote in any election for the chosen electors for President and Vice President of the United States represents in Congress the executive and judicial offices of the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of the United States being twenty-one or more and citizens of the United States in any way abridge the jurisdiction in recall the crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-four years of age in such State. Both the Fourteenth and Eleventh Amendments have been consistently gullied for more than forty years. By one device or another practically the whole body of colored citizens of the South has been distranchise and the penalties which the Constitution vide has never been enforced there was a profound political reason and it grew out of the popular concession that the States had elementary rights which ought not to be invaded, even by amendments to the Constitution, among those rights being the regulation of their own franchise. But the South, by its unanimous support of the Prohibition Amendment, has now nullified State Rights as it declared that the States have no right whatever, even in respect to the imminent matter of sumptuity, requisite to The Southern States have there adopted a theory of government which they had consistently opposed for 150 years and in resistance to which once plunged the Nation into a civil war. While they were detained in that war, they never abandoned the fundamental principle of State Rights which they had grotesquely disliked justify the extension of human rights. They gave up slavery, but on the basis of State Rights all the armies of the North could not conquer them as the history of reconstruction shows. When they finally surrendered they derided not to a Ulysses S. Grant to an Anti-Slavery League, as to the dark with an annual cause of $2,000,000. Having declared by their own act that they do not believe in Sat- except when State Right is casual political purpose the States will have to abide Session. The next time a Roe Congress undertakes to pass a bill to compel Negro suffragette ever the exigencies of public expedition for a Republican con- reduce Southern representation in accordance with the Court, the South will have no in Court. It has wanted to the bulwark of its own defe- must abide by the president helped to force upon the new country. Had the Southern States true to their professed principles, Prohibition Amendment could have been adopted. The political spiracy organized by the Anti-Sal League would have broken down. When the South objectively unmasked and betrayed its Democracy from the North everything was sworn in. In spite of the heated rhetoric of Southern contemporaries the World not advocating a race war in the Southern is it threatening the South for action on Prohibition. It is merely calling attention to the inevitable sequences of such action, just as called to attention of Big Business the North to the inevitable consequence of its adherence to this prohibition in shevism which denies the validity property rights as well as of personal liberty. The World is not dealing with threats but with facts, and some day both the South and Big Business will discover to their common sorrow that it never pays to burn down the house in order to get rid of the rats. Farmers Told to Raise Cattle NATURAL HAIR WIGS Special to Tug New York Aco) JEFFERSON INSTITUTE, Ala.—A strong group diversified farming and the pricing of live stock, and the suggestion of information owners in the South that employees be given a square deal were among the recommendations in the declaration of the twenty-eighth annual Jefferison Negro Conference re- held. declarations follow: The Tuskegee Negro Conference, at its ninety-eighth annual season, sends greetings to the Negro farmers of the South and congratulates them upon their work in helping our nation to do her part in the winning of the war. At the concert the nation we increased the amount of foodstuffs raised. We worked longer hours in the day and on Sundays. As a result of this labor, we have been blessed with abundant corn for which extraordinary prices have been received. Negro farmers are more prosperous than they have ever been. More of these have money in the bank and more of them are out of debt, and more of them are out of debt. we are proud to note that many of our land and, in other ways your surplus money. To those we have imposed to spend their money, reference says do not use it or to toolshily and by next year be Do as this conference for the seven eight years has urged and to in land. Buy more tools and so that you can farm in an time manner. Use some of this to improve your home so that may be more comfortable and more for your wives and children. for the home labor saving device- your wives and children will not spend so much time and drudg- use some of this money to im- mor school house. If you do not good school house in your com- get in touch through the Tus- Institute, with the Rosenwald House Building Committee and State Department of Education. on your school term. Pay your a better salary. Use some of plus money to improve your pay your pastors more liber- make provisions for having your situation compelled you to your crops and to raise other than cotton. You have learned livesify and have found out and importance of diversified Do not again depend only on the raising of livestock is important and paying in- South. Raise more cattle Borrow From Federal Farm Loan. takes the occasion all the institutions of Negro farmers and advantages of them which the Federal offers the farmers, the South, Hun- nies who have grown money from the Federal Loan opportunities. This conference takes upon the Negro farm owners who may find it difficult to borrow money to get in touch through the National Farm Loan Association, or otherwise, with the Farm Loan Bank of your district. "Although the war is over, the demand in the cities of the South and the Northern industrial centers will still continue. These cities and industries will offer such inducements in the way of good wages, protection under the law and school facilities, that unless inducements are offered on the farm and plantations, many more laborers will leave the rural districts. To plantation owners, therefore, this conference would suggest the advisability of making such contracts with your laborers as will induce them to stay on the farm. Give your tenants a square deal; both in the contracts drawn and in the carrying out of these contracts, especially with reference to accounts in connection with supplies furnished, etc. Give the farm laborer similar inducements of wages, law protection and educational facilities as the cities and industrial centers are giving. If these things are done, there will be less tendency for laborers to leave the farm for the industrial centers and cities; "During the war period whites and Negroes co-operated in subscribing to Liberty Bonds, in purchasing War Savings Stamps, in food production and in food conservation and in other war work activities. From various communities the white and black soldiers were sent away with the same hearty God-speed and in many instances under the auspices of the same committee. As a result of taking together in these work activities all the Negroes throughout this Southland, were brought into a more helpful relationship. Each learned to expect more of the other. It is the earnest desire of this conference, in these times of peace, that this spirit of co-operation will continue and grow stronger and more helpful and thus contribute in a larger way to the growth and development of the South." YOUNGSTOWN OHIO Youngtown, O.-Grand United Order of Old Fellows, with H. E. Haves in the chair, gave their first public social entertainment of 1919, which was a big success. The funeral or the late Peter Clark, who died January 28, was held January 31. Remains were buried in Belmont Cemetery. Mrs. William Washington, 18 Holmes street, who underwent an operation, is getting along nicely. Mrs. Wade, formerly Mrs. Mister, of Baltimore, Md., is very all at her home, 321 Chicago, Chicago and Fannie Humphrey were quietly married Saturday. Bishop Kinsman of Delaware will visit St. Augustine Chapel Sunday morning, February 9. Mr. Mary Powell, 210 Hall court, was called to宾维 Vista, Va., to attend the funeral of her son, Paul H. Powell. She was accompanied by her son, Newton Powell, and grandson, Willie Dockin Messrs. James M. Hunt and S. Mack Taylor spent Sunday in Cleveland. THE NEW YORK AGE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1929 WASHINGTON LETTER WASHINGTON, D. C.—Following a custom that has obtained in many Government offices, the Library of Congress posted a few days ago the name of Warrick, Alexander, formerly of the Library staff, as one who had distinguished himself in the U. S. Military service in France, as to merit and receive at the hands of the French Government the much coveted Croix de Guerre. This item derives its special interest from the fact that young Alexander is a colored lad, the product of our city schools, and the son of Louis Alexander, who himself has long held a position of trust and responsibility in the office of the Librarian of Congress. HENRY E. Baker of the U. S. Patent Office, was initiated last week into membership with "The Oldest Inhabitants" Association of the National Capital. He says, he already feels the impress "hurgery age" through his new associations. Hon. Jameo C. Napier, president of the National Negro Business League and former Register of the Federal Treasury, spent the past week in this city. Mr. Napier has a host of friends here. The Rev. A. J. Stokes of Montgomery, Ala., has been in the city during the past two weeks seeking to secure a passport to the Peace Conference in Paris, as a delegate of the National Race Congress, but so far has failed to get one. Two of the Race Congress delegates, the Rev. W. H. Jernagin of this city and Judge William Harrison of Chicago have secured passports. The shortage in the labor supply here is still worrying all sorts of business. One of the popular restaurants here displays a sign on which is printed in large letters: "When there is only one waitress on duty in this Cafe, you are respectfully requested to walk forward and help yourself to ice water. Failure to comply with this request will create difficulties in maintaining help." After a while, when the soldiers begin to return in force, there will be more laborers than jobs in this city. Such a condition is already forecasted. "Kinds of Leadership" was the subject of an address by Prof. Chas. M. Thomas of the Dunbar High School Sunday afternoon, at the Y. M. C. A. By reviewing the leaders of the world both historical places and from analysis of the qualities shown, the speaker demonstrated how they might be known as man of action, of thought, of aesthetics and ethical-religious milu-cops. In the economic field, the placed leaders in one of the three classes of tribute takers, tribute givers, or clergy, and those the outline drew the con-ference, the leadership should know themselves, affiliate with reputable movements, prepare, become self-reliant, hold a rational ambition, build a hope for the future and the nation and keep faith in the final triumph of right and justice. Attorney Robert Metansi Andrew is a graduate of law, having studied both at Harvard and Howard Universities and who has been connected for several months with the Department of Law. He has gone to Durham, N. C., to take up a special work in the field service of the Department of Labor as the assistant of Dr. A. M. Moore, director of the division in charge of colored interests for the State of North Carolina. Mr. Andrews is a journalist of exceptional talent and has done some very valuable work on the Baltimore Herald and the Boston Chronicle. Washington Lodge and other well-known race papers. Some of the recent visitors in our during the past two days are Attorney General Warren H. Hoover of Dr. F. O. Spencer, President of Morgan College, Baltimore; Dr. and Mrs. Ernst Layton Baltimore; Dr. N. H. B. Cassell, President of the College of Lubera, Montreal; Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson, Washington, D.C.; Dr. W. H. Brooks, Pastor at St. Mark's Church, New York City; V. G. Victor Coats of New York was in the city last week as the ghost of Hubert Harrison. Attorney Thomas L. Jones of the District Bar, has just returned from Atlantic City, where he spent two weeks, much improved in health. About forty colored waiters "walked out" at the New Ebbutt House last week on a strike, because Proprietor George F. Schultz refused to grant a salary increase that was demanded by the warriors. They were getting twenty-five dollars per month and asked for thirty-one. Those who walked out were discharged and a new crew took the place of the strikers. The War Camp Community Club No. 2 at 914 Georgia avenue is presiding under the direction of Major J. B. Ramsey, superintendent in charge, and Judge Robert H. Terrell and Francis Wellchairman and secretary respectively of the local committee on arrangements. Each evening some well known men are presenting some program and assisting to make things pleasent for the soldier boys who come to town from the neigh-boring camps. A Million Eyes Turned Upon it Daily AGENTS EVERYWHERE MADAM C.J. WALKERS WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER SUPREME IN REPUTATION SOLD EVERYWHERE IN U.S.A. WE BEAT THE GLOBE A Prescription that will do so exactly an recommended "ONCE A USER ALWAYS A USER" Nine C.J. Walker 600 West st. Indianapolis, Indiana. Great opportunity for Agents Very for lesi soundance, as it was intensely attractive but undemonstrative. Among those who took part in the discussion were: Aubent Harrison, Prof. L. M. Shaw and others. There was a pinoo into by James R. C. Pinn and excellent music by the Dunbar High School Glee Club. Mrs. Henry E. Baker of the Congressional Library is suffering from an attack of influenza. NEW ORLEANS, LA New Orleans, La.—Another local lawyer who had been practicing best for the State and Federal, court in Louisiana for a number of years in dead. He was James Madison Pierce, 43 years old, who finished the course of law at Straight University of New Orleans. Mr. Pierce had been sick for several months. He was considered a man of bright mind. He once attempted to practice law in his home parish of Ascension but was given to understand by a white committee of the bar of that parish in the town of Donaldsonville that he could not practice the law there with the consent or approval of the white lawyers and that if he did not care to risk the contempt and ill-will of the people that the committee represented he would make no further attempt to do so. He tried to argue the question of his rights with the committee, but it politely and firmly asserted that there would be no argument, his case had already been passed upon and the decision reached was unanimous and final. It was a shocking and terrible blow to his legal aspirations, but Pierce realized that against force there was no resistance and he returned to New Orleans, where he resumed the pursuit of his profession where he had started it. Percy Porter died Sunday, January 26. He was a pharmacist with wide acquaintance as such in the State of Louisiana. Mr. Porter had been sick a long time. He was one of the sons of the late James E. Porter, for years a prominent member of the International Longshoremen's Association, being one of the vice-presidents of the body. On the sick list and confined to his home for more than ten days is Walter L. Cohen, the colored Republican leader. Mr. Cohen came back from the meeting of the Republican National Committee, with the churches of Chicago annealed 10, with the churches of his breast worm in the fight he has been leading against the "Lily White" propaganda of this and other Southern States, and a few days later became sick. He left a sick bed to attend the funeral of his old friend, James Madison Vance, on January 15, and since then has been confined to his home. He is reported, however, to be convalescent. PETERSBURG VA. Parkinson, Va.—Colored people were not admitted to Billy Sunday's meeting at the Academy Tuesday. The tickets were given out from a theatre, where colored people are allowed to enter. Miss Flood Pollard of Farmer street, who has been ill, is improving. Mrs. D.C. Valentine has returned from Zion where she attended the burial of her aunt. Mrs. Rebecca Pollard continue quite ill at her home, 745 Mt. Airy street. Chas. Blas, who has been under treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital, has returned to his home, 745 Mt. Airy street. Mr. Bland is improved, but not cured, and therefore expects to return. Mrs. Lucy Brown, 847 Farmer street, has recovered from a recent illness. John Fields of Ypsiland street is out again. The funeral of Aaron Lockett, who recently returned from a long residence in New York City, occurred last Sunday. Willie Stark, 809 Jones street, who has been in for a week or more, is out again. Mrs. Minnie Tennant, 935 Peglom street, is a victim of the "this" but is improving. Peter B Walker of New York City is visiting relatives and friends. Willie Smith, a well-known contractor, went to Ivor last week. Miss Ruby Alton Robinson has returned to the city after a visit to her cousin, Mr. Susie Bailey of Norfolk, who accommodates little Pearl Bailey, Mw. Moseley, son of Mrs. Adeline Moseley, died at his home Sunday. Chas P. Washington continues sick at his home, 548 Federal street. Mr. Washington came home recently from the sanatorium at Piedmont, Va. Undertaker David T. Paige ran up to Dumidville Friday, where he faceted at the funeral of Deacon Henry Gollisson of Rocky Branch Church. NEWARK, N. I. NEWARK N. J.-Dr. S. L. Corothers, pastor of Pennington Street A. M. E. Zion Church, is being mentioned in prominent circles as a candidate for the bishopric. It is generally known that he is favorably spoken of by the majority of the pastors throughout the Jersey City district. During Dr. Corothers' tenure in this city as pastor of Pennington Street Church the membership has increased over 200 and the collections averaged $500 a month. He was recently appointed a member of the welcome home to soldiers committee and a member of the memorial committee by Mayor Chas. D. Gillen. Dr. Corothers is also active in local politics. The Universal Negro Improvement Association held its first business meeting on Friday night at Lawrence Street Hall. The meeting was a success and everybody seemed enthusiastic. John W. Slater, 78 Elm street, is president of the men's division; S. C. Cole, vice-president; C. S. Starkes, 326 Hallway street, executive secretary; Mrs. A. V. Jefferson, 91 William street, is president of the ladies' division and Mrs. H. Blanche Harris is secretary. The Wiberforce Social Club met on Thursday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Slater. Private Gilbert of Fort Newark and Corporal Gilmore were guests of the club. Miss Loca King of New York City is stopping with Mrs. Willumina Slater. Dr. S. S. Brunting, to t lieutenant, who has been based on business, has opened office at 173 Spruce street. The death of Matthew Jackson, 18 Coes place, was a severe shock to our community. Mr. Jackson was the exalted ruler of Pride of Newark lodge of Elks and was a faithful member and a good worker in St. John's M. E. Church, Academy street. The first convention of the Full and Free Gospel 'Mission,' 12 Arlington street, will be held beginning February 14 at Unity Hall, corner Williams and Washington streets. The Rev. J. E. Howard is pastor. A sacred concert will be given at Pennington Street A.M. E. Zion Church February 9 by the stewardess' board, Mrs. Ella Rogers, president. Mrs. Emma Johnson, musical directress of St. John's M. E. Church, is still very ill. Pennington Street Church will be the scene of the Essex County convention of the independent progressive colored voters of Newark and Essex County on Monday night, February 10. Many matters of importance will be discussed. The installation services of the Rev. E. K. Ricks, minister of Bethany Baptist Church, will be held Sunday, February 9, to Friday, February 14, inclusive, with Dr. A. C. Powell of New York, master of ceremonies. Among the clergymen to take part on the program are Dr. J. H. Hughes, Dr. Check, Dr. Walkins, Dr. Reild, Dr. Kryger, Dr. Johns, Dr. J. K. Brown, Dr. H. HMitchell, Dr. Spearman and Dr. Ellerson. Mayor Challen, Gillen will address the meeting at 3 o'clock Sunday. The several choirs of the city will assist Prof. Epp with the musical program. The feature of the Sunday School social at Bethany on Thursday evening was a reception with Mrs. Adelaide Sully, behind Time; Dr. Ricks is wearing his characteristic smile as a result of the first trial of the duplex system of envelopes at Bethany. The trustees reported $170 for the day's collection February 2. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Taylor, 104 Wickhiff street, are rejoicing over the recent arrival of a baby boy. Sunday was communion day at the 13th Avenue Church. Large crowds attended both morning and evening services. The pastor, Dr. L. B. Ellerson, was at his best and seven persons joined the church. The Lincoln celebration committee, Dr. L. B. Ellerson, chairman, is planning an elaborate celebration February 12 in the rotunda of the City Hall. Dr. W. A. Byrd, Jersey, will be the speaker. Sijpt. B. C. Gordon was not at his usual post of duty Sunday on account of illness. Mrs. Brown is out of town for a week's vacation. Myrtle Williams was among the recent high school graduates January 29. She plans a course at Columbia University. Lillian, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, 73 Whitney street, was christened Sunday morning at the 13th Avenue Church. Dr. L. B. Ellerson is invited to address the faculty and student body of the fronds School at Bordentown friday evening, February 7. OPPOSE 'GOBBLING UP' OF AFRICAN COLONIES OPPOSE 'GOBBLING UP' OF AFRICAN COLONIES (Continued from First Page) let this influence abate or die." While in London one article on the subject which came to the attention of Tirz Ack representative suggested that America make herself answerable to a League of Nations of the Middle East, the Dardanelles in particular, intimating that Great Britain could consistently take over some African territory, as it allows; to England her own interest, at any rate, for England to assume as a result of this war, additional burdens which any other Power is equally capable of discharging. In its own interest, if not the world's the British Commonwealth should restrict its claims to territories, control of which is essential to the safety of others for which it is already responsible." One English writer even was ambitious to see the United States assume control over Russia. These suggestions for Uncle Sam to intervene in Russia and Middle East are regarded humorously as the bumps on sides of the water. The United States, it is understand, wanks no such questionable trusteeship. Economic Value of Colonies Appreciated. The economic value of Germany's Colonies is invariably commented upon by the various Powers, where may be found oil palm, cocoanut palm, ground-nuts, cotton-seed, cocoa bean, diamonds, rubber, gold, hemp, cotton and scented woods. Germany was thirty-five years building a Colonial Empire, which was lost to the Allies in thirty-five months. The former possessions of the Kaiser measured one million and twenty-thousand square miles and could cover Germany, France, Britain, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Portugal and Bulgaria. Germany was a rank failure in her efforts at Colonial expansion. Not only was the former ruler of the African Colonies available to exploit the rich resources of the country to advantage, but in trying to introduce the German system of precision, exacting principles of management and other foreign methods, the spirit of the native tribes was paralyzed and thousands and thousands were killed off. Africa for the Africans is the demand of the natives and the darker races throughout the world. Africans helped to save civilization, as the grateful French will attest. The same calibre of black man whose timely arrival changed the tide at the battle of the Marrakech is now being regarded by many as the model of self-determination of which we hear so much nowadays evidently does not apply to the African. Just what disposition is to be made of these colonies is as much of a puzzle today as it was two months ago. We do know they will not be returned to Germany. Our Senators complain that they are kept in the dark on the subject, but very likely they would find, upon investigation, that many of the Peace Commissioners are also seeking light on so dark a subject. The only tactic agreement reached so far seems to be that in the partitioning out of the colonies there must not be any threat to the settlers with the spoils". To date the United States has kept out of the mad scramble and President Wilson has gone on record as being opposed to being a party to accepting "Peace loot." In the meantime the question arises: Now that the African helped to save civilization will civilization help to save the African. DOVER, N. I DWEE, N. J.-Gaines A. M. E. Mission Sunday School, 4:30 p. m., preaching 7:30 p. m. "The Presiding Elder Hood held his second quarterly conference Wednesday night, February 5. Misses Gertrude Roots and Ella Green of New York, spent three days in Dover, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Caffery. Miss Josephine Smith has returned from the hospital. She is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Caffery. W. H. Young is convalescing. David Wardell of Mr. Clair, N. J., was the guest of Miss Sophia Canada, Sunday. PALM BEACH, FLA. Palm Beach, Fla.—The beautiful Palm Beach home of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bagley was the scene of much pleasure Friday evening, January 17. The host and hostess, who are well known in New York and sheephead Bay, having houses in their place, are among the most popular places here and entertained a few of their many Friends and visitors. Among the greatest of Mrs. and Mrs. James Sands of Nassau, Mrs. Gertrude Saunders and Mrs. Nathaniel McGintis of New York, Mrs. Margaret Penn of Ohio, Major S. H. Bell, George Mella, Clarence Shanacht, L. D. Showers, Harry W. Swan, W. H. Holmes, H. C. Jackson and others. Many compliments were paid Mrs. Bagley upon her taste in selecting the interior decorations and furnishings of her winter home. HARRISBURG. PA. HARRISBURG, Pa.—The Forum hiked for its speaker Sunday afternoon Prof. Kelley Miller, dean of Howard University. Announcement that Prof.-Miller would address the Forum drew an unusual large audience. He prophesied that the results of the world war would be the final uniting of all peoples and all classes. Mrs. Lizzie Brent, Reese avenue, and Chas. Murphy, of Currant street, are suffering from paralytic strokes..... Chas. Robinson, who was mustered out of service at Camp Custer, returned to his home on Haenlehn street last Monday. His health has been greatly affected by the Rev. B. M. Ward, pastor of Capital Street, Presbyterian Church, in convalescing. The Rev. Andrews of Carlisle preached for hia Sunday. Mrs. Edward Smith entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of her nieces, the Misses Williams. Covers were laid for four. Mrs. Mayne Togans, of Vernon street, died Tuesday and was buried Saturday afternoon from Bethel Church. The Rev. H. H. Cooper officiated. Decased is survived by a husband, a father, their daughter, and a son, now in France. Holy Communion services were observed in most all of the churches Sunday. Miss Margaret Aerie visited relatives and friends in Clarksburg, W. Va., last week. Miss Luella McVeigh, of Pittsburgh, spent Sunday with friends here. A. C. Maguire has returned from a Southern trip. Hotel Lawrence Nearly furnished rooms for permanent or transient guests, with hot and cold baths. WILLIAM H. PENNY, Prop. 230 Albemarle Ave., Rocky Mount, jan7-4t N. C. 5000 Horton 3430 Horton The Arvonia & Allen Houses 5 W. 125th St. 11 1-8 W. 125th St. Nearly furnished Rooms from $2.00 to $6.00 per week, with use of Kitchen. All Rooms Private. Best Rooms in the City $1.00 per day and up. 1-4-19 F. B. WHITE, Prop. 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THOMAS, P.O. 213 West 53rd St. New York THE STAGE-MUSIC-ATHLETICS French Now Want Colored Musicians From United States BY LESTER A. WALTON COLORED American music France, as the French have jazz music. Having fall dispensed by race military band French capital is eager to hear a The presence in New York of Louis A. Mitchell, well-known in colored theatrical circles on this side of the Atlantic, marks the first determined effort of French managers to bring to Paris a big orchestra composed entirely of Negroes from the United States. Mr. Mitchell is representing the owner of the Casino de Paris, who is expected in this country sometime in February. COLORED American musicians are now in demand in Paris, France, as the French have cultivated a taste for ragtime and jazz music. Having fallen willing victims to the melody dispensed by race military bands the music-loving public of the French capital is eager to hear a colored orchestra from the States. The presence in New York of Quartet furnished specialties which Louis A. Mitchell, well-known in called for encores. The plan under contemplation is to take to France an orchestra of fifty men, featuring the bandolin, mandolin, guitar and other stringed instruments mastered by colored musicians. The orchestra will be permitted to show its versatility by playing operatic selections and works by leading composers as well as ragtime. An orchestra, such as Louis Mitchell has in mind, would beyond a doubt strike the popular fancy of the French people and enhance the standing of the American Negro as a musician. The only deterrent feature to the idea at this time is the important question of passports. Even theatrical managers of prominence and stars of the footlights find themselves marooned in New York. The State Department at Washington does not consider amusements of vital importance at this time and theatrical folk desirous of crossing the ocean find their requests for passports meet with little favor. It may be that colored musicians wanting to go to France will not face such obstacles. The Casino de Paris is the largest and most popular music hall in Paris, and reminds one of Hammersstein's Victoria which graced the Rialto some years ago. The Casino has an orchestra of a score or more musicians and the only Negro in it is Louis A. Mitchell, who is nightly featured. Nearly two years ago Louis Mitchell, who had been appearing in vaudeville throughout England in an act called the Seven Spades, went to Paris and applied for a job as trap drummer. The French idea is for one man to beat the kettle drum while another looks after the bass drum and traps; so when the colored musician presided over all the drums and traps with marvelous dexterity he created a sensation. It was not long before his services were wanted by a number of French theatrical managers and he signed a contract to play at the Casino de Paris Orchestra. Each evening his importance is emphasized by the spotlight, a piece of marked attention no other member of the orchestra is accorded. Louis Mitchell and Mrs. Mitchell reside with their little son at 00 Rue de Clichy, and during the past year their home has been thrown open to colored soldiers and civilians from the U. S. A. 'On New Year's the dramatic editor of THE AGE was the dinner guest of the Mitchells on which occasion good old American eats, including turkey with all of its embellishments, were served. CLEF CLUB AT SELWYN THEATRE Edwin B. Perkins, a young theatrical promoter who also is well known in Europe, is co-operating with Deacon Johnson to put the Clef Club Orchestra on the local theatrical map. While the Clef Club has enjoyed many successes in recent years at the Manhattan Casino and on several occasions has attracted favorable attention in Aeolian and Carnegie calls, it has not established a reputation as a genuine theatrical attraction. Last Sunday evening at the Selwyn Theatre fifty singers and players of the organization, billed as the Clef Club Bon Bon Buddies, made their debut as a Sunday concert attraction. Frederick M. Bryan served as conductor, while Deacon Johnson, James Hunt, George Hines, Tom Bethel, Ralph Jones, Charles Waters and the Clef Club musicians are now in demand in Paris have cultivated a taste for ragtime andallen willing victims to the melody bands the music-loving public of the a colored orchestra from the States. of Quartet furnished specialties which called for encores. The attendance Sunday night even surprised the promoters, as very little had been done to advertise the concert. The audience, composed in the main of white people, enthusiastically applauded the various numbers, and unprejudiced critics did not hesitate in saying that the Clef Club furnished a unique as well as entertaining program. On the strength of last Sunday evening's success, arrangements have been made to present the Clet Club Bon, Bon Buddies in Sunday night concerts at the Selwyn Theatre for the remainder of the season, the engagement to extend into May. At the second performance Frederic M. Bryan will conduct and W. C. Handy will direct several ensemble numbers of his own composition. The following program was presented at the premiere 1 "Cleaf Club March" Full Orchestra 2 "Rachmannoff's Prelude" Full Orchestra 3 "Lara Jane" Cleaf Club Singers 4 "Hindestan" Full Orchestra 5 "Singature Drum Specialty" George Hines 6 "Ecstasy D'Amour" Full Orchestra 7 Songs Tom Bethel 8 "La Rumba" Full Orchestra 9 "Walt Disney Jazz Dance" Full Orchestra 10 "Song Specialty" Dracon Joakes 11 "Arabian Nights" Full Orchestra # PART II 1 "Aller's Triumph March" Full Orchestra 2 "Marsy Malz" Full Orchestra 3 "Dancing Dreon" Full Orchestra 4 "Violin Solo" Kalph Jones 5 Songs Charles Waters 6 "Bealstreet Blues" Full Orchestra 7 "Walt Disney" Full Orchestra 8 "Southern Melodies" Cleaf Club Singers 9 "Cupid" Full Orchestra 10 "Camp Meetin' Day" Full Orchestra THEATRICAL JOTTINGS. Miller and Lyles are at Keith's, Buffalo. Davis and Bailey are at the Vaudette, Detroit. Minus and Bryant are playing in Spo- lane, Wash. Billy King and Company are at the Lincoln Theatre. The Tennessee Ten are playing in Ft. Wayne, Ind. The Four Harmons Kings are in Portland, Ore. Shelton Brooks is doing his single turn at Loew's DeKalb Theatre. The Seven Musical Spillers are at the New Clinton Street Theatre. Billy Cumbly is with the Garland Howard Company, Putnam Theatre, Brooklyn Peat and Stevens are splitting the week between Passaic, N. J., and Stamford, Conn Brown and Diment are splitting the week between Hazleton, Pa., and the Powers Theatre, Camden, N. J. Grundy and Young are splitting the week at the City and Audubon Theatres. Cook and Stevens are splitting the week at the Broadway Theatre, Springfield, and Orpheum, Boston. Rucker and Winfred are dividing the week between the Stst Street Theatre, New York, and Prospect, Brooklyn. Chicago and Strogette are working at Proctor's 125th Street Theatre—William Penn Theatre, Philadelphia, the last half. TO PRESENT "PRIDE OF RACE" AT MIDNICH Colored theatre-goers are showing marked interest in the presentation of "The Pride of Race" at the Lafayette Theatre Tuesday midnight, February 11, by a cast made up of well-known New Yorkers. The performance will be given for the benefit of the Music School Settlement. "The Pride of Race" was produced at the Maxine Elliott Theatre a few seasons ago and attracted widespread attention. Robert Hilliard, who was the central figure in this great race drama, has granted the Mask and Wig Club, under whose auspices the show will be given, permission to use the play at the Lafayette. Frank Westerton, who signed the original production, is lending his assistance with a view to making the performance an artistic success. Mrs. Charles H. Anderson and Harry T. Burleigh will appear in the cast. Section B, Clef Club Orchestra, E. Gilbert Anderson, conductor, will furnish musical selections between the acts. THE NEW YORK AGE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919 PRAISE OF N. Y. CRITICS Roland W. Hayes, the race's leading tenor, appeared in a song recital in Aeolian Hall Thursday evening, January 30, captivating his audience and exciting the admiration of the critics. Mr. Hayes' singing as follows: "Recalling the 'Jubilee' singers, Roland Hayes, tenor, accompanied by Harry T. Burleigh at the piano, finished a formal debut in Acadian Hall last night with a number of Negro 'spiritual' or plantation songs, racy of the flavor of the old soil and old times in Georgia, where he was born. He is one of those with natural voices, who have not lost in cultivation that rare gift of unstuous humor and pathos of his race His "Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells" one's feet unconsciously stepping to ragtime, and earned an unproarious recall in "Didn't It Rain?" The young man's enunciation was remarkable, not least so in the dream from Massenet's 'Manon', which he sang in good French. There were other songs by Burleigh, and an air from the English 'Hiawatha,' by Coleridge-Taylor." See the New York Times. "Roland W. Hayes, tenor, gave a song recital in Aeolian Hall last evening. Mr. Hayes is a young colored man who has seriously studied singing and desires to be regarded as an artist of honorable ideals. He was heard last evening in songs by H. T. Burleigh, with the composer at the piano, Rachmanianov, Tchaikowsky and others. He paid tribute to the musical talents of his own race not only in Mr. Burleigh's good songs but in the familiar and stirring 'Onaway, awake, beloved,' from Coleridge-Taylor, Hiawatha.' "Mr. Hayes has a good voice, which he uses with technical skill except when he wishes to produce a forte in his upper register, in which case last evening he always forced up the medium instead of developing the head quality. His diction was good and his interpretations showed not only intelligence but warmth of feeling." DUDLEY BIG CARD AT THE LAFAYETTE S. H. Dudley with his Darknown Frolics, appearing at the Lafayette Theatre this week in a merry jubilee of music and merriment, is registering a hit and since the opening performance Monday afternoon the "standing room only" sign has been out. Dudley is seen at his best and keeps the audience in roars of laughter with his funnians, Williams and Stevens and William Benbow, too, are valuable assistants as dispensers of laughs. There are three acts and seven scenes, with something doing from the rise of the curtain on the first act until the finale. "MAN'S ENEMY." "Man's Enemy," which ran for over a year in London and throughout America to crowded houses, will be the attraction offered by the popular Lafayette Players, the week of February 10th. Andrew S. Bishop, Cleo Desmond and others who have been playing to crowded houses at the nowt Theatre in Washington for the past two weeks will be seen. Misses Freeman, Gillam and Williams and Messrs. Slimmons, Pryor, Moore, Ray, Monagas and others in the company are seen in very good roles. A brilliant scenic production will be given. ORCHESTRA MAKING GOOD WASHINGTON, D. C.—Record breaking audiences greeted the New York Syncopated Orchestra; Will Marion Cook, conductor, at the Howard Theatre, Sunday afternoon and evening. The orchestra was in splendid form and captivated the audience with each of the fifteen numbers on the program, the folk song, "Shout All Over God's Heaven," and Buddie Gilmore's drum part being the features of the evening entertainment. The orchestra also registered a hit at the Lyric Theatre, Baltimore. Mme. Talbert, Milton Abbott and Geo. Jones, soloists. Frank Withers, trombonist, and Mazzie Multen, saxophonist, winning encores. SECOND EDUCATIONAL RECITAL Mrs Florence Cole-Talbert and Mr. Roland W. Hayes are to appear jointly in Mrs. Tapley's second educational recital. Those two singers are of such exceptional capability that to have secured them for the same program is really a stroke of fine arrangement. Mrs. Tapley is doing a splendid work in making an opportunity for them to appear in New York and also to give those of the public who have not been fortunate enough heroicore, an opportunity to hear them on February 13 at Rush Memorial Church. ST. C. DEFEATS CARLTON. Carlton and its many Brooklyn supporters journeyed over to Manhattan Casino hat Thursday night, Jan. 30, with the confidence gained by well carried victories over Alpha and Spartan and fully determined to add the machine to its number of victims. It was up to the time the whistle blew, the one remaining obstacle in the path of the machine, but after the first five minutes of play it was evident that the obstacle had been removed. Carlton started the same five men who had so valiantly withstood the attacks of Alpha and Spartan, but they were of little avail against the sturdy attacks, of the machine. Once more the splendid condition of the St. One year in London and brilliant runs to crowded houses in every State and City in the Country at $2 prices. Andrew Bishop, Cleo Desmond and all the Favorites of that Sterling Company of Players. Make arrangements to see this play as early in the week as possible. It has a dramatic punch you will never forget. Boys of the Gallant 15th just back from France will attend both performances. Songs you will enjoy singing. URBAN LEAGUE OF NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN WILLOUGHBY & MYRTLE AVES, BROOKLYN ADMISSION TICKETS 40 CENTS NEW YORK SYNCOPATED ORCHESTRA Sunday Evening, Feb. 23. MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE POPULAR PRICES Tickets on Sale Urban League Office, 2303 7th Avenue, N. Y., 45 Ashland Place and 294 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn Announcement Unusual! Mrs. Florence Cole-Talbert, Soprano. Mr. Roland W. Hayes, Tenor ADMISSION 50 CENTS Christopher machine was shown as they played the entire game without a substitution. Wilson, Brown and Acegoo played host for Carlton, while the entire St. C. team starred. It would be unfair to mention any one man, but to the public in general, who overlook the guards on a basketball team, special mention must be made of the wonderful playing of guardr Bradford and Capers. The score at the end of the first half was St. C. 17. Carlton 5. Final score, St. C. 33. Carlton 13. The St. C. Junjors defeated Alpha Cuba in the preliminary game. St. C. 145-pound team plays St. Anselm Lyceum Friday evening, Feb. 7, at Parish House, 215 West 133rd street. MADISON, N. J.—The Rev. E. E. Tyler, pastor, preached at Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday morning on "The Quest." At 8 o'clock his subject was, "Journalling With or Without Jesus—Which?" At First Baptist Church, the Rev. B. H. Hodge spoke from the subject "Kingdom Extension." The Lord's Supper was administered at the evening service. Private Coleman Tilly, stationed at Camp Dix visited his family just week Mrs. Annie B. Suitt was called to Durham, N. C., on account of the serious illness of her father. News has come since her going that her father has died. Mrs. Wesley Suitt has received word that her son, Samuel, who is "over there," has been severely wounded. SELWYN THEATRE West 42nd Street, Near Broadway BIGGEST MUSICAL SUCCESS OF THE SEASON THE FAMOUS- PROGRAM INCLUDES BAXAPHONE QUARTET BANJO BUDDIES HARP GUITAR SOLOIST PIANOLOGUES THE BROOKLYN RAGTIME TROMBONE SPECIALTY VIOLIN SOLOIS NOTE-This orchestra has record of always selling out in advance. So get your seats early. All tickets now on sale at Betwyn Theatre Box Office, Phone Bryant 47. Greatest Concert Tour YORK SYNCOPATED ORCH management of GEORGE W. LATTIN NEW YORK SYNCOPATED ORCHESTRA 50 PLAYERS AND SINGERS 50 ALL STAR SOLOISTS WILL MARION COOK. Conductor Jan. 30. Lancaster, " 31. Baltimore, Feb. 1. Washington " 2. Washington " 3. Hagerstown " 4. Johnstown " 5. Altoona, P Other Note—By far this is the the musical art of the N istic, sublime—in the s general intellectual rec mocracy of art, the prej Lancaster, Pa: Feb. 6. P. Baltimore, Md. " 7. P. Washington, D. C. " 8. C. Washington, D. C. " 9. A. Angerstown, Md. " 10. C. Anstown, Pa. " 12. C. Boona, Pa. " 14. C. Other dates announced later. this is the most meritorious effort put of the Negro—truly American, distinct in the sphere it properly belongs. It actual reconstruction to follow the war, the prejudices of race must disappear. S IT! SU SPECIAL in your friends in both races onal as well as artistic. Popu seats early. MIA CALLING HER CHI Comime & Oriental Park UNDER THE AUSPICES OF INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF DARKER WILL BE GIVEN AT MANHATTAN CASINO 11 ST. & 8TH AVENUE, NEW YORK C DAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, CURTAIN AT 8:30 SHARP Under the General Direction of Gretchen Ten Eyck and Miss Earle Note—By far this is the most meritorious effort put forth to place the musical art of the Negro—truly American, distinctive, characteristic, sublime—in the sphere it properly belongs. It is part of the general intellectual reconstruction to follow the war, for in the democracy of art, the prejudices of race must disappear. DON'T MISS IT! Insist on your It is educational as Secure your seats on ETHIOPIA C A Pantomime UNIT THE INTERNATION MAN 155TH ST. & 8 THURSDAY E CU Under Miss Gretche Insist on your friends in both races to attend. It is educational as well as artistic. Popular prices Secure your seats early. THE KAPPA GAMMA KAPPA Louise Jackson Dorothy Hendrickson Edith Colvert supported by 5 OT Catherine De Silver Hazel Farley Coltilda Russel Leathe Colvert Agnea Griff Adrickson Marie Wilson Anna Joel vert G. Dorothy Wilson arted by 50 of Harlem's most talented child OTHER CHARACTERS— Silver Vivan Farley Emma Conn y Hattie Jeanette Cicil Knn ussel Anna Gardeen Aurio U ADMISSION 50 CENTS BOXES AND L MUSIC BY MARSHALL'S ORCHESTRA TES AND TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT GENERAL ADMISSION 50 CENTS BOXES AND LOGES $2.00 MUSIC BY MARSHALL'S ORCHESTRA SPECIAL SUPPORT IT! New Home of Brooklyn Y. W. C. A. Is Dedicated The Ashland Place branch for sacred girls and young women of W. C. A., Brooklyn, located Ashland place, was dedicated Sunday with special services. The principal speaker was Bishop J. Albert Johnson of the A. M. E. Church. Special Brooklyn clergymen attended, Rev. N. Peterson Boyd, rector of Philip P. E. Church who gave the reading, the Rev. C. D. Patt- passer of Trinity Baptist Church, held in prayer, and the Rev. William M. Mass pastor of Concord Baptist who pronounced the benedic- Walter C. Wood, former chair of the Committee on Management Branch, presided. Other speakers Mrs. Frances Chase, general secretary of the branch; Miss Catherine American missionary to Afri- lia; Mrs. Celia Cabaniss Saiminders, secretary of the branch for col- laboration in Manhattan. Mrs. Ellen k gave soprano solos and Jackson gave violin solos. Services covered a per- fect day. Mondays evening. Second dedication service dress by Hon. Emmett J. assistant to Secretary of Frank Freeman, the ar- vocated the building over to on the platform were Moore Halsted, president W. C. A. in Brooklyn, Mrs. Dickinson, chairman of the Place Branch, and Miss Eva National Y. W. C. A. see Building Five Stories High. building at Ashland place is five stories high with central entrance and an entrance through the basement which leads to the cafeteria. The general equipment includes social rooms, consisting of large living room, library and several small clubrooms, class rooms, sleeping rooms, with accommodations for two girls permanently, and two transients, the cafeteria and gymnasium. On the second floor is the board room, furnished with mission in memory of Mrs. Mary Stores Haynes, who was chairman of the branch for the colored men from 1918 to 1910. There is to be a picture of Mrs. Haynes on the wall of the room, inscribed with a brass plate, showing her services for the branch. The sleeping rooms for the girls are arranged in single and double rooms and the rooms accommodating three each. The girls who room in the place also work here, taking their meals in the aisle. On the top floor is a large laundry, a dryer on the roof being provided for the out-of-door drying of their clothes. Scott Tells of Women in War Work. Monday evening in referring to the work part in war work, Mr. Scott said in part: During the war the women took a first part in keeping in industries to touch with the Nation's works, and agriculture mains, were and doing lot in the hardy works of the to present a shortage in the food. In the mobilisation of resources the national defence our women probably the home and, in making the home and War Savings in making to the American Grass and other relief funds. in the ownership, we have the demonstration today in the hall of the less of this mag- azine and in this, as in all of helpfulness to humanity, the W. C. A. of Ashland and that of Abon Ben Adhem all the rest. The institution will be rightly appre- sented the colored citizens of Brook- ton have won, by service, the challenge their interest and sup- port the thousand new members they sought may find in your well-equipped gymnasium, a boarding department and enlarged employment buil- dings for religious and club and class rooms, for the teaching of domes- sion and its related industries, as unities for aesthetic di- rections, literary circles, drama- to learn that ample means mushed young and old alike themselves to that particular deavor that fits in most per- their talents and aspirations the labors of this Y. W. C. A. higher standards of living hip, health recreation un- leadership, home life for the wise would live in a cheer- herbs undesirable environ- social atmosphere generally help to raise the tone of the Flat To Let. 438 West 45th Street 4 large basement rooms, improve- ments, low rent, $12. 2-8 2t JOHN E. NAIL HENRY C. PARKER Nail & Parker REAL ESTATE TEL. MORNINGSTE 7062 & 7063 145 W. 135th St. New York entire community, reflecting itself, as an influence for a better manhood and a sturdier stock of the race that now, in too many instances, is subjected to unjust criticism because of lack of opportunities for the higher modes of daily and nightly diversion." Y. M. C. A. CONFERENCE (Special to The New York Am.) ATLANTA, Ga.--Fifty delegates represent thirty Young Men's Christian Associations of colored colleges and schools of seven states of the Southeastern Department adjourned after a most interesting session. Among the representatives were S. A. T. C. secretaries, association presidents, college professors and other student leaders. The sessions were held at the First Congregational Church of Atlanta. The largest program that has ever been outlined by colored association workers was set up by this conference. Among those who led in conducting the conference were: Dr. J. E. Moorland, C. H. Tobias, W. C. Craver, J. B. Watson, W. H. Tinker, S. A. Ackley, Hs. Wigginton and others. L. E. Graves, national war work secretary for S. A. T. C. units, southeastern department, was the chief director of the conference. PLAINFIELD. N. I. FRAUNHEIM, N. J. MRS. THOM WILLIAMS, West Aird Street, met with an accident Wednesday, Jan 29, being knocked down by a large ant truck at the corner of John and West 4th streets. An iron post saved her life from being crushed out. Fortunately no bones were broken, although she was bruised, and has been unable to sit up in her bed since. Miss Hattie Kelley and Miss Lillie have returned from a pleasant visit to their homes in Concord and Charlotte, N. C. The funeral of Mrs. Bessie, beloved wife of Mr. Johnson, 41 Plainfield avenue, was held at Shiloh Baptist Church February 1, at 3 p.m. The Rev. E. W. Roberts, pastor, assisted by the Revs. Collier and Campbell, Mrs. James Bolling, West 4th street, after having an operation for removing her tonsils at the Hospital has returned home feeling much better. Miss Ethel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scudder, West 4th street, was a week end visitor of her parents. She was looking well after a short illness. Ernest Jackson, West 2nd street, after a short spell of sickness, is up and about again. Edward Taylor, Sr., and little son Ne, after an illness of ten days' duration, are much better at their home on Plainfield avenue. James Cary, Plainfield avenue, last week for a visit with friends and relatives in Esmont, his home, and his wife's parents, in Chestnut, Va. Eddie Watson, Plainfield avenue, after a few months' change along the line of business, from Plainfield to Hampton, Va. is there with his family enjoying a vacation. Melvin T. Halsey, Richmond street an honorable discharged soldier from camp, will have charge of the Plainfield Lyceum's program at Bethel Chapel, East 5th street, Sunday, Feb. 9, with all out of town talent from Patterson N. J. Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Jones, West 2nd street, after a honeymoon tour in Virginia, have returned home. A very interesting game of basketball was held between the Plainfield team No. 1 and No. 2. The latter wrote the victors, after a stubbornly contested game played at the Nonpareil Auditorium friday evening, Jan 31. Mrs. Sohan Malik and Mrs. M. Johnson Solon Malon and Mrs. M. Johnson Plaintiff were weekend guests of Mr. Lee Brown of New York, attending the recital of Mine Houston at Mr. Oliver Baptist Church Thursday evening, Jan. 30. Fire in the Manning avenue home of Mr. Cary did considerable damage, yet not enough to render the family homeless. Miss Willie Henry, Plaintiff avenue, cousin of Mrs. Nellie Foster, has recovered from her recent illness and is out again. Two or three sinners' souls saved has been the reward at Shiloh Baptist Church for their evangelistic effort. The week of prayer will continue. Rev J. P. W. Collier preached Thursday evening, Jan 30. The Rev. W. L. Ires was the speaker Friday evening, Jan 31 when two young men made known their willingness to trust in the Lord the balance of their lives. The Rev. E. W. Roberts, pastor, deserves credit for his untiring efforts in every capacity. The Rev. D. Cannon, chaplain of the U. S. A., gave a lecture and sermon to a crowded house at Calvary Baptist Church Friday evening. Many important facts were related and much valuable information was gathered from his lecture. The First Baptist Church of bound Brook, the Rev. H. Pierce of Plainfield, pastor, after two weeks of revival labor, counted thirteen converts, and including those returning to the church, twenty-one. They raised $98. The Rev. M. A. Alexander of Plainfield did the evangelistic work. Miss Ruth Alexander, now of New York, was a week-end visitor of her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Alexander. Miss A. Davison, Mrs. Alma Hinton and Miss C. Jenkins attended the Sons of North Carolina reception in Brooklyn, N. Y., Thursday evening, Jan. 30. Miss Anita Burnette and Miss Bettie Davison of West 4th street were last Sunday visitors with friends in New York. Miss Carrie Miller, formerly of 3rd place, after a long stay with her sick parents in Virginia, has returned, looking well. The Rev. James Carter, Plainfield avenue, is much better, after a severe illness of two weeks. Mrs. ESTABLISHED 25 YEARS MRS. IDA WHITE-DUNCAN HAIR WORKER (19) Present St. Jersey City, N. J. Wigs, Braids, Bangs, Impression Tattoos, Hair Extensions, Hair styling, Spa Treatment, Shampooing Hair Dressing, Fade Massage, Molding. Colored peppers soothing bough leaves. Hair extensions. Hair dressing. Hair today extended to. Wallace Merrit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant, Muehlenberg place, after three or four weeks' severe illness, is improving. "Mrs. Mattie M. Johnson of North Carolina is here on a visit with her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Dixon; South 2nd street. From here she will extend her visit with relatives and friends in Boston. The J. T. Diggs Club, an auxiliary of Mr. Zion A. M. E. Church, held their meeting at the home of Mrs. W. L. Tunstall, 600 West 3rd street, last Thursday evening. After the order of business a very pleasant evening was spent. JERSEY CITY, N, J. Jersey City, N. J. — The Rev. J. Francis Morkan preached to a large congregation at the Lafayette Presbyterian Church Sunday evening. By his fearless expression of friendship for the Negro Dr. Morgan leaves for his new charge in the West accompanied by best wishes of our race. The Mothers' Club, Mrs. Janie F. Harris, president, held an interesting meeting last Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. Spied, 12 Prescott street. The Helping Hand, W. C. T. U., met at the home of the president, Mrs. Ida E. Brown, 47 Monitor street, last Wednesday evening. Mrs. Cordella Wlnn of the National Board of the Y. W. C. A., Visited Jersey City and with the general secretary of the local work, Miss Hazel Krantz, Mrs. A. C. Sanders, Mrs. George E. Cannon and Mrs. Ella Borkshelle Brown, held a consultation upon the contemplated work among colored girls here, and then went upon an observation trip about the city. The party was invited to luncheon at the Y. W. C. A., which conducts a well patronized lunchroom in the afternoon the entire Y. W. C. A. committee appointed by President: T J Stewart of the Jersey City Negro Welfare League met Mrs. A. Curveolin, chairman of the local board, and several of her co-workers and further discussed the project. The interest manifested indicated that in a few days Jersey City will have a Y. W. C. A. The Brotherhood Junior Athletic Association will give a mindful and basketball game at Arlington Hall on February 19. Fred T. Smith has done splendid work in developing the club. Mrs E Bass died Saturday after nine days' illness and was buried from Monumental Baptist Church Tuesday. A public memorial service for Col. Theodore Roosevelt will be held at Lincoln High School Sunday afternoon, February 9. Dr. George E. Cannon is in charge and all churches have been invited to participate. The Vigilant Committee met Thursday evening at the residence of Dr. G. Warren Hooper. The amusing entertainment given by the Ladies' Aid Society of the Lafayette Presbyterian Church Friday evening was one of the most successful affairs of the season The social event of the week was th card part given by Mrs. A W. Evans at her home, 105 Crescent avenue Jersey City folk look forward with pleasure to the coming church recitals of the music class of Miss L. A Lee. The lectures to the women to be given by Dr. Margaret Sullivan of the Board of Education are of such vital importance that every woman should attend. Mrs. G F Cookley, 777 Ocean avenue is convalescing at her home. In the tour of observation the Y W C A committee learned that the U.S. Employment Bureau has no work for colored women. Askel a remedy the reply was, "Yourselves. Organize and demand." Last Sunday at the Salem Baptist Church Pastor Judkins presided at 11 a.m to a large audience. At 1 p.m. in the Sunday school held an intersecting session and plans were made on the successful entertainment of the State Sunday School Convention in April. The B Y P U held an intersecting session at 6 p.m. President A L Ramsey had out a large audience and the meeting was an enjoyable one. The Communion in the afternoon was largely attended. At the evening service the main auditorium was packed to overflowing to witness the burning of the second mortgage on the church property. The sermon was preached by the Rev E L Foster. The collections for the day amounted to $361. The hand of fellowship was extended to several members and at the evening service four members were added to the roll Robert Clpton, Jr., Orchard street, graduated from Public School No. 11 Mrs. Carson and Miss Wilson of South Carolina worshiped at Salem Last Sunday. Next Sunday evening at 6 o'clock Mrs. R C. Judkins will have charge of the Temperance program at the B Y P U. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Thomas will deliver the principal address. At Bethel A M. E. Church Sunday services were largely attended. At 11 a.m. the pastor preached the fourth sermon in the series from the Book of Revelation. Seven persons united with the church. One infant was baptized. A very large communion was held. The Sunday school met in a lively session at 2:30 p.m. Superintendent Thomas reviewed the lesson. At 8 p.m. the pastor spoke from the theme, "Jesus Christ, the great Physician." The Girl Scouts of Jersey City, Martin Roll, scout master, and Mrs. Hattie Parrot gave a pleasing entertainment at Bethel Thursday evening for their work. The Trustee Aid, Mrs James Robinson, president, was entertained Thursday evening by Mrs. Fedora Epps at her residence, 696 Community paw avenue. Memorial service in honor of Col. Theodore Roosevelt will be observed at Bethel under the auspices of the Allen League, Miss Selena Saunders, president. At 8 p. m. m. the Boy and Girl Scouts of Jersey City and Newark will appear at Bethel in full regalia. The pastor will preach a special sermon. The following persons are on Bethel's slick list: Mrs. Bell, 121 Virginia avenue; Mrs. Emma Jackson, 91 Ege avenue; Mrs. Heath, 51 Jewett avenue; Mrs. Anthony, 248 Worcesters street; Mrs. Hagar Ford, 464 Johnston avenue; Mrs. Simpson, Atlantic street; George Brooks, 6 Jordan avenue. CENTENNIAL OF NEW and Bishop J. S. Caldwell of the Third Episcopal district will direct the meeting. The bishop himself was once a member of the New York annual conference as the pastor of Mother Zion Church. He has been the presiding bishop since the retirement of the late Bishop J. W. Hood! Prominent ministers and laymen from other cities and states will be in attendance and a very fine program has been prepared. The celebration will open on Wednesday afternoon at, 2:30. An address, "Life and Character of Lincoln and Douglass," will be delivered by Hon. John C. Dancy, ex-recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and now the secretary of the church extension department of the A. M. E. Zion Church. Hon. Charles W. Anderson will preside. At 3 p.m. on Thursday, Bishop George Lincoln Blackwell will deliver an address on "Problems-Confronting the Church," and in the evening the Rev. James Edward Mason, financial secretary of Livingstone College, will speak on "Price in the Light of Current Events." Bishop Caldwell will preside. In the morning of Friday Dr. Frederick Madson Jacob, general secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Church, will recount in a paper, "The Rise and Progress of the New York Annual Conference." In the afternoon fraternal messages will be delivered by the Rev. W. C. Brown, representing the Baltimore and Philadelphia conference, the Rev. T. W. Williams, representing the New Jersey conference, the Rev. T. A. Auton, representing the New England conference, and the Rev. E. D. W. Jones, representing the Western New York conference. At the evening session "Building Men as Well as Ships" will be the subject of an address by Bishop William L. Lee, Dr. P. A. Wallace, pastor of Eloft Street Memorial Church of Brooklyn, presiding. Music will be furnished by the Fleet Street Church of Brooklyn, Mr. Stephen Greene, director, on Wednesday evening; Rush Memorial Church, Prof. H. Gladstone Marshall, director, on Thursday evening, and Mother Zion Church Prof. C. F. LeJour, director, on Friday evening. Seats free at all sessions. Executive Committee--Bishop J. S. Caldwell, chairman; the Rev. J. W. Brown, vice-chairman; the Rev. C. C. Alleyne, secretary; the Rev. L. G. Mason, treasurer; the Revs. P. A. Wallace, A. A. Crooke, Benjamin Judd, M. O. Haynes, J. F. Waters, Wm. H. Franklin and J. Sulla Cooper. General Committee—the executive committee, the Revs. C Fairfax, W. C Anderson, W. B Brown, H. W. Allen, H. J. Williams, Geo. R. Jones, W. H. Morrison, J. H. Mason, J. B. Booner, L. B. Booster, L. H. Taylor, C. C. Taylor, C. C. Taylor, J. Evans, George Griffin, C. F McKay, Shafter Dunbar, J. C. Severney, J. H. Matthews, Duncan James, Chas Bradley, Moses Smith, N. E. Collins, M. L. Harvey, E. M. Cruse, E. O. Clarke, J. H. Brockett, T. H. Edwards, J. R Walterz S. S. Boud, Charles Scott. NEGRO PRESS ON That such a character would while making uncounted murders, develop a robust opposition was to have been expected, but after all, to-day protagonist and antagonist, stand alike around his heir, and pour out a nation's tribute to the worth of his sterling Americanism. Dallas (Tex.) Express "All men up" was the principle I possessed lived. The men of the 10th Corps who saved him at San Juan Hall held a big place in his heart. He knew many of them personally. He wanted two regiments of colored troops for service in France along with the division he led to cause of the beginning of the war. Colonel Young was to lead one of these regiments, but President Wilson refused to grant his request to Baltimore Afro-American Baker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt were the greatest men produced on American soil and two of the few great men thrown up on the surface of mother earth by the vortex of time and circumstance and divinity - Indianapolis Ledger. It was Roosevelt who introduced the "big stick" in politics. He knew what he wanted when he wanted it. Means to accomplish what he wanted never worried him. It was the end that engrossed his attention. It is a significant fact that the bitterness caused by his dismissal of an entire battalion of race soldiers some years ago had, at the time of his death, almost entirely disappeared. Even his critics believed he acted because he thought he was doing right - Chicago Plaindealer. --- So far as the colored people of the country are concerned, they mourn the loss of this man, who was the friend, not of any particular race or color, but who was the lover and defender of man kind. Whatever mistakes he made, they are all forgotten now and a mourning nation sheds tears and hastens to strew flowers upon his grave—Richmond Planet. Theodore Roosevelt was a great figure in American life, but was not a great man. He proved this when he failed to return to the army that "discharged without honor Black Battalion," after it was proven innocent of the crime charged against it—Cleveland Gazette. There is one point which ought to be especially emphasized and that is Roussevell's intense robust Americanism. He had little respect for the man, whether American or foreign, who sought to segregate himself from his fellow citizens - St Paul (Minn.) Appeal. We know personally that he held no prejudice against any people on account of race or color. We know this to be true. He carried this absence of grace prejudice into his home life, into his companion of the governor's mansion at Washington, into the White House as his husband, he carried it into his residence, in his birth and reasonable care of the government service. But he feltfully self-contained in his immutable and dominating. So the man is bound to make mistakes and mistake mistakes of judge- OUR NEW HOME PENDLETON AVE. ST. PERDINAND AVE. ment. Colonel Roosevelt did this in the Brownsville discharge order, in seeking to build up a lilywhite Republican party in the Southern States, and in bolting the Republican party in 1912.—T. Thomas Fortune in. Washington Eagle. There was nothing ordinary about Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, and the simplicity of his life made him the forceful character and the unequalled charpion of America's rights and American citizenship—Birmingham (Ala.) Reporter. REIDSVILLE. N.C. Reedsville, N. C.—The services Sunday, January 19, at the First Baptist Church were full of enthusiasm. The pastor, Dr. S. B. Brown, preached a splendid sermon from Deut. xxxll, 11. During the year 1918 $7,852.35 was raised toward the building of the new church, which is nearing completion. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Mayes entertained at a stag party January 16 in honor of their third son, Roy T. Mayes. The affair was quite enjoyable. Lieut. A. B. Koger of 368th Infantry, who has been with the A. E. F., has landed at Hoboken, N. J., and will soon be at home with friends. The Rev. E. A. Moore, a former preacher of Reedsville who is now pastor at Chapel Hill, N. C., spent some time with his family recently. SCRANTON, PA SCOTTSTON, Pa. Probably no more unique entertainment was ever given under the auspices of the Sunday School at Bethel A. M. E. Church than the "living sons and living pictures" presented last Thursday night. Each number presented was creditably done and the different soloists were at their best. A large and appreciative audience greeted them. The amount cleared was $44,50. Miss Elsie L. Tinker was the directress and Miss Hilda Carter, accompanist. On Friday morning, January 31, Mrs. Sarah Merryweather, one of the oldest and most respected colored residents of this city departed this life at her residence, 434 Lee court. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Exercises were conducted at the Pine STRAIGHTEN YOUR HAIR. Not with hot irons. 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A comedy in one act, "Those Dreadful Drews," will be presented by the Young Women's Progressive Circus; Friday, Feb. 14, at St. James Presbyterian Church, 50 West 187th street. The Rev. J. C. Austin of Pittsburgh, Pa., opened the revival meetings for February at the Metropolitan Baptist Church on Monday night of this week. These meetings will continue until Feb. 14. On Thursday night, Feb. 29, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Brown will appear in a recital at the First Emmanuel Church, 105 West 180th street. Mr. Brown is a famous Chinese impercerator and will appear in a reined musical Chinese set. The centennial celebration of the New York annual conference will be held in Mother Zion Church on West 136th street, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. Details of the program will be found in this issue. Following, are the sick members of Mother Zion Church: Mw. Stewart, 236 West 136th street; Robert Manon, 209 West 140th street; Benjamin Mathews, 105 West 137th street; Hannah Buchanan, 2248 Seventh avenue; Helen Washington, 97 West 143rd street; Anna Turner, 3 East 131st street; Sarah Valdez, 23 West 133rd street; Estelle Boss, Lincoln Hospital. The Colored Women's Branch of the Y. M. C. A. has been assigned a part in the great drive to raise funds for this organization, its quota to be raised being fixed at $2,000. Mrs. James Weldon Johnson, chairman of the Financial Committee of the Branch, has been chosen general to lead this great appeal, which will begin Feb. 10 and will close Feb. 20. Mrs. Johnson contemplates carrying this campaign into every part of the city. Miss Nannle H. Burroughs, who is considered one of the most thrilling woman speakers on the platform to day, will deliver an address at Saint Mark's M. E. Church, Wednesday-evening. Feb. 12, under the auspices of the Music School Settlement. A short address will also be delivered by the Rev. A. Clayton Powell. The Rev. W. P. Hayes, the president, will preside. Music by the male quartet and other talent from the school under the direction of J. Rosamond Johnson. The Rev. P. C. Willis will offer the opening prayer. The admission is free and the, public is cordially invited ROOSEVELT MEETING AT ST. PHILIPS CHURCH Special Roosevelt memorial services will be held at St. Philip's Church Sunday, Feb. 9, at 11 a.m. The address will be made by the Hon. John C. Dancy, former recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia and at present financial secretary A. A. Dr. Dancy held office under the late President Roosevelt and was numbered by him among the conscientious public servants. TO HONOR ROOSEVELT AT ST. MARK'S M. F. CHURCH Memorial services for Col. Theodore Roosevelt will be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church Sunday afternoon February 9. at 3 p.m. under the auspices of a committee of citizens of Greater New York." "Theodore Roosevelt as I Knew Him as Governor and President" will be the subject of an address by Hon. Charles W. Anderson. Hon. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the Secretary of War, will speak on "Theodore Roosevelt in His Relation to Negro Education," and Miss Eva D. Bowles, head of the War Work Council of the Y. W. C. A. for colored work, will tell of "Theodore Roosevelt as a Friend of Woman." Music will be performed by the choirs of K. K. Glives and St. Mark's Madame Daisy Tapley, the Martin Smith Music School and Madame Marie Peek Johnson. Nurses' Comfort Shoes Sisters' Shoes We are the largest apparel store on Oyster Bay so we are very likely to be the best place to wear shoes. We are especially pleased to offer $2.50 and up. Mail Order Cheap Promotion Attention OUR ONLY TORE THE PACKARD SHOE SHOP 800 Broadway, near 90th St. N.Y. City Please allow time to arrive and make sure you are on time for the service. JAN 14-5 noon. AUTOMOBILE INSTRUCTION, $15; practical (not book taught) instructs dancers on self-attention, overcoming and defending, and may be used in sports. You may move more quickly, but you cannot get more. We also prepare private driving lessons (only on Open days and even Sundays). Please contact us for more information. 100 4th St. New York City. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES APPROXIMATE BAPTIST CHURCH. The pastor preached stirring and helpful sermons to large audiences morning and evening and served communion at both services. Fourteen persons joined the church and the hand of fellowship was given to seventy new members, making a total of a hundred and sixty that have united with the church in the past five weeks. The offering for the day was $24.10. $26.34 of this amount was given to the poor points of the church. All of the members who did not contribute to the church last year through the natural system or to the subscription really must re-register by March or their membership will cease at that time. METROPOLITAN BARTIST Much interest was manifested in the services on last Sunday and the people came out i crocodile. On last Friday evening the Rev. W. W. Brown celebrated his 60th birthday and the members and friends showed their appreciation by giving hams, sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, soap, baking powder, search, bluing, washing powder, potatoes and canned goods. The Rev. J. C. Austin of Pittsburgh will conduct the February revival, beginning Monday evening and ending in the School being created in the Sunday School by giving a prize every month to the one bringing in the largest number of new scholars. The young people are also getting interested in the B. Y. P. U. Collection was $452.20. MOTHER ZION CHURCH Mother Zion was jammed last Sunday morning and evening when, Dr. Brown preached two eloquent sermons. At the evening service the annual sermon was preached to the Sojourne Household of Ruth. The Sunday School had an increased attendance. I was Christian Endeavor Day, and was observed by the Varkish Christian Endeavor Society. Hampton Circle has charge and presented a program of varied interest. Capt. Bevins and Sgt. Baxley were among the speakers. The Rx. R. M. Bolden spoke briefly but entailed. The Thursday dinner will be served at the church beginning 5 o'clock. "Heavenly Gate" a religious drama, will be rendered on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, under the auspices of the Zion Loyalty Club. Sister Nora Taylor will preach at Mother Zion next Sunday afternoon, and Dr. Brown will preach in the morning and evening. Communion next Sunday afternoon. William T. Wilson and Austin Mills have been appointed class leaders. ST. JAMES PREBYTERIAN. St. James was packed last Sunday with special interest centering in the sermon to the young people of the church. Dr. Hyder presented the Session's plan which embraces the most comprehensive forward movement ever launched by colored Presbyterians in this section. The plan worked out by the session includes the new era movement, so adjusted as to reach each individual of the eight hundred and fifty members of the church. A strong missionary circle, to be known as Comrades in Praiser, was appointed with Miss Savannah Foster as chairman. The community service committees were all reorganized and will cooperate with the Brotherhood and ladie auxiliary in an effort to maintain gospel service in the community. The New Era Peace Program was also launched, consisting of twenty-six companies. At the night service all the members who had joined the church during the month of January were welcomed to the Lord's Supper. Twenty-two members were received by the session in January. --- ST. MARK'S M. E. CHURCH. On Sunday, Feb. 2, the morning and evening service were attended by large congregations. At the morning service N. Y. delivered an sermon of sitting N. Y. delivered a table and timed discourse from St. Mark, xii. 37 theme, "Jesus and the Common People." In the course of his remarks, the Rev. Crampton clearly defined the term "common people" as applied to the people who followed Jesus and regarded Him as the highest exemplar of love and purity. Continuing, he said that in our service of God we should have an eye of love and the Christian Church must "bounded upon purity." In the evening Blacas preached a forceful sermon from St. Mark, xi. 27; theme, "Sirs, We Would See Jesus." The Rev. Blacas declared that there is an urgent need for Christian worker if the world is to be saved for Jesus Christ. During the day, six persons joined the church. At both services the choir rendered excellent music. Preceding the evening sermon, the newly elected officers of St. Mark's Brotherhood were installed by Dr. W. H. Brooks with appropriate remarks. UNION BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday at 11 a.m. after song service by the congregation led by the choir, the pastor delivered a well-prepared sermon on "Christian Baptism the attendance was very large and three persons were immersed. At 2 p.m. the Sunday School was largely attended, with Mrs. E. F. Johnson, in company with Sput. Butler in charge. Sput. Hunter of the Metropolitan Sunday School, visited the Mt. Olivet Sunday School of which Wesley Norman has charge. Their mission was to ask the Mt. Olivet Sunday School to send a delegate to the Tur-Continental Jubilee that will meet at Richmond to celebrate the landing of the Negroes at Jamestown. This movement is under the direction of the S. S. & B. Y. P. U. convention of Virginia, of which Prof. Lee is the honored president. The B. Y. P. u. met at 5:30 p.m. under President Dean. Miss Helen Dowdy had charge of the program and presented a number of visiting talent. Miss Carlote Thomas deserves much credit for the rendition of an instrumental solo. At the evening performance, she attended. The pastor delivered an amble sermon on "The Light of the World." The trustees thanked the audience for $219.66. FIRST EMMANUEL CHURCH The services Sunday at the First Emerald Church were well attended and of a high spiritual order. At the 11 o'clock service Pastor Bolden preached from St. Matt. xvv. 29: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even from which he shall be given. With One Talent." The Sunday School held an interesting session, two new scholars joining. Mrs. M. Shaw and Wm. Edwagds conducted the opening and closing exercises. A prayer and praise service was held at the meeting of the Literary Society at 4:30 p.m., conducted by Mrs. Edna Chandler and Miss Maud Holloway. Mr. Parker of Monroe, N. C., was introduced. Closing remarks by Pastor Bolden. Sunday service by Pastor M. Bolden will present a splendid literary program. At the 8 o'clock service the Rev. J. W. Anderson preached from Psalms xcxvi. 3. Dinner was served during the day by members of the Bible class. BALEM M. F. CHURCH. Last Sunday the pastor preached two stirring sermons and gave communion to about 500 members. The good effect of the revival was manifested in the book of the Gospel and Ments Bible Class was taught by its former instructor, D. N. Thompson. The Lyceum held its annual cable light service. There were solos by Mrs. C. B. Cullen and Miss S. Seal. Last Thursday night the program was furnished by the Manhattan Trade School, Mrs. G. E. McDougall in charge, Miss Virginia Potter, sister of the late Bishop Potter, presided. Speakers were Mrs Rinkman, Hamilton, assistant principal, Trades Union League, Miss Metz, Mrs. A. Erdman and Mrs. I. E. Sidney. These ladies told the large audience how necessary it was for them to learn the trades and what a splendid opportunity the Manhattan Trade School offered. There were several of our young women present who had completed the course at the school and they told how they had been able to earn from $30 a week. They attended school. They urged the other girls to take the course. Next Thursday will be Lincoln and Douglas night at the Lyceum. Y. M. C. A. HUT OPENED. Crowds were turned away at the opening of the V. M. C. A. Hut at 120 West 18th street on Sunday afternoon. Col. William J. Schieffelin and staff and Company A. of the 15th Regiment, headed by their band, paraded from their armory to the Hut which was packed to overflowing. The program was as follows: Music by the 15th Infantry band; handication by Rev. R. M. Bolden; Singing America, by the audience; address by Col. Schieffelin; address by Hon. Clifford J. Hawkins; music by 15th Band; remarks by Rev. D. L. Ferguson; solo by Col. Goodhinson Jones; added by R. M. Goodhoman of the War Work Council, Y. M. C. A; remarks W. A. Shookley. The entire program was in charge of the Demobilization Committee, Dr. Gustavus Henderson, chairman, W. F. Handy and Rev. R. M. Bolden. The Hut is open day and night, the work being in charge of W. A. Shookley, assisted by William J. Stevens. MANHATTAN Y. W. C. A. Mine C. J. Walker addressed an audience of nearly one hundred women at the women's meeting Sunday at 4 p.m. Shortly after 4:30 there was hardly standing room in the auditorium. Mine, Walker spoke in her own way for forty-five minutes on "How I Succeeded in Business." Mine, Walker is second vice-president of this branch and for over a year served as treasurer for the Y W. C. A. in Indianapolis, Ind. Next Sunday there will be a joint service of "Rosevelt memorial" of the Young Women's Christian Association at the central branch, 610 Lexington avenue, at 4 p.m. MANHATTAN Y. M. C. A. "The Negro Soldier in France" will be the subject of D..L. Ferguson of Louisville, Ky., who has just returned from over seas. He will give some of the close-up experiences of our men to the students of Bergen and The "Big Meeting" held at the Public Library, 103 West 135th street. Doors open at 3:45, meeting begins promptly at 4 o'clock. Over 200 new and renewal memberships were taken in during the Membership Drive which closed on Friday, Jan. 31. This makes the membership the association very close to 700. The membership privileges and anyone wishing to take advantage of this offer will have to do so before February 28, as the membership fee will be increased on March 1. FOR RHEUMATISM Construction and hibiscus trifoliate take Mary K. King's Southern hortic, the best romance of the season. Mary K. King's macy, 160 Lonox avenue; H. C. Woolen, 160 Cortis avenue; Branz: Margarine Brenn, White Brenn, 200 Myrtle avenue; William bridge; J. J. Wiltshire, 130 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Oakmont to M. K. Squamling, 15 George avenue, 180 Princeton, Prince St. and 81; B. J. Woolen for 14,000. BROOKLYN Sunday, Feb. 9, will be Booneau Memorial Day at the Ashland Place Branch Y. W. C. A. George Wibcau will be the speaker. All are invited to come. Mrs. Ada Moses Harper, of Salem, Mass., and Samuel A. Gibbs, of Brooklyn, were quietly married Saturday evening at Salem, Mass. The couple will reside temporarily at 65 at Brooklyn Brooklyn, per returned North Jersey summer, after spending four years teaching in the Presbyterian mission schools of Tennessee. The G. U. O. of Good Samaritans, Star of Bethlehem Lodge No. 49, has its regular meeting on Saturday evening last, at their meeting room, 1528 Fulton street, at which time the new officers were elected for the ensuing term. The total receipts of the patriotic mystery feast of seven tables given on Dec. 12, was reported by the Theo. Weeks and committee as $26.50, with expenses as a club open for new membership. At the next meeting of this order, Saturday evening, Feb. 15, initiation will take place. UNION BETHEL Services were interesting at Bether Sunday as usual. The pastor, the Rev Dr. Wilson, delivered two interesting sermons. In the morning he spoke on "What A Christian Should be" from I. Timothy iv.12, and in the evening on "The Advantage and Disadvantage of Being Short," from St. Luke xix:3-4. In the afternoon the Rev. Mr. Wilson preached at St. John's Church accompanied by his choir and congregation. At the evening service Presiding Elder C. P. Cole worshipped with the congregation. One person united with the church. Collections for, the week were $30. The members and friends gathered at the parsonage after class last Tuesday night and showered the Rev. Mr. and Wilson with near one hundred pounds. On Dr. Wright night the Rev, and Mrs. Wilson entertained the choir at the parsonage and gave a testimonial to Mrs. S. A. Crawley, who resigned as organist, having served temporarily for ten months. Next Sunday the pastor will preach at the services. At 4 p. m. a special Allen day service will be observed. SCRANTON, PA. (Continued from Remainder Box) daughter and son, Mrs. Harry Colwell of New York City and William Merrwweather, departed this life within two years. Her survivors are one grand-daughter, Florence Colwell, and son-in-law, Harry Colwell. About 25 men came out last Sunday afternoon at Bethel for the purpose of devising some plan for the organization and improvement, etc., of the colored men of Scranton. The Rev. Jos. M. Evans presided. Talks were given by Dr. J. E. Foster, Messrs. E. R. Johnson, Thomas E. Howes, Gouldsboro Dickerson, Lewis E. Morton, William Hearn, J. W. Jackson, Edward Moore and Ashton Dorsey. The next meeting will be held at the Pine Street Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, February 16, at 3:30 o'clock. Next Sunday, February 9, will be quarterly meeting at Bethel. Presiding Elder W. H. Truss will preach morning and evening. Communion at the morning session. On this day the senior conference be held at the senior conference serve an oyster supper. John Price is ill with influenza. Mrs. Rachel Blue is convalescence after quite a serious illness. Miss Irina Bradford is able to be about after a short illness. Two eloquent sermons were delivered by the Rev. Jos. Evans last Sunday. The morning sermon was "The Sin of Adultery" from the seventh commandment, and in the evening, "Preparation Necessary for Possessing the Kingdom." CORONA. L. I Corona, L. L.-Last Sunday morning Lieut. James Hinton, brother of the Rev. G. W. Hinton, pastor of the Corona Congregational Church, preached an inspiring sermon and also spoke in the evening. Sunday School convened at 2 p.m. Lieut. Hinton spoke to the children at that hour. The Young People's Christian Endeavor Society was largely attended. Next Sunday memorial services will be held in honor of the late Colordhee Roosevelt, Frederick Douglas, and Lieut. James Hinton has just returned from the South, where he has been with the colors for eight months. Miss Margaret Darnell, 50 Forty-seventh street, was graduated from Manhattan Trade School last week. Miss Flora Marie Sutton, 69 Darvall street, and Miss Electra Marguerita Jackson, 82 Fort-second street, were graduated from the Bryant High School of Long Island City. They are the first colored students to finish from that school which has been in existence since 1889. Miss Jackson sang a song of Negro Spirituals, accompanied by Miss Sutton. They also played a duet. Miss Jackson was a Latin student while Miss Sutton completed her four year course of French in three and a fine record in mathematics. The exercises were held at the school Thursday evening, January 30. Both young ladies expect to enter Hunter College. Miss Edith Randolph and J. G. Moore are able to be out again. PROVIDENCE R. J. PROVINCENCE, R. I.—Last Thursday evening a surprise party, was tendered Mrs. R. G. Hignage at her residence, 572 Crandon street, by the members of the social committee, 20th Century Victory Girl and the knitters from the Providence Branch of the Paintbrush Honesty factory. They enjoyed themselves until a late hour. Before going they presented Mrs. Hignage a silver saint set of teaspoons with initials, in appreciation of her work. Miss Charity Bailey who was graduated from Vineyard Street grammar school, competed in reading for the Anthony medal, which she won. She will enter Technical High School to complete her studies. There was $33.22 collected at a meeting held for the on to Paris delegates. Funeral services of Mrs. Charity Landy were held from Pond Street Church. Mark Morris, a life-long resident of Providence, died Saturday morning. Funeral services were held from Olney Street Church, Wednesday. The Rev. S. W. Smith of Yonkers, passed through and made a few remarks at Congdon Street Church, Friday. The Rev. W. J. Moss left for Richmond, Va., Tuesday night, for a week. There was a big baptizing at Congdon Street Church Sunday morning. A strong sermon was preached by the Rev. W. J. Moss Sunday evening after which Mrs. Daisy Barnes rendered a solo. Mrs. Susie Williams of Lippitt street, is ill. Mr. and Mrs. William Derrick, Mrs. Edward Richards and the Misses Richards of Newport, R.I. spent the week-end with Mrs. Bertha Richards, 275 Thayer street. A luncheon was given in their honor. Miss P. Jackson of Hilton street, entertained the Misses Richards and students of Brown University at luncheon Saturday. Mrs. Fred Thomas has returned after spending two weeks in Westerly, R.I. SPRINGFIELD MASS SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Springfield Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, held a well attended meeting in the St. John's Church, Wednesday evening, February 5. Dr. Bruce T. Bowens, the president, presided. The subject for discussion was "The Soldier." Tickets are selling well for the annual banquet of the Negro Civic League, which will be held this year at the Hotel Worthy. The League wants to seat two hundred men on the evening of the banquet, which is Feb. 12, Lincoln's birthday. Great interest is being shown in the Roosevelt Memorial service, which is to be held next Sunday evening at St. John's Church under the auspices of the Moria Church. The address will be made by C. C. Potter. Music will be furnished by the Coleridge-Taylor Club. Fight persons were immersed Sunday at the Third Baptist Church by the pastor, the Rev. G. R. Waller. Communion was served in the evening to a large congregation. The Rev. W. E. Ricks, of Amherst, filled the pulpit at St. John's Sunday morning in the absence of the Rev. Mr. DeBerry, who is in Nashville for two weeks. Mrs. William B. Smith, of Monroe street, rested home Monday from a street sweep, visit with mother from a friends at her former home, Talahashee Fla, and Jacksonville. On her return tria she visited friends in Baltimore. STAMFORD. CONN Stanford, Conn. - Services at the Union Baptist Church, the Rev. W. O. Harris, pastor, were well attended Sunday. At 6 a. m., praise meeting, 10:45 a. m., discourse on the "Call of Bartimousus" 12:30, Sunday School, R. R. Dowell, superintendent, 3 p. m., baptism, 7:30 p. m., sermon by pastor, church consecrant, hand of follower, Donon and Mrs. Robert Cross have returned after spending a few weeks visiting friends and relatives in the South. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henderson, 54 Adams, avenue, recently entertained at tea Dr. and Mrs. Fleming, daughter FOR SALE FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN Weekly newspaper, and job printing outfit, or will sell half interest to right party. Fine location, large circulation, and large field to work. The leading paper in State for colored people; also best printing outfit. Established 1892. Address Newspaper, Box 219, Orangeburg, S. C. Jan. 18 U NEED A NEW HOUSE. Why not buy now. Come to Cranford, Roselle, Rahway. There we have B and Croom houses. All improvements. Two townhouses to the town and train station. The most reasonable prices. And excellent terms. Or will build to suit on your lot or furnish lot IN MEMORIAM. In sad but loving memory of my husband, who departed this Life February 6, 1918. Gone but not forgotten. H. ALLEN. Uncle, GRO. W. ALLEN. DIED: HICKS - Brehley Hicks of $228 West $23d street, departed this Mile January 19,192. $230 P. M. Funeral services were held at St. Mark's Church, 33rd street, Friday, January 31, 1 P. M. She leaves a mother, uncle, aunt, cousin and a son gifts to inure their loss. Under- taker G. O. Parts had charms of the funeral. DIEF. BASS—Mrs. Alice Bass, wife of Joseph Bass of 25 Jowett Avenue, Jersey City, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Simmons, and daughter of this Life Saturday February 1, 1919, being confined to bed since days. Mrs. Bass was a faithful member of the Memorial Baptist Church and held an浸信会. Temple No. 58, I. R. P. O. R. She was highly respected and warmly loved by all who knew her. The funeral services were conducted at the day service, February 4 by her pastor, Rev. W. & Smith, B.S. The Programme Temple took part in the services, which much credit and impression to that early order of the I. R. P. O. R.W. and son, of New Haven Conn., Mrs John Telfair and Mrs. David Tanner. Services at the Bethel A. M. E. Church were very well attended Sunday. The Rev. Mr. Gordon of Bidgdeport was the principal speaker. The recital meetings will continue until the 5th. Miss Mand Houston celebrated her eighteenth birthday Monday evening, January 21. Among the guests present were Miss Alice Adams, Lucille Prison, Roberta Gandy, Mary Alexander, Irine Wilson, Margaret Lewis, Messus, Clark, Merritt, Halsey, Wilson, Eutine and Latin. Many presents were received. Refreshments were served at a late hour. Bounties and Miss Lee of Bridgeport were visitors here Sunday. Mr. Atkinson of New York was the guest of Miss Mand Houston over the week-end. Mr. Walter of Newport, R. I., returned recently to his home after spending the week-end with the Rev. E. H. Collins. BALEIGH. N. C. RALEIGH, N. C.-Miss Vashti Terry died Friday afternoon at St. Agnes Hospital after an illness of eight days of pneumonia. She was a faithful member of St. Paul' Church, Household of Ruth 116, and Jerusalem Lodge of Good Samaritans. She was buried Sunday, afternoon from St. Paul Church. Miss Thelma Jones died Sunday night after an illness of eight days, from pneumonia. Mrs. Altana Mitchell has returned home, having been away for almost two years visiting her daughters in Asheville, N. C. (Nassau D.) Mrs. Maggie Leak Halley of Saratoga, N. Y., is her ew her parents, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Leak, who have been a site sick, but are improving. RELIGIOUS NOTICES THE METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH, 18th St. and 7th Ave. Dr. W. K. Prensing, 11 A. M. Prensing, 11 A. M. B. X. P. U. 6 P. M. Prensing, 1 P. M. Prayer meetings. Friday evenings at 1 o'clock each month at 1 o'clock P. M. Church Meetings first Monday evening in each month. AFTERMIDNIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH, 800 West 40th Street, between 7th and 8th A. M. Prensing, 11 A. M. Prensing, 11 A. M. B. X. P. U. Holy Communion every first Sunday at 11 n. m. Sunday School, 118 p. m. Tuesday, 8 p. m.—Bishop's Day, prayer and grail service. Thursday, 8 p. m.—Library program. Friday, 4 p. m.—Highway and Hedges Society, 8 p. m. general prayer meeting. Rev. A. Clyde Powell, 100 West 16th Street, Philadelphia, 1194. MT, OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, 191-161 West 80 street, between 6th and 7th floor. Lorraine, Preschool services every Sunday at 11 a.m. m. and 7:39 p.m. m. Sunday School p. m. Sunday School m. R. Y. P. m. Literary meets every Wednesday at 8 p.m. The Weekly Prayer Meeting on Sunday, second Monday evening in every month. Dorene Hilmontion Society meets every first Tuesday night. Visitors are welcome, Telephone, Oaklins 4644. MOTHER A. M. R. ZION CHURCH 151-153 W. 1308 St. Rev. J. W. Brown, D.D. Baptist service: Preschooling, 11 a.m. m. and 7:49 p.m. Baptist and Communion every second Sunday, m. Sunday School 8 p.m. Alumni 4 p.m. Variab C. R. 4:39 p.m. Class meet every Tuesday evening. Prayer meeting every Friday evening. Brotherhood and Brotherhood Home, 129 W. 1308 St. Junior Brotherhood Home, 129 W. 1308 St. Junior Brotherhood every Friday afternoon 4 p.m. Pastor's Office House of Church, 16 to 18. Pastor's Office House of Church, 16 to 18. All women. 55-40 W. 18th St. A. A. Crooke, D.D. pastor. Residence. I17 West 101st St. Phone. Audubon P. 45. Holy Communion service every first Sunday at 11 A. M. Sunday School. 2:30; Varke C. H., 6:30. School every first Sunday evening. All are cordially welcome. ST. MARKS METHODIST BPISCOAL CROUCH, 582 Methodist Avenue, New York City. Pastor, William H. Brooke, D. D. Residence, 310 West 580 Street. Presiding, 11 m. and 7.4 m. per day. Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. Sunday School at 3 p. m. Lyceum, Sunday, at 4 p. m. Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. Junior League, Friday, at 4 p. m. Classes Tuesday and Wednesday evening at 8:00 morning. Sunday at 1 p. m. Holy Communion. Sunday evening in each month. Welcome UNION BAPTIST CHURCH. 90-80 West 61rd Street, New York City. Rev. Sunday, 11 A.M. and evening at Bethany. An ecumenical church by the Rev. F. H. M. Foster, bishop of the Episcopal Church of New York. PORTSMOUTH N. H Fortmount, N. H.—Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Carson entertained sixty friends with a musical and whistle last Wednesday evening at their home in Melcher street. Mrs. Henry T. Adams is seriously ill at her home on New Castle avenue. Mrs. E. Morris is confined to her home in New Castle avenue. Mrs. Martha Freeman is ill with influenza at her home in Jefferson street. Three candidates were baptized at the People's Baptist Church last Sunday by the pastor, the Rev. J. R. Dolphin. They were Mrs. Susie D. Harris and son Robert, and Ernest J. Gilbert. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Taylor entertained friends at tea last Sunday evening. Ernest R. Lee was a visitor to Portland last week, making the trip by auto. R. S. Anderson has changed his residence from 124 to 92 Washington street. Tel. 8186 Morningside Dr. J. R. Hillery PROFESSIONAL CHIROPODIST Hours: 9 to 12 M., 3 to 8 P. M. Special Attention to all Ailments of the Feet. 152 West 131st St. NEW YORK Jan11-Jmo. DR. CHAS. H. ROBERTS DR. BENJ. T. 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