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2 Babes Meet Death In Holocaust St. Benedict Church Pays Homage To Pastor, Msgr.O'Keefe TAMMANY DEMOCATS IN 19th A. D. CHARGED WITH MAKING REPRISALS ON NEGRO VOTERS Democratic organizations in Harlem, particularly the Cayuga Club in the 19th A. D., are reported to have set in motion a series of reprisals against the colored Democratic voters, charging them with having split their ballots in the November 8th election, by voting for the Republican Aldermanic candidate, Fred R. Moore, thus insuring his election over Hugh Masterson, the Democratic incumbent. These reprisals, it is charged, bring the form of dismissals of the men from laboring positions which have been given to them through their affiliation with the Democratic organizations. Faithful Made To Suffice. It has not mattered that the voters have been faithful adherents to Tammany, supporting it with sincere fidelity. And it does not appear that all of the victims of Democratic wrath in the 19th A. D. did really split their ballots as charged. The leaders seem determined to use the mailed fist in the effort to punish their supporters for alleged failure to recollect Alderman Masterson. It is a significant development, in this connection, that this coercive method is not panning out as the Democratic leaders hoped. It is authoritatively asserted by those who are in touch with the situation that the only immediate effect is that a number of men have had to seek new jobs within the past few weeks. And most of them have been taken care of though the interest of influential individuals who have been made acquainted with the true inwardness of the matter. Tammany's Coercive Policy. It is looked upon according to the well-informed, as evidencing the policy of Tammany in dealing with its adherents, to compel them to disregard any personal inclination or affiliation and follow blatty the behests of the leaders. And this is stirring a spirit of rebellion in the breasts of some of those who have been most active and faithful, and who have been entirely consentious in aligning themselves with the Democratic forces in the city, declares one of the men close to controlling circles. And another political worker asserts that this reprisal movement is clearly indicative of the hypocritical attitude of leaders of Tammany Democracy when they aver unbiased and sincere interest in the Negro's welfare. About a score of laborers and other unclassified workers have lost their jobs, it is reported. S. E. University Names Negro Student as Coach Los Angeles, Calif.-Lloyd Griffith, one of the few Negro students at Southeastern University, has been assistant debating coach. He received much of his training from the University of Southern California. LOEW'S THEATRE SUED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS BREACH Marion Moore-Day Asks $20,500 On Three Charges Suit against the Marloew Amusement Corporation, of which Leopold Friedman is secretary, has been started by Mrs. Marion-Moore Day, wife of H. Bouchet Day, and youngest daughter of Fred R. Moore, editor of The New York Age. According to papers filed Mrs. Day is suing through her attorney, Rufus L. Perry, 375 Fulton street, Brooklyn, asking for $20,500 damages for assault, false imprisonment and violation of the Civil Rights Law. The action states that on October 9, the plaintiff purchased a ticket at Loew's Victoria Theatre, 125th street between Seventh and Eight avenues, New York City, and that the theatre sought to segregate the plaintiff in violation of the Civil Rights Law. The papers further state that the corporation, through their agents without cause, reason or provocation, willfully, violently, wrongly and unlawfully assaulted Mrs. Day; and without cause, reason of justification, ordered her arrest by a police officer, and caused her arrest under the false charge of disorderly conduct. The amount being sued for is $500 for the first cause of action; $10,000 for the second cause and $10,000 for the third cause. Washington Clerk Dies of Wounds Received From Young Woman Washington, D. C.—James H. M. Young, 50 years old, a clerk in the Adjustant General's Office, died at Freedmen's Hospital from the effect of three bullet wounds which he received Sunday, December 11, at the hands of Mrs. Berma Jackson, at her from 505 Q street N. W. Mrs. Jackson is being held for investigation, and aside from a statement to the effect that Young made threats against her, refuses to talk. Mr. Young was a native of Texas, a graduate of Howard University Law School, and well known in the Patrolman CHAS. WILLIAMS Adds Another Honorable Mention to His Record as New York City Policeman. HARLEM OFFICER WINS, 3rd TIME, MERIT CITATION Patrolman Williams Honored By Warren; Det. Webber and Pat'n Booker Cited Patrolman Charles Williams of the 16th Precinct Police Station received his third commendation for meritorious conduct in line of duty last week, when Police Commissioner Joseph Warren made public the names of sixty of "New York's Finest" who had won this coveted honor during the past twelve months. The recognition of Williams was a bit deferred, as the arrest for which he was commended was made May 10, 1926, at 21 West 132nd street. At this time he risked his life to disarm and arrest a criminal. Former Commissioner McLaughlin cited Patrolman Williams among the thirty-nine honor men of the department of that year. The occasion for this citation was the arrest of two burglars in the act of burglarizing a tailor shop at 20 East 132nd street on January 11, 1926. Williams was patrolling his heat near the tailor shop early that morning when he noticed two men acting suspiciously. Without being to them, he stole up on the one acting as lookout. As Williams came in to the man, the latter whipped a loaded revolver, but the policeman struck it from his hand with his pistol and knocked the man unconscious to the pavement. Subdued Second Burglar Stepping over the unconscious man's body, he found the other fellow forcing the bar at the window in rear of the shop. The policeman poured upon the second burglar and after a short struggle subdued him. Both men received long prison sentences. On another occasion Williams rescued a white actress, Alice Kennedy, from an angry mob after she had ost control of her car and run over two children in West 134th street. The woman drove her auto on the sidewalk into a crowd of little children and their angry parents, attives who would probably taken the law into their own hands had it not been for the coolness and courage of Williams. The other officers cited last week by Commissioner Warren were Patrolman Booker, who on April 23 last, with Sergeant Michael Joyce, disarmed a man attempting to kill his wife in their apartment at 115 West 144th street, and Detective George Webber, who as a patrolman, went into a night club on June 6 last and arrested the principal in a shooting affray. Webber was promoted to a detective for his good work on this occasion. See announcement of our Big Subscription Offer. The Christmas crune lull, which prevailed in other sections of Greater New York was not in evidence in Harlem. There were three homicides and a number of lesser crimes disorderly conduct recorded at the 16th Precinct Police Station over the holiday weekend. The Cafe Boulevard at 133rd street and Seventh avenue was the scene of a mysterious murder late Sunday night. Louis Greco, 27 year old bartender, had an argument with an unidentified Negro who went out and secured a gun and returned to shoot Greco through the head, about 10:40 p.m. The wounded man was rushed to Harlem Hospital and attended by Dr. Salero, but sucumbed early Monday morning. On Tuesday afternoon Detective Joseph Brown arrested Leroy Jones of 40 East 133rd street, who it is alleged confessed having shot Greco. He is being held without bail on a charge of manslaughter. Another Mystery Murder This murder recalls the untamed death of "Ed, the Finisher" Johnson, former proprietor of this cafe, who was mysteriously-killed about three years ago. The mystery of his-death has never been solved. What was reported as an accidental shooting resulted in the death of Miss Willibelle Demy, 30 years of age, in her apartment at 163 West 133rd street. Miss Demy was shot at midnight Sunday by Miss Sara Wheeler of the same address. She died at Harlem Hospital two hours later. During an altercation with John Rodriguez of 11% West 135th street, Ethel Kenney, 19, was stabbed to death in her apartment at 115 West 141st street Sunday afternoon, December 25. Her assailant escaped Detective Moore is working on the case. Killed By "L" Train Joseph O'Sullivan, a white man 45 years of age of 314 West 117th street, is thought to have imbibed too much Christmas spirits Christmas Day. While standing on the downtown platform of the 135th street elevated station, he suddenly lurched in front of an approaching 6th avenue train and was killed instantly. Vera Allen, 28 years old of 680 St Nicholas avenue, is in a serious condition at the Harlem Hospital as result of an altercation with one Amos Hussa, who later escaped. The altercation occurred in her apartment Monday evening, resulting in lacerations of the face, arms and back and possible internal injuries. Another holiday altercation resulted in a fractured skull for Albert Hasset, 33 years of age, of 123 West 134th street. He was struck on the head with an iron bar by William Scott at a little party in Scott's apartment, 63 West 143rd street. He is now in Harlem Hospital in a serious condition. He is being held on a charge of felonious assault to await the outcome of Hasset's injuries Subscribe to The New York Age and get a Dictionary free. See page 8 for Special Subscription Offer. The New York Age will give a Webster's College Home and Office Dictionary on each two year's subscription sent direct. ACT NOW. THE TIME IS LIMITED. Mamaroneck, N. Y.—The joys of Christmas were not for Mr. and Mrs. Cland Harris of 610 Fifth avenue, and all their plans for playing hosts to Santa Claus while he visited their home were disastrously wrecked when their two children, Julian 5, and Doris 2, fell victims to the greedy and rapacious appetite of the Fire Devil just five days before Christmas. The Harris home was in rooms in a building in which the front was used as an upholstery shop On Monday night, the 20th of December, the parents stepped out for a few moments on an errand in connection with their children's Christmas joys, leaving the two playing in their room. According to the theory advanced by the firemen, a lamp exploded in the upholstery shop, and in a few minutes the inflammable material had made the entire structure a blazing inferno. Bodies Clasped Together. When the flames were quenched, the two little tots were merely charred lumps—and the bodies were found underneath the ruins of an iron led, clasped tightly in iron had been other arms. When the fire reached the room they had instinctively sought a safe refuge in what they believed to be a safe refuge—under the bed. They were dead before their parents knew anything of the fire. The local volunteer company, the Weaver Street Fire Department, did all they could and the New Rochelle Department was called on for help. Chief Walter Jones. Deputy Chief Oscar Grab. (Continued on Second Page) Atty. D. C. Outlear Dead After Several Months of Illness Attorney David C. Outlear, a practicing attorney in New York City for more than 20 years, died Monday night at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Fifth avenue and 100th street, following an illness of several months. The late Mr. Outlear had been suffering from a complication of diseases. Funeral services will be conducted from Mother A. M. E. Zton Church, where the deceased had been a member and church worker for a number of years, on Friday afternoon. The Rev. J. W. Brown, pastor, will officiate. Interment will be at Woodlawn Cemetery under direction of Rodriguez and Yates. The late Attorney Outlear had offices at 19 West 135th street but had never been a resident of Harlem. He lived at 235 West Gird street. He was born in Norfolk, Va., 52 years ago, and after attending the old Norfolk Mission College, entered floward University Law School. Upon this graduation from Howard in 1898 young Outlear came to New York and entered the New York Law School, beginning his practice in New York after about five years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. L. Outlear; a daughter, Mias Gladys Outlear; and a brother, Joseph H. Outlear, a real estate broker with MSGR: THOMAS M. O'KEEFE Who has served New York Negro Catholics during all of his priestly career. NEGRO EDUCATION GETS $285,000 BY STOKES' WILL Hampton, Tuskegee, Voorhees, Haines, Moton are Beneficiaries Through the will of the late Miss Olivia J蛋leston Phelps Stokes, who died in Washington, D. C., on December 15, $235,000 out of a total of $800,000 to charities and education, will go to aid Negro education. The will was filled in New York on last Friday. The Tuskegee Norman and Industrial Institute gets $125,000; Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute gets $100,000; Haines Normal and Industrial Institute at Augusta, Ga. and Vorhees Industrial School of Denmark, S. C. get $5,000 each. A joint bequest of $50,000 was left Dr. Anson Phelp Stokes of Washington, D. C., and Dr. Robert R. Moten of Tuskegee Institute. Dr. Stokes is a nephew of the late Miss Stokes. The will stipulates that this fund may be administered as a memorandum in their profession directs The will also explained that $25,000 of the $125,000 left to Tuskegee is to form the "Booker T. Washington Scholarship Fund, a memorial to the founder of Tuskegee. The remaining $100,000 will become a part of the general endowment of the school The late Miss Stokes was 81 years of age at the time of her death. She was a descendant of one of the most prominent colonial families in New England. Her grand-father founded the town of Ansonia, Conn. Welfare Officer, 135th St. Police Station, Dies Lieutenant Joseph T. Sauder, 58 years of age, who for the past two years had been assigned to the 135th Street Police Station as welfare officer, died at his late residence, 1285 East 19th street, Brooklyn on Christmas Eve, following an illness of two months. Lieutenant Sauder made many friends while in Harlem and his death was a surprise, as his illness had not been considered serious. Feminal services were held in Yonkers, N. Y. Tuesday evening and the body shipped to his former home, Easton, Pa. for burial. Lieutenant Sauder had been a policeman for 30 years and was a member of the Honor Legion of the Police Department, the Lieutenants Beneficial Association and a Mason, Captain Camille Pierne and a delegation from the 135th street station attended the federal services. MSGR. O'KEEFE CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF SERVICE AMONG NEW YORK NEGRO CATHOLICS Cardinal Hayes Brings Blessing To Congregation; High Church Dignitaries Pay Honor To Pastor Forty years of faithful and loving services among Negro Catholics in New York City by the Right Rev. Monsignor Thomas M. O'Keefe, pastor of the Church of St. Benedict the Moor in West, 53rd street, were celebrated on Sunday, December 18, when a phalanx of high church dignitaries, led by His Eminence Cardinal Patrick Hayes, assembled at that church to celebrate the anniversary and to join with St. Benedict's congregation in paying trib- MAD WIFE STABS HUBBY TO DEATH WITH MEAT KNIFE Anna McBee Held Without Bail On Charge Of Manslaughter Enraged at her husband, John McBee, because he would not give her extra money for Christmas, Anna McBee, 29 years of age, grabbed a butcher knife and ran it through McBee's abdomen. The woman ran from the apartment screening and Detectives Coogan and Duane of the 16th Precinct, hearing the noise from the street, rushed in. They summoned an a-balance from Harem Hospital, but the man was dead when a doctor arrived. The detectives placed the woman under arrest and a charge of nanslaughter as lodged against her. She told the detectives, that her husband had attempted to beat her when she asked him for money Rice of Mounds City Is Special State Attorney Before Tax Commission Chicago, Ill. (A. N. P.)—Charles L. Rice, is in Chicago acting as special States Attorney for Pulaski County before the State Tax Commission in session at the Transportation Building. For twenty-one years Mr. Rice has served as Ma ter in Chancery in Mounds City, and serving in this capacity he has made an enviable record Mr. Rice has made a favorable impression on the Commission that is taking up the matter of equalization of the taxes in the county, as related to the tax equalization between farm and city lands Natlian Hunt Undergoes Operation In Hospital Natlian Hunt Undergoes Operation In Hospital Roltimore Add.-Nathan Hunt traveling secretary to Dr. Robert R. Motom, principal of Tuskegee Institute. Ala., has been a patient at John Hopkins Hospital since November 9, 1927. His condition is im- proved to the degree that he ex- pects to return to Tuskegee shortly after the holidays. Mr. Hunt came to the hospital for an examination, when he found that his condition necessitated an early operation, and he remained for that purpose. The operation was successful, and he is rapidly re- gaining his normal strength. note to the beloved pastor. Monsignor O'Keefe was ordained to the priesthood on December 17, 1887, and went immediately to St. Benedict's, then in Bleecker streets and there he has labored ever since. For twenty years he was assistant to the late Monsignor John E. Burke, of hallowed memory, and when Monsignor Burke was appointed in 1907 as director-general of colored missions, Monsignor O'Keefe was appointed pastor as his successor. The occasion was marked by a solemn mass of thanksgiving at 11 o'clock in the morning, as which Cardinal Hayes presided and addressed the congregation from the throne, expressing appreciation of the work done by Monsignor O'Keefe for the colored Catholics of New York, and with solemn respers in the evening at 7:30 o'clock. Cardinal Pays Tribute. His Eminence said that the elevation of Father O'Keefe to the rank of Monsignor four years ago was an appreciation by the Holy Father of the zeal of the colored Catholics of New York as well as an acknowledgement of Monsignor O'Keefe's personal merit. "I come here to represent officially the great archdiocese of New York," the Cardinal said. "I bear unto your pastor and to you my dearly beloved people, the felicitations of all his fellow-clergy and of the entire archdiocese of New York. I might go further and say that I know the Holy Father himself rejoices with you today in the fortieth anniversary of him who is your pastor." Cardinal Hayes then told of the audience he had with the Pope four years ago at which he asked that Father O'Keefe he made a Monsignor, which request the Pope granted. In the congregation were a number of communicants who were members of the church when Father O'Keefe came as an assisting to Monsignor Burke, and they were deeply affected by and responsive to the tributes paid by the Cardinal, and by the Right Rev. Monsignor John P Chidwick, who was chaplain on the Maine when she was blown up in Havana harbor, was later for many years president of St. Joseph's Academy at Dunwoody, and is at present pastor of St. Agnes' Church, this Monsignor Chidwick was a elas mate with Monsignor O'Keefe at St. Joseph's Seminary Trop, and has been a close, intimate friend for forty-five years. . Mons O'Keefe Was Celebrant. Monsignor O'Keeffe, was himself the celebrant of the mass, with the Rev. Timothy J. Shanley, his assistant for the past sixteen years as deacon and the Rev. Thomas Barry, of the New York Apostolate, son-deacon Father Barry is a nephew of Monsignor O'Keeffe. The Rev Rev. Monsignor Stukenbill I. Denalhune and the Rev John F. Curran were masters of ceremonies. The deacons of honor at the throne were the Right Rev. Monsignor Daniel Burke, dean of the Bronx, and the Right Rev. Monsignor Joseph R. Len Tee pir re ae AUR eee jibccceabiee mae ee Prd ene a ey i" ea (eee Neen? 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[Ste Ciui ll Be ato to ne [Rid witout carge fom the sl E 1. [tes, off ynuts, candy, pick! ty-ai D.C. (ANP.-Twen- cases police offi e ofmorrow night.” Si es Ne coe ee J Frat Pe BS ° an — and coffee. - Ice-cream: trix, yeas ‘of service with one’ of ~ stool” pigeona” to have ee “ Freshman ‘Boys, Miss, You oe Ne tin on ‘Sar ; ernal, Social Service and -cake was’ served in.the eve ihost sjmaportant "Committees i rooms ‘and - tite, raided “the Savannah, Ga-—May rath er of te ie in Gen | . Agencies ki Wages ae ae ’ ing, The gic had» is rs sie Hees of ane es ormes, making arrests Of thelll, Hoynes ef Sevsaheh Thomas | high school, trian of te Jose | Eig Children Gi “4 } bstaan urnish Baskets and Toys cheval Citas and orel en of te & ‘Frank. A Byrom [ffses in Je mae of oro prise, of $8 and $250 presented | in the freshman’ cliss Sr: . metre 3 sie : Sees as a ' iu 3 Miss. Lilt $250 in gold “to {OR twenty: 5 Te “S ' of Needy bali mess A] The the radfo. [has achieved naval committe, plrecently, fon Market Court|f| Miss. Lillian You 3 Sea : | = : ‘ : ok a aes gree mete zm and innocent — ryan oherdor ad ca tres | Rass Roti ; | Party Tuesdeg Doty Shee Harken ‘amilies~ the -girl it possible for began” tea hisses : : = : = Tf public SST, me -girls to have such a bounti He: began” service ‘wit ja result, Scbhease ealf | Cooper of the senior <b i 1 Hee ay eee sso : : public generosit; ; Bi hvac valk |. | Christmas, an dal wuritiful | mittee in” ice ‘with the com-| Hl" ‘DEMAN . clhss, respects “high sctioo! ee Reate er team : -mas spirit y is any criterion, the Christ-|°",.""? Van dalso thanks every" | gress” w 1901 during’.the Séth Con ADAt ND REFERENCES sieh reapecirtaly; ices: youn Pamphlets fw i he ae et irit pervaded Hark js , the Christ- Se ae mae eee ret Pepecsental ALWAYS, and ate care int || fadies shaving: 6 i : Realy =e fore. Busi lem this year as one, who im anray. has contrib Edind cnréseniative” George | eeu tomething ace in nd best -and ech adjudged jhe! ens fen fe sei ae Tree eke: eas. houses,. fraternal and never be- | tigious welfa cena social or- re- | chajema Nea Sead Goan TE ones Be at ron cai second, best spellers” in} + Th "te nee ogahizations tri it and social be- | gious welfare of the Home i, « The auoeading= chal , ins contac ete teelirs a) te _ eae oie Oe es aes ever be [ie Hee _sueééeding : chairmen | ft cts and . a betty Hot taht nat observa Natta. Te 2 ; 3 ct f we : long, with apsocia-|f] . The, climinati Relati cvance of Race! December, 27. Thay navel ta ‘for the poor and: out-do each other in caring] ;,sf or ear of WE were Representatives Ls P, Padgett sd haw rosters sr Moomalf| which’ elimination © epntestsy + in Pe ee sa eS a and:needy of the city. caring] Ament fens. the Cetsoss f Teqmesee, and Tas. S. Bul ena rene roomery. if ise at ot ie. ose Petes «ao its inception 5 iat singe poten huge Cri nt i CATING) fund of the - Citizen's: Christmas |p eee a ee we lf) dents in te sitsutation participat eption mn 1923—will ake the esac meee Ghar Conmihios: tots ant; The Byron beeing asian" lee Me.Iuiams “Payne, A a were bold! on” Seats: Wel west, seit a Beg te a, eS es d 3. Thel ousienian Butler in’: the clerk’ under et re Aas bone Mylcs| De84aY and Priday of“ ys, Wed: | thousands of elharct, 2 sn dod by 8 ce “66th Con-| Roberts, Robert Gor wan, Gorden this time! “the five: beat. Mans ideas YMC neat : = 4 . Sornam, . ‘ers. in ee le ° oo one youn : f ham, ers in the preparatory, -high school Ble's societies, ant atier velistus wee < = va ‘even Gil fnene e ses te anulecn . umaecdevsnnant Gets “THE NEWLY RENOVATED. . “WaiKker Srupios . are now available for all private occa- : .. sions such as, Weddings, Banquets, Re- ~ ceptions, etc. Why worry about enter- ° < taining at home? Special arrangements may be made for Club Meetings and Card Clubs. Rooms can. be selected to "- giit- the .event. w ae ae a, ~ Information may be’secured from ~ . Mrs. SARI PRICE PATTON : . “Paows: BRADHURST 0678 ° . ‘10 WEST 136rn ST. i +* NEW YORK : - . Hours: 9--9 <*"° 2 pror the poor and: needy o! > Through the courtesy of Charles | chara, eanaging director, the tArthur Gibbs’ Band* from. the Wsavoy Dalleoom. entértained — the sick arid" shutsins of Harlein Hos- pital’ on "Christmas afternoon. This P hand provéd-so popular with the - patients’ and management of ‘the ‘shospital, they have-been invited +3 ‘Slurnish a program’ for the shut-in Mchitdren, Thursday afternoon, De- eember 29, and a New Year pro- ‘stam “Monday vafternoon, January “F The Tuberculosis Division of the Out-patient Department of ¢Harlem Hospital was so imbued “with the:Chtistmas spirit they fur- “nished: presents to $00 tubercular \children.. The- committee in charge Sof: this - distribution was, Mary "Lloyd, Rose” Egan; “Helen Griffith, "Christine’’ McGrath’. and Susan Devers) ' 67 © “Casper “Holstein, .who-is one of ¢ the most generous donors to char- i ities Vin Harlem, gave toys and j shoes: to a large ouniber of poor children in the vicinity of the Tent Club. and sent 2 big supply rpf-clothes, shoes and foodstufls to Sthe,peor of the Virgin Istands, is former home. * ° z “(Age Gives Food’ and Toys. The New York” Age sént in the ynames of about 50 “families to The iNew, York American, which aided "$0000 families thoughout the city, Jand,:in ‘addition The Age gav= Fbaskets to 150 rieedy’.families of ‘ey? Mth Aldermanic + District. These “baskets contained.” potators; :turaips, “onions, apples, canned to- jristoes’ and com, two pounds! of (’sigar, coffee, a can of evaporated cmilk, beans, 2 jar of jélly, a fresh “killed chicken and a loaf of- Bond bread.» Toys, donated hy the " Aimérican “Red Cross, were also distributed“ to-2 large number of children from The Age office. ;.Silyer' Furniture Company of "225 Lenox avenue gave out more baskets than any other organiza- ition’ in Harlem. They gave bas- ‘kets’, to 1000, peoples from their ‘store on Christmas. morning ~and inathe afternoon gave-toys to 1000 poor children. ‘Their baskets con- tained a fresh killed chicken, loaf ‘offbread, rics tea, milk. beans. tomato soup, potatoes. onions, ap- ;ples ‘and sugar. : 1000 See Free Show. “Through the courtesy of Frank Sebiffman, managing Wirector of the Lafayette Theatre, a free mo- ‘tion’ picture show was given 1000 Poor .chidiren Monday morning, Gecember 28 at The Lafayette. The: Show was under auspices of the North Harlem Comunity Council, James Middleton, chair- | min. Mrs. Helen Hanning, of the Housing Committee for New York Cig. ond John G. Ferguson, pres- ideht of the Wolf Club, Inc. wee special guests for the acca- sia}. “Fie Monarch Lodge. No. 43, 1. BP .O. E. of W. and the Invine- idk Temple gare baskels to the “pofr’ members of their order and tos 10 the poor children of the smgifeorhond. = The Marfsattan an Imperial Lodges of, Elks also sefed for the. poor members of ‘Ufir lodges: s : lem churches, especially .the| See ae) | ee Seer Sees and the Mother A. Mi E. Zion Ghurch,, the Rev. J. W. Brown, pastor, looked out for their poor members, with clothing, food and toys. . The kindness of Miss Lucille V. Miller, health adviger of the Christodora House, “enzbled’ the Women's Committee of 100° from the XN. ALA. CP. to donate 30 dolls to poor children of Harlem These dolls were dressed by stu: dents at Radcliffe and” Smith Col- leges and were distributed under direction of the. Apex Beauty Cul- ture School, Archie Morgan, man- ager. _¢ ." Had To Use Armory. Then’ there was the work of the Harlem Citizen's Chistmas Cheer Committee, Mrs. Mamie L. Briggs. president. The demands upon this organization were so ‘heavy this year that the 369th Infantry ar- mory chad to be rented for Christ- mas eve when baskets were dis- tributed to 350 families. Christmas at the Katy Ferguson Home. . .’ Christmas proved very’ pleasant ior the girls at the Katy Ferguson Home, dus to the efforts of its many friends. The following peo- pte contributed: ‘Miss “Jerolyne Winfield and members of the Red Cross Nurs- ing Circle of the Abyssinian Bapé tist Church bought a large, basket of groceries and ‘$6: The Welfare Club of the Metropolitan Mission: ary Circle: Mrs, L. Simmons, president, sent a baske? of grocer- ies and fruit. The Satellite Alumnae Club of Abyssinian Bap- tist Church, Mrs. Edythe Chureh- ill, president, Mrs. Alpine Daniels, chairman” sent $13: The Junior Circle of the Satellite Alumnae Club sent $221: Mrs_ Jeannette Norman. $2; Mrs. James Rose of the Rose Restaurant, Lenox ave- nue, sent a large basket of gro- series and candy: Oppenheim & Co. denated a turkey; Miss Hawes of the Emma Ransom House sent donations of Chistroe lacking. cake and bread: Mrs. Tennings donated 3 large pic. 4 A few lodges answered our ap- peals, also the Virginia Circle, No. 1, Mrs. Josephine Holmes-Pracier (deceased), president: Mrs May- field. vice president The home was generously re- membered hy the Eveready Club for their Christmas dinnzr and many groceries. fruit and candy. Alderman-elect Fred R. Moore. Miss. Wade of the Calvary Church Mission, “and Miss Althea Rochon, distributed the glits of Christmas jay. The girls had useful gifts, including a copy of Kathieen| Norris's well-known story. “Moth- sr.” Mr. Moore autographed each book, The Calvary branch of Churdi Mission, and Ifealth gave Christa mas. bags, Gowers and writing- piper Deaconess Young contrib: ed clothing fur the girls an? yabies. Miss Elaine Tancel gave sits “to the babies. Miss Geneva Lisby .gave gifts to the girls. Mrs. Thoms-Smith and Mrs. Willard Parker sent. candy. The airls| wave, a: interceting talk. - | -} ‘Attornay::J. Douglas); Witmore di 1400 Broadway sent a Christm <The dinner consisted, of | frai cup, chicken soup, roast tager scalloped oysters, candied -siveet poraloes,: pead ‘turnips, cranberry jelly, salad, plum _ pudding, } hot rolls and butter,j nuts, candy, pick- les, olives and coffee. « Ice-gream and cake was" served in.the even: ing.’ The girly had 2 merry and cheerful Christmas and enjoyed piano playing and the radjo. The management. is grateful ‘to everyone who made it possible for the girls to have such a bountiful Christmas, an dalso -thanks .every- one who in anyway has contrib- uted “to the financial, social or- re- ligious welfare of the Home dur- ing\ tee year of 197. i Among donors to the’ Christmas fund of the . Citizen's: Christmas Cheer Committee, Inc... are: The Grand [Lodge of Masons, Hiram Lodge” the Star of Wenus Club, Mrs, W. B, Brown, | Cornerstone Lodge. Widow Sune Chapter, Har. riet," Martineau Household of Ruth Sons and Daughters of North Carolina, Harry Wyin and Alder: man J. C. Hawkins. Names ‘for the 350 baskets dis. tributed by this organization were secured from such socjal service agencies as the New York Urban League. the Henry Street Setthe- ment, the Harlem ‘Hospital, the Linfoln Hospital and the Charity Organization Society. Baskets’ con: tained a four pound fowl, onions tamips, potatoes, tice, candy, su: gar. two loaves of bread, two can: of vegetables and tors far, th children. « * Officers of CBeer Committee . Officers of the Citirehs Christ: mas Cheer Committee, Inc, oF ‘Mamie L. Briggs. chairman: Bertha P. Mills. vice chairman ;Clarc Janet “Hart,” recordirig secretary: Harriet Waller, fiiangial secre: tary: Cassandra Jackson, -vorre: sponding secretary: . Narcisaus Tumer, treasurer; Maud: H. Fer- guson, asst. treasurer: Lillian Stewart, chaplain: and Ethel White director of publicity. | Executive boar Clare M. Tousley, Mary E, Downs. Katherine 7.. Whipple, Alta Dies, Dr. Leo Fitz Nearon, Dr. James L. Wilson, Withelmina Rothermumd, RN. James H. Hu- bert, Lovise J. Kicber, John D. Hadwin, L. Hollingsworth Wood, Mary McManus and Alderman Fred R., Moore and John C Hav- kins Z “ Chrerful Chanty Chub The Cheer) Charny Contirrbu. tors Club played Santa Claus +o 100 fittlé children at their herd quarters in the Urban League building Monday. December 26. Woolen socks, gloves, dolls, me- chanical -toys, rubber falls and game sets were among the articles given the children. Mouey for the toys was secured through a cam~ paiagn conducted in the theatres of Harlem~ Mrs. Dolores Coles- Moran & presiderg of the chi, and the other officers are Miss Gladys Matthews. voce president , Miss Gwendalyn Deaghr, record- ing secretary: Beatrice {Madison. reasurer: Mrs. Cassandra Butler: financial secretary: and Rosella Tyler. sergeant-at-arms. The pastor and officers of Beth- A.M. E. Church, the Rev. H K. Spearman, pastor, distributed $200 to’ needy menthers of that hures. And the Missionary So- ety of this church, Mrs. M.A. Hopkins. residents “ifive ihskets o cightcen old familics, and also 18 in casi, There were also sev ral private donations hy Rev and firs. Spearman, Edwin Smalls Gave $200. Edwin Smalls, proprietor - of| ‘malls’ cabaret, was another Har- emite who did-a lot to aid the oor and uofortunate during. the ‘uletide. He donated ,the use. of 2, eulianes in dhe Mines Stas wT AGTEYOW ranarT THE ALLEN HOUS] - 11% West 135th Stréet sen Gone a fom bate Sets Cee rom tcaaune ee i ae The Laws Heuse = ‘Phese $908 Chekesh 7 vice Mae Selomactetins tor Peres a West 20h SL Ben Tih Bb Ow Ae, Frank Byron Ends 26, ears: As Clerk OF Naval House Committe Washington, D. C2 (ANP.~Twieh- ty-tix, years of service with one’ of the’ rhost .important “committees in the House of : Representatives -is tho record which “Frank. A. Byroo, Jerk of the House naval .committee has achieved.” Mr, Byron is the. only Negro office, of ‘that’ rank.” , = He' began service ‘with thy com- mittee in’ 1901 during’.the S6th Con- gress | when’ Representative” George Edmiind “Foss of Ilinois * was’ the chairman, « The sucGeding ‘chairmen were Representatives -L, P, Padgett of Tennessee, and Thomas_S. Butler of Pennsylvania, néw serving. Mr. Byron became assistant’ clerk” under Ghirhian Butler, in’-the “66th Con- gress and was prompted ‘to ‘commit- tee clerkship in- the + 67th » Congress. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Harris Give Dansante Ip Honor of Daughter, Ethel Olivia Mr, and’ Mrs. Herbert Harris en: tertained at a ‘dansante in honor of their, daughter; Ethel Olivia ‘Hargis, Monday: -evening,-- Decem- ber, 26, at the Utopiay Neighbor- hood Club, West 130th street. Dancing was enjoyed from nine to two & mi. to the music of Clar- ence Proptet and his , orchestra. “The hostess was assisted in te- ceiving by the Misses Elsie Hun’ ter, Sadella Ten ~ Fyck, Carlotta Branch, Beatrice Roberts " and Lorraine Braddicks. ; Among those’ present were Mr. and Mrs. James Abrams, Dr. and Mrs..Peyion F. Anderson, Mr. end Mrs. W. C. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Barrow. Mr. and Mre “R. P. Braddicks,- Mr. and Mri Theodore’ Daniels; Mr. and Mrs. H. Bouche: Day. Mr. and Mrs Veon DeKalb, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Christopher J. Dudey Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Funn, Mr. and . Mrs. Cohen Johnston.” Mr. and Mrs, Charles Johnson, Mr, and Mrs. M. PA MeNichols, Mr and Mise I P. Ottley. Mr. snd) Mrs. Prank Ryan, Dr. and) Mrs. Charles H Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Rob- certs, Dr and Mrs. Albert S. Reed, Mr. and Mrs, Daniel Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Walton, Mr ard Mrs. Ludlow’ E..Werner, Mre, Mattie Armstead, Mrs. Marian Daniels. * Misces Marguerite Abrams, Viv- ian Raber, Edna Burge. Mary Céleman, Helen” Conk, * Dorothy Embry. Lillian Byelyn, Velma Gadsen, Efizabets Handy.. Elsie Hunter. Anna Jones. Adele Jones, Louise and Myra Logan. Olivette Miller, Gertrude Martin, Mac Ott- ley. Hortense Toyas, Alvista , Pat- ton, Anna Smali. Elvester Slagle, Nina Shervington. Marguerite Slavgh- ter, Adelaide King, Muriel Kel- tore, Dorothy Spraggins, Sadella Ten’ Eyck, Katherine Thompson. Helen and Kathleen Vogelsang. Helen Wilson. Bernece Wilson, Thel- ma Whittaker, Agnes Young. Thel- ma Yancy. Mune! Kellogg, Hermine Brown. Coral Lowe, Rac Olley. James “Abrams, Howard _ Archer, Robert Anthouy. ‘Frederick Bestman, B. R. Brazil, Charles Brown. Wil- iam Carson, Leon DeKalb,. William Fisher. Benjamin Finley. “Benjarvin Garner. Herbert Goodwin, George Gregory, Quinton Hands,” William HYandy. © Ulubert Jackson, Richard] Jackson, Malcolm Johnston, Norman Jedinson, Eugene K. Jones jr. Ar- ihur Logan, John and Thomas Mfose- ley, Frank Montero, Charles Moore, jr. Emory and Gus Moore, Robert McNichols, Alston McNichols, James Murphy, Roy and Jimmie ‘Ottley, Horace Porter, Robert Payne, Wil- ee — | Hotel D emaaaaisean | oe - ad 2 E | aa a | i a I; a & mi 7 ! i Va Fi 4 ro 1 | a an | ; | na i | a, | —— | —— cl | HIGHEST IN SERVICE “LOWEST. IN PRICE | 205 West 135th Street | AT. SEVENTH AVENUE Singles, $1.25‘ and. up per night. Doubles, $2 and up per night. Our Wonderfal Dining | Room canbe leased for a ; number of years, JwakniNc To‘ WOMEN: »WITH ROOMS TO RENT. Co ees ‘Woinen, with apariments 01 houses, who have:rooms to rent, lareswarned to be careful as to! lwhom.they rent rooms to, as in| any cases police officers have! wttool” pigeons” to rent! looms and then raided .the| homes, making arrests of ‘the! lwomen on charges of prostitu,| Ition, ..Many, . such cases -ha Ibsen in Jefferson Market Court} jrecently, ard innocent, unsus. pecking ‘women have ‘been sent io Welfare Islad Workhouse asl jaresalt. : t » DEMAND REFERENCES) JALWAYS, and use care in “ind-! Hing.out something about pros! lpective roomers’ Be careful)! , ins contacts and. apsocia-| tions, with applicants for rooms) ssa i opments fot ero liams ‘Payne, Adam Powell, Myles ‘A.. Paige, Norman Rowan, ’ Gordon Roberts, Robert Gorham, *K. L. Bright, Eitel and Oren Riley, Ray- mond ‘Small,’ Milton Small, “Everett Stone, William Stone, | William Smith, Milton Tucker, George Tay- lor, Leslie Wainright, Rolfe’ Daniels, Grayson and Osborn: Walker, Ludlow 1. Whener, ‘Richand iensail. ‘Testimonial Reception. . - Given To’ Judge Davies | Wednesday morning, December 28, a group of “representative citi- zens" tendered a testimonial recep- tion to ,Jidge’ John’ R. “Davies at ‘the Seveniis’ District Murpiciptt ‘Cours, in recognition di his com- pletion of twenty years’ service on the Municipal’ Bench. ra Attorney, Jutins’ D. ‘Tobias was chairman of the reception commit: tee, and the pringipal address was delivered by Dr.” Nicholas .Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. Dri Butler phaised Judge Davies for his splendid te- fal mind, his fairness and the dig- nity which he had brougt> to the Municipal Bench doring his years of service for the poorer people of the city. | A number of attorneys who prac- tic in this court also spoke, as did Alderman-clect Fred R. Moore and otlter representative ciffzeng, » Judge Davies was defeated for reelection fast fall and will return to private life on January 2. Rey. S. B. Turner Dies - _ + At Elizabeth, N. J Ehzabeth, N. J.—The funeral o} Rev, Sebastian D, Turner, pasto of Siloam Presbyterian Church vice-president of the Union County Sunday school association and 7 member of the Elizabeth Presby tery, who died at his home, 1123 Dickinson street, was held Satir- day afternoon, Decemer 17, from Siloam Church, The body was in cinerated at the New York and New Jersey Crematory in North Bergen. Some time ago, Rey. Tumer un: derwent an operation for ‘internal disorders and was recovering, un- til other complications developed Rorn in Lynchubrg, Va, a son of the late David and Patricia Turner, he passed most of his life in the North. He was educated at Bos- ton College and later at Lay Col- lege, Revere, Macs He studied for the ministry at Howard Uni- versity, and had pastored at Siloam for the past eight years. “He, was actively affliated with the Eliza- beth Lodge, I. B. P.O. E,W. During the World War, Rev. Turner was in the Y: M,C. A. ser- vice as a chaplain for the.,Negro troops for mare than a year and a half at Cap Upton and Camp Mer- rit. Before pastoring in Elizabeth, Rev. Turner had for twenty years been pastor of the Lincoln Con- gregation Church in Brockton, Mass. The playground, the Siloam ter, a troop of Boy Scouts were cer, 2 troop of Boy SScouts were all established by the late pastor, The deceased is survived by a wife, Mis. Ruth ~Wells Turner, and a-son, Otis Turner, + GIRLS, GOOD HEALTH MAKES YOU b ATTRACTIVE. fa) |TO.MEN fe — 2 Eyes, o Resy oe ee jou 7 | Make | (Ps a Woman Nes angi ’ Rx . Take a bottle or cat f Torval Tones De Blorce'e. Favorite Prescription i Te Improve Your Health All Druggtate See. page 8 for Special Subscrip- tloh Offer. The New York Age will’ give ‘a_ Webster's .College, Home -and Office Dictionary on each two year's subscription’ sent direct. ACT NOW, THE TIME 1s LIMITD, ‘aa | December 22 to. December 31. “4% TH 221% NE 10% 10 333° OFF. | ON ENTIRE STOCK = | Fad Tbe © $225 |) Dining Suits ©... $100 library Tables. . . $7.50]/| Bedroom Saits . . . $100 | Occasional Tables . $7.50}]] Living Suites... $125 a . “aotllpa cries $2.50) s am ) Odd Chairs»... . $15.00 | Scooters mad aa Lams... $375 | Velosepedes =. _ |The Home of Quality Furie for the Baler Grade Home ) | pies . IN SS | ay. “Dependable Famitre =. | "8 to-14 WEST 125th STREET ——» | Girls Best Boys In - State Ind’l College Savannah, Ga—Mayor Thomas N. Hoynes of Savanhah presented prizes of $5 and $2.50 in gold ‘to Miss, Lillian’ Young of the {resh- man college “class and Miss ‘Ida Cooper of’ the senior high sctioo class, respectively, Mxse young ladies saving been adjudged the best -and second, best spellers” in the college. 0° 7 ov det The, elimination ~ contests,» « in which all of' the, four tundred:, stu: ‘dents inthe ‘institution ‘participat- cd, were held on Monday, Wed: nesday ‘and Friday “of ‘ fast - week, |At this time, they five:"best+ spell férsin the preparatary, -high .schoo! and college departmends, . respect: ively, were selected. It is.'a sige nificant fact that of the five’ se- lected “from the college departs ment, four were members of the frefiman college .class and only one was a girl. . Feeling among the studest body was high on last Wednesday when the fifteen contestants filed to the rostrum for the final match amid the cheers of their schootmates When at last Miss Ida Cooper o! the senior high school class stum- bled upon her word which in turr was spelled by Miss Lillian Yount of the freshman ‘college class, gen- eral pandemonium ensued: The freshman class was especially joy. ous’ and for some-time, there was a contest. between ’ rival cheer leaders. ‘At the conclusion of the presene Eagle Brand hes releed mere healthy babies than all ether infant fosde combiasd. Benlens *" CONDENSED MILK > aa Audubon 9697 Ground Floor Mme. ANNA LONG. Hairdressing, Manicurnig and » Facial Massage PORO SYSTEM System Taught and Diplomas » Awarded 68 Edgecombe Ave. New York City | CONGRESSMAN *, | : GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM . Of Massachusetts - * | Champion of a Bill to reduce Southern Repre- | sentation in Congress because of the Disfran-— | chisement of the Negro: eg | WILL, ADDRESS THE * | ANNUAL MASS MEETING , -_ Of The National Association for.the ‘| - ~ Advancement. of Colored People ~ | Sunday, Jamary 8th, 1928—3 p. m. '* MOTHER A. ME ZION CHURCH =f [. 140 West 137th Street gt | DR. W. E B. DUBOIS yo EDITOR OF THE CRISIS * | Will speak on “The Negro Vote and the N. A. " ‘A.C. P, ‘ : : ' | ADMISSION FREE © ariucCQ8E TAB os tation .cxercide’ on -last Wednesday, : card to Miss. Young from her classmiates: was read’ from the ros: tram, saying, “Dear. (Miss Young, Santa Claus will be “around to see you tofnorrow night." Signed, Freshman ‘Boys, Miss, Young, who was ‘the yaledictorian’ of the June high school, class, is the only girl in the freshman lis of twenty: one. -« . 2 Racés Relations Sunday « “Pamphlets Now Ready +The annyat observance of Race Relations) Sunday--the sixth since its inception in 1923—Wwilb take place next, year on February 12, when thousands of — elhuriRes, Sunda} schools, Y, M. Cl A's, young. peo- ple's societies, ant other religious group will focus’ their attention on the problems of the race, + Especial” emphasis will be lid this year on penitence and prayer for the complete suppression of lynchitig: seu mob’ violence in "Abs ea " ne oe "Pamphlets on the’ subject may a without charge from the mission ‘on Inter-racial Cooperating 1409 Malmer Building, etontan , a, geeestbee wx Fihly Children Given “3 [a aa | Christmas Party Tuesda «Eighty: chitdren of the smu ere guests at af Qhristmas part Riven “by ghej Harlem Tubereulosi and -jlealth ” Conmnittee, 22 ' Wei Voth street. ‘Tededayazternosi December 27. They piaved game scent al huge Christines treet’ sped dally inmned for [seer 4 the end’ af “the afternoon, reiredl ments donated by Dr. A. 7." Robi son and De, +Henry Q, Jlarding chairman of the Harlem cnn werg ‘served, < The affair was the annual Christ mas party given by the Harlent mittee to children of the neight hood, as part of its program Serve the community, Mrs. MG Dovle Keaton, BN. is the es ca ‘kebpaueor THE NEW YORK AGE Saturday, December 31, 1927 VQL. 41. No. 16. ING DOWN TO FACTS. annual process of taking stock assets and liabilities, the Fact Conference held at Durham, N. an important part. Although conference of its kind, its prime being to ascertain facts, its were based on reliable statistics, and discussed by trained minds getting at the pith of things. A. Walton put it, in writing conference for the Sunday some of the best brains within for three days discussed the business, political, social, hy-educational status of the Nermerica." section of the country was repand every shade of opinion, extra conservative to the radiise reactionary, with all the vars of old and new thinking in between. As a sample of the elements brought together, a stronghold of Negro financiers, might be instanced the representative voices; Dr. W. Boois who stressed politics as best influence in future race de; A. Philip Randolph, noted as state of Socialism and an organor, emphasized the importance nic progress; Dr. Roscoe C. Curt forth the vital necessity of living and sanitary surrounders urged the education of protection of infancy and the of the power of the press to aid these objects. g on the topic of Fraternal W. G. Pearson of the Royal King David reported that the assets of Negro societies, of throughout the country amount nine million dollars, or, somewhat one dollar per capita for population. Six of these national with 269,455 members have three and a half million dollars, holding, president of the North Mutual Insurance Company, at the total insurance carried in, in white and colored commuted to $1,025,000,000. Of twenty-eight companies operated race carried $243,534,500, with assets of over ten million. This establishes the insurance as the largest and most successful undertaking by the race, banking business various estates been made as to the number existence, it having fluctuated as reasons. At this conference and that there were but thirty-s and commercial banks managed by the race. The assets of these institutions on 927, amounted to over fifteen dollars. The greatest opportunitye banks for usefulness was the guidance and financing of business enterprises by and within so as to develop trade and commil this is accomplished and able commercial system establist of these institutions musted as savings depositories unlimited power to assist in home the subjects of home ownership, mortality and causes of dis- discussed by authorities on- acts, it was significant that the und- financial development of was stressed as the most im- inctor in promoting its general While the greatest progressing the year appeared to be vital nature, it is manifest that a well rounded development press must be made in other The right to earn a living be prevailing rate is one of the to economic development. To, it is often necessary to en- the banner of union labor, necessity to form or secure in labor organizations. to home ownership and the of public improvements nec- tary surroundings are of- ten dependent upon the use of the ballot. A citizen who cannot vote cannot secure these benefits, hence the necessity for political activity. All the rights and privileges for which the race is contending are interdependent. The acquisition of one helps to the gaining of another. The Fact Finding Conference marked a calm dispassionate estimate of the material advancement made by the race along certain lines and the means whereby the agencies created could be utilized for further development. It also indicated the directions in which that development is most needed. It marked the fusion of the appeal of the agitators for human rights with the work of the planners and builders for economic progress. Such a combination should be fruitful in results. It is a sign of progress for the New Year when representatives of such different schools of thought can meet and confer upon a common object—the advancement of the race. IN THE FOREIGN LEGION. That military organization known as the French Foreign Legion has figured as the last resort of reckless expatriates in many tales of romance and adventure. It was perhaps first impressed upon the novel reading public by that once popular and prolific writer who wrote under the nom de plume of Ouida, in her stirring romance, "Under Two Flags," thirty or forty years ago. More recently in "Beau Geste," the book and film renewed the story of this famous organization engaged in fighting the colonial wars of France in the African desert. To the pages of fiction, some facts have been added in the story told by Bennett J. Doty, an American soldier who deserted from the Legion, but was recaptured, imprisoned and finally released through the clemency of the French government. what military organization known to the French Foreign Legion has fighter the last resort of reckless expatriation, many tales of romance and adventure was perhaps first impressed upon the reading public by that once proud and prolific writer who wrote in him de plume of Ouida, in her long romance, "Under Two Flags," for forty years ago. More recently, Bau Geste," the book and film, saved the story of this famous organization engaged in fighting the colonies of France in the African deserts of France in the African deserts of fiction, some facts are added in the story told by Ben Doty, an American soldier who lived from the Legion, but was imprisoned and finally released through the clemency of the French Government. Doty is a white Southerner born in Alabama twenty-seven years ago, lived in the World War and after developed a taste for adventure. He lived in the Legion at Bordeaux in a year in Syria, and then, after it, just got tired and walked out at an interesting bit of his story, situated in the New York World, fact that the first man to greet this entrance into the guard room arrival at Oran, Algeria, was aanna Negro. But let him tell the extent in his own words: I entered the guardroom and present papers to the Sergeant in charge, a Frenchman with fierce unruneous noticing in my papers, "nationality of man" he remarked, "There is another Call Phillips." Down the stairs came a big, black "White folks," he exclaimed, "has joined up? Come along on this trip with whom we mention Phillips whose name is Charles, ask me up to the sleeping room he remarked, "There is another Call Phillips." Down the stairs came a big, black "White folks," he exclaimed, "has joined up? Come along on this trip with whom we mention Phillips whose name is Charles, ask me up to the sleeping room he remarked, "There is another Call Phillips." Down the stairs came a big, black "White folks," he exclaimed, "has joined up? Come along on this trip with whom we mention Phillips whose name is Charles, ask me up to the sleeping room he remarked, "There is another Call Phillips." There are always some American Legion, according to Doty, and mentioned men from Texas, Iowa, northern New York, whom he met but these were all white. Phipps to have been the only American that he encountered as a part of this famous body of fighters incident illustrates the ubiquity the American Negro in making his own all parts of the world and establishing himself as an integral part of the organization as the French Foreign Legion. The story of Phillips' experience and after joining the Legion is probably add to a colorful chapter, pages of Adventure. Doty is a white Southerner born in Alabama twenty-seven years ago, who served in the World War and afterward developed a taste for adventure. He enlisted in the Legion at Bordeaux in 1925, served a year in Syria, and then, as he put it," just got tired and walked off." But an interesting bit of his story, as printed in the New York World, was the fact that the first man to greet him on his entrance into the guard room on his arrival at Oran, Algeria, was a California Negro. But let him tell the incident in his own words: I entered the guardroom and presented my papers to the Sergeant in charge, a little frightened with three upturned moustaches. Noticing in my papers, "nationality American" he remarked, "There is another here. Call Phillip!" Down the stairs came a big, black boy. "White folks," he exclaimed, "has you joined up?" Come along and I'll fix you up." Whereupon Phillips, whose first name is Charles, took me up to the sleeping quarters and got me a break. For the next two or three days he saw I got enough to eat and he was my official interpreter. I knew no French, I picked it up as I saw I never knew English. He taught Phillips to肩肩 from California, I believe, and then had served about four years and a half in the legion, in which he was acting as a railway station guard. There are always some Americans in the Legion, according to Dotty, and he mentioned men from Texas, Iowa and Northern New York, whom he met later, but these were all white. Phillips appears to have been the only colored American that he encountered as a member of this famous body of fighters. This incident illustrates the ubiquity of the American Negro in making his way into all parts of the world and establishing himself as an integral part of such an organization as the French Foreign Legion. The story of Phillips' experiences before and after joining the Legion would probably add to a colorful chapter, to the pages of Adventure. BACK SEAT LICENSES. That was an amusing story told bek of the "back seat" license two confidence operators in N a confiding chauffeur who con- could not read. The card for gave three genuine hard dollars the bearer is hereby entitled to on the back seat during the year was signed, "I. Woryem, Commi- of. Byways." Of course this s That was an amusing story told last week of the "back seat" license issued by two confidence operators in Newark to a confiding chauffeur who confessed he could not read. The card for which he gave three genuine hard dollars said: "The bearer is hereby entitled to drive from the back seat during the year 1927." It was signed, "I. Woryem, Commissioner of. Byways." Of course this sounds more like the invention of some waggish reporter, than the record of an actual proceeding, in court, although the name of the judge was given as mercifully suspending sentence on the holder of this original license. Nevertheless, there is the germ of a valuable idea conveyed in this news item, genuine or invented. Although this license was a fraud on the purchaser, who parted with his good money for the privilege of actually driving a car there is a class of back seat drivers who should be compelled to take out licenses, to exercise their disconcerting activities. If these individuals were required to pay a fee and pass all oral test as a preliminary to harrassing the actual driver, their number might be lessened and the public treasury enriched to a slight extent. Most drivers can testify to the annoyance and irritation engendered by the vocal criticisms and directions of the back seat driver. Many a strong man has been moved to tears or profanity by the well-meant but ill-timed objurgations of the partner of his joys and sorrows over his skill in averting collisions or avoiding pedestrians. The restraining effect of having to secure a back seat license before directing the driver how he shall turn or the rate of speed he shall go, might mitigate the woes of many an amateur at the wheel. Even an occasional divorce might be traced to its beginning on the back seat. It is not given to all of us to attain the equanimity of the parent on the back seat, who when his hopeful offspring collided with another car, calmly inquired if they had dropped something when they stopped and sprinted after the other driver. He merely stepped to the sidewalk and regarded the deserted car pensively, until they returned with the name and address of the party of the second part. A back seat license with appropriate penalties for false alarms, would prove a priceless boon to those drivers who are not yet hardboiled. It would also tend to the preservation of matrimonial felicity. FORTY YEARS A PRIEST. The celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the ordination of Monsignor Thomas M. O'Keefe to the priesthood directed attention to the steady progress of the work of the Roman Catholic Church among the race in New York City. The establishment of the Church of St. Benedict the Moor on Bleecker street was the result of the religious interest of such friends as the late Father Burtsell and Dr. McGlynn. Under the energetic efforts of the late Father John E. Burke as pastor, the work grew and prospered. When Monsignor Burke was made director of Colored Missions, Father O'Keefe was his logical successor. The celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the ordination of Monsignor Thomas M. O'Keefe to the priesthood, directed attention to the steady progress in the work of the Roman Catholic church among the race in New York. The establishment of the Church St. Benedict the Moor on Bleeckett was the result of the religious rest of such friends as the late Father Parsell and Dr. McGlynh. Under the energetic efforts of the late Father John Burke as pastor, the work grew, as observed. When Monsignor Burke was made director of Colored Missions, Father O'Keefe was his logical successor. For forty years Monsignor O'Keefe is dressed among the race in New York as assistant and then as pastor of Benedict's. He started a day school connection with his church work a two years ago opened a modern nursery under the supervision of three color centers with accommodations for one hundred children. His service at race has been rendered without regard to denomination. During this the mother congregation of colored Cars has been established in Harlem on in Brooklyn. The rank of Monsignor was bestowed on Father O'Keefe four years ago, mark of appreciation by the Pope zeal of the Colored Catholics of New York, as well as a recognition of theitorious work of Father O'Keefe who know of his work among people agree that the tribute was worth conferred. For forty years Monsignor O'Keefe has labored among, the race in New York, first as assistant and then as pastor of St. Benedict's. He started a day school in connection with his church work and two years ago opened a modern nursery under the supervision, of three colored Sisters with accommodations for over one hundred children. His service to the race has been rendered without regard to denomination. During this time another congregation of colored Catholics has been established in Harlem and one in Brooklyn. The rank of Monsignor was bestowed upon Father O'Keefe four years ago as a mark of appreciation by the Pope of the zeal of the Colored Catholics of New York, as well as a recognition of the meritorious work of Father O'Keefe. Those who know of his work among our people agree that the tribute was worthily conferred LIQUOR IN THE HOLIDAYS. As an index to the extent of prob- lem enforcement during the holiday of 1928, it was officially denied assistant Secretary of the Treasury S our Lowman that New York O should be allowed to run "high, wide As an index to the extent of prohibition enforcement during the holiday season of 1928, it was officially denied by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman that New York City would be allowed to run "high, wide and open." What the report failed to state, according to the Prohibition chief, was that there are some three thousand night clubs in New York and ten enforcement agents, Mr. Lowman defined a difference in the two reports, but practically they meant the same thing. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran, however, had previously thrown a bomb into the ranks of the careful drinkers, who like to have their liquor analyzed for poisonous ingredients before tasting. As a message of Christmas cheer, he warned the chemists making such tests that they were in danger of losing their alcohol permits, unless they confined their tests to samples submitted by druggists and others who could prove that they obtained the liquor in a lawful manner. This measure would work to the advantage of the unscrupulous bootlegger, who diverts denatured alcohol to furnish his stock of guaranteed pre-war goods. A paternal government does not propose to afford protection to the bootlegger's customers, even to save them from poisoning. Despite this measure of 'discouragement to the holiday trade, the supply was reported equal to the demand, though varying greatly in prices and quality. The greater part of the liquor sold was of the synthetic gin type, compounded from denatured alcohol, with the denaturing chemicals more or less carefully extracted by re-distilling processes. A better grade of liquor at higher prices consisted of what had once been real whiskey, rye or scotch, cut and reduced so as to afford a greater profit. Despite the danger of absorbing deleterious compounds in all of these beverages, the casual drinker took a chance on anything offered in the line of liquid refreshment. Prohibition arguments as to the evil effect of drinking, even in moderation, were given a jolt at a meeting of the Medical Association of New York last week. Dr. Charles R. Stockard, professor of anatomy at Cornell University, declared that moderate drinking is not harmful to health and longevity, but a positive benefit. He explained that alcohol consumed by a moderate drinker increases resistance to disease, and taken after the age of thirty has no effect on the length of life. Excessive consumption of alcohol was admittedly dang- WEEKLY NOTES FROM INDIA By The Age Special Correspondent Raco Prejudice In Kenya: It has now appeared in the press that the Indian member of the Government of India's deputation to East Africa has been taken on a provoking and calculated insult by some of the whites of that colony. Mr. Ewbank, it would appear, wanted to arrange accommodation for his colleague, Kunwar Maharaj Singh, in a European hotel. But the hotel management refused to admit him as he was an Indian and in the end Kunwar Maharaj was accommodated at the residence of Mr. Montgomery, the Provincial Commissioner of Monbassa. The Indian community is said to have strongly resented this insult to one of their countrymen, a representative of the Government. The Indian resident has to have requested Kunwar Maharaj to be the guest of one of themselves and, in case he did not comply with the request, threatened to boycott the deputation. regards land defences oracle idea among the Reformists in England on the carrying out scheme of Army which mechanization to play a large part, objection to all this, expected to for it!! Practical Sympathy The international social co-operative movement low-feeling that it denied in the special part of the floodtie the part of the 'Cen cow. This body calls Union of Consul Moscow, has sent, the Beneaf of Fiction in the Soviet Fiction in the Honorary operative Institute, sum has been sent Wintertonan Arrogance The Labor members who supported Mr. Sakalatva's amendment to the Statutory Commission tilt in the House of Commons (London) were thoroughly justified in protesting against studiously discontentous manner in which real Winston replied to the passionate and eloquent plea by the only Indian member at Parliament who on behalf of his councillor, Mr. Sakalatva, should not be appointed until the Legislative Assembly in India had agreed to the resolution approving the appointment. Lord Birkenbæll's gramphone in the Commons (Earl Winterson, the Under-Secretary of State for India) had the逸事 to run down gry Sakalvalata as a perog of no consequence, a man who only spoke for himself and was 'repudiated by every, responsible organisation' in India. Such a reckless and misuse of power from souls like Lord Winterson's friends of the "Gentlemen Party" who are always anxious to teach the Laborite numbers. The idea that Mr. Sakalvalata was a person of no consequence in India was promptly laughed out of court by the Labor members, who reminded the willfully dense Under-Secretary of State that at least nine cities in India, which had refused officially to welcome the person presented addresses to Mr. Sakalvalata, had his visit But this of course will not prevent the Tories from propagating lies about him. Mr. Soratt Acquitted Mr. Phillip Spratt, who was charged under 124A of the Indian Penal Code for writing the pamphlet of "India and China," was tried by the jury and was found NOT GUILTY (of spreading hatred against the Government, established by law in India) by 8 to 1. The Military Commission Even before the Simon Seve (members of the Statutory Commission) come to India and begin their canestine research into the "intensity of this country for self-government, we are to have a vacation from a minor worshipper at the feet of British imperialism. Sir Laird Worthington Evans, the Secretary of State for War, is hardly a person to count with in British politics, but he is a useful member of what Mr. Baldwin recently called his "menagerie." It was rumored for a long time that he was anxious to pay a visit to the North Western Indian frontier to see, for himself, how far the new orientation of the policy of imperial defence could be translated into practice in India, course, at the expense of India tax payers. A cardinal principle in this policy is that measures for strengthening the military and naval defences of the Empire must be taken more. India and U. S. Far East than Europe. The War Office experts have convinced themselves that the danger to the Empire, in the form of an aggressive and violent onlaught upon it, will come from the North West and possibly also from the North Eastern frontier of India, so far as land attacks are concerned, while on the sea, the Pacific will become the cockpit of naval engagements. The Singapore Naval Base is, therefore, being constructed at the expense of millions of pounds, a proceeding which has excited the fire of British tax-payers who has to foot the bill. groups: The methods of lumping insurance statistics to include heavy drinkers with the moderate ones had led to the conclusion that abstainers had a better chance of life and health. This may be comforting to the moderate drinkers, but we fear the professor did not mean it to apply to the brand furnished by the average bootlegger. Laboratory experiments, upon which these conclusions were based, demand the utmost purity in the alcohol and liquor employed. The five thousand guinea pigs that figured in the Cornell professor's experiments, were not treated to the bootlegger's brand. The advantage is still on the side of the abstainer, as he escapes the risk of absorbing benzol, pyradin, methyl alcohol, or other deadly chemicals. regards land defences, the most favorable idea among the War Office Reformists in England is to insist on the carrying out a thorough scheme of Army re-organization, in which mechanization of the army is to play a large part, and there is no expectation that India will be expected to for it! Practical Sympathy From Russia The international solidarity of the co-operative movement and the fellow-feeling that it evokes are evidenced in the splendid practical sympathy for flood-streaked Gujarat on the part of the "Centrosoyus," Moscow. This body called the Central Union of "Consumer's Societies, Moscow, has sent, through the chief of the Bureau of Foreign Co-operation in the Soviet Republic, a sum of five hundred pounds (about $2,000) to the Honorary Secretary, Cooperative Institute, Bomlay. The sum has been sent for the "relief of the population which has suffered from floods" and the International Cooperative Alliance, through which the Indian appeal for floods reached Moscow, intends collecting further contributions for the same purpose from foreign parts. The twelve million workers and peasants united in the consumers' cooperative movement or the U.S. Sector of the Indian sufferers from the recent flood calamity for this timely relief. It should not be forgotten in mention that Rev. John Haines Homes Editor of "Units," New York City U.S.A., also sent a collection of $100 to the Global flood relief fund. Some time back The Times of India (Bombay) had leaked articles unedited a plot() to take the life of the Governor of Bombay, in which all the blood-crazing lies beating (re)vocation traces (would be counter and deprived corporate against officers and the Governor of Bombay) And why was it one or the tactics of de jardin nomination to blackmail India. The Associated Press, of India,印度的 into the matter and is officially informed that that is not a good truth in the art of the times. The object of the writings in this mischievous practice can only be to prejudice Britain against India in this apertive moment in the cruel march of British Imperialism. Lardie details of the plot must have been cabled to Great Britain and political monogues must have sucked up this dirt to spread over a still larger field the poison of hatred of India and the necessity of depriving her self-government. Republican Leader Sentenced To Four Years Imprisonment General Awari, as is generally known who headed the passive resistance movement of breaking the Arms Act is sentenced to four years imprisonment. In his spiritful written statement before the Court he challenged the right of the British Government to try him, as the hands of the Government are red with the blood of detenues, some of whom are already dead. Mr. Awari belongs to, the clan of non-violence and in spite of his carrying arms and swords he has hastil the time of going; to jail preacher the audience to remain non-violent in spite of the provocations. He is carrying on a hunger strike, and taking water. What he wants is his freedom or release but his Sword by his side. India if she produces at least a few of the generals like Awari, the doors of freedom for her would open by themselves Post Men's Flight The postman in India is an extraordinary creature, said Mr. Jaat a Conference in Belgium, for he does not prefer to become a brick-layer or a dock worker. He has to bother with two scripts of languages, furnishing securities, from for being a minister government has the whole treasury for being a postman. The government has the whole treasury for the promotion of the higher officials, but when the question for the postman comes, the financial position of their getting even a penin of their getting even a penin of the Indian postman does not get one fifth of what his brother postman in England gets. Enjoys Hogan's Column Editor of The New York Age Allow me to take this occasion Plot!!! According to the American Baptist the attempt to dislance voters at the Loyola election surpassed anything previous in brutality. It said: While the brutal and inhuman treatment witen attorneys of our group surrender in the attempt to discontinue voting in this city by the police during the recent election, was very extensive, still it was worse than many supposed. Those who were responsible for it are being apprehended and many of them have been indicted and arranged before the Circuit Court. The November Grand Jury investigated numbers of these cases and returned many indictments and in its final report to the Court recommended that the December Grand Jury continue the investigation. Judge Burgevin in his charge to the December Grand Jury called attention again to this important question and indicated that individuals higher up were perhaps more responsible for the acts than some who had been indicted and that they should be sought and punished. If those higher up could be held responsible tor such abuses of authority, it would do more to discourage such methods than the punishment of their tools. Discussing the matter of proscriptive legislation, the Washington Tribune said: Our statue books, State and National, are loaded with acts making distinction of race. As though once was not already enough of this sort thing, Senator Isaac of South Carolina, has introduced a bill in the present to Congress calling for automakers for white people and for colored people, and forbidding intermarriage of white people and colored people in the District of Columbia. It will be recalled that this same senator offered his services as a lawyer to defense Aiken County, South Carolina, against a proposed action for damages for injuring the Lomans, a most arrogous case of human slaughter. Many will say, "Oh, well, what's the use of bothering about Breese? What else could you expect of him?" Only I beasele and the public opinion of the white people of South Carolina were involved, the thing might be passed over. But unfortunately, there is a large section of white polkin opinion throughout the United States that is in accord with this kind of proposed legislation. Both states have separate car laws, and twenty-nine states have laws feebleholding intermarriage between white people and colored people. Laws of this sort are particularly objectionable to any self-respecting person, for the reason that they constitute a denial of his complete humanity, and subject him to degradation and insult in all relations of life. It is pointed out that in the nineteen states that have no laws against mixed marriages, unions are of expressing my appreciation of the weekly clatter of your very clever alumnus, James H Hogan. He is a photographer, a humorist and an all-around clever writer, and situated as I am here on the edge of civilization. I look forward to his weekly offering as a thirsty traveller in the midst of a desert would to a drink of cold water. Please convey to him my thanks for his weekly contributions to my favorite paper. LORING B PALMER St. John, Virgin Islands. Dentist In Philippines Criticizes Cartoons Editor of the New York Age: Editor of the New York Age: The melancholy Negro very naturally and cognitively resents the imposition of his body with the gaming and shining dancing instants. the Age covered itself with glory by its giant against policy paying and bling tigers, then, just why should the Age, after stirring itself "The National Negro Weekly," proceed to make use of a gambling cartoon which is not even comical as it is not understood by many readers? is it necessary that the national interpreter of Negro opinion uphold Roy Cohen and others with unshakeable Negro better than he has himself, thereby the Negro's degradation white pegging his support? There is need to increase the Negro's prestige and self-respect by encouraging the production of respectable stories and books about Negroes by Negroes to refute the impressions given out by the Roy Cohen. Is it then the proper one for a care paper to play up gambling, chick and ledge scandals, and to feature all these with crime and murder in big, burly type thus oversawing the triumphs of Roland Hayes, Florence Mills, Josephine Baker and others. Negroes of the Cohen and睦ers and睦ers them to be so devalued as to relish the former class of boys more than the latter in so the Cohen are right. White papers serving the general public must cater to lovers of crime and scandal but the readers of Never are limited to a class whose intelligence and respectability cause them to the attention of paper that 'mists on insulting them. The prevalent uninterpretation of the Negro's ideals is one reason for his indifference regarding race papers. Very respectfully. rare. On the other hand such laws promote imperiality by bringing about unions unassented by marriage. "Ned" Gourdin is writing a column of Military Notes for the Boston Chronicle. These breezy comments appeared in a recent issue: —Lt. Gourdin is reorganizing the baseball team. Give him your support. It is an advertising proposition as well as a means of training up espit coats, a rescue every morning might at City Armory. Have you been vaccinated and immunized yet? Have you quawned with rite or patron battles are not worn with knife and fork. Units have received the new style coat, from now on let's look, unk, and act like soldiers while on duty. If the game is worth playing, play according to the rules. Remember military training preparation for war, is the greatest preventative of war. And it builds responsible, able-worthwhile manhood. While this sort of argument might not convince the confirmed pacists, it would probably, appeal to young men of athletic tendencies. The -Cincinnati *Union* made the following appeal to the civic pride of its colored citizens, so that they might boost instead of knock. It said: Cincinnati is only on the map, far as our people are concerned, in a small way. The reputation of the scene seems bad to outsiders. Why? Our recourses have not kept pace with our words. When one of our citizens out-of-town, he or she enjoys everybody and everything belonging to his city, when a writer arrives in our town however, he must just the reverse. There are nammers galore. Why not enlarge our pony and tell truth about each other occasionally? The people come to us they listen on, and we listen back. The record is the thing. Suppose we reclaim our records. Our unity has spanned people and great opportunities. We can't all get together, out of similar institutions can. What prevents: gossipy and envy, or coarse. How can we eliminate them, by studying ourselves, and in that way see that we ready amount to as much as we think we do. Most of us use themaste of thinking we are easy with what emotion means us want to be. The envy part comes in when we show those who have accompanied something, in order to bring down them to our own level so that we win but suffer by contrast. We will win and labor to erase these units until truity will come for us a new Cincinnati. Editor Dabney has shown what could be done along this line in his book entitled 'Cincinnati's Colored Citizens.' Approving the project of a community Christmas tree, the Norfolk Journal and Guide said: The idea of a Community Christmas tree sponsored by the Young Council a joint class of street councilors. The school is a way communicable one. These young women are all of youth to join with them in making the tree an charitable object, to provide some garment, toy, or decoration for every child in the city. There will probably be no Santa Claus, but anyone imagined may be a child or youth personal joy than by making some garment happy, whose would be used the joys of xueiuer. it is planned to place the tree in some central location, to decorate it and to enburrow it to its toes of joy for the little children amidst an entertaining program. persons having automobiles are asked to assist in conveying the little ones to the tree. Certainly here is an opportunity for obtaining real Christmas joy that no one can afford to miss. The speed of the atmospheric spirit of Christmas giving has become more general and more generous in every community. It has gone much to increase the lot of the poor and importance, especially in the larger cities. The Gary Commonwealth, now in its third volume, extended the following greeting to a rival weekly publication, which does not sound over cordial. Not many weeks ago, four Lake county politicians, very prominent in ouitahe me, met in a downtown Negro club and organized another newspaper. These politicians, said to be sponsors of the "B. T. A. (Black N. N. N.) have long since beneded by the Negro vote and are now seeking every means at their command to corral this same vote in the comin campaign for the reason that they will have a better medium, a better way of reading the masses through their paper. They are lavishly spending money and resorting to all kinds of methods and means of putting their project over which they will cease in existence during the coming campaign, in other words it is one of these "fly by night" propositions. Gary has experience of this kind every campaign, but this is something new in political propaganda where candidates for public office will go out of their way, spend money resort to all kinds of surfs and vile vituperations against other newspapers now in existence. It looks as if Gary is to be enlivened by a journalistic scrap, in which the law of the survival of the fittest will prevail. The Nativity of our Lord was celebrated with solemn dignity and ceremony last Sunday at our church. Dr. Oliver delivered appropriate and touching sermons. At five o'clock, he protrayed, most beautifully, the birth of Christ in a manger of Bethlehem emphasizing the fact, that the Star in the East which guided men to the Holy Child, is still shining and directing men and women to Christ. The Junior at 10 o'clock was well attended and the congregation was given a treat by Mrs. Bertha Klime, who told a beautiful story, dealing with the Christ Child. At 11 o'clock, Dr. Oliver preached on "Christ, The Most Wonderful Personality, In Human History," Isaiah, 9:6. The evening congregation was given a rare treat in music by the member, of the Senior Choir. "The Story Of Bethlehem," a cantata, was splendidly rendered. The soloists were: Miss Susie Smith, soprano; Miss Cora Lea, alto; A Simpson, tenor; Mr. Devrin, baritone, and Mr. Daniels, bass. Mr. Carleton Davis, violinist, Noble Ross, director, and Leonard Matthews, organist. Members and friends of the church made up a Special Christmas purse for Dr. and Mrs. Oliver, and presented same to them at the close of the service. Saturday evening, December 31, the regular Watch Night services will be held, beginning at 8:30 o'clock. Sunday: at 41 a. m. and 8 p. m. Special sermons will be preached. Celebration of the Holy Exhariest will take place at 3 o'clock. Bethel A. M. E. Church The services at Bethel were well attended all day Sunday. Divine love and inspiration was manifested through the pastor as he preached from Hebrew 7:25, "Wherefore he is able to save them to the Uttermost that, come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Dr. Spearman was at his best and the Holy Spirit filled the church. 2 p. m. the Church School convened. 6 p. m. Allen Christian Endeavor League was well attended and the Junior's under the supervision of Mrs. Ruth Payne, rended a beautiful program. 8 p.m. the choir, under supervision of their chairmaster Joseph Vandervald, rendered a most excellent program. Mrs. Rose Garret, Mabe Atkinson, Nellie Lofthouse, Lucile Jones, Everie Young and Miss Dora Thompson rendered numbers that received and deserved applause. S. F. Lockwood, Alonzo Green, Eugene Jeffries and Robert Moorman received compliments for selections rendered. The members and auxiliaries of the church made several presentations to the pastor, Dr. H. K. Spearman. The Coal Club, of which Mrs. Bunkan is president presented Dr. Spearman with a neat purse. Joseph, Vanderwall was presented a purse by the choir. The assistant pastor was remembered by friends. Thursday evening the Sunday will hold, its Christmas exercises. The clinic will be closed for Christmas but will reopen January 3. Sunday January 1, Dr. Ida Miller of Indiana will begin a series of meetings. Mother Zion Church Christmas was celebrated in every service at Mother Zion on last day. At 6 p. m., special Christmas service was held under the auspices of the Praying Band, sermon by Rev. H. Morris, pastor of A. M. E Zion Church, White Plains, New York. Music by the gospel chorus. Junior church services" was held at 10:30 a. m. At 11 a. m., services were held in the main auditorium. The pastor, Dr. J. W. Brown, was the preacher. He used as his sermon subject, "Stars That Lead to Christ." "Where is He that is born King of the Jews?" For, we have seen His star in the East, and have come to worship Him."—Matthew 2:2. The speaker said in part: Notwithstanding nineteen hundred and twenty-seven year stand between us and and the first Christmas Day and the many, changes that have taken place sacred history. In this event, we have not gotten away from the Birth of Christ. The story of it still has charm and glory. There is no other story like it, either in secular or sacred history. In this event we have the desire of all nations. We have come this morning with the Wise Men of the earth to worship the New Born King. They brought gifts and laid them at the feet of the Christ Child. We have lived in life. surrender be laid at our Master's Feet. They were priests from the Medes and Persians. They were the scholars of that day, well versed in the sciences, especially in astrology and medicine. They were among the leaders of their day and were members of the king's council. Each was born under a different star, each had a different language, each had a different type of education, but each was a searcher for God. They had spent many hours in solitude and meditation, with listening hearts seeking spiritual light. Herodotus tells us that they were the priestly castes of the Medes, and me interpreters of dreams. Traditions tells us that they were three in number, and that they were oriental kings, and manes them: Melechoir, Balthazar and Caspar. Whether history is correct in these statements or not, we know that these strangers came to Jerusalem in search of the New Born King. The most dramatic story in American literature, dealing with this particular event in the Lite of Christ, is "Ben Hur" by General Lew Wallace. I wish to tell a story, in connection with this, which I think is very much to the point, since Mr. Clarence Darrow, an avowed, agnostic ill-advised a group of our so-called intellectuals last Sunday afternoon, stating that they did not need large and fine churches which are closed six days in the week. Such statements show that he is ignorant of the facts. He said get education and get money. All right! Has he forgotten that the oldest and perhaps the best colleges in this country were founded by the Church? Does he not know that all the schools opened to Negroes in the Southland, with perilous the exception of Harlan and Tuskegee, are supported by the Church? and that many of them are supported exclusively by the Negro Church? and that many of those persons who were present last Sunday afternoon and applauded him are indebted to some one of these schools for their education? Where is their gratitude. If the N. A. A. C. P. thinks that all preachers are grafters and the church an unnecessary institution, why hold meetings in churches, and why ask Negro ministers to join and give support to their organization? "One day General Lew Wallace was going from Crawfordsville to Indianapolis on a train to attend a Republican Convention in Indianapolis in 1876. As he walked down the aisle of the car, a knock came from a statesroom door and Colonel Robert Ingersoll invited him into the stateroom to talk. General Wallace said to him, "I will come if I may dictate the subject on which we talk." "Certainly I that is exactly what I want." General Wallace took a seat and began, "Is there a God?" Quick as a flash he replied, "I don't know, do you?" And then, "Is there a devil?" "I don't know, do you?" "Is there a hell?" "I don't know, do you?" "Is there a hereafter?" "I don't know, do you?" General Lew Wallace then said to Ingersoll, "There, Colonel, you have the texts. Now go! Then Colonel Ingersoll began a brilliant sermon on those texts that General Wallace had suggested. It was full of fill, sarcasm, eloquence, audacity, treverence, and a pungent indictment of those who call themselves Christians. General Wallace was indifferent to religion. He was not what might be called a believer. When General Wallace got off the train he walked to his brother's home. He preferred to walk so that he could do some thinking. He was a great reader of sermons. He was a thinker, but not a believer. He was never so moved in all his life toward religion as he was after this strong denunciation of religion and God by this great atheist. General Lew Wallace himself says, "To lift me out of my religion indifference one would think that only strong affirmations of things regarded noilest would do. Yet, here was I moved as never before, and by what? "By the most outright denials of all human knowledge of God, Christ, Heaven and the Hereafter which figures so high in the hope and faith of the believing everywhere. Was the Colonel right? What had I on which to answer yes or no? He had made me ashamed of my ignorance and—here is the unexpected of the affair—as I walked on in the cool darkness, I was aroused for the first time in my life to the importance of religion! General Lew Wallace, therefore, resolved to write a book on Christ. He tells of that resolve in these words: "It only remains to say that I did as I resolved, with results—first the book, Ben Hur; and second, a conviction mounting to absolute belief in God and the divinity of Christ!" WHERE TO GO TO CHURCH "This much I know, looking at life at seventy—men without religion, are moral cowards, and mostly physical cowards too when they are sober say Shaw in the Christmas, London Magazine, in an interview, recorded by Mr. George Sylvester Wierck. "Civilization cannot survive without religion. It matters not what name we bestow upon our divinity—Life Force, World Spirit, Eldin Vital, Creative Evolution—without religion life becomes a meaningless concatenation of accidents. I can conceive of salvation without a god, but I cannot conceive of it without a religion. "Evolution is a mystical process," Darwinism, a mechanical doctrine, destroyed religion but gave us nothing in its place. It gave an air of sciences to moral and political opportunism and to stagnate-for-life militarism. It engulfed Europe yesterday in the World War. "I am not merely a gadfly that stirs men to think," Mr. Shaw says later. "My work viewed as a whole is constructive. I have had a brick or two of the ground-work for a new gospel." Mr. Darrow is a great criminal lawyer with a fertile brain, but needs a changed and new heart. Special music was rendered by the choir. Seven persons united with the church. BAPTIST THE NEW ABSYSSNIAN BAPSTEST CHURCH, 138th Street, between 7th & 8th and 9th Avenues, 145 p.m. public worship with preaching: Sunday School, 1:30 p.m. Fr. 7:30 p.m. M. Bible School, 1:30 p.m. General School, 1:30 p.m. Rev. A. CLAYTON POWELL, pastor, 132 West 138th street, Phone, Audubon 1194. MOUNT OLIVET BAPSTEST CHURCH D. D. Pastor, Rev. J. Raymond Henderson, says't pastor, Preaching Sun. 11 M. D. Pastor, Rev. J. Raymond Henderson, says't pastor, Preaching Sun. 11 M. B. Y. P. U. 138th street, comm. Commission, 2nd Sun. at 8 p.m.; Dorcas Missionary School, 1st tues. eve. p.m. M. B. Y. P. U. 138th street, comm. Ad Bolcey, 2nd and 3rd Mon. Eve. Prayer Meeting, Pfr. Eve. n. p.; OL. Prayer Meeting, Pfr. Eve. n. p.; Public Phone Cathedral 7836, Public Phone Cathedral 7836. THE ST. PAUL BAPSTEST CHURCH 553 W. 35th St. Sun. services 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.; Sunday-school, 1:30 p.m. Meeting, Friday night, 8:30 sunrise meeting, Sun. 6 to 8 p.m.; Covenant meeting, Pfr. nights before the third meeting, Sun. 6 to 8 p.m.; Communion third Sun. eve. Rev. H. ARTHUR BOOKER, pastor, Rev. H. ARTHUR BOOKER, pastor, Rev. H. ARTHUR BOOKER, pastor, Morningside 7191. METHODIST EPISCOPAL ST. MARKS METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 138th st. and St. Nicholas Ave. Rev. John W. Johnson D. D. pascal. Preaching 10:45 a.m. m: 7:45 a.m. m: Sunday School 2:00 p.m. Lycme 4:00 p.m. School 6:30 p.m. Sun. prayer meeting 8:00 a.m. m. Prl ev. 8:30 p.m. m. Classes League 6:30 p.m. Sun. prayer meeting 8:00 a.m. m. Prl ev. 8:30 p.m. m. Classes League 6:30 p.m. Sun. prayer meeting 8:00 a.m. m. Prl ev. 8:30 p.m. Holy Communion second Sun. eve. each month...Welcome to all. SALEM METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, REV. PREDKERI ASBURY SULLEN pastor, preaching at 10:45 a.m. m. and 7:45 p.m. Sun. school 2:30 p.m. m: 8:30 p.m. Lycme 4 p. m. Sun. 8:30 p.m. m. Tburs. Eworth League, 6 p. m. Sun. Classes p. m. Sun. Prayer Meeting, prl night. Brotherhood. Tues. nights: Holy Communion, first tuesday. MT. CALVARY M. E. CHURCH, 140 st. and Edgecombe Ave. Morning face to face, 140 st. and Edgecombe Ave. Sunday school, 2 p. m.; Tuesday night, class meeting, 8 p. m.; Prayer meeting, League, 5 p. m.; Holy Communion, Sunday, 6 p. m. Rev. E. W. Rakeshaw. presidency 401 West 152nd street. Phone: Bradle 3986 BETHEL A. M, E. M. CHURCH—12:60 W. 13:24 N. Residence, Residence, W. 13:24 N. G church services: Prayer meeting & 8:45. Preaching Church, 6 p. M. Doe. services: 7:45 Holy Communion, first Sun. Class nights: Loves. Love Pearl last Sun. ukiah APASTOLIC CHURCH THE REPUKE CHURCH OF CHRIST is the most honored in the slaterhood of the Church. It is the place where blessed influences which flows from her spiritual life are nurtured in every night, including Bible lessons on Thursday night and Divine Liturgy on Friday. Pastor, known by his sincere preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, 9:25. West 133rd Street. YONKERS MEMORIAL, A. M. R. ZION CHURCH 42 Ivring Place, Rev. R. S' ODEN, pastor. Sun. service 11 a.m.; Sunday School; 12 p.m. m. V. C. E. 7 p.m. preaching; 8 p.m. Class meeting Tue. ave. eve. meeting, Pt. 4, avt. Pastor. church. Pastor's office hours 10 to 10 u. obama. obama 1771 M. At 8 p. m. the choir reserved a cantala, *The Holy Night*, by John Hyatt Brewer. Thursday, Christian Endeavor rump and collation. Friday, prayer and praise service. Saturday, Watch Night services—new features, Three addresses, 8 to 9 p. m., reception to the new members who joined in 1927 in the dining room under auspices of the board of auxiliaries and class leaders. Refreshments served. 9 to 10 p. m. (in the main auditorium) rong service; Praying Band/10 p. m., program; singing and special music, senior choir, 15 minute Addresses: "Looking Back" by J. A. Hopkins, "Looking Around" by J. D. Steele, "Looking Forward" by R. B. Henderson. Services will be held in the lecture room, Rev. P. A. Price, leader. Music by the junior church choir. Aud. in the community House, Rev. William-Hogan, leader. Music by the Christian Endeavor choir. 11 to 12:05, testimonial meeting. Song and prayer. Let every officer and member be present to welcome the New Year. Next Sunday is New Year's Day. Services will be in keeping with the New Year Sunday. 6 a. m., sunrise prayer meeting. 10:30 a. m., junior church. 11 a. m., sermon by Rev. J. G. Robinson of Philadelphia, Pa. . PRESBYTERIAN ST. JAMES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (in new location) St. Nicholas Ave. at 120 W. 10th St. Pastor, Sun. 11 a, m, and 4 p. m. Mild week service. Prayer, Wednesdays, 4 p. m. Clubs Thurs. at 10 a. Boys' Clubs Thurs. 4 p. m. Church school Sun. 59 a, m. Brotherhood Sunday. 59 a, m. At jude Sunday Jun. 4 p. m. Communion Service 11 sunday. 614 a, m. Young People's Society 614 p. m. A cordial welcome to everyone. RENDALL MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 59-61 West 137th St. services 11 a, m. 1 p. m. Sunday School 7 p. m. Christian Endeavor. 8 p. m. every Wednesday 8 p. m. Prayer services CONGREGATIONAL GRACE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF PIERLAND, 308-310 M 139th St. Rev. A. C. GARNER, pastor. Sun. Su- c. 11 a.m.; Mo. 11 a.m.; Young. People at 6 p. m. ; Preaching at 8 p. m. People at 8:15 p. m. other services in Bulletin. SEVENTH.DAY ADVENTIST HARLEM SECOND SEVENTH DAY HOLIDAY. Hours of service: Fri. 8:30 p. m. prayer meeting; Sat. 8:00 a.m. 7:30 p. m. Mass; Sun. 8:30 p. m. 3:00 p. m. Missions; 4:30 p. m. Young People; bunday. 4:30 p. m. Special Ad- vocations. Preaching. M. C. STRACHAN, Pastor. CATHOLIC J. CHANLEES BORUMKO ROMAN J. CHANLEES BORUMKO ROMAN J. RECK, Patrick J. O'DONDON, Ph. D. DRISTER; Reva. John J. Bennett and Mien- tion J. Bennett 7, 8, 9, 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. Baphan is administered Sunday after Arrangemania for Marriage to be made Arrangements for Marriage to be made for the couple Sick Calls attended day or night. Sick Calls attended day or night. Sacrament and Benediction at the clock Sacrament and Benediction at the clock Devotion to St. Anthony Tues Yyten Yyten BROOKLYN SILAOAM PRESSBYTERIAN CHURCH and PARISH HOUSE, Lafayette Ave. and Y, Yew GUCKER SHIPPEN STANK, A, a pastor, Manse 240 Chinon Place, A, a bishop, 280 Chinon Place, B, Bibb School, 11:15 p.m. (Marian rious, adjoining church, Arthur L. player meetings every Wed, 8:15 p.m. p.m.; Communion, 1:15 Sun. in each day; Boy Scout Friday evenings to A150; Boy Scout Friday evenings brotherhood, 3rd Wed. in each month. CONCORD BAPSTH CHURCH--166 170 Adelphi Bk., Blympton, N. Y. Riverfront, 1:15 Sun. in each volunteer Franklin, A. R., Asso. Minister a program with interest for all people. On the riverfront, 10:28 Morning Prayer, 10:28 Morning Worship, 13:39 p.m., Sunday School, 6 p. m. Y, Y. P. U., 7:10 Eve. Worship. Visitors united. Leave your card with the Ushers. 5 p.m., annual sermon and formal opening of "auxillaries." Sermon by Dr. Robinson. 8 p.m., evening worship. The funeral of David C. Outlear will be held on Friday evening. The sick: Vella Dell. Presbyterian Hospital; Aledia Dash. 70 West 128th street; Adele Gee, Metropolitan Hospital, Welfare Island. First Emmanuel Church At the 11 o'clock services, Sunday, the 'church' was 'beautifully decorated, with eedar trees at each side of the alter, forming a canopy at the back of the pulpit. Large zed ribbon was draped across the background and holly, also. Large lyres hung in the front, with seven red electric lighted bulbs in each lyre. At 'the back' was the star which shone most radiantly during the services. Pastor Bolden preached from the text: "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshipped him, and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold frankincense and myrrh." St. Matthew 2:11. Theme: "The Eternal Birthday of Our Lord the Emmanuel." Pastor Bolden said: The Christian people seem to pay more attention to the spirit of the exchange of gifts among each other than they do to the truth of the Immaculate Conception and the Birth of our Lord, Redeemer and King in the world of humanity. We seldom hear the truth of the promised, blessed, human-divine Son traced from the proto-evangelion in Genesis, spoken by Jehovah, God to Eve, the mother of the human race. But few of the people of each generation, and especially this modern day, will take time to trace the thought and growth of the fulfilment of the promises of God and the hopes of God's people for this perfect Son and King: This is due to the fact of the emphasis of human energy dominating a chemical and mechanical world. Among all the nations of the earth, this ideal one is looked for and many religious groups claim that He was incarnated in certain pious and holy teachers. And throughout the centuries they have rallied around their names and teachings. But we believe that even among the Jewish race with its long line of holy men and prophets, that the Babe of Bethlehem, whose name is Jesus Christ the Enamuel, the One that the wise men, in journeying toward Jerusalem, declared that they had seen His Star in the East and had come to worship Him; the One that from infancy to the cross, His death and resurrection fits uniquely the description of the prophets and the human divine mold in the world of humanity for such a one, the One whose mother found no place in the "Inim" for the deliverance of her child; the One who was born among the cattle in a "stall and cradled in a manger; One Who in His Birth companioned docile beasts of food and burden bearers; One that this significant situation marks as a Friend of the humble and lowly, Who, in its teachings, had a right, to say: "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn, of Me. For I am meek and lowly of heart and ye shall find rest for your souls. For my joke is easy and my burden is light. "We believe Him to be inmacularly conceived, born of our Blessed Virgin Mother Mary, the only begotten Son of God; the only babe in the world of humanity whose annual birthday releases a spirit among all mankind that have heard and know of Him; that affects every child, person, place and thing, and sets in motion the exchange of thoughts and things that expresses peace and goodwill to individuals and peoples of goodwill. God bless you, and may our Lord the Emmanuel be incarnated in your life and work. Have no fear for atheists and skeptics, for they had just as well attempt to hold back the tides, push back the dawn, and stop works of our solar system from rising, as by speech or act attempt to keep our Lord the Emmanuel out of the thoughts and life of the people. At 2 p.m. the Sunday school was well attended The Christmas carols were sung. At the evening service Pastor Balden continued his discourse of the morning hour which was exceptionally interesting. The choir rendered the Christmas cantata "The Light of the World" The trio "O Holy Night" was sung both morning and evening by Miss T. V. Greene, Miss D. J. Small and Mrs. E. A Townend. Pastor Balden distributed his contribution to the choir for their services and loyalty during the past year. "On Monday night the Christmas tree service was held at the church. Books and candy and little toys were given to the children. A pleasant time was had by all." Special Watch meeting service ... Saturday night. New Years' Dinner next Sunday, come and enjoy the day with us. St. Paul Baptist Church The Christmas spirit was felt throughout the past week. Giving to obeas was the talk in the B. Y. P. U., the theme in the regular prayer service, and of the songs and sermons on Sunday. The Sunny school caught it, and when the superintendent announced his plan of getting baskets of fruits and other good things, there was a ready response. The Aid Society, assisted financially by the church, provided baskets of Christmas dinners, and sent them to those less fortunate. And so the members and friends of the church were truly happy on Christmas day. The choir was prepared and gave excellent music in keeping with the season at both morning and evening services. The church is grateful to Mrs. H. A. Borker, directress of the choir, and Mine. V. E. Scott, organist, for the efforts they made in the line of music. Miss Julia A. Booker, Mrs. Bessie Williams, Mrs. Jennie Thompson and Peter Rhics were the soloists. The pastor, although handicapped by a bad cold, or touch of the gripe, was nevertheless at his post with well prepared sermons. His themes were "The Personality of Jesus" and "The Personality Of The Spirit". The day was beautiful, and the attendance very good for a Christ mas day. Union Baptist Church Christmas service at Union was very interesting. 9 a. m. the Sunday school gathered as usual. Mrs. Bessie Brooks had charge of the program. 11 a. m. the choir, directed by E. J. Young, was out in full. After several selections, and the preliminaries directed by Rev. I. Fella, our pastor delivered one of the most pleasing sermons that have been pleased to listen from the gibbjct "Bethlehem and Its Attractions." Three persons accepted Christ and four others joined. The afternoon service was held by the B. Y. P. U. Program was in charge of Miss Helen Dowdy. The characteristics of Bethlehem was presented. Mrs.Aneatha Reed presented a program. These two programs lasted through the evening. The announcement of our Christmas tree and the report of the poor will appear next week. Watch service Saturday, 8 p. m. Grace Church of Harlem The most beautiful Christmas Day in many years gave big audiences to. New York churches. Grace Church shared with others the joy of numbers as well as goodwill to men. The early morning service was conducted by the pastor, with Miss Hattie L. Green, membership secretary of the Y. W. C. A. in charge of the pageant of the Birth of Christ—simple dignified and sublime" was this unusual worship in the early morning. The "Y" girls are hereby thanked for that thanked for that splendid service. The singing was very good Miss Shields was at the piano. The eleven o'clock service was an inspiring one. The pastor, Rev. A. C. Garner, spoke on the subject of the Universal Christ The sermon was very appropriate and had a wholesome effect upon the audience. Miss Lesser Martin united with the church. A feature of the worship last Sunday was the exceptionally fine musical program. This included, Hisides congregational singing, a chorus from Nevins "Adoration" and Detts "Listen to the Lamb" by the choru. An appealing color "Somebody's Knocking at Your Door" - Detts, sung by Master Anton 'Windfort'; two cello selections by H. Leonard Jeter that moistened the eyes of his audience, and excerpts from Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" as a postlude by Mr. Borun. Presentations were made the pastor by Nettie Terry, president of the Progressive Club, also to Miss Olive L. Jeter, director of the choir, by Helen Hammond, president of choir organization in the church school, a presentation was made to Mrs. Nannie L. Scott, retiring superintendent by L. E. Reid, the new superintendent. The thirty-six names given the pastor were provided with baskets. The Silver Furniture Company and the Salvation Army co-operated. Tuesday night Church School Christmas tree was enjoyed by some two hundred children. Presents of toys, books, candy, oranges, ice cream, were distributed. The program was volunteered by friends. Rev. Calvin Lane gave a still picture exhibition of the Christ Child. The Lyric Harmony Trio: violin, cello and piano rendered several selections. Other selections were rendered by FOR DESIGNING AND DRESSMAKING, Inc. IN MONTGOMERY PLACE, TRINON M A J. A. Nice, Three-Story Brick Building with all improvements for Students; Courses completed in Your Worth Diplomas Given Branches, 54 Orient Avenue, Jersey City, Miss Lillian S. Miller and 45 West 60th Street New York—Mrs. M. MARKS, S-7-y THE material contrast between the structures with which **Booker T. Washington** began and the present great, ample and commodious plant is sufficient attiring to be poised for our own to bring about a new world of achievement in this life. It is imperfect measure of Dr. Washington's work and achievement. The education and annual turning out of two or three hundred youths, men, and women for every year is sufficient to form a large and valuable and helpful work, but that was only one part of what he did and sought to do. His purpose was to radiate from a center like Tuskegee the light of the homely but ever living truth which must form the basis of real advance for his race in any race—WILLIAM HOWARD TAPT, died Justice United States Supreme Court. THE TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Founded by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Offers-Excellent Opportunities to Young Men and Women to Secure an Excellent Literary and Normal Course; and a Course in Mechanical, Industries, Women's Industries or Agriculture LOCATION UNSURPASSED FOR HERALTHFULNESS WRITE FOR CATALOG OF INFORMATION ROBERT R. MOTON, Principal Tuskegee Institute, Alabama friends. Watch meeting services with full choir, evangelist Vigal and the pastor, will give all an opportunity to spend the last minute of the old year in the house of God on the Shakespearean theory that all is well that ends well." The pastor thanks the meiblings and friends for greetings by cards from a hundred and fifty friends. Mrs. Garner jobs in expressing a Happy New Year. Fleet Street Memorial Sunday, when the whole christian world celebrated in commemoration of the Birth of God's greatest gift to the world, the large numbers of worshippers attending the services at Fleet Street Church, of which Rev William C. Brown is pastor, entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion while His name was heralded from early, morn 'till eve, in song, sermon and prayer. The services of the day were highly spiritual, and dignified with the presence of a number of distinguished visitors; including Bishop J. S. Caldwell, who worshipped here during the entire day; Rev P. T. Robinson, a representative of an industrial school of Virginia, and Rev I. N. Sisco. 5:30 a. m., "Tidings of Great Joy," a cantata was sung by the senior choir. 11 a. m. the Christmas sermon was delivered by Bishop J. S. Caldwell D. D. of Philadelphia, Pa. 1:30 p. m. "Brightest and Best are the Sons of the Morning" a cantata, was rendered by the church school choir. 8 p. m. sermon by Rev. W. C. Brown. Confirmation and reception of a class of probationers into full connection, Bishop Caldwell officiating, assisted by the pastor and Dr. F. M. Jacobs. The Christmas tree, for the church school was on Tuesday night; at that time an interesting program was rendered by the younger folks. Watch night services will begin at 9 o'clock on Saturday night. Monday, January 2, the celebration of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation will be held in this church beginning, at 1:30 p. m. Bishop E. D. W. Jones of Washington, D. C, will deliver the address. The leading churches of Brooklyn and the I. B. P. O. E. of W. No. 32, are cooperating. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Bridge St. A. M. E. Church "The Increase of Christ's Kingdom is to be effected as Jesus Christ is born in us, and just as fast as He is incarnated in us and we decide to live a life of love and service, will His will be done." These words were the outstanding gist of the pastor's Dr. Edward Ernest Tyler, Christmas message to the vast throng that filled the historic edifice on Christmas morning. Dr. Tyler was speaking from the topic. "The Increase of His Government." The text was Isaiah 9:7. In developing his discourse Dr Tyler stated that even though he was not speaking theologically he wanted to stress the doctrine of the incarnation, for God first spoke through His Son. The prophet Isaiah in the text, which was written 750 years prior to the Birth of Christ, saw His coming FLIT DESTROYS Moths,Roaches Bedbugs,Flies Other Household Insects TRENTON S FOR DESIGNING AND L 11 MONTGOMERY PLACE. A Nice Three-Story Brick Building with Course completed in Your Weeks. Branches 54 West Wentz Jr. and 45 West 66th Street New York THE material contrast between the two plant is sufficiently striking to about. But satisfactorily and ence- pirates the custom and annual turning out of two o women for lives useful to themselves and a communal and spirit work, but and sought to do. His purpose was to the light of the homely but ever living and that coming from of government. As in I. raised a man to warn His. He does the same today, and anon a man comes for stile us and plead that we from hate, sin, self-satisfie greed, awarce and other laxities. Other points were: Kingdom will be endless, and not be brought about by force the members of His Kin must be moved from within not from without. It is made of a spiritual element. Those have the right spirit and an attitude, will make an this dom, and shall come from all es and all creed, that belie God. Four persons joined the when the invitation was exte In the afternoon the School met. The session largely attended. The sup tudent, John D. Nixon, pree Final arrangements were made the Christmas exercises were held on Wednesday eve December 28 At vesper the Allen League Lemuel Henson, the victor, who succeeded Olive Bascombe who resigned beof going to Howard University presided. The topic, "Christmas Means?" was igently discussed by a target ber of the young people Bascombe, who is spending holiday here, gave the leap very helpful and interesting. At the evening hour the se was preached by the Rev. A Manning, a product of Street Church. The junior rendered a special Christmas service. Dr. Manning spoke on the subject, "Confirming the Witin of Christ," text, St. Luke He stressed the thought that Birth of Christ was confirmed the singing of the angelic He asked the congregation by way of imagination with to Bethlehem, that is, turn from material things and Christ as He is. If we do we will be willing to serve and thereby make the world better place to live in. At the morning hour Dr. L. was the recipient of a bead and expensive cape, which given by a committee of deac- esses, headed by Mrs Delia B Dr A R. Cooper, a former pa- mide the presentation on of the deacresses. General class was held. Su- nothing and will be held Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Tyler will be home on January 2 to friends members of the church. This give them a chance to see the ovated parsonage. On January 10 the election trustees will be held to electors to Messrs. Quick, Burton and Wright (deceased). Flowers in the pulpit were memory of Miss Claudia Stear and were given by her mom Mrs Anna Harrison and Rachel Lewis, and were given Deaconess Ida Williams in memory of her mother. The Negro Year Book A permanent record of current events and at same time an encyclopedia of historical and sociological facts. Price $1.50 ON SALE AT The New York Age 230 WEST 135th STREET NEW YORK CITY THE ANCE WINS HOLIDAY TILTS; ATS N. Y. ACES AND BROOKLYN ERS: ELIZABETH PROS TO RETURN THE LONG, OMER GUS - BARFUL - CHARLY SWABB - OVER TO TALK IT OVER ABOUT IS A JOOB AT DETHENEM- WORSTSTAND? AND THIS, MR. SWABB - IS MY DROUSER GUS - FROM THE KLONDYKE - ADVENTURER, EXPLORER ITC. AND BARTENDER BY TRADE. WELL - WELL! AND I SUPPOSE YOU HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH MANY STRANGE CULTURES IN YOUR TRAVELS? YES CHARLE - BUT THE HARDLIST ON THE LOT TO GET ALONG WITH IS THE COMMON ALASKA DOG WORRIER. THERE'S ONE OF EM NOW!! ED YATES are about to end the Renaissance still love the weaker clubs, ay night the local original New York thrashing, the final he Rens the upper 3 to 40 score. At Harlem quintet fa- Harold Mayers was the evening (and ers-the goat. The game though it one-sided. Mayers old goals and a foul, out-scored his fellow ball but, Mayers scorch-light of the event, them barely touching from the center of Longie' Saunders having with his continu of 'pretty passes' and 'score at the early battle, but in the clos Atlantic City product use over a field goal. ated In Return Game night at Manhattan a capacity crowd the dggers bowed to the d champion Renaising finally by a 27 after a thrilling battle. nion Bob Douglass' aged to get a one on the inter-borough the score being 9 to it half the Brooklyn sed the home club. he only one able to be final moment when and Harold Mayers old goals. It seemed set was invisible, for lens made several at- tear at long range, they stile. In the second differed. finally 'got going and ' Saunders playing tion' the Rens out- rivals by a ten point game was full of ch,' playing guard in Fats' Jenkins (who is ity list) and Slocum to hop about at will. player tried hard but a few minutes of play to cage only three as just too bad and star shooting (much the preceeding night of the game. The evened things with way) their Brooklyn were awarded a victory few weeks past. antest the local boys be wonderful passing that impressive Celtic th Saitch in the-linee ce was of noticeable the fans really wante youngster' star, but bistle blew the Rens in we look to Saundinate: the elongated star of a close and factory. I. Players On C. I. A. A. Eleven N. C.—A. and T. L. A. A. champions, irs on the colored in- athletic association's eleven and one second association "Coleman, triple halfback, and "Ciec" ndahle right guard, their berths on the n for the third suc- Lane, stellar fullback ants right end, and rason, mighty center, official choices from In the Realm of Sport and the Theatre Kappa Springs Surprise By Defeating Omega Five Coming from behind in the second half, the Kappa Alpha Psi basketball team defeated the Omega Psi Phi five by a score of 36-32, at the Renaissance Casino, Tuesday evening, December 27, before one of the largest crowds the hall has held. Enthusiasm ran high through the game. Bouchet Day and "Stretch" Grant were high scorers for Omega while Work and Dangerfield starred for Kappa. Work scored a total of 16 points. Coming in the game at the beginning of the second half with the score 21-14 in favor of Omega. Dangerfield by sensational playing and shooting made 13 points. The Omega team, who have been undefeated and undisputed Fraternity champions in New York, played loose on the defense. There was bad passing on both sides with Kappa a shade better. After the game dance music was played until 3 o'clock by Vernon Andrades and his orchestra. The lineup: Omega: forwards, Payne, McNichols; center, Grant; guards, B. Day and McCoy; substitutions Hansborough, H. Day, Archer; Kappa: forwards, Work Sylvera; center, Baker; guards, Tucker, Hamer; substitutions, Dangerfield. "Dutch" Huiswood was the referee. JACK McVEY IN EASY VICTORY OVER WM. GREB Middleweight Contender Wins Christmas Bout From Scrantonian By TED YATES Jack McVey, middleweight contender for the championship, defeated Willie Greb of Scranton, Pa., at the St. Nicholas Arena on Christmas night, Monday last. Greb was floored three times, but seemed to withstand the rather telling punishment; being a one-handed fighter, using the right-mit in connecting with body blows at instances, gave his colored opponent plenty to do. McVey took things easy and went bout his usual nonchalant way, winning every round easily. Greb, so they tell me, had been awarded a newspaper decision over Jack McVey. The scribes must 'have been 'hootched up'. In the fourth round McVey whipped a right cross to his opponent's jaw—and Greb took the count of eight. In the sixth stanza the Pennsylvanian was floored with a mighty left hook. The body blows administered by the colored flash took the wind away from the Willie's sails and he made use of the respites The Scranton battler used his righ from a low 'crouching positin, and many times he landed on McVey's jaw, the blows rocking the bronze champion, but never slowing the Harlem favorite by any means. The weights were: Willie Greb 146 1-2, and Jack McVey 151. A. and T. . On the second team, Henderson, diminutive and plucky quarterback, undoubtedly deserves his position on the basis of his brilliant performance this year. Baltimore, Md.—in connection with a $200,000 campaign for the Provident Hospital. al movement has been started to raise a memorial. endowment fund in honor of the late Joe Gans world's lightweight champion, who died in 1910 from tuberculosis. sis. The fund will provide for a tuberculosis ward. A group of eleven men opened the fund with contributions totalling $700, and other subscriptions are being made. The Baltimore Sun, one of the leading white daillies, commented editorially upon the fund as follows: Remembering Joe Gans. Few if any of the older generation, white or colored, have forgotten the name of Joe Gans, a Negro boy who rose from the obscurity of an employee in a Baltimore fish market to the lightweight champion of the world. Gans undoubtedly was one of the greatest boxers who ever stuck his fist inside a glove. A natural fighter to some degree, he was far above the average in intelligence. He participated in hundreds of matches, whipped the best lightweights of his time and held the championship for several years. In addition to this, his good conduct in the ring and out earned him the esteem of both races. He was a hero in Baltimore more than elsewhere, and since he died in 1910 he has grown into a tradition. It is pleasant to know, then, that the memory of this courageous and skillful gladiator is going to be perpetuated and not allowed to die in forgetfulness. A group of Negroes have started a campaign to honor Gans through an endowment fund for the new Provident Hospital and Free Dispensary. This is for tubercular work, a disease from which Gans died at 36. The nature of the memorial is peculiarly fitting, better than any bronze or marble gesture that might be made. Gans himself would have been one of the first to subscribe to a similar movement on behalf of anyone else. He was more than a fighter; he was also a good citizen and a man. Morehouse Five Defeats Paine and Morris Brown Atlanta, Ga.—The Morehouse basketball team opened the 1927-28 season Thursday evening with a 49-17 win from Paine College of Augusta, in the Morehouse Gym. $ ^{7} $ The Morehouse team showed up very well for such an early season game, w. $ ^{8} $ the team built around Captail Dobbs, Veteran of three seasons, Crawford, guard, and Nelson Archer, center from last year's varsity. Leonard Archer and L. K. Williams, jr., newcomers, performed as forwards. This team at the end of the first period was leading 27-3. The second half was played by a team composed of Banks and DuBose, forwards, Hawkins, center, Sapp and P. A. Johnson, guards. On Friday evening the Maroon Tiger Quintet engaged in its first conference tilt with Morris Brown University. The Morris Brown team was leading at the end of the first half 18-14. During the intermission the line up of the Morehouse team was changed, Captain Dobbs and Crawford being shifted to forward positions, and P. A. Johnson and Sapp replacing L. Archer and Williams as guards. Nelson Archer remained at center. Two minutes after the beginning of the second half, the Morehouse. Tigers made two field goals and a foul which put them in the lead, which position they held to the end of the game, finally winning 43-34. Edited by WILLIAM E. CLARK Best Wishes For a Prosperous New Year—From Marion Davis, Popular Actress. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a person, but no discernible features or details can be seen. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. Whitworth and Cummings Sign With Hilldale Philadelphia.—Activity continues to be the keynote about the office of the Hildale Club, with the result that two more Daisies have been added to the Darby bunch. Richard Whitworth, big right-handed hurler and Napoleon Cummings first baseman, have both signed on the dotted line and will report to Bill Francis in April. Charlie Freeman handed over the quill in person to Chance Cummings when the Atlantic City athlete visited the Hilldale office prior to his departure for Palm Beach where he is engaged in the traberdasher business during the winter season at the popular Florida resort. To land Whitworth. Freeman was forced to send the parchment on a long journey into the tall timber of the upper Michigan peninsula as Whit now resides in a little town named Munising on Lake Superior's bleak shore. Singularly enough, both of these players, veterans of the game were members of the 1921 Hilldale team that was captained by Bill Francis. So the get-together conference in the Spring will have all of the ear marks of a reunion in the Hilldale camp. Chance Cummings who first made his bow in the base ball circle of the East with the Bacharach Giants in 1916 has been a member of the Atlantic City team over the entire period with the exception of two years. Aside from being with Hilldale in 1921 he was inactive on the diamond the past season after being released by the seashore team. While never recorded as a star Cummings is a capable performer of the consistent type and a student of the game Dick Whitworth has blazed a swath on the diamond both in the West and East. In 1915 he was the pony hurler of the Rube Foster's American Giants and later developed into the star of the staff in 1920 he joined the Hilldale Club and for two years he mowed them down in the East for Ed. Bolden's squad: In 1922 he rejoined the American Giants and early in the season was a victim of a motor mishap, his second in as many years. The followbwing year he left Chicago for the small Woodshed UPPOSE TACT CREATURES YES, CHISEL — BU THE HARDLest ON THE LOT TO GET ALONG WITH IS THE COMMON ALASKA DOG WORRIER — Alhambra Theatre Gives Christmas Party For Neighborhood Children About two thousand happy youngsters of Harlem gathered Tuesday morning at the Alhambra Theatre on invitation of the management. The entertainment consisted of clowning, singing, dancing, motion pictures of the kind children love best and finally Santa Claus presented each one with a half pound box of good pure candy. The management had asked James H. Hubert, executive secretary of the Urban League to gather all the children of Harlem whom Santa Claus had overlooked. A large committee of well-known ladies assisted the Alhambra management in making the event the great success it was. "East Side, West Side" At The Douglas Theatre Dan O'Brien, the well-loved and highly efficient Police Chief of San francisco, dropped into the Fox New York Studio to watch his equally well-loved and efficient son, George O'Brien, at work before the camera. George was making "East Side, West Side," under the direction of Allan Dwan, his eighteenth picture since signing a Fox contract. Chief O'Brien had been in Canada at a Police Convention, and made a trip to New York on his way back to the West, Coast in order to visit his son. It is difficult to say which of the O'Brien's is more proud of the other, and both have reason for pride since each has earned an enviable reputation in his particular field. Dan O'Brien has, for several years, been president of the Police Association of the United States, and George is one of the best known leading men on the screen today. When the company finished for the day, Captain Felix Riesenberg, who wrote "East Side West Side," invited both O'Briens to be guests on his yatch, the "Norseman." "East Side, West Side" opens a 3 day run at the M. & S. Douglas Theatre. town of Munsing. Even in the sticks his diamond lore was not to he denied and he pitched the bick town to three straight championships. BY H!TT THEATRICAL JOTTINGS By BOB SLATER Glenn and Jenkins are on the Opening Bill at the Keith Albee new Chester Theatre, New York City. Tabor and Green are at the Lyric Theatre, Fitchburg, Mass. Brown and DeMone are at the St. James Theatre, Asbury Park, N. J. Chilton and Thomas are at the Orpheum Theatre, Oakland, Cal. Harrington and Green are at Keith Albee Riverside Theatre, New York City. Six Crackerjacks are at the Perry Theatre, Erie, Pa. Dixie Four are at the Colonial Theatre, Newport, R. I. Winfred and Mills are at Pantages Theatre, Tacoma, Wash. Sam Wooding's Orchestra is at Loew's Hillside Theatre, New York City. Arron and Violet are at the Colony Theatre, New Bedford, Mass. Anderson Bros. are at the Keith Albee Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. Craddock and Shadney are at the Avon Theatre, Watertown, N. Y. Bill Robinson is at the Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, Cal. Dirkson and Cassidy are at Proctor's Theatre, Union Hill, N. J. Perry and Covan are at the Palace Theatre, Bridgeport, Comm. Ray and Lloyd are at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. Joyner and Foster are at Keith-Albee Hippodrome Theatre, New York City. Jones and Jones are at the Victoria Theatre, Wheeling, W. Va. George McClennon is at the Englewood Theatre, Chicago, Ill. Buck and Bubbles are at Loew's State Theatre, New York City. Clarence Dotson is at the Miles Theatre, Detroit, Mich. Marion and Dade are at the Lyric Theatre, Indianapolis, Ind. Farrell and Chadwick are at the Lyric Theatre, Hoboken, N. J. Cliff and Radcliff are at the Bowdoin Square Theatre, Boston, Mass. Four Pepper Shakers are at Proctor's Theatre, Troy, N. Y. Hightower Trio are at the Bijou Theatre, Woonsocket, R. I. Johnson and Johnson are at the Grand Opera House, Philadelphia, Pa. The much talked of Ziegfield's "Show Boat" Co. opened Tuesday, December 27, at the Ziegfield Theatre, New York City, Julius Bledsoe has a leading part, with a group of colored singers, under direction of Will Vodery. Keep youth longer! cleansse the system of poisons Two of the great enemies to youth and vitality are delayed elimination and intestinal poisons. To keep yourself free from both these common difficulties will help you to stay young. With the use of Nujol you can do it too. For Nujol absorbs body polisons and it carries them off, preventing their absorption by the body. Nujol also softens the waste matter and brings about normal evacuation. It is harmless; contains no drugs or medicine. It won't cause gas or gripping pains, or affect the stomach or kidneys. Every corner druggist has Nujol. Make sure you get the genuine. Look for the Nujol bottle with the label on the back that you can read right through the bottle. Don't delay, get Nujol today. Ethel Waters, in "Africana," is at the Gibson Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. Howard and Brown and Co. are at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. Jimmy Cooper presents Butterbeans and Susie at the Howard Theatre, Washington, D. C. The Florence Mills Memorial Fund Benefit will be staged at the Gibson Theatre. on Thursday, January 5, 1928. U. S, (Slow Kid) Thompson, husband of the late Florence Mills, is with Lew Leslie's revue which opened Thursday, December 29 at the Ambassador Cafe, Park avenue, New York City. "The Last Waltz" At The Roosevelt Theatre In New York City a few years ago there was an operetta at the Century Opera House that was very successful. It was a delightful story of the Balkans that seemed to have just the right dash of the romantic. In it were such famous actors as Jimmie Barton, Walter Woolf and Eleanor Painter. The music was by that famous Viennese composer, Oscar Strauss and the book was by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grumwald. Its name was "The Last Waltz." So excellently well received was this operetta, that it was thought that the story was just right for picturization. "The Last Waltz" will be on the screen at Roosevelt this Saturday. M. & S. New D & S. New Douglass The M. & S. New Douglass Theatre Lenox Ave. Cor. 142nd Street Sat., Sun., Mon., Decen GEORGE "EAST SIDE A thrilling romance o M. & S. Roos un., Mon., December 31, January GEORGE O'BRIEN IN EAST SIDE WEST SIDE telling romance of the great met . & S. Roosevelt Theatre Sat., Sun., Mon., December 31, January 1, 2 GEORGE O'BRIEN "EAST SIDE WEST SIDE"A thrilling romance of the great metropolis M. & S. Roosevelt Theatre Seventh Ave. Cor. 145th St. Sat., Sun., Mon., Decen OLD WORLD "THE LAST W A Distinguished A tense and tender love duced on an elaborate style. LINCOLN LINCOLN MANAG GALA HOLIDAY With Kid Bumsky, Billy Gulpe Lavina Mack, Luella Brunswick SIXTEEN LINCOLN On The Screen T BUSTER KEATO Coming Week Drake and Walker From now on the policy o the Revue's close the bill at a LAFAY un., Mon., December 31, January 1 OLD WORLD ROMANCE THE LAST WALTZ WITH A Distinguished Cast of Players ense and tender love story of the Balkan St an elaborate style. LINCOLN THEATRE LINCOLN MANAGEMENT PRESENTS BILLA HOLIDAY TIP TOP REVU Al Bumsky, Billy Gulport, George Cooper, Mad Lavina Mack, Luella Wilson, Dolly Ross, Brunswick Record Stars SIXTEEN LINCOLN DANCING GIRLS On The Screen Thursday to Sunday MUSTER KEATON in "COLLEGE" Coming Week of January 2nd Make and Walker in "Chocolate Gai now on the policy of this house will change he close the bill at all times. AFAYETT Sat., Sun., Mon., December 31, January 1, 2 OLD WORLD ROMANCE A Distinguished Cast of Players A tense and tender love story of the Balkan States, produced on an elaborate style. LINCOLN THEATRE LINCOLN MANAGEMENT PRESENTS GALA HOLIDAY TIP TOP REVUE With Kid Bumsky, Billy Gulport, George Cooper, Mae Barnes, Lavina Mack, Luella Wilson, Dolly Ross, Brunswick Record Stars SIXTEEN LINCOLN DANCING GIRLS On The Screen Thursday to Sunday BUSTER KEATON in "COLLEGE" Coming Week of January 2nd Drake and Walker in "Chocolate Gal" From now on the policy of this house will change, having the Revue's close the bill at all times. LAFAYETTE SEVENTH AVENUE 132nd STREET Now Playing (Up to 5 QUINTARD MILLER & Present the Revue Semi "HIT W GREENLEE and DRAYT LOTTIE GEE, EDITH SPEE INEZ DENNIS, DORIS RH REALLY HIT, AND A Feature in "THE PO The Broadway Film Next Week Beginning THE WOR Playing (Up to Sunday, Inclusive) INTARD MILLER and MARCUS SLAYTE present the Revue Sensation of the New Year "HIT IT" With ENLEE and DRAYTON, GALLIE DE GAS GEE, EDITH SPENCER, ROSCOE MON ENNIS, DORIS RHUEBOTTOM, 12 GIRL GALLY HIT, AND A ROUSING JAZZ BAN Feature Photoplay: "THE POOR NUT" The Broadway Film Comedy Sensation Week Beginning Monday, January THE WORLD FAMOUS Now Playing (Up to Sunday, Inclusive) QUINTARD MILLER and MARCUS SLAYTER Present the Revue Sensation of the New Year GREENLEE and DRAYTON, GALLIE DE GASTON, LOTTIE GEE, EDITH SPENCER, ROSCOE MONTELLA INEZ DENNIS, DORIS RHUEBOTTOM, 12 GIRLS WHO REALLY HIT, AND A ROUSING JAZZ BAND WHITMAN SISTERS In their Entirely The Greatest Yet—Presented for Feature "THE MA The Dramatic Se in their Entirely New 1928 Revue latest Yet—Presented for the Filrst Time In N Feature Photoplay "THE MAIN EVENT" The Dramatic Sensation of the Year In their Entirely New 1928 Revue The Greatest Yet—Presented for the Filirst Time In New York Feature Photoplay "THE MAIN EVENT" The Dramatic Sensation of the Year Sunday, Monday. If you want to have an extremely interesting even- ing go to see it. ALHAMBRA 126th Street & Seventh Ave. Now Playing—This Week HAPPY NEW YEAR You see this Greeting Everywhere. It is the title of the Alhambra Show. Start 1928 with Joyous laughter. New Headliners Are KENT & BERNICE Whirlwind Dance Entertainers ROD LA ROCQUE In "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WOMEN?" Midnite Ramble Wednesday Extra Special Midnite Ramble New Year's Eve Buy Reserve Seats Now New Show Every Week Beginning Monday, Jan. 2 JOYS OF 1928 Also LEO MALONEY In "THE DEVIL'S TWIN" November 31, January 1, 2 O'BRIEN IN "WEST SIDE" of the great metropolis Hevelt Theatre Phone Edg. 7860 November 31, January 1, 2 D ROMANCE T WALTZ" WITH Cast of Players History of the Balkan States, pro- THEATRE ELEMENT PRESENTS TIP TOP REVUE Art, George Cooper, Mae Barnes, Wilson, Dolly Ross, Record Stars IN DANCING GIRLS Thursday to Sunday IN in "COLLEGE" of January 2nd IN "Chocolate Gal" of this house will change, having lots times. Sunday, Inclusive) and MARCUS SLAYTER issertation of the New Year IT" with TON, GALLIE DE GASTON, RICER, ROSCOE MONTELLA REBOTTOM, 12 GIRLS WHO ROUSING JAZZ BAND Photoplay: OR NUT" in Comedy Sensation Monday, January 2 OLD FAMOUS New 1928 Revue for the First Time In New York Photoplay IN EVENT" issertation of the Year Phone Edg. 8012 IVAN H. BROWNING OF THE 4 HARMONY KINGS WRITES BOB SLATER ANENT THE NEED OF REAL NEGRO MUSICAL COMEDY Ivan H. Browning, first tenor and manager of the Original 4 Harmony Klings, now in England, where they have been for some time, has written an interesting letter to "Bob" Slater, editor of The Age's Theatrical Jottings column, in which he gives expression to some valuable opinions anent the recognition recently shown to Negro players in Broadway companies, both in all-Negro companies and in those in which individual Negro actors are associated with white actors. Mr. Browning pays a feeling tribute to the late Florence Mills, saying, in reference to her death, that "We feel her death over this way perhaps more than you all do at this particular time because of the fact that this time last year she was here and was the sensation' of the season. I can't begin to tell you how these people seriously' worshiped her. I have read your article in which you spoke of the Negro in show business these days, and of the replacing of Miss Mills, etc. "It is a splendid article indeed, and coming from you who have had years of experience in the show business, it is certainly sane advice to those who are trying to reach the top in the wrong way, and I well agree with you that it will be a mighty long time, I'm afraid, before we'll have another 'Flo'." Then Mr. Brownjning takes up the subject of the Negro performer, commenting in this wise: "While this coming season looks like a banner year for the Negro performer, on account of many being used in white shows, and while it affords a good living for, the Negro performer, on the other hand the foundation is not strong enough to really last. Besides, it is a novelty and somewhat of a fad to have Negroes in white shows at the moment, but what will the Negro do on a large scale after this novelty has worn off? It is quite unfortunate that there are so few real Negro outstanding shows before the public, and I hope the time isn't far off when Negroes will go: get together in every respect and use their wonderful abilities and their brains and put on several sensational shows. "But the first thing that must be done is to form combinations with rock bottom foundations like the late Miller & Lyle—Sissie & Blake combination, whose names, from a combination and power standpoint, should be at the head of at least three good paying all-Negro shows right now. "And until the Negro gets back to speaking lines and putting more art into his work (and above all leave out vulgarity on the stage) he will remain just, where he is. "I had hoped that after a good rest our little Florence would head one of the finest Negro musical comedies (not revues) of the present age, but now that she is gone, the one big question is, What Is Really The Negro's Future In The Show Business?" "Lately, I have had a lot of talk with Noble Sissle, who has begun a variety tour over here, and while he is doing nicely personally, his one big ambition is to produce an all-Negro music comedy, and if plants turn out all right, this summer will see a real Negro show that will be acredit to the race in Europe. "I am glad Miller & Lyle are having success, and I hope that in their next venture they will use the Shuffle Along idea of filling their show with four or five stars besides themselves. It is the only way, nowadays, to have a really successful show—to have many good stars, besides an excellent chorus. "The Negro in Europe is badly in need of a Feal Negro musical comedy, done by real artists. Blackbirds' opened the eyes of the Englishman, as nothing has done in years, and the first real good Negro plot show that reaches England, will be a tremendous success, especially in London. "I am indeed glad of the success all the Negro performers are having in the white shows and I sincerely wish them continued success. But I do hope that my dream will come true and next year there will be at least three good all-Negro shows in America and one in England. Also, one on the continent, because they love good Negro talent over there, too." Mr. Browning gave a bit of space to telling about the various colored groups now in England and on the Continent. The Harmony Kings will go to the Continent in February for a five month's tour through Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and France, returning to England in June to play the Stoll and Gulwer tours. The Three Eldies, Lyton & Johnstone, Williams & Taylor, Scott & Whaley, always favorites in England, and Carpenter & Match are all doing fine. Johnny Hudgins, formerly of the "Blackbirds," is in Paris and opened with great success at the Moulin Rouge, and Josephine Baker continues her wonderful career in the French Capital and other parts of the Continent. Leslie Hutchinson ("Hutch") is called by the royalty) is the most popular entertainer in the West End and is in great demand. Then Mr. Browning told Mr. Slater: "Before closing I want to tell you how interesting it was to me to read of your more than doing your bit to make dear little Florence's reception when she returned from Europe one that I am sure will never be forgotten, and I also read that you also did your bit in seeing that things were carried out in fitting fashion at the church during her funeral. You have been a lovely friend to Florence and Kid, and I am sure Kid is very grateful to you, as Miss Milks was always." RODMAN WANAMAKER GIVES 2d AWARD OF $1,000 IN PRIZES TO COMPOSERS OF NEGRO RACE FOR ORIGINAL MUSIC Through the Robert Curtis Ogden, Association of John Wannamaker's Philadelphia, store, announcement is made that for the second year Rodman Wannamaker is offering $1,000 to be awarded as prizes to Negro composers, for original musical compositions, along the same line as was the case in 1927, but with some material modifications. The National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., is cooperating with Mr. Wannamaker, and the awards will be made at the annual meeting of that body next August. The awards are to be made in four classes, instead of five as last year, and the character of compositions to be submitted are more clearly defined. Class One is to be devoted to compositions scored for a full symphonic orchestra, of either symp. opn. poem, overture or other orchestral form. The composer must write for a full complement of woodwind, brass and stringed instruments, but may add such other instruments, as are desired. Class Two 'must' be a love song for one voice, with accompaniment for piano, orchestra, or other instrument, with instrumental obbligato parts at will of the composer. Class Three is for instrumental solo compositions, with any acco pantiment desired, an dance, conata, or other form. The occupant must not be for more than ten instruments, but the composer can use any combination. Class Four embraces compositions for a full brass band, and may be in form of a theme with variations, a march, or any, other form desired by the composer. In all of these classes, it is preferred that the Negro music idiom be used, but this is not obligatory. The compositions will be judged for quality of musical thought, and workmanship will have first conderation. In Class One the awards will be $250, $100 and $50; Class Two, Three and Four, $100, $75 and $50, each. All entries must be in the hands of the Ogden Association at the Wannaker Store, Philadelphia, not later than midnight of June 1, 1928. HARRY PRAMPIN LAUR SCHOOL OF MUSIC Moat Progressive School in Harlem 131 WEST 136th STREET New York City MUSIC NOTES Back From Italy PETER M. Chauncey Northern Is Guest Of Mrs. D. E. Smith Mr. and Mrs. D. Edward Smith opened the doors of their palatial home at 188 West 135th street on Friday evening in honors of Chuancey H. Northern, who recursed from Italy, after a study of fifteen months. Musical numbers were rendered by many present, includry Mr. Northern, who sang two numbers, Artists and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Smith present to welcome Mr. Northern, his mother, Mrs. Bessie Northern, sister, Miss Ida Northern were: Dr. Melville Charlton, Miss Abbie, Mitchell, Mme. Lula Robinson-Jones, William Service Bell, Hall Johnson, Leslie Tompkins, Emery Bonner, Caska Bonds, Edward Coleman, Robert Douglass, Samuel Minor, Vincent Dr-Soto, Miss Edna Barr, Hugo Bornn, Denier Ragsdale, Wilda Punn, Artur Carter, Miss Eleanor Ragsdale, Miss Sarah Freeman, Charles Dickey, Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bell and Mr. and Mrs. Madison Brooks. "Joys of 1928" At The Alhambra Next Weeks "Happy New Year" is the Alhambra's offering this week. This show has class and speed and is one of the most elaborate productions ever presented in Harlem. Kent and Bernice, a boy and girl dancing team of A-1 calibre, "stop the show" with their Bowyer dance and other eccentric numbers. The Gaines Brothers differ from the masters that are offered to colored audiences. These boys walk on the hands and heels with equal ease as they walk on their feet. They can twist and turn themselves into all sorts of positions and seem to be made more of rubber than flesh and bone. A cafe in the wild and wooly West, in a town rampant with deserpoedes. Mexican senoritas and dance-hall girls furnishes the background for Tim Moore in the guide of a genial bartender, who out-wits Faro Dian. Slim Henderson involves in a domestic squabble and the ensuing complications; gave the audience many a laugh. Mantan, Gertie Moore Mae Belle, Amanda Randolph, Theresa Brooks, George Booker, George Green, Harry Juncus, All F Watts and the sixteen dainty girls all add to the fun and excitement. The chorus numbers are unnite and beautifully done by the famous Allymma girls. The picture feature is "What's Wrong with the Women?" with Rod La Rocque. JOYS of 1928' is next week's show EDWIN COATES Piano Composition Harmony Ear Training 139 W. 136th St. New York City WILSON. LAMB W. 136th ST. New York City SIPSI EMMANUEL CHURCH Saturday, 10:30 a.m. Orange N. J. Phone Orange 73 FRANK HARRISON Baritone Concert Oratorio Recital Talladega College Talladega, Ala. and surprises are in store for Alhambra audiences. Among the attractions will be May Barnes and Lavinia Mack who won the riotously applauded hit of "Rang Tang" at the theaters downtown. They were booked to go to Europe, but as their salary figure were not met, the Allambra engaged them, and Harlem will welcome its own great dancers back. The photoplay success just issued, Leo Maloney in "The Devil's Twirl" will be featured the first half of the week. Omega Psi Phi Frat Holding Annual Conclave At St. Mark's Church Omega Psi Phi Frat Holding Annual Conclave At St. Mark's Church The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, which was founded on November 17, 1911 at Howard University by Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper and Frank Coleman in company with Prof. E. Just and which today numbers over 78 chapters located in leading colleges and universities with a total membership of more than 3,000, are holding their annual concave this week in New York City. The Epsilon Xi Phi and Zeta Psi Chapters, local chapters, are the hosts. Sessions started Monday, December 26 with registration of delegates at the Walker Studio. In the evening, at 8 p.m. the Supreme Council met and at 10 p.m. m. a proclave smoker was held at the Walker Studio. All business sessions were held in St. Mark's Church. Tuesday, December 27, the morning session in'St. Mark's M. E. Church was devoted to registration of delegates, financial reports, with the formal opening of the conelave at 11 a.m., followed by an informal symposium at the Y. W. G.-A. Cafeteria at noon. In the afternoon, there was roll call, report of the Supreme Council after which the meeting adjourned for the day. In the evening, the inter-fraternity basketball game, Omega Psi Phi versus Kappa Alpha Psi, was played at the Renaissance Casino. Wednesday morning, business session was continued with a report of the chapels after which the official fraternity picture was taken. In the evening at the Renaissance Casino was the formal open dance. Thursday's session will be devoted to report of the the committees, after which there will be adjournment at 5:30 p. m. At 8:30 p. m. there will be a public meeting at the New Mother A. M. E. Zion Church. The program is as follows: invocation, Rev. Louis A. Berry, grand chaplain, introductory remarks by Ira De A. Reid, grand marshal; fraternal greetings by representatives of local chanters of sororities and fraternities; reply by Julius S. McClain, grand basileus; tenor solo, Thomas Johnson; address, Rev. E. A. Love, founder; baritone solo, Thomas Johnson, and benediction. Friday will be devoted to a continued report of committees with adjournment at 5:30 p. m. At 8 p. m. there will be the formal closed banquet at the Cafe Boulevard, Broadway at 41st street. Saturday will be devoted to roll call, selection of place of next conclave, discharge of committees, election of officers and adjournment. In the afternoon another interfraternity ball game, Alpha Phi Alpha versus Omega Psi Phi will be held. Many social affairs were given in honor of the visiting Omegas. Fitzherbert Howell Now Public Fire Adjuster Fitzherbert Howell of 215 West 135th street has been authorized by the insurance Department, State of New York, to conduct the business on a public adjuster or fire losses for the assured. The acquisition of this special line of business places Mr. Howell's office in the foremost rank of expert and capable brokers. "Mr. Howell successfully passed the examination as a fire adjuster, and is the first of his race to enter the field of "Adjuster of Fire Losses for the Assured." He is considered an expert. Mr. Howell has been in the insurance business for 18 years, and has acquired a thorough knowledge of this particular line from the Queen Insurance Company. Kids Tell Why They Go To Nutrition Classes "I like to come to the nutrition class because I learn how to grow, be strong and healthy and grow up." "I play football when I grow up," he says, "to come to my class, because I learn how to eat healthy and, if I'm healthy, I'll be happy." One after another, the boys and girls of the nutrition, class and health club, Harlem Committee of the New York Tuberculosis and Health association, were telling the work why they liked it. All were so eager to talk that they could hardly wait their turns, and the enthusiasm expressed in their faces was evidence that they meant what they said. health class for children is in the committee's offices, on the third floor of the Urban League Building, 202 West 136th street, every Thursday afternoon. Here children who are underweight are taught what to eat to gain and what kinds of food are best for growing children. Health stories are read to the youngsters, and health games are arranged for them. The committee also conducts a large variety of other activities in carrying on its program of fighting disease, and building up health in Harlem. It has an information services which will serve anyone in the community. It assists people to find treatment for tuberculosis and receive treatment for tuberculosis or disease. It conducts a dental clinic every morning. It arranges health lectures and movies for various groups in the community which ask for them. Every year it arranges an institute for physicians where a course of lectures is given to those attending. It distributes pamphlets on health matters and conducts a far-reaching campaign of health education. It money to carry on this program of health work is supplied by the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association which raises most of its funds by the annual sale of Christmas seals. Dr. and Mrs. U. Conred Vincent, 251 West 138th street, popular among the younger social sec, will entertain the delegates to the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Conclave on Monday afternoon, January 2, at their residence. Mt. Calvary M. E. Church "The Incarnate Christ" was the subject of the Rev. E. W. Rakesstraw's Christmas message at Mt. Calvary M. E. Church. His text was from St. John:114. "And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us." The sermon was inspiring and profitable to all who heard it. At 6 p.m. a candle-light service was conducted by the epworth League. A feature of this service was a musical program by the 3rd and 4th departments of the Sunday school. At 8 p.m. the Rev. A. N. Wattik, preached from Second Cornthians 4:3. "But if your gospel it is hid from them that are lost." On Friday afternoon, a second meeting will be need to perfect plans for a junior church. The pass and other church officers are napping their program for a junior church will be in operation by January 15. Saturday night a watch meeting service will be held. The public is invited to attend this service and to the hear the pastor deliver a. New Year's message Sunday morning. His subject will be "An Order From Heaven. Next week will be a week of prayer at this church. The pastor will deliver a series of special sermons. Refuge Church of Christ At the morning service Elder Lawson preached from St. John 12:27, "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour." That which is true of Christ is also true of the believer. He gained his glory through suffering; so He turns now from the general law to its personal application to Himself. It will be noticed that in the life of ours we constantly find transitions from sorrow. The shock has come already, but the effect continues. The presenting of the Greeks of that day shadowed the judgment on the ancient people, and brought forward the means by which it would be accomplished. The prospect of this catastrophe was perhaps the crisis of our Lord's present conflict. Christ dame that He might enter into the last conflict with sin and death, and being saved out of it win a triumph over death by dying. It was for this cause that rie was brought to this hour. There is a purpose in everything that rie allows to come in lives of the believers, therefore we are to walk on Him -rie -grace to say even as He said" for this cause this hour." Likewise, we have a beautiful picture of faith yieoodness of Queen Elizabeth; how that she became willing, and even ventured her life to save her people, but was accepted of the King and her life was spared and also her people. "Through fasting and much trial, with perseverance she brought deliverance to her people (the Jews). She was reluctant to go in unto the King in the beginning, even as many of the people of the Lord. But other ordeals challenged her with this question: "If thou altogether holdest thy peace at time then deliverance shall arise from Jews, from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed; and who, knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Then Esther bade them take this answer to Mordern; "Go gather ye all the Jews; a e peent in Shushan, and fast for me, and so I will go into in unto you, to perish I perish." The same man perished each on that hath put on Christ, said for Lawson, and we must say, "If Esther, "if I perish I perish," we know not that the Lord hath in the fire of affliction and testing for a specific purpose; even as she, "At the evening service, Elder Lawson poke from James, 1:18, "Of this war will he beset Hes in the 10,00 The choice of the woman of taste is always decided by smartness, simplicity of style and perfection of fit. All these are possible, and inexpensively so, in using the Hand-Cut Pattern of a model of this type. The simple smartness of its style makes it entirely suitable anywhere, depending on the material used in making up. We suggest jersey or cashmere for sports, silk crepe, for school or business, and satin, velvet or faille silk for afternoon. Important colors are beige autumn brown, wine-red, French blue and black. May be obtained in sizes 10 to 44 Size 36 requires. 3.1-12 yards of 40 inch material. No dressmaking experience is unly hand-cut of heavy paper. Patterns will be delivered to mention, size wanted. Address. Street, New York, City. word of TRUTH, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of His creature's. These are the words of Peter, by the dictation of the Holy Ghost to write unto the church of the which we are members—if it so be that we have been baptized into the name of Jesus Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. Therefore we must of necessity become a doer of these things, if we hope to attain unto the glory of the church triumphant. Elder Lawson brought out many beautiful] and touching truths upon this subject of how under all condition the people of God should never happen in life, it is the Lord's blessing. It is Him that worketh in us to will and do of His good pleasure, for of His own will begat He us with the word of TRUTH. HEALTH IS HERE By DR M. ALICE ASSERSON the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association Don't Diet and Break Down Your Health Some of the large insurance companies of the country advise against too much dieting by women. What they say has significance. They obtain their figures from actual studies, and are constantly surveying large groups in order to eliminate undue risks in giving life insurance to people. It has been discovered that women twenty-five years old, or under, who are underweight are bad insurance risks because they are more likely to have tuberculosis than are their "stouter" sisters. Unwise dieting, which often is not dieting at all, but a form of starvation may lower the general resistance and make one less able to fight disease. All girls, and especially those who are working, should take to heart the advice of the insurance companies. Do not dirt to keep underweight. You need a sufficient amount of wholesome, well-prepared food in order to keep in good health and to be able to do your best at your job, whatever that may be. Eat some of each kind of food. You need a certain amount of milk, eggs, fresh vegetables, meat once a day, butter, fish occasionally, fruit and other foods. Eat a good breakfast so that you will start the day feeling right. Eat a nourishing lunch and enough of it. During the winter it is a good thing to have at least one hot dish, such as cream soup, hot vegetables or hot chocolate or cocoa, for lunch. Budget your food allowance, of course, and eat the cheaper, nourishing foods, instead of more expensive ones, if you insist, but do, not go without lunch or very little lunch or breakfast in order to save money. 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Urban League Officers On Tour Of The South Eugene Knickle: Jones, secretary of the National Urban League, with headquarters in New York City, has been touring the South in interest of his organization and to study social conditions among both urban and rural Negroes. Accompanied by Field Secretary Jesse O. Thomas of Atlanta, Mr. Jones was a guest at Georgia State Industrial College, Savannah, Ga., B. F. Hubert, president. He addressed the students in chapel, and was guest of honor at a banquet arranged, by Sol C. Johnson, editor of the Savannah Tribune, and President Hubert, set in the auditorium of Hill Hall on the college campus. Several hundred citizens of Savannah, with visitors from other cities, were present. Business and...professional men made addresses, including the Rev. D. R.oss, S. A. Jones Jr., Franta Callen, R. A. Harper and Mrs. Willie Hill Powell. The school's mixed octette (M.C., Mr. C. A. Atwater, general selections). Mr. Jones, in his address, dwelt on "The Day of the New Negro." Before reaching, Savannah, Mr. Jones and Mr. Thomas had visited the Bethune-Cookin College at Dayton, Fla., where they were welcomed by Mrs. Mary McLeed Bethune, founder and principal, the student body, and dozens of both racec. Owing to automobile trouble, the visitors were au Attractive Morning Dress No. 1155 Do you have trouble selecting housedress that is simple service and yet smart? The modern hot wife will appreciate that this tracive housedress has style as well as practical ones, long, pointed vestee and pocket white percale are emphasized trimming of white pearl both the dress, itself, is of any material, such as gingham, pere or satin in a blue, rose or print. May be obtained in sizes 16 44. Size 36 requires 2 3-4 yards 36 inch material. these patterns which are indulteed. cash or U. S. postage. Alw New York Age. 230 West. hour and a half late, but the, the audience waited with patience. Mr. Jones emphasized prepara for service on part of the year. The event was held at conclusion of program, the spaces, well-app home of Mrs. Bethune being the open for the occasion. Orangeburg, S. C.-On-Fr evening, December 9, the porta- ble the Delta Chapter of the Phi D Kappa Sorority, located at S College, Orangeburg, S. C. opened aid seven neophyte cree the burning sands and entered mystic realm. The "Y" hut, artistically decou a nitting scene for a midsize buff buffalo, were lilian C. Bovier, Lillian Callaway and Mabel Grego, Or- angeburg; Wilhelmia Thompson Genevieve B. Vincent, Column Mariam B. Wilkinson and Mrs. L. Coprich, Orangeburg. Dr. R. S. Wilkinson, presiden- t the college, and Miss Licele Allie secretary of the Y. W. C. A., guests at supper. Dr. Wilkino- n, professor from the Pai Phi Fraternity and welcom the sorority to the college. This chapter was organized years ago with the following in- bers: Dora E. Boston, Sara B. Herson, C. Nell Houston, New Y City; Isabel M. Hurlong, Mable James, Lillian T. Lawrence, Pa France, and Marian B. Mickey, Bton, Mass. Two of the pledges, Mrs. L. Holmes of Florence, S. C, and A. J. Williams, Jacissville, P. were unable to attend. Subscribe to The New York and get a Dictionary free. See announcement of our Subscription Offer. Fifth Avenue Dress Shop Dresses Formerly $19. Now $10.7 All styles, Satins, Jerseys, Sill Sportwear also Stouts Coats and Evening Dresses Reasonable Prices Come early and Get First Ch Open From 9:30 a.m. to 12 p. 2068 FIFTH AVENUE Bet. 127th and 128th Streets NTERESTING ITEMS GLEANED BY THE AGE CORRESPONDENTS of. Ceremony? W. Roberts, secretary; Griffin Hayes, treasurer; Jacob Strange, tyler; R. Roberts, chaplain; Will. Morton, J. S. Sythrath • Bros urnished ice cream for 200 hundred of the C. C. C. Xmas carols were sung, recitation by Fred Fitzgites, piano solo by Leonard Kahn, address by Assist. Scott Executive, W.' Newkirk; Assist. Junior. Scoutmaster Harold Scheer and the entire Jewish troop were present in a body. Mamaroneck, N. Y.-The Junior Choir of the A. M. E. Zion Church presented an interesting Christmas program on Sunday evening under the direction of Levi Hall and Mrs. Virginia Gilmore. The pastor, Rev. H. W. Allen, commented at the end of the program on how fitting each number was pertaining to the Birth of Jesus. The Sunrise service on Christmas morning at 6:30 a. m. was well attended. Class leader, Amther Cuffy, lead the services. At the 11 o'clock service, the pastor, Rev. H. W. Allen, preached from St. Luke 2:10. topic "The Birth of Christ." Watch meeting services will be held at the A. M. E. Zion Church, Saturday evening, December 31. Mrs. Laura Rogers is convalescing nicely but is still in Portchester Hospital. The regular monthly meeting of the Missionary Society will be held Tuesday, January 3, at the home of Mrs. Lillie Allen. 54 Third street. Mrs. Prettyman is president of the society. FREE - This Dictionary - FREE WITH A Years Subscription TO The New York Age In Reality A One Volume Reference Library. Over 1,200 Pages PRESENT SUBSCRIBERS—NOTE If you are already a subscriber, you can take advantage of this offer enewing your subscription now for two years-regardless of expira-date. Enclosed please find $4.00 for which please send me The New York Age for two years and Webster's College, Home and Office Dictionary free of charge. hkeepsie, N. Y. puise, N. Y. — Last Wed- days. Freeman Boone was Koekepate Rural cemetery, after was in New York weekend. Winnams has been on the other Conlueck has been on time Social club has post- checker tournament until holidays. Data of Queen Esther at of fifty people will be the direction of Mrs. ose at Zion A. M. E. saturday evening, January William Carroll is on the visited Mrs. Curtis Pot- ters. Phil. Wood. Both doing nicely. mternoon service of the C. Sunday, the audience was the sweet voice and the of the vocal selection e A Voice is calling" by West. nt of illness, Mrs Mary was unable to accompany mrs. A. D. Jones to At- last Saturday. meers and members of 32nd anniversary of the day January 22nd. Rev Daniels of Newburgh, N. nach in the morning and King of Kingston, N. nach at night. H. McMullen, pastor of I. E. Church, held two vices last Sunday. Both are depicting the various of Escher. These gers- prelude to the cantata either to be given at the rday January 12th, by ie Rose. The Sunday l render their Xmas mas Sunday. The C. E. ll show pictures of the at 7 p. m., in charge of Chapman and the reading ident Mrs J. H. MoMul, sermon was preached at There was sunrise pray- Sunday school Xmas rday evening December Lodge A. F. and A. held their annual election 67 Cathineine street, last night. Grand Master John of St. Andrews No. 7, N. Y. presided. Aetius W. M.; Elmer Rice. S. Adkins, J. W.; Norman D.; Brother Wells. S. oberts. S. Master of Cereer Tewyman. J. Master REE-This Years The Ne Actual Size 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 In Reality A One Volume PRESENT If you are already a subscrip renewing your subscription date. IS OFFER LD5 GOOD A LIMITED ME ONLY— NOW AND YOUR DIC NARY FREE NOTE THESE FEATURES: 60,000 Words-(General Vocabulary) 12,000 Synonyms and Antonyms Dictionary of Latest Words Radio and Wireless Terms Commercial and Legal Terms Common Abbreviations. Famous Characters In Prose and Poetry Mamaroneck, N. Y. Newburgh. N. Y. Newburgh, N. Y.—Mr. and Mrs. Moses R. Selden spent the weekend and: Christmas with their mother, Mrs. Susan Johnson at Midtown. At a recent meeting of the Associated Charities. Prof. Ulysses J. Alsdorf was elected to serve for a three year term on the board of managers. This year the Sunday school as well as the choir had charge of the evening service and it brought out a large attendance. This is the first time that the combining has been put forth by the choir and school. The audience seemed well pleased with the carols, anthems and recitations of all. Prof. Ulysses J. Alsdorf, Miss Margaret Lloyd and Miss Elsie Taylor, pi- anist. deserve much credit for their part in coaching both the children and the choir. Miss Jeanette H. Ready, a nurse in the Hartem Hospital at New York City, spent Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ready. The Rev. Henry H. Fox, pastor of the St. James A. M. E. Zion Church of Beacon and Miss Doborah Buchanan of Washington D.C., were united in marriage by the Rev. Chanceford Fairfax, pastor of the Washington Street A. M. E. Zion Church at 5 o'clock. The ceremony was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. Chavis of New York City Mrs. Alexandra Cappidge and son are visiting her father, Mr. Hawkins at Glendale, Maryland, where they will remain until after New Year. Miss Margueretta Fox of New York City spent Christmas with her father, Rev. Henry H. Fox. Mrs. Alice Judd and son, Benjamin, spent the holiday period visiting the former home of Mrs. Judd at Westbury, Long Island. Yonkers. N. Y. Yonkers. N. Y.-The Christmas services at Messiah Baptist Church, the Rev. S. W. Smith, pastor, were the best in many years. The day started with sunrise service, which got everybody in the attitude of worship. At 11 a. m., the pastor delivered a sermon that reached the hearts of his hearers. At 12.30 p. m., the beginners and primary departments of the Sunday school held their service in the presence of a large audience. Miss C. A. Gwathney was in charge. At 8 p. m., the senior choir gave its Christmas concert, which was enjoyed by all. P. Ellsworth Harris rendered two violin selections. Mrs. Maude Sutherland, Miss C. A. Gwathmey, Miss Ruth Wilson, Miss Flora Cole, Miss Pauline Smith, Miss Marion Lee and little Billy Saunders rendered special numbers The Emancipation Proclamation will be celebrated Monday evening at Messiah Baptist Church, with R. M Bolden, pastor of Emmanuel Church, as orator Dr. Jordan of North Carolina, who is attending Columbia University, worshipped at Messiah Church Sunday. Rochester, N. Y.—Rev. H. C. Robinson of Mitchell street preached both morning and evening at the A. M. E. Zion Church last Sunday. Special music was rendered by the choir. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wooding of Syracuse were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Williams of Waverly place over Christmas. Miss Susy Yarborough of New York City spent the Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs. William Stockton of Bay street. Mr. and Mrs. Florence Tabares of Westfield, N. J., were the Christmas guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Carter, Ford street. Mr. and Mrs. Carter motored with a party to Buffalo and Niagara Falls on Christmas Day. Sunday, December 4, N. S. Bishop, John Carson, George Henderson, Dommie Johnson, Wilmont Thomas, Patrick Kennedy, Herman Jenney, Edward Holcomb and John H. Lee of Flower City Lodge, No. 91 journeyed to Ithaca, N. Y., to attend the Frederick Douglass Council, No. 3, Past exalted tutors, Bishop and Cannon were elected as trustees and Bros. Lee and Thomas and scribes. The next session will be held in Binghamton, N. Y. NEW JERSEY News, memorials and advertising headquarters of The New York Age, 325 Plainfield avenue, greetings: Advertising in The New York Age reaches the most interested business people in the country. Try it and see what good results may be obtained. News items for this column must be signed and will be received up to Sunday night of the week of publication. Plainfield, N. J.—An interesting meeting of the Women's Auxiliary to the Y. M. C. A. was held in the Y. building, West 4th and John streets, Monday evening, December 19. Mrs. M. A. Alexander presided. Mr. and Mrs. John Flamer of Liberty street spent the Christmas holidays with Mrs. Nancy Walker and other friends at Long Branch, N. J. Miss Reba Mayo of West 2nd street left Wednesday, December 21 for a visit with friends in Rocky Mount, N. C. While in the South sh will appear in several recitals. Mrs. M Wright of 620 West 3rd street has returned from New York City where she attended the funeral of her brother in law, Frank Newton, who was buried Sunday, December 18, from the funeral of Rodney and Brothers The Christmas morning service at Calvary Baptist Church were largely attended Special music was furnished for the occasion by the junior choir under direction of J. B. Whiting, chorister and Miss Antonette Whiting pianist Young Paul Johnson, our accomplished violinist, also accompanied the choir Jabez Banks sang a solo number which was much enjoyed by the congregation. He was accompanied by Miss Whiting. The service opened with a fervent prayer by the Rev. Daniel Brown; pastor, the Rev. D. W. Hogard, read the scripture lesson from St. Luke, second chapter; prayer was offered by the Rev. M. A. Alexander, a beautiful selection was rendered by a trio consisting of J. B. Whiting, cornetist, Paul Johnson violinist and Miss Antonette Whiting. pianist; notices were read by Deacon Brinkley after which the pastor delivered his Christmas message from St. Luke 2:14. Offering at this service $60.22. Mr. and Mrs. Collins Washington of 629 West 4th street entertained at dinner Sunday, Christmas Day with a five course dinner the following; Mrs. Probabco, Mrs. Lizzie Johnson and C. Edward Epps The home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Brown was beautiful illuminated Christmas evening for the enjoyment of their children. Miss Thelma and Charlie Brown, also for friends who dropped in. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Brown, who has not been well lately, is now very much improved. A celebration in honor of the 60th year of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation will be held at Mount Olive Baptist Church, Monday evening, January 2. A fine program has been arranged under Mme Lulu Elsey as musical director and the following committee. Chairman C. G.Wooding; Mrs. E. W. Coberd, Mrs. M. A. Alexander, Dr. C. G. Hobson, Mrs Henrietta Allison, Mrs. Elizabeth Grobes, and the Rev. M. A. Alexander, who will be master ceremonies. All church members and friends are invited to attend. At the last meeting of the Centennial Lodge, No. 400, of Wash- field, I. B. P. O. E. of W., Excaled Ruler George Nickens was re-elected by acclamation for his fifth term. George is a Plainfielder and is host of friends. Two other Plainfielders were among the officers elected Tucker Johnson of Webster place and John H. Ross of Johnson avenue were elected trustees. The Centenial Lodge is making rapid progress. Miss Margaret T. Redd spent Christmas Monday with relatives and friends in New York City. The services at Shiloh Baptist Church Sunday evening, December 25 were largely attended. The pastor, Rev. R. C. Lamb reviewed the progress of the church during his three years and reports were made by the various auxiliaries for the year Deacon Green, in charge of prayer-meeting collections, reported $311.10 for the year; The Willing Workers' Club, Mrs. A. S. Venable president and Mrs. Temple Rouse secretary, reported $361.21. The offering for Christmas Day at this church was $63.10. The junior chair under direction of Mrs. Margaret Venable Smith rendered special music Christmas evening. Mrs. Catherine Olden of West 3rd street is very sick at th hospital according to a report at the A. M. E. Church Sunday evening December 25. The services at Mount Zion A. M. E. Church were largely attended Christmas Day. In the morning the Rev. J. J. Derricks, pastor preached a wonderful sermon from Isaiah 9:9, subject "The Mysterious Birth." In the evening a beautiful Christmas cantata was rendered at this church. The offering for the day was $150. Evangelist Jeltz was a visitor at the evening service. The electric sign at the Mount Zion A. M. E. Church cost $75 and not $175 as report in The Age last week. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Thomas of New York City were Christmas guests. i Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Swift and Mrs. Harold Grobes of Plainfield avenue and West 4th street. Mr. and Mrs. Auirey Alexander are the proud parents of an 8 pound son, born Monday, December 19, and christened Hayward Lloyd Alexander. Mother and baby are doing fine. Among the students spending their holiday vacation with parents or other relatives here are: Miss Hilda Johnson of Howard University; William Ross, William Gott, Herbert Brown, Ned Taylor, Miss Alice Perry and others from Bordentown School. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Williams and their daughter, Miss Helen, spent Christmas Monday here as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Brown. 317 Plainfield avenue. Funeral service: for little Charlie Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson of Scotch Plains, was held from the parents' home Tuesday afternoon, December 27, with the Rev. G. W. Hamlet, pastor of St. John's Baptist Church officiating. Andrew Brown of 317 Plainfield avenue had charge of $'t funeral arrangements. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Randolph of 500 East 2nd street entertained at a Christmas dinner Monday evening, Mr. and Mrs. James Cary and daughter, Mrs. Hope, Mrs. Martha Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fish, Miss Mary Blake and C. Edwards Epps. The dinner was served in 6 courses and it was some dinner, Mrs. Cary, one of the guests, is the daughter ruler of Invincible Temple, Daughter of Elks of New York City. The dinner was topped off with imported sherbet and whipped cream and several kinds of home-made cake. Mrs. Randolph was assisted by her sister, Mrs. Martha Robinson. Our faithful Paul Johnson, who is always ready to assist in church work or any worthy cause, will be pleased to give violin instructions to anyone desiring his service. See ad in this column later. A newly formed bridge and whist club will hold a meeting Friday evening, December 30, at the home of Mme. Lulu Eisey, 601 West 4th street. New members are cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Green and son of Atlantic City are spending the Christmas holidays with relatives and friends here. We are always glad to have them in our midst Experienced ballers of home made rolls and bread 'daily' at 4:00 p. m. Specialist's in catering for weddings, churches and parties. Open Sunday until 11:30 IAMES MANN, Proprietor. F. W. SMITH, Manager. NOTICE (For Aesthetic Personal Xmas cards) Phone Plainfield 4298 Address 418 East 43rd Street Newark. N. J. Newark, N. J.-The Green Cross Nurse Association opened its new headquarters as a social center at 172 South Orange avenue on Tuesday, December 20, from 3 to 10 p. m. A host of people visited the rooms and were served refreshments. The association is headed by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pitner. Program for next week is: Monday, January 2, trained and practical nurses' re- ception; Tuesday, reception to ministers; Wednesday, mothers' and children's council; Friday, reception to members of the association; Saturday, reception to school children; 10 years and older. College boys home for the holidays' include Charles Frazier of 137 Livingston; John Morrow of Huckenback; Weaver Howe of Cape May; Easton of Elizabeth, and Ruben McDaniels of Washington, all from Rutgers College, New Brunswick. The Reys, J. S. Blaine, pastor of St. Johns C. M. E. Church, and Harvey A. Onque were Newark delegates to the Eastern Regional Conference held at the West 135th Street Y. M. C. A., New York City, December 17 The Newark Neighborhood House, West Kinney street, Mrs. Stella Wright, director, had a group of singers in a large truck singing Christmas carols early Christmas morning through the streets of Newark. On Monday the Women's Neighborhood Club, Mrs. Wright, leader, distributed cheer to many of the city's poor in the Hill section. Passaic. N. J. Passaic, N. J. —Miss Myrtle B. Anderson, a lawyer of New York City, was the speaker at the Roger Williams Institutional Church last Sunday evening, of which Rev. S. A. Donnell is pastor. Several musical numbers and recitations were rendered. A sacred concert was given at the St. Andrews Episcopal Church last Sunday afternoon under the direction of Mrs. Bessie Potter and John Wallen. The religious drama, "A dream of Queen Esther" is scheduled for the benefit of Bethel Church some time in February under the direction of Noah Rennifwell. The regular meeting of the White Lily Household of Ruth. No. 2211, was held last Wednesday evening at the meeting rooms. After business was transacted, in which one member was relegated, the election of officers for the ensuing year was held. Those elected were Mrs. Elsie Norton, most noble governor. Mrs. Lillian Glover, right noble governor. Mrs Alice Colter, recorder. Mrs Lillian Page, worthy treasurer; Mrs Myrtle Howard, worthy prelate, and Miss Mary Jackson, worthy counsel. The other officers will be appointed at the installation which will be held the 3rd Wednesday in January. South Orange, N. J. South Orange, N. J.—The Misses Edith Thomas and Gladys Smith, Daniel Hurd and Theodore Buchanan, are at home from Bordentown for the holidays. Mrs. Mary Fleming of 17 Church street is able to walk around after a serious attack of lumbago. Master Emerson Anderson spent last Monday visiting a friend in Basking Ride. Mrs. George Anderson, Masters Hugh and Emerson, spent Christmas Day in Flatton with Mr. and Mrs. William Gillette. The Panthers held their Christmas tree treat last Thursday. Bridgeport, Conn. Bridgeport, Conn.-The Rev. H. R Jackson preached an interesting Christmas sermon at the Walters Memorial A. M. E. Zion Church. His sermon was followed by a paper by Miss Marian Williams. There was also special music for the occasion by the senior and junior chairs under direction of Medames Alice Earrar and Emily Himan. A special program will be given at Walters Memorial Church New Year's evening under direction of Medames W. A. Lively and L. J. Jordan Guests at the Hotel Broad during the past week were Mrs. Florence Holmes and Mrs. Askew of Maryland; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Askew, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Askew, Mrs. Bell Kearkey and Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson of New York City; Paul Byrd of Quincy, Fla., and Miss Anna Lockhart of Smithfield, N. C. Mrs. Joseph Monteiro and the Rev. J. D. Davis guests at dinner Christmas Day of Mr. and Mrs. N Pinkheiro. Mr. and Mrs. C Price spent the holidays in New York City. 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Mr. and Mrs. George Caddo of North Washington avenue entertained on Christmas Day in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Evans of Newark Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa.—Dr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Williams and their son, Lucien H.; Mrs. Williams parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lucien H. White, all of New York, were Christmas guests of Mr. White's brother-on-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Horace H. King of 229 North Farson street, and of Dr. William's brother and sister-on-law, Mr. and Mrs. Maceco A. Williams of 4836 Brown street. Miss Frances King who is staying for awhile with her aunt, Mrs. L. H. White of New York, spent the Christmas weekend at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace H. King, 229 North Farson street Pedro Valentad of New York was a Christmas guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. King. Mr. and Mrs. Maceco A. Williams had as dinner guests on Christmas Eve, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Williams, Master Lucien H. Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Lucien H. White of New York. 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For Full Particulars Write To Dora Hobb's Manufacturing Co. 224 West 141st Street New York City NAME RO MARK OF QUALITY character and personality and is THINGS SEEN, HEARD AND DONE AMONG PULLMAN EMPLOYES R. O. THIBOU, EX-PULLMAN PORTER Another veteran steps out of the Pullman service family, and in leaving this industrial household, he leaves behind a record for service, which both his employer and his fellowworkers will remember long after the man himself will have passed away. The veteran is R. O. Thibou of 730 East 224th street, this city, who has been Pullman portering for nearly quarter century. Born in Antiqua, British West Indies, where he was at one time engaged in business for himself, the veteran came to this country in 1898, the year of the Spanish-American war. His first employment here was with a mercantile firm. After working there for five years, he entered the Pullman service in 1901. From that time until Friday, December 16, the day on which he attained his 70th year, Porter Thibou devoted himself toward helping to better the working conditions of his fellow-porters. Possessing a personality that was dynamic in its effusion, a capability for using common sense when this was necessary, and a gift for elucidation when that was imperative. Thibou made himself a popular fellow among the porters, and at the same time was able to retain the goodwill and respect of the official personnel of his district. He was able to catch the fancy of the New York porters so securely that next to Tom Griffin, who is the paragon of porters in the Grand Central district, he was considered the most popular. Up to last year, he had served the local lodge of the P. P. B. A. in this district as secretary since its inception, and could have continued in this capacity had he so desired. He was also a member for many years of the Plan of Employees Représentation, and various other activities having to do with Pullman porters. And the most striking thing about this connection with all of these activities, is that he was always the sought after, never the seeker. But aside from the part he played as a fraternal and economic worker among his fellow porters, he had other qualities to which attention might be drawn. More was a man who was, formerly in business for himself in his native land. It is true, he failed, but he had been prosperous at one time. And, so it has been said by those who knew him there, his position in the business and social life of the island was of reputable degree. Coming to this country, not an old man, to be sure still not a young man, he didn't throw up his hands in despair at conditions' here. He went to work. True, not the sort of work that he might have most preferred; for going from employer to employee is a rather humiliating 'descent, but Thiboud did just that, and few, if any, of his fellow porters ever heard him make any lament about it. During the twenty-three years he has worked in the Pullman service, he has managed to lay, a little competence aside for the time which has now come to him. And just like he has worked so has he retired. Although a septuagenarian, he is uncommonly youthful for one of that age. When asked why he didn't request an extension of time, which most likely would have been granted him, bad he requested it, he said: "No, by leaving now I retain the respect and best wishes of all." It is said, that it is an ill wind that doesn't blow good somewhere. Although Thibou failed as a merchant, he made good as a Pullman porter. The Pullman Service as well as his fellowworkers have been benefited by his services. The Cooperative Movement and the Negro BY THOMAS E. POSEY Professor of Economics, West Virginia Collegiate Institute, Institute, W. Va. At the present time the attention of thoughtful and constructive Negro is focused on the economic status of their race. The small Negroes is focused on the economic status of their race. The small Negro business man, the Negro wage carrier, and the Negro middle class engage the serious consideration of these persons. modity. Farming is about the only business that is not generally done on large scale. The chains have reduced their cost of production so low through the economics of large scale production that they can afford to sell at a price so low that the small business man cannot compete with them. This is a problem that can It is the purpose of this article to show without detail, that by applying some of the principles and practices of the cooperative movement, much good can be done to aid the Negro in his present struggle to improve his economic condition. Every since the Negro has been in business he has been criticized severely. He has been accused of incompetency, inefficiency, and profiling, because his prices are from 5 to 10 cents higher than his White competitor. At the present time numerous failures among the small businesses of Negroes throughout the country, and continued criticism, have led some leaders to suggest that some sort of apology should be formulated for the Negro business man and perhaps race pride stimulated to such an extent that Negroes would support their own businesses in spite of the high prices. In the opinion of the writer, the Negro business man needs no apology. Moreover, propaganda to stimulate race pride woulld only act as a palliative, and no permanent results would follow. Negroes might buy for a short while, but Negro wage-earners do not earn sufficient to patronize Negro businesses, even, if they desired. Small usbness, as carried on by the Negro today; is doomed. Incompetency, inefficiency and profiteering may be contributing causes to his high prices and resultant failure, but the fundamental cause is lack of capital. At the present time, mass production, mass buying and mass retailing, are the methods by which business is conducted. Merger and consolidation of manufacturing plants, banks and railroads are read of every day in the papers. Chain drug stores, chain restaurants, chain market markets, are the order of the day. As a matter of fact the tendency is to "chain everything" it seems. Every town has its chain store, either of local or national reputation. Millions and millions of dollars worth of capital is involved. The concern are vertical combinations. They generally own not only the store, but the manufacturing concern or modity. Farming is about the only business that is not generally done on large scale. The chains have reduced their cost of production so low through the economies of large scale production that they can afford to sell at a price so low that the small business man cannot compete with them. This is a problem that confronts all small business men. According to a report of the Census Bureau there was a decrease of 4.2 per cent from 1923 to 1925 of factories doing a business around $5,000. Here are four proposals which the writer feels are practical enough to aid the Negro business man and effect a permanent remedy for his conditions. These are methods used by the cooperative movement. First: engage in those types of businesses where service and quality, rather than price, are the most important factors to customers (tailoring, millinery, and dress making, are typical examples); then strive to make your service so excellent and the quality of your goods so high that people will patronize you regardless of your high price. Second: form cooperative agencies in those communities where there are sufficient numbers of similar business enterprises. This will enable them to do mass buying, to control competition, to engage in co-operative advertising and reap many of the benefits of large scale production. Third: affiliate with the cooperative agencies of the small white business man wherever possible. Fourth: organize and conduct business on a purely cooperative non-profit basis. The consumers are the owner and buyer. They could elect, as managers, trained business men at a good wage. The Negro business man must do something. It is hoped that careful study and application of those remedies will aid him permanently. Broadway Auto School 217 WEST 123rd STREET Phone Morningside 0934 New York City Special $10 Auto Course 15 Driving and 15 Shop Lessons For Winter Months only Also Cources In BRICKLAYING and The Pullman Company's policy toward the Pullman porter must change. It will change. It will change on wages. It will change on hours. It will change on working conditions. Its policy has changed toward the Pullman conductor. It is constantly changing for the better toward the public. Its' change of policy toward the conductors and the public is the direct result of intelligent organized action. This is true of all public utilities or private corporations. They do not change their wage or public policy until they have to. "The Pullman Company can not escape the necessity of paying the porters' a living wage. Even the Pullman management would not attempt to justify the present wage of $72.50 a month to porters before any body of public servant citizens. Nor can tips be reasonably cited as an excuse' for this notoriously unjust wage. Falling Off of Tips For a long time the Pullman Company relied upon the public to pay practically half or more of the wages of the porters and maids. The company would pristain before public bodies the total income of the porters, meaning their wage paid by itself and the tips paid by the public, but when the company was required to pay the porters pension, it computed the pension on the starvation wage it paid the porters alone. Now, the question is frequently asked about the reason for the falling off in tips. Porters complain about the fact that they make less on some trips than it takes to live on the trips. It is due to the fact that the Pullman Company, after the last Employees' Plan Wage Conference, broadcasted throughout the country, in glaring headlines, the rumor that it had given the porters and maids a million dollar increase in wages. Naturally, the public assumed that the porters were getting plenty money and did not need any tips. Besides, the big profits and dividends of the company from year to year were reported in the press from the company's own fiscal reports. Thus, the public rightly concluded that the company ought to pay the porters and maids out of its huge earnings. Hours and Work Conditions It is difficult to find in the entire field of modern industry a case of more notorious hours and working conditions. Not only are some porters required to work 400 and more hours a month, but they are severely penalized if they are caught napping, although a human machine can hardly put in such hours without falling asleep at times. All other railway employees receive time and a half for all time over 240 hours work. With the porters, it is interesting to note that they are compelled to do preparatory duty, consisting of some five or six hours, for absolutely for nothing. Change In Making Agreements Perhaps, the most fundamental change of policy of the Pullman Company will be the method of negotiating agreements. The old Employees Plan or Company Union has failed miserably. It creates more unrest than it allays. It inflicts more injustice upon the porters than it removes. It lowers instead of raising the morale of the men, because the porters have no control over the plan. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is the protest of the porters against the plan. It is the symbol, according to the provisions of the Watson Parker Bill, of the self-organization of the porters and mails. The plan is unlawful, because it denies self expression to the porters. Porter-Instructor and Welfare Worker The army of pullman porter- instructors and welfare workers is an unnecessary menace to the efficiency of the service. It is bad business economy to retain them in the performance of the kind of work they do. It is not only not productive but a definite liability. Any efficiency engineer will advise the company thusly. The Brotherhood offers a higher and more constructive service-efficiency program which will reflect itself in higher production standards for the company. It offers an intelligence, initiative and disciplined responsibility which can not be created under the present system by the company. To Many Extra Porters There must be a new policy, too, in the hiring of porters. There are too many extra men. Too many porters are hanging around the death. This is done to farrihern the porters away from the Brotherhood. Negroes are lured from the South for porters' jobs; they quit over night because they find they can't make a living. The Brotherhood offers constructive cooperation to the company. Its watch-word is efficiency, honesty, sobriety, discipline, courtesy, industry, initiative, intelligence. It is no cloak for the bad porter, but a protection for the good porter. Washington, D. C. Washington, D.C.-At the social weekly session of the Columbia Lodge of Elles, Sunday, afternoon at their headquarters III Rhode Island Avenue, Neval H. Thomas, president of the local branch of the N. A. C. P., made an address on "Segregation." A musical program was by the East Washington male chorus. The committee on social sessions consisted of Frank P. Williams, Charles A. Coruijn, J. Frank Balburn, James S. Chapman, Harry Parker, Martin Powell, Rudolph Roger, Alfred Lancaster and earnings Wise. Dr. R. R. Moten and Secretary Albion L. Holsey of Tuskegee, and Claude A. Barnett of Chicago, representing the colored advisory flood rehabilitation commission were in session here with Secretary Hoover. W. Justin Carter and Dr. C. Lennon Carter of Harrisburg, Pa, spent the Christmas holidays here with their mother and sisters as the house guests of Miss Jeanneette Carter. Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson of the U. S. Department of Labor, attended the Durham conference. J. A. "Billboard" Jackson, now located here in the Commerce Department also attended. Rosine Doughless, member of an old and respected family here, died from an attack of acute indigestion. Mr. Doughless was one of the tellers of the Prudential Bank. York. S. C. York, S. C.-Mrs. Conrad McCluney, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Sam Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Cole, Ike Cole, C. L. McClevie, Giles Cole and Miss Nancy Cole of, Bullock Creek were shopping in the city Thursday. Miss Fannie C. Wright, undertaker and embalmer, was in Rock Hill Monday on business. Ike McCluney and Alex Bankhead of Hickory Grove were here Thursday. Earl Jeter passed through the city enroute for Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. John Meeks of Filbert were here Friday. John Burris of New York City is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burris. Mr. and Mrs. Mose Page and children of Sharon were in the city Friday. Cinnis Watts has returned home after visiting his sister, Mrs. Jeanne Byers, in Richmond, Va. He also visited in Washington, D. C. Miss Lulu Jennings of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Pearl Williams of Weirton, West Va. spent the holidays here with their mother, Mrs. G. W. Jennings. While here, Miss Jennings went to Chester to visit Miss Ann May Cloud. At Galilee Baptist Church, the B. Y. P. U. had its program Sunday under the leadership of Mrs. Mary A. Macom and Miss Flossie Miller. Rev. L. R. Barber, pastor, was given an overcoat by the Working Ladies as a Christmas gift. The Sunday school will have their exercises Saturday December 31, under the direction of T. W. White, superintendent, and Miss Flossie Miller. The B. Y. P. U. gave presents to Mrs. Lizzie Douglass, and H. Bryant. Mrs. Tom Haynes and children of Bowling Green passed through here recently enroute to Bullock Greek to spend the holidays. Mrs. Jin Kennedy of Sharon was in the city last week. Optometrist Reliable and Reasonable For 18 Years At 531 LENOX AVE 19 Prescott St., Jersey City, N.J. K, J. Wige, Braidla, Dunga, Pompadour, Pompadour, Pompadour, Pompadour, any style, Scalp Treatment, Shampoo, Hair Dressing, Face Massage, Makeup people's combiing bought, Lessons taught in half work Diploma. 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Roy Peyton, Miss Rita Seabrook, Mrs. William Seabrook, Miss Anna Welton, Mrs. Margaret Welmon, Mrs. Edward Wilson and Mrs. Richard White. Guests were present from New York, New Jersey and other cities near the Metropolis. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Ludlow E. Werner, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Owens, Dr. and Mrs. Carl Granger, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Cohen Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Carmel Monte, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pogue, Mr. and Mrs. William Pogue, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ayler, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Jensen, Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Troy Peyton, Mr. and Mrs. Richard White, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barre, Mr. and Mrs. Burge, Mr. and Mrs. William Flood, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elzy, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Funn, Mr. and Mrs. Elton Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ferguson, Mrs. Daisy-Chambers, Mrs. Ruth Patrick. Misses Adelaide King, Mary Coleman, Edna Burge, Hilda Stockien, Margaret Welmon, Anna Welmon, Mildred Peylon, Rita Seabrook, Katherine Mars, Helen Flood, Adelaide and Gladys Bullock, Hortense Coleman, Florbellbogue, Ollye Thomas, Edith McAllister, Louise Logan. Richard I. Jackson, Jr., Milton Tucker, Paul Coleman, Horace Porter, Ludlow W. Werner, Alex Millen-Stanley Douglas, Dr. Gerald Seon, Archie 'Glover', Malcolm Dodson, Howard and John Dodson, James Holbrook, Frank Holbrook, O. D. Williams, Norman Johnson, Malcolm Johnston, Frank Montero, Emory Moore. Paterson, N. J. Paterson, N. J.—Mrs. Elizabeth Sawington left Paterson the week of December 16 to go to Petersburg, Va., where she expects to spend the winter with her brother. James L. White of 711 East 27th street, has gone to spend the Christmas holidays with his parents who live near Richmond, Va. Will Promote a Full Growth of Hair. 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Academy of Business January 21st will be the first Post office clerk and carrier examination for the new year. 150 were appointed three weeks ago, 300 two weeks ago and just last week there were 75 to go in as regular members of the New York City and Brooklyn post offices. Applications post office at the U. S. Custom House, New York City. A card will bring one in the mail for you. The initial pay is $1,700 a year with annual increase until $2,100 is reached. The age is from 18 to 45. Why not try one of these examinations, those of you who are making less than $2,100 per annum. Rev Thomas H. Amos was in the city last week. His daughter, Miss Emma Amos, called on friends here while in this section. Tenement House the first important be announced by Commission. This exhausted, and there is an increase in the payment. 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Among the popular city examinations scheduled for 1928 are tenement house inspector, television inspector, probation officer, lay sanitary inspector, inspector of repairs and supplies, policewoman, patrolman, probation officer, male and female, for the Children's Court. The test for court stenographer will be held January 14. Ninety appointments were made last week to the position of custodian-engineer. This is one of the examinations to be held in 1928. Thirty-two appointments have been made from the list of policewoman. This is another of the tests to be held in 1928. The Brooklyn post office employed 2,000 extra men as clerks and carriers during the Xmaa period and holiday season. The New York post office certainly employed twice that number. 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Costume Designing Painting on material POSIKIONS For Catalonia BEST 123th STREET Dept. K. NEW YORK CITY Mrs. Beni E. Thomas vet. and the mother and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Sarah T. Miss Stella Anderson M. J. went to Washing-on December 23 for the holidays as guests of Mr. Samuel Matthews. Mrs. armed Monday, the ladies Washington for the en- women's Civic League Inc. can look at the as one with success, the members and so willing to help to be happy with the poor by securing skets with everything a real, sweet dinner, vided, written, clothing whilderness, Miss Elsa a dream at Moth- Community house on 16 for the benefit of Fund. ORRENCE SYMONDS It be a better of lecturing money only, the first month begins. 5:30 in the 10th Street branch and Anderson Women's of New York. These be given by Myrtle Howard. All women attend, and bring books. At close of the week will be conducted. Mr. William Brown of 10th Street, served a and appetizing Christ- at 13, p. Sunday. S. They had as their and Mrs. S. O. Rham- Amie J. Caldwell. S. 139; Miss Julia L. Lent in Teachers Colum- bia University; Miss Miss Helen Lynch, Combs and her son Belle Mead, N. J. Rev. representing White ing. Girls Home, 262 Street; Lawyer Lemar J. D. Jarmon, a veter- tor of the U. S. Bun- ral Industry; and Miss mer of Boston. Mass. P. Williams, dentist, 129th street, his wife, white, William, club secretary of the Street Y. W. C. A. on Lucien Hempton, by Mrs. Williams, and Mrs. Lucien H. horned to Philadelphia December 24, and Christmas holidays with his brother and sister, and Mrs. Macon A. 836 Brown street, and Which brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Horace North Pearson street, elphia. They returned learning, leaving Master the week with Mrs. and Horace King Arthur Logan, a student of William College, is in the city for the holidays. Miss Helen Underhill of Philadelphia, Pa. is spending the holidays in the city. Arthur Davis, is in the city for the holidays. Miss Boatrice Roberts, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Roberts, is in the city for the holidays. Miss Roberts is a student at Cornell University. An almost successful holdup and robbery was staged in Boutte's Pharmacy, Seventh avenue and 137 street, on Thursday evening, December, 22 about 7:30 o'clock, by Augustus Abrams of 730 West 133rd street. That his effort was frustrated was due to the quick thinking and fearless action of G. Baker of 222 West 136th street, who happened to be in a telephone booth in the drug store at the time. Dr. George Rackard, pharmacist, was on duty at the time, and he came to the front store from the prescription department when the buzzer announced Abrams' entry Abrams, simulated drunkenness, and told Dr. Rackard he wanted 50 cents worth of Balsam copaiba. The pretended customer was standing at the time in front of the walk cases in which are kept the fine perfumeries, soaps, powders and other toilet articles. The cases have sliding doors, which are not locked. Dr. Rackard returned to the prescription department to prepare the drug ordered by Abrams, and the latter quickly took advantage of the opportunity, to quietly open the case and abstract therefrom several battles of Dr. Boute's finest extracts. 'And while the pharmacist was still in the rear, he sneaked toward the front door to make his exit. But Mr. Baker had noticed from the telephone booth what Abrams was doing and jumped out to intercept him. Grabbing the thief Baker yelled for someone to call a policeman, it the same time pushing Abrams back to the rear of the stort. Dr. Rackard was just emerging, with the balsam copilbe in his hand, but did not realize what was happening. He thought Baker was a police officer. Abrams was heavier than Baker, and recovering his balance made his way back to the front door, dragging Baker with him. As he reached the door, however, Baker's cries for assistance in preventing the thief's escape brought an understanding of the situation to Dr. Rackard, and the latter jumped to the struggling pair, caught Abrams and threw him back into the store, where he fell prone across one of the tables used by customers patronizing the soda fountain. The soda fountain attendant had in the meantime, run out to call an officer, Patrolman Blanks (9966) of the 16th Precinct responded, and as he was entering the door, Abrams, in deseration, was drawing a wicked looking dagger, which some of the excited onlookers described as being "two feet long." But he was quickly subdued. Office Blanks took him to West 135th street station and he was rushed to 54th Street Court, where he pleaded guilty to grand larceny and remanded to the Tombs without ball for the General Sessions Court. $250 has been offered as a prize for the national exhibit of Negro artists to be held at International House, 500 Riverside Drive, opposite Grant's Tomb, January 5-15, inclusive, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7.30 to 9:30 p.m. daily, under auspices of Federal Council of Churches. The prize is offered by an unnamed donor who has recently become interested in the possibilities of this exhibition, to be given for the best work of art in the exhibit when decided by a jury of competent artists. "The purpose of the exhibit is," said Dr. George E. Haynes, secretary of the Commission, "first to create a wider interest of the general public in the work of Negro artists as a source of creative contribution to American culture; second, to stimulate Negro artists to strive for achievement in the fine arts according to the highest standards; third, to encourage the general public in the purchase of productions of Negro artists and to help put them upon a better Miss Lack M. Pollard and daughter, Miss Eleonor Pollard are spending the holidays in Sayannah, Ga. Dr. St. Elino Taylor, a graduate of McGill University Medical School, Canada, has established his office in Brooklyn. Miss Constance Willis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willis, of 35 Prospect place, spent the holidays with friends in Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D. C. Kenneth Whecane, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Whecane, a student at the University of Pittsburgh, who is in the city for the holidays, underwent a minor operation last week. He is doing nicely. New York Alphas Give Annual Winter Dance Eta, Alpha Gamma Lambda and Alpha Alpha Gamma Chapters of the Alpha Phil. Alpha "Fraternity" located in New York City, held their annual winter, formal dance at the Renaissance Casino, "Wednesday evening, December 21. Vernon Andrades and his orchestra played for the dancing which lasted until three o'clock. There was the usual disappointment when "Home, Sweet Home" was played. During the intermission, members of the three chapters and members of out of town chapters, had their usual grand march. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois greeted the guests on behalf of the hosts. Then joining hands, the members, under the leadership of J. Ernest Whitfield, sang the fraternity song, after which the dance program was resumed. Among those present: were: Dr. and Mrs. U. Coorad Vincent, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. Oma H. Price, Mr and Mrs. Ludlow. E. Werner, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Day, Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Walton, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Ryan, Dr. and Mrs. Peyton F. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kindle Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elzy, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hubert, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Burge, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Pace, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. J. Weldon Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo Castro, Alderman and Mrs. J. C. Clifford Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Elton Rogers, Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Brandon, Mr. and Mrs. Ira DeA. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. G. Torres Cohn, Dr. and Mrs. W. E. B. DuBois, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson. Misses Louise and Myran Logan, Dorothy Boyd, Adelaide King, Aeolian Bibbs, Beatrice Roberts, Ethel Harris, Edna Burge, "Billie" Morris, Florabella Poppe, Margaret Welmon, Mildred Peyton, Dorothy DeAcy, Thelma Berack, Ruth Jackson, Ray Ollie, Marcia Lansing, Hortense Thompson, Olive Thomas, Eloise Walker, Dorothy Carey, Claudia David. Mrs. Sadie Price Patton, Mrs. Daley Chambers, Mrs. Margaret Douglas, Mrs. Bessie Bearden, Mrs. Gilbert Holland. Herbert Harris, William Smith, Myles. A. Paige, Arthur Logan Ernest. Whitfield, Malcolm Dodson, Stanley Douglas, Ludlow W. Werner, O. D. Williams, Caesar Carey, Robert Gorich, Richard Thomas, Eliellie Thompson, Sammy Carthan, Dr. Gerald Secon Mark Parks, Paul Coleman, Vernon, Riddick, George E. Hall, Vernil Williams, Dr. Woods, Maceo Smith, George Reid, Marcus Carpenter, William Carpenter, Adam Powell Wendell Alstout and many others. A Youth Movement, comprised of young graduate and under-graduate fraternists and soror, teachers, social workers, doctors and lawyers, and junior society leaders, was formed in the office of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Friday evening, December 16. The purpose of the movement is to back the "Pullman porters" fight for living wage and better working conditions. An unusual spirit was manifested among the young group in the general cause of economic freedom for the Negro workers and in the struggle for economic emancipation by the Pullman porters in particular. A speakers bureau was organized, whose purpose it is to carry the truth about the fight of the Pullman porters to every group in New York, colored and white, rich and poor. The first training class for speakers was held in the Y. W. C. A. Some of those in movement, are Miss Mac Donald, president of the Intercollegiate Society; Miss Faid Thorpe of the Young People's Fellowship of St. Phillips Church; Mrs. Burwell of the Debutate Club; Dr. Price, James Egert Allen, teacher, and Miss Florida Pireckney, graduate of Brookwood Labor College, Miss Thorpe, was named chairman, and Mrs. Burnell, secretary. See announcement of our Big Subscription Offer. XMAS JOY RULES AT 137th ST. Y DURING ALL WEEK House Staff Entertains Committee of Management; The Christmas party, was a gay event. The andorium was filled to its capacity, and it was lovely with ropes of laurel and soft red-shaded lights. There were extra refreshments for the party also, for added to the usual punch, were cakes and candies and nuts. Thanks to Mrs. W. M. Spiller we had the usual good music. Parties are not the only events which draw crowds to the auditorium of the Branch, however, for the place was filled, completely on Sunday afternoon, December 18th, for the Christmas Pageant and 'Carol Service. Thirty girls took part in the beautiful service and those who were present could not help but be deeply stirred by the beauty and significance of the story of the nativity depicted. Miss Flossie Carter was at the piano and Miss Elizabeth Gunler and Miss Ruth Caver played violins. Those taking part in the Pageant were Misses Sallie Berkidale, Hazel Johnson, Louise Palmer and Ethel Fauntleroy, Shepherds; Misses Frances Pollard, Mildred Burch and Juanita Stewart, "Wise Men"; Miss Dannie Morgan portrayed "Mary" and Mrs. M. V. Whitehead, "Joseph". The Beaux-Arts Club girls and the Business Girls' Club will meet jointly on Thursday, December 29, for an informal social meeting and holiday tea. The staff of the Branch entertained the Committee of Management at a tea on Wednesday afternoon, De- cember 28. at four o'clock. Subscribe to The New York Age and get a Dictionary free. Chas, Young Post To Discuss Public Matters The Col. Charles Young Post, No. 398, American Legion, will hold its first monthly meeting at the 369th Armory on Wednesday evening, January 4, 1928, at 9 p.m. The Paris convention will be a feature of this meeting, together with visitors from the Veterans Corps of the old 15th as guests of the Post. Community problems will take a part of the evening's discussion, and the better public performance of the duties of various public officials will be also stressed. Resolutions will be drawn up to protest certain matters of public interest will add much interest to the meeting. The Col. Charles Young Post will hear about the recent Paris convention at their meeting on Wednesday evening, January 4, 1928. At this meeting former Lt. Harry C. Smith of the 369th Infantry will tell the member of the Post and guests the interesting things that occurred during the convention period. The Post passes into the New Year with plans for an intensive campaign for a larger membership and greater activity in the publicity of the happenings of the Post. An auxiliary to the Post will be formed in the near future as a possible aid to the social features. SPECIAL NOTICE Wanted for adoption, a girl between the ages of 9 and 11 in good christian home. Write, phone or call McNealey, 75 St. Nicholas place. 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The cause of his death has not been ascertained, but is being investigated. An aoye of Swift and Go, for twenty-two years and, was held in high esteem by his employers. Funeral service was held at the St. Catherine A. M. E. Zion Church of which the deceased was a member. Among the floral pieces was a wreath from the Nangatuch Valley, Lodge of Waterbury, Conn. The late Mr. Hatcher is survived by a widow, Mrs. Bertha Hatcher; two daughters, Misses Inez and Dorothy Hatcher; two sons, Ray and Martha Hatcher; Mrs. Cornelia Blackwell, Mrs. Janie Henderson, Mrs. Ada Henderson and Mrs. Ruth Holland, all of Washington, D. C.; two brothers, Joseph Hatcher of Waterbury, Conn., and William Hatcher of Fayette County, also several nieces and nephews and a host of friends. SPECIAL NOTICES BETROTHAL RILEY—ROGERS—Mr. and Mrs. Jesse W. Rogers wish to announce the betrothed of their daughter Isabelle Edith, to Mr. Franklin Wilbert Riley, son of Rev. and Mrs. I. W. Riley of Mobile, Ala. 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