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CONVICT BOSS DRAGGED MEN BEHIND TRACTORS;BEAT THEM TO DEATH Norfolk Journal and Guide TTLE CHILDREN KILL BABY TO PLAY FUNERAL Southern Governors Save Men From Death Chair FOLLOW THE GUIDE It leads to PROGRESS INFANT CHILD IS VICTIM OF PLAYMATES Little Folks Evidently Wanted To Play Funeral And Had To Have A Real Body To Carry Out Their Plans. KILLED INFANT WITH BLOW FROM AN AXE (Special to Journal and Guide) Darlington, S. C., July 19—In the fertile brains of a group of little children, none above eight years of age, was hatched as a grate of play" what proved to the folks a startling tragedy that injured the countryside near here one days ago when these little kids, evidently prompted to play funeral and wanting the real thing body and all—killed their young-playmate, an 18-months old boy, the child of Mrs. Nathan Elson and laid it out on the floor needed for burial in regulation action. Mother Absent When the mother, who had left the house for about 20 minutes to some washing about 100 yards away, returned home she found her baby a corpse, shrouded in best white dress which had been kept in the family trunk and worn. On the dead child's cost was a bouquet fashioned out of multi-colored pieces of cloth, and a face was heavily coated with a powder and to all appearances everything was ready for the cast and hearse. When the mother left home seven children were in the yard play. Some were her own children some belonged to neighboring families. The youngest in the camp was the 18 months old Eliza baby, and the oldest was not seven and one half years. When the baby's body was found coroner, J. S. Garner, and Dr. W. Wilcox, of Darlington, were highly summoned. An investigation disclosed that the infant had been from a heavy blow in the chest inflicted with some blunt injury. When the children were questioned it was ascertained that they had carried the youngest out in the yard and delivered the fatal blow with an axe. The children accused each other of having committed the deed, one of them saying Monk Ellison, the dead child's four year old brother, did it, but Monk insisted at two of the girls, four and ten years old wielded the axe. Laid Out After the child had died it had been carried to the house and laid on the floor. Things in the family trunk had been turned top turvey in search of the best stress. It was found and placed on the corpse; the artificial flowers bloomed and placed on its breast; the powder secured and its face covered with it. Then the children had gone back out in the yard to do something else. Following the making of a careful investigation, the authorities announced that no warrants would be issued as none of the little children were old enough to realize the activity of their act. The little boy was buried later. The play-tragedy has stirred the entire countryside. It is still the custom in some rather backward communities to keep the bodies of the dead in the home until they are buried and during the intervening wakes are held. It is beamed that these children have some time in their lives been witted at one of these wakes and have had the opportunity of gazing on bodies laid out for burial, consequently conceived the idea of having a wake all of theirs—but a real one. Social Workers Visit Guide Office Institute, Lawrence A. Oxley, director of the Bureau of Work Negroes under the State and of Charities and Public Affairs for North Carolina, and E. Franklin Frazier, director of the Atlanta School of Social Work in Norfolk Tuesday note to the Hampton Institute, visited the Journal and office and gave encouraging words of social welfare work in respective states. Albemarle, N. C., July 19—State's witnesses testifying in the trial of Nevin C. Cranford, former chaingang boss on trial here for the alleged murder of two Negro convicts, James Howell and James Terry, accused Cranford of the following atrocities against convicts: "Beat them with a stick like a man beating a snake. then thrust the stick into the mouth of one of the convicts." Made convict work with a blistered foot that became so painful he had to crawl. When sick convict asked for a doctor, Cranford told him he would get him a doctor and drew a 38 revolver on him. Put shackles on convict's legs until they had swollen three times their normal size. Had man hitched to a tractor and dragged sixty feet over rough and stumpy new ground. Victim died three weeks later. Knocked convict down with four-stepped on his head with iron-clad boots. Suspended convicts by either their to the ceiling for as long a period as four Monstrously assaulted and beat co slightest or without provocation. Denied convicts medical treatment their death. Blood-Curdling Tale Cruelty Told Suspended convicts by either their feet and hands to the ceiling for as long a period as four hours. Monstrously assaulted and beat convicts upon the slightest or without provocation. Denied convicts medical treatment and hastened their death. Blood-Curdling Tales Of Cruelty Told At Trial Blood-Curdling Tales Of Cruelty Told At Trial By STAFF CORRESPONDENT Albemarle, N. C., July 19—A blotch on the twentieth century's vaunted civilization as blackened and horrified by inhuman cruelties and atrocities as any with which the world's darkest ages have been accursed, not excluding the period of the Inquisition, was disclosed from the courthouse of this little town last week, when witness after witness went on the stand in the trial of Nevin C. Cranford, former chain-gang boss, and related blood curdling tales of Cranford's alleged inhuman treatment of prisoners in his keeping. Albemarle, N. C., July 19—A blotch century's vaunted civilization as blackene inhuman cruelties and atrocities as any world's darkest ages have been accursed, period of the Inquisition, was disclosed fr of this little town last week, when witness on the stand in the trial of Nevin C. Crang gang boss, and related blood curdling to alleged inhuman treatment of prisoners in A blotch on the twentieth as blackened and horrified by lies as any with which the in accursed, not excluding the disclosed from the courthouse ten witness after witness went vin C. Cranford, former chain-curdling tales of Cranford's prisoners in his keeping. which became so painful he had to crawl. "Why didn't you ask for a doctor?" a prosecution attorney asked. "Because another boy had asked for a doctor and Cranford told him he would get a doctor for him and drew a 38 revolver on him," the witness answered. Shackled Prisoners Smith said on one occasion he wrote home for food, guard promising to secret his letter out for him. "Cranford caught him with the letter and he bawled him out and put shackles on my legs," Smith continued. "What was the condition of your legs while the shackles were on?" The witness said they were swollen two or three times their normal size. Charles Deese, a convict, was asked by the prosecution to tell about the treatment Cranford gave to Henry Wooten, a Negro. "One evening we were clearing out a bottom," the witness began, "and Wooten was sitting up. Crandford said: 'Mr. Wooten says he can't work.' Then he had me drive my tractor up and Wooten was hooked to the tractor with a chain." The witness said Cranford told him to drive off and that he went about 30 feet with Wooten hooked to the chain. "Cranford told me to stop," he continued, "Cranford then asked Wooten if he thought he could walk. Wooten said he thought so. Cranford then told me to drag him some more. When I had gone about 30 feet more Cranford told me to stop and he unhooked Wooten." "What did Wooten do?" the witness was asked by counsel. "He walked off as best he could." "What was the condition of the ground." "It was rough where stumps had been, nullled out." "How long did Wooten live after this?" "True or three weeks." "Two or three weeks. "Did you have a talk with Cranford about the Wooten affair?" (Cranford said if I made out an Whipped convict until he fell. On Trial For Murder The former convict boss is on trial before Judge Finley in Superior Court for the alleged murder of two Negro convicts, James Howell and James Terry, during his alleged barbarous reign at the camp during the summer of 1918. As revolting as the evidence is that has been adduced against this former state official, as disgraceful as it looms against the fair name of the Commonwealth, the state has nevertheless, dug it up with a vengeance, even raking Cranford's record as a convict boss for 15 years back, putting witnesses on the stand including former convicts and residents of Albemarle to prove that this former officer of the law regained over the state's charges with a savage cruelty that brought death to the hapless and helpless wards. Crowded Courtroom For four days a crowded courtroom, including hard faced men, accustomed to the recital of horrible stories of inhuman treatment, squirmed and gasped as approximately a score of witnesses charged Crandon with beating men to death, hitching them to tractors and dragging them cruelly over stumpy new ground, monstrously assaulting them, suspending them by their hands off the floor and chaining them with iron chains until their legs swelled to three times their normal size. This recital of almost indescribable brutality the state adduced from these witnesses, piece at time, in erecting its mountainous structure of damaging evidence against the accused and with this structure the Commonwealth rested and the spectators sighed their relief from this blood curdling testimony. Beat Men With A Stick Clayton Smith, a former convict testified that Cranford beat the Negroes with a stick like a "man fighting a snake." He struck James Howell and James Terry a number of times with a stick, the stress stated, and then thrust the stick into the mouth of the convicts. Cranford beat the Negroes forewrought to die." Smith said. The witness said the former changing boss made him work one time with a blistered foot Shackled Prisoners NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926 Subject Given Prominent Place on Southern Conference Programs; Students Especially Interested. HOPEFUL OUTLOOK HELD BY DELEGATES Blue Ridge, N. C., July 21—This summer, as for several years past, the study of race relations has been a major feature at the many important gatherings held at this popular conference point, and the interracial message has reached thousands of people in positions of influence and leadership. Among the meetings so far held in which the subject has had a prominent place have been the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. Student Conferences, the Missionary Education Conference, and the Y. W. C. A. Community Conference. In all these there have been group discussions or platform addresses featuring race relations, and great interest has been manifested. Dr. Johnson Speaks Dr. Mordecai Johnson, recently elected president of Howard University, presented the subject before the men students in a powerful address that made a profound impression. Two colored students, Wesley Elam of Hampton Institute and R. I. Boone of Shaw University were present by invitation as fraternal delegates and were entertained by the conference for several days, making a very favorable impression upon the hundreds of white students in attendance from all over the Southeast. At the Missionary Education and Y. W. C. A. Conferences R. B. Eleazer, educational director of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, presented the cause on the platform and before a number of discussion groups, as he did also at the Y. W. C. A. Industrial Conference at Lake Junaluska. It is generally admitted that one of the most hopeful recent trends in the South is the great interest which student groups are manifesting in this subject, as indicated by the fact that sixty curriculum courses in race relations are conducted in principal Southern colleges, in addition to a great many volunteer study and discussion groups. Interracial speakers, white and colored, are also being given frequent opportunity to speak on college platforms. The significance of this development is in the fact that the thoughtful, intelligent students of today who are interesting themselves in this question will be the leaders of tomorrow. COUNCIL AGAIN WILL CONSIDER BERKLEY PARK City Council has promised to consider again at an early meeting the proposal advanced by the citizens of Berkley for the establishment of a public park on the Page and Halstead farms, near the colored residence section. The land has been offered to the city by H. C. Hoggard, realtors, on behalf of the owners for a price said to be $80,000. Announcement of the offer and the knowledge the colored people of the section were anxious to have the city purchase it for park purposes brought considerable opposition from the whites in the neighborhood. Both sides were heard by Council on Tuesday of last week. The Civic League of Berkley and Campostella which is supporting the project was represented by Attorney I. N. Wilson, who made some strong points to Council which seemed to impress its members. MATTHEW HENSON SEGREGATION LAW NAILED BY ROANOKE COURT SEGREGATION LAW NAILED BY ROANOKE COURT Roanoke Judge Declares Recently Enacted Ordinance Restricting Property As To Races Unconstitutional. Roanoke, Va., July 21—Rendering the decision that the regregation ordinance passed a few months ago by the City Council, is repugnant to the fourteenth amendment, Judge John M. Hart, Judge of the Hustings Court for the City of Roanoke, Virginia dismissed the appeal case of Doctor George E. Moore, in Hustings Court on July 19. Four or five similar cases of colored persons charged with violating the segregation ordinance also were dismissed. Judge Hart Gives His Opinion Judge Hart in handing down his decision in the Moore case, which had been appealed from the Police Court, (of which Judge Beverly Berkley presides) said: "The only point at issue in this and several similar cases is as to the constitutionality of an ordinance of the City of Roanoke known as the segregation ordinance and the object of which is to prevent colored persons from taking residence in district in which a majority of the residents are white and to prevent white persons from taking up residence in a district of which a majority of the residents are colored. The defendant here, a colored man, violated this ordinance and took up a residence in a white district. "The constitutionality of the ordinance is attacked by the defendant and maintained by the city with ability and all the law available has been laid before the Court. The defenso relies principally upon the case of Buchanan v Warley (245 U. S. p. 149) in which an ordinance of the city of Louisville, Ky., which undertook to prevent colored persons from buying in white communities and white persons from buying property in colored communities was held invalid as violating the fourth amendment of the constitution of the U. S. In that case the court said "the 14th amendment protects life, liberty and property from the invasion by the states without due process of the law. Property is more than a mere thing which a person owns. It is elementary that it includes the right to acquire, use and dispose of it. The constitution protects these essential attributes of property. Property consists of the free use, enjoyment and disposal of a person's acquisitions without control or diminution, save by the law of the land." The ordinance of the city of Roanoke is an exact copy of the ordinance of the city of New Orleans, now before the Supreme Court of the U. S. for decision which was held constitutional by the Supreme Court of that state in the case of Tyler v. Harman. Birmingham, Ala., July 22—Claiming that he had been compelled to kill Will Smith, because Smith approached him with a drawn gun and open knife, Dawson Singleton, accompanied by his attorney, surrendered at the sheriff's office Saturday. TWELVE PAGES—TWO PARTS HENSON TELLS VIVID STORY OF POLAR TRIP HENSON TELLS VIVID STORY OF POLAR TRIP New Exploits Of The Arctic Region Recall Story of Henson, First Man To Put Foot On Top Of World. GIVES FULL CREDIT TO COMMANDER PEARY Not alone is Matt Henson the only living man who has actually trod the North Pole, but moreover he is the man who first set foot on that geographical spot so recently ushered into the headlines by the courageous and successful attempts of Byrd and Amundsen to fly over the top of the world. This we are told by Lin Bonner in Liberty magazine for July 17, in an article which reveals secrets buried for seventeen years through the modesty of Peary's Negro lieutenant, Matthew A. Henson, who shares honors with the bravest of Arctic explorers. Credit for the discovery of the North Pole on April 6, 1909 is given to Peary, but few people realize that Matt Henson, Peary's Negro lieutenant, was actually the first man to reach the Pole. Henson, the trail breaker during the last lap of the expedition, was there forty-five minutes ahead of Peary. "Henson went to the pole with Peary, not through Peary's favoritism, but because frozen feet forced all the others to turn back. Peary himself could not walk, but had to be hauled on a sledge. The descendant of a race bred under the equator stood at the Pole physically supreme, having had to thaw out with the warmth of his own body the feet and hands of the Eskimos who were with the party. "Peary died in 1920, but Henson still lives, strong and vigorous, within a few weeks of his sixtieth birthday. He is a messenger in the Correspondence Division, Collector of Customs, at New York. He supplements a menter salary with lectures on his work in the Arctic. Henson and his wife occupy a pleasant apartment in the Bronx, New York. The have no children *****. "Here is Henson's own story of the Pole's discovery, with some hitherto unpublished sidelights on eightteen years of work with Peary in the far North: "The Commander because his toes had been frozen off about ten years before, rode a sledge on all the levels up to and down from the Pole. He never could handle dogs and had given up sledge driving long prior to our final trip. "We started from the Roosevelt at Cape Sheridan in six parties after having put in the winter months preparing and caching food along the trail. Captain Bob Bartlett was in the lead as trail blazer. He didn't drive a sledge, because he had to be out in front scouting the way. Dr. Goodsell followed him, then MacMillan and myself; Borup, Marvin, and last the Commander." "MacMillan and I left the ship on February 18, but we parted the next day at Parter Bay, because I was delayed in soldering some leaky alcohol tins that had been cached there a week before by George Borup. That, by the way, was one of the meanest jobs I had on the way to the Pole. I didn't know whether I was going to be blown up or burned up, because I was working in the dark, using a kerosene lamp and my kerosene, which was ice, had to be chopped off and melted before I could use it for fuel. "We traveled in relay supports, Peary's plan being that each party leader, Eskimos, and dogs, was to have five days' rest after reaching a given point. That is, when a party got to a selected spot on the trail, it would halt, build igloos, and let the other fellows go by them. "But the plan didn't work out that way, because the feet of the fellows commenced to freeze and they would have to go back. That meant the nearest man in front would have to take over the sick man's load and sledge. * * * * * "When I caught up with Bob on the trail we talked about that "When I caught up to 1855 on the trail up about that (Continued on page 5)." AY FU n Death President of Tuskegee A Norfolk Visitor Dr. Robert R. Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, who is resting at his Summer home in Gloucester county, spent a few hours in Norfolk Wednesday. He was accompanied here by Mrs. Moton and Major and Mrs. Allen Washington. TYNES DENIED A NEW TRIAL; WILL APPEAL HIS CASE Counsel Allowed Sixty Days To File An Appeal To Supreme Court of Appeals Which Will Be Done. John L. Tynes, who was convicted in Corporation Court No. 1 before Judge W. H. Sargent last month of a charge of second degree murder in connection with the death of his wife, Mrs. Lenora Tynes, and sentenced to serve eight years in the penitentiary was denied a new trial by Judge Sargent last Monday. Ernest Merrill, counsel for Tynes, argued, among other things that the Court had erred in permitting the jury to visit the Tynes home in Lindenwood, the scene of the killing, unaccompanied by the judge. He also cited numerous other exceptions noted during the trial. The court gave the attorney sixty days to file an appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals at Richmond, which was indicated would be done. Judge Sargeant also announced that the 54 days Tynes has served in jail would be credited him on his penitentiary term. NORFOLK COURT UNTIES BONDS OF MATRIMONY Local Couples Freed of Marital Ties In City Circuit Court Increase In Numbers, Is The General Belief. The ties of matrimony are being cut by the local courts with increasing regularity, is the general belief. Notable among those freed from the marital bonds to go to their individual ways last month were the following: The former Mrs. Edith Coleman was on June 17, granted an absolute divorce from her husband, Charles A. Coleman in the City Circuit Court on the grounds of desertion. Mrs. Coleman who formerly resided here, is now a resident of New York. Her petition was filed by James M. Harrison. Mrs. Eunice Crumpler Mosby recently obtained a divorce in the Circuit Court from her husband, George W. Mosby, on the grounds of desertion. The former Mrs. (Continued on Page Three). ALL NEWS THAT'S WORTH READING PRICE 7 CENTS NERAL h Chair LAWYERS WIN FIGHT TO SAVE LIFE OF HICKS Governor Walker, of Georgia, Halts Death Sentence of Man Condemned To Death Upon Compromise Verdict. COMMUTATION CHEATS THE ELECTRIC CHAIR Two notable instances of executive clemency reaching into the death row of penitentiaries and literally snatching a condemned, friendless and hopeless Negro convicts from the electric chair at the eleventh hour have just been recorded. Both of these instances occurred in Southern states, and both came after members of the trial juries and other prominent citizens—moved by the dictates of mercy and doubt as to guilt of the condemned—had signed petitions imploring the governors to halt the ponderous machinery of the law in its relentless bent upon exacting the lives of these hapless and forlorn men. The Georgia Case Governor Clifford Walker of Georgia on July 10, commuted the death sentence of "Mule" Hicks, under sentence to die the following Tuesday for the murder of H. J. Walker, a convict guard June 10, 1925, to life imprisonment. This case is exceptionally notable in that the governor's action came even after the prison board had refused to recommence clemency. Conviction Extraordinary As notable as was the Georgia governor's action in the case, the conviction of Hicks under the circumstances was extraordinary. The trial jury later admitted that its members were not convinced of the guilt of the accused but found him guilty solely because they felt certain that the Supreme Court would reverse the judgment and order a new trial. It was a compromise verdict that would have resulted in a flagrant travesty upon justice had not the merciful arm of the Governor reached over the machinery of the courts and halted the carrying out of the death sentence. North Carolina Case Earlier in the same week Governor McLean of North Carolina, after much meditation including a personal visit to the state prison, for the purpose as the Governor put it, "to see if the boy looked like a criminal," commuted the sentence of death hanging within a few hours over the head of Alvin Mansell, 17-year old youth, to life imprisonment. Mansell was convicted of attempted assault upon a young white woman of Asheville and his case attracted wide attention. A number of men, convicted of being members of a mob that stormed the Asheville jail in an effort to lynch Mansell while he was confined there are serving varying sentences in the same penitentiary where the youth is incarcerated. In both the North Carolina and Georgia cases the condemned men's lives were fought for by able attorneys who either volunteered their services or were appointed by the courts and these lawyers made determined fights crowned with a measure of success. Hicks Condemned to Death "Mule" Hicks was convicted in Muscogee County Superior Court August 11, 1925, the jury failing to return a recommendation of mercy, and Judge Frank C. McLaughlin imposed the sentence of death. The crime for which Hicks was convicted occurred on the morning of June 10. At the time he was serving a 20 year sentence for stealing a mule, having been sent up when he was only 19 years of age. Hicks and five other Negro convicts escaped after the guard had been hit over the head with an axe. For two weeks the escaped convicts were sought in five counties. One of them, Archie Jameson, was killed by officers and possemen during the chase. Hicks was the last of the quintet to be (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) City So Miss. Dorothy E. Spruill has returned to Philadelphia after coming down to attend the funeral of Mr. Augustus Boone. Rev. dessie Marsburn of Burgan, N. C., was in the city to attend the funeral of Mr. Augustus Boone. Mrs. Richard Dunlap, of Durham was the week end guest of Mrs. B. B. Elliott. Mrs. Dunlap is attending the summer normal at Hampton. Mrs. Floyd G. Godfrey and her two little daughters, Dorothy and Beatrice of Fenchurch Street, left for Brooklyn Saturday to spend the summer: with her father and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Godfrey. Mrs. India Nottingham, of 42nd street; has returned home after spending five weeks in Johnstown, Pa., Nowark and New York visiting her husband and two sons and other relatives. Mrs. Georgia Barge was called to Fayetteville, N. C., on account of illness of her uncle. Misses Caldona and Lucretia Barge left Sunday for Annapolis, Md. Mrs. Emma Pettis, of St. Julian avenue has gone to the hospital to take treatments. Mrs. Ellen Brown and Miss Kate Williams, of Lynchburg are visiting her daughter, Mrs. Davenport. Mr. and Mrs. John Mapp, Jr. were called to Cape Charles Sunday morning on account of the death of Mr. Mapp's mother, the late Mrs. John Mapp. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rawls of Barre street, are entertaining the following named relatives, who mentioned here from Greenville, S. C. Mrs. M. Calboun, M. Hastie R. Blader, M. Missence L. Lykes and Prof. Thomas C. Lykes. They will return to Greenville the latter port of this week. Mrs. Mattie II. Javins, who is spending the summer in Brooklyn with her uncle, Mr. C. C. Curtis, 256 Lexington street, is taking a special course in salesmanship. Mrs. Romine Faulk Howell, 528 Cumberland street, spent Sunday in Suffolk, as the guest of her mother, Mrs. Louisiana Faulk. Luter she called to see Miss Victoria Bowser, who continues ill at the home of her mother, Mrs. Annie Hamilton. Miss Helen Efhel Roberson of Suffolk - spent Thursday as the guest of Mrs. Romine Howell, of Cumberland street. Miss Nonie E. James, of Scotland Neck, N. C., arrived here Sunday morning to spend a few weeks with her aunt, Mrs. Joseph Smith, at 7321-2 Princess Anne road. She 9117 No More Oily Skin! NADINE Face Powder gives you instantly—the very first application—that fine, smooth, light complexion that makes admire and men envy. Every trace of oily shine is banished and it doesn't reappear quickly because Nadine is a close, dense and adhentive powder that absorbs the oil and clings for hours. Even in warm weather, you can depend on Nadine. It keeps your skin cool, fresh, light and fair. 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Other guests at the dinner, were Mr. L. P. James, Fred James and Frank Drew, natives of Scotland Neck, and Misses - Lillian White and Goldie Mae Hall, natives of Moyock, N. C. Mr. W. N. Thompson, of 760 Avenue A, has returned to his work at Miller, Rhoads and Swartz after a week's vacation. Mrs. Evelyn Williams, of New York, formerly of this city, is spending some time in Washington, D. C., with her son, Dr. William F. Skinner. Mrs. Annie Beard spent one month in Raleigh visiting her sister, Mrs. Hoover. While there she was extended numerous social courses. While in Raleigh, Mrs. Beard's son-in-law, Mr. George Ward, of Lexington street, and husband, Mr. Frank Beard, motored to see her, taking with them a new Buick sedan which was presented to her on their arrival by her husband. Mr. George Ward of Lexington street, visited Mrs. Hoover, of Raleigh, last week. Mrs. Hoover is the aunt of Mrs. Ward. He also went to Kittrell to represent the Tidewater Tennis Club, of which he is the president, at the Southeastern Tennis Tournament. Mr. Ward made a very creditable showing ni the tournament. Mrs. Mary Jordan, of Newport News, and daughter, Miss Gwendolyn Jordan, of V. N. & L. L, were the guests of Mrs. E. B. Clark, 732 Mrs. Aine Ave, and dinner guest of Mrs. Georgia Johnson, 627 Princess Anne road, last week. The Newport News Ladies were in the city for two days as the guests of Mrs. Clark. Mr. W. H. Clark, 732 Princess Anne road, was called to New Born, N. C. on account of the death of his father, Rev. G. L. Clark. Mrs. Eva Evans Whitfield of 1227 Galt street, Norfolk, Va., is visiting, friends, in Washington, D. C. and Baltimore. Misses Elizabeth Turner, Agnes Covinton, Mary Clark and Mrs. Aldora Davis of Keystone, W. Va., spent the week-end at the Strand Cafe, of Norfolk. While here they took in Buckroe Beach, Little Bay and Bailey's Park. Misses Lillian B. Garrett and Annie E. Wilson are visiting relatives and friends in Petersburg, Richmond, and Dinwiddie Co. Mrs. W. M. Montier and Mrs. J. L. William motored to Richmond, Va., with Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Davis. Along with Mrs. Williams were her daughters, little Misses Thomasen, Lola, and Mary Williams, who will spend the month of August as guest of Mrs. Emma Whitaker. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Van Buren White, who were recently married in this city have left for Chicago, where they expect to make their permanent home. Miss Virginia Johnson of 523 Macon Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., is spending some time with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Johnson of 861 Leington street. Mrs. W. E. Lawrence who was quite ill for the past two weeks is greatly improved. Mrs. D. W. Byrd and daughters, Misses Wilhelmina and Florence and Drs. Burke and Coppage motored to Kittrell College, Kittrell, N. C., to witness the finals in the Southeastern Tennis Tournament. They attended the reception given for the Association in Raleigh on Friday night. Misses Viola and Virginia Washington and friend Lottie Blount spent a few days in Hampton with their aunt, Mrs. Benne Bowens. Miss Milkdrew Johnson of Anne Street is spending some time in New York City. Mr. C. V. Hodges spent the weekend at Bay Shore with his wife who is attending the Hampton Summer School. Mrs. Adole W. Trigge who spent six weeks at the Hampton Summer School has returned hope. Mrs. Daisy K. Brown of 969 Marshall Avenue, left Monday on a vacation trip to Richmond, Va., where she will spend two weeks. Misses. Naomi and Bessie Rhodes, High School graduates of Leonia, N. J., are guests of their uncle, Mr. J. Watts Rhodes and Mrs. Rhodes of Fremont Street. Mrs. C. J. Graves Montgomery of Portsmouth is spending the summer in Philadelphia. Mrs. Flora B. Roundtree of 512 E. 18th Street, Norfolk, Va., is spending some time with friends and her husband in Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Estelle Wilkins, of Brooklyn, N. Y., formerly of Norfolk, is spending a week with Mrs. Rebecca Robinson, 1238 Church Street. Mrs. M. E. Gray who has been visiting at the bedside of her sister and brother, Mr. and Mrs. John Collins in Richmond, are happy to report that they are rapidly improving. Miss A. M. Poole left Sunday morning to visit and remain with her sister and brother, Mr. and Mrs. John Collins for an indefinite period. Mrs. Leona Tyler of Baltimore, Md., has returned home after spending three weeks with her sick mother, Mrs. Victoria Pendleton, of 804 Jefferson street. Miss Ethel V. Allen of 804 Jefferson Ave., spent Sunday in Richmond, Va., with her mother, Mrs. Harriett Mennis. She was accompanied by Misses Lillian Snend and Ethel Tinsley of Norfolk. Mrs. Vincent Bellamy and her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Steel and little grandson, have returned to their home at 123 North Gilmore Street, Baltimore, after visiting her daughters, Mrs. Maggie Norman and Mrs. Jlennette Cherry, of this city. CLUBS A. B. TEAL The regular meeting of the A. B. Teal Social Club was held at the home of Mrs. Daisy Read, 855 Lexington Street. The newly elected officers were installed and are Colleagues: Mr. Willie Pennett, president; Mr. Alonza Roberts, vice-president; Mr. Clifton Billips, financial social secretary; Mrs. Pearl Young, recording secretary; Mrs. Joanne Cherry, treasurer; Mrs. Maggie Norman, business manager; Mr. Alonza Plummer, minor guard. The club was served after business. FELLOWSHIP CLUB The Fellowship Club of Garrett's A. M. E. Z. Church held its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. J. Platen, of Pulaski Street. Refreshments was served. MERRY MAKERS WHIST CLUB The club met at the residence of Mrs. Geraldine Flood, Wednesday July 14. Many games were dugged and refreshments were served. These present were Mrs. Emma Jones, Minnie Peele, May Bolden, Evelyn Bailey, Winifred Goodwin, Gooden, Broadway, Hattie Brown, Elnora Smith and Hattie Mason. BRAMBLETON COMMUNITY CLUB The Brambleton Community Club met at the home of Mrs. James Williams, Sr., 1498 Calvert Street, Thursday afternoon, July 15. GOOD NEIGHBOR SOCIAL CLUR The Good Neighbor Social Club held its meeting Sunday, July 11, at the home of Mrs. Emma E. Osborn, 1214 Roscoe Street. A good number was present. Arrangements were made for the sightseeing trip to Elizabeth City, N. C. on Sunday, July 25. All of the members are asked to be present at 840 Washington Avenue at 8:30 A. M. THE SHAMROCK THRIFT AND SOCIAL CLUB The Royal Shamrock, Thrift and Social Club held its meeting at the residence of Mr. James Coleman, 24 Commonwealth Street, Tuesday, July 20th. The meeting was presided over by the president. The chaplain offered prayer. Reports of committees were made Cool and refreshing dainties were served. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Mattie Stallings 844 Fremont Street. All members please be present. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dixon entertained at their home in Oakwood Thursday in honor of Mrs. Laura Beyman, of Detroit. After dinner was served, cards were played The guests of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Sketon and Miss Rosa Gray, of Detroit. MR. AND MRS. SCOTT ENTERTAINED Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Scott, of 728 Voss Street, entertained at their home last Monday evening. Sandwiches and other refreshments were served, after which the remainder of the evening was spent in games and dancing. The honored guests were, Mr. R. E. Jordan, Miss Lillian Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Willey A. Johnson, Jr. BIRTHDAY DANCE Miss Mary Brown, entertained Monday evening at her home in Outen Street, at a Birthday dance given in honor of her cousin, Miss Hazel Spady of Cape Charles, Va. ENTERTAIN IN NEWARK Last week Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Burney and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Walks at 217 Prince street, Newark, N. J. had for their guest Sunday at luncheon, Mrs. Burney's mother, Mrs. Lilia Wynn, Mrs. Charlie Jenkins and children, of Brooklyn, also Mr. Jessie Hogart and Mr. John Albert Macklin, of Brooklyn. MRS. WOODARD GUEST OF HONOR AT BIRTHDAY PARTY Mr. C. Woodard was the host in a delightful party, given in honor of his wife, Mrs. Sarah Woodard, at their residence, 853 Washington avenue, Monday evening from 8 The rooms of their lovely home were tastefully arranged and a delicious repast consisting of Anybody can make good pictures with a Brownie—right off the reel. $2.00 up. We've a complete stock of Brownies for your selection, any one of which will double the fun of your summer outings. All ready for you—and we'll put our pleasing "Hall Quality" in the "finishing" of your films, giving you daily service. A The wedding reception of Mrs. and Mrs. Marshall Moore, who were married in New York, was held July 12, at the home of the bride's parents, 889 Johnson avenue. There were a large number of friends to greet the bride who looked charming in a white sweep de chine embroidered in peals with a bandeau of peach around her hair. The bride had as waist decoration a bunch of Dorothy Perkins rose, ferns and asparagas. The rooms were very beautifully decorated with palms and pink crepe mystle. The gifts were many and useful. The mother of the bride was attired in black silk with silver trimmings. Those assisting were Misses Louise and Altha Davenport, Mrs. Ida Crimmill and Mrs. Dora Garrett, Misses Middled and Edna Robinson, sister of the bride. Yale chicken salad on crisp lettuce, saltines, dill pickles, ice cream, cake and punch was served. Music from their player piano enlivened the occasion. Decorating the center of the table at which the guests were served was a delightful birth- day cake bearing a number of candles indicating the amount observed the woodward. Woodward was of numerous useful gems, among these being a lovely gold stone studed with precious stones from her husband and a $2.50 gold piece from her young son. Master Lester Woodard. The guests included besides the guest of honor, Mr. and Mrs. D. Alston, Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson, Mrs. Fletcher Hill, Mrs. Mamie Hoskie, Mrs. W. L. Crocker, Mrs. Queen Whittaker, Mr. and Mrs. Folom, Mr. and Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Jessie Lankford, Mrs. Copeland, Mrs. Lucy Abie, Master Lester Woodard and C. L. Williams. The presentation of the locket and gold piece was made to Mrs. Woodard on behalf of Mr. and Master Woodard by Mr. D. Alston the Illustrious Potentate of Raven Temple, in very choice words. Princess Anne Mt Bethel The scholars and teachers were enthusiastic last Sunday. Great interest is being manifested in the B. Y. P. U. by the young people of Mt. Bethel. New life had entered all the auxiliaries. Mrs. H. A. Jordan is spending some time with relatives and friends in Norfolk. Mr. J. F. Johnson, left last week for the Northern states. MT ZION CHURCH Woman's Day observance at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church was much a success last Sunday. The program was very interesting and enjoyed by all the hearers. The pastor and members have repaired the windows of Mt. Zion Church, which makes a great improvement to the building. Rev. John Randolph is the pastor. BOY KILLS THREE POLICEMEN (By The Associated Negro Press) Lafayette, La., July—Sam Woods, a seventeen year old boy, believed to be from Wayne, Ark., shot and killed three police officers who attempted to jump from a box car through the street stealing a city. Woods dangerously wounded, has been taken to the county jail at Franklin, as no violence is feared. John Williams, of 2271 Marks, St. Louis, a companion is held in jail here. News of Berkley Berkley, Van. Mrs. Bessie Ellison, 708 Walker Avenue, gave birth to a housing baby last week. Lizzy Douglass Haywood is quite ill at her home on Walker avenue. Misses Jennie Glover and Diley Baker of Elizabeth City, N. C., are visiting Mrs. Baskerville, of 1100 Berkley Avenue. Misses Eunice Cuffee, of Hickory is visiting her brother, Mr. James Cuffee, St. James Street, South Norfolk. Mrs. Emma Taylor, 735 Halifax street, is still quite ill. Mrs. Faye Watson and family have returned to spend the summer with her parents. Mrs. V. Bradley, wife of Dr. F. F. Bradley, left Friday to spend the summer with her parents in Chatham, N. C. Luvianna Odon, 1004 Lancaster street, left for Washington, D. C. to attend the funeral of her uncle. DAUGHTER ELKS OUT The Daughter Elks were out in full Sunday, attending the funeral of Mrs. Dosia Spruill, who had been a member of the Order for some years. She was also connected with several other societies which turned out in a body. Mrs. Spruill was a native of Berkley and highly respected by both races. The funeral services were conducted at Central Baptist Church, of which she had been a member for several years. St. Church of Campostella donated to the Woman's Improvement League $2.50 to be applied to the baby scale fund. The League is very grateful. JOINT SERVICES The First Trinity and St. James churches had joint services at St. James Church Sunday evening, Rev. Mr. Augustus, of Trinity, spoke and his chair furnished the music. After the absence of the stock for eighteen years, he visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Savage and left a bouncing baby boy, Mrs. Mary Traylard has returned once after a visit here with daughters and niece, Madame Priscilla Heckstall, Estella Anthony, and Mrs. Lillie Taylor of Campostella The Mt. Zion Baptist Church ran an excursion to Buckroe Beach Monday, July 19. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH (SOUTH N. OREFOLK) The Rally held on the third Sunday in June came up to the Five Hundred Dollar mark. The services last Sunday were well attended, beginning with the Sunday School. At 11 o'clock, the pastor, Rev. G. V. Oliver Wing preached on the subject, "A Man in a Tree," taken from the Nineteenth Chapter of St. Luke. The sermon was a masterful one, thusastistically expounded thus causing the Spirit of God to fill the souls of every believing Christian. At 3 p. m., the pastor preached at Hoods Chapel. At the same hour the Senior Choir enjoyed a delightful trip to Bells Mill, where they rendered a Sacred Concert. They were greeted with a large and appreciative audience. The amount realized totaled forty-four dollars and fifty-six cents. The Union Services were held at St. James A. M. E. Church at 7:30 P. M. Rev. J. R. Augustus, the pastor of Trinity delivered the sermon and his chair rendered a number of pleasing selections. If you haven't kept up with these services, don't fail to attend the following ones, for you have already missed a number of good things. You are invited to the First Baptist Church, Berkley, Sunday, July 25th at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Maddray, 935 Walker avenue, was recently injured in an automobile accident. Mr. Lonnie Hill, of Culpepper street, is improving after having his arm fractured in an automobile accident. Mr. Keeling, of 600 Walker avenue, is quite ill. Mrs. Grace Parson, of Jamesville, Va., is the guest of Mrs. Lillian Western, of 1013 Lancaster street. A number of young married women of Walker avenue had a wonderful success in a crabbing party, bringing back about two bushels of crabs one day last week. Those in the party were: Meshames M. Holmes, C. Bryant, E. Deans, Barrell and Rodgers. anybody can make good pictures with a Brownie—right off the tel. $2.00' up. Brownie for your selection, any one of your summer outings. All ready easing "Hall Quality" in the "finish-daily service." G.L. Hall OPTICAL CO., INC. Mrs. Emma Deans has returned home after spending some months in New York with her husband. In NEW YORK Miss Ossie Hosky, of 602-Berkley avenue, was quietly married. Ms. to Mr. Archie Williams. Monday to Thursday Miss Jettinlow, Mitchell and Mr. Thomas Butler were quietly married recently in New York. They left immediately for Boston, Mass. On their return they will reside at 224 Mt. Vernon street, Camden, N. J. HOLY LIGHT CHRISTIAN CHURCH Rev. D. H. Sparrow preached from 2nd Cor. 5:17, "Is Love in Your Heart," on last Sunday morning. It was a very spiritual sermon. He then ordained Mr. Miles Wilson as a deacon of the church. At 8 p. 31, the pastor. Rev. N. Washington, preached. One member was added to the church. UNION LEAF CLUB UNION On July 11, the Union Leaf Club was organized for the purpose of saving and will have meetings every Sunday at 6 p. m. Mrs. Steward was the organizer. Mr. Thomas Owens is the president and Mrs. Birdie Wilson, secretary. Miss Beulah E. Jackson, gave a delightful party in the honor of her friend, Miss Richetta V. Harris, Friday evening, July 16th. It was entitled a Send-off party for Miss Harris who left Sunday morning, July 18th for Elizabeth City, N. C., where she will attend the State Normal Summer School until September. Many toasts were said to the guest of honor and good wishes were extended to her. Many games were played and a most delightful repast was served. Those present were many Misses Harris and Jackson's school mates. Missis. Richetta V. Harris and Reulah E. Jackson of Berkley were delegates to the Rappahannock Baptist Sunday School Convention on the 7th, 8th, and 9th. It held its session with the Piney Grove Baptist Church of Princess Ann C. H. Chureh. Y. W. C. A. NOTES The work at the W. Y. W. C. A. is still lively despite the warm weather. In the morning from 9 to 11 on an average of 45 women a day come in seeking employment. From July 1st to date over 100 women have been given employment. The employment bureau is filling a great need in the community. On Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays the girls are meeting in clubs at the Center. They are learning new songs, playing new games and having interesting discussions. The conference girls have brought back many new ideas and are not waiting till fall to put them into practice. The Senior High School Girl Reserves spent a very pleasant evening last week at the home of Mrs. Bessie Butler Lee, Miss Georgia Gregory, a conference delegate told the group, of her impressions of conference. Music was another feature of the evening. Miss Carolyn Degue another conference delegate gave a very interesting discussion in her club Friday, the subject of which was "Boy and Girl Friendships." The girls were so interested in the discussion that they asked for it to be continued next week. 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VERN SHOP TUL SALE COSIERY RD $1.50 GRADE 1.15 The Pair Led Quality Used Throughout Line Pure Silk Spliced Heel Plastic Tops Blue Color and White Like, and have sold regularly January price. Tomorrow—th vern's aby Street The "Runnin' Wild" Company is now playing to crowded houses in the larger northern and eastern cities man of the ny dealer Dietke Snow White 50 Amber 25¢ WOMAN'S WORLD ATTENTION, GIRLIS: In this column week, Naomi will help you with your problem. Questions on conduct, caution, and interest in the paper are interested in will be carefully considered and answered. Write your questions in ink on one side of the paper. Write your questions in Norfolk Journal and Guide, 711 K. Olive Road. I am a girl of 18 years and not permitted to have company. I do not have any special friends because they are afraid to come see me. The young men seem to care a lot for them, and they are a member of the fourth high school class and hope to graduate next year. There is a young man I met at school who seems to care for me and I like him very well. He has asked me to marry him. Do you think it would be best for me to marry him? Do you think I would be happy afterwards since I have not had the opportunity to be with him only in the school room? Worried. Dear Worried: No, indeed, I would not think of getting married. You are so near finishing and then you will have a chance to enjoy all the pleasures of a grown up. When you finish you can work and have your money to spend and travel and see something of the world and meet some more young men and then if you still want him you will know that you really love him and you will have no doubts about it. Maybe your parents will let you have company as soon as you finish. Be sure you wait until you come out of school before you think of marriage. Naomi. Dear Naomi: I am a weekly reader of your column and I think your advice is just wonderful. I am a light brown skin girl with black, curly hair, five feet, eight inches tall and weigh about 138 pounds. I am 18 years of age and in love with a very nice young man who treats me very nicely and pretends he loves me but goes with other girls. Is it correct for me to continue to go with him? Curly Locks, Dear Curly Locks: Surely I would continue to go with him. You are so young and there is no need to give one man all of your time. If he is pretend-ing he loves you, tell that right too. Let him go with the other girls all, he wants to, but just be sure you get yourself a few more beaus and then see what a lively time you will have. Why girl, it is so much more run to have two or three fellows calling than to have just one. Naomi. Dear Naomi: I am a young girl 18 years old. I have a friend, he treats me very nice when I am away from home, but he doesn't ever come to my home. Should I ask him? Dispairing. Dear Dispairing: I cannot see why you are worried. If you have never asked the young man around why of course that is what you should do. Then if he does not accept your invitation that is a different matter. Naomi. Dear Naomi: Please print the stamp language for me in your column in the next issue of the Guide. Jean| Dear Jean : I am sending out calls for help, help, as I must acknowledge I do not know the stamp language. Will some of my readers send it to me if they know it. Now Jean, be a good girl and wait a little while and I hope to have it for you. Did you think because I try to help a little bit with my advice that I knew it all? No, No, dearie, I have much to learn. All right girls and boys, please send me the stamp language for Jean. Naomi: Dear Naomi: I am a girl in my "teens" considered nice looking though not pretty and a pal of all my friends. You see I am a high school girl. I am home with my sister for the summer. There was a boy going with me before I left for school, so he has been coming to see me right on until about two weeks ago. He heard another boy was around to see me not long ago. Do you think it any harm in having a nice time with nice boys in a nice way or just tie me down to him? I like him very much and would not like to lose him. 1. How often should a girl go to the movies a week? 2. Should a boy smoke in the presence of a friend, if she has asked him, not to? 3. What do you think of a jealous boy? Dear E. M. R.: No, I do not think it any harm to have a nice time in a nice way with nice boys and I would not be guilty of giving all my time to any one boy. 1. Two or three times a week is suicient to go to the movies. 2. No. 3. Boys have no business to be jealous as they are not in position to get married and therefore should not expect to take up all of a girl's time and then jealousy is a bad thing and can create so much unhappiness. 4. Yes he could care, but some people do not value their word. You would learn by those things he is not reliable. 5. By just such things as you are mentioning and watch his actions and not what he says. SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL WORK By: MISS GRACE 8. LOWNDES THE WORKING MOTHER (Continued) Recently, I campared a colored and white family with the same income, endeavoring to show the advantages that accrue to state and community where the mother remains at home and also the burden placed on state and community where the mother worked part time away from home. The serious job of rearing a family and home-making demands a mother's fullest attention. During the past few weeks various active club women and social workers in different parts of the country have written to me setting forth many pertinent questions and problems which they seek to answer and solve. We older women realize that the home is the bulwark of our national life. If our homes are presided over by trained, intelligent, alert mothers the social history of today would make very different reading for the next generation. Mothers must set example. If the present generation of young wives are in indifferent as to cause, we cannot wide-spread conventions we cannot hold up to the future wives and mothers—who are now our daughters—while they are your own daughters, a vision of something better? Men Must Help Is the altering of these conditions altogether up to the women? How can the women bring about such changes without the help or interest of the men? Have you heard of any group of men discussing and exchanging ideas of how to interest young MEN in "better home life?" It does seem that girls and young women have little conception of the dignity of marriage or of the solemn call to duty that the cry of a child holds. It does seem that women now want to retain all the privileges of girlhood and annex those of the married state without accepting any of its responsibilities. It does seem that our enlarged economic opportunities has retarded the development of the "Homing Instinct" in young women. Women Fund Forth. But the answer to all this is: Women are going to follow the men wherever they go. And if they go away from home for things that are most desirable, the women are going to find it might lone me; and when the men come back (which they always do), they are going to find that the women, with the independence born of this same—enlarged economic opportunity—"have Fared Forth on their own." Many Jobs Closed to Negro Men. In this effort to call attention to our social problems, we have been brought to realize that many opportunities are closed to our men that are available to men of other groups; that our men face many discouragements; that we women know little about; but we also realize that if such money, as we are able to accumulate, is spent in the house where the wife and children live, instead of in the "other house," life would be easier for all. Shall we begin with these future mothers and fathers, or shall the history of how we have met this need be written in the same regretful tone of the above letter? Your ideas on this subject would make a welcome and interesting addition to this column. (Another phase of Home-Making is next week.) Norfolk Court Unties Bonds (Continued from Page One) Mosby is the sister of Mrs. Ralph Ross, formerly Mrs. Alma Crumpler Merritt, and is well-known locally. Mre. Melvina Woodley in the Circuit Court obtained last month an annulment of her marriage to Chester A. Woodley on the ground of abandonment. The complainant set forth in her petition that the couple was married on November 4, 1918, but had not lived, together a February 10, 1922. since February Mr. Woodiey is a member of an old well-known family of this city. Attorney James M. Harrison filed the petitions on behalf of each of these petitioners, HOME & KITCHEN SUGGESTIONS Edited by MARIAN JANE PARKER, Home Economics DEPT., Calumet Baking Powder Co. Salads That Suit Us At the present time when there is such an abundance of fresh foods, we should make use of them. Just think of it—lettuce is now five cents for a large head, and yet many people have a lettuce salad only when company arrives. The dolled-up salad is at its best when some simple food presents itself in a new form. The slightest bit of color on any plain salad will add much to its attractiveness and be more appetizing. The hard boiled egg is a standby. But there are lots of ways to serve it rather than slicing or quartering it. Such as—mixing green pepper or piments with the yolk, beet hollowed out just enough to place a slice of egg in it, when served on a bed of lettuce, makes a delicious salad and vet is different. The lemon is another standby. It is useful not only for its decorative value, but for the appetite it creates in one, due to its acid. In making a fruit salad, the combinations should be chosen with an eye for color as well as for flavor. Strawberries or raspberries and bananas are a good combination, where a bright colored fruit is used with a fruit of less color. All fruits should be carefully prepared. Don't let them stand a long time mixed together or they will become too soft and jicy. To be tasty, salads must be cold and well seasoned. Many times when a salad is served on individual plates it is so juicy it had better be served with a spoon rather than a fork, so watch and not be too generous with your salad dressing. Bacon-An Aid to Summer Menus To many people, bacon is a food reserved for only a breakfast dish and then possibly served when the mornings are cool. This is a mistaken belief for bacon is an ideal summer food, in-much as it is quickly prepared requiring little cooking and it adds crispness and flavor when used in combination with other foods. Many times it is not necessary during the summer months to serve meats which require long roasting. Our bodies require less heat producing foods and yet the meals must be filling and appetizingly served. For summer luncheons and dinners, use eggs in souffles, creamed and scalloped dishes. Make an effort to serve colorful foods, cool and refresh. If a dish is served in a type that cannot be crisp, then supply its crispness in carribbles. The trouble with many vegetable meals is that they fail to hold the eye and attract the appetite. Now bacon, crisp and golden brown is just the food to put the finishing touches to these vegetable dishes improving the taste and appearance. Scalloped cabbage, potatoes squash, or egg-plant with a few slices of bacon on to it is delicious. A border of bacon around hamburger chances this dish from an old one, similar to hash, to an entirely new dish. The uses of bacon in sandwiches are too numerous to mention. Besides club sandwiches, it may be used in combination with cheese, sliced tomato, cucumber and jelly, and there are a number of other sandwiches which may be improved by one or two slices of crisp bacon. Household Hints To make good tea never use water that has boiled a long time. Sweeten tea while it is hot, when it is to be used for iced tea and it will take less sugar. A pinch of salt and a very small tab of butter will keep starch from sticking if added when the starch is boiling. To remove stains from tea cups, rub with salt and vinegar. Burnt milk loses its unpleasant taste if a pinch of salt and a teaspoonful of sugar are added before it gets cold. To make sour fruit less sour Next time try DORSEY'S MEALS. Prices same as the Japs, Greeks and Chinamen. 344 NICHOLSON STREET when cooked use a pinch of baking soda. When ironing colored silks do not use an iron too hot as it will destroy the color, let your iron be warm, but not hot. Equal parts of resin and beef suet melted together make an excellent sealing wax for bottles containing fruit and pickles. Use a brass kettle to preserve your fruits, but not for pickles as it will make the pickles taste brassy. A quarter of a teaspoonful of baking powder added to mashed potatoes while beating them, will make them light and fluffy. If you have a soft corn rub it with a lemon every night until it disappears. After a day's shopping and your feet feel tired and sore, the juice of a lemon well rubbed into them will bring relief. If eggs are broken accidentally they may be kept for two or three days by removing the shells, dropping the eggs into a bowl covering the eggs in water. The eggs can be poured off when the eggs are desired. Edited by Mme. R. Credit-Ole School of Beauty Culture, 4707 Caluam Ave. Suite 100, a stained glass addered envelope to above address for a personal reply. In the days when I was a child, the successful mother thought that she had attained the top round of the ladder of success, if she had succeeded in expressing herself, in her daughter. Now, Today? this Modern Development, has brought to us a new idea, that of Self-Expression of the individual; the innermost self, is being drawn upon; the part the mother or guardian plays, is to enhance it through the proper educational channels, physical developments, spiritual guidance, and moral support. The most successful women are those who capitalize their own resources and work out their own charming selves, according to their individual assets. There is charm in poise, in repose, in the alert, and vivacious; there is charm in a ready smile and bright eyes; in fearlessness and fine reserve; in kindness and sweet indifference; all of the attributes go into the ingredients of charm, taken at different angles. So it remains with the individual to make the most of her particular asset; stamp her individuality; play it up and be charming. Remember always that your face is the index. CAMPOSTELLA Campostella, Va—Mrs. Lovie Northern, the agent and reporter for the Journal and Guide, is asking her customers to have their seven cents ready Fridays, and Saturdays to avoid so much walk and worry for the agent. Please have your news to my home, 119 Martin Street, not later than Tuesday evening. The agent stands ready to assist her patrons in any way she can. Mrs. Rosa Barnes has returned from Ivau, Va., where she was called a few days ago to be at the bedside of her ill mother. Mrs. Jane Jones, and daughters of Elizabeth City, N. C., are the guests of their sister and aunt, Mrs. Elise Cabarrus, Covel Street. Miss Mary Bass of Durham, N.C. was the guest of Mrs. Annie Smith Seward. Mr. Willis Jones, Sr., spent Saturday and Sunday at Bells Mill, the guest of relatives. Mrs. Susie Archer, of Lindenwood, was the guest of her friend and cousin, Mrs. L. A. Northern, and Mrs. Sallie Barnard, last week. Mr. and Mrs. George Quincy, are the proud parents of a bouncing baby boy. 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C— July 17—In the dusty glow of a golden sunset the second annual Southeastern (Open) Championship Tennis Tournament came to a brilliant-finish today after five days of super tennis waged by giants of the white-lined courts, and a final checking up revealed the fact that five new champions were in possession of those coveted trophies emblematic of tennis supremacy of the Southeast. Racquet wielding stars from New Jersey to Georgia battled on the six hard clay courts of Kittrell College those past few days, and raking their opponents' courts with barrages of flashing balls unorked surprise and in startling fashion. None knew who was to bow in glorious defeat next; nodded and ranking players signed nothing to those virtually unknown players who banged battles, titanic battles, against odds, only to leave the courts, tired and smiling, but victorious against the veterans of many historic matches. Marcellus Goff, Howard University star of Albany, Ga., tall, janky, nimble of foot, sensational in play, smart in court generalship, survived play in which such nationally known stars as J. L. McGill of Portsmouth, E. D. and L. C. Downing of Roanoke, W. L. Cook of Raleigh, the North Carolina champ, C. W. Furlong, Smithfield, N. C., M. E. DuBissett, Wilson, N. C., Willis of New York, among those of others, and capture himself, single title of the Southeast with a single set. The new Southside champion has a game that is almost a replica of that of the national title holder, youthful Ted Thompson. Similar to Thompson, his net play is simply marvelous. None in this tournament, save the wizardry McGill, could match his execution of strokes at the netted barrier. Incidentally, meeting Goff in the quarter finals, McGill staged the toughest match of the meet, forcing him to 10-8, 9-7 sets before being defeated. C. W. Wurlonge played brilliant tennis, even benefiting the dope in turning back the N. C. L. Cook in a five set semi-final match, net Goff for the title, but his fine drives and killing smashes avoided nothing. He lost in straight sets 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. This was the first new champion crowned. J. W. Anderson, champ last year, did not defend his title. McGriff And Downing Cop Doubles E. D. Downing, Roanoke, and J. L. McGriff, Portsmouth, national doubles champs in 1924, ranking team and holders of many other titles, overcame stubborn opposition to earn the privilege of being crowned Southeastern double's champs. Downing, in the first annual Southeastern meet at Petersonburg last summer, teamed with his brother, Lilburn C. as his brother then planned to be playing his last tournament tennis. This season, however, the star combination of McGriff and E. D. Downing will play through preliminary tournaments and the nations together, and they are going to be hard to stop. In the finals they turned back the North Carolina champions, Furlonge and DuBissette, a powerful pair, in four sets, 4-6, 8-6, 6-2, 6-3. Herein is the second newly crowned champion. North Carolina Wins Mixed Doubles Miss Funiece, Brown, Winton, N. C. and N. W. L. Cook, Raleigh, surprised the court fans when they turned back McGriff and Miss Hines, in the mixed doubles, in straight sets, 8-6, 6-2. McGriff and Miss Hines were only a few minutes, out of their men's doubles and ladies singles finals, respectfully defeated by the winner's final. Cock bowed the weight of the winning team's burdens and Miss Brown, in better form and of Sturdier build, afforded better support than her feminine opponent gave McGriff. Mr. B. B. Church, the referee, de- BY A. D. WILLIAMS Chicago, Ill., July 22—Clubs in the National league loop got under way, 10th inning for the second leg of the league race for the second pennant and a chance at the world series. Kansas City, winner of the first half has started out like they intend to repeat in the second half, but along with them in the merry chase is to be found the American Giants, St. Louis and Indianapolis. The Monarchs, Giants and St. Louis did not suffer a single defeat during the first week of the second half, while Detroit, runner up in the first half, lost to Indianapolis and ended the first week of the half in fifth position. Trophies Awarded At Tennis Meet Men's Singles--Three-leg trophies--Journal and Guide, N. C. Tennis Association trophy, and the W. F. Hughes trophy. The Lewis Sport Golds Store of Raleigh awarded a permanent lion cup. Men's Doubles--Progressive iv a reality Co. of Ralich, Cups. Mixed Doubles--Trophies presented by N. C. Association. Ladies' Doubles--Cups presented by the Entre Nous and Cosmopolitan Clubs of Raleigh. Ladies Singles--Mrs. King, Selma, N. C. Trophy--three-leg. Permanent cup by N. C. Association. Junior Singles—Hamlin Drug Co., Trophy. The runners-up in each event received cups presented by Dr. L. C. Downing, or the Virginia or N. C. Associations. faulted Miss Brown and Cook at ten thirty in the morning for nonappearance for a semi-final match, but they were allowed to play it anyway in the afternoon, beating Mrs. E. Reid, Roanoke and T. A. Foy, Richmond, for privilege of playing finals, in which, it is seen, they won, becoming new title holders in the event formerly held by McGriff and Miss Pearman. Ladies Singles Champ in Great Form Miss Eunice Brown won her second of her three victories in the judges' singles. Two times North Carolina champion and last year Miss Bornw did not lose a set in her victorious march to important title. She shows a marked improvement, volleying with good ability, driving to the lines and cross court with deadly accuracy, and possesses a capable service. In her present form she could, in the opinion of several competent judges, defeat, or at least run any lady player now in competition in the A. T. A. T. extra test, or in Miss Pearman. Miss Hines did not quite up to her usual form, she was a fair test for Miss Brown in the finals. Miss Hines was able to win only one game a set from the new champion, who was defeated last year by Miss Pearman. Miss Pearman did not defend her title. Women's Doubles Hard Fought Splendid volleying and driving for women players marked the final match in women's doubles between Miss Hines and Mrs. MacAuley versus Miss Brown and Mrs. Cherry, which was won by the latter team after a fierce struggle 6-3, 6-3. This victory made Miss Brown the only triple winner of the tournament. Calloway Alone Retains Title It remained for youthful Thomas Calloway of Roanoke to be the only Southeastern champion to retain his championship title. He defeated Urban Bass of Raleigh in straight sets, 5-1, 6-2, in the finals. The number of junior entries increased considerably and many showed real promise, but none could turn back the stroking and strategy of Calloway. The Tournament in General The second annual Southeastern Tournament was sanctioned by the A. T. A. and held this year by the North Carolina Tennis Association on the six hard surfaced courts of Kittrell College through the courtesy of that fine institution, 'situated in the hiss section of North Carolina. 'Although rain held up play for a few hours Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday were idealennis days. Playing in the courts, the courts 'feitting better as they were played on. Unusually high backstops, detachable singles court posts, high umpire stands, seats for spectators, and a bountiful supply of balls aided in making for ideal 'playing conditions. Presi- All eyes this week will be turned toward St. Louis as they are playing Indianapolis and the A's have just kicked Detroit over four out of five. Should the A's take the series from the start the race will really be on. Chicago will be playing the Cubans, Detroit the Cleveland Elites and Kansas City will be open, so will Dayton. This will give the other clubs a splendid opportunity to gain the race. Chicago an Detroit seem to have the best chance to gain this week. By the end of the week some definite line should be drawn whereby the dopesters can predict the pennant winter of the second half. What will this week bring? Your guess is as good as the rest! WINNERS IN SOUTHEASTERN TENNIS MEET TENNIS Loft to right: Mrs. L. E. MacCauley, finalist in women's doubles; Mrs. D. K. Cherry, on winning women's doubles team; E. D. Downing, on winning men's doubles team; Miss Fillian Hines, finalist ladies' singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles; Urban Bass, finalist in junior ladies' longue, finalist in men's singles and doubles; Thomas Kearney, finalist in women's singles; Marcellus Goff, winner of men's singles; W. L. Kearney, finalist in mixed doubles team; Miss Eunice Brown, winner of ladies' singles, on winning mixed and women's doubles teams; M. E. DuBissette, finalist in men's McGriff, finalist in men's and mixed doubles. doublets; J. L. Mecorin, *in* the beautiful and high quality trophies. For instance, the three tallest, left to right, avail the Journal and Guide three-leg trophy, one which J. W. Anderson and Goff hold a leg up, with South Carolina Association Trophy, on which Goff and Anderson likewise hold a leg apiece; and J. W. F. Hirsch, Trophy, *in* competition this year, and on which Goff holds the first leg. MEMPHIS HAS EYES ON LAST HALF OF FLAG (By Associated Negro Press) Memphis, Tenn., Jille 22—While the Albany Giants are protesting the awarding the first half championship of the Southern League, the Memphis Red Sox, are doing their dawdest to grab off the lead in the second half and the chance at the "grand championship" at the close of the second and final of the race. To do this the Red Legs are putting forth every effort to strengthen their defense. Their offensive strength is known throughout the circuit and only the crumbling of the defense kept them out of the running during the first half. The pitching staff was bolstered up by the addition of "Steel Arm" Tyler, former "American Giant" hurler. Tyler has pitched a winning brand of ball for the Red Sox and is expected to bear the brunt of the pitching. Another hole in the infield was plugged up by Davis, as shortstop secured from the Black Barons. With the defense strengthened the Red Sox believe they are on their way to the pennant. The Black Barons of Birmingham however, are planning to eliminate the partnership series" by winning the second half. Manager Smith has secured Poindexter from the American Giants thus rounding out what is expected to be the best pitching staff in the loop, composed of Salmon, Birdine and Poindexter. There is another stumbling block in the path of the Memphians, namely the Albany Giants, led by Big Bill Gatewood, Albany Giants boast of the most well-balanced team in the loop and will prove dangerous contenders for the championship. Gatewood's boys are going strong and will give a good account of themselves. dirt Edwards announced that Kittrell was now a standard Class A College, and also that with funds recently given by Negroes and donors, several new buildings and additional equipment, along with an increase in professors, would materially aid in carrying higher grade College, under President Edwards' leadership, is destined to attain great usefulness. In short, as of the tournament, it was very satisfactory, and as an educational center it will grow, in efficiency, Units, and Feature Matches Upsets and Feature matches In the round before the semi- finals in men's singles, Dr. Du- Bissette lost a splendid match to his doubles partner, but not be- forcing him to thirteen. The match was a final exhibition of a fast service and quickly flat drive as used. DuBissette against-a- necously executed top spin drive and telling and smashing game at 'net by Furlonge. The score was 5-8, 6-0, 5-1. One of the best-matches of the tournament also came in the quarter finals. Here McGriff, a ranking player, pitted his fine service and seldom equalled net rushing game against the all-court game of Goff, which was featured by his 'unthany' gets at the net. Both players stormed the 'net at every opportunity, often 'engaging in 'long-colley- NORFOLK JOURNAL AND GUIDE League Leaders By A. D. WILLIAMS Stolen Bases Player, Club J. Bell, St. Louis 16 Murray, St. Louis 18 Galdner, Chicago 10 Dalton, Chicago 10 Malarcher, Chicago 10 Allen, Kansas City 9 J. Russell, St. Louis 8 Reigan, Kansas City 8 Taylor, Indianapolis 8 R. Jones, Indianapolis 8 Jackson, Chicago 8 Sweatt, Chicago 8 Creacy, St. Louis 7 Torrienti, Kansas City 7 Joseph, Kansas City 7 Kansas City 6 McNair, Kansas City 6 Harding, Indianapolis 6 Williams, Chicago 5 Martin, Indianapolis 5 J. Jones, Indianapolis 5 Wells, St. Louis 5 Suttles, St. Louis 5 Thompson, Chicago 4 E. Russell, St. Louis 4 EASTERN LEAGUE BACHAIN STARS W L Pct. Cuban Stars .....13 7 .650 Harrisburg Giants .....13 8 .611 Lincoln Giants .....14 10 .583 Hilldale .....24 20 .545 Bacharachs Giants .....15 14 .511 Baltimore Black Sox .....15 14 .266 Brown Royal Lynch .....14 10 .266 played July 18. Tiger Flowers Starts Grind For Huffman Los Angeles, July 22—Tiger Flowers of Georgia, holder of the world's middleweight boxing championship, started training at Vance, Calif. for a fight July 24. Edith Huffman, Los Angeles light heavyweight. Flowers' title will not be at stake. The champion is scheduled to fight Harry Greb, from whom he wrested the middleweight crown, in New York next month. ing rallies that elicited round after round of apilition from the gallery. McGriff was not quite up to his usual game, being especially unsteady in his service on numerous occasions. But failing here he gained ground at the net, volleying so sharply on occasions as to make the return of many shots impossible. Only the porthaps equally fine, though different, net play of Goff and his marvelous covering of court saved him from bowing to the net, a play that these two sterling players, because of the breaks of the draw, had to meet so soon. It was a rather general opinion that Goff was the single man in this tournament who could have stopped McGriff. And what a historic final it would have made, to have there two aggressive master of the all-court game battle in a three out of five set final match! Goff won the first game on his serve. Then, McGriff took, and Goff's for a 2-1 lead. Several back-hands pass on running shots by Goff "veried the count." Doubles —Photo by Campbell and Bennett HILLDALE NOSE OUT OVER THE ROYAL GIANTS Philadelphia, July 20—A perfect squeeze play engineered by Otto Briggs and Jake Stevens broke up a hectic thirteen inning struggle at Hildarie Park when the Darby Daisies hung-up a 5 to 4 win over the Brooklyn Giants. Stevens who was a big cog in the Hildarie victory pried open the unlucky innning "for the Giants" by socking the first pitch that Cannonball Dick Reddings served up for a line single to center. Campbell promptly sacrificed him to, second, then Stevens purloined the third sock cleanly and set the stage for Otto Briggs to deliver his bit of strategy. Stevens was off with his poise and the pan before Reddings could pick up the tantalizing roller. Stevens was made at first on Briggs and the tap swelled Otto's count of safeties to three for the afternoon's work. This same combination of Briggs and Stevens sparkled on the defense in the visitors half of the thirteenth and prevented plenty of the flattush clubbers. Otto raced all the capture Jesse Hubbard's smash to capture Jesse Hubbard's turf to knock down the play by tossing to Warfield in a sitting posture, forcing Cason at seconds. However, but for Jody the center, but for Jody the center, in the ninth inning the visitors would have bagged the contest by a score of 4 to 3 score. With two Hildarie hitters retired in the ninth inning and the crowd moving toward the exits, Judy Johnson took a tooe hold at the plate and sailed one of Connie Rector's slants over the middle barrier tying the score. Bill "Buller" Campbell who went the entire route for the Daisies deserved to win without the efforts of overtime labor. Errors paved the way for three of the visitors four tallies. Warfield's error in the second staked the Giants to a run and either Robinson or Umpire McKinney was responsible for the Giants' injuries in the first, Warfield started a double play and McKinney ruled that Robinson failed to touch the sack. Smiling Connie Rector pitched effectively for ten innings "and was unsteady only in the second inning. Campbell fielder his position in superform. R H O A E Briggs, rf 1 3 1 0 0 Warfield, 2b 1 5 1 2 1 Mackey, c 0 5 2 2 0 Johnson, 3b 2 3 0 0 1 Thomas, cf 1 2 5 0 1 Carr, 1b 0 3 14 1 0 Washington, if 0 0 5 0 1 0 Robinson, ss 0 0 1 3 0 Stevens, ss 1 2 3 3 1 Campbell, p 0 1 0 0 0 Winters, x 0 0 0 0 0 Leave Kitchen Cares Behind! FRANK McLAUGHLIN W. E. McGREERY Vice-President Sales Manager Potomacs Down Newton A.A.6-2 Philadelphia, Pa., July 22—Wilmington Potomac triumphed Newton A. A. to the tune of 6-2 in a hectic fray, after the defeated nine had turned in a clean victory over the champion Hilldale club. The Potomacs put up a swell brand of baseball, the features being the playing of Mackey, a crack fielder, formerly of C. I. Taylor's A. B. C. and Johnson, centerfielder. The playing of "Skink" Browning, a young to a from Allison Academy, Franklin, N. C. was beyond reproach. Browning is claimed to be the youngest backstop in the professional game. Spearman, c ------------ 0 2 5 4 0 Rector, p ------------ 0 2 1 2 0 Redding, p ------------ 0 0 2 0 4 0 37 16 3 xBatted for Robinson in the sixth inning. One out when winning run scored. Two base hits—Thomas, Hubbard, Spearman, Johnson 2, Carr 3. Home run—Brooks, Johnson. Sacrifice hits—Mackey, Campbell, Spearman. Stolen bases—Scott, Smith, Hubbard, Stevens 2. Double plays—Carr to, Robinson to Wagner to Cason, Brooks to Hill, Rector to Spearman to Cason, Stevens to Warfield to Carr. Bases on balls—off Campbell, 3; Rector, 4. Struck out—by Campbell, 3; Rector, 3; Redding, 2. Umpires—Evans and McKinney. Home Run Kings Player Club No. Suttles, St. Louis 13 Creacy, St. Louis 8 R. Jones, Indianapolis 7 Redus, St. Louis 5 Torrienti, Kansas City 4 Murray, St. Louis 4 Wells, St. Louis 4 B. Russell, St. Louis 4 Russ, Chicago 3 Brown, Chicago 3 Ctevens, Indianapolis 3 Mothel, Kansas City 3 Joseph, Kansas City 3 Arrange, Cubans 3 Cuittrez, Cubans 3 Williams, Dayton 2 Johnston, Kansas City 2 Bell, St. Louis 2 J. Russell, St. Louis 2 Bonner, Cleveland 2 J. Jones, Indianapolis 2 Roberson, Indianapolis 2 Evans, Dayton 2 Includes games up to July 14. Lima, Peru, is to have its first automobile show this summer. QUOLE Prices Include Connections AUTOHOT AUTOHOT WILLIAM MULDOON OUTVOTED BY OTHER TWO MEMBERS OF THE STATE ATHLETIC BOARD Our $8.85 Sale of FLORSHEIM SHOES gives you the choice of our entire assortment, of this well known make. They're always worth $10 to $12. Come and get a pair or two at this low price. Florsheim Shoe Store 210 Granby Street Monticello Hotel Bldg. 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OF NORFOLK New York, July 22—William Muldon, member of the New York State Athletic Commission had his hopes of having the proposed Dempsey-Tunney championship boxing match staged in this state blasted at the regular meeting of the commission here Tuesday, when he was voted down by his colleagues. The Duke of Muldon was also expecting Brower, another member to support thereby voting down the Tarley, who is firm in his stand for Harry Wills, personal challenger, but Brower has his vote with the challenger. This action by the finality settles the question of Dempsey ever fighting in this state unless he formally accepts the challenge posed by Wills. It is said that Tex Rickard, who has been trying to stage the bout here is dickering with Chicago in hope of pulling off the championship melee in that state. It is also charged that Rickard was only using Chicago as a ruse, in order to make New York retract, but he denies this. The wise ones believe that Chicago looms as the only site now, that New York seems utterly lost. Gene Normille, manager of champion Jack Dempsey states that Jack is chaffing for a fight and gives Rickard all assurances that the scraper is under contract with Tex only and that the contracts with Floyd Fitzsimmons are nothing now, but more serrap a paper, in paper, in the Indian Hatha tradition, had fallen to the agreement of posting necessary sum on a certain bank. Wills May Get Whack At Maloney Wills May Get Whack At Maloney (By The Associated Nigerian Press) Boston, Mass., July 22—Dian Rumor has it that a fight between Harry Wills, leading contender for a chance at Jack Dempsey's cross and Jim Maloney, a local heavyweight will probably be held New York City or Boyles Thur Acres, on Labor Day. The box is reported under the constitution of Tex Rickard, the promoter. 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Stoutly maintaining that he did not strike the guard but that Johnson did, Hicks went on trial for his life. Testimony of the two convicts, who escaped with him was the most damaging against him at his trial. Hicks was convicted solely upon circumstantial evidence. None of the state's witnesses testified that they actually saw the blow that killed the guard. The attack occurred on the Buena Vista road, about thirteen miles from Columbus, after the convicts had loaded cement on a trailer that was being pulled by a truck. Found Guiltv Hicks was found guilty. An appeal was made to the Supreme Court of Georgia and the judgment of the lower court was affirmed with the result that Judge McLaughlin set May 14 as the new death date. When Governor Walker was informed that a petition for clemency would be filed he granted a sixty-two year old called for the execution on July 13. The attorneys for the condemned man, Messrs. Robert M. Arnold and Willis Battle, of the firm of Arnold and Battle and B. A. Lovvorn of Columbus, appointed by the court for the defense, appeared before the prison board and made a plea for clemency but the board declined to make a recommendation for commutation of the sentence. Later the lawyers appeared before Governor Walker and presented the same petition that had been laid before the prison board. Decision was held up by the Executive until July 10. In their petition, counsel for Hicks contended that the verdict was a compromise. It was stated that a number of the jurors consented to a verdict of guilt because they were of the opinion at the time that the prisoner would be granted a new trial. In that connection, the following paragraphs were contained in the petition: "Petitioner shows that the jury which passed upon his case and which returned a verdict of guilty retired to deliberate upon the issues threefor about 6:30 p. m., on August 10, 1926. Shortly thereafter the jury was taken to supper and renewed its deliberations about 7:30 p. m. About 10:20 p. m., the jury returned to the court room at the direction of the court when asked if they had been able to reach an agreement. The foreman replied that they had not been they differed on a question of fact. The court then stated to the jurors that they should indicate when they were ready to retire for the night. The jury then returned to its room and deliberated for only a few minutes, Matt Henson Tells (Coutimed from Paige One) and wondered who the boss would take with him on the last jump. Bob didn't know and I didn't. Then Bob's feet froze and I was the last man left. The boss came up and we went to the top together. I was in the lead with my Baskins and I overran him about a half. The Chief came in about forty-five behind me and he found the Pole. And, boy, don't let any-body tell you different—PEARY FOUND THE POLE!" when at about 10:30 p. m., a verdict of guilty without recommendation was returned. In petitioners motion for new trial he urged that the verdict was manifestly a compromise verdict, the compromise being between those jurors who wanted to return a verdict of guilty and those jurors who did not want to spend the night away from their families and under guard of the sheriff. Petitioner insisted he should be granted a new trial upon the broad principle that justice had not been done, in that it manifestly appeared the verdict was not the conscious verdict of the jury. The court in denying petitioner motion for new trial must have concluded that no such compromise was made. Subsequent to the affirmance of the lower court by the Supreme Court petitioner's counsel interviewed jurors with reference to presenting a petition for clemency. Petitioner's counsel then learned that the inference they had drawn was correct and that the verdict had not been consciously rendered by the jury, but a compromise based upon the juries that petitioners would be granted a new trial. The petition of certain jurors praying that clemency be extinguished petitioner, which petition is sworn to by the jurors who executed the same and shows that said verdict was a compromise one, is attached hereto and marked Exhibit "C." Jurors' Statement "The sworn statement of jurors which has been identified as Exhibit "C" not only shows that the verdict of guilt which was returned against petitioner was not a conscientious verdict of the entire jury and was a compromise one, but also shows that some of the jurors are of the fixed opinion there is grave and reasonable doubt in the guilt of petitioner. Petitioner submits his evidence while he has been found guilty, according to the forms of law, he has in substance and in truth received no trial because a number of the jurors who passed upon his guilt committed the very grave error of consenting to a verdict error of guilty for the sole reason, expressed at the time, that petitioner would be given a new trial. The verdict of guilt returned against him is not unfair and unjust, and petitioner admits that it should never be allowed to stand, at least insofar as execution of the death sentence imposed upon him as a result of said verdict is concerned. With reference to a twenty-year sentence that was imposed on Hicks several years ago for the theft of a mule the petition carried the following: Pettitioner respectfully submits that the theft was impounded upon him in the year 1915 for an alleged theft of a mule of small value was unduly harsh and unjust. Pettitioner feels that the state of Georgia can consistently grant him leniency at this time on the sole ground that he has herefore been most harshly and unjustly dealt with by the state of Georgia. Pettitioner submits, however, that he is also entitled to consideration because of the great mistake made by the jury which he has guilty in agreeing to a verdict when in them did not consciently concur in which they show by their sworn statements; and because of the other facts set forth herein. Hicks Elated When Rufus ("Mule") Hicks was notified by his attorneys that his life had been spared he could not believe the good news. He insisted that Mr. Battle was joking. Hicks was confined in the death cell of Musgeus county jail. When Mr. Battle finally convinced him that the governor had commuted his sentence he broke down with joy. Rapidly he repented: "I'm so glad I don't know what ter do." Hicks forlorn and hopeless, had visualized Tuesday as his last day on earth. He was without money or friends. He didn't 'mount to anything much, anyway, he opined. He had been informed that early Sunday morning he would be transferred to the state farm for execution. And when his attorney, who had fought so strenuously to save his life, walked to the bars of the death cell and announced that his life had been spared, Hicks was most incurdulous. As he walked to the bars of the death cell, Mr. Battle said: "Well Mule, the governor has saved your life." "Aw, naw, Mr. Battle, you're jokin." There was a serious look upon the face of the prisoner. He searched the eyes of the attorney in an effort to learn the truth, for he could not believe after the many hardships he had suffered, that mercy had at last been extended to him. Mr. Battle sought to convince the prisoner that he was not joking. "Can you read?" the attorney asked the prisoner. "Yes, suh. I can read ennothing 'bout my life." He was handed a telegram and he scanned it. It evidently meant nothing to him, however, for he apparently could not understand the contents. He handed it back to Mr. Battle and then read the telegram, which was from his partner, Robert M. Arnold, who had just been notified by the governor in Atlanta, that he would commute the sentence. When Mr. Battle had finished reading, the death cell prisoner began to smile. His eyes showed that at last had come ```markdown ``` PRODICAL SON, THEME OF THE WANDERER ```markdown ``` The biggest Paramount picture of the year, "The Wanderer," which has been heralded far and wide for many months as even greater than either "The Covered Wagon," or "The Ten Commandments," comes at last to the Attacks Theatre for an extended engagement of three days—Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. The story was adapted for the screen by J. T. O'Donohue from the stage spectacle of the same name by Maurice Samuela. Produced by the Academy of Motion Pictures "The Thief of Baghdad" "The Wanderer" featuring Ernest Torrence, Greta Nissan, William Collier ir; Wallace Bresy, Tyrone Power and Kathlyn Williams in the principal roles is the First Black Sheep of long age who left home for the wine, women and song at a wicked city. After many tribulations the prodigal returns to his home—changed, ill, in rags. Tidings of letter's apostasy are brought to Jesse and he is unable to forgive his son until the miraculous intervention of the prophet brings about a reconciliation and the feast is spread to celebrate the wanderer return and his betrothal to Naomi. What a theme for motion picture! And how perfectly the William Collier jr., portrays the role of the wayward son! Douglas Fairbanks Again In keeping with the letter of the sagacious critics that the supreme test of a successful photoplay should be characterized in the first instance by a good story replete with action, Douglass Fair-to him the realization that he would not be executed. "Thank God," whispered Hicks. "I ain't done nothin' to be killed for." He asserted that he did not kill Mr. Walker and that he had had nothing to do with the slaying. It was then that he said: "I'm so glad I don't know what ter do," and repeated it many times. Hicks was overjoyed. He repeatedly thanked Mr. Battle and his associates for their efforts. He was almost wild with joy. At that juncture a glass of water was offered through the bars to Hicks. "I don't want no water," cried the happy prisoner, pushing the glass away. "I don't care if I don't never drink no more." Attorneys Make Statement Following the victory of Hick's attorneys they made the following statement: "We are pleased at the action of the governor and know that it will allow the approval of the governor with the case. Of course we did not know what the decision would be, but we were confident that Governor Walker, who is not only a skilled lawyer but an eminently fair and just executive would not let the death sentence stand. "The evidence was too weak on which to base a death verdict. It was not only circumstantially bad by the judge, who were in sharp conflict in their testimony and who may have been trying to clear themselves of im- Expert Tire and Auto Repairing Have your car washed with our electric washer. We turn them out per order. Call 21275 1815 Church St. The two best places in the world to eat are home and Blue Front Delicatessen 517 E. BRAMBLETON AVE. Where they choose down our menu, which we change down and order your favorite dishes. 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AND LINCOLN STREET PLAYERS SPRING MANYSURPRISES AT TENNIS MEET (Continued From Page 4) faults lost the next game for McGriff. In the next game McGriff fell twice and before recovering his poise, Goff was leading 4-2. From here a fast duel of brains and brawn ensued until the count stood 8-8. Then Goff won his serve and broke through McGriff's first attack, a quick maneuver effort that culminated in a "get" end, return that flashed by McGriff as if it were a comet. In the second set Goff changed his tactics from a fast slice to a top spin drive. Before the set was over McGriff appeared a little worn—both players did in fact. A fine demonstration of nerve and execution of strokes is a short story of this final set, eventually won 9-7, by Goff on a backhand pass. Cook, the North Carolina champion, defended L. C. Downing, who although not rated in this year's atrocious ratings, defeated the player now placed at number 10 position. 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In this suit is the for defendant to obtain from the defendant a dvice - vnicoe matrimonii, on the grounds of desertion, and the defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia, he is hereby required to appear within ten days after duel-sufficiency may be applied, the defendant will protect his interest. Teste: O. M. Robertson, Clerk. W. M. Thomas p. q. by Ed. L. Broeden, Jr., D. G.) VIRGINIA: IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF NORFOLK, ON THE 19TH DAY OF JULY, 1886. Badie Bows Tarlton Complainant vs. In Chagain James Tastion the object of this suit is for defendant to obtain from the defendant a divorce in vinculo matrimonii, on the grounds of desertion and affidavit having the authority to protect his interest in the State of Virginia, he is largely required to appear within ten days after the penalty to protect his interest. Tests: Gecil M. Robertson, Clerk Thomas H. Reid p. q. By D. C. A VIRGINIA: IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUT OF THE CITY OF NORFOLK, ON THE 10TH DAY OF LIFE Lee Owen* Vice Chancellor Vivian Schoen-Dewa* In Chancellor The object of this suit is for the complaint to obtain from the defendant a divorce, in vinculo matrimonii, on the grounds that he has been made that the defendant has not a resident of the State of Virginia, she is after due publication here, and what may be necessary to protect her interest. Tests: Gecil M. Robertson, Clerk Thomas H. Reid p. q. By D. C. ADMINISTRATIX NOTICE I, the undersigned, have qualified as administratrix of the estate of Ernest Williams, late of Norfolk, Va. All parties indebted to his estate will make payment to me and all creditors are requested to pay the amount of $631 Massachusetts Ave. Norfolk, Va. A. L. JONES, Administratrix THE METROPOLITAN - SOCIAL and Beneficial Club will hold its next meeting at the residence of Mr. John Ballard, 504 Cumber- land Street, Sunday, July 25. To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that at a Call Meeting of the U. N. I. & A. C. S. by the Assistant International Organizer of the Patient Body at New York, Mr. No. 20 emerged into one Division to be known as the Norfolk Division, this July 12, 1926. Reporters: J. M. Hall, J. Robertson, N. R. Floyd, Acting Secy. CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for the numerous kind favors and good offices tendered by the many friends of the family, during the long illness and at the recent death of our wife and mother, Ella G. Archer. Signed: Chas. R. Archer and Family CARD OF THANKS I wish to extend my thanks to my many friends, who so kindly tendered their service to me during the long illness and death of my husband, Augustus Boone, July 4, 1926. I also thank the Ladies of the Working Union for their beautiful flowers. Mrs. Wife, Mrs. Bessie Boone 961 Hannon Ave. Norfolk, Va. TIDEWATER S. S. COUNCIL MEETS NEXT SUNDAY The annual session of The Tidewater Sunday School Council which convenes at the Queen Street Bible School Building this Sunday at 4 p.m. promises to be a red letter one from present indications. Every member—school and several new ones are expected to be present and carry out a program consisting of discussions of live Sunday school topics, music, and group reports. The annual election of officers is also scheduled. Each school will have the privilege of nominating and voting for its choice. The spirit of and for Christian service and education will rule. Plans for the Annual Parade will be instituted since the public demands and asks for it. A new feature in the form of a Joint Pageant depicting the third quarter's lessons; From Moses to Samuel will be undertaken. Each school will be assigned and held responsible from a particular part. The pageant will probably be staged in the old Armory Building with appropriate customs and music. A City-Wide Religious Census will be taken as soon as vacationists return to the town. Comprehensive plans for the same are now being studied and sought by the Council's leaders. It is hoped from these activities to arouse more interest and enthusiasm in religious education so as to be able to furnish field workers and other aid in needy places hereabouts. ST. MARK'S COMMUNITY There was a good and well attended Sunday school here on last Sunday morning. At 11 o'clock, Rev. L. Z. Waltson preached a stirring sermon. At night the former pastor, Rev. A. L. Scruggs, Staunton, preached from St. John 14.1. There were many out to hear him. Rev. Scruggs has a $2,000 drive on for his church in Staunton and he is going from church to church endeavoring to raise that amount by the fourth Sunday in March. Many of the members here took envelopes to help him. IN MEMORIAM A JOYNER-In Sad but loving remembrance of our beloved daughter and sister, Ruth A. Wilson Joyner, who departed this life July 18, 1925. Today recalls sad memories, Of our loved one gone to rest, And those who think of you, Are the ones who loved you best. We little thought when you left home, That you would ne'er return, That you would sleep in death, And leave us here to moan. Days of darkness still come over us Tears of sorrow silently flow; But fond memory keeps you near us, Though Heaven claimed you one year ago. Mother, Father, Sisters, Brother Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wilson Lynnhaven, Va. In loving remembrance of my dear husband, Mr. Samuel Stewart, who departed this life, July 20, 1925. No one knows the silent heartaches Only those who have lost can tell, Of the grief that's borne in silence For the one we loved so well. Friends may think that we forget him. When they sometimes see us smile, But little do they know the sorrow Which that smile hides all the while. His wife, Mrs. Annie Stewart In sad but loving remembrance of our dear Father and my devoted husband Willis Moore, who departed this life, July 14, 1922. Dearest one, thou hast left us, And the loss we deeply feel; Since 'tis God who has bereft us, He can all our sorrows heal. Mrs. Mary E. Moore and Children In loving memory of our dear Father and Mother, Charles Wright who shot 1922, 1928 and Harriet Wright, who died July 21, 1926. Gone but not forgotten. Their Children: Mrs. Lena Eley; Mrs. Bessie Ferebee; Mr. Richard Wright; Mr. Theodore Wright; Mrs. Georgia King; Mrs. Annie Ogburn; Mrs. Mary Walker. VISIT PETERSBURG CAFE AND HOTEL Polite Attention. Quick Service and Prices Moderate N. B. JOHNSON, Proprietor 66 9th Street LYNCHBURG, VA. Half-Million Dollar Masonic Temple MOSQUE Prince Hall Masons Launch Big Masonic Temple Drive Prince Hall Temple, now under construction on Seventh avenue, the main thoroughfare of Harlem, N. Y., at a cost of a half million dollars. When completed the Temple will be a seven-story structure, with every modern device known and fireproof throughout. Baptist Ministers' Conference To Close At Pughsville New York, July 23—The long awaited drive to float the bonds among colored Masons and public spirited citizens of the country necessary to finance the half million dollar temple now under construction on Harlem's main thoroughfare, got under way Friday. At the monster mass meeting, leaders in fraternal and civic life space in Harlem joined forces to offer us phases of the enterprise. J. Dalmus Scole, exalted ruler of Manhattan lodge of Elks; former Alderman George W. Harris; Hubert Harrison, Mrs. E. Hortense Warner, H. Adolph Howell earnestly urged the public to support the men who were responsible for bringing about the realization of this splendid vision. This project is one of the largest of its kind ever attempted by our group. It is a source of civic pride. To finance the construction of the temple, the Prince Hall Building Association with offices at 2412 Seventh avenue, is offering coupon bonds in denominations of $50 and $100 bearing 6% interest. These bonds are guaranteed by the building itself and interest is payable semi-annually, without deduction for normal federal income tax up to 2%; redeemable at the option of the corporation, on any interest date, in whole or in part, on thirty days' notice, on and after May 15, 1931 and 1932 at principle amount of maturity. When completed, the temple will fill a felt need in the community by providing suitable accommodation for the meetings of masonie and other fraternal and civic organizations. A seven story structure, with every modern device known, fireproof throughout, the structure occupies a large plot at 144th street and Seventh avenue. The basement will contain a banquet and ball room large enough to accommodate any function. On the first floor will be a spacious auditorium seating comfortably twelve hundred people. A stage large enough for the theatricals can be utilized to accommodate three hundred. The offices of the Grand Master are this floor, Grand Master are a large lobby which elevates a large lobby entrance entrances. The floors above are devoted to lodge rooms, complete in every detail. The topmost floor, with a mezzanine, is one large room devoted to the Scottish Rite, being a beautiful cathedral, with pipe organ. The valuation of the proposition is $500,000. The Board of Directors estimate $38,000 annual net income from the letting of the lodge and banquet rooms, together with income from all other sources which will provide an ample amount for the annual interest and sinking fund requirements on the bonds. The personnel of the Board of Directors are persons well known in the business and frater- The Baptist Pastor's Union of Norfolk and vicinity will hold its closing session at the New Hope Baptist Church, Pughsville, Va., on Monday, July 26, 12 noon. Great interest will surround this meeting, which will be at this meeting of the officers for the next conference year will be elected; and at the close of the meeting the church will serve the ministers NORFOLK JOURNAL AND GUIDE Masonic Temple Masons Launch Temple Drive er construction on Seventh avenue, N. Y., at a cost of a half million dol- e will be a seven-story structure, and fireproof throughout. nal world, including Oscar R. Cassall, president; E. J. DePasso, vice president; George W. Lockett, treasurer; Winifred J. Carr, secretary; Arthur S. Simmons, Andrew J. Wade, Jerome P. Ottley, Mrs. Alice Campbell and S. J. Davis. The officers of the Building Association are uniting in the effort to successfully in the erection of this monument to Prince Hall, which will be a center of civic activities in New York and a source of pride to the colored people of the world. New Pastor At First Presbyterian Begins Program The First United Presbyterian Church under the leadership of Rev. B. B. Evans who follows the well known Rev. D. F. White is beginning a new period of development. Not only does the Rev. Evans plan to continue the phases of work carried on by Rev. White but new features will be added which will be of interest to the city at large. These will be announced later. In the mean time services will be held each Sabbath at 11:15 a.m. and at 7 p. m. The seven o'clock service is a vesper service. This service is short and interesting. Those of other connections as well as the regular members are invited to this service. The service will loosen in a mind as the services of other churches. On Sabbath morning the Rev. Mr. Evans will use as his subject, "Forgetting." Word comes to us that the Rev. D. F. White is located in his new charge and that the work is progressing nicely. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH At 11:30 in the morning Rev. D. J. Lee filled the pulpit and selected as a text Matt. 5:17. This was a splendid message and greatly enjoyed by those in attendance. At 8:30 p. m. Holy Communion was administered by Rev. W. A. Price of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The right hand of fellowship was extended to one new member. At the evening services Rev. Lee in his scholarly and erudite manner spoke from the text, Matt. 9.9. The funeral of Mrs. Ellar Archer a very faithful member of the church took place Monday at 2:00 p. m. Rev. J. H. Billups officiating. The Sunday School continues to grow in interest and attendance. Echoes from the 'B. Y. P. U. Convention which met at Clifton Forge, Va., were discussed by the president. Visit the Homelike Church next Sunday. ' Conference lose At Pughsville to a regular country dinner. The closing sermon will be preached by Rev. A. Gomer. All ministers desiring transport- tation to attend this meeting may find the same by boarding the Suf- folk bus leaving Portsmouth at 11:15 A. M. and get off at Taylor's store (just beyond Hodges' ferry) where autos will meet you and take you to the church. SAY CRANFORD SUSPENDED MEN FROM CEILING (Continued on Page Six) affidavit saying he did not order me to pull Wooten he would meet me on the highway some night and let me go." Deese declared that on one occasion he had seen one convict. John Baker, whipped twice and once hung by his hands off the floor for four hours. Whipped Man Until He Fell Carl Vester leake, a Negro, and fromer convict, testified that he was told by Cranford to make a ring in the road and whip Quincy Lake, a convict, until told to stop. Leake said he whipped the man until he fell and Cranford said he was not whipping him hard enough. "Cranford then hit me," the witness said. "That night Leake was trying to eat," the witness continued. "When Cranford saw he was not eating like the rest of us he picked up a root and knocked him out of his seat. John Quincy crawled in the house where he slept and he never touched another mouthful of food. "What happened then?" The solicitor asked. "John Quincy died that night." The state, then seeking to bare Cranford's record as a convict boss as far back as 16 or 17 years ago, called to the stand Abe Leake, a Negro, who served them on roads as many years back. This witness said he was shocked in such a manner that his ankles been covered with sores. Baring his back to the jury he exhibited scars, some several inches long, which he said had been caused by whippings he had received under Cranford. The tension which had settled over the courtroom when the three tales of alleged barbary began to unravel themselves from the lips of former convicts was almost broken with a titer when the witless man, a man of the kind of a mudkherief around his neck on one occasion caused Cranford to call him "duddish" and resulted in his receiving a beating. Citizens Testify The state did not rely wholly on the testimony of former convicts to build its case against this alleged iron-handed superintendent of prisoners. It called murderists the attacker who had seen the accused savagely assault his charges in the public streets. W. T. Efird, son of an ex-state senator, declared he saw Cranford knock down a convict with a board in the streets of Albemarle 15 years ago. The Negro did not get up immediately, the witness said, and the convict boss stepped on his head with iron-clad hoots. Then, feeling the sting of Cranford's lash, the convict partly got up, staggered and fell again, the witness said. Slowly and dramatically, the prosecution exhibited before the jury the hair and teeth alleged to have been those of Quincy Lake, a convict whom Ach Leake testified he buried clandestinely. Here, Cranford's face turned ghostly white, but he only squirmed. Works Man With Broken Arm It was testified that Cranford forced a convice named Grady to work with broken arm and that when Grady's mother sent a doctor to set it, he ordered the doctor away and told Grady to write his "dear, beloved mother and tell her if she puts her foot back in this camp I kick her off." Another witness, John Baker, told of another convict, James Lee Bulter, having one foot suspended to the ceiling just off his bunk for having broken the Sabbath by dancing. The jury paradoxically bit bit bit inside the spectators shudder and then almost laugh. Former convicts who have testified against the former chaiang骨 boss were both white and colored. The trial has amazed this little town. People from the far countryside have stopped the attendance upon their crops temporarily to 'tend coat.' Some of the town's folks have for 15 or 16 years heard that the court had sent a local convict boss, but the stories of his alleged cruelty that have been recited in the courtroom here have even stunned them. Prosecution Relentless This trial is no playing to the galleries. North Carolina seems sincerely bent on cleaning up this convict camp mess, even to the extent of sending the alleged arch cruel overlord of convicts to penitentiary for life. Cranford himself realizes that the days before him are beclouded. If the charges laid against him by state's witnesses are true, his has been a calous and most insensible existence, disregarding human suffering in a manner that seems too incredible. And whether Cranford is convicted or freed, the solicitor of this county, with the end of this trial will have rendered the state and the nation an exemplary service in focusing so relentlessly public at the convict camp system which once flourished in North Carolina with the people perfectly oblivious of its probable hellishness. The defense holds sway in the trial this week, and the attorneys for the accused are relying mostly upon character witnesses to undo some of the damage done their client by the prosecution. The Lloyd Barrage irrigation project on Indus river, in India, will cost nearly $67,000,000. A brass phonograph record has been perfected. HAT the importance of your PRINTING demands that it should be carefully planned and executed in order to have result-getting effectiveness. Just as the appearance of a distinctively dressed individual attracts the eye of another so does the quality of your printing count. Guide Quality PRINTING is distinctive—it is outstanding. 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Madison, pastor of Second Calvary Baptist Church, after which came Rev. Evans, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, who is successor to Dr. White, who recently left our city. All of these speakers were equal to the occasion. Dr. R. K. D. Garrett, pastor of Garrett Temple and Rev. Gladly, pastor of St. Luke A. M. E. church, also Rev. Murff were present and added much to the enthusiasm which was running high at that time. After the program had almost come to a conclusion, the offering of $175.00 were laid on the table. Our church is taking on new life under the leadership of Rev. A. S. McGowan. He is really bringing things to pass as no man could unless God is with him. We expect to enter our new brick structure around November 1st. MT. LEBANON BAPTIST CHURCH The early morning prayer meeting at this church on Sunday last was spiritually elevating, following which the Sunday school convened with a number of the teachers and scholars in their places. After the teachers had gone over the lessons each class made a very good report. The Bible Class won the banner. At 11:30 the pastor preached from Rom. 12:19. In the afternoon the 'heart offering' service was held which proved quite a success. A good program was rendered by the B. Y. P. U. in the afternoon. At night the pastor preached another stirring sermon. One person was added to the church during the day. On next Sunday morning the pastor will preach a special sermon to men and at 3 o'clock the Brotherhood of the church will have a service. The pastor will preach again at night. MACEDONIA CHRISTIAN CHURCH Services here were well attended Sunday beginning with the Sunday school. At 11 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Lee of Queen Street Baptist Church, preached an able sermon, here and at 3 o'clock, Rev. Whitfield preached. the pastor, Rev. W. S. Midgett, is grateful to these ministers who assisted in these services. Col. Cabell To Speak At St. Paul Sunday Col. George C. Cabell will be the principal speaker in a Men's Day observance at St. Paul's C. M. E. Church, corner St. Paul street and East Olney road, Sunday, July 25, at 3 p. m. The Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias, Major George R. Duke, commander will attend in a body. Other organizations also are expected to attend. Col. Cabell will be introduced by W. W. Foreman and Walter Smith will lerve as master of ceremonies. A. The great Women's Missionary and Evangelistic Conference, Inc., will convene here at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Z. Church, August 4, 5, 6, 1926. A large delegation of Women preachers, singing evangelists, missionaries, cottage workers, prison and slum workers, from the Northern cities will be present and take part in all the exercises, and the public is compelled to attend. Mrs. Lise Ried, Evangelistic Pres- Mrs. Lina Rina, Evangelistic President and Organizer of the Virgilian Mission, Miss Miss Mamie Lesueur, Cor. Sec'y., 218 Chicagolai Street. DIDN'T MOVE OUT OF BRAMBLETON; SON IS INJURED The little son, about 11 years old of Samuel Costen, living on the corner of Mapleton and Majestic avenues, who recently was the victor in an action in Police Court which sought to force him to vacate his home on the grounds of violating the city residential segregation ordinance, was struck on the head with a brick or stone by the young son of a white family in the neighborhood Saturday and was seriously injured. Attending physicians state that the injured boy is in a critical condition and may have sustained permanent damage, even should he blow. His youthful assailant was arrested and will be given a hearing in Juvenile Court Friday. The opinion is freely expressed that the attack on the colored youth was prompted by older heads in the neighborhood, insimuch as it is known that there exists considerable feeling among the whites relative to Costen's victory in court, which permitted him legally to live in the house. Judge Spindle dismissed the warrant sought to move his house on the grounds that the city's residential segregation ordinance is unconstitutional. Attorney David H. Edwards, who defended Costen in Police Court will also look after his interests in the case which is to come up in Juvenile Court Friday. Literary Contest A Decided Success The Literary and Popularity Contest between the David King and Bible Class No. 3, held at the First Baptist Church, Bute street, Monday night, July 19th was a success. The program consisted of Solos, Declamations, Essays and a Debate. The Bible Class N). 3 won the majority of the numbers of the program. The Debate-Re sh Fry e Bay Beach Auspices er Military Band day, until—July 28 Imission: 35c andConcert&FishSupperFree ugust First Cottage Heights Fish Little Bay Ausp Premier Mil Wednesday, 8 P. M. until— Admissi Dancing-BandConcer On Augu Fish Fry Little Bay Beach Auspices Premier Military Band Wednesday, 8 P. 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The numbers rendered were standard classies by the world greatest composers. The interpretation of each selection portraying the meaning of the writer easily showed that the singer were under the tutorage of a master. The sweet voices of the Juniors in contrast with the majestic voices of the Seniors brought variety and ecstacy to theaters. The piano selection by Ms.abel B. Young showed much skill in execution. The aim of this effort was both cultural and financial. The slogan of which is better and Bigger Choirs. To that end the Choir Club has been revived, and a Supply Chorus has been organized. This chorus will rehearse one hour each Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. The chorister and choirs wish to thank their many patrons and friends for the sum of $75.00 realized from the Joint Recital on last Sunday evening. Prof. Hiram Simmons, Chorister-Director, has gone to Philadelphia for the purpose of selecting a supply of music for the two choirs, the Supply Chorus, and while there he will attend the National Association of Musicians of which he is a member. BROWN & BROWN General Real Estate Brokers 1209 CHURCH STREET Phone 33267 NO LOTS RESERVED Did You ever stop to think? 711-17 E. Olney Road Telephone 23100 Norfolk, Va. 711-17 E. Olney Road Telephone 23100 Norfolk, Va. ILLEGED BOMB LANTER FREED Y MAGISTRATE Implaint Charging Derelicition of Duty Filed With Gov. Byrd Against Commonwealth's Attorney. (Social to Journal and Guide) Daniele, Va., July 14-Formal implaint charging dereliction of duty has been filed by Attorney Gary D. Dolphin, of this city, with Governor Harry F. Byrd against commonwealth's attorney of court county in connection with that official's failure to appear in the Magistrate's Court at堡 and prosecute the case of H. Gray, charged with having attempted to dynamite the home of a armed citizen at Blueridge on June 17. his complaint against Grey was dismissed. Viewed as peculiar circumstances connected with the trial, he the absence of the commonwealth's attorney and the immediate resignation in the court room of Ben Hayden, who had been acting as assistant commonwealth's attorney in another case before the court, with his announcement that he had in the Grey case assumed the role of counsel for the defense. There were three witnesses, prosecution, all 14 for the defense, all 14 for the defense, a white, a number of people said to be relatives of Ben Hayden. The colored citizen against whose time the dynamite bomb was dived lives on the National Highway at Blue Ridge Springs. For one time, it is said, the whites are endeavored to get the colored covers of property in this section to sell. Several shots have been fired at the property and at one 10 dynamite sticks were dropped on it from a passing automobile, but failed to explode. They are promptly picked up by a coloured man and destroyed. Second Attempt The second attempt to dynamite covered on June 18, last, when three dynamites were thrown very close to the residence in question was passing Ford car which had moved up in front of the property. destruction of the home was averted by Arthur Grimes, a watchman who had been stationed on the property._by Attorney._Dolphin._seized the dynamite sticks and threw them into a field across the road where they exploded as soon as they fell._ Attorney._Dolphin, after obtaining a description of the alleged dynamite and the number of the car, one had a warrant issued for the arrest of J. H. Grey. The preliminary hearing was had before to sitting magistrates at the house in Fincastle, the county seat, which resulted in dismissal of the warrant. Witnesses for the defense sought establish by their testimony that they went to bed at 10:30 and was arrested at 11 p.m. by a messenger, the informed Grey that his sister died down the road. Grey, however, did not get up until the next morning, it was testified. Attorney Dolphin, who had been appolied by the court to represent the commonwealth following the resignation of Ben Hayden, noted to appeal to the Circuit Court and filed the complaint with the Governor against the State's attorney. THRONGS CROWD NEGRO PAGEANT AT THE SESQUI Marian Anderson Held Her Hearers Spellbound; Hampton And Fisk Singers Appear On Mantmoth Program Philadelphia, July 22—The Miami Auditorium at the Sesame Centennial was crowded by the attendance of over fifteen thousand spectators who witnessed the Gift" on Monday Evening, July 12th. It was a feature not alone the Negro Activities proved to be the stellar exhibition thus far of any event held the Auditorium. From the open-scene colorful and stately un-Ginnell's wonderful Band the "Star Splendant Band" the illumination was thrilled the audience, costumed and song-presented. Mrs. Dora Norman, directing the Pamela and also playing the part of "Loyalty" in the exhibition, derived the great applause extended she made her first appearance her final bow. Marion Anderson Heard Marian Anderson, depicting investment in song held her hear- er unraptured. The wide range of words, the varied types of phras- ing and interpretation, the full- tion of tone included the artistic tone of her numbers. The composed of unprofessional expression of drama and song made an expression in their choruses that will go down in the history of the choirs as the most wonder- ful rendition yet made. They like a crowd attending; broke all words. Mr. J. C. Asbury, and his faith- Norfolk Journal and Guide PAGES 7 TO 12 Students From Southern Schools Stranded In North Bulletin No. 4, of the Industrial Relations Department of the National Urban League summarizes employment conditions throughout the country as follows: Industry on a whole was static during June and the situation among Negroes coincided with this general condition. Here and there fluctuations were recorded and a few outstanding events were reported. The incidents cited below are the principal reported deviations during the month of June: Atlanta—This city provides the most glaring injustice reported because of the signing of a bill by Mayor Sims granting a minimum wage of $100 per month for all "white" skilled and semi-skilled city employees. Forty colored male employees of the city have petitioned the Committee on Church Co-operation of Atlanta to intercede in their behalf for a higher wage. The men, fearing the loss of their jobs or other forms of intimidation, have used fictitious names and addresses. St. Louis—A leather goods factory employed 125 colored girls in a new department. They were provided by the Urban League of that city. Then comes also this amusing statement "With the coming of hot weather whites doing street work are being rapidly replaced by Negroes." St. Paul—The American Radiator Company has promised to employ forty colored men in a new foundry to be opened in August. Detroit—The steady inflow of Mexican common labor is disturbing the already unsettled conditions of Detroit. Prophesies as to its effect upon Negro labor are frequently made. The Negro population is 81,000. In 1920 it was 41,000. Raleigh—A movement of labor toward new development sections of the state is noted and there is a report of a temporary movement to Washington, D. C., of bricklayers on account of large building programs there. Lansing—The new Olds Hotel is employing a small number of doormen, bus boys, porters and cleaners. Efforts are being made to extend this employment to bell boys and waiters, but local opposition makes this improbable at present. LYNCHBURG ELSON HIGGINBOTHAM. Correspondent Lynchburg, Va.—Guests registered at the Petersburg Hotel and Cafe for the week were: Thomas M. Horn, Norfolk; John A. Price, Charlottesville; Frank L. Morris, R.F. D. Lynchburg; Russell Jones, city; John Witherspoon, Newport News; W. F. Jennings, Halifax; Willie Jones, Greenwood, S. C., and Willie Fruits, New Glasgow, Va. Guests at the Manhattan Hotel were: Johnnie Clarkson, Fla.; W. M. Jenkins, Fla.; Hubbard Walker, Fla.; Henry Wilson, Nashville; Dr. Morris A. Dodson, Washington; Ms. Florence E. Woods, West Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Green, Richmond, Fred Wright, Gastonia, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Johns, Roanok; Charles Murphy, Winston-Salem; Archibald Talbert, Washington; Alex Tuck, Richmond; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mack, Washington, Pa. George Sutton, Baltimore; John moreview, Baltimore; Comer Richardson, Augusta, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Armstead, Bluelield, W. Va., and Mr. Felicia Cobley, Danville. MOONLIGHT WEDDING There was a moonlight wedding ful and efficient staff deserve praise for their foresight and prediction that it "could be done." The Exposition officials agree that the success artistic and otherwise pleased as well as surprised them. The Hampton Quartette included in the star numbers, rendered fine services. The Fisk Glee Club presented their numbers in voices so harmoniously blended as to seem a musical instrument swelled and touched by a master. Grinnell's Band. No small praise could suffice the effects and by Grinnell's Band. Acting their instruments though sounded like an orchestra of stringed instruments. The character of the thousands in the audience was also of high degree. The writer talked with folks from Alabama, Indiana, New York, Ohio and less distant points who either planned their visit to Sesqui so as to include the Pageant or had made direct trips to Philadelphia in order to be in attendance. The State College at Dover, Delaware, adjourned The Summer School for teachers in order to so spectacle. The Recreational Training School conducted by the Playground Association of America cancelled their afternoon schedule so the student must study the drama and musical effects. Mrs. Norman was located by this organization to direct the Exhibition. Exhibits Placed The Composite Negro Exhibit for which generous space has been allotted is taking shape in the Exhibit: Building No. 2, on the Sesqui Grounds. National Mass Chorus A great mass chorus which is to present a Musical Festival on August 23rd in the Stadium which seats a hundred thousand people is organizing and rehearsing. Choruses in many out of town cities San Antonio, Tex.—The first Negro orchestra to play at a white hostelry in San Antonio, Texas, is filling a summer engagement at St. Anthony hotel. Alphonse Trent's orchestra has the contract. Jefferson City, Mo.—The first street contract to be awarded a Negro has been granted Charles Marberry to grade a city block. He employs all colored help. His contract is $5,000. Minneapolis—Negroes were re-employed by the Minneapolis Street Railway Company. At the instance of the Urban League of U.S. to the company was prevailed upon to grant compensation for inefficiency and permit another trial. Maurice Rothschild's Store hired a maid and a night watchman. They were the first Negroes to be employed there. Milwaukee — Negro musicians were employed in resorts out from this city where previously white orchestras were employed. They are union men. Cities in which business houses employed Negroes in June for the first time: Lansing, San Antonia, Jefferson Sity, Missouri, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, St. Louis. Significant industrial problems Students from southern schools stranded throughout the North. The city of Louisville has paid the transportation of a number of these boys back to their homes. As many as 17 were provided with free schooling. Atlanta has enacted another discriminatory law. It granted raises to white city employees and ignored colored city employees. Union Laborer:--No report of recent friction between white and colored workers involving union labor. Approximately 100 colored girls are on strike with white workers in the cloak workers union in New York. In Raleigh less hostility is reported against Negro bricklayers by white union workers. In New York, the recent picture operator recently permitted to union, reported greatly increased wages. One colored operator, formerly employed at $45 a week for sixty-six hours work, now receives $63.02 a week for thirty-five hours work. given at the Y. M. C. A. grove under the direction of Mrs. Parker Monday night at nine o'clock. After the wedding which everyone enjoyed they served supper. Ice cream and punch were sold. The wedding lasted until seven o'clock. TENNIS COURTS OPEN The Y. M. C. A. tennis courts are now open for use on the corner of Sixth and Wise streets. They are in excellent condition. They are two regulation size courts and a small practice court on the corner. The smaller court will also be used for volley ball. The public is invited to use these courts. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Tynes are away on their vacation in Philadelphia. Kissi Virginia Stokes is visiting her relatives in Dearington during the week. She will leave for her home in Worcester, Mass., Saturday. Miss Mary Taylor is visiting her uncle, Mr. J. M. Jones at his hotel on Fifth street for the summer. are being organized. Towns in Virginia, New York, Washington, Baltimore and other musically minded cities have been made welcome by the Negro Activities Committee who have their headquarters in the Odd Fellows Building at 1201 Spruce street. A Special Festival Bureau is handling the organization of out of town choruses, Glee Clubs and Singing groups. Well Known Newspapermen Change Positions Baltimore, Md.-Garland L. Mackey, Sports Editor of the Afro-American Baltimore newspaper, resigned that position last week to become City Editor of the newly reorganized Herald Commonwealth, another Baltimore paper. Mr. Mackey has been connected with Negro journalism for a period of 15 years and is considered an authority on sports. He was on the staff of the Afro-American for three years. While with the Afro he contributed two pages of sport news that was considered by the equal to many of the dailies. He is at present at his home in Virginia where he will rest for a few days returning to Baltimore, July 22, to begin work on the Herald-Commonwealth. Associated with Mr. Mackey is Mr. S. Snowden, former circulation manager of the Afro-American. Several thousand dollars have been invested in the Herald-Commonwealth and the Herald organized paper is expected to be the equal of the best Race papers published. The earth's age is believed to be between two and three billion years. Summary NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926 Alice Sails For Paris MRS. ALICE JONES RHIN lionaire, Leonard Kip Rhinelande S. S. Majestic from New York las she is sailing to visit her mother' that a reconciliation between her Paris, is afoot. Names Co-respondent In Action For Absolute Divorce A. MRS. ALICE JONES RHINELANDER, wife of the young millionaire, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, who sailed for Paris aboard the S. S. Majestic from New York last Saturday. Mrs. Rhinelander says she is sailing to visit her mother's people in England. Gossip has it that a reconciliation between her and her young husband, who is in Paris, is afoot. Names Co-respondent Charges Cruelty In Action For And Desertion Absolute Divorce In Divorce Suit Washington, D. C., July 22—After a marriage of 28 years, Mrs. Amelia Green, of 1703 New Jersey Avenue, Northwest, is asking the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to grant her an absolute divorce from her husband, Jeremiah Green, 131 Reeves Court, Northwest. She charges him with infidelity and names Elizabeth Dyer, of North Brentwood, Md., as the correspondent. In her bill of complaint, Mrs. Green alleges that her husband and the co-respondent misconducted themselves at No. 619 L Street, Northwest, at various times between January, 1920, and July, 1925, while the co-respondent was living at that address. She further charges that he lived with the co-respondent at 707 P Street, Northwest, from August, 1925, until she moved to North Brentwood. She and her husband lived together until the year 1923, she says when he began drinking and would come home drunk and would use vile and abusive language. They were married in September 1899. He moved to Columbia. Mrs. Green is represented by Attorney P. W. Frisby. ATLANTIC CITY Atlantic City, N. J.—On Thursday evening, Argonne Garrison, No. 195 Army and Navy Union was hosts to its members and friends at a whist party and dance held at the Soldiers Memorial Home, Kentucky and Adriatic avenues. The auditorium was splendidly decorated with palms and ferns and the walls were bedecked with American flags and banners which gave a military aspect to the affair. Whist tables were arranged around the outer edges of the auditorium for the enjoyment of those who were not engaged in dancing, for which the center of the auditorium was reserved. The juvenile lawn presented a pleasing appearance with its multicolored lights gracefully arranged about it. Refreshments were served both in the auditorium and on the lawn by a committee headed by Harry E. Harmon. Misses Jola Hawkins, Ruthe Waites, Rosetta Richardson, Marion Waites, Elizabeth Fisher, Mrs. Bessie Waites, Mrs. Marie Green, and Mrs. Julia Bruce were hostesses. The members of the Allen Methodist church, Philadelphia, of which the Rev. Dr. Stewart is pastor, made their annual pilgrimage to the shore on Sunday and were the guests of the members and friends of the St. James church. The errend Stewart was the morning guest at the local church, while Bishop William H. Heard who is well known in this city, preached the evening sermon. The Philadelphia returned to their homes acclaiming a wonderful day spent here. Mrs. Bessie Waites was the guest at a surprise party given for her on Wednesday evening by her two daughters, Marion and Ruthe at their home, 637 Lexington avenue. The home was quite artistically decorated in black and gold. Those present included: Mrs. ELANDER, wife of the young mil- lary, who sailed for Paris aboard the Saturday. Mrs. Rhinelander says people in England. Gossip has it and her young husband, who is in Charges Cruelty And Desertion In Divorce Suit Washington, D.C., July 22—Thru Attorney Armand W. Scott, Mrs. Emma Hester Brown, 2008 L street northwest, is suing her husband, Cornelius D. Brown, for a limited divorce. She charges cruelty, desertion and non-support. Mrs. Brown claims that her husband deserted her on June 18, and is now living over his stables in the rear of 1252 Twenty-fifth street, northwest, but kept his office at the L street address. He paid rent to July 17, she says, but advised her that he would not pay any further rent and is refusing to contribute anything toward her support. After their marriage August 3, 1881 she says, they lived over a stable in the rear of the fourteen hundred block of Nineteenth street, northwest, for a period of five years. They lived happily together, she states, until July, 1923, when he deserted her and remained away until April 4, 1924. She had a nervous breakdown, she claims, and was forced to go to the country. While in the country, she says, he began to neglect her by staying away two and three nights a week and refusing to give her any money for any other necessities than food. She says she discovered that he was running with a woman by the name of Mollie Sutton, and on April 9, last, when she spoke to him about this woman, she slapped her face. On July 8, last, she charges, he threatened to throw a brick at her. Cornelius D. Brown is engaged in the wood and ice business. Mrs. Brown declares in her bill of complaint that he has two wagons and two automobiles and employs six men, paying them on an average of from $18 to $22 a week. She states that his net income is about $250 a month. She asks the court to grant her a limited divorce, temporary and permanent, counsel fees and court costs. ? Nettie Airie, Mrs. Rose Hamilton, Mrs. Ella Hursey, Mrs. Ora Williams, Mrs. Julia Bruce, Mrs. Naiol Young, Mrs. Eva Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. William Cheatham, Mr. and Mrs. Omar Airie, Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Mends, Mrs. Bastrue Kelly, Mrs. Hattie Allen, Miss Louse Allen, W. Carter, Cleveland G. Waites, Albert Waites and Mrs. Eva Fossett. MONROE Monroe, N. C.-Mrs. E. F. Hasty has returned home after spending some time in Asheville on business. Miss Ester Lindsay, of Wadsboro hore the week-end visiting Miss V. P. Hasty. *Rev. J. T. Newby is confined to his home, 313 Church Ave. He is able to be up in his room at the current writing. Rev. P. J. Alexander preached at the Mt. Calvary A. M. Zion Church last Sunday. Miss Fannie Jobbison home covered in Summer S. C. last Sunday, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. M. H. Robinson. *Miss Gallashaw is spending time in the city. While here, she is the guest of Mr. Harry Gallashaw, of Windsor street. Alice Rhinelander Visits Mother's Kin In Europe New York, July 23—Mrs. Alice B. Jones Rhinelander, the bride of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, who successfully fought her annulment suit through a sensational trial, left for England on the White Star Liner Majestic last Saturday. Mrs. Rhinelander denied just before sailing that the trip was to meet her husband abroad to effect reconciliation, although it has been reported that her husband is in Paris. "I intend to meet my mother's people in England," was all Mrs. Rhinelander would say. "As fun this reconciliation talk is con- ROANOKE NEWS 1. WARREN WHITTEN. Correspondent ROANOKERS ATTEND TENNIS MEET AT KITTRELL, N. C. Roanoke, Va—Drs. E. D. and L. C. Downing, Messrs. "Billy" Cooper, Oscar Waller, A. L. Coleman, Miss Martha Coleman, Masters Ralph Coleman and Tommie Colloway, Mrs. James Sewell, Mrs. Gertrude Preston, and many others from Roanoke left the city last week for Kittrell, N. C. Each and every one reported a fine time. LADIES OFF FOR FRANKFORT KENTUCKY Mrs. J. B. Clayter, Mrs. W. S. Schley, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. A. F. Brooks, Miss Gertrude Carbull, Miss Gladys Lee, and several other ladies left the city on last Tuesday to attend the Y. W. C. A. Conference which is being held in Frankfort, Kentucky. MR. M. D. BARLOW, JR., ENTERTAINS Several of Roanoke's most popular young men entertained with a party at the home of Mr. M. D. Barlow, Jr., of 121 Wells Avenue, N. W. The guests assembled at 10 o'clock and while some were in the house playing whist, others were out on the very large veranda dancing by the music that was made so enchanting by Miss Elizabeth Law, and Mr. Othella Wilson. The lights were as charming as those of sunny Spain, and each and every girl present was looking her best. Among those present were Misses Katherine Jenkins, Agythia Cannaday, Frances L. Williams, Georgia Brown, Bessie Jennings, Elizabeth Mays, Thelma Gordon, Malena Burwell, Elizabeth Jones, Flossie Brooks, May Fannie Otey, Helen Kober, and Mr. and Mrs. Colli R. Harris. Among the men present were Messrs. Charlie W. Wilson, Jr., J. Coldious Toles, Ernest Allen, Frank Koger, George Smith, Thomas Hayden, and Misters Garden and Ransome of Lynchburg, and J. Warren Whiten. Read The Ads And Save Money The Buy-Word Of Economy-- The Message Given In Each And Every Issue Of The Journal and Guide by its Advertisers. Make It A Habit To Read The Ads PAGES 7 TO 12 Rinlander Visits Kin In Europe Alice cerned—you can see my lawyer side of me about that. I have nothing to say except that it's absurd." Mrs. Rhinelander's going away suit it for Liner it be. as to affect been in her's Mrs. she is for con- cern. Mrs. Rhinelander's going away suit it is reported to have cost several thousand dollars. "I'm going to have a four-room suite on the Majestic, too," she said. A brand new limousine will bring her back to her home in New Roevlehle when she returns. The car which she purchased only a few months ago has been turned in and the new one will meet her at the pier when she comes back, she said. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. George Jones. CLEVELAND NOW READY FOR THE BUSINESSLEAGUE Plans And Preparations Completed to the Minutest Detal, Says Chairman of General Committee. (By The Associated Negro Press) Cleveland, Ohio, July 22—"Cleveland is ready for the annual session of the Grand Lodge of the I. E. P. O. E., declared Thomas W. Fleming, chairman of the General Committee, "and the convention, as far as the completion and conclusiveness of our plans are concerned, could be held this week instead of the week of August 22. According to the statement of Mr. Fleming, all plans and preparations have been completed and even the minutest details have been considered in the plans. An elaborate program of entertainment has been arranged, including a musical recital on the opening night; the places of meeting have been secured, conveniently located and adequate to accommodate the delegates and the headquarters, on 55th street, is just two blocks from the Pennsylvania railroad station and seven blocks from the Erie station. Forecast any prof瑟ering by the Jacob drivers, the General Transportation Committee will meet the delegates, direct them to the "official cabs" and advise them of the probable cost of the trip to their destination. Realizing the large number of delegates that will attend and the usual crowd of "camp followers" the housing committee has been 100 PAWO VIRGINIA- CAROLINA NEWS EDITORIAL PAGE WANT AMERICAN NEGRO BUSINESS MEN IN LIBERIA Native Concern Seeking To Interest American Farmers, And Other Citizens In Country's Development. Monrovia, Liberia, July 22—According to an announcement made by A. C. Faukner, president of the Liberian Produce Exchange and Chamber of Commerce, at Monrovia, Mrs. Sarah Branch, vice-president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the co-operation, will tour the United States in the effort to interest American Negroes, in establishing homesteads in Marshall, Liberia. As an inducement to American Negroes the corporation is offering free transportation to a limited number to sail December 25, 1927. The Liberian Produce Exchanges and Chamber of Commerce was organized and incorporated a year ago, with an authorized capital of $200,000 by Mr. Faulkner. The purposes of the organization are to provide equipment farmers, cultivation and sale of Liberian products, to promote a Liberian merchant marine, to promote manufacturing, and in every way promote the economic development of Liberia. FARMVILLE Farmville—The churches were well attended last Sunday. *D.A. S. Mason, of Salem, N. J., was in the city last week visiting his mother. He was accompanied by Master Godfrey. Vaughn. *Misses Myrtle and Olga Vaughn, Beatrice Hughes, Missess Sam Booker and Roanoke motored to Lynchburg last Sunday. *A number of excursionists from Lynchburg, and Roanoke visited Farmville last week. STATESVILLE Statesville, N. C. "The funeral of Deacon D. P. Sherril was held at the First Baptist Church, Monday, July 12, at 2:30 P. M., Rev. J. W. Croom officiating. "The funeral of Mrs. Annie Spann was held at the same church, the preceding Wednesday. "The funeral of Mr. Albert Morgan was held at the Zion A. M. 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PERSONALS Mrs. Pearl Newby, and sister, Miss Sailor Wattford of 1245 Glasgow street, were called to Winton, N. C. Tuesday on account of the death of their father. Mrs. Edith E. Martin, local representative of the Journal and Guide, is spending a two week vacation in New York City. DEATH OF MRS. YOUNG Mrs. Mary Young did at the funeral was held on June 14, A. M. E. Church of which she had an illness of age. Her residence, Mrs. daughter, Mrs. Woodard, 1220 Green St. Sunday, July 18 at 7 p. m., after a member for 54 years. The pastor, Rev. J. A. Young, officiated. He spoke touchingly of the beautiful life of the deceased Mrs. Young is survived by two daughters, three sons, a brother, and numerous relatives. CAROLINIANS HOLD 3RD-ANNUAL SESSION The Sons and Daughters of North Carolina assembled for their third annual sermon at the Fourth Baptist Church, South street, Sunday last, at 3 o'clock p. m. A representative body listened to a splendid program and a timely sermon by the pastor, Rev. 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In the morning his subject was, "The Cry of the Pessimist." Gen. 42:36-38, and at night he spoke from "An Outing With Jesus." Mark 5. ZION:BAPTIST CHURCH ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Large and appreciative congregations heard E. E. Smith, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, at both morning and evening service last Sunday. His topic in the morning was "Religion Every Day" and in the evening, "Church Membership." Both subjects were interesting and timely. He was loud in denouncing those Christians who attend church on Sunday and live carelessly the rest of the week. He urged his hearers to put religion in business, education, society and in everything. Music was furnished by the junior choir on both occasions. This choir is rendering valuable service in relieving the senior choir during the vacation season. School and other departments of the church are doing well. VOLUNTEER WORKERS · The Volunteer Workers' clubs of Third Baptist Church held its meeting last Tuesday evening in chapel. Many members were priests in the church, and reminders, encouraging the clubs. The clubs are planning to give some Lawn Parties in order to raise money. All members are asked to be at the next meeting. GILMERTON Services were well attended at the A. M. E. Zion Church during the day on last Sunday. Miss Minnie Howell, of Philadelphia, who has been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Pinki Howell, returned home Saturday. Mrs. Ophelia Deans, formerly of Gilmerton, now of Jersey City, M. J. arrived Sunday morning to spend some time with her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Parker. "The Will Do Bible Club" gave a party at the home of Mrs. Lillian Hawkins Friday night. After 6 games were played the guests were served ice cream and cake. Quite a number was present. Mrs. Lillian Hawkins and son and daughter to be moved to New Mill Creek to visit their grandfather, Mr. John Cox. The First Baptist Sunday School was well attended Sunday and the lesson was beautifully discussed by Miss Mable B. Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Miller and Mrs. Thomas Logan, of Richmond, were guests of their cousin, Mrs. Lea Reicks. ST. JULIAN CREEK On last Sunday a large number of people was present at the New Hope Baptist Sunday school and entered into an enthusiastic discussion of the lesson. After the lesson the members enjoyed a wonderful talk given by the field missionary Rev. Thomas Saunders, and also from Mr. Willie Griffin who just returned after a long stay in Philadelphia. At three o'clock the pupit was filled by the pastor, Rev. L. Saunders, who delivered a most inspiring sermon on "Salvation." The choir was at its position and their singing uplifted the audience. The choir is improving greatly. Mrs. Maggie Gibson has improved and is able to resume her position as one of the leading singers of the choir after an illness. Jennifer Johnson was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Maggie Gibson, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Griffin have returned to their home after having a long vacation in Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Cora Shipp has returned home with her mother after being in Philadelphia for some time. The Rally at the New Hope Baptist Church closed Sunday. Every body was pleased with the collection which was $223.50. TRUXTUN FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH FIRST BAPSTEH CHURCH The First Baptist Sunday school was quite well attended Sunday. There were some visitors among whom were Rev. Mr. Owens, of Newport News and a young lady who became member of the Live Class. The C. T. N. Class will give a lawn party Tuesday night, July 20, on the lawn of Mr. Arthur Duke, 51 Deep Creek Blvd. The Oil Mill Band is expected to be present and render music. Mr. James Jones, who has been working in Philadelphia for some time and attending school there, is visiting his parents here. Miss Gwendolyn Jackson, who has just graduated from Dunbarn High-School, Washington, D. C. is home with her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. W. Jackson, No. 1 Downstreet. Master Horace Jackson met with a painful accident recently when a part of his right thumb was severed by a boy who was cutting the hedge around the injured child's parents' home. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith entertained in honor of Miss Hazel Slaughter, their dear aunt on July 19. The occasion was quite an enjoyable one, Miss Slaughter left for Washington Tuesday evening. Wilson Parker, Tenor Scores A Hit J. Wilson Parker Jr. scored a big hit in his program in a recital last Monday at the Ebenezer Baptist Church under the auspices of the choir. Mr. Parker is a student at the Boston Conservatory of Music where he has won distinction for himself as a tenor soloist, having won a gold ring offered by school in a city where he lives. His recital there are French. His has been remarkable. In his repertoire are French, German and Italian numbers which he sings with the same ease and sweetness as the "spirituals" in which he is a master. His voice exhibits splendid tone qualities maintaining resonance throughout its range. DEEP CREEK Sunday school of the Divine Baptist Church was well attended Sunday last. Miss Elmora Chambers, of Portsmouth, is visiting Miss Hazel at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Benton. Rev. G. W. Sykss, of Elizabethtown, N. C., is here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon to the Day school and to Sunday day school. Rev. Sykss filled the pulpit at 12 o'clock and preached from, Matt, subject, "The Value of A. Soul." A literary entertainment was rendered at night by the second adult female class, Mr. L. J. Wilkins, teacher. The fact that the choir of the Third Baptist Church, Portsmouth rendered the music at the funeral of Mr. Regenious Miller, recently held at the Divine Baptist Church to account of a compass divine choir as a result of Mr. Miller's death, was advertently omitted in the news in this column last week. Messrs. R. Bell, J. W. Wilkins, J. C. Johnson, J. C. Cox and Mrs. A. Malone were delegates to the grand lodge of the Royal Sons and Daughters of the Good Samaritans at Huntersville, Va., July 8 and 9. Mrs. Ella Washington, who has been sick for some time, is implying that Miss Elisa Mahan is much improved. Miss Elisa Cuffee, of Philadelphia, is here visiting her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Bluet Cuffee. Mr. James A. Sutton and Mr. Timothy Arrington, who have been in Florida, for some time are home spending a few days. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Reidel Winkley a bouncing baby boy or July 18. Mother and baby are doing fine. Born to Mrs. Elbert Miller became the proud parents of a baby girl on July 17. Mother and baby are doing fine. The home of Mr. William Butt in Shipyard road, was totally destroyed by fire on July 14 with a consequent heavy loss. REHOBOTH A. M. E. CHURCH Sunday school is in charge of the assistant superintendent, Mr Richard Spellman on last Sunday. There was an enthusiastic discussion of the lesson, followed with an interesting review by the assistant superintendent. The delegates Miss Lucile Miller, Miss Mary Rabb and the pastor, Rev. R. T Watkins gave some very interesting remarks concerning the District Conference which convened at South Hill July 13-16. At the regular morning service the pastor, Rev. R. T Watkins, peached an inspiring sermon to an appreciative audience from the subject "The Boldness of Peter and John," Acts 4:13. On Sunday, July 25 Rev. M. E. Davis, presiding elde of the Portsmouth District, will preach at this church at 11 o'clock Mrs. Harriet Harper, one of the oldest stewardesses of the church is still sick. The singing contest between Mrs Janie Arrington and her daughter Miss Edith Gilliam, was quite a success. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends for their kindness during the ill- ness and death of our son and brother, Reginicus Miller jr., and for floral tokens sent on the ocen- sion. OLIVE BRANCH The Sunday school was well attended and the large number brought forward a good offering for the day. There were several visitors presented at the school. In the morning the pastor preached, a very excellent sermon from the subject, "The Christian's Highest Joy." After which he administered the Holy Communion. At night he preached another inspiring sermon from the subject, "The Tragedy of the Foolish Virgins." This sermon was filled with solemn warnings from those who have a desire to omit the great things of life. Misses Corrine Perry and Bessie Alston who have been spending some time in New York are both at home visiting relatives and friends. Rev. and Mrs. Hoard were guests at dinner Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Littlejohn. MT. HERMON Mrs. Maggie Male Allen and Miss A. V. Bailey 1st Saturday night for New York City for an indefinite stay. After a two weeks' stay with her parents, Miss Joseph Saunders, left for New York. Mrs. Ada Haynes and Miss Viv ian Haynes left Friday for Philadelphia to visit Mr. Haynes. Last Sunday Mr. Thomas Barber spent the day in Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. John Howell, High street, have as their house guest Miss Fletcher Howell, of Tuskegee, Ala. After several weeks' stay in the Nirth visit, Mrs. Susie Hale and Little Dorothy, returned, having spent a pleasant trip. Mrs. Lizzie Langhorns Gilliam left Friday for New York, for an indesite visit. Mr. Raudolph Hale, a student in Belmold Institute, Rock Castle, Va., is spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hale. Mr. and Mrs. John Powell, of Suffolk, were welcome visitors at the Temple on Sunday. They were the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cockayne, of the avenue. Mrs. Cockayne, Artis M. Vernon, N. Cave, left Friday for Wilson, N. Cave to visit her mother. She will visit other parts of North Carolina before she returns. Mr. Emory Redmond, after a two weeks' stay in New York visiting, returned last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Evans, of Richmond, were the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Parker, Mt. Vernon avenue. Mr. Thomas Farrar was called to Chase City on account of the leath of his sister, Mrs. Bettie Gregory. She was the mother of Mr. George Smith, who was once a resident of Mt. Herman. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Collins, Florida avenue, have as their visiting guest Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Collins' mother and two sisters, Mrs. King and Mrs. Wiggins of Winton. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Yates, Florida avenue, had as their visiting guest, M. Yates' sister and children 'orm Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Book Davis left Sunday evening for Asbury Park, N. for an indefinite stay. Miss Edmunds, of Richmond, was the visiting guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Allen of Queen street. M. M. B. Wooten, Quen street, spent Sunday visiting in Richmond, Dr. D. B. and Mrs. Mdodana, Rev. Powell and Miss Bethea Powell, of Glasgow street, were the linner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Faulk on Sunday. Mrs. Mary F. Blunt and daughter, Mrs. Maggie Blunt, of Edens, N. C. are the summer guests of f. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Ellen, Glasgow street. Master James F. Dickinson, of Lock Castle, is the visiting guest of his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lawson. Mrs. W. O. Mdodana, Mrs. H. B. Lawson, Rev. D. B. Mdodana, and Mr. Jas. E. Elliott jr., were those who attended the Rappahannock Sunday School Convention at Princess Anne county at Piney Wood Church. Mr. E. Elroy Artice, had his visiting guest, Mr. W. Artice, brother of Mr. Artice, of North Carolina. MT. HERMON TEMPLE M.T. HERMON TEMPLE The Sunday school at the, The temple last Sunday was well attended, Quite a few of the teachers were absent but the same interest was manifested. The superintendent, Mr. Elliott made a glowing report of the Rappahannock Sunday school Convention which was held at 1:30 a.m. the spacious auditorium was crowded to hear Rev. R. L. Walker preach. His entire discourse was on "Spirit," his theme was "Blessed are the meek." His talk was full of thought and interest. At 8 p. m., the celebration of the Holy Communion was held by a large number. Quite a few visitors were present and one was added to the church. Prof. and Mrs. J. Williams, of Hamilton avenues are the proud parents of a bouncing boy. Mr. and Mrs. J. Stephenson, Hamilton are the proud parents of a baby girl. CHURCHLAND Mrs. Polly Check Drew arrived from Philadelphia last week with the body of her husband. Mrs. Drew is well-known in this section. The funeral over the remains of her husband was held from Mt. Hermon Temple, Rev. O. C. Jones, affiliated. Sunday services at Grove Church were well attended both morning and evening at which the pastor, Rev. D. B. Mdodana preached. Arrangements are being made to begin the revival on the first Sunday in August. Although Rev. Mr. Mdodana has been attending summer school at Hampton, he has been able to fill his pulpit here even more. Miss Mamie Wright, who has been attending summer school at Petersburg, is at home. Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Taylor spent Sunday visiting Mrs. Clara Smith in Norfolk, Mrs. Smith, who is ill, is a sister of Mrs. Taylor. The pastor and chair of Grove church worshipped at the First Baptist Church. Pinner's Point Friday night. The address on next Sunday by a representative of East India will be a special feature of the day's program. Mr. and Mrs. Paulke entertained quite lavishly at a dinner party. Rev. Mr. Mdodana and family and other guests from Portsmouth were present. A volunteer club of ladies was formed last Sunday, and after the revival it will be quite busy in promoting several entertaining features. Officers Of Rescue Lodge Installed The recently elected officers of Rescue Lodge No. 4, K. of P. wars installed at the regular place of meeting, Tidewater Hall, Monday night, July 12th. Deputy Sir Moses A. Brown conducted the installation and the following Sir Knights were duly installed for the ensuing term: Thos. E. Loundes, chancellor conmander; Jeremiah Green, trecanceller; Elins English, master of exchequer; Lee Hunt, master of finance; W. H. Jenkins, keeper of records and seal; Walter Green, prelate; James Brown, master-at arms, Thos. H. Reid, master of The glowing and interesting report of the Grand representative to the Grand Lodge held at Staunton in June was received with much enthusiasm and adopted as official pending the receipt of other official documents from the Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, the membership drive being among the many things emphasized in his report, upon which special recommendation was made. Rescue Lodge is one of the most enthusiastic of Virginia. Six ninthmen of W. Barnes was present at the 41st annual session of the Grand Lodge recently held in Staunton, and his report was an excellent one. The late Grand Chancellor, Wm. M. Reid was an officer of this lodge and labored zealously for its perpetuation. TAYLORSVILLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Services were full of inspiration Sunday. Sunday school was at its usual hour with the superintendent Deacon William Hall on duty. The lesson was beautifully portrayed with the interest of the pupils manifested. Class No. 1, Mr. Edward a priest, Christian, teacher was her class. At 11 a.m. the pastor, Rev. W. H. Harris, D. D., hold his auditors captivated when do discourses from the two? "The Call of Moses," which was timely as well as interesting and was expounded from every angle. At 7:30 the pastor again officiated. The church is making fing progress under the leadership of its pastor, Dr. Harris who does his best for the unbuilding of it. Mr. and Mrs. John Hoffer, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Walker, Mr. William Lassiter and daughter, Dorothy, motored to Lawrenceville, and from there to Merchant, Va. to visit their sisters, Mrs. Maggie Walker and Mrs. Nannie Hicks. Mrs. Ella Broadway is much improved after a period of severe illness. Mr. Frank B. Southall and Mr. Joseph R. Daughtry spent Sunday in Newport News visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Herbert Daughtry of Hagerstown, Md., spent the weekend her visiting relatives and friends has returned. Mrs. Annie Williams Parker, has returned after spending some time in Easton, Va. Miss Oliver Westry will leave Saturday for Washington, D. C., where she expects to spend her vacation. Mr. Johnnie Bryant, formerly of Portsmouth, but now of Baltimore has returned after spending the week-end with his father, Mr. Lewis Bryant. Miss Rose V. Daughtry, who is taking a summer course at Union University, Richmond, has returned after spending Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Daughtry, Mrs. Catherine Carvain accompanied by Miss Goode has returned to Richmond, after spending the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Broadway. 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After imbling in whist and dancing, the hostess served a tasteful repast which consisted of the season's delicacies, while the centerpiece of the table was a vase of 1068. Those present eliminating the club were Messrs. Henton, Sharley Richardson and Jerlin Copeland. After the repast another social hour was spent. HYACINTH ATHLETIC CLUB The Hyacinth Athletic and Social Club held its regular meeting at the residence of Mr. James E. Chatman, after an informal call meeting Tuesday night at the residence of Mr. Leroy Southall. After opening devotionals and business of importance transacted the host served a delicious repast. ORCHESTRA CLUB The Taylorville Orchestra met Tuesday night at the residence of Mr. Mathew Sloan at which time business of importance was transacted. Practice was held Friday day at the residence of Mr. Mathew. The orchestra is doing fine under Prof. Copeland's in instruction. SHOULDERS HILL UNION BAPTIST CHURCH One hundred and twenty-six pupils were in attendance at the Sunday school and all were benefited by the teaching of the lesson. A collection of $25.00 was realized with Class No. 2, Mrs. Evelyn Carney teacher, receiving the banner. Fourteen new pupils were enrolled. Miss Lenora Connor made a splendid report of the session of the Sharon Sunday School Conven- Edward F. Hodges Slab wood, $2.50 per load; Cord wood, $3.50 per load; Oak wood, $4.00 per load. We solicit your patronage and Lee Aye, 8th St. Phone 1375- 137 Community Grocery Store at David Dean's 2120 GREEN STREET PORTSMOUTH, VA. Groceries. Confectioneries, Soft Drinks, Tobaccoes and Cigars. DAVID DEAN, Prop. Station for Bus Line, Suffolk J. P. Lane & Son Cafe 511 CRAWFORD STREET PORTSMOUTH, VA. While waiting for your Bus for various sections, stop at our Cafe for nice rooms, meals and comfortable waiting room. Open from 6 A.M. to 1 A.M. 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The welcome address behalf of the church and city was given by V. K. Smith Novella Pattie song with man annah preaching at the Rev. E. Smith, a student of Zion Baptist Church, preach the "The Christian isry" Acts 26:12, Tim 12:18 as a subject. The Little Zion church was held. The Little Zion Church of Drives with the Rev. T. J. Johnson was paid W. H. Gray delivered the address. Response was given Mr. Pope. Both were given Miss Susie Shepherd to Mrs. Ida Harper occupational interesting paper was read by S. G. White. Mrs.吉吉 of Norfolk, sang to the design of Johnson Jackson at the piano. Johnson preached a very inspiring. The pastor and man wish to thank all who attended. The pastor and man wish to thank all who attended. IN MEMORIAM OUR DEAR MOTHER ALMA R. BERNARD DIED JULY 23, 1924 —DAGHIR Let Us Do Your Work SERVICE Shoe Repairing While You Wait "Service"—Our Motto. WILLIAM BILL, Proprietor 517 EFFINGHAM STREET Do You Hear Me? I am shouting loud good Snowballs are. 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C. have concluded a visit to her sisters, Mrs. H. T. Barne, Lee street and Mrs. Mattie Scott, in Beach street. They all motored out and spent a day with their father, Mr. David Vann, at Como, N. C. Mrs. Vann-Ried is the original representative of the Glide Hiss Virginia Milliam, a recent graduate of the Normal Professional department of the St. Paul School, Lawrenceville, has concluded an extended visit to friends and relatives in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Charles Hicks, and young Charles Jr., were week-end guests of Mr. Hick's sister, Mrs. Ruth Jackson, Richmond. Mrs. Leanna Harper, one of the public school teachers, has returned from a several week's stay with her mother, Mrs. John Buck, Franklin, Va. Rev. J. L. White, president of the board of trustees of the Nansenmond institute, and of the Baptist Conference of this city, is with his very ill son in Philadelphia, Pa. A letter to this office tells us that his son is somewhat better. Mrs. White is attending summer school at Hampton. From the art department of Hampton Institute, Maceo, son of the Rev. T. J. Johnson, is a recent graduate in printing. At his father's school down on the Suffolk-Portmouth boulevard, he has set up for others and himself the "Little Print Shop," where he is going good work. Let us encourage this hustling young man. Mrs. Fannie Colden who has been confined to her home in N. Main street, several months by illness, is so much improved that she is able to ride out in her car. Mrs. R. A. Daniels, of the Phoenix Bank clerical force, has been somewhat indisposed for the last several days. She failed to report for duty this week, but indications are that she will back on the job within the next few days. Attorney H. Fulcher will address the meeting at the Antioch Christian church, Philadelphia, at 2:30 this Sunday afternoon. You are most cordially invited to be there. Mr. and Mrs. John Powell, of Spruce Street, have returned from a week-end visit to friends in Portsmouth. They report a huge time. These are among our very best church workers. Mrs. Hattie Ruffin, who has been very ill at her home in Spruce street, is now somewhat very much improved. Rev. H. A. Jordan, probation officer, and educationally worker of the Petersburg district of the A. M. E. Zion church, left Tuesday to attend the District Conference at Dendron Hall. Children's Day at the St. Mark's A. M. E. Zion church, Boston, was very largely attended last, Sunday. A very excellent program was rendered. Mrs. H. A. Jordan was one of the speakers. Reports have it that great and most beneficial services are being held at the Christian Tabernacle church, Suffolk-Portsmouth Rd. The Rev. W. T. Faulk, pastor. Last Sunday was a big day with that devoted congregation. The Rev. W. M. Moore, of North Carolina, preached at the morning services, followed by the pastor in the afternoon, with a sermon on "heaven." All services were largely attended. Rev. W. T. Faulk left Monday for Franklin, where he conducted a special series of metings during the week. The St. John Christian church is fortunate in having a devoted minister, serve it. After spending twenty days of vacation with his reporter, Mr William Kyle, of Ponta, Texas, has returned to Hampton Institute. He has spent this short vacation by working every day, and saving about all the money he made. Are there many more like him? He even did his own laundry, and much of his cooking. Misses Faye F. Brosier and Ernestine Jordan have returned from Clifton Forge, where they were delegates to the B. Y. P. U. Convention last week. They report a most delightful trip and time. Miss Brosier was re-elected pianist for the convention, which meets at Roanoke, in 1927. While up there, they also visited Lowmoor, Selma, Covington, and Iron Gate, Va. At Iron Gate, Miss Brosier was the guest of her class mate, Miss Lillian Lipscont. Miss Hattie S. Brosier, and daughter Faye, had as their Sunday guests, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Warren and children, and Miss Lillian Warren, of Sedley, Va. The Davis Bus Line Co., is building itself an office, waiting room, and a transfer station at 301 Wellon street for the accommodation of its passengers. You must not have to be around town, after you may not be wanted, after now. All we shall have to do is, just call, phone 507-J, and then walk right over and get into the bus. It waits for all passengers. THE BAPSTIST MINISTERS CONFERENCE The Baptist Ministers Conference of this city and vicinity is an institution that tends to the educational as well as the religious interest of the All. Rev. John L. White is its efficient president; the Rev. B. F. Gardner, the able vice president, and Rev. J. J. Edwards, the worthy secretary. They took it upon themselves the other day, to have another one of their annual outings, which closes their work summer. So they all, or a large number of them, went up to the Pulaski Baptist church, Carsville, Va., of the which the Rev. S. A. Brown, of Portsmouth, is the able pastor, and had another one of the times of their useful lives. Rev. Gardner, in the absence of the president, presided, and preached the annual sermon. Report has it that it was one of the best ever heard by this distinguished body of servants. The church was also represented by a goodly number of its members. Pursues. J. C. Bellamy and Savage conducted the devotionals. The Rev. Dr. Grandison, of Chicago Ill., was present, and gave one of the most inspiring addresses on "The Promise of the Holy Spirit," ever listened to by this body of men. Routine business was attended to, and the conference suspended all active work until October the first. It was an all day love feat occasion. THE HAWKS The annual meeting of the Supreme Order of Hawks was held in Portsmouth, this week. Under the deputation of Mr. Charles Bunkley, the Order has made, and is now making a great success. Mr. Bunkley, District Deputy, with his associate delegates. Mrs. Carrie Copeland, and Mr. B. F. Carnick, left Tuesday for Portsmouth, where they took important parts in this annual meeting. This delegation is among the most important outstanding character this city. The Hawks of Suffolk are making a great success for the betterment of this city. They are catching birds of different feathers, and making them over again for good. Mr Bunkley is leading them to greater success. The delegation has returned, bringing their laurels with OUR NEW LAWYER Suffolk is in a position to always invite and receive that which tends to build us up. Attorney H. Fulcher, a recent graduate of the Boston, Mass, Law School, one of the largest in the East, has opened offices in the Crocker Building, 333 N. Washington street, where he may be found at the practice of law. He was the only successful colored applicant to pass the State bar examination at Roanoke Va., last month. Mr. Fulcher is a Norfolk man, but has lived in Boston, Mass, and New York city, for the last eight years. He is a War veteran, and during the recent war, went "over seas", and made very good in the 367th N. Y. regiment. Suffolk welcomes him. WOMEN'S BETHANY CONVENIENCE The Women's Bethany Convention held its twenty-fourth annual meeting in Blackstone, Van July 8, 9. A very large number of delegates from all parts of the district was present. The manifestation of so much enthusiasm and interest was a bit unusual. Those present report a wonderful session. It was noted that these women raised $715.27 and made contributions as follows: To the Lynchburg Seminary, $150; Foreign Missions, $105; Rev. Tish. Foreign Missionary, $50; Franklin High School, $50; Nansemond Institute, $28.85. There were other smaller contributions. Mrs. Nannie Epps of this city, is the corresponding secretary. Great are the women when they get ready to do things. OUR MOTHERS' MEETING: Our East Suffolk mothers have been having, some most interesting and helpful meetings, here of Somehow, they find it more practical to meet in their several homes, but sometimes find it well to meet in some of the halls, and seldom, or ever in the churches. They will hold their next meeting in the Boys' Center, Spruce street, at 4:30 in the afternoon, Wednesday, July 28th. This meeting will be for the girls and boys of this vicinity. And all are invited and requested to meet with them, and take part in the weekly lessons. MEMORIAM Sacred to memory of our dear husband and father, the late Jeffrey Jordan, who departed this life July 23, 1920. Who knows why our Father gives us our loved ones, and then takes them from us into their reward, and leaves us to labor and to wait? Mrs. Harriett A. Jordan, Mrs. William Bishop, Suffolk, Va. BETHLEHEM CHRISTIAN CHURCH The congregations of the Bethlehem Christian church have been having many very entertaining exercises for the last several weeks. Recently the Jubilee Quartet, of Portsmouth, very interestingly entertained them. The Rev. McCloud gave a very interesting address, while others read many excellent and well prepared papers. Mr. Jenkins Sharpe, one of the oldest and best citizens of this city, and who has been suffering with a bad foot for the last two years, is now somewhat improved. He still holds his position as watchman at the Bell Hosiery mills. Mrs. Viola Knight Welch, a former student of the reporter is reported as being very ill at her home in Third street, Saratoga Place. THEY SAY That the Norfolk Journal and Guide has taken on more new life and hustle in this city and vicinity—that the representative and reporter has bought unto himself a brand new car, on or in which he spends much of his vacation delivering and representing the Guide. It is not a Ford, but it affords a much more profitable profit in taking his vocation, avocation, and vacation during this summer. That it is a shame for some young man to have to make his summer living by working for the Guide Publishing Co., in this city. They also say that it is an honor to do so. Who cares. These same folks pay him to do, as well as give him the highest deference. For he is the best known man in the city or county, and is loved by all, who do not hate him. But it may be a bit amusing to see a whitehead 63-year old young man driving, or riding, or both, a brand new two-wheeled, self-motored and self-gasped car all over this city between five and eight in the morning, and five and seven in the evening, selling and delivering the Norfolk Journal and Guide. But it is a fact. And he really enjoys his way of taking his vocation, avocation, and vacation. So they say. That many of my readers are away, and write back to me with an "I thank you for much Suffolk news." How can I do it, if you don't let me have them? From away out in Chicago comes that everlasting "I thank you." I am interested in Chicago, you see. That a big summer drive is now on for a larger number of subscribers while so many of them are away, and for our fall advertisements when they, or some of them, come back. So they say. That W. W. Holland stopped his job at the Post Office long enough to build the "Marie" apartment house in Spruce street. This is a most commendable effort. For he is a hustler. That it is an honor or for some of us men to so honor our wives, while others let their go off on a two months vacation. It is all about the same, when it comes to the cost. So they say. They also say that it may be likely that if men build apartment houses and let their wives go off on a little pleasure trip, they may to ride around in other ladies' cars. I don't know about this. But I do know that all married men should take some pleasure somewhere, and make their wives stay at home, when they have to stay there too. For our boys are getting to be as bad as our girls, these days. So they say. That we are sadly in need of a. HOSPITAL and that we will have one. Many of our best thinking men and women are thinking that such a commendable project is not only wise, but feasible. Suffolk is not inclined to lag behind in anything that is absolutely necessary. For this, and other reasons, many of our leaders have planned for a hospital, in which we may be sick and die all by ourselves. Mr. A. Obiti, president of the Nut and Chocolate Company, in which several hundreds of our folks are employed, has agreed to give a choice in this vicinity. But we must be fitir ourselves in order to secure this proposition. The hospital idea does not in any way conflict with other welfare enterprises. Shoulders to the wheels and push, is one of the slogans. Tokyo, Japan, has more buildings under construction that at any time since the earthquake, permits for 8,000 being taken out in a recent month. NORFOLK JOURNAL AND GUIDE NEWPORT NEWS MRS. GUSSIE L. BANKS Agent and Correspondent 1801 Marshall Ave. Newport News, Va.—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Price and Mr. Robert Carter of Richmond were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Crutchfield last Thursday evening. Mrs. Augusta Worth of Clifton Forge is the guest of Mrs. Josephine Campbell in Marshall Ave. Miss Mabel Alexander, of 750 19th Street, who has been quite sick is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Puryear, of 28th Street, had as their dinner guests Sunday, Miss Cecil West, of Pittsburgh; Miss Martha Johnson, of Hampton; Mrs. Pearl Reddick and Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, of Portsmouth. Mrs. J. H. Lindsay, of Madison Ave., and Miss May Byrd spent Sunday in Richmond as the guests of Mrs. Lindsay's sister and other relatives. Mrs. Reena Branch and Mrs. Nannie Branch and son left Saturday for Mt. Gilead, N. C. to visit their parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Steward motored to Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Baltimore last week. On returning they spent a few hours in Alexandria, Va., with friends. Prof. T. C. Irvin, spent the week end here. Prof. Irwin reports a very pleasant and profitable session with the Elizabeth City State Normal where he is employed as instructor. Mr. A. A. Dalton of the faculty of the Summer School of Elizabeth City State Normal spent the week end here as the guests of Mr. T. C. Irvin. VISITING HERE Misses Maude and Winton Datcher, of Washington, D. C., arrived in the city Sunday to be the questors of their aunt, Mrs. R. H. Banks, 1801 Marshall. They will spend ten days here. Prof. L. F. Palmer, spent the week end here with his family. week end here. The Twilight Quartette rendered an excellent program Sunday at the Morrison Baptist Church, Morrison, Va. The program was managed by Mr. T. H. Snead. WILL MEET IN BERKLEY NORFOLK Eastern Virginia Christian Sunday School Convention and Christian Endeavor will hold their annual meeting at Saint Mark Christian Church Sunday School, Berkley-Norfolk, July 21, 22, and 23. Miss Luella Holland the Secretary says this will be a grand session and many members of the Christian churches from here plan to attend. Miss Luella Holland, secretary of the Eastern Va. Christian Sunday School Convention will spend her career in Philadelphia, Athens City and New York. She will leave this week. Mrs. Florence Boughans and daughter, Atty. M. Lairton Poe and family motored to Suffolk, Sunday and spent the day with relatives. GIRLS HIKE TO BAYSHORE Eleven girls accompanied by Mrs. Vivian Lewis enjoyed a hike to Bay Shore on Friday, July 9. Leaving Newport News at 6:10 a.m., they arrived at Hampton at 7:20 a.m. After resting and visiting a gym class at Hampton Institute, they left Hampton at about 8:30 and reached Bay Shore at about 9:30. Havin grested most of the girls went in bathing. The girls were: Misses Anne Howard Ruby Rowe, Mollie Turner, Mattie Henderson, Mollie Turner, Mattie Henderson, Haskins, Evelyn Ridley, Fletcher Steele, Alice Ross, and Constance Ross. Mr. J. H. Ridley was called to North Carolina on Sunday on account of the death of his sister Mrs. Mary Mann. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School had a very good attendance Sunday, Mr. D. J. Jones, the Supt. was at his post. At 11 o'clock the pastor preached a strong sermon from Prov. 71. The main thought which the pastor sought to leave with the congregation was to plant seed o frighteness in the heart. And the word of God will cleanse when all other things fail. Those who heard the message and received it had a real spiritual blessing. One member was added to the church. After preaching service two members were baptized visitors and write a number of visitors at the morning service noticeably among them were Mrs. Dawson of Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Worth, of Clifton Forge, Va.; Miss Maude and Winton Datcher of Washington, D. C.; and Mrs. Biner of N. J. At three o'clock Communion service was held. At 6 o'clock, B. L. P. U. was well attended and an excellent program was rendered under the direction of Mr. Sam Williams, and Mr. C. H. Thomas. The Family Four Quartette, composed of Mr. John Thomas of Madison Ave. and three sons ranging in age from 3 to 8 years, from a private selec- tion delighted the audience. The collection was good. Group No. 3, Mrs. Ida Nash, leader, received the banner, which was presented by deacon J. L. Willis. At night the pastor preached. Rev. C. E. Jones attended the B. Y. P. U. Convention, which met in Clifton Ford, last week. Mrs. Jones and Miss Frances Jones accompanied him far as Richmond, Mr. Harry Burton, who is in Clifton Forge Hospital is improving. ST. AUGUSTINE'S P. E. CHURCH SUNDAY SERVICES Rev. A. A. Birch, Pastor Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Bible Class, 10 a.m.; Morning Prayer, 11 a.m.; Eul. Prayer 7:45 Holy Communion, first Sunday, 8 a.m. The visitation day, 9 a.m. was a great success. Many friends was a great success. Many friends on committee on visitation is to be complimented. We thank all those who visited. Rev. M. F. Newman gave us a very interesting and helpful lesson. He emphasized that the power of Christ will make us strong and will enable us to do all things. Don't forget the children's flower service on Sunday, July 25th at 4 p. m. WALTER'S TEMPLE Sunday services were full of interest at Walter's Temple, A. M. E. Zion Church. Sunday School was opened at its usual hour and the lesson was interestingly taught by the various teachers. At 11 o'clock the pastor, Rev. C. L. Vanputten preached an inspiring sermon to an appreciative audience from the subject: "The Christian's Purpose" Principle 1st Corr, 3rd Chapter, 22nd verse. Throughout the service the Holy Spirit seem to have had supreme control. Quite a few visitors were present. One member was added to the church. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH EAST END. Sunday school was largely attended, Mr. Victor Siler, assistant superintendent, and the teachers were at their post. The lesson was discussed which was a very interesting one. At 11 o'clock, Rev. J. W. Gowden preached for us. Text St. John 1-46. Subject, "Come and See." The sermon was short but to the point. All present seemed to enjoy as the subject was expounded. Quite a number of visitors being present. At 8:00 o'clock our regular communion was observed. An appreciative audience greeted Rev. Gordon. We have closed our revival services held last week. We were blessed with thirteen converts. The blessing was conducted by Rev. R. S. Anderson, Evangelist, of Richmond. Rev. O. B. Allen of Union University will preach next Sunday. Come and hear this wonderful minister of the Gosnel. Miss Gladys T. Davis, superintendent of the Sunday School is spending her vacation at Raleigh and other places of N. C. Mesdames Eliza Powell and Olivia Johnson are confined to their home by sickness. Mrs Sarah J. King, and youngest son, Rodger, left last week for Baltimore to visit her son and family after which will return to her home New York City. Miss Almeta Johnson of S. C. spent the week-end with Miss Ethel L. Bradley. Mr. H. LeRoy Bradley in company with Messrs. Rochell Howell, Luther Faulk, Misses Almeta Johnson, Mabel Rooks, nurses attending Hampton Sunday to Rich Mason, motored Sunday to Rich and Petersburg, the guests of Mr. F. H. Norris and family and other relatives and friends. They report a pleasant trip. Mr. and Clarence Binns, of 1252 28th Street, had as their guest Sunday, her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Lev Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Johnson, all from Charles City County, Va. former home of Mrs. Clarence Binns. CAPE CHARLES Cape Charles—The services of the Cape Verde Baptist Church were turned over to the students of the various schools, who rendered a unique program last Sunday. Mr. Chas. Smith, of Tidewater Institute delivered the welcome address, which was responded to by Prof. W. H. Smith, of the Va. Normal and Industrial Institute. Ope W. John Seaton, of a school in Baltimore, Misses Beatrice Spady of Gloucester; Patse C. Banks, of Tidewater Institute; Hattie R. Nottingham, of Kittrell College and Cherry Spady, of St. Paul School were among the graduates present. Misses Irene Spady, Della Joynes, Augustine Joynes, Margaret Banks and Mary Spady of Tidewater Institute; Miss A. Ames, of Kittrell were also present. *Mr. W. R. Sparrow spent the week-end around Cape Charles and Touraine Hall. He will be employed at the Hall. He will be engaged the coming week in Berlin, Md., as the guest of Miss Violet Colbourn. Mr. T. L. Ames continues ill. Cape Charles Va.—Rev S. J. Drummond preached at St. Stevens on last Tuesday night. A revival is now in progress with the young Lady preacher from Norfolk, Va. *Rev P. W. Cook, pastor of the First Baptist Church; delivered a wonderful message on Sunday morning last, the regular communion - Sunday. The congregation was exceptionally large all of the week. *Rev. Mina Lina Reed, of Norfolk, Va., preached at the First Baptist Church Monday night last for the benefit of the Missionary Society. The different pastors of the County will conduct services under the auspices of the Missionary Society all of the week. *Miss Helen Johnson, who has been spending some time in New York, has returned home, and was accompanied by her niece, little Miss Dorothy Collins. *Rev. and Mrs. P. W. and children are spending a few days in the country. *Mr. Clarence Davis, of Philadelphia, formerly of Nelsonia, Va., spent a day in Fairview, then with his mother, in Fletcher, Mr. Chas Bragge of Jefferson Ave, who has been spending some time in East Orange, N. J., has returned home. *The churches of the Second District had a very successful Queen Contest at Tidewater Institute, Friday night last. Nearly $200 was realized. Mrs. Mallie Carter Johnson was the promoter. CREEDS Creeds, Va.—Services were well attended Sunday at Piney Grove Church. After Sunday school a prayer and praise service was led by Mr. S. Bell. A collection of $18 was taken up as a fund on the new carpet which the ladies of the church are planning to purchase. Mrs. T. Forbes, Mr. George Munden, Mr. James Smith and Mr. James Cornick are the sick of the community. Rev. J. A. Nimmo, the pastor is improving. *Mrs. Georgia Williams left last week for Sparrow's Point, Md., to visit her daughter, Mrs. James Madison. While away she will visit her son and sister-in-law in Philadelphia. PHOEBUS On Sunday night, July 25, there will be a concert at Zion Baptist Church under the auspices of the Floral and Ice Club. An excellent program has been arranged. Miss Vernett Mossom, of New York, is spending two weeks with her mother, Mrs. Malina Mossom of Court Street. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Laws, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Mastor Earl Johnson spent Sunday in Norfolk, visiting Mrs. Colie Hudgins, sister of Mr. Laws and Mrs. Johnson. Mr. Robert Hinton and family, formerly of Phoebus, but now of New York, spent last week visiting relatives and friends in Phoebus. Mr. Hezekiah Curtis of Richmond, Va., was the guest of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary E. Curtis, of Fulton Street, last Thursday. Miss Parker and Miss Davis, Messrs. Hall and Riddick of Portsmouth, Va., were Sunday guests of the Misses Wainwright. Miss Helena Wainright entertained last Friday night at her residence on Armstrong Ave., in honor of Miss Blanche Jones of Chase City, Va. Messrs. Wm. and James Graham spent last Thursday with their parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Graham. They are employed in Richmond for the summer. Mrs. Carsie I. Fleming with her little son, John of Richmond, Va., also spent last Thursday with her sister, Mrs. A. A. Graham. Mrs. Ella Wesley Gilbert of 80 Fox Hill Road, motored last Sunday to the Central State Hospital at Petersburg, Va., and brought her mother Mrs. Mary B. Lewis home, who has rapidly improved since being treated at the Institution. Dr. G. E. Read, Field Agent for the Alumni Association of Union University, preached at Zion Baptist Church last Sunday morning. The concert given Sunday night at Zion Baptist Church under the auspices of the Patrons League of Whittier School was very good. Mrs. Sarah Phillips accompanied by her niece, Miss Bernice Knox, and Mrs. Dora Roberson of New York, are spending some time with their mother, Mrs. Hester Armstead. EASTVILLE Eastville, Va.—Miss Florence Morris, of Philadelphia, arrived last Saturday to spend some time with her mother, Mrs. Josephine Bowden. *Miss Viola Wright spent Sunday evening with Miss Daisy Wise. *Miss Jean P. Whirls spent Sunday evening with Miss Edna Hyslop. *The All-Star Queen contest held at TideWater Institute Friday evening for the benefit of the Second District Sunday School Union was a success. It was conducted under the management of Mrs. E. H. Yorton, Mrs. U. G. Wilson, Mrs. M. C. Johnson and Mrs. M. F. Threne. One hundred and fifty-six dollars was realized. BIRDS NEST Bird's Nest, Va.-The First quarterly conference of Trehersville Circuit convened in Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, Trehersville, Saturday, July 17, with Rev. Dr. F. A. Seaton, presiding elder in the chair, who conducted the devotions. The presiding elder in the chair, who conducted the devotions. The presiding elder after hearing the reports was much pleased the conference on Sunday he prescheduled two instructive and spiritual sermons. His address to the Sunday school was inspiring, Rev. W. J. White is the pastor. NEWS FRANKLIN tor, Rev. C. W. Moore, preached a strong sermon. This service was good both spiritually and financially. At 3 o'clock the pastor joined in holy wedlock Mr. Wesley of Sussex, and Miss Lucy Boone of this city. Franklin, Va.-Mrs. Lue Sims has concluded a ten day's visit with her sister, Mrs. Mary Barrett. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Johnson, Mrs. Nettie Myrick and son, Mr. Floyd Myrick, spent Sunday in Norfolk with Mrs. Johnson's sister, Mrs. Estelle Gray. Mrs. Myrick and Mrs. Johnson left Sunday night for Philadelphia, Pa., to spend sometime visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Myrick accompanied them to Cape Charles. Mrs. Laney Roberson left Saturday, June 10, for Newark, N. J., where she will reside indefinitely. Mrs. Grace Green and Mrs. Ellen Douglas have concluded a two weeks visit with Mrs. Green's aunt and Uncle, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Harrison. Dr. Skinner of Norfolk, and a friend of New Britton, Va., Mr. Thomas F. Fuller and a friend of Norfolk motored to Franklin Sunday and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Harrison. Miss Beatrice Mitchell, Miss Gladolia Hardy and Mr. N. N. White attended the Sharon Sunday School Convention Wednesday and Thursday which convened at the Union Baptist Church, Shoulders Hill, Va. Misses Mitchel and First Baptist delegates from Sharon. First Baptist convened from N. N. White was elected president of the Convention in the late Prof. W. B. Holland's stead. Mrs. Mary Ashe and Mrs. Trum- illa Stephens spent Sunday in Suffolk and worshipped at the First Baptist Church and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Evens in Lee Street. Service was good at the Oak Grove Baptist Church. At 11 o'clock the pastor preached a strong sermon from Rev. 6:17: "The great day of his wrath has come and who shall be able to stand." Services were well attended at the First Baptist Church all day Sunday. The pastor, Rev. M. C. Allen, preached a wonderful sermon from the Greek and the Barbarians, to worship and the unwise." As the pastor presented this well prepared sermon to a large congregation it seemed that a spiritual reformation had swept his heaps. The Southamton, Isle of Wight, Nanseamond and Sussex Counties Ushers Union will hold its quarter- ly meeting at the Pleasant Shade Baptist Church, Sunday, July 26, Isaac, Va. All Ushey Boards are asked to send a representative. Representative fee $1.00. Mrs. Mary Ashe, Corresponding Secretary. SECOND BAPTIST A very interesting Sunday school was held at the Second Baptist on last Sunday, the lesson being instructively taught by the teachers. The pastor gave a very informative review. At 12 o'clock the pas- INCEMENT Colored and Beach OF NEWPORT NEWS, VA. BOAT HARBOR IN THE WATER FRONT WITH RIDING RINGING, DAVIDSON, SWINGS AND EXPERIENCES. A LOVELY BATH HOUSE BEAUTIFUL BEACH. NOTICE Hels, Secret Fraternities, Private your picnics and outings. Get your outing parties together Tourists, your trip to Newport News being a visit to the Beautiful Lin- he whole family, get rid of that surf for an hour, and the briny all. n't be a pessimist, come out and iments. amusement Corp. 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The Lincoln Amuser Churches and Sunday Schools, Secret Fraternities, Private Clubs, get in touch with us for your picnics and outings. Listen—Pleasure Seekers, get your outing parties together and book them with us. NOTE—Excursionists and Tourists, your trip to Newport News will be incomplete without paying a visit to the Beautiful Lincoln Park. Amusements for the whole family, get rid of that tired feeling, take a dip in the surf for an hour, and the briny waters will save a Doctor's bill. Summertime is playtime, don't be a pessimist, come out and enjoy yourself with our compliments. The Lincoln Amusement Corp. Address all Communications to H. R. DIXON, President and Manager Lincoln Theatre, Newport News, Va. THE NATIONAL IDEAL BENEF SOCIETY, Incorporated A live Progressive Fraternal Organization, F 1912, Richmond, Va. The object is: To help the Sick, Bury the Deac Distressed. To teach Unity, Economy, Thrift, Industry and tual Protection of its members. Lodges are organized with twenty or more mem IDEAL BENEFIT Incorporated nal Organization, Founded, July, Sick, Bury the Dead, Relieve the Thrift, Industry and for the Mu- twenty or more members. d fields and abundant opportunity THE NATIONAL IDEAL BENEFIT SOCIETY, Incorporated A live Progressive Fraternal Organization, Founded, July, 1912, Richmond, Va. The object is: To help the Sick, Bury the Dead, Relieve the Distressed. To teach Unity, Economy, Thrift, Industry and for the Mutual Protection of its members. Lodges are organized with twenty or more members. Live Workers Wanted, good fields and abundant opportunity for promotion. Why not organize a Lodge? "Your satisfaction is our success." For further information write A. W. HOLMES, Founder, and Supreme Master, No. 210 E. Clay Street, Richmond, Va. The pastor preached again at night. Rev. S. G. Grigg, of Warren Plains, N. C., preached three nights last week at the Second Baptist Church here on Moore, Moorhead, Grigg, and others invited to Smith's Ferry and were dinner guests of Mrs. J. Whitehead and family. ALLEN GROVE BAPTIST SUNDAY Sunday school lesson was beautifully explained by the pastor, Rev. R. C. Baker, on last Sunday. At 3 a'clock, Rev. J. W. Baker, pastor of Piney Grove Baptist Church, preached a stirring sermon from Numbers 10:29, "The Christian Invitation." The pastor, Rev. C. A. Baker, preached an edifying sermon at night. "SAVE A SOUL" The St. John Christian Church is conducting a "soul saving" evangelical meeting. A noted evangelist singer of New York and Mr. Hamilton James, well-known singer of Norfolk, are singing the gospel spirituals. Rev. J. Mayfield is the pastor. DENDRON Dendron, Va.—Rev. R. L. Leck preached an able sermon at the Second Baptist Church last Sunday. *Mr. J. D. Wilson and daughter, Mrs. W. M. Snow, motored to Norfolk last Sunday, where they were the guests of their daughter and sister, Mrs. Rosa Epps. *Rev. Mr. Draper preached an able sermon at Coffee's Chapel Sunday and administered holy communion. *Mrs. Mary Springs who was found dead in bed Tuesday night, was buried Saturday. She was a faithful member of Coffee's Chapel and a member of the Eastern Star Household of the Mountaineer. Rev. Mr. Draper officiated at the funeral, by Rev. Mr. Parish, of New Hope Church. *Mr. George W. Jones was elected delegate to the B. M. C. of Odd Fellows which convenes in Baltimore. Only a little more than 11 percent of farm wives keep any record of their expenditures. SANTAL MIDY Pains caused by BLADDER CATARRH Relieved Quickly by Santal Midy Be sure it is the Genuine Look for the word "Midy" Sold by All Druggists 1. PAGE NINE MRS. MARY ASH Agent and Correspondent NEWS OF INTEREST FROM NORTH CAROLINA TOWNS AND CITIES BURY WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN BATHROOM (photo) Correspondence Washington, D. C., July 14— Funeral services for Annie E. (Ocic) Gray, who was found dead that Saturday morning in the bathroom of her home, 1909 Eighth street, northwest of the Morning Star Lodge Ella Home, Fifteen and Q streets, northwest. Ocic, as she was known in the circles in which she moved, was found dead in the bedroom of new room, northwest of the Morning Star Lodge Ella Home, Fifteen and Q streets, that Saturday morning. Ocic had apparently gone to the bathroom to stop a flow of blood from a cut artery in her arm. The usual large number of visitors called Ocic called Friday, but failed to get any response. Among them was Corinthia Groxton. Miss Croxton returned Saturday morning and inquired of neighbors that Ocic had been seen at any time about her premises. Told that she had not, Miss Crox told that she and entended the home. Odie the Freedman's Hospital ambulance was called and upon arrival Dr. L. S. Butler stated that Ocie had dead about 36 hours. Ocie was brought from the hospital to the staircase and stumbled on the stairs leading to a door from the first to the second floor and crashed through a window at the stairland midway between the two floors. The window glass was broken and a trail of blood led to the bathroom above. Her arm was thrown above the door. Coroner J. Ramssey Nevitt was notified and issued a certificate of accidental death. Current reports are that a party was in progress at the house when Ocie quit the party and went upstairs. It then, it is thought that she crashed through the window. Her friends remained for a time, but when Ocie failed to return, they left, leaving the front door upon arrival. The house was entered Saturday morning. Ocie had been given lately to drinking continually. Her friends say that despondency over a love affair was the cause. She lived Annie E. (Ocie) was the daughter of Walter and Catherine Gray, and the sister of Amanda Medley, Jahlk Gray and Sandie Morgan. She was a member of Forest Temple No. 9, Improved Benvolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. BELHAVEN Bethaven, N. C. A play, "Over the Hill to the Poor House," was given at the Blu Bird Palace, under the direction of Miss Vivian A Hardy. The play was largely attended. She married Birnbaum and Scott Bradshaw, who have been spending some time in Rochelle, N. Y., returned home Saturday, July 10 to Mrs. Hettie Riddick is in the city for a few days. "Mr. Shepherd spent some time in Philadelphia." "Miss Lillah Ruth Harrell left for Philadelphia; July 17, where she will spend several months." Rev. A. B. Sharp pastor of the First Baptist Church Blymouth, preached here at the Freepaint, Baptist Church last week. "Mr. Shepherd Charle Mac Swain of Columbia went the week end here as the guest of her father, Mr. T. D Swain at the home of the Mr. E. B Eunch. Mr. Charlie Swain, of Washington, with his brother, Mr. T. D Swain. They both motored to Blymouth Sunday." Messrs. Poole Humby and Hester motored to Wilcox last Sunday. Rev. Steele, of the Disciples Church, was out of the city Sunday. Rev. James White, of Elizabeth University, "Rev McCloude preached a very good sermon Sunday morning at the Episcopal Church. ROPER Roper, M. C.—The Sunday school institution co-founded with the Morning Star A. M. P. E. Zion Church last Sunday able A. M. P., with the president preiding. The subject "Who's Your Neighbor?" was discussed in meetings largely meeting will meet at Botel Church. **Rev. G. H. Hunter preached to a large congregation last Sunday at Mr. Brew.** Mr. 7:30 P. M. a program was rendered by the Willing Worker Club. Mr. and Mrs. George Clemens of High School, Monday some time with the老师 of Mr. Clemens, Prof. J. J. Clemmons. **Mr. J. H. Dillock, seconded by his daughter Carrie Mae, left Saturday for Norfolk.** **Mr. Vance Joseph留条 from New York Monday, spend some time with Mrs. Roben, seconded by his daughter Mabet Rogers left Saturday for New York.** **Miss Riddick, of New York is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Riddick.** The only, surviving son of Anthony Trollop, the novelist, died recently at Minelinhampton, England. Makes Strong Plea For Better Farming Greenbush, N. C.—"Farmer" E. L. Hall, district agent of Smith-Lover work among the Negroes of North Carolina, in an address before the student body of A. & T. college summer session, made a strong plus in behalf of farming and farm life. He spoke on practical experiences and observations and furnished data and statistics which have been gathered from actual existing conditions. "Farmer" Hall declared, that if the farm is lifted up, all things will be drawn unto it. He also presented a case of lifting up the farmers. "The farmer," said the speaker, "must learn to translate his profit into a higher standard of living and must not look upon himself as an inferior part of society." District Agent Hall recommended that the farmer must have soil, so that he could capital innate desire for righteous living and intelligence sufficient to utilize all of the other prerequisites. WILLIAMSTON Williamston-Messrs. F. Respass, H. Manson, K. Rodgers, H. Howard and L. Johnson returned to the city after motorizing to Philadelphia, and then to Sunday for Philadelphia, "Rev. and Mrs. Augustus Hawkins were in Beltville last week visiting relatives." "Miss Sarah B. Brown was visiting in Murfreesboro last week. She also motorized to Norfolk. Miss James also motorized to another meritorious. The Fisher Club met July 15 at the residence of Miss Jannie Oro. After business, the hostess served a delicous repast. EDENTON Edenton, N. C. Out-of-town guests at The Norwood Sunday, were Mr. F. W. M. Butler and little daughter, Miss Wilson and little Miss Felton, of Goldsboro; Prof. Alexander, of Williamston; Miss Malina Perkins of Elizabeth City; Mr. Milea Baltimore; Mr. Milea and Mr. A.L. Peters; of Cape Cove; *Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Edney motored to Elizabeth City and were guests of Mrs. Jennie M. Butler, 28 Speed street and Mrs. Ardessa Pailen, South Road Street, *Nora. Moa Sprea, of Philadelphia, was the guest of Mrs. Lowther, East Gate, Mrs. Lowther, Mrs. Spright, and Mrs. Lowther, Mrs. Spright, and Mrs. Minna Edney motored to Eliza C. Sight, with Mrs. C. Edney, Sunday afternoon. Radio receiving sets in France are to be taxed as a luxury. PHYSICIAN CUTS OFF TWO SONS IN LAST BEQUEST PHYSICIAN CUTS OFF TWO SONS IN LAST BEQUEST Washington. Dr. C., July 21—The late Dr. Crew W. Childs disinherited two of his sons; Franklin W. Childs and Mansfield E. Childs, because of what he did for them during his life time. In his will which was admitted to probate last Friday, Dr. Childs declared that "I have done far more for them than I did in the expense of my children in large sums of money and in ardous service during the years of their adult lives. Were it now possible for me to sum up the labor expended upon each of them, it would just about equal the benefits of the other children is to receive under this will." The bulk of the estate is given to his wife, Mrs. Henshaw E. Childs; his son, Mrs. W Childs; his daughter, Mrs. Rosa Childs Baughman and Miss Beatrice O. Childs. All of Dr. Childs' stocks, household furniture, and furnishings, automobile, monies in bank and life insurance are bequeathed to the widow. Mrs. Childs is also given 1811 street, northwest, After her death it is to Creed W. Childs jr., Mrs. Rosa Childs Baughman and Miss Beatrice O. Childs. Creed W. Childs jr., is given a diamond ring. Rosa Childs Baughman also gives a diamond. Rosa Childs B. Childs is given his diamond stickin. His gruddaughter, Rosa Belle Childs, is given a set of books, "History of Nations", and a mahogany music stand. Norborne E. Bachs is given all of office furniture, medical books, book cases, operating tables and surgical instruments. William, a boy living at 127 C street, southwest, is given his gold filled watch and chain. His daughter, Beatrices O. Childs, is given a grand daughter, Rosa Belle Childs given a house and lot at No. 1241 Howell street southwest. The remainder of his estate is bequeathed to his wife, his son, Creed, W. Childs je., and two daughters, Mrs. Rosa Childs Baugham and Miss Beatrice O'Childs, as tenants in common. Attorney Thomas Walker is the executor of the estate. AHOSKIE, N. C. MURFREESBORO Murfreesboro, N. C.-Mr. David Myrick, and, Mr. Palmerton, motored to Winton, N. C., July 15 on business. Miss Oleiell Harris returned home. Saturday, after spending the winter in Wilmington. Miss Harris attended school at Wilmington. Mr. Robert Sophall, and wife, returned to Southampton, returned to Wilmington in Philadelphia, Pa. *Miss Mary Elizabeth Boone, who has been attending Summer school at State Normal, Elizabeth City, has returned home. "Mr. and Mrs. Temmes Peel, Mr. Athlete Broanax, Miss Emmy Hoffman, Mrs. Victoria Brinkly, and Mrs. Sallie Peel motored from Portsmouth Sunday and woke up early. Jacob Ruffin, Mrs. Peel will spend some time in Murfreesboro. "Master Isaiah Leah, has returned to his home in Franklin Va., after visiting relatives. "Sunday School was well attended Sunday. The Supt and teachers were at their post. There was an enrollment of 100 students. Wife was well attended. The son was well attended. The son in new enquiries. Mr. Eddie Purdy spent the week and in Portsmouth Va. NORFOLK JOURNAL AND GUIDE Picnic For Vocational Agricultural Workers Wednesday, July 7, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. was the time when fun and hilarity pervaded the atmosphere at the A. & T. college Farm grounds. The picnic was given by the chief executive of the college for the instructors and teachers of summer school now attending summer school. At the appointed hour, the "picnickers," about one hundred strong, pilled into the cars that were in operation and left for the grounds. Upon their arrival, an inspection of the new dairy barn, which is under construction, was made or if it met the approval of all. Following this, every member in the party, forgetting dignity and formality, joined in some kind of game, which lasted a good while. But greater than the games was the inspiration as well as perspiration that came at the lunch hour. All kinds of "goodies," fine in quality, adequate in quantity, and in good condition, on hot summer day challenged the appetites of all present. The time passed away so merrily that when it became dark, all felt sorry that there was an end to a good picnic. LUMBERTON Lumberton, N. C.—Robertson county together with the adjacent counties was greatly shocked to learn of the death of Rev. J. D. Harrell who was a patient at the Thompson Memorial Hospital since July the 8th. The end came Thursday, July 15, at 4:30 P.M. The funeral was to be held at the Baptist Church, St. Pauli, N. C. Sunday with Rev. H. W. Moore of Wilmington, N. C. officiating assisted by Rev. L. M. Powell of Winston-Salem, N. C. Lawyer E. J. Britt of Lumberton, gave an excellent talk on the good the deceased had been to the welfare of the colored people of Roberson County, Rev. H. W. Moore, died at death. He is preceded him only four weeks ago. "Madams Pullmore, Whitted, Mosley, and James attended the State Missionary Baptist Convention at Raleigh. "Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Moore, of Fayetteville, spent Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Green. "Mrs. S. D. McKellier, left Fayetteville, spent Sunday the Fayetteville, "The little Miss Evangelville, and S. D. McKellar, Jr., are spending at Nearl. C. "Prof Isley, of Fairmount, was in town Sunday. "Mrs. E. D. Martin and children spent the day Monday the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Moore. ELIZABETH CITY Elizabeth City, N. C. —Messrs. P. W. Butler, D. W. White, W. A. Britton, Robert Riddick, C. D. Crawley, Sylvestre Seymour and C. Sullery to attend the annual session of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias and Grand Court of Calanthe. Mr. Daniel White accompanied his mother, Mrs. L. White, to Norfolk Sunday. Mr. C. Privitt, of Edonon preached at the St. Stephen Baptist Church, Monday night, July 19. Rev. Privitt's sermon was in behalf of the Church Building Fund. Music was rendered by the junior and senior chair of the church. Mr. J. Date, Mrs. V. M. Tate and several ministers and church workers left Friday to attend the annual B. Y. P. U. and Sunday School convention at the New Chapel Baptist Church, Plymouth, on Saturday, of Southern Avenue is at home again after spending some time with her mother, Mrs. Louvenia Smith, of Scotland Neck who was quite ill. Ms. Elmora Watson, of South Ms. Pauline White, of Norfolk, Va., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Eliza Zilair, on Morris street. Mrs. Carrie V. Perry and daughter, Thela, left Sunday for Edenton, where they will visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Josephine Nixon, and little daughter, Thela Gibson, of Washington, D. C. are in the city, guests of Mrs. E. O. Winsboro, Ronnoke, Avenue. Mr. F. W. M. Butter, little daughter Jennifer Wilsonia, and her guest, little Miss Inez Spencer, of Goldboro, spent Sunday at Norfolk. Mrs. Mishte Spencer, of Saturday, after being called to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Janne Barville, who is very, in Euclid Avenue. Rev. W. R. Steely, was called to Philadelphia, Pa., to attend the funeral of Mrs. Betsie Barbier. Mrs. Emma Holly of Hertford, N. C., to attend sometime with her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Joseph, Tiltaff, of Manteo passed through the city last week entrusted to Philadelphia, Pa. Messrs. Mack and W. R. Simpson, spends several days in the city last week with their mother, Ms. Jane Spain, and his wife, Judy, who is spending the summer at Virginia Beach, Va. spends the week end in the city. Miss Genova Jones returned from Pittsburg, Pa., last week where she spent several months. Mr. L. D. Overton, spends Sunday in New York with his wife, Mrs. M. E. Overton. The biggest and happiest events in Preston Loain's life took place when his mother, Mrs. Mary S. RESTRICTIONS ON PROPERTY IS AGAIN IN COURT RESTRICTIONS ON PROPERTY IS AGAIN IN COURT District of Columbia Residents File Suit To Prevent Sale Of House And Land To Colored Family. (Special Correspondence) Washington, D. C., July 18—A suit to enforce a restrictive agreement and prevent a colored person from buying property in the Bloomberg section was filed last Saturday in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. This is the second action of this kind to be filed in the local courts since the Supreme Court of the United States refused to review the decision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia upholding the issuing of an injunction in the Curtis case. Complainant In Suit This suit was brought by Frank L. White, Rose D. White, Robert L. Pile and Martha L. Pile against Frank N. Sampalik, Lillian M. Sampalik and Russell K. Lyle. Mr. Lyle is a mail carrier and lives at 1841 Fourth street, northwest. The other is in Adams street, between First and Second streets, northwest. The plaintiffs allgease that Frank N. Sampalik and Lillian M. Sampalik have entered into a contract to sell. No. 138 Adams street, northwest, to Russell K. Lyle and that all preliminary arrangement in connection with the sale exceeds been carried out. Restricted Property Théro is a restrictive covenant in the deeds to all property in this section, they say, providing that none of this property shall ever be rented to a Negro or colored person, under a penalty of $2,000, which shall be a lien against said property." The covenant runs with the land, plaintiffs claim. Its plaintiffs charge that unless restrained by the court, Frank N. Lillian M. Sampailk will immediately convey No. 138 Adams street, northwest to Russell K. Lyle, who will occupy the premises or rent or lease it to a colored per- Ignores Restrictions They declare that James Scott, a real estate broker, 389 Rhode Island avenue, northwest, acted as agent for the Sampaliks and that he has had notice from the District Title Company in a preliminary report on the required cover in the deed to this property, but has ignored this notice and is attempting to close the sale. 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Messrs. R. W. M. Butler, John T. Davis, W. A. Britton, Robert Riddick, and Mrs. Katie Davis, left Monday for Salisbury, N. C, where they will attend the school. Elizabeth City—John Long, has returned to Raleigh, where he will visit his daughter, Mrs. Trone M. Dickens. Mrs. P. White and children of New York will leave for home Wednesday after spending some time with her mother, Mrs. Martha Spellman. Miss Eva J. Lewis, instructor in the summer school, left for her home in Ann Arbor, Mich., last Meers. John Hanby, merchant, P. H. Mohane and John Pool, barer, of Pantego, motored to Elizabeth City, Sunday. Both Races Must Rise Together Chapel Hill, N. C.-Lieut. Lawrence A. Oxley, addressing the North Carolina Institute of Public Welfare here last week, declared you cannot carry one race upward and neglect the other in its educational health work. He head of the bureau for work among Negroes of the state board of charities. 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A. 5 REASONS WHY North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company legal Reserve Insurance in Force on the lives of over a quarter million Negroes—$4,326,283.00, which is $1,085,056.00 more than any other Negro Company. nduring assets of $2,750,471.66 which is $1,642,946.81 more than any other Negro company. dequate Reserve on all outstanding policies—$2,511,952.00 which is $1,742,406.00 more than any other Negro company. ependable Surplus over all liabilities $137,709.50 which is more than any other Legal Reserve Negro company exclusive of Capital Stock. um Total Income, from premiums and investments—$157,631.29 which is over $65,000 more than similar income of any other Negro company. Town Wants An Undertaker And A Physician The colored citizens of Laurinburg, N. C., which is one of the progressive towns of the state, have announced through their leading business and professional men the need of a colored undertaker and another colored physician in that city. Persons interested in this announcement are required to visit the Francisville, Dr. I-As Moore, dentist or Evans White Front Department Store. Awarded Gold Medal for Services For Hospital Solma, N. C., July 22—In recognition of faithful service and organized effort in raising $1,000 to be used in equipping the colored ward of the Johnston County Hospital, Mrs. Laura J. L. King, superintendent of Nike high schools in this was awarded a gold plate, being engraved on one side, "For Faithful Service in Building Campaign, 1926," and on the reverse side, "Awarded Laura J. A. King by Johnson County Hospital." Dr. W. J. B. Orr, superintendent of the Johnston County Hospital made the presentation to the Nike Baptist School, when he received the service to thank the members and workers for their cooperation. of Pythians and W. Court of Calarain, Messrs. Joseph W. Watson, Walter Cook, Oscar Glover, Misses Mary E. 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Ministers TO AWARD CUP TO CITY HAVING BEST ENTERPRISE Convention of National Negro Business League Has An- nounced Silver Loving Cup For Best Float: Cleveland, Ohio—The Director of Activities of the Cleveland Negro Business Association, Attorney Norman L. McGhee, has just announced that as one of the features of Twenty-Seventh Annual Season of the National Negro Business League to be held in Cleveland, August 18, 19, and 20, a silver loving cup will be awarded the city in the United States which enters the best float in the annual parade representing what that city has to offer in the way of business opportunities for colored people and the best exhibit showing the product of and what is being done by the business enterprises operated by the colored of that city. Basis of Award Every city in the United States, it is stated by William R. Conners, the chairman of the Exhibit Committee of the Cleveland association, is eligible to compete for the loving-cup, provided said city has a regularly organized group of colored business men and women which has affiliated with the National Negro Business League. The award of the loving cup will be in the hands of a committee of judges composed of the members of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League and twenty-five other prominent business men and women. Award of the cup will be based upon the number of delegates in attendance, the number and variety of business enterprises having exhibits, the number and uniqueness of the floats, and activity of the local group in the affairs of the National Negro Business League. The loving cup will bear the inscription: "America's Most Wide-Awake City in Business Activity among Colored People—Awarded at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Session of the National Negro Business League, Cleveland, Ohio, 1926." Great Number of Cities To Compete Already a number of cities including Columbus, Dayton, Springfield, Detroit, Canton, Cincinnati, Yingstown, Akron, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, Chicago, St. Louis, Tulsa, Atlanta, Savannah, Norfolk, Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and a number of others have been asked to enter the contest and a number have signified their intention to compete for the cup. Cleveland, being host to the convention, will not be allowed to compete. Details of the plan for awarding the loving cup are being sent out to every city desiring them by the Director of Convention Activities from the Convention Headquarters of the Cleveland Negro Business Association, 2310 E. 55th street, Cleveland, Ohio. 11 YEARS OLD SMOKES CIGARETTES (By Associated Negro Press) Ven. Buren, Ark, July 21—Having discarded his corn pipe, cigarettes forty years ago, John McCain, celebrated his birthday two weeks ago, feeling fine he enjoyed a few more winters. He believes himself to be the oldest cigarette smoker in the United States. OnceAwfullyThin Now Admire Her Shapely Figure Men and Women, Weak, Frail and Needing More Weight—Read About McCoy's There's many thousands of skinny, anemic, run down haggard women who could soon have a grateful attractive figure if they would only ask any druggise anywhere about the flesh building vitamins in McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets. In McCoy's you find a combination of health building agents that bring energy, strength and vigor and at the same time put pounds of good healthy flesh on those who are underweight. If you are not underweight you'll in McCoy's a superb tonic that improve your general health. One underweight woman, ex- ceedingly thin gained 10 pounds, in 22 days and doesn't have to worry any more about her figure. Mrs. Alberta Rogers, thin, fun and weak gained 15 pounds in six weeks and is thankful for McCoy's. Sixty McCoy's tablets for 60 cents and if any under- weight person does not gain at 5 pounds in 30 days get your money back. Bring for feeble old folks and children one little girl an invalid for 9 years from infantile paral- y-gained 7 pounds in a few weeks. For McCoy's—a wonderful Boy's Cheek Paris, France, July 20-Reports have reached here-of indignation in Korea over the action of an American missionary, of the Seventh Day Adventist church who is accused of "branding" the word "Thief" on the cheeks of a Korean boy, with acid. The incident is said to have occurred after the missionary, caught the youngster stealing apples. The boy was recently compelled to stop school because of the ridicule to which he was subjected. The missionary now says he did not believe the acid would leave a permanent mark. Authorities, plan to bring him to trial, and contend that that is a fine way of trying to christianize the Koreans. Is Life Worth Living? BY T. THOMAS FORTUNE Most questions answer themselves. It is in the nature of the question, syllabically divided in its several parts, to answer itself, but few people take the trouble to make the analysis, if they could, indeed, do it by trying. You have to know how. As with a word, a sentence, a question, analyze it properly and made up of many syllables, some of them of foreign origin, and unless we are wise to this fact confusion will follow in getting at the truth. In the main, it is not necessary to do this. To the average mind the average word means just what it is generally understood to mean, and that suffices. Is life worth living? would appear on the surface to be a foolish question, because it is one of the most common things of human and other animate creatures to cling to life, however horrific it may become to them. Ordinarily life contains much to live for and mankind sacrifices everything sometimes in seeking to obtain the things it most desires. The lures of ambition are many and all of them are dangerous because not allowed, but unless mankind strives to obtain them, mostly from the selfish desire, there would be little if any progress. It is with those who accept what is and who desire and strive for no change for the better, who have fewest needs and thus find most satisfaction in living. Dr. Glenn Frank, the young president of the University of Wisconsin, in his weekly syndicated talks, and they are always worth reading, recently discussed the subject, "Life is Worth Living," and, among other things, said: We might increase the happiness and double the efficiency of our children if we taught them early to frame their ambitions in the light of their abilities. Our whole conception of ambition has been foggy and indefinite. We should pull the idea of ambition down out of the cloudland of abstract and make it clear and concrete. Intelligent ambition is not some angel of the future beckoning us to grab wildly at greatness. Intelligent ambition is a surveyor going carefully ahead of us, plotting the territory in which our abilities and temperaments will stand the best chance of achieving happiness and of working successfully. We adjusting ambitions to accurately adjusting ambitions to abilities underlies the whole of American life. In the mean, life should be worth less to the Negro people than to any of the other National race groups, because they have most to content with in law and equity and public opinion in securing their share of the common things essential to living, but that is the very reason why life is most desirable to them. They have a desire to live and conquer and enjoy life as others do it, and in order to get what they desire they have to fight all of the time for it, and the resistance they have to overcome makes them strong and self-reliant; not all, some faint by the wavies and are trampled upon. The Negro does not die out in contact with the white man, as the Red and Brown people did and are doing; he holds his own in the struggle for life and the good things that make living worth white, and that shows that he believes, perhaps with out that being conscious of it, that life is worth living, and that he is going to strive to the utmost to make the most and not the least of his opportunities to do so, as he has been doing ever since freedom and opportunity came to him out of the civil war. FINED FOR PETTING PARTY (By Associated Negro Pro- fessor Birmingham, Ala., July 21. Attracted by a variety of aisle noises cmanaging from an automobile parked in front of his home. Policeman C. E. Griswold investigated and according to his word, found Willie. Bucknell and Miss Maggie Foid in "too" close proximity on the back seat of the car. The couple, attrained in Recorder's court, were fined $25.00 each and costs, a total of $53 for their experience. THE COMMUNITY CENTER REOPENS AT HAMPTON Hampton—Through the kindness of Dr. R. R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, a worker in the person of Miss Mary E. Williams was loaned to the Hampton Colored Community Center for the purpose of Re-Organization of same. Miss Williams is well qualified to do this kind of work, and has demonstrated her ability in putting on one of the finest programmes we have ever had in our center. She is Director Health Center Work, and Home Service Worker of Tuskegee Institute Chapter, American Red Cross. In 1923 she was an A.C. H. A. Scholarship to Simmons College; Boston, Mass. Previous to that time she took special work in Columbia University, New York City. Fine Program Seeing the need of having a community center for the people of Hampton, the members of the Executive Board made it possible for Miss Williams to come and put on a new programme. After carefully stupping the situation here in Hampton, she put on a program that has met the approval of both white, and colored citizens. The Mayor of the town wrote a very nice letter to the Board assuring them that he highly endorsed the entire program and his willingness to do whatever he could to help make the work a success. The State Board of Health also encouraged the members of the Executive Board, and promised to do whatever is possible as far as the health side of the programme is concerned. A regular Worker is now employed, and the center is open for business. The hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Evening hours will be reserved for meetings of the different clubs and organizations. All clubs and organizations are welcome to meet in the community center and make it their headquarters. A special invitation is extended to the citizens of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Phoebus, and Hampton to use the community center and make it their homes. The regular Programe for the Community center are as follows: "Health Educational Clinic," where people will be examined and referred to their family-doctors for further treatments, Pre-natal Instructions to expectant mothers and general instructions to mothers on care of infants and babies. "Social Service Bureau" to help relieve the social and living conditions of our people. "The Employment Bureau" is now in operation and has proved to be of great service to our people, several persons have been placed for different kinds of work. "The Recreational Programme" is especially for our children to teach them how to play fair, how to stand erect while standing, and to take active parts in group games and activities. "Classees" in Cooking, Sewing, Music, and Art will begin in the fall after the annual drive. Health Clubs for adults and children will also be organized and a worker from the State Board of Health will come down from time to time and give health talks and Movies to women and girls. Girls day and Boys day, will be observed during the year at which time an attractive programme will be planned by Miss Williams for same. Reading and rest rooms are now ready for use. Cool drinks, and ice cream will be served while you wait. The Cafeteria will be open immediately after the fall drive. Plans are under way to serve hot meals and lunches to clubs, and private affairs. It is hoped that everybody will take an active part in our programme, and give their beauty support and good-will in making this work a great success. The Executive Committee is giving Miss. Williams a farewell reception in honor of the successful way in which she put the community center back on its feet again. She leaves Friday night, or Saturday morning for Frankfort, Ky., to conduct Health Education programme for the Y. W. C. A. Conference under the auspices of the National Board of New York City. Miss Williams has a wonderful disposition and a charming personality, possessing the unique ability to gain friends wherever she goes. We wish for her all the blessings that life can give, and an abundance of success. URGE MEMORIALS FOR RACE SOLDIERS (By Associated Negro Press) Little Rock, Ark., July 22—The need of preserving adequately the memory of the Negro soldiers who fought in the last struggle for civil democracy is making itself felt in widely separated centers. In Chicago under the leadership of Commerce, Commissioner Edward H. Wright, former representative George B. Kersey, Senator Adelbert Roberts and other civic and political leaders, the state of Illinois has appropriated $30,000 for the creation of a monument to the fallen heroes of the 6th in the center of the city's most stately boulevard, 35th and South Park- In Little Rock, Arkansas and Jefferson City, Missouri, last week, mass meetings were held in the interest of erecting colored soldiers' memorial, buildings. NORFOLK JOURNAL AND GUIDE TUSKEGEE QUARTET IN DETROIT (By Associated Negro Press) Detroit, Mich., July—The well-known Tuskegee singers made their annual appearance in this city Sunday, when they gave a song recital at Second Baptist church. The recital consisting mainly of Negro spirituals was well received and well patronized. West Virginia Elks Endor Finley Charleston, W. Va., The West Virginia Station of the Improved Protective Order of El World men in their th INVENTORS HOLDING EXPOSITION (By The Associated Negro Press) Los Angeles, Calif., July—Colored inventors of Los Angeles will come into their own on July 15 at Shrine Auditorium where a great exposition of mechanical devices and appliances will be held. KILLS MAN WITH ICE PICK New Orleans, La., July—Pulling an ice pick out of her stocking an unidentified woman stabbed Samuel Jenkins, laborer, several times in the chest and escaped, following an argument. Jenkins will die. COURTLAND Courtland, Va.—Services at the First Baptist Church were largely attended Sunday. Sunday School was opened at 10 o'clock with Supt J. H. Blow and his co-workers at their posts. At eleven o'clock, a program was given under the auspices of Mrs. Dora Brown, in honor of the pastor's, Rev J. E. Sprayle. Eleventh Anniversary. Following the program, Rev Mr. Sprayle, preached a very inspiring sermon using his text, "Trust in God the good." At three o'clock the annual thanksgiving sermon of the children of Israel was preached at the Macedonia Disciples Church by the Rev. A. F. Bowe. At 7:30, Rev. J. E. Spratley preached another inspiring sermon. $^\circ$Mrs. Louise World, of New York, was called home to the bed of her sick brother, Mr. Walter Horday, who died at his home Saturday night. $^\circ$Mrs. Irene Story of Richmond was called home to the bed side her father, Mr. Walter Hordy. $^\circ$Mrs. Ethel Ford was the guest of Mrs. Dora Brown. Sunday. $^\circ$Misses Grace and Praige Williams, Elmen Griffin and Dorris Bynum were the guests of Miss Mable and Gerald Brown. $^\circ$Mrs. Della Hicks, of Norfolk County, is home spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Silvannah Darent. $^\circ$Mr. Wm. Claude and Miss Beatrice Brown motored to Franklin and were the guests of Miss Adline Pruden, Sunday. Ex- Bishop I. 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Va., July 14—The West Virginia State Association of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World meeting their third annual session in this city on July 13 and 14. Never before in the history of the Association have so many lodges been represented and so much enthusiasm shown. An important feature of the meeting was the presence of J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler. Hon. W.J.W. Wertz, Mayor of the City of Charleston, made a ringing speech of welcome to the Association on behalf of the City. Past Grand Exalted Ruler, T. G. Nutter, made a brilliant welcome address on behalf of Kanawha Lodge No. 130, hosts to the Association. He was followed by M. T. Whittico, editor of the McDowell Times. The local committee had spared no pains to entertain their visitors and the evening of the first day was delightfully spent in a moonlight ride up the beautiful Kanawha river, when dancing and cards were engaged in until a late hour. The climax of the second day's morning session was reached when a resolution endorsing J. Finley Wilson for re-election to the office of Grand Exalted Ruler of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, at the convention to be held in Cleveland in August, was unanimously adopted. IS RACE PREJUDICE DYING? (By The Associated Press News) New York, July 91—Of six white persons questioned by the Inquiring Reporter of the Daily News as to whether race prejudice is or is not dying, three believed that it is and three that it isn't. Perhaps, the most significant answer came from a white woman who explained: "One single fact should prove to any one that race prejudice, especially in this country, is not as strong as it was, and that is nearly every one wants to see Wills get Dempsey and knock the stuffing out of him." Traces of a Norse colony settled 1,000 years ago in Greenland have been found. Antares, the real star of Southern skies, is 400,000,000 miles in diameter. 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At 3 o'clock Mr. Ash rendered an excellent presentation. On Friday night the revival which had been in progress for two weeks, conducted by Rev. J. T. Faulk, of Suffolk, and Rev. S. A. Howell, came to a close. Many persons confessed religion and several were added to the church. PINNERS POINT The First Baptist Sunday school was fraught with its usual interest. At 11:30 Rev. A. S. Hoard preached a stirring sermon from That Baby You Longed For Mrs. Burton Admired Women in Motherhood. hood and Companionship, "For疼恨," she added, the blessing of motherhood, "writes Mrs. Margaret Burton of Kannau, City. "I was terribly nervous and subject to periods of terrible suffering and melancholia. Now I am the proud mother of a beautiful daughter, and inspiration to my husband. I believe hundreds of other women would like to know the secret of my happiness, and I will gladly reveal it to any married woman who is willing to help her wife or adhere entirely without chance. She has nothing to sell. 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Huntington died a half million workers paused a few minutes as his funeral procession passed to the cemetery. The readers of the JOURNAL AND GUIDE will remember that he built the Newport News Shipbuilding industry and that he was generous in giving employment to our skilled and unskilled labor, it being said at the time that every skilled graduate of Hampton Institute who desired employment was given it. He was a great Captain of Industry and the country has produced many such, a few of whom were unusually generous to uplift work among our group. What shall we think of an American who in eighteen years has developed a business in which he has eighty-eight plants and employs 600,000 persons who receive a minimum wage of $6 per day? We should naturally say that he is a great American Captain of Industry. So he is. Henry Ford, the producer of the Ford cars, is the man who has done all that. His headquarters are at Detroit, but he calls his section of it Dearborn. Mr. Ford does not care for banks, and it is said he has a million dollars in cash all of the time in safe deposit vaults. His cars have the advantage of being cheap and durable and his employees have the satisfaction of getting adequate pay for their work and interest, in the great industry, which is much more than can be said of many other great industrial concerns. The Afro-American is yet very young in citizenship and opportunity. He is just beginning to get his stride in business and other activities, but he is getting it, and he should be encouraged in his efforts. We all need encouragement. No man lives to himself alone. He should study to advantage, therefore, the careers of such merchants as the late A. T. Stewart and John Wanamaker, and such industrial captains as the Rockefellers, Charles M. Schwab, Samuel Vauclin, Julius Rosenwald and J. P. Morgan. What is written about them and their success should be read and studied carefully as it would be helpful in our slow climb out of the cellar, so to speak, of material things, so large a part of which belongs to us and so large a part of which we have to recover from: those who have expropriated it, both in slavery and in freedom. "Referred To The Virginian-Pilot" In our issue of July 10th, the Rev. R. H. Bowling wrote for his Guide Pest column an article under the head, "Why? Norfolk, Why?" in which he put to Norfolk some very pertinent questions regarding certain conditions existing here as between the two races. A copy of the JOURNAL AND GUIDE with the Norfolk minister's article marked went to the (Newport News) Daily Press. That newspaper replied with an editorial under the caption, "Referred to the Virginia-Pilot," in which the comment is made: "We do not know why this complaint should have been sent to the DAILY PRESS. We hold no brief for Norfolk, so we pass the complaint on to that bright and particular champion of Negro rights, the Virginian-Pilot." The editorial of the Daily Press referred to is reprinted in our Spirit of the Press column of this issue. By denominating the Virginian-Pilot a bright and particular champion of Negro rights The Daily Press fails to apply to the Norfolk paper the full appellation that it deserves and by the omission gives it a misleading cognomen. We have not heretofore known, the Virginian-Pilot to be, nor have we heard it said that it was a bright and particular champion of Negro rights, nor for the sake of ourselves are we able to define any such thing as "Negro rights." We readily confess, however, that we regard the Virginian-Pilot as and have heard it widely declared to be not only a bright and particular but a vigorous and uncompromising champion of human rights. Incidentally, in these days the Negro is universally regarded as at least human. Consequently, he, like the rest of humans, is the beneficiary of any organ, medium, force or agency that sets itself against human wrongs and champions human rights, even if such organ, medium, force or agency should happen to be the Virginian-Pilot. To be more precise and not to mislead, and we do not believe that the Newport News nager meant deliberately to misbrand its Norfolk contemporary, it should have denominated the Norfolk paper a bright and particular champion of human rights without regard to the races of men. The Negro does not ask for nor does he recognize the existence of such an indefinite term as a "champion of Negro rights," and we know that our able Virginian-Pilot would never essay such a vague role. We base our hope for a larger life and fuller opportunity in this noble land upon the increasing tribe of champions of the rights of man and we are not at all reluctant to admit that we have found the Virginian-Pilot playing in that role. And we might as well recognize the inescapable conclusion that unless the rights of all men are championed and safe-guarded the rights of no man are secure. The Daily Press dismisses the questions raised by the Rev. Mr. Bowling with the words: "We hold no brief for Norfolk." It is true that the conditions complained of are local and proprieties of newspapering dictate that purely local issues are better left to local hands, but the Newport News paper does, or at least should, hold a brief in every case where there is apparent violation or denial of the rights of individuals, even if it did wish upon our State the iniquitous Massenburg bill from which the Virginian-Pilot and several other State newspapers sought to save the commonwealth. Twisting The Facts of Political History In a recent article Mr. Mark Sullivan, political writer and prophet, asserted with the utmost solemnity that the South has no laws now that conflict with the federal constitution. With equal solemnity and astonishing credulity Mr. Sullivan quoted Mr. Frank R. Kent, a correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, to the effect that "Negroes who apply for registration are treated exactly as are the whites." Mr. Sullivan was discussing prohibition, the eighteenth amendment, Negro suffrage and the fourteenth amendment. He is alarmed and disturbed because some Northern states—New Jersey for example—want to take the position that inasmuch as the South has never accepted the fourteenth amendment, nor attempted to enforce it, because the South was and is opposed to Negro suffrage, the North, which is opposed to legal prohibition is not morally bound to enforce the eighteenth. Summing up Mr. Sullivan's own conclusions they are: There is a basic fallacy in New Jersey's argument. The North, * * * actually in some states, for years, forced the South to maintain non-white governments. The granting of suffrage to Negroes within five years after they had been slaves and under all the circumstances is now held to be a mistake by many leaders of thought in the North. * * * So conspicuous a person as Senator Borah said it the other day. Borah made the point that the fourteenth amendment is not disobeyed in the South. That is the fact. There is not now any law on any Southern statute book that fails to conform to the constitution. The South has no laws that conflict with the constitution. Summing up Mr. Sullivan's quotations from Mr. Kent we have: There is ** * * no restriction whatever upon the right of registration or the high privilege of voting applying to the Negro that does not also apply to the white man. * * * Nor is there any unfairness towards the blacks in the administration of the laws. Negroes who apply for registration are treated exactly as are the whites. There is nothing new in what either Mr. Sullivan or Mr. Kent said. It is the old, old story that has been fabricated over and over again to make the South's advocacy of the eighteenth amendment appear consistent. Thanks to the federal supreme court which after the South's object had been accomplished declared the grandfather clause unconstitutional there is not now on the statute books of any Southern state any law which does not evade the federal constitution in its nullification of the fourteenth amendment. We will let Mr. Kent tell in his own words how it is done. Southerners very frankly avow the real situation. They will tell the world that if it were necessary to discriminate in order to eliminate the Negro from politics they would most certainly discriminate. If only unfair means would deprive him of the vote they would be used. And this is how it is done. Not in every case, for there are some very brilliant exceptions, but it is the rule: When a Negro and a white man walk up to a registrar's desk the white man is handed a blank form containing a few simple questions as to his name, age, residence, etc., told to fill it out and sign his name to it and that is all there is to it. When it comes the colored man's turn he may be carried through the same formality, but within the discretion of the registrar he may be asked to recite the United States constitution from memory, describe the aurora borealis, translate a Latin oration, define the Magna Charta or conjugate a Greek verb. Failing in any or all of them he is denied registration. Or, as happened to a colored woman in Birmingham recently he may be arrested and put in jail upon the charge of vagrancy. The law, which is so drawn as not to conflict with the federal constitution, gives the registrar just that latitude. And they take advantage of it on every registration day in every state in the South. Mr. Sullivan, who lives in the North and gets his information from talking with Southern statesmen and from reading after Senator Borah, has probably never heard of how the present election laws of the Southern states operate. Norfolk Journal and Guide The only incontrovertable thing in the assertions of either Mr. Sulliyan or Mr. Kent is contained in the following statement by the latter: The Negro in the South, with rare exceptions, has accepted the situation. * * * he has lost an interest in politics. The futility of the thing, so far as he is concerned, is well understood. He has abandoned the habit of political thought and no longer makes an effort to register. Most importantly he has acquiesced in the theory that government in the South is a matter to be administered by whites. That is about the situation. That is the unadulterated truth. There is not a Negro in the South that could have stated it with any more exactness. And what is more, it is relatively true of the white people of the South. The voting and the governing in all of the Southern States are done by a minority, a very small minority of the citizens; a minority composed of the personal following of professional politicians. Take Virginia as an example. The population of the State is 2,309,187. It may astonish Mr. Sullivan to know that only 175,000 votes were cast in a party primary in which the present governor was nominated, and fewer, much fewer required to elect him in the general election. Only one white person in every one thousand in the state participated in the nomination or election of the governor. The Negroes are not the only group in the South that has lost interest in politics; that has seen the futility of the thing and abandoned the habit of political thought. THE GUIDE POST BY RICHARD H. BOWLING One Bedst Strikes Another In the city of Danville, Virginia. A broiling July sun. Two panting mansions. y of Danville, Virginia. A sun. Two panting mules hitched to an open wagon and standing on a steep up grade street. Their driver was busy at the side of the wagon dispensing his wares. The calls of other passing drivers, the noise of automobiles, the uncertain cries of their own master, all seemed to combine for the confusion of these hard-worked members of a lower order. And so, now and then they would start off as if to continue their way. harsh word and still more of the reins that made the tender lips, the irate driver to them stand at attention. hitched to an open wagon and standing on a steep up grade street. Their driver was busy at the side of the wagon dispensing his wares. The calls of other passing drivers, the noise of automobiles, the uncertain cries of their own master, all seemed to combine for the confusion of these hard-worked members of a lower order. And so, now and then they would start off as if to continue their way. With many a harsh word and still more harsh jerking of the reins that made the steel bits cut tender lips, the irate driver sought to make them stand at attention. Finally, as if that were the best thing to do, said driver walked calmly to the front of his wagon and seized a stick, looking for all the world like a policeman's night stick. Just as calmly he now walked to the head of one of the mules and struck him a resounding blow midway between the eyes and mouth. People a half block away shudded aloud. The dull thud of a billy full in face of a mule was no pleasant sound, Being a stranger, I knew not what to do. Was there a local S. P. C. A. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?) All too frequently in our beloved Southland whole communities likewise stand aghast. Some helpless man like a helpless beast is subjected to brutality. Some thoughtless "cop" mauls him until a hardened judge decrees from his bench: "Punished enough, even if guilty." Some mindless mob mutilates him; subjecting him to agonies both present and future, agonies of body and soul. Some "superior" whose status like that of a barbarian chief is only maintained by force, bombs a new neighbor's home and scatters heads, legs, lifeless bodies, and blood like trash on a dump heap. An armed group of masked murderers calls a lone man to his door and either shoots him in cold blood, hangs him without a trial, or tortures him to death with fire. Then the community's newspapers rant about the dignity of law. The chamber of commerce hastens to reassure the group of which the sufferer was a part. Extra police are called out. The ever cautious, perpetually soft peddling, eternally let-well-enough-alone "best citizens" of all faiths and both races meet together for the first time in years to lay plans for redeeming their city's fair name. The dull thud of injustice calls attention to the fact that not all a community's beasts wear bit and bridle. Spirit of The Press Referred to the Virginian-Pilot From Newport News Daily Press. Somebody has sent to the DAILY PRESS a copy of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, a Negro newspaper, and by the way one of the best Negro newspapers in the United States, with the following article marked: WHY? NORFOLK, WHY? I am penning these lines in a distant city. From personal observation and from conversation with இருவரும் from the Carolina and Georgia. I am moved to ask Norfolk two questions—First, how must Norfolk have an unconstitutional order against its colored citizens using a majority of the public bus lines? Are these not public carriers, using publicly denied airfrees? If then can any citizens be legally denied their use? If it be claimed that such a restriction is for prevention of race, feeling, why is not the same thing that is not the same thing that is supposed to be no much worse? Where not Norfolk has the same sort of jim crow regulations for public conveyances as do other cities in Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, North Texas, North Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina, and humiliation in the matter of buses all the while being assured, nevertheless, that they are the finest colored folks in the chamber of commerce booster literature speak on the intended, the labor supply to be found in Norfolk? Who makes up that praiseworthy group? Is it not the Norfolk group? Why must such a group be denied here what they are. I really know that the state has a group of more than 100 people who are not from the� Again, why must Norfolk act as that negro she were ashamed of the accomplishments of her Norfolk group? She boots her progress and property to the outside of the community, to a tributeative white churches, banks, homes, frental buildinga. Are there not corresponding edifices built, supported by Norfolk Negroes? It seems to me such a support is needed that colored Norfolk was indeed contented and dependable. Offers of higher wages elsewhere might interest only in labor supply housed in shacks and interested only in labor housing in towns. But a working class which can bond of its its own lodges and insurance, its own churches, its own homes—well, that's different—such a group of either the labor agent or the labor agitator. We do not know why this complaint should have been sent to the DAILY PRESS. We hold no brief for Norfolk, so we pass the complaint on to that bright and particular champion of Negro rights, the Virginian-Pilat. There is nothing in the Menzburg law prohibiting colored people from riding in public omnibuses with white people. The only requirement of law is that separate seats be provided for the two races. Effrontery From· (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot If the president of a college had on Saturday shot to death a prominent fellow townman, he would, regardless of his sense of justification, feel the impropriety of keeping his Sabbath Day engagement to lecture the student body on the beauty of law observance, and spend the day in discreet retirement. A bank president, finding himself under the same cloud, would forbear attendance on directors' meeting until the cloud was in some measure lifted. A school superintendent, plunged into the same embarrassment, would immediately suspend his pedagogic ministrations. If he did not do so of his own accord, the school board would make good his deficient understanding of the proprieties by retiring him until the courts gave him a certificate of good character. Why should it be different in the case of a minister of the Gospel. On Saturday, the Rev. J. Frank Norris, prominent Fort Worth preacher, shot a townman to death in the pastoral study. On Sunday, within 50 feet of the room in which the killing took place, he conducted his usual morning services, preaching from the ext: "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." A choir of 700 voices sang hymn after hymn, while two pianos with relays of pianists, furnished the music. We pass no judgment on the preacher's act of homicide—that is for the courts—but what is one to say of the encysted self-righteousness of a pulpit appearance while the victim lay still unburied and the question of guilt rested still undetermined? And what is one to say of the sheer effrontery of the choice of text? Not in a long time have we had the spectacle of godliness so magnificently complacent and so contemptuous of elemental decency. Live It Down Rev. A. L. Scott, in Southwestern Christian Addeeott. This twentieth century age, let us remember, abounds with opportunities as never did the ages before it. It is the weak man only who is crushed by obstacles; the strong man is nerved and braced by every opposition that seeks to bar his road. To my mind, the first reply we can make to race prejudice is USEFULNESS—honest, high-cla s service. Ne prejudice in the world can keep a race from demonstrating its value in the economy of God's household. Just as a man's most effective answer to injustice is to live it down by his work and worth, even so a race unjustly condemned has this appeal to the supreme court of human history, by making its contribution to man's steady advancement as solid and valuable as it can. * * * Opportunities for solid usefulness abound for us as for anybody else; prejudice must spur us to exertion, not daunt us into a morbid habit of rebellion and complaint. Justice, even against ourselves, ranks perhaps next in importance. The true man under attack must first set his own house in order. The retort of conscious guilt, "you are another," is not to be our defense, so much as for us to be in the right rather than to have the best of the argument. I have as yet to analyze any type of prejudice that has not some foundation, be it ever so unjust. * * * We owe it to ourselves, to the strength of our cause, to examine ourselves to determine exactly how far we are giving cause and adding fuel to prejudice. No race, of course, is free from foibles; but as the individual must ever strive to rid himself of those weaknesses and those vices which stand in the way of usefulness to society, so must the race become aware of whatever just complaints the world advances against it and must go to work earnestly to remedy them. The very injustice which lumps all individuals in the mass and condemns each of them unheard for what is supposed to be the general foible, that very individual must arouse a sense of solidarity by which each individual accepts responsibility for all the others. The Chain Is No Stronger Than Its Weakest Link. WHY DON'T YOU HELP ENFORCE THE 18th AMENDMENT? WHY DON'T YOU HELP ENFORCE THE 14th AMENDMENT? In the July number of Current History, Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones contributes an interesting article on Foreign Missions. His object is to vindicate the cause of missions, and to clear the names of devoted missionaries of dispersions so glibly cast upon them. We PETER H. HARRIS are told that "to ridicule missionaries has long become a pastime for many people. Formerly the ridicule was largely confined to those who prided themselves on their irreligion. However, it was by no means limited to the ungody, for the antagonists have been a varied company." What Dr. Jones has said is but common place knowledge to all who have followed religious controversy during the past quarter of a century. My experiences cover quite fully the rise and spread of the missionary movement as it applied to the Negro field in our own Southland. My first teacher was a student in Biddle University which was among the early institutions of learning establishing by Northern philanthropy. I was fed and fostered upon the missionary pabulum. The man who had most to do with the early formation of my character had previously devoted himself as a missionary to the Sandwish Islands; but was shifted to the Southern field by some chance in circumstances. General Armstrong, the greatest missionary that America has yet produced, was himself the son of a missionary to Hawaii. There is not a Negro in the United States who has not been, directly or indirectly the beneficiary of the missionary impulse. The schools and colleges of which we so much boast were founded and maintained and are still largely supported by the same altruistic agencies. The American Negro, beyond all peoples on the face of the earth should be interested in the cause of missions. The criticisms to which the movement has been subjected in recent years is a matter of serious religious and sociological concern. There has been a sharp shift in motive, amounting almost to a somersault. The stress in the former day was laid upon the salvation of the soul; today it is placed upon social salvation. Herein lies the deep distinction between the modernists and the fundamentalists in theology. The modernists basing their conclusions on science are prone to discredit unproved mystery and miracles. The burden of their gospel must of needs limit itself to the life that is here and now. This may be all right for the ninety and nine just persons who are fortified by education, refinement and culture; but it has little or no appealing ring to the heathen in his blindness. I well remember that when the great Congregational Church was getting rid of its creed, the claim was made that a creedless church would have no missionary appeal. Who does not remember how "from Greenland's fey mountains" used to stir the emotion with zeal for the salvation of the soul of the poor heathen in his blindness? Little stress was then laid upon the betterment of the bodily needs of the benighted peoples but the immediate demands of the soul were all engaging. Every one who had a soul felt it throbbing with an urgent sense of responsibility. "Shall we whose souls are lighted with wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted the lam of light deny?" Discarding the egotism of his conceit, the altruistic motive which it aroused did great credit to the claims of evangelical Christianity. None but the fundamentalist can sing that missionary hymn. Modernism cuts the nerve of missions. I have read many accounts of missionaries and have listened to many who have returned to give an account of their work. In the earlier day they used to tell of the number of converts they had made. Today they delight to dissertate upon the practical works which they are undertaking. I once asked a distinguished ecclesiast who had just returned from Liberia, if he laid much stress upon the evangelical side of his work, he was frank enough to state plainly that he did not believe it worthwhile to try to explain to the heathen the Christian scheme of theology, in the present banished state of his mind. He was devoting practically all of his attention to building schools, and to improved conditions of health and industry, with the reserved belief that after providing for the temporal needs, the spiritual claims of his mission might be more effectually stressed. This reverses all of our received traditions of Christianity. The early disciples were once admonished of the unwisdom of leaving off the things of the spirit and devoting their chief energies to serving tables Dr. Jones undertakes to vindicate the work of the modern missionary wholly in terms of his temporal function. He seems to be wholly unaware of the chief purpose of evangelism, which is to bring the souls of men in right relation to the kingdom of God. Listen to his summary of the effect of missionaryism of modern times. "The effect is stated in terms of schools built, farms opened up, better sanitary provisions and improvement in the social plane of living. So far as we learn from the apology of Dr. Jones not one single soul has been redeemed from sin, and sent on its way rejoicing in the new found light that streams from the cross. One wonders how the contributors back home will feel when they learn that their contributions to cover the world with the knowledge and glory of God as the waters cover the sea have been spent in purely secular advantage. Will such reports inspire them to continue to give as effectively as did the old appeal? movement be maintained when divested of the evangelical mainspring. Men and women do not conserve their lives and shut themselves off from home and friends and sacrifice all hope of reward and honor merely to serve the needy in securing better living conditions. But to save the dying souls of men, the true Christian will willingly sacrifice his all. It is doubtless true that if the missionary movement were called upon to give an account of its stewardship in terms of souls saved from sin, it would make a disappointing showing. The reason is obvious. If you want me to believe, you must first believe yourself. You must give fruit meet for the belief that was within you. The Northern missionaries had little difficulty in securing Negro converts by the hundreds, just so long as they felt that the missionaries were exemplars of their own gospel. But insincerity is fatal to all forms of missionary work. The moment those to be benefited discover or think they discover any discrepancy between the doctrine taught and the life lived the influence of the missionary like Othello's occupation, is gone. For this reason, it is becoming increasingly difficult for white schools. The social charge of missionary work which they are perforce involved in is surcharged with Christian and unbrotherly sentiment towards the black pupil that it is hard for him to receive even good things offered at their hands. However effective the medicine may be in itself, it will hardly do the patient good unless the genuineness of the physician who prescribes it. Herein lies the chief cause of failure of missionaries throughout the world today. The white missionary comes with the Bible in his native proclaiming the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, while, in the other he brings the disdainful attitude of the white race towards the nonwhite heat when he holds in racial despair. The heathen in his native conning will take his material gifts and spurn his gospel which his very life repudiates. How can the African or the Chinaman be expected to accept the Christian creed which proclaims, "the shout not kill," when they see Christians killing one another by the millions. The heathen mind is logical and consistent. It cannot accept a creed which says, "thou shalt not steal," when they see the sponsors for that creed stealing every acre of their land they can lay on. "Love thy neighbor as myself" cannot in the unassisted mind of the benighted heathen be limited to neighbors whose skins are white. Christianity much vindicates its integrity or give up its claims. These who profess the creed are its greatest enemies. The superlative test is to be made on the mission field. If Christianity is to be the world religion it must meet the needs of the world. I believe that it was Emerson who said that every Stoic was a Stoic, but in Christianity, where is the Christian?