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World's Greatest Orator Will Lecture In Phoenix Full Associated Negro Press Serv- tice. We get the news first. VOLUME II. NO. 23 ROSCOE SIMMONS WILL LECTURE HERE COMING SEPT. 20TH Definite plans, and arrangements have been made to bring Col. Roscee Simmons to Phoenix. The exact date has not been fixed, but it will be on or about September 20. R. D. Simpson, president of the local branch, N. A. A. C. P., is in charge of arrangements and a publicity campaign of great magnitude is being mapped out. Col. Simmons is recognized as the greatest orator in America today, and thousands are being turned away in every city where he lectures. It is said that he has a command of the English language equalled only by President Wilson. He possesses the oratorical skill which permits him to sway his audience at will and hold them at rapt attention throughout his lecture. The only drawback about bringing Col. Simmons to this city is finding a place large enough to accommodate all who will want to hear him. The High School auditorium has been tentatively agreed upon as the logical place to have him appear and no doubt he will lecture at this building. It is said that Col. Simmons' lectures have done more to bring about harmony between the races than the combined press of the country. As previously stated he is a master of logic, and all who listen to him are benefited. PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA VISITING THIS COUNTRY (By Associated Negro Press) NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 3—C. D. B. King, president-elect of Liberia, arrived here yesterday on the steamship Carmania, on his first visit to the United States. After a short stay in New York he will go to Washington to pay his respects to President Wilson. He was met down the bay by II. F. Worley, United States government receiver of customs and fiscal agent of Liberia, who represented the State Department in receiving the president-elect. Mr. King said that a credit of $5,000,000, granted his county by the United States, which is the first loan of consequence ever negotiated by Liberia, would be used for public improvements which would tend to make the country still more productive and create a larger import and export trade. While in this country, Mr. King will address the World Christian Citizenship Conference in Pittsburgh in November. This engagement was made while he was attending the Peace Conference as a delegate from Liberia. President Wilson and Queen Marie of Rumania also will be speakers. Out of Frying Pan Into Real Hot Fire (By Associated Negro Press.) NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 3.—Rothschild Francis, a West Indian and member of St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) legislature, addressed an audience of about 250 persons last night at a Negro church at 55 W. 138th street on the subject of the conditions of the Negro race in the Virgin Islands. The speaker said that conditions were so bad there that the black man was little better than a slave. More than 8,000 Negroes, he said, had left the islands and migrated to this country in the last few years. Mr. Francis said that he had recently appeared before the foreign relations committee of the senate and had discussed the situation with it. He said that he had been promised that a bill would be introduced providing that three senators and three members of the house of representatives should be sent to investigate conditions in the islands. Mr. Francis said the inhabitants wanted a reorganization of their judiciary and school systems after the American plan. COLORED SOLDIERS WILL BE ACCORDED FULL RECOGNITION (Special to the Tribune) CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—Greater interest is being taken in the coming convention of the Lincoln League of America than in any meeting of any body of American Negroes in a quarter of a century. The convention has been called to meet in Chicago September 16th, although hundreds of members are requesting the executive committee to advance the date. Soldiers to Have Voice The Lincoln League was organized to afford the Negro a voice in his own affairs, and the officers of it are men created as leaders by the people themselves. A feature of the sessions will be a day devoted to the interest of the Negro soldiers. Indications are that the soldiers, officers and privates will attend in great numbers. All Chicago is preparing to receive and entertain the visitors. The program includes addresses to be delivered by several prominent members of Congress, including two senators. The Labor Committee reports that the recent invitation to the American Negro will be discussed before the convention by the officials of the American Federation of Labor. It is likely that Samuel Gompers will deliver an address. A session will be devoted to co-operative business expansion among Colored people. Matters to be considered include the enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution; the bill now pending in Congress making the crime of lynching a Federal offense; the industrial situation in the industrial states, and how to meet the condition brought on the Negro by the army of uplifters more bent on a job than the good of the people. Young People Coming Every indication is that the Lincoln League will attract hundreds of young men and women heretofore uninterested in big movements. Letters have been received from soldiers in every section saying that if the league stands for the Colored soldiers—look for them. The chairman of the Chicago committee is Robert S. Abbott, 3159 S. State street, Chicago, Ill. The call for the Lincoln League convention is signed by Robert R. Church, chairman; Walter L. Cohen, treasurer; Henry L. Johnson, secretary, and Roscoe C. Simmons, president. Speech of Col. Young Stirs Baltimoreans to Deeds of Action Speech of Col. Young Stirs Baltimoreans to Deeds of Action (By Associated Negro Press.) BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 3.—Subscriptions are being taken among Negroes here to establish a department store, which is to be operated exclusively by and for members of the race. At a meeting held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal church it was announced that more than $15,000 had been subscribed. The movement is partly due to a speech recently made here by Col. Charles Young, of the United States army, a Negro, in which he urged Negroes to own and operate their own business institutions of all kinds. Such a plan previously had been discussed among Negro leaders here, but Col. Young's speech caused it to tear fruit. Rev. B. G. Shaw, pastor of the Metropolitan church, is in charge of the taking of subscriptions. He said that it would not be possible to start the proposed store with less than $20,000. It would be operated on the cooperative plan, so that the customers would not only deal with members of their race, but also would get lower prices. No person will be allowed to hold more than $100 worth of stock in the concern. If the store proves a success, the next logical move will be to establish a Negro bank, Shaw said. He believes that such a bank, with a capital of at least $250,000, can be established. Destruction of grasshopper eggs by fall plowing, disking, or harrowing is recommended where practicable. ARIZONA'S GREATEST WEEKLY HOUSTON BLACKS DOING BIG THINGS TO ADVANCE THE RACE (By Associated Negro Press.) HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 3.—Houston Negroes will open the American Milling company's flour mill at Independence Heights on the afternoon of Sept. 18, it is announced. Flour, meal, wheat bran and chops will be turned out. The opening of the mill will be made the occasion of a big social event, with ministers and their churches present. Hot lunches, ice cream, cold drinks and cigars will be served. Yellow Journalism Responsible for Race Riot in Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 3.-- That the Washington Post by playing up a story about two Negroes attacking a white woman (a story later proved to be false,) was pandering to anti-Negro sentiment in the United States capital was intimated yesterday by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which declared that the conduct of the Post constituted a danger to every Negro in the United States. On August 15, the Washington Post carried a story about two Negroes attacking a Mrs. Minnie Franklin, a white woman, near the carnival tents on the old Union League ball grounds. The account was very specific in its details. It told of two squads of detectives, aided by police reserves, searching for the Negroes, of Mrs. Franklin being in hysterics when she was covered by a pistol, of her being attacked and the escape of the Negroes. The next day the Post carried the following: "In a statement to headquarters detectives last night, Mrs. Minnie Franklin of 1361 K street, NW, declared, according to her questioners, including Detectives Vermillion, Embrey, O'Brien and Bradley, that her story of having been attacked by two Negroes near 15th and H. street, NE, was a fabrication. "Mrs. Franklin first was interrogated by Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, head of the woman's bureau." PLAN MODIFICATION OF FINDINGS OF COURT-MARTIAL WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 3. Adoption of some plan which would permit of modification of the findings of courts-martial when it was shown that errors of trial had been made was urged before a Senate Military sub-committee today by Samuel T. Ansell, who recently resigned from the army. Illustrating his contention that the present system is wrong, Ansell called attention to the execution of Negro soldiers at San Antonio, Texas, recently before the papers in the case had been sent to the office of the Judge Advocate-General. It was deemed sufficient, he said, that the commanding general of the department in which the crime was committed had approved the findings of the court. Mr. Ansell indorsed the Chamberlain bill for revision of the military justice system, on which the committee is holding hearings, and said that some better system existed during the war, some cases of "gross injustice" would have been obviated. THE RIGHT SYSTEM (By Associated Negro Press.) COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 3.—To prevent the possibility of Race riots from any action on their part, more than 100 colored citizens of Columbus have formed the Columbus Citizens' Law and Order League, with the expectation of having a membership of 15,000 within the next two months. The object of the organization is to instruct the Colored people and point out to them the advantages of continuing as law abiding citizens. PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SEPTEMBER 6, 1919 OLDEST PERSON IN UNITED STATES IS A COLORED MAN OLDEST PERSON IN UNITED STATES IS A COLORED MAN DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 3.—The oldest person in the United States and probably in the world, is serenely puffing his old cob pipe here and longing for a "swig o' good likker." He is Uncle Jerry Harris, a Negro, who lived through the administration of the first President of the United States. He was a slave for more than 75 years and lived on one plantation and in the same house 37 years. Uncle Jerry came here from Louisiana seven years ago from Bosier parish. It was his first ride on a train and he says he enjoyed it greatly. Uncle Jerry was born in middle Tennessee, on Christmas day, in 1789, a short time before Washington was made President, and ten years before he died. When he was 25 years old, he was sold to a man in Mississippi, and after eleven years there he went to a new master in Louisiana, where he remained until he was 123 years old. Uncle Jerry, now blind and feeble, declares that his end of time is not as near as "some people think. He says he expects to live several years longer. Asked for his recipe for longevity, Uncle Jerry said: "Hard work and plenty of it. Sound sleep and plenty of it. A good cob pipe and hillside tobacco, an easy conscience and a swig of good liker every day." HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF Our Springs Coming Back to Landing Place of Forefathers (Nreciprocal News Service) NORFOLK, Va. With the coming of five thousand Negro Baptists to the Old Dominion State, September 10:15 there will be a repeating of history, or, in other words, the offsprings of the Negroes who were landed within a few miles of this place in 1619 and 1620, whichever the historians agree upon, at a point called Jamestown, which was celebrated by a national exposition sometime ago, will have a resetting when the great National Baptist convention, with its three million constituents, reassemble here in September. There will be from every state in the Union a representative and from every particular city and community in that state there are to come messengers with a message of denominational growth and activity. Virtually upon this spot made memorable by the landing of the forefathers of one of the greatest people of the world, making the occasion coincide with the Plymouth Rock incident, a one-million-dollar effort is to be put on and the Old Dominion State, with her representatives, it is understood will take front rank. No attempt will be made to gather data or history, as President Jones of the National Baptist convention, says this is not hardly necessary. While past history is not to be forgotten, they are living for the present and preparing for the future, so he says. The city of Norfolk and its suburbs, with its thousands of inhabitants and its well-appointed homes, has indicated its anxiety by the restlessness displayed in the slow passing of time and the short space between now and the coming of the great body of Baptists. HOTEL FOR BLACKS (By Associated Negro Press) LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 3.—The first hotel for Negroes in Louisville will soon be opened at Sixth and Liberty streets, under direction of Dr J. A. C. Littimore, Colored, 1502 W. Walnut street. Dr. Lattimore is negotiating for the old Bohemia Hotel property of the Central Consumers Company and is preparing to open the place for the accommodations of Negroes. The property is equipped to do a general hotel business and has about twenty rooms, many of which have bath accommodations. There is also a good sized dining room and kitchen. The building is of brick and is three stories high. It covers a lot fronting seventy-five feet on Sixth street and 150 feet on Liberty street. It will be called the Roscoe Simmons Hotel, named after Col. Roscoe Simmons, who is a 'nephew of Booker T. Washington and who has taken a prominent part in war activities. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS HEARTILY APPROVES OF LAWLESSNESS (Special to the Trilane) NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—At a special meeting of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called to consider the attack made upon its secretary, John R. Shillady, in Austin, Texas, on August 22, the following action was taken: The following telegram was sent to Governor William P. Hobby of Texas: "The Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People cannot believe that your telegram of August 23 was sent with knowledge of the facts. It cannot believe that the Governor of Texas can approve and condone the brutal mobbing of a native of another state who was in your state on a lawful mission or that you will view without the strongest disapproval illegal assaults by court officials in the public streets of your capital. We therefore call upon you to begin immediate proceedings to remove County Judge David J. Pickle and any other officials who participated in this disgraceful action, if it is within your power, or to take such action as may be necessary to bring about their removal by the proper authority. [MARK WINTER, CHINGTO] "Chairman." The following resolutions were passed: 1. That the whole Texas matter be put up to Congress and that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ask for a Congressional investigation on this specific attack on the ground that the Governor of Texas approves and condones a criminal assault made by public officials. 2. That President Wilson be requested to appoint without delay a responsible committee to report on the outrageous attack on John R. Shillady, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. WOULD THIS STOP IT? (By Associated Negro Press) TULSA, Okla., Sept. 3.—Newspapers in some Southern states are advocating a law to stop lynchings and it doubtless would be very effective. The law is one for the removal of all sheriffs in counties lynchings take place. This might work a hardship on a sheriff, but it would make all of them alert to prevent lynchings. Under present conditions the sheriffs nearly always make a show of resisting a mob, but it is merely pretense and nothing more. The sheriffs usually deliver the victim to the mob without much trouble and not once in a hundred times is any member of a mob hurt by an officer while engaged in taking victims from jail to be lynched. The sheriff knows that the men in the mob are the voters who elected them to office. He may know them personally and recognize them, but he does not consider it his duty to endanger himself or the lives of the men in the mob in an effort to protect the prison. An automatic removal law, however, would put a different face upon the matter. If the sheriff would lose his office through permitting prisoners to be lynched the chances are that he would protect them and that there would be no lynchings. Congress cannot enact, such a law, but the states can and the white race will be the chief beneficiary under it. The whites are disgraced more by lynchings than are the blacks, who are their victims. Such a law would of course, call for the right kind of men being elected to the office of sheriff. The man elected to that office would go in with his eyes open and a full knowledge of the law. Those who elected him would also understand it and the mobs would know what to expect when they went to the jail and demanded of the sheriff that he turn over the keys. The sheriff who tamely submitted, as sheriffs do now, would find himself out of office the next day. Baby Gertrude found some coal. She nibbled it with great delight. Till pa said: "Gertrude, pray control Your expensive appetite." Brooklyn Citizen. COLORED SOLDIERS IN FRANCE WORK CHEERFULLY SAYS ORATOR (By Associated Negro Press) ATLANTA Ga., Sept. 3.—Speaking before a double audience representing the First Rush Congregational churches, Dr. H. H. Proctor continued his series of Sunday evening addresses on "Fresh Facts From France." telling of his journey through the war zone. "Accompanied by a pianist and a singer," he said, "I set out from Paris one morning last month for a nine hundred mile journey through the battle fields of the big world war to bring some cheer to the 15,000 colored soldiers engaged in the work of preparing the permanent resting places of our 50,000 heroes who fell in France. On every side one could see desolation, fields torn by shells, villages in ruins, cathedrals partly wrecked, while German prisoners were combing the fields and repairing ruined places. Behind these German prisoners came the French peasants, beginning anew their husbandry. But the most impressive of all was that of these strong colored soldiers making beautiful the graves of our heroes. It was a privilege to cheer them in their work, but just to see with what cheer they went about their task was a greater privilege still." $50,000 Appropriated By Congress to Curb Lynching and Riots $50,000 Appropriated By Congress to Curb Lynching and Riots (By Associated Negro Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 3.—In the house of representatives, July 25, 1919, Mr. Emerson, introduced the following joint resolution, which was referred to the committee on appropriations and ordered to be printed: To investigate the race riots in Washington and elsewhere. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that a committee composed of five members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and five Members of the House, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, be appointed for the purpose of investigating the race riots all over the United States and lynchings that have occurred in the United States, and ascertain if possible the causes of the same and what remedy should be employed to prevent the recurrence of the same. Said committee shall have power to subpoena, witnesses and compel the attendance of the same, and to hold hearings in any part of the United States. The sum of $50,000 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the United States treasury not otherwise appropriated to defray the expense of such investigation. BENEFIT PROGRAM BY N. A. A. C. P. PHOENIX BRANCH Thursday Evening, September 11. Selection ..... Junior Orchestra Select Reading ..... Mrs. Murray Duett ..... Miss Ross, Mr. H. Carriger Recital ..... Mrs. K. Carmichal Cornet Solo ..... Mr. Chas. Fish Essay ..... Mrs. Emma Clayton Violin Solo ..... Mrs. Ada C. Thomas Duett—Mr. Mathew White, Mr. W. J. Jones. Short Address. Quartette—Mr. Chas. Fish, Mr. Jas. Coleman, Mr. W. J. Jones, Mr. H. Carriger. Selection ..... Junior Orchestra Refreshment Committee—Mrs. W. J Jones, Miss Ione Smith, Mrs. Minnie Dixon, Mrs. Noble. BLAME WITH AUTHORITIES. (Albany, N. Y., Journal) The blame lies with the authorities of Chicago, who manifestly did not act promptly to stop the disorder at its beginning. Determined action at the outset would have been effective. It would seem that the police believed that the trouble would die out. When, instead it grew worse, they found its proportions beyond their power to restrain. Largest Circum- tation of any Race Journal in the Southwest. 5 Cents a Copy; $2 a Year nix OUR BATTLE MUST BE FOUGHT WITH UNITY SAYS RACE- LEADER (By Associated Negro Press) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 3.—"Dollars or other material gains count for little compared to the realization of our sacred constitutional rights in the mighty struggle in which we, a suffering people, now are enlisted." Robert R. Jackson of Chicago, major general of the uniformed rank of the Colored Knights of Pythias, declared today in the Supreme Lodge convention here. "This is no common task," the Chicagoan, a former member of the Illinois Legislature, continued. "It is a gigantic struggle and should be accepted by all. Let me say to the world that the 12,000,000 people of our race kept the fires of Americanism burning. Let us keep them burning until we burn up every Jim Crow sign and every Jim Crow car in this country, to the end that instead of reading un-American signs, "For Negroes Only," we will read real American signs, "For American Citizens." "We have fought for every flag and nation under the sun, why not now fight some for ourselves? I do not mean to fight with guns, bayonets, cannons, revolvers, but with race unity, race solidarity and race leadership that will knock at the doors of the Congress of our nation and secure our rights as American citizens; or, in the event of failure to demand that those who represent us shall only represent us in the same proportions as we are allowed to-exercise our rights in the ballot box. "The world fought for democracy. We fought for it, too. Organizations such as ours must continue the battle of a just peace and a real democracy—democracy in all states. Organization will solve the problem without a tragedy. It will require fearless leaders who have patience and tolerance. Hate will not solve it, neither will prejudice. It is a big problem and a good job for big-hearted, big-brained men and women, who will make good use of that uncommon thing, COMMON SENSE." Have Courage Race of Mine Have courage( race of mine, I say God reaches to the ground And lifts to heights where men are free Jasper Tappen Phillips, M. 1 Nashville, Tenn. We have no disposition to punish innocent Negro victims, we have no sympathy with lynchings, nor mobs, who take the law into their hands, but since the Washington mobs had to exist, we are very, very proud that the people that far north have to reckon with them. May this be a lesson to more than the "Lilly Whites." PAGE TWO THE PHOENIX TRIBUNE Published Every Saturday by the Tribune Publishing Company Address all Communications to the PHOENIX TRIBUNE P. O. 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Is there any prerogected or side-stepped? Would a C President of United States, by the aucting thing at this time? These are quid require the most serious consideration. Frank O. Lowden, of the State of ILLY divided commission of Colored and it will be to make an exhaustive study in the Chicago riot, and so devise means. The men composing this commission and patriotism, and their work wi sections. Items of race adjustment should be lift-ment, and should be handled with an eye to the greatest number, without fear and determination. Agent of the United States should be given a commission. Is there any problem before the American people more acute than the one of race relationship? Is there any problem that has been more neglected or side-stepped? Would a commission appointed by the President of United States, by the authority of Congress, be the fitting thing at this time? These are questions of first importance, and require the most serious consideration. Governor Frank O. Lowden, of the State of Illinois, has appointed an equally divided commission of Colored and white citizens whose business it will be to make an exhaustive study of the troubles that resulted in the Chicago riot, and so devise means for friendly Race adjustment. The men composing this commission are known for their integrity and patriotism, and their work will be watched by many other sections. The problems of race adjustment should be lifted above petty political preferment, and should be handled with an eye single to the greatest good to the greatest number, without fear or favor, with thoroughness and determination. The President of the United States should be given the authority to appoint such a commission. NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES is a time when the newspapers and man- carded as jokes, or as a political asset a nation have changed. The newspapers and an- bode become a real factor, not only in econo- cnt and faithful expression of the feeling of opinion, such as the Literary Digest, but influence, in every section of the co- cnt Congress, keep a listening ear and a s- tate Negro publications. In them, throw- tles, cartoons and editorials, they have le- kerses. They are further emphasized by the marvel- and the advertising growth of all public a field of opportunity, second to none i There was a time when the newspapers and magazines of the Race were regarded as jokes, or as a political asset around election times. Conditions have changed. The newspapers and magazines of the Race have become a real factor, not only in economic progress, but as a constant and faithful expression of the feelings and will of the people. Magazines of opinion, such as the Literary Digest, daily newspapers of great influence, in every section of the country, and the United States Congress, keep a listening ear and a scrutinizing eye turned toward Negro publications. In them, through news, contributed articles, cartoons and editorials, they have learned that we have found ourselves. These facts are further emphasized by the marvelous increase in circulation, and the advertising growth of all publications. Negro journalism is a field of opportunity, second to none in progress and possibilities. TAXATION WITHOUT without representation” is the slogan of American Revolutionists, brought about by the Boston Tea Party,” and furnished by Attucks, Negro, was the first to shear party and Independence. Million of Attucks’ kindred now form our great nation, a number more than in the Thirteen Original States in those days nation that insists on depriving them from voting, and yet, in the matter of taxation. The Negro is counted in making press, but he is not allowed to become peaceing soldiers to defend the Union, but by who shall govern him. And deny furnish neither alibi nor apology either righteous or just, they simply say for Ireland, and Poland and Slavs and of oppression upon us. They are deter continue, world without end. They claim the ‘superior race’ to keep the ‘inferior’ Constitution of the United States, if certainly an untimely document. Thee is put on and taken off at will. They see. We say, GOD IS JUST. "Taxation without representation" is the slogan that fired the souls of the American Revolutionists, brought about that memorable social event, "The Boston Tea Party," and furnished the means by which Crispus Attucks, Negro, was the first to shed his blood for American Liberty and Independence. Twelve million of Attucks' kindred now form one-tenth of the population of our great nation, a number more than three times the population of the Thirteen Original States in those days. There is a group in this nation that insists on depriving the people of the Negro Race from voting, and yet, in the matter of taxation, the Negro is required to pay. The Negro is counted in making up representation for Congress, but he is not allowed to become part of it; he is counted in selecting soldiers to defend the Union, but he is denied the right to say who shall govern him. Those who deny furnish neither alibi nor apology. They do not claim it to be either righteous or just, they simply say it is expedient. They protest for Ireland, and Poland and Slavs and what nots, and keep the hand of oppression upon us. They are determined that this method shall continue, world without end. They claim it is the only "safe way for the 'superior race' to keep the 'inferior race' down." They regard the Constitution of the United States, if not as a mere scrap of paper, certainly an untimely document. Their conscience, like a false face, is put on and taken off at will. They say their way MUST continue. We say, GOD IS JUST. THE DOWN-TRODDEN RACE Down-trodden race, the sun's rising on our sphere, Setting upon the evils that have been thrusted on us. Methinks that God will shift the sands of time,—then we'll get our liberty here. For which we have ever prayed. Years of yore our forefathers were bonded with those horrid chains of slavery; This was the infancy of "cracker" knavery. Do we want to go back to those days of inhumanities? If we falter in our fight for our liberties We may as well prepare to face the crisis of those pre-historic days. While imbedded within our hearts are the injustices that will forever dwell with our souls always. What has become of Lincoln's Emancipation? Have they thrown it into the land of obliteration? He who a martyr died; within every Negro's heart They mourn his loss, too, for he well played his part. For now they fear to give us a fair deal Ever turning a deaf ear to our appeal. These civilized ones use barbaric means against us. Their kindlings of racial hatred keep simmering fire of prejudice affame. Thinking that by crucifying and burning us at stake The world would then proclaim us as profane. But, we're straining at the leach and some day these bonds will break, Then we'll demand the ALL that liberty contains And soothe our hearts with the freedom we obtain. Brothers, the world owes us more than it can repay. But we have our trust in Him, who can the mighty sway. Oh, Justice! if you would take the binding from your eyes, and gaze upon the world, The whisperings of all these years, you'd brand them all as lies. (By Tom Harris) race, the sun's rising on our sphere, the evils that have been thrusted on us. God will shift the sands of time,—then here. have ever prayed. our forefathers were bonded with those by; fancy of "cracker" knavery. go back to those days of inhumanities our fight for our liberties all prepare to face the crisis of those pr THE PHOENIX TRIBUNE—ALWAYS IMPROVING Los Angeles, Cal. (By S. L. Daniels) Messrs. James and Edgar Robinson and Frank Shirley arrived in the city from Seattle, Wash., and other North Pacific coast points. They were immediately presented with a copy of the Phoenix Tribune and were delighted to read of the latest happenings in the capital city of Arizona. Mr. Shirley left this week for his home in Phoenix. The Robinsons will remain on the coast a few days, after which they will proceed overland to Phoenix, where they will resume their former positions with the U. S. Indian school. Mr. J. E. Walton, Chief Grand Scribe of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, was taken suddenly ill last Saturday evening, August 23, but is now on the road to recovery. Mr. A. L. Porter returned this week from a pleasant vacation spent in San Diego. Among the out-of-town visitors in the city this week are the following from San Diego: Mrs. C. E. Norwood and daughters, Mrs. Charles Donohue, Mrs. Sarah Snowden, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Swain, Mr. D. Williams, Mr. Reuben Moore, and Messers. Woods and Glen. The home of Mrs. Curtis Howard on East Eighteenth street was the scents of a pretty wedding Saturday evening, August 23, when her sister, Mrs. Theresa Trimble, became the bride of Mr. C. E. A. Brunson of Venice. The bride wore a beautiful gown of Irish tulle and carried a bouquet of Cecil Bruners. She was attended by Mrs. J. M. Edwards, who acted as bridesmaid. The groom was attended by Mr. J. M. Edwards. Rev. Williams of Venice read the marriage ceremony. The bride was given in marriage by her brother-in-law, Mr. Curtis Howard. Mrs. Howard played the wedding march. A number of invited guests were present to wish the newly-wed success and extend congratulations. After a brief visit to Catalina Islands, Mr. and Mrs. Brunson will be at home to their friends at 330 Fifth street, Venice, Cal. Miss Hallie Quinn Brown of Wilberforce, Ohio, gave a recital at Wesley chapel last Monday evening to a large and appreciative audience. The affair was given under the auspices of the California Federation of Negro Women's clubs. The thirteenth annual session of the Grand Lodge of U. B. F.'s and the sixth annual session of the State Grand Tempe, S. M. T.'s, began Monday, August 25, at Odd Fellows' hall. A number of delegates from all parts of the state attended the opening session. Thomas B. Norman, State Grand Master, and S. P. Shores, State Grand Princess, are the presiding officers. The Western Baptist association: Home and Foreign Mission Society, closed its annual session at New Hope Baptist church last Friday night. Following are the officers elected for the ensuing year: Rev. R. N. Holt, Los Angeles, president; Rev. G. W Reed, San Bernardino, vice-president; S. P. Johnson, Los Angeles, recording secretary; Rev. F. W Cooper, Riverside, corresponding secretary; Capt William Reynolds, Pasadena, treasurer; Mrs. G. W Reed, president; W. H. and F. M. S.; Mrs. John Flemings, vice-president; Mrs. W. R. Caviness, recording secretary; Mrs. E. O. Solomon, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Janie Williams, treasurer. GLOBE--MIAMI (By Mrs. Wm. Young) Rev. S. E. Newell of Tucson and Rev. J. B. Bell of Phoenix were with Rev. Young last week assisting him in the campaign to raise funds for the rebuilding of St. John's Baptist church. These gospel ministers have preached some powerful sermons since coming here and our hearts have been made to feel glad. Rev. J. H. Allen, presiding elder of the A. M. E. church, held his quarterly meetings here and in Miami, assisted by the pastor, Rev. Wm. Solly. We can truly say that the people of Miami and Globe have a mind to work for the Lord. Mrs. Mary Coleman and Mrs. M. N. Young were the leaders in the money, raising campaign for St. John's Baptist church rally. Every member of the church is working hard, and we hope to report over $200 when we make our announcement a little later. We have already raised $500 by our former efforts and we hope to boost this amount to the $1200 mark in the next report. Lampasas, Texas Wedding bells are beginning to ring quite frequently in this little town. An epidemic of marriage seems to be sweeping over this section. Mr. Phil Flint and Mrs. Annie Akers are the latest victims of this disease. On last Thursday evening they agreed to take each other for better or for worse. Mr. Ollie Hill returned Saturday from Brownwood, where he has been on business. duty overseas, is again with us. We gladly welcome him back home. Mr. Henry Border left last week for Burnett, Texas, where he will spend a brief vacation. This section was blessed with a copious shower last week. It came at a time when it was much needed as the crops were beginning to wilt badly. Mr. Rhynes and family and Mr. Rylander and family composed a fishing party that spent two nights on Pitts creek enjoying this pleasant pastime. They report a big catch and a jolly good time. Mrs. Ethel Mitchel spent a few days in Brownwood last week visiting her husband. Prof. J. H. Harion returned last week to his home in San Antonio. MESA Mrs. E. Lockett and daughters have left the Gem City for a future residence in El Paso. Mrs. Lockett was a staunch member of the Baptist church and will be greatly missed by this congregation. Mr. Albert Taylor has been on the sick list the past week. We hope for him a speedy recovery. Mr. Joe Graham suffered a painful although not serious accident when a cake of ice fell on his leg. He is resting easily. Mr. Harvey Scott left last week for Ajo, where he will visit for a few months. Mr. Judge Taylor, one of our enterprising citizens, has opened a first-class grocery store. We wish him success in the business. The recent electric storms have done considerable damage to the cotton crops in this section. The farmers expect to receive top prices for their cotton this year and many are lamenting their loss, which was heavy. Rev. Bentley and wife of Phoenix visited our city last week and spent a day and night as the house guests of Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Robinson. DOUGLAS By James Weatherly. The Tenth Cavalry ball team is again in our city and played an excellent game with the First Cavalry team last Sunday. The Tenth Cavalry team has been defeated by the First Cavalry team on two former occasions and now they are attempting to even things up with them. The Tenth won the game Sunday with a score of four to zero. Bishop C. H. Phillips of the C. M. E. church passed through the city last week en route to Phoenix. Srgt. Fairfax Burnside of the 9th Cavalry, who has been spending the past two months in the city visiting his family, departed last Sunday for his station in the Philippines. He expects to be retired in June and will make his home in Douglas. He has purchased a beautiful home here. Last Thursday evening a great reception and banquet was planned in honor of Bishop Phillips and other distinguished visitors who were in the city, but owing to an electric storm there were only a few present. Chapain Scott of the U. S. Tenth Cavalry was among those present. The ladies of Catholic Chapter No. 65 entertained last week at the home of Mrs. A. G. Reid, 920 Fifteenth street. A splendid literary program was rendered, after which the ladies served some appetizing refreshments that were enjoyed by all. Rev. J. H. Allen, presiding elder of the A. M. E. church, held his quarterly conference in this city last week. He stated that he would not return to Douglas until after the annual conference which convenes next month in Colorado. Rev. Edward Jones preached a powerful sermon last Sunday at the Second Baptist church. His subject was: "Believe and Be Baptised." Several candidates were immersed at the 3 o'clock services. Mr. F. O. McCallister, employed for the past five years by the P. D. M. company, left last week on his vacation. He will spend several weeks in Kansas City and other eastern points before returning to this city. Mrs. Andrews, wife of Srgt. Andrews of Columbus, N. M., is spending a few days in the city visiting friends. Srgt. Andrews expects to be retired soon and will locate in Douglas. Chaplain Scott of Fort Hauchuca motored to Douglas last Thursday to attend the reception and banquet given in honor of Bishop Phillips. Chaplain Scott is an able speaker and delighted the audience with his ready wit and sound logic. Come again. Chaplain. Fort Huachuca The Bullafo Tennis club played their first tournament since the court was completed. The games were called at 1 o'clock. Aug. 31st, beginning with doubles and ending with singles, and lasted until about 7 p. m., to be continued the next day, which was Labor Day. Games were called about 9 a. m. and lasted until noon. An hour and a half were spent for dinner and rest. Games were again called at 1:30 p. m. and were completed about 7 p. m. Mr. Paul Cruze won the singles and Mr. Paul Cruze and Srgt. Warren of Hqr. Troop won the doubles, with Mr. James Scott and Mr. Gunn as their opponents. After the finals were completed the club met at the home of Srgt. W. D. Smith, Q. M. C., where refreshments were served on the lawn. After the refreshments were served Srgt. Smith entertained with several vocal selections, Miss Mabel Smith playing the accompaniment. Everyone seemed to have an unusually delightful time. Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. J. C. Campbell, and Mrs. Harris have entertained with dinner parties in honor of Lieut. Morrow, who will soon be leaving for the Philippines. Sgt. and Mrs. Rickert have returned from a month's visit in El Paso. Mrs. Sarah Marshall entertained a few friends at her home Sunday evening after the tennis games. Mrs. Mary Wezontwerch is at home again after having spent a month in New York City. Sgt. Percy Forby of Headquarters Troop has been furledged to reserve, and he and his family will leave Wednesday for Columbus, O., where they expect to make their home. CHANDLER By Jack Gray Mrs. Wm. Day, of Phoenix, is spending a few weeks at the Gray ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Varnes, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Flewellen, Mrs. Scott Smith, Miss Rena Moore and Mrs. Wade, of Phoenix, spent Labor Day at the Gray ranch. Later in the day another party of motorists arrived at the ranch. Those comprising the party were: Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brown, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Louis and Mrs. Hoyt, all of Phoenix. An enjoyable time was spent gathering cotton which is open and in full bloom. Mr. Mose Green will leave soon for the coast to visit Mrs. J. W. Everett, at 1375 East 35th street, Los Angeles, Cal. Mesdames Wm. Day and E. Temple Fuller are some cotton pickers. Mrs. Day picked 24 pounds in three hours, and Mrs. Fuller rolled in 30 pounds within the same period. COLORED CHILDREN GUESTS OF SALVATION ARMY (By Associated Negro Press.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 3.—Fifty colored children from the small streets and alleys of South Philadelphia, will be the guests of the Salvation Army during the next seven days at the Fresh Air Farm at Upland. Hundreds of white children and their mothers have enjoyed the hospitality of Col. Richard E. Holz and his assistants during July and August. Each child is kept for one week at the farm at the expense of the Salvation Army, enjoying the fresh air, good eats, plenty of milk, and healthful exercise. Heretofore, Colored children have not been taken on these "country weeks," and the present plan is an innovation. BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 3.—The Baptist church was crowded to the doors last evening when a quintette from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute gave a concert consisting of old plantation songs. The quintette consists of William Washington, William L. Dawson, Solomon Code, Luther Davidson, and Howard Wilson. Prof. Chas. B. Wood of the institute introduced the singers and told something of the work done there. He also recited, "When Melindy Sings," as an example of Negro poetry. Prof. Frank P. Chism told something of the work of the institute during the war, how it was turned over for the training of 1,140 Colored draftees and of how 700 of its students went overseas to fight for America. He also told of the patriotism of the Colored people as a whole, saying that, although the Negro race comprised but 10 per cent of the people of America, 15 per cent of the men overseas were Negroes. He said that no people in America deplored the recent race riots more than did the Negroes, but that during the past 11 years, 795 persons had been lynched in America; of that number 724 were Colored persons, and 50 of them were Colored women. The Negro, he said, had fought for America, hoping to win more education and better conditions for his fellow-Negroes, and the race question was one which America must face fairly. No one of reasonable mind would for a minute detract from the honors cast upon members of the Negro race who fought for the American Nation. They should be so recognized for their gallantry and war activity. But it is quite another thing for members of the white race to mingle freely with them and accept them on the same racial grounds. Familiarity breeds contempt. Especially is this true when there is a social amalgamation of the white and black race. DIEGO FISH & POULTRY MARK 219 West Washington St. FRESH FISH RECEIVED DAILY Grain-fed poultry—dressed ready for the pan High Quality—Low Prices Phoenix you want House Furnishings at the Price and sold on the level SAN DIEGO FISH & POULTRY MARKET 219 West Washington St. FRESH FISH RECEIVED DAILY Grain-fed poultry—dressed ready for the pan High Quality—Low Prices Phone 1320 Phoenix, Arizona When you want House Furnishings at the Right Price and sold on the level GO TO THE BARROWS FURNITURE CO. RROWS FURNITURE BARROWS FURNITURE CO. Corner First Street and Jefferson We kindly solicit the patronage of oral repair work. Bring us your guarantee our work to please you L. H. HOGSETT with AUTOMOBILE ME Rally solicit the patronage of the Public air work. Bring us your auto trouser see our work to please you. HOGSETT with Clyde AUTOMOBILE MECHANIC St Adams Ph COTTON PICKER at the Davie Ranch, Marinette. We packers at once. Wood, water, tents are ed. Our cotton is clean and open. M ess, weeds or matted cotton. An will take off 25 per cent more cotton man in the average valley field in the of time. Ask those who picked for Will call and move you free of charge We kindly solicit the patronage of the Public for general repair work. Bring us your auto troubles, we guarantee our work to please you. 433 West Adams COTTON PIC Wanted at the Davie Ranch, Marin 150 pickers at once. Wood, wat furnished. Our cotton is clean an son grass, weeds or matted cot picker will take off 25 per cent fields than in the average valley length of time. Ask those who year. Will call and move you fro ```markdown ``` COTTON PICKERS ```markdown ``` Wanted at the Davie Ranch, Marinette. We can use 150 pickers at once. Wood, water, tents and sacks furnished. Our cotton is clean and open. No Johnson grass, weeds or matted cotton. An average picker will take off 25 per cent more cotton in our fields than in the average valley field in the same length of time. Ask those who picked for us last year. Will call and move you free of charge. Phone Glendale 113-R-4 or write R. P. DAVIE, Marinette, Arizona Sheldon the J Gentlemen's W Wrist Wat Diamone "If You Buy It Of S You Know Its heldon the Jewel gentlemen's Watch Wrist Watches Diamonds You Buy It Of SHELD You Know Its Right" Sheldon the Jeweler "If You Buy It Of SHELDON You Know Its Right" 106 North 1st Ave. P Phoenix Wh Meat Com Phoenix Wholesal Meat Company Phoenix Wholesale Meat Company Sells the CHOICEST MEATS At the Lowest Possible Prices At the following markets, which we own and operate HUGHES MARKET—17 W. Washington HACKETT MARKET—31 East Washington HURLEY MARKET—114 East Washington UNION MARKET—119 North First Avenue N N VALLEY MARKET—36 North First Avenue NEW MARKET—237 East Washington PORAGE POT MARKET—345 West Washington Saturday, September 6, 1919 OLTRY MARKET in St. D DAILY body for the pan Prices Phoenix, Arizona shings at the Right the level MATURE CO. Phone 1666 of the Public for gen- ur auto troubles, we you. With Clyde Braley MECHANIC Phone 686 ICKERS rinette. We can use water, tents and sacks and open. No John- cotton. An average at more cotton in our key field in the same to picked for us last free of charge. Jeweler Watches tches nds SHELDON is Right" Phoenix, Arizona Personal, Local and Society News ersonal, Society =— OF TIIE STATE CAPITAL ————_ By R.L. S., Sotiety Editor _ Mr. and Mrs. 1. F. Silvers are ex- Peeted to arrive this week from Mis- souri, where they have been spending the summer. Mr. Silvers is head Janitor at the Boston store. Move Into New Home Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hardwick moved into thefr néw home this week at 815 Bast Jefferson street. Visitor From Ray Mr. Win. P. Crump of Ray was a Business visitor in the city this week. Home From California Mrs. Chas. Fish returned this week from California, where she has Ween | visiting the past two months. She Visited Santa Barbara, Pasadena, Lox Angeles and the beaches. | Celebrate Thirty-third Anniversary Tuesday evening, Rev. and Mrs. K. H. Herring celebrated the Thirty-third Whniversary Of their Marriage with an * elaborate entertainment at the A. M. E. church. Many beautifal presents were given them and a number of friends presented them with a purse , Of $44. Several musical numbers were rendered by the choir and the junior orchestra. As pastor of the A. M. E. church, Rev. Herring has ingratiated himself Into the hearts of his congre- gation and the large crowd present ‘on this occasion bore witness to the fact. Daifity refreshments were served the guests and all went away happy. Important Meeting Monday ‘There Will be a meeting Of the focal branch N. A. A. C. P., Monday evenihg at Douglas school. Business of im- portance will come before the body and a full attendance is desired. Mrs. Green Convalescent Last Friday Mrs. P, Green, 226 N. 11th street, was taken suddenly iM and suffered excruciating pains for severat days. She is now out of danger and well on the road to recovery. She liopes to leave soon for the coast Mrs. McCutcheon Entertains Last Thursday, August 28, Mrs. Me Cutcheon, Sr., of 1215 Bast Jefferson street, entertained with a swell dinner party complimentary to Mrs. Clara C. ‘Clemons of Tucson, Ariz. The invited guests were: Rev. and Mrs. ©. A. Gil- more, Mr. and Mrs. CR. Brown and s6p, Mr. aiid Mts. Young, Mr. and | Mrs. S. Rochon, Mr. and Mrs. Johmy CTemons, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Howard, Mrs. Lindsey, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shamon, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, Miss Gladys Coleman, Mrs. Della King. Great Rally at C. M. E. The great rally at the C. M. BE chureh is still on and a full account cannot be given in this issue. Bishop Phillips and Rey. Z. Z. Johnson are assisting the pastor, Rev, A. C. Cald- well with the work. The Bishop wil deliver a lecture Thursday evening on the race problem. Ira O'Neil Winner The scheduled ten-tound bout be. tween Ira O'Neil of this city and Kid Grant of the 24th Infantry was ended in the fifth round by another one ot Ira’s terrific uppercuts. Kid Grant stated after the fight that had Ira not succeeded in getting in that “lucky punch” just at the time he did, there Would bave been a different story to tell. That's what they all say, Mr. Grant. It's knowing how and when to administer said punch that has Won midst of Ira’s battles for him. Who's next? ‘Mesa Picnic a Big Success ‘The barbecue atid picnic given At Mesa, Ariz., by Rey. Wimberley and “his congregation on Labor Day proved @ great success. A large crowd of Phoenix people attended the picnic ‘nd belped make it @ success. Tt is Teported that over $90 was cleared ‘and this sim will be turned into the A. M. B, church treasury. Simmons Coming Roscoe C. Simmons, the world’s Greatest orator, will lecture in Phoenix ob of about September 20 at the High School auditorium. “R. D. Simpson, presidébt of the local brafch N. A. A. ©, B., ahd & few others are fitancing thie proposition. Seats will be on wale at a number of business places. Watch papers Yor further announcements. Unique Club Picnic Members and Yriends of the Unique can eabratea Labor Day with a pte- nie on the river banks near South ‘Seveath avenue. Needless to vay they had & good time for everyone knows ‘that, Visitor From Tucson Mrs. C. €. Clemons of Tacson is the a me Saturday, September 6, 1919 Home From Vacation merry on the occasion of his eck sary. Although he was not attired for such affairs he mingled gleefully with the guests and helped destroy the fried chicken, ice cream, cake and other delicacies that had been’ pre- pared for this special occasion. Visiting Sister Here Mr. Willus Wright, of Ray and Su- perior, who recently returned from overseas, is here visiting his sister, Mrs, Edna Taylor at 906 So. 4th Ave. Return From Vacation “MN Frank Shirley retufned — this week from Los Angeles, Cal, where he bas been spending a few weeks resting and sightseeing. He also vis- ited Scatle, Wash., Vancouver, B. C., and other cities in the Northwest. Y. P. S.C. E. Services The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor meets every Sun- @ay afternoon, 6:30, at the A. M. B. church. An interesting meeting waz held last Sunday With Miss Cora Smith as the presiding officer. Miss Cou- rtance Hall will preside at the meet. ing this Sunday. Subject for discus- sion: “Our Relation to Others; To- waréls Neighbors and Friends.” Every- bey invited, young people especially. Mrs. Shepperson Quite 111 Word receivea trom Los Angeles, Cal, informs us that Mrs, A. G. Shep- person is quite il in that city. Mr. end Mrs. Shepperson left here a few weeks ago when her condition became serious. Their trany friends here re- gret lo learn that ‘no improvement is 19ted and trust that a change for the better will soon ve made. kn Route to Prescott _ Rev. S. E. Newell, Tucson represen tative for the Tribune, passed through Phoenix Yast Saturday en route to Prescott. |Home From Chicago | Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Caldwell _ re- tmrned this week from Chicago and ‘Milwaukee. They were in the Windy ‘City daring the recent riot and had a narrow escape. i Back From Coast Mrs. Lynn R. Carter returned this week from Los Angeles, where she has been spending the sammer. Strike One! /'Yhe Society Editor of the Tribune, ‘realizing that the fall season is fast approaching bringing with it nunier- ons social funetions which mean late ‘Wours and lots of Work for her, has struck” for more pay and shorter working hours. Can you beat ft? Purchase Auto Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Childress, 407 ‘East Jefferson street, have purchased a seven-passenger Paige touring car it is one of the late models and is in & class by itself. Bishop Phillips Here Among the distinguished visitors in the city this week is Bishop C. H. Phillips of Nashville, Tenn. He is en route to Santa Monica, Cal., where he ‘will hold bis amnual conference. He is accompanied by Rey. Z. Z. Johnson, ‘presiding elder of the El Paso District for the C. M. K. church. Sunday Schoo! Picnic The children of the A. M. K. church, their parents and friends enjoyed a delightful pienic at Bast Lake Park on Labor Day.. Principal Landry Coming Prof. Py Landry, principal of the Douglas Grammar school, is sched: uled to arrive in the city this week. He has been spending the summer with friends in Houston, Texas Pastor's Rally Sunday Sunday, Sept. 7, has been designated “Pastor's Rally Day” at the A. M. B. church, and an effort will be made to lift @ neat little sui for the benefit of Rev. R. H. Herring, pastor of this church. ‘This is his fifth year with Tauner Chapel and each member and a of the church are supposed to Sive one dollar for each year he has Veen with us. Here's our Five, Rev. Herring, God bless you. Are You Insured? For only $10 a year we will pay, you $26 per week for loss of time by sickness or accident; also $25 per week hospital benefit. No dues. No assessments. No medical examina- tion required. Pays $5,000 for aceb dental death. Can you beat it? Twen- ty-six years in business. Over $1; 250,000 paid to policy holders. Ac- cept men and women in all occupa: tions, between the ages of 16 and 70 year... -Fhhane 1350.Ace Siont or evita: THE PHOENIX TRIBUNE—ALWAYS IMPROVING a seratch. The Wimberley auto was. wrecked and the other machine was scarred up terribly. The colliding au- toist assumed all the blame and agreed to pay the Wimberleys for the dam- age to their car, Mrs. Shepperson Passes AS We go to press word comes to jus that Mrs. A. G. Shepperson of this city passed away in Los Angeles, Cal., at 12:68 this Wediesday afterioon. Mr. Shepperson was with her when the end came atid will probably bring the body here for burial. Mrs. Shep- Person was one of the most prominent society inatrons of the capital city ahd her untimely death comes as a severe shock to this community. She had been ili only a short time when it was thought advisable to take her to Cali- fornia. She was not benefited by the change and continued to sink slowly until today when the end came, Fun- eral arrangements will be announced later. tos Angeles Arrivals Mrs. Perry Payne and daughter, Hleanor arrived this Week from Los Angeles, whére they have been spend- ing the summer, Funeral Sunday Afternooh Mr. A. G. Shepperson will arrive in Phoenix Sunday morning at 7 o'clock over the Southern Pacifie with the ‘Wody of Mrs. Shepperson, who died on the edast. The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the C. M. E. church, corner Seventh and Jefferson streets. The above information was contained in a late telegram from Mr. Shepperson. Rev. S. E. Newell Here The Rev. S. E. Newell of Tucson, Ariz., District Grand Master of Ma- sons for Texas and Jurisdiction, is a visitor in the city. He is looking over the work of the fraternity in this bec- tion and, incidentally, enjoying a brief vacation, . THE BOOSTER 1 don’t posé as any martyr for the cause of fatherland, Never made a speech i congress, never took a leading hand In these politics and platforms, but— jes speaking in the rough— Tm a plain, progressive Booster— don't you think ‘that good enough? You hear people right around us whe just grumble and relate ‘That “they never have my order and the styles are out of date.” ‘Then they brag about their nobby suit (brought from foreigh lands), While the local tailor worries with a debit on his hands. Who comptain that their bome town is dead and “beastly slow.” If you wish it more progressive, why not help to make it ¥0? And this one bare fact will combat all the argument you made— It ‘tis worthy of your living in, ‘tis worthy of your trade. Patronize the home town merchant; boost the neighbor right at hand; Let bim know you wish to help bim by your helping, understand? Don't be like the foolish sailor 10ok- ing for the stream afar; Save your time, your strength, your finance—“drop your bucket where you are!” O you bear some fiery speeches and some advocations fine, When the busy season rolls around to some election time. If you want a splendid government, on this one point stand pat— Just choose the unassuming mav who's boosting where he’s at, I don’t pose as any martyr for the cause of fatherland, Never made a speech in congress, Never took a leading hand In these politics and platforms;. out Jes speaking in the rough— I'm a plain, progressive Booster— don't you think that good enough? i EVA ALBERTA JESSYE, NOT SO qUILTY. (New Orleans, La., Item.) The good people of every commun ity disgraced by such incidents de plore them and try hard to gare against them. But we have no such instances as that occurring in Wash ‘ington; no brutal attacks on inno cent and wellehaved Negroes; nc race hatred of the kind which caus ed it. Decent respectible citizen: would rally to the defense of the vie tims in any Southern city. ate eliparct a8 NATIONAL DISTRUST. (Chattanooga, Tenn., Times) All these outbreaks agains! the Ne sro are simply indicative of an ox isting national distrust of him as a citizen, and in no way prove that he cantot make himself welcome ‘lt! zen in any community, It simply Proves to him that c6nditions stil Tetider it necessary that he conform 4 trifle more cireuwspectly to the laws, customs amd requirements of the communities im which he may Teside than white persons even of no more education or intelligetice thun he possesses. That is @ condition and not a.sound theory that confronts him It is due more to an historical and sentimental than a race prejudice, and therefore, more difficult to be overcome; and it can only be over: come by the members of the race, ‘themselves. eo THE LESSON TAUGHT. (Knoxville, Tenn. Sentinel) What lesson, then, should both rac- es learn from the ugly experience to which the federal capital is being sub- Jected. All should learn and have the lessons impressed upon them thal there are certain respects’ in which the races cannot invade or infringe upon each other's preserves without Precipitating race conflict and all should have the lesson drilled and instilled into them to religiously re- gard and follow the dictates of this Tesson. pS: No EDIFYING. (Union, 8. C., Times) ‘The race riots in Washington con- tinue to be serious. It is not a very edifying sight, to be sure, that the capitol city should devélop such a sit- uation and it should be a warning to the rest of the country, REGOGNIZING THE FACT (Spartanburg, S.C., Herald) Negroes who live honestly and up rightly, recognizing the mevitable fact that the South is going to be govern ed by the white man and accepting that condition can serve the mem bers of their race in these days of re adjustment and aid greatly in safely stirring their race over a period that could only bring disaster. and diffi culties, ee TIME FOR ACTION. (Boston Christian Science Monitor) ‘Thus a high order of citizenship is demanded. For it is going to be made clear that crime is a matter of the individual, not of the imass. If an individual Negro insults a white woman, it Is that individual who must be punished, not any inan of black skin whom @ mob takes @ notion to go after. And if white men, singly or in groups attack or injure Negroes, or undertake to punish even a crim- inal Negro without do process of law, then even the federal power itself should be called into play, if need be, to discover those individual white offenders and make them legally amenable. Mass judgments of indi- ‘vidual guilt, mob action to discover and punish culprits, are—let us say it plainly—too often tolerated with re- ‘spect to Negroes when they would ‘stir the country, if, similarly, and with similar persistence, applied to white men. It is time that such in- justice should be corrected. All Ne- groes are not bad, all whites are not good. It is time for this great com- munity, the United’ Stajes, to recog: nize this fact, and to bring out and make use of all that is good and true in each race by setting itself fairly and fearlessly to discover and to cor- rect Whatever is evil in each. The thing to be remembered is that the true solution of the difficulty lies in the discovery and correction of evil, no matter where or by whom ex- pressed. A LAWLESS PEOPLE. (Boston Herald) The white race in America doe: not like the Negro when it comes inte close contact with him, and there it in this attitude very much less differ ence between the views of the North and the South than we commonly im agine. We are @ lawless people anc with us the mob spirit obtains fa too much tolerance. And we are re minded of the observation of the late Justice John M. Harlan of Kentucky a republican in polities, who sald al a famous Loyal Legion banquet in Washington: “The heart of the North has grown cold toward the bondsmen whose chains it broke.” Sad, but true. sheep te WHITE MAN'S DUTY. (Union, 8. C., Times) The safeguarding of the right of the blackman, protecting him in the ‘holding of property and granting him the opportunity to develop along all lines that he may be able to develop fre some of the diities that devolve ‘upon the white man in his relation to the black man. The ‘white ‘man owes it to the black man to set him @ high standard of personal moral conduct. The imnmioral white man is the gréatest énemy that the Black man has, and is a menace to the white ‘man as well. Most of the friction be- ‘tween the races grows out of the at litude of the immoral white man. Such men are sowing to the wind and will reap the whirlwind. During the Text ten years we are going to reap some of the whirlyind unless all signs fail. Se : CONDITION—NOT THEORY (Spartanborg, 8. C., Journal) Let's hope that Washington will Jearn a valuable lesson. from the (pres- ent experience and that congress will come to realize that it is a condition find not a theory that confronts. the south. ASSUMPTION AND INSOLENCE. (Baltimore, Md., Sun) But, we are inclined to believe that the chief cause of the riots is politics. Negro voters have been fMattered and coddled by the politicians, given of. fice, and the influential ones protect: ed in gambling and all kinds of law: breaking. The Negroes reach the Point when their assumption and in solence become unbearable and thé explosion comes. acca silage ea RIVALRY AND HATRED (Hamilton, Obie, Republican) From every point of viey the Ract riots in Chicago are deplorable. Jus' Tow, when race rivalry and hatret are rtnning higher than ever befor such riots as these, following closel; upon those in the nation’s capital, wil Prove a breeder of trouble at homé and will be misunderstood and mis #épresented abroad. T ib Fa Rate: 1% cents per word per Issue. No ads accepted for less than 25¢ Read for profit. Use for results. 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Do not fail to see him in his latest dances. He was so fine in one of them that his contail stood out like a board and two masquitors were seen doing the Pittsburg Shuffle on the end of it, which brought down the house with laughter. (Encore). When he came back, bailing the Jack, I thought my soul my sides would crack. By the way, I see Dr. Shirley has returned and was very much surprised to learn that his wife had invented the same plasters that he had travelled all the way to Canada and all over California to find. Sorry Doc, but Mrs. Shirley beat you to them. The Second Baptist Church choir under the direction of Mr. Mullen sang beautifully at the Union Meeting held at the C. M. E. church Sunday afternoon. Mr. Mullen is a musician of note, having traveled extensively with renowned musical organizations. NATIONAL CONCERN Such outbreaks as this in Chicago are of national concern. The situation is far too serious for a spirit to temporize or be tolerated. If the riots continue in Chicago and Mayor Thompson still marks time on decision to employ the utmost power at his command, the municipal government should be forced to surrender its authority for a time. It is right that it should for the Chicago riots exert an evil influence all over the country. LET IT BE CLEAR. That preparation, in our opinion, ought to take the form of an official police proclamation that the first hint or menace of a riot will be met with suppression bordering on violence. Let it be made clear that any such riot leader or any mob member, be white or colored, will be knocked down where he stands or runs, and possibly shot. Let the word go out that rioters will be considered as our soldiers considered the Huns—as enemies of civilization. Room 201-34 South Central MISSISSIPPI IN BARBARITY (Special to the Tribune) NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Chicago has outdone Mississippi in unjust treatment of colored people, according to a statement issued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. The statement refers especially to the indictment of thirty Negroes as against three white men in connection with the recent riots, the three white men having been indicted because it is alleged they killed a Mexican, having mistaken him for a Negro. "No more discouraging spectacle has occurred in Mississippi," says the statement, "than that provided by the indictment of thirty Negroes and the fact that the Chicago Grand Jury had to strike in protest because all those indicted in the first days were Negroes, where the violence in almost every case was initiated by white men. "If the machinery of justice in Chicago cannot procure the apprehension and the punishment of the white men who burned and bombed Negro houses, who stoned and brutally assaulted innocent Negroes, who made necessary the presence of militia with bayonets and loaded rifles, then Chicago justice will become as notorious as Chicago police." "The National Association solemnly calls attention to the danger of allowing the machinery of justice to become discredited in the minds of the Negro in the North as it is already in the South. The Negro has proved a law-abiding citizen, ready to serve his country and to sacrifice himself for it. He cannot be expected inidifinitely to tolerate abuse, persecution, and worst of all, denial of justice." PLEASANT RELATIONS. (Chattanooga, Tenn., Times) How long the present pleasant relations between the whites and blacks of the south will endure under the constant and wicked nugging and agitation of cranks and fantasies in the north and west, it is difficult to say, but it may be declared with truth and in seriousness that if there shall come trouble it will not be through the will or contrivance of the mass of the best southern people of either race. THE CHICAGO DRAMA. (Troy, N. Y. Record) The spread of disorder will depend directly upon the frequency of instances where insurrections reach a point beyond the control of the local authorities. If the wave of race feeling is to be checked, the Chicago drama must be brought to a close with such discomfort to the element which started it that person similarly disposed will be discharged from a similar policy in other places. The existence of law and of the forces compelling obedience to it must be demonstrated beyond possibility of successful opposition. JOB FOR OTHER CITIES. (Spinfield, Mass., Republican) Apparently there will be no solution of the problem until the Negroes find places in which to live comfortably. Suppression of the rioting must be expected within a few days; but after that it may be necessary for the city to take the housing situation into its own hands. It would be cruel to blame Chicago now for lack of fore sight. With a species of civil war and a street car strike on its hands, the city will hardly be in a mood for being upraided. Other cities will do better to inquire whether they have any explosive situations of their own. DAYS OF EXCITEMENT. (Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal) That anything like a real "race war" impends, the Courier-Journal does not for a moment believe. Thepss are days of excitement easily engendered and of sweeping statements easily made. To forecast every imaginable calamity is the fashion. Of course no imaginable calamity to the Negroes in America could equal a race war. SELF DETERMINATION. (The Survey, New York) The Negroes, on the other hand, have become Americanized to an astonishing extent, and large numbers of them are conscious of their citizenship. One of the most conservative and respected of Negro leaders was overheard in Commissioner Brown's office to say: "I am beginning to realize that the prize of manhood for the American Negro requires the sacrifice of life." And other prominent Negroes, hitherto regarded as bulwarks of the old attitude towards the whites, are expressing themselves in similar terms. BROUGHT TO FRONT. (Canton, Ohio, News) International problems may at this time assume the largest importance in the view of the United States government, but the race problem is being brought to the front in a way that demands the earnest attention of the state and federal law-making powers. The least that can be done for the Negro is that he be guarantee a fair trial for any crime with which he may be charged, and that the national disgrace of lynching become only a memory. A SYMBOL OF WAR (Louisville, Ky., Times) The dispatches from Chicago in the Times today, for depiction of blood-shed and violence, compared with those from the western front that appeared in this newspaper a year ago. And persons who have studied the war of which the western front was a symbol believe that the race riots of Washington, and now Chicago, are equally a symbol of that war. They contend, and with striking argument, that the outbreak of this racial feeling is a result of some of the mistakes of policy made in the war; and even the Chicago police are quoted in today's dispatches as ascribing the turmoil there to "Negro hoodlums brought in during the war to relieve the labor shortage." ONLY SANE IDEAL. (Asheville, N. C., Citizen) There is no short and easy road to the achievement of harmony between the races, but harmony must continue to be the goal of the leaders of both races. White men and Colored men must think of the future and together work out a solution for the conditions which the process of history has laid upon them by the introduction of the African into American life. The only sane idea is that which will without resort to sort to civil strife promote justice and co-operation by diminishing all just grounds for, on one hand, a sense of arrogance or on the other a sense of oppression. EDUCATION WILL SOLVE IT. The solution of this race feeling, which constantly holds over peaceful communities the threat of hostile outbreaks, must come through effort in two directions—effort at education and effort at developing among both whites and Negroes, a high sense of respect for the law. There has been among the race riots of recent years in various cities, no instance of an organized or concerted undertaking. The outbreaks have been spontaneous. They have sprung from something which appealed lawlessness. From small beginnings they grew into situations where mere color became a cause of attack. Education develops reasons and respect for law. PLACING THE BLAME. (New York Financial World) The Negro is to blame in that he falls so easily a prey to the preachings of the agitators. The white man is doubly to blame in that he seeks to drive where he should lead. We are not going to settle the race question by prejudice and feuds. It is a problem which needs a great deal of sympathetic treatment. The Negro is where he is because we put him there. If we will freely acknowledge our fault, we will be the more able to repair it. Education and a kindly sympathy will soon thereafter settle the race question. Let us try it. THE NEW SPIRIT. (Waterbury, Conn., Republican) If they are good enough to be sent to Europe to fight for America, they are good enough to be treated with equality under the law in America. Much as the fatal results of this new spirit of self respect and independence on the part of the Negro is to be regretted, it cannot but be a matter of congratulation he has acquired that spirit. Now, perhaps, he will gain the justice that is his due and that he could never hope to gain as long as he tamely submitted to insult and injury. THE NATION'S BURDEN (New York Globe) There is no getting around the fact that a fundamental antipathy often exists. And the social factor affects the economic factor to such an extent that when a Negro family moves into the neighborhood rents are affected. In Chicago the protest against Negro tenants has been made by dynamite under dwelling houses. The blind, untutored fool without a conscience who thought to gain his point in this fashion needs refutation. But the city as a whole has suffered and will suffer his folly. There is a burden on Washington and Chicago to live this thing down, and a burden on the whole country to take a new attitude toward the Negro before our national good name shall be freeirievably lost. PASSING THE BUCK. (Philadelphia, Pa., Bulletin) Blaming the Bolshevik is a convenient shuffle of many domestic faults. But it is a mistake to assume that all the discontent and disturbance in this country is imported or is artificially fomented by foreign agencies, The "Reds" have enough to answer for. No plea in abatement is made for them. But it is dangerous folly for us to excuse our own faults and evade our own responsibilities, and neglect the rapidly developing causes of trouble, by blaming them "on the other fellow." LIVE SIDE BY SIDE Certainly a common patriotism should help men to live side by side amicably and with mutual tolerance. That they do not always do so is the more regrettable from the fact that when trouble does occur, it is invariably started by the no-account element—either toughs or criminals, who are in nowise representative of the great body of blacks or whites. TWO VIEWPOINTS. The Southern people have not recovered entirely from the notion that the black man is a slave and an underling and that he must be treated on that basis. The Northern people treat the colored man from a different standpoint. Some of the Negroes like the Southern people the best and regard the northern white man as a hypocrite. PROMPT ACTION (New Orleans, La., Times-Picayune) The Washington experience should teach us the necessity of prompt action in all cases of race disturbances and to act vigorously from the beginning. The first mistakes made at the national capital and the wise policies afterward followed should show us what to do in case the situation ever looks stormy. THE NEGRO PRESS Here in Houston, there is a Negro press that is almost incendiary. Its policy is to magnify any Irritual slight or grievance suffered by an individual into some brutal race outrage and denounce all the white people, the public service included, as being wicked oppressors of the "race." It even denounces the respectable Saturday, September 6, 1819 Colored men and women who are really doing the work of carrying forward important movements involving the Negro period. If the white men of this city, or any considerable number of them, had been regular readers of these vicious vituperative sheets serious conditions long ago would have arisen in Houston, and scores of other places, as they have arisen in Washington, Longview and other points. The discouraging phase of the situation is the Negro press which might be the most helpful influence in averting racial friction and hatred seems to be everywhere a most potential source of evil. ASSERTION OF MANHOOD In the face of this black record, the Times can only see in the Negro's resentment of his wrongs, the result of agitation! The Negro would be less than human if he did not finally assert his manhood and defend himself. We regard his self-assertion as the most hopeful sign in the whole dreary record of exploitation and class rule to which he has submitted. During the Civil war he faithfully guarded his master's plantations and showed no signs of a desire for liberation. That was a dismal feature of the struggle. His assertion of his humanhood today is the brightest and most hopeful factor in his long story of servitude. If it is true that the Socialist movement deserves any credit for the awakening of the Negro, we rejoice in whatever mite we have contributed to it. In that movement the Negro will find comrades who understand, comrades who share his longing for the equality of opportunity, the leisure, education and happiness that can only be realized when workers of both races are members of a free world that knows no race, color or class distinction. THE ACTIVE PHASES. The more acute phases of the Negro problem are probably transitional. They arise from the migration of Negroes into white districts, as happened at Chicago, and from the greater economic liberty and consequently the increased self-respect which the labor scarcity gave them. Their economic status may be permanently improved, or it may not. In the latter case the old relations will sooner or later be removed; in the former case the whites will have to accept the new situation, whether they like it or not. This would be an approach to a solution. But the Negroes and their friends may be sure it will not be prompted by inflammatory oratory. SHAME TO COLUMBIA. (Brooklyn, N. Y., Citizen) They are deplored by the better elements of both races, which are constantly striving to find a modus vivendi which will permit the whites and blacks to live side by side in this country, without any of the hateful occurrences which from time to time are recorded in the newspapers, to the shame of both races and the fair name of Columbia. PLACE TO PUNISH The emphasis we lay on this distinction between the Northern and Southern race-rage — between the Southern lynching and the Northern massacre—should be construed as a defense of the Southern lynching. This is indefinable. The place to punish crime is the court-room. QUIT STAR-GAZING. (New York Telegram) Given a contented populace with work to do and everybody would be too busy to engage in rioting, taking the law and their lives into their own hands. Stop the rioting at any cost and then immediately remove the cause of the unrest or we shall have a longer death list and more homes burned and robbed. It behooves the United States government to quit star-gazing, come down to earth and give the affairs of the country some attention. RESENTMENT AND ANGER. (New York Evening World) It would almost seem as if some strange psychological aberration had started a wave of Race antagonism in the United States. Why it should occur at a time when the Colored man has just proved his loyalty and his soldier qualities in a way the whole Nation has acclaimed, it is hard to understand. It may be that the very credit and honor which Colored fighters earned in the war have started vague resentment and anger in certain strata of white population. (New Bedford, Mass., Standard) There will be a Negro question as long as the Constitution is subverted and the Negro is denied his rights. It will grow worse instead of better. Unless it is met fairly and honestly some day it will end in a race war.