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" HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S LIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWEL BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882 LEADER AMONG Success of Cornelius C. Cook of Shreveport, La. KNOWS HOW TO GET RESULTS From Small Beginning on a Farm in Louisiana C. C. Clark Hoe Become One of the Most Prominent Men of the Race in the State—Born of Slave Parents. Shreveport, La.—Fur to the south is the state of Louisiana, in the midst of the section where human slavery wrought its most deadly work of injustice and cruelty to a race of people long held by slaveholders as so much merchandise. Yet after many centuries of bondage a four year war, fought primarily to preserve the union of states, resulted in the freedom of the slaves. During the fifty years of freedom the colored people of this state have made considerable progress in reducing their illiteracy, buying homes, building churches and by degrees going into business. True, there have been failures in their business efforts along many lines, but these failures in most instances have served to nerve them to renewed effort, and the result is that throughout the state there are scores of successful business enterprises to their credit. Cornelius C. Cook of this city is one of the many successful business men of this state who has by persistence ```markdown ``` CONNELIUS C. COOK. risen to prominence in business, religious and fraternal organizations. He was born of slave parents in Bosier parish, this state. His boyhood days were spent in the country and in attending the parish graded school at his native home. He made rapid progress in school and was thorough in his work. The knowledge gained in school was put to good use in his early life, although he worked as a farm hand for many years. Like most aspiring and ambitious country boys young Cook desired to better his condition financially, and to this end he secured a position in a hotel in the city, serving in various capacities. He saved his money and later went to Memphis. Tenn. where he took a special course of study, returned to his home and began business for himself. ```markdown ``` He has made wonderful progress in his business in this city and is now one of the foremost men of his race in this section of the country. He has contributed to almost every movement that mean racial uplift and progress. He is a Christian and an active member of the C. M. E. church, known as the "Temple," in Shreveport. Mr. Cook is not only a member, but he is an officer, being president of the trustee board. In this position he superintended the erection of the new church edifice, which is one of the finest in the state. He also fills a place on the board of stewards of the church. Mr. Cook knows something about the fraternal organization of Louisiana. He is a member of the Masons. Odd Fellows. Masonic Templars. United Brothers of Friendship. Royal Knights, Knights of Good Shepherds and Knights of Pythias. In all these he is active and holds membership in a number of benevolent societies. In the Shreveport Business league, as well as in the Louisiana State Business league, he is one of the leading members. In the Business and Professional Men's association Mr. Cook is an active worker, and when its meetings are held he contributes his part to their success. He is a benefit to this section of the country and contributes to the support of the city of Shreveport. Lu, by paying taxes on real estate and personal property. He declares that he has never failed to pay his pott taxes. Be it said to his credit that he has the largest business of its kind in Shreveport and is kept busy all the time. He owns a large up to date automobile. Mrs. Cook contributes much to the success of his business. She is a graduate from the summer high school in St. Louis. Mrs. Cook has made many friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have three children. The family is well known throughout the community and is highly respected. FATE OF A PIRATE CREW. Strange Case of the Nancy Brig and a Hungry Shark. In the museum at Kingston, Jamaica, there are some tattered ships' papers, brown with age and salt water, and a small tin canister. These articles attest the truth of the strangest pirate story ever told. In 1739 the crew of the Nancy brig were apparently honest traders, but did some piracy now and then on the side. One day they found it necessary to go into Kingston for supplies. Before doing so they naturally removed all traces of their buccaneering trade. Among other things they threw overboard this tin canister stuffed with papers taken from ships they had sunk, with comments written on the margin by the pirate captain. Later in the day a British frigate was becalmed near the spot, and the sailors spent their leisure catching sharks. Presently they hauled up a big fellow, cut him open and found the tin case with the papers inside. These were taken to the captain, who, as soon as a breeze sprang up, sailed into Kingston harbor, found the Nancy brig there and had the crew tried, convicted and hanged in chains at Port Royal. Beautiful Blue Lake. Perhaps the most striking instance to be seen in the whole world of the wonderful apparent coloring of bodies of water is the marvelously beautiful Blue lake in Switzerland. Encompassed on all sides by lofty mountains, their lower ranges luxuriantly clothed with verdure down to the edge of the water and adorned with many fine forest trees, while their higher activities are garbed in a mantle of eternal snow, the little lake, nestling in its deep hollow basin, is quite startling in its singular and strange beauty. The water, although really pure and colorless, appears to be of a most intense sky blue. And its transparency is so remarkable that a small coin dropped into the water in the center of the lake can be seen until it reaches the bottom, apparently more than a hundred feet beneath. Finger Nails Show Health. Our finger nails are made of a horny material that is in some ways like the material that makes our skin. But it is more like the material that makes our hair. It is after all different from either of these and is more like horn than any other part of our bodies. The special cells at the base of the nails form the material for our nails and therefore the health of our finger nails depends on these cells. If you are not in good health or if you do not take good care of your skin your finger nails will show that they are not healthy. If your blood is out of order the cells that make the finger nails will not do their work properly and then little white spots will appear on the nails. So you see those little white spots are a sign of bad health.—Kansas City BENEFICENT WORK OF URBAN LEAGUE BENEFICENT WORK OF URBAN LEAGUE Committee on Better Homes Makes Able Report. PLAN TO REDUCE HIGH RENTS Investigation by National Organization and Local Affiliated Bodies In New York City Reveals Conditions Which Call For Immediate Remedy-Overcrowded Homes a Moral Issue. New York. The recent report on the investigation of housing conditions among the colored people of Harlem which was made by the National League on Urban Conditions is beginning to bear tangible results. The question of providing proper housing conditions in this section has been made the subject of a series of conferences between representatives of the Advisory Council of Real Estate Interests, the City and Suburban Homes company, the National League on Urban Conditions and the Property Owners' Improvement corporation. These meetings were attended by prominent citizens who have become interested in the welfare of the colored people of the city of New York. A number of model apartment houses are to be erected in Harlem as a memorial to the late E. R. L. Gould, president of the City and Suburban Homes company, who was so largely interested in the Phipps houses and the Tuskegee and Hampton apartment houses in the West Sixtieth street district. The houses in Harlem are to be constructed with the idea in mind of correcting some of the conditions which were exposed by the Urban league in its report. Some of the facts as outlined in the report are as follows: Only 25 per cent of colored families of Harlem live in three and four room apartments, while 71 per cent live in five and six room and 4 per cent in seven and eight room apartments. These families have an average income of $791 yearly and pay $281, or 36 per cent of their income, for rent. Of 133 apartments in the same character of houses occupied by German Jews, in neighboring districts, 69 per cent are three and four room apartments, and these tenants pay only $207 yearly for rent from an average income much larger than that received by colored people. In 62 per cent of the apartments occupied by the colored families lodgers constitute 32 per cent of the total population. These lodgers are taken into homes because of the necessity to pay high rents. There is a lodging population in Harlem alone of 1,066 persons, while the increase in Negro population in New York city is about 3,000 persons a year. In an investigation by the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes in an area of about twenty-three blocks, between One Hundred and Forty-second and One Hundred and Thirty-first streets, there were 720 apartments and 443 private houses occupied by Negroes, with but 2 per cent of the total number of residents in the district of white extraction. When these houses were opened to colored people the rents increased per month from $1 to $5 per apartment. It is estimated that the total number of Negroes in Harlem is about 500,000. As has been cited above, they are all ready paying rents which are constant, compared with their limited incomes, and they cannot pay still higher rents that would be expected if better services were given in these houses. The fact that the houses occupied by colored people return good revenues is shown by the return on the average assessed valuation in that district of 7 per cent net. The following example is cited by the National Urban league as indicating that the increase in rent occurs when white people are succeeded by colored people. Twin houses in Harlem were owned by a single landlord and absolutely filled with white people. They were rented at from $16 to $19 per month. Press. UNBRIBED BY GAIN 1916 VOL. 34 NO. 45 PROSPEROUS YEAR FOR VIRGINIANS A library was built next to the one house and so darkened its apartments that it was difficult to keep them filled with tenants, even after reducing rent from $14 to $17 monthly. The owner decided to rent to colored tenants, and the house is now filled with colored families paying $20 to $24, and there is a long waiting list. Locators themselves in this district are required to pay as high as $6 weekly for rooms. It is this question of toddlers which seriously endangers the morals of family life in this district. Combined with this facture the plea of congestion of population. Although there is no much over crowding in the town as is formal on the lower east side where laborer cooks the cheese baking without record for certain measures the less there are some hard crosses on congestion in Negro tenement the cause of over crowding was found where eighteen West bulbous were living in six rooms three recurred cases, plus children, a grandmother, some father and a relative. The committee which is now working out the final plans for the improvement of housing in Harlem is composed of Cyrus C. Miller, chairman of the executive committee of the Advisory council: Allan Robinson, president of City and Suburban Homes company; L. Hollingsworth Wood, chairman of National Urban league, and Frank A. Shaw, vice president of the Property Owners' Improvement corporation. Consider, if You Please, the Words Victual and Tongue. Were you ever perplexed by English spelling? But what a foolish question. The rest of the world is agreed that the man who insists he is never at a loss for the correct spelling of a word is a preverbiate of the 9th degree. But how did our speech happen to be thus encumbered? The French use count- less silent letters, but there is such system about their literature that it can be mastered by the average mind. German is absolutely phonetic, as are most of the Romance tongues. Greek was pronounced as It was spelled, and Latin is simplicity itself for all that the classical scholars disagree as to the sounds of the vowels and a few of the consonants. Mine, Bernhardt when she was urged to present her plays in the speech of the American people declared, "English is not language; it is violent exercise, and its spelling is impossible." Many a schoolboy and girl will agree with her. What justification is there for such a word as "victual," which must be pronounced just as it was in the days when it was spelled v-i-t-t-l-ei And, while we are on the subject of our native tongue, how shall we justify t-o-n-g-u-e, a spelling that is monstrous in the light of the language's development? Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century that word was t-u-n-g, with here and there a pellantic faddist who put on airs when he wrote t-o-n-g-u-e. Our accepted spelling is an imitation of the French "langue" just as victual is an imitation of the Latin "victualia," handed down by half baked scholars.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Went back on His Authority. Leslie Stephen's single meeting with Freeman, the historian, was in the nature of a collision. "I came in contact with him only once," he said. "He wrote a life of Alfred for the Dictionary of National Biography under my editorship, but declined to do more because we had a difference of opinion as to whether Athelstane should be spelled with an 'A.' That was, I confess, a question to which I was culpably indifferent, but I had taken competent advice, and my system (I forget what it was) had been elsewhere sanctioned by the great historian Stubbs. Now, as Freeman was never tired of asserting the infallibility of Stubbs, I innocently thought that I might take refuge behind so eminent an authority Uncle Ben, a very careful old darky, was a witness in a shooting case. "Were the shots simultaneous, uncle?" inquired the prosecuting attorney. "Well, boss, you see, hit wuz dis way," replied the witness, with great deliberation. "Dem shots come so close togedder dat I can't be sho' ef dey wuz or not."—Argonaut. ENGLISH SPELLING. Went Back on His Authority. Puzzled Him. NO. 45 Society In Brooklyn Advances Along All Lines. DCSBSON CROSE PRESIDENT Annual Installation of Officia Affords Opportunity For Renewing of Old Friendships—Treasury, Granam H. Carter Makes Encouraging Report, Fine Record of Dr. G. H. Richardson. Brooklyn. Notable among the many public functions of various benevolent and secret societies held in this city the week ending Jan. 8 was the annual meeting and social gathering of the Society of the Sons of Virginia, held on Thursday evening, Jan. 6. Aside from the social intermining of the members and guests the two features of the evening were the installation of the officers for 1816 and the reading of the yearly financial report by the treasurer, Granam H. Carter. The others were included by the Key, Dr. Kirabell Wrenn, minister of the Bathing Hospital, of this city, who has served with a faithful each service as a hospital staff in the online board. He is also a notable in terms of administration of the purpose of the society and the good work which ```markdown ``` C. H. RICHARDSON, M. D. it is doing. Dr. Warren expressed himself as being particularly pleased with the business conduct of the organization as glouted from the treasurer's report. The officers installed are the following named men: N. Burnett Dodson, president; Kleizer T. Jackson, vice president; Minted R. Nuth, recording secretary; James E. Hippee, correspondent secretary; Leon H. Fisher, financial secretary; Gladam H. Carter, treasurer; James S. Williams, segregant at arms, and G. L. Royster, chaplain. The new members of the board of directors are Charles R. Carter and James W. Bartlett, Forene President. Charles H. Tanner is the new chairman of the board of directors and Dr. Charonee H. Richardson examining physician. Treasurer G. H. Curtis's report showed receipts for the year, with book interest, amounting to $911,138 present worth of the society, $433,1023. The increase in finances over the past year was $222,67. The membership 14,153; new members received during 1915, 11; members sick during the year, 12; members deceased during the year, 1. Continued on Second Page. SALFSMAN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent counties, Salary or Commission. Address The Harvey Oil Co., Cleveland, O. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J. R. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phona 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY JANUARY 15.1916 As we see the signs of the times, Champ Clark has the inside track of the only "one term president," Woodrow Wilson. Editor Bolding of San Antonio, Texas, has our praise for his bravery and'congratulations on his victory. Whenever a consummate thug is put at rest rejoicings should ascend. The editor of this paper never believed in the theory that to go to heaven, after a fellow smacks one cheek, he must lamb-like turn the other. Strike back and hard at that, is his policy, and if it keeps him out, he has had some consolation here. Inasmuch as the publtshers fraternity has awarded us the deanship in journalism, you will accept our thanks. Many others have done more good, even if they are not as old, and like the Savior of men, we are willing they should have full pay though they be eleventh hour workers. Now that the Panama Canal is open for traffic, why not do the right thing by declaring that American coastwise vessels shall have free passage. What has England or the Pacific railroads to do with our right and freedom in and over the canal our men and money made? What is the use of living without thinking, strong and right. Let no one think he is in the zenith of scientific development. The situation of the earth and its present day business will in a short time be to future generations like the face and head of a mummy, in comparison with what is still hidden and yet to be discovered. Electricity is the yeast which is lifting things up. It is the evolution designed by the wisdom of God, whose plan is for this earth to be an absolute picture or real foretaste of what is beyond the mists. The St. Petersburg Florida Times heads an article the "Indian forced to succumb." It declares the white man and Indian never could mix. They did mix and mingle brotherly so long as they got brotherly treatment. As to their dying off with consumption, we think they have done well for had they driven the white man to frigid zones he would not be here to know what the Indian is doing. But what about the white man's theory that if people lived out of houses there would be no tuberculosis? There were five excellent papers read before the American Negro Academy at its annual meeting, 28 and 29 ult. They will soon be printed in a booklet and we earnestly urge every reader of not only this paper, but everywhere to buy a copy and carefully read it. Rich and wonderful food for thought. It is the editors' duty and they are doing it well—teaching Negroes to read and defend their own papars. Show me a reading people, said Napoleon, and I will show you a people who will rule the world. Another thing of importance our editors must do, and that is, arouse our boys to sell Negro newspapers and be noisy doing it. It helped to make white boys great men in this nation, and it will start ours in the same way. Ex-Senator Joseph M. Dixon, George W. Perkins, Miss Jane Adams and Judge Ben. Lindsay are no truer progressives than we are. We believe that the combined spirits of John Brown, Garrison, Phillips, Lincoln, Douglass, Grant, Sumner and other agitated, aided and approved the trouncing of the money making, humanity forgotten leavings of the republican party once so glorious and Godly, got in 1912. As a father however, we never trounced our children to make them worse but better, and we believe like results have been obtained, as it regards the republican party and that a union is brewing that will make the old lion once more rise, rouse and wrestle his mane in favor of and for human rights, and to that end we are with a war behind a cloud, for the party that saved this country under Lincoln. and can again under any God approved Republican. How rapidly nature repairs and beautifies the torn places! The gash left by the uprooted tree is soon covered with green, and moss and vines are quick to make the old stump a thing of beauty. Humanity might well learn a lesson thereby, to its own great advantage. Sympathy may easily transform the unsightly and give it beauty. If earth's soil responds to the touch of nature in such a way it is reasona-to suppose that human life would not be less responsive. Hundreds of lives at present harsh and repulsive are within reach of every one, and they might be wholly changed by a little sympathetic seeding and kindly culture. After all what more is needed than the persuasion of the kindly human touch? There is no greater miracle than that which is wronght by love, and there is no man who may not work it if he will.—Christian Register In dress President Jefferson was governed by comfort rather than elegance. "Pride costs more than hanger, thirst and cold," he used to say, and as he lived in an epoch that witnessed a mighty revolution in men's clothing as well as in men's government, monarchy's cues and velvets giving way to short hair and the useful, ungainly pantaloon, only the watchfulness of his bodyservant saved him from unbelievable anachronisms of costume. Indeed, in later life at Monticello where this democrat ruled absolute king, he often wore the garments of several different periods together, like superimposed geologic strata or the historic remains in the Roman Forum.-Helen Nicolay in Century Magazine. From Roselawn Indiana comes the following strange adventure, bearing date of Jan. 11. A journey of 8000 miles in a basket bed ended here today when C.C. Smith a mining engineer of Natal, South Africa arrived at the home of his parents. He suffered a broken back in a mine accident and is paralyzed from the waist down but will wed Miss Amy Palmer, an English nurse, who cared for him in a hospital in Cardiff, Wales, and helped bring him home. Smith and a companion were repairing machinery in the South African works. A huge rock fell killing his companion. At Smith's request the company started him home, appropriating 25,000 for the surgical and other expenses of the trip. The jonrney was broken at Cardiff so that the injured man might receive special medical attention and it was there, he met Miss Palmer. The size of the basket made necessary to take out the windows of a railroad coach to get him aboard he train. (Continued from first page) attended the public schools, and class. After this he attended university, graduating from there in 1901. Later he entered the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia and did special work in chemistry, physics biology and bacteriology courses lead- ing to medicine. He entered the Harvard Medical school at Boston, from which he gra- duate in 1912. Soon after his gradu- tion he was called to Memphis, Tenn. as professor of anatomy, eye, ear, nose and throat at Western university. Dr Richardson spent one year at West university as professor. While thru- engaged he took the Tennessee state board examination, which he paused with honors, making nearly a perfect examination. During his short stay in Memphis he had already gained a reputation as a diagnostician. Dr Richardson left Memphis, for he felt the field in the east to be richer in research adventures. He took the New Jersey state board examination and felt the pulse of the people of Long Branch, N. J., for one year. He became a resident of this city in May, 1915. His success in Brooklyn for the short time he has been a resident has been very good. Besides his own work Dr. Richardson is associated with Dr. Owen M. Waller, the chief of Brooklyn physicians among our people, in a movement in which they may render greater service to the public. Of Dr. Clarence Hudson Richardson, the examining physician for the society, it is fit to say: To the merry muse's peon song there burst forth on this planet, in the hamlet of Culpepper, Va., Oct. 27, 1882, a babe—afterward called Clarence Hudson Richardson. At the age of five years his parents took him to Philadelphia. There he Watching Royalty Eat The Saxon court appears to have been the last to preserve the custom of dining in public, initiated at Versailles under the ancient regime. Lady Clarendon notes in her journal on Oct. 1, 1844, when she and her husband were traveling through Germany: "We were invited to dine with the king and queen of Saxony at their villa, near Dresden. The dinner was handsome and what I liked best was to observe that the galleries commanding a view of the table had people quite of a common order in them. I was told that any one who chose was freely admitted."—London Express. On Three Counts "No," said the editor, "we cannot use your poem." "Why?" asked the poet, "Is it too long?" "Yes," hissed the editor. "It's too long and too wide and too thick."—St. Louis Republic. Just a Hint. The Widower—'Tis a bright little wan, that!' The Widow—'Tis, indade!' 'Tis only yisterday he was after askin' if he only liver have a stepfather—Puck Luck In Name Only Lutsk, or Luck, to give it the Polish name, is another of the towns of eastern Europe which can point to a checkered history. It is traditionally said to have been founded in the seventh century. Four hundred years later it had developed into the capital of an independent principality. After a further lapse of four centuries we find it a wealthy place and the seat of a bishopric. But evil times awaited it. During the Russo-Polish wars of the sixteenth century its 49,000 inhabitants were exterminated, and Lutsk lost its importance.—London Chronicle. The Pedestrian Geryians All Servian peasants are great walkers. A servant, given a short leave will think nothing of footing it to his home, five and twenty miles off, and walking back after a short day spent with his family. 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Mrs. Charles Moten who has been sick at her home on W. Martin street is much better. Mr. Henry Ford and wife were callers recently and in giving the editor and wife an invitation to spend some time with them at their dove-cove the madame said; "we have chickens crying to be killed." If ye hungry editor and his better half get there and go to work in earnest on one of those crying chickens fixed up as we know Mrs. Ford can, and the rest of her chickens witnessed it, they'll cry for us to stay as far away as possible thereafter. Morgantown W., Va. Mr. J. R. Clifford: Martinsburg, W. Va. Enclosed you will find order for $1.00 for which please continue to send me the Pioneer Press for one year. If I owe you a balance please let me know in the near future so we can get square and forget it. I like the Press fine because it seems to be always on the right track. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain as ever your old subscriber. Lee Scott. Mr. William Braxton an aged and highly respected citizen of Berkeley Co., died at his home near Douglass Grove a few days ago. Mr. Braxton was a civil war veteran and a familiar figure, often coming to Martinsburg, until blindness prevented him making the trip to and from town. He is survived by his widow and several children one of whom Mrs. Fannie Parsons resides on South Maple Ave. One son, Henry Braxton, lived with the aged couple on their home place. Mr. Edward and Gilbert Braxton stepsons, are both well known residents of Martinsburg, other members of the family we cannot locate. The image contains a single line of text that is cut off at the end. The text is: "The image contains a single line of text that is cut off at the end." WANTED--A live solicitor and collector for Health and Accident Insurance in Martinsburg and vicinity. Address; Moores Agency, Room 1100 Kan. Nat. Bk., Charleston, W. Va. SEE WASHINGTON, D. C. 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