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Friday, March 12, 1920
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JOSEPH BOOKER, TOOL OF ARKANSAS WHITES, SEEKS TO HAVE ROBT. HILL TURNED OVER TO LYNCHERS
Negro Educator Tries to DefendState in WhichIgnorance Predominates.
The following letter along with a newspaper clipping have been received by Governor Allen:
Helena, Ark., March 2, 1920
Governor H. J. Allen,
Topoka, Kansas.
Dear Sir: I am enclosing you a clipping from the Arkansas Gazette written by Joseph A. Booker, one of the foremost Negroes in our state and president of the Arkansas Baptist College.
Please consider this as we wish you to consider all other data you have before you.
Yours very truly,
F. E. F. KITCHENS, Sheriff
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Sheriff Kitchens is using this misguided, self-conceited, self-appointed leader, and we venture the assertion that Booker is, and has been a tool in the hands of the white roughnecks who stoop to anything to impede Negro progress in Arkansas, all of his life. Sheriff Kitchens nor the Arkansas Gazette would have given space to this man. Booker had be been other than a Judas, writing an article telling something of the mis-treatment of the colored people by soldiers and white citizens in the Elaine riot, where the white men were deputized to keep order whilst hundreds of colored men and women were put in stockades or enclosures where it became filthy and unbearable; where the officers of the law from constable up to the highest officer of the state will not recognize the rights of colored citizens where their rights are involved with a white person and all the courts from the inferior to the highest so recognizes and makes the difference by upholding these mean and dishonest officers
The sheriff speaks of your presidency of a college. We venture the assertion that if you would come to Topeka, Kansas and apply for a position as teacher you could not pass an examination to teach in the primary grades of this state, yet this sheriff would have the Governor of Kansas believe that you represent some real successful, high-class educational institution. We have not saw or visited your school but venture to say that the building's unkeep is in a sorry and deplorable condition, that the sanitary condition is bad, that your faculty is poorly paid and they would not teach in this sheriff's college if they could pass a creditable examination where experienced and active educators are wanted and receive good salaries. Now as to this letter as published Sunday, Feb. 25th and sent to the Governor's office:
WARNED TO DEWARE OP FALSE REPORTS
Nergest Urged by Joseph A Booker
to Promote Better Relations
To the Editor of the Gazette
I wish to thank you personally for the manner in which the white white press came to the defense of the three colored commissioners in the matter of having it. L. I will return to the state for fair trial. We do not have any sling of conscience from what we did, but we might have had should we have failed to do what seems to us a plain duty. But I would like to say a few addidn words in this connection to my people over the state and over the country. I am especially talking to the Arkansas colored people.
I have lived in Arkansas more than 50 years. It was in this state that I first saw the light. I have been permitted to advance my own personal growth, and at the same time, watch the state grow. I know what the state was in other days, know what it really is now, and I have a good idea what it will be in the near future if the two races will be allowed to pull together for its upbuilding. I have seen conditions very bad in this state during the reconstruction period, and have been permitted to live long enough to see all these conditions vanish, and fortune has smiled on both races so that at this time Arkansas is the foremost state in the South in he ad justment and cultivation of race relations. At this very moment Arkansas Negroes own more than 20,000 farms, thousands of beautiful homes in various towns and cities of the state, splendid bank accounts in every progressive town or city, strong wagons and teams by the thousands, the best of horses and buggies, bicycles and automobiles. Who sold these things to my people? They own fine church houses, private schools and colleges, and have had provided for them some of the best public schools in the whole country with principal teachers and associate teachers working on living salaries, just like white people.
Would it not be far better to mag-
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nify these things that count so much for the peace and prosperity and minimize those special cases of disturbance like the Elaine riot, etc.; than to furnish itching ears to outsiders, who are keeping up a seething pot of hatred and misrepresentation for the sake of making money from us who are anxious to buy their newspaper rot? I say it boldly and above board, that the Northern newspaper, whether edited by white or black, that continues to stir up race strife by magnifying and falsifying interracial occurrences in this state and in the South is far more detrimental to the Negroes than anyone or few white "enemies" that such a paper may point out. Thousands of Negroes have gone North to better their condition, and have failed to do so because the North is not the Utopia that they sought. Northern customs have failed to be a panacea for our lilies. We have finally to turn our faces back toward Arkansas and the South for what we want and what face that stubborn fact and do the we can get in abundance. Why not best we can to cultivate the best of friendship among the white people all over the state? This has been my habit, and I have never been shot at arrested, mobbed, since I have been in this world. Let me once again appeal to my people to spurn the yellow journalism which we are feeding afftening, and turn to our home papers, schools, business enterprises here in the state for what we want. There is a better day coming, and I shall remain in the state to see it.
JOSEPH A. BOOKER
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We are glad the white press of Arkansas came to some black man's relief for this is the first time we have ever heard of them coming to their relief, but to the contrary they have done everything to keep the colored citizens in a state of peonage and humiliation to feel they are inferior to the white people. It makes no difference how much wealth or intelligence that colored citizens may possess or how law abiding, the editorials of the white press keeps that idea before the public by insisting on J'm Crow laws and black laws on the statute books. The lowest toughest white criminals are better respected than the most highly cultured person of color.
This letter of Bookers would not have been published had it not contained the substance which stands for cowardice and inferiority. You know the race has always been handicapped and betrayed by people of their own race at the very time they begin to make progress. You are letter known by that old term men before the war—"an old white folk rigger." This class always informed the overseer or the slave owner of the kind of prayers that were being offered up to the Lord for their deliverance or some plan whereby they could reach the underground railroad and escape to freedom. Now you, Joseph A. Booker college president have assumed this role in Arkansas and in this case of R L. Hill, who is now in Kansas where he is hell not only to save his own life and freedom but to save a disgrue on the colored race and the state of Arkansas. Knowing that colored men are not allowed to sit on juries or have a man of their race or those who believe in fair play to plead his case or a court that would be fair and knowing Hill to be innocent of any crime, the good people of both races have joined into an appeal to keep him away from the land of heredal the king. You and your commission have gone to the wrong
TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 12. 1920
source for defense. The white press nor the white people can defend you for the unpardonable sin of demanding Governor Allen to return a man to be turned over to an element of people who would as soon lynch and burn him as to take a drink of water and you could not help yourself nor your commission and if you knew who the leaders of the mob were you would dare open your mouth. On the other hand if you knew the mob was gathering you would make no attempt to join with the officers and insist upon protection, but you would go in hiding until the storm had passed. You lled to Governor Allen when you said Illll would have a fair trial when you and all of the race would have to keep still. Further you cannot point to a single instance where a colored and white person had a controversy in court where the white person didn't win if the colored person proved conclusively and beyond all doubt they were right, unless some white man or woman came to their rescue.
Talking about your plain duty, colored people have no duty to perform when it comes to exercising manhood for justice. You say you have been permitted to grow and prosper in Arkansas. Well, that is just what we complain of. Very few colored people are permitted to grow and prosper in your state unless he be the tool of a certain white gang as the following abstract from the laws of your state will prove. You claim to be an educator and leader and here is what you submit to in order to live in this hell on earth.
Abstract from Arkansas Statutes
Seperate Cars or Seats for White and Colored on Street Cars: . . . Sec. 6754 Digest of Arkansas Laws.
"All companies, persons or corporations operating any street car line in any city of this state are hereby required to operate separate cars or to separate the white and colored passengers in the cars operated for both, and to set out and designate in each car operated for both, the seats for white and those for the colored races.
"6755—The conductor or other person in charge of any car or coach so operated shall in 1115 judgment, when he deems it proper, exercise authority to increase or diminish the space set out to either race, but shall in no case make any discrimination as to the quality of the accommodations.
"6758— Any company failing to operate separate cars or to set aside separate seats or equipments for the white and colored races shall be fined in any sum not to exceed $25.00."
White Convict or Prisoner
Hand Cuffed to Neorge.
"???—It shall be unlawful for any white prisoner to be handcuffed to any Negro.
"7774—Any officer who shall violate this section of the laws shall on condition be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars."
Separate Waiting Rooms by Rollnade
"112 All railroads are hereby required to seperately maintain at each railroad station of their respective lines, seperate waiting rooms for white and colored passengers. The same to be equal in accommodations."
"Separate Schools.
"9524-All boards of education are hereby required to establish and operate separate schools for white and colored children and to provide teachers of the same
race as are the pupils over which they preside, and with qualifications as teachers equal with the teachers of the opposite race."
Separate Coaches on Railroad Trains.
"7661-All railroads are hereby required to operate and maintain on each train separate coaches for the white and colored passengers or separate apartments therein of equal accommodations in all things."
Iliteracy—Arkansas Stands First of all the States.
William Mack, in his work on Civil Rights, edition of 1918, says: Arkansas
"The per cent of illiteracy in this state, due as in other states of the Old South to the prejudice against the Negro population which in numerical numbers far outnumber the whites, by the population who by force maintain their control, is very great. The illiteracy of this locality being however in no wise confined to the Negro population. A large per cent, or perhaps 40 per cent of the white population of Arkansas, being illiterate, having little if any education, being whimsical, superstitious, law and shifftiness with a low degree of respect for law. The percentage of illiteracy of the white people of this state being especially large—greater than that of the white people of any other of the states of the Old South"
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How could Hill be guaranteed justice and a fair trial under such conditions?
Can you imagine a Negro to be other than a tool of this ignorant, vicious white element who would ask the return of one of his race to a state that has never in its history been fair to him nor his people.
Under date of February 21, comes the following story which not only speaks for itself, but plainly shows why this colored man Booker has remained in Arkansas all these years in ease. He has accepted whatever "Mr. Billy" chose to offer without a marmur or protest. It further proves that Booker is the tool in assisting in carrying out the dovish designs of the whites against his race. The story runs thus:
Negro Can't Ask for His Earnings in Arkansas
'Little Rock, Ark., Feb 21.—After J. Thomas Morsell a Negro, had worked a whole month for Acting Governor Robertson, he, naturally, expected his pay Robertson, a Southern white man, man, couldn't see the connection, especially since Negroes in Arkansas are not expected to be "fresh" enough to demand even wages of a white man. The Negro, who had worked as a porter for Robinson at the state house, persisted in asking for his pay, when Robertson lifted his foot and kicked the offending African off the premises."
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Do you think the pleadings of Booker can convince a broad minded fair white man like Governor Allen that Hill would be given a fair trial in that land of brutality and ignorance? Never while the sun shines. The colored people of the North don't get their rights nor wealth by permission from any white person, but by their own individual efforts, and the officers of the law protects every man in his efforts to rise. So what you have acquired the fifty years of your existence in Arkansas is through the permission of the white people to let you do so, and to obtain that right you will sell and damn the whole race for the little clouded and stolen privilege you may enjoy at the dictation of "Marse John."
Now as to the two races pulling together, the colored of Arkansas have never pulled against the whites, but the white man has deceitfully and arrogantly pulled against the colored people. Look at the colored sons and daughters grown up in the South by colored mothers and white fathers. This looks as if the race either pulled half way or the white man forced his way, and the latter is what he did and is now forcing his immorality and vice upon the race and is at this very moment living in open adultery and roaring families by colored women, and von Mr. Prof. Hoooker, of the Baptist college of Arkansas know it your head is shut and you are blind to this fact. This is how the two races are pulling together.
The reconstruction period was the best time the colored people ever had in Arkansas. That state then produced some very brainy colored men who were progressive and stood up for the rights of the race. Men like the late Judge M. W. Gibbs and many others who have passed to the beyond but left their mark only to be obliterated by men of your ilk. You ought to read up on what colored men accomplished for Arkansas in the days of reconstruction and talk it to your colored pupils in the schools.
Now as to all these farms, horses and vehicles of all kinds. You want to know who sold them to the race, of course we know the white man sold them to the colored people and you are naturally proud of it. This is what caused the Elaine trouble and what we complain of. The colored people think the time is now at hand that race business people should
WICHITA PEOPLE ARE PROSPEROUS
WICHITA PEOPLE ARE PROSPEROUS
We visited Wichita and met our old friend, Lieut. W A. Bettis, editor of the Wichita Protest and also the Rev. Mr. Sims, editor of the Negro Star. Both seem to be doing nicely.
We had the pleasure of attending St. Paul A. M. E. church of which the Rev. J. R. Ransom is pastor, and was called upon to make some remarks. Rev Ransom is progressing and the colored people are anxious to see him elected Bishop, and from
sell some of this product to their own race and are now going about trying to organize mercantile companies to do the very thing you and your white bosses do not want to see done. This will mean colored merchants on a large scale, colored clerks, large land owners; the doing away with peonage on farms and lumber camps, good school houses in every district, good teachers who know something and who will receive good salaries; those will teach by appointments at the hands of colored school boards or trustees not by designing and criminal white men who seek to destroy the virtue of most every colored lady who applies or some poor Eighth grade colored male teacher who has no opinion of his own who can teach the children absolutely nothing will be employed in her stead.
Yes the colored people who own all this property and use it at the sufferance of the white man, for when it comes to defending their rights to this property, they can do nothing for they have nothing to do in the making or exercising of the laws; therefore the white man can take or destroy the colored man's property or confiscate it at will. No property is of any consequence when the owner cannot vote for or against those who have the say of taxing it or passing on the legality of property rights. No county officer will listen to a man who can't exercise the right of franchise. This is greater than all the land and personal property in Arkansas. Personal and civil liberty is what these people who can own this wealth want and Mr. Joseph (Almighty) Booker, they want it and must have it. When the colored people come into these rights then the passing of this class of white men and yourself will take place, and innocent men like Hill will not be forced to seek protection in another state.
Now Bro. Hooker, you tell another falsehood when you say you have the best schools and the white and colored teachers get living wages. We know the average colored public school teacher in Arkansas does not get enough salary to live on and in most towns and cities the colored teachers of the same grade get less than the whites. The school system is rotten and you have more poor, ignorant white people in Arkansas than another state in the Union. Now you lie again about colored people returning to Arkansas from the North. We will pay you one dollar for every name you furnish of a real progressive, intelligent man or woman who believes in personal liberty that has come North and returned to Arkansas. We are not speaking of the type like yourself, who think they can't live unless some white man says so or who are too cowardly to stand alone in the fight for aoothold in this big world. Trot 'em out! We'll pay the bill.
To prove that you do not know what you are talking about or you think that all the people are foolish why did so many colored people leave Arkansas within the last three years and after the Elaine riot if they were doing so well and being treated the same as whites?
Now as to Northern newspapers and the injury to the people of the South, you and your white associates must not be doing the fair, square thing if these papers affect the mind of the people. No papers published in the south disturb us either in the North, East or West only when you mistreat the colored citizens as you did in the Blaine riot, then you are going to hear from these papers. It was our letter and editorial to the governor of your state that caused the calling of a meeting of both races at Little Rock that placed you on that commission. Although it has proven a sorry appointment we feel that if it was to do over again the sensible members of the race in that state would no doubt object.
Of course you have never been shot at or arrested. No Southern white man's "uglier" who does his bidding is ever harmed. Now Mr. Joseph (Almighties) Booker, big president of the Baptist college of Arkansas, your whole letter published in the Sunday Gazette of Little Rock shows you are a trucker, a tool and flaxer in the hands of designing white men of that state who use every effort to rob and cheat colored people out of their labor property, liberty, personal rights and our women of their virtue and integrity. Your fifty years in assisting them in this is too long and too much trouble to endeavor to change you at this late date, but let us say, Kansas will never return Robert Hill over to such a crowd as you represent.
NICK CHILES,
Editor The Topica Plaindealer and President Kansas Defense Society.
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the trend of things and from the talk over the country and from letters of endorsement coming from all over the United States, it seems as if he is in the running and will be heard from when the ballots are counted. Mrs. Della Junkin who visited the home of her cousin, Mr. William Downing in Newton, returned to her home in Bloomfield, Iowa. In Wichita everyone looks to Mrs. Ada Barton Coulter as one of the best business women in Kansas and the Middlewest. She has not only paid for the brick building where she conducts a prosperous hotel, has also purchased another brick building on North Main street. Mrs. Coulter is rated as being worth something like forty thousand dollars. She's a woman full of race pride and had it not bien for her the good people would not have owned any property on N. Main street. Mrs. Coulter went to
A.
NRS. ADA BARTON COULTER
Wichita a few years ago comparatively speaking without a dollar, but she now owns the building she occupies which gave the colored people a foothold on Main street. In addition to this Mrs. Coulter owns a handsome residence in Topeka on West street and other valuable holdings. She is a member of the Baptist church, a hard working lady and a help to the race. She is one of the shrewdest politicians in the state and can be relied upon to do her part in furthering the best interest of the race. Her husband is a member of the fire department. If we could find ten colored men in each state in the Union who had the push and energy and her brain power, the race would soon take its place along side of other races in the business world. May Mrs. Coulter live long and continue to make history for her sex and race.
Mr. Peter Coleman is doing nicely in the barber business. He conducts what might be called an "equal rights" shop with a soft dring parlor and cigar stand in connection. He is one of Wichita's leading business men.
We visited the office of Judge Freel C. Helm, who is located in the Massonic Temple and is enjoying a fine practice.
Attorney Freeman L. Martin is doing nicely and has a fine practice.
ROSES TOO LATE
Why is it that cheerful and loving words are only spoken, and pleasant thoughts expressed after a person is dead? What a pleasure it would be to them, while they are living, to hear these pleasant thoughts expressed. Yet, how many go through life with scarcely any kind words to cheer life's journey. No one has the time to stop, or even speak pleasantly to him, which would help cheer him on the way, or lift up his heart by doing a kind deed.
Why is it that during a person's life time we keep all the sunshine to ourselves instead of helping a person's life path to be clear as a sunny day?
Why is it that we wait until his heart is stilled in death, and cannot be thrilled by even a sound? Then we speak of some noble deed, or some act of kindness, and many to speak of his praises, but it is then too late, his ears are closed in death, and cannot hear those sweet expressions that are spoken; they came too late. Why not scatter the beautiful roses while they are living? Why not let them enjoy the sweet fragrance while life can receive its blessings? Why not hostow your love and kindness while they are living? Who cares for the beautiful roses that are placed upon their caskets, after they are dead? Love is shown too late for them to appreciate it. Upon the beautiful flowers that wait their fragrance in the breeze God has written "None of us liveth to himself." (MRS.) H. B WILLIAMS, Greenville, South Carolina
G. O. P. OF KENTUCKY GIVES RACE RECOGNITION
The Kentucky Republican convention, which contested at Louisville, Ky., March 3, endorsed A. T. Hert, Governor K. P. Morrow, Mrs. John Glover, south of Frankfort, and Dr. S. H. George, colored, of Paducah, Ky., as the four delegates from the state at large to the Republican convention in Chicago. The convention voted that they shall be uninstructed.
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RICHMOND, MISSOURI,
Mr, and Mrs. Blackburn and soa
of Centerviex, Mo., have moved here
to make this their future home,
The members of the Second Rap
tist church are elated over their rally
of Jast Sunday, $559 was ralxed
Dr, Coombs filled the pulplt at
the Second Baptist church on the
28th, The Poctor is an eloquent
bearer of the Masters word
Sunday, March 14 was rally day
for the membern of Ward Chapel,
Mr, John Crowley and son, Victor,
were visitors to our city, Saturday,
Victor was initiated into the Masonic
order that night. .
Mrs. Wim, Goole has been very Ul
ut her home on N, Main street, but
is much improved ta this writing,
Rev. N, T. Walker preached the
annual rally sermon at the Baptlat
church, Sunday, It was an hole ef-
fort.
Miss Nadine Rodgers has been i
the past few dass.
The sewing department of Lincoln
school ts making rapid progress and
whl have a creditabe exhibition of
work at the Iclose of the yenr,
Mr and Mrs, George Fowler wore
called to Kansas City on account of
®bo filness of Mrs. Marie Hill,
Mr. Iarris, the candy man, hax
purchased a cat—Hudson Six, Bro,
Chiles, he is waiting for you to visit
Richmond again,
We are rorry to note the editor of
the Plaindealer was painfully {ojured
while coming ont of an undertaking
establishment at Joplin. Be it re-
membered if he was flirting with the
undertaker, he got away with the
goods on him,
We extend an Invitation to the
parents and friends of education to
Pay the school a visit and see what
the children are doing and speak a
word of encouragement to them and
the teacher,
Keystone Lodge drive for a mem-
bership of 100 materalized and the
craft is happy, 7
S3e-* WINFIELD, KANSAS.
Miss Myra Franklin, of Kansas
City, Mo., arrived last week for a
visit with her parents, Mr, and Mrs
Henry Franklin,
Miss Ada Slaughter, who has been
spending the winter in California haa
retumed home,
The W. H. FL M. Circle met with
Mrs, Andy Charles last Friday. The
receipts from the serving wee $2025.
Miss Awilda Brown, who tr attend:
ing school at Manhattan, was called
home by the Illness of her brother,
Mr, Oscar Brown,
Little Beatty Jean Urown, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mre. Archie Hrowir,
Jr., is taking treatment at Sule
Mary's hoxpital
The Ladies’ Aid met with Mis. G.
J. Johnson, Friday «afternvon,
The young people will Kivs 0 Konk
fest at the Second Baptixt church,
March 17th, Nine Nationalities wit
be represented by choruses,
Miss Mattie Campbell 14 alls to be
out again after a few days’ iMnens
The funeral of Mrx. Mary Miles
was -beld from the Second Muptist
church, Thursday afternoon, Inter
ment In Highland cemetery,
* —-s GHETOPA, KANSAS.
Dr. Ryan, of Vinita, Oklahoma, is
attending at the bedside of Mrs,
Childers, who is improving slowly.
Misses R, Fogg, Clara Lyde,
Jzetta Majors, spent ast Sunday af
ternoon with Mrs, Smith,
Mrs, Pleas Trussell left for MI
dred to visit her brother and wife.
Mrs, Graves, of Parsons, came
down to visit her husband
Mrs, N. Holmes, Route 6, spent 3
few days with bome folks,
Mise Corne E. Reede and nephew
T,. R, Culberson, spent Thursday
evening with Mr, and Mrs, Ul)ses:
i, Smith,
VERNON, OKLAHOMA,
* Quite a lot of sickness in and
sround the city, and Pr. (. EB,
Cowper ls hept quite busy.
Mrs. Helle Hicks is at Guthrie In
a hospital, where she will underco a
surgical operation
Stone is being placed on the ground
for the erection of the new Iusiness
house of Mr. 8. 13, Dozler und also
the Masonle temple
Mr. Rt, M. Butts, the cattle king,
bar completed and moved bine bi
new residence, tsa tiles north of
town, He has made necerat ore
ewate ceils thin Keaton fm and
atennd Vernon Wikh we Ind a te
more like him. At present he Js dn
‘Texaé on a buslnesu trip
The farmers here are very bey
prevariig for thelr spring plaurng,
Cur school under the manager eit
o Pret, Wesley and Mra Wenley ft
pregieubing nicely,
News bas been recelyot tolling «1
the death of Prof. R, IH. Mitehs!.
He was a former resheat and teacle
erin Vernon. We ex'end sympathy
to the bereaved facliy.
; QUINDARO, KANSAS.
~ Mra, Ella Smith, of Ogden, Utah.
who bas been here to attend the fu-
neral of her alster, Lulu L. Jones,
27th and Douglas avenue, has re:
turned to her home,
Mrs, Lula Jones after two years
Ittnesa, died Feb, 18th, She was s
true Christian and a member of the
1st A. M. BE. cburch, Eighth and Ne-
Draska avenue, Kansas City, Kansas,
also @ member of Emma Vaughn
Chapter No, 70 and Court of Calenthe
No, 17, Kansas City, Mo. The re-
maing were interred in the family lot
Sunday, Feb, 22d at Springfield,
Mo.
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Card of Thanke—With heartfelt. ap-
preciation we desire to thank those
who so kindly and tenderly assisted
us during the filness and death of
our wife and sister, and those who
expressed thelr Jove and sympathy
In words of comfort, and in flowers
and songs at the services. May you
find similar friends to nssist you in
tlme of sorrow .—-Geo, 1 Jones, hus-
band; Ella Smith, sister; C. M.
Young, brother.
CHETOPA, KANSAS.
Mrs. George Washington who hi:
been nomewhat Indisposed ts able tr
be out again,
The many friends of Mra, Jeff
Ross of fola, extend sympathy dur
Ing the breavement caused by the de
mire of her husband,
Mesers H Arthur Thompson and
R. Anderson, of Oswero, attended
the funeral of Mr. Hosa and pati
thelr last respect to a brother Ma:
son,
| Mr. Ben Ezell, of Columbus, spent
Sunday at home,
Rev, J. 8, King and C. Dally
elneed a_euccessful meeting.
Tey. Prentis, of “Weir City, ix in
the city assisting In the meeting at
the Little Flock Baptist church,
Misxes C. Lydle, 1. Majors, Hazel
Fore and Mra. Rosalee Smith speat
Sundav at Oswego,
Shall we gather at the River, April
Sth Chetona Onera house,
Mrs Wale Horton entertained her
Mission Circle laxt Friday,
Miss If. Nash visited home folks,
Sunday.
Misa Hazel Fogg, of Pittsburg ts
in the eliv visiting,
Bills are aut announcing a grand
Taster ball at the onera house,
Mry Ulysses KR. Smith. ie promoter
and manager of the ball to be gehen
Easter at the opera house,
Mersrs P. li, Bassett, O, 1.
Revant. H, Ladie. W. J. Morgan and
Ulysses R, Smith were delegates and
Aliemnates to the county seat Fri-
jay.
Mrs, George Roberts will enter:
tain her Mission Circlo next week
The Netielhem Society was enter
tained last week by Miss Corine
Reede and alster, Mrs, Culbertson,
Mra. Chas, Daily “was hostess last
week,
PLEASANTON, KANSAS
Mr, and Mrs, Leslie Woodson and
jean, Homer, visited In the city, Sun
day,
Mra. Irene Brown went to Kansas
City, Monday,
| Messrs High Hilderidge and Wt!
lam Tivis, were In the city Tues
day.
The Good Fellowship club gave a
dance in the opera house Friday
night.
| Rev. Christopher and Mr. Joseph
Fine are very Ol at this woitine.
Rey, JE. Christopher, pastor of
the 4, ME. church in this celts,
marred away Thuraday evening He
has been in poor henlth for mare
than a vear. Is daughter, Mre
Irene Rrown returned from Kansas
City after a few days visit, Priday
moming,
Mra tna Rellainy, of Kansas City,
arrived from Kunsor City to xee her
father, Mr. Joseph Fine, who {9 very
mM.
Mr, Thomis Fine arrived = from
Wichita, Saturday ta be at the bed-
side of bls father Mr, Joseph Fine,
who ia critfeally it,
The funeral of Mev Christopher
will be held at the A. MW. EF. church,
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
Mr. and Mes. Harry Neaves, at
Ft Scott, arrived Saturday evening
to sisit the latter's mother, Mra.
Ina Retlams, of Kansas City and
grandparents, Mr. and Mra, Joseph
Fine,
Mr. Robert Fine, a student at the
Wertern Unlversity, Quindaro, ar.
rived Friday for a short vist with
his parents, Mr, and Mrs, BE. W,
Fine,
Rev. Rarkadale, presiding elder,
arrived Saturday to attend the fu:
neral of Rev, Christopher.
Miss Ruth Smith. of Kanaas City,
arrived Sunday to visit Mr, and “re
G, W, Arnold and family,
Mr. R. FE, Fine returned from Ft
Beott, Monday morning,
Mrs. Irene Brown went up to La
Cvene Monday evening,
Rey. and Mra, Joneen left Monday
evening for LaCvene. where they
wl make their future home,
Mra, Irene Rrown returned from
LaCygne, Tuorday evening.
CARBONDALE KANSAS
Mr, Willim Foster attended the
hoard meeting at the Kansas Sun
Tower association at Ottawa, and re-
porta a succerstul meeting Whilo
there le wan a guest at the T OR
Rodgers home ant wax hiehiv et
tertalned by Mr. and Mra, Kodgers,
In the afternoon we motored to the
country to visit the home of Me Wine
Meliriar und wax aceomuanied hy
Mr Rodgere Hen Wash, | Sree
Umer), and J, Q Carson, Mr Me:
Brlar is one af the prosperous firm
Pra of Franklin county the owner of
a farm of 258 neres in the Marlis
ey Cyrene botions While ther
Mra, McDrier served a delicious sup.
per, after which we motored to the
Ranthet church where 9 onbllo msl.
ing was held fn the interest of the
Bunflower association, Short talk
were made by J. Rh. Rodgera, Ren
:
‘Wash, Arthur Fimery and J, G. Car
son and William Foster.
|, Mise Daisy Foster and Mr, G, K.
Bevonsld visited the former's home,
Mr, and Mre, William Foster.
Mies Abbie Foster visited the
home of her parents last Saturday.
Bawin S. Foster, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm, Foster, is attending Cor
nell University and will graduate io
1921 from the college department.
ATCHIBON, KANSAS,
! Rey, G. B. Billops, pastor of the
'A, M. B. church, who bas been fr
|‘omaha. Nebr.. hetping Rev, Wil
liame with @ meeting, has returnec
and reports a very excellent meet
ng.
Mrs Roy Harper left Wednesday
for Omaha, Nebr., to vivsit het
brother. Mr. Stanton Roy and from
there she will go to Denver, Cola.,
Yo visit other relatives and friends.
She expects to stay & month,
Mrs, Robert Finney, 415 M strees.
‘as called to Kansas City on account
¢{ the serious fliness of her son.
| The Utopia Art and Reading club
was very pleasantly entertained at
the residence of Mrs, Jobn Kelly,
805 Main street,
Orcar Brunett was sertousty {n-
fured Saturday bv being mashed hy
a ¢rane at Seaton's foundry, wacre
te was employed He was rushed to
Inem can be raved.
Mr. George Irving has purchased
a handsome, new automobile and ts
erecting & garage at his home on N
Second street
Mra Anna Potter dled at the coun.
ty home Thuraday. Feb, 26th, Shoe
was one of the pioneers of this part
of the state hasing lived In the Port
Williams settlement, She was the
mother of Mrs Sallie Corporal who
survives her, She was buried in the
Sumner centers
The Vaughn sisters of Quindars,
will ive a musicale at the AM. E,
church, Rev, Vaughn will alro
lecture Sunday afternoon,
THE LAND WHERE THE
RACE 1S PROSPERING
| We find pleasure in visiting Great
Flend, the colored people seem #0
hapmy and doing so well, To vist
the home of Mr. Arthur Robinson
and mother, twelve miles south of
the Hend. ts a soures of pleasure
We called up and joung Robinson
came with his Cole 8 and not to ev-
J cred thirty minutes we were at the
palattal country home of the Robin-
sons. ‘The house is modern with
electric Hxnt, bath and richly fur
nished, Here we met Mrs. Itobin-
son and her daughter, Mra, Pope who
makes her home there at the present
lime also the youngest son of Mrs.
Robinson, also daughter from Co-
manche county, We ate plenty of
country ham, home-mada sausig',
hot biscuits, jelly and prearres,
Mrs. Robinson {s a fine business wo-
man. She has six sons and three
daughters Ising. This land waa
homesteaded by her husband forty
years ago. Me died several years
ago. She held to the farm, managed
and directed the boys until they
could take hold and manage. Arthur
fs the manager whilst the other boys
have gone further west and taken
up tand for theniselves, othera are
carpenters and contractors, The
race can succeed If the care to this
family {s a living example. Mrs,
Pope and two of her daughters make
their horae and assist in managing
affairs. Mrs. Pope looks well and
from her appearance country life
agrees with her,
‘The man who $s keeping pace with
the business world is the Rey. J. Hi,
Ramey, pastor of the Rapt{xt church
and owner of the blggest junk yard In
this section of the state. He is a
Using osample of how mon of the
race can sueceed if they apply honest
principles and‘methoile in their daily
life, Hid friends are numbered
[nmiong both races and they look to
him when it comes to busiiess along
his line, Ils home ls the mecca for
the visitor, His wife wha if a ben
erous hearted Christhin, §9 alwava
glad to divide a meal with a stranger
or. friend, Long Nye this fine Chris
‘Lan couple,
} Mr, Frank Robinson, the cantrac-
tor and carpenter, {a completing a
iwelee room rexidenca at 1620 Mor
ton street at a cow of $1000, Tt
will be when completed, one of the
fineat houses in the Bend.
iltie we met the Rev. F. it.
Raker who makes the Heng his head:
quarters, He is pastor of the firat
Baptist church at Jetmore, fle has
4o memtera and took in a number
of new ones since he has been in
tha3a, He is doing fine, and tor
merly held a charge in Topeka, be-
ing pastor of the East Hill Baptist
church,
Mr. Harry Johnson who works for
the Northup Auto Co., js a former
student of Western University, He
Is an expert auto mechanic, The
firm sent him to Kansas City, Mo.,
to attend the auto exbibit so as to
be able to keep up with all the latest
improvements,
Kev. 8, B, Anderson, pastos ct
the A, M, E. church has made tev-
eral improvements jn the short time
he ban been here: Put in electric
lights Jo front of the church, also a
borch on the parsonage and bullt
conerete steps for the church, He
jtaund things run down and In bad
conditlon,
We met Rey, Matt Jones, who re-
sides near Garden city and is ens
raged In preaching and farming, He
ia doing fine, The Baptist church
can well feel proud of him, He ts
district missionary, and @ i¢e man
'who helieves In progress,
Judge Hall, of the probate court,
one of our old subscribers, He ts
ane white min who enjoys reading
colored Jiterature,
; @ Wo tevin be Janitor wt the new
court house,
| Mra Ethel Mischenu Wlisen ia a
splendid music teacher and haa a
Terge claew
A oT Hocker fa a prosperous citl
ann He owns a tol hall, barber.
shop and plenty of chickens and a
number of fine hogs — Mra, Rooher
In a fine business lady and la her
husband's banker,
1 0, W. Dawson, the mayor, Is a
Kood friend of the race, He a fn the
lead for delegate to the national con:
vention from the big Seventh,
eran eye eae” Aled ez a! ete shame
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(First Published in The Plaindealer
Friday, March 5, 1920.)
In the District Court of Shawnee
County, Kansas,
Annabel Sima, Plaintif,
vs, No, 33008,
Paul Sims, Defendant,
PUBLICATION NOTICE
To Paul Sims, greetingw: You are
hereby nolified that you have been
sued by the plaintiff, Annabel Sims,
in the above entitled cause for 1
ivoree, in the District Comt of
Shawnee County, Kansas,
You are further notifled that yon
must answer the petition Mel herein
on oF before the 26th day of Apri
1920, or sald petition will be taken
as true and judgment for a divores
wil be rendered against you, accord:
ingly, ANNABEL SIMS
By ELISHA SCOTT,
Attorney for Plalntim,
(Attest) Marv FE. Chapin, Clerk,
By G, D, McElbenney, Deputy.
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| - -DURINGTHEWEE &
ITS
Mr, and Mrs, Allen Alexander left
this ‘week for an extended trip to
Hot Springs, Ark., aod a vielt with
relatives in Memphis and Murfrees-
boro, Tenn.
WANTED: A position ae teacher.
Several years experience, Ad-
dress Miss Jessie Carter, 1763 Marl-
on Street, Denver, Colo.
Dr. 8S. H. Warfield. who ts now
located In Detroit, Mich., where he
is practicing medicine, was @ recent
visitor in the city as the guest of bis
mother, Mra. W. I, Warfleld.
The funeral of Mr. John Cole,
was held at Brown Chepel, on last
Wednesday, the Rev. J. Jo Wauur,
officiating.
Mr. Ivan Johnson, who han been
indisposed fs able to be at bie
studies again.
Mr. and Mra, Clarence Richadeon,
npent the week end with Mrs, Rich-
ardeon’s Mother, Mra, Mary Smiley
on Jackson Street.
Mrs. Will Price of Oklahoma, Ja In
the city at the bedside of her daugh-
ter, Mrs, Sims on Buchanan street.
Mrs, Fred Buckner is able to be
ont again after an attack of Influen-
em
LOST RELATIVE—T would Ike to
. _ learn the whereabouts of John Clit-
, ton, formerly of Topeka. When last
heard of was in California, ia
wife’s name vas Lula. Any infor
mation witl be gladly welcomed by
Mrs. Luella Workeuff, $18 Michigan,
Kansas City, Mo,
Mra, Lindsay Taylor, formerly of
‘Topeka, is confined to her bed with
Pneumonia, at her home in Kan-re
City, Kansas, = The Platndealer
aishes for Mrs. Taslor, a xperdy re-
covery.
WANTED—Firetclass barber, young
man preferred, also a good proaser
or bushelman, Write, D. E. Nichols,
219 N, 9th Street, Lincoln, Nebr.
Word comes from Californit that
Mr. Jas, Scott, formerly of this civ,
but now of Loa Angeles. was struck
by an eutomobile recently, At this
writing he is considerably tmproved,
Mrs, Lucile Reeves, o1¢ of To-
peka’s registered nurses, has just
returned from Osage City, where sha
has been nursing fora week, = Mire,
Reeves is the daughter of Mr RT.
Morgan, one of Topeka’s old and
respected citizens and a eraluate of
Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.
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WANTED—Middle aged woman to
cook or to ansist in cooking <A
Permanent home if desired —G.W.
MeCord, 310 Kansas Ave, Topeka,
Kansas.
See Miss Henrietta Stewart, who
has Snangurated a subscription cam-
raign for The Topeka laindester
She wil! be at your home to see you,
algo visiting the schools of the city
offering prizes to school children
for the largeat number of subscrip-
tlons, She will visit the pastors
and churches to get thelr support in
this work.
COMING AGAIN! WHAT? WHY
“Farm Folks" of course, Played bv
the Mt Olive Dramatic Club, at the
Mt Olive M, BE. Church, Frifay eve,
Mrreh 26th, 1920, A play with a
rplendid cast and well worth seeing
Come out and bring jour friends,
Admission 25 centr, Church at
corner of 12th street and Buebannn,
Ber. T. F, Saunders, Pastor.
Seo Mins Uenrietta Stewart, who
“as Inaugurated a subscrintion cam:
mann for The Topeka VPlaindea r
She will bs at your home fg see sou,
alvs visiting tha schonts of the ‘Hy,
offering prizes to school children for
the Jargest number of subscriptions,
She will visit partora and churches
fo Ret their support In the work,
WHY DO VOU WEAR GRAY HAIR?
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color and reduce your aged appear.
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a bottle, Sold or applied by H. TW.
-CHOTEAU. Halr Specialist, 110 Kan-
ras Ave., Topeka, Kansas,
Mra, Mattie Sawyer Powers of
Talley, Colo., and Mrs, M,W.Moore
of Pueblo. Colo,, were called to this
city to attend the funeral of thelr
brother. Mr. Spotwood Ellis, which
wan held on Monday afternoon from
Stonestreet'a Chapel, Mr. Filis
was a member of the famous 23rd
cantmant ak ‘Ganana Sialinicace cack
Tetitor, Toneka Plaindealer,
Tear Editors Pleuse ray that the
entire western country fa for Rev
7.K, Ransom for Bishon, 1 have
been an far as Idaho and F find that
all that enuntrs Ja for hin. | Tam
now enraute to Oswego and Chetopr
fo pastar the AM =f, chureh at
those places,
Rey. Calvin Parratt
Card of Thanks,
We wish to thank our many frienda
for thelr kindnese during tha jIneas
of our brother, Sratsnol! Ellis, and
alao for the beautiful floral offer
ings.—Mre. Mattle Sawyer Powers,
‘Mrs. M. W. Moore. Lawrence Ellls,
Abe Ellis, Jerry Elile. ,
oa LEE-NORWOCOD. *
we ore is receipt of a Sancance:
ment of the marriage of ples .
Tice Lee to Dr. LAncoln 1 Norwood,
at t&9 residence of Prof. J.R.E. Lee
in-Kaneaw Orty, Mo. on Wednesday,
March 3, 1920,
Mins Lee, the daughter of Prof.
Lee, prominent Missourl educator,
{9 an accomplished muscian and a
former teacher at the Kansas Edu:
cational and Industriel Institute of
this city, Ske also taught in the
State Normal at Jefferson City, Mo.
Dr. Norwood is one of the prom!-
nent young physcians of Kantaa City,
Mo., and is rapidly growing in de-
mand as a practtoner and man of
affairs.
The Plaindealer wishes these
young people a happy and prosperons
Journey through life,
Funeral Notice.
We are In receipt of a notice of
the desth of Mrs. Jennle Wheat,
mother of our, friend, Mr. Theo
Baughman, who yassed away on
Tuesday eveniug, Feb, 17, in Tulsa,
Okla., at the age of 85 years. The
funeral was held at the C.M.E.
Church, the Rev, C. R. Tucker, of-
flclating, She wasa member of the
Daughters of Tabor and the Sisters
of the Mysterious Ten,
Mr, Baughman has our deepest
sympathy fn the loss of his only true
and best friend, She was bighly
respected and has 3ived the life of
a Christian and was loved by all wha
knew her.
MRS. ESSIE CLARK
Announces to
the public her
opening of the
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1B; MYRTLE HANKS)
Mra, A. Larkin and Mrs, G, Ta)-
or are on the sick Mst.
Mr, A, Holloway met with an
accident one day last week while
working for the Missour! Pacific
R. R, Compony, At this writing
he is much better.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Larkin have
moved from 2ist and Madison to
Z2nd and Jefferson Sts.
Mr, Albert Martin fs able ta he
out again after being confiued to
his home several days on account
of flness,
The Elder Blossom Club was en-
Davenport at her home on 25th and
tertained Friday by Mrs. Nannie
Adams,
Sat. Wm, Hamilion of Leaven-
worth was in, the city last week,
While here he stopped with Res, and
Mis, T. W. Greene,
A birthday party in honor of
Clarence by his brother, Howard
Clark at the home of their Aunt,
Mrs. Esxle Clark this week, Those
Prevent were: Misses Helen Finney.
Bertha Porter, Myrile Mauka, Ta
Nora Tyler, Mildred Tyler, Corinne
Knlebt, Effie Crith, Ruth Baker,
Ida Bradley, Margaret Winchester,
Alberta Campbell, Mra, Lucile Clark,
Mesura, Channes Jackson, Samy>
son Smith, Karl Ream, James Jones,
Francis Jackson. Henry Wilson, Clhde
Crith, Clarence Clark and Howaid
Clark, — An enjoyable evening was
spent’ by all present, — During the
evening Mr, Clark called his mother
over long distance phone and tet her
Nsten in on the good times which
were going on,
Serst. Frank Lee, Mrs. Anna
Johnson and Miss Henrietta Stewart
ere making & campaign for 1,000 new
subscribers for The Topeka Plaine
dealer in the city, Besides a Hberal
commission, a prize of $15 for first
and $10 for second will be given to
the one recuring the largest number
of cash subscribers in 30 dayn If
jou are not a reader, sou had better
take advantage of this opportunity
and at the same time assiat a friend.
BOITOR CHILES ADDRESSES
STUDENTS AT K,. E. ANDI, 8
| Editor Chiles, as guest of the facul-
ity and students of the Kansas Eit-
cational and Industrial Institute, on
Tuesday, spoke at the morning chavel
exercises on questions of vital im-
portance to the young Negro boy and
girl of today. Mr, Chiles reviewed
bis early Mfe, citing the many ups
and downs which confronted his peo-
ple in the struggle for education and
recognition, He advised the young
People to prepare themselyes for fue
ture usefulness and service to the
race and humanity. He praised the
work being done by Prof, Bridge
forth and his corps of workera aud
urged the young people into a fuller
realization of the gigantic tuxk resi
ing upon the shoulders of the rixing
kenerutions and the demand for
strong, fearlesa race loving leaders.
Me was guest at the noon day
luncheon prepared by the culinary de-
partment and returned to his annctum
Inspired and delighted by Als visit.
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TOPEKA, — — -— KANSAS
(RRR 9 9 0 2 2
Mrs. Mattie Sawyer Powers, of
Bailey, Colo., in company with ber
sister, Mrs. M, W. Moore, of Pueblo,
Colo., were delightful callers at The
Plaindealer one day last week. Thev
had been called home on a very sad
mission, to attend the funeral of their
brother, Mr, Spotwood Ellis, Mrs.
Powers fs a life long friend of The
Plaindealer and says that she and
her husband can't keep house with:
ont it, and to préve her assertion,
skinned $13.50 off of a large roll of
bills and settled her subscrintion.
Mrs, Powern and her huaband set:
ed in Bailey several years ago and
fre the only colored people in the
place, They are thrifty, industrious
Qnd saving and now own the block
In which they live save one house.
Thelr houses ore all nice, cozy rest
dences and cceupled, They own u
pleasure car and also a truck and re-
Alize over $28 per day profit from use
of the truck. Mrr, Powers and
aleo Mrs, Moore, whos husband
operates two paving tonsorial pariora
in Pueblo, bate a host of good, warm
Lersoual friends in Topeha and many
dinners, etc. were riven in their hon:
or: in fact It would have required a
month or more for them to have fil-
led all of the social engagements
‘panned for them The Platndealer
hopes their proeperity will continue
jand that they will “visit the elty
‘when they can spend more time,
HOSPITAL RECEIVES SUPPORT
—B!iG WORK AT NEGRO SCHOOL
The state board of administration
together with the board of trustees
of the Kansas Educations! and Indus-
triat Institute met on the campus
this week to consider matters of in
bortance relative to increasing the
sleeping accomodations of the si1-
dents to accomodate 200 girls and
200 boys for the coming pear, Jn
slew of the splendid work being ac:
complished at this time, it is neces-
Bary that more room be had to care
for the large numbers who are apply
ing for entrance next fall. Prof,
Bridgeforth reports the school in a
Most flourishing condition and the
Prospects good for the coming year.
Another matter of Importance Is
the building of the hospital and the
state board has been urged to start
work as soon as possible, This fen-
ture of the school is being pushed
by a number of civic organizations
and work will soon start,
COUNTY COMMISSIONER THIRD
piarTaAicr_
_ Mr, Ed Buckman, one of Shawnee
county's prominent citizens and a re
tired farmer, is a candidate for coun-
tv commissioner of the Third dis.
irlet. Including the country on the
south side of the river und the Fifth
and Sixth Wards. He Is one of
the substantial business farmers of
the state, a high class Christian pen-
tleman, a taxpayer and {s much fn-
terested In good roads, good govern:
ment and gKood peopl>, He save he
has the support of most all of the
people aw they know he will do what
he promises, He has been a Repuh
Mean all of his iife, He resides at
16IX Guthrle and wants your vote
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As was announced, Mrs. Henrietta Harper of Kansas, but now a member of our church, appeared before the Interdemonialational Alliance on Monday and before the largest and most intelligent gathering of both Ministers and members of the various churches delivered the most telling account of her Mission in connection with the "Kansas Defense Society," of which she is a member and special agent.
Mrs. Harper unquestionably is the most talented woman so far that has appeared in our community, and the Ministers have done their duty to indorse her, and to start off by arranging a great mass meeting in one of our largest churches that the greatest number of our people can hear, after this she will appear in the several churches at the invitation of individual Ministers.
Owing to the inclement weather our attendance both at Sunday School and divine services was small but the spirit of each service was not abated.
Great preparations are being made for the Aniversary Exercises of our Deaconesses which will take place Sunday at 3 p. m. We cordially invite all Ministers and Deaconesses, and all the friends to attend.
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Our present day civilization rests on the foundation work of the Greeks, Romans, Teutons, and Hebrews. "If the Greek was to enlighten the world if the Roman was to rule the world, if the Teuton was to be the common discipline and emissary of both, it was from the Hebrew that all were to learn the things that belong to another world." The Hebrews bequeathed to us our ideals of character and personal conduct blending in relationship to the one God, Jehovah, father of us all. Their living representative of the highest type of personal purity and virtue was Jesus Christ, born in the Roman Province of Bethlehem of Judea, 1920 years ago. Though one of them he was not accepted by the Jews as the true Messiah since he did not move as a temporal ruler but rather as a spiritual ruler, one to rule the hearts of men from his time through countless ages as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Jesus was the founder and main spring of our Christian religion and all of our worship devotion, and praise is to him.
Jesus Christ is our guide and model of perfection, the embodiment of human kindness, love and truth. We worship and revere the Savior of the world and our hope of personal salvation rests in his hands. Coming down to modern times the nearest parallele to the life and principles for which he stood may be found in the life of a man who was born in a log cabin in Hardin County Kentucky, February 12, 1800—Abraham Lincoln. He was the sixteenth president of the United States, the emancipator of four million slaves—the savior of the Union and the principles of a centralized democracy with "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" and in consequence the greatest world character the nineteenth century produced
Without going into the familiar details of the life of Lincoln and the Master it will be seen that the circumstances surrounding their birth, early training and type of training, their ultimate mission in the world, and the attitude of their contemporaries toward them, all bear points of similarity. "He is diecised and relicted of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." Lincoln likewise had a large part of the nation arrayed against him and the feeling of the European family of nations was against him. His stand on the grave problems of state was warmly and openly criticised by even his colleagues. Finally by a strange coincidence he met his death at the hands of an assassin on good Friday, the same day on which our Lord was crucified.
God the Father sent his son Jesus into the world that the world through him might be saved. "He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed." In the manner God the Father sent Lincoln into the world to be the sage, the liberator of four million human beings from the shackles of slaves. He was sent into the world to indicate the principles of the founders of our nation that "all men are created free and equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights and among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Lincoln is the embodiment of the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man. He knew no race prejudice, no color line, no class distinction. His simple creed was "mature toward none and charlie for all." Lincoln was sent into a world to prove that honesty is the best policy. This was to such a degree that his name goes down in history as "Honest Abe."
We worship and recognize first of all Jesus Christ. In casting around for a second we need only to turn to Lincoln whose life should be an inspiration to all generations. For choice literature we recognize first of all the Bible as a second we must consider the life of Lincoln which was so much like unto that of many of us to lay a struggle against poverty, against adversity, and against abuse. To the young people particularly the Recorder recommends the life of Lincoln for careful study and consolation. To be ignorant of Lincoln and the principles for which he stood is to be lacking in education. Lincoln is dead yet his spirit lives and like John Brown his soul is marching on -Editoriel From The Saint John Recorder.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor Plaidealer: Pleasant sav to the many readers of your paper that his financial drive at St. Luke A. M. B church closed last Sunday with $1073.87, leaving a balance on note of $344. We are all happy. J. T. SMITH, Pastor.
CHUMS OF BOYHOOD RALLY TO LOWDEN
THE LOWDEN SWIMMING HOLE
Early Friends of Governor Bee Village Famous as Cradle of President —"Born in Sunrise and Been Awake Ever Since."
Sunrise, Minn., a sleepy little village with a population of 200, has found a place in the political sun. Politics has put the village on the map and it expects to stay there. For Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, one of the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, was born in Sunrise fifty nine years ago. His boyhood chums and neighbors are conscious of the fame thrust upon them. Perhaps the most enthusiastic Lowden for president club in the country is the one that meets in Sunrise, now in the village hall, now in Andrew Lind's general store.
It is many years since the Lowdens made their home in Sunrise—more than a half a century, in fact—but the village it never forgot in the family, least of all "little Frank." The old shed where Lorenzo Lowden, the governor's fall, had his blacksmith shop still stands. It is the property of the Lowden in children, used only for storage purposes—and for the ghost games with the folk say, were started by Ita'la Lowden. The Lowden home still stands, too. It is an old fashioned dwelling that occupies a rise of ground two miles from the village. There is a third building in Sunrise that figured in the governor's lowhood. That is the schoolhouse. Lorenzo Lowden labored to build it so his boy could have a schooling. The one room structure is but a stone's throw from the blacksmith shop. It is no longer a school, having been succeeded by a more modern building, but is now the village hall. A picture of the Illinois governor hangs on the wall, and under its roof the Lowden club holds meetings.
The Sunrise folk are full of stories about Frank Lowden.
"He was a studious child," said Henry Voss, one of the governors who describes "After he had learned to read he used to walk back and forth between the school and home, a distance of two miles, carrying a book before his face. The boys would speak to him and he wouldn't answer. If we annoyed him when he was interested he would stop and trounce us. Or," Voss added, with a twinkle, "at least he'd try to."
In a bond of the river near town is the swimming hole where Frank's career was almost cut short. The boy was passionately fond of the water and in the spring could scarcely wait for the he to go out.
"Snow right over there in the center?" asked Voss. "That's where Frank nearly downed. Trying to do what the older and stronger boys did he got up on the springboard and plunged off in ten feet of water. Then, Voss saw his head lob up, go down, come up a second time and again disappear. Then dived in a few feet down the current cut, in him by the hair and dugged him ashore. We pointed the water out of him and in a few minutes he was as tight as ever."
"Lowland's swimming hole" is still popular with the boys of the neighborhood.
Many of the governor's old friends are now at North Branch, ten miles from Sunnyside. Among them is S. W. Kungan, who had something to do with rank's education.
"I taught Frank to hunt squirrels," said Rumyam. "We covered many a mile of this country with our gun and dogs."
The Lowden's left Sunrise in the late Styles. The last picture of Frank's boyhood that remains with the old residents is that of a sturdy little chap, dressed for travel, marching off down the road behind the "prairie schooner" that bore all the Lowden effects to their new home in Iowa. There was nothing forlorn about the picture. The boy was cheerful, widenake and on the lookout for something to do. Alertness was characteristic of him.
Said Henry Voss, the village philosopher, speaking of his old friend:
"Frank was born here in Sunrise, and it kind of appears that he has been awake ever since."
FARMERS TO PUSH LOWDEN
Harvey J. Sconce Quits Agricultural Post to Work for Governor.
Harvey J. Sconce, a former baseball star of the University of Illinois, has resigned as president of the Illinois Agricultural association to devote his entire time to organization work among the farmers of the middle West in the interest of Gov. Frank O. Lowdon's candidacy for president. He will make a tour of North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and other states talking to the farmers.
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Behind all proper advancement is one eternal, ever present, infinitely wise and all controlling first cause, and that first cause is God, Ruler of the universe. But upon whatever lines the leaders of reform have advanced, they have been confronted at every step by formidable oppositions and misrepresentations. Torture and frequently death has been the penalty. Instead of the church being the happy exception, it has furnished the most appalling ordeals through which the leaders of progress have been forced to pass.
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