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NET EDITOR MITCHELL TRAVELS "BIRTH OF A NATION"—TRAGIC SCENES EXHIBITED IN SAN FRANCISCO—ON THE WAY TO LOS ANGELES—INTERESTING RECITAL AND PLAIN STATEMENTS. When I left the Johnson home Saturday morning, it was with a desire to roam over San Francisco, to gaze in the windows, to loiter in the streets and to observe the crowd of shoppers burrying to and fro. I had my wishes gratified. I purchased some souvenirs, kept off the street-cars and covered many miles in my perambulations through the streets of this truly remarkable California city. San Francisco, though has never impressed me like New York city or even Chicago. To my mind, the city proper resembles Philadelphia more than it does New Orleans. The wonderful Golden Gate, the magnificent park and the salubrious climate are features that appeal to me. PECULIAR WEATHER CONDITIONS But as a "wonder city," I have been disappointed. There was one "cling I could not understand. It wouldn't be cold in San Francisco, and right across the bay it would be pleasant in Oakland. Many "sky-scrapers" are in evidence in San Francisco and there are colored people there, but nothing like as many as one would see in New York or Chicago. As a matter of fact, I rarely saw colored people in San Francisco. Chinatown is no longer a place of attraction as it was in "days of yore." I went up to the neighborhood, but it seemed deserted. Upon the occasion of my previous visit to the Coast, it was illuminated and the business there was in "full blast," but all of this was changed. COMMOTION AT THE WHARE. I had forgotten to state that when I first left the wharf at the ferry, I saw a crowd of Chinamen and then I saw Meyer Rolfe, of San Francisco, with his associates. The Chinamen wore silk hats. I could not tell what it was all about, but finally I heard someone say in English, "There he is!" I saw a party of Chinese or Japanese. I had been unable on the Coast to tell one from the other as both now wear their hair cropped close. It was the Ambassador from Washington, and he had his retinue of attendants with him. They were royally received, and they entered the carriages, which were waiting. TOM DIXON'S PLAY. I saw no references to the affair in the newspapers and I could not make out just what had taken place. I had seen in the newspapers that the play, "The Birth of a Nation" would be exhibited at one of the theatres and I made up my mind to see this photoplay of the "Clanman" in all of his hideousness for myself. It was scheduled to take place at 2 11. M., and I was at the theatre before that time. I went into the place and took a reserved boat. It was not long before I was fanked by white people, and two elderly white ladies were near me and they discussed the play as it proceeded. A LADY'S COMMENT "It was all a mistake," one of them said. "The Negroes should never have been given those rights and privileges. Poor things. I do not know, tough, that they were so much to blame." I read on the screen the first announcement of the management, disclaiming any intention to create race-feeling or to disturb the friendly relationship between the races. The pictures were marvels of excellence from a purely mechanical standpoint, but ridiculously absurd in many particulars to one who had lived in the Southland and knew of many of the incidents, which these pictures professed to portray. A BOUTHERN SCENE. I saw the southern score, of a family of wealthy southerners, who in turn was receiving a northern gentleman into its bosom as its guest, of the declaration of war, of the northerner leaving for his home, after having won the affection of the southern bell. The scene shifted rapidly to the battle scenes, all skillfully made up, of the success of the northern armies despite the valor of the southern ones. Then the poor Negroes were lugged into the play as conceiving all manner of derailty, whereas, previous to this time, they had been portrayed as friendly home servants. The management must have "ran (Continued on Fifth Page.) I'aned Away. ALBRIGHT—Entered into eternal rest at the residence of her daughter Alice Albright, 3111½ E. Preston St. Thursday, January 13, 1916, 6:30 P. M., Mrs. Mary J. Albright, mother of the late Philip, Frank and Harrison Albright. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. Funeral, January 16, at one o'clock P. M. from the abode residence, Rev. R. J. Bass obitulating. The Royerdend was at his best, proaching a pathetic sermon. The singing also was helpful and inspiring—"Savior, Let Me Walk With Thee," and "Never Alone." The palearcares both active and honorary were the immediate neighbors. Several handsome designs were sent by Captain Epps and his staff and friends of the deceased. She was told to rest in Greenwood Cemetery in a handsome steel vault of late design. Funeral Director A. D. Price obitulated. --- In' Memoriam In sad, but loving remembrance of my dear daughter, Rosa Holmes, who departed this life four years ago today, January 14, 1916: The midnight stars are beaming Upon the silent grave. Where sleeps without dreaming. The one we could not save. She had passed the valo of shadows. She has crossed the narrow sea. And beyond the crystal river, She is waiting now for me. Oh! May we meet dear Rosa, Where friends no more shall weep. For those who die in Jesus. Their death is only sleep. Her Mother. In Memoriam. In loving remembrance of our dear father, who has left a vacant place in our home that cannot be filled. In Memoriam. JACKSON...In loving memory of my dear father and mother, Moses H. and Charlotte V. Jackson, who departed this life, January 14th and 18th, 1903 respectively. W. H. Jackson In Memoriam Lincoln—In sad but loving remem- berance of our dear son and brother Irvin B. Liggins, who entered into rest two years ago, January 4, 1914. In the graveyard softly sleeping Where the flowers gently wave. Lies the one we loved so dearly In the cold and silent grave. Sacred Concert at Bethel A. M. E. A grand Sacred Concert will be given at Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday afternoon, 3:30 P. M., January 30, 1916, under the auspices of the Stowardusses. Program—Song, Sixth Mt. Zlon Junior Choir; scripture reading, Miss Julia Augustus; prayer, Mrs. Annie K. Johnson; song, Choir; recitation, (selected) Mrs. M. E. Wynatte; address, Miss Ada C. Baytop, subject, "The Woman Worth Whilo," duet, Missa Viola and Gertrude Logan; recitation, "Prayer and Potatoes," Miss Maggie Coleman; reading (selected) Mrs. Louise T. Deane; offering, Miss Lucinda Smith and Mrs. M. E. G. Taylor; solo, Mr. Richard Boverly; remarks, Rev. S. S. Morris. Miss A. F. Ruffin, Mistress of Ceremonies. Mrs. M. A. B. Smith Mrs. J. H. Coleman Committee. What the Needle Art Club is Doing An unpleasant afternoon was a great hinderance to the club Thursday, January 13, at the home of Mrs. Rosa Randolph. Few members were present. We accomplished lots of dainty needle-work and truly regret the loss of a meeting day. The hostess, Miss Mildred Price, served an enjoyable and dainty luncheon—Aisland, Va. Miss D. Ethel Norrell was married to W. H. Johnson, Jr., of Frederickburg, Va., December 23, 1915 in Washington, D. C. Home, 613 Mediterranean Avenue, Atlantic City N.J. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1916 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MEMORIAL FUND To the Colored People of the United States: The Trustees of the Tukegee Normal and Industrial institute are undertaking the task of raising a BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MEMORIAL FUND of TWO MILLION DOLLARS in memory of the great American who passed to his reward, Sunday, November 14, 1915. Quite properly, the Trustees have felt that the "bed-rock" of interest in this effort must rest with the Colored people, who in their letters to Tukegee Institute, following Dr. Washington's death, gave such warm assurances of support, to the end that the work of Tukegee Institute may be perpetuated and preserved as a permanent memorial to the man who gave all that he could give—his very life, to the cause of his people. The Trustees have requested me to take charge of the special campaign among the Colored people. It is believed that they will welcome the opportunity of contributing at least $250,000 as the Trustees and public expect, as their part of this Memorial Fund. It has been suggested, in the raising of this Fund, that subscriptions be invited under certain group heads. It is felt that there are those of the race who would like to contribute under the group heads named below: The Officers and Members of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools; The Officers and Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; The Officers and Members of Fraternal and Secret Society Organizations, to join us in the effort we are making to meet the just expectation of those who are looking to the Colored people, through this movement, to show their own interest in perpetuating Dr. Washington's monument by the preservation of Tuskegee Institute, and also to show their appreciation of his labors so unselfishly rendered in their behalf. It is hoped that the officers of these organizations will take the forward part in helping us to arouse and keep alive interest in this movement by direct appeals to their members. Teachers in schools, both public and private, are also invited to share the labors of this effort. To that end they are requested not only to work up interest in the movement, but also to take a collection from among the children of the various schools throughout the country on April 5th, 1916. It is also earnestly urged that Sunday, March 12, 1916, be set aside as a special day upon which to raise a collection in all the Colored churches and Sunday. Schools throughout the country toward this Fund. In order that the machinery and cost-of-collection may be reduced to a minimum, it has been decided by the Trustees of the Institute that no agents or special solicitors shall be apointed, and that all funds collected be sent directly to, and acknowledged from Tuskegee Institute. Checks may be drawn to order of Warren Logan, Treasurer. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, or to the order of the undersigned. It shall be our purpose to send to all of the subscribers to this Fund who give Five ($5.00) Dollars, or more, a certificate tq be framed, showing Dr. Washington's picture, a picture of the home in which he was born, and a picture of Tompkins Memorial Hall, the largest building on the Institute grounds. Correspondence is invited from all who are interested in this movement, and the assurance is given that if the Colored people themselves give $250,000 of the $2,000,000 to be raised, this sum will be met more than dollar for dollar by contributions from white people interested in the advancement of the Colored people of the United States. The Trustees have decided that out of the money given by the Colored people, there shall be erected on the Institute grounds a permanent Memorial-to Dr. Washington's unselfish and useful life to take the form of a building, a statue, or a monument of some other character. The Colored people will thus have the opportunity not only of contributing to the Fund itself, but also of erecting the Monument which shall stand on the Institute grounds as "a memorial of Dr. Washington's sagacity, of his courage, of his prudence, of his self-forgetfulness, and of his patriotic service to the Colored people, and to the people of the United States." (Signed) EMMETT J. SCOTT. Secretary. Inquiries and correspondence respecting the Fund being raised by the Colored people should be addressed to Emmett J. Scott, Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. THE SUIT IN CHICAGO. January 11, 1916. T. G. Ewing, General Counsel. 614 Gay Street, Nashville, Tennessee. My Dear Sir, After being on call for about two months the National Baptist suit was heard on demurrier of defendants. The demurrier was sustained and we were given 20 days to amend our bill. The demurrier was technical in that we brought suit in the name of the unincorporated body and did not add the word "trustees" after the names in the bill. No rights were lost, and the court refused to waive the order of injunction now forced against the defendants for the removal of property from Cook County. You ought to be encouraged, as on an examination of the papers furnished us in the Nashville suit, we are of the opinion that you will ultimately win. S. A. T. WATKINS, (Attorney for the National Baptist Convention Chicago, Ill.) P. S.—Copies sent to Dr. Morris, and Reva. Bryant, Inages and Jordan. HONEST. THOUGH UNDER SENTENCE TO PENITIARY. Were Dawson ever today seeking through the world for an honest man he would need go no further than this very city, where Robert Dawson, a 20-year-old colored youth is confined in the city-jail. Dawson is honest and, although he faces a year in the penitentiary, charged with the theft of a diamond ring, none will deny his honesty. Some time ago, Dawson was arrested here. After he had disposed of a valuable diamond ring, stolen from a home in Williamsburg. Dawson denied the theft, stating that the ring had been given him by a girl. However, he would not name the donor, and when tried, was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary. He was given his freedom on a bond of $1,500, pending an appeal, and disappeared from sight. Yesterday his attorney, J. Thomas Newsome, of this city, received notice that the appeal would not be allowed. It was up to him to produce Dawson, or else up to the bondmen to produce the $1,500. Yesterday morning Dawson came in and gave himself up. He had heard that the appeal had not been granted. "It runs in the boy's blood to be honest," said Attorney Newsome, yesterday morning. "His father was for years treasurer in James City county, and his family is a good one!" Newport Nova (Va.) Daily Press. --- NEW SCHOOL NAMED DUNBAR Commissioners Reject Education Board Request as to Colored High School. The District commissioners post day named the new colored high school at First and O streets northwest the Dunbar School, after the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the colored poet. The board of education has recommended to the commissioners that the school be named the Charlotte Forten Grinke, after an eminent missionary and writer for the colored race. This is the second school the commissioner have named lately contrary to recommendations of the board of education. The other recent case was naming the Park View School, which the board recommended to be named the Elizabeth V. Brown. In naming the colored school, the District commissioners, it is understood, were guided by the expressed desire of many prominent colored educators and citizens.—Washington Post, Jan. 18; 1916. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS INSTALL OFFICERS LARGE ATTENDANCE AT FIFTH The Fifth Street Baptist Church was well-filled last Tuesday night with enthusiastic officers, who were there to be installed as officers of the lodges of Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., presided. On the rostrum at the opening were the dignitaries of the Order, District Deputy Grand Chancellor J. O. Dawson was present. The rostrum was beautifully decorated with cut flowers and the colors of the Order. Prayer was offered by Rev. R. J. Jackson. THOSE PRESENT The officers present were Col Thomas M. Crump, John T. Taylor R. W. Whitting, R. C. Mitchell, R. J Jackson, Rev. J. J. Carter, Rev. L. J Morris, W. E. Brown, W. R. Green Mrs. Anna G. Taylor, Miss M. L. Chiles Miss Eva G. Davis. The Junior Choir of the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School rendered music to the delight of the audience. A stirring address was delivered by Rev. L. J. Morris. He was followed by Sir John T. Taylor, who dealt with every advantage offered by the Order of Knights of Pythias in this State. He was in turn followed by Col Thomas M. Crump, who acquired himself in a manner highly creditable and to the complete satisfaction of the audience. ALL WELL PLEASED Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., then acted in a dual capacity and installed the officers of the Courts and Lodges. The officers were then installed and the Grand Chancellor delivered a brief address. The audience was well pleased. After returning thanks to the church, choir, committee and speakers the body adjourned with benediction by Rev. J. J. Cartier. Hampton Beats Howard, 16 to 12. Howard University's basket ball quintet, met with another defender Saturday night, January 25th, in the Hampton Institute Gymnasium, at the hands of the Hampton basket ball tossers in a game filled with sensational passing and shooting. Time after time the house was brought to its feet by the wonderful team work exhibited by both teams. Had the shooting ability of the Howard team been equal to its exceptional passing, a different story could be written. By marvelous team work, the ball was carried to the basket only to be missed. The playing of Hampton's team was very good, both on the defensive and offensive work, and showed a superiority after the first few minutes of play. While the game was not exciting as some of the former games, it was from the spectator's point of view, interesting throughout. Referee, M. P. Robinson; time-keepsers, Stoney and Miller; scorer, Harvey; time of halves, 20 minutes; score, Hampton 46, Howard 12. Hampton Institute Press Service, Hampton, Va. ANNOUNCEMENT. Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Briggs announces the marriage of their adopted daughter, Alice E. Morris, to Mr. Nathaniel S. Hargrave, of Halifax N. C., December 18, 1915, at the residence of Mr. A. H. Douglas, Warsaw. Va. Ceremony performed by Rev. J. D. Cox. Recognition at home. Friday evening, January 25, 1916. 217 E. Leigh street, Richmond Va., from eight to eleven P. M. EVANGELIST SKIPWITH IN ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Atlantic City, N. J.—Union Baptist Temple, Rev. J. P. Gregory, S. T. B. pastor. With increasing interest special meetings have been continued at the Union Baptist Temple. It is hardly probable that our lecture room will accommodate the crowd gathering this week. In the coming of Rev. W. ff. Skipwith, who is said to have the combined genius of Sankey, Moody, Chapman, Alexander, Gypey, Smith and Billy Sunday, increased success is apparent. Eight years or more before entering the ministry, Rev. Skipwith was a hotel boy in this city, hence he will be greeted by many of his old friends. He lived here fifteen years. We are expecting a happy time in Men. PERSONALS AND BRIEF'S Col. Willis Wyatt, who has been ill, is much improved. Mr. W. H. D. Lucas who has been very sick, is improving. Mrs. Jemima Moss, of West Duval street has been indisposed for some weeks. She is reported to be convalescing. Mr. J. Andrew Bowler, Jr., who has been sick for the past week, is convalescing. We received the annual report of Hon. Hirnstrat H. Teeche, Register of the Treasury, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915. The Williams Jubilee Singers will appear in the City Auditorium, Friday, March 17th, on their second tour through the South. The mother of Mrs. Maggie L. Walker was again stricken with paralysis last Tuesday. She is slowly improving. We received an interesting communication from Mr. Frank Wade, of Rural Retreat, Va., advising colored people to work and go into business and not to hamper those who will work. We received an invitation to the Y. W. C. A. Opening and House Warming Monday, January 17, 1916, at their new home, 740 N. 6th Street Mrs. Lucy G. Lewis, president. Mr. W. Isaac Johnson, the well-known funeral director, is seriously ill at this writing, with Pneumonia in both lungs. He is being attended by Dr. R. E. Jones, his family physician. Dr William H. Hughes and Dr Frank M. Reld were called in consultation this week. Mr. William E. Giles, of New York, was in the city, being called here on account of the death of his brother, Daniel J. Giles. Mr. Giles is State Inspector of Elections, 20th Election District of the 21st Assembly District. He was much pleased with the work of Van de Vyver College. The great educational institute at Greensboro, N. C., President James H. Dudley being in charge, which is now known as the Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, is devoted exclusively to male students. It will be to your interest to enter your son there. Rev. S. W. Timms, pastor of Holy Triptych Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., called on us this week. He was in the company of Rev. C. E. Jones, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, of Newport News, Vail, and Rev. T. J. King, D. D. Rev. J. W. Brown's name appeared in these columns as Rev. J. A. Brown. He has been in the city since the 4th inst., and he left this week for Chester Pa. his home. He is much impressed by his trip here and is enthusiastic over the progress the colored people here are making. At Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday at 11 A. M. preaching by pastor Theme "The Theodley of Life." At S. P. M. Rev. W. R. Gullins, of Raleigh, an ex-pastor, will preach, and on Monday night will deliver a special discourse, theme "Sampson's Riddle." Tuesday, night colored doll contest, ander the auspices of the Allen C. E. League. Mother and Son Return Thanks Mrs. Mary Russell and Mr. Charles T. Russell wish to express their thanks and appreciation for the expressions of sympathy from their friends, on occasion of the death of our son and brother, Tracy J. Russell, who died in New York. January 4, 1916. COLOR LINE COSTS RES. TAURANT KEEPER $125. Detroit, Mich., January 17—For the first time in the history of the Courts of Wayne County, a colored man has secured substantial justice in an action to enforce the "Equal Rights" statute in this State. On Friday last a Circuit Court Jury in Judge Barton's Court, rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, in the case of Clydo B. Hayes vs. Albert Day for $125.00 damages. On the third day of July, last, Mr. Hayes, in company with another gentleman who was his guest and a white man, went into the restaurant operated by Mr. Day, for dinner. After being ignored for some time by the knitters, Mr. Hayes was told by the proprietor, defendant, that he did not serve colored people in his restaurant, whereupon Mr. Hayes commenced suit through his attorney Francis H. Warren, with the above results. The defendant has consulted two or three lawyers, with a view to avoid payment of the judgment, but being advised that it would probably cost him more to fight it, he has decided to pay up. PRICE FIVE CENTS MR. CARTERWOULD LIKE TO KNOW. THE QUESTION OF RACE LEAD ERSHIP—DR. WASHINGTON AND HIS SUCCESSOR The Editor of the Planet: Dear Sir.-Since the death of Dr. Booker T. Washington, who is now the recognized leader of the Negro race? We have many able representatives in different vocations of life, but who will fill the place of a national leader of all the Negro people? Major Robert L. Motton has been appointed to succeed Dr. Washington as Principal of Tuskegee, but the appointment does not make him the national leader of the Negro race. And the question is, can Major Motton fill the place made vacant by the death of Dr. Booker T. Washington? Has the Negro race the man who can? No doubt these interrogations will be criticized by those who were critical of Mr. Washington's leadership. One of the main points of his critics were that "he, was too conservative and too humiliating." A WORD ABOUT THE CRITIOS. But not one of his critics could have won with radical arguments where he succeeded with conservative debate. Lucy discourse on the Negro question will be applauded in cities like Philadelphia, New York and Boston, but will find no favor in cities south of the Potomac. The white man in the South possesses the majority of wealth and controls the greater part of paying business. There, he makes laws to suit his opinion and execute these laws according to his sentiment, which in generally written and executed unfavorable to the Negro. This in view, perhaps, Mr. Washington concluded at the start that he could catch more mice with molasses than with vinegar. WAS DIPLOMATIC WAS DIPLOMATIC AND CONSERVATIVE He very probably decided that diplomacy and conservative discourse would win where racy arguments would fall in his efforts to raise the Negro out of the low social condition where slavery had placed him. For, from 1865 to 1881, the plandings of our political representatives had failed to establish any standard of material progress to improve the social condition of the colored people, or to place them in a position of higher financial and intellectual life. There is more ownership of property and more creditable business among the colored people since the building up of Tuskegee Institute, that before its existence in like manner the colored citizens of Richmond command a greater degree of respect since the existence of the Mechanics Savings Bank than before its advent. SOME RACIAL INSTITUTIONS If space would permit, much could be said here in high praise of the Mechanics Savings Bank and of Tuskegee Institute. Much could be said of the high worth of the distinguished founders whose commendable labors have been instrumental and inspiring. Instrumental in leading the Negro to higher deeds of human life and inspiring him to higher moral and social conditions. With great respect. With great respect, Very sincerely yours, ROBERT W. CARTER Brookline, MASS., Jan. 15, 1916. Aabury M. E. Church Sunday, January 23, 1916—11 A. M. predching by the pastor. P. M. Sunday School. 8 P. M., Rev. W. S. Jackson, of Washington, D. C., will preach; also there will be a gold watch given to the one that brings in the largest amount of money. The Pastor will sing a solo. CHARLIE E. JONES, Pastor. --- WANTED - Position by a young woman in an in office. Can use a type writer. Address: Hattie B. Myers 734 N. 4th Street. --- WANTED—Fifty Reliable Women for work as Cooks and General House Workers. Must have good references. Wages good. None but first-class need apply. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Employment Bureau, 666 Bloomfield Ave., Mountair, New Jersey. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that I have qualified in the Chancery, Court of the City of Richmond as executor of the estate of the late Arthur W. 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What a joy the Planet is to me in this wilderness. Mall comes by dog team during the nine winter months, then by small boats the open three months. During the winter we have once-a-month mail, if conditions will permit. Living a life so desolate am in need of cheer. A big storm is just; over. Thermometer now is fifty-six degrees below zero. MUCH SNOW, TOO. The snow is up over the window aile. My cabin is in total darkness until I shevel out the door and window. At present there are far too many of our people living in the cities, in a hand-to-mouth way, dependent upon someone else for an uncertain job. I say cursed he who shall reap, where he hath not sown, and eat bread which another hath earned. All men shall be brothers and none shall take increase or tributate from another. OPPOSED TO BOTH. Preachers and the cunning Negroes are riding upon the back of the weak Negro. They give him HELL in this world, and if he kicks, they damn him for all eternity. As I can read in the Planet, poverty and misery are intense enough to melt the heart of a savage. Criminals and crimes are made faster than society; can build prison to contain them. The Preacher and the Wise Negro create the criminal class, just as surely as we create the disease that kills our babies. Churches teach all manner of salvation except to crimes, and the prejudiced whites and the government and courts at their backs, are driving the race deeper and deeper in the mira. NO HOPE FOR US HERE. In the United States, there is no hope for us. We should love each other and not hate each other. The black man has no time to fight black man. It will take him all the time to fight the enemy of his race's universal brotherhood, and hold secret meeting places, for fear whoever will be great among you, lot him be a useful worker, for I am among you as a brother worker. The colored race should know that the eyes of the entire white race is turned towards him. The Negro has proven positively that he is incapable of self government. DRASTIC CRITICISM Everything the colored man has taken hold of has proved a total failure. He or she is the first ones to draw the color line. The poor Negro is always talking about the white man oppressing him. It is not so, it is the Negro that oppresses the Negro. It is such villains as those you meet in Seattle, Washington. Half of them have white women for their wives, and they call themselves the cream of society. Boshi. Such curs. Such they are, that makes half the world hard-hearted against our race. The colored man and woman do not take interest in their own race and yet they expect others to do it. We will never reach the age of manhood. Cut out your familiar grin with the white man. Our ally women and even too many of our giddy-headed men grin too much. It is time for us to stop acting like apes and baboons. OBVIOUS COMPARISON You can take Africa over with a fine-tooth comb and you will not find there as many savages as you will find there in Seattle or Chicago. There is nothing so savage in history as the black man in Seattle and Chicago. He is almost willing and anxious to tear the heart out of his kind. Cunning and cruel, he is in a low state of civilization: It is a cold-blooded state of a degenerate society. THINKS OF THE FUTURE. I feel it—I see it—some day soon, a great HORROR. You can judge for yourself. Hate and prejudice are getting stronger all over the United States. No salvation for the Negro but do fighting. Now, my good people, the sooner you quit carrying guns and stop shooting—one another, and get down to business and common sense, the slacker you will be able to rise like a honest people should. Quit lying and stealing from one another and quit selling yourselves for a few dollars. You know the average Negro is ever ready to put all the rest down the hill at the least opportunity. MERCILESS CONDEMNATION. I value your good opinion and fran- and many statement concerning all matters affecting the interest of our race. You know when, prosperity comes to our race each one looks to the white race for companionship. Every one who becomes prosperous will not him a white wife. The better class of colored people are constantly handcuffed with the bad Negro. Race prejudice is not dying out. It is on the insurance and the average Negro doesn't know it. I will tell you more soon, like Mr. 1.a President demanded the safe guarding of American citizens in other lands. He forges the American Negro is treated worse by American whites—worse than the Germ of darkest Russia have ever been treated, where helpless women and men are roasted alive under the very eyes, and with full knowledge, of our great and most moral American government. And the President is quiet as a fish and as blind as a bat. Having had leisure time lately, I have had the pleasure of giving the Planet a very careful reading, and I predict that a horrible crime will be committed on the black race. It seems to me most of our people cannot take a pleasure ride' in a rowboat without shooting or cutting. If they must fight, why not do so in the interest of their own race? Respectfully yours, R. H. Crazcy. Koyukuk, Alaska (Nolan P. O.) Dublin Jim Coffey Gets Another Awful Baiting. New York, January 7.—Once, twice, three times, and finally a fourth time, Frank Moran knocked Jim Coffey, the Irish giant, to the floor of the ring in the ninth round of their bout at Madison Square Garden tonight. Then Billy Gibson, manager of the Irishman, tossed in a sponge and ended the fight. Gamely, Coffey had staggered to his foot after each fall, and had moved reeling around trying to get his hands up before his face, while each time-the big blonde follow in front of him polished his right and drove for the Irishman's jaw with furious force. In Coffey's corner, Gibson and the other seconds were crouched at the edge of the ring, streaming advice to their man with each successive drop, and up in the galleries and out on the main floor of the big garden, illuminated only by the huge calcium above the ring, 10,000 people, who had given $25,000 to see the fight, yelled in enthusiasm for Moran or ground in sympathy for Coffey. It was that same driving, stupendous right of Moran's that floored Coffey at the garden a few weeks ago which again found its way to the jaw of the giant tonight. He fought tonight with the spell of that right widently hanging over him at all times; but he had managed to take it and shake off its effects until a minute and a half of the ninth round had passed. Then Moran rushed upon him like a bull, brushed aside Coffey's reachy left, and—wham! Down went the Irishman in a neutral corner. He rested upon one knee, shaking his head dumbly and trying to clear his clouded brain, white Referee Brown counted nine. Coffey got up, staggering, and tried to guard his face, but again the right of the Pittsburgher crashed through to the jaw, and down went Coffey again. Gibson was halfway into the ring, yelling and motioning for Coffey to take his time. The Irish lad waited until Brown said seven, and then lifted his body upon a pair of very uncertain legs. As he reeled over toward his corner Gibson tried to throw water on him to revive him. SUCCESSIVE FLOORING DOES NOT PUT GIANT OUT. Moran fairly swarmed over Coffey, pounding away with both hands, but finally steadying himself and piling in the right. Coffey's big frame crumpled up, but he was not yet out. Fighting instinct and a species of gameness brought him up after a long count that went all of nine seconds. He was helpless now. His guard was down. His eyes were glazed. There were yells from the crowd to stop the affair. Moran went in again, bull-like and furious, and Coffey was swept off his feet. He arose, blindly, and fell against the ropes, his knees bent under him, his mouth open, and breathing with difficulty. Gibson toasted in a little sponge, unprotected face. Moran was whaling away as Coffey's but it was so small it was unnoticed. Another solid blow and Coffey would have been knocked out of the ring on top of the press bench. Gibson throw in a big sponge, and then crawled into the ring himself. Brown saw the last sponge, and caught Moran's arm as it was raised for a swing. Coffey was still on his feet, but it was technically a knock-out. The band played "The Rocky Road to Dublin" as they led the bruised and beaten man away, while the crowd cheered the victor. Coffey showed some improvement over his previous fight, but he was several times in distress. He kept his long left feeling into Moran's face and placed an uppercut vigorously, but Moran was always plodding, plodding, plodding, waiting to get the right hand in. Frank is a onepunch man, but his one punch is filled with stupor for the other fellow. At that, however, the coaching of Willie Lewis showed in Moran's work tonight, for he boxed better than before, though he wasted several opportunities to end the battle before he did. The winner of this fight is supposed to be the logical opponent for Jesse Willard in a contest for the heavyweight title, but aside from that, it sustained one tradition of the ring and ruined another. They don't come back, but youth is not always served, for Coffey is twenty-five, and Moran around thirty years of age. Much has been written about my chances against the champion, Jon Willard, since my second knockout victory over Jim Coulley, and I have been asked to write my version of the probable match. I have had a deeply rooted amb dence since meeting Jack Johnson in Paris that I am the equal, if not the superior, of any heavyweight in the game, and there is no question in my mind that, had the Moran-Johnson fight been for 30 rounds or more, instead of 20, the much-coveted title would be mine today. As for practical experience in the ring, I doubt if there is another heavyweight in the business who can boast of a career like mine, not barring the champion. In the past five years I have had 41 fights, winning 21 of them with knockouts. On the list can be found some of the toughest follows that have cropped up in recent years. Al Palzer, Bombardier Wells and Jim Coffey are numbered in the lot, and all met defeat with a knockout. SCORES STRING OF. KNOCKOUTS. Since meeting Johnson in Paris I have had six battles, winning all of them with a knockout. I am confident of ending my next match, which will be with Willard, similarly, regardless of the distance we battle. The longer the better. I have seen it in print that Willard is too big for any of the others in the heavyweight division, but there is no such thing as a fighter being too big in that class. It may apply to the smaller fighters, but not to the big fellows. Take Willard's case before he became champion, for instance. He was beaten by Gunboat Smith in twenty rounds, and the latter only weighed 179 pounds. Just before he became champion Willard was beaten by Tom McMahon, who tipped the beam at 18%. Joe Cox knocked out in five rounds, despite a handicap of 43 pounds. NO FEAR OF WILLARD Today Willard is bigger than ever, and if he were still bigger I should be more satisfied. It is not the size, but the cool head and the punch that count. Not meaning to be boastful, I think I possess these essential requisites. Coffey, who was considered the best man-developed around here in recent years, had every physical advantage over me—height, reach, weight and youth. But they counted for naught when it came to the test. Coffey may not be able to assimilate a severe punching without showing the effects, but he is one of the gamenest and most willing men I have ever met. When he starts against any of the rest of the heavies, I shall look to see the Roscommon giant win. Those who saw Willard fight Johnson in Havana have lauded him to the skies for the vast improvement he displayed over his last showing in New York, and to a man declared invincible and without a peer. It is far from such—to my mind. I shall welcome the chance to get him. In the ring, Walcott, McCoy, Choynski and a few other loser lights, proved their worth against much bigger men. They brought their opponents down to their own size mainly with body blows, and Willard will come down when I meet him. I am certain of this. SIZE COUNTS FOR LITTLE Size counts for little when they are hit on the right spot. My experience in the ring has taught me to hit, clean and true. Willard will come down if he is hit where many of my other opponents have been hit. I think I have proved that it will take more than an ordinary punch to daze me. Johnson told Willie Lewis in Paris after our fight that it was the toughest fight he ever engaged in. After his return to Europe from Haina Johnson told me I would win if I ever got Willard in the ring. I am not banking too much on the former champion's prediction, however, but I feel quieted certain that when Willard and I meet, I shall prove to the lovers of boxing that I should have preceded Willard as champion. Talks on Banking We are all obliged to carry with us a certain amount of money—the daily necessities of life require cash. How much you should carry is for you to say. As a rule, not more than you will need from day to day, for the man who carries great wads of money with him is not only taking the risks of theft and loss, but is doing himself, the bank and the community an injustice; himself in the risk he assumes and the loss of interest the bank would gladly pay; the bank in the use of money to its profit, and the community in the loss of the money as the foundation of credit. In a bankless community the individual must protect his own money. And to protect it he hides it, often to his sorrow. If there were no banks we would gravitate to a state of barbarism where strength was the only safeguard. But to the individual who has more money in hand than the daily needs require, the bank says: "It is our business to protect. For this we have strong vaults, burglar alarms and watchmen. We spend money to protect money. We know how—that is our function as a bank." You will frequently read of losses running into large figures because someone has mistrusted the bank, and assumed to be his own money protector. Merchants in bankless towns are frequently robbed—so frequently that some who have learned their lesson will no longer trust the frail iron safe that looks so formidable, but is a mery, toy under the crackman's skill, and prefer to sleep on their money. If "every man to his trade" is a good motto, then the banker to his trade, which is, first of all, to safeguard money. True, he does not keep all he receives on deposit in cash—that would be a useless and profitec task—he keeps only enough to do business with and loans the rest, which constitutes the second function of the banker, and that is to lend, which will be treated in number 3 of the Centennial Series; but remember this: that the place for the money you can't use today is in the bank, for this is what banks are for and you had better find it out. You will sleep better and your money will grow while you sleep. AMERICAN BANKER ASSOCIATION. Subscribe to The Richard Plumb Planet. Only 1.50 per year in advance. TO A Did Mary Page KILL James Pollock? The police say she did it. The evidence says she did it. The jury is convinced. But—did she do it? What do you think? Read Our New Motion Picture Serial The Strand MARY The Great McClure Mystery In Collaboration With Author of the Detective As a Mystery No Watch For the O THE STRAND MARY See the Essanay The Strange Case of MARY PAG The Great McClure Mystery Story by Frederick Lewis In Collaboration With JOHN T. M'INTYRE, Author of the Ashton Kirk Detective Stories: As a Mystery Story It Has No Equal Watch For the Opening Chapters of THE STRANGE CASE OF MARY PAGE See the Essanay Moving Pictures A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY London hears the Rusian offensive from 'Tchartoryak to Czernowits, on the eastern front, is making progress. Although Austria evacuation of Czernowits is not confirmed, Rusian troops are known to hold the heights northeast of the city. Heavy fighting is reported all along the line, centering near the Stripa river. Petrograd announces a repulse of a renewed German offensive in the north. It is reported that Bulgarian troops have pillaged frontier Greek villages. Constantinople advises say allied batteries at Seddul-Bahr, on the Gallipoli peninsula, have been silenced. THURSDAY. A congress of the labor organizations of Great Britain went on record by a card vote, 1,998,000 to 783,000, demanding that Labor members of parliament oppose the cabinet's compulsory military service bill. Petrograd reports that the Russian offensive in Volhynia is advancing toward Kovel, in an endeavor to occupy this railroad centre and thus sever communication between the central and southern Austrian-german armies. London hears the Russians have occupied part of Czernowitz, Bukowina. In the north the czar's troops are said to be advancing over the frozen marches. Germany has offered to pay indemnity for Americans lost on the Lustenia, and has given assurance the German submarines will protect non-combatants in operations in the Mediterranean. The conscription bill has been passed by the house of commons by a majority of 298. Recruiting under the Derby plan has been resumed, in the hope that it will not be necessary to put the conscription bill into actual operation. Paris bears that Field Marshal v. Mackenzie has been recalled from the FRIDAY ange Case of MY PAGE Tory Story by Frederick Lewis. with JOHN T. M'INTYRE, the Ashton Kirk active Stories: My Story It Has Equal Opening Chapters of ANGE CASE OF MY PAGE Moving Pictures Balkan front to command Austro-German forces on the Styr river, which are standing the brunt of the Russian offensive. The Russians are said to have, concentrated 300,000 men and 3500 cannon near Tarnopol, Galicia Vienna denies the Russians have taken am Czernowitz, in Bukowina, or that the czar's armies are advancing. SATURDAY. The battle continued between the Russians and Austro-Germans in Galicia and Buckowina. The Russians claim further gains and the Austrians claim to be holding their ground. Austrian forces have made determined counter attacks along the Middle Stripa and northeast of the town of Czernowitz, but according to the Russian official communication they were beaten back with enormous losses, while the Russians have made distinct gains, occupying seven at Austrian positions and taking more than thirteen hundred prisoners in all. The Austrians took the offensive in Montenegro and reports from Paris say they were beaten back with heavy losses to both sides. Berlin says a trench was captured from the French south of Hartmanns Wellerkopf in Algeria. There is nothing to report from other sections of the western front. SUNDAY Reports from the eastern front can phasise the importance of the Russian advance. Pounding the Austrian lines with massed artillery and heavy infantry attacks, the Russian troops are steadily fighting their way forward from Czartoryt toward Kovel. The battles along the twenty mile section of the Stry river are increasing inittenness. Both sides are losing heavily. Russia also has reported gains in fighting at three points on the long Hae extending from the Pipet river to Bessarabia. Russian warships are bombarding Bulgarian ports on the Black sea. MONDAY. Official announcement in London says the Turks are in sight in Mezopotamia, Coastal troops, on the other hand, says the British army has re Granted from Kut-al-Amara, and the 10,000 troops left as a rear garrn have been surrounded by Turks. The Germans have begun a demined offensive in the Champagne region of France, capturing 700 yr of French trenches, near Massigles, a cording to Berlin. All British troops on the Gnzlo paninahla have been withdrawn. Ct stantinople says a transport was sent during the operation, but London a counts report no one lost. According to despatches from Perograd, the Germans have lost 60,000 men near Tchortoryak, in the last two weeks, 20,000 of whom were capture The Russians are said to be three enling Bucacz, an important railroad center. GERMANY YIELDS IN LUSITANIA CASE Meets U. S. Demands But Denies "Wrong Doing." OFFERS TO PAY INDEMNITY Kaiser Also Gives Assurances U-Boats In Mediterranean Will Not Attack Ships Without Safeguarding Non-Combatants. Count von Hermstorf, the German ambassador presented to Secretary of State Lansing a proposal to pay indemnity for Americans lost in the Lustania disaster, and thereby end that controversy. He also gave assurances that any German submarines in the Mediterranean would not attack non-combatant ships of any character without warning, or destroy them without opportunity for non-combatants to reach a place of safety. While offering to pay indemnity in the Lusitanian case, Germany makes the reservation that it is done without admission of wrong-doing. No official indication was given as to the acceptability of the proposal, but one set of American officials took the view that it would end this controversy. The assurances regarding submarine warfare in the Mediterranean are of broader scope than those given after the Arabic disaster, which covered the warfare in the North sea. The latter guaranteed only the safety of ships. Those for the Mediterranean cover all non-combatant ships. Count von Bornatorf' left a memorandum with the state department, which read "German submarines in the Mediterranean from the beginning had orders to conduct cruiser warfare against enemy merchant vessels only in accordance with general principles of international law and in particular measures of reprisal, as applied in the war zone around the British Isles, were to be excluded. "German submarines are therefore permitted to destroy enemy merchant vessels in the Mediterranean, I. I. passenger as well as freight ships, as far as they do not try to escape or offer resistance, only after passenger and crew have been recorded safely "All cases of destruction of enemy merchant ships in the Mediterranean in which German submarines are concerned are made the subject of official investigation, and besides submitted to regular prize court proceedings. Insofar as American interests are concerned the German government will communicate the results to the American government, thus also in the Persian case, if the circumstances should call for it. "If commanders of German submarines should not have obeyed the orders given to them they will be punished; furthermore, the German government will make reparation for damage caused by death of or injuries to American citizens." The communication was not signed. Mr. Lansing made no announcement of the Louisiana proposals, saying the subject still was confidential. The Frye note dealing with the small boat question will be made public later. The majority of members in the cabinet of President Wilson are represented, however, as believing that the time has come to make certain no further attacks will be made upon merchant ships carrying Americans, according to expression of opinion just before the cabinet met. Leaders of the administration are said to feel that continued loss of American lives will lead the United States into hostilities. you by your Furniture now! When you can get Furniture and Rugs from all Old Established house like JURGENE—that's known to sell the best quality goods, just as reasonable as elsewhere—why not give your Friends a good impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show you our wonderful stock of home-baking comfort giving Furniture and Rugs and—don't fail to ask our salesmen about our banking plan which gives you 5, 10 or 15 months in which to pay for any purchase. CHAS. G. JURGENE SON ESTABLISHED 1800 ADAMS AND BROAD Richmond, Fredericksbury & Potomac R. R. Land Use and Conservation 10 a.m. from Westchester and Burlington—Bally (C. V. Bald) @ 6:37 P.M. 4.30 A.M. 8:00 P.M. 7:26 P.M. 1.10 P.M. 9:23 P.M. @ 10:35 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 12:50 P.M. 6:25 P.M. @ 6:30 P.M. 9:23 P.M. @ 10:35 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 12:50 P.M. 11:25 P.M. 9:30 P.M. @ 10:47 P.M. 8:20 P.M. 12:50 P.M. 10:45 P.M. Johnson Avenue, week days, (C. V. Bald) @ 7:45 P.M. 13:15 P.M. 6:30 P.M. C. V. Bald 6:30 P.M. 13:15 P.M. 5:22 P.M. Producer/producer, week days, 15:00 P.M. 16:00 P.M. 16:30 P.M. (C. V. Bald) @ 4:15 P.M. 10:65 P.M. *St. N. St.* 4:15 P.M. *P. T. St.* (computer at Elm). Read the sign. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK Schedule in effect, April 8, 1916. Leave Hyrd Street Station, Richmond, for NORFOLK. *"0:19 A. M. *"0:30 P. M. *"0:49 P. M. *"0:59 A. M. *"0:70 P. M. *"0:89 WEST; *"1:18 A. M. *"1:28 A. M. *"1:48 P. M. *"1:68 WEST; *"1:88 A. M. *"2:08 A. M. *"2:28 P. M. *"2:48 WEST; *"2:68 A. M. *"3:08 A. M. *"3:28 P. M. *"3:48 WEST; *"3:68 A. M. *"4:08 P. M. *Daily.* W. B. BEVIL. *Daily except Sunday.* W. G. SAUNDERS. P. T. M. Rosakis G. P. 'A., Rosakis C. H. BOLLEY, D. P. A., Bidwell, D. ATLANTIC COAST LINE REFORGATIVE APRIL 6, 1914 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY: For Florida and the South: 8:15 A. M., 8:20 P. M. 11:15 A. M. For Norfolk: 8:00 A. M., 8:00 P. M., 8:40 P. M., **11:10 P. M. For N. & W. Ry. West: 8:15 A. M., 8:25 A. M., 8:00 P. M., 8:20 P. M. For Petersburg: 13:00 A. M., 8:15 A. M. 8:15 A. M., 8:25 P. M., 8:00 P. M. **10:00 P. M., **11:10 P. M., 8:25 P. M., 8:00 P. M. 8:30 P. M., 11:00 P. M. For Goldsboro and Payetteville: **8:00 P. M. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—DAILY: 8:20 A. M., 8:15 A. M., 8:20 A. M., 8:25 A. M. **8:25 A. M., 8:15 A. M., 8:25 A. M., 8:15 A. M. **10:00 P. M., 8:17 P. M., 8:25 P. M., 8:25 P. M. 8:00 P. M., 11:00 P. M. **20:00 P. M., 11:00 P. M.** *Note: Sunday only. Time of arrival and Sunday only. Time of arrival and departure and connections for guests O. GAMERINI, D. R. THE SOUTHERN SR SERVES THE SOUTH Dilly Local to Denville 10:29 A. M.-Dilly Attended-For all points board 8:00 P. M.-Dilly Attended-For local Glen Clip. Durham and intermediate stations. 6:00 P. M.-Dilly-Attended-For Denville, Atlanta, Burlingham, with Pullman observation station. 11:18 A. M.-Dilly-Attended-For all points South. Pullman ready 8:00 P. M. YORK RIVER LOCAL 8:10 P. M.-Simmons trains (Parker out)—local-To West Point, connecting her Multimark, daily except Sunday. 7:28 A. M.-Dilly-Local to West Point. TRADES ARRIVE RICHMOND From South: 7:28 A. M., 8:00 A. M., 8:20 P. M., and 8:50 P. M., daily; 8:00 A. M., except Sunday. From West Point: 9:28 A. M., 9:25 P. M., daily. K. L. KENOP, P. P. A. 807 East Main St. Phoenix, Med. 229 CHESAPEAKE & OHIO. Ciccinetti, Louisville & West, 9:00 P. "11:00 R," Main Line Local, "9:00 A., "6:00 F., "9:00 S," James River Line, "10:00 A., "6:00 F., "N. News, North, Old Pl. "9:00 A., "13 M., "9 H," Newport News Local, "7:15 A., "9:00 H," Trains arrive from Northk, "11:00 A., "9:00 F., "6:00 P.; Newport News, "9:00 A., "9:00 P., "6:00 F., "New West, "9:00 A., "9:00 F., "New S, "6:00 F., "7:30 P. "7:30 F. James River, "9:00 A., "7:15 P. "DoDy. SEABOARD AIR LINE Southbound train scheduled to have Midway daily, 9:25 A.M. local to Northland; I20, P. local to and enroute to Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, and Tampa; local to and enroute to Jacksonville; 12:45 A.M. local to Birmingham, Miriamham, Jacksonville, Therapeutic and Jacksonville. Northbrook brain hospital to serve in Killeen, Lakewood, N.J. 9:30 A. M., 12:50 P. M. RICHMOND PLANET ALPHEUS SCOTT (CHURCH HILL) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Officen, 2006 P Street, Phona, Med. 2337—Residence, 1018 St. James St., Phona, Madison 0019. Funeral services, Memorial and Survival of the Born, Inherited Service, Mourning Bash MARAKE SCOTT, Residence by Wagner and Childen and attendance at Funeral. Subscribe to the Memorial Pamphlet. It only opens $1.64 per year in advance. --- ```markdown ``` Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. Fourth St., Richmond, Virginia. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. ..... EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Enclosed at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second class matter. SATURDAY.....JANUARY 22, 1916 Some people are so unreliable that they look that way. Colored folks get together all right, but they do so in groups, and very small groups at that. --- The present State Department now occupies the position, "now you see it; now you don't." The administration seems to be following the Bayan policy in Mexico and the Walmor policy in Europe Some of our people are learning to save now. They had no need to learn to spend. This trait comes naturally Nearly all of the colored folks tell you they want to go to heaven, but they start in an opposite direction, when you talk about carrying them there. --- The leaders in this State are not lacking in material to offer to President Wilson for the purpose of filling the vacancy on the bench of the United States Supreme Court. Our health departments as a rule benefit their own financial health before they proceed to operate upon the people's health. There is no department appreciated so much by the undertakers as the health department it is a benefit to their business. Mr. Robert W. Carter wants to know who will be the national leader of the Negro race now that Dr. Boone, Mr. T. Washington is no more. Our personal opinion is that he had better submit his question to the white folks. They made Dr. Washington leader of the Negro race in this country and in view of the dissection now existing between this same class of people, we see no reason why they should not pick his successor and finally compel the colored folks to accept him. The Washington Post says that President Woodrow Wilson did not tell Birmor Alexander Waller that he would not appoint a colored citizen Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. The Washington (D.C.) Post said that he did say so. We would like much to know from Birmor Waller just what he did say. Whether he said so or not, there is a very plain fact that no colored man has secured the job as yet although the administration is more than half way through a term of four years' possession of the government. But if the colored Democrats are content to wait the remainder of the term, it is hardly any of our business. Still, woman-like, we would just like to know. JEREMY WOODROW WILSON, the distinguished occupant of the White House seems to be leaning too far backward in his desire to please the bourbon South as against the liberal portion of it. The Washington Post of January 18th, 1916, contains the following interesting bit of information: Frank Guins and J. J. Beal, two Oklahoma farmers, who, as election officials, were convicted in the Federal courts of intimidating colored men and preventing their voting, under the grandfather clause of the Oklahoma constitution, were pardoned yesterday by President Wilson. The pardons were said to be based on the assumption that State officials evidently held the grandfather clause valid and the two election officials in enforcing it acted in good faith. It seems to us that if a jury in a Federal Court in Oklahoma could be found to convict white men for deying to ensured men their political rights, then such a verdict should be permitted to stand. It places the southerners in the position of trying to enforce the law and President Warner in the attitude of encouraging the other class of people to break it. "The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to "his opinion twenty years later."- EMERSON. The Washington Boo and its editor, WILLIAM CALVIN CHANK, Esq., decline to accept MAJOR R. R. MOTON as leader of the Negro race, although the Outlook, HON. THOMBORN ROOKEVILLE's mouth-piece, mildly suggests that the race do so. There is much sound sense in what the Boo says and no doubt, for the most part, MAJOR MOTON will agree with him. Certainly, it will take years of painstaking labor for the distinguished Virginian, who has been named to succeed Dr. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON to even approximately take up the work, where his predecessor left it off. As a matter of fact, his appointment is of a temporary character and it will not enter upon that stage of permanency so essential to success until he has been regularly elected by the Board of Trustees in its regular session. If he cannot discharge the duties satisfactorily, it will be a difficult matter for anyone who can. R. R. MYTON and EMMETT J. SCOTT are peculiarly fitted for the position and the combination of the two, one as President and the other as Secretary, or vice versa should bring success to the institute. We are not discussing either in connection with the leadership of the race. Dr. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON was probably the greatest and best fitted man for universal leadership and he exercised only a partial leadership over a protesting constituency. To expect any of his successors to come within a mile of the goal he attained seems to us to be an absurdity. They don't all even follow Jesus. Cusier, although most of them profess to have religion, so we leave a further discussion of the subject to our brilliant friend, WILLIAM CALMIS CHASE of the Washington, (D. C.) Bee --- AUDITOR RODGERS REPORT "But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself that designed have no reply.' Cowker. We received some time ago from Prior, M. M. Rosenshaw a copy of his first annual report as Auditor of the National Baptist Convention. He publishes correspondence had with the National Baptist Publishing Board, when he made a demand for the books, papers and other records in the name of the National Baptist Convention for the purpose of auditing the same and in order to submit a report to the National Baptist Convention. Here is the correspondence: National Baptist Convention of the United States of America, Naphville, Teen, July 16, 1915. Dr. R. H. Boyd, Cor. Secty, of The National Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville, Tennessee. Dear Brother; This is to inform you that I am present, as per order of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America, for the purpose of auditing the books and accounts of the National Baptist Publishing Board, of the said National Baptist Convention; and, in connection therewith, to request of you a complete list of all the books of the said Board, as kept by you, and to ask you to deliver those books, all cancelled checks, vouchers, receipts, deeds, notes, insurance policies, contracts, mortgages, leases, the last Balance Sheet, a copy of the By-Laws and all other papers necessary in auditing the affairs of the said National Baptist Publishing Board. Thanking you in advance for the same, I am. Very truly yours. (Signed) M. M. Roosevelt Auditor of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America National Baptist Publishing Board Nashville, Tenn., July 15, 1915 Nashville, Teen, July 15, 1915. Mr. M. M. Rodgers, Auditor of The National Baptist Convention of the United States of America. Dear Sir: Your letter, dated from Nashville, Teun., July 16, 1915, to R. H. Boyd, Corresponding Secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville, Teun., was laid before our Executive Committee today at noon by Secretary Boyd. After going over the contents very carefully, we beg to state that we are advised that the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America is now a FOREIGN CORPORATION incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia with headquarters in the City of Washington, and that you are one of the incorporators and its secretary. You have previously notified us to amend our CHARTER so as to place our Board, a corporation chartered under the laws of the state of Tennessee, with headquarters located at Nashville, Teun., so as to conform to your CHARTER. Our Board, after careful consideration, and after being advised, decided and so notified you, that it could not make these changes. We are, therefore, further advised that once we should attempt to transfer according to your letter, the articles requested, it would be a complete transfer and delivery of all our effects to a FOREIGN CORPORATION, and were you and your corporation so disposed, you would be in full possession of the office, and thereby could claim possession of the same. The Executive Committee, therefore, instructs the Secretary to decline making this transfer. While the By-Lawp of our Board require that the Board is to elect each year an auditor and have the Secretary's books audited to the satisfaction of the Board, the Board has processed to elect an auditor and will, at the proper time, near the close of the fiscal year, have the entire accounts audited to the satisfaction of the Board. Hoping this will fully explain to you our position, we beg to remain. You're truly. builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Kewai's tail. may seem. (15,811) after (Signed) C. H. Clark, Chrm. (Signed) R. H. Boyd, Secty. B Nail. Bapt. Pub. Board We regard this as a mistake on the part of the National Baptist Publishing Board. An Auditor, by no schema of reasoning can be alleged to take actual possession of any of the books, papers, or other records of an office for any other purpose than to examine the same and no legal rights are surrendered thereby. His admittance might have been construed to be a recognition of the National Baptist Convention as it then existed, but at that time it existed only as an unincorporated body. It being essentially necessary for the Charter of Incorporation to be submitted to the body itself at Chicago, before the books, papers and assets of the unincorporated body could come into the possession of the incorporated one. By this action, the National Baptist Publishing Board disowned the parent body and proceeded openly to do business on its own hook. Its action in auditing its own books was not all that was necessary, for the parent body had an auditor of its own and certainly if it had a title to ownership in the publishing house, it had a right to examine, and investigate the same. These are the inexplicable happenings that are puzzling the Baptist brotherhood of the country and hampering the distinguished churchman, Rxv. Dx. R. H. Born, in his fight for proper treatment at the hands of one of the greatest religious organizations now existing among the colored people of the country. EX-SENATOR ROOTS DELIVER ANCES. "But truths on which depend our main concern. That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn. Shine by the side of every path ice tread. With such a lustre he that runs may read." - Cowman. Hon. Eleanor Roos's address before the State Bar Association in New York is rightfully attracting much attention. It calls attention to the old landmarks and makes a simple, but forceful appeal for a return to great principles. He is warning this nation and its statesmen that they have strayed far from the paths of rectitude and engaged in practices not cononant with the teachings of the centuries. We have been, especially impressed with his remarks in the light of President Woodrow Wilson's declaration that he would disregard the fundamental principles of the Federal Constitution, draw the color line, ignore his promise made to devoted followers and appoint a white man Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, simply because race feeling might be engendered by the discussion in the United States Senate over the confirmation of his appointee. Ex-Senator Roof is quoted as follows: "Here in this country we have enjoyed liberty and order so long that we have forgotten how they came. Our people assume that they came as the air comes. They have assumed that they will of their nature and by their own force continue forever without effort. "Ah, not! Liberty has always been born of struggle. It has not come save through sacrifice and the blood of martyrs and the devotion of mankind. And it is not to be preserved except by jealous watchfulness and stern determination always to be free. These words, ring in clarion tones. They afford food for thought among white men and they give sterling advice to colored men, those of us who are disposed to "** * * * crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. Where thrift may follow fawning." These are truths plucked from the branches of history. Citizens who indulge in appeals to expediency will never find a slab in the arena of greatness for their names or a niche in the temple of fame for their monuments. His remarks are neither more nor less than truisms. He is quoted further: "That eternal vigilance is the price of liberty is so much a truism that it has lost its meaning, but it is an eternal truth, and the principles of American liberty today stand in need of a renewed devotion on the part of the American people. "We have forgotten that in our vast material prosperity. We have grown so rich, we have lived in peace and comfort and case so long that we have forgotten to what we owe those agreeable incidents of life." Other great nations forgot, too, and they gave themselves up to sensuas and riotous living, only to eventually pay the penalty and sink down to rise no more. Greece, Rome, Persia, Spain and Italy can trace their history back to a time, when their forefathers disregarded these great principles, and their punishment for their sins has since been visited upon their posterity, even to the third and the fourth generations. France today is experiencing similar difficulties, and this country would do well to take heed and act accordingly. Pygmies are pygmies, still, though perched on Alope; And pyramids are pyramids in voice. Beck man makes his own history. "If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles."—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. We have been at a loss to understand by what scheme of reasoning President Wilson can presume, that he is living up to his oath of office in making discrimination against one citizen in conjunction with another and declining to nominate one citizen to an office on account of his race and color and then nominating another citizen to the same office on account of his race and color. He has declared to Bishop Alexander Waltner that he will not nominate a colored citizen to be recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, because of his race and his color, and at the same time has indicated that he will name a white citizen on account of his race and color. Under his sworn obligation, he is plodged to recognize the civil and political equality of all men before the law and according to his actions he is "recognizing" the civil and political "inequality" of some men before the law. The distinguished occupant cannot justify his actions by the specific declarations of the law. He must know that this course of action, this policy must ultimately redound to his material injury and his political damnation. Even those most forward in having him stray from the paths of official rectitude cannot but feel contempt for him and his policies. and proft therefrom. It is indeed unfortunate that we live in an age of expediency and commercialism, where statesmen can be awayed from the paths of rectitude at the behests of designing associates and upon the demand of a growing ambition for the continuation of power. The teachings of the stolcs and the comment of the philosophers along with the simple truths announced by the lowly Nazarone are laid aside and millions suffer as a result of those unwise policies. But the Eternal Eye that never sleeps takes note of it all, and in the future, stern retribution exacts the toll of punishment for injustice practiced upon an humble and Godfearing people. AUDITOR MOORE'S REPORT. "Facts are stubborn things." LE SAGE We have received the annual report of Hon. C. LEE MOORE, Auditor of Public Accounts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1915. It is the best report ever issued from that office and it demonstrates conclusively that this public official is peculiarly fitted for this particular class of work. The detailed information given and his untiring zeal in protecting the interests of the State are well-nigh marvour. He shows the increase in the surplus fund of the State to be $150,477.12 The statistics relative to the colored people in this State are interesting. They show that the colored people own real estate the 75 per cent assessed valuation of which is ($28,775,199) twenty-eight million, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars. They own personal property to the amount of ($9,076,774) nine million, and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and seventy-four dollars. The value of their property, both real and personal as assessed is ($37,851,973) thirty-seven million, eight hundred and fifty-one thousand, nine hundred and seventy-three dollars. Based upon a seventy-five per cent valuation, the total value of the property of the colored people in this State, both real and personal is ($47,314,966) forty-seven million, three hundred and fourteen thousand, nine hundred and sixty-six dollars. The increase in valuation as assessed, by the State over the preceding year is ($2,128,676) two million, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand, six hundred and seventy-six dollars. The colored people of Richmond own real estate valued at ($2,841,111) two million, eight hundred and forty-one thousand, one hundred and eleven dollars and personal property valued at ($531,963) five hundred and thirty-one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three dollars, making the total seventy-five per cent valuation. ($3,373,074) three million, three hundred and seventy-three thousand, and seventy-four dollars. This is an increase over last year on the net valuation of ($261,41B) two hundred and sixty-one thousand, four hundred and fifteen dollars. The gross value of the property of the colored people of Richmond both real and personal is ($4,216,717) four million, two hundred and sixteen thousand, seven hundred and seventeen dollars. The number of acres of land owned by the colored people of Virginia in 1815 was (1,674,833) one million, six hundred and seventy-four thousand, eight hundred and twenty-three. The value of this land was ($10,365,277) ten million, three hundred and ninety- five thousand, three hundred and nor- nity-seven dollars. An strange as it may seem, the colored people owned (15,811) fifteen thousand, eight hundred and eleven acres less in 1915 than they did in 1914 and yet the value of the acres of land owned in 1915 was ($2,296,850) two million, two hundred and ninety-six thousand, eight hundred and fifty dollars more than it was in 1914. To be exact, the value of the land owned by colored people in 1914 was ($8,068,527) eight million, and sixty-eight thousand, six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and in 1915, it was ($10,365,377) ten million; three hundred and sixty-five thousand, three hundred and seventy-seven dollars. These are intercating figures and they should afford much gratification to those who take an interest in us, and be the source of inspiration for all of us who appreciate stimulating praise in our effort to attain a higher degree of usefulness and material progress. BOY SHOT THROUGH LEX Policeman Bertucci Fires at August Conway When He Falls to Stop. August Conway, a sixteen-year-old boy, was shot through the leg by Policeman Bertucci early yesterday morning while endeavoring to escape from Policemen Sweet and Bartucci. Bertucci says he fired twice into the air to frighten the Negro and then shot to stop him, when Conway continued to run. The boy, who is wanted on a grand larceny charge, is at Virginia Hospital, where it is said the bullet penetrated the calf of his leg. The shooting took place on Brown street...Time-Dispatch, January 17. The Planet is for sale in many of the cities, all over the country, for five cents. 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Goods sent by parcel post or en press, upon receipt of price, mansg or money order. The Richmond Planet is always new- er. Read our serial number. --- EDITOR MITCHELL'S TRAVELS (Continued from First Page.) short" of Negroes, for some of the leading characters showed themselves to be white people, with blackened faces. I saw the triumphant Union army enter the villages and then the Negro-haters got in their work, portraying black troops as insulting southerners, shoving them off the sidewalks, insulting white ladies of the South-land and taking liberties of a kind that tended to arouse the racial feeling in the white people in the audience. A COLORED LIEUTENANT I saw a colored man, who was alleged to have been made a Lieutenant Governor by the northerners. He was of light complexion. A conversation took place between him and the white northern statesman, who told him that he was as good as the whites, that he had a right to marry whom he pleased, it mattered not whether the person was white or black. The leering look of gratification was depicted upon the countenance of the colored man. I saw the southern white family over-run and insulted by the black men. BLACK TROOPS AND THEIR ALLEGED ATROCITIES. The army of occupation came while the southern colonel defended his home as best he could. Black troops broke in the doors and windows, mistreated the family, and faithful black servants fought the invaders and finally took the family away in a wagon. The race for a country cabin and the fight that ensued was realistic. The devotion of the black servants was sublime. The aim was to misrepresent and discredit the white men of the Union army and to bring to the front the latent, brutish traits in the black people of the South, who had been fictitious to murder and rapine by the invading white hosts of the North. A REFLECTION UPON NORTH-EINERS. For our part, I saw, or thought I saw, more or a spirit of retaliation and spite against the victorious northern army and its leaders, than I did against the black people of the South, who as shown, had been induced to practice excess of savagery, hitherto unknown in their humane career under the guidance of their southern masters. Then came the legislative scene in Columbia, South Carolina, when they assembled in the State House with colored men in unquestioned majority. The repeal of the misconception laws, better known as the laws torbidding the intermarriage of white and black people in South Carolina was shown with colored legislators addressing the colored lieutenant Governor. The passage of the repeal bill was the cause of the greatest excitement at the hands of these moving picture actors. THE KU KLUX KLAN The fight of the old Colonel for his life in the one-room cabin was realistic. It was also shown that the origina of the Ku Klux Klan came from the fear of colored children of some white children who were covered with a white sheet. The rape scene, where a white child jumps from a preoccupied and is killed when she attempts to escape from a black man who attempts to outrage her, caused a commotion in the theatre although the alleged black man could be plainly distigualized as a white one with a blackened face. He was a "movie-picture" actor. WHITE FOLKS SHEDDING TEARS I saw white folks shedding tears of sympathy in that theatre, where I felt quite lonely, being as far as I could see, the only colored person in the house. The only other colored man I saw in that neighborhood sat in an automobile as chauffeur on the outside, waiting for his white folks to come out. I then saw a reproduction of the Ku Klux Klan that I had seen on the streets of Portland, Oregon. They numbered countless hundreds as reproduced upon the "movie" films. I had seen these these misrepresentations placed before a class of white people who had no means of separating false from the true, the good from the bad. THE SCENE AT WASHINGTON. I had sickened over the play and I felt that I was out of place in that theatre, that Saturday afternoon. I saw the scene of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the martyred President, after the scene where he had granted a pardon to the southerner, the son of a planter, who had been condemned to death as a spy. The theatre at Washington was shown, John Wilkes Booth, long since dead, was portrayed as leaping upon the stage, yelling "Sic-semper tyrannis" (So be it to tyrants). The result of this insane action was shown. I saw the representations of Gen. U. S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee, wih their aid, all made up for the occasion and I was no longer surprised at the impression made in the country by this play. FALSIFYING HISTORY. It was a remarkable admixture of the law and the history and action, representation and micropro- sentation and I think that the monarchy hours of the arch enemy, the Devil, be manifested in the author of this remarkable production could only be counteracted by diplomatic efforts on the part of the colored people and the white people, who sympathised with them in their efforts to be placed in their true light before the millions of white people in this country. I could not understand though, how the Grand Army men and the sons of the Union veterans could permit the truths of history to be so ingeniously falsified by this photoplay, which was now patrolling the North. SOUTHERNERS WOULD UNDER STAND. It could do little harm in the South for white men, colored men, the old family servants, and their off-spring were there to counteract its effect and to minimize its influence. The representation of the colored Lieutenant Governor making love to the daughter of the Northern statesman, her rebuke of him in his efforts to marry her and of the struggle which followed when he attempted to force her into wedlock with him was too ridiculously absurd to be reproduced upon canvas. SENATOR SUMNER MALIGNED The representation of Senator Charles Sumner meeting a colored octooon, the mistress of a Northern statesman and of her demanding to him that he kiss her hand was another ridiculous production, especially when it was shown that he did so. But I had enough of the "Birth of a Nation." I found that it was about 5 P. M. when I passed down the steps to the street below and I caught a street-car for the ferry, where I Boon boarded a ferry-boat and reached the residence again of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Johnson. I had succeeded in getting a reservation on the palatial train, known as "The Lark." ON TO LOS ANGELES I was to leave at about 8 o'clock and it was with some consternation that I learned from Mr. Johnson that I would have to return to San Francisco and board the train there for Los Angeles. I ate spur hurriedly, bid Mrs. Johnson good-bye and a few moments later, in company with her husband on my way again to "Frisco," where just a little while I boarded the second section of the train leaving about ten minutes after the schedule time. That night, I slept without rocking and the next morning awoke to find that the train was more than an hour late and was still losing time. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. GEN. VON MACKENSEN Field Marshal Has Been Sent to Attack Allies in Salonika. M. But in muggy weather patrons of the fresh air cars have the laugh on those who are shut in. Girl Hands Over Abyss. After a fall of fifty feet down the side of a stripping at the La mer colliery, at Muhamoy City, La. the clothing of skates, rodd El A Chipler caught on a board 100 feet from the bottom of the abyss, saving the girl from being aided to death. A rope was lowered by men, but the girl in her excitement placed the noose around her neck. To prevent her strenthing to death, a boy lowered on a rope and she was brought to safety. The girl had hung by her clothing for more than an hour before she was heard calling for help by passers miners. Four Children Burned to Death. Four children of John Mor an, rang ing in age from four to fifteen years, were burned: t death in their hom at New Martinsville, W. Va. Mor can saved one daughter, and while attempting to reach the others was so badly burned physicians feared he would not recover. Physician Killed as He Leaves Mother. Dr. James S.. Spangler, a. Hunting don county physician, was killed by a Pennsylvania railroad train at Maple near Harrisburg, Pa., as he was crossing the tracks from the home of his aged mother, who is critically ill. Dr. Spangler was fifty-five years old. $100,000 Fire in Trapton. Fire of undetermined origin damaged the building of the Bellemand Sweets company in Treanon, M. J., to the extent of $100,000. One hundred and twenty-five girls were thrown out of work by the blaze. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY The British forces under General Townshend have made several sorties from Kutel-Amara on the Tigris, each time being repulsed with losses, according to the Turkish war office. It is asserted that this force is surrounded. London says the British relief force is at a standstill more than twenty miles away. Constantinople claims that considerable losses were suffered by the entente forces in their evacuation of the tip of the Gallipoll peninsula. Parts of the retreating troops who refused to surrender, were wiped out, the Turkish statement asserts. The French have made a counter attack against Germain positions on a thousand-yard front in the Champagne. The attack failed, Berlin says. THURSDAY Despatches to Rome, say Teuton-Bulgarian forces in Macedonia have begun a movement upon the Anglo-French army stationed at Salonika, Greece, by shelling British positions in the Dolran region. Despatches from Petrograd say the Russians have renewed a vigorous fensive along a great part of the eastern battle front. They are reported to have taken Sadagura, an important point near Czernowitz, Bukowina, heavy attacks have been made in Bessarabia and Galicia, and in the north, severe losses are said to have been inflicted upon the Germans at Illoukst, near Dvinsk. Paris despatches say, the Germans lost 25,000 men in the fighting which ended in the Champagne district, Sunday. FRIDAY. Vienna officially announces that Austrian troops have occupied Cottinje, the capital of Montenegro, and it is reported the Montenegrina have agreed to an armistice. Rome's version of the situation is that Austria has proposed a separate peace with Montenegro, and that Montenegrina has accepted the offer. If this is true, it is the first break in the ranks of the allies. Successes of new German battle planes over allied airmen in France have alarmed residents in Paris and London, who fear air raids. Berlin reports. Petrograd now despatches say the German offensive in the east interfered with German movements in France and in the Balkans and has compelled the German general staff to make new plans. Officially, it is asserted that Austro-German attacks 'in Galicia and Bukowina have been defeated. General von Mackenson is said to be in Czernowitz, assembling three armies to attack the Russians. SATURDAY. Austrian troops continue their pur- suit of the Montenegrin army, which is retreating southward. German of facers are said to have declared the Teutonic forces plan to overrun Montenegrio and Albania, and then to turn their attention to the Anglo-French forces at Salonika. Vienna announces that five furious attacks by the Rumanians on the Bessarabian frontier have been repulsed. Five thousand Russians have been taken prisoners since the beginning of the winter campaigned. It is asserted. London bears that the Russo-Romanian frontier has been closed to telegrams, indicating, it is believed, a movement of large bodies of Russian troops. SUNDAY The Russian armies have taken the offensive in three widely separated sections of the war front. In Bessarabia they are assaulting the Austrian lines, while Grand Duke Nicholas' army has begun a drive southward in the Caucasus. In Persia the Moscowite swept by yond Hamadan and threaten Bagdad. The Austrians continue their victorious drive in Montenegro and the fall of the capital is expected. In Mesopotamia, the British forces, heavily reinforced, took the offensive and are driving the Turks before them. Spirited artillery actions are reported from various points along the battle front in the western theatre of war. MONDAY Count Tisza announced in the Hungarian parliament that Montenegro had sued for peace, but negotiations were refused unless Montenegro laid down its arms. Tisza, the premier added, Montenegro has done, and the agreement will be immediately entered into. A Constantinople de part haina mitsa a Turkish retreat before Russian forces in the Caucasus. Announcement was made in the house of commons that British forces which had been driven southward in Mesopotamia, have recovered and are now driving their Turkish opponents northward toward Kabul-Amara. --- Brother. and Sister Die Together. Within four hours of each other, Dewitt Clinton Taylor, former New York broker and Bible student, and his sister, Miss Laura Taylor, died at the former's home in Tyrone, Pa. Neither knew of the other's illness. Killed In Auto Collision Emer Coolbairn, West 'Scranton Pa., business man, was killed in col- lation of his automobile with a ma- chine owned by E. H. Connell, driven by Edward McNulty. Trap Wounds Man, Ceath Follows James Sullivan, colored, died I the Havre de, Grace, Md., hos- pital from gunshot wounds re- ceived when he visited the chicken house on the farm of Jamison broth- er, near Swan Creek. As he opened the door a shotgun, which had bees set, exploded. ```markdown ``` Freshman Killed in Bowl Fight William Lifson, seventeen years old, of Elizabeth, N. J., a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, was killed in the annual freshman-sophomore bowl fight, held on the lawn of the Commercial Museum, in Philadelphia. A number of other students were injured, three of whom are still in the hospital. Lifson was found at the bottom of the heap of several struggling students when the second half of the bowl fight ended. He had literally been crushed to death. Lifson was carried from the field by Your of his friends, a passing motor truck was pressed into service and he was rushed to the University hospital. The doctors worked desperately to revive him, using the pulmoner, infections of strychnine and other strong stimulants but without success. It is believed that life was extinct before he was extricated from the mass of fighting students. There were no marks on the body and he was evidently suffocated. Marriage Invalid. Rawed. After having been married in Cleveland four years ago, Silver Rose and Elio Arnold, upon their arrival in Reading, Pa., from that city, were married again, having learned that the man who had married them in Cleveland had been arrested on a charge of impersonating a minister and that their marriage therefore was not valid. Upon reaching Reading, the bride, who is twenty-three, and the bridegroom, twenty-five, sought legal advice, after which they went to the court house and procured a welding license. The ceremony was performed by Magistrate Focht and the couple went away on a second honeymoon. New York's Population New York state has a population of 9,637,744, consisting of 8,059,515 citizens and 1,628,229 aliens, according to the census by the state last June. The report of the enumeration was made to the legislature by Secretary, of State Hugo. Greater New York has 5,047,221 residents, or fifty-two per cent of the state's total population. Two Killed as Mine Bucket Falls. As a number of workmen were anking a new shaft at the Suqohanna Coal company's Richards colliery, at Shamokin, Pa., a bucket used to hold refuse became uncoupled 100 feet up the shaft and fell to the bottom, instantly killing Enoch Veneko and John Pleplike, both of Marion Heights. To Increase Annapolis Appointments. A bill to increase the number of annual appointments of midshipmen to the Naval academy approximately to 1400, was introduced by Chairman Padgett, of the house naval committee. Maryland's New Governor Emerson C. Harrison, Democrat, was inaugurated as governor of Maryland at Annapolis. A large band of woman suffraglists came from Baltimore to witness the ceremonies and to participate in the inaugural parade. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA. FLOUR quiet; winter clear. $5.40/$5.65; city mills. $6.75/$7.15. CORN quiet: No. 2 yellow, 84¢/85c OATS steady: No. 1 white, 53¢/85c 85¢/85c POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 16¢ 18¢, old roosters, 12¢/12¢; Dressed choice fowls, 16¢; old roosters 13¢ BUTTER firm: Fancy creamery, 88¢ per lb. CHICAGO.-HOOS.-Steady and a shade higher. Mixed and butchers. $6.80>7.30; good heavy. $8.85>7.30; rough heavy. $8.85>7.18; light. $8.85>7.20; rough heavy. $6.80> bulk. $8.85>7.20; BATTLE. $6.80> bulk and strong. Bees. $6.90> 9.60; cows and calves. $8.50> 8.50; Texans. $6.40> 7.40; calves. $7.30> 10.75. HBEFE - 10% Lc. lower. Native western. $7.7/1.5 lams. $6.25 18.70. Berlin Train-Reaches Constantinople A Constantinople telegram reports the arrival there of the train which left Berlin on Saturday morning, inaugurating direct passenger service between these cities. Senate Resolution Would Establish a Neutral Zone, Policed by Both Governments. Albert Simmons, of Los Angeles, and Victor Hamilton, of, Chicago, were murdered by Pedricini, Mexico, by Villa bandits, according to a dispatch from Juarez. The men were mining prospectors. The Carranza officials said that as far as they have been able to learn, the two Americans were killed without a chance to get out of the country and that the murders were committed simply because the men were Americans and subjects of the Wilson administration which is supporting the Carranza government. Pedricklin, the place where the Americans were killed, is sixty miles west of Torreon. The report of the killing of the two Americans, came through the Carranza military officials at Justrez. They declared that Simmons and Hamilton had been killed by bandits under the leadership of the Arreta brothers. Urge Joint Action to Stop Murders Orge Joint Action to Stop Murders. Establishment of a neutral zone in northern Mexico, to be jointly policed by the forces of Mexico and the United States unless the disorders are speedily controlled, is proposed in a resolution introduced by Senator Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma. The resolution, which was referred to the foreign relations committee, would authorize the president to enter into an agreement with General Carranza to use troops to restore order, and make life secure in that portion of Mexico adjacent to the United States. There was no discussion on the proposal. Evidence obtained at El Paso by state department agents indicates that Carranza authorities at Chihuahua assured C. R. Watson, head of the party of American mining men, of whom sixteen were killed near Santa Yabel, that no escort was necessary. In that opinion many of the Ameri cans concurred, although they had sug gested to the authorities the advisability of sending troops with the party. The advises further said the Carranza governor of Chihuahua gave Watson a personal passport, and that the Carranza immigration authorities in Juarez gave a general passport for the whole party. These developments are taken to point to responsibility of the Carranza government for not adequately protecting the Americans. State department officials indicated, however, that they did not consider the advice as being finally sufficient to determine the responsibility of the Carranza government, and further investigation will be made. General Heurta Is Dead. General Victoriano Huerta, former dictator and provisional president of Mexico, died in El Paso, Tex. His death had been momentarily expected since Wednesday. General Robles, his private secretary, issued the following: "In the actual moment of gravity in General Huerta's condition, I only wish to state regarding the unjust and cruel treatment given to him by the United States government that the treatment is responsible for his present condition. When he was president of Mexico he gave all guarantees to Americans, regardless of the difficulties he had met with in his administration. In this country he was thrown in jail like a criminal and his fourth complete broken down, causing his death." MARRY—Colored ladies and gentlemen if you would marry, send description and stamp. Jt. Agency, 453 Earl Ave., Youngtown, O. LEARN THE S. T. TAYLOR SYSTEM of Garment Cutting, Dressmaking, Ladies' Tailoring, Millinery and Designing. PREPARE YOURSELF TO EAPN a Large Salary. We give diploma Terms reasonable. Write for catalogue. 8. T. TAYLOR SCHOOL, AND PATTERN PARLORS. Maybel B. Evans, Principal 34 N. 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PAGE FIVE RE TIME AS SOME SPARE spare time into me to-day, I will age of my FREE Hair and Beauty ry. The work is also your income. College St. Louis, Mo. 06 Goodo Avenue. R STORE BUTTON. D. C. IN THE SOUTH. SERVICE SATISFACTION This One Dollar Brass Comb will be sent to your address prepaid for 79c It is made from will make the most grow. Cures Dam-soft, Fine and Silky. ON STAMPS. LEXION EXOLA." One beautifies the that is exquisit and 50 cents forices. It will not ANY LOUIS, MO. STREET, AND legraph or tel- entertainments. Large Picnic and nothing but gently on hand All Night. ND, VA. LOANS ers stances, der. n. 4569 PAGE 80X SATURDAY...JANUARY 22, 1916 Mayor Mitchell Primes Booker T. Washington—Chief Executive of the Great City of New York State Achievements of Negro Educator Stands High In Long Record of Americas Stewardship in Education Through Thru Letter to Cleveland O. Allen—African Redemption Society. Holds Annual Musical At Home of Bishop Writers—Brilliant Assemblage Present —A Young Lawyer Making Good— Bishop Walters Holds Conference With President Wilson. Holds Annual Sends Good News From Denver—Former Y. M. C. A. Secretary Here Making Good In Western Field (Aleon's National News Bureau, 820 West 56th Street) New York, N. Y. January 10, 1916. — The death of Doctor Booker T. Washington has called forth expressions from some of the most eminent men of the nation. Men who stand high in national life, like Theodore Roosevelt, Governor G. S. Whitman, William I. Schloffer, Oswald G. Villard, William Wilcox and Bishop Hugh Walter, all of the worth and character of the great Negro leader. Perhaps the most remarkable tribute that has come from the eminent men of this nation praising Booker T. Washington is the tribute that has come from Mayor John Purrey Mitchell of this great city who in a letter sent to Cleveland G. Alles calls Booker T. Washington of a great race and a gentleman of whom the country might well be proof. When your correspondent wrote the Mayor asking him for some expression from the Mayor's office relative to the eminent educator, to read at a memorial meeting held in honor of the educator, New York's broad-minded Mayor wrote the following remarkable tribute under his own personal signature. The letter is a remarkable document and for the benefit of the race throughout the nation your correspondent is reproducing it. "My dear Mr. Allen: "I have your letter of the 15th in-stant, and very heartily respond to your request that I send you, from the Mayor's office, some expression of appreciation of the people of this city of the life and work of Doctor Hooker T. Washington. "Doctor Washington was not only a distinguished leader of a great race but he was in the best sense of the word a statesman; and the part he has taken in the solution of some of the most vexatious problems with which the people of the country have had to deal, will place his achievements high in the long record of American stateliness. "Doctor Washington so often appealed to the people of New York for aid in his work, and received so generous a response that those of our citizens appreciated the importance to all of us of his great work and to belong almost as much to New York as to the State of his birth or to the State of his adoption. Our people, therefore, view his loss as a less personal to themselves, and it is altogether fitting that his memoirs be honored here at a meeting such as this. "Very truly yours." JOHN PURBOR MIRCHELL This letter from the head of the great American city of York should be a welcome to the thousands of Doctor Washington throughout the country. It should serve as a stimulus to Major Moton upon whose shoulders has fallen the burden of carrying on the work. AFRICAN REDEMPTION SOCIETY GIVEN ANNUAL MUSICAL. The Africa' Redemption Society of which Mrs. Lelia Walters is the president, and an organization made up of beautiful and talented women who are directing their energies to the cause of the uplift of Dark Continent, Africa gave their annual musical last Friday evening at the home of Bishop Alexander Walters. The event was one of the most notable in the history of this unique organization, and brings together the most cultured and refined of the men and women who live in the metropolis. The residence of Bishop Walters was a fine study of, the high culture to which the race has attained, and the atmosphere, was one of inspiration. Mrs. Walters, the talented wife of the Zion leader, was an agreeable hostess and made the brilliant assemblies welcome. After a brief address by Mrs. Walters, outlining the plan of the organization of the year, she presented Mrs. Elizabeth Howard Leguen, musical director of the organization, who presented the musical program of the evening. The program was a study of 18th Century music, and the music of that period in song and instrumental sections was presented by well-known musical folks of this city. The program opened with a historic sketch of 19th Century music by Mrs. Leguen. The sketch showed a fine and dis- tinguishing sense of the music of that period; The program opened with an overture by Baldwin R. A. Johnson, and Nina W. Fleury; auto; "Drink To Mine" with Tithe Rye; "From Houston Carl Baxill; dust, selected, Baldwin J. Berry and A. Harper; auto, "Holy Night," from Haydn, and "How Can I Leave Thee," from Volleyl, by William L. Offerd; solo, Old English Song, J. Ronald曼乔曼, accompanied, by Misa M. Barnum, of Music School Settlement; solo, "O, Thou That Telleth Good Tidings To Zion," Mrs. Dalley Taplay; solo, "Davies Tandis que taut Sommel," by Mrs. Howard Elizabeth Lokugen, accompanied by Prof. Mones, of Holland, and a piano solo by Miss Maile Prince. A feature of the decoration was a large Liberian flag which at one time floated over the Executive Mansion, at Monrovia, Liberia. At the conclusion of the program Bishop Waltera made an address in which he urged the organization to become more definite in its work in the uplift of Africa. He suggested that their organization direct its energy to Liberia where the problem is acute and grave. He said that the organization could do no better than to work with the Mt. Coffee, on the St. Paul, where 1,500 acres of land need developing. This suggestion met with hearty approval. Prof. Monce, of Holland, also spoke and said that he was impressed with the work of the organization. He got a fine impression from the higher side of Negro life from the marked degree of culture exhibited by the audience. Dr. Raymond Cabeche, a noted Halton, on visit to this country brought greetings from his native and the addresses Bishop Waltera asked for the annual subscription, and about one hundred dollars was realized, with many pledges to be paid later. The organization last year turned over to the Zion church about seventy-five dollars for the work in Africa. The annual musicale of this society is one of the most interesting events in the life of the race in this city, and is more so each year, the annual mecca of a cultured and devoted group of women, who are using their line gifts for the unseafish uplife of the race. A collation was served A YOUNG LAWYER MAKING GOOD Among the young lawyers in this city who will in time rise to a high place in the profession, is Charles G. Snad, of the firm of Snad and Wheaton, at 18 West 125th Street. Mr. Snad has been successful since his admission to the bar, and as a young lawyer has made a record that older men in the profession would envy. He was born in Augusta, Ga., and was educated in the public schools of that city and Haines Normal Institute. He then entered Lincoln University from which he graduated in 1902. He took his law course at Columbia University, graduating in 1905. He was admitted to the same year. Mr. Snad is prominent in lodge circles, being well known as an Elk and Old Fellow. For some time he was editorial writer for the Amsterdam News. BISHIP WALTERS HOLDS CONFERENCE PRESIDENT WILSON Bishop Alexander Walters, perhaps the most eminent leader of the race today, and whose influence reaches to head of the nation, held a conference with President Wilson last Monday. The conference was arranged for the bishop by the president's secretary and was held for the purpose of discussing affairs as they pertain to Haiti. The bishop was accompanied by Dr Raymond Hilaire Cabeche of the Chamber of Deputies of Haiti, who is in this country in the interest of a country. The best course is to confer with the president will doubtless come from Thompson's Bureau next week. Bishop Walters is doing much for his race and perhaps the only man of the race today who can carry the grievance of the race to the president. The bishop left for Washington last Sunday night. SECRETARY BELL WRITES TO FRIENDS HERE Ex-Secretary Bell, of the Y. M. C. A. of this city, who for thirteen years was the secretary of the Y. M. C. A. here, and doubled the most successful secretary in the field, writes from Denver, Colorado, where he is now stationed, that the Y. M. C. A. work is progressing in that city. Secretary Bell was transferred to Denver, about five months ago and is doing much to develop the work. He left behind him a large number of friends who are glad to get this word of cheer concerning his success. Your correspondent will write more of Mr. Bell. LYNCHING IN NORTH CAROLINA Goldboro, 'N. C., January 12.—John Bishops, colored, under arrest on a charge-of having been implicated in the killing near here on last Thursday of Anderson Gurley, a farmer, was removed from the Wayne County jail here early today, taken to the scene of the crime, and taken to Lynch Hall, where he and his body almost cut to pieces with bullets. The jailer declared that a mob composed of more than 200 masked men visited the jail shortly after midnight and forced him to produce the keys to the cellroom in which Richards was confined. The crowd also took the two other colored men, Isam Smith and Ben Cedar, implicated by Richards's confession from the jail, but concluded that they were not guilty and returned them to their cells. The lynching came without the least indication that it was impending. Captain Bain had held his regiment under arms Monday night, but there being no further indication of trouble, there was no guard at the jail, but night. The guard, weakened the jailer and compelled him to deliver his keys. The men were well masked and remarkably quiet and determined. The body of Richards was cut down and brought back to Goldboro early this morning. Mr. Gurley, on the day of his death, was driving to his home from Goldboro, having sold cotton that day. He was believed to have a considerable sum of money to the effect that he and the two other men came up behind Gurley's wagon, near the bridge, knocked him on the head with an iron bar, took his money and throw his body into the river. It was on Saturday evening that the body was found, some distance below the bridge. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA HIS IDRAS PLAINLY STATED DISCUSSES VITAL QUESTION: My dear air.—I truly hope that you will carefully watch the proceeding of the question of rights for alien labor in the United States Supreme Court; as published in The New York World October 12, sixth page. Here is a lesson for all of you good people who have been so hurtly careless while suggesting what Negroes should and should not do. And you should not fall to give this matter your full attention and a general publication for the benefit of your colored readers, and especially Negro leaders. Such as this. I have been working upon all the time. CRITICISES THEIR ATTITUDE. Whether you know it or not; here is why so many colored people, who are classed "the under-world and crap shooters," utterly detest what is commonly called "the better class or big Negroes." You people speak and write very hurtful things about which you are very poorly informed; and without thinking at all. These things have worked the ruin of all Negroes, everywhere. Now I truly hope that no other Negroes in the whole world, will make the blunder of Boone Washington, Wm. H. Thomas, or Proof, Du Bols, for these things are decidedly oxasperating, and make bad for Negro education in public men. You may know little about the great workings of this world; as many were evidently were. Then, everyone should get as much information as possible before giving final judgment. A Negro should have every right and respect of any other person under similar conditions. And this is the only reason for my respecting any colored man. A REFERENCE TO HIS PARENTS It is not that they have been any favora to me in life; even my father was among my cruelest hindrances. But I knew that he was ignorant of its effect, so I decided to do what I could to save other helpless creatures. Therefore, I pray you, let The Richmond Planet never fail to spirit and tone chiefly speed your name to be praised by high and low great and small awards as a champion of the right, and admiration of the weak and the Negro race. Afterwards we had no cause for a renewal of the battle, for if he had done it on purpose, he was satisfied and denying his desire to do it, he was afraid to try it again. A repentance from him was all the satisfaction I ever wanted from my adversary. I now carry his signal, which no one has ever noticed, without it. Our attention to it. But we never played war together again. Then, I say to others, as to myself, be quick to admit your faults and always demand it for damages, with an agreement to settle for damages if so demanded. This right; and the only true foundation upon which to establish peace. WILLING TO MAKE GOOD. Because, if a man is sorry, he is very willing to try to make good even when he knows that he cannot. So seeing that we all are weak, I allways try to forgive those of my contendants when I am convinced that this is the case. But only so! The only solution to the great problem is to permit and uphold intermarriage between the races and factions. And by a complete intermixure only, will they forget their old homes on the other side. But No groves have no such claim, therefore, the word Afro-American, is very unbecoming to the masses. Hence, you are not Afro-American, but actually the best type of Americans, and Americans should be first in their country. A COMPARISON OF MEN Read well, and note patriotic speeches of Mr. Wilson, President of United States of America. They neither, at any time, put American before all others. Ex-President Roosevelt went a long ways to praise an Irishman and a German. Why was that? When a man is a formlable foo; everyone seeks his friendship. But when one is always begging for favors at the expense of his rights and duty, no one respects him; he cause he failed to respect himself? The Negroes think that they can be bygging and trading, but have two very simple examples which you cannot fall to observe. Decided proofs of their folly. On a man win the pennant in baseball by begging the other side not play against his men? Or can you say that you have made an headway in the South, by begging? What is given you today is required of you tomorrow; and with love. JESUS' DOCTRINES 'These are Jesus' doctrines. As a boy in school, I always tried to avoid trouble, but if I knew that anyone had it in for me, I always picked an early opportunity to let them get it out; even if it was by taking a good beating. They felt better and only required a few days when I came the same. I remember once when I once met a whole crowd of my interaries, who had me down and were giving me a whaling, by slipping it to the biggest que in the crowd. Things-changed so quick that I could not trust them. But by demanding proof of their friendship, I found that the father of the lad was very much pleased at my actions; and he had warned his son not put his hands in the fire, and after finding the life of the lad was not in danger; he defended me against the son. Later, I learned that several of the crowd were my family relatives. A QUESTION OF RIGHT. I have never carried a message to my father about anyone mistreating me during his absence from me. And I never found any policy better than admitting to the right, at all costs, and deciding very quickly when I would stand by at any cost. It made me nervous, and I would not be in their friends for twenty or years. And I only carry one mark today received from another—that I got in a battle with some boys. "I all ways thought that the lad was trying he pay up some old score; but as he became frightened when he saw the blood and said that it was purely accidental; we called the game off, because I told him that if we conquered, I should try to win the game, the one or two that might cause trouble between our fathers, he being ever my friend. HIS PLAIN MEANING I mean that your knowledge of the world may not be great, beyond certain restricted bounds of society and business. That is to say; you may not be aware that the cream of society are sometimes the indulgers in the forbidden things. As, for instance, ladies of all classes are the most prone gamblers of the world. And it is a strange woman, indeed, who would not place a stake upon what she imagines to be the leader. Hence, you will find them to be the leaders ni all such things as life and fire insurances, or any other kind of policy holding. This, of course, you need not publish unless you find it decidedly of public interest. I am, in truth, yours very sincerely. WILLARD WILL FIGHT MORAN, IF PLANS CARRY. RICKARD OFFERS $45,000 FOR TEN ROUND BOUT IN NEW YORK. New York, Jan. 12.—Jean Willard, world's heavyweight champion, and Frank Moran were today offered a pursue of $45,000 for a 10-round, no- decision bout in this city on Friday, March 3. Tex Rivkard, promoter of the Jeffries-Johnson battle at Reno, Nev. July 4, 1910, by the bachelor of the court, although Sam McCracken, a circus man and personal friend of Rickard's, is named in the article as the promoter. Neither Willard nor Moran has yet signed articles of agreement, although both have signified their willingness to accept the terms offered by Rickard through McCracken. According to the contract Willard is to receive $30,000 and 51 per cent of the receipts of any moving pictures taken. Moran is offered a $15,000 Willard contract for a book of $5,000 for signing the contract. Moran's share of the picture receipts and bonus if any, is not stated. SEND ARTICLES TO WILLARD The articles of agreement are on their way to Chicago for Willard's approval. The promoters say they have received word from Tom Jones, the champion's manager, that the terms are satisfactory and that the articles will be signed as soon as they are placed before Willard. After Willard signs, Moran's signature will be obtained. Willard will be required upon signing to post a forest of $5,000 for appraisal. The promoters plan to deposit the total amount of the purse in the hands of takeholders 48 hours before the bout. It is estimated that the aggregate expense of the bout will be close to $65,000 and the receipts about $100,000. No place has yet been selected for the bout, although Madison Square Garden, a large theatre and a structure formerly used as a car barn by one of the local traction companies are being considered. According to ard, all teams will be reserved and prices will probably range from $10 to $100 or more for ringed boxes. Reservations, it is said, already have been made for several boxes. No interference is expected by the promoters from either the local or State authorities, since ten-round, no decision buouts are permitted under the New York State laws upon a payment of $100. The State also prohibits receipts and compliance with other minor rules and regulations provided for by the statutes. MERELY BACKER OF BOUT Rickard, who since he promoted the Jeffries-Johnson content, has been engaged in the cattle and beef industry in Argentina, is at present in this city on business relating to his South American ranches. He said today he was not going to manage the proposed bout, but was simply bundling the financialrickard McCracken. I came here this winter, said Rickard. "I have attended a number of sporting events and have noticed that there is unlimited gate money for anything out of the ordinary in the way of sport contests. I told McCracken I thought a bout between Wieland and Moran would be a big money maker, and he said he would and take to bring the money together. I would support the capital. It looked like chance to make some money, so I agreed. "Beyond that that I am not going to be interested, but I will back other, contests if I find the receipts and attendance equal my expectations. If the Willard-Moran will be a financial success, I will offer a large purse for a championship wrestling tween Frank Gock and Joe Stochera who, I understand, thought to be the best of America's younger wrestler." Rickard has been noted for his prizes for taking "chances," and he has made and lost several large fortunes. His offer of $101,000 for the Jeffries-Johnson bout surpassed all other blinders, and it was thought he would never take that amount at the gate, yet the fight he won a Nev. drew $270,755, putting him a big offer for a fight to a finish, just as his offer of today is the largest ever offered for a four-round contest. MUST HAVE BIG RECEIPTS. The targets gate ever taken for a bout in this city was $660,300 at the Jeffries-Sharkey 26-round light at Coney Island, November 8, 1899. In order to make profitable the proposed meeting between Willard and Moran in which the heavyweight championship cannot pass except by a knockout or a foul, the receipts will have to exceed those figures by a considerable margin, but Belford is convinced that it can be made to pay. He plans to have all scouts and to sell tickets to the regular ticket寡寡 in all the larger cities of the United States and middle West. Every effort will be made to keep the tideboards out of the hands of organizers and provide arrangements for policing which will enable spectators to reach their seats without inconvenience. Moran weighed 196 1-2 pounds on January 7, when he knocked out Jill Coffey, and will be outweighed by Willard by more than 30 pounds. Willard is understood to weigh close to 270 pounds at present, which will require steady training to reduce. At least 30 days of this training must be done in this city, according to the contract. It was intimated that in case the men boxed ten rounds without appreciable advantage at the proposed match, another and longer flight will be arranged for a definite decision of the championship. CURLEY TO SEE JONES. Chicago, Jan. 12—Jack Curley to night said that nothing had yet been agreed to by Jess Willard in connection with the ten-room, indoor light planned for Willard and Moran at New York. McCracken had offered Willard $30,000 for his share, Curley said, with the date fixed at March 3. Curley said he had communicated with Toni Jones, Willard's manager at Excelsior Springs, Mo., and had indicated that the meeting was too soon. Curley said he would see Jones at Excelsior Springs and try to arrange a satisfactory agreement with him for the encounter. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People holds its annual meeting in New York on January 3rd, and elected ten directors, the only new one being Bishop Hurst, of Baltimore. The Association now has sixty-three branches all over the country, and nearly 10,000 members, and has never been in a better position than it is now. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mrs. Owald Spingarn; Mr. Owald Villard; the Secretary, Miss Mary Childs Norney; and the Director of Publications and Research, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols, read their annual reports, which will be printed later in The Crisis. Shortly after the annual meeting of the Board of Directors met and elected the following officers for the year: Moorfield Storey, President; J. E. Spingarn, Chairman of the Board; Owald Garrison Villard, Treasurer; Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols, Director of Publications and Research; Vice-Presidents, John Haynes Holmes, Owald Garrison Villard, John Holland, Archbishop H. Gunnice, Mary Owald Garrett B. R. Walley. The resignation of Miss Norney as Secretary was accepted with regret, and Miss Owlington was appointed Acting Secretary until a permanent successor could be found. With the exception of Miss Norney all the officers are the same as last year. BUSINESS LEAGUE SELECTS KANSAS CITY THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE TO HOLD 17TH ANNUAL SESSION IN AUGUST. After a most careful consideration of the several invitations received from different sections of the country for the next meeting of the National Negro Business League, we are authorized by the members of the Executive Committee to announce that the League has decided to accept the invitation extended by the Local Negro Business League of Greater Kansas City. The meeting will be held August 16th, 17th and 18th, 1916. It appears that the Business League has selected a most opportunity time to hold their meeting in Kansas City, for as Mr. Fortune J. Weaver, President of the Kansas City Local League may. "These dates fit in just right, as the Masons will hold their Grand Lodge in Kansas City during the second week of August and the National Medical Association comes during the fourth week." These two meetings in addition to the Business League session, will offer best possible inducements to the railroads to make special reduced fares and will afford delegates to the Grand Lodge and the Medical Association an opportunity to attend some of the sessions of the Business League. The Executive Committee has also decided that it will be most appropriate and fitting that the first night's (August 16th) session be devoted to Memorial exercises in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington, founder and first President of the National Negro Business League. Further announcements regarding the forthcoming meeting of the National Negro Business League will be made from time to time through the press. For further information write to J. C. Napier, Chairman Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee; Emmett J. Scott, Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Charles Bank, First Vice-President, Mound Bayon, Mississippi. Tunkegee, Alabama. January 2.—Major Robert R. Moton, Principal of the Tunkegee Normal and Industrial Institute, founded by the late Booker T. Washington, has received the following letter of congratulation from President Woodrow Wilson, now on his honeymoon at Hot Springs. Va: Hot Springs, Va. December 25, 1916. I am sure I am giving voice to the feeling of the vast majority of those interested in education in this country, and particularly in the education of the Negro, when I express my gratification at your election as Principal of Tuskegee Institute. I have known something of the social work you do for people of your race and of the spirit in which you have undertaken it, and I believe that your selection as the head of Tuskegee Institute means the promotion there of the best; most practical, and most hopeful Meals for the development of the Negro people. I take pleasure in extending to you my sincere thanks. Very truly yours. (Signed) Womens Wesner. Principal R. R. Moton, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. D. J. 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WHITE Preprieter SATURDAY...JANUARY 22, 1916 CHECK GERMANS, FRENCH REPORT Berlin Denies II and Says Gains Are Being Held. THE LOSSES ARE SEVERE Heavy Forces Were Used in Fighting in Champagne District and Both Sides Buffered Greatly. The contradictory claims of the Paris and Berlin war offices, leaves the result of the new German rush in the Champagne in doubt. The French official report states that the German offensive undertaken on Sunday, by at least three German divisions (36,000 men), was a complete failure, the Germans being driven out of all the positions which they had seized, with the exception of a small rectangle to the west of Malsons de Champagne. The statement follows: : "Between the rivers Somme and Oise our artillery has been active. An enemy detachment attempted to carry one of our positions in the sector of Armacourt, in the region of Roye. It was repulsed by our fire. To the west of Belsons our trench guns destroyed a depot of rockets in the neighborhood of Autreches. "The latest information received from Champagne confirms the fact that our artillery fire, our trench defences and our counter attacks completely set at naught an important attack undertaken by the enemy, in which at least three German divisions took part. Counter attacks and hand grenade fighting by our men during the past night drove the enemy from the outpost positions he had occupied, with the exception of a small rectangle to the west of Malsons de Champagne, where his small forces are maintaining themselves with difficulty. "Our general fire, and in particular our artillery fire, inflicted very heavy losses on the Germans. "Three of our aeroplanes, equipped with guns, engaged in several flights above the German lines, near Dixmude, with enemy scouting aeroplanes of the Fokker type. One of our machines, attacked by a Fokker machine, had to descend, but an enemy aeroplane, attacked in turn by one of ours, which fired on it with machine guns from a distance of twenty-five metres (yards, approximately) was brought down. A third French machine also attacked another Fokker, which fell in the forest of Houthuist, to the southeast of Dixmude." The German war office statement says the French troops were defeated in an effort to recapture the trenches northeast of Massigos which were taken by the Germans. The number of prisoners taken by the Germans has been increased to 380, it adds. A French battle aeroplane armed with 3.8 centimeter guns, also says Berlin, was compelled by German fire to land near Woumen, south of Dixmude, in Belgium. The aeroplane and its occupants, uninjured, are in German hands. A British biplane was shot down in an aerial encounter near Tournel, Belgium. MOLTEN METAL BURNS EIGHT Ladle Containing 50 Tons of Liquid Steel Upsets in Phoenixville Plant. A wave of molton steel from an overturned ladle in the steed plant of the Phoenix iron company, at Phoenixville, Pa., swept through a group of workmen and terribly burned eight of them as they ran. The accident is the most serious that has occurred in the big iron mills in ten years and the burns received by some of the injured men are expected to prove fatal. All are in the Phoenixville hospital. The injured are: Francis McCellen, John Stazla, John Cleorsky, Harry Sheetz, Abram Oswald, James Sparma, George Arch and John Ustophe. Several other workmen were burned but were not taken to the hospital. The dropping of the big ladle canaining more than fifty tons of the flowing metal occurred while the ladle was suspended in the air preparatory to being emptied into molds. The heavy cable on which the ladle bung snapped with a loud report and its head dropped and overturned. Men near the overturned ladle escaped its molten contents, but workmen many yards away were overtaken by the fiery mass. Many of the injured were working out of sight of the furnace when... its contents, without warning, came through the floor upon them. Maryland Steel Co. to Haile Wagon. The Maryland Steel company in Baltimore, announced that on February 1 the company will increase the pay of all its workmen approximately ten per cent. The force at the plant numbers about 4000 men. --- ```markdown ``` ALLIES QUIT DARDANELLES Campaign Abandoned and Forces Evacuate Gallipoll Peninsula. It is officially announced in London that the complete evacuation of the Gallipoll peninsula has been successfully carried out. General Sir Charles Monroe, according to the official statement, reports that only one British soldier was wounded in the evacuation of the Gallipoll peninsula, that there were no casualties among the French, and that all the guns were saved, except seven worn out once which were blown up. The official communication says: "General Sir Charles Monro reports the complete evacuation of Gallipoll has been successfully carried out. "All the guns and howitzers were got away, with the exception of seventeen worn out guns, which were blown up by us before leaving. "Our casualties amounted to one member of the British rank and file wounded. "General Monro states that the accomplishment of this difficult task was due to General Birdwood and Davies, and invaluable assistance rendered in an operation of the highest difficulty by Admiral de Robeck and the royal navy." This news has been expected for several days by the keeper observers of the near eastern campaign, for the retirement of the troops from Anzac and Savila but three weeks ago left no strategic advantage to the retention of the tip of the peninsula. WAR'S BLOODIEST BATTLE Hungary Estimates Combined Teuton and Russian Losses at 175,000. A calm has settled over the great battlefield in eastern Galicia. The Russian official communication says it is due to the huge losses and resulting demoralization of the Austro-Hungarian army. That there is some basis for this statement is evident from the estimate of the Hungarian newspaper, Pester Lloyd, that the losses on both sides of the Boarabian battles so far exceed 175,000, or more than the total English losses in the whole Danellos campaign. Another Hungarian newspaper states on the authority of a staff report that the fighting on this front has been the bitterest and bloodiest in the history of the war, both sides sacrificing man in a manner without parallel. Several lengthy despatches have been received giving details of the recent operations in eastern Galicia which were so meagerly described in the official reports. According to these despatches the Russians, after artillary preparation which showed there was no longer any shortage in their big gun ammunition, started an offensive which caused the Austro-Germans to rush every available division to Galicia. Czerwowitz is still in the possession of the Austrians, and is filled with wounded. But the Russians apparently are directing their main attack against Sedagora, north of the Buko wina capital, where five important roads converge. BANDITS KILL 15 AMERICANS Smelting Company Employees Taker Free From Toxicity From Train by Villa's Men. The American Spelling and Re- mining company representatives in El Paso, Tex., received a telegram from Chihuahua City, statins that it was reported there that a train load of employees which left Chihuahua, had been held up by Villa bandits and all the Americans killed. According to one report there were forty mining men on the train, of which fifteen Americans were taken off and shot. It is surmised that the shooting was done by troops of General Jose Rodriguez. Wants Philippine Freed Senator Clarke, Arkansas, Democrat, introduced a resolution to direct the president to withdraw all American sovereignty over the Philippine islands and recognize an independent government to be set up there within two years. The resolution was referred to the Philippine committee. Brothers Crushed to Death in Mine Victor and Polack Chickola, brothers, assembled by a fall of coal in the Locust Spring colliery, Locust Gap, near Shamokin, Pa., were found crushed to death by a rescuing party. Whirled to Death by Shaft. Whirled to Death by a man John Reynolds, forty-eight year old, was whirled to death at the plant of the I. P. Thomas phosphate works, at Mantan Point, near Paulaboro, M. J., when his clothing caught in a shaft. His body was badly mangled. Detonation Near Wilmington Felt For Miles. 3 KILLED AT CARNEY'S POINT Fatal Blast Was Distinctly Felt in Philadelphia—Had Three in Twenty-four Hours. With a report that could be heard for many miles, a wheel mill of the Dupont Powder company, at Uppor Hagley, three miles from Wilmington, along the Brandywine creek blew up. No one was in ured. This was the second explosion at the same plant in one day. Earlier a rolling mill in the same place was destroyed by an explosion, but no one was injured. Both buildings were wrecked. Hagley is one of the many places within a radius of five miles of Willington in which the Duponts have powder works. The explosion shook nearly every window and building in Willington, and was felt up at Chester and Marcus Hook. Persons ran into the street and many thought that the explosion was in the Carney Point plant where three men were killed Monday morning. Owing to the fact that the explosion occurred pust as the day and night shifts were changing, no one was in the wheel house when the second explosion occurred and no one was injured. The wheel house was a one-story frame structure in which are heavy rollers by which the powder is ground to the size desired. Nothing remains of the wheel house and places of the structure were blown several hundred feet away. The explosion at the same plant earlier in the day destroyed the same kind of a structure and this building too, was completely demolished and the site where the building stood there remains nothing but a large hole. Three employees at the Carney Point (N. J.), plant of the Dupont Powder company, opposite Wilmington, were killed when a small frame building in which they were working was blown up with a force which rocked the country for miles around, and was distinctly felt in Philadelphia. The explosion occurred in one of the glazing sheds where smokeless powder is coated with graphite. The cause has not be definitely learned and Hollis F. Anchcraft, of Pennsgrove coroner, who is investigating, says it may never be known. An official of the Dupont company however, said it was likely that friction in one of the "sweetie" or glazing machines caused the explosion but he explained that this was merely a theory. The load are: Richard J. Larney Philadelphia: John "Butch") Walsh Nyack, N. Y., and T. Clyde Winn Pennsgrove, N. J. Mr. Ashercraft said another employee was reported missing, but investigation revealed that he did not show up for work last night and so escaped. A panic exists in the ranks of the workmen in the powder mills. It is said that after the explosion at the Carney's Point mill five hundred men quit their jobs, and that following the one at Hagley one hundred men quit there. No doubt exists in the minds of of officials of the company and county au thortiles that both explosions were accidental. OFFERS $50 FOR STATE JOB Probably the most interesting ad vertisement appearing in a Harris burg paper in a long time turned up with a man offering $50 for any one to get him a job on Capitol Hill or elsewhere. The advertisement makes no reservations and created a stir about the capitol when it was realized that places on the hill were now quoted at a handsome premium. The advertisement read: "Will, give fifty dollars to any one securing a lucrative position on Capitol Hill or elsewhere in city for married man with office and managerial experience." Shot at Hawk, Wounded Daughter. Getting in range of her father's gun, Florence, the eleven-year-old daughter of Harvey E. Krebs near Williamsport, Md., was acclimatedly shot in the face and seriously wounded when Krebs, after calling to her to get out of range, fired at a cheeken hawk. The load hit a stone fence, and was deflected and part of it entered the girl's face, two shot piercing her eyelids. Mine Cave-In Wrecka House With a rumble that was heard for a half mile, part of 800 block of Beech street, South Scranton, fell into the top vein of the Lackawanna Coal company. The homes of Charles Wolf and Caspar Shields were wrecked. Cuts Employer's Throat With Razor, W. Scott, Longnecker, general manager of the Bakers' quarries at Millmeyer, near Columbia, Pa., was attacked with a razor by John A. Collins, a negro laborer, who had dispatched his wage account. Show Slide Kills Army Lieutenant Leut. Joseph E. McDonald, Twelfth United States cavalry, was killed by a snow slide while coastalk with (qp companions at Mammoth Hot Springs, nort Fort Yellowstone, in Yellowstone National park. 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An appropriation of $10,000,000 for the establishment of a naval academy on the Pacific coast within 150 miles of San Francisco, is provided for in a bill introduced in the senate by Senator Phelan, of California. The bill provides for the special training of aviators as well as officers. Senator Phelan said Annap its had about reached its capacity, and that Secretary Daniels has approved the idea of an academy on the Pacific coast. --- ```markdown ``` Aska Another Naval Academy Father and Son Killed by Dynamite. Andrew Conlson, aged forty-nine years, and his son, Anthony Conlson, aged twenty-three years, both of Mahanoy City, were blown to atoms when twenty-five pounds of dynamic whirl, one of them was carrying exploded. The widow and eleven children of the elder Conlson survive, and the widow of Anthony Conlson, who became a bride on Thanksgiving day, survives her husband. Mother Falls From Ladder, Killing Son When a ladder broke, Mrs. Gottfried Pfault, of Erie, Pa., fell, crushing to death her son, Gerald, aged three, who was climbing up behind her. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA. — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $5.45 $5.65; cili mills, $6.75 $7.15. RYE FLOUR — Firm; per barrel, $5.65 $6.00. WHEAT quiet: No. 2 red new, $1.26 $1.28. CORN firm: No. 2 yellow, $2½ $2½ $2½ c. ATS steady: No. 2 white $50 $50¾ c. FOULTRY Live steady, heena, 15¹ 15¹ c.; old roosters, 12¹ $12¹ c.; Dressed steady; choice fowl, 18¹; old roosters 15¹ c. BUILDER firm: Fancy creamery, $6¹ per lb. BOOS steady: Selected, 40¹ $42¹; nearby, $3¹; western, $3¹. Cattle Market CHICAGO HOGS Slow; bulk $7.10; light; $7.70$7.95; mixed, $7.15; heavy; $6.78$7.20; rough, $6.55; pigs; $6.75$6.80. CATTLE — Steady; native beef steam; $6.20$9.00; western steam, $8.10; cows and heifers; $3.10$ 8.45; calves; $7.00$10.75. SHIPP — Weak; wathers; $8.90$ 8.85; lambs; $9.00$10.40. How To Get One. THIS WOMAN'S LIFE is in the Balance The Strange Case of MARY PAGE The Great McClure Mystery Story by FREDERICK LEWIS. In Collaboration With JOHN T. M'INTIRE. Will Soon Appear In This Newspaper Richmond, Virginia UMBRELLA COUPON GOOD FOR 5 CENTS The Planet, 311 N. 4th St. SATURDAY...JANUARY 22, 1916 GIRL OF TODAY COARSE AND IMMODEST GIRL OF TODAY COARSE AND IMMODEST UNFIT FOR MARRIAGE, SAYS DR QUACKENBOS, NOTED HYPNOTIST. New York, Jan 15.-Dr. John D. Quackenbos told the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Narcotics, at its forty-fifth annual meeting recently, that he has found hypnotism successful in the treatment of all save 20 per cent of 1920s of alcoholism which had come within his personal experience says Nikola Greeley-Smith, in the New York World. Dr. Quackenbos was formerly professor of English literature in Columbia University, and has written several books on the power of suggestion in the cure of mental and physical ill. He believes and practices that hypnosis can cure unrequited love, business failure, alcoholism and the drug habit. He has taught the book such cases, and he told me yesterday that he regards the society woman who drinks to excess as almost wit out the pale of hope. DEBUTANTES AND ALCOHOLISM "We live in an age of moral lament." Dr. Quenckenbos said. "Law is disregarded and men and women have no longer any respect for moral or legal restraint. In my youth if a young woman were seen in a public restaurant drinking a cocktail or smoking a cigarette she was classified immediately with the underworld. Today debutantes are brought to my office suffering from alcoholism, girls of the best society whose fathers and mothers are as good as any people in the United States." "I had one young girl brought to me who had thrown a satirical at her father at a dinner party because he had forbidden her to drink any more champagne. And while waiting to my parents, this autumn she showed her mistreatment figure one of the nurses and asked her how to remove the stains. I treat such cases by mental suggestion, talking to the girl of the mental and physical damage which her habits surely bring to her. "By suggestion I impart to her pluck, push, nerve, vitality I strengthen her will and try to bring her into touch with the truth which always emancipates I must confess though, that I failed to make any imposition on a young girl who was brought to me by her mother, and who so far as I could discover, was adducted to every deleterious habit a young girl could have, including the use of drugs." DRINK HABIT GROWING. Dr. Quackenbos mentioned the name of a young woman who was widely known until her marriage a short time ago to a professional dancer. "I saw her only in the presence of her mother," the physician said, "and perhaps should have been able to do for the girl if the teacher had not been at daggers" points all the time. "The drink habit is growing among our women, particularly among women of the leisure class." Dr. Quackenbos added sadly, "but from shopmaid to the pampered dame of society nearly every woman today takes her 'little nip.' The punchebowl figures at social functions, and belles dip free from the water." Dr. Quackenbos I have seen them do it, yeah even in our sedate suburbs (not half so sedate as they seem.) DRINK AND SMOKE OPENLY "Cocktails and highballs are everywhere, and the wanton, cordax (this is new isn't it?) has been revived by dance-mad, up-to-date Bacchantes amid the familiarities of the roof garden and the cabaret. "Girls of good families, with painted faces, mix openly in the throng. Debutantes assert their right drinking wine and smoke cigarettes openly in public places. We see them puffing brazenly in the corridors of hotels. I have had a number here in my office for treatment and young married women have been brought to me in a frightful state of intoxication. Today girls in their teens see no impropriety in drinking publicly with men companions. And we see a gawky creature going along the streets, with a made-up face, a skirt to a little below the knees—and you can't tell till you pass her whether she is a girl of 13 the grandmother. "Don't you think that woman's desire to appear so young is due to man's crude cult of the broiler?" I asked. "If our tastes are as decadent as you believe, isn't it merely because we strive to please?" WOMEN ARE DECADEST "Decadent is, a good word." Dr. Quackenbos replied. "The woman who drinks to excess, who dresses like a child instead of like the matron of 30 or 35 she is, undoubtedly decadent. Few men admire such a type. The girl of today is a coarse, bolstered immodely attired bonavant, controlled by fuller for purposes and who wholly to fulfill for purposes and who munty as a character former, a wife and a mother. The national force that is wasting today, in America, a woman." "I believe you consider that increases in drink, the excessive, use of alcohol, is confined to the well-to-do!" I interrupted. "Yes," replied Dr. Quackenbos. "the movies have saved the working man who is willing to take can take his whole family to a delightful entertainment for the sum he need to throw away in the saloon. The movies have been transcendently valuable in promoting sobriety among the poor." FLORENCE, S.C. ITEMS Mr. F. C. Hall and Mr. J. S. Billington left for St. Augustine, Fla., on January 10th. Mr. C. Brockington, from Centre School section, passed through the city recently. In selecting Major Moton for this position the trustees have called him not merely to head a great educational institution, but also in a large Race leaders, party leaders, faction leaders and leaders of organizations win leadership by mastery of mind, by achievements, by development of endowments—by sheer force of superfortility. They are not selected, but committee of four, three of whom, personal, teaching in common with the people whom they would make their favorite leader over. When Major Moton was commandant down at Hampton—sort of a superintendent and drillmaster of a squad of boys who drilled with wooden guns, no one ever thought of tutting him as the leader of we ten millions of people, or even leader of state where John Mitchell rules the city. But, preto, change, as soon as he is the principal of Tunkegee, by a committee of men, he is at once touted as the leader of the race. The Roe decision Mr. T. H. Heyward, of Richmond, Va., passed through the city recently en route to Mullina, S. C. Mr. Heyward, is originally form Bennettville, S. C. Mr. V. Boston, of Petersburg, Va., passed through the city recently. Miss Belleie Cook passed through the city recently on route to Bennettville, S. C., her home. Miss Cook recently took a special course in vocal music in New York. Mrs. Mary E. McCall, of Marion, S. C., went to Thurmosville, Ga., to visit relatives. Mrs. Carrie McCollum, of Little Rock, S. C., and baby, Lourdine, are visiting Hartsville, S. C. Mr. Walter Mack and son, Mr. Luther Mack and wife, Mrs. Rosa Mack, of Darlington, S. C., are visiting relatives and friends in Jacksonville, Fl., Mrs. Everone Calvin, of Elereo, S. C. has been visiting in Marvin, N. C. Her little Willie Dean, accompanied her. Rev. J. H. Hunt, of Hartsville, S. C., has been visiting in Reedville, S. C., a message having reached him that his sister was very ill. Mr. W. L. Wiggins, of Charleston, S. C. is visiting his father, who is quite ill, at Hurtford, N. C. Misses E. T. Thomas and Lucie Toomer have been visiting in Charleston. They accompanied the body of Miss Soucer's mother to Charleston for burial. Miss V. E. Jenkins, a teacher in the Indiana Avenue Public School of Atlantic City, N. J., has left for her home. Her sister, little Atlantic Ellen Jenkins, died at Atlantic City and was buried at Manning, S. C., their home, Sunday, January 9. Mr. D. J. Johnson, of Hartsville, S. C., has gone to Kingstree, S. C. Rev. F. W. Jordan, pastor at Baltimore A. M. E. Church, at Sellers, left Friday morning for his work at Sellers. Rev. E. J. Garrison passed through the city recently, returning from Bennettville, S. C., where he went to an official church business. Mr. J. H. Malloy, of Maxton, N. C., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Milley McLoud, of Valdosta, Ga. Rev. T. H. Hines left this Saturday morning for Mt. Rona Baptist Church, at DLVESVILLE, S. C. Rev. Hines is well pleased with his new hold Mr. H. Davis, of Dunbar, S. C. has gone to Chaupon, S. C. Mr. Henry I. Williams, of this city, amply this through the country to the bishop's Exposition and reports a delightful trip. Rev W. D. McEachern has gone to the Florence Circuit to labor. Rev. D. L. Coe is succeeding nicely at St Charles, A M. E. Church, Sumter County. Mrs. P. E. Washington, after spending a few hours with parents, Rev. and Mrs. Julias has returned to her home in Jacksonville, Fla. recently. Miss Mary Moye has returned from a trip to Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. H. J. Pettikin, of Blenheim, S. C. in Stock Lodge, No. 292, in attendance at the quarterly meeting of that society. Mr. F. S. Singletary preached his trial sermon at the A M. E. Church in this city January 5. Text Mt. 31th chapter, part of 31th verse. Mr J. F. Lowe, a Pullman porter between Wilmington and Florence, recently took a trip from New York to New Orleans, theme from New York to Key West, Fl. about 3,500 miles. Mr J. F. Jenkins is finishing a $4,500 dwelling at Mt. Clare for Mr. R. C. Donals, a northerner. Mr. Jenkins is one of our leading contractors, and keeps busy. Mrs Jamie Moses, once a pupil of mine, has gone to Timmonsville, S. C., to visit relatives. Her sister, Miss J. Marks, had a serious fall later. Mrs Lula Long, one of my pupils at Hartsville, Georgia, school, has gone to Bartington, her old home, on a visit. Mr. Ben Strong, of Timmonsville, S. C., a K. of P., spent Friday the 14th in this city on business. Mr. C. A. Brooks is still with the headlight crew at A. C. L. shops. Mr. David Turner, chauffer for Mrs. McCloud's Infirmary, left the city for Society Hill Sunday, January 16th, to visit relatives. Mr. E. J. Jeffreys, of Lamar, S. C. paid a visit to Mrs Alice McCastellin, of this city, Sunday, the 16th, returning that twang. Mr. Edwin Brown, of Philadelphia, has returned home. She came south with the body of her husband to his home, at Beaufort, S. C. He was an oiler in the United States Navy. Mrs. Mamie Berry and son, Mr. Edwin Powell, of Buffalo, N. Y., passed through the city recently, on route to Palm Beach, Fla. Mrs. Willek H. Evans, of Philadelphia, has gone to Ormond, Fla. Mr. F. Delane Harris, of Philadelphia, Pa., has gone to Palm Beach, Florida. Mrs. Fred Taylor, of Washington, spent Sunday in Leesburg, visiting her mother, returning Monday on eight o'clock car. Sergeant McPherson Lawson Lucas, retired from Ninth Cavalry, Troop K. and Mrs. Jannett Jacobse were happily joined in wodlock here Saturday. They will leave on their wedding tour Tuesday. Mr. John Tramble, of Washington, was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Janie Watkins, Sunday. All of her children were there yesterday, and ten grandchildren. We are told the revival meeting started last night at the Mt. Zion M. F. Church. Rev. W. R. Manley is conducting a meeting in Charleston, W. Va. Rev. R. M. Taylor departed this life last night. R. M. Walker and Mr. Frank Collins left for this morning to take charge of the body. Mr. Thos. Dorey is much improved at this writing. Dr. Tyler will preach Sunday. — W. L. Josua, Reporter. Sunday morning, January 16, Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church S. S. opened at 9:20, Superintendent, Rev. Geo. P. Miller at his post. F 11 A. M. Rev. George C. Taylor prior presides interesting, sermon from Acts II-21: "I goosever Shall call on the name of the Lord be saved." The Reverend caused his heartache to take new glow of the surrounding circumstances of life. Sunday, January 16, 4:45, Mr. Cloyd Burke, of Wytherville, Va. had improved that he was permitted to leave evening for his home in the above mentioned place. He was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Mr. Harbor Reynolds. Mrs. Nannie Owens, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pinkard, died at their home Friday, January 14, 1910 in full triumph of faith, after an illness of two years and was buried Sunday, January 16th. Age, 37 years. Her remains were interred in Midway Cemetery, there to await the coming of the remainder of her family, father, mother, four brothers and five sisters. Rev. J. H. Burks, of the High Street Baptist Church, officiated. The High Street Church loses a noble light, while Heaven gains another Jewel. The William Westbrook, of Rock Hill, S. an employee of Ronoke Machine Warehouse foundry department died Sunday and was buried Tuesday at elven o'clock. At full representation of his follow workmen turned out with the deceased. The man had lived in the city for fifteen years and was highly honored. Mr. W. F. Hughes, the funeral director of Gainsboro avenue, had the body in charge. The mother of Mr. James Lumpkins, of 10th Avenue, N. W. died Saturday night and was buried Tuesday, January 18th, after a rite Christian age, a faithful trust in God to the end of life and the reward of promised for a faithful life lived for the Master. The family tosses a loving mother and the Church and committing to a wonderful Christian character, but I wonder another star. May those of us not prepare to meet her beyond life's sea. The Midway Cemetery Company met at eight o'clock, January 18th, at which time they elected their board of directors. Rev. J. H. Burks is president and H. H. Terry, Secretary; Mr. Green Penn, Mr. E. L. Terry, Mr. O. W. Coleman, Mr. Charles Lawrenc, Dr. R. J. Boland, Mr. A. F. Brooks, Present Mrs. M. B. Paxton, Mr. Earl, Clark, Madison Stanford, stockholders of said company. The funeral services of Mrs. Cundiff does, place this afternoon at 5:00 p.m. in the Church, Dr. Brown pastor, officiating. The remains were interred in Midway Cemetery. The young child of Mr. and Mrs. George Bowers died Monday and was buried this evening from their home on seventh avenue, N. W. Roanoke. The child was about three weeks old either father or mother had severely been shot. Fatha Bowers it seems then like Winter has begun in this section of the mountains. ABRANNA (VA.) LETTER Urbanna, Va. January 17, 1916. The Union Grove Club gave an excellent concert at the Ecabrook Church recently. We were highly entertained at the residence of Mrs. Charles Carter, January 6. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Green, Mrs. J. A. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Crisa Green, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Lockley, Mrs. Mary Baytop, Misses Elizabeth Wormley, Sallie Wood, Shelle Grimes and Victoria Baytops, Mesara, Wesley Washington and Percy Robinson. Mrs. E. Green visited Deacon Tom Smith Sunday, January 16. Rev. J. A. Martin has been quite indisposed for the last week, but a much improved now. Captain Alex. Burrell was in Fred ericksburg recently in the interest of his oyster business. Mrs Sarah C. Campbell, I. S. o. the county, was in this neighborhood last week. Mr. W. P. Williams was in Norfolk recently. Mrs. A. E. Green and Mrs. J. A. Martin visited Mrs. Poachie Frazier and Mrs. Ella Easton January 5. Mr. Douglas Frazier had the imfortune of losing a very valuable horse recently. The contract for the building of an Industrial school at Auburg was awarded to Mr. G. S. Bundy, of Tappanhannock, Va. J. C. B. --- A HAND-PICKED LEADER (Washington, D. C. Bee) The Outlook, editorially, speaking of Major Moton's election to the principalship of Tuskegee, gold; during those two months in the United States that the ten millions of Negroes in the state do not properly accept Matoon Moton in their leader, even if he kingship back to an African chief. At least, not until he has won this distinction by achievement. The race is getting tired of these hand-picked leaders, and will not accept them; even on The Outlook's say so. Dr. Washington, the deceased principal of Tuskegee, won the leadership, or at least the major portion of the race, by achievements. He came up into the leadership. He was set down into the leadership position by a committee of four. State can do so by applying to, the allowed for New Branch Clubs, in Temporary Supreme C MRS. GEORGE T. MAYRE The college had its name bestowed by the legislature "in honorable and perpetual memory of his excellency, General Washington," who received from it the degree of doctor of laws. Tillers of Soil in Pennsylvania Own 22,608 Motors. Pennsylvania farmers own over Sourteen per cent of the automobiles registered in the state during the past year. On the first of the year there were Now what the Bee has here said is not said with any unkind feeling for Major Moton. What $w_0$ have said would have been said about any man whom four members of a trustee board would have assumed to must be accepted as our leader. And what we have here said, is said the belief that Major Moton is too old to assume to exercise leadership over ten millions of people merely because members of a trustee board, and the editor of The Outlook, commilstoned him "leader of a race." The editors of The Outlook will please take notice that the people who are to follow will have some say as to who shall be the man who leads. You cannot force a hand-picked leader on us now that we have reduced our illiteracy to about 30 per cent, and it might as well be distinctly understood that no white man or set of white men, no matter from what source they come, will be permitted to pick a leader for the colored American race. Those colored men who have attempted to load have been race apologists and trimmers. TALKS ON THRIFT Thrift is good management, and ro- where is good management more man- fife than in the home. You can soon tell what manner of housekeeper the wife is, for the impress of her ideals and ideas is on every hand. She can waste all the husband carms, or she can have the major part. Housekeeper work in the world, and she who can keep a house well is a good business woman. She can make her work drudgery or she can make it a pleasure. Men fall in business and the world known it; but how many home failures there are of which the world never hears! It is easy to detect the woman who falls as a housekeeper. If you see the dishes unwashed, the children unkempt, clothes stung all over the dirty, and both littered, the corners dirty and a barrier of neglect, you may depend upon it. she has fallen as a business housekeeper. She does not know how. Writing in the Ladies' Home Journal, one woman tells how she successes as a home-maker and as a business woman in the home. She aims at simplicity. She has simple furnishings, but good. She has no "parlor"—that abomination of olden time, but a living room, where they really live. Most parlors are merely to look at, not to use. She has simple meals—things "they are all stuck on," as her little boy put it, but lots of them. Baked beans only, but lots of them and good. And who couldn't make a meal on the beans mother used to bake? She has no curtains at the windows; her hooks are for light and air, not to display curtains and catch the dust and keep on the light. She wastes, no food. She allows the children to take only as much as they can eat and no more. If they leave any food on the plate, the next meal begins that cold plate! Her garbage pail is for waste, not food. "Swell swill" costs money, and "plugs is plugs" and rolls; potato peelings as much as ice cream. ) She doesn't make her attic a junk shop. She makes it a storeroom: cleans it once a year, but that is all. She has order in the kitchen. She saves time by having things in order. She doesn't dry her dishes, but "scalds" she and lets them dry their dresses, and they can do it better than she. She uses a "letter press" to "iron" socks and towels and coarse articles that other women break their backs over to no useful purpose. A freless cooker saves gas and time and food. She keeps baking flour mixed with the proper proportion of salt and baking powder and blacuits for her oven in five minutes. She has all her kitchen utensils handy, and receptacles labeled, and thus she also cooks. Women walk too much on their jobs. She has change in the house, runs no counts, pays cash on delivery, welcomes her purchases and takes nothing for granted. She keeps account of all her expenditures and knows where her money goes and what it buys. She doesn't hire much help, because she doesn't need it. She studies her job and succeeds because she knows how. AMERICAN BANKER' ASSOCIATION. AGENTS WANTED—To sell Saline Pain Cure, old home remedy for burns, sorres, aprains, etc. Pine for rising breast. Saline Pain Cure, 912 N. First St., Itchmond, Virginia. Britian Seize Rubber in Mail Sacks. One hundred and twenty-five per- cel post packages containing sheet rubber, weighing an aggregate of 175 pounds, consisted of Gothenburg were taken from the Danish Huer Frederick VIII at Kirkwell. DENIES PUSSIA SHIKING No German service concerned in Destruction of the U.S. Ship. Secretary in the Treasury, handling anund ed that the Berlin foreign office had in formed Ambassador Gorarl the al German submarines in the Norther ransan have reported, and that none was concerned in the destruction of the Berlin airmailship Perala. AUTOMOBILE CONTEST RALLY. FOR NEW MEMBERS. Richmond Industrial Beneficial Club OF VIRGINIA SUPREME LODGE Commences January 1, 1916—Closes October 31, 1916 We want 1500 New Members by October 31, 1916 Do You Want A New Car? Why not enter the Automobile Contest Rally of the Richmond Indi ustrial Beneficial Club of Virginia, Supreme Lodge, Inc., and win the Car, by helping us to get 1,500 new members in this Order, on and by the above date. The person that turns in the highest number of coupons by October 31, 1916 will win the Car... No Car will be given away if we fail to get in the 1,500 new members. We will redeem each coupon at Twenty-five (25) cent a piece. Joining Fee or new members, only Two ($2.00) Dollars, during this Rally. Any respectable person can enter the Contest. re- cardless, whether they are a men- Premie Office, 1518 W. Leigh 'PHONE, MADISON 2647 Given 48 Hours to Expel Teu ton Ministers. The Gacette is also informed by its Sofia correspondent that the ministers of the central powers at Athens have been ordered to burn all the archives at their legations to prevent them from tearing into the hands of Wife of U. S. Ambassador Received by Russian Empress. A Photo by American Press Association "DRY" BILL IN MARYLAND Anti-Saloon League Measure Provides State-Wide Prohibition. The state-wide prohibition bill of the Anti-Saloon League was in produced in the senate at Annapolis Md., and will be introduced in the house later. The bill provides for a vote through out the entire state on the liquor question. It is not in the shape of an amendment to the constitution, but a simple measure with a re-count Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. Dr. Harte, explained that the bill provide that in the event of a vote those sections of the state now dry shall remain dry. He said, however, that if the people from the "well" sections object, the Anti-Saloon League will be very hard to provide in the bill that under the vote to be had if the bill passes, the whole state shall be "wet" or "dry" as the majority of the voters declare. This plan, he feels sure, would result in a solid vote in favor of the bill on the Eastern Shore and other "dry" counties. HISTORIC PAPERS BURNED Documents by Washington Lost In Rules of College Building William Smith hall, the main building of Washington college, at Chestertown, Md., was wrecked by fire. So rapidly did the many spread that all the archives, including many historic documents, some of them in the handwriting of George Washington, were burned. The building cost $75,000. William Smith hall bore the name of the first president of Washington college, Rev. William Smith, afterward provost of the University of Pennsylvania. FARMERS TAKE TO AUTOS T. 22,608 automobiles in the hands of the farmers of the state, according to the estimates of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture. The reports show that 9.5 per cent of the farmers are car owners and this means that there is an automobile on one out of every ten farms. In 1915 there were 153,984 automobiles registered in Pennsylvania. More Farm Cattle In U. B The department of agriculture' annual estimate of farm cattle in the country on January 1, just issued, shows 21,988,000 Milk cows an increase of 3.1 per cent over 1915; 29,433,000 other cattle, an increase of 6.4 per cent; 49,162,000 sheep, decrease of 1.6 per cent, and 68,017,000 swine, an increase of 5.3 per cent. ULTIMATUM SENT GREECE BY ALLIES 400,000 MEN ON COAST Allies Occupy Three Towns Near Athens, is German Report, and Rumors of Republic Are Revived. A note to the Greek government, amounting to an ultimatum is said by the Berlin Overseas News agency, to have been presented by France and Great Britain. According to a Sola despatch to the news agency, Greece is required to deliver their passports to the ministers of the central powers within forty-eight hours, taking which the entente will take "necessary measures." Reports from German sources declare that the allies have landed troops at Praia and Pindleron, both about the miles from Athens, and at Corinth. Orders have been issued that telegraph messages from Athens to Germany, Austria, Bulgaria or Turkey must be written in plain language. An Amsterdam ditch patch says that according to information received from Sofia the ailed troops which landed at Platner reckened after a short inspection of the city. "Among the wild rumors as to the intentions of the allies," the message continues, "is the statement that they intend to advance to Athens, whence King Constantine, his court and the government will retire in conformity with the king's desire to maintain armed neutrality. "In Sofia despatches the question is asked what former Premier Venelos will do in that event; whether he will proclaim a republic, and whether the army will side with him. These reports are said to have occasioned undisguised alarm at the Bulgarian capital." A despatch to the Cologne Gazette from Sofia states that anti-royalist demands are expected at Athens, and the attitude of the army is in doubt. "Persons in a position to judge do not agree as to the dependability of the Greek army," it says. Apparently the king controls a considerable portion of the higher offices, and in view of his popularity among the people it will not be an easy matter to compel him to step out. "The king has told the ministers of the central powers that they were to remain with him." . 2 . . ber of this Order or not. Any person of good health and character will be admitted to membership. Each person will receive a coupon for each candidate brought in by them, provided the candidate has paid his full joining fee and passed the examination. All Sick and Death Benefits are paid according to age—Ages ranging from 10 to 50 years. Sick Benefits paid from $3.00 to $4.00 per week. Death Benefits from $0.00 to $100.00. The Car is Won by the Person Turning in the Highest Number of Coupons. Any respectable person desiring to organize New Branches of this Order in any part of this sector for particular. Special Rates eigh St., Richmond, Va. the entrance pwrs. England and France have thrown 400,000 soldiers into Greece, it was estimated. A band of steel has been forged around three sides of Greece by the allies, while the fourth side is held by powerful armies of Austro-Hung garlans, Germans and Bulgarians. Occupation of Athens by allied troops is believed to be imminent. Hundreds of Bulgarian soldiers are reported to have been killed and many more injured by a bombardment by French aerplanes of the Bulgarian camp at Petrine near the Greek bound- ary, between the Struma and Vardar rivers. RYNDAM DAMAGED AT SEA Steamship Arrives at Gravesend With Bad. List to Starboard. The steamship Ryndam arrived at Gravesend, England, down by the bows, with a list to starboard. All her passengers are safe. Three stokers were killed and four injured. First knowledge that the Ryndam was in trouble was received when she passed Southend. The passengers who did not land at Palmouth will remain on board. In accordance with official instructions. Slatera Burn to Death Mrs. Manuel Warden, twenty three years old, and her sister, Florella Warden, thirteen, were burned to death, and their mother, Mrs. Myra Warden, was seriously injured when their home in Penssauwaukee, Pa was destroyed by fire. The property long was $2500. SATURDAY IS CHILDREN'S DAY DON'T SEND THE LITTLE ONES TO SCHOOL HANDICAPPED WITH POOR EYESIGHT. Clear vision means quick thought and to think quickly brings success. Parents, who realize their responsive children for the future success of their children, will not delay in having this very important question decided at once. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR POOR EYESIGHT WHEN IT CAN BE PREVENTED. 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