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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 34 MANY ARE KILLED AND INJURED IN RACE RIOT Murder of Detective Sergeant by Rioters Started Trouble—Women Take Part in Bloody Work. Five persons were killed, over a score wounded and many houses occupied by negroes burned in a race riot at East St. Louis, Ill. Two negroes were taken from a street car, one was shot and one was beaten to death. A white man, standing in front of his store, was killed by a stray bullet. So far, four negroes and a white man have been killed and twenty-six badly hurt. The work of dragging negroes off the street cars began when a crowd surrounded an Edwardville car which goes through the heart of East St. Louis and pulled the trolley from the wire. Immediately white men boarded the car and took off the negro passengers. One negro was kicked and beaten by the crowd in the street and then was shot. He died in an ambulance later. While this riot was going on, a Belleville car appeared. White men and white women boarded it. White women and white girls seized negro women, and when they were lined in the street the mob struck and kicked them. The colored women fled screaming. The men who had been dragged off the cars bounded and attacked by. More cars were attacked. Finally, national guardsmen arrived and began to clear the streets at this spot. Rifles were taken from sixteen guardsmen by members of the mob who would approach a soldier, and saying: "Here boy, let me look at that gun, you might hurt some one," would take the weapon from him. The race rioting began when Detective Sergeant Samuel Coppedge wakilled, three other officers were wounded, one of them so seriously he may die, and two citizens were shot. After the killing of the officer the negroes dispersed. The police were armed with riot guns and patrolled the streets all night and six companies of Illinois national guard were ordered to East St. Louis by Governor Lowden. The trouble began when a mob of negroes, estimated at 200, each one armed with some sort of weapon, assembled at a church in response to the ringing of a bell, and began marching down the street. When word was received at police headquarters that a mob had formed four patrolmen were sent to the scene in air automobile. As the car turned a corner, the headlights showed the mob had massed in the street, marching toward the machine, many carrying cubes In addition to rifles or revolvers. Sergeant Coppedge asked the negroes where they were going and was met with a curt reply and an order to "drive on." He told them that he and his party were officers and had come to see that order was maintained. "Go on about your business," was the reply, accompanied by a volley of shots. Coppedge was killed instantly and the other three officers wounded. When word of the killing of Coppedge reached police headquarters Chief of Police Hickey ordered every available patrolman on duty and asked for the services of 200 soldiers of the Sixth Illinois Infantry, under Major Cavanaugh. A cordon was thrown around the negro lot and soldiers and patrolmen went through every house searching open and women for weapons. All firearms found were confiscated and about fifty blacks were locked up. Race rioting in East St. Louis first broke out May 28 but when the robbery of two white men by negroes precipitated violence which resulted in injury of about two seven negroes and a dozen white men in four days. Homes of negroes were burned and a large number of them left the city. Saloons and places of amusement were ordered closed, and other steps were taken to keep or wipe off the streets. The trouble grew out of the importation of negro laborers from the south. President to Take No Vacation. The announcement was made in the White House that President Wilson did not expect to take a vacation this summer, but planned to remain in Washington whether congress adjourned or not. The president may take short trips down the Potomac River on weekends on the Mayflower. CARELESSNESS. (By Armeda M. Wylie, District Nurse of Danville, Va.) Carelessness is your worst enemy. Its temptations are great, presenting itself to you in various forms. It seeks the rich and poor, presenting itself to the groceryman as insanitary food stuff, housewives as dust or dirt garbage cans, filthy yards, cuspiders and many other unclean surroundings. Closets have been found in rooms in which food was stored. These are often in filthy conditions. Food found in such places is liable to become infected with dangerous germs. It is a well known fact that often act as carriers of diseased germs. They seek all unclean places then wander into the house making themselves useful in giving out these germs to whatever they may come in contact. Babies need protection from these insects, especially babies who are artificially fed. On visiting a home one day, there laid a baby nursing a bottle, flies swarming profusely around it, baby almost asleep. When mother was questioned concerning the baby being left alone in taking its feeding, her reply was that the baby always nursed itself to sleep, then would awake and finish its milk. Carelessness has caused this mother to lay her baby as a dangerous victim to some dreaded disease which may result in malaria or typhoid fever, tuberculosis, dysentery, diarrhea or some other disease which may be conveyed to the baby's mouth through this angry looking fly-specked nipple. Through carelessness the entire world has been aroused into enormous confusion through a little careless attack upon one little Austrian ship, of which the entire world must shoulder the burden of war. The race riot which took place in East St Lou '11, May 29th occurred on the sea, of which no shoes in which they were fat, wounded. Carelessness means danger; beware of carelessness. Beulah Baptist Church, Progresses. Dunbrooke, Va.— Sunday, June 10 was a joyful day in Zion. Although the weather was inclement, the faithful members came out as usual. At ten o'clock the Superintendent, James H. Green opened the Sunday School. Promptly at 11:30 o'clock the pastor, Rev. A. P. Young, R. D. opened the pulpit services and proceeded to preach from the 12:5th Psalms and first verse, "Joy in Service." The sermon was instructive and enjoyed by all present. At this juncture the captains for our June Rally marched to the table and reported as follows: Club No. 1. Walter Johnson, $27.69; Club No. 2. William Johnson, $8.90; Club No. 3. Augustine Moore, $20.75; Club No. 4. Lillie Wilson, $16.05; Club No. 5. Ella Holmes, $12.27; Club No. 6. Ella Roane, $12.75; Club No. 7. Clarence Watt, $17.50; Club No. 8. Rosetta Roane, $26.75; Club No. 9. Leverta Ball, $65.20; Boys' Club, Arthur Stuart, $4.45. Total amount $212.31. We are very grateful to God and our friends for this pecuniary blessing. It is said by some that never before has as much money been raised by a single effort. The members of the Church deserve great credit for the willingness with which they are working. They are erecting a public school building that will cost $800 when completed. Our hope is in God and we are marching forward. "Grandma! O Grandma! I don't see no boy scouts like me."—Stop asking questions. See what you're about or with this strap I'll make you a scout.—Full well you know, I must go where the breezes blow, with Mt. O. "STRENGTHENING THE LINE." Quite an appreciative audience assembled last Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Second Baptist Church Tabernacle, South Richmond to hear Rev. Dr. W. H. Stokes' address on "Strengthening the Line." He was introduced in a pleasing manner by Dr. L. C. Garland. Dr. Stokes' address was strong and forceful and he was often interrupted by outbursts of applause. No doubt Dr. Stokes has won the hearts of the people on the Southside and he is being complimented by all who heard this wonderful address. The Union Progressive League was instrumental in securing Dr. Stokes for the occasion. "Say boss, are these pretty ladies in this picture with Red Crosses going to look after wounded, bleeding soldiers like me? Why can't I have some of my kind? You don't know?"—Well, let me off so I can go with Mt. O to Buckroc, July 5 times 2 plus 4. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1917 is content with less than the truth and he has had a serious disagreement. Professor G. W. Hayes, use to say that if a man could not tell the truth about the race's aspirations And desires it were better that he kept still and those Negroes who are holding these Little shoe shop mass meetings, and voting for resolutions that nine tenths of them know not the meaning of are doing the race a great deal of harm for they lead other people to think that the Negro is satisfied with anything when in fact he is not, and will not be, till merit and not color shall be the bounds that limit!" privilege, when that time comes then the following will mean everything to him: "Your flag and my flag! And Oh how much it holds— Your land and my land— Secure within its folds! Your heart and my heart Beat quicker at the sight; Sun-kissed and wind tossed— Red and blue and white. The one flag the great flag—the flag for me and you—Glorified all else beside—the red and white and blue." PRINCIPAL MOTON ON LYNCHING The Editor Dear Sir;—I send you the following relative to lynchings for the first sixth months of the year. I find according to the records kept by Monroe N. Work, head of the Division of Records and research of the Tuskegee Institute, that in this period there have been 14 lynchings. This is all less than the number, 25, for the first six months of 1916 and 20 less than number, 34, for the first six months of 1915. In 19 instances, Negro the bravery of officers of the law and by other means, mobs were thwarted and lynchings prevented. Of those lynched, 13 were Negroes and 1 was white. Four of those put to death, 1 white and 3 Negroes were charged with the crime of rape. One, those put to death was a Negro wo man, reported to have been of unsound mind, who in resisting arrest wound an officer of the law. I gather from reading Negro news papers and from other sources, that in spite of the notable decrease in the number of victims of mob violence for the six months, the horrors connected with the recent burning at the stake near Memphis have increased among Negroes the fear of lynchings and accelerated their migration to the North. A. A. Galvin and family; $25; T. H. White, N. Y. Z, $25; W. B. Johnson; $25; W. P. Graham, $25; Mrs. Josie Graham, $25; Bernard Tyrell, $25; R. C. Woods, $25; J. H. Burks, $25; L. W. Wales, $25; J. H. Alston, $25; T. J. King, $25; W. D. Woods, $25; W. B. Reid, $25; A. Wibanks, Pd. 5; $25; E. C. Morris, $25; R. Kemp, $25; W. H. Moses, $25; D. H. Chamberlayne $25; P. N. Tolliver & Ch. $50; B. S. Nowlin, $15; A. H. Gunn, $10; R. S. Wynn, $10; J. B. Sayles, $5; J. J. Jefferson, $5; Diamond Hill Ch., $75; J. A. Jordan & Ch. $100; W. H. Jernagen, & Ch., $50; J. T. Robinson, $10; I. Church, Suffolk, $60; J. A. Harrell, $5; J. E. Williams, $10; Queen St. Ch., $60; G. W. Carrington, $10; C. W. Berkley, & Ch., $25; William Washington, $5; J. H. Binford, $5; D. M. Lockett, $5; M. C. Holland, $5; G. Z. Brown, & Ch., $5; J. Woodson, $5; M. L. Fair fax, $2; J. J. Woolfork, $5; J. A. Brown, & Ch., $100; H. A. Spencer, $; C. A. Green, $5; C. J. Jenkins, $5; M. C. Allen & Ch., $150; I. Ch., Lincoln Park, $2; Zion Union & Pastor, $20. Brethren this is simply to remind you that we are expecting you to pay your pledges as you have promised to do. The Lord bless you and yours. Yours for a great Jubilee meeting, A. A. Galvin, Pres., Va. Bapt. State Convention. Miss Jennie Woodson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Woodson, proprietor of Woodson's Hotel and the great diamond broker, who graduated on June 28th, will spend the summer with her aunt, Mrs. Henry B. Stokes No. 416 West Baker street, Richmond, Virginia. America! I wish I could sing that song with all my heart and soul! But breezes from o'er East Saint Louis has filled me full of cold. I'm going to try to get rid of it July 16, when Mount O goes to Buckroe. THE NEGRO AND HIS PATRIOTISM Danville, Va., June 22, 1917. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Editor, Planet, Richmond, Va. In 1776 the Negro, Crispis Attacks was the first to shed his blood, for American freedom. In 1861, while the masters were off to war, the Negro's loyalty was severely taxed, yet he never wavered. In 1898 at San Juan Hill the Negro soldier was a determining factor in the overthrow of Spanish custody and misrule, and in 1916 at Carrizal. Mexico, the Negro bared his breast bravely as loyal soldiers of our great country; and to-day in this hour of our country's peril, the Negro's loyalty, like the mighty oak, in spite of the storms, becomes more deeply imbued, and the country may rest assured that the Negro's loyalty shall never fail. Be it Ress-lived. That we reaffirm our loyalty to our country. That we willingly give ourselves to be used by our country in whatever capacity our President shall determine. Dear Sir: Today's issue of the Richmond Times-Dispatch contains an article headed, "How Tappahannock, stands," in which is a series of resolutions passed by the colored citizen of the good Old town of Tappahannock; the article does not state how many of the citizens were there in which the "loyalty" of those who were there gathered was pledged to the country. It would be really interesting to know how many of the Negroes of Tappahannock who are numerous and prosperous, "were there assembled, to renew 'alegiace' to our country; it would be really interesting to find out what is Tappahannock any how," and why is it necessary for the Negroes of Tappahannock or any where else to get together and pledge their "loyalty" to the country. It is not necessary for a man who has a lamp that is lighted to continually be crying out, "the is my light," for it is only needed that the lamp keep on shining. True loyalty does not express itself in so much lip, "but by their fruits we shall know them." This loyalty business on the part of the Negro is in danger of being over done; it is coming very near to being a profession: it is getting so that when ever a certain class of Negroes have a note in the bank that is nearly due, and do not see how it is to be paid, they get together a select few and meet in some store or shop, and "pledge" their loyalty to the country and the next day call on the bank for an extension of time and no more is heard of the loyal Negroes till another loan is needed, or an extension required and then there is another "Re it Resolved. That we reaffirm our loyalty to our country." The truly loyal Negroes of this country are not assembling in mass meetings, and passing high sounding resolutions, and reaffirming their loyalty to the country for that loyalty has never been questioned, but they are studying plans, and devising means, just like the other citizens of this country, to do what ever is best to bring this great war to a triumph ant close, and in such a way that he, the Negro might get some of the glory and honor thereof. The Negro is clam mering to get in the navy, the marines on the Torpedo boats, the destroyers the submarines, in the artillery, and in every other branch of the service where duty may be performed. If the Negro were given the chance for which he has been begging, and which will he given him before this war ends, every regiment would be filled, every ship fully manned, and a well equipped host of fighting Ameri cans, undivided in their allegiance would now be on the firing line, doing, daring, dying, but winning, never lifting Old Glory t on the ground. The kind of meeting that I desire to see the Negro hold is one in which he will not talk so much about his "loyalty" but pass some resolutions which shall bring home to this govern ment the fact that it cannot win in this war with one of its hands tied now, any more than it could so sublue the brave and dauntless South more than fifty years ago. It is time that some of this humbung and hypocriety were stopped, and the truth told: the Negro is loyal but he is not satisfied, and cannot be, so long as he is expected to be content to eat crumbs while others, many of them ain'd and enemies to this country, walk off with the choicest slices of the nation's bounty. The Negro is not telling the truth when he says "That we willingly give ourselves to be used by our country in whatever capacity our President shall determine." Every Negro in this country is willing to give himself to the country, to be used in whatever manner the "President shall determi.e." provided the President shall determine to use him as a free born American, entitled to all the privileges as such; to this he is entitled, and if he say that he J. C. CARTER. Yours very truly. ROBERT R. MOTON, Principal. JUBILEE PLEDGES Visiting In Richmond FUTURE COLORED ARMY OFFICERS IN S. C. FUTURE COLORED ARMY OFFICERS IN S. C. We just could not resist the musual temptation of going to Columbia to witness the departure of the South Carolina division of the future colored army officers for the training camps at Des Moines, Iowa. So twelve o'clock Thursday night found us standing in a spacious hall where they were putting the finishing touches in the form of a big ball, on a great banquet which had been previously served in honor of our embryonic officers. Unferunate for us the hour of our arrival was too late to hear the speeches of Lieut. Governor A. J. Bethen, Mayor Griffith, Adjutant, Gen. Moore, Captain Graham and the responses of W. H. Thomas, M. D., and Hon. Thos. E. Miller which we are agreeably informed were very thoughtful and impressive. At 12:40 P. M. on Friday an innumerable host thronged the cement walks awaiting the arrival of the "Carolina Special," which would soon speed the boys away. She arrived shortly after the expected Lour and in a few minutes coupled herself to two large steel Pullman slepers, the "Mechana" and "Highfield" which we are informed were complete with all the equipments necessary to a modern first class Pullman sleeper, and in which our boys had previously placed themselves happily awaiting her arrival, while Pinkney's brass band cheered with "A Hot Time." The band continued to cheer with another spirit ed piece of music while we waited the hour of departure Shortly after back. M. L. will clips, handkerchiefs, the chinrest, and banus, waved both from within and without the ears and the band on the cement walk, joined by two cornets within the ears, played "America," and as the crowd stood gazing trying to get the last fingering glimpse of those near and dear to them, the "Carolina Special" pailed fading away in the distance carrying sixty-eight of the brave carolbie, black sons of Ham on one of the grandest missions the war, has ever witnessed. Indeed that was an hour when the crucial test was met. Wives giving up their husbands, mothers and fathers sit on their sons, children giving up their fathers, sisters giving up their husbands to some instances depending upon their poor weak selves and the public for food, clothes, shelter and protection, possible never to return. For what? In defense of their country—for the preservation and promulgation of liberty and independence. But it seems that they took in to consideration the noble purpose and supreme need of the hour and met the test heroically. We are satisfied that these black patriots will uphold the noble record of those of their kind at Bunker Hill, New Orleans, Petersburg, El Caney and other places; and should it become necessary he to their country what the famous Tenth Cavalry was to Colonel Roosevelt and his gallant (Rough Riders) the caviar. South Carolina has every reason to be proud of her dusky sons. The sons of no other state in the Union have rallied to the call of the Nation with more readiness than have the black sons of South Carolina. Whatever task that will be assigned them shall be safe in their hands. Marion County is represented by Prof. J. P. Burgess, Prof. Burgess was a very successful superintendent of the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association. He told us that he realized the enormity of the task but the purpose was a noble one and that he had fully made up his mind to lend a helping hand leaving the hour of his return to the God of Fate. We bespeak for him distinction and shall be proud to hear of his accomplishments. EDW. W. MURRAY, M. D. Marion, S. C. June 18th SPECIAL NOTICE TO RICHMOND DELEATES TO THE BAPTIST JUBILEE. Let all Richmond Delegates leave Byrd Street Station on the 9:50 train, Monday morning, July 9, 1917. Join the Tidewater and Petersburg delegates in Petersburg. Special coaches from Petersburg. Round trip from Richmond, $5.05. DICKERSON—ORRANGE. Mrs. Laura M. Orrange announces the marriage of her daughter, Marion Blanche to Mr. Robert William Dickerson, Monday, June 4, 1917. At home Thursday, July 12, from 8:30 to 11:30, 1812 Chaffin street. Friends invited. No cards. PREACHERS TO AID VIRGINIA COURSE OF DEFENSE Richmond, Va., June.—Through the colored ministers who are affiliated with the Council of Defense, efforts are being made to line up the colored people of the state behind all defense measures. The following letter has been sent to every colored minister in Virginia; TO THE COLored PASTORS OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. The Governor of the State of Virginia, upon the recommendation of the Council of Defense, has appointed a Colerel Commission of Religious Forces of the State to assist in arising our citizenship to a greater realization of the seriousness of the situation caused by this terrible war into which, though greatly against our wishes and desires, we have been drawn. Therefore, we must under all circumstances and conditions, prove ourselves loyal and patriotic during the continuance of this war, and must in all things support the Government, even as we did on registration day. This country is our home, and in its defense shackers should not be tolerated among us. Let us stand shoulder to shoulder with our white brother, and do our best to win the victory for God and humanity. We may not be able to do much financially to help th poor and suffering in Belgium and France, but let us not fail to contribute our bit. As ministers and religious teachers, we should encourage our people to stand steadfast in the faith and in the practice of the Gospel of the Son of God, the spirit of which teaches us to do unto others as we desire them to do unto us. We should urge that our religious services be relied upon by the congregation, and should pray earnestly to God for the safety of our soldiers and sailors, and for the triumph of righteousness. We should organize our people for the care of the moral and spiritual welfare of our men whether they be in training camps or in active service on land or sea. To do this successfully the pastors should prepare a list of all the soldiers and sailors going from their respective churches in order to be better able to keep in touch and helpful sympathy with them and their dependents at home. We should urge our people to diligence in the production of all kinds of food stuffs, and in the practice of economy in the use of them. Many who cannot go to war can do their part in the fields at home by raising food for these who do go. Let every one of us serve our country as best we can in whatever way we may be e lled up n to serve! (Signed) Commission; Rev. R. V. Peyton, Chairman, Rev. M. E. Davis Secy., Rev. A. A. Hector, Rev. T. J. King, and Rev. W. H. Nash. REV. W. H. STOKES, PH. D. TO DELIVER ADDRESS Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., pastor of Elenene Baptist Church will deliver an address on Sunday, July 9, 1917 at eight P. M. to the congregation of the Moore Street Church. His subject will be "The Call to Arms." The Sabbath Glee Club will assist by rendering the songs for which they are now famous. The public is cordially asked to attend this service. A silver offering will be taken for the purpose of raising funds for the Sunday School Convention at Prodericksburg. Committee: Misses Mildred Johnson and Mary Waller, and Messrs. W. A. Jordan, John Mabrey W. A. Kyles, John S. Brown. Rich Creeks Buy Liberty Bonds (Muskoge, Ok, Tattler) Over $150,000 is subscribed by Muskegue county rich Negroes. The following are the names of some of the suscribers: Luther Manuel, $50,000; Mrs C. W. R. id. $25,000; Miss Edith Durant, $25,000. Parson, do you know that song, "I gave my life for thee, what hast thou done for me?" They tell me 10,000,000 people are learning it. Excuse my hurry, I must go, to Buckroe with Mount O. REV. GILL AND YOUNG FOLKS Rev. C. C. Gill will address the B. Y. P. U. and other young people's societies at the Fifth Street Baptist Church Sunday evening at 3:30. Be sure and hear him. Many delegates and visitors will leave here next Monday morning to attend the Baptist Jubilee in Lynchburg. They will represent all the phases of church work. PRICE, FIVE CENTS K. OF P. GRAND LODGE OFFICERS The following is a list of officers of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, N. A. F. A. E. L. A. A. & A., elected at Staundon together with a list of the appointments by the Grand Chancellor Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., Richmond, Va., Grand Vice Chancellor, T. J. Pree, Newport News; G. M. of Ex., Dr. E. R. Jetterson, Richmond; G. M. of R. E. & S. Theos, M. Crump, Richmond; G. Prelate, Rev. T. H. White, Cliton Forge; G. Master at Arms, W. H. Wilis, Richmond; G. Inner Guard, J. E. Ryrd, Newport News; G. Otter Guard, W. T. Stokes, Petersburg; G. Lecturer, W. B. P. Crowell, Ropley; G. Master at Work, Wm. M. Food, Portsmouth, G. Lydian Director, Dr A. A. Tgumtin, Richmond; G. Marshall, W. Henry Jones, Richmond; G. 2nd Attl., J. A. Moss, Richmond; G. 1st Attl., J. A. Moss, Richmond; G. 2nd Attl., Edward Wood, Petersburg; G. 3rd Attl., R. B Mosby, Richmond; G. 8th Attl., J. H. Binford, Richmond. ENDOWMENT ADVISORY BOARD J. H. Martin, Houston; A. C. Mabey Stanton; Willis Wyatt; Richmond; P. W. White, Pei chontas; B. A. Graves, Richmond; Rev. L. J. Morris, Richmond; C. G. Davis, Newport News John R. Chiles, Richmond; S. M. Wilson, Richmond; Robert Gray, Richmond; J. W. Pryor, Richmond; Rev. R. G. Adam, Portsmouth; Goo. E. Booker, Richmond; G. Jaryis Bowen Norfolk. COMMITTEE ( ) : NESS Goo. W. RISON, Chafen Phillip Brown, Newport News; W. H. Thorogood Norfolk; J. H. Allen, Statton; John T. Taylor, Secy. Richmond LAW AND SUPERVISION. C. W. Jordan, Chairman; Rev. C. G. Cabel, W. P. Allen. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. A. V. Norrell, D. C. Johnson, C. H. Clarke, Jr. APPEALS AND GREVANCES. E. D. Bland, Chairman, W. H. Lawson, W. H. Johnson. D. C. Candela, E. M. Canaday, J. B. Evans. DISPENSATIONS AND CHARTERS A. Wm. Jackson, D. W. Palmer, Dr. W. W. Johnson. PRINTING AND SUPPLIES. Col. T. M. Crump, Chairman, W. W. Urquhart, L. V. Coleman. STATE OF THE ORDEP. Wm. Ellis, Chairman, Moses Carter C. B. Callahan. COMMITTEE ON OBITUARY. Lee Woolridge, Chairman, J. M. Lawson, W. L. Roseboro. DISTRICT DEPUTIES. Richmond—L. J. Morris, Petersburg —Edward W. Wood, Norfolk—J. D. Archer, N. N. Blackstone, J. L. Royal Hanover, P. L. Dandridge, West Point C. H. Clarke, Danville—Goo W. Rison Orange—Dr. R. A. Jackson, Big Stone Gap—H. Martin, Radford—Sandy Casey, South Boston—H. C. White, Roanoke, W. B. F. Crowell, Putaski—J. R. Martin, Manassas—John W. White, Staunton—William Ellis, Lynchburg—L. R. Evans, Cape Charles SPECIAL DEPUTIES Norfolk—F. J. Washington, Palaski—I. T. Anderson, Richmond—Dr. A. A. Tennant* and V. E. Brown, Dawlie—W. P. All n. G. W. Fultz and Joshua Williams, Harrisonburg—Jos. W. Carter, Porte outh—Moses A. Brown and Clarence Nixon. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY JULY 7, 1917 DRAFT SERVICE RULES ISSUED Boards Admonished to Impartial and Fearless Service. SLACKERS' ROAD IS HARD Exemption Procedure is Minutely Set Forth and Claimants Must Prove Their Causes or Serve. Regulations to govern the next step toward selecting a national army from the millions registered for service on June 5, were issued at the direction of President Wilson. The data for the actual selection of the men to serve has not been announced. The president will prescribe in future regulations the time, manner and method of choosing the men for the national army. The regulations set forth in great detail the method of arriving at exemptions and the work generally of the local and district boards already named to carry out the task. Exemption regulations add little to the terms of the selective service law, the question of whether a man between the ages of twenty-one and thirty inclusive is entitled to exemption because of dependents, the nature of his occupation or physical unfitness being for the boards to decide after proper investigation. It is made very clear that there are to be no class exemptions and that each individual case must be decided upon its merits. The local boards—one for each county of less than 45,000 population or city of thirty thousand with additional boards where necessary for each additional thirty thousand population—will pass upon claims of exemption for those based upon industrial or agricultural exemption subject to appeal to the district boards. All cases involving agricultural or industrial exemptions will be passed upon by the district boards—one for each federal judicial district—which also will decide appeals from decisions of the local boards. In the near future a date will be set by Brigadier General Crowder, provost marshal general, for the meeting and organization of the boards. At the same time it is expected that the selection regulations will be promulgated, so that the process may be put under way without delay. The present intention is to call the men selected to the colors about September 1 or as soon thereafter as the cantonments to house them can be completed. In a statement accompanying the announcement of the regulations, the president called upon the boards to do their work fearlessly and impartially and to remember that "our armies at the front will be strengthened and sustained if they be composed of men free from any sense of injustice in their mode of selections." The main features of the selection regulations are as follows: Local boards will post lists of men selected, furnish lists to press and notify each designated person by mail. All persons summoned will be given a physical examination (all passing to be later re-examined by army surgeons). Local boards pass on exemptions in these classes: Officers of the United States, the states and territories and District of Columbia, ministers of religion, students of divinity, persons in the military or naval service of the United States, subjects of Germany, all other alliens without first papers, country or municipal officers, custom house clerks, workmen in federal armories, arsenals and navy yards, persons in the federal service designated by the president for exemptions, pilots, merchant marine sailors, those with a status with respect to dependents which renders their exclusion desirable, those morally deficient, members of anti-war religious sects existing on May 18, 1917. Dependents furnishing ground for claim are a wife or child, a widowed mother, an aged or infirm parent, an orphan brother or sister under sixteen years or are. Claims for exemption because of dependents may be made by the man himself, his wife or other dependents or by a third party. A husband making a claim must produce supporting affidavits. District boards alone pass on agricultural or industrial exemptions. The claimant must show his continuance in the occupation is necessary to its maintenance and that he cannot be replaced without direct loss. Certificates of exemption are not necessarily permanent. Train Kills Four Workmen. Train No. 3. on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad, south bound, ran through a force of section men near Mt. Jewett, Pa., killing four of the number. The dead were John Conners, Owen Devine, Y. Stanard, and John Ross. Will Not Aid Upper Delaware. The war department has no RUNNING IN THIS ISSUE ON PAGE THREE. FIVE 5 FRIDAYS By Frank R. Adams Is funny every day in the week. It is a genuine gem of humor. Watch For It—Read It—Enjoy It Our New Serial Story FIVE FRIDAYS ported to congress against federal improvement of the Delaware river from Trenton to Easton. Army engineers reported that the prospective commerce would be purely local and insufficient to warrant the cost. Sweedes Pay $575 For Tires. From $500 to $575 is being paid in Stockholm for automobile tires. COL. CHARLES A. DOYFN Commanding U. S. Marine Regiment With Pershing. T. H. Photo by American Press Association. Colonel Doyen is the proud command of ammunition in the United States marines that ever wore the uniform. All are picked men and typical footwearmen. They'll fight as well in combat as they did in any of their previous campaigning, and that means something. PUT BOY ON CHINA'S THRONE Manchu Ruler is Restored to Power by the Rebels. General Chang Tsun, says a Reuter's Limited despatch from Pekin, has informed President Li Yuan Hung that he must retire, because the Manchu emperor, Hsuan Tung, has been restored to the throne. Another Reuter's Limited despatch from Pekin says that Hsuan Tung issued a mandate Saturday morning, announcing his succession to the throne. Reuter's correspondent says that while it was known the restoration enterprise was afoe it was believed a coup d'etat would not be attempted immediately. "The suddenness of the event caused a sensation in Pekin," he adds, "The first indication of the importance of the affair in progress was the increased number of troops in the streets and the placing of strong guards, mainly --- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA of General Chang-hsian a man, at the telegraph and postoffice. "The movement, the object of which is to establish a constitutional monarchy, is apparently supported by the entire military forces in Pekin and a majority of the northern governor." RUSSIANS PUSH IS ON Take 10,000 Prisoners in New Drive in Gallica. Russian troops have captured Kontuchy, on the Gallican front. They made prisoners of 164 officers and 8400 men, the Petrograd war office announced. A later statement declared that the number of prisoners taken in the various sectors on Sunday was more than 10,000. Southwest of Brzezany the Russians occupied strongly fortified positions of the enemy. Some of the Russian detachment suffered severe losses, especially in officers. Russian forces continued their offensive against the Turks in the Caucasus. Cavalry pursued the feeling Turks and occupied the village of Engidla, north of Lake Deribar, and also the stronghold of Kalamrlivan, southeast of the lake. 14 DEAD IN FALLS TRAGEDY Two Investigations Under Way In Trolley Disaster. Two investigations are being pushed into the accident when a crowded Grand Gorge observation trolley car went off the tracks into the headwaters of the Whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls, N. Y. A washout caused the accident which resulted in the death of ten passengers and the injury of twenty-four others. Four known missing are probably dead. The trolley car, striking a weak spot in the track, turned a somersault and fell twenty feet into the rapids. National guardsmen from the Cantilever bridge helped in the work of rescue HYDROAIRPLANE SINKS BOAT Teuton Craft Destroyed in Flight With Airship, Torpedo Boat and Chaser. Belief that a U-boat was destroyed by two bombs dropped by a hydroplane in a flight at sea was expressed by passengers and officers on an Italian steamship which arrived at New York. The steamship left Italy June 17. When ninety miles out, a submarine appeared. The merchantman was accompanied by a torpedo boat and a fast submarine chaser. The torpedo boat opened fire on the submarine. The hydroplane swooped out over the U-boat from shore and dropped its bombs. The submarine went down and was not seen again. U. S. to Take Over Shipping. The early seizure of private shipping for government use was forecast when Secretary of Commerce Redfield announced he was preparing a statement asking shipping in trests to be prepared. No Transport Was Harmed In the Voyage Through the Submarine Zone. Major General John J. Pershing arrived at a French Seaport from Paris to greet the American troops in camp. These hardy regulars, the first of the great army which later will represent the United States in the Struggle against German autocracy, have been arriving for the last two days. Thousands of them have come within the last twenty-four hours out of the misty vastness of the U-boat infested sea that hold no norters for them. They came without a torpedo scratch on a transport. Not a single man was lost. Spick-and-span, with weather-browned faces, their eyes sparkling fight, every one of them every inch a ran, they tramped down the gangways to the strains of "The Star Spangled Banner," into a pandemonium of unending cheers. They are in camp pitching to get to the front. The camp is not far from here. It is in charge of Major General William L. Silbert, who came in command of the troops. As those thousands of American fighting lads poured off the American transports, scores of German prisoners stood on the pler. Teeth set, they looked half sideways at these strapping newcomers. Those who watched the prisoners could discern a grudging and angry face in their boots. The remarkable thing about the scenes attending the real entrance into the world war through the safe arrival of the expeditionary force was the spontaneity, the touching warmth of their reception. Not an inkling of the arrival had leaked out. There had been no preparation, no program committee, with speeches and songs, no reception or the like. Not until the first transport had safely arrived off the port Tuesday, ready to disembark the momentous news become known. Then the people simply "got wild." The second contingent arrived Wednesday to first transport struck her gray nose on the porch of the morning. The pliers were swarming with thousands. There were few men of course, only aged and wounded. The others are at the front. The realization that these newer-men ors are shortly to fight side by side with the French, who are already in the thick of battle, drove the women franticle with joy and gratitude. The American troops answered the cheers by throwing small silver coins ashore. A roaring scramble among the street urchins followed. They didn't spend the coins for candy. They wripped them up carefully in under ragged kerclefs to save them as sacred souvenirs. The disembarkation passed off in the most orderly manner. There was not the slightest hitch. Ship after ship slipped her herb, discharging men and equipment. Confusion seemed an unknown quantity to these khaki-clad youths and their officers. THE GREAT WAR Crackenmen Get $50,000 in Jewels. The biggest robbery pulled off in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in years was perpetrated when professional thieves broke into the apartments of W. G. Harding, a wealthy brower at the Hotel Stealing, and stole $50,000 in Jewels from a vault. It is believed that the robbery is the work of two professionals, who registered at the hotel Wednesday, one from Buffalo, the other from Erie, Pa. The men left the hotel but a half hour before the robbery was discovered. Mrs. Harding has spent the day at the Harding summer home at Harvey's lake. She returned in the evening and left the hotel a short time after placing the valued jewels in a vault in her room. She returned an hour later and found the room raracked and the small fortune gone. The door of the apartment on the fourth floor was jammed. The men roomed on the same floor, one next to the Hardings, and the other across the hallway. In the meantime the two men, who were seen about the hotel, for two days, but who did not dine nor converse with each other, in public, at least had paid their hotel bills and departed. The local police were notified and eight detectives assigned to the case. Four Dle By Gaa. Returning home, Joseph Komarck, of St. Paul, Minn., found his wife and three children, ranging in age from three years to eight months, dead in one bed. The gas jet in the room had been turned on and the windows closed tightly. On the table was a note reading: "I couldn't stand it any longer. I have worked hard and accomplished nothing." Neighbors said they had been attracted to the home earlier in the day by the acreams of the woman and had found her husband and her quarrelling. U. S. Plans Absolute Wheat Control. The government plans for food control, according to a statement gives, out by Mr. Griffin, president of the Chicago board of trade, include absolute control of the wheat trade in all its commercial aspects. There can be no speculation in it. Buying and selling of other grains for present or future delivery will be unrestricted. U-Boats Get 5 French Ships. Two French merchantmen of more than 1600 tons and three of less than that size were sunk by submarines or mines in the week past ending. Former W. Va, Governor a Major. Henry D. Hattfield, former governor of West Virginia, has been commissioned a major in the army medical corps. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA -- FLOUR -- Firm, Straight, $10.75@11.25; city mills, $13@12.40. PHILADELPHIA -- Quiet; per barrel, $10.50@11.25. WHEAT -- Nominal. CORN -- Quiet; No. 3 yellow, $1.82@1.83%. NUTS -- Quiet; No. 2 white, 75@75%c. POULTRY—Live; steady; hons, 23@ 24c; old roosters, 17@18c; DREC; choice choice roosters, 26@18c; old roosters, 19c BUTTER—Firm; fancy creamy, 48c EGGS—Firm; selected, 42@48c; nearby, 36c; western, 36c. Men and Women Wanted at Once UNEQUALLED ORPORTUNITIES FOR BOTH SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOR IN THE NORTH. NOW IS THE TIME TO COME. WRITE AT ONCE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. WE CAN ASSIST THOUSANDS TO SECURE GOOD POSITION'S. WE MAKE NO CHARGE FOR JOBS. Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited The most delightful Water Trip in America. YORK RIVER LINE New Steamers. STATEROOMS, with Two Births, $1.25 Leave Richmond 5:10 P. M. Arrive Baltimore 7 A. M For Information and Tickets, Apply to MAGRUDER DENT, Division Passenger Agent, 907 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. Phone, Madison 272 CHICAGO — HOGS restaurants, higher Mixed and butchers, $14.25@16.55; good heavy, $14.29@15.70; rough heavy, $14.29@15.70; rough 16.15; plugs, $10.75@13.90; bulk, $14.50@15.40. 16.15 — Slow, 10e heavy, Reeves, $8.39@13.75; cow and feeder, 17.75; tockers and feeders, $6.40@ 6.60; calves, $6.05@15.40; 6.60; calves, $6.05@15.40; 6.60; western, $8@10.75; lower, Native and western, $8@10.75; lambs, $10@ 16.75. Woodmen Beach England Ten units of American woodmen sent over by New England states and organizations to turn various forests of the United Kingdom into lumber have arrived on English soil. The complete equipment of the units caused much surprise, and occasioned a great deal of favorable comment. The woodmen brought with them not only the necessary machinery, but were fully equipped in every way, even lubricating oils. Their arrival found them ready to establish their saw mill and begin work at once. The only necessity for their maintenance is raw food, which their own cooks will prepare. Horn Gets Eighteen Months. Federal Judge Morton, in Boston, sentenced Werner Horn, a German reservoir, to the Atlanta pentitary for eighteen months. He was sentenced for illegally transporting dynamite on a passenger train from New York to Vanceboro, Me., to be used in an attempt to destroy the international bridge across the St. Croix river. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $1000. It was the maximum penalty on the charge. "War Garden" BIII Signed. Governor Brumbaugh, in Harrisburg, Pa., announced his approval of the Powell "war garden" bilt, which makes it a misdemeanor punishable by not over a year in prison or $100 fine for any one to steal, remove or destroy any reed or plant sown or planted in gardens. The hill is designed ed to aid increasing the country's food supply. --- N. G. P. Units to Mobilize at Mt. Gretna The state officials believe that the national guard units of Pennsylvania not already in the fold service will be mobilized at Mt. Gretna July 15, ahead of at their home stations, as had been planned. Adjutant General Stewart has this master up with the war department. Famous English Actor Dead Sir Herbert Reeberholm Tree, the actor, died in London. Tree, created a knight in 1909, was born in London on December 17, 1853, the son and son of Julius Reeberholm and Constantia Draper Tree. Rob Cashier of $20,000 and Escape. C. Beard, cashier for the 'National Tea and Coffee company in Chicago, was held up by five bandits and robbed of between $15,000 and $20,000. The man escaped in an automobile. Tit For Tat He—These biscuits are not like those which mother used to make. She—Of course they are not. These are intended to be eaten, not talked about. Richmond Times-Dispatch. Quick Growing Cress It is said that cress is the quickest growing of plants. Under perfect conditions it may be made to flower and seed within eight days of planting. COLORED BAR ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN CHATTANOOGA. A meeting of the National Negro Association is called at Chattanooga, Tennessee for the 15, 16 and 7 of August, 1917. National Negro Bar Association is an auxiliary of the Nat. Negro Business League and will meet in connection with the National Negro Business League at Chattanooga. Every member of the Bar in good standing, in any state, is either a member or eligible for membership. Heretofore when the sessions have been held in the South the attendance has been unusually large, and we trust that we shall not be disappointed in this instance. At this time when we have an intensified migratory movement going on, international strife, humiliating segregation and proscription by a National Party in power in Washington and lynchings and burnings on every land, not to mention the comparative tame past time of legislative enactments intimcal to our welfare, it hooves us to get together and take action. Mossard, Banks and Napier are planning a meeting of extraordinary proportions and as an auxiliary body we want to break all previous records. This the third day of July, 1917. (Signed). P. W. Howard, Pres., Nat'l Negro Bar Assn., Jackson, Miss. William Harrison, Cor. Secty., Oklahoma City, Okla. EASTVILLE NOTES: A very pleasant time was spent on last Tuesday evening, when several friends gathered at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. F. Allen Seaton, to greet Mrs. L. Seaton Rumford, a sister of Rev. Seaton and Mrs. S. Blanche Poole, both of Philadelphia. Refreshments were served and the following made Toast speeches: Rev. A. Nottingham, our ministry; Mr. Holly Trower our Wines, Mr William Medley, our churches; Mr. Cleveland Thomas, Music; Dr. C. M. Rold, our guest. Mrs. L. S. Rumford and Mrs. S. B. Poole responded in very choice words, letting all present feel that their visit to the Old Dominion was both pleasant and prosperous. They left on Wednesday for Philadelphia, with the good wishes of all present. NORTHAMPTON. COUNTY The Puga Sound conference of the Bethel A. M. E. Church closed a very successful meeting Sunday night. The conference opened June 21 with the Rt. Rev. Peabody, presiding Bishop. The meetings were very interesting and a good crowd was out at each meeting. The sermon by Sister Laura Spady 'Subject: A Mind to Build and The paper by Mrs. A. E Randolph "Higher Ideals, deserve special comment. The Home makers club of Treherneville under the management of Mrs. H. A. Treherne with Miss Sarah Wyatt president is doing aplendid work. The club has more orders for things than on fill. Rev. A. R. Montague pastor of the Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church at Treherneville is planning to begin his camp meeting on the 5th Sunday in July. Rev. S. J. Drummond and Rev. L. Treherne feel very proud over their crop of potatoes. So far they have the best in their section. The now great serial, "Five Friday, You Don't, Don't go on page Two." Ot tile, ea a a 5 ansatleA SS) oan Lag eae i ee EE ee Le NY) DRAFT SERVICE RULES ISSUED Boards Admonished to Impartial and Fearless Service, SLACKERS’ ROAD IS HARD Forth and Claimants Must Prove Their Cases or Servo, Regulations to govern tho next step toward selecting a national army from the millions registered for service on June 5, were Issued at tho direction of President Wilson, ‘The data for tho actual selection of the men to serve has not been an- nounced. ‘The president will proseribe in futuro regulations tho time, manner and method of choosing the men for tho national army. ‘Tho regulations set forth in great detail the method of arriving at ex- emptlons and tho work generally of the local and district boards already named to carry out the task. Exemption regulations add ttle to the terms of the selective service law, the question of whether a man be- twoon the ages of twenty-one and thir- ty inclusive 1s entitled to exemption Because of dependents, the natere of Ms occupation or physteal unfitness being for the boards to deckde after proper investigation, Tt 1s mado vory clear that there are to be no class exemptions and that each Individual case must be decided upon Its merits. ‘Tho local boards— one for each connty of less than 45,000 population or city of thirty thousand with additional boards where neces: sary for each additional thirty thou- sand population—will 98s upon claims fot exemption oxcopt those based upon industrial or agricnitural occupation, subject to appeal to the district boards, All cases fnvolving agricultural or industrial exemptions wil be passed upon by the district borrds—one for each federal judicial district—which also will decide appeals from decisions of the local boars, --In the near. tubire a date will ho. set by Brigadicr General Crowder, pro- Yost marshal goneral, for the meeting and organization of the boards. At the same time Hl Is expectad that the section regulations will be promut- _ated, 80 that the process may be put under way without delay. ‘The present intention fs to call the men selected to the colors about September 1 or as soon therenfter as the cantonments to house thom can be completed. Ina statement accompanying the an- nowncement of tho regutations, the president called upon the boards to do thelr work fearlessly and mpartl- ally and to remember that “our armies at the front will be strengthened and sustained If they be composed of men freo from any sense of injustice in their mode of selections.” The main features of the selection regulations are as follows: Local hoards will post ists of men solected, furnish lists to press and no- tity each designated person by mall, All persons summoned will be given a physical examination (all passing to be later re-examined by army sur. geons). Local boards pass on exemptions tn these classes: Officers of the United States, the states and terrltorles and District of Columbia, ministers of re- Ugion, students of divinity, persons tn tho military er naval service of the United States, subjects of Germany, all other aliens without first papers, country or municipal oMeers, custom house clerks, workmen In federal ar- mores, arsenals and navy yards, per sons In the federal sorvico designated by the president for exemptions, pilots, merchant marine sailors, those with a status with rospect to dependents which renders thelr exclusion dosir- able, those morally defalent, members of anti-war religions sects existing on May 18, 1917. Dependents furnishing ground for claim are a wife or child, a widowed mother, an aged or infirm parent, an orphan brother or sister under stxteon years or age. Claims for exemption because of de- pendents may be made by the man himself, his wife or other dependents or by a third party, A husband mak Ang a claim must produce supporting aMdavits, District hoards slone pass on agrt- emltural or industrial exemptions, Tho elaimant muy show his continuance fn the occupation ts necessary to Its maintenance and that he cannot be replaced withont direct loss. Certificates of exemption are not necessarily permanent. Train Kills Four Workmen, Train No. 3. on te Nuffalo, Roches: ter & Pitishureh rafirond, south bound, ran throurch @ foree of section men near Mt. Jewett, Pa., khiling four of the num. hor, ‘Tho dead were John Conners, Owen Devine, Y. Sianard, and John Ross. Will Not Aid Upner Delaware, _ he war department hag ro yas-RUNNING IN THIS ISSUE ON PAGE THREE. L.A cg oe a 7 ae 7 AW | : aN Kile, V7 0 a Pi fi a Vatay WvAs Bre A (= ay, ’ La \ by Frank R |) 4y frank R. Adams Is funny every day in the week. It is a genuine gem of humor. Watch For It—Read It—Enjoy It Our New Serial Story ported to congress against federal improvement of the Delaware river from ‘Tronton to aston. — Army enginoers reported that the prospec: ‘tive commerce would ho ‘purely local and insuMecient to warrant the cost, Sweedes Pay $575 For Tires, From $500 to $575 is being pald In Stockholm for automobile tires. i COL. CHARLES A. DOYFN Commanding U. S. Marine Regl- mont With Pershing, BRR ee Kole DU a a | fo og ae Peo ee ee Sa i ae o a A Oe pees a Me RSS ee ser a ey Ferme art a Basia state Reena a eS ts eee 8 Be ar ah meee peo eee | ean a ets RL Photo by American Press a Golonel Doyen ts the proud | com: mand of as fine an outft of United States marines that ever wore the unl. form. All are picked men and typical “leathernecks.” ‘They'll fight. as well in the trenchos as ever they did in any of their previous campaigning, and that means something, PUT BGY ON CHINA’S THRONE Manchu Ruler Is Restored to Power by the Rebels, General Chang Tsun, says a Reut or’s Limited despateh from Pekin, has informed President 11 Yuan Tung that ho must retire, because the Manchn emperor, Ifsuan Tung, has been re. stored to the throne, Another Reuter’s Limited despateh from Pekin says that Hsuan ‘Tung s sued a mandate Saturday morning, an. nouncing his snecession to the throne, Renter's correspondent ‘says that while It was known the restoration enterprise was afoot it was believed 8 coup d'etat would not be attemptes immediately, “Phe suddenness of the event caused @ sensation in Pekin,” he adds, “The first indication of the importance of the affair In prorreas was the increas: ed number of troons In the stree's ond the placing ef stronz suards, maty'y ee cupengiaias. THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA of General Coaue-nsuns aie, we une tolegraph and postomces. “The movement, the object of whieh 4s to establish a constitutional mon archy, 18° apparontiy” supported by “tic entizo military forces in Pekin and a majority of the northern governors." RUSSIANS PUSH IS ON Take 10,000 Prisoners In New Drive Ir Galicia. Russtan troops have captured Kont uchy, on the Galictan front. They made prisoners of 164 ofMicers and 8400 men, the Petrograd war oMlec announced. A later statement declared that the umber of prisoners taken in the varl ous sectors on Sunday was more than 10,000. Southwest of Brzezany the Russians occupied strongly fortified positions of the enemy. Somo of the Rudsian detachmen suffered severo losses, ospectally. fr omficers. Russian forces continued thetr offen. sive against the ‘Turks In the Caucasus Cavalry pursued the fleeing Turks and occupied the village of Engidia north of Lake Peilbor, and also the stronghold of Kalamirivan, southeas| of the lake, 14 DEAD IN FALIS TRAGEDY Two Investigations Under Way tf Trolley Disaster. ‘Two Investigations are being pushes into the acéident when a crowder Grand Gorge observation trolley. ea: went off the tracks Into the headwater: of the Whirlpoool raplds at Ningar: Falls, N.Y. A washout caused the aceldent which resulted In the death of ten pas songers and the Injury of twenty-foui others, Four known missing are prob ably dend. ‘The trolley car, striking a weak spo in tho track, turned a somersault anc fell twenty fect Into the rapids. Na tional guardsmen from the Cantileye bridge helped in the work of rescue HYDROAIRPLANE SINKS BOAT TOUOR wrart, Veatreyed in Fight: Witt Airship, Torpedo Boat and Chaser. Belief that a U-boat was destroyed by two bombs dropped by a hydreair plane in a fight at sea was expresseé by passengers and officers on an Ttall an steamship: whien arrived at New York. The steamship left Italy June 17 When ninety miles out, a submarine appeared. ‘The merchantman was ac companied by a torpedo boat and ¢ fast submarino chaser, The torpedo boat opened Are on thc submarine, Tho hydroairplane swoop ed out ovet the U-boat from shore ané dropped tts bombs. The submarine went down and was not seon again, U, S. to Take Over Shipping. Tho early selmre of private shipping for government use wat forecast. when Secretary of Com merce Redfie'd announced he was pro paring a statement king shipping in terests to be prepared, PERSHING GREETS ARMY i CAMP French Populace Frantically | Enthusiastic, vuwoen WITHOUT INCIDENT No Transport Was Harmed In the Voyage Through the Submarine Zone. Major General John J. Pershing ar. rived at a Fronch Seaport from Paris to greet the American troops in camp. These hardy rogulars, the first of th great army which later will repre: sent the United States in the Struggle against German autocracy, have been arriving for tho last two days. Thousands of them have come with- in the last twenty-four hours out af tho misty vastness of the U-boat tn- fested sca that hold no terrors for them. They came without a torpedo soratch on a transport. Not a single man was lost. Spick-and-span, with weather-brown. ed faces, tholr eyes sparkling fight, every one of them every Inch a man, they tramped down tho gangways to the strains of “Tho Star Spangled Ban. ner," {nto a pandemonium of unend- ing cheers, They aro in camp Itching to get to tho front. Tho comp {s not far frem here. It is in charge of Major General William 1, Sibert, who came In com- mand of the troops, As those thousands of American fighting lads poured off the American transports, scores of German prison: ers stood on the pler. ‘Teoth set, they looked half sideways at these strap. ping newcomers. Those who watched tho prisoners cout discern a grudging admiration in thelr looks, | Tho remarkable thing about the scenes attending the real entrance into the world war through the safe arrival of the expeditionary force was jthe spontantety, the touching warmth of thelr reception. | Not an Inkvz< of the arrival had leaked out. ‘There had heen no prepa ration, no provram committeo, with |speeeties and songs, no reception oF tho Ike. Not until the first transport had safely arrived off the port Tues: day, ready to disembark did the mo: mentoue news become known. ‘The the people simply “got wild.” ‘Phe Second contingent arrived Wednesd: y ‘Tho firet transport struck her gray nose Into the harbor in the ear'y morning. The piers were swarmins with thousands. ‘There were few mon of course, only Aged and wounded. The others are at the front, ‘Tho realization that these newe-m Sr are shortly to ght siife by side with the Frezch, who are already in the thick of battle, drove the women frantle with Joy and gratitude. Tho Amerlean troops answerod the choers by throwing small silver co'ns ashore, A roarine scramble among te street urching followol. ‘They didn't spond the coins fer candy, ‘They wr'p. ped them up carefully In under ragged Kerchlofs to saye them as sacred so" yenirs, ‘The disembarkation passed off in the most orderly manner. ‘There was no! the sithtest hich. Ship after ship slipped her borth, dischareing men and equipment. Confusion seemed an an known quantity to these Kkhald-clat youths and their ofticers. PERSHING IN FRANCE . First Picture of General as He Landed at BMilogne, . RS eR ee A AY oe NG tS de ess By Vt Gate Ne C yay Renn ak aS, Se Ba Via Ray areal tn de tae SEY AR CoN Py 0 APES eae 4 Af leet el ee ed ax 9 Vine | [Peswen omens Photo by American Press Association, Cracksmen Get $50,000 In Jewels. The biggest robbery pulled off An Wilkes-Barre, Pa, in’ years was perpetrated’ when professional Intoves broke {nto the aparimonts of W. G@. Harding, a wealthy brewer, at the Hotel Stenting, and atolo $50,000 In jewels from a vault | It ts elleved tint the robbery Is tho work of two professionals, whe registered at the hotel Wedneslay, one from Ruffalo, the other from Brve Pa, The men left the hotel but a hal Howe before the robhery was discover ed. | Mrs, Harding has spent de dey at ‘the Harding summer home at Harvey's lake, She retnrned In the evening nd eft the hotel a short time atier ple Ing the valued jewels ti a vant! In her room. She returned an our later and found the room rarsvekod and the small fortime gone, ‘The Moor of the apartment. on the fourth fleor was Jn mied. The men rormedt on the s'm¢ floor, one next to the Heremes, end the other rerses the batty y Tn the meantime the twa men, wd were seen shan! the Ih for "a days, but whe dia not dine nor con: verse with oreh other, In pubis, al east had patd their hotel bills and ae parted, ‘The local police were not!f a and eight detectives assigned to the “case. | Four Die By Gas. Returning home, Joseph. Komarok, of St. Paul, Minn., found his wife and threo children, ranging In age trom throo yoars to eight months, dead in ono bed. | ‘The gas jet tn the room had been turned on and the windows closed tightly. On the table was a note read ing: | “I couldn't stand tt any longer. 1 have worked hard and accomplished nothing.” } Neighbors sald thoy had boon at tracted to the home eartler In the day ‘by the screams of the woman and had ia her husband and her quarreling, "Us. Plane ‘Absolute: Wheat: contrat. | The government plans for food con- trol, accarding to a statement given out by Np. Grifin, president of the Chicago board of trade, include absolute control of the wheat trado in all Its commorcin! aspects, There can be no speciation in tt. Buying and selling of other grains for Prozent or future dellvery will be uns restricted. U-Boats Get 5 French Ships. Two French merchantmen of moro ‘than 1600 tons and three of less than that sizo were sink by submarines or ‘mines in the week past ending. | Barak OW: Va: Govankan' a Oates | Henry 1. Matfield, former governor of West Virginia, has been commis. stoned a major in the army medical = GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA—FLOUR — Firm, Straight, $10.75@ 11.25; city mills, $12 @12.40. RYE FLOUR-—Quict; per barrel, $10.50@11.25. WIHEAT—-Nominal, i GORN—aulots No, 3 yellow, $1.82@ Tega s—autets No. 2 white, 75@ Ve. POULTRY—Hive, steady; hens, 23@ 240; old roosters, '17@18e. Dressed, steady; cholee fowls, 26%; old roos. ters, 18¢. . BUTTER — Firm; fancy creamery, Ale per Tb. 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M For Information and Tickets, Apply to MAGRUDER DENT, Division Passenger Agent, 907 E, Main St., Richmond, Va. Phone, Madison 272 Live Stock Quotations. | CHICAGO.—HOGS~S.rong. higher Mixed “and” butehers, "$14.95@15.05: Food, nea, sr hog tb. 70;) | rough Reavy, STeiee liter Meht, | $14aier ASAB: ples, $10,759 13.90; DAT, $14.50 MIAN, CATT N—Stow, 10¢ lower, Reeves, FSANGIR TS: cows and heifers, $5.40a! 1175; lockers and feeders,” $6AV@ 2.602 entwos, 819,500 15s STIFED Stor. 256 lower, Native and wostorn, $810.75; lambs, $l0@ 16.75. Woodmen Reach England. Ten mits of American woodmer sent over by New Kngland states an¢ organtzetions to turn vartous forest: of the Vulted Kingdom into lumber have artived on Enelish soll. ‘Tho complete equipment of the unit caused much surprise, and oceastorer A great deal of favorable comment. ‘The woodmen hrowrht with them not on! tho necessary machinery, but were tu! ly equipped In every way, oven t Tnbricating ceils. ‘Phefr arcival fon them ready to establish thelr saw mit and begin work at once, ‘The dal; nocessity for thelr mamtenance ts ray food, which thoir own cooks will pre pare, Horn Gete Eighteen Months, Federal Judge Morton, in Bos: ton, sontenced Werner Horn, a German reervist, to the Atlanta pent tentlary for eighteen months. He was sentenced for {legally transporting dynamite on a passenger train. from New York to Vanceboro, Me. to be used in an attempt to destroy the in: ternational bridge across the St. Crofs river, Ho was also ordered to pay a fino of $1000. It was the maximum penalty on the charge. “War Garden” Bill Signed. Governor Brombaugh, in Harris burg, Pa., announced his approval of tho Powell “war garden" bill, which makes it a misdemeanor puntshable by not over n year In prison or $100 fine for any one to steal, remove or dostroy any reed or plant sown or planted in gardens. ‘The bill fs design ed to aid Inoreasing the country's food supply. N.G. P. Units to Mobilize at Mt. Gretna The state officials helleve that tho national guard imits of Penn. sylvanin not already in the fet eral service will be mobillzed at Mt, Gretna July 15, instead of at thelr home stations, ax had eon ordored, Adjutant General Stewert has this mai. ter up with the war department. Wameun Enaliah Actor Masa: Sir Merbert Neerbohm Tree, the actor, diel in London, ‘Tree, | ere ated a knight In 1969 was born fn London on December 17, 1858, the see ond son of Julins Resrhohm and Con Blantin Draner ‘Tree, Rob Cashier of $29,000 and Escane. C. Teard, ess'ier for the ~ Na tlonal Tea and Coffee company tn Chi cago, was held up by five bandits and Tobbod of between $15,000 and $20,000 The man escaped in an automobile, Tit For Tat. He—These biscuits ave not like those which mother used to make. She—Of course (hey are not. ‘hese are intend ed to be eaten, not tked about. Richmond ‘Times-Dispatch, Qidsk Diiwhin Gises, It 1s sald that cress Is the. quickest growing of plants. Under perfect con: ditions it may be made to flower and seed within eight days of planting, FIVE COLORED BAR ASSOCIATION ‘LO MBE IN OHATPANOOGA, A meeting af the National Negro eokton is esbed at Chattar wooga, ‘Tennessee for the 15, 16 and 7 of August, 1917, Scant) Negro Bar Associa lion Is an auxilary of the Nat. Negro Business League and will meet in connection with the National Negro tsiness League at Chattanooga. Hyery member of the Bar in good standing, in any state, is either a member or eligible for membership. Heretofore when the sessions have boon held in the South the attendance has been unusually largo, and wo trust that we shall not be disappoint ed in Us Instance, | At this time when wo havo an in- tensified migratory movement going on, international strife,” humiMating segregation and proscription by a National Party in power in Washing- ton and lynchings ana burnings on every Ithnd, not to mention the com parative tame past time of legisla: live enactments inimical to our wel- Tare, ft behooves us to get together and take comeci. Messrs. Scott, Banks and Napier are planning a meeting of extraordinary Proportions and as an auxiliary body we want to break all previous records, ‘This the third day of July, 1917. (Signed.) P. W, Howard, Pres, Nat'l Negro Bar Assn., Jackson, Miss, William Harrison,’ Cor. Secty,, Oklahoma City, Okla. PASTVILLE NOTES. A. very pleasant time was spent on last ‘Tuesday evening, when several friends gathered at the residence of Rey. and Mrs. F. Allen Seaton, to greet Mrs, L, Seaton Rumford, a’ sis ter of Rev. Seaton and Mrs. S. Blanche Poole, both of Philadelphia. Refresh ments were served and the following made Toast speeches: Rev. A, Not-- tingham, our ministry; Mr. Holty ‘Trower our Wines, Mr William Mod- ley, our chrrches; Mr. Cleveland ‘Thomas, Music; Dr. C. M. Reid, our guest. Mra. L.'S. Rumford and’ Mrs. S. B. Poole responded in very choice words, letting all present feel that their visit to the Old Dominion was both pleasant and pronperous. They left on Wednesday for Philadelphia, with the good wishes of all prosent. | NORTHAMPTON, COUNTY | ‘The Puga Sound conference of the ‘Bethel A. M. 1. Church closed a very ‘successful myecting Sunday _ night. ‘The conference opened June 21 with the Rt. Rev. Peabody, presiding Bishop. ‘Tho meetings wero very interesting and a good crowd was out at each meot ing. 2 | Tho sermon by Sister Laura Spady ‘Subject: A Mind to Build and Tho paper by Mrs. A, Randolph “High= ‘or Ideals, deserve special comment. ‘The Home makers elub of ‘Treherne ville under the management of Mrs. I. A. ‘Treherne with Miss Sarah Wyatt president is doing splendid work. ‘The club has more orders for things than It can fill. _ Rey. A. R. Montague pastor of the Mt. Zion A. M. 1B. Church at ‘Tre- herneville is planning to begin his ‘camp meeting on tho Sth Sunday in July. Rey. 8. J. Drummond and Rev. 1. ‘Treherne fecl very proud over their crop of petatoes, So far they havo the best In their section, —The now great serial, “Five Fridays" starts this weolt on pago two. Don’t fail to read it THE PLANET SATURDAY.....JULY 7, 1917 FIVE FRIDAYS (Continued from Page Three.) every tenth explosion." "Lipton S. Clair says that fasting makes all the senses extraordinarily acute," Lucile explained. I know Mrs. Green said "— Lipton S. Clair!" under her breath, but I did not hear it. "I wonder what Johnson's boat can be doing out here at this time of night," Lucile speculated. "He must be bringing some one over here," said her mother. "Ours is the only island for miles which is inhabited as late as this in the season." "It can't be father," Lucile mused. "He said he wouldn't be home until Sunday." So we went down to the dock. It was moonlight, and the old launch coming in looked some way romantic. What was she bringing us? Something within me suggested food. The launch came alongside; a man with a couple of grips jumped ashore; then the boat backed away and limped off again into the darkness. "Why, Frank Bopp!" exclaimed Luelle, greeting the newcomer. "We weren't expecting you until next week." "I know it," he said, "but I got two weeks' vacation instead of one, and I thought I'd be welcome, so I grabbed the first train, and here I am." "Of course you are welcome." Lucio was wondering how she was going to break the news of the fasting to him. "How are you, Monty?" He halled me with the nickname I most detest and slapped me on the shoulder blade where the sunburn was the worst. I assured him politely, but untruthfully, that I had never felt better. Then we went back to the house. All I had needed was the presence of this mosquito to be absolutely as desirable. He knew more different ways of getting on my nerves, even when I was well fed, than any other individual in the world. I hated to think what the next few days would be like with Bopp and hunger for my companions. "Belleve me," Bopp was saying, "I had some dinner on the dining car this evening. There was some fried chicken, with biscuit and gravy, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob." "Looks like a great big pumpkin, doesn't it?" Bopp blundered. I am going to put a new verb in the dictionary—namely, "to Bopp," meaning to speak at length on any annoying subject. Finally Lucille took him one side and explained about the fasting. The idea fascinated him, especially in its application to me. He offered to wager me huge sums of money, which neither of us possessed, that I couldn't last for a week, and if I did he wanted to open a pool on my probable weight and waist measurement at the finish. You can tingle how much his talk amused me. CHAPTER II. After the Arrival of Mr. Bopp. WHEN we got back to the house Lucelle passed every one a glass of water. Bopp, with mock alarm, would not let me drink mine. "Wait till I get a tire gauge," he said, "and see if Monty can stand another glass without bursting an inner tube." "Don't be funny," interposed Lucelle. "About tomorrow you'll feel the way Mr. Blalney does now." "Why?" "Any one does after fasting the first day." "Me fast?" Bopp laughed a clear singing laugh. "No, thank you. I don't go in for those fads. I think I can have more fun watching Monty do a gradual disappearing act." Lucille didn't tell him then that there was no food in the house, and I joyfully refrained, for fear of spoiling one little jot of the pleasure I would have in watching him when he discovered it for himself the next morning at breakfast. "I'm going to bed," I announced stiffly. "Are you sleepy so soon?" asked Lucille. "Not sleepy, but very tired," said I, looking pointedly at Bopp. "I think I may read awhile." I started to get a glass of water. "Pass Monty the boiler compound," said Bopp. "He's getting full of lime." "Good night, Mr. Blalney," said Lucche sweetly, to make up for the boor's rudeness. I held her hand for an instant. "Good night, Miss Green." Then as I turned to go up the stairs I mumbled, "Good night, Bopp." "Good night, Monty," he returned. "Gee, for your sake I hope we don't have a frost tonight or you are apt to burst." I went upstairs and slammed my bedroom door. At last I could be alone with my misery. After I got into bed I tried lying on my back, on my side and on my stomach. It was no use; I could not sleep. At last I heard the others coming upstairs to bed. I wondered if he had kissed her good night in the hall. Some one knocked at my door. I growled. "Come in." Bopp stuck his head in at the door. "Excuse me, Monty." he said. I saw a light under your door, and thinking you might be awake, I brought you a book to read." He tossed a volume on my bed, withdrew and shut the door. I wondered if I had misjudged the man. It certainly was decent of him to bring me a book. I picked up the volume, read the title and threw it at the door he had just closed. It was "The White House Cookbook." In an mon or two it was daylight once more, and I dressed my enclosed figure with care, inserting a precautionary safety pin hither and yon in the folds which were once the waist line of my garments. Early as I had risen, Lucille was downstairs almost as soon as I was. We had our tuple standing and at separate times. "Shall waken my Bopp" I asked "I should hate to have him miss any of this glorious day." "No," vetoed Lucelle, who suspected my motive. "The beauty of fasting is that it relieves one from all the restraint of convention. We are not tied down to meals, to regular riging and retiring. Every one may consult his own convenience in the matter. You choose to arise and glory in nature; he prefers to dream." There were sounds of some one stirring upstairs. "Frank is up," announced Lucelle with relief. I think she knew there was a storm coming and was glad to get the response over with. Bopp sang as he dressed. I never care for a person who is cheerful before breakfast. It always seems to me as if the person puts it on to irritate others. The melody which Bopp dressed himself by was "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes," and then as an encore he favored himself with "The Old Oaken Bucket" and "Suwance River." After that he was entitled to all that was coming to him. He came downstairs smiling and asked pleasantly, "Have you been out to pump your breakfast yet, Monty?" When he noticed that Lucille was in the room he made no further allusions to eating or water. Then he went out into the kitchen. When he returned his face wore a puzzled expression. "Do you know where the maid is?" he inquired. "I thought I'd ask her to make me a cup of coffee." "The maid is taking a vacation," I answered hastily, for fear Lucille would rob me of the pleasure of telling him. "She won't be back for a week." "Oh!" He received the blow with open mouth. After a moment he recovered. "You won't mind, will you, Lucille, if I get myself a bite?" "I wouldn't mind in the least," she answered, "but there isn't a thing to eat in the house." "Nothing to eat?" "No. That's so we wouldn't be tempted to break our fast." I sauntered casually over to the piano and with one finger picked out "I'm on the Water Wagon Now." Bopp was too stunned to notice it much. "What shall I do?" he yelled, with all the rage of a regular man deprived of his breakfast. "Why, you'll have to fast, too," said Lucie pleadly. "It will make you R. V. A. W. "The engine is cold," he announced, feel better and will put flesh on your frame." "But you said that it would make me thin," I interrupted. "It works both ways," supplied Lucile. "Me fast?" snorted Bopp. "I guess not—not while I'm within two miles of the mainland! Is the motorboat in running order?" "Why, yes, I guess it is," Lucille replied doubtfully. It is always well to be doubtful about a motorboat. "But there is no one here who can run it." "Huh!" grunted Bopp unpleasantly. "I guess I can run it. I don't like to talk about myself, but I have yet to meet the gasoline engine that does not cower at my approach. If there's a spark and if there's any juice in the gasoline tank she's got to go." We all went down to see him off and sat on the deck until he got everything ready—all of us, that is, except Mrs. Green, who complained of a headache, poor old lady, and decided to stay in bed. I did not help Bopp on his way much, as I should have liked to, because I know my limitations when it comes to motorboats. Now, with an automobile I am right at home. When a car refuses to do what the advertisements claim for it, all you need to do is to get out the tool kit, jack up one of the axles and telephone the nearest garage. Sometimes it isn't even necessary to use the jack, but it looks more professional and impresses your passengers with your mechanical skill. Bopp looked the engine over and sniffed, "Looks like it was built by a one armed plumber's assistant with the St. Vittus舞. However, it's very sim- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Ple. A child could understand this. $ ^{w} $ He pulled a few levers, set the steering wheel and started to crank it. ```markdown ``` "Monty," he commanded, "loosen that line there, and when the engine starts throw it aboard so I won't have to leave the steering wheel." I did as he asked IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! He turned the flywheel over painfully. There was a sort of wheezing sound, but nothing resembling the regular explosion of a marine motor in the flush of perfect health feeling its oats. "The engine is cold," he announced. "The principle of the gasoline engine," I lectured gibby to Luille, "is easily comprehensible to the intellect of a boy of ten. It consists simply of mixing gasoline in the thing-a-ma-jig which is drawn into a what-d'you-callit in the engine, and then when an electric spark is applied from the ding-bat there is an explosion. See—he turns the wheel over—this draws the charge of gas into the engine—now the eccentric trips the sparking derice—now listen intently for the explosion. You can't hear it because there is a very good muffler on the boat." WE ARE GIVING AWAY COUPONS FOR EVERY CENT PAID IN MONEY IN THE PLANET OFFICE, ON EITHER JOB WORK OR ON SUBSCRIPTIONS. THESE COUPONS WILL BRING A TALKING MACHINE, AN UMBRELLA OR A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS, JUST AS YOU SELECT. Bopp expressed what he thought of me by hitting the engine a smart rap with the monkey wrench. "What's the matter?" inquired Luclio sweetly, wishing to smooth matters over. "Won't the engine run?" That is always the prize question to ask the operator of a gasoline engine on a boat or an auto. Next time you see an auto stalled beside the road, with the driver dripping perspiration and tearing his heart out at the crank, ask him that, and you will hear him pour out his innermost soul in words of one syllable. Bopp seemed disinclined to answer, so I did it for him. "You see, he could make the engine go, any child could, but he wants to get it all warmed up before he starts it. It is really kindness on his part. No humane man would want to make a poor, cold, gasoline engine run fast right at first. See! Mr. Bopp is going to hold it in his lap until it gets warm." "Oh, dry up!" snapped Bopp impotently. "That's impossible," I retorted. "The earth itself is over two-thirds water, and I stack up considerably higher than that." Bopp now had a smudge of dark grease on his light trousers, had worn a blister on the palm of his hand and had used up a collar completely. He opened a valve on top of the engine, sniffed suspiciously and looked wise. "It's flooded," he snorted. "I can sympathize with it," I said feelingly. FOR $30 WORTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS WE WILL ALLOW YOU A CASH DISCOUNT ON ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS THAT YOU MAY SEND US. THE PLANET SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME. IT IS NEWSY AND READABLE. AN EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ENABLES US TO CATER TO THE READING PUBLIC. YOU WILL LIKE THE PLANET IF YOU WILL READ IT After running mug around in the locker for awhile he got out a collection of tools and began to remove a steel plate from the engine. "In order to make it easier to understand the inner workings of the engine," I explained to Lucille, "he is going to take it apart so that you may see each piece distinctly. I wonder if he knows that he spilled some cylinder oil in that place where he is now sitting. No matter. To resume our lecture, that thin piece of tubing covered with black grease is the crank shaft. No; I am mistaken. That is the man's leg. The crank shaft is that other thing not quite so thin and shapeless. Move your leg a little, will you, Bopp, so that Lucille can tell which is the crank shaft?" There was no reply save a growl of rage from below where the young man was standing on his head peering into the glizzard of the machine. We Do All Kinds of Job Work "Don't forget to tell me when to let go of the rope," I reminded him. Lucile suddenly scrambled down into the launch. "Oh, Frank," she exclaimed, "would it make any difference if this wire were fastened to something?" WE HAVE TWO LINOTYPES, ONE IS OF THE LATEST PATENT. THE COST PRICE OF THE FIRST ONE WAS $3,375, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. THE COST OF THE LATEST WAS $3,700, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. ADD TO THESE AMOUNTS $1,000 AND YOU HAVE THE EXPENSE OF BRINGING THEM FROM THE MERGENTHALER FACTORY AT BROOKLYN, N. Y. AND SETTING THEM UP IN OUR OFFICE AT RICHMOND. He arose from his imitation of a kangaroo about to jump down a mine shaft and took the wire from her fingers without comment. His feelings, whatever they were, he did not dare trust to speech. There was something majestic about the repression of the man that forbade comment. In palpitating silence he attached the wire to a place which seemed to be made for it, reassembled the engine, wiped off his hands and grasped the crank. He turned it once easily, and, "zing," the motor got down to business like a clock! Lucille hastily scrambled out of the boat. "Let her go!" Bopp yelled, taking hold of the wheel in a pose a good deal like a viking save for the grease on his trousers. (Did vikings wear trousers? My memory is at fault.) I threw the line on board with a feeling of envy for one who was speeding to a square meal. "Keep to starboard!" Luello yelled. "Keep to starboard! There's shallow water on the port side!" Our Press Room is also well equipped. The outlay for machinery alone exceeds $4000 Call and see our plant We make this statement in order that you may know and understand that we are well prepared to take care of your orders and deliver to you your work on time. Address Bopp spun the wheel, and the launch turned abruptly to the left. "The other way!" screamed Lucie. "Starboard is on your right side!" She was too late. The boat stopped suddenly. Bopp hastily took an impression of the steering wheel on the pit of his stomach. "I yelled to Bopp. "Do you want any help?" "No," he replied, bowing to me unintentionally from pain, holding one hand on his bolt line where the wheel had struck him. To Lucie I explained in as loud a tone of voice as I could command: "It is a curious thing about many deep water sailors that they cannot tell their left and right hands apart. Say 'port' or 'starboard' to them and they get you at once." TO BE CONTINUED. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia How can that be possible? "Easily. I know she isn't pretty, but she doesn't." Largest Organ. The largest organ in the world is the one built by the famous German builder, Walcher, and is situated in St. Michael's church, Hamburg, Germany. THESE MOUNTAIN WALKS MAKE ME FEEL LOFTY LOOK AT THE SWEET LIL GIRL OVER THERE, SHE'S CRYING! BOO! HOO! WONT YOU FIND FIDO FOR ME? I THINK HE RAN UP TO THE TOP OF THIS MOUNTAIN SURE! WE'LL FIND HIM WE CAN'T GO BACK WITHOUT FINDING FIDO. WE'LL TELL HER WE FOUND HIM DEAD ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN AT'S THE STUFF, THEN WE'LL WALK HER HOME O! DEAR! BOO! HOO! WE FOUND FIDO ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL BOO. BLUB. BOO. BOD!! FIDO! GRRR! AGENTS SATURDAY.....JULY 7, 1917 A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. Following the savage bombardment, which had been progress several days, the Germans by a heavy attack in the region of Moulin de Laffaux, gained a footing in French firstline trenches east of Vauxallon, says the official report from the Paris war office. The report from British general headquarters reads: "The posts east of Monchy-le-Preux, from which our advanced detachments were compelled to withdraw on the occasion of the enemy's attack against Infantry Hill, Monday morning, have now been re-established by us. Tuesday night the enemy heavily bombarded our line immediately north of the Souchez river, and delivered three counter attacks against the positics captured by us in that neighborhood. In each case his attacking troops were completely repulsed." Data THURSDAY Heavy fighting is in progress on the Alsne front. Here the French are entrenched in favorable positions after their advances in the spring. The Germans apparently have been heavily reinforced in this sector by men brought from the Russian front. One such division was sent into the fight directly after its arrival, making an attack between the Alletto river and the Laffaux mill. The assault while along a front of apparently less than a mile, was of extremely violent character. The French stopped the German rush, suffering only a slight penetration of their first line trench aggregating between 600 and 700 yards, Paris reports. Berlin's report on the attack asserts the capture of more than 1500 yards of trenches. The French official statement also announces progress made by General Petain's forces northeast of Mont Carnil, in the Champagne. FRIDAY The engagement between French and Germans, which was opened Wednesday by a German attack near Vaux-allon, southeast of Loan, is being continued by the artillery. The infantry fighting has temporarily downed. Paris reports an extension of the artillery duel eastward from Vaux-allon. It was raging along a front approximately ten miles as far as the vicinity of Braye-on-Laannols, reaching what the official report characterizes as "extreme intensity." The infantry battle, after ear's successes for the crown prince, came to a halt after his troops had lost virtually everything they had gained. At least so Paris says. The Austr.-Italian front continues the scenes of active operations, but official despatches are lacking. General Count Cadora apparently is exerting heavy pressure along a wide sector of the Trentino front, where Trent is the objective. SATURDAY. Heavy attacks by the Germans continue on the Alsine front. The fighting at times assumes almost the proportions of a general engagement. No substantial successes have attended the crown prince's efforts. Late bulletins indicate the fighting is turning even more favorably for the French. The crown prince's primary purpose apparently is to forestall the renewal of the French offensive movement southwest and south of the fortress of Laon, the German key position. The plan of the Germans seems to be to launch heavy forces on comparatively narrow fronts in the area under attack. SUNDAY Aside from several sectors in the region between Solssons and Rheims and in the Champagne near Mont Carniell, little fighting of moment is Charley Rushes to Beauty In Distress Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers taking place. The French, continuing their smashing tectics against the Germans, now have retaken the greater part of the territory lying northeast of the M last farm in the region of Vauxaflor which the army of the German crown prince reinforced by picked men, captured last week in attacks in which they suffered extremely heavy casualties under the fire of the French artillerymen and infantry. The operations of Sir Douglas Halg's army against the Germans in France and Belgium have consisted entirely in effectively putting down attempted enemy raids and answering the fire of hostile guns. There is still considerable artillery activity on the part of the Germans on various sectors in Belgium. MONDAY. The British front in north France is again developing signs of market activity. The official statement from London details an unusual number of raids carried out by the British in virtually every important sector from Belgium to St. Quentin. General Sir Douglas Haig has no struck a hard blow on any extended front since the week of the Messlion fighting, when the famous ridge on the Belgian front was captured and the way prepared for further smashing operations in this sector. There is a momentary lull in the infantry activities on the Alsace front. The French have virtually succeeded in re-establishing in its entirety their line in the Vauxallon area, which was dented by the crown prince's force in a sudden drive on a narrow front last week. Wirolosa In War. There are several forms of wireless equipment used in warfare, and under favorable conditions a range of from 150 to 200 miles is possible with one of them. The most portable "station," however, is the cavalry type, which weighs 640 pounds and is carried about in equal proportions by four horses. Its range is not a wide one. It works over a distance of from twenty-five to thirty miles. The engine and dynamo are mounted on opposite sides of a rigid saddle on the first horse, together with four gallons of patrol and a quart of lubricating oil, tools, spare parts and a telescopic driving shaft. The second horse carries the transformer—which changes the current to a lighter or lower voltage—in a wooden case and in another wooden case the receiver, while the third horse carries the masts, which in some cases are in sections and in others are made on a telescopic principle. The fourth horse carries halyards, stays and the aerial wires, which are wound round drums and pack away in a fiber case—Pearson's Weekly. Throwing Heat Overboard. On all seagull steamers the steam is condensed by sea water pumped through the surface condensers. This circulating water is then discharged overboard. In the process of condensation the cooling water taken in at temperatures varying from 82 degrees to 83 degrees F., according to other conditions, is raised to temperatures varying from 80 to 120 degrees and then discharged. This great loss of heat is practically unavoidable, says the Popular Science Monthly. Even on comparatively small steamers hundreds of tons of heated water are pumped overboard daily. This constitutes one of the greatest heat losses in the operation of steam machinery, although sometimes a portion of the warm water is used for scrubbing decks and for bath water on passenger ships. Matter and Force. There is no such thing as a loss of matter or force. The so called "conservation" of matter and its forces was demonstrated years ago by Joule and other scientists. When, for instance, a thing "burns up," as we say, the substances that give out the light and heat are changed, not destroyed. The wood or whatever the substance happens to be becomes ashes and gas, and if we could gather up all the products of the burning we should find that they had not lost a particle of their weight and that the form of them only was changed. The eternity of matter was a teaching of the old Greek philosophers, or of some of them at least, and the modern teaching of the conservation or indestructibility of the stuff of the universe would seem to corroborate the ancient idea. Cash Value of Success "While I do not think that success is measured by money," says a writer in the American Magazine, "an estimate of success cannot be disassociated from the cash value that is put on our work. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA It is the only factor of happiness that, granting material necessities, has to be reckoned in dollars. "Success is a variant, and it is impossible to state it in a money limit. I know that the $5,000 that is my father's salary as United States attorney brings with it to him a recognition of his ability that the same salary made in another way would not have. I know that the small checks I sometimes receive for my own work bring a glow that really isn't in the checks." Belle Not In Favor. Greek monks are called to prayer in a fashion of their own. Bells are not regarded with too much favor in the Levant. The fact that they are an innovation borrowed, albeit in the tenth century, from schismatic Venice makes the orthodox doubt their appeal, while the Turas object to them even more strongly lest they disturb wandering spirits, says the National Geographic Magazine. For all ordinary purposes the monks use in their stead a hanging wooden plank or sometimes a smaller metal bar of which the necessary concomitant is a stout mallet. Eat Loser. Do More. A fat nation is no good. Lean nations accomplish things. We should eat less and think more, have smaller girth and larger chests, less on the hip and more on the thorax, have fewer potatoes at dinner and more books after dinner, more exercise and less chewing. A strong person can subsist on a little oatmeal and philosophy and outwalk, outtalk, outthink, and in every way outdo the person who travels the long route from soup to nuts and goes to sleep afterward as an anaconda full of sheep or monkeys might. Life is a lean affair of hungry appetites and ambitions. Then they stimulate to earnest performance. The regeneration of the American nation begins at the dinner table. We need stoutness in soul not soutness in fat. Eat less and do more. Grow more above the neck and less below the stomach—Chicago Tribune. Heathen Shrines. After months spent in idolotrous lands I have been unable to see much real worship in heathen shrines. The educated worship with their tongues in their cheeks and the ignorant with their hearts in their mouths. But the amount of real worship that exists in heathen temples is very small. Sometimes a bereaved mother will enter the temple and draw from her klimono the tiny bib of a departed little one and tie it to the statue of Jizo, the god of motherhood. Sometimes an old man or woman, almost blind, will enter the temple and rub the eyes of a wooden god and then rub his own in the hope that eternal darkness may not close in on his afrighted soul. In some places Buddhist services are as dignified, as well attended and as helpful as our own.—Marynard Owen Williams in Christian Herald. Y. M. C. A. NOTES On Monday night, June 26th — 9:30 P. M. at the Ebonezer Baptist church the friends at home and abroad show- ed that they have our General Society. S. C. Burrell at heart for his faithful service. He is happy and thanks all the friends feeling that he has just be gun his work. Last Friday night found the Reds and Blues still at it and are looking for men that the, war may be kept in full blast until August 1st. Onward men to the front. The boys and men of the Y. M. C. A. found last Sunday to be a very profitable day to them by serving others. 9:30 A. M. the workers meeting in the Y. M. C. A. Building for the King's Business and every fellow was bless- ed. The committee for the city home work was active and found much to be done. The City jail was visited 10 A. M. by the committee and the prisoners were greatly helped. 10 A. M. General Secty. S. C. Burrell held a special meeting with the women in the penitentiary and it was a great meeting. All took an active part. We were happy to welcome the boys 4 P. M. to the Boys' meeting, and they were given the very best of advice which will make loyal men for the future. We thank you mothers and help us again. 5:30 P. M. the men were given a THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET No. 1.-13x13x6 inches, - - - No. 2.-16x16x7 inches, - - - CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO.1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO.2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MACHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. ALL METAL PARTS NICKEL PLATED AND HIGHLY POLISHED. THE RICHMOND PLANET 311 N. 4th St., - - Richmond, Va. --- very timely address, subject: Taking A Stand For Christ. This was a live hour. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the special meeting for the workers at the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. Committeeman B. L. Allen will address the boys Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers send your boys. The open meeting 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. will be conducted by Committeeman A. C. Clarke. Come and bring the other man. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. THE NEW YORK AUTO DEALERS IN NEW AND SECOND HAND CARS. WE ALSO FIND JOBS FOR CHAUF- FEURS. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL COMMUN- ICATIONS. PHONE OR WRITE T. SOHUMAUCHER, Manager, 252 W. 53rd St. Phone 1065 Circle. G. W. TRICE, Sale Manager, WE HAVE CARS SELLING FROM $150 TO $1,000 ```markdown ``` WANTED—An All Round Printer. Apply to ALFONZO E. HARRIS, 106 S. River St., Harrisburg, Pa. VIRGINIA—In the Circuit Court of the County of Hearlco; In Vacation the 14th day of May, 1917. CARRIE BAUGH.....Plaintiff IN CHANCERY. The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce from the Bond of Matrimony, by the Plaintiff from the Defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an Affidavit having been made and filed that the Defendant, William Baugh is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days from the due publication of this Order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. SAMUEL P. WADDILL, Clork J. HENRY CRUTCHIELD. pg. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET The Planet (Richmond, Va.) will be sent to your door for only $1.50 per year in advance. Subscribe now, and get the newsy news. $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons VIRGINIA—In the Hustings Court Part II of the City of Richmond. May 25, 1917. DAISY A. JEFFERSON....Plaintiff vs WILLIAM E. JEFFERSON, Defendant The object of the above styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the grounds of abandonment and adultery. And an affidavit having been made and filed that William E. Jefferson, the defendant, is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to defend his interest herein. A Copy—Testo: W. E. DU VAL, Clerk. J. R. POLLARD, no. VIRGINIA--In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, May 16th, 1917. LELIA DAVIS.....Plaintiff VS. HARRY DAVIS .....Defendant The object of the above styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the grounds of adultery. And an affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or corporation the defendant, Harry Davis is without effect, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days Fido's Death Fido's Death Exaggerated Copyright, 1916, by J. Keeley. after due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to defend his interest herein. 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WONT YOU FIND FIDO FOR ME? I THINK HE RAN UP TO THE TOP OF THIS MOUNTAIN SURE! WE'LL FIND HIM WE CAN'T GO BACK WITHOUT FINDING FIDO. WE'LL TELL HER WE FOUND HIM DEAD ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN 'ATS THE STUFF, THEN WE'LL WALK HER HOME' O! DEAR! BOO! HOO! WE FOUND FIDO ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL BOO. BLUB. BOO. BOD!! FIDO! GRRR! tailed place. The French, continuing their smashing tactics against the Germans, now have retaken the greater part of the territory lying northeast of the M lay farm in the region of Vauxalor which the army of the German crew prince reinforced by picked men, captured last week in attacks in which they suffered extremely heavy casualties under the fire of the French artillerymen and infantry. The operations of Sir Douglas Halg's army against the Germans in France and Belgium have completed entirely in effectually putting down attempted enemy raids and answering the fire of hostile guns. There is still considerable artillery activity on the part of the Germans on various sectors in Belgium. The British front in north France is again developing signs of market activity. The official statement from London details an unusual number of raids carried out by the British in virtually every important sector from Belgium to St. Quentin. General Sir Douglas Haig has no struck a hard blow on any extended front since the week of the Messy fighting, when the famous ridge on the Belgian front was captured and the way prepared for further smashing operations in this sector. There is a momentary lull in the infantry activities on the Alsace front. The French have virtually succeeded in re-establishing in its entirety their line in the Vauxallon area, which was dented by the crown prince's force in a sudden drive on a narrow front last week. There are several forms of wireless equipment used in warfare, and under favorable conditions a range of from 150 to 200 miles is possible with one of them. The most portable "station", however, is the cavalry type, which weighs 640 pounds and is carried about in equal proportions by four horses. Its range is not a wide one. It works over a distance of from twenty-five to thirty miles. The engine and dynamo are mounted on opposite sides of a rigid saddle on the first horse, together with four gallons of petrol and a quart of lubricating oil, tools, spare parts and a telescopic driving shaft. The second horse carries the transformer—which changes the current to a lighter or lower voltage—in a wooden case and in another wooden case the receiver, while the third horse carries the masts, which in some cases are in sections and in others are made on a telescopic principle. The fourth horse carries halyards, stays and the aerial wires, which are wound round drums and pack away in a fiber case.—Pearson's Weekly. On all sealing steamers the steam is condensed by sea water pumped through the surface condensers. This circulating water is then discharged overboard. In the process of condensation the cooling water taken in at temperatures varying from 82 degrees to 83 degrees F, according to climatic and other conditions, is raised to temperatures varying from 80 to 120 degrees and then discharged. This great loss of heat is practically unavoidable, says the Popular Science Monthly. Even on comparatively small steamers hundreds of tons of heated water are pumped overboard daily. This constitutes one of the greatest heat losses in the operation of steam machinery, although sometimes a portion of the warm water is used for scrubbing decks and for bath water on passenger ships. There is no such thing as a loss of matter or force. The so called "conservation" of matter and its forces was demonstrated years ago by Joule and other scientists. When, for instance, a thing "burns up," as we say, the substances that give out the light and heat are changed, not destroyed. The wood or whatever the substance happens to be becomes ashes and gas, and if we could gather up all the products of the burning we should find that they had not lost a particle of their weight and that the form of them only was changed. The eternity of matter was a teaching of the old Greek philosophers, or of some of them at least, and the modern teaching of the conservation or indestructibility of the stuff of the universe would seem to corroborate the ancient idea. "While I do not think that success is measured by money," says a writer in the American Magazine, "an estimate of success cannot be disassociated from the cash value that is put on our work. RECURREN A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. Following the savage bombardment, which had been progress several days, the Germans by a heavy attack in the region of Moulin de Laffaux, gained a footing in French first-line trenches east of Vauxallon, says the official report from the Paris war office. The report from British general headquarters reads: "The posts east of Monchy-le-Preux, from which our advanced detachments were compelled to withdraw on the occasion of the enemy's attack against Infantry Hill, Monday morning, have now been re-established by us. Tuesday right the enemy heavily bombarded our line immediately north of the Souchez river, and delivered three counter attacks against the positions captured by us in that neighborhood. In each case his attacking troops were completely repulsed." THURSDAY Heavy fighting is in progress on the Alsne front. Here the French are entrenched in favorable positions after their advances in the spring. The Germans apparently have been heavily reinforced in this sector by men brought from the Russian front. One such division was sent into the fight directly after its arrival, making an attack between the Alette river and the Laffaite mill. The assault while along a front of apparently less than a mile, was of extremely violent character. The French stopped the German rush, suffering only a slight penetration of their first line trench aggregating between 600 and 700 yards, Paris reports. Berlin's report on the attack asserts the capture of more than 1500 yards of trenches. The French official statement also announces progress made by General Petain's forces northeast of Mont Carnil, in the Champagne. FRIDAY. The engagement between French and Germans, which was opened Wednesday by a German attack near Vaux-allon, southeast of Loan, is being continued by the artillery. The infantry leading has temporarily died down. Paris reports an extension of the artillery duel costward from Vaux-allon. It was raging along a front approximately ten miles as far as the vicinity of Braye-en-Lannoufs, reaching what the official report characterizes as "extreme intensity." The infantry battle, after early successes for the crown prince, came to a halt after his troops had lost virtually everything they had gained. At least so Paris says. The Austr-Italian front continues the scenes of active operations, but official despatches are lacking. General Count Cadarona apparently is exerting heavy pressure along a wide sector of the Trentino front, where Trent is the objective. SATURDAY. Heavy attacks by the Germans continue on the Alsace front. The fighting at times assumes almost the proportions of a general engagement. No substantial successes have attended the crown prince's efforts. Late bulletins indicate the fighting is turning even more favorably for the French. The crown prince's primary purpose apparently is to forestall the renewal of the French offensive movement southwest and south of the fortress of Lacau, the German key position. The plan of the Germans seems to be to launch heavy forces on comparatively narrow fronts in the area under attack. SUNDAY. Aslde from several sectors in the region between Solssons and Rheims and in the Champagne near Mont Carniett, little fighting of moment f Charley Rushes to Beauty In Distress Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers MONDAY. Wireless In War. Throwing Heat Overboard. Matter and Force. Cash Value of Success THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA It is the only factor of happiness that, granting material necessities, has to be reckoned in dollars. "Success is a variant, and it is impossible to state it in a money limit. I know that the $5,000 that is my father's salary as United States attorney brings with it to him a recognition of his ability that the same salary made in another way would not have. I know that the small checks I sometimes receive for my own work bring a glow that really isn't in the checks." Bella Not In Favor Greek monks are called to prayer in a fashion of their own. Bells are not regarded with too much favor in the Levant. The fact that they are an innovation borrowed, albeit in the tenth century, from schismatic Venice makes the orthodox doubt their appeal, while the Turks object to them even more strongly lest they disturb wandering spirits, says the National Geographic Magazine. For all ordinary purposes the monks use in their stead a hanging wooden plank or sometimes a smaller metal bar of which the necessary concomitant is a stout mallet. Eat Loga: Do More. A fat nation is no good. Lean nations accomplish things. We should eat less and think more, have smaller girth and larger chests, less on the hip and more on the thorax, have fewer potatoes at dinner and more books after dinner, more exercise and less chewing. A strong person can subsist on a little oatmeal and philosophy and outwalk, outtalk, outthink, and in every way outdo the person who travels the long route from soup to nuts and goes to sleep afterward as an anaconda full of sheep or monkeys might. Life is a lean affair of hungry appetites and ambitions. Then they stimulate to earnest performance. The regeneration of the American nation begins at the dinner table. We need stoutness in soul not soutness in fat. Eat less and do more. Grow more above the neck and less below the stomach.—Chicago Tribune. Heathen Shrines. After months spent in idolatrous lands I have been unable to see much real worship in heathen shrines. The educated worship with their tongues in their cheeks and the ignorant with their hearts in their mouths. But the amount of real worship that exists in heathen temples is very small. Sometimes a bereaved mother will enter the temple and draw from her klimo the tiny bib of a departed little one and tie it to the statue of Jizo, the god of motherhood. Sometimes an old man or woman, almost blind, will enter the temple and rub the eyes of a wooden god and then rub his own in the hope that eternal darkness may not close in on his alrighted soul. In some places Buddhist services are as dignified, as well attended and as helpful as our own—Marynard Owen Williams in Christian Herald. Y. M. C. A. NOTES On Monday night, June 25th--8:30 P. M. at the Ebonezer Baptist church the friends at home and abroad show- the they have our General Society. S. C. Burrell at heart for his faithful service. He is happy and thanks all the friends feeling that he has just be gun his work. Last Friday night found the Reds and Blues still at it and are looking for men that the war may be kept in full blast until August 1st. Onward men to the front. The boys and men of the Y. M. C. A. found last Sunday to be a very profitable day to them by serving others. 9:30 A. M. the workers meeting in the Y. M. C. A. Building for the King's Business and every fellow was blessed. The committee for the city home work was active and found much to be done. The City jail was visited 10 A. M. by the committee and the prisoners were greatly helped. 10 A. M. General Secty. S. C. Byrrell hold a special meeting with the women in the penitentiary and it was a great meeting. All took an active part. We were happy to welcome the boys 4 P. M. to the Boys' meeting, and they were given the very best of advice which will make loyal men for the future. We thank you mothers and help us again. 5:30 P. M. the men were given a THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET No. 1.-13x13x6 inches, - - - No. 2.-16x16x7 inches, - - - CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO. 1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MACHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. ALL METAL PARTS NICKEL PLATED AND HIGHLY POLISHED. THE RICHMOND PLANET 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. ```markdown ``` very timely address, subject: Taking A Stand For Christ. This was a live hour. Meu be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the special meeting for the workers at the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. Committeeman B. L. Allen will address the boys Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers send your boys. The open meeting 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. will be conducted by Committeeman A. C. Clarke. Come and bring the other man. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. THE NEW YORK AUTO DEALERS IN NEW AND SECOND HAND CARS. WE ALSO FIND JOBS FOR CHAUF- FEURS. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL COMMUN- ICATIONS. PHONE OR WRITE T. SCHUMACHER, Manager, 252 W. 53rd St. Phone 1005 Circle. G. W. TRICE, Sale Manager, WE HAVE CARS SELLING FROM $150 TO $1,000 ```markdown ``` WANTED—An All Round Printer. Apply to ALFONZO E. HARRIS, 106 S. River St., Harrisburg, Pa. VIRGINIA—In the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico; In Vacation the 14th day of May, 1917. CARRIE BAUGH.....Plaintiff vs. WILLIAM BAUGH.....Defendant IN CHANCERY The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce from the Bond of Matrimony, by the Plaintiff from the Defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an Affidavit having been made and filed that the Defendant, William Baugh is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days from the due publication of this Order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. SAMUEL P. WADDILL, Clerk J. HENRY CRUTCHIELD, pg. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET The Planet (Richmond, Va.) will be sent to your door for only $1.50 per year in advance. Subscribe now, and get the newsy news. $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons Fido's Death Exaggerated VIRGINIA—In the Hustings Court Part II, of the City of Richmond. May 23, 1917. DAISY A. JEFFERSON....Plaintiff vs WILLIAM F. JEFFERSON. The object of the above styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the grounds of abandonment and adultery. And an affidavit having been made and filed that William E. Jefferson, the defendant, is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to defend his interest herein. A Copy—Teste: W. E. DU VAL, Clerk. J. R. POLLARD, no. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, May 10th, 1917. LELIA DAVIS.....Plaintiff vs. HARRY DAVIS.....Defendant The object of the above styled suit is to obtain $ divorce from the bonds of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the grounds of adultery. And an affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or cor- poration the defendant, Harry Davis is without effect, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days SEVEN ```markdown ``` after duo publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to defend his interest herein. A Copy— Teste—LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk J. R. POLLARD, pg. A. 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He leaves a mother, Mrs. Elliza Gravley, of Danville, Va. and six brothers Monroe and Thornton, of Danville, Zachariah, of Richmond, George and Edward, of New York and Rev. P. G. Gravely. Sunday evening, at Mt. Zlon A. M. E. Church, the Dible Class of the Laymen's Missionary Movement hold special services. Mr. J. L. Reed discussed the first and second chapters of Genesis. Part in the exercises of the coming with keen interest was voted that the Bible Class continue the study of the two chapters for next Sunday evening. The class will meet for the month of July. August and September. Mr. James W. Lavender, of N. W. Lynchburg avenue, N. of W., died June 28th, 4:30 o'clock. He had been in declining health for three years. He leaves to mourn their loss, a loving wife, a daughter, stepson, Mr. George Lavender, of Tenth avenue, N. W., a sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Harrington, of Loxington, Va., six nieces of Loxington and five grand children. Miss Mary A. Harrington a niece and Mr. William Carter are of Loxington. Interment in Fairview. The eulogy was delivered by Rev. J. R. Louderbach of the Ninth Avenue Christian Church. The poite funeral director, Mr. W. F. Hughes had charge. Mrs. W. Bunbass, of Seventh avenue, N. W., who was taken to The Shenandoah Hospital about ten days ago is reported critically ill. We hope she may soon recover. Miss Carrie Beverly, of 411 Tenth avenue, N. E. died July 2nd at 5:35 o'clock. She was twenty-four years of age and had been sick only nine days. She was a Christian girl and leaves to mourn their loss, an uncle, two aunts of Philadelphia, a brother and slater-in-law and one brother. The funeral took place from the undertaking place of Mr. W. F. Hughes and the remains had to rest Tuesday evening in Old Lick Cemetery. Mr. Peter Sollers of Ninth avenue left the city ten days ago for Filbert W. Va., where he will follow his trade as a first-class lather. Brother T. J. Burwell, a third year student at Kittrell preached for Roy, Taylor at M. Zion A. M. B. Church last Sunday night. Buryman made a speech. He called his subject in a very masterly way and all were highly pleased Mr. Burwell is being assisted through school by the A. M. E. Church. Mr. W. O. Stanfield and ladyfriend or partner through life left Monday evening for Columbus, Ohio to spend the Fourth in the Buckeye State with his little daughter, Miss Gladys Stanfield, who has been attending school in Columbus and being cared for by her aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Stanfield and Uncle Joe, of Champion avenue. Mr. Helen Ferguson of Vinton, Va. is quite ill at her home. Mr. William Stanfield, 554 Seventh avenue, N. W. is quite indisposed at the home of his son, Mr. I. P. Stanfield. His youngest daughter is in the city from Brunswick, Fayette Co. Maryland on account of her father's illness. He is improving. Mrs. Millie B. Paxton has returned from a very pleasant trip to the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe sessions, which were held in Staunton, Va. She expresses herself as having had a delightful time and she still brings back to Roanoke the honor of being the Grand Junior Directress and Special Deputy of the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe. Mrs. Sadie Fowlkes Shorts: Your friends and associates of past years feel elated to congratulate you on your success. We hope you have gone the limit and isish you happiness and success to our Roanoke friends and well-wishers. Mr. E. Watson Holland, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Holland, 310 Seventh avenue, passed through the city Friday afternoon enroute to Detroit, Mich. where he is employed in the Ford Automobile Factory. Mr. A. F. Brooks and Miss Dorothy, his daughter will leave for Baltimore. Md. the latter part of the year on the job his wife, who is a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who is improving slowly. We wish for her a speedy recovery. The Planet and Journal and Guide are on sale at the Royal Palm Newstand every Saturday. s Mr. Dan R. Harth, Jr. underwent an eye operation at the Shenandoah Hospital and is getting nicely. Mrs. Thomas Dayls of 17 Center avenue and isish the Summer Normal at Martinsville, Va. She spent the week end in this city and reports a large enrollment. Mrs. Susie Green, of Bluefield, W. Va. passed through the city Monday on her way to Lewisburg, N. C., where she is to visit relatives. The following are at Hotel Ander son: W. M. Porter, of Greensboro, N. C.; Va. Hicks and Son, Poca hontas, N. C.; Va. I. Johnson, Bluefield, N. C.; Va. Mrs. Nolle B Holley, Keystone, W. Va.; Mr. J. C. Prunty, Martinsville, Va.; Lawyer Arthur G. Froe, W. Va.; Mr. Arthur Lee, Williamsburg, Ky.; Miss Bettie Estes, Lester, W. Va.; Mr. and Killam, Lester, W. Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Delmont, Mrs. Billy Kersands, Norfolk, Va.; Kinkey and Clark, of Richmond, Va. Joel Stewart of Boston, Mass. joined her husband in this city Saturday. Mr. Clarence Ponder of Chattanooga, Tenn. is in the city. Miss Antoinette Galns of Richmond Va. is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Thorn ton, North Henry street. REV. D. R. POWELL INSTALLED The installation services of Rev. D. R. Powell as pastor of Hill Street Baptist Church, beginning June 26th and continuing through July 2nd was a success. Monday evening, the introductory sermon was preached by Rev. E. \E. Ricks, D. D., pastor First Baptist Church, which was certainly enjoyed. Muscle was furnished by the First Baptist Choir. Tuesday evening, Rev. M. L. Gordon, pastor of Jerusalem Baptist Church gave us a splendid message, his choir rendering music. Wednes day evening, though it was exoceeding day, the choir gave us a splendid pastor Sweet Union Baptist Church and his good people were on hand. He gave us a wonderful message. Home choir furnished music. Thursday evening, Rev. J. R. Loudberbach, pastor Christian Church, his choir and good people were with us and rendered excellent service. Friday evening we were delighted with the presence of Rev. W. W. Hicks pastor Mt. Zlon Baptist Church the choir and congregation. All enjoyed the splendid discourse and the music. Sunday, July 1st, 9:30 A. M. found Superintendent R. B. Bailey at his post of duty. The Sunday School was largely attended. At 11:00 A. M. our honored pastor Rev. D. R. Powell gave us a special sermon. At 3:00 P. M. the installation sermon was preached by the Rev. Prof. J. Winston, A. M., D. D. R. Powell gave us a special sermon. President, Lee and Hayes University, Baltimore, Md. He spoke to us from Acts 20:28, which reads, "Take the threefores to yourselves and to all the flock, over the which the Holy host hath made you overerses, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood." He preached a wonderful sermon on the Pastor's Duty and Ministers' Relation to the Flock. Rev. Winston is a good teacher and preacher of the gospel. He spoke to the high of Rev. Powell, whom he licensed to preach and was his instructor for four years. Welcome on behalf of the Baptists was by Rev. W. W. D. Woods and on behalf of the inter-denominational Conference by Rev. L. L. Downing pastor Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Rev. Gordon was master of Ceremonies. Monday evening, the Ministerial Conference of Roanoke and vicinity conference very excellent program. The Ministerial Conference of Salem, President Ministerial Conference; Reverends Jefferson, Gilbert, Rose, Ricks, Gordon, Hicks and Rev. W. J. Winston of Baltimore. Rev. Price was master of ceremonies. At 10:30 the installation supper was elaborately served to the ministers of the city and their wives. All enjoyed themselves. Offering for the week, $89.77. A valuable monkey and cage was donated to the colorful children's play ground by Mrs. H. H. Manage of Royal Roanoke Church. Manager of Royal Roanoke Church. Mr Alvin L. Coleman, head helm. The children are simply wild over their pet as well as the officers of the playground. The rally at Mt. Zion Baptist Church has been very successful. The clubs seem to be doing fine work especially the Young Men's Progressive Club, which was organized Decem b22, 1916, donated $60.50. Alicen L. Coleman is president and Robert Prouty, secretary'. Large crowds have been attending the performance at The Hampton this week. The vaudeville is very good. Mr. and Mrs. Delmont in their musical act are very clever. Mrs. Billy Kersands, widow of the famous Georgia Minstrel leader has a wonderful voice. Kinkey and Clark's act is at K. The pictures are good at the time. Let our colleague attend The Hampton were you don't have to go up the dark side streets and climb the back stairway. Come to your house. Popular prices, 5c, 10c and 15c. Hollins, Va., June 24. — A grand rally was held at First Baptist Church. The captains were Mrs. Smith and Miss Rush Hunt. Miss Hunt won the prize. Rev. A. A. Stuart and choir were the amount raised was $204.73. Hollins is coming. Rev. Price is the pastor. MT. O. TO BUCKROE—JULY 5 TIMES 2 PLUS 2 PLUS 4. Dear Friend: This is to notify you that Mt. Olivet Baptist Church will give its annual excursion to Buckroe Beach, July 16th, 1917. We thank you for the interest you have for our annual outings of the past and we are counting on you this year. Order and decorum guaranteed for we carry police protection. The train leaves Broad and 16th Streets, 9:30 A. M. (C. & Q. R. R.) Returning, leaves Buckroe Beach, 7 P. M. All! Come and go:—with Mt. O. to buckroe. Boarders for a Country home on James River Ln. Rates accommodations. Rates reasonable. For information write Mrs. Mary J. Taylor, Norwood, Va. WANTED — Young colored man with experience in tailoring, cleaning and pressing. Regular position. Applicant to Manager of Western Union. SITTATION WANTED—POSITION Wanted by Young Lady Pharmacist, registered in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia. Not afraid of work. Can furnish A-1 reference. Address Reg. Pharmacist, care of Planet. THE RICHMOND PLANET HAT Woodland IS NOW OPEN FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL PLENTY OF SHADE—THE LAKE WILL BE THESE GROUNDS ARE MAGNIFICENT WOOD GROUNDS, WHERE W CONCRETE WALK-WA REST ROOMS FOR LADY WITH HAMMOCKS, WH NOON BREEZES G GOOD ORDER GUARANTEE FROM THE HIGHLAND LINE, EASILY ACCESSIBLE John Mitchell, Jr., President Call up the President at Ran & Company, 506 I WOODLAND PARK IS OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENT SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNICS, I OF SHADE—FINE SPRING, BAKE WILL BE OPEN TO BOO ROUNDS ARE ADJACENT PERCENT WOODLAND CEM S, WHERE WIDE DRIVE-W WE WALK-WAYS ARE A L DOMS FOR LADIES. LARGE MMOCKS, WHERE THE CO ON BREEZES CAN BE ENJOY DER GUARANTEED. TWO THE HIGHLAND PARK STRE ILY ACCESSIBLE FROM CHU l, Jr., President President at Randolph 2213, or B Company, 506 North Second Street Woodland Park IS NOW OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENTS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNICS, ETC. PLENTY OF SHADE-FINE SPRING WATER. THE LAKE WILL BE OPEN TO BOATING. THESE GROUNDS ARE ADJACENT TO THE MAGNIFICENT WOODLAND CEMETERY GROUNDS, WHERE WIDE DRIVE-WAYS AND CONCRETE WALK-WAYS ARE A FEATURE. REST ROOMS FOR LADIES. LARGE PORCHES WITH HAMMOCKS, WHERE THE COOL AFTERNOON BREEZES CAN BE ENJOYED. GOOD ORDER GUARANTEED. TWO BLOCKS FROM THE HIGHLAND PARK STREET-CAR LINE. EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM CHURCHHILL John Mitchell, Jr., President D. P. Bragg, Secretary Call up the President at Randolph 2213, or Bragg Brothers & Company, 506 North Second Street. THE EDITOR Rev. W. F. Pettus' vision of the Holy Bible, showing God's divine up proval of his ministry. Rev. W. E. Pettus has been in the school of Christ thirty and three long years. 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He died almost instantly. He leaves a mother, Mrs. 1liza Gravo ley, of Danville, Va. and six brothers Monroe and Thornton, of Danville, Zachariah, of Richmond, George and Edward, of New York and Rev. P. G. Gravely. Sunday evening, at Mt. Zion A. M, B®. Chureh, the Bible Class of tho Laymen’s Missionary Movement held special services. Mr. J. UL. Reed discussed the first and second chap- ters of Genesis. Many tock part in the exercises of the evening with keen interest. It was voted that the Bible Class continue the study of the two chapters for next Sunday evening. ‘The class will meet for the month of July, August and September. Mr. James W. Lavender, of 30 Lynchburg avenue, N. W., died June 28th, 4:80 o'clock. He had Deen in declining health for three years, He leaves to mourn thelr loss, a loving wife, a daughter, step- son, Mr. George Lavender, of Tenth avenue, N. W., a sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Harrington, of Lexington, Va., six nieces of Lexington and five grand children, Miss Mary A. Harrington a niece and Mr. Wiiliam Carter are of Lexington. Interment in Fair- view. The eulogy was delivered by Rey. J. R. Louderbach of the Ninth Avenue Christian Church. The po- Hte funeral director, Mr. W. F. Hughes had charge. Mrs. Mamie Bumpass, of Seventh avenuo, N. W., who was taken to Tho Shenandoah Tospital about ton days ago is reported critically i. We hope she may soon recover. Miss Carrie Beverly, of 411 Tenth avenue, N. 1. died July 2nd at 6:36 o'clock. She was twenty-four years of ago and had been sick only nine days, She was a Christian git) and leaves to mourn their loss, an uncle, two aunts of Philadelphia, a brother and sistor-nJaw and one little Manghter, two years old. ‘The fun- eral took place from the undertaking place of. Mr, W. F. Hughes and the remains were laid to rest Tuesday evening in Old Lick Cemetery. Mr. Peter Sellers of Ninth avenue loft the clty ten Vays ago for Filbert W.. Va., where ho will follow his trade as a first-class lather, Brother T. J. Burwell, a third year nitudend at Nitivell peanckaed fer Roy. Taylor at Mt. Zion A. M. B. Church Inst Sunday night. Brother Burwoll made a fine discourse. He handled his subject in a very mas- torly way and all were highly pleased Mr. Burwell {s being assisted throngh school by the A. M. BE. Church. Mr. W. O. Stanfleld and lady- friend or partnor through Hfe ieft Monday evening for Columbus, Ohio to spend the Fourth in the Buekeye State with his little daughter, Miss Gindys Stanfleld, wiio has becn at- tending school in Columbus and be- ing eared for by her aunt, Mrs. Liz- vie Stanflold and Uncle Joe, of Champion avenue. Mrs. elon Ferguson of Vinton, ‘Va. is quite il at her home. Mr. Byrd Stanfleld, 554 Seventh avenue, N. W. is quite indisposed at. the home of his son, Mr. I. P. Stan- ficld. His youngest daughter ts in the city from Brunswick, Fayette Co. Maryland on account of her father's illness. Ho is improving. ‘Mrs. Millie B. Paxton has returned from a very pleasant trip to the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe sessions, which were held in Staunton, Va. She expresses her- self as having had a delightful time and she still brings back to Roanoke the honor of being the Grand Junior Directress and Special Deputy of the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe. Mrs. Sadio Fowlkes Shorts: Your friends and associates of past yenrs feel olated to congratulate you ‘on your success. We hope you have gone the limit and wish you happiness long life and success.—-Your Roan- oke friends and well-wishers. Mr. B. Watson Holland, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hollani, 310 Seventh avenue, passed through the city Friday afternoon enroute to De troit, Mich, where he is employed in the Ford Automobile Factory. | Mr. A. F, Brooks and Miss Dor othy, his daughter will leave for Bal- Umore, Md. the latter part of tho week on a visit to his wife, who is a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who is improving slowly. We wish for her a speedy recovery. ‘The Planet and Journal and Guide are on sale at the Royal Palm Nows- tand every Saturday. s Mr. Dan R. Harth, Jr. underwent an eye operation at the Shenandoah Hospital and is getting along nicely. Mrs. Thomas Davis of 17 Center avenue is attending the Summer Nor- mal at Martinsville, Va. She spent the week end in this city and reports a large enrollment. Mrs. Susie Green, of Bluefield, W. Va. passed through the elty Monday on her way to Lewisburg, N. C, where sho is to visit relatives. The following are at Hotel Ander gon: W. M. Porter, of Greonshoro, N. C.;, Mrs, Hicks and Son, Poca hontas, Va.; Mrs. 11. Underwood, Bluefield, W. Va.; Mra. Nelile B. | Holley, Keystone, W. Va.; Mr. J. €. Prunty, Martinaville, Va.; Law- yer Arthur G. Froe, W. Va.; Mr. Va. Is vilting her aunt, Mrs. ‘Thorn ton, North Henry stroot. RPV. D. R. POWELL INSTALLED The Installation services of Rev. D. R, Powell as pastor of Hill Street Baptist Chureh, beginning June 25th and continuing through July 2nd was quite a success. Monday evening, the introductory sermon was preached by Rev. 1 An Ricks, D. D., pastor First Baptist Chureh, which was certainly onjoyed. Musle was furnished by the First Baptist. Choir. Tuosday evening, Rev. M. L. Gor- don, pastor of Jorusalem Baptist Chureh gavo us a splendid mossage, his chotr rendering music. Wednes day ovoning, though it was oxceeding- ly stormy, Rev. Wiliam Gilbert, pastor Sweet Union Baptist Church and his good people were on hand. Ie gave us a wonderful message. Home choir furnished muste. ‘Thursday evening, Rey. 7. R. ‘Louderbach, pastor Christian Chureh, his chofr and good people were with us and rendered oxcellont service. Friday evening we were dolighted with the resenco of Rev. Wi, W. Hicks pastor Mt. Zion Baptist Church tho choir and congrogation. All en? Joyed the splendid discourse and the music. Sunday, July ist, 9:30 A. M. found Superintondont R. B. Batley at his post of duty. ‘The Sunday Sehool was largely attoniled. At 11:00 A -M_ our honored pastor Rev. D. R. Powell gave us a spectal ser- mon. At 3:00 P. M. tho installation sormon was preachod by the Rev. Prof. W: J: Winston, A. M., D. D. pastor Wayland Baptist Church and President, Leo and Hayes University, Baltimore, Md. ‘He spoke to us from Acts 20:28, which reads, “Take heed threcofro unto yourselves and to all the flock, over the which the Holy host hath made you overseors, to fed fhe church of God, whieh Te hath purchased with His own blood.” Ho preached a wonderful sermon on the Pastor's Duty and Ministers’ Relation to the Flock. Rey. Winston is a went man and excellent preacher of the gospel. We spoke very highly of Rev. Powell, whom he licensed to preach and was his Instructor for four years. Welcome on behalf of the Baptists was by Rov. W. D. Woods and on Vehalf of the interalonominational Conference by Rey. L. L. Downing pastor Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Chureh, Rey. Gordon was Master of Ceremonies. Monday evening, the Ministerial Conference of Rownoke and vicinity rendered a very excellent program. The speakers were Rev. J. 1. Reed of Salem, President Ministerial Con- foronce; Roverends Jefferson, Gilbert, Roso, Ricks, Gordon, Hicks and Rev. W. J. Winston of Baltimore. Rev. Price was master of coromonies, At 10:20 the installation supper was elaborately served to the minis- tors of the elty and thelr wives. AN enjoyed thomselves.,. Offering for the week, $89.77. A valuable monkey and cage was donated to the colorea children’s play groumis by Mr B. 1. Wooten, Man: suger of Hove! Roanoke thvvugh Mr. Alyin Js. Coleman, hend bellman ‘The children are simply wild over their pet as well as tho officers of the Playground, ‘The yally at Mt. Zion Baptist Chureh has been very s.1.cesstul. ‘the clubs scom to be doing fine work especially the Young Men’s Progress: iyo Club, whieh was organized Decom ber 22, 1916, donated $60.50. Alvin 1, Coleman is president and Robert Prouty, secretary. Largo crowds have been attending the performance at The Hampton this weok. The vaudeville is very good. Mr. and Mrs. Delmont in thelr mus: jeal act aro very clover. Mrs. Billy Kersands, widow of the famous Georgia Minstrel leader has a won- derful voice. Kinkey and Clark's act is 0. K. ‘Pho pictures are good at all times. Let every colored person attend ‘The Hampton were you don’t have, to go up the dark side streots and élimb the back stairway. Come to your house. Popular prices, be, 10¢ and 16e. Hollins, Va., June 24.- -A grand rally was hold at First Baptist Church. ‘The captains were Mrs. Smith and Miss Ruth Hunt. Miss Hunt won tho prize. Rev. A. A. Sponeer and his choir were with us. The amount raised was $204.73. Hollins is coming, Rev. Price is the pastor. MT, 0. £O BUCKROR—JULY 5 TIMES 2 PLUS 2 PLUS 4. Dear Friond: ‘This is to_notity you that Mt. Olivet Baptist Church will give, its annual oxcursion to Buekroe Beach, July 16th, 1917. Wo thank you for ‘the interest you havo manifested by your presence on our annual outings of the past anil wo are counting on you this year. Order and decorum guaranteed for 3ve carry police protection. ‘Tho train leaves Broad and 16th Streots, 9:30 A.M. (C. & 0. R. R.) Ro turning, loaves Buckroe Beach, 7 P. M. | AN! Come and go:—with Mt. 0. to Buekroe. ‘Respectfully, J. ANDREW BOWLMR, Pastor. ‘Wanted. Boarders for a Country home on James River Line, First class accommodations, Rates reasonable, For information write Mrs, Mary J. ‘Taylor, Norwood, Va, WANTED — Young colored man with experience in tailoring, cleaning and pressing. — Regular position. Apply In “person to Manager of Western Unton. 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P. Bragg, Secretary Call up the President at Randolph 2213, or Bragg Brothers & Company, 506 North Second Street. \ oe ee YE ea 5 Pi ota EN eaten Reig RRR ag ce PO as | a eR eas aa » s Pee a : ORE ae Bek My ee cana sds ty Jae RR ea ) / a Ay HBS | [se aa) a a ‘ ROKR i | oh : oe fied ARE a A hy ak De Ie eR Rev. W YF Pettus’ vision of the mankind.!Come an Holy Bible, showing God's divine ap without money and proval of his ministry, Rey. W. 1B. Pet- drink and live. tus has been in the school of Christ General. office, N thirty and three long years. Road, Ww. Highland T have learned of Christ and now a 7 to 9 daily. Pray master of Bibical doctrine. 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COLORED PROPLWS BADR oD Greate ey Y Recetas Fy Ba eae a GEORG On Baek i} LGR en EASE i ay Ge ab Naturit Front Part—Oovers satire Head =i Latest atyten of Creole Wigs, Plats, ‘Transformations, | Pu, Gtratghtentng Comba, Wo are tho ‘largest “firm tn, thi ine. “Sead” 20" tor ‘our ‘new catalogus: ‘The Old Roliablo Mmo, BAUM'S HAIR HMPORCUA. 491 BIOHTH AVE, NBW YORK Ory ct ay este THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 34 MANY ARE KILLED AND INJURED IN RACE RIOT A MASSACRE AT EAST ST. LOUIS Murder of Detective Sergeant by Rioters Started Trouble—Women Take Part in Bloody Work. Five persons were killed, over a score wounded and many houses occupied by negroes burned in a race riot at East St. Louis, Ill. Two negroes were taken from a street car, one was shot and one was beaten to death. A white man, standing in front of his store, was killed by a stray bullet. So far, four negroes and a white man have been killed and twenty-six badly hurt. The work of dragging negroes off the street cars began when a crowd surrounded an Edwardsville car which goes through the heart of East St. Louis and pulled the trolley from the wire. Immediately white men boarded the car and took off the negro passengers. One negro was kicked and beaten by the crowd in the street and then was shot. He died in an ambulance later. While this riot was going on, a Belville car appeared. White men and white women boarded it. White women and white girls seized negro women, and when they were handed in the street the mob struck and kicked them. The colored women fled screaming. The men who had been dragged off the cars were bound and attacked by More cars were attacked. Finally, national guardsmen arrived and began to clear the streets at this spot. Rifles were taken from sixteen guardsmen by members of the mob who would approach a soldier, and saying: "There boy, let me look at that gun, you might hurt some one," would take the weapon from him. The race rioting began when Detective Sergeant Samuel Coppeidge was killed, three other officers were wounded, one of them so seriously he may die, and two citizens were shot. After the killing of the officer the negroes dispersed. The police were armed with riot guns and patrolled the streets all night and six companies of Illinois national guard were ordered to East St. Louis by Governor Lowden. The trouble began when a mob of negroes, estimated at 200, each one armed with some sort of weapon, assembled at a church in response to the ringing of a bell, and began marching down the street. When word was received at police headquarters that a mob had formed four patrolmen were sent to the scene in air automobile. As the car turned a corner, the headlights showed the mob had massed in the street, marching toward the machine, many carrying cubs in addition to rifles or revolvers. Sergeant Coppedge asked the negroes where they were going and was met with a curt reply and an order to "drive on." He told them that he and his party were officers and had come to see that order was maintained. "Go on about your business," was the reply, accompanied by a volley of shots. Coppedge was killed instantly and the other three officers wounded. When word of the killing of Coppedge reached police headquarters Chief of Police Hickey ordered every available patrolman on duty and asked for the services of 200 soldiers of the Sixth Illinois infantry, under Major Cavanaugh. A cordon was thrown around the negro men and soldiers and patrolmen went through every house searching men and women for weapons. All firearms found were confiscated and about fifty blocks were locked up. Race riding in East St. Louis first broke on May 15 at when the robbery of two white men by negress precipitated violence which resulted in injury of about two negress negress and a dozen white men in four days. Homes of negress were burned and a large number of them left the city. Saloons and places of employment were ordered closed, and other steps were taken to keep or wipe off the streets. The trouble grew out of the importation of negro laborers from the south. President to Take No Vacation. The announcement was made at the White House that President Wilson did not expect to take a vacation this summer, but planned to remain in Washington whether congress adjourned or not. The president may take short trips down the Potomac River on weekends on the Mayflower. CARELESSNESS (By Armoda M. Wylie, District Nurse of Denville, Va.) Carelessness is your worst enemy. Its temptations are great, presenting itself to you in various forms. It seeks the rich and poor, presenting itself to the groceryman as insanitary food stuff, housewives as dust or dirt garbage bags, filthy yards, cuspidors and many other unclean surroundings. Closets have been found in rooms in which food was stored. These are often in filthy conditions. Food found in such places is liable to become infected with dangerous germs. It is a well known fact that tiles often act as carriers of diseased germs. They seek all unclean places then wander into the house making themselves useful in giving out these germs to whatever they may come in contact. Babies need protection from these insects, especially babies who are artificially fed. On visiting a home one day, there laid a baby nursing a bottle, flies swarming profusey around it, baby almost asleep. When mother was questioned concerning the baby being left alone in taking its feeding, her reply was that the baby always nursed itself to sleep, then would awake and finish its milk. Carelessness has caused this mother to lay her baby as a dangerous victim to some dreaded disease which may result in malaria or typhoid fever, tuberculosis, dysentery, diarrhea or some other disease which may be conveyed to the baby's mouth through this angry looking fly-specked nipple. Through carelessness the entire world has been aroused into enormous confusion through a little care less attack upon one little Austrian ship, of which the entire world must shoulder the burden of war. The race riot which took place in East St. Louis' 1. May 29th occurred on the 1. ps of shoe in which they were fat. wounded. Carelessness means danger; beware of carelessness. Beulah Baptist Church, Progresses Dunbrooke, Va.— Sunday, June 10 was a joyful day in Zion. Although the weather was inclement, the faithful members came out as usual. At ten o'clock the Superintendent, James H. Green opened the Sunday School. Promptly at 11:36 o'clock the pastor, Rev. A, P. Young, B. D, opened the pulpit services and proceeded to preach from the 12th Psalms and first verse, "Joy in Service." The sermon was instructive and enjoyed by all present. At this juncture the captains for our June Rally marched to the table and reported as follows: Club No. 1, J. Walter Johnson, $27.69; Club No. 2, William Johnson, $8.90; Club No. 3, Augustine Moore, $20.75; Club No. 4, Lillie Wilson, $16.05; Club No. 5, Ella Holmes, $12.27; Club No. 6, Ella Roane, $12.75; Club No. 7, Clarence Wyatt, $17.50; Club No. 8, Rosetta Roane, $26.75; Club No. 9, Leverita Ball, $65.20; Boys' Club, Arthur Stuart, $4.45. Total amount $212.31. We are very grateful to God and our friends for this pecuniary blessing. It is said by some that never before has as much money been raised by a single effort. The members of the Church deserve great credit for the willingness with which they are working. They are erecting a public school building that will cost $800 when completed. Our hope is in God and we are marching forward. "Grandma! O Grandma! I don't see no boy scouts like me."—Stop asking questions. See what you're about or with this strap I'll make you a scout. —Full well you know, I must go where the breezes blow, with Mt. O. "STRENGTHENING THE LINE." Quite an appreciative audience assembled last Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Second Baptist Church Tabernacle, South Richmond to hear Rev. Dr. W. H. Stokes' address on "Strengthening the Line." He was introduced in a pleasing manner by Dr. L. C. Garland. Dr. Stokes' address was strong and forceful and he was often interrupted by outbursts of applause. No doubt Dr. Stokes has won the hearts of the people on the Southside and he is being complimented by all who heard this wonderful address. The Union Progressive League was instrumental in securing Dr. Stokes for the occasion. "Say boss, are these pretty ladies in this picture with Red Crosses going to look after wounded, bleeding soldiers like mr? Why can't I have some of my kind? You don't know?"—Well, let me off so I can go with Mt. O to Buckroe, July 5 times 2 plus 2 plus 4. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1917 is content with less than the truth and he has had a serious disagreement. Professor G. W. Hayes, use to say that if a man could not tell the truth about the race's aspirations and desire it were better that he kept still and those Negroes who are holding these little shoe shop mass meetings, and voting for resolutions that nine tenths of them know not the meaning of, are doing the race a great deal of harm for they lead other people to think that the Negro is satisfied with anything in fact he is not, and will not be, till milt and not color shall be the bounds that limit his privilege, when that time comes then the following will mean everything to him: "Your flag and my flag! And Oh how much it holds— Your land and my land— Secure within its folds! Your heart and my heart Beat quicker at the sight; Sun-kissed and wind tossed— Red and blue and white. The one flag the great flag—the flag for me and you. Glorified all else beside—the red and white and bue." PRINCIPAL MOTON ON LYNCHING The Editor, Dear Sir;—I send you the following relative to lynchings for the first six months of the year. I find according to the records kept by Monroe N. Work, head of the Division of Records and research of the Tuskegee Institute, that in this period there have been 14 lynchings. This is all less than the number, 25, for the first six months of 1916 and 20 less than number, 34, for the first six month of 1915 to 19 Institution through the bravery of officers of the law and by other means, mobs were thwarted and lynchings prevented. Of these lynched, 13 were Negroes and 1 was white. Four of those put 14 death, 1 white and 3 Negroes were charged with the crime of rape. One c. those put to death was a Negro wo man, reported to have been of unsound mind, who in resisting arrest wound ed an officer of the law. I gather from reading Negro news papers and from other sources, that in spite of the notable decrease in the number of victims of mob violence for the six months, the horrors connected with the recent burning at the stake near Memphis have increased among Negroes the fear of lynchings and accelerated their migration to the North. A. A. Galvin and family, $25; T. H. White, N. Y. X. $25; W. B. Johnson, $25; W. P. Graham, $25; Mrs. Josie Graham, $25; Bernard Tyrell, $25; R. C. Woods, $25; J. H. Burks, $25; L. W. Wales, $25; J. H. Alston, $25; T. J. King, $25; W. D. Woods, $25; W. B. Reid, $25; A. Wilbanks, Pd. 5, $25; E. C. Morris, $25; R. Kepu, $25; W. H. Moses, $25; D. H. Chamberlayne $25; P. N. Tolliver & Ch. $50; B. S. Nowlin, $15; A. H. Gunn, $10; R. S. Wynn, $10; J. B. Sayles, $15; J. J. Jefferson, $5; Diamond Hill Ch. $75; J. A. Jordan & Ch. $100; R. H. Jernagen, & Ch. $50; J. T. Rohinson, $10; 1st Church, Suffolk, $60; J. A. Harrell, $5; J. E. Williams, $10; Queen St. Ch. $60; G. W. Carrington, $10; C. W. Berkley, & Ch. $25; William Stevens, $5; William Washington, $5; J. H. Binford, $5; D. M. Lockett, $5; M. C. Holland, $5; G. Z. Brown, & Ch. $5; J. J. Woodson, $5; M. L. Fairax, $25; J. D. Woolfork, $5; J. A. Brown, & Ch. $100; H. A. Spencer, so; C. A. Green, $5; C. J. Jenkins, $5; M. C. Allen & Ch. $150; st. Ch., Lincoln Park, $2; Zion Union & Pastor, $20. Brethren this is simply to remind you that we are expecting you to pay your pledges as you have promised to do. The Lord bless you and yours. Yours for a great Jubilee meeting, A. A. Galvin, Pres., Va. Bapt. State Convention. Miss Jennie Woodson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Woodson, proprietor of Woodson's Hotel and the great diamond broker, who graduated on June 28th, will spend the summer with her aunt, Mrs. Henry B. Stokes No. 416 West Baker street, Richmond, Virginia. America! I wish I could sing that song with all my heart and soul! But breezes from over East Saint Louis has filled me full of cold. I'm going to try to get rid of It July 16, when Mount O goes to Buckroe. THE NEGRO AND HIS PATRIOTISM Danville, Va., June 22, 1917. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Editor, Planet, Richmond, Va. In 1776 the Negro, Crispus Attucks was the first to shed his blood for American freedom. In 1861, while the masters were off to war, the Negro's loyalty was severely taxed, yet he never wavered. In 1898 at San Juan Hill the Negro soldier was a determining factor in the overbrow of Spanish cruelty and misrule, and in 1946 at Carrizal, Mexico, the Negro bared his breast bravely as loyal soldiers of our great country; and to-day in this hour of our country's peril, the Negro's loyalty, like the mighty oak, in spite of the storms, becomes more deeply imbbed, and the country may rest assured that the Negro's loyalty shall never fail. Be it Resselv, That we reaffirm our loyalty to our country. That we willingly give ourselves to be used by our country in whatever capacity our President shall determine. Dear Sir; Today's issue of the Richmond TimesDispatch contains an article headed, "How Tappahannock, stands," in which is a series of resolutions passed by the colored citizen of the good Old town of Tappahannock; the article does not state how many of the citizens were there in which the "loyalty" of those who were there gathered was pledged to the country. It woud be really interesting to know how many of the Negroes of Tappahannock who are numerous and prosperous, "were there assembled, to rewind 'allegiance' to our country; it would be really interesting to find out "what is Tappahannock any how," and why is it necessary for the Negroes of Tappahannock or any where else to get together and pledge their "loyalty" to the country. It is not necessary for a man who has a lamp that is lighted to continually be crying out, "there is my light," for it is only needed that the lamp keep on shining. True loyalty does not express itself in so much lip, "but by their fruits we shall know them." This loyalty business on the part of the Negro is in danger of being over done; it is coming very near to being a profession; it is getting so that when ever a certain class of Negroes have a note in the bank that is nearly due, and do not see how it is to be paid, they get together a select few and meet in some store or shop, and "pledge" their loyalty to the country and the next day call on the bank for an extension of time and no more is heard of the loyal Negroes till another loan is needed, or an extension required and then there is another "Be it Resolved. That we reaffirm our loyalty to our country." The truly loyal Negroes of this country are not assembling in mass meetings, and passing high sounding resolutions, and reaffirming their loyalty to the country for that loyalty has never been questioned, but they are studying plans, and devising means, just like the other citizens of this country, to do what ever is best to bring this great war to a triumph ant close, and in such a way that he, the Negro might get some of the glory and honor thereof. The Negro is clammering to get in the navy, the marines on the Torpedo boats, the destroyers the submarines, in the artillery, and in every other branch of the service where duty may be performed. If the Negro were given the chance for which he has been begging, and which will be given him before this war ends, every regiment would be filled, every ship fully manned, and a well equipped host of fighting Ameri cans, undivided in their allegiance would now be on the firing line, dooing, daring, dying, but winning, never letting Old Glory t set the ground. The kind of meeting that I desire to see the Negro hold is one in which he will not talk so much about his "loyalty" but pass some resolutions which shall bring home to this government the fact, that it cannot win in this war with one of its hands tied now, any more than it could subdue the brave and dauntless South more than fifty years ago. It is time that some of this humbug and hypocrisy were stopped, and the truth told; the Negro is loyal but he is not satisfied, and cannot be, so long as he is expected to be content to eat crumbs while others, many of them aliens and enemies to this country, walk off with the choicest slices of the nation's bounty. The Negro is not telling the truth when he says "That we willingly give ourselves to be used by our country in whatever capacity our President shall determine." Every Negro in this country is willing to give himself to the country, to be used as whatever manner the "President shall determine," provided the President shall determine to use him as a free born American, entitled to all the privileges as such; to this he is entitled, and if he say that, he J. C. CARTER. Yours very truly. ROBERT R. MOTON, Principal JUBILEE PLEDGES Visiting In Richmond FUTURE COLORED ARMY OFFICERS IN S. C. We just could not resist the unusual temptation of going to Columbia to witness the departure of the South Carolina division of the future colored army officers for the training camps at Des Moines, Iowa. So twelve o'clock Thursday night found us standing in a spacious hall where they were putting the finishing touches in the form of a big ball, on a great banquet which had been previously served in honor of our embryonic officers. Unforunate for us the hour of our arrival was too late to hear the speeches of Lieut. Governor A. J. Bethen, Mayor Griffith, Adjutant, Gen. Moore, Captain Graham and the responses of W. H. Thomas, M. D., and Hon. Thos. E. Miller which we are agreeably informed were very thoughtful and impressive. At 12:40 P. M. on Friday an innumerable host throughed the cement walks awaiting the arrival of the "Carolina Special", which would soon speed the boys away. She arrived shortly after the expected Lour and in a 15 minutes coupled herself to two large steel Pullman slers, the "Mechama" and "Eichfield" which we are informed were complete with all the equipments necessary to a modern first class Pullman sleeper, and in which our boys had previously placed themselves happily awaiting her arrival, while Pinkney's brass band cheered with "A Hot Time". The band continued to cheer with another spirit ed piece of music while we waited the hour of departure. Shortly after black "H.", soft "H.", stars, handkerchiefs, the hat, and the bandas, waved both front within and without the cars and the hand on the cement walk, joined by two cornets within the cars, played "America," and as the crowd stood gazing trying to get the last Hingering glimpse of those near and dear to them, the "Carolina Special" palled, falling away in the distance carrying sixty-eight of the brave caributic, black sons of Ham on one of the grandest missions the war, has ever witnessed. Indeed that was an hour when the crucial test was met. Wives giving up their husbands, mothers and fathers often in their song, children giving up their fathers, sisters giving up their beaches in some instances depending upon their poor weak selves and the public for food, clothes, shelter and protection, possible never to return. For what? In defense of their country—for the preservation and promulgation of liberty and independence. But it seems that they took in to consideration the noble purpose and supreme need of the hour and met the test heroically. We are satisfied that these black patriots will uphold the noble record of those of their kind at Bunker Hill, New Orleans, Petersburg, El Caney and other places; and should it become necessary he to their country what the famous Tenth Cavalry was to Colonel Roosevelt and his gallant Dough Riders—the savior. South Carolina has every reason to be proud of her dusky sons. The sons of no other state in the Union have rallied to the call of the Nation with more readiness than have the black sons of South Carolina. Whatever task that will be assigned then shall be safe in their hands. Marion County is represented by Prof. J. P. Burgess, Prof. Burgess was a very successful superintendent of the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association. He told us that he realized the enormity of the task but the purpose was a noble one and that he had fully made up his mind to lend a helping hand leaving the hour of his return to the God of Fate. We bespeak for him distinction and shall be pread to hear of his accomplishments. EDW. W. MURRAY, M. D. Marion, S. C., June 18th SPECIAL NOTICE TO RICHMOND DELEATES TO THE BAPTIST JUBILEE. Let all Richmond Delegates leave Byrd Street Station on the 9:50 train, Monday morning, July 9, 1917. Join the Tidewater and Petersburg delegates in Petersburg. Special coaches from Petersburg. Round trip from Richmond, $5.05. DICKERSON—ORRANGE. Mrs. Laura M. Orrange announces the marriage of her daughter, Marion Bianche to Mr. Robert William Dickerson, Monday, June 4, 1917. At home Thursday, July 12, from 8:30 to 11:30, 1812 Chaffin street. Friends invited. No cards. PREACHERS TO AID VIRGINIA COUNSEL OF DEFENSE. Richmond, Va., June.—Through the colored ministers who are affiliated with the Council of Defense, efforts are being made to line up the colored people of the state behind all defense measures. The following letter has been sent to every colored minister in Virginia; TO THE COLORED PASTORS OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. The Governor of the State of Virginia, upon the recommendation of the Council of Defense, has appointed a Colore4 Commission of Religious Forces of the State to assist in auring our citizenship to a greater realization of the seriousness of the situation caused by this terrible war into which, though greatly against our wishes and desires, we have been drawn. Therefore, we must under all circumstances and conditions, prove ourselves loyal and patriotic during the continuance of this war, and must in all things support the Government, even as we did on registration day. This country is our home, and in its defense slackers should not be tolerated among us. Let us stand shoulder to shoulder with our white brother, and do our best to win the victory for God and humanity. We may not be able to do much financially to help the poor and suffering in Belgium and France, but let us not fail to contribute our bit. As ministers and religious teachers, we should encourage our people to stand steadfast in the faith and in the practice of the Gospel of the Son of God, the spirit of which teaches us to do unto others as we desire them to do unto us. We should urge that our religious services be relied upon by the congregation, and should pray earnestly to God for the safety of our soldiers and sailors, and for the triumph of righteousness. We should organize our people for the care of the moral and spiritual welfare of our men whether they be in training camps or in active service on land or sea. To do this successfully the pastors should prepare a list of all the soldiers and sailors going from their respective churches in order to be better able to keep in touch and helpful sympathy with them and their dependents at home. We should urge our people to diligence in the production of all kinds of food stuffs, and in the practice of economy in the use of them. Many who cannot go to war can do their part in the fields at home by raising food for those who do go. Let every one of us serve our country as best we can in whatever way we may be c led upon to serve! (Signed) Commission; Rev. R. V. Peyton, Chairman, Rev. M. E. Davia Secy., Rev. A. A. Hector, Rev. T. J. King, and Rev. W. H. Nash GEV. W. H. STOKES, PH. D. TO DELIVER ADDRESS. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph.D., pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church will deliver an address on Sunday, July 9, 1917 at eight P. M. to the congregation of the Moore Street Church. His subject will be "The Call to Arms." The Sabbath Glee Club will assist by rendering the songs for which they are now famous. The public is cordially asked to attend this service. A silver offering will be taken for the purpose of raising funds for the Sunday School Convention at Fredericksburg. Committee: Misses Mildred Johnson and Mary Waller, and Messrs. W. A. Jordan, John Mabrey W. A. Kyles, John S. Brown Rich Creek's Buy Liberty Bonds (other). Over $150,000 is subscriber by Muskegee county rich Neerburg. The following are the names of some of the subscribers; Luther Manuel, $50,000; Mrs C. W. R. id. $25,000; Miss Edith Durant, $25,000. Parson, do you know that song, "I gave my life for thee, what hast thou done for me?" They tell me 10,000,000 people are learning it. Exercise my hurry, I must go, to Buckroe with Mount O. REV. GILL AND YOUNG FOLKS. Rev. C, C. Gill will address the B. N. P. U. and other young people's societies at the Fifth Street Baptist Church Sunday evening at 3:30. Be sure and hear him. Many delegates and visitors will leave here next Monday morning to attend the Baptist Jubilee in Lynchburg. They will represent all the phases of church work. PRICE, FIVE CENTS K. OF P. GRAND LODGE OFFICERS The following is a list of officers of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pyh as, N. A. E. A. E. A. A. & A., elected at Stamton together with a list of the appointments by the Grand Chan- bor. Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., Richmond, Va., Grand Vice Chancellor, T. J. Prec, Newport News; G. M. of Ex., Dr E. R. Jetterson, Richmond; G. K. R. et R. & S. Thoes, M. Crump, Richmond; G. Prelate, Rev. T. H. White, Clifton Flower; G. Master at Arms, W. H. Willis, Richmond; G. Inner Guard, J. E. Byrd, Newport News; G. Oclier Guard, W. T. Stokee Petersburg; G. Lecturer, W. B. F. Crowell, Roopke; G. Master of Work, Win. M. Reid, Portsmouth; G. 32th Chair Director, Dr A. A. Tegerm, Richmond; G. Marshall, W. Henry Jones, Richmond; G. 1st, A. C., J. A. Moss, Richmond; G. 2nd Attd., Edward Wood, Petersburg; G. 3rd Attd., R. B Mosby, Richmond; G. 4th, Attd., J. H. Binford, Richmond. ENDOWMENT ADVISORY BOARD J. H. Martin, Houston; A. C. Mabey Staunton; Willis Wyatt; Richmond; P. W. White; Po chontas; B. A. Graves; Richmond; Rev. L. J. Morris; Richmond; C. G. Davis; Newport News John R. Chiles; Richmond; S. M. Wil- son; Richmond; Robert Gray; Rich- mond; J. W. Pryor; Richmond; Rev. R. G. Adam; Portsmouth; Geo. E. Booker; Richmond; G. Jarvis Bowen Norfolk. COMMITTEE GOO. W. Riisfah Caden Phillip Brown; Newport News; W. H. Thorogood Norfolk; J. H. Allen, Staun- ton; John T. Tayler, Secy. Richmond LAW AND SUPERVISION. C. W. Jordan, Chiefman; Rev. C. G. Cabell, W. P. Allen. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE COLLETTREE ON FINANCE. A. V. Norrell, D. C. Johnson, C. H. Clarke, Jr. APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES. E. D. Bland, Chairman; W. E. Brown, S. G. Brown D. C. Candada, E. M. Canada, J. B. Evans. DISPENSATIONS AND CHARTERS A. Wm. Jackson, D. W. Palmer, Dr. W. W. Johnson. PRINTING AND SUPPLIES. Col. T. M. Crump, Chairman, W. W. Urgquart, L. V. Coleman. STATE OF THE ORDER. Wm. Ellis, Chairman, Moses Carter C. B. Cailahan. COMMITTEE ON OBITUARY. Lee Woolridge, Chairman, J. M. Lawson, W. I. Roseberg. Richmond—L. J. Morris, Petersburg—Edward W. Wood, Norfolk—J. D. Archer, N. N. Blackstone, J. L. Royal Hanover, P. L. Dandridge, West P. C. H. Clarke, Danville—Geo. W. Rison Orange—Dr. R. A. Jackson, Big Stone Gap—H. Martin, Radford—Sandy Casey, South Boston—H. C. White, Roanoke—W. B. P. Crowell, Palaski—J. R. Martin, Manassas—John W. White, Stenton—William Ellis, Lynchburg—J. B. Evans, Cape Charles—C. N. McCune, Ashland—R. T. Jones, Suffolk—C. W. Jordan, Pocchottas—D. C. Johnson, Charlottesville—Capt. G. Conn, Dante D. R. Hale, Honston—J. H. Martin, sutherlin A. B. Betts, Winterpock—Thomas Lee, Boykins—D. W. Whitfield, Vernon Hill—R. D. Jennings, Harrisonburg—G. A. Newman, Covington—C. H. Miller, Farmville—A. W. Moseley, Salem—W. R. Brown, Lexington—Martinsville—G. H. Gairen Rural Retreat—J. F. Bentley, Chatham-Rev. W. H. Carper, Louisa J. Rice Perkins, Franklin—W. W. Urquhart, Emporia—A. B. Bats, Drewry's Bluff-Henry Phos, Jefferson, Rio Vista—Moses L. Carter, Chester—William White, Bristol—W. T. Henderson, Strasburg—T. H. Byrd Hot Springs—C. B. Callahan, Clifton Forge-E. F. Scott, Natural Ridle—Jno. M. Carter, Glasgow—L. R. Woodridge, Prince George—E. D. Blair, Titus Town—J. D. Archer, Chase City—Geo. C. Lancaster, Zionown Moses L. Carter, Packingham N. C. Hennings, Midtown John Bland, Meadville D. C. Canada, Rendolph-Go. L. Coleman, New Church Goo H. Wheaton, Stonega—P. K. Anderson, Portsmouth Col. Archer Drew, New River, S. Casey, Waverley, G. W. Ponce Drakes Branch—F. R. Bank, Bucas Vista J. E. J. Moore, Buckner W. H. Dabney SPECIAL DEPUTIES Norfolk F. J. Washington, Pulaski l. T. Anderson, Richmond—Dr. A. A. Tennant' and A. E. Brown, Danyville W. P. Allon, G. W. Fultz and Joshua Williams, Harrisonburg—Jos. W. Carter, Poste outh—Moses A. Brown and Clarence Nixon. TWO POLICEMAN JUMPED VER, TO ESCIPE FROM CHRD GAME J._A. Baughan’s Compantons Didn't Seo Him Camo Up and Thought Ho Was Drowned—Orticer, —Howover, Submarlued from Island to Island and Beat It to Station—Houso ‘Where he Tondered His Resignation. 4 Glancng up from a game of cards poker, according to current report whic! was In progress yesterday on Wiliams island, off from Worest Hil] park in the Janies river, Policoman J. A, Baughan was 50 surprised at scong Polico Captain Wright and Polleo Sergeant Goldsby appraaching that ho Aiyed Into the river without. stopping to divest himself of any of his cloth: tng. Tho two police officers and the other card players, eight In number, ran to the water's edge where Baughan, was geon to disappear, and waited for him to come to tho surface. When several minutes passed and thoro was no sight of im the watchers began to feel anxtous for Is safety. Anxloty turn ed to grave concern when another period of watchful waiting passed without @ sign of the patrolman, and the conclusion was reached that he had drowned, At the suggestion of Captain Wright ono of the men fit the party removed his clothing and began diving at tho point. in the river whore Baughan was last seon, hoping by this means to locate is’ body. The would- bo Tescuer continued at Ils difficult as- signment for somo time without be ing able tq report any success, and ‘was finally called off, iiis futile efforts strengthening tho bellot that Baughan Nad lont lls life, ‘The players wore taken ashore and charged with disorderly conduct, and Captain Wright began to consider ways find means of dragging tho river for Baughan's body, ‘ Soveral hrs later Baughan erent ed @ mild sensation by appearing at ‘tho Third precinct station house altvo ‘aud well. He, brought his restynatton em HO DE oree with him, aad tuila, at police headquarters’ Chic ft Poles Werner announced that it had beon accepted, THis successor will be appointed shortly. Baughan had Veen attached to the force sinco 1911 Part of the time asa momber of the First-Preeinct force, but more lately a Third precinet patrolman, In the Southside police court today the players arrested by Captain Wright and Sergeant Goldsby were fined $5 pleco. SUBMARINED TO. ADJACENT ISLAND. Instead of sinking to a watery grave after his plunge overboard from the island, Baughan who has. the reputa tion of being an expert swhinmer swam under water in the approved ‘subma- rine style to another Island nearby, ‘Then, by easy stages, touching at Is Jands located not too far apart, he made his way in safety to the north side of the rivor, He secured dry cloth ing and then went to the police stax Hon to tender his resignation, When word reached Captain Wright that gambling was in progress on the island he hastened to the river bank Dnt found that the only avatlablo boat was tied up at the island, Undo erred by this ho removed part of his elothes and roti aed to tho Island after, elng observed, secured the boat and returned to the Southside shore. ‘Then | elohtes and returned to the island after: “* dried htinselt, again donned hiv: summoning Sergeant Goldsby, ! (News Leader, July 2, 1917) | 4 REPRIMAND POLICEMAN FOR HYPLING MINISTER, Police Officer Schwartz was givon & severe reprimand Wednesday morn ing by Inspector Ryan of the Sixth District for hitting the Rev. George F. Sims, paotor 0! Union Baptist Church Decoration Day. After the. po Heo officer had beon given a good talling to by the inspector the Rov. Dr. Stms declined to push the matter furthor, stating thet hhis object. kad deon attained; that he had preferred changes against. Schwartz ‘to teach him ‘a lesson and show iim that. he aust b dicerect in the use of his club. On Decoration Day the Rev. Dr. Sims and a friend were standing on the steps In front of a houso on 181s! near Jenox avenue. He had just call ‘ed out tho police rosorves as a reck. Joss driver of an cutomobite had run over a colored child on Lenox avenie and bystanders wero bent on doing him injury. Polieo Oftloer Schwartz camo upon the seono and although he aid — not know what the trouble was -abont, ordered Dr Sims to move and hitting ‘him onco with his club, The matter ‘was at oneo referred to the Pollet Commissioner by the well known ministor, At tho trial Wednesday morning + colored man took the stand for the policoman and made a mumber of cor tradictory statements as afd Schwartz The police officer admitted that. the Mov. Sims was standing on tho stops aithough he aiso testiticd that he erdered the minister oft the sidewalk. ‘The defendant also a elared ho wes ignorant of traftie rut e8.—Now York Age. EDITOR SMITH'S DECLARATIONS ‘Wo hope that Hon. H, 0, Smith, editor of Tho lovelant Olle, Ganetts {9 not correct In his coneliisions with reference to the Natlonal Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- plo, Ho declares that It looks lke tho organtzatl.2 9 being promoted by whito eltizens of wealth and promt- nenco In Now York City for tho pur- pose of controlling In as large a meas ure as possible the Colored people of the country. We do not bollove that any one will caro to take Isauo with him upon that question, ‘The point Is as to whether this control or purported control 18 to the detriment or benofit of the people so gontrolled. He has argued the caso to an extent from this angle, but wo do not see that ho has fully made out his case, although he has made a sledgehammer “attack against the compromising attitude of the organt- zation upon somo vita: questions—tho condoning of evil that good may come, On vital ractal guostions, Hon, 1. C, Smith Js now and always has been as true “as the needle to the palo.” Ho Is right now. This segregation business, Uiis soparato organization, this treating of the American citizen of color as “a thing apart” is in al. rect opposition to the fundamental principles ¢f the republic, No Amorl- can, regardless of his color, who has yond and rtudied'the truths of history and who Is educated enough and man ly onqugh ¢o understand them, will Guestion the attitude of Mr. ‘Smith upon this question. When we ylold to this kind of subserviency, we sacrt- fico mamhood and give up vital Ameri can rights of eftizenship, Wo should accopt such diserimina- tions only under protest and Uke a metal spring, when tho pressure Is removed, return to our former posi- tion and attitude. Wo have a high opinion though of the motives and purposes of the organization under Giseussion and if Editor H.C, Smith's susplelon are well founded, wo aro one of the most surprised individuals in th country.—Wehmond (Va.) Planet. In closing the editorial on “The N. A. A. G. P,." to which referonco 1s niade in the foregoing, ‘The Gazette used tho following Hues: Look at the matter from any auglo, this wholesale asking of our’ people Just at this time to continue making sacrifice of rights and privileges in th face of “old and now Insults and wrongs,” and by the white officers of an organization supposed to be for “the advancement of colored people,” forces ono to do a lot of thinking that Is not all favorable to the N. A. A. G. P. ‘That Is all tho conclusion ‘The Ga: zotto reached and wo still feel sure that ft Is a reasonable and. tenable one and that hero was nothing In the eaitorlal in question to Justity the “grandstand” position, and bid for sympathy, taken by the alleged “Turkish-cigarct-smoking $3,000 a year, $300 a month, $75 a week, $12.60 a day” editor of the Crisis, We still contend thet conditions referred to, made by white offleers of the NA. AL Po should at levst be carefully Ine vestigated fy our loyal race pnblleas Hons and a cloar understanding also had as to how Dr. J. 1. Spingarn wna Bdltor “Alphabetical” DuBols could 60 quickly and easily changs to the eupport of racial | sogrogation ‘after| more than @ yoar’a activity agalnet that very ‘perntefous and) harmful! thing. Whether the organizations: control of at least a part of our peo: plo is dotrimental or beneficial will no doubt be determined tn a largo dexree by the national white ofticors” and DuBois’ support of sogregnted military training camps for our mon.. We were pleased with the view of the matter taken by our long-time friond and eonfrovs Balter John Mit. chell, Jr., of the Richmond Planet. (Cleveland Ohio Gazette) STRIKE ON RACH IssuP NDS. Machinists Return to Work; Colored Studont to Keep Joh. Schenectady, N. Y,, June 30,—Tho 5.000 machinists and ‘helpers of tho General Plectrie Company who struck Tune 16 to have a colored college sti @ont removed from working amont thom hive adjusted thelr difterences with “tho company and tomorrow morning wil resume work, ‘The colored student, Wendell King Will remain in the employ of the com Pany In his present position during aollegp vacation months; The ‘sattie Ment was offected by tho company and machinists after three State medi fators had. failed, Se ats NEGRO SERVES As INTERPRETER FOR STATR, ‘At 702 Washington street, where tho Stato mnt o-- census ts being taken {ho busiest porson representing » te Stato of Now York is James A. Rivers black in color, who is corving as an interproter and who fs an object ‘of curlosity ta many. ‘The. registration Placo is In the midst of n large.colony of Spaniards, many of whom cannot speak English, Mr. Rivors who resides at 72 W. 1v2nd street, speaks English, Mrench Gorman, Spanish, Italian and Port, guese fluently. Tio was“ Rraduated from Tufts College in 1902 and. ac- aulred @ local reputation as a lingutst While attending the Boston Latin School. In 10U6 he ieft tho Untted States to act as interprotor for the J.T. Mecad don’s “Show, which disbanded in Franeo one year tater. Next ho ho. ¢ame Interpreter for fo Buffalo Bil Show, remaining with tho wild west aggregation until 1908, After. staying An France until 1911, Mr. Rivers went fo Rome, Taly and beeamo sthtetie tn |structor ‘of the Carnotlorie, the exelt siyo bo. t club of which King. imman haat isa mombor. Lator he was engaged to instruct the younger members of the police force in Rome in the art of solt-<defonso, but: his position was temporarily abo ished awing to many of the police Joining the army, 60 over a year age ho returned to America, Mr. Rivers says he fs going ‘back to Wuropo as soon as tho war is over, (New York Ase.) THE RIOHMOND PLANE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA “WILSON APPOINTS A NEGRO vas A oat pereeaes vai QUEEN GETS REST |p Xu" J.D, M, Russell Gots Honor Not) 1, WILL AID T Bestowod on & Momber of tho — Raco tn» Goneration, Will Moot Weekly | Rlenmondy Ky, Juno, 10-3. D. Elizaheth Broken Down by Desti- Mra. Thomas M. Russo, Cclored, for the ‘past. sov- 0 = enteon years prinelpal or the Rich. tution of Belgians. Washdgties ate mond Colored High School has been — ‘ual ite ot tke appoluted by President. Wilson a3 1 postmaster of Wilberfores, 0, Russell} RECUPERATES IN. FLORENCE] number of ecnatori as heon a lfelong Democrat. When poe tablished a new #0 Sonator ‘Pomprene, of Onto, was ask: bo kuown ay tho Li ed for « revommendation ‘tor post-| Flerentines Had Novor Sean Hor Be: | 10 Kuown us tho 1 tuastor of Withorforeo, whteh ta a| fore; and In Street Her Frall Figure] £9 meet, weeldy at Colored Colloge town, ho was unable] Attracted No Attontlen—Nono Per- | Mrs. p to find a Negro citizon there of Demo] mitted to Do Her Homage ae Quean | President. Members! cratle Persuasion who was qualitied| dp gtrigkon Lande Jy to women of th for the place. Rivssel, however, owns: with only one men & tract of land in” Wilberforce.| Rome—Bitzabeth, queen of tho Bel-| Word te ty included Souator Beckiiam, of Kentucky, was] glans, i in Floreneo, whero sho will] tus fo will winer familiar with the edueator and his] epend four or flve mouths tn atelet tn] sonal oluty attes wv holdings In Ohio. and informed his] cognita, Sho to tho first royal vieltor| Sein thet bode win Buckeye colleague of the facts, with} ¢ tho elty since tho terrible conflet| Of w getiet caieer tho Foault that the appomntmont was] heyan, ‘The late, distinguished, exotie| Cfo CuMlnet ailee fendered Russell and “he his seceDt:| colony that dwell in Florence all tho] mam, may Jota on ou. “he placo pays $1,800 a year] year around began to disperse in 1014,| “no ‘sew “orate ‘and today only a few aged Bnglish and} patriotte nad covlal, eae Auiertean women aro left behind to re-| fo anake fe an aps BRITISH WON'T ACOURT ‘vess,| Mind tho Florentine eabby of the pros-| Grows oe otter nell porous thmo that was, will davote much West Indians In Attempt to Waist} ‘The elty ttsel€ has undergono a con-| Hera, Aaa tho Met With Subterfuge. siderable change. The number of cabs} port Cummins of J British West Indians In this cot. try save usually given as thelr rea son foF not taking out citizenship pap ers the undentable unjust troatinent accorded colored Americans and. the (according to them) . noble , attitude and just traetment accarded the black man’ dy tho British, While well-informed persons knew British justice to the black to be duilt_ merely upon tommy-rot, It was left to the British Recruitiig Comt- mission at 280 Broadway, this city, to dispel, the last faint Liluston on the British attitude, On Tuesday morning W. 'T. R, Richard son, well known Harlem. orator, and Cyril VY. Briggs, city editor of’ tho Am.terdum “News, — haviug — heard rumors of British ‘rejection for color ed applicants, mado inquiries wt the offices of the British Reeruiting Com missian and found most of the ru- mors verified. Mossrs. Richardson and Briggs ‘were accompanied by Henry ‘Taylor, who offered to oulist for service in’ the British Army, and was told that the Canadian Govern- ment were net taking colored men how, and that the British Commission awaited Instructions from the War Office before acting for the Imperial Government, Other details next. week! PRIEST COMPLIED: An Australian professor who has Just reached London, after internment in Germany sinco ‘the war began, Youches for a most Interesting inis cnloulation of the German govern nient in tying to influence Irish prisdners to degort the British flag and become traitors to the ally cause. After the failure of Sir Roger Case- Mfont to accomplish that — despleable Gesien, German government officers xeeking to make atom of an Lrigh priest, Father tres y, 1. ahieye Samo oud, requested’ him to speak at niast from thé altar a word of author! (Fon the subject.” \ Father Crotty willingly complied with the request. ‘Mon of Connaught, ho began, “the German emperor wants you to fight on his side, Some people havo been telling you that ft 1 the thing to de, and T have beon asked to do the same." ‘Then In. furth er oxplanation, “he added: “Twas sont to you by’ his holiness the pope not to talk polities to you nor to mis lead you nor to be procurer for any king or kafser on earth, but to tol you in tho name of God and the holy church what ts good and right for inen to do. Therefore," he eaneluded, » to the bitter chagrin and utter confound ing of the Gorman offtcers present: “As a priest of God I tell you” that It Js your duty as gdod Catholics to keop the oaths you have tiken and he loyal to. your king—and that 18 all I have to say to you this day. May. tho graco of God rest and help you." Yos, the priest complicd willingly. AM who read an account of the in- eldent will, we venture to assert, agree with the ‘Australian professor that, considering the elreumstances and the environments, Father Cratty deserves to rank a5 one of the truest heroes of the war, (News Leader June 22, 1917.) PREJUDICE MALTS BIG WAR CONTRACTS, |! 2,500 White Machinists Rotuse to Work With Colored Man. Schencetady, June 21,—With milt- fons of dollars In Government con- tracts on its books the General Blec- trie Company is confronted with 4 strike of 2.600 machinists and thelr helpers, who quit work ‘this ‘morning when the company refused to dis~ chargo or segregate a colored drill press operator. The colored man Isa student at Union College and Is ono sit twenty young men recommended by the college authorities. Obviously impressed with the South ern idea that the Stars and Stripes stand for prejudice and Jim Crowism, the men, many of them foreigners ‘marched from the works headed by an American flag, and in an open air ‘meeting announced they demanded the ule recognized in the army—segre- gation of colored men in compantes and on the recreation grounds, ONE-HALF PINT TOO MUCH. Man Sent to the Grand Jury for ‘Pransporting TAquor, Lynchburg, Va. July 2-—One-halt pint of whiskey got Claude ‘Turner, colored Into a lot of trouble when ho was arrested for transporting whiskey, and In pollee court Saturday ho was sont on to the grand jury ac cording to the provisions of ‘the pro: hibition act, ‘Phe Ne sro had beon work ing in Balitmore and returned homo Friday nfght with a quart and a halt pint of whiskey in his suit caso. Tho lay allows only one quart to be brought Into tho state, and as he had one-half pint too much the police had to ar. reat him, QUEEN GETS REST Elizabeth preven Dou by Desti- tution of Belgians. RECUPERATES IN. FLORENCE, Attracted No Attontlon—-Nono Por- mitted to Do Her Homage as Quesn of Striokon Land, Rome—Ditzabeth, queen of the Bel- glans, {y iy Florence, where sho will spend four or flve mouths in striet In- coguita, Sho fo tho first royal visttor to the city sinco tho torrible confltet began. he lakge, distinguished, exotic colony that dwelt in Florence all. the year around began to disperse in 1914, ‘nd today only a few aged Buglish and American women aro left behind to re- mind the Florentine eabby of the pros- perous time that was, ‘The elty itself has undergono a con- siderable change. ‘The number of cabs hag been reduced, practically all of the tea rooms have been shut down ow- Ang to lack of patronage, and the well known Florentine art world is today fe eco Sm ep Vo ee Ye Me SO EN Loe Te QO OR KR pes oS bee oe a | OP Mg ee Photo by American Presn Assoctstion, -Tepresented by only n few aged painters and seiptors too old to wear a unt ‘form, he elty's chief function in the pres ent war is to nurso back to health the sick and the wounded, and for this pur. pose every villa on ‘the wooded hills surrounding the elty has been convert: ga elther Into a hospital or a sant ‘aru for convalevelng officers not nly of ge Ltajian aenyy, but of the Servian and English ng well. | ‘Tho Florentines had nover seen the queen before, und in the street the frail figure of Hilzabeth attracted no at. tention whatever. It was only when her nborn Interest in hospitals and medteal clintes in general brought her in contact with the Italian Red Cross ‘that her identity was disclosed. Yet when visiting hospitals nobody permitted to render to her the homage ‘due ton queen, For the nurses of the Red Cross, as well ns the doctors and ‘orderltes, the queen fs simply a French countess. Colonel a'Autremont, who accom: panies the queen, suid that three years of inecssint work in Belgian Red Cross hospitals and among the destitute population of the Mttle kingdom lind begun to tell on the queen, who 1s not constitutionally very strong. A. telp abroad and a long rest in different sur. roundings heeame imperative. With the arrival of the queen the public has also learned that her daugh- tor, Princess Mury Josephine, will be educated in Italy and at the expense of the Itallan tiation, In connection with this {t 1s related that soon after the Bnglish government decided to edu: cate Prince Charles, King Albert's see- ‘ond son, the Italian government re quested the privilege of looking after the edueation of the princéss, ‘The royal parents-accepted, and the princess, who ig a girl of twelve, will enter the Col- lego of the Annunciata, where only girls bolonging to the nobility are ad- EAE Burned Their Fathor’s Will. Milwaukoo, Wis,— As they dia not Ike thelr father’s will they threw it in the stove. This was the burden of a story brought to probate court by the sons and daughters of Augustus 8. Hanks of Granville, who died Jan, 81, ‘Thero was no thought of wrongdoing thoy said, and nothing would have como of it only for the fact that they dis. elvered they must prove the will in or. der to probate the estate, ‘Tho estate is valued at $28,000, ‘ WE SAE SAE ME SNE Ne SHE SE SE ee Me MA Be eS BE Me M8 MW VILLAGE POPULATION ws x DEPLETED BY THE NAVY. 3 a Me = Rondout, M.—This placo has % # given to the navy every one of % ¥ Sts citizens eligible for service. ¥% 8 Recruiting oflleers who drove 4 % through. In search of recruits $¥ learned from the oldest eltizen % in the half dozen farmhouses 4% $ that there were none. “We had 4% ¥ Just two young Inds,” ho said. % ¥ “Both of them enlisted in the $4 v navy several weeks ago.” a ve rf M6 SMES SAE SAE SAE SAE NE SAE Ne SE NE Me SAE SE Why Wo Wink Our Eyoa, Nature's Pro- ‘The act of winking furnishes a steady lubricatiun for the eyes and the ball of the eye is kept clean and in good con- ition by. tho water which passes over ft from the tear glands. ‘That ts why we wink-to carry the water from un. Gar the upper lid uvar the eye, WOMEN OF THE SENATE ~~ {, WILL AID THE RED CROSS Will Mest Weekly at Apartment of Mre. Thomas R. Marshall, Washington.—Mrs, Thomas R, Mar shall, wifo of tho vico president, and a number of senatorial matrons have ee: tablished a now soclal organization, te bo kuown ay tho Ladies of tho Senate, to meet weekly at tho apartment of ‘Mrs, Marshall, who has been clected president. Membership {s Mmited strlet Jy to women of the senatoring elrcles, ‘with only ove member of each house: hold to Vy included In the soclety. In this st wil differ from tho Congres stonal club, after which it 1s patterned fag in that body wife, daughter or sister of a cabinet ofllecr, Judge or congress man may join on payment of modest annual dues and an futtiation fee, ‘The new orguntzation ts to be both patriotle and social, with dues sufficient to make {tan importdnt factor in Red Cross or other relief work, to whlch it will devote much time, In addition to ‘Mre, Marshall tho oflicors are Mrs, Al- bert Cummins of Iowa, Mrs. Braucls Newlands of Novada, Mrs, John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, Mrs, James Reed of Missourl, Mrs, Thomas P, Gore of Oklahoma and Mrs. Claudo Swanson of Virginia, ‘The women will meet with members of the Congressional club every Mon- day to continue the Red Cross work al ready begun under the older organtza- thon. Records of Allies Show It {s Fourth In the Percentage of Casualties. Washington, — Contrary to popula epinton, the alr service of tho army, al though’ perhaps the most, theltiing Lranch, Is not the moat dangerous Captain Aubroy Lippincott, in charg. of tho personnel of the signal corps of the army, says the records of our al Hes put alr service fourth in the por contage of losses. Tho eaviest losse: have been fn the medieal corps, noxt {1 infantry and thisd in artiliery, Although applications have been nu merous for enrollment in the alx cadet schools for flyers recently opened, Cap tain Lippincott says many moro men Will bo needed before the end of the year. Ono hundred and fifty men arc tained weekly. ‘Enough men have beot Accepted to Keep tho schools supple with reerults for more than twe months, but soveral thousand will be Fequired later on, as the supply of men must be constantly augmented. Only a smalt percentage of the men who apply gior enrollment tn. cade aviation setots at tug uuberstenen 8 California, Texas, AMinols and Ohio Massachusetts Instituto of Technology and Corel ean bo accepted. ‘Tho re quirements am stricter than in any other branch of tho service. Tho im presston that omly collego graduates are adinitted fs Incorrect, but a sub stantial foundation for intensive tech nical training ts necessary. It has oft en been found that three yenrs at col lego or its equivalent gives a man the Imowledge which makes the training come with reasonable rapidity. SAT ON CHURCH CORNICE. woman Neepe rows on age Mor twe Hours by Threatening to Jump. Boston.—A crowd of several hundred people watched for two hours from be hind ropes that barred the streot in front of St. James’ Roman Catholic chureh while a woman sat on the cor nice threatening to jump. —Iiremen spread nets to break her fall, polled reserves nttempted to reach her, and three priests pleaded with her from the skylight, Finally the Rev, Philip J. O'Donnel reached her before she fulfilled her threat and escorted ‘her back through the skylight, At the Psychopathte hospital sh gave her namo as Mrs, Cella Vennard, ‘4 parishioner of St, James’ chureh, and said relatives were trying to commit her to an insane asylum. She would rather kill herself than submit, she sald Pe ese CHINA GETS TWO HOSPITALS. “Rockefeller Foundation Will Spend $3,000,000 There. Baltiawre.—B, Frank Bennett, a builder, will leave here for China, where he has been commissioned by the Rock- efeller foundation to build two hospl- tals at n cost of $3,000,000. ‘The first hospital will be constructed in Peking and is to be modeled after Johns Top. kins hospital, ‘The plans were drawn after suggestions of Dr, Winford I. Smith, superintendent of Johns Hop: kins, “Tho other hospital will be built in Shanghal, It is said the project of the two American hospitals is the outeomo of a tour of investigation mado last year by Dr, William FH, Welch, for the Rocke. foller foundation, Dog Horo Home From War, Port Washington, N, ¥.—Wounded in action, Jupiter, Hubert Ralston’s war dog, returned here from France after “doing his bit" to spend his declining years in comfort. A’ bit of shrapnel gouged out one exe and another cayed im his chest. Jupiter trained with his regiment at Salisbury Plain in the firel ‘year of the war, WILL OFFER PRIZE. Damon Company, No. 29, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythtas will offer a prize for the best drilled company at the meoting of the Grand Loge In Staunton next wook. Captain Samuel Moore, command ing; Sorgoant William Baylor, record: THE CHRISTIANSBURG BUMMER BOHOOL, State Summer School at Christiane ‘burg opens June 20th. Intensive work ‘on eubjects of tho first, second, and third grades will be given and’ Unt ‘form Bxaminations are to be hold at tho close of tho Normal, Christlansburg 43 located up in the mountain where the climatic cond tlona aro ideal for atudy. A trong faoulty of experienced instructors 8c conduct thelr classes as to make study and recitation a profitable pleasure. ‘Phe school ts 80 organized that cach teacher can got the subjects he re aulres, ‘Tho cost will bo ronsonable, For further information, address B. A. LONG, Conductor, Cambria, Va. WANTHD—25 Mon and Women to soll Bick and Accidont Insurance, on commission. Apply Mochantes Bank Bldg., Room 204—2nd floor. 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Waldron PAPRR HANGING WAUL PAINT! OO 5 WARDROOM 8 BAST FRDDRAL sTamwr RICHMOND, — - virarvta Woro being discussed, When this last essayist opened up his bundle of papor and announced his subject, all hope of relief vanished, but unknown to all, there was humor in storo for them. “Tho young man began to seater thoughts and phrases. brond- east and turned page after page. As he got into tho subject he began to movo about a Iittle aid when. he reached a quotation trom a famous author he was ton fect away from iis manuseript but throwing his head up in the air he started to quote from momory—and something slipped. Ho had forgotten tho next Hne! | Ho turned abruptly and MADE A HIGH DIVE FOR HIS WRITTEN WSSAY? TWO THE PLANET POLICEMAN JUMPED IN RIVER, TO ESCAPE FROM CARD GAME J. A. Baughan's Companions Didn't See Him Come Up and Thought He Was Drowned—Officer, However, Submarin from Island to Island and Beat It to Station—Houso Where he Tendered His Resignation. Glancing up from a game of cards—poker, according to current report—which was in progress yesterday on Williams island, off from Forest Hill park in the James river, Pollecman J. A. Baughan was so surprised at seeing Police Captain Wright and Police Sergeant Cobbly approaching that he dived into the river without stopping to divest himself of any of his clothing. The two police officers and the other card players, eight in number, ran to the water's edge where Baughan, was seen to disappear, and waited for him to come to the surface. When several minutes passed and there was no sight of him the watchers began to feel anxious for his safety. Anxiety turned to grave concern when another period of watchful waiting passed without a sign of the patrolman, and the conclusion was reached that he had drowned. At the suggestion of Captain Wright one of the men in the party removed his fishing and began diving at the point where the river where Baughan was last seen, hoping by this means to locate his body. That would be rescue continued at his difficult assignment for some time without able to report any success, and was finally called off, his futile efforts strengthening the belief that Baughan had lost his life. The players were taken ashore and charged with disorderly conduct, and Captain Wright began to consider ways and means of dragging the river for Baughan's body. Several hours later Baughan created a mild sensation by appearing at the Third precinct station house alive and well. He brought his resignation on the porch force with him, and told, at police headquarters Chief of Police Werner announced that it had been accepted. His successor will be appointed shortly. Baughan had been attached to the force since 1911 part of the time as a member of the First-Precinct force, but more lately a Third precinct patrolman. In the Southside police court today the players arrested by Captain Wright and Sergeant Goldsby were fined $5 apiece. SUBMARINED TO ADJACENT ISLAND. Instead of sinking to a water grave after his plunge overboard from the island, Baughan who has the reputation of being an expert swimmer swam under water in the approved submarine style to another island nearby. Then, by easy stages, touching at its lands located not too far apart, he made his way in safety to the north side of the river. He secured dry clothing and then went to the police station to tender his resignation. When word reached Captain Wright that the swimsuit was in progress on the island he had landed to the river bank but found that he only available boat was tied up at the island. Under terred by this he removed part of his clothes and returned to the island after being observed, secured the boat and returned to the Southside shore. Then clothes and returned to the island after dried himself, again denoted hl. summoning Sergeant Goldsby. (News Leader, July 2, 1917) REPRIMAND POLICEMAN HITTING MUNISTER Police Officer Schwartz was given a severe reprimand Wednesday morning by Inspector Ryan of the Sixth District for hitting the Rev. George F. Sims, pastor of Union Baptist Church Decoration Day. After the police officer had been given a good talking to by the inspector the Rev. Dr. Sims declined to push the matter further, stating that his object had been attained; that he had preferred charges against Schwartz to teach him a lesson and show him that he must be discreet in the use of his club. On Decoration Day the Rev. Dr. Sims and a friend were standing on the steps in front of a house on 131st near Lenox avenue. He had just called out the police reserves as a reckless driver of an automobile had run over a colored child on Lenox avenue and bystanders were bent on doing him injury. Police Officer Schwartz came upon the scene and although he did not know what the tracable was about, ordered Dr Sims to move and hitting him once with his club. The matter was at once referred to the Police Commissioner by the well known minister. At the trial Wednesday morning a coerced man took the stand for the police and made a number of contradictory statements as did Schwartz. The police officer admitted that the Rev. Sims was standing on the steps, although he also identified that he ordered the minister off the sidewalk. The defendant also deceived he was ignorant of traffic rules. —New York Aga. We hope that Hon. H. C. Smith, editor of The Cleveland Ohio, Gazette is not correct in his conclusions with reference to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He declares that it looks like the organization. It is being promoted by white citizens of wealth and promiscuity in New York City for the purpose of controlling the life of the people as possible the Colored people of the country. We do not believe that any one will care to take issue with him upon that question. The point is as to whether this control or purported control is to the detriment or benefit of the people so controlled. He has argued the case to an extent from this angle, but we do not see that he has fully made out a sledge, although he has made a sledge, although he has made a compromising attitude against the organization upon some vital questions—the condoning of evil that good may come. On vital racial questions, Hon. H. C. Smith is now and always has been as true "as the needle to the pole." He is right now. This segregation business, this separate organization, this treating of the American citizen of color as "a thing apart" is in direct opposition to the fundamental principles of the republic. No American, regardless of his color, who has read and studied the truths of history and who is educated enough and many others understand them, will question the actions of Mr. Smith upon this question. When we yield to this kind of subservience, we sacrifice manhood and give up vital Ameri can rights of citizenship. We should accept such discriminations only under protest, and like a metal spring, when the pressure is removed, return to our former position and attitude. We have a high opinion though of the motives and purposes of the organization under discussion and if Editor H. C. Smith's suspicion are well founded, we are one of the most surprised individuals in the country—Richmond (Va.) Planet. In closing the editorial on "The N. A. A. C. P.," to which reference is made in the foregoing, The Gazette used the following lines: Look at the matter from any angle, this wholesale asking of our people just at this time to continue making sacrifice of rights and privileges in the face of "old and new insults and wrongs," and by the officers of an organization supposed to be for "the advancement of colored people," forces one to do a lot of thinking that is not all favorable to the N. A. A. C. P. That is all the conclusion The Gazette reached and we still feel sure that it is a reasonable and tenable one and that here was nothing in the editorial in question to justify the "grandstand" position, and bid for sympathy, taken by the alleged "turkish-cigarette-smoking" $3,600 a year, $300 a month, $75 a week, $12.60 a day" editor of the Crisis. We still contend that conditions referred to, made by white officers of the ... should at least be carefully investigated by our loyal race publications and a clear understanding also had as to how Dr. J. E. Spingarn and Editor "Alphabetical" DuBois can so quickly and easily change to the support of racial segregation after more than a year's activity against that very pernicious and harmful thing. Whether the organizations control of at least a part of our people is detrimental or beneficial will no doubt be determined in a large degree by the national white officers' and DuBois' support of segregated military training camps for our men. We were pleased with the view of the matter taken by our longtime friend and confrere Editor John Mitchell, Jr., of the Richmond Planet. (Cleveland Ohio Gazette.) STRIKE ON RACE ISSUE ENDS Machinists Return to Work; Colored Student to Keep Job. Scheneckady, N. Y., June 30.—The 5,000 machinists and helpers of the General Electric Company who struck June 16 to have a colored college student removed from working among them have adjusted their differences with the company and tomorrow morning will resume work. The colored student, Wendell King will remain in the employ of the company in his present position during college months; The bottle ments was effected by the company and machinists after three State mediators had failed. NEGRO SERVES AS INTERPRETER FOR STATE. At 702 Washington street, where the State mill...census is being taken, the busiest person representing the State of New York is James A. Rivers black in color, who is serving as an interpreter and who is an object of curiosity to many. The registration place is in the midst of a large colony of Spaniards, many of whom cannot speak English. Mr. Rivers who resides at 72 W. 142nd street, speaks English, French German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese fluently. He was graduated from Tufts College in 1902 and acquired a local reputation as a linguist while attending the Boston Latin School. In 1905 he left the United States to act as interpreter for the J. T. McCaddon's Show, which disbanded in France one year later. Next he became interpreter for the Buffalo Bill Show, remaining with the wild west aggregation until 1908. After staying in France until 1911, Mr. Rivers went to Rome, Italy and became athlete in structurer of the Carnottie, the exclusive bolt club of which King Emmanuel was a member. Later he was engaged to instruct the younger member of the police force in Rome in the art of self-defense, but his position was temporarily abolished diving to many of the police joining the army, so over a ten year he returned to America. Mr. Rivers says he is going back to Europe as soon as the war is over. THE RICHMOND PLANE1. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA WILSON APPOINTS A NEGRO POSTMASTER. J. D. M. Russell Gets Honor Not Beneath the Race in a Generation Richmond, Ky., June 16—J. D. M. Russell, Colored, for the past seventeen years principal of the Richmond Colored High School has been appointed by President Wilson as postmaster of Wilberforce, O. Russell has been a lifelong Democrat. When Senator Pomereone, of Ohio, was asked for a recommendation for postmaster of Wilberforce, which is a Colored College town, he was unable to find a Negro citizen there of Democratic Persuasion who was qualified for the place. Russell, however, owns a tract of land in Wilberforce. Senator Beckham, of Kentucky, was familiar with the educator and his holdings in Ohio and informed his Buckeye college of the facts, with the result that the appointment was tendered Russell and he accepted. The place pays $1,800 a year. BRITISH WON'T ACCEPT THEM West Indians In Attempt to Enlist Met With subterfuge. British West Indians in this country have usually given as their reason for not taking out citizenship papers the undeniable unjust treatment accorded colored Americans and the (according to them) noble attitude and just treatment accorded the black man by the British. While well-informed persons knew British justice to the black to be built merely upon tommy- it, it was left to the British Recruiting Commission at 280 Broadway, this city, to dispel, the last faint blusion on the British attitude. On Tuesday morning W. T. R. Richardson, well known Harlem orator, and Cyril V. Briggs, city editor of the Amsterdam News, having heard rumors of British rejection for color applicants, made inquiries at the offices of the British Recruiting Commission and found most of the rumors verified. Messrs. Richardson and Briggs were accompanied by Henry Taylor, who offered to enlist for service in the British Army, and was told that the Canadian Government were not taking colored men now, and that the British Commission awaited instructions from the War Office before acting for the Imperial Government. Other details next week! PRIEST COMPLIED An Australian professor who has just reached London, after internment in Germany since the war began, vouches for a most interesting miscalculation of the German government in trying to influence Irish prisoners to desert the British flag and become traitors to the ally cause. After the failure of Sir Roger Casement to accomplish that despicable design, German government officers seeking to make atroed of an Irish priest, Father Rev. C., achieve same end, requested him to speak at mast from the alfar a word of authorily (y on the subject). Father Crotty willingly compiled with the request, 'Men of Connaught,' he began, "the German emperor wants you to fight on his side. Some people have been telling you that it is the thing to do, and I have been asked to do the same." Then in further request he added: "I was sent to you by his husband, the pope not to talk politics to you nor to lead you nor to he procurer for any king or kaiser on earth, but to tell you in the name of God and the holy church what is good and right for men to do. Therefore," he concluded, to the bitter chagrin and utter confounding of the German officers present: "As a priest of God I tell you that it is your duty as good Catholics to oaths you have taken and be loyal to you, and that is a I have to say to you this day. The grace of God rest and help you." Yes, the priest compiled willingly. All who read an account of the incident will, we venture to assert, agree with the Australian professor that, considering the circumstances and the environments, Father Crotty deserves to rank as one of the truest heroes of the war. (News Leader June 22, 1917.) PREJUDICE HALTS BIG WAR CONTRACTS. 2,500 White Machinists Refuse to Work With Colored Man. Schenectady, June 21.—With millions of dollars in Government contracts on its books the General Electric Company is confronted with a strike of 2,500 machinists and their helpers, who quit work this morning when the company refused to discharge or segregate a colored drill press operator. The colored man is a student at Union College and is one of many men recommended by the college authorities. Obviously impressed with the South ern idea that the Stars and Stripes stand for prejudice and Jim Crowism, the men, many of them foreigners, marched from the works headed by an American flag, and in an open air meeting announced they demanded the rule recognized in the army-segregation of colored men in companies and on the recreation grounds. ONE-HALF PINT TOO MUCH. Man Sent to the Grand Jury for Transporting Liquor. Lynchburg, Va., July 2.—One-half pint of whiskey got Claude Turner, colored into a lot of trouble when he was arrested for transporting whiskey, and in police court Saturday he was sent on to the grand jury according to the provisions of the prohibition act. The Nr. pro had been working in Baltimore and returned home with a quart and a half pint of whiskey in his law awaits only one quart to be brought into the state, and as he had one-half pint too much the police had to arrest him. QUEEN GETS REST QUEEN GETS REST Elizabeth Broken Down by Destination of Belgians. RECUPERATES IN FLORENCE Florentines Had Never Seen Her Before; and In Street Her Frail Figure Attracted No Attention—Nono Permitted to Do Her Homage as Queen of Stricklen Land. Rome,—Elizabeth, queen of the Belgians, is in Florence, where she will spend four or five months in stricte incongruita. She is the first royal visitor to the city since the terrible conflict began. The large, distinguished, exotic colony that dwelt in Florence all the year around began to disperse in 1914, and today only a few aged English and American women are left behind to remind the Florentine cabby of the prosperous time that was. The city itself has undergone a considerable change. The number of cabs has been reduced, practically all of the tea rooms have been shut down owing to lack of patronage, and the well known Florentine art world is today A. E. Photo by American Press Association. QUEEN ELIZABETIL. represented by only a few aged painters and sculptors too old to wear a uniform. The city's chief function in the present war is to nurse back to health the sick and the wounded, and for this purpose every villa on the wooded hills surrounding the city has been converted either into a hospital or a sanarium for convulsing officers not only of the Italian army, but of the Servian and English as well. The Florentines had never seen the queen before, and in the street the frail figure of Elizabeth attracted no attention whatever. It was only when her inborn interest in hospitals and medical clinics in general brought her in contact with the Italian Red Cross that her identity was disclosed. Yet when visiting hospitals nobody is permitted to render to her the homage due to a queen. For the nurses of the Red Cross, as well as the doctors and orderlies, the queen is simply a French countess. Colonel d'Autremont, who accompanies the queen, said that three years of incessant work in Belgian Red Cross hospitals and among the destitute population of the little kingdom had begun to tell on the queen, who is not constitutionally very strong. A trip abroad and a long rest in different surroundings became imperative. With the arrival of the queen the public has also learned that her daughter, Princess Mary Josephine, will be educated in Italy and at the expense of the Italian nation. In connection with this it is related that soon after the English government decided to educate Prince Charles, King Albert's second son, the Italian government requested the privilege of looking after the education of the princess. The royal parents accepted, and the princess, who is a girl of twelve, will enter the College of the Annunciata, where only girls belonging to the nobility are admitted. Burned Their Father's Will. Milwaukee, Wis. - As they did not like their father's will they threw it in the stove. This was the burden of a story brought to probate court by the sons and daughters of Augustus S. Milwaukee, who died Feb. 11. There was no thought of wrongdoing, they said, and nothing would have come of it only for the fact that they discovered they must prove the will in order to probate the estate. The estate is valued at $2,000,000. VILLAGE POPULATION DEPLETED BY THE NAVY. Rondout, Ill.-This place has given to the navy every one of its citizens eligible for service. Recruiting officers who drove through in search of recruits learned from the oldest citizen in the half dozen farmhouses that there were none. "We had just two young lads," he said. "Both of them enlisted in the navy several weeks ago." ```markdown ``` Why We Wink Our Eyes, Nature's Procaution. The act of winking furnishes a steady lubrication for the eyes and the ball of the eye is kept clean and in good condition by the water which passes over it from the tear glands. That is why we wink- to carry the water from under the upper lid over the eye. WOMEN OF THE SENATE WILL AID THE RED CROSS Will Meet Weekly at Apartment of Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall. Washington—Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wife of the vice president, and a number of senatorial matrons have established a new social organization, to be known as the Ladies of the Senate, to meet weekly at the apartment of Mrs. Marshall, who has been elected president. Membership is limited strictly to women of the senatorial circles, with only one member of each household to be included in the society. In this it will differ from the Congressional club, after which it is patterned, as in that body wife, daughter or sister of a cabinet officer, judge or congressman may join on payment of modest annual dues and an initiation fee. The new organization is to be both patriotic and social, with dues sufficient to make it an important factor in Red Cross or other relief work, to which it will devote much time. In add'ion to Mrs. Marshall the officers are Mrs. Albert Cummins of Iown, Mrs. Francis Newlumbs of Nevada, Mrs. John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, Mrs. James Reed of Missouri, Mrs. Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma and Mrs. Claude Swanson of Virginia. The women will meet with members of the Congressional club every Monday to continue the Red Cross work already begun under the older organization. AVIATION SERVICE NOT THE MOST DANGEROUS Records of Allies Show It Is Fourth in the Percentage of Casualties. Washington.—Contrary to popular opinion, the air service of the army, although perhaps the most thrilling branch, is not the most dangerous. Captain Aubrey Lippincott, in charge of the personnel of the signal corps of the army, says the records of our allies put air service fourth in the percentage of losses. The heaviest losses have been in the medical corps, next in infantry and third in artillery. Although applications have been numerous for enrollment in the six cadet schools for fliers recently opened, Captain Lippincott says many more men will be needed before the end of the year. One hundred and fifty men are trained weekly. Enough men have been accepted to keep the schools supplied with recruits for more than two months, but several thousand will be required later on, as the supply of men must be constantly augmented. Only a small percentage of the men who apply for enrollment in endet aviation schools at the universities of California, Texas, Illinois and Ohio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell can be accepted. The requirements are stricter than in any other branch of the service. The impression that only college graduates are admitted is incorrect, but a substantial foundation for intensive technical training is necessary. It has often been found that three years at college or its equivalent gives a man the knowledge which makes the training come with reasonable rapidity. SAT ON CHURCH CORNICE. Woman Keeps Crowd on Edgo For Two Hours by Threatening to Jump HOURS BY THREATENING TO JUMP. Boston — A crowd of several hundred people watched for two hours from behind that barred the street in front of St. James' Roman Catholic church while a woman sat on the corneille threatening to harm Philip. Spread nets to break her fall, police reserves attempted to reach her, and three priests pleaded with her from the skylight. Finally the Rev. Philip J. O'Donnell reached her before she fulfilled her threat and escorted her back through the skylight. At the Psychopathic hospital she gave her name as Mrs. Cella Vernard, a parishioner of St. James' church, and said relatives were trying to commit her to an insane asylum. She would rather kill herself than submit, she said. CHINA GETS TWO HOSPITALS Rockefeller Foundation Will Spend $3,000,000 There. Baltimore. — I. Frank Bonnett, a builder, will leave here for China, where he has been commissioned by the Rockefeller foundation to build two hospitals at a cost of $3,000,000. The first hospital will be constructed in Teking and is to be modeled after John Hopkins hospital. The plans were drawn after suggestions of Dr. Winford II. Smith, superintendent of John Hopkins. The other hospital will be built in Shanghai. It is said the project of the two American hospitals is the outcome of a tour of investigation made last year by Dr. William H. Welch, for the Rockefeller foundation. Dog Hero Home From War. Port Washington, N. Y.—Wounded in action, Jupiter, Hubert Ralston's war dog, returned here from France after "doing his bit" to spend his declining years in comfort. A bit of shrapnel gouged out one eye and another caved in his chest. Jupiter trained with his regiment at Salisbury Plain in the first year of the war. WILL OFFER PRIZE Damon Company, No. 29, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias will offer a prize for the best drilled company at the meeting of the Grand Lodge in Staunton next week. Captain Samuel Moore, commanding; Sorgeant William Baylor, record- THE CHRISTANSBURG SUMMER SCHOOL. State Summer School at Christiansburg opens June 20th. Intensive work on subjects of the first, second, and third grades will be given and Uniform Examinations are to be held at the close of the Normal. Christiansburg is located up in the mountains where the climatic conditions are ideal for study. A strong focus of experienced instructors so conduct the classes as to make study and recitation a profitable pleasure. The school is so organized that each teacher can get the subjects he requires. The cost will be reasonable. For further information, address E. A. LONG, Conductor. Cambrils, Va. 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The young man had prepared an essay on an important topic, to be presented upon an auspicious occasion and at the appointed time he was called to the rostrum by the general presiding master of ceremonies. The house was filled with tired and expectant hearers, who had listened to bushels of English language, in the form of essays, and were longing for something to happen to break the monotony—and, some good spirit directed the exercises in that channel for their special benefit. It is hinted that some breathed a prayer for relief from these "heavy," toques that WANTED THE PLANET ```markdown ``` MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. Madame Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States embalming and conducting funerals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely, Courts of Calanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of Good Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethlehem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your patronage and influence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that she is always at your service. Reliable service at Moderate Rates. 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337 RESIDENCE 1015 St. James St., Madison 6619 VIRGINIA: In the Hustings Court Part II, of the City of Richmond, March 15, 1917. George Ball.....Plaintiff vs. Della Ball.....Defendant The object of the above styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the grounds of abandonment and desorption for a continuous period of more than three years. And an affidavit having been made and filed that diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or corporation the defendant is without effect, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to defend her interest herein. A COPY—TESTE: W. E. DUVAL, Clerk. J. R. POLLARD, p. q. S. C. Waldron PAPER HANGING WALL PAINT were being discussed. When this last essayist opened up his bundle of paper and announced his subject, all hope of relief vanished, but unknown to all, there was humor in store for them. The young man began to scatter thoughts and phrases broadcast and turned page after page. As he got into the subject he began to move about a little and when he reached a quotation from a famous author he was ten feet away from his manuscript but throwing his head up in the air he started to quote from memory—and something slipped. He had forgotten the next line! He turned abruptly and MADE A HIGH DIVE FOR HIS WRITTEN ESSAY! a ke NT gel ive™s | el pe R.Adams Copyright by Frank A. Munsoy Company. 5 FR F F ID ‘ee a D ot cee F y “ Se i eels a oe s i ibis ae 5 ne ; ; Lee Y a 5 CHAI at 5 OHABTER. : ER ts : re B eat too much,” stated Lu- elle detinttoly while we were having tea on tho front poreh, “Wo certainly do," 1 assented aly, “Why uot give our digestive appa- ratus a rest?" she propounded. “Why not?” I rushed to my doom, 1 was having my two weeks’ vacation and was too happy at belug able to spend It on the Island to care any- thing about an argument, “L suggest that wo fast for a week." A suggestion Itke that put mo fn a nico fix. X don't mind stating that at that time I was about 210 pounds of eligible bachelor, aged thirty-five, com- fortably in love with Lucile, but too old and set in the complacent sclfish- 2689 of single blesseduess over te pro- tend to be a Romeo, ‘ho {den of fast- ing gave mo a sinking sensation right where there was tho most room to sink. “What?” X cjacuinted, forgetting for the moment that I had a reputation for ready repartee, “E said, ‘Why not fast for a weok? Z rend an article by Lipton 8, Clnix about it just thls morning, Ho claims that fasting thoroughly rebuilds the aystem, gets rid of all toxing and in- creases the montal effleleney 60 per cont.” She picked up a magazine which was Propped open faco downward .on tho lower shelf of tho porch table.» i wXAston te thls" sv VOUTuULy * “bia: ing threo meals a day ts simply. a hab- it, Wo have made tyrants of our stom- ‘achs, Thoy demand to bo fed every few hours, aud if wo answer that de- mand wo aro slaves’ ‘There, that sounds Uke tho reasoning of a thinker, doesn't it?” “It sounds more like tho reasoning of a thinker than of an eater.” Luelle reproved my tippaney, “I think tt would do us all good.” “But I feel ail right now." I ealled her attention to an obvious fact, She dismissed my objection, “You can't be healthy unless you fast for a thle | at Plat hart isSegiet tt week at least once a year, Lipton 8, Clay says so. Mother, you'll try tt won't you?” “Dry what?” “Iasting for a week.” “Why, yes, if you want to." Ter mother pfeked up a book as if she had decided nothing more momentous than 4 question ay to whether she preferred ¢renm or lemon in her tea, She had been used ag an experiment station for S0 many years that nothing surprised her. got up casually and tried to stp tn. Aoors, but Lucile stopped me. “Don't you think it will bo lovely, Montmo. roney?” I collapsed into a chair which col- lapsed immediately after I did. she had called mo by my first name! Yes; Montmoroney 18 my first namo. It sounds Hike ‘several names, but it 1s only my first, ‘Phat first namo thing mado it very Hard to refuse. As I sat there on the porch surrounded by legs te weaker party won, Possibly my mind was stunned by my. fall, although I havo no recollection of hitting my hoad. I felt that Lucllo was putting Mme to the test. Irom the look tn her eyo I know that sho was asking me to choose between love and beofateak. 80 rising phoenix ike I answered bravely, “Yeo; I think fasting would be delightful.” Bo that was how wo began. As you can casily see, the cause of tho trouble was that Luctle ts one of thoso persons. who take the magazine health and bygienie writers in good faith. It ts impossible to convince her that those fellows have to make a liv ing by thelr pens the samo as other human authors and that every bizarre ldea they can pounce on means just so much mere copy at a regular Fate per word. No, Lucile must needs try by experlinent every new theory, using herself or any convenient relative. oF felend ne n inborators. Tho absurdity of Luctte'y attempt to Improve upon ‘er health and Looks Is appar nt to any ono who has ever been blessed with a sight of her, You can't make a slim young body Ike bers by simply rolling on the Moor for an hour every day, nor are seft brown eyes with long, curly lashes the result of chewing any particular number of times upon n plece of steak. Nature must have been experinienting a geod many centuries before she got Just that particular texture for hair and that pecullar shado of cream velvet for complexions. At this particular time for nearly twenty-five years she and nature bad deen uninterrupted by. matehony. fn thet: Jov of decorating, so that tt 1s not to be wondered at that they hnd turned out a well nigh perfect product. ‘Phere Js nothing unfineshed about her, Ono of her early spasins was Pleteh- erism; then she struck the nuts and borriea dea. Twas a guest at her bore the summer she tried both of these things out. If you aro golng to Pleteb: erizo, a plece of old boot tastes Just as ‘good as a steak, and ft 18 more economy. feaL The adherents of tho nuts and borriea dict claim that It 1s a good food Schodw. because griazly bears ive on it. As far as 1 am concerned, being Ike a grizzly bear fs a doubtful advan- tage, and, besides, I don't belleve it 1s possible for a bear to sholl enough pea- hute to live on. Tnello called a meeting to alsevss ways and means. “First of all," she said, “when the supply boat comes today” we'll make them take back every edible thing they havo brought, together with what we have on hand, so that we won't be tempted. Isn't it lucky our cottage Is on an island all by itself 6o that it won't bo possible for one of us to cheat by going to a hotel somewhere.” “Don't you think 1¢ would bo a great er victory for us If we conquered th Aomon food with some supplles witht exgy roach?” T suggested, with a pal ful recollection of that’ supply boat whteh came only twice n week, but car ried delicacies of which Lueu::.3 never dreamed, “No, it’s best to take no chances.” “There's the motorboat anyway, We could run over to the mainland." “No, we couldn't." Lucile smilod. “Bather Is the only’ one who can. run At, and he won't be here until Sunday.” ‘Thus another ray of sunlight fcker ed out. A man of my build does not cranke up a marine engine located new the floor of a boat, I might say he ‘could not, but It ts truer to say that ho does not. If he is the least bit wise ho docs not oven try It, “I'l give the maid a week off,” Lu- elle continued gayly. “As we're not go- ing to eat anything we shal! not really | eed her, and sho has been wanting te | BO home for some time, Tl let her go back with the supply boat. We'll begin our fnsting tomorrow by going without breakfast.” Sho consulted the magazine again “We havo to drink plenty of good, pure , water and think high thoughts all the time, and we'll hardly notice the ab: seuco of food at all. ‘Then next Mon: day wo'll break our fast by drinking the juice of an orange and eating 4 handful of popcorn, Just one handful 60 a8 not to shock our digestive ap paratus by Introdueing anything sold | into it.” But why barrow the reador with the | rules and regulations which Lucile framed for us. Suffice it to say that they went into effect the next morning According to schedule, We met at breakfast. I am never at my best before I drink my first cup of coffee in the morning, and the thought of tho inhuman way I was about to treat my “tummie" depressed me more than usual. The table was ghastly white, unbroken by the usual cheerful array of steaming hot dishes. At each place was a large glass of water and a napkin. What the napkin, was for I falled to discover. I Imagine st was what tho anthropologists would call “a ‘aurvival of culture.” "WFo have fifty-cight flve gallon bot- 9 fe have fifty-eight five gallon bot. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA my life. r Mrs. Green, Lucilo's mother, was pa: tently cheerful and drank threo glasses of water ike a sponge. I didn't care much for mbre, Thad prevtously bad no ldea that water was so fat and taste: less. It 1s also an extraordinarily elus- We und clammy thhag to put ito an empty stomach whieh Is eagerly ex: Peeting bacon and eggs, mulllus and cottec, “I feol better already,” Lucile sald gayly a8 wo left tie table, "My mind 1s ciear—t have wasted none of my vital energy In merely: digesting food.” T knew that she was quoting Lipton 8. Clair, whom 1 was begluning to ro- gard with disfavor, to say the least, but 1 refrained from volelng my: opin: fon of a min who will help women to get oven more fool {dens than they ean think up by themselves, I took a elgir from my, pocket, eut "the Up off carefully: with a liver cut- tor Luelle had glven mo the previous Christinas and was about to light tt when she stopped me, “No, no, no; you mustn’t, Did I for- get to tell you that while wo are fast- ing we have to givo up all stimulants and narcottes, such as alcohol and to: baccot" “What-—-cut out amoking for a week?" “Cortainly,”” sho replied firmly, “In tho fitst placo, 1f you don’t you will be deathly $M; In the second place, tho wholo object of the fast Is to rid the body of all toxle polsons, such as nico. tine, aleoliol and so forth, By the timo you have dono without tobacco for a Weok I should uot bo eurprised 1¢ you nevor smoked again,” “Nor mo either,” I reflected gloomy out loud. “I'l be dead.” “Of courso ff you don't care to make tho experiment," Lucllo sald felly, “I'l Dut off tho fasting for another week until Frank Bopp fa here, I'm suro he ‘will bo willing to try It.” ‘This wes waving a red Nag at me. Frank Bopp was my rival. After her reference to him I would have gone without breathing for a wool 4f sho had suggested it. Bopp ts a thin, con. Versattonal insect who can perch on tho arm of a girl's chatr and chirp. by tho hour, Sometimes I rogret that for architectural and educational reasons I can't do that, and then I remember what other men would think of me if T could, and Tam solaced. 1 refrain from saying what I think of tho name “Bopp.” ‘Phus through my love and Jealousy 1 was led into decper water or, shall 1 say, more water because somebody handed mo a glass of the stutt every few minutes. I drank it in the vain hopo that I could drown tho inner man,| who scemed to be yelling for | holp'all the timo and kleking mo Just | Below the belt buckle when he aldn't | got tt ‘That morning wo went for a walk, “Waiking ts the best exercise in th: | World, Lueilo stated, “It is excellent | for reducing surplus flesh around the "abdominal regton," } Invariably she hind a ttle stinger for {Mo concealed In any romark she might Make, T have shee learned that thts ‘1g 0 sign that a woman takes a proprle. “tary duforost In man, | Hote: > wont: sho’ fod Tootes, hor ; Tong hatred Bup. Pootlos ta ono of those { dogs 80 constructed by nature that | when you wut to look thom in the face { you don't know whero to look, X often } wonder {f Tootles herself isn't in doubt a8 to which end to wag. } "Isn't Tootles going to fast, too?” 1 protested, “Can't she stand ft as well ‘as Lean?" | “Possibly she could do tt," rmette | 8atd_as she gave hor a dog biscult, { “but sho hasn't Intelligence enough to understand why she should go without , food." j I'm not far above Tootles in Intell : geneo, thon,” T remarked, but under my ; breath this time, so she could not henr. {After watehing Tootles eat wo went ‘ walking. Whenover I go_walking In , tho elty T hiro a taxieab, If T want to * seo nature in all her grandeur do T go trampling through the woods? I do | Rob T buy a seat at a moving pleture , Show whero they aro ronning a west. {ern outlaw film, “Naturo for a nickel” 49 my motto. “Fatigue is eliminated, and tho sum total of knowledge fa ad. vaneod soveral thousand feet, After wo had covered several mites, as {t seemed to me, I suggested that wo had bettor not’ go much farther away from home. “Why not?” Lucile queried, “Wo might not get back in thao for Tunch.” “I brought our lunch,” sho sata and Produced a flask of water, I groaned. I had nearly forgotten that there was to bo no lunch, Its curious how much you depend on meals to break up the day. All the morning Jong you keep thinking, “I must get 80 much done before lunch,” and then in tho afternoon you spur yourself on to an extra effort with tho thought of o better dinner than usual when you get through, ‘Take these meal land. marks out of your day and what 4s left? Nothing but a dreary, dead level ‘Gaidak Ge thea a Abe Wiaus ick ke ace ewes NE Rm MT OO ON | Ne - L. J. 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Clatr saya #0, and he ‘ought to know." “Why ought ho to know I snapped. “Did he Invent headaches, or ty ho just generallzing from reading about some- boiy elso's headache? ‘This doin Ie got hero has settled In my réglon of thought for a long run, and 1 defy any Lipton S. Clatr to driyo tt out.” | "Don't bo cross," Luclle soothed, s“Let mio dip my handkerchief in this spring hero and wet your forehead with it.” She did, and while it didn't do any good I always like to have her fussing around mo, ‘The spring 1s one that every ono vis- its who comes to the faland, and thero 4s a tin cup sitting on a rock near by. Lstarted to got a drink, “You mustn't drink that water!” Lu- ello stopped me, “You must not drink anything but distilled water while you aro fasting.” “Why not?” “Because when thero 1a nothing elso in {t tho stomach fs particularly eus- ceptible to disease.” ‘Phat was moro of 1, 8, Clatr’s maga- zine stuf, I knew it, Probably ho got about 6 cents a word for It too, “Phat water, puro as it 19, may have mierobes {0 it," sho continued, “Wihat chaneo would @ microbo have agalust my stomach?" I returned bit- torly, but I refrained from drinking the water. In those days,fhat woman had mo under her thumb, At nilghtfail we sat around that white table onco more. I think even Luclle’s enthusiasm was wavering. It seemed distinctly more of an effort to be cheer: ful thaw {t had at breakfast. Her moth er wits frankly miserable and eyed with n ghee which warned me tha: | i) af lek = ah ial [ rs AG Sater |) ier 2 ae ig pH ( tend ues hes ee al i z Sate “We Johnston Inunchi" nid, tra Were we canntbabs the laws ‘of hos Ditallty would hardly. protect one of my bul, “Have. some water, Mr,’ Blainey," Luetle sald. “T won't drink another’ drop tonight," I declared, “unless 1 can have sont flavoring extract in It.” After that we sat around thinking about sweet potatoes and hash and steaks, but talicng about tho latest books ‘aud the moonlight through the trocs, But what ts moonlight on au empty stomach? Merely moonlight nothings more. “Whats that? demanded Luelle stralning her eats to eateh some sound out on the water, ‘hers was a faint “put-put” out somewhere, “I's Johnson's inumeh," gata Mrs Green, “I can toll because St misses (Continued on Sixth Page.) 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I was having my two weeks' vacation and was too happy at being able to spend it on the island to care anything about an argument. "I suggest that we fast for a week." A suggestion like that put me in a nice fix. I don't mind stating that at that time I was about 210 pounds of eligible bachelor, aged thirty-five, comfortably in love with Lucille, but too old and set in the complacent selfishness of single blessedness ever to pretend to be a Romeo. The idea of fasting gave me a shaking sensation right where there was the most room to sink. "What?" I ejaculated, forgetting for the moment that I had a reputation for ready repartice. "I said, 'Why not fast for a week?' I read an article by Lipton S. Clair about it just this morning. He claims that fasting thoroughly rebuilds the system, gets rid of all toxins and increases the mental efficiency 50 per cent." She picked up a magazine which was propped open face downward on the lower shelf of the porch table. "Less so this," she continued. "Eating three meals a day is simply a habit. We have made tyrants of our stomachs. They demand to be fed every few hours, and if we answer that demand we are slaves." There, that sounds like the reasoning of a thinker, doesn't it? "It sounds more like the reasoning of a thinker than of an enter." Laurel reproved my flippancy. "I think it would do us all good." "But I feel all right now." I called her attention to an obvious fact. She dismissed my objection. "You can't be healthy unless you fast for a © Brosch The Chair Collapsed Immediately After I Did. week at least once a year. Lipton S. Clair says so. Mother, you'll try it, won't you? "Try what?" "Fasting for a week." "Why, yes, if you want to." Her mother picked up a book as if she had decided nothing more momentous than a question as to whether she preferred cream or lemon in her tea. She had been used as an experiment station for so many years that nothing surprised her. I got up casually and tried to slip indoors, but Lucile stopped me. "Don't you think it will be lovely, Montmorency?" I collapsed into a chair which collapsed immediately after I did. She had called me by my first name! Yes; Montmorency is my first name. It sounds like several names, but it is only my first. That first name thing made it very hard to refuse. As I sat there on the porch surrounded by legs ring and other parts of a chair a terrific struggle went on in my being between my heart and my stomach, and the weaker party won. Possibly my mind was stunned by my fall, although I have no recollection of hitting my head. I felt that Lucille was putting me to the test. From the look in her eye I knew that she was asking me to choose between love and beofsteak. So rising phoenix like I answered bravely, "Yes; I think fasting would be delightful." So that was how we began. As you can easily see, the cause of the trouble was that Lucile is one of those persons who take the magazine health and hygienic writers in good faith. It is impossible to convince her that those fellows have to make a living by their pens the same as other human authors and that every bizarre idea they can pounce on means just so much more copy at a regular rate per word. No. Lucile must needs try by experiment every new theory, using herself or any convenient relative or friend as a laboratory. The absurdity of Lucile's attempt to improve upon her health and looks is apparent to any one who has ever been blessed with a sight of her. You can't make a slim young body like hers by simply rolling on the floor for an hour every day, nor are soft brown eyes with long, curly lashes the result of chewing any particular number of times upon a piece of steak. Nature must have been experimenting a good many centuries before she got just that particular texture for hair and that peculiar shade of cream velvet for complexions. At this particular time for nearly twenty-five years she and nature had been uninterrupted by matrimony in their job of decorating, so that it is not to be wondered at that they had turned out a well high perfect product. There is nothing unfinished about her. One of her early spasms was Fletcherism; then she struck the nuts and berries idea. I was a guest at her home the summer she tried both of these things out. If you are going to Fletcherize, a piece of old boot tastes just as good as a steak, and it is more economical. The adherents of the nuts and berries diet claim that it is a good food schedule because grizzly bears live on it. As far as I am concerned, being like a grizzly bear is a doubtful advantage, and, besides, I don't believe it is possible for a bear to shell enough peanuts to live on. Luello called a meeting to discuss ways and means. "First of all," she said, "when the supply boat comes today we'll make them take back every edible thing they have brought, together with what we have on hand, so that we won't be tempted. Isn't it lucky our cottage is on an island all by itself so that it won't be possible for one of us to chent by going to a hotel somewhere." "Don't you think it would be a greater victory for us if we conquered the demon food with some supplies within easy reach?" I suggested, with a painful recollection of that supply boat which came only twice a week, but carried delicacies of which Lacullus never dreamed. "No, it's best to take no chances." "There's the motorboat anyway. We could run over to the mainland." "No, we couldn't." Lucille smiled. "Father is the only one who can run it, and he won't be here until Sunday." Thus another ray of sunlight flickered out. A man of my build does not crank up a marine engine located near the floor of a boat. I might say he could not, but it is truer to say that he does not. If he is the least bit wise he does not even try it. "I'll give the maid a week off," Lucille continued gaily. "As we're not going to eat anything we shall not really need her, and she has been wanting to go home for some time. I'll let her go back with the supply bont. We'll begin our fasting tomorrow by going without breakfast." She consulted the magazine again. "We have to drink plenty of good, pure water and think high thoughts all the time, and we'll hardly notice the absence of food at all. Then next Monday we'll break our fast by drinking the juice of an orange and eating a handful of popcorn, just one handful so as not to shock our digestive apparatus by introducing anything solid into it." But why harrow the reader with the rules and regulations which Lucille framed for us. Suffice it to say that they went into effect the next morning according to schedule. We met at breakfast. I am never at my best before I drink my first cup of coffee in the morning, and the thought of the inhuman way I was about to treat my "tumult" depressed me more than usual. The table was ghastly white, unbroken by the usual cheerful array of steaming hot dishes. At each place was a large glass of water and a napkin. What the napkin, was for I failed to discover. I imagine it was what the anthropologists would call "a survival of culture." "We have fifty-eight five gallon bottles of distilled water." Lucille inferved us. "I wonder if that will be caught. It amounts to nearly a hundred gallons apiece." I made a hasty calculation and de THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA cided that a hundred gallons of drinking water would last me the rest of my life. Mrs. Green, Lucile's mother, was patiently cheerful and drank three glasses of water like a sponge. I didn't care much for mine. I had previously had no idea that water was so flat and tasteless. It is also an extraordinarily elusive and clammy thing to put into an empty stomach which is eagerly expecting bacon and eggs, muffins and coffee. "I feel better already," Lucile said gaily as we left the table. "My mind is clear—I have wasted none of my vital energy in merely digesting food." I knew that she was quoting Lipton S. Chair, whom I was beginning to regard with disfavor, to say the least, but I refrained from voicing my opinion of a man who will help women to get even more fool ideas than they can think up by themselves. I took a cigar from my pocket, cut the tip off carefully with a silver cutter Lucille had given me the previous Christmas and was about to light it when she stopped me. "No, no, no; you mustn't. Did I forget to tell you that while we are fasting we have to give up all stimulants and narcotics, such as alcohol and tobacco?" "What—cut out smoking for a week?" "Cerically," she replied firmly. "In the first place, if you don't you will be deathly ill; in the second place, the whole object of the fast is to rid the body of all toxic poisons, such as nicotine, alcohol and so forth. By the time you have done without tobacco for a week I should not be surprised if you never smoked again." "Nor me either." I reflected gloomily out loud. "I'll be dead." "Of course if you don't care to make the experiment," Lucille said lely, "I'll put off the fasting for another week until Frank Bopp is here. I'm sure he will be willing to try it." This was waving a red flag at me. Frank Bopp was my rival. After her reference to him I would have gone without breathing for a week if she had suggested it. Bopp is a thin, conversational insect who can perch on the arm of a girl's chair and chirp by the hour. Sometimes I regret that for architectural and educational reasons I can't do that, and then I remember what other men would think of me if I could, and I am solaced. I refrain from saying what I think of the name "Bopp." Thus through my love and jealousy I was led into deeper water or, shall I say, more water because somebody handed me a glass of the stuff every few minutes. I drank it in the vault hope that I could drown the inner man, who seemed to be yelling for help all the time and clicking me just below the belt buckle when he didn't get it. That morning we went for a walk. "Walking is the best exercise in the world," Lucie stated. "It is excellent for reducing surplus flesh around the abdominal region." In invariably she had a little stinger for me concealed in any remark she might make. I have since learned that this is a sign that a woman takes a proprietary interest in a man. Bette went she fed Tootles, her long haired pum. Tootles is one of those dogs so constructed by nature that when you want to look them in the face you don't know where to look. I often wonder if Tootles herself isn't in doubt as to which end to wag. "Isn't Tootles going to fast, too?" I protested. "Can't she stand it as well as I can?" "Possibly she could do it," Lucile said as she gave her a dog biscuit, "but she hasn't intelligence enough to understand why she should go without food." "I'm not far above Tootles in intelligence, then," I remarked, but under my breath this time, so she could not hear After watching Tootles out we went walking. Whenever I go walking in the city I hire a taxi cab. If I want to see mature in all her grandeur do I go tramping through the woods? I do not. I buy a seat at a moving picture show where they are running a western outlaw film. "Nature for a nickel" is my motto. Fatigue is eliminated, and the sum total of knowledge is advanced several thousand feet. After we had covered several miles, as it seemed to me, I suggested that we had better not go much farther away from home. "Why not?" Lucille queried. "We might not get back in time for lunch." 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M., or A. M., local, 9:35 A. M., 8:37 P. M. THREE Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 511 N. 4th Street, Richmond, Virginia. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond Virginia, as second-class matter. SATURDAY. JULY 7, 1917 THE EAST ST. LOUIS MASSACRE. The massacre of colored men, women and children at East St. Louis, Illinois two days before the celebration of the American Declaration of Independence is without a parallel in the history of this country. On the afternoon of July 2, 1917, the bloody work began and the estimate is that from one hundred to three hundred colored people perished, many of them being burned to death by a mob of white men and women, who coolly witnessed their dying agonies and in many instances added to their miseries. The account paralyzes the comprehension of the thoughtful and reflects upon the civilization in this country. East St. Louis is in Illinois, but right across the Mississippi River is St. Louis, Mo. One is virtually a part of the other. In Democratic Missouri, the colored people were being protected, while in Republican Illinois, they were being ignominiously slaughtered. Probably many Missourians took a part in the massacre, but the Illinoisans were in the National Guard deputized to defend these helpless American citizens. Talk about Belgium, what chapter in its history will surpass in horror the plain recital of the Associated Press correspondent as he tells the story? The American sense of justice has become brutalized. These colored people were not of the worthless type. They did not belong to the hodium elements. They were not crap shooters, gamblers and the proprietors of "blind tigers." They were of the industrious sort. Men were there, who had brought with them their families, living together in hawful wedlock and the little crying archins with fire behind them and a mob of white men and women in front of them, with prayers upon their lips for mercy and pleas for help and safety, died in the most revolting manner and in the most painful agony. The crime surpasses human understanding. Where was the Governor of Illinois, then? Certainly, he was in telephonic communication with the authorities at East St. Louis. We know where he is now, but death has taken place. The people are being laid away in their graves and silence reigns. Where was the Eighth Illinois Regiment? What service was that crack regiment rendering in Chicago, when their people were being slaughtered in East St. Louis, Illinois? We have radical opinions as to the remedy for evils of this character. Investigations that follow little or no good. The punishment should be meted at the time of the outbreak. After nearly three hundred colored people have been killed, the members of the National Guard are given orders to shoot to kill. The white mob did this before the orders were given to the soldiers of Illinois and the mute faces, the mungled bodies, the little babes cremated in burning buildings tell the whole story. It is a gruesome story and its reality adds to the horrors of the crime committed. It seems to us that the troops sent abroad are needed here. Colored men have recently returned from Mexico, where they distinguished themselves and thousands have offered their lives to the service of their country, which country does not move to protect them until scores of them have been ignominiously tormented and butchered. It will not do, gentlemen. This crime is too heinous for it to be passed by with an exclamation of horror or with a few lines of condemnation. There is an electric chair in the State of Illinois and it should be used energetically and fearlessly until every white man and white woman guilty of complicity in this merciless massacre have been made to pay the penalty of this heinous exercise of depravity which has staggered humanity. Citizens, regardless of color should make the demand that this course be followed and every effort should be made to make this "crime of the century" so odious that a repetition of it in this country again will be impossible. These are troublous times and colored men might as well make up their minds to sell their lives as dearly as possible. Firearms are expensive, but they can be secured and "a man's home is his castle" as much so in the Southland as it is in the Northland. To carry these unarmed, helpless, praying, good-natured colored folks from their homes in the Far South to die in this northern land was almost as much a crime against humanity as was their massacre a withering blight upon our present day civilization. Colored folks going North should see to it that conditions are favorable. It is a long way to a realization of all of our hopes, but sometime, somewhere and in some way, God will aid us and help us, if we show a rigid determination to aid and help ourselves. This latest tragedy should be condemned from every pulpit in the land and the sermons upon it should last for not less than six months. The colored newspapers of the country should take it up as a subject for comment for at least a year to come. We have stood many things, but this latest manifestation of heathenism, savagery and flandishness is without a parallel in the history of this country. PENNSYLVANIANS AND THE CONSTITUTION. That the Constitution has fallen into disuse and is spoken of in some quarters with contempt seems to be recognized, if we are to believe some of the things that were said at Bedford Springs, Pa. at the 23rd annual session of the Pennsylvania Bar Association last week. The date of the meeting was June 26th. The report is as follows: The proceedings were opened by the address of the President, Cyrus G. Derr, of Reading, upon the subject "Philosophy of Lawmaking." One of the dominant notes in the address was expressed in the phrase, "A people unwilling to fight for the right to make its own laws will soon be the unpopulilc to fight for the maintenance of the conqueror's right to make its laws." After reviewing briefly some of the proceedings of the present Logis lature of Pennsylvania, the speaker said that the enlightened stranger reading the statutes passed by a single Pennsylvania Logis lature would notwithstanding many imperfections, confidently and unerringly infer that they are the laws of a people free and lawless, highly civilized, rich and powerful. Referring to the fact that there were forty-seven important republics beside Pennsylvania, and the Federal Republic embracing them all, in which the people by their agents or representatives make their own laws, the speaker propounded and answered the question, "Will this free government endure?" His conclusion was that though human betterment has been achieved, and at other times positively set back and though during periods civilization seemed to have been destroyed by some catalysis, the race had unerringly emerged and resumed its forward and upward movement. There is much in those utterances that may apply to colored people in this country. The conclusion reached is encouraging and is in strict accord with the truths of history, the experiences of the past in all ages. The report continues: The address concluded with the following estimate of the status of American democracy in the present crisis: "If the form of Government toward which the people of the earth are developing is democracy, have we the people reached the goal? Have we reached it to remain there, or are we now or at some time to be pushed back into an unfree condition to the end that later some other people, perhaps in some other part of the world, shall establish permanent democracy? "The leaven which our forefathers supplied in 1776 has been constantly working; it made France free; it has checkered the southern, half of this hemisphere with free states; it has made China a republic, and Russia, and now, the sacred right of the people to make their own laws being assailed in Central Europe, America, 'Like Belona's bridegroom lapped in proof,' is going to the rescue." The speaker takes an optimistic view of the situation and then another speaker comes to a discussion of present-day conditions in this country. Here it is: Using as texts the famous expression of a New York East Side politician, "What is the Constitution between friends?" and that more sinister phrase, "To hell with the Constitution and Judges," latterly so much in the mouths of agitators who seek to inculcate hatred of the Government and authority, Henry D. Estabrook, of New York, presented in his annual address to the Pennsylvania Bar Association a vigorous defense of the Constitution. The classic joke of the New York politician, however, had latterly almost ceased to be so regarded. The vice and wickedness contained in at one time seemed endangered and instead that he only laughed at, but recently he had been wondering why we laughed, since there had arisen a wide propaganda which made light of the constitution and that was impatient of its restraints where they stood in the way of pet schemes and short cuts to their realization. Mr. Estabrook continued: "The purpose of the Constitution was to substitute the rule of law for the rule of men. It was not a fixed, subject to change, radical change, as the subject to a, rad, radical, change, as the THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA people in their wisdom or unwisdom may determine; but the changes must not be the result of anger or excitement, nor be due to envy or passion or temporary discontent. Even socialism, communism, anarchy or any other 'ism' might be inaugurated, but whatever was done, we would have to stop it, and stop to think, look before and after, to the right and left, listen to the voice of reason and to the still small voice of conscience. These were the methods of change and of progress provided for in the Constitution itself; and if they continued to be regarded there was small danger of grave error." This logic sounds strange during this period of fanaticism and during this hey day of the small politicians, who regard personal aggrandizement as being paramount to the fundamental principles of this Republic. Here is more of the same kind of enunciation of great, right principles; After reference to the wide and somewhat influential propaganda for the recall of judges and the reversal of judicial decisions by popular vote, and paying his respects to various smatterers and meddlers who were anxious to tinker with the intricate machinery of government the address concluded as follows: that laws do not enforce themselves, however made. Back of them is the coerce sanction of a crystallized public sentiment that begat them in the first place. Our Constitution is no exception to this rule. Its energy and its agency, its warrant and vouchsafement, are chiefly and certainly in our love for it. It holds ideas and ideals not brought to us by the raffish multitudes of Europe—too suddenly enlightened to enforce or assume the obligations of liberty, and yet for whose special benefit, can excepted class, much of our recent legislation has been enacted. "It holds ideas and ideals which our fathers died to realize. It grew out of the War of the Revolution. It survived the War of the Rebellion. It must continue to survive if ordered liberty is to survive. It was not won from armed resistance and saved from armed rebellion to be treacherous in a war of words. We will not surmount it, not lot or title of it—to the sappers and minor to those who, for political aggrandizement, robe themselves in Heaven's livery to serve the devil. "If the zealot, impatient of the wise caution and delay enjoined by the Constitution, would break down its barriers by hasty action, he should be compelled, if only as a penance, to study the Constitution and to know all the circumstances out of which it grew out of the war of the rebellion, who fashioned it, as well as the unity the work accomplished by them. I would fight for every line of the Constitution as I would for every star in the flag, for flag and Constitution will live and do together!" God grant that other leaders, men learned in the law and experienced in ethics may have the nerve, the manhood, the patriotic spirit to stand up in the face of this landslide of demagoguism, and whirlwind of deception and falshood and proclaim the eternal truth as these distinguished jurists have done. If they will, there is hope for this Republic and it may be that we shall not be forced to experience another orgio of blood-letting before the people are aroused and Justice is again enthroned at the Capital of this nation. In the year of '61 when the Civil War begun, the Nrogro as a soldier was not needed, but before it was through they were glad to have a few.—History repeats itself. While waiting, come and go with Mount O. to Buckroe, July 16. ORDINATION SERVICE. Rt. Rev. Bobt. A. Gibson, D. D. Bishop of Virginia will ordain to the Diaconate, Mr. Robt. A. Jackson and Mr. Lorenza A. King, late of Bishop Payne's Divinity School Petersburg, Va., Sunday July 8th 1917, at 11 A. M., in St. Philips P. E. Church, Cor. St. James and Leigh Streets. Mr. Jackson has been called to St. Philips church and will take charge at once. Mr. King has been appointed to mission work at Broadneck Farm and Peaks in Hanover County. ELMIRA ECHOES Elmira, N. Y. — The census which was taken in the State in accordance with Governor Whitman's proclamation was taken in the fourth ward, first district by Rev. C. E. Cuff, J. O. Moore, Don Cameron and F. N. Blandford. Mr. Robert Baxter, of Erie, Pa. and Mrs. L. H. Johnson, of Elmira were the guest of their sister, Mrs. B. J. Johnson, of Hornell. Rev. R. M. Perrin has returned from a business trip to New York. Mrs. Jessie Jackson, who was called to Mansfield. Pa. on account of the death of her father, returned to her home in Deposit, N. Y. last week. The Pythians and Courts, of Watkins, N. Y. celebrated their anniversary Thursday of last week. A goodly number of Elmira folks were there. NOTICE All Churches, Circles, Sunday Schools, B. Y. P. U's and individuals are requested to send names of representatives to the Jubilee, to Mrs. M. R. Hayes Allen, Route 2, Box 7, Lynoburn, Virginia. —Your subscription to the Planet in issue 109 is $19.99. Why not, add this question, please. THE WORLD'S FIRST BLACK MAN John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor [Portrait of a man in formal attire, wearing a suit and tie, with a star-shaped badge on his lapel. The background is a plain, dark color.]] Thomas M. Crump, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal [Portrait of a man in formal attire, wearing a suit and bow tie, with a mustache.] Rev. Thomas H. White, Grand Prelate [Name not visible] E. R. Jefferson, Grand Master of Exchequer THE MESSIAH BAPTIST CHURCH CELEBRATES. High Class Dinner in Honor of the Messiah Brotherhood. Yonkers, N. Y., July 1—The celebration in honor of the Messiah Brotherhood took place in the chapel of the Messiah Baptist Church, in Ashburton Place, Thursday evening, June 28th. The following committee was in charge, President, Mrs. Willie B. Cox, Mrs. J. R. Green; Treasurer, Mrs. Loving Milee; Assistant, Mrs. Sarah Pine; Secortary, Mrs. Cora Harris. After the completion of a well rendered program conducted by the Chorister, Miss Josie Malby, the audience was comfortably seated at the tables which were noted first, the sufficiency floral decoration, and second, for their abundance of the most choice delicacies of the season. Among those present were Rev. and Mrs. William Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pine, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jones, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. S. Don, Mossrs. J. Spenlo, Fred Watkins, B. K. Wattas, George Codwell, Pucker Cooper, George Codwell, Sauer Glding, Gilbert Chambers, Meadmus Sney W. Smith, N. M. James, Lau Staples, Nettle Allen, Eston Thornton Lucy Johnson, Thomas Lee, Minute Brink, Alice Williams, Joanna Brown Laura Irving, Nora Wood, Addie Atwater, Lucrecia Fields, Odel Pettford Ora Harris, Emma Johns, Lillian Wilson, Thomas Peterson, Tola Brooks, Lizzie Miller, Mason Thomas, Ida Smalls, J. A. Morgan, Henrilette Turner, Misses Josie Malty, Lovey Norlfeen, Annie Goode, Mary Thornton, Milton Dozen, Martha Dozen, Clotie Forby, Elinor Edge, Coryell Johns, Margarette C. Esther Brown, Sarah Dickerson, Bessie, Dickerson, Shormell Woffard, Anna L. Coleman, L. E. Williams, Ruth Sydney. Among the after dinner speakers were Rev. William Jackson and Mrs. Heurtletta Turner, who said in part that twenty years ago it was her pleasure to dine at Delmonico's in New York City and in spite of the present high cost of living this dinner far excelled Delmonico's in elegance abundance and service. The committee wishes to thank all who in any way contributed to make this a great and grand success. Among some of the well-wishers are Messrs. Thomas Hanrahan, Lee Crawford, Fred Brown, Robert Green Reginald Allen, Theo Tenyk, John Bailey, Eston Thornton, Granwelle Brown, Jr., Mrs. Maggie Age, Mrs. Mable Brown, Mrs. Charles Kenedy, Miss Helen Johns, Miss Ruth Winchester, Mrs. John Dickerson, Miss Ellen Hurt, Mrs. Elnora Vaughn, Miss Agnes Bowman. Pastor Smith lectured in Shilo Baptist Church, Now Rochelle, N. Y. Thursday evening, June 28th. Dr. John J. Smyer has just returned from a trip visiting Indianapolis, Canada and Western New York conference. He reports a most favorable trip in behalf of the Legion of Finance. In the Doctor's absence the pupil was filled by Presiding Elder Ellison and Rev. Jones, better known as 'Black Billy Sunday.' STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, OF RICHMOND, VA. LOCATED AT RICHMOND IN THE COUNTY OF HENRICO, STATE OF VIRGINIA AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 20, 2017, MADE TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION. RESOURCES LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in . . . $ 34,390.00 Dividends unpaid . . . 440.90 Individual deposits, in- cluding savings deposits 254,392.98 Demand certificates of deposits . . . 40.00 Certified checks . . . 1,858.39 Cashier's checks outstand- ing . . . 73.01 Bills payable . . . 16,500.00 Unearned discount . . . 3,310.37 TOTAL..... $311,005.65 I. Walter_T. Davis, Cashier, do solemnly swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, Va. located at Richmond in the county of Henntco, State of Virginia at the close of business on the 20th day of June, 1917 to the best of my knowledge and belief. Correct—Attest: WALTER T. DAVIS Cashier. R. W. WHITING THOMAS M. CRUMP JOHN T. TAYLOR Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond. Sworn to and subscribed before me by Walter T. 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And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant Minnie Hicks is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect her interests herein. A Copy—Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. R. POLLARD, pg. WANTED-By Widower, a good moria christian woman between 25 and 40 years old to act as housekeeper and care for children-Referenced required. Address: Lock Box 112 North Emporia, Va. HIPP. WANTED—Apply or Write WANTED Titled and City Stats, Richmond, Va. BUSINESS COURSE IN SUMMER SCHOOL This year special arrangement has been made at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, to offer in connection with the Summer Normal special instruction in stenography, typewriting, bookkeeping, etc. This opportunity will be offered to persons other than teachers and the work will be outlined so as to meet the demands of stenographers, clorks, book-keepers, and others desired better preparation for clorical work, or who desire a foundation for a thorough business course. FOUR HEY PENET Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 311 N. 4th Street Richmond, Virginia. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond Virginia, as second-class matter. SATURDAY.....JULY 7, 1917 THE EAST ST. LOUIS MASSACRE The massacre of colored men, women and children at East St. Louis, Illinois two days before the celebration of the American Declaration of Independence is without a parallel in the history of this country. On the afternoon of July 2, 1917, the bloody work began and the estimate is that from one hundred to three hundred colored people perished, many of them being burned to death by a mob of white men and women, who coolly witnessed their dying agonies and in many instances added to their miseries. The account paralyzes the comprehension of the thoughtful and reflects upon the civilization in this country. East St. Louis is in Illinois, but right across the Mississippi River is St. Louis, Mo. One is virtually a part of the other. In Democratic Missouri, the colored people were being protected, while in Republican Illinois, they were being ignomintiously slaughtered. Probably many Missourians took a part in the massacre, but the Illinoisans were in the National Guard deputized to defend these helpless American citizens. Talk about Belgium, what chapter in its history will surpass in horror the plain recital of the Associated Press correspondent as he tells the story? The American sense of justice has become brutalized. These colored people were not of the worthless type. They did not belong to the hoodlum elements. They were not crap shooters, gamblers and the proprietors of "blind tigers." They were of the industrious sort. Men were there, who had brought with them their families, living together in lawful wedlock and the little crying archins with fire behind them and a mob of white men and women in front of them, with prayers upon their lips for mercy and pleas for help and safety, dled in the most revolting manner and in the most painful agony. The crime surpasses human understanding. Where was the Governor of Illinois, then? Certainly, he was in telephonic communication with the authorities at East St. Louis. We know where he is now, but death has taken place. The people are being laid away in their graves and silence reigns. Where was the Eighth Illinois Regiment? What service was that crack regiment rendering in Chicago, when their people were being slaughtered in East St. Louis, Illinois? We have radical opinions as to the remedy for evils of this character. Investigations that follow do little or no good. The punishment should be meted at the time of the outbreak. After nearly three hundred colored people have been killed, the members of the National Guard are given orders to shoot to kill. The white mob did this before the orders were given to the soldiers of Illinois and the mute faces, the mangled bodies, the little babes cremated in burning buildings tell the whole story. It is a gruesome story and its reality adds to the horrors of the crime committed. It seems to us that the troops sent abroad are needed here. Colored men have recently returned from Mexico, where they distinguished themselves and thousands have offered their lives to the service of their country, which country does not move to protect them until scores of them have been ignominiously tortured and butchered. It will not do, gentlemen. This crime is too heinous for it to be passed by with an exclamation of horror or with a few lines of condemnation. There is an electric chair in the State of Illinois and it should be used energetically and fearlessly until every white man and white woman guilty of complicity in this merciless massacre have been made to pay the penalty of this heinous exercise of depravity which has staggered humanity. Citizens, regardless of color should make the demand that this course be followed and every effort should be made to make this "crime of the century" so odious that a repetition of it in this country again will be impossible. These are troublous times and colored men might as well make up their minds to sell their lives as dearly as possible. Firearms are expensive, but they can be secured and "a man's home is his castle" as much so in the Southland as it is in the Northland. To carry these unarmed, helpless, praying, good-natured colored folks from their homes in the Far South to die in this northern land was almost as much a crime against humanity as was their massacre a withering blight upon our present day civilization. Colored folks going North should see to it that conditions are favorable. It is a long way to a realization of all of our hopes, but sometime, somewhere and in some way, God will aid us and help us, if we show a rigid determination to aid and help ourselves. This latest tragedy should be condemned from every pulpit in the land and the sermons upon it should last for not less than six months. The colored newspapers of the country should take it up as a subject for comment for at least a year to come. We have stood many things, but this latest manifestation of heathenism, savagery and flendishness is without a parallel in the history of this country. PENNSYLVANIANS AND THE CONSTITUTION. That the Constitution has fallen into disuse and is spoken of in some quarters with contempt seems to be recognized, if we are to believe some of the things that were said at Bedford Springs, Pa. at the 23rd annual session of the Pennsylvania Bar Association last week. The date of the meeting was June 26th. The report is as follows: The proceedings were opened by the address of the President, Cyrus G. Derr, of Reading, upon the subject "Philosophy of Lawmaking." One of the dominant notes in the address was expressed in the phrase, "A people unwilling to fight for the right to make its own laws will sooner or later be compelled to fight for the maintenance of the conqueror's right to make its laws." After reviewing briefly some of the proceedings of the present Legislature of Pennsylvania, the speaker said that the enlightened stranger reading the statutes passed by a single Pennsylvania Legislature would notwithstanding many imperfections, confidently and unerringly infer that they are the laws of a people free and happy, highly civilized, rich and powerful. Referring to the fact that there were forty-seven important republics beside Pennsylvania, and the Federal Republic embracing them all, in which the people by their agents or representatives make their own laws, the speaker propounded and answered the question, "Will this free government endure?" His conclusion was that though human betterment has been arrested sometimes and at other times positively set back, and though during periods civilization seemed to have been destroyed by some cataclysm, the race had unerringly emerged and resumed its forward and upward movement. There is much in those utterances that may apply to colored people in this country. The conclusion reached is encouraging and is in strict accord with the truths of history, the experiences of the past in all ages. The report continues: The address concluded with the following estimate of the status of American democracy in the present crisis: "If the form of Government toward which the people of the earth are developing is democracy, have we, the American people, reached the goal? Have we reached it to remain there, or are we now or at some time to be pushed back into an unfree condition to the end that later some other people, perhaps in some other part of the world, shall establish permanent democracy? "We think not. "The leaven which our forefathers supplied in 1776 has been constantly working; it made France free; it has checkered the southern, half of this hemisphere with free states; it has made China a republic, and Russia, and now, the sacred right of the people to make their own laws being assailed in Central Europe, America, 'like Belona's bridegroom lapped in proof,' is going to the rescue." The speaker takes an optimistic view of the situation and then another speaker comes to a discussion of present-day conditions in this country. Here it is: Using as texts the famous expression of a New York East Side politician, "What is the Constitution between friends?" and that more sinister phrase, "To hell with the Constitution and Judges," latterly so much in the mouths of agitators who seek to inculcate hatred of the Government and authority, Henry D. Estabrook, of New York, presented in his annual address to the Pennsylvania Bar Association a vigorous defense of the Constitution. The classic joke of the New York politician, however, had latterly almost ceased to be so regarded. The vice and wickedness contained in it at one time seemed so absurd and impotent that it was only laughed at, but recently he had been wondering why we laughed, since there had arisen a wide propaganda which made light of the constitution and that was impatient of its restraints where they stood in the way of pet schemes and short cuts to their realization. Mr. Estabrook continued: "The purpose of the Constitution was to substitute the rule of law for the rule of men. It was not a fixed, rigid or unchangeable system, but subject to as radical changes as the THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA people in their wisdom or unwisdom may determine; but the changes must not be the result of anger or excitement, nor be due to envy or passion or temporary discontent. Even socialism, communism, anarchy or any other 'ism' might be inaugurated; but whatever was done, we were obliged to stop, look, listen—stop to think, look before and after, to the right and left, listen to the voice of reason and to the still small voice of conscience. These were the methods of change and of progress provided for in the Constitution itself; and if they continued to be regarded there was small danger of grave error." This logic sounds strange during this period of fanaticism and during this hey-day of the small politicians, who regard personal aggrandizement as being paramount to the fundamental principles of this Republic. Here is more of the same kind of enunciation of great, right principles: After reference to the wide and somewhat influential propaganda for the recall of judges and the reversal of judicial decisions by the public vote, and paying his respects to various smatterers and meddlers who were anxious to tinker with the intricate machinery of government the address concluded as follows: "Everybody knows that laws do not enforce themselves, however made. Back of them is the coercive sanction of a crystallized public sentiment that begat them in the first place. Our Constitution is no exception to this rule. Its energy and its agency, its warrant and vouchsafement, are chiefly and certainly in our love for it. It holds ideas and ideals not brought to us by the raffish multitudes of Europe—too suddenly enfranchised to comprehend or assume the obligations of liberty, and yet for whose special benefit, as an excepted class, much of our recent legislation has been enacted. "It holds ideas and ideals which our fathers died to realize. It grew out of the War of the Revolution. It survived the War of the Rebellion. It must continue to be. we if ordered liberty is to survive. It was not won from armed resistance and saved from armed rebellion to be treacherously lost to us in a war of words. We will not surrender it—any jot or title of it—to the sappers and minors nor to those who, for political aggrandizement, robe themselves in Heaven's livery to serve the devil. "If the zealot, impatient of the wise caution and delay enjoined by the Constitution, would break down its barriers by hasty action, he should be compelled, if only as a penance, to study the Constitution and to know all the circumstances out of which it grew, the quality of the men who fashioned it, as well as the quality of the work accomplished by them. I would fight for every line of the Constitution as I would for every star in the flag, for flag and Constitution will live and die together!" God grant that other leaders, men learned in the law and experienced in ethics may have the nerve, the manhood, the patriotic spirit to stand up in the face of this landslide of demagoguism, and whirlwind of deception and falsehood and proclaim the eternal truth as these distinguished jurists have done. If they will, there is hope for this Republic and it may be that we shall not be forced to experience another orgie of blood-letting before the people are aroused and Justice is again enthroned at the Capital of this nation. In the year of '61 when the Civil War begun, the Negro as a soldier was not needed, but before it was through they were glad to have a few.—History repeats itself. While waiting, come and go with Mount O. to Buckroe, July 16. ORDINATION SERVICE. Rt. Rev. Bobt. A. Gibson, D. D. Bishop of Virginia will ordain to the diaconate, Mr. Robt. A. Jackson and Mr. Lorenza A. King, late of Bishop Payne's Divinity School Petersburg, Va., Sunday July 8th 1917, at 11 A. M., in St. Philips P. E. Church, Cor. St. James and Leigh Streets. Mr. Jackson has been called to St. Philips church and will take charge at once. Mr. King has been appointed to do mission work at Broadneck Farm and Peaks in Hanover County. ELMIRA ECHOES --- Elmira, N. Y. —The census which was taken in the State in accordance with Governor Whitman's proclamation was taken in the fourth ward, first district by Rev. C. E. Cuff, J. O. Moore, Don Cameron and F. N. Blandford. Mr. Robert Baxter, of Erie, Pa. and Mrs. L. H. Johnson, of Elmira were the guest of their sister, Mrs. B. J. Johnson, of Hornell. Rev. R. M. Perrin has returned from a business trip to New York. Mrs. Jessie Jackson, who was called to Mansfield, Pa. on account of the death of her father, returned to her home in Deposit, N. Y. last week. The Pythlans and Courts, of Watkins, N. Y. celebrated their anniversary Thursday of last week. A goodly number of Elmira folks were there. NOTICE! All Churches, Circles, Sunday Schools, B. Y. P. U's, and individuals are requested to send names of representatives to the Jubilee, to Mrs. M. R. Hayes Allen, Route 2, Box 7, Lynchburg, Virginia. --Your subscription to the Planet is due. Have you paid it? If not why not? Answer this question please. THE WORLD'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor nas M. Crump, Grand Keeper of Records Thomas M. Crump, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal [Portrait of a man in formal attire, wearing a suit and tie, with a mustache.] Rev. Thomas H. White, Grand Prelate [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. E. R. Jefferson, Grand Master of Exchequer THE MESSIAH BAPTIST CHURCH CELEBRATES. High Class Dinner in Honor of the Messiah Brotherhood. Yonkers, N. Y., July 1—The celebration in honor of the Messiah Brotherhood took place in the chapel of the Messiah Baptist Church, in Ashburton Place, Thursday evening, June 28th. The following committee was in charge, President, Mrs. William Jackson; Vice, Mrs. J. R Green; Treasurer, Mrs. Lovey Norflee; assistant, Mrs. Sarah Plue; Secertary, Mrs. Cora Harris. After the completion of a well rendered program conducted by the Chorister, Miss Josie Malthy, the audience was comfortably sited at the tables which were noted first, for their ralliance floral decoration, and second, for their abundance of the most choice delicacies of the season. Among those present were Rev. and Mrs. William Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pine, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jones, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. S. Don, Messrs. J. T. Spennie, Fred Watkins, B. K. Watkins, A. Daniels, Tucker Cooper, George Codwell, Samuel Giddling, Gilbert Chambers, Mesdames, Sidney W. Smith, N. M. James, Laura Staples, Nettle Allen, Eston Thornton Lucy Johnson, Thomas Lee, Minnie Brink, Allee Williams, Joanna Brown Laura Irving, Nora Wood, Addio Atwater, Lucrecia Fields, Odel Petford Ora Harris, Emma Johns, Lillian Wilson, Thomas Peterson, Tola Brooks, Lizzie Miller, Mason Thomas, Ida Smalls, J. A. Morgan, Henretta Turner, Misses Josie Malbty, Lovey Norfleece, Annie Goode, Mary Thornton, Edith Roberson, Martha Dozlen, Clotie Forby, Elnora Eldridge, Coryell Johns, Margarette C. Leedle, Esther Brown, Sarah Dickerson, Bessie, Dickerson, Shermell Woffard, Anna L. Coleman, L. E. Williams, Ruth Sydney. Among the after dinner speakers were Rev. William Jackson and Mrs. Henrietta Turner, who said in part that twenty years ago it was her pleasure to dine at Delmonicas in New York City and in spite of the present high cost of living this dinner far excelled Delmonicos' in ollegance abundance and service. The committee wishes to thank all who in any way contributed to make this a great and grand success. Among some of the well-wishers are Messrs. Thomas Hanrahan, Lee Crawford, Fred Brown, Robert Green Reginald Allen, Theo Tenyk, John Bailey, Eston Thornton, Granwelle Brown, Jr., Mrs. Maggle Age, Mrs. Mable Brown, Mrs. Charles Kenedy, Miss Helen Johus, Miss Ruth Winchester, Mrs. John Dickerson, Miss Ellen Hurt, Mrs. Elnora Vaughn, Miss Agnes Bowman. Pastor Smith lectured in Shilo Baptist Church, New Roeholle, N. Y. Thursday evening, June 28th. Dr. John J. Smyer has just returned from a trip visiting Indianapolis, Canada and Western New York Conference. He reports a most favorable trip in behalf of the Legion of Finances. In the Doctor's absence the pulpit was filled by Presiding Elder Ellison and Rev. Jones, better known as 'Black Billy Sunday.' STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, OF RICHMOND, VA. LOCATED AT RICHMOND IN THE COUNTY OF HENRICO, STATE OF VIRGINIA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 20, 1917, MADE TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION. RESOURECS. Loans and Discounts.....$134,309.22 Overdrafts,.....2,419.72 Bonds, securities, etc owned including premium on same.....6,808.00 Banking house and lot.....41,053.99 Other real estate owned.....80,325.75 Furniture and fixtures.....5,311.34 Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings.....1,758.71 Other cash items.....556.97 Due from Nat'l Banks.....20,588.73 Due from State Banks, private bankers & trust companies.....1,000.00 Paper currency.....4,715.00 Fractional paper currency nickels and cents.....148.05 Gold coin.....5,916.00 Silver coin.....617.30 All other items of resour- ces.....5,446.87 TOTAL.....$311,005.65 LIABILITIES. I. Walter T. Davis, Cashier, do solemnly swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, Va. located at Richmond in the county of Henrico, State of Virginia at the close of business on the 20th day of June, 1917 to the best of my knowledge and belief. Correct—Attest: WALTER T. DAVIS Cashier. R. W. WHITING THOMAS M. CRUMP JOHN T. TAYLOR Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond. Sworn to and subscribed before me by Walter T. Davis, Cashier, this 28th day of June 1917. ALBERT V. NORRELL, JR., Notary Public. The Virginia Baptist Jubilee ATTENTION, DELEGATES! Reduced Rate Round Trip Tickets will be on sale throughout Virginia and the District of Columbia, July 9, 10, 11, final return limit midnight, July 17. Please notify your local ticket agent of your intention of attending the Baptist Jubilee at Lynchburg at least five days prior to the purchase of your ticket, in order that he may procure the rate from his general agent. 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WILLIAM HICKS.....Plaintiff vs. MINNIE HICKS.....Defendant The object of the above styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony, by the plaintiff from the defendant on the grounds of abandonment and adultery. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant Minnie Hicks is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect her interests herein. A Copy—Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. R. POLLARD, pg. WANTED—By Widower, A good moria christian woman between 35 and 40 years old to act as housekeeper and care for children—References required. Address: Lock Box 112 North Emporia, Va. HELP WANTED—Apply or Write MRS. S. L. MITCHELL, Corner Third and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va BUSINESS COURSE IN SUMMER SCHOOL This year special arrangement has been made at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, to offer in connection with the Summer Normal special instruction in stenography, typewriting, bookkeeping, etc. This opportunity will be offered to persons other than teachers and the work will be outlined so as to meet the demands of stenographers, clorks, book-keepers and others defining better preparation for clerical work, or who desire a foundation for a thorough business course.