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THE RICHMOND PLANET ETHIOPIA'S WAR SONG To Arms! Ye Ethiopians Once more shall wake the day,— A joyful summons to the brave, To rally for the fray; To gird your country round; with swords, Make lighting on her way! The call each Ethiopian heart With War's fierce rapture fills The cry that in the traitors veins The coward current chills,— Let it ring up from the valleys. And roll along the hills! Let it sound amid the mountain land, That mighty gathering cry,— Go up from steep, and crag, and cliff, Clear, terrible, and high. Till the Vultures and the eagles Scream peek their hoarse reply! Like the mingling of all fearful sounds Of vengeance and of woe,— Like the rush of fire, the roar of Like the rush of fire, the rear of floods. When wintry tempests blow,— Like the thunder of the avalanche, It shall sweep against the foe! God of the nations. Then didst hear Ethiop's patient prayer. From the prison of her bondage And the night of her despair, When the groomings of her spirit Were burdening all the air! Thou didst flash upon her darkness A great and sudden light; Didst break her chains, and lead her forth. orth. And girl her for the fight With the weapons of thine anger, And the armor of thy might! Once more be thy victorious strength On mortal hearts out poured; Take Thou the blood-guilt from out strife, And sanctify the sword That strife, for Freedom, for right. Make bare thine arm, O Lord! Bless Thou Our banners till their folds On Freedom's ramparts wave. And shade the patriots holy rest; O, strengthen, guide and save God of the struggling brave! ROBERT DANGERFIELD CRAWLEY (June 1917.) THE AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE OPENS IT EIGHTEENTH SESSION. Despite the general unrest growing out of conditions created by the conflict in which the world is now engaged, the eighteenth annual session of the A. and T. Summer School opened June 25 with an excellent enrollment of teachers from four states, the District of Columbia and three foreign countries. Nineteen Counties of North Carolina are represented. This group of students is made up of teachers who are preparing themselves to meet the additional demands of racial up lift in the immediate future and to cope with the call to new fields of activity that must follow in the wake of the present world war. The aim of the college is to meet the demand of those who are preparing themselves for better service and has called to the work in the summer school specialists in the various branches of work offered. Much time is given to courses designed for increasing interest in the production, conservation and preservation of foodstuffs. For nearly a quarter of a century this college has contributed nobly to the Negroes' advancement; by means of its excellent facilities for good technical training I., the regular session, and special training given to teachers during the summer normals that have been held regularly for the past eighteen years. A survey of the present activities of the college is sufficient to assure the most casual observer that this noted institution has lost none of its pristine virtues and that it is yet one of the most pro-ductive agencies for the uplift of the youth of an aspiring race. The work of the summer school is under the direct supervision of Dr. S. B. Jones, Director of the Academic Department of the college, with the following assistants: Profs. J. H. Bluford W. N. Nelson, W. E. Hooker, C. Winslow, W. E. Lew, C. L. Foster, C. S. Wynns, A. L. Mebane, D. J. Jordan, F. D. Bluford, F. C. Johason, C. B. Reid, D. C. Fleming, W. H. Markham, Dr. J. W. V. Cordice, Dr. E. L. Horne, Mesamdes Joseph McConnell, L. B. Yayce, and Misses A. L. Harris, E. R. Truman, Willie G. Brown, Diana S. Demt, T. Maud Nichols and Eva M. Burrell. 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. PROBLEMS OF THE NEGRO EXODUS (First prize oration, delivered at commencement of Fisk University, Nashville, Teum, by Henry R. Proctor, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga.) The fact of the migration of Negroes in large numbers from the South to the North is well established. Whether or not we have the courage to declare them publicly, the causes of this migration, both social and economic are clearly understood. I wish briefly to consider in the time allotted me not the fact of this migration, or any of its causes, but a few of the problems incident to the adjustment of large numbers of southern Negroes to Northern city life which must inevitably flow out of this movement. These problems relate to the health, housing and sanitation, civic department, and religious life of the migrating colored workmen; and their solution presents opportunities of far reaching social service to two distinct classes of our own people to prevent in a large measure the awakening of the same hostile sentiment in the North and East that our people are seeking to escape by turning their faces away from the South. This opportunity is presented in the first place to young Negro men and women with college training who possess broad vision, deep insight, initiative and perseverance to become in instrumental in the organization of agencies for the solution of these problems, and in the second place to Negroes already established in northern centers who may aid the former by their negro aid agencies, professional service and knowledge of dangers to be avoided. One of the first problems sure to confront the Negro in his newly-found northern home will be the task of keeping well. Unused, as he is to the rigors of a northern climate, the Negro who is not sufficient informed and cautious will fall an easy victim to many diseases of which he knows little in the South. The Negro who has left the farms of the South, and even the small southern towns, will find in the congested residence districts and squall tenements of the North a condition of living entirely new to him, accustomed as he is to the open air of his rural home in the south. Proper housing and sanitation will therefore be come a real problem to this newly transported laborer in the North. Already we hear reports of conditions in which thirty and forty Negroes are living in six-room apartments in the city of Chicago. Released from the caste restrictions of the South, the Negro in his new northern home can very easily make himself obnoxious to his new neighbors, in taking advantage of heretofore forbidden pleasures and privileges, and soon fin) himself subjected again to the segregation and discrimination from which he was fleeing in the South. The manner, therefore, in which the problem of civic deportment is met will determine to a large extent the future status of all Negroes in the North. There are two other real dangers to be faced, namely that of harmful amusements and of alienation from the church and its influence. As soon as the new arrival in the North secures adequate employment, he will begin to look about for places in which to spend his money, and it is likely that the slums and lower forms of amusement will present to him the greatest attraction. Thus the problem of wholesome amusement must also be reckoned with, and a solution found. Touching the influence of the church it has been said that the Negro is essentially a religious creature, and in the South he is bound almost as closely to the church as he is to the soil. But the no-thern curch with its congregation and minister may not welcome him with warmth and hospitality which characterizes the southern church, and it is very highly probable that the Negro, new to the North, will drift away from the church and its beneficial restraints if some influence is not exerted to make him feel as much at home in the splendid church in Ohio as he did in the simple one in Louisiana. These then are some of the problems and the question arises as to how they are to be met. A few years ago the first question arising would have related to the financing of such work as might have been designed to solve these problems but philanthropy has decided that any well regulated work for the benefit of humanity, need not be hindered by lack of financial support, so we may waive that question here. It seems to me that the following plan can be followed with advantage by any earnest and consecrated work er in his efforts to solve the problems arising from the exodus. First, there should be the organization of free medical clinics. The phisi cians co-operating in this work would not only render professional services to those already stricken, but would also administer advice regarding the prevention of illness, and the safeguarding of health. Second there should be a securing of better housing conditions. The success of this part of the work would depend in a large degree upon the ability of the wroker to secure the cooperation of the real estate and renting agents operating in those lo calities most thickly populated with Negroes, and of the city health officials. Third, the institution of lectures on civic deportment would be a movement of great value. These lectures should be delivered by influential men of the community, both Negro and white, and would relate to such matters as conduct in public places, street cars, theaters, and the like. If other times and places should prove impracticable these lectures might be delivered during the noon hour in establishments where large numbers of Negroes are employed. In the next place there should be the encouragement of a preference for wholesome amusement. This is a most difficult task, for it has been the experience of social workers that most people resent any attempt at the intrusion upon or regulation of their leisure time. However, many large manufacturing concerns notable among which are the General Electric Company, the National Cash Register Company and Sears, Roebuck and Company, have instituted free libraries, gymnasiums, moving picture shows and many other perfectly harm less forms of amusements and recreation for their employees, and they have proved to work to the advantage of the employer as well as the employee. Working in co-operation with the employers of large numbers of Negroes, one might follow the example of these large concerns in his effort to encourage the preference for wholesome amusement. Finally, the new-comer should be kept in touch with the church and its influence. This work will consist in interesting the ministers first probably through ministerial associations and the congregation next, in the newly arrived Negroes, and in seeing to it that the right hand of Christian fellowship is extended as heartily to them in the North as in the South. Many other problems would present themselves for solution, such as the care of small children in the tenement districts, and the problem of home economies in a large city contrasted with the same in a small southern rural community or town. These and other problems would follow in natural sequence, but I believe that the first five are of fundamental importance. These problems demand immediate and careful attention if our people are not to find in the North embarrassments even greater than those he left in his southern home. If we do not guard against these dangers not only will the rights and liberties to be had across the Mason and Dixon line as a mirage across the desert but the race the country over will suffer a serious set back. In the name of our race therefore and of the greater human race, of which our race is a part. I appeal to the thoughtful, educated men and women everywhere, particularly of our own race to help devise means for the solution of these new problems, so that our cause may not suffer loss at a time when the poor and oppressed of all lands are catching sight of the dawning of a better day. PATTERSON—BOOKER Mr. Lewis Booker announces the marriage of his daughter, Rosa B. Booker, to Mr. Matthew Patterson, Tuesday, July 3, 1917, Rev. Z. D. Lewis officiating. At home Thursday, July 19, 1917 1127 A'S James Street, from 5:30 to 10:30 P. M. Friends are invited; 10 cards. IN MEMORIAM PRYOR—Entered into perfect rest three years ago—July 9, 1914—our beloved mother and wife, Mrs. Eliza J. Pryor, leaving a sorrowing hus- band and six children to mourn their loss. It was so hard to part with you; Oh, so hard to see you die. But some day we hope to meet you, Some sweet day, bye and bye. —By her husband and children. PASSED AWAY. Little Ashby, the infant baby of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Watson died Sunday July 9th 1917 at 9:05 o'clock P. M. at the residence of his parents 1107 Nst. St. Funeral at the residence. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., officiating THE FEDERAL CONFERENCE ON THE HINDU-INDIAN RELATIONS THE PRESIDENT OF THE LIBERIAN REPUBLIC, FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES AND UNITED STATES MINISTER, JAMES L. CURTIS. Liberia and Its Matters seeks a Vice of the Cancunero on the steps of to- titionship with Germany. On May 7th, the Republic of Liberia announced through its Secretary of State that it had severed relations with Germany. Public recognition of this important step was made by the Entente Powers through the presence of the British Man of War "Racehante" in Monrovia Harbor which fired the presidential salut of twenty-one guns. The Captain J. G. Armstrong, R. N., came ashore and accompanied by the American Minister, French Charged' Affaires and British Consult General, called at the State Department and later at the Executive Mansion, where a conference was held touching Liberia's part in the world's war. On May 8th, a State Lucheon was held at the Executive Mansion complientary to Captain Armstrong, at which time the ship's hand entertained the multitudes from the veranda of the "Mansion." Minister James L. Curtis responded to the toast "The Foreign Representatives and sat down amid great applause. The photograph enclosed was taken at the conclusion RECEIVED COMMISSION. (Fredericksburg Star.) Dr. U. F. Bass, colored, of this city, has received his commission as first Lieut. in the Officers Medical Reserve Corps. Dr. Bass expects to be assigned to a division at an early date. SPARTAN CARNIVAL A Grand Carnival will be given by the Spartan Literary and Athletic Association, on the Armstrong High School Grounds, one week beginning Monday night, July 16th, ending Saturday night, July 21st. Special attractions every night, including automobile riding, hitting sambo, chicken wheel, fishing pond, tailing the donkey, dancing, fortune telling, etc. Excellent music and refreshments. Price of admission, 10 cents; children, 5 cents. IDEAL SOCIETY TO HOLD FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. The National Ideal Benefit Society of the Richmond Dist. will celebrate its fifth anniversary Sunday afternoon, July 15 at 3:39 o'clock P. M. at Moore, St. Baptist Church, the pastor, Rev. R. O. Johnson, D. D., will preach to the Order. Mr. A. W. Holmes, Supreme Master will deliver an address. Music will be furnished by the National Ideal choir. The men of the Order will march from the Ideal Hall to the Church. The public is cordially invited. "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. of the Luncheon on the steps of the tie "Mansion" and in the group from left to right, front row are Ministers James L. Curtis, President; D. E. Howard and Captain J. G. Armstrong of the British Cruiser "Baceante" and second row, French Charged Afaires B. Baret, Secretary of State C. D. H. King and British Consul General M. Y. H. Parks. On May 12th, a return Luncheon was given at the American Legation by the representatives of the United State, France and Great Britain which was presided over by the Ameri can Minister and on Thursday May the 17th the representatives of the United States, Great Britain and France were guests of Captain Arm strong aboard the "Baceante" to luncheon at 12 o'clock noon. The French Cruiser "Duplex" arrived in Morrovia on the 17th and on Sunday afternoon, the 20th, at the Ameri can Legation tea was poured for the officers of the French and British Cruisers by Mrs. Curtis, the wife of the Americo, Minister representing the United States, Madame LeSur representing France, Mrs. O'Connell representing Great Britain, and Mrs. King, wife of the Liberian Secretary of State, representing Liberia. MAJOR R. R. JACKSON TAKES ISSUE WITH BARNETTS. - 1. "Incondiarism," is the way Major R. R. Jackson, member of the Illinois general assembly characterizes, the advice of former State's Attorney F. I. Barnett that Negroes in Chicago buy guns. "I dissent from the view of F. L. Barnett that 'one or two guns would not be too much in Negro households' as a protection against violence that may arise in Chicago," he declared. "To say such things is incendiarism." "Conditions here are not as they are in East St. Louis. The great majority of Negroes here are hard working and are striving to better their condition. My impression is that many of the Negroes in East St. Louis are of the hoodlum class." —Mrs. R. E. Wesley is nursing a very sick patient at Trevilians, Va. —Mrs. Susie Baker Harris, formerly of Richmond, but now residing in Philadelphia, Pa., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Baker, 909 N. 7th S⁴ —Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Davenport of New York are visiting their parents Mr. Jaco² and Mrs. Alice Davenport of Woodville. They spent last Sunday afternoon with their uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Davenport. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Bowers left for Jersey City, July 1, for his vacation with his aunt Mrs. Alice B. Vandunk. America! I wish I could sing that song with all my heart and soul! But breezes from '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. CELEBRATE 65TH ANNIVERSARY Members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church are making preparations to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of The Christian Recorder published at Philadelphia, Pa., The Anniversary will be held during the last week in July. At the recent meeting of the Bishops held at Wilberforce, Ohio, a preclamation was issued calling upon the members of the Church and its friends to celebrate this anniversary in appropriate fashion. The Christian Recorder is the old est race newspaper now in existence. It was founded in 1852 in Phila, where it has existed ever since. Is it the only race newspaper which helped to fight for the abolition of slavery which is now in existence. Some of the most brilliant men of the race have filled its editorial chair. Its first editor was Rev. Marcellus M. Clark, who was one of the very few Negroes to graduate from college dur the first half of the 19th century; Rev. (afterwards Bishop) Jabez P. Campbell, Rev. Elisha Weaver, Rev. (now Bishop) B. T. Tanner, Rev. (now Bishop) B. F. Lee, Rev. H. T. Johnson. The present editor is Rev. R. R. Wright, Ph.D. who serves in the double capacity of Editor of the Christian Recorder and manager of the Book Concern. When Dr. Wright was made editor at the age of thirty, he was the youngest man ever so honored by the church, to from the point of view of education he was one of the best prepared, having made for himself quite an enviable record as a writer on sociological topics prior to his election to this position. He is a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied in the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, Germany. The Christian Recorder is the national organ of the A. M. E. Church and is circulated in all parts of the United States, in South America and the West. Indies and South Africa, and numbers among its contributors some of the ablest men and women of the race. According to the Bishop's Proclamation every one of the seven thous and African Methodist Churches is called upon to celebrate this anniversary in a very tangible and helpful way, by helping to pay off the debt of $15,000. Indications are that this debt will be paid off on the day named, the fifth Sunday in July. Already many have subscribed, many of the Bishops themselves leading off, with $100 or more. General Officers have subscribed, and leading men both ministers and laymen of the Church, in Georgia, Texas, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, South and North Carolina and other states have subscribed from $5 to $100. The purpose is to pay off the debt so that it will give Dr. Wright opportunity to devote a paper in keeping with the greatness of the A. M. E. Church, and give it a subscription list of one hundred thousand. THE PUBLICATION BOARD Texas Pythians Elect New Officers at Waco, Texas Waco, Texas.—The Texas Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias held the most successful session ever held in its history last week in this city. Prof. W. S. Willis, who has been endowment secretary for a number of years, was made Grand Chapellor, succeeding Dr. A. N. Prince, who retired, after having served the jurisdiction or eleven years. There was much regret expressed over the retirement of Dr. Price, because of the many improvements made under his administration and the creation of the Pythian Temple costing $116,000 and was dedicated one year ago. The other officers elected were: A. N. Prince, past grand chancellor; T. K. Price, of Mexia, vice grand chancellor; R. S. Jenkins, D. D. Fort Worth, grand prelate; M. M. Rodgers, Dallas, grand keeper of records and seal, and endowment secretary; George M. Guest, Paris, grand master of exchequer; P. Landry Bryan, assistant grand keeper of records and seal; R. H. Krushall, San Antonio, master-at-arms; R. A. Atkinson, Lockhart, grand inner guard; L. J. Patton, Dallas, grand outer guard; L. B. Kincheon, Belton, grand lecturer; W. R. Roberts, Palestine; president endowment board; F. S. Stone, Temple, grand medical examiner; D. M. Mason, Dallas, grand at ornament; A. N. Prince, W. S. Willis, supreme representatives; L. S. Mitchell, Austin; R. C. Houston, Fort Worth; W. J. Smith, Honson; J. H. Hines, Waco; C. C. Trimble, Wichita Falls, board of directors. PUBLIC INSTALLATION. The officers of the various lodges and courts of Richmond will be installed at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Tuesday night, July 17, 1917, at 8:30 c'clock. Special program has been arranged. The public is invited. PRICE. FIVE CENTS HORRIBLE OUTRAGES IN EAST ST. LOUIS Grieved a.a. near-sick over the East St. Louis outrages in which men, women and children were shot down like rats and their houses burned while United States soldiers and policemen sworn to protect life and property "grinned" when asked why they did not stop the slaughter, the women of this City have requested Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, President of the National Association of Colored Women, to come to Washington at once and to call the President of every other State Federation to do the same. These women are called to take proper steps to put the question of lynching squarely before the Ameri can people. The Organization has a membership of over 50,000 of the most cultured women of the race. Preparatory to the coming of the leaders outside of Washington, the women here are going ahead, quietly but determinedly to set in motion a wave of sentiment that will become nation wide. The first step has been taken. It is made in the following Call to Prayer: TO YOUR KNEES AND DON'T STOP PRAYING UNTIL THE VOICE OF NEGRO WOMEN IS HEARD AND THEIR PETITION FOR THE PRESSION OF Meb violence is accepted by the American people and lynching and slaughter of human beings be made a crime instead of a thing to be "grinned" at by soldiers under order to defend the honor of our country and in times of uprisings to do their duty bravely. THE WRONGS CAN AND MUST BE The nearest way to the conscience of the American people is by way of the Threme of God. We are Going That Way, and then we are going '14 our Appeal for justice and protection under the law, squarely up to the American people. We regret that this issue has been before us when we are with the Nations at war, but there will be no "World Democracy" until the burning of innocent women and babies, aged men and innocent citizens of color is taken from the list of "Sports" of Civilized Americans. We propose to fight for our country to help against foes at home and abroad, to conserve its food and fuel supplies, and we believe that this fight for "Democracy" must begin at Jerusalem (at home.) Therefore, the women of this city will assemble for Prayer at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Wednesday, July 17th, at 6 A.M. The meeting will last one hour. Every woman and girl is urged to attend. Those who cannot come are asked to spend a part of the hour in family and secret prayer. Don't Stop Praying—God has promised and He is true; Don't Stop Praying.—He'll answer you. Let Everybody Pray. Let every Preacher "Lift up thy (his) voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins." Among the most active leaders, we note the following women: Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Miss Emma B. Hall, Miss Ida C. Plummer, Miss Marie A. D. Madre, Mrs. Mary E. Thompson, Mrs. Rosetta Lawson, Mrs. Lelia A. Pendleton, Mrs. Alma J. Scott, Mrs. Rebecca J. Gray, Mrs. Hannah McCarey, Mrs. G. Pelham, and Dr. Whinner Rev. Skipwith in Warrenton Warrenton, Va.—First Baptist and Second Baptist Churches in midst of a great union revival, conducted by Rev. W. H. Skipwith, the great international preacher and singer. Warrenton is a town with a population of over 1,500, situated in the Allegheny Mountains. The two races get along very nicely together. Dr. Skipwith has the situation well in hand, preaching and singing to both races. Dr. Deans of First church, and Rev. Gawauty of Second church are in perfect harmony, and the people are crowding the church. "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 Buckroe, July 5 times 2 plus 2 plus 4. The Planet will be sent to any address, anywhere, in or out of this country for $1.50 per year in advance RE YEAR'S SATURDAY.....JULY 14, 1917 ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE NOTES Ronoke, Va.-Mr. Collins Glassco, of Lynchburg, Va., and Mrs. Bornice Holland, of No. 35 Hart Ave., N. W., were united in the bonds of matrimony Tuesday evening at 10:30. The ceremony was performed by Rev. E. E. Ricks, D. D., the pastor, of the First Baptist Church in the presence of many friends. The kind wishes of their many friends of the community for a happy future. The Helping Hand Home Society met on Monday evening, July 9, at the residence of Sister Octavia Gurthirle, No. 229 10th Avenue, N. E. We had quite an enjoyable meeting, with twelve members present. We are looking forward to our annual sermon, after being served royally with the refreshments of the season, we adjourned to meet again on the fourth Tuesday evening in July, Sister Georgia Hairston, president; Sister Octavia Gurthirle, assistant secretary; Mrs. Mary Warren, matron at the Norfolk and Western passenger station for thirty-five years, was put on the pension list July 1, 1917, after thirty-five years of faithful service to the company. She is remembered for what she hath done. Mrs. Cassandra Wright, of Luck Avenue, S. W., was reported quite ill on July 9th. Mrs. Lillian Barter, of 226 5th Avenue, N. W., is much indisposed yet, but improving. The above mentioned ladies are sisters. Mrs. Gillie Furgurson, who has been slok for the last six or eight months, is much indisposed at 224 5th Avenue, N. W. Several delegates to the convention of Lynchburg Seminary will report a little late, having missed their train at 6:20 at Roanoke. Hence, they could not leave earlier than 12:10—noon train. Roy Holland, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Holland, of 3rd Avenue, N. W., died Sunday morning at 8:30. The funeral services took place from the St. Paul's Memorial M. E. Church, of which the young man was a member. Interment in Midway View Cemetery, Rev. S. M. Bean officiated. Rev. Dr. W. R. Brown, D. D., of Pittsburgh, Pa., preached to an overwhelmingly large congregation at the Night Street Baptist Church Sunday morning, evening and night. The people raised one hundred and forty dollars. Dr. Brown is a great preacher in his church, and sways a crowd wherever he goes. The Reverend George C. Taylor, D. D. of Mount Zion A. M. E. E Church, filled the pulpit of the above named church with a very strong and forceful discourse, in which all who listened found help in the sermon. The Divine prevailed on his hearers to trust, in God and do His blessed will, assuring them that all would be well having lived the life of a Christian. At 3:30 Rev. Taylor preached at Ebenezer Mission A. M. E. Church, on the corner of 10th and Norfolk Avenues, N. W. At night, at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, he took a rest, and the Rev. George P. Miller preached for him, teaching on "Punctuality to our duty as Servants to God and Men," making a very clear object lesson to his hearers. Rev. Miller is a fine painter of picture lessons, having travelled widely and made the Bible a study—the Bock that will help all men, who seek to be helped by its teachings. Rev. J. H. Burks, ex-pastor of the High Street Baptist Church, is now pastoring a church in Braddock, Pa. When Rev. Burks was in the city about one month prior to the death of Mrs. Jennie Brooks, she informed him that she desired him to preach her funeral. He refused to agree with her as to the nearness of the approaching end. But as any sympathetic Christian pastor will do, found another subject which might be discussed with less sadness and more sunshine. But as Sister Brooks had been in close communion with the Master and stayed close by His side day by day, the Lord had shown her that which would soon come to pass in her life, and she gave notice to her beloved pastor while she was in a position to direct him what her wishes were and according to her request. In less than fifty days H. J. Burks received a sad reply from bire wires that Sister Brooks had passed away, and he was reminded of that duty enjoined on him by request of the deceased. The church loses a faithful member, the home a loving mother, society a strong advocate. But what must it be to be where eternal peace and happiness is to the Faithful Soldier. Mrs. Laura Fulk, of 10th Avenue, N. W., is in attendance at the Convention and Jubilee at Lynchburg, Va., a great uplifting religious, financially, and otherwise morally and socially with the Baptists throughout Virginia. May it prove a blessing to all who come in touch with these wonderful services for the Master's cause and humanity. The little 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McClamahau, of 513 7th Street, N. W., who has been in poor health for several months, was taken to her home west of Roanoke. Playmates of the little McClamahau girl were sorry to see their little friend leave for Dublin, where she has been taken by the parent, following the advice of their family physician, Dr. J. B. Claytor, M. D. Mr. McClamahau returned home Sunday night, leaving the little girl with her grand mother. Mrs. Messi Cephas Bryant, of Columbus, Ohio, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Cephas, on North Jefferson Street. Mr. Furnell Burgess left the city for Winston-Salem, N. C., where he will spend the summer. Rev. James H. Burks, of Braddock, Pa., was called to this city early Friday to preach the funeral of a devout member of the High Street Baptist Church, Mrs. Jennie Brooks, of Wells Avenue. He will attend the jubilee at lynchburg, Va. The Doctor looks well. The Tag Day for the benefit of the High Street Church was a success, realizing $67.56. Mr. Luke L. Holloman, who has been in Atlantic City the past three months, returned to the city this week on account of his health. He and his family reside on 10th Avenue, N. W. Mrs. Mary Moore, of 201 Wells Avenue, N. W., is able to return to her home, after spending ten days at the Jefferson Hospital. The colored women organized for the food administration for our nation Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church. Miss Eugenia M. Taylor was appointed as chairman for Roanoke. So this city will be well cared for by Miss Taylor. At the Hampton - and Riley team. Chas Anderson and Kirkpatrick Bowman in vaudeville, and they are very good. The picture features are good. Monday - Marlan Slas in "The American Girl," and two reels of Western and jungle features. Tuesday - Hollen Gibson in "Railroad Sensation Stories." Horn and Bud comedy; also a two-reel drama. Wednesday - Pearl White in "Pearl of the Army" - two-reel drama. Thursday - "Mystery of the Double Cross," Pathe News, Colored, all stars. Friday - Helen Holmes in "Railroad Roaders," and Mutual Weekly. Saturday - "U. S. Defenders," a series of preparations pictures, showing the making and maintaining of soldiers and sailors and equipments. Mr. C. Tiffany Tolliver was called to Washington, D. C., Saturday on business by the S. H. Dudley Booking Company. Mr. Tolliver will see that Ranoke will get nothing but the best of shows. Mrs. Rachel E. Haith is able to be out, after a fall she had about the 30th of June while walking on North Henry Street. She stepped on a banana peel. Mrs. Virginia Andrews is visiting her mother at Lobanon, Va. She will be away two weeks. Burrell Memorial Hospital—Mrs. Jana Booker, Mrs. Zetta Henderson, Mrs. Cesto Thaxton, Mr. Albert Barksdale, Mr. George Saunders, Mr. James Squalls. FLORENCE (S. C.) NOTES Florence, S. C., July 10.-Mr. Walter Teal, who has been in poor health for eighteen months, died at his home in Boyd Street, North Florence, on July 3rd, and was buried at Baptist Cemetery on July 4th. He was quite sensible of his death, and the day before he died he sent for his sisters, Mrs. Laura McClease, Mrs. Luce Wilds, Mrs. Anna Robinson, Mrs. Ida Alston, his wife and Mr. Abraham Merricks to tell them good-by. "You need have no fear of my sickness. Kill me sisters," he said, "I will soon do my departure." He died a Christian. For more than five years he was employed by Mr. Jas McCown, and lived well at home. During his illness Mr. McCown spared no pain in supplying his needs, such as nourishment and visiting him, etc. The doctor asked that arrangement be made for him to sleep on the porch. This, Mr. McCown attended to. For this his wife and sisters feel grateful to him, and hereby return thanks to him and their friends generally for services remitted during the illness of their husband and brother. Mr. W. H. Burnett, Grand Counsellor; Mr. Joe Richardson, Chairman of the Sik Committee; Mr. A. B. Hall, Chaplain of the Sons and Daughters of Jacob passed through the city recently on route from Latta, S. C., their lumber, S. C., to the thanksgiving services of the Lodge. Mr. Burnett led the delegation. Mr. and Mrs. John Hamilton, of Dillon, passed through the city recently en route to Palmetto, Fla. They visit South Carolina once a year. Mr. Elijah Jenkins, fireman on the A. C. L. Railroad, after an illness of seven weeks, is out again we are glad to say. Miss Amelia Williamson, of Hartsville, S. C., passed through the city en route to Effingham, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Richardson, of Cowards, have returned home after visiting in Sumter, S. C. Mrs. R. M. Pringle, of Pamplico, S. C., passed through the city recently returning from Sumter. Mr. W. M. Smalls spent a few days in the city recently, having had an auto break-down. He returned to his home at Charleston during the week. Respectfully, E. B. WEBSTER PETERSBURG NOTES Eastville, Va.-The forty-ninth session of Puga Sound Conference of the A. M. E. Church was called to order at 7:30 P. M., June 21, by the Presiding Bishop, Rt. Rev. Peabody, No. 295, and prayer by Rev. P. E. Shore, 31st Scripture reading, Rev. P. E. Meek, 31st number of Numbers, after which hymn "A" was sung, the Power of Jesus "Name" was sung, led by Elder Shorty, M. V. T. The roll was called. Twenty-four traveling ministers and two superannuates were present. On motion of Rev. Dumbill, R. W., Rev. Lovelace was elected secretary of the conference, with authority to choose the assistants; Rev. Meek, recording secretary; Rev. Shipty, B. A., statistician. On motion of Rev. Turkey Scratch Qunbill, the following marshals were elected: Rev. Good Luck Guess Me, chief; Rev. Do Good, assistant. On motion of Rev. Forhand, W. D., THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA the first four pews fronting sitar were made the boundary of the conference. On motion of P. E. Get-About, Rev. Little Bitt was elected conference messenger. The following distinguished persons were introduced: Sister D. W. Baker, A. J Beckett, Henry Upshur and Sister James. The following brothers were also introduced: S. S. Hyslop, R. S. Willis, B. G. Glbs, O. S. Hopkins, M. L. Carpenter. The sermon by Sister Laura Brady was very interesting; subject, "A Mind To Build;" also the paper by Mrs. A. E. Radolph; subject, "Higher Ideals." Doxology, benediction, by Rev. Get-out. Letter From Buckner, Va. Buckner, Va., July 10, 1917. Editor of The Planet: Dear Sir, I have just read your very strong editorial in last week's issue of the Planet condemning the action of that blood-thirsty_mob in East St. Louis, and I write in keeping with your suggestions, that the Negroes do all in their power to protect and create sentiment to the end that not only those who participated in that brutal outrage but those in authority may know how keenly we feel the injustice, and especially at a time when we, as a race, are being called upon to show our loyalty and patriotism to this country as we have always done heretofore. Now, some among our own people will ask what can be done or what good can we do as a Negre race; others will, no doubt, say that the Negrees should not have left the South in such large numbers. We claim that in this free country of ours the Negro has a perfect right to go and reside, and so long as he departs himself as a good citizen, he has a right to be protected in common with all other citizens and a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. We deny, as the Times-Dispatch intimates, that the Negro went there to supplant the white man or take his job. The Negro, as a race, only wanted that for which he works and justly earns. If we agree that the Negro should remain in many section of its country in order to be protected, then following out this principle it will only be a question of time before conditions in said section will be so intolerable that he will have to take his flight. So we contend that we must have protection wherever $w_0$ are, so loag as we make ourselves worthy of same. What can we do about it? We can, as you Mr. Editor advised, write, speak and preach until we make these in authority know that we are not satisfied and that we expect to demand better treatment. This being the season of the year for most of the $th_0$ annual meetings, I think at each and all of these meetings there should go up a protest. There Nogro Organization Society of Virginia, an organization in which all of the groves in the State are directly or indirectly represented. Why not that society speaks for Virginia? We shall wait, Mr. Editor, and see whether we will let the mortar die for want of our moral support, or whether we shall go to the aid of such men as ex-President Roosevelt, who has declared that there must be the fullest investigation. Let us work, watch and pray, and someday perhaps, in the near future, the God of Justice and Mercy will visit the scene and will, we believe, declare unto these guilty, either by direct participation or by condoning the act, that the voice of their brother's blood crelth unto Him from the streets and burning buildings of East St. Louis and in due time He will give justice to whom justice is due. Those who laid the corner-stone for the construction of this government saw fit to place emphasis upon the fact that no free government or the blessings of liberty could be preserve except by a firm adherence to justice, etc. This is no less true now than it was at the time it was spoken many years ago. Then we are not discouraged. Again, Mr. Editor, hoping that you may have the support of every liberty loving Negro in America, Am yours for the cause, R. S. JOHNSON. Buckner, Va. REFUSE TO(SIT IN JIM CROW SEAT; ARRESTED Des Moines Theatre Cop Bites Off Bigger "Chaw" Than He Can Swallow. Des Moines, Ia.— Reporter Special Service. The first race antagonism that has broken out since the officers' training camp for Negroes was established at Fort Des Moines appeared last night when J. B. Capel and L. H. McDowell, both members of Company 9 at the fort, were arrested at the Empress theater upon complaint of the management that they refused to sit in the section reserved for colored soldiers when directed to do so by the management. The mayor claimed the right to sit anywhere in the house that anyone holding the same priced ticket could sit. The arrest was made by the house officer at the Empress. The police have instructions from Chief Jackson not to make arrests involving any discrimination against Negroes, according to officials at the Second street station. The arresting officer took the soldiers to the guard house and told the provost police to arrest them only to be told that there was nothing doing. 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He was married, was a Socialist in feeling if not in theory, had been a jockey, a tout, a telegraph operator, and hoped to learn to fly an aerospace. Otherwise his was an unoventful history. All the time I was listening my mind was occupied with trying to account for the thrill which had jolted me when I had taken Lucie's hands in mine at the top of the staircase. I decided to put my fortunes to the test. I would sit up until Bopp went to bed and then ask her to marry me. Kent, the telephone man, retired first. "I think I'll sit up awhile." I said, stealing a look at Lucie and hoping that she would comprehend my intention. "If you're going to sit up I'll stick," said Bopp, with Machiavellian cordiality. "I'll split a gallon of water with you." There we sat, and we drank glass after glass of water until 11 o'clock. Then Lucie decided to retire and spoiled the whole game. "I guess I'll turn in now, too," I suggested tentatively, hoping at least that I would get a chance to speak to her on the stairs. But, no. Bopp developed a sudden fondness for my society and accompanied me to my room and sat on my bed for awhile talking about affairs theatrical, assuming that I was interested in them, which I was not. When he finally departed the house was dark and the wind of the storm made unearthly noises around the eaves. I was more tired than I remembered to have been for years, but not sleepy. I don't know whether it was actual hunger or merely the idea that I had not eaten anything for forty-eight hours which haunted me. At any rate, every time that I closed my eyes I'd have a vision of those dog biscuits. I might just as well have pictured a chocolate cake or a doughnut to myself; but, no—it was a dog biscuit. After an hour or so of that kind of torture I at last decided to satisfy my fool imagination by showing it a dog biscuit in the life and proving that it was not desirable at all. That was the only reason that I wont downstairs. It was rather ticklish business roaming around a strange house wearing no other padding than a suit of pajamas. I banged my shins unmercifully against several hundred pieces of furniture, but I toned my remarks thereat to a pitch below the howling of the storm. An occasional flash of lightning helped me momentarily from time to time, but left me floundering in the intervals. Finally in the kitchen, I groped my way to the shelf, and the box of dog biscuit was in my hands. Furiously I took one out, fondled it and sniffed it. Being alone there with that unprotected dog biscuit was too much for my moral courage. I decided to throw honor to the winds. There was so much wind and so little honor that no one would notice it. I set my teeth in the dog biscuit! Suddenly there was a sound on the stairway. I listened intently—the creaking of a stair! Who could it be? Possibly it was Kent, the ex-wire tapper. His early training might have proved too much for him and he had decided to toot the place and make his escape. I made up my mind to behave vallanty and grasped a dog biscuit firmly in one hand, determined to sell my life as dearly as was consistent with the high cost of living. The box containing the rest of the biscuit I put back on the shelf and crouched behind the stove, ready to spring at the intruder un-awares as soon as he entered. I had one of those flashes of insane bravery which is nine-tenths fear when I saw the light of a pocket lantern straggling along the wall at the foot of the stairs. I jumped four feet straight up in the air when something wet touched the sole of my bare foot which was extended behind me as I knelt behind the stove. My exclamation was drowned in a crush of thunder. Burghar or no burghar. I was about to run to blim for protection from that clammy thing which had touched me when a second flash of lightning showed me—oh, horrors! It was Footes frisking around my feet. TO BE CONTINUED. Meaning of $7,000,000,000. America's war loan of $7,000,000 surpasses the powers of the mind to grasp. Spent at the rate of a dollar a minute it would take 13,318 years to dispose of the appropriation. Loaned out at 6 per cent, $13 could be spent every second for an indefinite period without touching the principal. The interest on the loan is greater than the entire running expenses of the government less than half a century ago, while the amount itself would conduct the affairs of the government for fully seven years on the basis of the annual expenditures for the last decade. Another and more cheerful way of looking at the situation is that, great as the loan is, the wealth of the United States is such that it amounts to the lending of $1 out of every $40 of our existing tangible resources. A penny a day saved by every inhabitant would cancel the principal within twenty years.—Thomas F. Logan in Leslie's. Milliai' "Trust Me" A lady and gentleman were standing before a picture by Millais called "Trust Me," in which an elderly squire confronts his daughter, who holds a letter behind her back. The picture admits of more explanations than one, for Mr. Millais had that rare faculty of putting blended expressions into his faces which puzzle us, as the expressions of real faces do. But the one this gentleman was overheard giving his companion as is new, we are bound to say, to the painter as to our readers. "You see," he said, "she has got a letter in her hand which she is keeping back from the man in the red coat. Well, he is the postman and has just given her the letter. I suppose it's from abroad. She hasn't the money to pay the postage, so she says, 'Trust me.'" The explanation was given with perfect gravity and in apparent good faith.—London Mall. Grand Opera In 1680. The following except from Burney's "History of Music," published in 1770, describing the first performance of the opera "Bernice" in 1880, indicates that "there is nothing new under the sun," even in sumptuous staging of music drama. 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Work can be made a joy, an economy, a pleasure, if you combine an object worth while with the determined ambition to win. Any young man can get rich, can succeed, if he saves, if he has a definite and honest purpose and is so filled with the purpose that work ceases to be a hardship and becomes a privilege." Philadelphia's Big Clock. The center of the dial of the clock on Philadelphia's city hall tower is 301 feet $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches from the ground level. The length of the minute hand is 10 feet 8 inches. The weight of the hand is 225 pounds. The weight of the dial frame with glass is five and one-half pounds. The clock is equipped with a pneumatically operated thermostat for controlling an electric governor provided to protect it from extremes of temperature. The steel pendulums are inclosed in cast iron cases to protect them from magnetic influences.—Philadelphia Press. A Simple Antidote to Poison: A Simple Antidote to Poison. It is a valuable thing to understand thoroughly what ample antidote to take if one is so unlucky as to swallow poison of any kind. Sweet oil is to be found in nearly every house, however humble, and half a pint of it taken immediately is an effectual antidote to almost all poisons. Any one with a strong constitution should take a larger quantity of this simple remedy.—London Telegraph. Anatomy and Friendship "My dear," said the host to his wife as he started to carve the leg of lamb "can't you give Mrs. Brown anything better than this cold meat?" "Oh," cried Mrs. Brown, "that's all right, so long as it is cold leg and not cold shoulder!"—Christian Herald. Decidedly. "Washington was a truthful man." "I've got the habit myself now. 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It seems a shame, especially at this time, that personal vanity should prove such a handicap to the government and that a mere fulvous fad should deprive chemists and manufacturers of the proper tools for the prosecution of the demands placed upon them." FOR $100 WORTH OF CAMPONS. WE WILL SEND YOU A LARGE SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR $75 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A SMALLER SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR 30 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU CAN TAKE IT APART AND PUT IT INTO YOUR TRUNK OR SUIT CASE WHEN TRAVELING. 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 HOME GARDEN HINT. How to Apply Fortilizers and Lime to the Soil. After plowing or working with a spade it is usually desirable to apply some form of fertilizer. Barnyard or stable manure, which furnishes both plant food and humus, is undoubtedly the best, and applications of from twenty to thirty tons to the acre are satisfactory. The manure should be distributed evenly over the surface and later worked in with a hoe and rake. Frequently it is advisable also to apply commercial fertilizer, especially phosphate. An application of 300 to 600 pounds of acid phosphate to the acre is usually sufficient. In order to supply potash, if this is needed, unleached wood ashes may be distributed over the garden at the rate of a thousand pounds to the acre. Wet, or leached, ashes have less fertilizer value. Two thousand pounds of these should be used. In order to start the plants early in the spring applications of a hundred pounds to the acre of nitrate of soda are sometimes used. It is important, however, to remember that no form of commercial fertilizer will yield good results unless the soil is well supplied with humus. This frequently may be furnished in the form of sod or other vegetation which has overgrown a garden spot and may be turned under with a plow or spade. We Do All Kinds of Job Work In certain localities it also is advisable to test the soil for acidity. Naturally moist soils are apt to be sour and in such a condition are not likely to produce the most satisfactory crops. The test for acidity or sourness is a very simple one. A handful of the soil slightly moistened and a piece of blue litmus paper, which can be obtained from any drug store, are all that is necessary. When placed on sour soil the paper will turn red. To correct such a condition lime should be used. The ground should be covered with a thin coat of air shaked lime and the latter worked in well. Lime is not a plant food, but it will correct the acidity and will improve the physical condition of the soil. 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. How to Make French Knots on Your Linen Clothes. To make French knots knot the thread and bring it up through the material; then take an ordinary short backstitch and before bringing the needle entirely out of the material wind the thread two or three times around the needle (according to size of knot desired), and, holding the colls down with the left thumb, draw the needle through. Then insert the needle over the edge of the colls in the same hole, making the knot secure. Carry the thread on the wrong side of the material to the next knot without cutting. 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 How to Make Violet Water at a Reasonable Price. Artificial oil of violet, 2 drams ..... $ .40 Orris powder, 1 ounce ..... .10 Decodorized alcohol, enough to make quart ..... .00 Chlorophyl ..... .06 Total ..... $1.45 The chlorophyl is for coloring the liquid. Unless this is used the water will have a brownish color. By this formula you will get a quart of good violet water, such as would cost, if bought ready for use, not less than $4. Look toward the flag. Tip of forefinger, right hand, touches cap or hat above right eye. Thumb and forefinger extended and joined. Hand and wrist straight. Palm to the left. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia Goliath. Gollath, the giant of Gath, who "morning and evening for forty days" defied the armies of Israel (I Samuel xvI) and was slain by David, who "six cubits and a span" in height. Taking the cubit at twenty-one inches would make him ten and one-half feet high. --- SIX THE VENET SATURDAY.....JULY 14, 1917 FIVE FRIDAYS (Continued from Page Three.) 4. P. B. W. "is he going to kiss me good night?" she demanded. the other he seated himself comfortably and proceeded to entertain us with considerable conversation about himself. "I don't a Rube," he volunteered, "I've been near enough Fifth avenue to know good clothes when I see 'em, and I have to admit that Mr. Bopp is a swell dresser. I only work here in the summer time. In the winter I stick around within sight of the statue of Liberty. I'm a wire tapper." "A wire tapper?" repeated Bopp. "Isn't a wire tapper a sort of crook?" "Not compared to a burglar. Wire tapping is just high finance." His name, it appeared, was Harold Kent. He was married, was a Socialist in feeling if not in theory, had been a jockey, a tout, a telegraph operator, and hoped to learn to fly an aeroplane. Otherwise his was an uneventful history. All the time I was listening my mind was occupied with trying to account for the thrill which had jolted me when I had taken Lucille's hands in mine at the top of the staircase. I decided to put my fortunes to the test. I would sit up until Bopp went to bed and then ask her to marry me. Kent, the telephone man, retired first. "I think I'll sit up awhile," I said, stealing a look at Lucille and hoping that she would comprehend my intention. "If you're going to sit up I'll stick," said Bopp, with Machiavellian cordiality. "I'll split a gallon of water with you." There we sat, and we drank glass after glass of water until 11 o'clock. Then Lucille decided to retire and spoiled the whole game. "I guess I'll turn in now, too," I suggested tentatively, hoping at least that I would get a chance to speak to her on the stairs. But, no. Bopp developed a sudden fondness for my society and accompanied me to my room and sat on my bed for awhile talking about affairs theatrical, assuming that I was interested in them, which I was not. When he finally departed the house was dark and the wind of the storm made unerthly nolses around the eaves. I was more tired than I remembered to have been for years, but not sleepy. I don't know whether it was actual hunger or merely the idea that I had not eaten anything for forty-eight hours which haunted me. At any rate, every time that I closed my eyes I'd have a vision of those dog biscuits. I might just as well have pictured a chocolate cake or a doughnut to myself; but, no—it was a dog biscuit. After an hour or so of that kind of torture I at last decided to satisfy my fool imagination by showing it a dog biscuit in the life and proving that it was not desirable at all. That was the only reason that I wont downstairs. It was rather ticklish business roaming around a strange house wearing no other padding than a suit of pajamas. I banged my shins unmercifully against several hundred pieces of furniture, but I toned my remarks thereat to a pitch below the howling of the storm. An occasional flash of lightning helped me momentarily from time to time, but left me floundering in the intervals. Finally in the kitchen, I groped my way to the shelf, and the box of dog biscuit was in my hands. Furlively I took one out, fondled it and sniffed it. Being alone there with that unprotected dog biscuit was too much for my moral courage. I decided to throw honor to the winds. There was so much wind and so little honor that no one would notice it. I set my teeth in the dog biscuit! Suddenly there was a sound on the stairway. I listened intently—the creaking of a stair! Who could it be? Possibly it was Kent, the ex-wire tapper. His early training might have proved too much for him and he had decided to toot the place and make his escape. I made up my mind to behave vallantly and grasped a dog biscuit firmly in one hand, determined to sell my life as dearly as was consistent with the high cost of living. The box containing the rest of the biscuit I put back on the shelf and crouched behind the stove, ready to spring at the intruder un-awares as soon as he entered. I had one of those flashes of insane bravery which is nine-tenths fear when I saw the light of a pocket lantern straggling along the wall at the foot of the stairs. I jumped four feet straight up in the air when something wet, touched the sole of my bare foot which was extended behind me as I knelt behind the stove. My exclamation was drowned in a crash of thunder. Burglar or no burglar, I was about to run to him for protection from that clammy thing which had touched me when a second flash of lightning showed me—oh, horrors! It was Tootles trisking around my feet. TO BE CONTINUED. Meaning of $7,000,000,000 meaning of $7,000,000,000. America's war loan of $7,000,000,-000 surpasses the powers of the mind to grasp. Spent at the rate of a dollar a minute it would take 13,318 years to dispose of the appropriation. Loaned out at 6 per cent, $13 could be spent every second for an indefinite period without touching the principal. The interest on the loan is greater than the entire running expenses of the government less than half a century ago, while the amount itself would conduct the affairs of the government for fully seven years on the basis of the annual expenditures for the last decade. Another and more cheerful way of looking at the situation is that, great as the loan is, the wealth of the United States is such that it amounts to the lending of $1 out of every $40 of our existing tangible resources. A penny a day saved by every inhabitant would cancel the principal within twenty years.—Thomas F. Logan in Leslie's. Millia' "Trust Me" A lady and gentleman were standing before a picture by Millus called "Trust Me," in which an elderly squirre confronts his daughter, who holds a letter behind her back. The picture admits of more explanations than one, for Mr. Millus had that rare faculty of putting blended expressions into his faces which puzzle us, as the expressions of real faces do. But the one this gentleman was overheard giving his companion is as new, we are bound to say, to the painter as to our readers. "You see," he said, "she has got a letter in her hand which she is keeping back from the man in the red coat. Well, he is the postman and has just given her the letter. I suppose it's from abroad. She hasn't the money to pay the postage, so she says, 'Trust me.'" The explanation was given with perfect gravity and in apparent good faith.—London Mall. Grand Opera In 1680. The following excerpt from Burney's "History of Music" published in 1776, describing the first performance of the opera "Bernice" in 1680, indicates that "there is nothing new under the sun," even in sumptuous staging of music dramas. "There were choirs of 100 virgins, 190 soldiers, 100 horsemen in iron armor, forty cornets on horses, six trumpeters on horseback, six drummers, six ensigns, six great flutes, six minstrels playing on Turkish flutes and six others on octave flutes, six pages, three sergeants, six cimbalists, twelve hunters, twelve grooms, six cochonner for trumpeters, six others for the procession, two lions led by two Turks, two elephants led by two others, Bernice's tributum car drawn by four horses, six other cars, with prisoners and spolls drawn by twelve horses, and six cochones for the procession. Advice In Securing Riches Frederick Weyerhaeuser, America's one time lumber king, who died a multimillionaire, once gave the following rules on how to get rich: "Make up your mind to work at something really worthy of work and work hard. The surest way to make money is to save money and to use what you have. Don't be afraid of long hours or constant attention to your work. Work can be made a joy, an economy, a pleasure, if you combine an object worth while with the determined ambition to win. Any young man can get rich, can succeed, if he saves, if he has a definite and honest purpose and is so filled with the purpose that work ceases to be a hardship and becomes a privilege." Philadelphia's Big Clock. The center of the dial of the clock on Philadelphia's city hall tower is 301 feet $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches from the ground level. The length of the minute hand is 10 feet 8 inches. The weight of the hand is 225 pounds. The weight of the dial frame with glass is five and one-half tons. The clock is equipped with a pneumatically operated thermostat for controlling an electric governor provided to protect it from extremes of temperature. The steel pendulums are inclosed in cast iron cases to protect them from magnetic influences.—P Philadelphia Press. A Simple Antidote to Poison: It is a valuable thing to understand thoroughly what ample antidote to take if one is so unlucky as to swallow poison of any kind. Sweet oil is to be found in nearly every house, however humble, and half a pint of it taken immediately is an effectual antidote to almost all poisons. Any one with a strong constitution should take a larger quantity of this simple remedy.—London Telegraph. Anatomy and Friendship "My dear," said the host to his wife as he started to carve the leg of lamb "can't you give Mrs. Brown anything better than this cold meat?" "Oh," cried Mrs. Brown, "that's all right, so long as it is cold leg and not cold shoulder!"—Christian Herald. Decidedly. "Washington was a truthful man." "I've got the habit myself now. I think it is the best plan if you marry a widow." -Louisville Courier-Journal THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA ```markdown ``` Women Should Drop the Platinum Fad A MERICAN women have been asked by the American Chemical IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! society to stop purchasing platinum jewelry because the country's output of high explosives is seriously menaced by the shortage of this metal. "On behalf of the chemical manufacturers of the country, who are striving to provide our government with its many necessities, and in behalf of those conducting scientific research for the public good," said the society's statement, "the American Chemical society appeals to the loyal women of the United States to refrain from purchasing platinum in the form of jewelry and to help discourage the use of this metal for ornamental or other unnecessary purposes, so that the limited supply may be made available for use where it can do the greatest good in the service of our beloved country. 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. "Few realize that the dictators of fashion have caused the price of platinum to advance within the last few years until today it is worth five times as much as gold. As a result of this mood of Dame Fashion the chemical industries of the country are finding it exceedingly difficult to secure the supplies they need, while our government as well as all chemical laboratories is greatly handicapped by its scarcity. Platinum is essential for producing sulphuric acid, which in its turn is an absolute necessity in the production of high explosives. "The matter has become so serious that scientific and industrial advancement is suffering severely because of the lack of platinum and the almost prohibitive price to which its scarcity has given rise. It seems a shame, especially at this time, that personal vanity should prove such a handicap to the government and that a mere frivolous fad should deprive chemists and manufacturers of the proper tools for the prosecution of the demands placed upon them." FOR $100 WORTH OF COUPONS. WE WILL SEND YOU A LARGE SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR $75 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A SMALLER SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR 30 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU CAN TAKE IT HOME GARDEN HINT How to Apply Fortilizers and Lime to the Soil After plowing or working with a spade it is usually desirable to apply some form of fertilizer. Barnyard or stable manure, which furnishes both plant food and humus, is undoubtedly the best, and applications of from twenty to thirty tons to the acre are satisfactory. The manure should be distributed evenly over the surface and later worked in with a hoe and rake. Frequently it is advisable also to apply commercial fertilizer, especially phosphate. An application of 300 to 600 pounds of acid phosphate to the acre is usually sufficient. In order to supply potash, if this is needed, unleached wood ashes may be distributed over the garden at the rate of a thousand pounds to the acre. Wet, or leached, ashes have less fertilizer value. Two thousand pounds of these should be used. In order to start the plants early in the spring applications of a hundred pounds to the acre of nitrate of soda are sometimes used. It is important, however, to remember that no form of commercial fertilizer will yield good results undess the soil is well supplied with humus. This frequently may be furnished in the form of sod or other vegetation which has overgrown a garden spot and may be turned under with a plow or spade. APART AND PUT IT INTO YOUR TRUNK OR SUIT CASE WHEN TRAVELING. 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 We Do All Kinds of Job Work In certain localities it also is advisable to test the soil for acidity. Naturally moist soils are apt to be sour and in such a condition are not likely to produce the most satisfactory crops. The test for acidity or sourness is a very simple one. A handful of the soil slightly moistened and a piece of blue litmus paper, which can be obtained from any drug store, are all that is necessary. When placed on sour soil the paper will turn red. To correct such a condition lime should be used. The ground should be covered with a thin coat of air slaked lime and the latter worked in well. Lime is not a plant food, but it will correct the acidity and will improve the physical condition of the soil. 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. How to Make French Knots on Your Linen Clothes. To make French knots knot the thread and bring it up through the material; then take an ordinary short backstitch and before bringing the needle entirely out of the material wind the thread two or three times around the needle (according to size of knot desired), and, holding the coils down with the left thumb, draw the needle through. Then insert the needle over the edge of the coils in the same hole, making the knot secure. Carry the thread on the wrong side of the material to the next knot without cutting. 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 Look toward the flag. Tip of forefinger, right hand, touches cap or hat above right eye. Thumb and forefinger extended and joined. Hand and wrist straight. Palm to the left. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia Goliath. Gollath, the giant of Gath, who "morning and evening for forty days" defied the armies of Israel (f Samuel xvll) and was slain by David, who "six cubits and a span" in height. Taking the cubit at twenty-one inches would make him ten and one-half feet high. --- FLAYS GOMPERS (New York Sun—Juiy 4.) A sizzling controversy between Col, Roosevelt and Samuel Gompors, pros. {dont of the American Federation of Labor, swept a great meeting in Cur- negio Hall last night far from its stated purpose, which was to welcome and applaud the members of the Rus- slan war mission who came to Now York In the afternoon, ‘Mie Colonel was angered tc the point of fury by an assertion by Mr. Gompers that the race riots in Kast Sl. Louis were caused by the impor- tallon of Southern Negroes to com- pete with white Iabor in defiance of warning from labor learders and the Bast St. Louis Chamter of Commeree, Mr. Roosevelt had spoken before Mr. Gompers, ‘but took the platform again when the feteration president! finished. Pounding the desk, strid- ing back and forth, marching over to Mr. Gompers and shaking a fist in his iace, ~~ decared that never would he sit silent in the presence of a man who “offered an wpology for the murder of the helpless.” At first the Colonel was wildly ‘applauded. Most of the men and women in the crowded hall Jumped to their fect and yelled “Good! Good! Good!” INTERRUPTED BY HISSES. i As he went on, ringing the changes on his denunefation of Mr. Gompers, who like himself a moment before ocoupted @ front row seat on tho stage amid a distinguished company, including the entire Russian commis: sion and the chairman, Mayor Mitchel, booing and hissing interrupted him and the place was a babel of indis- tinguishable sounds. Whethor most of the shrieks of dts- approval wero directed at Col, Roose- velt or the labor leader was impos- sible to tell. Apparently some of the hullabaloo “was meant for hoth ‘Through it all, however, ran a strong current of handclapping and cheering for the Colonel, to whom men yelled as if they thought they were watch- ing a prize fight. At one point there ‘wore cries to Mr, Gompers, “Answer hn! Answer him!» = Mr. Gompers was heard shouting, “I'l answer him after, not before.” Ho got no: chance, however, for whon Col. Roosevelt sat down the Mayor solzed lis gavel and, remombering that it'ts a long way ‘from Potrograd to Mast St. Louis, reminded tho an- dience what the real intent of the meeting was and introduced the Rus- sian Ambassador and head of the mission, Boris Bakumetieff, Botore this happened, however, Mr. Gompers sevoral times’ scomed to be on the point of leaping from his chair as if to demand a hearing be- fore the C.lonel got through. In fact, a man behind hime threw his arms around the labor chief to re- strain him, and Jacob 1H. Schiff, who had been sitting near the ond of the front row, changed his seat so he would bo nearer the excited Mr, Gom- pers. PATTIORMEN ON CITARD Plain clothes policemen in the cor- ridor flocked to the wings of the stage and the galleries at a momont when Col. Roosevelt was saying he had al- ways looked out for the rights of labor himself and men in tho gallery screamed “You never did! you nover did!” As for the Colonel, when the spat was ended and he had had his full say, he retired to his. chair and beamed with the look of a man who feels that he has beaten his antag- onist to a frazzle. It was the Colonol himself who in- Jected East St. Louis into the pro- ceeding. Ho prefaced his prepared speech with \an amplification of tho race riot remarks that he made at Forest Hills Gardens on the Fourth of July. He said that before “wo speak of giving justice to othors It behooves us to seo that justice is done within our own household. He Charley Recipient of Real Sad News ————————— SS THE RENT oF : ARGS OFF ICE t OVE | a = (87 Tee Ke Wy 8, ad BD, GY in Soy} po) ¥ E Lt - ed HRS ea Charley Chaplin’s Comic Capers ican name, There was no justifica tion for the rlots, he sald, they wero Just plain inurder, “I domand,” ho sald, “that — the Government representatives put down violence with ruthless firmness, whether It is of white against black or black against white. Betore we can help others in drawing the beam from their eyes let us draw out the beam that is in our uwn eyes. ‘The mest dangerous form ef sentimental debauch is to give expression to good wishes In behalf of virtue somewhere else when you do not dare to enferce decency in your own province. “So much," chuckled the Colonel, “for this brief eulogy of my fellow citizens.” All this was cheered, every sen- lonee of it ‘he Colonel then read this typewritten speech. GOMPER'S EXPLANATION. ‘The next speaker was Mr. Gompers. “I should like do expain about East St. Louis,” ho sald, after prats- dng everything else “the Colonel had said, “I wish I had with me a tele- ‘gram I received tonight from the sce. xotary o: the Ilinois Wederation of Labor, It explains the whole situa- lion, Not only labor men, but. the Chamber of Commerce warned those who were luring colored men from the South to undermine the workers of East. St. Louis, Hundreds of thou- sands were brought in and there was no place for them to lay their heads. “Luring them there was no more chan a working of the same brutal, tyrannical forces that existed in old Russia, There is altogether too much injustice prevailing in free America, (Groans and hisses), but there is a larger percentage of free- dom and justice than in any other country.” Mr. Gompers ,then told why the American Federation of Labor had not looked with favor on the calling of enrly peace conferences, saying the agitation to that end was either the result ‘af German propaganda or of neutrals fearful of their own exist- ence, He said the “man power and the wealth power of America ‘was pledged to the Allies to the end,” and that he himself had been con- verted from pacifism to the realiza- tion that “We have got to fight; we ‘agn’t help ourselves.” | “Pxeopt for the hissing at the point indicated, Mr. Gompers's speech was ‘hailed with approval. The Mayor stepped torward and was about ¢o introduce Prof. Bakhimetieff when Col. Roosevelt, who had beon fidget- ing while Mr. Gompers was “ex- plaining” the riots, darted from his chair, “May I say another word," he sald, waving a programme in his right hand and obviously boiling with sup- pressed feeling, “I am not willing” he went on, biting off each word as if {it wore a soft nosed bullet, “that a meeting called to commemorate the birth of f& domocracy in Russia shall oven seem to have given any approval or accopted any apology for the brutal infamy imposed on Negrces or col- ored mon. Most of tho audienco sprang to its foot, yolling for the Colonel. SHAKBS FIST AT GOMPERS, “Justice,” he continued, “is not merely words, It 1s to be translated into living acts, and how can we praise the people of Russia if wo by explanation, silence or evasion apol- ogize for murdering the helpless, (Cheers. ) In the past I have Ms- tened to the same form of excuse from the Russian autocracy for the programs inflicted on the Jews. Shall we by silence acquisco in this Jamazing apology for the murder of men, women and children in our own country?” ‘There was noise all over the hal, but it was all in the Colonel's favor, Hitting the speaker's table with his list atter every word, he said: | “I'll do everything for the labor- ing man except that \ hich is wrong, and that I will not do for any man or cause, I care not a snap of my finger"—here the Colonel walked aver to Mr. Gompers and shook lis fist within a foot of the Gompers nose—“for a telegram from the head of the strongest labor union in Illl- nois. ‘his thing took place in a Northern State, where the whites cutnumber the Negroes twenty to one, and if in that eity white men cannet protect their rights by thelr voles against an insignificant minor- ‘ity and have to murder women and children, then the State that sent Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency must bow its head in shame.” Col. Roosevelt still stood over Mr. Gompers pointing his forefinger, then shaking his fist and talking right at the labor prosident so everybody could hear. It was at this point that the erles “Answer him, i.swer him!” began, and Mr. Gompers, half rising THE RICHMOND PLANET, RIOHMOND. VrRGINTA from his chair, yelled back, “I'll an- swer him after, not before.” ‘There was a gush of~hisses from many parts of the hail, mingled with shouts of "Go ahead!” “After him, ‘Toddy!” Gepd, good!” “On, Oo-0-0-0h1" “Or- der!” “Sit down!” “Do it again!” “Why don't you answer?" and the like. ‘The Colonel was talking all the time, but the only phraso identified ® this moment was “the murderers,” leaving Mr, Gompers, who had been Cutchou by Jumped back to the edge of the stage ad shouted abovo the booing and groaning: “I will go to any extreme neces- sary to bring Justice to the labering man, to assure him hig necesary placeo——"" ~ “You never did it, you never did it!” volleyed several voices from a balcony, “——and to prevent his exploita- tich,” went on the Colonel, . “but when there is murder I’IL put it down and I'l never submit to it. We gathered here to greet the men of the new Russia, which has been founded on the pri..ciple of justice to all, and on such an evening never will I sit’ motionless while directly or indirectly apology 1s made for the murder of the helpless.” ROOSEVELT'’S SPEECH. Col. Roosevelt in his prepared speech sald In part: “I am sure I express the feclings of my Jellow countrymen when I say it is a matter of heartfelt re- Joicing among all the people of the United States co greet and to welcome this deputation from the now Russia, the great Russian democracy. As a nation we have for many years felt & peculiar sympathy with “and ad. miration for tho mighty Slay people of the forest of the steppe, for the young giant among nations, which as yet has but half developed its tro- mendous strength, “In the past this ardent sympathy with and hope for the Russian peo- Plo in America has had to struggle with a shocked disbelief in auiocracy and with the whole policy of reaction amd obseurantism. "Wo love | the| brave, patient, hard working, long suiflering Russian people, but we were repelied by the tyfarny which bore down with an iron hand on the lead-| ers of social and intellectual liberty, | which persecuted the Jews, which. domineered over the Pole and Lith- nanan, which deprived the Inn of the self-government duc him by sol-| emn covenant and which was dread- ed beyond measure by the Armenian and the dweller in the Caucasians. | “We held as our {deal the hope that ultimately the mighty Russian’ ismpire might stand as here wo at least try to stand, so that Jew and| Catholic and Protestant might feel their consciences as free as thy con- selonce of the orthodox, and a. self- governing Vinland or the Caueasus or Armenia enjoy within the empire the Mberty that Now York and ‘Toxas enjoy within this Union, NO RBPSERVATIONS NOW. “Therefore wo hil you, men and Womon of the new Russia, with heart: folt rejoicing, Now at’ Inst. we can wish all success to Russia without any misgiving or mental reserva- tions. Now wo feel that the mighty Slay republic has blazed tho trail of freedom and has won in legitimate Hashiqn the right to etand in the forefront of the onward movement of mankind. Now we have the right to expect that you will grant the amen © other races and other creeds the rights to governmontal, inte'lectual and religious liberty which you so Justly demand for yourselves. “In congratulating you and earn- ostly wishing you God speed on tho path of national greatness, I do not underestimate the grave dangers that rise before and beside you. One of our own poots has warned our peeplo that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands — of cowards; and neither is it, ono that tarries long in the posséssion — of those who lacks the indispensable virtues of common sense and. self- control. "Tho serf need develop none of these virtues; it ts enough if his ruler possesses brute strength and the unscrupulous will to profit. by tho labor of others. But tho free man must himself posses them; for tho task he fronts is as arduous as it is honorable, and the heights of glorious achievement to which he aspires aro perilous to the fect of all whose steps falter, whether from feebleness or unwisdom, | “It is because we Americans 80 ‘deoply desire the permanent triumph of democracy in Russia that with all our hearts we hop for moderation in the use of your victory. PLEA FOR WORLD FREEDOM. “And oh, my frionds, strive to so- cure liberty in tho world at large, and therefore treat as traitors to _ Perfect Phonographs at Popular Prices THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES TWAT AVE YET BEEN OFFERED 10 THE TRADE, IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $20.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET a , ee No. 1—-13x13x6 inches, - - - } $75 Worth of Umbiella Coupons No. 2.-16x16x7 inches, - - - $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons THE RICHMOND PLANET | S11N. 4th St. - -. Richmond, Va. Russia and to mankind all men! who do not insist upon your eerting every particle of your great strength {to secure complete victory over Germany and her ailies and tools, and such victory can be com: plete only when German, militarism is utterly shattered, | “So much for the Fussians. Now for curselyes. ‘Tho Russian people will have the right to regard us a nation of shams unless we ‘at once put forth all our strength to aid them. ‘The first and greatest need Is to put at the front tho largest pos: sible army of fighting men and to keep thit army constantly growing in size and efiefoncy until Germany is overthrown, ‘This is of dhe frst fmportance, and unless we do this nothing else counts, for nothing else can be accepted as a substitute for the wilt and the power to show that we possess that fighting strength the Hack of which makes all_pretention lo national greatness a sham. “Ryory man whe can render ser. vice in the fighting line should strive to get there. In addition, let ovory ‘man and woman who cannot go to the front do all that is possible in other ways—raise food for oursolves and for our allies, increase the efile Jency of our factorios, railroads and ‘shipping Mnes, subscribe to the funds which are to give us and our allies, including Russia the means to wage war. | LOAN FROM U, 8. NEEDED. “Phe crying need of the moment 1s for our Government to loan Russla the money to enable her to equip and arm and send to the front the mil- lions of her fightirg men who now lack rifles or boots or other neces: saries. “Aid the Red Cross In its work for all, and give your special support to organization tke the American Am- Dulanco in Russla, for the neod of Ruseia mM this matter is more bitter than tho necd of any of the great Powers. And especially she needs to have the Russian prisoners in Ger- many rescued from famine and dire misery. Let the Red Cross give bread to the Russian prisoners” In Germany. “The thing of first importance is to win the war. Settle the large Mines of service and Governmental policy, provisionally, at once, but leave all that can be left until after the war; treat every tneitement to civil war as treason to. humanity and bend your every energy at the moment to the overthrow of the Ger: man armies." peters WHE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TRACHERS ‘The National Association of Teach. ers in Colored Schools which holds its 14th annual Session in New Or- leans, La., July 25 tp 29, as is indi cated by the program which is being sent out, will hold the most success ful sessions in its history. President W. H. Singleton, of Chatt anooga, Tennesseo, and his officers have prep-~*: a program which will furnish data and discussion along the most improved lines of cducation, During their fir.t day, there is to be Might Dew In Some Cases Copyright, 1916, by J. Keeley. 8 conference of college presidents and school principals; presided over _ by L, J. Rowan, of Alcorn College, Miss: issippi, ‘The speakers “for this day are: President N. B, Young, of Florida; 1. S. Powell, Southern Unt versity,’ Louisiana; W. jA. Howard, of Mlorida, and Major R. R. Wright, of Georgia. ‘There will also bo als. cussions durng this sitting bearing upon Doctor Flexner’s Proposed Mod- ern School, presided over by Presi: dent Wallnco A. Battle, of Okolona, Mississippi, Another speaker for this first day will be Doctor R. R. Wright, Jr, of Philadelphia, ‘who will dis- cuss “Bottom Facts In the Negro Exodus.” At the ovening session addresses will be made by both the Mayor « Now Orleans : "id the Gc, srnor of Louis jana. The second day will be given to the work of Neg?o school supervigors under the ‘irection’ of the Jeanes' Board, Supervisors will be — present form Louis'ora, Georgiy and Alabama. Aiong the other topics for consid eration during the wee! are “Educa: tion through Recreation” and the Px tension work of thé Grant Schools ‘There will be department meetings on the Study and Teaching ef Eng: Ush, presided over by Mr. John ©. Wright, of Florida A. & M. College; oh Secondary and College Kducatior presided over by Mr. W. B. Matthews of Loutsville, Kentucky, and Blement ary Edueation, presided over by Mrs. I. M. Terrell, of Prairie View, Texas. The closing meeting will be held on Sunday afternoon, July 29, at which he speakers will be Doctor Henry Frederick Cope, General Secre tary Religious Educational Assoct- ation, of Chicago, Hiinois, and Doctor R. R. Moton, Principal Tuskegee in- stitute, Alabama. The teachers ani citizens of New Orleans havo arranged in a most ef- fective way for the entertainment of the large body of teachers who will be present. LEN = @ Hair (Mae | \ Rangear "6" \Grows Long, COP Ny du) Soft, Silky q Sa ara Genttemens. 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Roosevelt and Samuel Gompers, pres: fdont of the American Federation of Labor, swept a great meeting in Cur. negio Hall last night far from its stated purpose, which was to welcome and appland the members of the Rus- stan war mission who came to New York it the afternoon, ‘The Colonel was angered to the point of fury by an assertion by Mr Gompers that the raco riots in Bast St. Louis were caused by the impor: tation of Southern Negroes to com: pete with while labor in defiance of warning trom labor learders and the Hast St. Louis Cham! er of Commerce. Mr. Roosevelt had spoken betore Mr. Gompers, ‘but took ‘the platform again when the feleration president finished. Pounding the desk, strid- ing back and forth, marching over to Mr. Gompers and shaking a fist in his iace, ~~ decared that never would he sit silent in the presence of a man who “offered an apology for the murder of the helpless.” AU first the Colonel was wildly applauded. Most of the men and women in the crowded hall jumped to their feet and yelled “Good! Good! Good!" INTERRUPTED BY HISSHS. bs As he went on, ringing the changes on his denunciation of Mr. Gompers, who lke himself a moment before occupied jv front row seat on tho stage amid a distinguished - company, including the entire Russian commis: sion and the chairman, Mayor Mitchel, booing and hissing interrupted him and the place was a babel of indis- tinguishable sounds. Whether most of the shrioks of dis- approval wero directed at Col. Roose- velt_ or the labor leader was impos: sible to tell. Apparently some of the hullabaloo was meant for both ‘Through it all, however, ran a strong current of handclapping and cheering for the Colonel, to whom men yelled as if they thought they were watch- ing a prize fight. At one point there were cries to Mr, Gompers, “Answer htm! Auswer him!" Mr. Gompers was heard shouting, “I'l answer him after, not before.” He got no chance, however, for when Col, Roosevelt sat down the Mayor seized his gavel and, remembering that it is a long way from Petrograd to Hast St. Louis, reminded the av dience what the real intent of the meeting was and introduced the Rus: sian Ambassador and head of the mission, Boris Bakhmetiett. Before this happened, however, Mr. Gompers several Limes’ seemed tobe on the point of leaping from — his chair as Jt to demand a hearing be- fore the G:lonel got through. In fact, a man behind him threw his arms around the labor chief to re: strain him, and Jacob H. Schiff, who had been sitting near the end of the front. row, changed his seat so_ he would be nearer the excited Mr. Gore pers. POLICEMEN ON GUARD. Plain clothes policemen in the cor- ridor flocked to the wings of the stage and the galleries at a moment when Col. Roosevelt was saying he had al- ways looked out for the rights of labor himself and men in tho gallery screamed “You never did! you never did!” As for the Colonel, when the spat was ended and he had had his full say, he retired to his. chair and beamed with the look of a man who feels that he has beaten his antag- onist to a frazzle. It was the Colonel himself who in- Jected East St. Louis into the pro- ceeding. Ho prefaced hig prepared speech with’ an amplification of the race riot remarks that he made at Forest Hills Gardens on the Fourth of July, He said that before “we speak of giving Justice to othors it behooves us to see that justice is done within our own household. He Charley Recipient of Real Sad News nny THE RENT oF : THIS OFFICE 1s DUE a. v a a Ge i RN EN, 2 al BP ay ZN GY \er \ea ag Arie [HSS ee Charley Chaplin’s Comic Capers else when you do not dare to enforce decency in your own province. “So much,” chuckled the Colonel, “tor this brief eulogy of my fellow citizens.” All this, was cheered, every sen- tence of it ‘The Colonel then read this typewritten speech, GOMPER'S EXPLANATION. ‘The next speaker was Mr. Gompers. “L should like to expain about Hast St. Louis," he said, after prats- ing everything else “the Colonel had said. "I wish I had with me a tole: gram I received tonight from the sec- retary o1 the Illinois Mederation of Labor. It explains the whole sitta- tion. Not only labor men, but the Chamber of Commerce warned those who were luring colored men from the South to undermine the workers of Kast. St. Louis. Hundreds of thou- sands were brought in and there was no place for’ them to lay. their heads, Luring them there was no more (than a working of the same bratal, tyrannical forces that existed in old Russia. ‘There is altogether too musn injustice prevailing in free America, (Groans and. hisses), but there is a lazger percentage of’ free- dom and justice than im any other country.” Mr. Gompers then told why the American Federation of Labor had not looked with favor on ‘the calling of carly peace conferences, saying the agitation to that end was either the result af German propaganda or of neutrals fearful of their own exist: ence. He said the “man power and the wealth power of America was: pledged to the Allies to the end,” and that he himself had been con- verted from pacifism to the realiza- tion that “We have got to fight; we can't help ourselves.” xcept for the hissing al the point indicated, Mr, Gompers's speceh was hailed with approval. ‘The Mayor stepped torward and was about. to introduce Prof. Bakhimetieit when Col, Roosevelt, who had been fidget ing while Mr. Gompers was “ex- plaining” the riots, darted from his chair, ' “May I say another word," he said, waving & programme in his right hand and obviously boiling with sup- pressed feeling, “Iam not willing.” he went on, biting off each word as if it were X soft nosed bullet, “that a meeting called to commemorate the birth of ft democracy in Russia shall even seem to have given any approval or accepted any apology for the brutal infamy imposed on’ Negroes or col- ored men.” Most of the andionce sprang to its feet, yelling for the Colonel, SHAKES FIST AT GOMPERS. “Justice,” he continued, “is not merely words. It is (0 be translated into living acts, and how can we praise the people of Russia if we by explanation, silence or evasion apol- oxize for juurdering the — helpless. (Cheers.) In the past 1 have lis- tened to the same form of exeuse from the Russian autocracy for the programs inflicted on the Jews. Shalt we by silence acquisce in this amazing apology for the murder ot men, women and children in our own country?” ‘There was noise all over the hall, ut it was all in the Colonel's favor. Miting the speaker's table with his fist after every word, he said: “UM do everything for the Jabor- ing man except that y hich is wrong, and that I will not do for any man or cause. I care not a snap of my finger"’—here the Coknel walked aver to Mr. Gompers and shook his fist within a foot of the Gompers nose—“for a telegram from the head of the strongest labor union in Mli- nois. ‘This thing took place in a Northern State, where the whites cotnumber the Negroes twenty — to one, and if in that city white men cannat protect their rights by their voles against an insignificant’ minor- ity and have to murder women and children, then the State that sent Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency must bow its head in shame,” Col. Roosevelt still stood over Mr. Gompers pointing his foretnger, then shaking his fist and talking right at the labor president so everybody could hear. It was at this point that the cries “Answer him, i..swer him!” began, and Mr. Gompers, half rising THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINTA from his chair, yolled back, “I'll an- swer him after, not before.” ‘There was & gush of hisses from many paris ot the hall, mingled with shouts of “Go ahead!" After him, ‘teddy! Grpd, good!" “Oh, Oo000n!" “Or. der!” “Sit down!” “Do it again!” “Why don't you answer?" and the Hike. ‘The Colonel was talking all the time, but the only phrase identified 4 this moment was “the murderers.” Leaving Mr. Gompers, who had been clutches by jumped back to the edge of the stage iad shouted above the booing and groaning: “I Will Ko to any extreme neces- sary to bring Justice to the labcring man, to assure him his necesary placo-—" “You never did it, you never did it!” volloyed several Voices trom a baleony. “——and to prevent his exploita- tian,” went on the Colonel, “but when there is murder Tl put it down and TN never submit to it, We gathered here to greet the men of the new Russia, which has been founded on the pri..ciple of justice to all, “and on such an evening never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder ot the helpless.” ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH. Col. Roosevelt in his prepared speech said in part: “Lam sure 1 express the feclings of my tellow countrymen when I say it is a matter of heartfelt re- Joicing among all the people of the United States to greet and to welcome (iis deputation from the new Russia, the great Russian democracy. As a nation we have for many years felt & peentiar sympathy with and ad- miration for the mighty Slay people of the forest of the steppe, for the young giant among nations, which as yet has but halt ‘developed its tro- mendous strength. “In the past this ardent sympathy With and hepe for the Russian peo- plo in America has had to struggle With a shocked disbolief in autocracy and with the whole policy of reaction and obscurantism., We love the brave, patient, hard working, long suffering Russian people, but we were repelled by the tyfanny which bore down with an iron hand on the lead- ers of social and intellectual liberty, which persecuted the Jews, — which dominecred over the Pole and Lith- uanian, which deprived the Finn of The self-government due him by. sol emm covenant and which was dread ed beyond measure by the Armenian and the dweller in the Caucasians. “We held as our fdeal the hope Uhat ultimately the mighty Russian Lmpire might stand as here we at least try to stand, so that Jew and Catholic and Protestant might feel their consciences as free as the con- science of the orthodox, and a self governing Vinland or the Caucasus or Armenia enjoy within the empire the liberty that New York and ‘Texas enjoy within this Union, NO RESERVATIONS NOW. “Therefore we hail you, men and women of the new Russia, with heart- felt rejoicing, Now at last we can wish all success to Russia without any misgiving or mental resorva- tions. Now we feel that the mighty Slay repuolie has blazed the trail of freedom and has won in legitimate Washiqn the right to stand in the forefront of the onward movement of mankind. Now we have the right to expeet that you will grant the men ©* other races and other creeds the rights to governmental, intelectual and religions liberty which you so Justly demand for yourselves. “In congratulating you and earn. esily wishing you God speed on the path of national greatness, I do not underestimate the grave — dangers that rise before and beside you. One of our own poets las warned our peeple that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands — of cowards; and neither is it, one that turries long in the — posséssion — of those who lacks the — indispensable virtues of common sense and. selt- control, ‘The serf need develop none of these virtues; it is enough if his ruler possesses brute strength and the unscrupulous will to profit” by the labor of others. But the tree man must himself posses them; for the task he fronts is as arduous as it is honorable, and the heights of glorious achievement to which he aspires are perilous to the feet of all whose steps falter, whether from feebleness or unwisdom, “It is because we Americans so deeply desire the permanent triumph of democracy in Russia that with all our hearts we hop for moderation in the use of your victory. 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Russia and to mankind all men who do not insist upon your certing every particle of your great strength to “secure complete victory over Germany and her allies and tools, and such vietory can be com- plete only when German militarism is utterly shattered. : “So much for the Russians. Now for curselyes. ‘The Russian people will have the right to regard us a nation of shams unless we at once pat forth all our strength to aid them. ‘The first and greatest need is to put at the front the largest pos: sible army of fighting men and to keep um army constantly growing in size and efficioney until Germany is overthrown. ‘This is of she first importance, and unless we do this nothing else counts, for nothing else can be accepted as a substitute for the will and the power to show that we possess that fighting strength the lack of which makes all pretention lo national greatness a sham, . “Every man who ean render ser- vice in the fighting line should strive to get there. In addition, let. every man and woman who cannot go to the front do all that is possible in other ways—raise food for ourselves and for our allies, inerease the ete: iency of our factories, railroads and shipping lines, subscribe to the funds which are to givo us and our allies, including Russia the means to wage war. ' LOAN FROM U. 8. NEEDED. “The crying need of the moment is for our Government to loan Russla the money to enable her to equip and arm and send to the front the mil- lions of her fightirg men whe now lack rifles or boots or other neces: saris. “Aid the Red Cross in its work for all, and give your special support to organization like the American Am bulanee in Russia, for the need of Russia in this matter is more bitter than the need of any of the great Powers. And especially she needs to have the Russian prisoners in Ger- many rescued from famine and dire misery, Let the Red Cross give bread to the Russian prisoners — in Germany, “The thing of first importance is to win the war. Settle the large lines af service and Governmenta! policy, provisionally, at onee, — but leave ‘all that can be lett until atter the war; treat every incitement to civil war as treason to humanity, and bend your every energy at the moment to the overthrow of the Ger man armies.” THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TRACHERS ‘The National Association of ‘each: ergs in Colored Schools which holds its 1th annual Session in New Or. leans, La., July 25 to 29, as is indi. cated by the program which is being sent out, will hold the most success ful sessions in its history. President W. H. Singleton, of Chatt anooga, ‘Tennesseo, and his officers have prep-"-" a program which will furnish data and discussion along the most improved lines of education. During their fir.t day, there is to ke A conference of college presidents and school principals; presided over by L. J. Rowan, of Alcorn College, Miss: issippi. ‘The speakers ‘for this day are: President. N. 1B. Young, of Florida; 1. 8. Powell, Southern’ Unt- versity, Louisiana; W. A. Howard, ot Mlorida, and Major BR! R. Wright of Georgia. There will ‘also be dis: cussions durng this. sitting bearing upon Doctor Flexner's Proposed Mod ern School, presided over by Presi dent Wallace A, Battle, of Okolona, Mississtppi. Another speaker for this first day will be Doctor R, R. Wrist, Jr, of Philadelphia, ‘who will dis cuss “Bottom Facts In the Negro Exedus.” AL the evening session addresses will be made by both the Mayor « New Orleans «ad the Gu, srnor of Louis jana. The second day will be given tv the work of Neg*o school supervisors under the “irection of the Jeans Board, Supervisors will bo present form Louis'aya, Coorgiy and Alabama Ai ong the other topies for consid eration dering the wee! are “Educa tion through Recreation” and the Bs tension work of the Grant Schoots ‘Phere will he department meetings on the Study aad ‘Teaching ef Eny lish, presided over by Mr. John C Wright. of Florida A. & M. College; oh Secondary and College ducati ior presided over by Mr, W. B, Matthews ©F Louisville, Kentneky, and Element ary Edueation, presided over hy. Mrs. 1M. Terrell, of Prairie View, ‘Texas. ‘The closing meeting will be held on Sunday atternoon, July 29, at which the speakers will he Doctor Henry Frederick Cope, General Secre tary Religions Kducational Assoct~ Might Dew In Some Cases Copyright, 1916, by J. Keeley. ation, of Chicago, illinois, and Doctor KR. I. 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The Southern Aid Society --- --- ```markdown ``` Of all investments that of insurance is the safest, because it pays at the crucial moment-it is not subject to the money market or the rise and fall of stocks and bonds; but pays promptly upon the death of each policy-holder. Insurance that covers the whole field of life's emergencies in one policy. Sickness, Accident and Death, and perpetual in payments for disabilities. Then why not select the best that is Society of Va., Inc.? Also owning an folk, Va. Read a few testimonials from PAID 178 WEEKS' SICK BENEFITS WITHOUT INTERRUPTION AMOUNTING TO $529.75. 2315 Green St., Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. Richmond, Va. 2315 Green St., Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. Richmond, Va. Gentlemen:—I wish to express my thanks to you for the kindness shown me during the long illness of my son, Howard Lewter, who is insured with your Society under policy No. 96,885. He was sick for 178 weeks, (from Dec. 1913 to May 1917.) During this period of illness you paid to him, cash in hand $529.75. Your superintendent and agent paid these weekly sick claims each and every week, promptly, cheerfully and without complaint. Yours is the only insurance company I ever heard of issuing a perpetual payin sick and accident policy; that is, paying for each and every week of sickness until death complaint. I willingly recommend the Southern Aid Society to any one who wishes to join company that really insures perpetually against sickness and accidents. Sincerely and gratefully, (Mrs.) FANNIE WALTON. PAID $503.75 SICK BENEFITS ON 10c. POLICY AND $35.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPT LY. POLICY NO. 447 ON MARY F. ANDERSON. Farrington, Hanover Co., Va., R. F. D. No. 1, Box 41. To The Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. Mr. W. A. Jordan, Supt. Dear Friends:—I thank you very much for the check you sent me and I hope the Lord will ever bless and prosper you and the Society. Gentlemen:—I wish to express my thanks to you for the kindness shown me during the long illness of my son, Howard Lewter, who is insured with your Society under policy No. 96.885. He was sick for 178 weeks, (from Dec. 1913 to May 1917.) During this period of illness you paid to him, cash in hand $529.75. Your superintendent and agents paid these weekly sick claims each and every week, promptly, cheerfully and without a Yours is the only insurance company I ever heard of issuing a perpetual paying sick and accident policy; that is, paying for each and every week of sickness until death, complaint. I willingly recommend the Southern Aid Society to any one who wishes to join a company that really insures perpetually against sickness and accidents. Sincerely and gratefully, (Mrs.) FANNIE WALTON. PAID $503.75 SICK BENEFITS ON 10c. POLICY AND $35.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPT-LY. POLICY NO. 447 ON MARY F. ANDERSON. Farrington, Hanover Co., Va., R. F. D. No. 1, Box 41. To The Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. Mr. W. A. Jordan, Supt. Dear Friends:—I thank you very much for the check you sent me and I hope the Lord will ever bless and prosper you and the Society. From Yours Sincerely, Mrs. JAS. F. A. JOHNSON. PAID $200.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY, AFTER PAYING SICK CLAIMS OF HUSKY BAND PROMPTLY EACH WEEK DURING LONG ILLNESS. 267—8th Ave., N. W., Roanoke, Va., Dec. 4, 1916. Southern Aid Society, Richmond, Va. Gentlemen—I feel that too much cannot be said in praise of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia for its very prompt and courteous way in which it has transacted business during my husband's long illness. I am glad to register my high regards for the dignity and efficiency as seen in your Roanoke office. Since my husband first reported sick your district office paid him promptly until his death November 30, 1916, and on December 4, 1916, paid the death claim of $200.00. I gladly recommend the Southern Aid Society for its promptness and efficiency. I am very truly yours, MRS. VAN LUCAS. PAID $200.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY, AFTER PAYING SICK CLAIMS OF HUSBAND PROMPTLY EACH WEEK DURING LONG ILLNESS. 267—8th Ave., N. W., Roanoke, Va., Dec. 4, 1916. Southern Aid Society, Richmond, Va. Gentlemen. I feel that too much cannot be said in praise of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia for its very prompt and courteous way in which it has transacted business during my husband's long illness. I am glad to register my high regards for the dignity and efficiency as seen in your Roanoke office. Since my husband first reported sick your district office paid him promptly until his death November 30, 1916, and on December 4, 1916, paid the death claim of $200.00. I gladly recommend the Southern Aid Society for its promptness and efficiency. I am very truly yours. MRS. VAN LUCAS. --- SATURDAY July --14 ```markdown ``` $5.50 PER WEEK PAID FROM DEC. 9, 1915 TO JUNE 2, 1916. $210.00 DEATH CLAIM PAID PROMPTLY. Winchester, Va., January 27, 1917. To Mr. Thos. M. Crump, Secretary, Southern Aid Society. We highly recommend the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., the only company that pays you as long as you are sick, and for any disease that you have. Through their superintendent, Mr. Henry C. Baker, we have received Two Hundred and Ten Dollars, ($210.00), the full amount due us in settlement of the death claim of our beloved mother, the late Mrs. Mary Ford. Her weekly sick benefits of $5.50 were also promptly paid to us each and every consecutive week during her long ill- ness from December 9, 1915, to June 2, 1916. No one should fall to insure with the Southern Aid Society. With pride and gratitude, MARY A. BARRETT, OLLIE FORD, JUNIUS FORD, FRED FORD, GODREY FORD MRS. LELIA V. JAMES, 1104 CHAFFIN ST., RICHMOND VA., WAS PAID EACH WEEK FOR SIX MONTHS FROM DEC. 6, 1916, TO JUNE 6, 1917. TOTAL SICK BENEFITS DRAWN DURING SIX AND ONEHALF YEARS MEMBERSHIP, $217.50. DEATH CLAIM PAID $500.00, MAKING TOTAL PAYMENTS OF $717.50. PREMIUMS PAID TO SOCIETY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS AND EIGHTY CENTS Richmond, Va., July 2, 1917. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that my wife, Mrs. Lolia V. James, 1104 Chaffin Street was a member of Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., for six and one-half years. During this time, she was sick on several occasions, and whenever she reported her illness to the Society she received her sick dues promptly. Her last illness extended from the latter part of November 1916 to June 1917. The Society sent her money to her bedside each week from Dec VIRGINIA BENETICAL INSURANCE CO. VA. BEN. & INS. CO. BUILDING policy that pays every week with Southern Aid the Va. Beneficial and Insurance Co., Inc., at Nor-nds that are on file in home office at Richmond, Va. PAID MOTHER SICK BENEFITS FOR NINE MONTHS AND $250.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY. 912 Rome Street, Petersburg, Va., Oct. 18, 1916. Southern Aid Society, Petersburg District. Gentlemen,—I wish to express many thanks for the promptness in paying my mother, Mrs. Alice Hill, during her continued illness of nine months, and the immediate payment of the death claim of $250.00. Very truly yours, DELLA HAWKS. PAID 20 WEEKS' SICK BENEFITS AMOUNTING TO $87.00 AND THE DEATH CLAIM ON $65.00 PROMPTLY. 1020 Palmer Street, Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., 527 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen,—On behalf of myself and children I wish to thank you for your very courteous and prompt attention to my beloved husband, Edward Garland, policy No. 93247, who was sick for twenty weeks consecutively from January to May, prior to his death. Paying him during that illness $87.00 in weekly sick benefits and the death claim of $65.00 promptly without any deductions. In all my dealings with your superintendent and agents, I was shown every courtesy that could be desired. May God ever bless you and enable you to continue the good work. Very gratefully yours, MRS. MAGGIE GARLAND. 1007 Sixth Street, Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 10, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen,—Kindly accept my sincere thanks for your check of $500 in full payment of death claim of my husband, Dr. Thos. A. Stevens, who died February 6, 1917. The above named check was delivered to me Thursday, Feb. 8, 1917, by your superintendent, Mr. R. D. Burton. I shall always speak in the highest terms of your company, and pray God's blessings upon the work. is second to none in this country. I wish you continued success in your good work. Very truly yours, WILLIAM JENKINS. $100.00 SICK CLAIMS—$250.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY PAID. Camp Grove, Danville, Va., Feb. 2, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen—Please accept our sincere thanks for your kind and prompt attention to my beloved husband, Mr. Wm. Watkins, during his long illness and on account of which you paid $100.00 in sick benefits; also for your prompt payment of his death claim of $250.00. Your company leads all others. I will not fall to recommend the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., to each and every one. I hope that 1917 will add 10,000 to your membership. Respectfully yours. --- RICHMOND Virginia --- Payments made on a perpetual paying Sickness, Accident and Death insurance policy are merely the accumulating of assets for your future use. Carrying Fire Insurance is prudence, but it is an expense item-Health and Life Insurance is a necessity and the payments are but a saving account. Your building may never burn, but all must take sick, get injured, or die! SICK TWO YEARS, DREW $300.00 SICK BENEFITS AND THE FULL DEATH CLAIM. Farmville, Va., April 26, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., 527 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen. I take this opportunity of expressing to you my sincere thanks for the kind treatment given to my brother during his long illness. I also want to thank your agent, Mr. Jackson Glaze, who was so business-like in his dealings with him and his family. My brother, Ben Woodson, was sick in last illness nearly two years, and according to your policy he was paid each and every week during the whole parlor. He received about $300.00 in Sick Benefits. Notwithstanding this fact, we received the full amount of his death claim. I therefore take great pleasure in recommending to the general public, the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., and that its policy is superior to all others I know of. AUGUSTUS WOODSON. Witness: P. W. Moore, Jackson Glaze. PAID MOTHER SICK BENEFITS FOR NINE MONTHS AND $250.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY. Gentlemen,--I wish to express many thanks for the promptness in paying my mother, Mrs. Alice Hill, during her continued illness of nine months, and the immediate payment of the death claim of $250.00. I shall always speak in defense of your company. Very truly yours, DELLA HAWKS. PAID 20 WEEKS' SICK BENEFITS AMOUNTING TO $87.00 AND THE DEATH CLAIM ON $65.00 PROMPTLY. Gentlemen,—On behalf of myself and children I wish to thank you for your very courteous and prompt attention to my beloved husband, Edward Garland, policy No. 93247, who was sick for twenty weeks consecutively from January to May, prior to his death. Paying him during that illness $87.00 in weekly sick benefits and the death claim of $65.00 promptly without any deductions. In all my dealings with your superintendent and agents, I was shown every courtesy that could be desired. May God ever bless you and enable you to continue the good work. Very grateful yours, MRS. MAGGIE GARLAND. $500.00 DR. THOS. A. STEVENS' DEATH CLAIM Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., Richmond, Va., Feb. 10, 1917. Gentlemen—Kindly accept my sincere thanks for your check of $500 in full payment of death claim of my husband, Dr. Thos. A. Stevens, who died February 6, 1917. The above named check was delivered to me Thursday, Feb. 8, 1917, by your superintendent, Mr. R. D. Burton. I shall always speak in the highest terms of your company, and pray God's blessings upon the work. Respectfully, MRS. THOS. A. STEVENS. FOR INSURANCE THAT PROTECTS THE INSURED EVERY WEEK OF LIFE, AND THE WIDOW AND ORPHANS AFTER DEATH, TAKE OUT A POLICY IN SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA, INC. HOME OFFICE: 527 N. 2ND ST., RICHMOND, VA. DISTRICT OFFICES OR AGENCIES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: A. D. Price.....President Edward Stewart.....First Vice-President Jas. T. Carter.....Second Vice-President B. A. Cophas.....Third Vice-President Thos. M. Crump.....Secretary, Manager B. L. Jordan, Assistant Secretary, Manager and Auditor Walter E. Baker.....Treasurer W. A. Jordan, A. Washington, Chas. N. Jackson, W. E. Randolph. J. T. P. Cross, General Manager, Virginia Beneficial & Insurance Co., 526 Queen St., Norfolk Va. MRS. JENNIE WATKINS THE RICHMOND PLANET | RICHMOND SOUTHERN AiD SOCIETY OF VA,., Inc. 527 NORTH SECOND STREET, RICHMOND, VA. SHELLS INSURANCE THAT PROTECTS. Then why not Select the best that is to be had, a policy that pays every week with Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc.? Also owning and operating the Va. Beneficial and Insurance @o., Inc., at Norz : folk, Va. Read a few testimonials from the thousands that are on file in home office at Richmond, Va. PAID 178 WEEKS’ SICK BENEFITS WITHOUT INTERRUPTION PAID MOTHER SICK BENEFITS FOR NINE MONTHS AND $250.00 DBATIT AMOUNTING TO $529.75. Ez asa CLAIM PROMPTLY. 2316 Green St., Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917. ae So Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. Richmond, Va. ae SEEK E> 912 Rome Street, Petersburg, Va.. Oct, 18, 1916, Gentlemen:-—I wish to express my thanks to you for tho kindness shown me during OEE me - Southern Aa Socioty, Petersburg District. tho long illness of my son, Howard Lewter, who is insured with your Society under poll: _ <3 4 EPPS RON Gentlemon,—I wish ta express many thanks for the promptness in paying my ey No, 96,885, He was sick for 178 weeks, (from Dec. 1913 to May 1917.) During this E DZS ISN” S mother, Mrs. Alice Hill, during her continued illness of nine months, and the immediate period of Hiness you paid to him, cash in hand $529.75. Your superintendent and agents {<= rere ae FN 222 f — payment of the death claim of $250.00, Paid these weekly sick claims each and every week, promptly, cheerfully and without « =O SRA see Pe 2 I shall always speak in defense of your company. Yours is the only insurance company I ever heard of issuing a perpetual paying se 2 beak Very truly yours, DELLA HAWKS. alek and accident policy; that 1s, paying for each and overy week of sickness until death. EZ" FF Cel N Nea cet) : complaint. a } CE i Na =) PAID 20 WEEKS’ SICK BENEFITS AMOUNTING ‘TO $87.00 AND THE DEATH 1 willingly rocommend the Southern Ald Society to! any one who wishes to join a See) - s i tls New ay CLAIM ON $65.00 PROMPTLY, company that really insures perpetually against sickness and accidents. = BAL i = Sincerely and gratefully, (Mrs.) FANNIE WALTON. = | A a} 1020 Palmer Street, Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917. eo FA BC INU Reese? 9 Southorn Aid Society of Virginia, Inc.. 627 N. 2nd St, Richmond,’ Va. PAID $503.75 SICK BENEFITS ON 10e. POLICY AND $36.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPT. @"f=] et Fa Gentiemen,—On behalf of myself and children Y wish to thank you for your very LY. POLICY NO. 447 ON MARY F, ANDERSON. Si ie ee TNs zee courteous and prompt attention to my beloved husband, Rdward Garland, policy No. Farrington, Hanover Co., Va., R. F. D. No. 1, Box 41 7 le i fly: or 98247, who was sick for twenty weeks consecutively from January to May, prior to To The Southern Aid Soctety of Va., Inc. Mr. W. A. Jordan, Supt. ins CO BUILOING 1B Ry; his death. Paying him during that iNness $87.00 in weekly sick benofits and the death Dear Friends:—I thank you very much for the check you sent me and,I hope the SS aia claim of $65.00 promptly without any deductions, Lord will ever bless and prosper you and the Society. Ee Tn all my dealings with your superintendent and agents, 1 was shown every From Yours Sincerely, Mrs. JAS. F. A. JOHNSON. ee courtesy that could be desired, 7 ey fi —— i See May God over bless you and enable you to tontinue the good work. PAID $200.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY, AFTER PAYING SICK CLAIMS OF HUS- onal i — fl fh semen | 2) vr Very gratefully yours, MRS. MAGGIE: GARLAND. BAND PROMPTLY EACH WERK DURING LONG ILLNESS. -—| a Sa | 267—8th Ave., N. W., Roanoke, Va., Dec. 4, 1916, hE i be $600.00 DR. THOS. A. STEVENS’ DEATH CLAIM. Southern Ald Society, Richmond, Va. = a RE el ee Gentlemen.—TI feel that too much cannot be sald in praise of the “Southern Aid en | ——] pi lt is 1007 Sixth Street, Lynehburg, Va., Fob. 10, 1917. ” Soviety of Virginia for its very prompt and courteous way in which it has transacted Cpa ae Nee A Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc, Richmond, Va, business during my husband's long illness. _ id =. e, Gentiemen,—Kindly accept my sincere Hane for your check of $500 in full payment I am glad to register my high regards for the dignity and efficiency as seen in <A eg in Part ae pay Of death claim of my husband, Dr. Thos, A, Sevens, who died February 6, 1917. ‘The Four Roanoke off, Since my husband frst reported sick your district office paid St Se aR Ms MEY Shove nase meet ea anes DF. Tho ‘Thursday, Fab. 8, 1917, by your superintendent, him promptly until his death November 30, 1916, and on December 4, 1916, paid (he === se Mr. R. D. Burton. death claim of $200.00. = I shall always speak in the highest terms of you company, and pray God's I gladly recommend tho Southern Afa Society for its promptness and efficiency. oe blessings upon the work, 1am very truly yours, MRS. VAN LUCAS, Virginia Beneficial & Insurance Co.'s Bldg., Norfolk, Va. 2 Respecttuliy, MRS. THOS. A, STEVENS. _ | 4 >,4 A Ay aa OOOO 6546666464666 6660558 0% o-oo ote ote tea 2 nnn nnn nnn NN OOOO IEEE LEE LINO NOV GNE NOVI V PSO GON OVNI VP SAAN NANA EEA _ Of all investments that of insurance is the safest, because it pays at the crucial moment—it is not subject to the money market or the rise and fall of stocks and bonds; but pays promptly upon the death of each policy-holder. Insurance that covers the whole field of life’s emergencies in one policy. Sickness, Accident and Death, and per- petual in payments for disabilities, 6, 1916, to Juno 6, 1917, and at her death paid over to me the Death Claim of $500.00. I take great pleasure in recommending the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., to anyone who wants a suro policy of protection all through life. Respectfully yours, GEORGE JAMES, Husband. Witness: Clarence James. 1 ALL SICK CLAIMS AND $500.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY PAID. 222 Railroad Ave., Franklin, Va., Aug. 24, 1915. Southern Aid Society, Gentlemon,—I take very, great pleasure in writing you to thank you for tho promptness in paying the death daim of my wife, Mrs, Lizzie Jenkins, who died Aug. 13, 1915. You lost no time in paying my claim, for as soon as my dlaim reached tho home office your check for $500.00, in full sottlement, was given to mo by your super: intendent, Mr. W. R. Thomas. The Southern Aid Society SATURDAY July --14 $5.50 PER WEEK PAID FROM DEC. 9, 1915 TO JUNE 2, 1916. $210.00 DBATH CLAIM PAID PROMPTLY, Winchester, Va, January 27, 1917. To Mr. Thos. M. Crump, Secretary, Southern Ald Soclety, Wo highly recommend the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc. the only company that pays you as long as you are sick, and for any discaso that you have. ‘Through their superintendent, Mr. Henry ©, Baker, we have received ‘Two Hundrod and ‘Ten Dollars, ($210.00), the fuli amount dne us in settlement of the death claim of our beloved mother, the lato Mrs. Mary Ford. Her weekly sick benefits of $0.60 were also promptly paid to us each and evory consecutive week during her long ill ness from December 9, 1915, to: June 2, 1916. No one should fail to Insure with the Southern Aid Society. With pride and gratitude, MARY A. BARRETT, OLLIE FORD, JUNIUS FORD, FRED FORD, GODFREY FORD. MRS. LELIA V. JAMES, 1104 CHAFFIN STr., RICHMOND, VA., WAS PAID KACH WEEK FOR SIX MONTHS FROM DEC. 6, 1916, TO JUND 6, 1917. TOTAL SICK BENEFITS DRAWN DURING SIX AND ONEALF YEARS MEMBERSHIP, $217.50. DEATH CLAIM PAID $600.00, MAKING TOTAL PAYMENTS OF $717.50, PREMIUMS PAID TO SOCIETY “TWO HUNDRED AND BIGHTY DOLLARS AND BIGHTY CENTS ” Richmond, Va., July 2, 1917. ° TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: ‘This 1s to cortity that my wifo, Mrs, Lola V. James, 1104 Chatiin Strect was a member’ of Southern Aid So- cloty of Virginia, Inc., for six and one-half years. During this time, she was sick on several occasions, and when- ever sho reported her ilIness to tho Soclety she received her sick dues promptly. ‘Her last illness extended from tho latter part of November 1916 to Juno 1917. The So- elety sent her money to her bedside each weok from Dec. yr aN | eee ibe bectestoderbrltcdn| tie a au eT cote pee a SPN CAP OL P\ | RS eT RN Sree WotR el ta [QO Sy I er aed bacael cabbies eet Boe eS a eer are A et SOUTHERN AID SOCIHTY OF VA.INC.: ee RELY ih toes Paks ee: SR DR Reis Hil ae i ell ee HAR 9 | Ves (oe ses) ca tea | Hi ee Solah bee bek Se Set an aaa oe i i HEINOG Latta ce Sinha wi) © Hi i i Pant Ren is ae ; a | Pull PL 1 [eshte cP aN etre CO rie eT RCAeNR eer Ren Lee Ne es aan Eten rte eiebhriarotirinloanta henmene Southern Aid Building, Richmond, Va, is second to none in this country. I wish you continued success in your good work, | Very truly yours, WILLIAM JENKINS, $100.00 SICK CLAIMS—$250.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY PAID. Camp Grove, Danville, Va., Feb. 2, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen,—Please accept our sincere thanks for your kind and prompt attention to my beloved husband, Mr. Wm. Watkins, during his long illness and on account of which you paid $100.00 in sick benefits; also for your prompt payment of his death claim of $260.00. Your company leads all others. I will not fail to recommend the Southern Aid Society or Virginia, Inc., to! each and every one. I hope that 1917 will add 10,000 to your mom- bership. Respectfully yours, Witness: Geneva Chaney. MRS. JENNIE WATKINS. Payments made on a perpetual pay- ing Sickness, Accident and Death insur- ance policy—are merely the accumulat- ing of assets for your future use. Carrying Fire Insurance is prudence, but it is an expease item—Health and Life Insurance is a necessity and the opayments are but a saving account. Your building may never burn, but all must take sick, get injured, or die! SICK TWO YEARS, DREW $300.00 SICK BENEFITS AND THE PULL DEATH CLAIM. Farmville, Va., April 26, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., 527 N. 2nd St, Richmond, Va, Gentlemen.—1 take this opportunity, of expressing to you my sincero thanks for tho kind treatment given to my brother during his long illness. I also want to thank your ageni, Mr. Jackson Glaze, who was so business-like in his dealings with him and his family. My Ddrother, Bon Woodson, was sick In last Hiness nearly twe yoars, and according t> your poltey he was paid cach and every weok during the whole period, He Teceived about $300.00 in Sick Benefits, Notwithstanding this fact, wo received the fuil amount of his death claim, I therefore take great pleasure in recommending to the general public, tho Southern Aid Soclety of Virginia, Ine. and that its policy is suyerior to all others I know ot, AUGUSTUS WOODSON. Witness: P, W. Moore, Jackson Glaze, FOR INSURANCE THAT PROTECTS THE INSURED EVERY WEEK OF LIFE, AND TITR WIDOW AND ORPHANS AFTER DEATH, TAKE OUT A POLICY IN SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA, INC, HOME OFFICE: 627 N. 2ND ST, RICHMOND, VA, DISTRICT OFFICES OR AGENCIES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES IN THE \STATE OF VIRGINIA, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: A.D. PHICO.. 0... ceeeeeeeceeeseeescceseseeseessPresidont Edward Stowart.........cceceeeee00s First Vice-President Tas, T, Carters... .eeceeeseeseeees Second: Vice-President B.A. Cophas......seeeeeccceeeesssePhird Vice-President Thos. M, Crump. .........s...G.s++.Seerelary, Manager ‘B. L. Jordan, Assistant Secretary, Manager and Auditor Walter H. BaKOr.....eveeeeesscteeescerese se TPOASUTOr W. A. Jordan, A. Washington, Chas. N. Jackson, W. BR. Randolph. | J.T. P. Cross, General Manager, Virginia Beneficial & Insurance Co., 526 Queen St., Norfolk Va_ THE RICHMOND PLANET To Arms! Ye Ethiopians Once more shall wake the day,— A joyful summons to the brave, To rally for the fray, To gird your country round; with swords, Make lighting on her way! The call each Ethiopian heart With War's fierce rapture fills The cry that in the traitors veins The coward current chills— Let it ring up from the valleys, And roll along the hills! Let it sound amid the mountain land, That mighty gathering cry— Go up from steep, and crag, and cliff, Clear terrible, and high Like the mingling of all fearful sounds Of vengeance and of woe,— Like the rush of fire, the roar of floods, When wintry tempests blow,— Like the thunder of the avalanche, It shall sweep against the foe! God of the nations. They didst hear Ethiopia's patient prayer, From the prison of her hoodage And the nif'at of her despair, When the groanings of her spirit Were burdening all the air! Thou mingled flash upon her darkness A great and sudden light; Didst break her chains, and lead her forth, And gldr her for the fight With the weapons of thine anger, And the armor of thy might! Once more be thy victorious strength On mortal hearts out poured; Take Thou the blood-guilt from out strife, And sanctify the aword strife in our Forgiveness for light Make bare thine arm, O Lord! Bless Thou Our banners till their folds On Freedom's ramparts wave, And shade the patriots holy rest; O, strengthen, guides and save Our Prophet—Hers to the end,— God of the struggling brave! ROBERT DANGERFIELD CRAWLEY (June 1917.) THE AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL EIGHTH SESSION, SESSION Despite the general unrest growing out of conditions created by the conflict in which the world is now engaged, the eighteenth annual session of the A. and T. Summer School open ed June 25 with an excellent enrollment of teachers from four states, the District of Columbia and three foreign Carolina are between Counties of North Carolina and South Carolina of students is made up of teachers who are preparing themselves to meet the additional demands of racial up lift in the immediate future and to cope with the call to new fields of activity that must follow in the wake of the present world war. The aim of the college is to meet the demand of those who are preparing themselves for better service and has called to the work in the summer school special offered. Much time branches of work offered. Much time branches of work designed for increasing interest in the production, conservation and preservation of foodstuffs. For nearly a quarter of a century this college has contributed nobly to the Negroes' advancement by means of its excellent facilities for good technical training in the regular session and special training given to teachers during the summer normals that have been held regularly for the past eighteen years. A survey of the present activities of the college is sufficient to assure the most casual observer that this noted institution has lost none of its pristine virtues and that it is yet one of the most productive agencies for the uplift of the youth of an asynchronous race. The work of the summer school is under the direct supervision of Dr. S. B. Jones, Director of the Academic Department of the college, with the assistants: Profs. J. H. Bluford W. N. Nelson, W. E. Hooker, C. Winslow, W. E. Low, C. L. Foster, C. S. Wynns, A. L. Mehane, D. J. Jordan, F. D. Bluford, F. C. Johnson, C. R. Reid, D. C. Fleming, W. H. Markham, Dr. J. W. V. Cordile, Dr. E. L. Horne, Mesdames Joseph McConnell, L. B. Yayoc, and Misses A. L. Hairs, E. R. Truman, Willie G. Brown, Diana S. Dont, T. Maud Nichols and Eva M. Burrell. 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 Duckroe with Mount O. PROBLEMS OF THE NEGRO EXODUS (First prize oration, delivered at commencement of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., by Henry R. Proctor, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga.) The fact of the migration of Negroes in large numbers from the South to the North is well established. Whether or not we have the courage to declare them publicly, the causes of this migration, both social and economic are clearly understood. I wish briefly to consider in the time or time not the fact of this migration, or the few of the problems incident to the adjustment of large numbers of southern Negroes to Northern city life which must inevitably flow out of this movement. These problems relate to the health, housing and sanitation, clivic department, and religious life of the migrating colored workmen; and their solution presents opportunities of far reaching social service to two classes of our own people to prevent the classes of our own people to measure the awakening of the same hundred movement in the North and East that our people are seeking to escape by turning their faces away from the South. This opportunity is presented in the first place to young Negro men and women with college training who possess broad vision, deep insight, initiative and perseverance to become instrumental in the organization of these problems, and in the solution of these problems, and in the second place to Negroes already established in centers who may aid the former by their means. Affiliates, professional services and knowledge of dangers to be avoided. One of the first problems sure to confront the Negro in his newly-found northern home will be the task of keeping well. Unused, as he climates, the Negroes of a northern climate, the Negroes of a not sufficiently informed and cautious will fall an easy victim to many diseases of which he knows little in the South. The Negro who has left the farms of the South, and even the small southern towns, will find in the congested residence districts and squiggle tenements of the North a condition of living entirely now to him, accustomed as he is to the open air of his rural home in the south. Proper housing and sanitation will therefore be required to this newly transported laborer in ready we hear reports of conditions in which thirty and forty Negroes are living in six-room apartments in the city of Chicago. Released from the caste restrictions of the South, the Negro in his new northern home can very easily make himself obnoxious to his new neighbors, in taking advantage of heretofore forbidden plenaries and privileges, and soon find himself subjected to the segregation and discrimination from which he was fleeing in the South. The manner, therefore, in which the problem of civic deportment is met will determine to a large extent the future status of all Negroes in the North. There are two other real dangers to be faced, namely that of harmful amusements and of alienation from the church and its influence. As soon as the new arrival in the North secures adequate employment, he will begin to look about for places in which to spend his money, and it is likely that the slums and lower forms of amusement will present to him the greatest attraction. Thus the problem of wholesome amusement must also be reckoned with, and a solution found. Touching the influence of the church it has been said that the Negro is essentially a religious creature, and in the South he is bound almost as closely to the church as he is to the church. But the northern curch with its congregation and minister may not welcome him with warmth and hospitality which characterizes the southern church, and it is very highly probable that the Negro is to the North, will drift away from the church and its beneficial restraints if some influence is not exerted to make him as much at home in the splendid church in Ohio as he did in the simple one in Louisiana. These then are some of the problems and the question arises as to how they are to be met. A few years ago the first question arising would have related to the financing of such work as might have been designed to solve these problems but philanthropy has decided that any well regulated work for the benefit of humanity, need not be hindered by lack of financial support, so we may waive that question here. It seems to me that the following plan can be followed with advantage by any earnest and consecrated work or in his efforts to solve the problems arising from the exodus. First, there should be the organization of free medical clinics. The phrasal clans cooperating in this work would not only render professional services to those already stricken, but would also administer advice regarding the prevention of illness, and the safeguarding of health. Second there should be a securing of better housing conditions. The success of this part of the work would depend in a large degree upon the ability of the wroker to secure the co-operation of the real estate and renting agents operating in those to callities most thickly populated with Negroes, and of the city health officials. Third, the institution of lectures on city deportment would be a movement of greater value. These lectures should be delivered by influential men of the community, Negro and white, and would relate to such matters as conduct in public places, street cars, theaters, and the like. If other classes and places should prove impractical these lectures might be delivered during the noon hour in establishments where large numbers of Negroes are employed. In the next place there should be the encouragement of a preference for wholesome amusement. This is a most difficult task, for it has been the experience of social workers that most people resent any attempt at the intrusion upon or regulation of their leisure time. However, many large manufacturing concerns notable among which are the General Electric Company, the National Cash Regulator Company and Sears, Roebuck and Company, have instituted free libraries, gymnasiums, moving picture shows and many other perfectly harm less forms of amusements and recreation for their employees, and they have proved to work to the advantage of the employer as well as the employer. Working in co-operation with the employers of large numbers of Negroes might follow the example of these large concerns in his effort to encourage the preference for wholesome amusement. Finally, the new-comor should be kept in touch with the church and its influence. This work will consist in interesting the ministers first probably through ministerial associations and the congregation next. In the newly arrived Negroes, and in seeing to it that the right hand of Christian fellowship is extended as heartily to them in the North, as in the South. the South. Many other problems would present themselves for solution, such as the care of small children in the tenement districts, and the problem of home economics in a large city contrasted with the same in a small southern rural community of town. Those and other problems would fall low in natural sequence, but I believe that the first five are of fundamental importance. These problems demand immediate and careful attention if our people are not to find in the North embarrassments even greater than those he left in his southern home. If we do not guard against these dangers not only will the rights and liberties to be held across the Mason and Dixon line as a mirage across the desert but the race the country over will suffer a serious set back. In the name of our race therefore and the greater human race, of which our own is a part, I appeal to the thoughtful, educated men and women everywhere particularly of our own race to help ease means for the solution of these own problems, so that our cause may not lose at a time when the poor and oppressed of all lands are catching sight of the dawning of a better day. Mr. Lewis Booker announces the marriage of his daughter, Rosa B. Booker, to Mr. Matthew Patterson, Tuesday, July 3, 1917, Rev. Z. D. Lewis officiating. At home Thursday, July 19, 1917 1127-A* James Street, from 8:30 to 10:30 P. M. Friends are invited; 10 cards. IN MEMORIAM. PRYOR—Entered into perfect rest three years ago—July 9, 1914—beloved mother and wife, Mrs. Eliza J. Pryor, leaving a sorrowing husband and six children to mourn their loss. It was so hard to part with you; Oh, so hard to see you die. But some day we hope to meet you, Some sweet day, bye and hye. PASSED AWAY. Little Ashby, the infant baby of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Watson died Sunday July 8th 1917 at 9:05 o'clock P. M., at the residence of his parents 1107 N.1st, St. Funeral at the residence. Rev. W. H. Stokes. Ph.D., officiating. THE FEDERAL CONFERENCE ON THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC THE PRESIDENT OF THE LIBERIAN REPUBLIC, FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES AND UNITED STATES MINISTER, JAMES L. CURTIS. On May 7th, the Republic of Liberia announced through its Secretary of State that it had severed relations with Germany. Public recognition of this important step was made by the Entente Powers through the presence of the British Man of War "Bacchante" in Monrovia Harbor which fired the presidential salut of twenty-one guns. The Captain J. G. Armstrong, R. N., came ashore and accompanied by the American Minister, French Charged' Affaires and British Consul General, called at the State Department and later at the Executive Mansion, where a conference was held touching Liberia's part in the world's war. On May 8th, a State Luncheon was held at the Executive Mansion compilatory to Captain Armstrong, att which time the ship's band entertained the multitudes from the veranda of the "Mansion." Minister James L. Curtis responded to the toast "The Foreign Representatives and sat down amid great applause. The photograph enclosed was taken at the conclusion RECEIVED COMMISSION. Dr. U. F. Bass coached of this city, has received his commission as first Lieut. in the Officers Medical Reserve Corps. Dr. Bass expects to be assigned to a division at an early date. SPARTAN CARNIVAL A Grand Carnival will be given by the Spartan Literary and Athletic Association, on the Armstrong High School Grounds, one week beginning Monday night, July 16th, ending Saturday night, July 21st. Special attractions every night, including automobile riding, hitting sand, chicken frying, dancing, telling stories, key, dancing, fortune telling, etc. Excellent music and refreshments. Price of admission, 10 cents; children, 5 cents. IDEAL SOCIETY TO HOLD FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. The National Ideal Benefit Society of the Richmond Dist. will celebrate its fifth anniversary Sunday afternoon, July 15 at 3:30 o'clock P. M. at Moor St. Baptist Church, the pastor, Rev. R. O. Johnson, D. D., will preach to the Order, Mr. A. W. Holmes, Surgeon Master will offer an address. Music will be furnished byIONAL Ideal choir. The men of the Order will march from the Ideal Hall to the Church. The public is cordially invited. "Grandma! O Grandma! I don't see no boy scout... like me!" "Stop asking questions. See you, at you're about or with this strap I make you a scout.—Full well you know, you are where the breezes blow, with Me O of the luncheon on the steps of two "Manaon" and in the group from left to right, front row are Ministers James L. Curtis, President; D. E. Howard and Captain J. G. Armstrong of the British Cruiser "Bacchante" and second row, French Charged "Affaires E. Baret, Secretary of State C. D. B. King and British Consul General al M. Y. H. Parks. On May 12th, a return Luncheon was given at the American Legation by the representatives of the United States, France and Great Britain which were covered by the Ameriçan Minister and on Thursday May the 17th the representatives of the United States, Great Britain and France were guests of Captain Arm strong aboard the "Bacchante" to luncheon at 12 o'clock noon. The French Cruiser "Duplex" arrived in Monrovia on the 17th and on Sunday afternoon, the 20th, at the American Legation茶庄 was poured for the officers of the French and British Cruisers by Mrs. Curtis, the wife of the American Minister representing the United States, Madame LeSur representing France, Mrs. O'Connell representing Great Britain, and Mrs. King, wife of the Liberian Secretary of State, representing Liberia. MAJOR R. R. JACKSON TAKES IS SUE WITH BARNETT'S. "Incendiarism," is the way Major R. R. Jackson, member of the Illinois general assembly characterizes the advice of former State's Attorney F. L. Barnett that Negroes in Chicago buy guns. I dissent from the view of F. L. Barnett that "one or two guns would not be too much in Negro households" as a prerequisite against violence that may arise in Chicago," he declared. "To say such things is incendiarism." "Conditions here are not as they are in East St. Louis. The greater priority (I Negroes here are hard working and are striving, to better their condition. My impression is that many of the Negroes in East St. Louis are of the hoodium class." —Mrs. R. patient. Wesley is nursing a very sick patient at Trevillans, Va. —Mrs. Susie Baker Harris, formerly of Richmond, but now residing in Philadelphia, Pa., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Baker, 909 N. 7th S' —Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Davenport of New York are visiting their parents Mr. Jaco$^{b}$ and Mrs. Alice Davenport of Woodville. They spent last Sunday afternoon with their uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Davenport. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Bowers left for Jersey City, July 1, for his vacation with his aunt Mrs. Alice B. Vandunk. America! I wish I could sing that song with all my heart and soul! But breezes from o'er Butt'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. CELIBRATE 60TH ANNIVERSARY Members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church are making preparations to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of the Christian Recorder published at Philadelphia, Pa. The Anniversary will be held during the last week in July. At the recent meeting of the Bishops hold at Wil伯力，Ohio, a proclamation was issued calling upon the members of the Church and its friends to celebrate this anniversary in appropriate fashion. The Christian Recorder is the old est race journal now in existence. It was founded in 1852 in Philadelphia, where it has existed ever since. Is it the only race newspaper which helped to fight for the abolition of slavery which is now in existence. Some of the most brilliant men of the race have filled its editorial chair. Its first editor was Rev. Marcellus M. Clark, who was one of the very few Negroes to graduate from college dur the first half of the 19th century; Rev. (afterwards Bishop) Jabez P. Bishop, Rev. Elisha Lawer, Rev. (now Bishop) R. Lee, Rev. R. (now Bishop) B. R. Lee, Rev. H. T. Johnson. The present editor is Rev. R. R. Wright, Ph. D. who serves in the double capacity of Editor of the Christian Recorder and manager of the Book Concern. When Dr. Wright was made editor at the age of thirty, he was the youngest, man ever so honored by the church, from the point of view of education he was one of the best prepared, having made a writer quite an envious record as a writer of the Bible or to his election to this position. He is a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied in the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, Germany. The Christian Recorder is the nation's organ of the A. M. E. Church and is circulated in all parts of the United States, in South America and the cities and South Africa, and numbers among its contributors some of the ablest men and women of the race. According to the Bishop's Proclamation every one of the seven thous and African Methodist Churches is called upon to celebrate this anniversary in a very tangible and helpful way, by helping to pay off the debt $15.00. Indications are that this debt will be paid off on the day named, the fifth Sunday in July. Already many have subscribed, many of the Bishops themselves leading off, with $100 or more. General Officers have subscribed, and leading men both ministers and laymen of the Church, in Georgia, Tex as, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, South and North Carolina and other states have subscribed from $5 to $100. The have to is to pay off the debt so that it will have Wright opportunity to develop a plan in keeping with the greatness of the A. M. E. Church, and give it a subscription list of one hundred thousand. THE PUBLICATION BOARD Waco, Texas.—The Texas Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias hold the most successful session ever held in its history last week in this city, Prof. W. S. Willis, who has been endowment secretary for a number of years, was made Grand Chancellor, succeeding Dr. A. N. Prince, who retired, after having served the jurisdiction, or eleven years. There was much regret expressed over the detachment of Dr. Prince, because of the improvements made under his administration and the erection of the Pythian Temple costing $116,000 and was dedicated one year ago. The other officers elected were: A. N. Prince, past grand chancellor; T. K. Price, of Mexia, vice grand chancellor; R. S. Jenkins, D. D., Fort Worth, grand prelate; M. M. Rodgers, Dallas, grand keeper of records and seal, and endowment secretary; George M. Guest, Paris, grand master of exchequer; P. Landry Bryan, assistant grand keeper of records and seal; R. H. Krushall, San Antonio, master-at-arms; R. A. Atkinson, Lockhart, grand inner guard; L. J. Patton, Dallas, grand outer guard; L. B. Nicheon, Belton, grand lecturer; W. R. Roberts, Palestine; president endowment officer; F. S. Stone, Temple, grand medical administrator; D. M. Mason, Dallas, grand attorney; A. N. Prince, W. S. Willis, vice presidents; L. S. Mitchell, Austin, R. C. Houston, Fort Worth; W. J. Smith, Houston; J. H. Hines, Waco; C. C. Trimble, Wiltzia Falls, board of directors. PUBLIC INSTALLATION The officers of the various lodges and courts of Richmond will be installed at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Tuesday night, July 17, 1917, at 8:30 o'clock. Special program has been arranged. The public is invited. PRICE, FIVE CENTS HORRIBLE OUTRAGES IN EAST ST. LOUIS Grieved a.a. heart-sick over the East St. Louis outrages in which men, women and children were shot down like rats and their houses burned while United States soldiers and policemen sworn to protect life and property "grinned" when asked why they did not stop the slaughter, the women of Mrs. B. Talbert, President of the National Association of Colored Women, to come to Washington at once and to call the President of every other State Federation to do the same. These women are called to take proper steps to put the question of lynching squarely before the Ameri can people. The Organization has a membership of over 50,000 of the most cultured wo men of the world. Preparatory to the leaders outside of Wash ington, the women are are going ahead, quietly but determined set in motion a wave of southeast that will become nation wide. The first step has been taken. It is made in the following Call to Prayer: TO YOUR KNEES AND DON'T STOP PRAYING UNTIL THE VOICE OF NEGRO WOMEN IS HEARD AND THEIR PETITION FOR THE PRESSION OF Mob violence is accepted by the American people and lynching and slaughter of human beings made a crime instead of a thing to be "grimished" by soldiers under oath to defend the honor of his country and in times of uprighings to do their duty bravely. THE WRONGS CAN AND MUST BE RIGHTED. The nearest way to the conscience of the American people is by way of the Throne of God. We are going to Wait, and then we are going to Our Appeal for justice and protection under the law squarely up to the American people. We regret that this issue has been before us when we are with the Nations at war, but there will be no "World Democracy" until the burning of innocent women and babies, aged men and innocent citizens of color is taken from the list of "Sports" of Civil lized Americans. We propose to fight for our country to help against foes at home and abroad, to conserve its food and fuel resources, and we believe that this fight for democracy must begin at Jerusalem (Australia) Therefore, the women of this city will assemble for Prayer at the Meropolitan Baptist Church. Wednesday, July 11th, at 6 A. M. The most woman and girl is urged to attend. Those who cannot come are asked to spend a part of the hour in family and secret prayer. Don't Stop Praying-God has promised and He is true; Don't Stop Praying. He'll answer you. Let Everybody Pray. Let every Person up thy (his) voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins." Among the most active leaders, we note the following women: Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Miss Emma B. Hall, Miss Ida C. Plummer, Miss Marie A. D. Madre, Mrs. Lava E. Thompson, Mrs. Rosetta Lava Lava Lola, A. Pendleton, Mrs. Alma J. Lema, Mrs. Rebecca J. Gray, Mrs. Hannah McCarey, Mrs. G. Pelham, and Dr. Wh尔罕 Rev. Skipwith in Warrenton. Warrenton, Va.-First Baptist and Second Baptist Churches in midst of a great union revival, conducted by Rev. W. H. Skipwell, the great international preacher and singer. Warrenton is a town with a population of over 1,500, situated in the Allegheny Mountains. The two races along very nicely together. Dr. Skipwell had the situation well in hand, preaching singing to both races. Dr. Deans of the church, and Rev. Gawty of Second church are in perfect harmony, and the people are crowding the church "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 with Mt. To Buckroo, July 5 times 2 plus 2 plus 4. The Planet will be sent to any address, anywhere, in or out of this country for $1.50 per year in advance Two AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS Seeee ee ee ee meee Cran ere ferenco—Makes Noted Record in Vivo Yours Pasterate at Tarrytown —A. M. B. Zion Schoo! Namo Build ing In Honor of tho late Bishop ‘Alexaniler Walters—Bullding to Gost. $50.000—Vexhall, New Jersoy Town, Has Negro Justice of the Peace—Death of Brillant Young Man—Mother Zion Church Buya Now Church House, Allen's National Nows Bureau, + 447 Lenox Avenuo, July 2, 1917. : : Now York City—One of the Import? ant tranfers to tke place at the. re: cont session of the New York annual conference of the A. M, E, Zion Chureh Held recontly at Tarrytown, was the tranafer of the Rov. Dr. J. W. MeCoy, for five years astor of tive Zion eluurch tn that elty, Ute Philadelphia and Baltimore conference, where he goes @s the pastor af ‘The Pennsylvania Aventio "in Baltimore, ono of the largest of the Zion churches In the connection. The appointment of Dr. MeCoy to this charge ts looked upon With favor by the Bishops of the con nection, as well as the mombersiip of tho’ Baltimore church, which — ts sald to bo one of te ‘most loyal throughout, the connection. or some time according to the Information tat figs reached your correspondent, the Dishops of the conection, have ‘heen anxious to find an able pastor to tako hold of the work In “The. Mon- umiental City" and the splendid ro- cord of Dr. McCoy as pastor nt the various charges to which he has been appolnted, 18 sald to have stood in good stead and favor for the appoint ment, ‘Tho announcement of the transfer at the recont session of the Now York conference camo as a great surprise to tho members of. the ‘Tarry town Church, who had hoped that their pastor ‘would return to them for another yoar and to further work hmeolt Into the hearls of the people of the chureh and. community, Duriug’ Dr, MoWdy's tive: yeresen. torate at tho Zion Ohurch ho mado no of the most noted records ever tage In tho history of the church, and ‘conducted himself tn sich. a. mamer as to win the favor and con— fidence of most wealthy New Yorke ors, including John D. Rockefeller, Jey ag well as ‘the white clergy of the elty. When he went to the church as pastor it was considerably run- down, as to members, anda new edi fice ‘was needed. Ho’ Immediately ro organized the church, remodeled ft, and made it one of the most beauti- ful edificos of the Zon connection in the North, ‘Tho membership. greatly increased and the church under his, loadership goon became one of the loading of the outpost of the Zion churches. inthis section, "Mo church at Tarrytown Is one of tho most unique of the Negro church €8 of the country, and was founded over fifty years by an old Nogro. wo: man, The church” onjoyed Its most frutttat porlod under the leadership of Dr. M. ©. Coy. He fs well mown. throughtout tho church as an ablo and constructive pastor, “and at the vari ous charges to which he has been ap pointed ho has conducted imselt in such a manner, as to make Iiim wel comed should he bo returned to. that chargo. Ho has pastored some of tho leading churches in the connection, and has made a name ag church bulld or. He goes 10 is new charge with ono of tho best records: made in “the history of the church and it 4s safe in saying that the record at Balti- moro will ‘be duplicated to the samo! aogreos. Dr. Me.Coy lias aon well, propared for his life's work, and was ordained in the Zon Church about twonty yours ago, He 4s a man of fino address, easy of approneh and wiV) succoed in any field to which ho goos. His appointmont to the Baltimore charge will give him opportunity for larger work in the chureh and Taco, and make it posslble for him to con: tinue to rise in tho favor of his church, Dr, MeCoy has Neon woll received. in Baltimofo, and his transfor wil be greatly missed by the members ot the New York conference to which he was such an influonetal mombor. A. MB. Z10N SCHOOL, TO NAMB BUILDING FOR BISHOP WALTERS ‘Tho placo that th / Iate Bishop Atex ander Walters, is mnade In the hoarts of tho people of the A, M. 1. “Zion church to which ho gave forty years of his best life, twenty-five of them ‘3 bishop, 18 seen in the movement that 4s being iaunchod by ho Waltors In- stitute, at Warren, Ark,, to rafso $60, 000 to erect a now bullding to be known as ‘The Walters, Momorial “Building, to bo named in honor. of Bishop Walters, and to assist in the perpetuation of his name, Prot, J. W. Richolberger, principal of Tho Wal- tors Institute, was in this elty recent ly and dtecussed with your correspon dont the campaign that 18 now bolng waged for the now bullding, and sald ho had suceeoded in bring ing the matter hofore somo of the most eminent mon of the nation, as woll as tho mombers of the connection who look upon th profeot with great fayor .Dr. Frances. Clarko, Prostdont of the Cristian Endeavor Movement Walters, have made the first substun- tial donation to the movement, ‘Tho campaign will take the ahinpe of « sorles of meetings to be held \hrough Gut tho country and It fs hoped that the friends of tho Tate loader ‘will Join tn making the campatgn opoch mak- fng in tho history of the raco in the country and that tho namo of Bishop Walters, who dla euch tolling work for the race, will Tivo as an_Inspira~ tion to tho youth of the Taco, Prof, Blehelborger has visited tho various conferences of tho connection, ad each of thom has poldgod substantial subseriptions to the movement, which has done much for success. ‘The now dnitlding will be used aa a girls dormie tory, and an’ Administration building, and judging from the design It will bo one of the most beautiful edea- tional structures In. tho South, that will do much to mako for the inapira tion of tho youth of the race struge- Hing for an education. ‘Thy campaign has mot the favor of The Board. of Bishops of the connection who believe that the namo of the Iato Zion Teader ought to be perpetuated In this telling manner, and to that end thoy will do ll thoy can to make tho campaign a. suiceess, Prat. Wloholberger who. fe heading the movement is ono of tho host known of the younger educators of tho ehureh and for several years ho has been the principal of the Walters Institute, which Is one of tho best Known Zion educational Institutions, ‘The school was named for Bishop Wal ters, and tho orection of this. new Dullding ts @ further ovidence of the appreelation in which ho is held by tho members of the school faculty. ‘Tho Visit of the late leader to the Wat: ters Institute was an oceasion for much delight on the part df the stu- dents and faculty of the school, ‘Tho, erection of this new bullding having for its alm the porpoluation of the momory of tho Tato Bishap Alexander: Waiters {8 one of which the ontire raco can woll rojotee and be prowd, A NEGRO JUSTICE OF THE PEACH ‘The justice of the Inhabitants of Vexhatl, N. J, © flourishing ittlo town In Now! Jersoy, is meted by P. A. Deakins, who for sevoral years has boon the Justice of the Peace, Ue was elected to this office, after. keen com Potition, and sinco his administration; ho has ‘done much to coment ill feol- ing bolween the races, as well as to show tho capability sf the Negro's fit ness to olective offieo, He 1s one of tho best known citizens in the State of Now Jersey, and as had a noted ca- Feor both in busmess and polities. He camo from Richmond" to Now York Uuirty yoats ago, where he was ongne: od In the Jowelty business, later ko" Ing to Brooklyn, whoro for several years he was a Teal Hatate man, Sinco Boing to Voxhall he has beon’ active in polities, with viow of bettering the condition of the race. Ho has snecoed | a well {this direction, and has open ed a door of opportunity’ that was here ofore closed to the Negro, Mr, Desking besides his activities. in politica, ts. engaged in other interests, and’ is: the President and General Manogor of Tho Crystal Boneticlat Assoclation ono of ss Inrgost Thourancd Companies nde tho control at. Negroes, witht Ucaddyantora tn Nowanke Ned he: eitecoss that ho made ca Jn busied and pollties shotitd sorve ae an In: eontivo to other young mon of tho race, | DPATH OF A BRILLIANT YOUNG ‘MAN. Tho death recently of Prad-rick B. Wardo of this elty, tas robbed th, Faco of one of tho most useful young.| men It has produced. Tis lite was one | af Insplration to other young mony | and the pationco with whleh he bore! his suffering was a marvel to his many friends, Two years while aut | forlig, oxpostro to The Teal ott Work as mall carrier, he took a sovere cold, which dovoloped Into. tuboreute-! sls and despite the caro and medient attention wiiteh he recalved he nover recovered and diod recently in a priv ato ward at the Harlem Hospital. He was buried from St, Jamo.” Presby- torlan Church of which he was a mem bor, and present at tho funoral were large number of friends of “the Young man to. mourn thelr loss, The floral trthutes, came trom ‘Tho Lotter Carriers Association, His Mother, and Sister and many other frleds of the! deceased. Rev. J]. M. Hyder, pastor of the chiureh, assisted by Rove. W. 8, Holder, of the Congregational Church and G. H. Simms, spoke feclingly of the 1ifo of the deceased, He was the son of Mrs, Rartimus Warde, to whom he was a loving and obedlont son, as well as to his sister, Viviene Warde, to whom ho was alse devoted. He was an ambitious young man and was always striving 40 ade vance to higher things. Ho came to this elty from Mladle bore, N. C., with his parents, and attor boing educated in the public schools of ‘the clty he attended the Dowitt| Clinton High School, and the New York Preparatory School, whore ho was doing speotal work in Latin, Greek and English, subjects, of which he was very fond, Ho was distinctly a “Homo Mowe tee ves distinetly a MOTHER ZION CHURCH BUYS NEW HOMB, In order to meet the growing necds of the church, the Motver Zion A, M. XE. Church, of which the Rev. J.” W. Brown, hag recontly purchased @ new home, near the church which will be devoted to the activities of the church making for the serlal, and recreation al lifo of the young’ people of the church. ‘ho new house ts to be the center of the social ife of the church and will meet a necd that has long eon felt necessary on the part of the chureh. ‘The buylig of this new struc ture is in lino with the progressive church movements to meet the de— mands of the younger people of the church and in this direction, — the church has taken a step forward. Mother Zion Church under Dr, Brown is fast hecoming one of the leading Zion churches in the North and the pastorate of Dr, Brown 4s bringing him in a tolling manner bi foro the connection throughout — the THE RICHMOND PLANEL, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1 : country. He has ‘always felt that the X¥.M. 0. A. NOTES, wind, the oringia young people of the church ought te] Last Frid:y' night fqund te Reds swing to in fay. bo provided with every convenience! and Blues inva herd battle at they, but more particul that would mako for @ larger usoful-! s..¢, A. Watch for the wiining side We aro in the ¢ ness on tholr part and to make tho! which will have losing alde pull them {oss hero as yot, qhureh an attractive meoting pleco! around the block In @ Wagon, Do not churches are bul for them. The new house, ho told’ tot up mon. aro to follow. > We your correspondent, 18 well’ fitted up a city of sanctua with overy conventonce that wilt| ‘Tho boys and men were very active Negro istitutions. Provide for the comfort of them, a8 tn the s. M. , A. work last Sunday When a colored Nall as to Increnso tho ephore of ‘we! and wore huppy. ‘before a white Jur fulness af the church. ‘Tho chureh | has “gone somo.” is ono of tho most beautiful owned’ 9:30 A, M. at the ¥. M.G. A. the | Why so many’ b by the raco throughout the country, workers held a special meeting con- they cannot tell Rnd Is locaied in one of the most ex ducted by Committeoman W. M. ‘Thom thelr complaints. ¢lustvo sections of Harlem. Dr, Brown as, ‘Tho caso of Re came to the ehurch four years ago B. 1. Dupont Det from Rochester, whero he remained! Committeoman B. L. Atlen gavo the sv) damages, Is for clght yoars. Ho was educated at boys some yery helpful advice 4 P. M. of July rules of Lincoln. University. jat tho ¥. M,C. A, and thoy gave the Prince George Co CLBVBLAND G, ALLEN. | hest of attention. Mothers we thank plaintift 1s repres you. Howlett of this cl uh | Newsome, of Now ‘The qpen meoting for men was a] How can the ol WET GOODS SHIPPED UNDE great nit conducted by Committe! war without the | ALLEGHD JOKUR, A. G. Clarke and every man was active,| tion, Subject: Parental Care, Wditor John Mi Baltimore Mail Order Houses Alleged ai the Great 1 J to bo Sonding Their Stock to * ‘The work in the elty homo and fait] from Tabor to dw Dry States. be the cominibice 10k ae ke ice eee nee, Ce iaw GSpectal to The Richmond Virginian.) Baltimore, Md., July 2—"Sond a quart of whiskey to my home, will you?" said a iotlestly droased rest: dont of Virginia, as ho entored ono of the largest mall order Mquor hous es in Baltimore today. He had just finished read'ng about the Reed ameniiment, which went Into eeftect yesterday which prohibits absolute ly the Importation of alcohol inte “dry states.” “Suro,” replied the man behind the dosk, “How would you itke to have it? For medicinal, mechanical, sotentitic or sacremental so? We have it any way you want tt. Just say the word and Fil havo the label on.” “You can make mino ‘mechanical,’ ‘That would be the best I guess.” “AN right,” replied ‘tho clerk, ag he applted the ‘label printed in neat. let- ters: “Wor Mechanical Use Only.” Plon ty of Booze ts ising shipped into dry states, and Just as much as ever, Other mall order houses disciosed the same situation. Each “shipping desk” was presided over by a clerk with poneli, ready to write dawa the order, aud then paste the printed label on the packages of “wot goods.” Per haps the only evidence of the Reed Jaw that can be discerned from thie ex terlar 18 the absence of the big signs which proclaimed “wet goods to dry spots.” ‘These symbols for the thirsty have been taken down, Ferdinand My- er president of the Distillers’ and Wholesale Liquor Doaters «.ssoctation of Maryland, edmitted that mail order liquor ‘houses wore sending out their Koos under a Joker discovered in the Reed amendment, LINCOLN REPUBLIOAN LEAGUE. _ Memphis, ‘Tenn., July 2,—What was “8 rocavd-brealdng meoting of the fam ous Lincoln Republican League wa: hold at Chureh’s Auditorium. Priday night, June 29; ‘Tho largest political | organizction among oolored people th {igecountryy tbe; TAncotn eam, “tno raatiying poiht of fifty: shouseid Nogroea in Momphle and all tho Ne- -groes in west ‘Tennessee, /_, The first timo the Leaguo had mot sinco the burning of HM Persons, and ‘the beginning af the exodus of” the Negro from this city and section, more than 3,000 people packed them selves in the Anditorlum, while hun- dreds moro turned away. No organized codemnation of Iaw- loxsness had beon heard; no word of advieo had becn forthcoming from tho leadership, and ne specch of hope and courage had been uttered... And the people sald that their cup was run- ning over, ‘Tho pentup feeling of the patriots together with a thousand ‘women, found oxpression In a burst of cheers when Robert R. Church, Jr., President and founder of. the League, took the Kavol. What the people expected is ox actly what they got. After his speech dealing with rou- Uno business, Mr. Chureh read tho reso lutions prepared by the Fxecutive Com mitteo on the death of great Forakor, and then latched into a declaration ‘against lawlessness “I would be untrue to you and to mysolf as your elected lender if should romain silont against shame and erime of lawlessness of any char- acter, and I could not if 1 would hold my peace against either the lynching or burning of a human being,” he said. |, He went on: “We must not lose hope Dut keop our eyes open and press for ward, What the Lincoli set out to bo Is exactly what tho Lincoln proposes to do without a shadow of turning. The President announced that. the Longue endorsed heartily the work of tho National Association for the Ad: vancement of Colored People. Bi , REMOVED THE SCALES Supreme Vice - Chancellor Jones Seos at Last. Torsoly told the decree signed by Justice McCoy provides that (1) noth ing which happened prior to tho Balti moro session of the Supreme Loilge may bo held against Virginia; (2) ‘the suspension of Virgina as well as ‘the revocation of charter is null and Yola; (3) the Supreme Lodge can- ‘not collect any unpaid portion of the taxes levied against Virginia at’ Kat sas City In 1909; (4) the Supreme Lodge is nat reqitred to give an ac counting nor any of its officers ad. indgea in contempt; the Baltimore Constitution is ~alld;’(6) the Supreme ‘Lodge Is required to pay Virginia her ‘costs In the caso. Our non-legal mind failed to give us clear vision when we read the opin ton, but the decroo has romoved the seales from our eyes. Suprome Chan- cellor Green has given notice of Ap- peal through Supreme Attorney Wat kina, oe ©, Fraternal Monitor.) | The Planet (Richmond, Va.) will bo sont to your door for only $1.60 per year in advante, Subscribe now, and got the newsy nowa. ne FAL, Ee. Le ie. iON Pee ey ah : ec i ci Be RITES ween yO bs “GA Wf) Bee screen Bottom. WHT i i i | Se = ‘Space for Flas to Unter. : . THE PIPING ROCK : | FLY TRAP &\ zy Bottom Plate for : soit Pal eS te FLY-TRAP RECOMMENDED BY THE STATE BOARD OF HRALTH 1 Y. M. Oo. A. Norea. | Last Frid-y night found the Reds and Blues ua hard battle at the Y. iM. ©. A. Watch for the winning side |which will have loging side pull them around the block in @ wagon, Do not Jot up men, } Uma: bods aud en were. very. dolls fn the 2. M,C. A. work last ‘Sunday ise were happy. 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. G. A. tho workers held a special meeting con: auoted by Committteoman W. M. ‘Thom as, | Committeeman B. L. Atlen gavo the boys some very helptui advice 4 P. M. jat tho YM. G. A. and they gave the ‘best of attention. Mothers we thank you. the pon meoting for men was a great hit conducted by Committeo A. G, Clarke and overy man was active, Subject: Parental Care, "Tho work in the elty home and fall dy the committee 10 A. M, was'a bles ing to ovoryhody, Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man, Como to tho special meeting for workers at the ¥. M.C. A. 0:30 A, M. All boys are Invited to th ¥. M. C. A. 4 P.M. to hear Committeoman €: B. Gaston who will give them a speci al address, Mr, Leonard Cophas one of our bus! ness yung n.cn will dolivor a special address to tho men of Richmond 5:30 P.M. at the ¥. M. C. A. Ali mon aro Invited. Come ‘and bring the other man, Byery homo {6 askez to have spect al prayer for the ¥. M.C. A. FLORENCE NEWS. «Florence, 8. 0., July; 1917.—Mr. and Mrs. Kd. atkins’ ‘of Cowards, &. C, passed through the elty recently en route to Marlon 8, C,, to visit rolativ- es, Mr. and Mrs. 3. 1. Frankiin, of Augustine, Fla, are visiting (helt old home Marion, 8. ©, Mr. Franklin. has been away 26 years, : Mr. John Pratt of Dovesvitie, $. C., visited our city recently. Among tho visitors to our ety re- cently were, Mrs, Robecen. Hllington of Winston ‘Salem, N. O,. Mr. AT Waters, of La Grange, N. Ga. Mrs. Gibson, of Maxten, N.C, and Mr. W. G, Huntley of Wadesbs:0, N.C, Mr. John, Lockheart of Newark, N. Ja. passed through the elty recently en route to Augusta, Ga., on account of the sudden fiiness of his ‘mother. Mr, Sylyestor Nelson ts a success- ful farme> of Hallshoro, He fs, the OWT OF ARR wong, A Mr. 0, W. Grant has returned trom Lebanon, Pa, Miss Clifford Rabiuson has gone to Bishopville, 8. C. ' : Mi. ©. . Jackson of ‘Thomasville, Ga,, has rourned lomo. Rey, Horn hinks the P.net ts ful ly worth the price, Master Rotert Webster is planning ® visit to the National Capital Rov. W. R. Rosso reads the Planet regularly and bi shly commends It to others. BB, WEBSTER, BASTVILLN NOTES prem Potersbure, Va—tditor Mitchell's brief editorial on “Pho Cringing Ne- gro" Is truly worthy of note, Uniiico the weather-e.ck that move with the ‘This fly-trap.was devised by so + of the moubers of tho Miping Rook (Long Island) Country Club, who were being driv.n from their alfresco e'nners by, the swarms of flies that infosted tho grounds of the club, A series of these traps properly baited, was sot at intervals around the premi 808 and, in a short while trapped tho mass of files photographed in tho Mlustration. Members of tho club, camting the mumber of flies to the ounce, est'-ta this “catch” at wind, the cringing Negro ‘ries to swing to in favor with overybody, but more particularly tho white man. We aro in the church building bus Inoss here as yot. About twonty-threc churches are bultt, and yet others are to follow.” Wo know that this 1a a elty of sanctuarios, and no other Negro istituttona, Whon a colored lawyer wing a case ‘vofore a white Jury In these Limes, he has “gone somo.” Why co many’ bables ato ts because they cannot tell the -whio sloctors their complaints. ‘The caso of Robort It. Bppes vs. B. 1. Dupont DeNemours & Co,, for 4.00 damages, fs returnable to’ frst of July rules of tho Cireult Court of Prince George County, Virginia. ‘he plaintift ts roprosented by W. A, Howlett of this elty, and J. Thomas Newsome, of Nowport News, Va. How can the other people run’ this war without the Negro, ts tho ques. tion, Waitor John Mitchert, ght on un- 41 tho Great I Am shall call theo from labor to dwell around the daz ‘e Utrong where tho true and trled go. ‘The prison-bound are saying to. the ministers, that when I was imprison you visited me not, ‘Those In the almshouse aro say. ing to the preachers, who seem to havo forgotten the poor, “We will be with you alvays,” saith Josus. The Chilren’s Day exerctses were quite a success at St. Paul A. M. 1 Church, ‘he susie was under the Gireotion of Mrs. G. 0. Wing, assisted by the superintendent, Rev, Mere dith Armstead, Mrs. M.S. Brown has returned from Petersburg, accompanied by hot daughter, Miss Trene, who graduated from the college there. Mr. Allen Mrown ts also sponding his vacatlor at the home of his paroxta on South Braddock Streot. He graduated tron Staunton Academy this year, and will enter Hampton this fai, Tho Children’s Day service at John Mans M. E. Church was well attended Sunday night, Miss Blean: ale Evans presided at the plano, and was iilghly complimented for her fine playing, as this was Miss Evans first venture before the public. She acquitred horself in grand style. Miss Bettio Jackson, the superintendent, had charge of ihe exereises. Rev. W. P. Fisher preached a Ane sermon at 11 A, M., at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Tho S. V. Cornet Band, of this place, played in Middleburg Street Saturday for a plente, Miss Gladys Myers, of Pittsburgh, Pa. to visiting at the home of Mr and “Mrs. Wm, Evaas, Jr, on Bast Hart Street, | Mr. Jo) t Jackson has resigsied iit position at Hotel Ivans, and will #0 to Now York soon, Mr, Jackson {8a fino young man and wo are sorry fone Dime. yy ‘The Douglass Graded School closed successful yoar with exercises at St. Paul's Church Friday night. Prof. PW. Gipson ts the principal. Assistants, Mrs. Chas, Barnett and Mr. ©. Adna Davis, are to be com: plimented for the wonderful show: ing of the children. ‘The superin- tendent of schools, M. M. Lynch, made a fine address, and delivered the diptomas to four young Indies and ono young man: "Misses Iisa Carter, Carrie Farley, Carlie Wil. Hams, Sydney Washington, Annie Washington, Mr, Edward Taylor. First, prize, manual training, ‘Thos, Pago Bannister; second, ‘Taylor Fin: ley. i 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 havo a fow.—Iistory repeats itself, “While waiting, como and go with Mount 0 to Buckroe, July 16. . something over 1,000,000. Officers of tho Virginia State Board of Health, who have experimented with a varloty of traps, proi.cu..cod this destgn’ ono of the simplest ‘and most effictent that can bo had, ‘The construction of the trap fs sown in the illustration, ls simple in the extreme, Anyone ean make it in] Ifhour's work and at a cost not exc.-ding 50 cents. Where pronerly baited one of theso traps will usually catch n, ro than 1,000 files a €.y on the avorago prea ises and some times much exeeed this _ number. Mealth o ‘sors ad:tso that the traps “ baiter WM yasco that has an cat to attract files. Mixed vinegar an¢ sugar seer 1 to bo a tempting bait. OULORED PROPLE'A HAIR Natoral Prout Fart—Oovary Katire teed Latest stylea of Oreole Wig, Plata, Trassormations, “Pits, Buslgttoniag Ges te ana ‘Timea as * “The Old Reliatte ee Mme. BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM 4s WIONTH AV NEW YORK OMY. rene tne WANTHD—25 Men sind Womon to woll Stok and Accident Insurance, ‘on commission. 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Selly for 26¢ Der box—one 250 box will fi s W Prove its value. Any person that wilt use a 25e Kept box will bo convince. No matter what has faites Sean Raat to grow your halr, just give Tho Star Hair Grow: re or a trial and be convinced, Send 260 for full te sizo box. If you wish to be an agent, send $1 and ever We will sond you a full supply that you oan beste eiceae Work at once; also agonts’ terms. | eae B ‘Send all money by Money Oriler to THE STAR A pee HAIR GROWER, MFS., Northern Branch, 111% Mech aban ‘ Clark Street, Evanston, Minots; Southern saree Branch, Hox $12, Greensboro, North Caroling (ieee hon aes ae esoForsons living in the South oan sot aD {holr goods throo days carlter if thoy will orice Crea from Tho Star Hair Grower, Mts” Wor 812, . Greonsboro, North Carolina. D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Residence, 6109 N. First ‘St.—Shop in Rear, Pho.ie, Randolph 2166 Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Balilding of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty, iene cian ROBERT C. SCOTT, Funeral Director FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST, TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 2073, ALL NIGHT AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IT REALLY HAPPENED! PUT THE LAUGH IN LAUGHTER, ‘Tho young man had prepared an essay on an Important tople, to bo Prosontod upon an ausplelous occa. sion and at the appointed timo ho was called to the rostrum by the gonial 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 wero longing for something to happen to break tho Tonotony—anil, some good spirit al- rected the exercises in that channel for their special benoflt. It is hinted that some broathed a prayer for ro let from these “heavy” topics that WANTED ee cn ear ay Arne erases es Coy Ms FEMALE EMBALMER MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. Piscine Bent Sains the honor o! ing the only Negro wo- man in the State of Virginia—hold- ing 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 or- fenieatlons: namely, Courts of Ca- inthe, I, O. of St. Luke, I. Ou. of Good Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethle- hem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your patronage and influence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that'she is always at your service. 4ayReliable service at Moderate Rates. Ornicy 3006 P Street, Phone, Med, 2337 Bengtoica | 101g St. James St, Madison 6619 Da coco In tho Hustings Court Part 11, of tho City of Richmond, March 16) 1917. George Balle..ssecseeeeseesPlatntite vs. Dolla Ball. ....sss.ee0.-Pofendant othe object of the above myled wult fs to obtatn.a divorce trom the bends jof matrimony by tho plaintiff trom the defendant upon the grounds of abandonment and dosortion for ® cons tinuous porlod of more than three years, ‘ | And an aMdavit having beon made and filed that diligence has. beon used by and on behalf of the plain iff to agcortain in what county or cor Poration the dofendent tn without ef foot, It 18 ordered that she appear hero within fittoeon daya after due Publication of this order and do what: ever may bo necossary to defend her Interest heroin, 1 A copy—rnsrm; W. 8, DUVAL, Clerk, J. R, POLLARD, p a. Pt §.C. Waldron | PAPER HANGING Wt PAT UONGSANDS ROOM MOULDING WARDROOM 8 BAST FRDDRAL sTREwT RIOHMOND, —- VIRGINTA jvoro being discussed. When this ast essnyist oponed up his bundle of papor and announced his subject, all hope of relief vanishod, but unknown to all, there was humor in store for them.’ ‘The young man began to seatter thoughts and phrases broad cast and tumed page aftor page. AS ho got into tho sublect he began to movo about a ttle and when. he reached a quotation trom a. famous author he was ton feot_away. from Us manuseript but throwing his head up In tho air ho started to quote trom momory—and something slipped. Ho had forgotton the noxt line! He turned abruptly and MADE A HIGH DIVE FOR HIS WRITTRN BSSAY! Se ieee Cee een a AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS Philadelphia and Baltimore — Con- ference—Makes Noted Record — in Vive Years Pasterate at ‘Tarrytown —A. M. B, Zion School Name Build ing in Honor of the late Bishop Mexander Walters—Building to Cost $h9,000—Vexhall, New Jersey Town, Has Negro Justice of the Peace—Death of Brilliant Young Man—Mother Zion Church Buys New Church House. Allen's National News Bureau, + 447 Lenox Avenue, July 2, 1917. ; 1 New York Cily—One of the import- ant tranfers to take place at the re cont session of the New York annual conference of the A. M. 1. Zion Church held recently at ‘Tarrytown, was the transfor of the Rey. Dr. J. W. MeCoy, for five years pastor of the Zlon ehureh iv that eily, 10 the Philadelphia and Baltimore conference, where he goes as the pastor of Tho Pennsylvania Avenue in Bailimore, one of the largest of the Zion churches in the connection. ‘The appointment of Dr. McCoy to this charge is looked upon with favor by the Bishops of the con neetion, as well as the membership of tio’ Baltimore church, which is said to be one of the ‘most loyal throughout the connection. Kor some time according to the information that has reached your correspondent, the bishops of the connection, have "been anxious to find an able pastor to take hold of the work in “the Mon- umental City” and the splendid re- cord of Dr. McCoy as pastor at the various charges to which ho hag been appointed, is said to have stood in good stead and favor for the appoint ment, ‘The announcement of the transfer at the recent session of the New York conference came as a great surprise to the amembors of the ‘Tarry town Church, who had hoped that their pastor ‘would return to them for another yoar and to furtuer work himself into the hearts of the people of the chureh_and community, Darius’ Dr, MeUsy's Live yereneysas torate al the Zion Chureh he made one of the most noted records ever a.ade in the history of the chureh, and conducted himself im such a manner as to win the favor and con-- fidence of most wealthy Now York- ers, including John D. Rockefeller, Js as well as the white clergy of the city. When he went to the ehureh | as pastor it was considerably run- down, as to members, and a new edie: fico was needed. He’ immediately re organized the church, remodeled it, | and made it one of the most beauti- ful edifices of the Zion connection in the North. The membership greatly inereased and the chureh under his leadership soon heeame one of the loading of the outpost of the Zion churches in this scetion, ‘Tho church at Tarrytown is one of the most unique of the Negro church es of the country, and was founded over fifty years by an old Negro wo! man. ‘The church enjoyed its most fruitful period under the leadership of Dr. M. C, Coy. Ho is well known: throughtout the chureh as an able and constructive pastor, and at the vari ous charges to which he has been ap. pointed he has conducted himself in’ such a manner, as to make him wel, comed should he be returned to that charge. Ho has pastored some of the. leading churches in the connection, and has made a name ag church build er. He goes to his new charge with! one of the best records: made in tho history of the church and it 1s safe in saying that the record at Balti more will ‘be duplicated to the samo! degrees. Dr. MeCoy has been well prepared for his life's work, and was ordained in the Zion Church about | twenty years ago. He is a man of fino address, easy “of approach and wil succeed in any field to which he goes. His appointment to the Baltimore, charge will give him opportunity for | larger work in the church and race, and make it possible for him to con- tinue to rise in tho favor of his church. Dr. McCoy has heen well received in Baltimofe, and his transfor will bo greatly missed by the members of the New York conference to which he was such an influencial member. A. M. B. ZION SCHOOL, ‘TO NAMIE BUILDING FOR BISHOP WALTERS ‘Tho place that ths late Bishop Alex ander Walters, was made in the hearts of tho people of the A. M. 1. Zion chureh to which he gave forty years of his best life, twenty-five of them As bishop, is seen in the movement that is being launched by ho Walters In- stitute, at Warren, Ark., to raise $60, 000 to erect a now Dullding to be known as ‘The Walters, Memorial Building, to be named in honor of Bishop Walters, and to assist in the perpetuation of’ his namo, Prof. J. W. Hichelberger, principal of ‘The Wal- tors Institute, was in this elty recent ly and discussed with your correspon dent the campaign that is now boing waged for the now building, and sald he had succeeded in bring ing the matter bofore some of the most eminent men of the nation, as wWoll as the members of the connection who look upon the project with —groat favor .Dr. Frances Clarke, President of the Cristian Endeavor ' Movement and Hon. Champ Clark of The United Walters, have made the first substan- tint donation to the movement. Tho campaign will take the shape of a sorles of meetings to be held through out the country and It 1s hoped that the friends of tho late leader will joln in making the campaign epoch mak- ing in tho history of the race In the country and that the namo of Bishop ‘Walters, who did such telling work for the raco, will live as an inspira~ tion to the youth of the race. Prof. Bichetnerger itas visited the various conferences of the connection, and cach of thom has peldged substantial subscriptions to the movement, which has done much for suecoss. The new building will be used as a girls dorml- tory, and an’ Administration building, and Judging from the design it will be one of the most beautiful eduea- tional structures inthe South, that will do much to make for the inspira tion of the youth of the race strugg- ling for an education. ‘This campaign has met the favor of The Board of Bishops of the connection who believe that the name of the late Zion leader ought to be perpetuated in this telling manner, and to that end they will do all they can to make the campaign a suceess. Prof, Bichelberger who is heading the movement is one of the best known of the younger educators of the church and for soveral years he has been tho principal of the Walters Institute, which is ono of the best known Zion educational institutions, The school was named for Bishop Wal ters, and tho erection of this new building Is a further evidence of the appreciation in which he is held by the members of the school faculty. ‘rhe visit of the late leader to tho Wal- ters Tnstitute was an occasion for much delight on the part df the stu- dents and faculty of the school, ‘The erection of this new building having for its aim the perpetuation of the memory of the late Bishap Alexander Walters is one of which the entire Face ean well rojoice and be proud. A NEGRO JUSTICE OF THE PEACE The justice of the inhabitants of Vexhall, N. J, a flourishing little town In New Jersey, is meted by P. A. Deskins, who for several years has been the Justico of the Peace. He was elected to this office, after Keen com petition, and since his administration ho has done much to cement ill feel- ing between the races, as well as to show the capability of the Negro's fit ness to clective office. He Is one of the best known citizens in the State of New Jersey, and has had a noted ca- reer both in busimess and polities. He came from Richmond to New York thirty years ago, where he was engag ed in the Jowelry business, tater go~ ing to Brooklyn, where for several years he was a Real state man, Shice going to Vexhali he has been active in polities, with view of bettering the condition of the race. He has succeed ed well in this direction, and has open ed a Goor of opportunity that was here lofore closed to the Negro, Mr. Deskins besides his activities in politics, is. engaged in other interests, and’ is the President and General Manager of Tho Crystal Beneficial Association one of --» largest Insurance Companies, under the control at Nogroes, with Leadauacters In Newark: Nv J:, ‘The success that ho made ..u in business und polities should serve as an in~ contive to other young men of tho, race. | DPATH OF A BRILLIANT YOUNG | MAN. ‘The death recently of Fredrick B. Wardo of this city, has robbed the, aco of one of the most useful young men It has produced. His life was one | xf inspiration to other young men,,| and the patience with which he bore! Mis suffering was a marvel to his many friends. Two years while sut | fering, exposure as the result of his| vork as mail carrier, he took a severe ‘old, which developed into tubereulo! sis and despite the care and medical | tention which he received he nover | ‘ecovered and died recently in a priv) to ward at the Harlem Hospital. He vis buried from St. James Preshy- erian Church of which he was a mem er, and present at the funeral were! t largo number of friends of the! young man to mourn their loss. The] floral tributes, came from ‘The Letter carriers Association, His Mother, and Sister and many other frie.ds of the! leceased. Rev, J|. M. Hyder, pastor | nt the church, assisted by Revs. W. S. Holder, of the Congregational Church und G. H. Simms, spoke feclingly of the life of the deceased. He was the son of Mrs. Rartimus Warde, to whom he was a loving and bedient son, as well as to his sister, Vivien Warde, to whom he was also levoted. He was an ambitious young man and was always striving to ad= vance to higher things, Ho came to this city from Middle bora, N. C., with his parents, and after boing educated in the public schools of the city he attended the Dewitt Clinton High School, and the Now York Preparatory School, where he Was doing special work in Latin, Greek and English, subjects, of which he was very fond. Ho was distinctly a “Home Boy” fond of his mother and MOTHER ZION CHURCH BUYS NEW HOME. In order to meet tho growing needs of the church, the Motor Zion A. M, B. Church, of which the Rev. J. W. Brown, has recently purchased a new home, near the church which will ho devoted to the activities of the church making for the serial, and recreation al life of the young people of the church. ‘The new houso ts to bo the center of tho social ife of the church and will mect a need that has long been felt necessary on the part of the chureh. ‘The buying of this new struc ture is in line with the progressive chureh movements to meet the de mands of the younger people of the church and in this direction, — the church has taken a step forward. Mother Zion Chureh under Dr. Brown 4s fast becoming one of the leading Zion churches in the North and the pastorate of Dr. Brown is bringing him in a telling manner be foro the connection throughout — the THE RIOHMOND PLANE}, SIOHMOND, VIRGINIA en ee fe ee ee ee country. Ho has always felt that tho X. M. 0. A. NOTES, wind, the oringin young peoplo of the church ought to; Last Frid:y night found the Reds swing to In. fav be provided with ovory conventence! and Blues inva hard battle at the ¥. but more particu: shat would msko for a larger useful: nf, G. A, Watch for the winning side We aro In the < ness on their part and to make the which will havo losing side pull them {ees here as yet. church an attractive meoting placo’ around the block in @ wagon, Do not churches are bul for thom. ‘Tho now house, ho told’ jot up mon, are to follow. * W your correspondent, is well’ fitted up, a elty of sanetus with every conventenco that willl ‘Tho boys and men were very active Negro Istitutions. provide for the comfort of thom, a8 in the 1. M. CG. A. work last Sundsy — When a colored Wall as to Incronso tho sphere of Ws and wore happy. before a white Jur fulness gf the church, ‘Tho church | has “gone some.” is ono of tho most beautiful owned’ 9:30 A. M. at tho Y. M. ©. A. the | Why so many b by the aco throughout the country, workers held a speelal meeting con. they cannot. tell and fs located In one of the most ex ducted by Committeeman W. M. Thom thelr complaints. clusive sections of Harlem. Dr. Brown as, The caso of RB came to the church four years ago, B. L. Dupont De from Rochester, where he remained! Committeeman B. L. Allen gave the «wo damages,, 1s for eight years. He was educated at boys some very helpful advice 4 P.M. of July rules of { Lincoln University, | aU the Y. M. G. A. and they gave the Prince George Co CLEVELAND G. ALLEN, — | best of attention, Mothers we thank plaintift Is repre you. Howlett of this c i A | | Nexesome, of Now ‘The open meting for men was a} How can the ot WET GOODS | SHIPPED UNDEN great hit conducted by Committe! war without the ALLEGED JOKER, A. ©. Clarke and every man was active.| tion. Subject: Parental Care. Editor John Mi Ballmore Mail Order Houses Alleged ti tho Great 1 to bo Sending ‘Their Stock to * ‘The work in the elty home and Jail) from labor to dw Dry States. ty tak ete ey Home and jail); from labor to di (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) Baltimore, Md., July 2,—"Send a quart of whiskey to my home, will you?" said a modestly dressed’ rost- dent of Virginia, as he entered one of the largest mall order Hquor hous es in Baltimore today. He had just finished read'ng about the Reed ameniment, which went into eeffect yesterday which prohibits absolute ly the Importation of alcohol into “dry states,” “Sure,” replied the man behind the desk. “How would you like to have it? For medicinal, mechanical, scientific or sacremental use? We have ft any way you want it. Just say the word and I'l have the label on.” “You can make mine ‘mechanical,’ ‘That wonld be the best I guess.” “All right,” replied the clerk, as he applied the label printed in neat let- ters: “For Mechanical Use Only.” Plen ty of Booze is bing shipped into dry states, and Just as much as ever, Other mail order houses disclosed the same situation. Each “shipping desk” was presided over by a clerk with poneil, ready to write down the order, a..d then paste the printed label on the packages of “wet goods." Per haps the only evidence of the Reed law that can be discerned from the ex terior is the absence of the big signs which proclaimed “wet goods to dry spots.” These symbols for the thirsty have been taken down. Ferdinand My- er, president of the Distillers’ and Wholesale Liquor Dealers «sociation of Maryland, edmitted that mail order liquor houses were sending out their goods under a joker discovered in the Reed amendment. LINCOLN REPUBLIOAN LEAGUE. | Memphis, Tenn. July 2,—What wa: 2 recard-breakiiss meeting of the fan ous Lincoln Republican League wa: held at Church's Auditorium Frida} ‘night, June 29, Tho largest political organtztion among colored people {i ‘the, country, the, Lincoln League, the “ratiying ‘poiht of fifty shousavd Negroes in Momphis and all the Ne- gBroes in west Tennessee, ‘The first time the League had met since the burning of Ell Persons, and tho beginning of the exodus of ‘ha Negro from this city and section, more than 3,000 people packed them selves in tho Auditorium, while hun- dreds more turned away. No organized codemnation of law- lessness had been heard; no word - of advice had been forthcoming from the leadership, and no speech of hope and courage had been uttored., And the People said that thelr cup was run- ning over. ‘The pentup feeling of the patriots together with a thousand women, found oxpression in a burst ot cheers whon Robert R. Chureh, Jr., President and founder of the League, took the gavel. What the people expected is ex actly what they got, After his speech dealing with ron tine business, Mr, Chureh read the reso Jutions prepared by the Fxecutive Com mitteo on the death of great Forakor, and then Inunched into a declaration against lawlessness, “I would be untrue to you and to myself as your elected leader if I should remain silent against shame and erime of lawlessness of any char- acter, and I could not if I would hold my peace against either the lynching or burning of a human being,” he sald. He went on: “We must not lose hope Dut Keep our eyes open and press for ward, What the Lincoln set out to be is exactly what the Lincoln proposes to do without a shadow of turning. The President announced that the Ieaguo endorsed heartily the work of tho National Association for the Ad vancoment of Colored People. 1 REMOVED THE SCALES Supreme Vice - Chancellor —_ Jones Sees at Last. Tersoly told the decree signed by Justice McCoy provides that (1) noth ing which happened prior to the Balti more session of the Supremo Lodge may be held against Virginia; (2)! the suspension of Virginia as well as the revocation of charter is null and void; (3) the Supreme Lodge _can- ‘not collect any unpaid portion of the taxes levied against Virginia at’ Kan- sas City in 1909; (4) the Supreme Lodge is nat required to give an ac counting nor any of its officers ad- Jndged in contempt; the Baltimore Constitution is “alid;’ (6) the Supreme Lodgo is required to pay Virginia her costs in the ease. | Our non-legal mind failed to give us clear viston when we read the opin fon, but the decree has removed the seales from our eyes. Supreme Chan- cellor Green has given notice of Ap- peal through Supreme Attorney Wat kins. (Cincinnatl, 0. Fraternal Monitor.) | Tho Planet (Richmond, Va.) will bo sont to your door for only $1.60 per year in advance, Subseribe now, end got the newsy nows. et, . net EZ het Ben, Aa AY ENC A Bar PON eA RCE bigs: RU Se 1 OSE Pesese tO 1 OL a ae YW FEA BEB screen Bottom mean : Gay Fee Wc i EY, Space for Flies to Enter, ; THE PIPING RocK FLY TRAP w Bottom Piste for « Bait \ Ss gee SS FLY-TRAP RECOMMENDED BY THR STATE BOARD OF NIRALTH.{ Y. M. O. A. NOTES. | Last Frid:y night found the Reds and Blues in a hard battle at the Y. 'M. G. A. Watch for the winning sld¢ which will havo losing side pull them around the block in a wagon. Do not lot up men. ‘To boys’ and 'men wero very active in the 1. M. ©. A. work last Sunday and were happy. 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. CG. A. the workers held a special meeting con: ducted by Committeeman W. M. ‘Thom as. Committeeman B. 1. Atlen gave the boys some very helpful advice 4 P. M. at the Y. M. G, A. and they gave the best of attention. Mothers we thank you. ‘The open meoting for men was a great hit conducted by Committee A. C. Clarke and every man was active, Subject: Parental Care, The work In the elty homo and Jail vy the committee 10 A. M. was’ a bles sing to everybody. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the speclal meeting for workers at the Y. M. G. A. 9:30 A, M. ANl boys are Invited to tha Y. M. ©. A. 4 P.M, to-hear Committeoman C. B. Gaston who will give them a spect al address. Mr. Leonard Cophas one of our bust ness yung n.en will deliver a special address to the men of Richmond 5:30 P.M. at the Y. M. G. A. Al men are Invited. Come and bring the other man, Every home is askes to have spect al prayer for the Y. M. G. A. FLORENCE NEWs. “Florence, 8. C., July, 1917.—Mr, and Mrs. Ed, atkins of Cowards, S. C., passed through the elty recently en routo to Marion 8. C., to visit relativ- es. Mr, and Mrs. J, B. Franklin, of Augustine, Fla. aro visiting their old home Marion, 8. C., Mr. Franklin has been away 26 years. 2 Mr. John Pratt of Dovesville, 8. C., visited our city recently. Among the visitors to our city re- cently were, Mrs. Rebecca Blington of Winston Salem, N. C,. Mr. A. L. Waters, of La Grange, N.C. Mrs. Gibson, of Maxten, N. C,, and Mr. W. C. Huntley of ,Wadesh 0, N. C., Mr. Joh. Lockheart of Newark, N. J., passed through the eity recently en route to Augusta, Ga. on account of the sudden illness of his mother. Mr. Sylvester Nelson is a success- ful farme of Hallsboro, He is the OwnAt G2 ARH wore Mr, 0. W. Grant has returned from Lebanon, Pa, Miss Clifford Robinson has gone to Bishopville, S.C. ‘ Mr. C. B. Jackson of ‘Thomasville, Ga,, has re*urned } ome, Rev, Horn hinks the Pi.net is ful- ly worth the price. Master Rolert Webster is planning: a visit to the National Capital, Rey. W. R. Reese reads the Planet regularly and bh’ jhly commends it to others, E, 3, WEBSTER, WASTVILLE NOTES Petersbure, Va.—Raditor Mitchell's brief editorial on “The Cringing Ne- gro” Is truly worthy of note. Unlike the weather--ck that move with the HPRE'S A I:OMB-MADE GIANT PLY TRAP THAT WILL SLAY THOUSANDS WPEKLY. ‘This fly-irap was devised by so > of the me abers of the Miping Roek (Long Island) Country Club, who were being driv.n from their alfresco euners by the swarms of flies that Infested the grounds of the club. A series of these traps properly baited, ‘was sot at Intervals around the premi sos and, in a short while trapped the mass of files photographed In tho Mustration, Members of the — club, canting the number of files to the ounce, est'-tad this “cateh” at wind, the cringing Negro tries to swing to in favor with everybody, but more particularly the white man. ‘We aro in the church building bus- iness here as yet. About twenty-three churches are built, and yet others are to follow." We know that this is a city of sanctuaries, and no other Negro Jstitutions. When a colored lawyer wins a case before a white Jury in these times, he has ‘gone somo." Why so many babies dio Is because ‘they cannot (eli the -wise doctors their complaints. ‘The caso of Robert H. Eppes vs. B. I. Dupont DeNemours & Co,, for sv) damages, is returnable to’ first of July rules of the Circuit Court of Prince George County, Virginia, The plaintift fs represented by W. A. Hewlett of this city, and J. ‘Thomas Newsome, of Newport News, Va. How can the other people run this war without the Negro, is the ques- tion. Kditor John Miteher, fight on un- til the Great I Am shall call thee from labor to dwell around the daz- throne where the true and tried go. ‘The prison-bound are saying to the ininisters, that when I was am prison you visited me not. ‘Those in the alms-house are say- ing to the preachers, who seem to havo forgotten the poor, “We will be with you always,” saith Jesus. ‘The Chilren’s Day exercises were quite a success at St. Paul A. M. Wi Church. "Phe d.usic ‘was under the direction of Mrs. G. 0. Wing, assisted by ‘the superintendent, Rey, Mere dith Armstead, Mrs. M.S. Brown has returned from Petersburg, acecmpainted by het daughter, Miss Irene, who graduated from the college there. Mr. Allen Brown is also sponding his vacation at the home of his parents on South Braddock Street, He graduated from Staunton Academy this year, and will enter Hampton this fail. ‘The Children’s Day service at John Mans M. B, Church was well attended Sunday night, Miss Blean- nie Evans presided at the piano, and was highly complimented for her fine playing, as this was Miss Evans’ first venture before the public. She acquitted horself in grand style. Miss Bettio Jackson, the superintendent, had charge of the exereises. Rev. W. P. Fisher preached a fine sermon at 11 A, M., at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, The S. V. Cornet Band, of this place, played in Middleburg Street Saturday for a picnic, Miss Gladys Myers, of Pittsburgh, Pa. is visiting at the home of Mr. and ‘Mrs, Wm, Hvans, Jr., on Hast Hart Street. Mr. Jol \ Jackson has resigned lils position at Hotel vans, and will Bo to New York soon, Mr. Jackson isa fine young man and we are sorry to see bn po, y ; ‘Tho Douglass Grated School closed & successful year with exercises at St. Paul's Church Friday night, Prof. P.W. Gipson is the principal, Assistants, Mrs. Chas. Barnett and Mr. ©. Adna Davis, aro to be com- plimented for the wonderful show. ing of the children, ‘The superin- tendent of schools, MM. M.— Lyneh, made a fine address, ‘and dolivered the diplomas to four young ladies and one young man: "Misses Lisa Carter, Carrie Parley, Carlie Wile Nams, Sydney Washington, Annie Washington, Mr. Edward ‘Taytor First prize, manual training, ‘Thos, Page Bannister; second, ‘Taylor Fin. ley. : In tho year of *61 when the Civil War begun, the Negro as a soldier was not needed, but before fé was through they were glad to have fow.—History ropeats itself. While waiting, come and go with Mount 0. to Buckroe, Jui, 16, something over 1,000,000. Officers of the Virginia State Board of Health, who havo experimented with a variety of traps, prov.cu..ced this design one of the simplest and most efficient that can be had. ‘The construction of the trap ts shown in the Mustration, is simple in the extreme. Anyone can make it in} Ifour's work and at a cost not exc.-ding 60 cents, Where proverly baited one of these traps will usually catch n re than 1,000 flies a €.y on th» average prea ises and some times much exceed this number. Mealth o “ers ad: tse that the traps 1 > baite? wit vaste that has an edt to attract flies. Mixed vinegar and sugar see: + to be a tempting bait. Th a ig me (| r Natural Front Part—Oovers Kntire Head "i Latest stice of Orolo. Wig, Plate ‘Traneformattons, Pw Bt Gombe te, te arent Trmete this ine. Bend” 20" for our. new catalogus: ‘the Old Reliable Mme. BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM so RIGHTH AVR. NEW YORK OFFY TE Te WANTHD—25 Men and Women to soll Sick and Accident Insurance, on commission. Apply Mechanics Bank Bldg., Room 204—2nd floor. GOOD PROPOSITION—SEND $1.00 for Big $1.76 Package of Salline Pain Cure and become a rogular agont. Basy Sollor. Sallino Mfg. Co., 912 N. ist, Richmond, Va. 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Waldron PAPER HANGING WAS PAIN UNA ANDO --ROOM MOULDING WARPROOM 8 HAST FEDPRAL STREET RICHMOND, - ‘VIRGINIA wero being discussed. When this last essnyist 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 phrasos broad- cast and turned page after page. As ho got into tho subject ho began to move about a little and when ho reached a quotation from a famous author he was ton feot away from Wis manuseript but throwing his head Up in the air ho started to quote from memory—and something slipped. He had forgotten tho next ne! | He turned abruptly and MADE A HIGH DIVE FOR HIS WRITTEN ESSAY! TWO THE SOLITET AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS Rev. Dr. J. W. McCoy, Tranferred to Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference—Makes Noted Record in Five Years Pasterate at Tarrytown—A. M. E. Zion School Name Building in Honor of the late Bishop Alexander Walters—Building to Cost $50,000-Vexhall, New Jersey Town, Has Negro Justice of the Peace—Death of Brilliant Young Man—Mother Zlon Church Buys New Church House. Allen's National News Bureau. 447 Lenox Avenue, July 2, 1917. New York City—One of the important transfers to take place at the recent session of the New York annual conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church held recently at Tarrytown, was the transfer of the Rev. Dr. J. W. McCoy, for five years pastor of the Zion church in that city, to the Philadelphia and Baltimore conference, where he goes as the pastor of The Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, one of the largest of the Zion churches in the connection. The appointment of Dr. McCoy to this charge is looked upon with favor by the Bishops of the connection, as well as the membership of the Baltimore church, which is said to be one of the most loyal throughout the connection. For some time according to the information that has reached your correspondent, the bishops of the connection, have been anxious to find an able pastor to take hold of the work in "The Monumental City" and the splendid record of Dr. McCoy as pastor at the various charges to which he has been appointed, is said to have stood in good stead and favor for the appointment. The announcement of the transfer at the recent session of the New York conference came as a great surprise to the members of the Tarry town Church, who had hoped that their pastor would return to them for another year and to further work himself into the hearts of the people of the church and community. During Dr. McCoy's five years torate at the Zion Church he made one of the most noted records ever made in the history of the church, and conducted himself in such a manner as to win the favor as a confidence of most wealthy New Yorkers, including John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as well as the white clergy of the city. When he went to the church as pastor it was considerably rundown, as to members, and a new edifice was needed. He immediately reorganized the church, remodeled it, and made it one of the most beautiful edifices of the Zion connection in the North. The membership greatly increased and the church under his leadership soon became one of the leading of the outpost of the Zion churches in this section. The church at Tarrytown is one of the most unique of the Negro church es of the country, and was founded over fifty years by an old Negro wo man. The church enjoyed its most fruitful period under the leadership of Dr. M. C. Coy. He is well known throughout the church as an able and constructive pastor, and at the various charges to which he has been ap pointed he has conducted himself in such a manner, as to make him well comed should he be returned to that charge. He has pastored some of the leading churches in the connection, and has made a name as church build er. He goes to his new charge with one of the best records made in the history of the church and it is safe in saying that the record at Baltimore will be duplicated to the same degrees. Dr. McCoy has been well prepared for his life's work, and was ordained in the Zion Church about twenty years ago. He is a man of fine address, easy of approach and will succeed in any field to which he goes. His appointment to the Baltimore charge will give him opportunity for larger work in the church and race, and make it possible for him to continue to rise in the favor of his church, Dr. McCoy has been well received in Baltimore, and his transfer will be greatly missed by the members of the New York conference to which he was such an influential member. A. M. E. ZION SCHOOL, TO NAME BUILDING FOR BISHOP WALTERS The place that the late Bishop Alex andor Walters, was made in the hearts of the people of the A. M. E. Zion church to which he gave forty years of his best life, twenty-five of them as bishop, is seen in the movement that is being launched by he Walters Institute, at Warren, Ark., to raise $50,000 to erect a new building to be known as The Walters, Memorial Building, to be named in honor of Bishop Walters, and to assist in the perpetuation of his name. Prof. J. W. Eicholberger, principal of The Walters Institute, was in this city recently and discussed with your correspondent the campaign that is now being waged for the new building, and said he had succeeded in bringing the matter before some of the most eminent men of the nation, as well as the members of the connection who look upon the project with great favor Dr. Franess Clarke, President of the Christian Endeavor Movement and Hon. Champ Clark of The United States Congress, both of whom were ardent admirers of the late Bishop Walters, have made the first substantial donation to the movement. The campaign will take the shape of a series of meetings to be held through out the country and it is hoped that the friends of the late leader will join in making the campaign epoch making in the history of the race in the country and that the name of Bishop Walters, who did such telling work for the race, will live as an inspiration to the youth of the race. Prof. Eichelberger has visited the various conferences of the connection, and each of them has pledged substantial subscriptions to the movement, which has done much for success. The new building will be used as a girls dormitory, and an Administration building, and judging from the design it will be one of the most beautiful educational structures in the South, that will do much to make for the inspiration for an education. This campaign has met the favor of The Board of Bishops of the connection who believe ought to be perpetuated in this telling manner, and to that end they will do all they can to make the campaign a success. Prof. Eichelberger who is heading the movement is one of the best known of the younger educators of the church and for several years he has been the principal of the Walters Institute, which is one of the best known Zion educational institutions. The school was named for Bishop Walters, and the erection of this new building is a further evidence of the appreciation in which he is held by the members of the school faculty. The visit of the late leader to the Walters Institute was an occasion for much delight on the part of the students and faculty of the school. The erection of this new building having for its aim the perpetuation of the memory of the late Bishop Alexander Walters is one of which the entire race can well rejoice and be proud. A NEGRO JUSTICE OF THE PEACE The justice of the inhabitants of Vexhall, N. J., a flourishing little town in New Jersey, is meted by P. A. Deskins, who for several years has been the Justice of the Peace. He was elected to this office, after keen competition, and since his administration he has done much to cement ill feeling between the races, as well as to show the capability of the Negro's gift to elective office. He is one of the best known citizens in the State of New Jersey, and has had a noted career both in business and politics. He came from Richmond to New York thirty years ago, where he was engaged in the Jewelry business, later going to Brooklyn, where for several years he was a Real Estate man. Since going to Vexhall he has been active in politics, with view of bettering the condition of the race. He has succeeded well in this direction, and has opened a door of opportunity that was here to foreclose to the Negro. Mr. Deskins besides his activities in politics, is engaged in other interests, and is the President and General Manager of The Crystal Beneficial Association one of the largest Insurance Companies under the control of Negroes, with headquarters in Newark, N. J. The success that he made in business and politics should serve as an incentive to other young men of the race. DEATH OF A BRILLIANT YOUNG MAN. The death recently of Fredrick B. Wardo of this city, has robbed the race of one of the most useful young men it has produced. His life was one of inspiration to other young men, and the patience with which he hore his suffering was a marvel to his many friends. Two years while suffering, exposure as the result of his work as mail carrier, he took a severe cold, which developed into tuberculosis and despite the care and medical attention which he received he never recovered and died recently in a private ward at the Harlem Hospital. He was buried from St. James Presbyterian Church of which he was a member, and present at the funeral were a large number of friends of the young man to mourn their loss. The floral tributes, came from The Letter Carriers Association, His Mother, and Sister and many other frieds of the deceased. Rev. J]. M. Hyder, pastor of the church, assisted by Revs. W. S. Holder, of the Congregational Church and G. H. Simms, spoke feelingly of the life of the deceased. He was the son of Mrs. Bartinus Warde, to whom he was a loving and obedient man, as well as to his sister, Viviene Warde, to whom he was also devoted. He was an ambitious young man and was always striving to advance to higher things. He came to this city from Middleboro, N. C., with his parents, and after being educated in the public schools of the city he attended the Dewitt Clinton High School, and the New York Preparatory School, where he was doing special work in Latin, Greek and English, subjects, of which he was very fond. He was distinctly a "Home Boy" fond of his mother and sister and his books. He will be sadly missed by the large number of young men and women whom he knew and by whom he was well liked. He was a rare young man, and kept to the letter, the Seventh Commandment: "Honor Thy Father and Mother." MOTHER ZION CHURCH BUYS NEW HOME. In order to meet the growing needs of the church, the Mother Zion A. M. E. Church, of which the Rev. J. W. Brown, has recently purchased a new home, near the church which will be devoted to the activities of the church making for the serial, and recreation al life of the young people of the church. The new house is to be the center of the social life of the church and will meet a need that has long been felt necessary on the part of the church. The buying of this new structure is in line with the progressive church movements to meet the demands of the younger people of the church and in this direction, the church has taken a step forward. Mother Zion Church under Dr. Brown is fast becoming one of the leading Zion churches in the North, and the pastorate of Dr. Brown is bringing him in a telling manner be fore the connection throughout the THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA country. He has always felt that the young people of the church ought to be provided with every convenience that would make for a larger usefulness on their part and to make the church an attractive meeting place for them. The new house, he told your correspondent, is well fitted up with every convenience that will provide for the comfort of them, as well as to increase the sphere of usefulness of the church. The church is one of the most beautiful owned by the race throughout the country, and is located in one of the most exclusive sections of Harlem. Dr. Brown came to the church four years ago from Rochester, where he remained for eight years. He was educated at Lincoln University. CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. WET GOODS SHIPPED UNDER ALLEGED JOKER. Baltimore Mail Order Houses Alleged to be Sending Their Stock to Dry States. (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) Baltimore, Md., July 2.—"Send a quart of whiskey to my home, will you?" said a modestly dressed resident of Virginia, as he entered one of the largest mail order liquor houses in Baltimore today. He had just finished reading about the Reed amendment, which went into effect yesterday which prohibits absolutely the importation of alcohol into "dry states." "Sure," replied the man behind the desk. "How would you like to have it? For medicinal, mechanical, scientific or sacramental use? We have it any way you want it. Just say the word and I'll have the label on." "You can make mine 'mechanical.' That would be the best I guess." "All right," replied the clerk, as he applied the label printed in neat letters: "For Mechanical Use Only." Plenty of Booze is being shipped into dry states, and just as much as ever. Other mail order houses disclosed the same situation. Each "shipping desk" was presided over by a clerk with pencil, ready to write down the order. a.d then paste the printed label on the packages of "wet goods." Per haps the only evidence of the Reed law that can be discerned from the exterior is the absence of the big signs which proclaimed "wet goods to dry spots." These symbols for the thirsty have been taken down. Ferdinand Myer, president of the Distillers' and Whole-sale Liquor Dealers' association of Maryland, admitted that mail order liquor houses were sending out their goods under a joker discovered in the Reed amendment. LINCOLN REPUBLICAN LEAGUE Memphis, Tenn., July 2. What was a record-breaking meeting of the famous Lincoln Republican League was held at Church's Auditorium Friday night, June 29. The largest political organization among colored people in this country, the Lincoln League, is the rallying point of fifty thousand Negroes in Memphis and all the Negroes in west Tennessee. The first time the League had met since the burning of Eli Persons, and the beginning of the exodus of the Negro from this city and section, more than 3,000 people packed them solves in the Auditorium, while hundreds more turned away. No organized codemination of lawlessness had been heard; no word of advice had been forthcoming from the leadership, and no speech of hope and courage had been uttered. And the people said that their cup was running over. the pent-up feeling of the patriots together with a thousand women, found expression in a burst of cheers when Robert R. Church, Jr., President and founder of the League, took the gavel. What the people expected is exactly what they got. After his speech dealing with routine business, Mr. Church read the resolutions prepared by the Executive Committee on the death of great Foraker, and then launched into a declaration against lawlessness. "I would be untrue to you and to myself as your elected leader if I should remain silent against shame and crime of lawlessness of any character, and I could not if I would hold my peace against either the lynching or burning of a human being," he said. He went on: "We must not lose hope but keep our eyes open and press for ward. What the Lincoln set out to be is exactly what the Lincoln proposes to do without a shadow of turning. The President announced that the League endorsed heartily the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. REMOVED THE SCALES Supreme Vice - Chancellor Jones Sees at Last. Tersely told the decree signed by Justice McCoy provides that (1) nothing which happened prior to the Balti more session of the Supreme Lodge may be held against Virginia; (2) the suspension of Virginia as well as the revocation of charter is null and void; (3) the Supreme Lodge cannot collect any unpaid portion of the taxes levied against Virginia at Kansas City in 1909; (4) the Supreme Lodge is not required to give an ac counting nor any of its officers adjudged in contempt; the Baltimore Constitution is 'valid'; (5) the Supreme Lodge is required to pay Virginia her costs in the case. Our non-legal mind failed to give us clear vision when we read the opinion, but the decree has removed the scales from our eyes. Supreme Chancellor Green has given notice of Appeal through Supreme Attorney Watkins. (Cincinnati, O., Fraternal Monitor.) 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. 10" Out Clean Out Tin Cover Screen Top Screen Sides 1/2" Holes to enter Screen Bottom Space for Flies to Enter THE PIPING ROCK FLY TRAP 7/8" Side Plates Bottom Plate for Dait 5/8" Side Plates FLY-TRAP RECOMMENDED BY THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last Friday night found the Reds and Blues in a hard battle at the Y. M. C. A. Watch for the winning side which will have losing side pull them around the block in a wagon. Do not let up men. The boys and men were very active in the 1. M. C. A. work last Sunday and were happy. 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. the workers held a special meeting conducted by Committeeman W. M. Thom as. Committeeman B. L. Allen gave the boys some very helpful advice 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. and they gave the best of attention. Mothers we thank you. The open meeting for men was a great hit conducted by Committee A. C. Clarke and every man was active. Subject: Parental Care. The work in the city home and jail by the committee 10 A. M. was a blessing to everybody. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the special meeting for workers at the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. All boys are invited to the Y. M. C. A. 4 P. M. to hear Committeeman C. B. Gaston who will give them a special address. Mr. Leonard Cephas one of our bush ness young men will deliver a special address to the men of Richmond 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. All men are invited. Come and bring the other man. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A.. FLORENCE NEWS Florence, S. C., July, 1917.—Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Attkins of Cowards, S. C., passed through the city recently en route to Marlon S. C., to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Franklin, of Augustine, Fla., are visiting their old home Marlon, S. C. Mr. Franklin has been away 26 years. Mr. John Pratt of Dovesville, S. C., visited our city recently... Among the visitors to our city recently were, Mrs. Rebecca Ellington of Winston Salem, N. C., Mr. A. L. Waters, of La Grange, N. C., Mrs. Gibson, of Maxten, N. C., and Mr. W. C. Huntley of Wadeshaw, N. C. Mr. John Lockheart of Newark, N. J., passed through the city recently en route to Augusta, Ga., on account of the sudden illness of his mother. Mr. Sylvester Nelson is a successful farmer of Hallsboro. He is the owner of 236 acres. Mr. O. W. Grant has returned from Lebanon, Pa. Miss Clifford Robinson has gone to Bishopville, S. C. Mr. C. E. Jackson of Thomasville, Ga., has returned home. Rev. Horn hinks the Planet is fully worth the price. Master Robert Webster is planning a visit to the National Capital. Rev. W. R. Reese reads the Planet regularly and highly commends it to others. E. B. WEBSTER. EASTVILLE NOTES Petersbury, Va.—Editor Mitchell's brief editorial on "The Cringing Negro" is truly worthy of note. Unlike the weather-ck that move, with the 10" Clean Out Tin Cover Screen Screen 1/8" Horse Screen Space for THE PIPE FLY T 1/8" Side Plates Bottom Plate Bait FLY-TRAP RECOMMENDED BY T HERE'S A HOME-MADE GIANT FLY TRAP THAT WILL SLAY THOUSANDS WEEKLY. This fly-trap was devised by so of the members of the Tipping Rock (Long Island) Country Club, who were driven from their affluence by the swarms of flies that infested the grounds of the club. A series of these traps properly hailed, was set at intervals around the promi ses and, in a short while trapped the mass of flies photographed in the illustration. Members of the club, counting the number of flies to the ounce, estimated this "catch" at wind, the cringing Negro tries to swing to in favor with everybody, but more particularly the white man. but more particularly the white man. We are in the church building business here as yet. About twenty-three churches are built, and yet others are to follow. We know that this is a city of sanctuaries, and no other Negro institutions. When a colored lawyer wins a case before a white jury in these times, he has "gone some." Why so many babies die is because they cannot tell the wise doctors their complaints. The case of Robert H. Eppes vs. E. I. Dupont DeNemours & Co., for 1,000 damages, is returnable to first of July rules of the Circuit Court of Prince George County, Virginia. The plaintiff is represented by W. A. Hewlett of this city, and J. Thomas Newsome, of Newport News, Va. How can the other people run this war without the Negro, is the question. Editor John Mitchett, fight on until the Great I Am shall call thee from labor to dwell around the dazing throne where the true and tried go. The prison-bound are saying to the ministers, that when I was in prison you visited me not. Those in the alms-house are saying to the preachers, who seem to have forgotten the poor, "We will be with you always," saith Jesus. The Chilren's Day exercises were quite a success at St. Paul A. M. E. Church. The lusic was under the direction of Mrs. G. O. Wing, assisted by the superintendent, Rev. Meredith Armstead. Mrs. M. S. Brown has returned from Petersburg, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Irene, who graduated from the college there. Mr. Allen Brown is also spending his vacation at the home of his parents on South Braddock Street. He graduated from Staunton Academy this year, and will enter Hampton this fall. The Children's Day service at John Mans M. E. Church was well attended Sunday night. Miss Bileaule Evans presided at the piano, and was highly complimented for her fine playing, as this was Miss Evans' first venture before the public. She acquitted herself in grand style. Miss Bettie Jackson, the superintendent, had charge of the exercises. Rev. W. P. Fisher preached a fine sermon at 11 A. M., at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. The S. V. Cornet Band, of this place, played in Middleburg Street Saturday for a picnic. Miss Gladys Myers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Evans, Jr., on East Hart Street. Mr. John Jackson has resigned his position at Hotel Evans, and will go to New York soon. Mr. Jackson is a fine young man and we are sorry to see him go. The Douglass Graded School closed a successful year with exercises at St. Paul's Church Friday night. Prof. P. W. Gibson is the principal. Assistants, Mrs. Chas, Barnett and Mr. C. Adna Davis, are to be complimented for the wonderful showing of the children. The superintendent of schools, M. M. Lynch, made a fine address, and delivered the diplomas to four young ladies and one young man: Misses Lisa Carter, Carrie Farley, Carlie Williams, Sydney Washington, Annie Washington, Mr. Edward Taylor. First prize, manual training, Thos. Page Bannister; second, Taylor Finley. 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. EN TOP Sides to enter Bottom Flies to Enter HAPPING ROCK TRAP 5-side plates ate for 40" THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.1 something over 1,000,000 Officers of the Virginia State Board of Health, who have experimented with a variety of traps, produced this design one of the simplest and most efficient that can be had. The construction of the trap as shown in the illustration, is simple in the extreme. Anyone can make it in 1 hour's work and at a cost not exceeding 50 cents. Where properly baited one of these traps will usually catch more than 1,000 flies a day on the average premises and some times much exceed this number. Health officers advise that the traps baited with vase that has an odor to attract flies. Mixed vinegar and sugar seem to be a tempting habit. 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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 FIVE FRIDAYS By FRANK R. ADAMS Copyright, by Frank A. Munsey Company Lucile Green, charming, but with fads is visited at the Greens' summer 'island home by Monty Hintley. She proposes a meal all food is banished. Frank Dapple a royal sailor, appears unexpectedly. To him, he himself he attempts the malpain by mistreatment. BOPP managed to make the engine run again and started to back off from the bar when the propeller wheel struck something, and proceedings ended. That was the absolute finish of the performance for that day. He could not turn the engine over again, even by hand, and an investigation disclosed that the shaft was hopelessly tangled in some heavy wire which the propeller had picked up out of the sand. Bopp discovered this by sticking his head under water over the side of the boat. "You might as well come ashore," said Lucille. "We'll have to get a mechanic." So Bopp came ashore by wading in rather chilly water up to his waist. Considerable of the bloom was rubbed from his usual natty appearance when he clambered on the dock, besmudged and dripping. "Welcome to the Fasters' club!" I greeted him, "I would baptize the asa a brother in the Aqua Pura fraternity, but I see there is no need. We'll go up to the house and give you a nice drink of water to warm you up after your chill." "Where's the telephone?" demanded Bopp. "What's the matter?" asked Lucille. "I am going to telephone to town to have a boat come over to take me to breakfast." "In the meantime," I requested, "would you mind moving over here a moment and dripping on these flowers, which need water?" Lucile took him to the telephone. I followed at a leisurely pace, and by the time I got to the house I found Bopp whispering the telephone lever exasperatedly. It was one of those country telephones where you have to grind a little business on the side of the box until central hearts you swearing at the transmitter. The operator seemed more oblivious than usual, and Bopp remarked "Hello!" In every possible tone of voice from wheedling to a threat. "I wonder," Lucile murmured vaguely, "if maybe it wasn't the telephone cable which you dug up with the propeller of the launch." "What's that?" Bopp demanded. "I said, 'It must have been the telephone cable you got mixed up in when you ran the launch aground.' That's why it won't work." He hurled the receiver into the hook, "Don't be cross," she said soothingly. "Think pleasant things. You've got to stay. Make the best of it." "Think pleasant, things! I do! I think of ham and eggs. Can you suggest something pleasant? How far is it to the mainland?" "Two miles." "And I can only swim a mile and a half." "Why don't you start anyway?" I said. "Hush!" warned Lucille; then, turning to Bopp, who was headed for the door, "Where are you going?" "Out in the woods to eat the leaves off the trees." He shunned the door. After he had gone a blessed calm regained for a few minutes. All at once Lucille started. "Suppose he should eat some poison ivy!" she exclaimed. "He's a city bred mar, and I don't suppose he knows what it looks like. Don't you think you had better go and show him where it is?" "Sure; I'll be glad to go. I'll not only show him where it is—I'll feed it to him." "No; I'll go," she said. "You two might quarrel." Right there I made my mistake. I let her go after him. So she spent the day with him instead of with me. While roaming about the empty rooms I heard a whine and, looking for its source, found Tootles in the kitchen trying to reach the shelf where the dog biscuit were kept. In the excitement Lucille had forgotten to feed her. With melancholy pleasure in sparing some living creature the pangs I felt myself I got down the box of biscuit and gave the dog one. There were twelve of the little cakes left in the box. The dog seemed very fond of them. One would not be missed. I hope I never have to go through such temptation again. I weighed a biscuit in my hand, I sniffed its fragrance, and then-I put it aside. I would stick to my promise. But the memory of that biscuit haunted me the rest of the morning. Every time I thought of it I had to cut a new hole in my belt. I went back to the shelf a hundred times and looked longingly at the box, but always tore myself away with a sigh. Some time during the late afternoon Mrs. Green dressed and came down- stairs. She said she was cooling better, but she was pale and seemed a trifle unsteady on her plus. Clouds began to obscure the sky about sundown, and Mrs. Green fretted a good deal because Lucille was away from home. In order to ease her mind I volunteered to find the couple and take them raucataats and umbrel A. Duvall "Tell me what to do with a lady who has fainted." "Tell me what to do with a lady who has fainted." lus. Just as I opened the door there was a deafening roar of wind, which whipped the branches of the trees in sudden fury. The sky appeared to split in the middle with a blinding light and a ripping crash of thunder. The lightning had obviously struck somewhere in the vicinity. The crash of thunder outside was echoed by a thud inside. I looked around. Mrs. Green was lying on the floor. She had fainted. I dropped the bundle of raindrops and ran to her assistance. First I hold her head on my lap, but couldn't seem to get any further toward reviving her. Somewhere I had read directions for reviving fainting ladies. One of the first things recommended to loosen the corset, but this seemed to be an unpardonable liberty to take with a lady I had only met a few times. Besides, I didn't know how to locate a corset and wouldn't have been able to loosen it if I had found it. It would be a godsend if some one would get out a book on "How to Revlyo Fathling Ladies, Although a Bachelor." I looked up to find a strange man in the room. He was clad in overalls and carried a satchel. "Are you married?" I demanded. "I don't know why it's any of your business," he responded, "but I am. Further than that, I'm an Elk and belong to the union." "If you're married tell me what to do with a lady who has fainted." "Give her some of this." He produced a flask from his pocket and poured a large portion of its contents down Mrs. Green's throat. "The dame will be all right in a minute. I always carry this just on purpose for ladies when they pull a fadeaway." He sampled the "lady reviver" himself reflectively and returned the flask to his pocket. "I'm the telephone repair man. What you been doing to the wires over here? They been trying to get you from the main office all day." "I to: him where the trouble lay, and he departed in the rain to match it up." Shortly afterward Mrs. Green opened one eye. She looked at me for a moment and then smiled. "Hol' your head steady a minute," she requested gravely. "Wanna see who y'are." "I'm Mr. Blainey," I explained. "Everything is all right." "Course it's a' right. But I don't think I'll get up till the boat stops rockin'." "You're not in a boat, Mrs. Green. This is your own home." "It's a boat, I tell you. I guess I know when I'm scaslek. Besides, at home ain't got so many pictures of purple sunsets." "But there aren't any pictures of purple sunsets here." I protested. "You're mistaken, my fren, there's two of 'em over there." She pointed limply in the are of a circle which took in the entire opposite side of the room. "I'll show you. Hol' this board steady while I step on it." She gravely made an effort to rise, but, falling in that, fell back limply into my arms. "It's no use. Ship rocks so I can't stan' up. Have to roll over there." I tried to prevent her, but it was useless. She insisted on rolling on the floor. She was engaged in that pleasant pastime when her daughter and Mr. Bopp entered, dripping from the rainstorm. I tried to pick Mrs. Green up. With a cry of alarm Lucille rushed to her mother's side, then started back, sniffing the air. "Mr. Blainey," she cried in horror stricken tones, "you've been drinking!" "Don' scol' my ill' fr'en," Mrs. Green protested, patting my arm. "He's mos' beautiful fr'en I got." A light of understanding began to dawn in Lucille's eye. "She fainted," I explained, "and a man who was here to repair the telephone gave it to her to revive her. It was too much on an empty stomach." "Is the telephone fixed?" demanded Bopp, springing up. "Maybe I can get a launch to come for me yet." The look which Lucille gave him warmed my heart and made up to me for the hours I had spent alone that day. He sank back into his chair. "Will you call up Dr. Stone, Montmorency," she requested sweetly, "and ask him to come over to see mother?" THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA doctor oil the wires. I told him that we wanted him to come over. "I don't believe that it is possible," came the answer over the wire. "Not possible?" I echoed. "Why not?" "Haven't you seen the sea that is running? It wouldn't be safe for any kind of a boat to land at Green's island the way it is blowing now. You know the shore is very rocky there, and if you miss the entrance to the cove you'd be dashed to pieces sure." I told that to Lucile. "Ask him what we should do for mother ourselves," she instructed. "Tell him she has some fever and seems very weak." I told the doctor what she had said and asked what we could do for the old lady until the sea quieted down enough so that he could come over. He told me, and I hung up the receiver. "Well," Lucile interrogated, "what did he say?" "He said." I repeated it carefully—"he said: 'Tell her to give her digestive apparatus a rest. Don't eat anything for twenty-four hours, and drink plenty of water.'" Bopp laughed derisively. The older lady showed signs of interest. "Thass what I want—water," she declared, "plenty o' water, Blainey, beautiful fr'en', gimme some water. Have some yourself." I gave her a glass of water, which she drank with an enviable relish. "Bes' water I ever tasted," said Mrs. Green, attempting to put some in her eye under the mistaken impression that it was her mouth. "Blainey, be like me. Never drink anything stronger than this water an' you'll always be blithe an' gay, jus' like me." "You are going up to bed," Lucie said reprovingly. "Go to bed? I don't wanna go to bed, I'm gonna put on my red dress." Mother and daughter started up the stairs. On the landing Mrs. Green turned. "Goo'by, beautiful Blainey. Most beautiful man I ever met. Goo'by." After she had been dragged around a bend of the stairway by her scandalized daughter there drifted down to the living room a grumbled fragment of indignant protest: "Well, he is beautiful. He's more beautiful than 'th Methodis' minister, an' you know it." CHAPTER IV. The Raid on the Kitchen. WHEN we were left alone together I could tell by the scowl on Bopp's face that he had fallen heir to the headache I had possessed the day before. "Cheer up, Bopp," I admonished, more to make conversation than anything else. "I am just as hungry as you are." "No one has ever been as hungry as I am," he declared. "Probably I am more hungry than you are," I insisted. "I have more room to be hungry in." Tootles came romping in. "Poor pup!" commiserated Bopp. "I suppose she is starved too." "No; that isn't the reason she's barking. She has been fed." "Fed? What?" "Dog biscuit." "Where are they?" "In the kitchen," I replied unthinkingly. "From the way she is behaving there must be some one outside." It was almost dark. I went to the dawn and peeled out. Tüero was a man coming. "Maybe it's a man off the supply boat." "Iimpossible," I explained. "The supply boat isn't due until tomorrow, and even if she were in here they couldn't land from her in this storm." The telephone repair man appeared. "I guess I got to stay here all night," he announced. "The storm is getting so bad I don't dare try to back to town. I don't care much for water unless it's mixed with something else." Lucille came downstairs. I explained the situation to her. "Of course you can stay all night, but it will be impossible to give you anything to eat," she said. "Why not?" he asked. "I don't expect to go to the trough with the family. I'll feed with the help in the kitchen without a murmur. As far as that goes, though, I'm a union man and as good as anybody." "Certainly," agreed Lucille. "You are welcome to anything we have, but we have nothing. We are all fasting. We decided not to eat anything for a week." "Bugs," he decided briefly; then, turning to Bopp and myself; "Gents, put me right. Do I or do I not coal at this station?" "The lady has told you correctly," I assured him. "There is no food in the house." "And you're doing it, too?" He laughed sarcastically. "When I come here the old lady was pulling a Brodle on the floor, and now the fat guy ain't eating anything. A bunch of dips all right." "You had better go upstairs and change your clothes," said Lucille. "What will I change 'em into a nickel plated wash boiler or a pair of diamond earrings?" "I mean put on some dry things. Frank, you and he are about the same size. You'll lend him a suit of yours, won't you?" Sure he would. He had to. When they were at the top of the stairs Bopp yelled down, "Monty, Mrs. Green wants you to come up!" "She says she isn't going to sleep until she sees her beautiful friend Monty. If he doesn't come up shell come down." Lucile, blushing, went up to explain to her mother that her request was impossible. From behind the closed door of Mrs. Green's room there issued sounds of an argument supplemented by weeping. Eventually Lucile came to the top of the stairs and called, "Monty!" when she used it! I bounded up the stairs. When I say "bounded" I mean it. It was the first time that I had done anything like that in years. Lucie stood leaning over the banister, perplexed and troubled, her face flushed and her hair becoming disarranged, as if she had been engaged in a physical context of some sort. I stopped on the stairs below her. "The blessed damosel leaned out From the gold bar of heaven," I quoted. "Don't be silly," she said in a tone of voice that told me she liked it. "I have to ask you a dreadfully embarrassing question." "All right," I commanded. "Shoot." "Would you mind very much kissing a lady who is not as young as she was once?" "Would I mind?" I said, taking her hands. "I've been thinking of nothing else for two years." "I meant," disengaging her hands gently, "would you mind kissing mother good night? She is acting very peculiarly this evening, as you know, and she says she won't go to sleep until you kiss her." I was touched at the old lady's fondness for me. We went in. She was lying tucked in in bed, with a nightcap tied firmly under her chin. "Lucille made me come to bed," Mrs. Green volunteered, her bright eyes snapping with wakefulness. "It's all nonsense. Don' wanna be in bed. I wanna get up and go somewhere with you and eat." "There, there," said Lucille, "the doctor says not to eat anything." "Yes, snapped her mother, "and I'll bet he had just had his dinner when so said it. 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M., 11:40 M. sooch, 10:45 A. M., 11:40 P. M. 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 14, 1917 THE SUPREME CHANSELLOR'S PROCLAMATION. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, has sufficiently recovered from the effect of the decision by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to issue a preclamation, in which he explains in a becoming manner, the embarrassing position in which he has found himself and his legal advisors. In some respects the preclamation is humorous and in some others, it is inaccurate. Certain it is that he did not carefully read and study the opinion of Mr. Justice McCoy before he issued this surprising official document. He says: The opinion of the Court, as interpreted by our Attorneys was that the Court held that the assessment levy on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia City, Mo., in 1909, was against the individual members and not against the Grand Lodge of Virginia; and the Grand Lodge of Virginia could not therefore be lawfully suspended or expelled for its failure to pay the tax. He might have added that under the Supreme Lodge Constitution, the Supreme Lodge could not lawfully and constitutionally levy a tax against the individual members. It could lawfully and constitutionally levy a Supreme Representative tax against the Grand Lodges. He unlawfully suspended the Grand Lodge of Virginia for not paying this tax levied upon individual members and thereby violated his sworn obligation, either intentionally or unintentionally. The Constitution of the Supreme Lodge specifically prohibits him and all others from enforcing unconstitution of law and sanctions. He says further in this proclamation: That the assessment levied by the Supreme Lodge at Indianapolis, Ind., in 1911, against the Grand Lodges, was not mentioned by the Court and the Pythian Temple-Santaritum tax was not passed upon by the court. The Court had no need to mention the Supreme Lodge tax levied at Indianapolis and the Pythian Temple Santarilium Tax. They were all per capita taxes levied upon individual members and the principle was one and the same. If the Kansas City Tax was unconstitutional then the other taxes were unconstitutional. One tax was a continuation of the other tax. He continues in this proclamation as follows: That the prayer of the Grand Lodge of Virginia to have the Constitution adopted at Baltimore, Md., in 1913, declared invalid, was denied, that the prayer to have the Supreme Lodge refund the money collected from the Grand Lodges under the assessments levied, was denied, as the money seem ed to have been properly expended; that the prayer to punish the officer of the Grand Lodge for contempt for the proceedings of the Charter of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, at Columbus, Ohio, in 1915, was denied; that the prayer to appoint a recover to take over the affair of the Supreme Lodge was also denied. His Honor, Mr. Justice McCoy stated to counsel that he had his doubts as to the legality of the manner in which the Baltimore Constitution was adopted. He had decided not to interfere with it however in a spirit of compromise and with the hope that the litigation would cease. There was no application made by the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Virginia for a refund of any money paid by other Grand Lodges or by it self. For information on this point read the bill as filed by counsel for the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia There was no evidence submitted to show that the money as paid had been improperly expended, simply, the statement of the Supreme Lodge's own Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal and he was not summoned to testify in this case. The language of the Court relative to the contempt proceedings was as follows: It is contended that there was a violation of the injunction decree granted herein. If there was such a violation it appears not to have been deliberate for it was believed that whatever the defendants did was not done on the basis of an expulsion which Mr. Justice Gould held to be without authority, but on the basis of a suspension, which he did not hold to be invalid. This then admitted that the Supreme Lodge officials may have violated the injunction and may have been guilty of contempt, but they were excused upon the ground that such a violation of the injunction may not have been deliberate and he gave them the benefit of the doubt Supreme Chancellor Green then admits that his own attorneys were not able to properly interpret the opinion of the Court. In view of the ability displayed by those in charge of the affairs of the Supreme Lodge at Washington, this statement is almost unbelievable, but he makes it over his own signature. Here is what he says: While the Supreme Lodge did not secure all it hoped for and expected to secure from the opinion of the Court, yet we believe we had secured sufficient in our favor to cease further litigation and the expenditure of Suprone Lodge Funds—to acquiesce in the decision of the court,—provided the decree to be issued by the Court was in accordance with the view held by our Attorneys as to the opinion of the Court. Did the attorneys for the Supreme Lodge mis ead Supreme Chancellor Smith W. Green and his associates? If they did, what must be the attitude of the Pythian Order in this country pertaining to this condition of affairs? We understood the opinion and we correctly construed it just as our attorneys seem to have done. Supreme Chancellor Green took the position that the Supreme Lodge had won the vote and he and Supreme Attorney S. A. T. Watkins attempted or threatened to discipline the St. Louis Argus for having published a headline saying that the Supreme Lodge had lost the case. The facts have left him in a most embarrassing position, while no doubt, the management of the St. Louis Argus is smiling. Supreme Chancellor Green states plainly that he thought that he had secured enough in their favor to cause the Supreme Lodge to cease further litigation and to stop the further expenditure of Supreme Lodge Funds. He has changed his mind since he read the decree. It removed the scales from the eyes of Supreme Vice Chancellor Joseph L. Jones of Ohio. He tells just what the decree says: The decree of the Court as issued on June 1st, 1917, "restrained and permanently enjoined" the Supreme Lodge from suspending or revoking the Charter of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, and from collecting any tax or for anything done by the Grand Lodge of Virginia prior to the date of issuing the decree; and, in addition thereto taxed the Supreme Lodge with the costs of the plaintiff in the case. The decree brought the information that "the tree done fall on daddy." The platitudes of the Supreme Attorney could not alter the plain facts and Brother Green found to his sorrow that the Supreme Lodge had lost its fundamental contention and must face the Supreme jurisdiction branded with having wrung from the confiding Pythian knighthood in the several States thousands and tens of thousands of dollars that he and his associates had no right to collect. He had violated the Constitution of the Order that he and his associates stood sworn to uphold and support and had branded as traitors one of the most loyal Grand Jurisdictions in the country and had suspended that Grand Lodge and its members from fraternal intercourse with the national organization for a period of nearly five years. This made him and his associates personally liable for damages to the aggrieved body and with money and prestige to enforce their right, these outraged people stood ready to demand an accounting at the hands of the official's who had so outrageously treated them. He has seen "the hand writing on the wall" and by putting up a bond of ten thousand dollars, he and his associates are attempting to forestall and delay the inevitable. Her are his reasons for taking an appeal from the decision of two able jurists and a united court. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Court of Appeals. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green knows that she Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia, put up its money to aid in the fight to save the Order. It knows that its protest was against the use of these funds to pay the incidental expenses of the Order, instead of being utilized solely for the purpose of paying the expenses of the suit at law and yet he makes this misleading plea with the hope of deceiving the knighthood and of placing the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia in a false light be fore the Pythian people of this country. He is also fearful less a demand be made by the several Grand Jurisdictions for a refund of the money that they unlawfully paid and for the non payment of which hundreds of members were suspended from the Order. All Virginia wants are her rights. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has decided the questions at issue. The Supreme Chancellor was evidently so upset that he mixed up the name of the Curtis and with the decree being sent out with the proclamation issued by him, he had not read it sufficiently to be able to property designate and name the Court in which the cause had been submitted for a hearing. Certain it is that the public may be able to judge of the merits of the case. Pythian people in this country want peace, we believe, but Suprae Chancellor Green and his "rule or ruln" associates want war. The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., & A, is waging a defensive contest. It is ready for peace. It is equally well prepared to wage a prolonged contest for the rights guaranteed to it under the laws of the Order and the statutes of the United States. As to the cost of the proceedings, we venture the opinion that the Supreme Lodge will expend at least five dollars for every one dollar spent by the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia and prove to be the final loser in the contest. Selah! THE ST. LOUIS MASSACRE The massacre at East St. Louis, Illinois grows in horror, the indications are that even the State officials were directive in the performance of their duties. The charge is made that the members of the National Guard sent to the city were unarmed, or rather had been provided with empty rifles. They were about just as much service as wooden soldiers would have been. Colored people were disarmed and white people were permitted not only to keep firearms but to use them upon men and women. The report of the affair shows the depravity of human nature in some sections of this country. Pleading, begging, frightened, women were beat on and even little children were burned to death and their bodies cremated in the houses in the section assigned to colored people. Right across the Mississippi River were thousands of colored people, many of them prosperous and well to do. They were helpless while the slaughter of their people was taking place. The affair is sickening and the reports of the affair make the crimes committed all the more hideous. Colored people will yet learn that they must organize for mutual protection, that they must learn to protect themselves first and then expect others to protect them afterwards. Sympathy is all right and expressions of horror over an outrage of this kind timely, but we should be prepared to act at the time the butchery is taking place. One hundred determined colored men could have produced a panic among this class of people and the story as finally told would have been different. Cowards are willing to slaughter sheep, but these same cowards hesitate to kill bull-dogs. THE STRANGE CASE OF COLONEL YOUNG. The information sent out to the press of the country that Lieutenant Chas. Young had been ordered to Letterman General Hospital at the Presidio of San Francisco, California for observation by army surgeons on account of alleged "high blood-pressure has been confirmed. I has also been established beyond question that Col. Young does not need nor has he had any medicine and that he has not been sick and has not been even alling, but the army surgeons have alleged that this "high blood-pressure" unfit him for active service. As to just what the Examining Board will decide is the question. The possibility of depleted ranks among the other officers might leave this lone but distinguished graduate from West Point Academy in line for a bradford generalship. It is a notorious fact that there is a dearth of officers in the United States Army. An attempt is now being made to supply this deficiency by training men chosen from private life, without previous military training for the purpose of having them command raw recruits. The danger of such a policy is MENP MURDER MERIT DETAIL NO YEAR PREPARED FOR LOSS MURDER MUTUAL HUES, SUNN AT SEA. manifest. Like officers, like men. Lleutenant-Colonel Young is seeming lly resigned to the seemingly inevitable and he takes an optimistic view of the situation. Those of us who are in active contact with this mammoth racial prejudice political machine know exactly what this move means. No one thing could arouse the colored people more than this threatened retirement of one of the ablest officers in the service, when this retirement is brought about by a questionable procedure. If a man under medical examination is diagnosed as having heart trouble and yet he can practice deep breathing and indulge in strenuous exercises with no apparent inconvenience or injury to himself, what does it matter to him or to any one else if he has heart trouble. If an officer has high blood pressure and the high blood pressure is not known to him and it does not inconvenience him in anyway and he is able to discharge all his duties, in fact can run, skip, jump march and do every thing also required of him, why should he be declared to be unfit for active service when eyes should he die, his own life would be lost and this life belongs to him and no one else has a right to be concerned about it, if he is satisfied? Gentlemen, it will not do. This "race-projudice business" is being carried too far. Every citizen in the United States, both white and colored, should write letters to their congressmen and senators to bring about an investigation of this affair. We cannot believe that the distinguished occupant in the White House will be a party to such an outrage. We see no reason why an efficient officer, who is without high blood pressure with high blood pressure as one who is without high blood pressure should be believed of active service. Possibly if Col. Young could be relieved in some other way of the position he occupies in the line of promotion in about 48 hours afterwards, it might be discovered and ascertained that the "high blood-pressure" in his anatomy had disappeared. Selah East St. Louis murdered many colored folks, but every life lost is the cause of an awful toll being paid by the United States of America in a lost reputation for humanity and charitability. The entire country must necessarily bear the reproach of this outrageous barbarism and that distinguished citizen, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt was not slow to observe it. Colored folks are constantly annoyed by those who envy their prosperity. 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Implement manufacturers are making efforts to increase their production, but are faced with a decreased production because of their inability to get material. There are manufactured and sold to farmers in this country yearly approximately 100,000 harvesters and binders. A harvester and binder average to cut 50 acres of wheat a year. This decrease in supply of implements would result in decreasing the farmers' harvesting ability 1,250,000 acres. A addition to this, binders are used for the harvesting of oats, barley and rye, of which there are 50,000,000 acres planted per year and a corresponding loss would be experienced in these crops. There are 80,000 corn planters a year sold in the United States. A corn planter averages to plant 40 acres a year. Reducing this output 25 per cent. means a reduction of 800,000 acres planted, which, according to Government reports f production for 1916 of 22.8 bushels per acre, would mean a loss of 22,560,000 bushels of corn. Steel manufacturers in limiting the supplies of materials for impure ment concerns, are proceeding upon the theory that if the farmer will re path his wormout tools and the dealers will manufacturers exhaust their stocks, manufacturers can supply the absolutely necessary needs of the farm ' if they only operate 50 to 75 per cent of their normal production. This conclusion is wrong and unless modified will result in a serious food shortage. Farmers' tools are seasonable implements. In many classes of work it is not possible for the farmer to lend tools to his neighbor or even to assist his neighbor in his work. PERSONALS —Prof. J. H. Hill of Washington, D. C., spent a week here visiting friends and acquaintances. He returned home this week. —Miss M. L. Chiles visited Bay Shore and Newport News, Va. —Miss S. Alice Chiles, Miss Thersita B. Chiles and Miss Maguerette L. Brooks are at Hampton. —Mrs. Mary T. Williams of Allegheny Springs Va. sends us $1.50 for the Planet. 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For information write Mrs. Mary J. Taylor, Norwood, Va. HEY YUCKY Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 311 N. 4th Street, Richmond, Virginia. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., EDITOR 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. THE SUPREME CHANELLOR'S PROCLAMATION. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, has sufficiently recovered from the effect of the decision by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to issue a preclamation, in which he explains in a becoming manner, the embarrassing position in which he has found himself and his legal advisors. In some respects the preclamation is humorous and in some others, it is inaccurate. Certain it is that he did not carefully read and study the opinion of Mr. Justice McCoy before he issued this surprising official document. He says: The opinion of the Court, as interpreted by our Attorneys was that the Court held that the assessment levied by the Supreme Lodge at Kansas City, Mo., in 1909, was against the individual members and not against the Grand Lodge of Virginia; and the Grand Lodge of Virginia could not therefore be lawfully suspended or expelled for its failure to pay the tax. He might have added that under the Supreme Lodge Constitution, the Supreme Lodge could not lawfully and constitutionally levy a tax against the individual members. It could lawfully and constitutionally levy a Supreme Representative tax against the Grand Lodges. He unlawfully suspended the Grand Lodge of Virginia for not paying this tax levied upon individual members and thereby violated his sworn obligation, either intentionally or unintentionally. The Constitution of the Supreme Lodge specifically prohibits him and all others from enforcing unconstitution of laws and sanctions. He says further in this proclamation: That the assessment levied by the Supreme Lodge at Indianapolis, Ind., in 1911, against the Grand Lodges, was not mentioned by the Court and the Pythian Temple-Sanitarium tax was not passed upon by the court. The Court had no need to mention the Supreme Lodge tax levied at Indianapolis and the Pythian Temple Sanitarium Tax. They were all percapita taxes levied upon individual members and the principle was one and the same. If the Kansas City Tax was unconstitutional then the other taxes were unconstitutional. One tax was a continuation of the other tax. He continues in this proclamation as follows: That the prayer of the Grand Lodge of Virginia to have the Constitution adopted at Baltimore, Md., in 1913, declared invalid, was denied, that the prayer to have the Supreme Lodge refund the money collected from the Grand Lodges under the assessments levied, was denied, as the money seemed to have soon properly expended; that the prayer to punish the officers of the Supreme Lodge for contempt for the proceedings to revoke the Charter of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, at Columbus, Ohio, in 1915, was denied; that the prayer to appoint a receiver to take over the affairs or the Supreme Lodge was also denied. His Honor, Mr. Justice McGoy stated to counsel that he had his doubts as to the legality of the manner in which the Baltimore Constitution was adopted. He had decided not to interfere with it however in a split of compromise and with the hope that the litigation would cease. There was no application made by the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Virginia for a refund of any money paid by other Grand Lodges or by it self. For information on this point read the bill as filed by counsel for the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia There was no evidence submitted to show that the money as paid had been improperly expended, simply, the statement of the Supreme Lodge's own Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal and he was not summoned to testify in this case. The language of the Court relative to the contempt proceedings was as follows: It is contended that there was a violation of the injunction decree granted herein. If there was such a violation it appears not to have been deliberate for it was believed that whatever the defendants did was not done on the basis of an expulsion which Mr. Justice Gould held to be without authority, but on the basis of a suspension, which he did not hold to be invalid. This then admitted that the Supreme Lodge officials may have violated the injunction and may have been guilty of contempt, but they were excused upon the ground that such a violation of the injunction may not have been deliberate and he gave them the benefit of the doubt Supreme Chancellor Green then admits that his own attorneys were not able to properly interpret the opinion of the Court. In view of the ability displayed by those in charge of the affairs of the Supreme Lodge at Washington, this statement is almost unbelievable, but he makes it over his own signature. Here is what he says: While the Supreme Lodge did not secure all it hoped for and expected to secure from the opinion of the Court yet we believe we had secured sufficient in our favor to cease further litigation and the expenditure of Supreme Lodge Funds—to acquiesce in the decision of the court,—provided the decree to be issued by the Court was in accordance with the view held by our Attorneys as to the opinion of the Court. Did the attorneys for the Supreme Lodge mis ead Supreme Chancellor Smith W. Green and his associates? If they did, what must be the attitude of the Pythian Order in this country pertaining to this condition of affairs? We understood the opinion and we correctly construed it just as our attorneys seem to have done. Supreme Chancellor Green took the position that the Supreme Lodge had won the case and he and Supreme Attorney S. A. T. Watkins attempted or threatened to discipline the St. Louis Argus for having published a headline saying that the Supreme Lodge had lost the case. The facts have left him in a most embarrassing position, while no doubt, the management of the St. Louis Argus is smiling. Supreme Chancellor Green states plainly that he thought that he $ \mathrm{h_{0}} $ had secured enough in their favor to cause the Supreme Lodge to cease further litigation and to stop the further expenditure of Supreme Lodge Funds. He has changed his mind since he read the decree. It removed the scales from the eyes of Supreme Vice Chancellor Joseph L. Jones of Ohio. He tells just what the decree says: The decree of the Court as issued on June 1st, 1917, "restrained and permanently enjoined" the Supreme Lodge from suspending or revoking the Charter of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, and from collecting any tax or anything done by the Grand Lodge of Virginia prior to the date of issuing the decree; and, in addition thereto taxed the Supreme Lodge with the costs of the plantiff in the case. The decree brought the information that "the tree done fall on daddy." The platitudes of the Supreme Attorney could not alter the plain facts and Brother Green found to his sorrow that the Supreme Lodge had lost its fundamental contention and must face the Supreme jurisdiction branded with having wrung from the confiding Pythian knighthood in the several States thousands and tens of thousands and dollars that he and his associates had no right to collect. He had violated the Constitution of the Order that he and his associates stood sworn to uphold and support and had branded as traitors one of the most loyal Grand Jurisdictions in the country and had suspended that Grand Lodge and its members from fraternal intercourse with the national organization for a period of nearly five years. This made him and his associates personally liable for damages to the aggrieved body and with money and prestige to enforce their right, these outraged people stood ready to demand an accounting at the hands of the official who had so outrageously treated them. He has seen "the hand writing on the wall" and by putting up a bond of ten thousand dollars, he and his associates are attempting to forestall and delay the inevitable, Here are his reasons for taking an appeal from the decision of two able jurists and a united court. Being firmly of the opinion that the faithful loyal Grand Lodges that stood by the Order and paid their assessments when the very life of the Order hung in the balance and decisions from Courts had been given to discontenue the use of the name and emblems of "The Knights of Pythias," and the assessments then collected enabled the cases to be carried to the highest Court of the land, and a decision was rendered that saved the Knights of Pythias of Virginia, as well as elsewhere, should not alone be taxed with the cost of saving the Knights of Pythias of Virginia and the Order, but that the Knights of Pythias of Virginia should also be compelled to help to save themselves and to that end every legitimate resource of the Supreme Lodge should be resorted to in order to have the Knights of Pythias of Virginia bear their legitimate share of the burden of saving this Order to our people. An appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia to the Appellate Court of the District and a superdeeds appeal bond having been given to the Court on June 23rd, 1917, the status of the Grand Lodge of Virginia and its Jurisdiction to the Supreme Lodge and its Jurisdiction is the same as it was prior to the opinion and decree given by the Hon. Circuit THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green knows that the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia put up its money to aid in the fight to save the Order. It knows that its protest was against the use of these funds to pay the incidental expenses of the Order, instead of being utilized solely for the purpose of paying the expenses of the suit at law and yet he makes this misleading plea with the hope of deceiving the knight-hood and of placing the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia in a false light be fore the Pythian people of this country. He is also fearful less a demand be made by the several Grand Jurisdictions for a refund of the money that they unlawfully paid and for the nonpayment of which hundreds of members were suspended from the Order. All Virginia wants are her rights. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has decided the questions at issue. The Supreme Chancellor was evidently so upset that he mixed up the name of the Courts and with the decree being sent out with the proclamation issued by him, he had not read it sufficiently to be able to prop-rly designate and name the Court in which the cause had been submitted for a hearing. Certain It is that the public may be able to judge $ \mathrm{e} $ of the merits of the case. Pythian people in this country want peace, we believe, but Suprema Chancellor Green and his "rule or ruin" associates want war. The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., & A, is waging a defensive contest. It is ready for peace. It is equally well prepared to wage a prolonged contest for the rights guaranteed to it under the laws of the Order and the statutes of the United States. As to the cost of the proceedings, we venture the opinion that the Supreme Lodge will expend at least five dollars for every one dollar spent by the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia and prove $ \mathrm{e} $ to be the final loser in the contest. Selah! THE ST. LOUIS MASSACRE The massacre at East St. Louis, Illinois grows in horror, the indications are that even the State officials were direct in the performance of their duties. The charge is made that the members of the National Guard sent to the city were unarmed, or rather had been provided with empty rifles. They were about just as much service as wooden soldiers would have been. Colored people were disarmed and white people were permitted not only to keep firearms but to use them upon men and women. The report of the affair shows the depravity of human nature in some sections of this country. Pleading, begging, frightened, women were beat en and even little children were burned to death and their bodies cremated in the houses in the section assigned to colored people. Night across the Mississippi River were thousands of colored people, many of them proseprous and well to do. They were helpless while the slaughter of their people was taking place. The affair is sickening and the reports of the affair make the crimes committed all the more hideous. Colored people will yet learn that they must organize for mutual protection, that they must learn to protect themselves first and then expect others to protect them afterwards. Sympathy is all right and expressions of horror over an outrage of this kind timely, but we should be prepared to act at the time the butchery is taking place. One hundred determined colored men could have produced a panic among this class of people and the story as finally told would have been different. Cowards are willing to slaughter sheep, but these same cowards hesitate to kill bull-dogs. THE STRANGE CASE OF COLONEL YOUNG. The information sent out to the press of the country that Lieutenant Chas. Young had been ordered to Letterman General Hospital at the Presidio of San Francisco, California for observation by army surgeons on account of alleged "high blood-pressure has been confirmed. It has also been established beyond question that Col. Young does not need nor has he had any medicine and that he has not been sick and has not been even ailing, but the army surgeons have alleged that this "high blood-pressure" unfit him for active service. As to just what the Examining Board will decide is the question. The possibility of depleted ranks among the other officers might leave this lone but distinguished graduate from West Point Academy in line for a brigadier generalship. It is a notorious fact that there is a dearth of officers in the United States Army. An attempt is now being made to supply this deficiency by training men chosen from private life, without previous military training for the purpose of having them command raw recruits. ALL FIREN VAR YEARS PREPARED FOR LABOR MURDER NORMAL LIVES SUNK AT SEA. manifest. Like officers, like men. Lieutenant-Colonel Young is seemingly resigned to the seemingly inevitable and he takes an optimistic view of the situation. Those of us who are in active contact with this mammoth racial prejudice political machine know exactly what this move means. No one thing could arouse the colored people more than this threatened retirement of one of the ablest officers in the service, when this retirement is brought about by a questionable procedure. If a man under medical examination is diagnosed as having heart trouble and yet he can practice deep breathing and indulge in strenuous exercises with no apparent inconvenience or injury to himself, what does it matter to him or to any one else if he has heart trouble. If an officer has high blood pressure and the high blood pressure is not known to him and it does not inconvenience him in anyway and he is able to discharge all his duties, in fact can run, skip, jump march and do every thing else required of him, why should he be declared to be unfit for active service when even should he die, his own life would be lost and this life belongs to him and no one else has a right to be concerned about it, if he is satisfied? Gentlemen, it will not do. This "race-prejudice business" is being carried too far. Every citizen in the United States, both white and colored should write letters to their congressmen and senators to bring about an investigation of this affair. We cannot believe that the distinguished occupant in the White House will be a party to such an outrage. We see no reason why an efficient officer, who is without high blood pressure with high blood pressure as one who is without high blood pressure should be believed of active service. Possibly if Col. Young could be relieved in some other way of the position he occupies in the line of promotion in about 48 hours afterwards, it might be discovered and ascertained that the "high blood-pressure" in his anatomy had disappeared. Selah --- East St. Louis murdered many colored folks, but every life lost is the cause of an awful toll being paid by the United States of America in a lost reputation for humanity and charitableness. The entire country must necessarily bear the reproach of this outrageous barbarism and that distinguished citizen, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt was not slow to observe it Colored folks are constantly annoyed by those who envy their prosperity. FOR RENT 3 Room Flat on St. Paul St. 3 Room Flat on Preston St. 3 Room Flat on Fourth St. 5 Room Flat on Fifth St. 6 Room House on Duval St. 4 Room House on Cabell St. Store on St. John St. Store or office on 2nd. St. Stores or offices in Miller's Hotel. Wood yard at Adam & Leigh Sts. Apply to, B. A. CEPHAS, 535 1-2 N. Second St. The Virginia Council of Defense. Richmond, Va., July—The Virginia Council of Defense is making an effort to induce farmers to repair their farm implements and to make the best use of them that possibly can be made. It is deemed imperative that conservation be practiced in this respect as well as in others if the food production is to be what the government hopes it will be. Attention is called to the fact that the farm implements manufacturers have practically no stock o. hand and that thousands of farmers in recent years have allowed their equipment to deteriorate to such an extent that many implements cannot be used this year without repairs. Reports show that a great shortage in farm implement. prevails. All factories making tractor plows are unable to meet the requirements of their trade. The corn acreage has been decreased by the shortage of listers, the tool necessary to plant corn in fall wheat fields. A shortage of regular corn planters is also imminent. This is occasioned by inability to secure raw material, particularly iron and steel productions. The production of implements has been less than normal since 1913. During this period farmers have not purchased to provide fully for their needs. Tools in the hands of farmers are more nearly worn out than ever before. Dealers' and manufacturers' stocks are reduced. The increased food requirements mean increased acreage and more than the normal supply of implements is necessary if the situation is met. This condition is accentuated by a shortage of labor on the farms and the necessity for increasing the proportion of work done with machinery. Implement manufacturers are making every endeavor to increase their production, but are actually faced with a decreased production because of their inability to get material. There are manufactured and sold to farmers in this country yearly approximately 100,000 harvesters and binders. A harvester and binder average to cut 50 acres of wheat a year. This decrease in supply of implements would result in decreasing the farmers' harvesting ability 1,250,000 acres. In addition to this, binders are used for the harvesting of oats, barley and rye, of which there are 50,000,000 acres planted per year and a corresponding loss would be experienced in these crops. There are 80,000 corn planters a year sold in the United States. A corn planter averages to plant 40 acres a year. Reducing this output 25 per cent. means a reduction of 800,000 acres planted, which, according to Government reports f production for 1915 of 28.2 bushels per acre, would mean a loss of 22,600,000 bushels of corn. Steel manufacturers in limiting the supplies of materials for imple ment concerns, are proceeding upon the theory that if the farmer will re pair his wornout tools and the dealers and manufacturers exhaust their stocks, implement manufacturers can supply the absolutely necessary needs of the farm if they only operate at 50 to 75 per cent. of their normal pro duction. This conclusion is wrong and unless modified will result in a serious food shortage. Farmers' tools are seasonable implements. In many classes of work it is not possible for the farmer to lend tools to his neighbor or even to assist his neighbor in his work. PERSONALS —Prof. J. H. Hill of Washington, D. C., spent a week here visiting friends and acquaintances. He回 turned home this week. —Miss M. L. Chiles visited Bay Shore and Newport News, Va. —Miss S. Alico Chiles, Miss Thorslta B. Chiles and Miss Maguerette L. Brooks are at Hampton. —Mrs. Mary D. Williams of Allegheny Springs Va. sends us $1.50 for the Planet. Her husband is now dead and during his life-time kept up his subscription for the reason that he felt that he could not do without the paper. John Bunyan's Indictment The bill of indictment preferred against John Bunyan ran thus: "John Bunyan bath devilishly and perniciously abstained from coming to church to hear divine service and is a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventions, to the disturbance and distraction of the good subjects of this kingdom, contrary to the laws of our sovereign lord the king." He was convicted and imprisoned twelve years and six months. Word From Brer Williams. Once 'pon a time Man lost so much sleep worryln' over trouble what wuz to come dut when Trouble come she'uuff do Man wuz dead ter de worl', an' Trouble walked all over him an' said: "He's too triflir' for me ter fool with. I wouldn't waste time on no schl'-Atlanta Constitution. A Skirt Hanger. A good improvised skirt hanger is a strong hatpin. Fold the skirt twice at the band, stick the hatpin through the back in two places, leaving enough of the pin exposed to hang over a nail or hook. The skirt will never be pulled out of shape. Workman Killed by Falling Metal, Struck by a heavy plate that fell from an electric travelling crane at the Federal Steel company's plant, at Chester, Pa., James S. Klee, forty years old, was killed. REV. CARY ORDAINED. Roy, Wm. H. Cary. Ordained Rev. Wm. H. Cary, Ordination Washington, D. C., July 3.—On Tuesday July 3rd, 1517 an Ordination Council assembled at the Trinity Bap tist Church in Church street between 14th and 15th Sts., N. W. for the purpose of ordaining Rev. Wm. H. Cary. Rev. Cary is a native of Richmond, Va. He was at one time the Assistant Secretary of the Richmond Y. M. C. A., was at one time a student of the Va. Union University, and is at present a theological student of Howard University. The Ordination Council was composed of most distinguished Baptist Divines. Among them were Dr. M. W. D. Norman, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church and Moderator of the Council; Dr. J. I. Lovings, pastor of the Enon Baptist Church and Secretary of the Council; Dr. W. D. Jarvis, pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church and Catechizer of the Council. The candidate for the Holy Orders was examined as to his christian experience, call to the ministry and on Articles of Faith. The candidate, Rev. Cary passed such a fin examination that he was congratulated by Dr. M. W. D. Norman, the Moderator and given 95 per cent. by Dr. J. I. Lovings, the Secretary of the Council. Indeed every one in the Council was pleased with the creditable showing which Rev. Cary made. The Ordination Program was as follows: The opening prayer by Rev. J. L. S. Holloman of the Second Baptist Church was a very fervent one. A very appropriate passage of scripture was read by Dr. W. H. Jernighn of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. The Ordination Sermon by Dr. W. H. Howard of Mt. Zion Baptist Church was very practical, timely and suggestive Among other things Dr. Howard emphasized the fact that if Rev. Cary is to command the attention of the Pew he must continue studying. Study books and study men. Dr. Taylor of the Florida Ave. Baptist Church prayed the Ordination Prayer. A very fitting charge was given the candidate by Dr. Jerry Fields of Friendship Baptist Church. Among other things Dr. Fields insisted that Rev. Cary should prepare his sermons carefully and prayerfully. Dr. J. I. Lovings of Enon Baptist Church presented the Bible in very fitting terms. Dr. Lovings reminded the candidate of the necessity o. preaching the gospel of Christ rather than the theories of men. Dr. Wm. D. Jarvis of New Bethel Baptist Church extended the Hand of Fellowship, welcoming Rev. Cary to the Baptist Ministry. The Council having ended the mem bers of it, repaired to a very elaborate feast prepared by the Trinity Baptist Church in honor of her candidate. A. S. Heln, A. B., B. 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