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THE RICHMOND PLANET THE PLANET IS HELD UP BY THE POST OFFICE AUTHORITIES HERE AN EXPRESSION OF INDIVIDUAL OPINION USED AS A BASIS TO STIFLE THE PRESS—NO VIOLATION OF THE ESPIONAGE LAWS. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AT ISSUE. EDITOR MITCHELL EMPLOYS WASHINGTON COUNSEL—COLORED FOLKS ARE PATRIOTIC VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 39 THE PLANET IS POST OFFICE AU Objected to Uzziah B Why He Would AN EXPRESSION OF INDIVIDUAL STELE THE PRESS—NO VIOLA CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ORDERS FROM THE CA EDITOR MITCHELL EMPLOYS W FOLKS ARE On last Saturday morning, we were informed that the Planet had not been delivered by the carriers. This was the first happening of the kind during an existence of more than thirty years. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., called up the Richmond Postoffice and upon inquiring about the matter, after some delay on the part of the postoffice official, he directed him to call up the Postmaster, Hon. Hay T. Thornton. In response to the query, Mr. Thornton stated that the Planet mail had been held up, pending instructions from Washington, relative to a communication in the first column, on the first page of the Planet by Mr. Uzziah Miner, former editor of the Howard University Journal Howard University, Washington, D.C. (being he would volunteer in the United States Army). SPOKE FOR HIMSELF. He spoke only for himself and he did not advise any one else not to volunteer and he did not oppose the selective draft system. As this action had been taken without notice to the owner of the Planet, and as it virtually confiscated this edition with out due process of law, Editor Mitchell was not in the best of humor about it, especially since he had done all his power to aid the administration and the local authorities in their efforts in upholding the policies and practices of the State and Federal authorities. He sent a wagon down to the Richmond (Va.) postoffice to secure the return of the Planets that were in eighteen mail sacks in that department. A QUESTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES. After some delay, the information came that the matter would go over until Monday. He could come down then and see about the matter. Editor Mitchell then sent out inquiries as to whether the constitutional guarantees of the freedom of speech and the liberty of the press had been suspended. He also wanted to know whether or not a censorship had been established in this neighborhood and by whom. It is hardly advisable at this time to state just what was done. Sullice it to say that he went to Washington last Tuesday, after having previously written a letter to Postmaster General A. S. Burleson concerning the same. LEGAL ADVICE SOUGHT. While in that city he retained the law firm of Messrs. Wilson, Huidekoper and Lesh to look after the interests of the Planet. In the meantime, on last Wednesday morning Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D. D., of Washington, D. C., called up Editor Mitchell by long distance telephone inquiring about the facts in the case and wanting to know what could be done to help in the matter, as his organization would have a meeting that night. The public will be kept advised about the matter. It may be well to add that Mr. Miner called up on President Wilson to speak out against the East St. Louis riots as Col. Roosevelt had done, and also demanded that the Department of Justice should hold the guilty parties to strict accountability. THE PLANETS RELEASED The edition of the Planet of the 4th inst. was released last Thursday morning and the carriers proceeded to deliver them to the subscribers in various parts of the city. The fact that this edition had been held up spread throughout the city and many sent to the Planet office to secure copies of the edition. Children don't you hear me calling? I am tired at you hawling. Catch them chickens, try them brown, for I'm going to take them down, to Back 1, with Mt. O, August 4 times 4 plus 2 plus 4. THE ELKS RALLY Editor John Mitchell, Jr. Delivers An Address to Them. Capital City Lodge of Elks has renovated and improved the Elks Home at the corner of Second and Federal streets, which place was recently purchased by them. The club rooms are admirably furnished. Soft drinks are on sale and the pool tables there make the "old liners" feel at home. Last Sunday afternoon was the occasion of a rally. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., was the guest of the occasion, having been invited there to deliver an address, Chairman Andrew J. Brown presided. The Scriptures were read by Mr. W. Brown. Poyer was offered by Brother J. P. White, after which introductory remarks were made by Worthy Exalted Ruler Harrison Deane, Mr. Cary Wheaton then in a most felicitous address introduced the speaker if the afternoon, Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. He gave practical information on finance and thrift and explained how the indebdeness of the lodge could be easily liquidated. His address was ap pander and at its conclusion a rising vote of thanks was tendered the speaker, Mr. W. S. Cowan spoke and Mr. Stewart Minor sang a solo. PREMISES INSPECTED Dr. E. R. Jefferson, who was present also spoke words of encouragement. 'Prayer was offered by Rev. J. W. Pryor, after which the assemblage was dismissed and an inspection of the premises took place. A new granolithic fence is being erected under the supervision of the Ladies auxiliary. PERSONALS AND BRIFES Mrs. Ida E. Charity, S. Secretary National Ideal Beneficial Society, is taking a much needed rest at Bayshore Hotel, Bugkree Beach, Va. Miss. Goldie E. Debbress and sister, Mrs Edna Coles are enjoying themselves on their northern tour. They are now in Germantown, Pa. Woodland Park is now open in the afternoon and evenings to the public. A fine pavilion floor has been completed and seats and swings have been provided. Take the Highland Park car and get off at Magnolia St. and walk two blocks east. Mrs. T. J. King and children are at Devitt, Va. The Elder is there also for a brief stay. Mrs. Ethel V. Jones, accompanied by her son and daughter Archibald and Ermine was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Smithie on West 22nd St. this week. Mr. Willis Wyatt is recuperating at Staunton, Va. He is expected home this week. The new movie picture theatre on Second Street, between Clay and Leigh Sts. will soon be open to the public. The former residence of William L. Taylor on Second St., near Leigh street will soon be converted into a modern, up-to-date hotel for colored people. Miss E. R. Jefferson injured her hand. The top of the icebox fell on it. She is under the skillful treatment of her husband. Advise your friends to subscribe to the Planet. Every colored person should read it, just as some of these white folks are doing. Miss Esther Scott left the city last week in company with Miss Batrice Fowkes, for a visit to Jennings Ordinary, Va. Both girls are prominent workers in the Fifth St. Baptist S. S. Miss Fowkes is from Jennings but has been in our city the past few months. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1917 ARM BUT NOT FARM FORMER ASSISTANT AFTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM H. LEWIS DECLARED COLORED MEN WILL REFUSE TO BE CONSCRIPTED FOR FARM LABOR. Will Light to the Death at the Front Race Has Stood Enough of Foul— Play and Will No Longer Accept an Inferior Caste Among Americans. Boston, Mass., July 26. "We tell the citizens of this country right here and now that, we the colored residents of this country, will fight to death on the field of war, but will never consent to do one day of conscripted farm labor." The foregoing euphatic utterance was made by William H. Lewis, speaking at the fifty-fourth anniversary of the charge made by Robert Gould Shaw's men of the 45th Massachusetts regiment at Fort Wagner, last Thursday. Mr. Lewis, who was "fired from his post as Assistant Attorney General of the United States almost as soon as Wilson was first inaugurated President, has been regarded as a conservative in his views, and his strong plea for a democracy that would include colored men was widely chosen." WATCHFUL WAITING "The Conscription Act has registered nearly 1,000,000 citizens of the black race," he continued. "We are eagerly waiting to see whether colored men are to be conscripted for farm labor only, or are to be given a soldier and if need be, to die for their country. We cabbly await their answer, but we have given our warning to the country. We've had enough of four play, and by the eternal, we won't stand for any more. We say to the American people that we will no longer accept an inferior caste among Americans or tolerate any more injustice." Declarating that the Negro had always been loyal to this country and was willing to fight in France, Mr. Lewis asserted: "What right has this country to try and make the world safe for democracy?" Why tolerate any sermon of hypocrisy and insincerity? When the L. W. W. crowd was railroaded from Bisbee, Arizona, the President rolled his eyes in great horror, and issued a statement of condemnation for the Western citizens who took law and order into their own hands. But why not go further, Mr. President? Why don't you, Mr. President, condemn the East St. Louis massacre, the most bloody wholesale murder ever committed by a body of so-called civilized men? "It is not so much that I am a colored man myself that I talk so. It hurts me to the core when I think that all these lynchings, etc., give the other nations of the world a handle to beat us over the head with for our instictority and hypocrisy." ROOSEVELT PRAISED Col. Roosevelt was praised as a champion of fair play and after condemning Samuel Gompers and other leading labor men for their attitude the speaker asked: "Will organized labor forbid the black man to enter its ranks, then murder him for not entering?" "We have suffered and tolerated long enough. We all know that Moslem fanaticism or Prussian trifruitlessness could never perpetrate murder or more delugeate brutality than those which many saw committed, in broad daylight by citizens of East St. Louis." Rooster, don't you grow solond, stand around and look so proud Got my hatchet in my hand, you'll be in Buckroe, with Mt. O. Aug. ) times 4 plus 2 plus 4. MAJOR J. R. JOHNSON PASSES AWAY Major J. B. Johnson, formerly Commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Va. Volunteers and later senior Major in the 6th Virginia Regiment United States, died at his home near Granite, Chesterfield County Tuesday, evening, August 7th, 1917. He had been active in military and business circles among his people for a number of years, entering the service of his state as a private in the militia he rose to the rank of Major having been commissioned June 25th, 1923 and served as such during the war with Spain. He wi. he buried on his farm with masonic honors and of a United States Spanish war veteran on Friday the 10th inst., at 3 o'clock. EDITOR MITCHELL'S TRAVELS A VISIT TO WASHINGTON---THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS HOMESTEAD A Visit to the United States Senate. I left Richmond last Tuesday morning via R. F. & P. R. R., at about 8:12 at Elba. The train was scheduled to leave at 7:50 at the Bydr Street Station. Dr. E. R. Jefferson had preceded me and was seated on the outside industriously reading the morning's paper. When the train came, Mr. Thomas M. Crump was aboard. This train did not top at Ashland, but if did pull up at Fredericksburg, and there we saw Dr. Bass attired in an immaculate suit of cream color. His camouflage hat was in keeping. He had received orders to go to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was leaving both a literary practice and a loving family to serve the government. COLORED TROOPS THERE YET We talked first one thing and then another. Just before we entered Washington, we could see the camp on the National guard recently mounted in to service. The colored troopers were still there. Arriving in Washington, we soon transaction our business. I had intended returning to Richmond at $2,05, but a holiday feeling took possession of us and we were disposed to go over to Baltimore, Md. Long distance calls disclosed the fact that most of our Baltimore friends were enjoying summer outings. We decided to stay in Washington. We met James A. Colin and the last very happy, over his success in a case that involved a $2,000 fee. NO. ATCHEL. REMITTED In rooms adjoining we found Attorney Roya A. Hughes, brother to the skillful Dr. William H. Hughes, of this city. Later, we decided to see some of the slights of Washington, Dr. R. Jefferson supported that we see Congress, and as the United States statute was in session, we went there. We had no sooner entered the door than the attendant informed Dr. E R. Jefferson, who carried my hand bag, that he could not take that in the building with him. If he would open it and let him see the contents he would check it for him. Dr Jefferson readily consented and we left it in his charge. A BOMB WAS THE CAUSE He explained that the reason for this was that a man had carried a satchel in the building and it contained a bomb that did much damage to the structure. We went to the United States Senate Chamber. I looked behind me and I saw the door keeper in conversation with Dr. Jefferson and Mr. Crump. I was seated and became interested in the discussion on the food bill. Senator Wadsworth, of New York, had the floor. I saw and recognized Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania. My time was going, so I returned to the corridor on the outside, only to learn that the doorkeeper had told Messrs. Jefferson and Crump that tickets of admission were essential to enter any of the galleries. TICKETS OF ADMISSION These could be readily obtained by applying to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate. The time was so limited that they did not care to do this and so they waited for me at one of the windows. We went down to the Hall of Fame. Then we returned to the entrance and the attendant released the hand satchel and we passed out into Pennsylvania Avenue. I thought of Frederick Denglass' home, where more than twenty-five years ago I had visited him and had received compliments from him upon my artistic abilities and sterling services to the race to which I belong, that will last me to my grave. FREDERICK DOUGLASS' OLD HOME. We went to the Navy Yard gate and read the sign there, "No Visitors Allowed." As we did not have time to (Continued On Fifth, Page.) A GREAT INSURANCE SOCIETY The Southern Aid Society Inc., is giving evidences of the great success that has been attained by its management. The fall page advertisement which appears in these columns should be carefully read in order to be appreciated. It would be well to correspond with the officials of this great insurance company and learn in detail of the advantages that it is of foring. NOMINATES A TICKET. Mr. Editor. This is the psychological moment for Nexerges to begin to put themselves on the map politically. We must throw off our lethargy and interference. Democracy for Nexerges! Carte-paid in our own government, which claims to "diverse it" just powers from the current, the governed" must be sought concordance and conventions in every district and throughout the State should be called to discuss this an important subject; all causes of our people should be consulted. And after one discussion and deliberation a platform of progressive principles should be adopted, such as proportional representation, L. R & R. better schools, Torrens Land system, old age unemployed pension, public ownership, etc. The following ticket would serve to rally our voter and form a nucleus better and larger things. Remember candidates should be nominated for every office to be titled at the next election. We may not win, but we must not the habit. For Governor John Mitchell Jr., Richmond, Va. For Attorney General J. T. New cone, Newport News, Va. Delegate, Attorney W. L. Davis or C. K. S. Collins. Councilman P. R. Young, E. M. Canaday, M. R. Jackson, etc. Yours. "THE GRUMBLER" Norfolk, Va., July 8. Special Notice Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention will meet this year in Annual Session at Richmond, Va., beginning August 29th at 10 A. M. at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Rev. W. H. stokos, Ph. doctor to attend the meeting, and out to their entertainment and support by informing the local committee. Direct cards of information to Rev. W. H. stokes, Ph. D., Ebenezer Baptist Church, Richmond Va. The large city auditorium holding 5000 persons will be secured for the Annual Missionary Mass meeting Friday night, August 11, when returned missionaries and visitors from Africa and Haiti will speak. The outlook for the largest attendance of delegates in the history of the Convention and visitors is most encouraging. W. M. ALEXANDER, Cor. Sec. Crabs! crabs! crabs! hear the gibbous calls, fish just cut out the water ready down there for all. I am going down to get a few Wednesday August 22. When Mit O, goes again, to Buck roe. NASH-SMITH Mr. Wm. Reedd of 219 W. Leigh SL, announce the marriage of his daughter Jennie Smith to Mr. Richard Nash Thursday, July 26th 1917 at the home of Rev. R. O. Johnson, Reception announcement later. Miss Viola H. Jasper who has been spending some time at Hampton Phoebe and Buckroe Beach, Va. passed through the city this week en route to her home on the James River Mr. and Mrs. Davenport Entertained Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Davenport of New York who are paying a visit to their parents Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Davenport of Woodville, were beautifully entertained last Thursday evening by the young people of Woodville. Games, music and dancing were indulged in till late, and ever being served with refreshments each one expressed himself as being delighted to have met the visitors and departed for their several homes. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Davenport were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Snaffer of Woodville Sunday evening. A pleasant evening was enjoyed. Don't forget the Lawn. Fete to be given at Woodville beginning the week of Aug. 13th. Automobile riding and reenactments served each evening by the Musical Glee Club of Woodville. The public is invited to attend. Divorce Granted. Be it known to the public, that through my attorney Mr. Giles B. Jackson I have received an absolute divorce from my wife Ruth Elizabeth Claiborne. It having been granted in the Law and Equity Court, this city, July 24, 1917. Jonathan Howard Claiborne. DR. HOLLIS B. FRISSELL PASSES AWAY PRINCIPAL OF HAMPTON DIES SUDDENLY AT SUMMER HOME Hampton, Va., August 6—Dr. Hollis Burke Frissell, principal of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, died suddenly yesterday at his summer home in Whitefield, N. H., according to a message received here from his wife, Sergent Sidney D. Frissell, a sergeant in Battery D, lett this morning to attend the funeral. Dr. Frissell was fifty-six years of age. He had been connected with the Hampton Institute for the past twenty years and was famous throughout the United States as a result of his educational work among the Neptune. He succeeded General M. C. Armstrong, founder of the Hampton school, as principal. Dr. Frissell was born in Ammenia, N. Y., July 14, 1851, a son of Rev. Amania Cygus Frissell and Lavinia Barker Frissell. He was a graduate of both Yale and Harvard Universities, and a member of the Southern Educational Board and scores of other education and religious organizations. Whether the body will be brought to Hampton for interment is not known. The flag at the Hampton school was at half mast today and an air of quiet sorrow has spread itself over the school, Hampton and practically the Virginia Peninsula. Dr. Prisslew was a personal friend of both ex-Presidents Taft and Roosevelt, and other men prominent in the civil, social, financial, educational and religious life of the nation. TUTE CEMETERY. MANY PEOPLE OF PROVENENCE ATTEND FUNERAL, OF PRINCIPAL, OF FAMOUS HAMPTON SCHOOL. NEWPORT NEWS, VA.-- Aug 8. Dr. Hollis Burke Frissell, late principal of Hampton Normal and Agricultural institute, was buried at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the school cemetery. The body was laid to rest beside that of General Samuel Attrong founder of the school. Dr. Frissell died last Sunday at his summer home in Whitfield, N. H. The funeral was attended by Mrs. Frissell, wife of the late educator, and his son, Sibney D. Frissell. People of prominence attending the funeral were: Mrs. Alexander Puris, Mrs Ge rare Cray, Miss Elizabeth Hyde Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, Mr. and Mrs Charles K. Graham, Charles B. Eihelow and Alexander B. Puris, Hampton Institute trustees, of New York, Miss Charlotte R. Thorn, Miss Emily K. Derron, Miss J. E. Davis and Frank J. Rogers. Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, and graduate of the Hampton school, spoke at the funeral. He paid a beautiful tribute to Dr. Frissell by whom he was educated. Prayer was offered by Herbert B. Turner, chapplain of the school. Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, formerly associate chapplain, also took part in the services. Tapes were sounded over the grave by the institute battalion of Negroes and Indians. Services at the grave were conducted by Dr. Herbert B. Turner and Rev. Lawrence Fenninger. Three of Dr. Frissell's favorite hymns were sung during the services. If it was you, and you was, me: Pray tell me where on earl' you'd be, if the draft man called for thee, Aug. 6 times 3 plus 1 plus 32. What day is that? Oh yes I know; I would be down at Buckroe, with the Sunday School of Mt. O, for 'tis 4 times 4 plus 2 plus 4. "BLIND" TOM'S BIRTHDAY Mr. Tom Bird, familiarly called "Blind Tom" and by some Uncle Tom celebrated his 70th birthday, Sunday, August 5, 1917. His birth place was in Stafford County, Va., August 5, 1847. His owner, Mr. William Irwin sold him in 1852 to Mr. Andrew Ellis of Richmond, Va., where he has resided ever since. As usual Mr. Bird was generously blessed by his numerous friends with tokens of remembrance, for which he returns his sineece thanks. He is one of the oldest paper carriers in the city and is a noted figure on the streets. At Home Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Hayes at home 105 W. Lehigh St. Friday even ing Aug. 17, 1917 from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. All friends invited. No cards Married Wednesday, Aug. 1, 1917 PRICE, FIVE CENTS NEW COURT OF CALANHE AT HOPEWELL, VA. Virginia Heights. Hepwell, Va. Aug. 4. Through the entrances of Mrs. Larry A. Peters, of Petersburg, Va. one of the State Deputy Grand W. Counselors of Virginia, a Court of California was instituted here Friday night. August 3, 1977, by Grand Worthy Counselor Hon. John Mitchell , Jr., are appointed and assisted by Mrs. Anna E. Taylor, State Deputy; Miss M. L. Chichele, G. W. R. of Deedia; Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Grand Master of Exchequer, of the Grand Lodge K. of P. of Virginia, and Miss Eva G. Davis. The party had motored from Rich mond, Va., with Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., at the wheel, and everything went lovely until nearing the city of Petersburg when, owing to the rough ness of the road, one of the sprigs shaped which somewhat impeded the speed of the car. N. understanding this, they had made the distance in one hour and fifteen minutes. The car was left in a garage at Peters burg and the party took the electric car to Virginia Heights, where a large crowd of ladies and gentlemen anxiously awaited the arrival of Mr. Mitchell and his associates. Dr. Jefferson soon examined the applicants, after which twenty-five were initiated into the mysteries of the Order, much to their surprise and delight, as the men who were already Sir Knights, but not Court members, had innocently (?) informed them that the initiation was the same in both departments, and many of the ladies whose husbands had been made into the Lodge of K. of P. at this place seemed to have had fault (?) recollections of the tired looks and late hour of the return of their better halves on that "memorab"; occasion" and many others who to join were "afraid to ce". We believe, however, to tell the tale" and enjion that in a few weeks will be the enrollment as those were so current. see in their friends on the regalia and suit the Planet. A bountiful repast prepared on a long table out on the laws, and all were delighted with what seemed a "moonlight picnic" at Virginia Heights. The Grand Worthy Counselor was high in his praise for the work accomplished so soon by Mrs. Peters. The Court will be known as Love and Comfort Court, and will meet at the First Baptist Church of Virginia Heights, Hopewell, Va. Mr. Mitchell and party then returned to Petersburg on the electric car, secured his automobile, and without a hitch of any kind, motored back to Richmond in safety to the delight of all, making fast time. The following are the officers of Love and Comfort Court; W. Inspector, Mrs. Bettie Mayo; W. Counselor, Mrs. Cotchele Beaty; W. Inspectrix, Mrs. Blanche Morrison; W. Orator, Mrs. Kizzie Richmond; W. R. of Words, Mrs. Minnie E. Haynes; W. R. of Accounts, Mrs. Esie Jennings; W. R. of Dep, Mrs. Mangie Brigs; W. Senior Directress Mrs Mary E. Woods; W. Junior Directress, Mrs. Elizabeth Benjamin; W. Conductress, Mrs. Rosa Griffith; W. Asst Directress, Mrs. Louise Edwards; W. Esort, Mrs. Lillie Flemming; W. Herald, Mrs. Alice Ward; W. Protector, Rev. Edward D. Wood Trustees: Mrs. Joseph Flemmings 18 months; Mrs. Missouri Williams 12 months; Rev. Junius L. Rowlett 6 months. READ:—AND ACT:—QUICKLY SPECIAL NO. 1----For Sale, 3 New Brick Houses, West Leigh Street, Stucco Fronts, 6 Rooms Tiled Bath, 6 New Building, Specifications can be arranged. Small Cash Payment, Balance as Easy as Rent. SPECIAL NO. 2----For Rent, at once Good as new 4 Room Frame House 2nd Street, Church Hill, Water and Sink in Kitchen, Garden of Vegetables in Yard. A nice home for you. SPECIAL NO. 3----FIRE!!! Insure your Firefailure Register Booklets for our Policy Holders just received. Colleen and get yours with our compliments. BROWN & ROBINSON, Real Estate, Loans, Insurance, Investments. St. Lake Bank Building, "The Golden Rule Service." FINE INVITATIONS The R. W. G. C. L. O. St. Lake, A. C. Garner, D. D. L. R. W. G. Chief, Mrs. Mangie L. Walker, R. W. G. Secretary is sending out handedly engraved plate in golden letters invitations to the Fifteenth Anniversary Golden Jubilee Public Exercises at the City Auditorium. Tuesday evening August 21, 1947 at 5:20 o'clock They are the most expensive that have ever been sent out by any organization in this section. THE ROCKET WANTS COMMUTATION FOR YOUNG BARRETT Mr. William Lancaster is making an effort to secure commutation of sentence for Aubrey Barrett, the colored youth, who, with his father, has been sentenced to die August 31 for the murder of W. T. Roach, in Charlotte county. Mr. Lancaster, counsel for the youth, submits the .....owing statement or the case: "The undersigned was personally present and took notes in the case of Commonwealth vs. Albert Barrett, charged with the murder of W. T. Roach in the circuit court of Charlotte county, and as the papers give so different an account of the facts as existed. I will try to have you publish a correct statement. "Albert Barrett and his son made in substance, at the trial the same statement as they first made to the parties who caught and arrested them, and all of the witnesses who were placed upon the stand by the prosecution related as the voluntary confessions of Albert Barrett and son, in substance, what they stated upon the witness stand, which statement and evidence, for there was none other in conflict, that Albert and his son at about midnight went to the wheatfield of Mr. Roach and stole a load of wheat in the straw and removed it to the wheat field of Albert Barrett. The next morning Mr. Roach and Mr. Cullen, of Collins, tracked the wheat from the field of Mr. Roach to Albert Barrett's and identified the wheat. Then they composed Albert and his son to return the wheat, whereupon all four of the parties were again in Albert's wheat field, Mr. Cullen, by request of Mr. Roach, went for a warrant of arrest, Albert tried to settle or compromise by offering to pay Mr. Roach rather than be prosecuted, but he refused, thereupon Albert ran and Mr. Roach ran after him. Mr. Roach fell, arose and continued pursuit. Albert, after running some 150 yards, fell over a crush pile and Mr. Roach caught him while down and was choking him, when he, Albert, called for his son to come and strike Mr. Roach or help him. His son took, up a cheststick (not an iron bar) and struck Mr. Roach on the back of his head. The stick had a knot on it and the lock pierced to the brain. The father said that next day, after he and his son had gone and were about five miles from home, his son gave him Mr. Roach's watch and the boy kept $1.58 of his money. The boy spent the money and he had on the watch when arrested. The boy says that when Mr. Roach fell in running he dropped his watch, money and knife and he picked them up and gave the watch to his father when he was about five miles from home the next day. Dr. Walker said the wound or lick was a fatal blow and that some of the brains of Mr. Roach were ooing out. Albert turned Mr. Roach off of him and grabbed a rock the size of his two fists and struck Mr. Roach three blows, two on the head and one on the chest. Then Albert lifted Mr. Roach's body some five steps, having hold of one leg and one arm and deposited beside a log between it and a small pine tree and there covered it with leaves. Dr. Walker stated that the three wounds bled scarcely any, if at all, the most blood coming from the wound on the back of the head, where the brains were ooing. From appearances, Mr. Roach was dead or the blood was not circulating freely when the other wounds were inflicted. The body was in a state of putrefaction when he examined it, especially about the abdomen. He said, also, that one of his hips was dislocated. OFFERED THREE INSTRUCTIONS "The counsel for Albert offered three instructions: (1) That every homicide is prima facia, murder in the second degree, etc. (2) That if the jury believed from the evidence that the killing was done in the heart of blood or upon a sudden passion in an affray it could not be more than voluntary manslaughter. (3) That if one was arrested, detained or illegally restrained or imprisoned without a warrant in a case where a warrant was necessary, etc., that the party are rested, etc., has a right to resist and with such a provocation if he killed the other who was performing the illegal act of arrest—that it wond be no greater degree of homicide than voluntary manslaughter. "The court gave the first instructions and refused the third or last instruction without opposition by counsel for the state and refused to allow counsel to read to him any law in support of the instruction. Counsel asked the court if he would change the instruction or strike out any objectional portion, or allow him to submit the instruction to the attorneys for the state, and the court refused same. Whereupon counsel excepted and objected to the ruling of the court, but subsequently his counsel, after an interview with the prisoner, and after his conviction by the verdict and the judgment of the court, and being informed that he, Albert Barrett, was without means and a pauper, asked the clerk of the court to allow him to withdraw the instruction No. 3 which was refused by the court, which request was granted by the clerk and said instruction, which was refused is now in the hands of the attorney, who defended Albert. The counsel for Albert Barrett made an error, mistake and was guilty of a great oversight when he did not ask an instruction from the court asking for an acquittal upon the ground that W. T. Roach was dead after the blow struck on the back of the head by Aubrey Barrett before the blow inflicted by Albert Barrett, which did not bleed, according to the testimony of Dr. Walker, although he stated that three blows, the cleavage of the flesh and the laying open of the same would have proven fatal had the other blow and piercing into the brain not been inflicted by Aubrey Barrett for the mutilation of a corpse is not murder. Aubrey Barrett, the son of Albert Barrett, had no counsel and the court, after the boy changed his plea from 'not guilty' to 'guilty', tried the case, without a jury, by the boy's request, and sentenced him to the elec tric chair. Albert Barrett proved a good reputation, which stood under- nied." -Richmond Virginia, Aug. 1. Hot Contest for Offices—Meets Next Year at Fort Smith. Little Rock, Ark., July 28. (Special to planet.)—In one of the most closely contested, and fierce struggles for offices in Pythianism, the "mighty triumphed over its foe" The Grand Lodge of Arkansas closed its 33rd annual session in Little Rock, at the Arkansas Baptist College, after a week's struggle for offices. The meeting was called to order by Grand Chancellor Avant, of Helena, and after the reading of the proclamation by T. J. Walker, G. K. of R. & S., and the appointment of committees, the "political pot" began to boil. The administration candidates for re-election and against them were John H. Young, S. M. of E., for Grand Chancellor; Fred D. Morris, of Little Rock, for G. K. of R. & S.; Geo. W. Edwards, of Pine Bluff, for M. of E. Supreme Grand Chancellor S. W. Green was present and presided over the election which resulted in the machine receiving a slight "bust." Grand Chancellor Avant, of Helena, was reelected over Sir Young by a vote of 246 to 98. The Bond was reelected over his opponent by 5 votes, and F. D. Morris won over the G. K of R. & S. by a narrow margin of 3 votes. Thus the Grand Lodge of Arkansas passed into history with nothing to boast of being done except closely contested ejection. Quite a number of prominent Pythians were present, among whom were J. T. T. Warren, of Hot Springs; Dr. C. M. Wade, of Hot Springs; Supreme Chancellor Green, of Louisiana; Rev. James Jones, of Pine Bluff; John H. Young, of Phe Bluff; Dr. Joseph A. Booker, of Arkansas Baptist College; E. O. Trent, of Fort Smith; Dr. E. C. Morris, of Helena; Prof. H. C. Yerger, of Hope; Dr. N. R. Parker, Dermott, etc. The following officers were elected: Henry Avant, Helena, Grand Chancellor; J. H. Culler, Forrest City, Vice G. C.; W. H. Allen, Monticello, Grand Prelate; Fred D. Morris, Little Rock, G. K of R. & S.; Theo Bond, Madison, G. M. of E.; E. J. Innon, Mariana, G. L. Matt Gilliam, Hot Springs, G. m. At A.; J. S. Davis, Little Rock, G. M.; Dr. Z. M. Masique, Wabbaska, G. M. E.; Wm. Mecham, Camden, G. L.; J. D. McGowan, Tillar, G. O. G.; Frank A. Young, Little Rock, Grand Trustee. Supreme Representatives: James Jones, Pine Bluff; Ed Pembroko, Gaines Landing. The Grand Lodge will meet next year in Fort Smith. EDITOR MITCHELL'S (Continued From First Page.) visit there, it did not in any manner affect us. We then crossed the bridge to Anacostia. A tall Washingtonian was eying us, and I later found out that he knew me. He gave me explicit instructions as to how I could find my way to Frederick Doughlass' home, which place I could point out in the distance long before I had reached the place. When I arrived there with my companions, I found that it was covered with honey-suckles. The weeds had grown up and the house itself was in a state of delapidation. The large estate showed that the present owners were not able to expend the necessary amount of money in keeping it as it should be kept. NO ONE INTERESTED IN US We made enough noise in talking, but although we heard persons moving around in the house, they seemed to take our being there as a matter of fact and did not come to see who we were or to make any inquiries as to why we were there. We soon expended our spare time in viewing Washington from this magnificent site and then we went down to the Anacostia car, passed through the streets of Washington and were soon at the offices of The Washington Bee, where we found Attorney and Editor Calvin Chin lounge around reading a newspaper. He was attired in an innaculate suit of cream. His Panama hat and white shoes made him as attractive as a dancing master. TALKING ABOUT OLD TIMES Age has touched him lightly and that Chase smile of satisfaction was soon broadened by the social convivialities which followed with his fraternizing with Dr. E. R. Jefferson and the irrepressible Thomas M. Crump I talked over old times with him, too. A few moments later, we were on our way to the Union Station, where we waited a few moments and then passed through the gate to the train below for Richmond. We arrived in this city at 9:25 that night, after a most pleasant trip to the Capital of the Nation. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. —Your subscription to the Planet is due. Have you paid it? If not why not? THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE NOTES The Helping Hand Home Society had quite an enjoyable meeting at the home of Mrs. Conelia Dickerson 10 Ave., N. E. There were eighteen members present. The President conquered a fifteen minutes prayer meeting before opening their meeting. The Secretary Sister Alice Robinson had returned and gave some very interesting remarks. After being served bountifully with ice cream and cake we adjourned to meet again two second Tuesday in August at the home of Sister Swift, o wells Alley N. W. Sister Georgia A. Hairston, resident. Sister Octavia Guthrie, Asst. Secretary. The Daughters of Pocahontas have just closed their fifth grand sitting which was the best one they have ever had. The attendance was about thirty delegates from Virginia and West Virginia. Their public program was held Tuesday evening at the Mt. Zion Baptist church. It seemed to have been joyed by all who attended. The program opened by introductory remarks from Rev W. D. Woods their Great neobony. This was followed by a welcome address from the City and Church by Miss Georgia A. Hairston followed by an address by Mrs. Hewitt which was a welcome address form the lodge. Response to the welcome address was by Mrs. Washington of Charleston West Va., and Mrs. Dr. White of Huntington, West Va. Next was a solo by Mr. James T. Williams of Roanoke, Va., followed by one of Dunbar's selections, "The Party" by Miss Ethel Brown of Montgomery West Va. We then had a solo by Miss Emma Drew of Roanoke, Va. Recitation by Mrs. Jones of Harewood West Va. Following this came short remarks from different ones of the delegates. Wednesday evening they had their reception at the home of Mrs. Mary A. Hairston 333 10 Ave. N. E. I seemed to have been enjoyed by every one present. They closed their meetings Wednesday evening to meet again in the year 919 at Montgomery W. Va. Mrs. Mattie Cook seems to be much improved since being in our town at her home on 6th Ave. N. W. She and her youngest daughter seems to be getting along fine under circumstances of health when Mrs. Cook arrived in her home town several weeks ago. Mrs. W. O. Gertrude Stanford returned home from a month's trip to Columbus Ohio and having enjoyed quite a pleasant trip with her sister-in-law Mrs. Lizzie Stanford of Champion Ave., she brought home little Gladys the only daughter and child W. O. Stanford her husband. They are at their home across Tucker Creek. Brother George Simpson is at his post again after a flying trip to New York. Business is bright. Mrs. Bessie Stanford returned home Sunday from Dublin, Va., where she visited her mother and family spending one week. Mrs. Stanford returned accompanied by her father-in-law Mr. Isaac Stanford of No. 66 Chestnut Ave., N. E. Roanoke, Va. Mrs. John Alexander of 7th Ave., is somewhat indisposed at this writing. The stork visited Aug. 6th, 1917 the home of Mr and Mrs. Andrew Croane of 634 Gregory Ave., N. W. Monday and left a fine baby girl. The mother is getting on nicely. Mrs. Mary Fuqua Walker of No. 34 Gilmore Ave., N. W. left Aug. 5, to visit her mother, brothers sisters, relatives at Goodes, Va. Will visit her people at Lynchburg the hilly city, will spend two or three weeks. Mrs. Nora B. Taylor gave a lawn entertainment Thursday and Friday evenings on the lawn of the Church for the benefit of the Trustees of M. Zion A M. E. Church which was a grand success socially and financially. As a result of the party Mrs. Taylor by her effort and assistance of the members who assisted her on Aug. 6th turned over to the Treasurer Mr. T. T. Traynham, the handsome sum of eleven dollars and eighty-five cents feeling to voice the sentiment of the entire Board and congregation. We are reminded to us this method in thanks for the amount gained at the entertainment and presented to the Board. M. Stanfield and others, Miss Florence Jordan of 10th Ave., N. W. returned home last week after a month's vacation having had a very splendid stay away. Little George Wilson of Bristol, Tenn., is visiting Mrs. Lovie Maxwell of No. 236 6th Ave. N. W. He has spent a very pleasant three weeks stay and will return home August 15th. Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church Sunday morning, Aug. 5th at 11 o'clock Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., filled his pituit with credit to the occasion, it being the initiatory launching of the Duplex Envelope System of financing the church which had been devised by Brother Jacob L. Reed, Brother Green Penn and James W. Traynham. The Reverend used as a text from St. Paul's writing: "Oh for me to live is Christ and to die is gain." His subject was "Self-denial and he treated the same with care and good taste to the heart of all we admit, because of the strictness of attention and comments afterwards. Mrs. Emma Deener Stokes of Columbus, Ohio but now in the Buckeye State is visiting Mrs. Emma Wright at No. 722 Gainshoro Ave. Roanoke, Va. Having previously visited her Sister Mrs. Mattie Rayford of Glenn Willon, Va. Mrs. Deener left Roanoke a few years after the death of her husband, Brother William Deener, a deacon of the High St. Baptist Church. This her first visit to the city since she left. She is looking fine which is proof positive that she is well cared for in her western home. We who knew her of other years did not recognize her she had so developed in flesh. All were glad to meet her and grasp her hand. Her two daughters and one son Mr. William Deener have all married well and live in the Buckeye State near their mother. Bro. Thos. Kinsey of Fifth Ave., N. W., is still critically ill, not improved since last mention. Mrs. Gillie Ferguson of 225 5th Ave., N. W., who underwent a serious operation in Freedman Hospital about five weeks ago is home again getting along fine and relieved of the severe suturing caused by a growth or tumor. Her many friends are pleased to see her at home again enjoying life as in days of youth so to speak compared with a month and a half ago. Mrs. Leeanna Lavender of Lynchburg Ave., N. W. who has been very much indisposed since the death of her husband Mr. James Lavender is reported improved at this writing. In the Duplex Envelope Sunday, Aug. 5th 1917 the receipts were $52.41 very encouraging to begin with, Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. Mr. Odell of whom mention was made of his critical illness on 8th Ave, N. W., die Friday last Aug. 3rd. The funeral services took place at 2:30 from the 1st Baptist church, Monday, Aug. 6th Rev. E. E. Ricks officiating in a beautiful discourse of a short, but beautiful Christian character. Funeral .rector W. F. Hughes had the funeral in charge. The flowers were very beautiful and numerous. The deceased was only 27 years of age leaves a wife, mother, two sisters and a brother to mourn their loss. While ree in God's love await the coming of the Christian host. He told his wife and pastor he was only waiting his release to go home to heaven and was perfectly resigned to His will and may cach of us take warning and apply our hearts unto wisdom. The funeral of Mr. Frank Odell too place at the First Baptist Church Aug. 6th at 2:30 Rev. E. E. Ricks. Scripture read: "For we know that if our earthly house of this taber made he dissolved we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heaven." 42nd hymn, Prayer by Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor in charge officiating. The choir sang "Oh where shall rest be found. Mrs Emma Burks of 203-9th Ave, N. E., left for Columbus and Cincinnati. One where she will spend two weeks. Mrs. Bertha Woods Winston, of Baltimore, Md., is the guest of Mrs. Mary Olds 112 Patton Ave. Mrs. Laura Bruce who has been confined to her home some time is improving. Mrs. Martha Washington of Rocky Mt., Franklin Co., Va., spent 10 days in Roanoke with Miss Maggie Dehaven and Mrs. L. A. Bartle of 5th Avenue N. W. Mrs. Washington lost her mother about three or four weeks ago. She came to the city to relieve her mind of worry of the death of her mother to be with her old friends. Mrs. George Noe of Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Churchman of Washington who has been in Roanoke, for the past two weeks left for the East after a successful stay. Mr. and Mrs. James Ferguson spent Sunday in Lynchburg. Mrs. Martha Ricks of Washington D. C., is spending some time with her son Rev. E. E. Ricks 208 Patton Ave. Dr. Douglas Herben left Friday wife will remain in Roanoke with her parents, 153 High Street N. W. MEMORIAL To His Excellency, The President of the United States Dear Sir: We the members of the Baptist Minister's Union of Nortok, Va, and vicinity by reason of the recent outrages of mob violence in least St. Louis, do address you this memorial, setting forth our deep affliction in consequence with a hope and prayer that you will give it consideration, and will within the range of your power and influence, see that the guilty parties are brought to the bar of justice and that similar acts of violence are not recured. According to newspaper advice scores of innocent men and helpless women and children were murdered in East Saint Louis and thousands of dollars worth of property were burned by a mob for no other than that they were trying to earn an honest living by the sweal of a faithful tail. The report further states that those in authority and armed with power to check the mob and protect the innocent were either derilect in their sworn duty or were too weak to withstand the mob and uphold the arms of the law. The men, women and children brutally murdered were a part of our citizenship and were members of a race who have always been loyal to the flag even to the sacrifice of their lives whenever a call has been made for the same. In laying before you this memorial we do not presume that the matter of such a gravity and shame has escaped your attention altogether; but we address you thus that you may know how much we have been pained and of how our faith in you as a Christian President of this great nation leads us to believe that it will not fall on deaf ears. We appreciate the trying ordeal through which you are passing and the lead that must rest upon you as our chief Magistrate and yet we feel that nothing has transpired before or since this great war is more deserving of action and notice than this awful Saint Louis riot and massacre. Our conference will be glad to get one word from you and we feel that we shall not be disappointed in making this humble request. We beg to remon Your humble servants, The Baptist Ministers Union of Tidewater. Committee: A. E. Jeffress, C. C. Somerville, D. W. Jones, J. W. Riddick, A. Hobbs, C. P. Madison. Admits Virginia to Registration Area Richmond, Va., Aug. S.—Virginia has been admitted as the first of Southern states to the birth-registration area of the United States and hereafter the State's statistics of birth will be accepted by the Federal census bureau and .... be included in all publications of American birth statistics. Announcement to this effect was made today on the receipt of formal ... from Director Samuel L. Rogers of the census bureau. The present birth-registration area of the United States includes only those states in which public health work in general, and vital statistics in particular, reach a degree of proficiency that make the figures compiled by the states reasonably accurate. In the area, prior to the admission of Virginia, were the six New England States, Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia and New York City. As Virginia is already in the more extensive death-registration area, all her statistics of birth and of death will hereafter be accepted by the government. The practice, importance of this is said by health officers to equal the compliment conveyed in official recognition of Virginia's statistical studies. State Registrar Plecker will now have the assistance of the Federal census in the study of vital statistics. Copies of the Virginia birth-certificates will be made for the census bureau in Washington. Co-operation will likewise be given by the United in completing birth certificates that are improperly filled out and in all demographical studies that may be made. State officers believe that admission to the Federal birth-registration area will greatly facilitate the accurate collection of birth statistics in the commonwealth and, in this way will make more complete the records from which in future years Virginians may settle mooted legal questions of age, family connection, etc. The admission of Virginia came after a very searching investigation of the state's records by Special Agents Germaine and Mitchell of the Census Bureau. These officers were sent to pass upon Virginia's registration of births and decided to make a test of the records for the months of January and February. Their plan was to ascertain from independent sources all the births that occurred in Virginia during these two months and then to compare their finished list with that of the state. They accordingly circumscribed the state through postmasters, rural carriers and ministers and found that 92 per cent as many births as they could find were duly recorded in the state's archives. On this showing, they discontinued their investigations after checking over the records c. one month. In their examination, they were very complimentary to the Virginia system and expressed much satisfaction that a law which has been on the books less than five years show... have yielded such good results. State Registrar Plecker has received the congratulations of Health Commissioner Williams and other officers of the St. Health, which was general supervision over the bu this general supervision over the bureau of vital statistics Rev. W. H. Skipwith Here First Baptist Church, Centralia, Va —The great Evangelist, Rev. W. H. Skipwith, will begin a ten days meeting here Sunday, August 19, 1917 Rev. H. M. Chapman, pastor. The prospects are bright and we predict a glorious time. "Come thou with us and we will do tree good." Yours truly, H. M. CHAPMAN DO YOU KNOW HER? Richmond, Va., Adele Hopkins, Communicate with undersigned attorney of Washington, D. C., and learn of something to your interest. State if you can come to Washington in September if necessary. ATTORNEY B. W. J. Care PLANET, Richmond, Va. SOLDIERS MISS LOST TORACCO Red Cross to Speed Shipment of Gifts Ten Tons Needed. The Y. M. C. A.'s shipment of tobacco for the American troops in France has been lost. Word came from Paris fro m the Red Cross commission saving no suitable tobacco to replace the lost shipments was obtainable there. They urged that ten tons be sent at once. The Red Cross was councilum dately accepted an offer of a company to donate 1,500,000 pounds, 20,000 packages of smoking tobacco and 10,000 cuts of chewing tobacco. These will be forwarded to the American troops at once. France will admit the tobacco free of duty, as well as all other articles for the American soldiers. KILLED BY SHELL IN FRANCE Daniel Loughman, of Allentown, Deca itated. U. S. Trooper, Dead. Hated—D. S. Trooper Dead. Daniel Loughman, of Allentown, was informed of the death in action on the French front: June 7, of his nephew and namesake, Daniel Loughman. His head was taken off by a shell while fighting with the Anzaacs. Young Loughman several years ago got the wunderlist. He reached New Zealand as war broke out. James Scheffler, for three years a private, Troop A, Third cavalry, died at Fort Sem Houston, Texas. He was taken ill suddenly. He is a son of Mrs. David Scheffler. The body will be brought to Allentown. Sucks Poison From Rattler's Bike. When William H. Wurstler, a merchant of WILLIAMSport, Pa., was bitten by a rattlesnake while the family were on an outing in Logan House township, his wife carefully cut the flesh away with a knife and sucked the poison from the wound. Mrs. Wurstler undoubtedly saved her husband. He by her present action A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. With territory and prisoners in their hands as the result of the first day's fighting in their new offensive, the British and French troops in Flanders consolidated their gains and meeting inevitable German counter attacks. The new line, which along the greater part of its stretch is two miles to two and half miles in advance of the old and includes ten towns within its limits, has been firmly held along the entire front, London and Paris say. The importance to be attacked to a drive into German-bound territory in this sector must be gained not only by the reclaiming of Belgian soil from the invaders, but the threat it offers to the German submarine bases along the Belgian coast. THURSDAY Germany is battling to hold her lines in Flanders against the Anglo-French attack. Notwithstanding the heavy handleback which the weather imposed on them, the entente forces have made good their important gains and apparently are only awaiting clearing conditions to resume operations. Reports from London say that despite the hampering rainfall, the British have neglected the results of one of the German counter threats, completely re-establishing their line in the neighborhood of the Roulers-Ypres railway as the outcome of a night attack. Some important movement is under way on the Russian northern front which has been holding firm, while the southern end of the line was falling back. The Russians are reported to have evacuated Uskull bridgehead, fifteen miles southeast of Riga, the Germans marching in. The exact significance of this development is to be revealed. FRIDAY Russian forces are now back on their own soil along a wide section of the front, opposite Galician border, and are fast being driven out of Bukowina, Czernowitz, the capital of this Austrian crownland, was occupied by Austrian troops and Klimpoulung, in the southern part of Bukowina has been evacuated by the Russians. Petrograd admits a further success for the Austro-German columns operating along the Düsterle, chorelting the evacuation of the westerly bank of the Zhbrez, at its confluence with the Düsterle near Chotin. The Zhbrez here marks the Russian boundary. The Flanders front, where the offensive launched by the entente on Tuesday is still being held up by bad weather, remains the center of interest. Along other sections of the line in the west, there is notable activity, suggesting attempts to defect the course of the main entente effort. SATURDAY. While there has been no renewal of the smashing offensive on a large scale by the Anglo-French forces in Flanders, the incessant pressure on the German lines is beginning to tell in the further yielding of ground. The British established themselves in the village of St. Julien, which they lost during a German counterattack closely following the initial dash. The French in turn moved ahead in their sector, making further progress west of the Cabinet of Kortekeer. The Russians are fighting hard against the advancing Austro-German forces, Petrograd reports indicate. The driving back of Teutonic forces which had crossed the Zbrocz north of Husiatyn, is announced. SUNDAY The weather moderating, Crown Prince Rupee reprecht, after an all-night bombardment, sent his troops against the British positions at Holdebeke, on the Ypres-Comines canal, between Ypres and Warneton, and, charging forward on both sides of the canal, the Germans gained a footing in the village of Holdebeke. The success was only momentary, however, as the British threw out the Teutons by an immediate counter attack and took some prisoners. Northwest of Bixschoote, which lies to the north of Ypres, the French are following up their successes, of last week. In an attack against the German lines Sunday they made further progress. In an offensive operation near Bai an, east of Czerwowitz, the Russians have taken more than 500 prisoners and captured three machine guns. Here the operations are virtually on Russian soil, as is the fighting just to the north around Chotin, where the retreat has halted measurably. In Buko wina, however, the Russians still are foeing before the Austro-Germans, who have taken several more towns. MONDAY. Sunday's tremendous cannonade on the Flanders front was followed by two German attempts to shake the British from new wounds. Neither of these set with any success what ever, Lord says. On the French front, aside from the Flanders area there was considerable activity on the part of the Germans. They made attacks in the region of Boville, at Avocourt woot and in Alace. The French guns were able to core with the situation in each case Paris debriefed. Kerenchy is again at the helm in Russia, where the personnel of the reorganized exhibit has been moved upon his premiere. The constitutional democraties are represented in the list. German Coast Ship torpedoed. The Amsterdam Handelbied reports that the German steamship Norderney, with a cargo of coal was torpedoed in the North Sea, Monday. She is around off the south coast of Trouxel, Frédan Islands. FIVE WILL ENLIST FRIENDLY ALIENS To Accept Those Who Waive Exemption on Nationality. Provision Has Been Made to Protect Harvesting From Shortage of Hands Because of Draft. The ranks of the new national army were opened formally to friendly allies as volunteers. A ruling by Provost Marshal General Crowder communicated to the local selection boards directs that all such allies who waive their rights of exemption on nationality be promptly accepted for service. General Crowder sent this telegram to the governors: "Reports reaching this office recently indicate that in some quarters the belief prevails that friendly allies, who have not declared their intention to become citizens, but are ready and willing to serve, are disqualified from entering the military service of the United States, and therefore that they must take out first papers before they can be accepted. It is to be regretted that such a misunderstanding should have arisen. The qualifications for voluntary enlistment in time of war are no more restricted for service in the new national army than for the regular army. Such alien non-declarants are virtually volunteers. "The selective service act provided for their registration; but it did not regard them as under any liability to serve, and it therefore gave them full liberty to claim exemption when called by local boards. Now that information reveals their willingness in large numbers to decline this exemption and to accept service in this war against the common enemy of our civilization, it should be fully understood that their service is heartily welcomed, and they should be accepted whenever upon summons they fail to claim their right of exemption. "They are assisting the cause of their own country by adding the United States to triumph in this war. The more of them that enter the service the better, for in this way will be removed the cause of dissatisfaction heard in some quarters that, although the quota was based on total population, including aliens, the actual draft reached only citizens and declaimants. "Local boards are directed to facilitate in every way the acceptance of friendly allien non-declaimants for military service and thus to enable them to assist the country which has given them a refuge and an honorable living." Provision to protect harvesting from shortage of hands due to the mobilization of the national army has been made by the government in regulations now going out to the district exemption boards. Men needed in the fields to complete harvesting will be permitted to remain at work until the need for them passes when they will join the colors. Local boards, because of their knowledge of local conditions, will determine what men are necessary in this class. Application for delay on this ground may be submitted to the district boards. The papers of harvest hands will be returned by the district board to the local board where selection will be made. The local boards are authorized to arrange their quotas in five divisions or increments, which will be ordered out for service in order. Harvest hands who are needed will be placed in the division which will not be called until after the need for them in the olds has passed. York Lawyer Disappears Robert J. Lewis, Republican politician, school board president and attorney of prominence in York, Pa., has disappeared and many persons are worried because he had been entrusted with their money. Among the men, it is said, who may lose, if present fears are realized, is brother, Samuel S. Lewis, who was formerly postmaster of York, but now holds the position of deputy in the attorney general's office in Harrisburg. It is rumored State Banking Commissioner Lafean is a creditor. It is reported that Mr. Lewis' indebtedness will total more than $300,000. He owns no property in York, but is said to have considerable Brooklyn real estate, failing to realize on which, with the consequent taxes and interest, are believed to have greatly embarrassed him. He has been missing the past two weeks, and all efforts to locate him have so far failed. A meeting of attorneys representing clients and estates which he handled is to be held soon, when a line of action will be agreed upon. He is a widower and has two children. --- Tramms Rob Maryland Postoffice. Pierce Robertson's store and the post office at Keynan, near Westminster Md., were burglarized, supposedly by tramps. The thieves secured $20 in stamps and $25 in money from the safe, together with a large quantity of merchandise. Guard Camps Not Ready Delays in preparing national guard mobilization camps will postpone their opening about two weeks. The ww department made this anouncement Ex-President Taft III Former President Taft, who spoke in Clay Center, Kan., in conjunction with a news league meeting is ill and under the eye of physicians at the hotel. This condition is not seri-ous. 2 he FIVE FRIDAYS (Continued trom Page Three.) Fe was Michael Strogom, the courfer of the czar, Shades of Jules Verne! Any: way, it happened to me in my dreams, and ‘the burning sensation was so vive id that I awoke tn terror, ‘ootles was calmly Heking my face. { suppose her tongue had rasped across my eyes. I remembered having been told that (his method of awakening a sleeper was one of her cutest tricks, If Lever have a dog of my own Pin solng to spend a lot of time teaching him not to do this trick, I was about to dnsist that (he pup rest somewhere besides on my head and return to my slumbers once moro when my attention was attracted by a slight noise outside. Some one was enutiously approaching the summer house. Who the dickens could be out wandering about at that (ime of night? T judged that tt was about midnight. ‘Phe person came nearer, Finally he felt his way around to (he door, ‘The latch was lifted, and some one entered, 1 silenced an impulse on the part of Tootles to welcome the In- truder, The weight of the man who was there not ten feet from me made the floor boards saz as he walked about. He was coming toward me, For a moment he paused uncertainly and then lit a match, In its ght 1 discovered that he was a tall, nattily clad young man whom T had never seen before, 1 imagine my surprise was infinites- imal compared to his, L was expecting him, but he could not by any possible chance have been prepared for a wide awake, unblinking stranger staring at him six feet away, Vor an instant, only an instant, L saw a flicker of fear in his eyes; then, disrezarding me, he held the match to a cigar stub already: between his teeth and drew a long, deep pun, When we were once more in dark- ness, save for the tip of his eigar, he said pleasantly, “Good evening.” T watted, 1 knew that the superstl- tous savage man way down In his heart was telling him that there would hot be any answer, At last I said with equal pleasant- ness, ‘Good evening.” He sighed with rellet, “Ig this Green's cottage?” he in- quired, t@lo)" 11 replied; “this is merely a eheller overlooking any -setatty foo view 0. bo lake. You will enjoy {t in tho mor ing.” “Oh! Unfortunately I shall not be here, You, I presume, are taking care of things for Mr. Green.” “Why, yes," I returned, perfectly willing that he should take me for a might watchman until T discovered what he wanted nnd how he got there. “L was going to Mr. Green's cottage, but since [ have met you it will save me the trouble.” “T imagine it will,” I answered grimly, “Now wait a minute,” he retorted, “Don't you jump at conclusions. 1 haven't much time or I could explain it all perfectly, I'm not a thief. I'm A Hewspaper man on the trail of a big story, and there are a few questions I want to ask and a couple of photo- graphs I want to borrow. It looks fun- ny for me to oe prowling around at this time of night, but there's an old grouch over at Green's who wouldn't answer my questions over the tele- phone, so T had to get a boat to bring me over.” “Umph!" [pretended to welgh his case judicially, “So you were going to break into Mr, Green's cottage to ask a few questions? Well, I guess I ean answer any questions you want to ask until the sheriff takes you in charge.” “Honest to goodness, man,” the re- porter exclaimed, “you take yourself st Pots ve el As; j mo ae BK ‘4 EN LTT AN | 1) ee, cpl HUD ey =< [Pres Lye 7, gti DNS Kee Spi ES eS ip = 1 Made a Rope With Which | Bound 2, Rope, With Which 1 seriously, don't you? If you help me I'm willing to covgh up a couple of dollars in real money, which Is more than my editor will he apt to stand for in my expense account, but if you don't I'll find out anyway, because {t's a way L have, and you'll probably be dis- charged for not catching me.” “But it scems to me that I have caught you,” [ interposed mildly. “Hardly,” he retorted. “From the glance 1 got at your figure when Tilt the match [ should judge that you could run a hundred yards in ten flat— minutes, that is—whtle I am somo sprinter, as you will have to admit if you watch me during the next fow seconds. 1am off.” But he wasn't. While ho was talking hin AP arxoTia TTad take Me piecautton of mov around between him and the door, so that when he started (o leave I tripped him neatly and sat on bis chest. ‘Chis is a very effective type of jiujitsu for a heavy xet man to employ. However, 1 couldn't sit on him all night. For one tiling | wanted to sleep. Finally an ingentous scheme solved my diileulty, [removed his coat without wnbuttening it, which is Jone by gtasping firmly the two tails in the back, one in each hand, aud pull- ing sidewise, ‘Treated in this fashion, even the most expensively made gar- ment Will separate along the back seam and may then be taken off from the front. After 1 had the coat In my pos- session I tore it into strips, which 1 ted together and made a rope with which TF bound his ankles and wrists. When Thad him all done Lit aimateh to make sure it was a 00d job. “You'll be sorry for this,” he growl- ed. "Mrs, Green has been abducted to Huntingdon’s istand and murdered by lake pirates. Won't you let me go?) 1 will save her. Remember, if you don't TL know what you look like and PR put you In jail for assault.” “It isn't customary,” I commented, “for men who break into other people's houses to have any one put in jail, So Jong.” T went ont CHAPTER Xiv. oe ee ee ee: See ee Ree {PT had stopped raining entirely now, and the south wind had become a warm and welcome reality. 1 went down to the cove. As T had rather expected, 1 found BIL Johnson there With his moter scow, the Merry Widow, with her nose driven up on the beneh, © Bill's father was Danish, 1 belteve. and his mother was a French Cana: dian, THs speceh ts a combination of datols that he heard at home. “Quite a sea out there.” T Indicated the lake, “she shall run pretty: high," replied BIN, “but not so high lke she do awhile ao.” “Just come out for the ridez* 1 queried, | No. The Merry Widow she bring over a young man, a newspaper feller, FHe say be give me three dollar or 1 Pwouldn't, by yimminy Christmas, do Ht. No, save, not sor two-fitty even 1 shan't de i" ‘Then he added, with a slight wink, “The sea she ain't so ig! how as Dinake hin (ink. “Do you know where Huntinsdon's istand fs?" 1 inquired, a vague plan oF notion formulating ftself hn my: brain, Sure E know him, She set over yon Vout Uiree mile, maybe four or two wnd a hate.” “Well, the young man you brought aver here has decided to stay for an hour or so. While you are walting 1 want you to tke me over to Hunting- don’s nnd get Mrs. Green.” “Mrs, Green! What she do by Iunt- ingdon’a?” “LIL tell you later after I think up some Interesting explanation. At pres- er shouldn't be able to do the sub- viie suotloe, THoygibuue Itt Wai your iiako'ine over there?” THe hesitated, “Here's a dollar," 1 sald. “Phe storm ts quicting down a good deal, and, anyhow, you know the Merry Widow 4s the ‘best sea boat on the Inke."” ‘The flattery won him. What owner, even of the verlest. motor monstrosity, Is not susceptible to praise bestowed upon his darling “I guess sho shall ran all right, One walve she shan't work yust so good as she ought, but 1 got some wire. 1 tls hin up." T helped him shove of, and Bin tin- kered with the one cylinder machine kun which propelled the barge until he induced It to bark at irregular tnter: vals, Have I forgotten to mention that the Merry Widow is an open boat with no superstrnctire or emnopy of any sort? If T have, let me state here that her Ines are very decollete, and a large wave meets With little obstruction save the passengers when it starts (o travel from the bow to the stern, “She shall be, by ylmminy. Christ: mas, sure choppy,” Bil commented, “The wind she shall haul to the south and make cross waves.” He was absolutely correct. As soon as we left the month of the cove we went through some evolutions which 1 would have said it was absolutely Impossible for a man of my build to berform, Twas favorably considering the Mea of being seasick when a larger wave than usual washed over and struck the engine. It expired peacefully on the spot, “What has happened?" I asked, with A landsman’s justified (error, “Phe ensine has stopped." — Bis calm statement of the obylous exas- berated me. “OF course It has stopped. Can we ever start It again?" “Sure, She shill run some more, The wave, she short cirenit the spark, See,” Ril pointed, “she all wet.” TIls enthusiasm as ‘a lecturer on the gasoline engine made him for- Ket the lnke outside, It was brought to his attention by a large wave which tipped us on our beam ends and dropped Bill and my- self In an affectionate group Into the stern of (he boat, where we were join. ed presently by a collection of oll cans, wrenches, grease cans and other marine impedimenta. Bil removed his elbow from the pit of my long since hopeless stomach and scrambled to the engine. “She hain't burted a bit," he an- nounced. “Tend me your’ handker- ehfot.” I silently passed him the article he desired. Me carefully wiped off a largo part of the engine with it be fore be offered St back to me. I de clined and told him to consider it my contribution to the equipment of the hoat. “Now, sare,” he directed, “you must hold the cont over tho spark s0 she shalt not get, by yeo vizz, again wet." He showed me how to protect th. engino from the elements by interpos- {ng my cont and my shivering body THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Detween {€ and the Waves, Thi vem accomplished, he started the machin- ery, and we lurched forth Into the night once more. Bill split his: time between steering and mending the engine, keeping up a running fire of conversation, not with me, but with the motor. When she'd cough wenkly BIL would hit her In some apparently tender spot with the flat of a monkey wrench and say: IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! WE ARE GIVING AWAY GOUPONS FOR EVERY CENT PAID IN MONEY IN THE PLANET OFFICE, ON EITHER JOB WORK OR ON SUBSCRIE- TIONS. THESE COUPONS WILL BRING A TALKING MACHINE, AN UMBRELLA OR A COPY OF PAUL LAURENGE DUNBAR'S WORKS, JUST AS YOU SELECT. HLE, i, ( Veg li ‘eg CZ SPA De, Ke OD z Sib) be <2 3 Sy.“ —- It Was Brought to His Attention by a Large Wave. pects tela ak od | “Come on, Merry; you shan't stop, 1 knock the carbon off your walves, Now you feel better.” Finally we ‘reached the dock at Huntingdon's tsland. After 1 had filled: my lungs with a Nttle undiluted alr 1 picked up a heavy wreneh to use as a weapon, and, dk recting Bill to arm himself likewise and follow as quietly as possible, T set out up the path leading from the dock, which doubtless ended at the Hunting: don domicile, \ A tin of the path brought us. in range with an uminated window. 1 led the way off from the path and through (he shrubbery to a_ position hear the house, but a little to one side of the window, i Clearly iC was up (o me to look in and see what was in that room. 1 crept to the lower corner of the wine dow and quickly raised my head 80 as to bring the interior of (he room with: In range of one eye. Whe amp showed surroundings and farniture which prociatmed the room to be the kitehen, Lerept back to Bill, | “No one In sight,” I reported. “There 13 some one in there T want to sur prise, to play a Joke on, so Lam going to break tn the door." “a, ha!” laughed BI, “She shall be very funny yoke.” We felt our way to the door, which was 2 solid one of plain wood with no glass panels, “Could you knock that off from tts hinges?” 1 whispered, “I bet," Bill replied; “easy.” “AN right, then, Get rendy. One, two, three!” Crash! Bill sprang at the door, and St fol uwara, j I stapned poe. Gas cowold ame Joveled ty snonkey wreneh like a re- volver, “Throw up your hands!” I com- manded, To my surprise, I found that 1 was addressing « whiskered indtvidual clad In white swimming tights only, who was backed up aginst a door tn’ a far corner of the room, He threw up one hand, keeping the other one behind him, “Up with the other hand!" I shouted, advancing Into the room to get a better View of its occupant, but keeping suf. ficiently In the shade of the lamp so that the veal nature of my weapon would not be immediately evident. “Throw up your other hand!" “I ean't.” sald my prisoner stub: bornly. “Can't?” 1 repented In surprise, “Why can't your" “Because F've got my thumb over the Keyhole and there Is 2 woman on the other side trying to peek through!” I grabbed the lamp from the table and held itso the full light fell on his fee. “Lipton 8. Clair!” 1 exclaimed, “L admit that 1 did not expect to be recoxuized In this iskind wilderness,” he began pompously, careful to gestle- ulate, however, only with his. free hand, “but why should 1 not be here ag well as anywhere else?” “Because when L saw you last you were going to swim {o the mainland." “Who are you?” he demanded in turn, trying to see past the light whieh I held in front of me. : “Montmorency Blainey,” I replied. “Yes, yes; 1 understand.” ‘Then sud- denly he shrank more closely into the doorway. “Is that woman—ay fiancee Miss Dunmore—with you?" T reassured him and asked him how he came to be where Thad found hin, “L found the swimming a trifle more strenious than T had expected,” he be- Kan. “1 divcovered that it was prac- fleally impossibie for me either to reach the mainland or to get back to Greens ishind. ‘The general trend of the waves was hi this direction, and 1 was forced to xo alow, saving iy strength for keeping my head above water, \ “The rest of my story Is absurdly simple. T saw land here and came ashore. It was not guite dark, and Came up the path to the house without noticing the Hight In the window. I had no thought of there being any In-, habitants, and my fntention was to rummage around until T fod some- thing to eat and somo dry clothes, } “Ag soon as I opened the door saw that I had committed a social blunder. ‘There was a woman stand- ing at the telephone, and when she saw me she screamed and ran through this door, slamming and locking it att- er her. ‘It was useless to try to ex- plan to a frightened female the In-. nochous nature of my visit, so 1 re! framed. 1 was about to partake of ; some of the food T found on the ta: Continued on Page Seven. | FOR S100 WORTH OF COUPONS. WE WILL SEND YOU ALARGE SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR 576 WORTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A SMALLER SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR dO WORTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU GAN TAKE IT APART AND PUT IT INTO YOUR TRUNK OF SUIT CASE WHEN TRAVELING. FOR S30 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 OEND US. THE PLANET SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME, IT IS NEWSY AND READABLE, AN EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ENABLES US TO GATER TO THE READING PUBLIC. YOU WILL LIKE THE PLANET IF YOU WILL READ IT Wa Nn All kindle nf Jah Wart WE HAVE TWO LINOTYPES, ONE (9 OF THE LATEST PATENT. THE COST PRICE OF ~ THE FIRGT ONE WAS $9,076, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. THE COST OF THE LATEST WAS $3,700, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. ADD 10 THESE AMOUNTS S100 AND YOU HAVE THE EXPENSE OF BRINGING THEM FROM THE MERGENTHALER FACTORY AT BROOKLYN, WL Y. AND SETTING THEM UP IN OUR OFFICE AT RICHMOND, Our Press Room is also well equipped. The outlay for machinery alone ex- ceeds $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 _ THE RICHMOND PLANET, | JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street | Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia’ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET 8IX THE PLANET It was Michael Strugoff, the courier of the ear, Shades of Jules Verne! Anyway, it happened to me in my dreams, and the burning sensation was so vlid that I awoke in terror. Tootles was calmly licking my face, I suppose her tongue had rasped across my eyes. I remembered having been told that this method of awakening a sleeper was one of my cutest tricks. If I ever have a dog of my own I'm going to spend a lot of time teaching him not to do this trick. I was about to insist that the pup rest somewhere besides on my head and return to my slumbers once more when my attention was attracted by a slight noise outside. Some one was cautiously approaching the summer house. Who the dickens could be out wandering about at that time of night? I judged that it was about midnight. The person came nearer. Finally he felt his way around to the door. The latch was lifted, and some one entered. I silenced an impulse on the port of Tootles to welcome the intruder. The weight of the man who was there not ten feet from me made the floor boards sag as he walked about. He was coming toward me. For a moment he paused uncertainly and then lit a match. In its light I discovered that he was a tall, nattily clad young man whom I had never seen before. I imagine my surprise was infinitesimal compared to his. I was expecting him, but he could not by any possible chance have been prepared for a wide awake, unblinking stranger staring at him six feet away. For an instant, only an instant, I saw a dicker of fear in his eyes; then, disregarding me, he held the match to a cigar stub already between his teeth and drew a long, deep puff. When we were once more in darkness, save for the tip of his cigar, he said pleasantly, "Good evening." I waited. I knew that the superstitious savage man way down in his heart was telling him that there would not be any answer. At last I said with equal pleasantness, "Good evening." He sighed with relief. "Is this Green's cottage?" he inquired. "No," I replied; "this is merely a shelter overlooking an orchard view o. he lake. You will enjoy it in the morning." "Oh! Unfortunately I shall not be here. You, I presume, are taking care of things for Mr. Green." "Why, yes," I returned, perfectly willing that he should take me for a night watchman until I discovered what he wanted and how he got there. "I was going to Mr. Green's cottage, but since I have met you it will save me the trouble." "I imagine it will," I answered grimly. "Now wait a minute," he retorted, "Don't you jump at conclusions. I haven't much time or I could explain it all perfectly. I'm not a thief. I'm a newspaper man on the trail of a big story, and there are a few questions I want to ask and a couple of photographs I want to borrow. It looks funny for me to be prowling around at this time of night, but there's an old grouch over at Green's who wouldn't answer my questions over the telephone, so I had to get a boat to bring me over." "Umpth!" I pretended to weigh his case judicially. "So you were going to break into Mr. Green's cottage to ask a few questions? Well, I guess I can answer any questions you want to ask until the sheriff takes you in charge." "Honest to goodness, man," the reporter exclaimed, "you take yourself I Made a Rope With Which I Bound His Ankles, and Wrists. seriously, don't you? If you help me I'm willing to cough up a couple of dollars in real money, which is more than my editor will be apt to stand for in my expense account, but if you don't I'll find out anyway, because it's a way I have, and you'll probably be discharged for not catching me." "But it seems to me that I have caught you." I interposed mildly. "Hardly," he retorted. "From the glance I got at your figure when I lit the match I should judge that you could run a hundred yards in ten flat—minutes, that is—while I am some sprinter, as you will have to admit if you watch me during the next few seconds. I am off." But he wasn't. While he was talking --- I had taken the precaution of moving around between him and the door, so that when he started to leave I tripped him neatly and sat on his chest. This is a very effective type of jiujitsu for a heavy set man to employ. However, I couldn't sit on him all night. For one thing I wanted to sleep. Finally an ingenious scheme solved my difficulty. I removed his coat without unbuttoning it, which is done by grasping firmly the two tails in the back, one in each hand, and pulling sidewise. Treated in this fashion, even the most expensive made garment will separate along the back seam and may then be taken off from the front. After I had the coat in my possession I tore it into strips, which I tied together and made a rope with which I bound his ankles and wrists. When I had him all done I lit a match When I had him all done I lit a match to make sure it was a good job, "You'll be sorry for this," he growled. "Mrs. Green has been abducted to Huntingdon's island and murdered by lake pirates. Won't you let me go? I will save her. Remember, if you don't know what you look like and I'll put you in jail for assault." "It isn't customary," I commented, "for men who break into other people's houses to have any one put in jail. So long." I went out. CHAPTER XIV The Voyage of the Merry Widow. I had stopped raining entirely now, and the south wind had become a warm and welcome reality. I went down to the cove. As I had rather expected, I found Bill Johnson there with his motor scoot, the Merry Widow, with her nose driven up on the beach. Bill's father was Danish, I believe, and his mother was a French Canadian. His speech is a combination of petoits that he heard at home. "Quite a sea out there." I indicated the lake. "She shall ram pretty high," replied Bill, "but not so high like she do awhile ago." "Just come out for the ride?" I queried. "No. The Merry Widow she bring over a young man, a newspaper feller, He say he give me three dollar or I wouldn't, by yiminng Christmas, do it. No, sace, not or two fifty even I shan't do it." Then he added, with a slight wink, "The sea she ain't so high now as I make him think." "Do you know where Huntingdon's island is? I inquired, a vague plan of action formulating itself in my brain. "Sure I know him. She set over you bout three mile, maybe four or two and a half." "Well, the young man you brought over here has decided to stay for an hour or so. While you are waiting I want you to take me over to Huntingdon's and get Mrs. Green." "Mrs. Green! What she do by Huntingdon's?" "I tell you later after I think up some interesting explanation. At present shouldn't be able to do the sub-act. How about it? Will you take me over there?" He hesitated. "Here's a dollar," I said. "The storm is quieting down a good deal, and, anyhow, you know the Merry Widow is the best sea boat on the lake." The flattery won him. What owner, even of the veriest motor monstrosity, is not susceptible to praise bestowed upon his darling: "I guess she shall run all right. One wives she shouldn't work just so good as she ought, but I got some wire. I fix him up." I helped him shove off, and Bill thickered with the one cylinder machine gun which propelled the barge until he induced it to bark at irregular intervals. Have I forgotten to mention that the Merry Widow is an open boat with no superstructure or canopy of any sort? If I have, let me state here that her lines are very decollete, and a large wave meets with little obstruction save the passengers when it starts to travel from the low to the stern. "She shall be, by yiminyin Christmas, sure choppy," Bill commented. "The wind she shall haul to the south and make cross waves." He was absolutely correct. As soon as we left the month of the cove we went through some evolutions which I would have said it was absolutely impossible for a man of my build to perform. I was favorably considering the idea of being seasick when a larger wave than usual washed over and struck the engine. It expired peacefully on the spot. "What has happened?" I asked, with a landsman's justified terror. "The engine has stopped." Bill's calm statement of the obvious exasperated me. "Of course it has stopped. Can we ever start it again?" "Sure. She shall run some more. The wave, she short circuit the spark. See," Bill pointed, "she all wet." His enthusiasm as a lecturer on the gasoline engine made him forget the lake outside. It was brought to his attention by a large wave which tipped us on our beam ends and dropped Bill and myself in an affectionate group into the stern of the boat, where we were joined presently by a collection of oil cans, wrenches, grease cans and other marine impedimenta. Bill removed his elbow from the pit of my long since hopeless stomach and scrambled to the engine. "She hain't hurted a bit," he announced. "Lend me your handkerchief." I silently passed him the article he desired. He carefully wiped off a large part of the engine with it before he offered it back to me. I declined and told him to consider it my contribution to the equipment of the boat. "Now, sare," he directed, "you must hold the coat over the spark so she shall not get, by yee vizz, again wet." He showed me how to protect the engine from the elements by interposing my coat and my shivering body THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA between it and the waves. This lofting accomplished, he started the machinery, and we lurched forth into the night once more. ```markdown ``` Bill split his time between steering and mending the engine, keeping up a running fire of conversation, not with me, but with the motor. When she'd cough weakly Bill would hit her in some apparently tender spot with the flat of a monkey wrench and say: IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! A man and a woman in a boat are struggling against a strong wind. The man is holding the boat steady, while the woman is struggling to keep it afloat. The background is a mountainous landscape with rocky terrain and a river. 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. It Was Brought to His Attention by a Large Wave. "Come on, Nierry; you shan't stop, I knock the carbon off your walves. Now you feel better." Finally we reached the dock at Huntingdon's island. After I had filled my lungs with a little undiluted air I picked up a heavy wrench to use as a weapon, and, directing Bill to arm himself likewise and follow as quietly as possible, I set out up the path leading from the deck, which doubtless ended at the Huntingdon domestile. A turn of the path brought us in range with an illuminated window. I led the way off from the path and through the shrubbery to a position near the house, but a little to one side of the window. Clearly it was up to me to look in and see what was in that room. I crept to the lower corner of the window and quickly raised my head so as to bring the interior of the room within range of one eye. 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. The lamp showed surroundings and furniture which proclaimed the room to be the kitchen. I crept back to Bill. "No one in sight," I reported. "There is some one in there I want to surprise, to play a joke on, so I am going to break in the door." 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 "Ha, ha!" laughed Bill. "She shall be very funny voice." We felt our way to the door, which was a solid one of plain wood with no glass panels. "Could you knock that off from its hinges?" I whispered. "I bet," Bill replied; "easy." "All right, then. Get ready. One, two, three." Crash! Bill sprang at the door, and it fell inward. I stapped my monkey wrench like a revolver. "Throw up your hands!" I commanded. To my surprise, I found that I was addressing a whiskered individual clad in white swimming tights only, who was backed up against a door in a far corner of the room. He threw up one hand, keeping the other one behind him. We Do All Kinds of Job Work "Up with the other hand!" I shouted, advancing into the room to get a better view of its occupant, but keeping sufficiently in the shade of the lamp so that the real nature of my weapon would not be immediately evident. "Throw up your other hand!" 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. "I can't," said my prisoner stubbornly. "Can't? I repeated in surprise. "Why can't you?" "Because I've got my thumb over the keyhole and there is a woman on the other side trying to peek through!" I grabbed the lamp from the table and held it so the full light fell on his face. "Lipton S. Clair!" I exclaimed. "I admit that I did not expect to be recognized in this island wilderness." he began pompously, careful to gesticulate, however, only with his free hand, "but why should I not be here as well as anywhere else?" "Because when I saw you last you were going to swim to the mainland." "Who are you? he demanded in turn, trying to see past the light which I held in front of me. "Montmorency Blainey," I replied. "Yes, yes; I understand." Then suddenly he shrank more closely into the doorway. "Is that woman—my fiancee—Miss Dummon—with you?" 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 I reassured him and asked him how he came to be where I had found him. "I found the swimming a trifle more strenuous than I had expected," he began. "I discovered that it was practically impossible for me either to reach the mainland or to get back to Green's island. The general trend of the waves was in this direction, and I was forced to go along, saving my strength for keeping my head above water. "The rest of my story is absurdly simple. I saw land here and came ashore. It was not quite dark, and I came up the path to the house without noticing the light in the window. I had no thought of there being any inhabitants, and my intention was to runnage around until I found something to eat and some dry clothes. "As soon as I opened the door I saw that I had committed a social blunder. There was a woman standing at the telephone, and when she saw me she screamed and ran through this door, slamming and locking it after her. It was useless to try to explain to a frightened female the innocuous nature of my visit, so I refrained. I was about to partake of some of the food I found on the tu- JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia Continued on Page Seven. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET I SEE YOUVE BEEN MILKING HERE'S TWO BITS, GO INTO THE SHED AND KID THE LITTLE SHRIMP WHO'S TRYING TO MILK. WHEN THAT REUBEN STARTS KIDDING LUKE, WON'T THE LITTLE TYKE BE SORE? WHATTA TRYIN' TO DO? MILK? YOU CITY BOOBS COULDN'T MAKE WATER RUN DOWN HILL POW HEY PLANET SATURDAY,.....August 11, 1917 BRITISH TIGHTEN GRIP ON LENS Canadians Are Face to Face With Enemy. ALMOST UP TO THE CITY Establish New Lines Within Few Yards of German Front Trenches French Break Crown Prince's Defenses. The Canadian outposts around Lens have established a new line in a group of houses which is within a few yards of the enemy front line at that point. "The Lens-Bethune road is now safely within our lines almost up to the city of Lens," says the official report. "The enemy does not intend to submit to the loss of Lens without making a fight. While our outposts were establishing their new posts the Germans turned loose a heavy artillery and machine gun barrage upon the crater recently captured, and buildings nearby. "Sheltered by this barrage his infantry advanced upon the crater which was only slightly held as an outpost. Our men in the crater withdrew without suffering any casualties and the Germans reoccupied it. Destructive artillery shooting was continued by our artillery at an extended rate." The British lines continue to tighten about the French city of Lens, north of Arras. Canadian troops, who on Saturday night pushed their positions forward approximately 200 yards along a front of a thousand yards into the western environs of the city added a 600 yard front of a similar depth to their defenses south and west of the outskirts of that mining centre. The Germans have been showing signs of decided uneasiness in the Lens sector for several days as has been evidenced by their practice of throwing a wristband. The British trenches each more at dawn Vimy and Farbus, towns behind the British lines south of Lens also have been shelled daily. The rest of the British front has continued in a state of comparatively calm as far as infantry actions have been concerned. --- Break Crown Prince's Lines. The French troops broke into the lines of the German crown prince on the Champagne front at three places, inflicting losses on the Germans and bringing back prisoners. This was officially announced by the French war department. A Teuton attack between Avocourt Wood and Hill 304, in the Verdun sector, was driver off with heavy losses to the Germans. There were fairly violent artillery duels in the Bixschoote sector of the Belgian front and in the Hurtebise and Craonne, north of the river Alsace. GERMAN "HUMANITY" Declaration Read In Churchos Compared to U-Boat Murders. The Dutch Newspapers in Amsterdam print a parallel column with an account of the murder of the crew of the British steamship Belgian Princess a Berlin telegram giving the following extract from a pastoral letter read in all the Protestant churches of Berlin last Sunday: "We will comport ourselves as Christians toward our enemies and conduct the war in the future as in the past with humanity and chivalry." The pastoral letter was read at a service which Emperor William and the German Empress attended at the cathedral. It exhorts the people to humanity and recognizes the hand of Charley Puts Up a Job on Luke I SEE YOU'VE BEEN MILK- ING HERE'S TWO BITS, GO INTO THE SHED AND KID THE LITTLE SHRIMP WHO'S TRYING TO MILK Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers God in the protection from invasion which the Fatherland has enjoyed. The British steamship Belgian Prince was sunk July 31 by a German submarine. According to survivors who reached a British port the U-boat shelled the vessel and the German commander then ordered the crew to take to the boats and go alongside the submarine. The Germans, the survivors assert, removed the life belts and outer clothing of all the members of the crew except eight, insured the Mifeboats with eyes and then reentered the submarine and closed the hatches, leaving the men on deck. The submarine traveled on the surface for about two miles and then submerged. Thirty-eight of the crew were drowned. Three others were rescued by a patrol boat. K. of C. Plan Great Work The general convention of the Knights of Columbus opened in Chicago. It has before it a proposition to raise $10,000,000 with which to build and maintain institutions, on the lines of the Y. M. C. A., at each of the thirty-two cantonments in the United States. The organization is Catholic but the work planned is non-sectarian. Catholics all over the country will be asked to contribute. Man of 75 Elones. Benjamin F. Weyman, seventy five years of age, and Miss Alma C. Austin, aged thirty, Bath of Pitts burgh, cloped to Elkton, Md., in ar auto from Atlantic City and were mar- ried by Rev. George P. Jones, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr Weyman is wealthy. His bride was nurse. REV. CHARLES STELZLE ```markdown ``` P. A. Photo by American Press Association. TEUTONS INVADE MOLDAVIA Berlin Reports Storming of Positions north of Kokshani. Austro-German forces began an offensive against the Russo-Rumanian armies in Moldavia, on the Rumanian front. Berlin, Aug. 8.—Austro-German forces began an offensive against the Russo-Rumanian armies in Moldavia, on the Rumanian front. Prussian and Bavarian regiments of von Mackensen's forces stormed Russian positions north of Pekshani. Thirteen hundred prisoners, thirteen guns and numerous trech weapons were brought in. The war office report says further: "In the Sereth and Suchawa valleys we gained ground as the result of fighting, and we continued to advance in the mountains in spite of stubborn enemy resistance. "Renewed Rumanian attacks on Casulnuli and near the Lepsa Monastery, in the Putna Valley, broke down with severe losses." In the direction of Kimpolung, in Bukowina, Austro-German forces after a battle with the Russians, occupied the heights at Molit. In the region of the river Bystritza, two Russian regiments voluntarily left their positions, causing the Russian troops to retire a few miles. South of Grjimalov the Russians drove back the Teuton advanced posts THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FIVE FRIDAYS Continued from Sixth Page. ble there when I heard the key being carefully withdrawn from the lock on the other side. Quick as a flash I asked myself the question, 'Why do people withdraw the keys from locked doors?' The answer struck me instantly. 'So that they may look through the keyholes, of course.' I recollected my costume. With one bound I jumped to the door and put my thumb over the keyhole, where it has been ever since." "Surely you have heard the telephone bell racing." "Yes, it has been making an informal racket ever since I arrived, but how could I leave my post to answer it?" He beeplessly waved his free hand in the direction of the keyhole. "Ouch! Stop!" he yelled, jerking his thumb away and dancing up and down frantically. "What has happened?" "She jabbed a pin into my thumb. I'm bleeding to death. Put your thumb over the keyhole a minute while I swear." I was about to do that, foolish as it was, when there was the sound of a rifle shot somewhere outside, and almost simultaneously the lamp which I held fell apart in my hand and crashed to the floor. "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Bill Johnson in the darkness. "I see the yoke now." "What happened?" Clair asked. "Some one shot out the light." "What for?" "I can't imagine." Any further conversation was cut short by a scattering fusillude of shots, some of which came through the window, as we could tell by the thickle of glass. "This is a regular attack." Clair may have been an egotistical ass, but I must give him credit for not showing fear under fire. "What shall we do?" (TO BE CONTINUED) KAISER SHAKES UP CABINET Four Secretaries and Five Ministers Resign. KUEHLMANN IS IN POWER Foreign Secretary Zimmermann Involved In Imperial and Prussian Shake-up Following Downfall of Hollweg. Official announcement has been made in Berlin that four secretaries of state, Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, and five ministers of state had resigned their portfolios. Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, the ambassador to Turkey, has been appointed secretary for foreign affairs in succession to Dr. Zimmermann. The (imperial) secretaries of state who have resigned, in addition to Dr. Zimmermann, are: Imperial postoffice, Herr Kraetke. Secretary of justice, Dr. Lisco. President of the food regulation board, Adolph von Batockl. Dr. Richter, under secretary of the home office, also resigned his post. Dr. Karl Helfferich will continue to be the representative of the imperial chancellor and a member of the ministry of state and temporary minister of the interior. The ministry of economics will ultimately be separate from the ministry of the interior. Herr Waldraff, mayor of Cologne, will be appointed minister of the interior, and Herr Schwander mayor of Strassburg, minister of economics, with the titles of excellency. Herr Ruedelon was made (Imperial) director of railways and minister of posts, and Privy Councilor von Krause was named secretary of justice. Over President von Waldow was appointed chief of the department of army nourishment. Landrat von Graevinitz was appointed to succeed Arnold Wahnschaffe as chief of the imperial chancellory. The (Prussian) ministers of state re-signing are: Minister of Justice, Dr. Beseler, ap Chaplin's REUBEN STARTS E, WONT THE LITTLE SORE? WHAT YOU THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET No.1.-13x13x6 inches, No.2.-16x16x7 inches, CABINETS MAY BE SPRING MOTOR AND NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED ONE WINDING. THE CHINES. 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POLICY AND $35.00 DEATH CLAIM I LY. POLICY NO. 447 ON MARY F. ANDERSON. Farrington, Hanover Co., Va., R. F. D. No. 1, 1. 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 Lord will ever bless and prosper you and the Society. From Yours Sincerely, Mrs. JAS. F. A. JOIH PAID $200.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY, AFTER PAYING SICK CLAIMS BAND PROMPTLY EACH WEEK DURING LONG ILLNESS. 267—8th Ave., N. W., Roanoke, Va., Dec. 4 Southern Aid Society, Richmond, Va. Gentlemen:—I feel that too much cannot be said in praise of the South Society of Virginia for its very prompt and courteous way in which it has the business during my husband's long illness. I am glad to register my high regards for the dignity and efficiency as your Roanoke office. Since my husband first reported sick your district of him until his death November 30, 1916, and on December 4, 1916, death claim of $200.00. I gladly recommend the Southern Aid Society for its promptness and care. I am very truly yours, MRS. VAN I 2116 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 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, requested. 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 LUGAS. 6, 1916, to June 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 sure policy of protection all through life. Respectfully yours, GEORGE JAMES, Husband. Witness: Clarence James. ALL SICK CLAIMS AND $500.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY PAID. 222 Railroad Ave., Franklin, Va., Aug. 24, 1915. Southern Aid Society. Gentlemen, I take very great pleasure in writing you to thank you for the promptness in paying the death claim of my wife, Mrs. Lizzie Jenkins, who died Aug. 13, 1915. You lost no time in paying my claim, for as soon as my claim reached the home office your check for $500.00, in full settlement, was given to me by your superintendent, Mr. W. R. Thomas. The Southern Aid Society ```markdown ``` Southern Art Society SATURDAY Aug. --11 --- $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 f illness 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. DELLA V. JAMES, 1104 CHAFFIN ST., RICHMOND VV. WAS PAID EACH WEEK FOR SIX MONTHS FROM DEC. 6, 1916, TO JUNE 6, 1917. TOTAL SICK BENEFITS DRAWN DURING SIX AND ONE-HALF 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 This is to certify that my wife, Mrs. Lolla 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. THE RICHMOND PLANET AID SOCIETY SECOND STREET, FRANCE THAT 1907 SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA. INC. 527 HOME OFFICE SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC. INSURES AGAINST BUSINESS ACCIDENTS & DEATH 527 HOME OFFICE SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC. Southern Aid Building, Richmond, Va. is to be had, a policy that par- and operating the Va. Benefi- from the thousands that are on 1907 SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA. INC. 527 HOME OFFICE SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC. INSURES AGAINST BURNS ACCIDENTS & DEATH 527 HOME OFFICE SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC. Southern Aid Building, Richmond, Va. VIRGINIA BENEFITAL INSURANCE CO. VA. BEN. & INS. CO. BUILDING Virginia Beneficial & Insurance Co.'s Bldg., Norfolk, Va. Southern Aid Society SOCIETY OF STREET, RICHMOND E THAT PR SOCIETY OF VA. INC. OFFICE SHERN SOCIETY VIRGINIA HOME OF THE SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA AGAINST ANIMALS & DEATH building, Richmond, Va. Paying Sickance payment of a Car but it Life In payment Your b must ta SICK Southeast Ri Gentle you my bro your in his My nearly paid recive this fa I there genera Inc., a policy that pays every w the Va. Beneficial and Ins nds that are on file in hom 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 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 membership. Respectfully yours. --- 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! every week with Southern Aid and Insurance Co., Inc., at Nor-rain home office at Richmond, Va. HER SICK BENEFITS FOR NINE MONTHS AND $250.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY. 912 Rome Street, Petersburg, Va., Oct. 18, 1916. I wish to express many thanks for the promptness in paying myice Hill, during her continued illness of nine months, and the immediate death claim of $250.00. I always speak in defense of your company. Very truly yours, DELLA HAWKS. HER SICK BENEFITS AMOUNTING TO $87.00 AND THE DEATH CLAIM ON $65.00 PROMPTLY. 1020 Palmer Street, Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917. On behalf of myself and children I wish to thank you for your very prompt attention to my beloved husband, Edward Garland, policy No. I sick for twenty weeks consecutively from January to May, prior to being him during that illness $87.00 in weekly sick benefits and the death promptly without any deductions. My dealings with your superintendent and agents, I was shown every should be desired. Over bless you and enable you to continue the good work. Very gratefully yours, MRS. MAGGIE GARLAND. 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. 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. $500.00 DR. THOS. A. STEVENS' DEATH CLAIM. 1007 Sixth Street, Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 10, 1917. Society of Virginia, Inc., Richmond, Va. Kindly accept my sincere thanks for your check of $500 in full payment of my husband, Dr. Thos. A. Stevens, who died February 6, 1917. The check was delivered to me Thursday, Feb. 8, 1917, by your superintendent, Jon. Always speak in the highest terms of your company, and pray God's the work. 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. MRS. JENNIE WATKINS. --- RICHMOND Virginia 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 kin. 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 period. 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 as error to all others I know. AUGUSTUS WOODSON. Witness: P. W. Moore, Jackson Glaze. 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. TWO REPUBLIC Prizes to Virginia Teachers—State Essay Contest. The sum of $300 has been placed at the disposal of the National Board for Historical Service, to be expended in prizes to the public school teachers o. the state of Virginia for the best essays on the subject: "Why the United States Is At War." It is intended that the treatment should be primarily historical in character, bringing out those facts of recent or remote history which seem to have a bearing on the question. It is proposed to offer the prizes as follows: Group A.—For teachers in Public High Schools: A First prize of $75, a Second prize of $30, a Third prize of $20, a Fourth prize of $15, a Fifth prize of $10. Group B.—For teachers in Public Elementary Schools: A First prize of $75, a Second prize of $25, five Third prizes of $10 each Essays submitted in competition for these prizes should observe the following conditions: 1. Typing is not required but essays must be legibly written on sheets accurately fastened together, on one side of the sheet only. 2. Essays must not exceed three thousand words in length. 3. It is understood that many competitors will not have access to large libraries. In making the award therefore, stress will be laid on the thorough and intelligent use of such material as may be found in a school or town library of moderate size or may readily be secured from various sources at large or no expense. Periodicals such as the New York Times' Current History of the War, Literary Digest, and Review of Reviews furnish useful surveys of current events and extracts from a considerable number of documents. The History Teacher's Magazine (McKinley Publishing Company, Philadelphia), especially the number for June, 1917, contains a number of good short articles and reading lists on the war. Several pamphlets, including the President's messages and other documents, may be had free on application to The National Board For Critical Service, 1133 Woodward Washington, D. C. The Association for Interna- tilation, 407 West 117th York, has printed offi- cial of the various governments connection with the war individual Congressmen. 4. giving the award in each group, the mittee will give the preference to essays in which the subject is so treated as to be intelli- gible and interesting to pupils in the class of schools in which the writer is teaching. 5. Elaborate bibliographies and footnotes are not expected but each paper should be accompanied by a brief list of books, periodicals, and documents actually consulted. For the less obvious and familiar facts, brief references to the authorities should be made in footnotes. 6. All essays should be addressed to Waldo G. Leland, Secretary, National Board for Historical Service, 1133 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. Essays should NOT be signed, but each essay should be accompanied by a slip containing the name, address, and teaching position of the writer. The names of writers will not be communicated to the committees of award until after their awards have been made. 7. Essays must be received in Washington NOT LATER than 6 P. M. on Thursday, November 15, 1917. The prizes will be awarded as soon thereafter as practicable. NATIONAL CONTEST A similar competition has been instituted in other states and the essays which receive the first prizes in the state competitions will be considered in a national contest in which two additional prizes of you each are to be awarded t the best essays submitted in Group A and Group B respectively. Y. M. C. A. NOTES The great battle between the Blues and Reds was fought hard and the Blues lost. The effort was a great success. The social committee, under the directions of Chairman Douglas Edwards, Jr., served the fellows with cake and cream. Then followed the pulling of the Reds in the wagon by the Blues. This was a crowd. The wagon was loaned by Mr. A. D. Price. The Reds have decided to give the Blues another chance, thus the fight is renewed and the battle is warming up for Friday night, August 17th. Watch! We thank everybody for helping. Last Sunday was a great day with the boys and men of the Y. M. C. A. At 9:30 A. M., at the Y. M. C. A., the workers held a special meeting. The committees for the fall, city, home and penitentiary were very much encouraged (10 A. M.). Two prisoners were won for Christ. At 4 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A., the boys were out in good numbers and the address to them was timely. We thank you, mothers. Send your boys again. Rev. D. J. Bradford was at his best and took the follows to the jubilee in a jiffy. The Reverend made the men feel that they were right there. This is the way to help men. Subject: "The Echoes From the Jubilee." Revs. Stephenson and Norrell made some very encouraging remarks. Every man was happy. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for the workers (9:30 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman B. L. Allen will address the boys (4 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers, help us. The men will be addressed by Committeeman W. M. Rainey (5:30 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Come and bring the other man. Do not forget to have special prayers for the Y. M. C. A. COL. C. C. BALLOU, TRAINING CAMP COMMANDER CORRECTS ERRONEOUS IMPRESSIONS. Failure of Some Officers is a Natural Consequence—All Cannot Qualify. When it was recently called to the attention of Colonel C. C. Ballou, Commandant of the Officers' Training School or colored men at Fort Des Moines, that there was a tendency on the part of acquaintances to criticise candidates who are discharged and returned home said: "Many persons seem to feel that failure to complete the prescribed course at an officers' training camp carries with it a certain stigma approximating to disgrace. "This is, in general, not true, and is only true in cases of men sent home by reason of misconduct. "There is more dangerous and erroneous belief than that indulged in by many of our people, to the effect that any and every man can become a good military officer. This idea is almost equivalent to the notion that putting a uniform on a man and a rifle in his hands makes him a soldier. Both ideas are as incorrect and fundamentally absurd as would be the belief that putting a scalpel in a man's hands converts him into a surgeon, or that putting on the cap of a naval officer qualifies a man to navigate and fight a battleship. "Not the least useful result of our great training camps will be the correction of these absurd notions. "I once mustered into service as an officer of high rank, a man who frankly said: "I don't know anything about military matters. I don't know how to get my regiment going, and if I once got it going, I wouldn't know how to stop it again." Yet twelve hundred lives, and untold National interests were made dependent upon this utterly unqualified man for purely political reasons. "The mass of the people have had very little idea of the danger and disaster that lie behind such appointments, but there are, nevertheless, many wives, mothers and sisters who are beginning to realize that they get men who don't know how to give them the least show for their lives. And these training camps are going to vastly increase the appreciation of the simple proposition that a soldier needs to know his business just as does the surgeon, the lawyer, the sailor, the electrician and every other man of profession or trade. "Furthermore, they will spread a conception of the fact that army officers, on whose competence or incompetence depends the lives of men and the fate of nations, require for the proper discharge of their grave duties, training and abilities of a higher order and a more varied character than do men of any other profession in life. "It is, therefore, only reasonable to expect that large numbers of those who enter officers' training camps will find after a few weeks trial that they were not destined by nature for the duties and responsibilities of military command. This fact should involve no reproach. It is no more disgraceful to be a misfit at an officers' training camp than to be a similar misfit in training for the church choir. Real military leaders are as rare as good musicians, and the unfit must be eliminated as ruthlessly as are the discordant aspirants for a place in the orchestra, and this elimination is not evidence that the rejected ones are not good men, brave men or patriotic men." A GREAT PHOTOGRAPH It is seldom that newspaper readers have so splendid a photographic reproduction on so large a scale as was presented this morning by The Regt.lder. A sixteen column view of the stadium was given, with the enormous Sunday crowd pictured the colored soldiers standing out distinctly and in bold relief. It was an inspiring scene, and fortunately everybody in this photograph can get some notion of it. Our readers should appreciate fully just what it meant to Colonel Ballou, to the colored soldiers, and to the street railway company to be ready for such an occasion. There were 1,200 men to bring from Fort Des Moines in one body. If the men had not consented to stand all the way in order to save room on the cars it could not have been done, and standing compactly on such a day as Sunday in the hot sun was not a small matter. The Evening Tribune would again press upon the attention of its readers that up till twenty days ago 800 of the men in line had never had a gun in hand nor done a day's drill. The colored soldiers on all accounts are making splendid progress, and they are being held to the strictest standards of army training. They are the picked men of the colored race, a clean, stalwart, fine-looking bunch of men. Will rent furnished room with gas and b th to gentleman 1131-2 West Jackson St.-2t. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MOTORCYCLE RIDER KILLED IN ACCIDENT. Crashes Into Automobile While Running Wheel at High Rate of Speed Messenger Boy Injured. SKULL CRUSHED AGAINST TREE JAMES D. SPIVEY, MACHINIST, DIES AT HOSPITAL WITHOUT REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS— MESSENGER DOY SERIOUSLY INJURED IN COLLISION. James D. Spivey, machinist, 1520 West Cary Street, was almost instantly killed shortly after 6 o'clock last evening when his motorcycle plunged headlong into an oncoming auto, and several other persons had narrow escapes in a series of accidents of the same nature that followed in quick succession. The police arrived at the identity of the motorcycle victim by means of the license that his car carried—1818. The motorcycle was said by eyewitnesses to have made it impossible for the colliding auto to get out of its path. Lieutenant Walter N. Merrer, of the Richmond Blues, and Henry Schwartzchild saw the crash. They were of the opinion, they told the police, that the motorcycle was going at a speed of forty miles an hour when the mishap occurred. Spivey was going at such a rate of speed that he is said to have ridden right into the front wheel of the passing automobile. When he hit the big car, bystanders say he turned four somersaults almost in as many seconds and then crashed into a tree, his head striking first. The motorcycle ran on riderless for a distance estimated by the police as 300 yards before it fell and lay there with its motor throbbing. CRASH OCCURS AT MONUMENT AVENUE AND ADDISON STREET. The automobile in the collision was driven by George G. Ware, 110 Bolmout Street. Its license number is 10856 Ware was little hurt and his machine was damaged only in the forewheel, it was said. The police reported that the automobile was able to go heme with its own power. The motorcycle was a 1917 model and was geared to a high power. The crash happened at Monument Avenue and Addison Street. Mr. Ware was formally arrested on a warrant charging involuntary manslaughter. He gave bail for his appearance on August 10. The arrest is technical under the laws of Virginia, it is said. Spivey's skull was fractured, his shoulder dislocated, his limbs splintered and his whole body was more or less injured. He was rushed to Memorial Hospital by Lieutenant Mercer, of the Blues, and some others, who had seen the accident, in a private car. There it was soon decided that little could be done for the injured man, and he died at 9 o'clock without having regained consciousness. He was married, and is said to have a number of relatives living in North Carolina. A few minutes before the motorcycle tragedy Kenneth Griffin, 305 South Laurel Street, fifteen years old, a Postal Telegraph messenger, riding a bi cycle on a bike, struck drily. Billion Coal Company, Seventeenth and Dock. The truck knocked him down and passed over his body. His legs were fractured, according to police reports and deep lacerations were made in the boy's flesh on other parts of his body. Young Griffin was taken to Memorial Hospital. W. G. Puller, R. F. D. 1, driving an auto, carrying license tag No. 1,543 ran into an auto earlier in the evening belonging to E. Brown, 901 Brook Avenue, and slightly damaged the Brown car. No one was hurt.—Times Dispatch, Aug. 7, 1917. COL, YOONG ARRIVES AND TAKES CHARGE OF NINTH OHIO REGIMENT. Everybody Pleased—Candidates for Chaplain—Fulton to be Lieutenant Colonel. Columbus, O.-After several weeks of anxious waiting and just when we had begun to think that the War Department was not going to assign Col. Charles Young to the command of the Ninth, Ohio's Afro-American regiment, although such announcement was made by the Adjutant General of the state, two weeks ago last Saturday, the Colonel arrived Monday. He immediately took charge of the three companies here, in Cleveland, at Springfield and at Dayton. The regiment (unmounted cavalry) now has its complement of men (about 1300) and when its Colonel has been in charge a short time, will rank among the best in the army because there is no better disciplinarian, drill-master, etc, in the regular army than he. Among the persons who called on him, Tuesday, at headquarters, was the editor of the Gazette. He and the Colonel have been warm personal friends for many years. The latter, on his way east from Letterman Hospital, The Presidio, San Francisco, Cal., visited the only Afro-American officers' training camp—at Ft. Des Moines, Ia., and is very enthusiastic over it. He found 1500 men of the race in the camp and delivered a number of addresses to them on the request of Col. Ballou, commander. There are four applications for the appointment of chaplain of the Ninth Ohio regiment—Rev Scott, aged chaplain of the Ninth Battalion in former years; Prof T. D. Scott of Wilberforce, a Rev. Mr. Isom of Athens, and Rev Carl W. Haskell of this city. The first two are A. M. E. and the last two Baptist ministers, Rev Haskell being the only one on the institutional order. In addition to the foregoing, the Colonel says there are more than forty applicants, all good men, for positions as officers in the regiment. Major John C. Fulton, of Cleveland, who has been in charge of the Ninth Ohio Battalion for years, ever since the Spanish-American war, will undoubtedly be advanced to Lieutenant Colonel of the Ninth and the captains of the four original battalion companies, one each at Cleveland, Columbus, Springfield and Dayton, advanced to majors. The absence of leading Ohio Afro-Americans from the recent "state" meeting in the city on southern migration, has been the subject of a great deal of discussion and comment. The concessions of opinion now is that the meeting was principally promoted by white social workers of Cleveland who were desirous of addressing a state meeting of our leading men and women. The attendance upon the meeting was fair as regards numbers only. It really is unfortunate that they did not select leading members of the race to arrange for the meeting. As a result, little or nothing is expected from the so-called state organization perfected here, or the local auxiliary organizations announced to be organized in various communities of the state. REPORTED THIRTY CASES OF PARISIS. --- State Board of Health Issues Warning on Danger of Spread of Dreaded Polomyelitis. Epimend, Va., Aug. 2, 1917.—Thirty cases of infantile paralysis were reported to the State Board of Health from seven counties and one city during the month of July. Three cases have been reported from the city of Richmond, approximately 22 cases from Rockingham county, 3 from Page, 2 from King and Queen, 2 from Pitsylvania and one each from Goochland and Richmond counties. The health authorities of Rappanhnock county have reported a "number of cases," but as they have not been specific, exact information will not be available until the state officer dispatched there has filed his report. Acting on the basis of this information, the state board of health today issued a bulletin of warning and called upon physicians to report immediately, as required by law, all cases of infantile paralysis. A solitary frankness regarding the present situation," said Health Commissioner Williams today, "is necessary to keep the people advised, to afford a basis for proper action and to prevent the spread of unfounded rumors. Physicians owe it to the public as well as to the law to report immediately all cases that occur in their practice and immediately establish quarantine. Evasion of the law, in cases of this sort, is criminal and will be punished promptly and effectively. "Some of the cases that have been reported are probably of the sporadic type and need not cause serious apprehensions. Other cases apparently are of the epidemic type and may be responsible for the future spread of the disease. All cases must be treated as though they were of the greatest danger, for only in this way can proper precautions be taken. "The situation has not yet assumed proportions that make it necessary to give public warning against travel in all parts of the state, but it is serious enough to justify us in saying that children should not enter or leave Rockingham county. It may be necessary to add Page and Rappahannock to this list. If so, public notice will be given. "The board is taking steps to confine the disease, if possible, to the present area of infection and is working with the public service. If it becomes necessary, we shall ask the government to detail us additional officers to assist the state force in diagnosis and quarantine. For the present, the most important measures of prevention are, first, the isolation of all cases and, secondly, the sanitation of our towns, cities and rural districts. To this end, the board has written an urgent appeal to the councils and boards of supervisors and will rigidly exercise all the powers at its command. "The best advice we can give to parents in the infected districts is to keep small children from contact with other children, and, as far as possible, from contact with all persons. The more carefully this is done, where the surroundings are sanitary, the less chance there is that the child will become infected. "While these precautions must be taken, it is only fair to say that despite the number of cases reported during July the total number thus far for the year is only sixty-eight. This is less than the number reported to the corresponding date in 1916. We ought, therefore, to be extremely vigilant but should not become panic-stricken or be deceived by false rumors. If physicians will obey the law and report immediately all cases that occur in their practice, the board will give full publicity, without embarrassing individuals, and will keep the people of Virginia fully advised as to every development." HAD CLASH WITH GOVERNOR CAMPBELL Referring in another address to his interview recently with Gov. Campbell of Arizona, Little said that he used these words: 'Governor, I don't give a d—what your country is fighting for; I am 68th in the world.' "A city ordinance is simply a piece of paper which can be torn up. The same can be said of the Constitution of the United States." Following the identification of Little's body Butte members of the I. W. W. telegraphed appeals for aid. A message was sent to William D. Haywood, at Chicago, and others went to I. W. W. organization leaders in the Southwest and the Pacific Const. It was said that a message was received later from Haywood saying the resources of the organization would be employed to bring the lynchers of Lit tle to justice. MOST UNWISE, SAYS DISTRICT ATTORNEY. "It is the most unwise thing that has happened in Butte," said United States District Attorney B. K. Wheeler, in discussing the Little affair. "The men who perpetrated the affair should be brought to justice." Mr. Wheeler said he wrote yesterday to the United States Attorney General in Washington, asking if prosecution could be brought against Little on the ground of his unpatriotic utterances. County Attorney Joseph R. Jackson said: "It is a cold-blooded murder and every effort will be used to apprehend the man who did it. If they are caught they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law." "FIRST MAN MARKED TO GO." "They got Little. He was the first man marked to go. We had received warnings and were told that Joe Shannon was the second in line, Tom Campbell third and another man fourth," said William Sullivan, attorney for the metal mine workers union", this morning, "I can't tell you how we received the warnings, but we knew they were marking some of the men." Joe Shannon, one of the associates of Little in Butte, is prominent in the new mine workers' union and is a chairman of its strike committee. Sullivan shrugged his shoulders when asked if he himself were not the fourth man referred to as marke. HAD THEM CHANGE ROOMS. "We used every precaution and even had the marked men change rooms ever so often," added Sullivan, "I cannot give the names of other men who were supposed to be designated as victims." "Have you any idea of the identity of the men who composed the hanging party." Sullivan was asked. "We have practically proven who five of them were, we were uncertain as to a sixth. We soon will know who they all were." he replied. GIRLS—LADIES! Here is the opportunity to learn a high class trade, one that your service will be in demand. You can earn from $3 to $5 and some times more, a day or evening at home. Plenty of work and positions open to those who know how. 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It is intended that the treatment should be primarily historical in character, bringing out those facts of recent or remote history which seem to have a bearing on the question. It is proposed to offer the prizes as follows: Group A.—For teachers in Public High Schools: A First prize of $75, a Second prize of $30, a Third prize of $20, a Fourth prize of $15, a Fifth prize of $10. Group B.—For teachers in Public Elementary Schools: A First prize of $75, a Second prize of $25, five Third prizes of $10 each. Essays submitted in competition for these prizes should observe the following conditions: 1. Typing is not required but essays must be legibly written on sheets securely fastened together, on one side of the sheet only. 2. Essays must not exceed three thousand words in length. 3. It is understood that many competitors will not have access to large libraries. In making the award therefore, stress will be laid on the thorough and intelligent use of such material as may be found in a school or town library of moderate size or may readily be secured from various sources at large or no expense. Periodicals such as the New York Times' Current History of the War, Literary Digest, and Review of Reviews furnish useful surveys of current events and extracts from a considerable number of documents. The History Teacher's Magazine (McKinley Publishing Company, Philadelphia), especially the number for June, 1917, contains a number of good short articles and reading lists on the war. Several pamphlets, Including the President's messages and other documents, may be had free on application to The National Board For The National Board For civil Service, 1133 Woodward Washington, D. C. The Association for Interna- clation, 407 West 117th York, has printed offici of the various governments in connection with the war securing individual congressmen, 4. giving the award in each group, the amtee will give the preference to essays in which the subject is so treated as to be intelli- gible and interesting to pupils in the class of schools in which the writer is teaching. 5. Elaborate bibliographies and footnotes are not expected but each paper should be accompanied by a brief list of books, periodicals, and documents actually consulted. For the less obvious and familiar facts, brief references to the authorities should be made in footnotes. 6. All essays should be addressed to Waldo G. Leland, Secretary, National Board for Historical Service, 1133 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. Essays should NOT be signed, but each essay should be accompanied by a slip containing the name, address, and teaching position of the writer. The names of writers will not be communicated to the committees of award until after their awards have been made. 7. Essays must be received in Washington NOT LATER than 6 P. M. on Thursday, November 15, 1917. The prizes will be awarded as soon thereafter as practicable. NATIONAL CONTEST A similar competition has been instituted in other states and the essays which receive the first prizes in the state competitions will be conquered in a national contest in which two additional prizes of five each are to be awarded t the best essays submitted in Group A and Group B respectively. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The great battle between the Blues and Reds was fought hard and the Blues lost. The effort was a great success. The social committee, under the directions of Chairman Douglas Edwards, Jr., served the fellows with cake and cream. Then followed the pulling of the Reds in the wagon by the Blues. This was a crowd. The wagon was loaned by Mr. A. D. Price. The Reds have decided to give the Blues another chance, thus the fight is renewed and the battle is warming up for Friday night, August 17th. Watch! We thank everybody for helping. Last Sunday was a great day with the boys and men of the Y. M. C. A. At 9:30 A. M., at the Y. M. C. A., the workers held a special meeting. The committees for the jail, city, home and penitentiary were very much encouraged (10 A. M.) Two prison ers were won for Christ. At 4 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A., the boys were out in good numbers and the address to them was timely. We thank you, mothers. Send your boys again. Rev. D. J. Bradford was at his best and took the follows to the jubilee in a jiffy. The Reverend made the men feel that they were right there. This is the way to help men. Subject: "The Echoes From the Jubilee." Revs. Stephenson and Norrell made some very encouraging remarks. Every man was happy. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for the workers (9:30 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman B. L. Allen will address the boys (4 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers, help us. The men will be addressed by Committeeman W. Rainey (5:30 P. M.) Come and bring the other man. Do not forget to have special prayers for the Y. M. C. A. COL. C. C. BALLOU, TRAINING CAMP COMMANDER CORRECTS ERRONEOUS IMPRESSIONS. Failure of Some Officers is a Natural Consequence—All Cannot Qualify. When it was recently called to the attention of Colonel C. C. Ballou, Commandant of the Officers' Training School for Colored men at Fort Des Moines, that there was a tendency on the part of acquaintances to criticise candidates who are being discharged and returned home said: "Many persons seem to feel that failure to complete the prescribed course at an officers' training camp carries with it a certain stigma approximating to disgrace. "This is, in general, not true, and is only true in cases of mea sent home by reason of misconduct. "There is more dangerous and erroneous belief than that indulged in by many of our people, to the effect that any and every man can become a good military officer. This idea is almost equivalent to the notion that putting a uniform on a man and a rifle in his hands makes him a soldier. Both ideas are as incorrect and fundamentally absurd as would be the belief that putting a scalpel in a man's hands converts him into a surgeon, or that putting on the cap of a naval officer qualities a man to navigate and fight a battleship. "Not the least useful result of our great training camps will be the correction of these absurd notions. "I once mustered into service as an officer of high rank, a man who frankly said: "I don't know anything about military matters. I don't know how to get my regiment going, and if I once got it going, I wouldn't know how to stop it again." Yet twelve hundred lives, and untold National interests were made dependent upon this utterly unqualified man for purely political reasons. "The mass of the people have had very little idea of the danger and disaster that lie behind such appointments, but there are, nevertheless, many wives, mothers and sisters who are beginning to realize that they men who don't know how to give them the least show for their lives. And these training camps are going to vastly increase the appreciation of the simple proposition that a soldier needs to know his business just as does the surgeon, the lawyer, the sailor, the electrician and every other man of profession or trade. "Furthermore, they will spread a conception of the fact that army officers, on whose competence or incompetence depends the lives of men and the fate of nations, require for the proper discharge of their grave duties, training and abilities of a higher order and a more varied character than do men of any other profession in life. "It is, therefore, only reasonable to expect that large numbers of those who enter officers' training camps will find after a few weeks trial that they were not destined by nature for the duties and responsibilities of military command. This fact should involve no reproach. It is no more disgraceful to be a misfit at an officer's training camp than to be a similar misfit in training for the church choir. Real military leaders are as rare as good musicians, and the unfit must be eliminated as ruthlessly as are the discordant aspirants for a place in the orchestra, and this elimination is not evidence that the rejected ones are not good men, brave men or patriotic men." A GREAT PHOTOGRAPH It is seldom that newspaper readers have so splendid a photographic reproduction on so large a scale as was presented this morning by The Regt.-lter. A sixteen column view of the stairman was given, with the enormous Sunday crowd pictured the colored soldiers standing out distinctly and in bold relief. It was an inspiring scene, and fortunately everybody in this photograph can get some notion of it. Our readers should appreciate fully just what it meant to Colonel Ballon, to the colored soldiers, and to the street railway company to be ready for such an occasion. There were 1,200 men to bring from Fort Des Moines in one body. If the men had not consented to stand all the way in order to save room on the cars it could not have been done, and standing compactly on such a day as Sunday in the hot sun was not a small matter. The Evening Tribune would again press upon the attention of its readers that up till twenty days ago 800 of the men in line had never had a gun in hand nor done a day's drill. the picked men of the colored race. a stalwart, fine-looking bunch of men Will rent furnished room with gas and b th to gentleman 1131-2 West Jackson St.—2t. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MOTORCYCLE RIDER KILLED IN ACCIDENT. Crashes Into Automobile While Running Wheel at High Rate of Speed Messenger Boy Injured. SKULL CRUSHED AGAINST TREE JAMES D. SPIVEY, MACHINIST, DIES AT HOSPITAL WITHOUT REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS MESSENGER JOY SERIOUSLY INJURED IN COLLISION. James D. Spivey, machinist, 1520 West Cary Street, was almost instantly killed shortly after 6 o'clock last evening when his motorcycle plunged headlong into an oncoming auto, and several other persons had narrow escapes in a series of accidents of the same nature that followed in quick succession. The police arrived at the identity of the motorcycle victim by means of the license that his car carried—1818. The motorcycle was said by eyewitnesses to have made it impossible for the colliding auto to get out of its path. Lieutenant Walter N. Mercer, of the Richmond Blues, and Henry Schwartzchild saw the crash. They were of the opinion, they told the police, that the motorcycle was going at a speed of forty miles an hour when the mishap occurred. Spivey was going at such a rate of speed that he is said to have ridden right into the front wheel of the passing automobile. When he hit the big car, bystanders he turned four somerauts almost in as many seconds and then crashed into a tree, his head striking first. The motorcycle ran on riderless for a distance estimated by the police as 300 yards before it fell and lay there with its motor throbbing. CRASH GCCURS AT MONUMENT AVENUE AND ADDISON STREET The automobile in the collision was driven by George G. Ware, 101 Belmont Street. Its license number is 10856 Ware was little hurt and his machine was damaged only in the forewheel, it was said. The police reported that the automobile was able to go home with its own power. The motorcycle was a 1917 model and was geared to a high power. The crash happened at Monument Avenue and Addison Street. Mr. Ware was formally arrested on a warrant charging involuntary manslaughter. He gave bail for his appearance on August 10. The arrest is technical under the laws of Virginia, it is said. Spivey's skull was fractured, his shoulder dislocated, his limbs splintered and his whole body was more or less injured. He was rushed to Memorial Hospital by Lieutenant Mercer, of the Blues, and some others, who had seen the accident, in a private car. There it was soon decided that little could be done for the injured man, and he died at 9 o'clock without having regained consciousness. He was married, and is said to have a number of relatives living in North Carolina. A few minutes before the motorcycle tragedy Kenneth Griffin, 305 South Laurel Street, fifteen years old, a Postal Telegraph messenger, riding a bicycle into the dock. The truck knocked him down and passed over his body. His legs were fractured, according to police reports and deep lacerations were made in the boy's flesh on other parts of his body. Young Griffin was taken to Memorial Hospital. W. G. Puller, R. F. D. 1, driving an auto, carrying license tag No. 1.543, ran into an auto earlier in the evening belonging to E. Brown, 901 Brook Avenue, and slightly damaged the Brown car. No one was hurt.—TimesDispatch, Aug. 7, 1917. COL. YOONG ARRIVES AND TAKES CHARGE OF NINTH OHIO REGIMENT. Everybody Pleaseed—Candidates for Chaplain—Fulton to be Lieutenant Colonel. Columbo, Q.—After several weeks of anxious waiting and just when we had begun to think that the War Department was not going to assign Col. Charles Young to the command of the Ninth, Ohio's Afro-American regiment, although such announcement was made by the Adjutant General of the state, two weeks ago last Saturday, the Colonel arrived Monday. He immediately took charge of the three companies here, in Cleveland, at Springfield and at Dayton. The regiment (unmounted cavalry) now has its complement of men (about 1300) and when its Colonel has been in charge a short time, who rank among the best in the army because there is no better disciplinarian, drill-master, etc, in the regular army than he. Among the persons who called on him, Tuesday, at headquarters, was the editor of the Gazette. He and the Colonel have been warm personal friends for many years. The latter, on his way east from Letterman Hospital, The Presido, San Francisco, Cal., visited the only Afro-American officers' training camp—at Ft. Des Moines, Ia., and is very enthusiastic over it. He found 1500 men of the race in the camp and delivered a number of addresses to them on the request of Col. Ballon, commander. There are four applications for the appointment of chaplain of the Ninth Ohio regiment—Rev. Scott, aged chaplain of the Ninth Battalion in former years; Prof. T. D. Scott of Wilberforce, a Rev. Mr. Isom of Athens, and Rev. Carl W. Haskell of this city. The first two are A. M. E. and the last two Baptist ministers. Rev. Haskell being the only one on the institutional order. In addition to the foregoing, the Colonel says there are more than forty applicants, all good men, for positions as officers in the regiment. Major John C. Fulton, of Cleveland, who has been in charge of the Ninth Ohio Battalion for years, ever since the Spanish-American war, will undoubtedly be advanced to Lieutenant Colonel of the Ninth and the captains of the four original battalion companies, one each at Cleveland, Columbus, Springfield and Dayton, advanced to majors. The absence of leading Ohio Afro-Americans from the recent "state" meeting in the city on southern migration, has been the subject of a great deal of discussion and comment. The concessions of opinion now is that the meeting was principally promoted by white social workers of Cleveland who were desirous of addressing a state meeting of our leading men and women. The attendance upon the meeting was fair as regards numbers only. It really is unfortunate that they did not select leading members of the race to arrange for the meeting. As a result little or nothing is expected from the so-called state organization perfected here, or the local auxiliary organizations announced to be organized in various communities of the state. REPORTED THIRTY CASES OF PARALYSIS. State Board of Health Issues Warning on Danger of Spread of Dreaded Poliomyelitis. Richmond, Va., Aug. 2, 1917.—Thirty cases of infantile paralysis's were reported to the State Board of Health from seven counties and one city during the month of July. Three cases have been reported from the city of Richmond, approximately 22 cases from Rockingham county, 3 from Page, 2 from King and Queen, 2 from Pitsylvania and one each from Goochland and Richmond counties. The health authorities of Rappannahannock county have reported a "number of cases," but as they have not been specific, exact information will not be available until the state officer dispatched there has filed his report. Acting on the basis of this information, the state board of health today issued a bulletin of warning and called upon physicians to report immediately, as required by law, all cases of infantile paralysis. A substitute frankness regarding the present situation," said Health Commissioner Williams today, "is necessary to keep the people advised, to afford a basis for proper action and to prevent the spread of unfounded rumors. Physicians owe it to the public as well as to the law to report immediately all cases that occur in their practice and immediately establish quarantine. Evasion of the law, in cases of this sort, is criminal and will be punished promptly and effectively. "Some of the cases that have been reported are probably of the sporadic type and need not cause serious apprehensions. Other cases apparently are of the epidemic type and may be responsible for the future spread of the disease. All cases must be treated as though they were of the greatest danger, for only in this way can proper precautions be taken. "The situation has not yet assumed proportions that make it necessary to give public warning against travel in all parts of the state, but it is serious enough to justify us in saying that children should not enter or leave Rockingham county. It may be necessary to add Page and Rappahannock to this list. If so, public notice will be given. "The board is taking steps to confine the disease, if possible, to the present area of infection and is working with the time service. If it becomes necessary, we shall ask the government to detail us additional officers to assist the state force in diagnosis and quarantine. For the present, the most important measures of prevention are, first, the isolation of all cases and, secondly, the sanitation of our towns, cities and rural districts. To this end, the board has written an urgent appeal to the councils and boards of supervisors and will rigidly exercise all the powers at its command. "The best advice we can give to parents in the infected districts is to keep small children from contact with other children, and, as far as possible, from contact with all persons. The more carefully this is done, where the surroundings are sanitary, the less chance there is that the child will become infected. "While these precautions must be taken, it is only fair to say that despite the number of cases reported during July the total number thus far for the year is only sixty-eight. This is less than the number reported to the corresponding date in 1916. We ought, therefore, to be extremely vigilant but should not become panic-stricken or be deceived by false rumors. If physicians will obey the law and report immediately all cases that occur in their practice, the board will give full publicity, without embarrassing individuals, and will keep the people of Virginia fully advised as to every development." HAD CLASH WTH GOVERNOR CAMPBELL Referring in another address to his interview recently with Gov. Campbell of Arizona, Little said that he used these words: "Governor, I don't give a d—what your country is fighting for; I am fighting for the solidarity of labor." Last Friday night at Finn Hall, before the metal mine workers' union, Little said: "A city ordinance is simply a piece of paper which can be torn up. The same can be said of the Constitution of the United States." Following the identification of Little's body Butte members of the I. W. W. telegraphed appeals for aid. A message was sent to William D. Haywood, at Chicago, and others went to I. W. W. organization leaders in the Southwest and the Pacific Coast. It was said that a message was received later from Haywood saying the resources of the organization would be employed to bring the lynchers of Lit to justice. MOST UNWISE, SAYS DISTRICT ATTORNEY. "It is the most unwise thing that has happened in Butte," said United States District Attorney B. K. Wheeler, in discussing the Little affair. "The men who perpetrated the affair should be brought to justice." Mr. Wheeler said he wrote yesterday to the United States Attorney General in Washington, asking if prosecution could be brought against Little on the ground of his unpatriotic utterances. County Attorney Joseph R. Jackson said: "It is a cold-blooded murder and every effort will be used to apprehend the man who did it. If they are caught they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law." "FIRST MAN MARKED TO GO." "They got Little. He was the first man marked to go. We had received warnings and were told that Joe Shannon was the second in line, Tom Campbell third and another man fourth," said William Sullivan, attorney for the metal mine workers union," this morning, "I can't tell you how we received the warnings, but we knew they were marking some of the men." Joe Shannon, one of the associates of Little in brittle, is prominent in the new mine workers' union and is a chairman of its strike committee. Sullivan shrugged his shoulders when asked if he himself were not the fourth man referred to as marke. HAD THEM CHANGE ROOMS "We used every precaution and even had the marked men change rooms ever so often," added Sullivan, "I cannot give the names of other men who were supposed to be designated as victims." "We have taken steps to provide against trouble," he said. "The men will not cause riot or other disturbances. We are going to the bottom of this thing, but in a legal way." 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Lucelle Green, charming, but with fads is visited at the Greens' summer island home by Monty Blainey. She proposes a week's fast. All food is banished. Frank Bopp, a rival suitor, appears unexpectedly. To get food for himself he attemts the mahland by motorboat. The boat breaks down and Bopp is marooned. During a fierce storm Mrs. Green faints and is revived by a stimulant, which intoxicates her. Blainey discovers Lucille and Bopp nibbling dog biscuits. He proposes to end the fast, but there is no food. Mrs. Green suddenly disappears, and all hunt for her. Blainey receives a telegram addressed N. Blainey from Vida Dunnmore, an actress, speaking of marriage. He is nonplussed, but Lucille's jealousy is aroused. A supply boat is wrecked on rocks near by. The crew lands safe and Blainey rescues Vida. She is dressed as Rosalind. The boat's captain explains that Vida had donned the costume for safety. All are forced by the high sea to remain on the island. Vida discovers in Blainley a dramatic erotic who had praised her work besides being her rescuer. She explains to him that she is engaged to a Ned Blaney. Mrs. Green suddenly phones that she is stranded on another island. While overstimulated she had put out in a small boat. Vida out of mischief wins a proposal from Lipton Clair, another stranded visitor. Not wishing to marry, he swims away from the island. CHAPTER XII. "MAYBE if you tried again,' said the captain to Lucille 'the pup might hear you You didn't whistle very loud the first time." You didn't whistle very loud the first time." Luelle whistled again with a constellably more audible result. We all listened. There was a faint whine and a short sharp, but distant bark. I presume that I was the most surprised person in the party. "There she is!" Vida declared. "I thought maybe she was up here." "But that doesn't sound like Too tles." Lucie objected. "It must be." Bopp announced this masterpiece of logic. "There isn't any other dog in the house, is there? Probably her voice sounds different far off." "And probably she is penned in somewhere and frightened. That might make her sound different." Ah Why did I have that idea, and why having it, did I not conceal it in one of the recesses of my brain instead of voicing it to all? "Oh, my poor Tootles." Lucille be gan picturing her pet suffocating "Maybe she is dying or dead already." "Whistle again," directed the captain. Lucille made several ineffectual at temps, but failed. "I can't," she de declared. "I have to cry." "Let me call her." I interposed "She knows me." As a boy I used to be able to make considerable racket by blowing on two fingers held at the proper angle in my mouth. I tried it with gratifying results. I must have been heard on the mainland. The reply was immediate—short snappy barks, still a long way off, but very reassuring as to vigor and de light. "She's right under us!" Laurel cried. "No, over by the window, I should say," argued Vida. "Poor darling, she has forgotten how she got into the place, and she thinks some one is keeping her cooped up on purpose. Please, Monty, keep on whirling. She does recognize you, and she'll know that help is coming. We must take up the floor." In her excitement and time of need she had turned to me and not to Bopp I didn't know how Tootles, whom I had last seen dashing up the beach amid a cloud of sand, could possibly have managed to get under the attic floor, but Lucelle had called me Monty, and reason dismounted from her throne, and carnival was king. I whistled blithely, piercingly, Joyfully, coxingly, and whenever I paused the barking rewarded me. "Tear up the floor," Lucelle ordered "We can't let her stay there any longer." "Ihadn't we better see if she won't come out by herself?" the captain asked tentatively. "It seems a shame to tear that up there planking." "Not for Tootles," Lucille replied. "What do I care for an old attic floor when my Tootles is in danger? She shan't stay there another minute if I can help it." She tried to pry up a board with her finger nails. "Walt," I requested. "Let me do this scientifically." I wrenched a leg from an old armchair which had already suffered the amputation of one of its extremities and with that as a lever pried up one of the flooring boards at the ends which extended loose over the floor beams. As the plank came up amid a cloud of dust Lucille gave me a look such as must have rewarded Launcelot from the grandstand after he ran a curtain pole through a cast iron white hoop. We wrenched G. B. H. A Faint Hissing Sound Came From Lucio's Puckored Lips. I obeyed. Joyful barks, but nothing more. "Take up some more boards." Lucio might have been saying. "Walt until you see the whites of their eyes" or "Don't give up the ship." "Hadn't we better wait?" Captain Perkins was an earnest advocate of the Fabian policy. "No." I took up another board and yet another, stopping to whistle each time, without apparently getting any nearer. "She's there somewhere," declared Tootles' foster mother, puzzled, but still determined. "Keep on until you find her." I had taken up all but half a dozen of the boards when my foot slipped from the cross floor beam on whi I was working and struck the lath which was milled on the other side. The lath offered but slight resistance. The plaster was even more fragile, and I went through rather hastily, clutching wildly at nothing in particular. My last recollection was of Lucie's horror stricken face as she saw me slinking from sight, like the villain in "Lorna Doene." My next conscious remembrance was of sitting that in the middle of a bed the springs of which were gently bouncing me up and down after the fashion of a net into which a trapex performer had dropped from the top of the tent. Above was a hole in the ceiling, around me were chunks of plaster and splinters of lath, and sitting in a chair by the window was Jim his mouth open, emitting a series of short, sharp yelps. Lucie, Vida, Bopp, Kent, and the captain made a ring of faces around the hole in the ceiling. "Stop barking, you darn fool!" shouted the captain after a moment devoted to startled surprise by all concerned. "Aye, aye, strl" replied Jim, salut ing. "Then it wasn't Tootles at all." Luclio was overwhelmed by grief that was all the more polignant because it had been held off so long by hope. "You have to admit that Jim is an all around bright young fellow," declared the captain proudly. "It isn't often you can find a marine engineer who can cook and do as good an initiation of a dog as that." "But why," I fixed the captain with a malevolent eye—"why did he infitute a dog at this particular moment? What is the cause of this study material of a canine under a floor? Why not a dog out in the yard chasing his tail or a Newfoundland pup having an argument with a dilapidated shoe?" "Why, this was a little idea of my own," stated Captain Paimon modestly. "When I see Miss Green was going to be all broke up if nothing answered when she whistled. I told Jim there to go downstairs and pretend to be the pup, just so she's feel better." "What I want to know, Mr. Blaber." WILLIAM H. Jim asked, with a brightly inquiring eye, "is how did you know just where that bed was?" "I know where I saw that dog last,' exclaimed Kent as one inspired. "Where?' Luclio turned to him. "He was outdoors hittin' the breeze this afternoon." "Outdoors? She isn't allowed out What was she doing?" "She was vamping up the beach, and Mr. Blatney was running after her," Gultt seeks out the criminal and THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Gustens her brand upon him publicly Policemen are but jailers. Detectives are only men who let nature do their work for them. There was a nasty staccato laugh. I did not need to look to know that it was Bopp. "Mr. Kent seems to have a very observing mind," he said. Lucille looked at me reproachfully. "Is this true?" she asked. "Yes." George Washington could have gone no more. Nothing more was to be said. I had been tried, convicted and sentenced. The telephone rang. Luche went to answer it. The rest of us followed more at our leisure. When we had arrived downstairs Luche was talking to some one over the wire, identically her mother. "I'm glad you're all right," she was saying, "and that you have had something to eat. Don't feel badly about breaking the fast. No one blames you a bit. That's all right. We would, too, if we could." A pause, during which she listened, a trown gathering on her face. "Don't you worry, mother. We're all right—all except Tootles. She is lost. What's the matter? You saw some one outside in the moonlight? A man with whiskers? Nonsense. No one lives there at this time of year. Everybody left in September. Just go to bed and don't think about such things." Luche stifled a scream. "Hello, mother. What? Some one is trying the door? It's opening—hello—hello—mother"—Lucie dropped the receiver and sank backward into Vida's arms. I picked up the telephone and held it to my ear, shouting "Hello, hello!" There was no response. The wire was dead. When Lucie had been revived without resorting to any of the violent methods suggested by the resourceful Captain Perkins I endeavored to explain away any cause for fright. "Even if she really did see a man," I said, "which seems improbable, he is not going to murder her. Probably he just stopped to inquire the time of day." "But mother said he had whiskers." "I know," I continued, "that is against him, but maybe it is hereditary in his family." "Maybe she just dreamed it," Kent offered sensibly. "Let's call her up again. She seemed a little dented on top when I first saw her. By this time maybe the attack is over." That seemed a fair enough suggestion, and I acted on it. I asked central to give me Huntingdon's island once more. "I'm sorry," central answered, "but I can't seem to get them. I've been ringing on that line for the last ten minutes. There's another party trying to get them." "Another party?" I questioned. "Who?" "I couldn't say. It isn't any one I know. His voice sounds like he was a tall, thin young man from New York." "Can't get them," I told the listening group. "What can we do now? I must go to help mother. I must go. I must go." Lucie began to get hysterical. "The sheriff is the right man, I should think," Bopp suggested. "He'd be plumb tickled, too," added Captain Perkins. "He ain't had a chance to arrest nobody since he's been swore in." "That's it, the sheriff," Lucie said feverishly. "Get the sheriff and let me talk to him." "We don't want the public to know about this," I objected. "What do I care about the public if my mother is in danger?" Lucie very properly demanded. CHAPTER XIII. The Summer House Captive. THERE seemed to be nothing else to do, so I asked the telephone operator to see if she could locate the sheriff. "I guess he's down to the railroad station," central volunteered. "It's most train time, and he most usually goes down there looking for a suspicious character to get off the north bound passenger. I'll ask the agent if he's there." She did, and he was. After a slight delay I found myself addressing a strange voice, which I requested to hold the wire. I turned the receiver over to Lucille. She told the sheriff in breathless haste that her mother had been foully dealt with on Huntingdon's island and offered him limitless rewards to capture her slayer. "Is there anything further we can do?" Lucille paced up and down the room. "Nothing but wait, dear," Vida said, "I'm sure nothing serious has happened." "Then why doesn't mother call up and tell us that she is all right?" "This was unanswerable. No one thought of a sensible reason for keeping Mrs. Green away from the telephone. "We had better do something to occupy our minds until we hear from the sheriff," Vida said, rising to the position of commanding officer in the emergency. "I thought of my crises. "Come with me," I exclaimed and led the way toward the kitchen. "I have a surprise for you." "You have found Tootles?" Lucille was radiant. "No," I replied, somewhat crestfallen, for I had again forgotten Tootles, "but I have something for *you* to ent." Never have I been so popular as I was at that moment—that is, with all but Lucie. I haven't said much about our hunger because there is little to be said. it is practically impossible to convey to the mind of the well fed reader what it means to miss many meals. "It's a secret," I replied mysteriously, investigating my kettle of clams, which, strange to relate, had not bolted entirely away. "I'll serve it to you and then you can guess what it is." I found a number of bowls in the pantry, and with a porcelain dipper I ladled a goodly portion of clam broth into each. "Did you cook this all by yourself?" asked Kent. "I did," I averred modestly. "From raw materials you'd found on the island?" supplemented Bopp. "Everything in it grew right here," I explained. "It's Tootles!" screamed Luelle, turning pale and putting her bowl down on the table. "It can't be," said Jopp, sniffing. "This has a decidedly fishy smell." "I know it," wailed Lucile, with tears coursing down her cheeks. "That's what makes me think it's Tootles. We have been feeding her lots of fish later." I started to explain. "Lucile, how can you accuse me of such a thing?" "You never liked Tootles. I know it. You cared more for your appetite than for my little darling. Now I see through all the mystery about what the food was and what you were doing all the afternoon while I slept. I suppose you drugged me so that I wouldn't hear the poor little thing's screams. 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THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH Southbound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 0:38 A. M., Local to Nottingham; 1:30 P. M., slippaw and coaches to Junctionville, Albany Birmingham; 0:36 P. M., through Bramingham; sleepers to Jacksonville; 1:150 P. M., Windsor Limited; 18:55 A. M., sleeper to Atlanta, Birmingham; Jacksonville, Tampa and coaches & Jacksonville Northbound trains scheduled to arrive Richmond daily: 4:30 A. M., 7:30 A. M., over A. M., beach, 0:38 A. M., 0:37 P. M. FIVE FRIDAYS By FRANK R. ADAMS Copyright, by Frank A. Munsey Company SYNOPSIS. Luella Green, charming, but with fads is visited at the Greens' summer island home by Monty Blainey. She proposes a week's fast. All food is banished. Frank Bopp, a rival suitor, appears unexpectedly. To get food for himself he attempts the matland by motorbait. The boat breaks down and Bopp is marooned. During a fierce storm Mrs. Green faints and is revived by a stimulant, which intoxicates her. Blainey discovers Luella and Bopp nibbling dog biscuits. He proposes to end the fast, but there is no food. Mrs. Green suddenly disappears, and all hunt for her. Blainey receives a telegram addressed N. Blainey from Vida Dunnmore, an actress, speaking of marriage. He is nonplussed, but Luella jealousy is aroused. A supply boat is wrecked on rocks near by. The crew lands safe and Bickey rescues Vida. She is dressed as Rosalind. The boat's captain explains that Vida had donned the costume for safety. All are forced by the high sea to remain on the island. Vida discovers in Blainey a dramatic erotic who had praised her work besides being her rescuer. She explains to him that she is engaged to a Need Blainey. Mrs. Green suddenly phones that she is stranded on another island. While overstimulated she had put out in a small boat. Vida out of mischief wing a proposal from Lipton Clair, another stranded visitor. Not wishing to marry, he swims away from the island. CHAPTER XII. "MAYBE if you tried again," said the captain to Lucie "the pup might hear you You didn't whistle very loud the first time." Lucie whistled again with a consid erably more audible result. We all listened. There was a faint whine and a short sharp, but distant bark. I presume that I was the most surprised person in the party. "There she is!" Vida declared. "I thought maybe she was up here." "But that doesn't sound like Too ties." Lucie objected. "It must be." Bop announced the masterpiece of logic. "There isn't any other dog in the house, is there? Prob ably her voice sounds different far off." "And probably she is penned it somewhere and frightened. That might make her sound different." Ah Why did I have that idea, and why having it, did I not conceal it in one of the recesses of my brain instead of voicing it to all? "Oh, my poor Tootles." Lucie he gan picturing her pet suffocating "Maybe she is dying or dead already." "Whistle again," directed the captain. Lucie made several ineffectual at temps, but failed. "I can't," she deared. "I have to cry." "Let me call her," I interposed "She knows me." As a boy I used to be able to make considerable racket by blowing on two fingers held at the proper angle in my mouth. I tried it with gratifying reuts. I must have been heard on the mainhead. The reply was immediate—short snappy barks, still a long way off, but very reassuring as to vigor and de light. "She's right under us!" Lucile cried. "No, over by the window, I should say," argued Vida. "Too darling, she has forgotten how she got into the place, and she thinks one is keeping her cooped up on purpose. Please, Monty, keep on whiting. She does recognize you, and she know that help is coming. We must take up the floor." In her excitement and time of need she had turned to me and not to Bopp I didn't know how Tootles, whom I had last seen dashing up the bench amid a cloud of sand, could possibly have managed to get under the attic floor, but Lucile had called me Monty, and reason dismounted from her throne, and carnival was king. I whistled blithely, piercingly, joy fully, conxingly, and whenever I paused the barking rewarded me. "Tear up the floor," Lucile ordered "We can't let her stay there any longer." "Ihadn't we better see if she won't come out by herself?" the captain asked tentatively. "It seems a shame to tear up that there planking." "Not for Tootles," Lucile replied. "What do I care for an old attic floor when my Tootles is in danger? She shan't stay there another minute if I can help it." She tried to pry up a board with her finger nails. "Walt," I requested. "Let me do this scientifically." I wrenched a leg from an old armchair which had already suffered the amputation of one of its extremities and with that as a lever pried up one of the flooring boards at the ends which extended loose over the floor beams. As the plank came up amid a cloud of dust Lucelle gavo me a look such as must have rewarded Launcelot from the grandstand after he ran a curtain pole through a cast iron white hoop. We assembled around the hole I had made. No Tootles in sight. "Whittle," Lacile commanded me. C. B. B. A Faint Hissing Sound Came From Lucie's Puckered Lips. I obeyed. Joyful barks, but nothing more. "Take up some more boards," Lucie might have been saying. "Wait until you see the whites of their eyes" or "Don't give up the ship." "Hadn't we better wait?" Captain Perkins was an earnest advocate of the Fabian policy. "No." I took up another board and yet another, stopping to whistle each time, without apparently getting any nearer. "She's there somewhere," declared Tootles' foster mother, puzzled, but still determined. "Keep on until you find her." I had taken up all but half a dozen of the boards when my foot slipped from the cross floor beam on whiI I was working and struck the lath which was nailed on the other side. The lath offered but slight resistance. The plaster was even more fragile, and I went through rather hastily, clutching wily at nothing in particular. My last recollection was of Lucie's horror stricken face as she saw me stuking from sight, like the villain in "Lorna Doe." My next conscious remembrance was of sitting flat in the middle of a bed the springs of which were gently bouncing me up and down after the fashion of a net into which a trapezoid performer had dropped from the top of the tent. Above was a hole in the ceiling, around me were chunks of plaster and splinters of lath, and sitting in a chair by the window was Jim his mouth open, emitting a series of short, sharp yelps. Lucie, Vida, Bopp, Kent and the captain made a ring of faces around the hole in the ceiling. "Stop barking, you darn fool!" shouted the captain after a moment devoted to startled surprise by all concerned. "Aye, aye, sir!" replied Jim, salut ing. "Then it wasn't Tootles at all." Lucilo was overwhelmed by grief that was all the more poignant because it had been held off so long by hope. "You have to admit that Jim is in all around bright young fellow," declared the captain proudly. "It ain't often you can find a marine engineer who can cook and do as good an institution of a dog as that." "But why," I fixed the captain with a malevolent eye—"why did he initiate a dog at this particular moment? What is the cause of this character study of a canine under a floor? Why not a dog out in the yard chasing his tail or a Newfoundland pup having an argument with a dilapidated shoe?" "Why, this was a little idea of my own," stated Captain Perkins modestly. "When I see Miss Green was going to be all broke up if nothing answered when she whistled I told Jim there to go downstairs and pretend to be the pup, just so she'd feel better." "What I want to know, Mr Blainey." A man is falling from a high ceiling. He is breaking a large piece of glass. I Wont Through Rather Haatily. Jim asked, with a brightly inquiring eye, "is how did you know just where that bed was?" "I know where I saw that dog last,' exclaimed Kent as one inspired. "Where?" Lucille turned to him. "He was outdoors hittin' the breeze this afternoon." "Outdoors? She isn't allowed out What was she doing?" "She was vamping up the beach, and Mr. Blainey was running after her." Gultt seeks out the criminal and THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Instens her brand upon him publicly. Policemen are but jailers. Detectives are only men who let nature do their work for them. There was a nasty staccato laugh. I did not need to look to know that it was Bopp. "Mr. Kent seems to have a very observing mind," he said. Lucile looked at me reproachfully. "Is Cita true?" she asked. "Yes." George Washington could have done no more. Nothing more was to be said. I had been tried, convicted and sentenced. The telephone rang. Lucile went to answer it. The rest of us followed more at our leisure. When we had arrived downstairs Lucile was talking to some one over the wire, "Identify her mother. "I'm glad you're all right," she was crying, "and that you have had something to eat. Don't feel badly about breaking the fast. No one blames you a bit. That's all right. We would, too, if we could." A pause, during which she listened, a trown gathering on her face. "Don't you worry, mother. We're all right—all except Tootles. She is lost. What's the matter? You saw some one outside in the moonlight? A man with whiskers? Nonsense. No one lives there at this time of year. Everybody left in September. Just go to bed and don't think about such things." Lucile stilled a scream. "Hello, mother. What? Some one is trying the door? It's opening—hello—hello—mother"— Lucie dropped the receiver and sank backward into Vida's arms. I picked up the telephone and held it to my ear, shouting "Hello, hello!" There was no response. The wire was dead. When Lucie had been revived without resorting to any of the violent methods suggested by the resourceful Captain Perkins I endeavored to explain away my cause for fright. "Even if she really did see a man," I said, "which seems improbable, he is not going to murder her. Probably he just stopped to inquire the time of day." "But mother said he had whiskers." "I know," I continued, "that is against him, but maybe it is hereditary in his family." "Maybe she just dreamed it," Kent offered sensibly. "Let's call her up again. She seemed a little dented on top when I first saw her. By this time maybe the attack is over." "That seemed a fair enough suggestion, and I acted on it. I asked central to give me Huntingdon's island once more. "I'm sorry," central answered, "but I can't seem to get them. I've been ringing on that line for the last ten minutes. There's another party trying to get them." "Another party?" I questioned. "Who?" "I couldn't say. It isn't any one I know. His voice sounds like he was a tall, thin young man from New York." "Can't get them," I told the listening group. "What can we do now? I must go to help mother. I must go. I must go." Lucie began to get hysterical. "He'd be plumb tickled, too," added Captain Perkins. "He ain't had a chance to arrest nobody since he's been swore in." "That's it, the sheriff," Lucie said feverishly. "Get the sheriff and let me talk to him." "We don't want the public to know about this," I objected. "What do I care about the public if my mother is in danger?" Lucie very properly demanded. CHAPTER XIII THERE seemed to be nothing else to do, so I asked the telephone operator to see if she could locate the sheriff. "I guess he's down to the railroad station," central volunteered. "It's most train time, and he most usually goes down there looking for a suspicious character to get, off the north bound passenger. I'll ask the agent if he's there." She did, and he was. After a slight delay I found myself addressing a strange voice, which I requested to hold the wire. I turned the receiver over to Lucile. She told the sheriff in breathless baste that her mother had been foully dealt with on Huntingdon's island and offered him limitless rewards to capture her slayer. "Is there anything further we can do?" Lucile paced up and down the room. "Nothing but wait, dear," Vida said, "I'm sure nothing serious has happened." "Then why doesn't mother call up and tell us that she is all right?" "This was unanswerable. 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We will Also be Pleased to Quote You Prices on Exterior and Interior ```markdown ``` I led them to the kitchen "What is it?" Hopp asked. "It's a secret," I replied mysteriously, investigating my kettle of clams, which, strange to relate, had not bolted entirely away. "I'll serve it to you and then you can guess what it is." I found a number of bowls in the pantry, and with a porcelain dipper I ladled a goodly portion of clam broth into each. "Did you cook this all by yourself?" asked Kent. "I did." I averred modestly. "From raw materials you found on the island?" supplemented Bopp. "Everything in it grew right here," I explained. "It's Tootles!" screamed Lucile, turning pale and putting her bowl down on the table. "It can't be," said Bopp, sniffing. "This has a decidedly fishy smell." "I know it," wailed Lucile, with tears coursing down her cheeks. "That's what makes me think it's Tootles. We have been feeding her lots of fish latey." I started to explain. "Laurie, how can you accuse me of such a thing?" "You never liked Tootles. I know it. You cared more for your appetite than for my little darling. Now I see through all the mystery about what the food was and what you were doing all the afternoon while I slept. I suppose you drugged me so that I wouldn't hear the poor little thing's screams. Oh, mother! Oh, Tootles!" "Lucile," I lecan, "I" "Don't speak to me. I don't even want to see you again, you fat aurderer." That was too much. I might have tried for being called a murderer, but of a fat one. JOHN H. BURKE "Very well," I replied. "It certainly will not be necessary for you to see me, I will go, and I insure you that I will never enter your house again." I went to the door with as much dignity as I could assume. "Goodbye," I said as I opened the door. There was no particular place to go and apparently no chance of leaving the island before morning, anyway. 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SATURDAY,........August 11, 1917 Everybody must speak in favor of the national government. —— It is no uso to worry, for you'll be dead aftor a while. ——_—— We do not know just how this war will end, We all know how it began, “The Grumbler” seems to be some- thing of a Joker, so we are publishing the joke, Colored folks, talk 1ess and do more Wo can win in the great contest of life if we weary not in well doing. Raiso your children upright, colored folks, Even if they go wrong after- wards, do not fail to give them the proper instructions at home. Seme people are, always disagree: able to some other people. Then again, some people make other people ais. agreeable, when they otherwise would be ploasant, ——— Con, THEODORE RoosevELT seems. to be in good health and the present in. ications are that he will have his eyes upon the Prosidency again, and hjs hands, too, if the people will let him. / ‘Tho Nations? cument Is report ed to have 2 MTCh Eas LwO hitadred and. ty thousand caskets. ‘This would ‘xeom to indicate that Unclo Sam wilt ship tho bodies back home, ee If you want to have two people tired of each other and weary of cach other's company, induce them to marry each other. It usually takes about six months to effect a cure, and sometimes less than that. Hon. WestMorELAND Davis has been nominated by the Democratic Party for Governor of Virginia. The ciaim was mado that ho would be a “wet” Governor, Bo that as it may, thou. sands remained away from the polls, and the question now arises as to whether that vote would come out from hiding If a Republican candidate was placed in the field to confront one of the most popular Democrats now before the public. We were shocked to hear of the death of Da. 1. B. Furssene, Principal of Hampton Institute. He was com. paratively young and his untimely re- moval from the present scenes of activo endeavor is a calamity to the institution over which ho presided. Conditions make the maintenance of such an institution an up-hill effort. Donations are not given as freely today as they were in the past. This fact must have brought with it attendant worries and he sank into the grave as would a child that want- ed sleep. Io was a true friend of the colored people 6f this country and his loss will bo mourned from one section of the Southland to the other by all who had even a faint knowledge of the great work that he had accom- plished and was accomplishing. THROPELING THE PLANET. — ‘whe action of the Postoffice author- ities in this city in holding up eighteen sacks of Planet mail simply because correspondent dared to state therein why he would not freely volunteer in the United States army, and calling upon the Chief Executive of the na- tion to, speak out upon the Mast St. Louis riot, as Cor, Roosrvenn had done and calling upon the Dopart- ment of Justico to hold tho murderers of those innocent colored people to a strict accountability, is without par- allel in the history of this Stat. This is why we mado the Inquiry If the constitutional guarantees of eitizen ship, as they relate to the freedom of speech and the liberty of the press, had been suspended. Until they are suspended, we fail to see how even the congress of the United States can pass legislation that wil: annul and set aside the pro visions thereof, ‘The outrage upon the public, upon the management and upon the ownership was all the more outrageous when It is remembered that the columns of the Planet have deen used free of charge for the dis: semination of information by the ‘Treasury Department relative to Lib- erty Honds, and by the War Depart: ment relative to recruiting, and by the Board of National Defense rela- live to inducing colored people to re- main in tne Southland, Aer living here a lifetime through the darkest days of Democratic rute, for the first time the officials of the national government have the effront- ery to attempt to control the columns of this Journal, which has been guar: anteed the right of liberty and free speech. ‘This is one of the logteal evils of a centralized form of govern- ment, ‘The Democracy of the South- land has fought this form of oppres sion for more than half a century, We are not ready to bow to it now. Colored folks are loyal to the national government and will not do anything lo embarrass it in its efforts to win a war supremacy. We do not stand for foree in this matter, We will yield to. persuasion, We do not bolong to that class of people who prefer to be a live cur to being a dead Mon. If the Postomee officials and the Department of Jus- tico wish to edit the Planet, we are Willing to tender to them the owner- ship and control for such time as it may prove to be of essential benefit and advantage to their aims, but we refuse to he brow-heaten and insulted and with being even suspected of dis: loyally because a citizen of the United States, with probably more zeal than judgment, sees fit to con- sclentiously express an opinion about the deplorable happening at Bast St. Louis, Minols, _ We haye some felonds in this coun- try, and it may be that we have not much longer to live. Certain it is |wo shall file protest after protest agatun this unjust treatment, the Uke of which could not be more than duplicated across the seas. CONSTITUTIONAL QUARANTERS NOT SUSPENDED, | “Congress shall make no law re- “spoctings the establishment of religion OE Prongttlagerly £evxercise More- (ort “or wbridging tho freciom of ‘Speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to potition tho government for a rodress of grievances,"—Articlo T of tho Constitution of tho United States. | With this plam provision staring them in the face, it is almost tncon- colvable to us how any one could take the authority and assume the respon- sibility of holding up the mail of ‘The Planet under the guise and oxcuse ‘that the communication of Uzztah | Miner violated the espionage Inws or the United States, which laws had been passed bythe Congress of the United States. | Mr. Miner spoke only for himselt and in this he did not violate the jlaw in antagonizing the selective draft laws of this country. On tho contrary, the plain intimation was that he would not yoluntecr his ser- viees as a soldier of the Uniteil States /but would submit himsolf to bo drafted, that is forced into the’ army under compulsion, | Ho aid not advise any one olse to take this position, How thon jcould it be alleged that The Planet, whose editorial management is not responsible for views exprossed by its correspondents bo punished for some- thing dono by a eitizon of the United Slates and who under the greatest stretch of application could be held only personally for the expressions contained therein? He spoke in tho people's forum, so to spoak. Wo are glad to announce that the mail of ‘The Planct was released on Jast ‘Thursday morning amd the copies sent to our subscribers, ‘Thurs- day morning, August 9, 1917, six days after they had been deposited in the post-oflice here in this city. ‘This journal is devoted to the in- torests of the colored people of this country and Mr, Uzziah Miner spoke in behalf of those hundreds of in- nocent. black Southerners, who have been driven from their homes anit who now wander about In a strange land. So far as we have been able to observe he had a right to say what he did and,we had the right to publish what ho sald without making ourselves liable Lo perscention or prosecution at the hands of the Department of Jus- tico, whieh to our mind should now be prosecuting tho murdorers of thgse helpless people, Mie colored people are loyal to Prosident. Woodrow Wilson and to the National Government. ‘They aro proving this by the thousands of them who are offering their lives upon tho altar of their country. ‘Tho alleged evidences of disloyalty cannot, be found among our people. We thank THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA those of our friends In Washington and elsewhere, who haye taken an interest In this matter. We are being guided by the law and tho Congress of the United States has no legal right to supercede tho Constitution of the United States by which instrument we are being guided. When the instrument in question has been suspended, we hope that we shall be promptly ad- vised as to the time and the place the event took place and we shall then recognize the fact that we are under martial law and govern ourselves accordingly. As the matter now stands, we claim the rights and privileges of an American citizen and we shall insist upon those rights, let the consequen: ces be what they may, We conchae with the remark that wo are glad that the issue of The Planet of last week has been released. WINCHESTER NEWS NOTES | Mr, Lloyd P, Fisher has returned | home from Fort Niagara, N, Y., where! ‘he has been spending the summer: reeuperating prior to the osening of his school. Mr. Fisher is principal cf ‘the Cedar Hill school. | | ars, Irene Brown and Mrs, J. Hen derson Cooke spent Sunday in’ Clarkg visiting friends, | Mr. Luther Bowles and Mr. Ludel, ‘Tayler of Staunton were visitors cf Mr. and Mrs. ML. Brown on Brad dock St, Sunday while enroute to Harpers Ferry W. Va. to meet Mr |W: W. Webb of Cleveland, Ohio ‘They were the victims of an accideny by their motoreyele on which the were riding collided with an autos | mobile on the valley pike about threg miles south of this place, ‘They Were quite shaken up but noi’ serious ly hurt and were able to contin their journey. Mr. G. W. Hollis of Strasburg, Va. attended the monthly meeting of th K. of P. Lodge here on Monday night Mr. and Mrs, Andrew J. Cooke ar in Baltimore, Md, attending the fu heral of Mrs. Mamie Smith, wife o Mr, Waldo Smith propricto:’ of hotel Rev, GO. Wing of Bethel A. at EH. Chureh preached at John Mann M KB. Chureh at 3 p.m. Sunday. Hi choir furnished the music under the direction of Rey, James W. Stephen son, Mrs. Agnes W. Scott and little son George spent Saturday and Sunda with her mother at” Pigeon Hill Clarke Co, Miss Elizabeth Jennings has re- turned trom Martinsburg W.Va where she has been visiting | Miss dna Ross, Mr. Wm. 13, N. Laws returned hom Saturday last from York, Pa. wher ho attended the funoral of Me. nd mother, rg. au. Laws, i Mr, James Harding ‘of Hotel Jac Is ott again, Ho has been on’ th sick Ist for some timo. Quite a number of our boys passed {he examination for the army” and So far not one has signed exomption cards, g00d boys; but the largost por- contage of the whit: .uys have, Look out for your patriotism, Wo all are very much taken up with the editorials in the Planet this wweek and my papers went fast. It shows what our folks think of our leaders, Let the good work go on. And Tam sure there ts no botter way to advertise ‘The Planet than those food straight heart to heart talks What wo want to do ts to get our peo. ple to think that our leaders are inter. ested in them and that will do moro | Yoward solving the Negro Problem (han anything else. AN we want Ig att a show and I believe that. thd colored voya of Uncle Sam will be a |b.g factor in ‘saving Domocrasy ‘for ts world yet. “We are very much impressed with the reading ct tho silent parade in New York City ‘the other night, would to God black ‘People In other cities would take /8 |"P. Perhaps it might have the sama ‘offect on our Government oficials the small voice had on WliJah the ‘Tish bite in the cave somewhere in Judah z | Mr. J. Williams and wite spent Sat- urday last in Washington, D. C. | Mr. Karl Kvans has accepted tho position of head waiter at Hote Evans, Mr. Larrio ‘Turner has installed a fine billiard table in his.home on 1 Mart St, for the convenience of him self and friends. He will make a fennis court in the near future. ‘The Oceola Athletic Club a socia‘ organization of which Mr, Mo is Brown is President gave an outing on Friday last to Mts friends an members. All kinds of games wer indulged in, refreshments. were ‘als served on tho grounds. ‘Tho club if strielly a charitable affair and hel Wherever help is needed. Miss Carri Walker is Secretary, Mrs, Hf. V. Gilcd ‘Treasurer, Mrs. Violet Burns has returned ta Baltimore, after spending sometime with her daughter Mrs, Wm, TI. Lewis, Read the Planet the best colored paper in good old Va, Mr. and Mrs. Walker James of St Louis, Mo., is “spending the summcy with Mr. and Mrs, Charles Lampking on S. Main SU, the parents of Mrs James, they both are looking fine, Mrs. Powell Gibson has returned home from Manassas where she hod beon visiting her father who has beer very ill but is somewhat improved. Wo want agents in every elty. Com munieate with this offic, We necd COMMITTEE FROM THE NY. SILENT PARADE CALLS ON THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE Washington, August 1—Negroes of the nation carried to the White House today their protest against the atro- cious attacks made upon them at Hash St. Louls and other industrial centres recently. ‘They appoated to President Wilson through Sceretary ‘Tumulty to speak ‘some public word” that would klve hope and courage to the Negroes of the United States. Mr. 'Tumulty listened to the reading of a petition and promised the dele- gation, which was headed by James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the Na- tional Ascociation forthe Advancement ef Colored People, that “the matter would not be neglected.’ He told his callers also that the President has beon i consultation with department: officials concerning better protection for the Negro citizens of the country. The delegation requested a personal interview with the Prosident which re- auest Mr. Tumulty said he would place before Mr, Wilson, MR. JOHNSON'S REMARKS. ‘The remarks of Mr. Johnson in ad- dressing Secretary Tumulty were as follows: “We, the Committee of the Negro S% lent Protest Parade, in which 15,0000 colored men, women and children took part last Saturday in New York, come to present to you and through yeu to the President and Congress 4 petition for redress of certain griev- ancos. Wo come representing not only, the Negro Silent Protest Parade, but the colered people of Greater New York, ana the sentiments and inspires tions and sorrows, too, of the entire Negro population of the United. States, “We como representing twelve mil: lion eltizens whose devotion and loys alty to the nation have never heen amestioned—twelve million — citizens who, when the present storm broke ever our land, took their unqualified stand side by side with the original American stocks that landed at Ply. mouth Rock and at Jamestown. “We feel that in coming to you, w3 are well within our rights—the right siven vy birth, the right given by Ia bor, the right given by loyalty. W feel, further, that it is especially fits Ung that we come at this time whe when the heart of the nation is S80 deeply touched wy the cause of democ- racy and humanity, “We come asking that the President use his great powers to have sranted to us some redress for the Brievances set forth in our petition, and we come, further, praying that ‘the President may find it in his heart to speak some public word that will give hope and courage to our people, thus using his great personal and moral Influence, in our behalf. + % od “A000 thes6 ends, T have the hon- or to read and respectfully present the following petition. “To the President and Congress of the United Stites. “We. the Committee of the Negro Si lent Protest Parade, representing th celored people of Greater New Yor and the senttiment of the People cf Nogro descent throughout this land come to you to present a petition for redress of grievances. ‘In the last thirty-one years 2,867 colored men and women have been lynched by mobs without trial. Less than half a dozen persons out of tho tens of thousands involved have re- ceived any punishment whatsoever for these crimes, and not a single one has been punished for murder. In addi- Hon to this mabs have harried and murdered coloréd citizens time and time again with impunity, culminat- ing in the latest atrocity at Bast St. Louls whero nearly a hundred tnno- cent, hardworking eltizens wore dune to death ia broad daylight for seeking to carn an honest living. “We believe that this spirit of law- lessness is doing untold injury to our country end we submit that the re- cord proves that the States are oither unwilling or unable to but down lyneh- ing and mob violneco, “We ask, therefore, /that lynching and mob violence be ida a national crime punished by the Jaws of tho United States wna that this be done by Federad enactmen:, or ‘f neces- sary. by constitutional amendment. We believe that there can be found in Yecent legistation abundant preedent for action of this sort, and whether “hes Ve true or not, na nation. that “ecks to night the battle of civilization can afford to march in blood-smeared garments, “Wo ask, therefore, immediate ac- tion by the Congress and the Presi- dent of the United States.” (Signed) REV. BF. AL CULLEN, Chairman, JAMES WELDON JOUNSON, Vice Chairman. Rev. Charles D, Martin, John B. Nail, Treasurer; Rey, E. W. Daniel, Rev. Geo. I, Miller, ‘Fred R. Moore A. B. Cosey, Dr. W. BE. B. DuBois, Dr. I. Hoage, I. B. Allen, Mrs. M Cc, Law- ton, Mrs. C, J. Walker, Rev. A! Clay- ton Powell, Rev. Wm, P. Hayes, Rey, J. W. Brown, * * Health Nurses and Viola Studies, Richmond, Va. Aug. 8.—Graduato nurses attending the ‘elementary course in public health nursing being cenducted by the State Board of Health have reached the second lap in their work and are now carrying on field studies under the direction of various social agencies in Rich- mond. ‘These studies cover a wide field of problems and aro designed to familiarize the nurses with the difter- ens sanitary and soctal questions they may expect to encounter when they take up duties as pubdlie health nurses, In addition, the attendants upon tho courso are receiving lectures upon ya. rious aspects of social work and sani- tation and aro reported by the Stato oard of Health as enthusiastic in «cir gtudies. ‘Tho course will us. con- cluded about, Soptomber first. DANVILLY NEWS, Danville, Va., August 6—Dr. S. R. Wilson mado a’ business trip to Rich: mond, Va., last: Wednesday. Mr. J. H. Davis, of Almagro, is yet confined. We hope for him a’ speedy recovery, Rev, P. H. Kirby, one of Danvitic's oldest’ ministers, Who has been sick for more than eight months, was out last week at the National Smith River Asseelation, Miss Mamie Bonderant, of Lynch. burs, Va., was the guest of Miss Lou- ise Dunston, of Union Street, last week, Miss Myre Afiretto and Miss Beat- rice Williamson, of South Main Street, returned last Tuesday from Greens. boro, N. C., and Hampton, Va., te- spectively, where they had’ been at- tending the summer ‘normal. ‘They camo laden with fruit of intellectual knowledge: Miss Mattie Smith, of Almagro, left the city last Monday’ for: Philadelphia, for a short stay. Miss L. M, Freeman, of Franklin Street, leaves the city ‘Thursday for Durham, N.C. While there sho will be the guest of Mrs, G. W. Adams, Rev. M. F. Hughes preached at the Calvary Baptist Church Sunday, at both the morning and evening ‘ser. vices. He brought credit to himself and the gospel ministry, Mr. 1, W. Jackson, of Clifton Forge, Was in the city a few days last week visiling relatives and friends. Miss Annie Marris and Mr. J, 1, Ragsdale were united in marriage Sunday by Rey. M. F, Mnghes. Mrs, Jane Parker, of Union Street, Med Suvday evening, Puneral ser: Ylees were hold at the Union Street Baptist Church, of which she, was a faithful momber, Monday 3:20 P. M. The pastor, Rey. ©, 1. Stone, oMeiated. Mrs. Rena Wilson, the mother of Mrs. Florence Wilson, of Washington Surect, North Danville, ts very stele at this writing. Mrs, Marshall Ill, of Richmond, Va.. is visiting her father, Mr. D.C. Hill, of Vanburan Street, Miss Beulah Carter, of West ‘Thom- as Street, was married to Mr, 'T. L, ‘Tucker at the home of the bride last Wednesday, ‘rhe Rev. W. FP, Grasty performed the ceremony, Mrs. W. If. Davis, of Gay Street, Who some time ago ‘sustained an in. Jury from a fall, is sti lingering, Miss M. Alice Grasty, of Gay Street, 1s spending some time with Mrs. Hf W. | Wikion, ‘of Washington Street, North Danville. Mrs, Beatrice Thomas and two chil- dren, who have been in the elty for threo weoks visiting rolatives. tof Wednesday for thir home in Pitts ‘urgh.P8. ‘Thore were many things i Danville that Mrs, ‘Thomas admired, Among them was the Planet, She gave us her subscription for one year. Come’again, Mrs. Thomas. Miss DeLacy Harris, of Gay Street, is sponding the week in Roanoke with friends, The Chorristone Association meets with the Jones Chapel Baptist Church Wednesday, August 15. Rov. M._L. Burton, pastor, Prot. Robinson, president of Small. wood Memoria! Institute, Claremont, Va. was in the ‘city Sunday. He vis {ted the Trinity Baptist Sunday School and chureh service at the Calvary Baptist Church. His many friends were glad to seo him. Rev, N. G. Harris, of Martinsville, Va. preached at the Loyal Street Baptist Chureh Sunday night. He had the spirit of the Master, FLORENCE (8, 0.) NOTES. Florence, $, C.—Mr. D. FP. Fields of Doyesville, S. C., spent a day re contly in our city. For more than twelve years he has farmed success fully. Mrs. Beatrice Dean, of Cordelia, Ga., passed throngh here recently on route to Newburn, N. C. Dr. WP. Holmes and 1. B. Webs: ter assined the county board’ in ox amining men for the National Army Respectfully, B. WEBSTER. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL OF LITTLE MY. 0.—GIVES ITS PIONIOTO BUCKROF, AUGUST 4 ‘TIMES 4 PLUS 2 PLUS 4, Dear Friend:— Wo desire to notify you that Mount Olivet Baptist Sunday School had tn- tended having its picnic elsewhere; but in order that tho friends of the church who wero left July 16th may havo a chaneo and those who desire to go again and have another delightfyl trip may have the opportunity,—wo have decided to change our plans and run a pieniec excursion to Buckroe Beach, Wednesday Aug 22, 1917— ‘Train leaves ©, & 0. Broad Street Station 9:30 a. m. Returning leaves Buekroe Beach 7 p. m., sharp.—A peaceful trip guaranteed, for we carry the detectives of the company, with full power of arrest. Adults $1.00.—Children under 12 years of age 50 cents, Why stay In this heated town, tho wholo summer long? When tho cool sea breezes, your cheeks will fan for a song. Respectfully, ML. Olivet Baptist Sunday School. James Epps, Supt. | Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, Paator, p 2 PANAMA HATERS KOCH PANAMA & PELE HATS CLEANED < BLOCKED, REPRIMMED, LATEST STYLES. SAME PLACE, \ RELIABLE MATTERS, ( oN = WH HAVE NO CANVASSpRS, ee ce AMERICAN HAT CO, PARAS SY CS 501 East Marshall Street, UNEQUALLED OPPORTUNITINS FOR BOTH SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOR IN THE NORTH, NOW IS THE TIMP TO COME. WRITE AT ONCH FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.' WE CAN ASSIST THOUSANDS TO: SHCURH GOOD POSITIONS. WE MAKE. NO CHARGH FOR JoBs. ASSOCIATED GOLORED EMPLOYS OF AMERICA, INC. 21 ANN STREID NEW YORK O1Try, HOUSES FOR SALE Private. Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. 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The best known remedy for heavy, and beautiful Black oyobrows, also Restoros Gray Hair to its Natural Color Can bo used with Hot Iron for Straightoning. Prico Sent by Mail, 500 | §. D. LYONS, Gon, Agt., 814 Kant Second St., Oklahoma City, Okla, (10¢ oxtra for postage) ~TAGENTS OUPMPCT Tat ewer DT FOUR 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. SATURDAY,.....August 11, 1917 Everybody must speak in favor of the national government. It is no use to worry, for you'll be dead after a while. We do not know just how this war will end. We all know how it began "The Grumbler" seems to be something of a joker, so we are publishing the joke. Colored folks, talk pess and do more We can win in the great contest of life if we weary not in well doing. Raise your children upright, colored folks. Even if they go wrong after, wards, do not fail to give them the proper instructions at home. Some people are always disagreeable to some other people. Then again, some people make other people disagreeable, when they otherwise would be plausant. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT seems to be in good health and the present indications are that he will have his eyes upon the Presidency again, and his hands, too, if the people will let him. The National document is reported to have purchased two hundred and a city thousand caskets. This would seem to indicate that Uncle Sam will ship the bodies back home. If you want to have two people tired of each other and weary of each other's company, induce them to marry each other. It usually takes about six months to effect a cure, and sometimes less than that. HON. WESTMORELAND DAVIS has been nominated by the Democratic Party for Governor of Virginia. The claim was made that he would be a "wet" Governor. Be that as it may, thousands remained away from the polls, and the question now arises as to whether that vote would come out from hiding if a Republican candidate was placed in the field to confront one of the most popular Democrats now before the public. We were shocked to hear of the death of Dr. H. B. FRISSELL, Principal of Hampton Institute. He was comparatively young and his untimely removal from the present scenes of active endeavor is a calamity to the institution over which he presided. Conditions make the maintenance of such an institution an up-hill effort. Donations are not given as freely today as they were in the past. This fact must have brought with it attendant worries and he sank into the grave as would a child that wanted sheep. He was a true friend of the colored people of this country and his loss will be mourned from one section of the Southland to the other by all who had even a faint knowledge of the great work that he had accomplished and was accomplishing. THROTTLING THE PLANET The action of the Postoffice authorities in this city in holding up eighteen sacks of Planet mail simply because a correspondent dared to state therein why he would not freely volunteer in the United States army, and calling upon the Chief Executive of the nation to speak out upon the East St. Louis riot, as Col. Roosevelt had done and calling upon the Department of Justice to hold the murderers of those innocent colored people to a strict accountability, is without parallel in the history of this State. This is why we made the inquiry if the constitutional guarantees of citizenship, as they relate to the freedom of speech and the liberty of the press, had been suspended. Until they are suspended, we fail to see how even the congress of the United States can pass legislation that will annual and set aside the provisions thereof. The outrage upon the public, upon the management and upon the ownership was all the more outrageous when it is remembered that the columns of the Planet have been used free of charge for the dissemination of information by the Treasury Department relative to Liberty Bonds, and by the War Department relative to recruiting, and by the Board of National Defense relative to inducing colored people to remain in the Southland. After living here a lifetime through the darkest days of Democratic rule, for the first time the officials of the national government have the offrentry to attempt to control the columns of this journal, which has been guaranteed the right of liberty and free speech. This is one of the logical evils of a centralized form of government. The Democracy of the Southland has fought this form of oppression for more than half a century. We are not ready to bow to it now. Colored folks are loyal to the national government and will not do anything to embarrass it in its efforts to win a war supremacy. We do not stand for force in this matter. We will yield to persuasion. We do not belong to that class of people who prefer to be a live cur to being a dead lion. If the Postoffice officials and the Department of Justice wish to edit the Planet, we are willing to tender to them the ownership and control for such time as it may prove to be of essential benefit and advantage to their aims, but we refuse to be brow-beaten and insulted and with being even suspected of disloyalty because a citizen of the United States, with probably more zeal than judgment, sees fit to conscientiously express an opinion about the deplorable happening at East St. Louis, Illinois. We have some friends in this country, and it may be that we have not much longer to live. Certain it is we shall file protest after protest against this unjust treatment, the like of which could not be more than duplicated across the seas. CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES NOT SUSPENDED "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."—Article I of the Constitution of the United States. With this plain provision staring them in the face, it is almost inconceivable to us how any one could take the authority and assume the responsibility of holding up the mail of The Planet under the guise and excuse that the communication of Uzziah Miner violated the espionage laws of the United States, which laws had been passed by the Congress of the United States. Mr. Miner spoke only for himself and in this he did not violate the law in antagonizing the selective draft laws of this country. On the contrary, the plain intimation was that he would not volunteer his services as a soldier of the United States but would submit himself to be drafted, that is forced into the army under compulsion. He did not advise any one else to take this position. How then could it be alleged that The Planet, whose editorial management is not responsible for views expressed by its correspondents be punished for something done by a citizen of the United States and who under the greatest stretch of application could be held only personally for the expressions contained therein? He spoke in the people's forum, so to speak. We are glad to announce that the mail of The Planet was released on last Thursday morning and the copies seat to our subscribers, Thursday morning, August 9, 1917, six days after they had been deposited in the post-office here in this city. This journal is devoted to the interests of the colored people of this country and Mr. Uzziah Miner spoke in behalf of those hundreds of innocent black Southerners, who have been driven from their homes and who now wander about in a strange land. So far as we have been able to observe he had a right to say what he did and, we had the right to publish what he said without making ourselves liable to persecution or prosecution at the hands of the Department of Justice, which to our mind should now be prosecuting the murderers of these helpless people. The colored people are loyal to President Woodrow Wilson and to the National Government. They are proving this by the thousands of them who are offering their lives upon the altar of their country. The alleged evidences of disloyalty cannot be found among our people. We thank THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA those of our friends in Washington and elsewhere, who have taken an interest in this matter. We are being guided by the law and the Congress of the United States has no legal right to supercede the Constitution of the United States by which instrument we are being guided. When the instrument in question has been suspended, we hope that we shall be promptly advised as to the time and the place the event took place and we shall then recognize the fact that we are under martial law and govern ourselves accordingly. As the matter now stands, we claim the rights and privileges of an American citizen and we shall insist upon those rights, let the consequences be what they may. We conclude with the remark that we are glad that the issue of The Planet of last week has been released. WINCHESTER NEWS NOTES Mr. Lloyd P. Fisher has returned home from Fort Niagara, N. Y., where he has been spending the summer recuperating prior to the opening of his school. Mr. Fisher is principal of the Cedar Hill school. Mrs. Irene Brown and Mrs. J. Henderson Cooke spent Sunday in Clark visiting friends. Mr. Luther Bowles and Mr. Ludel Taylor of Staunton were visitors. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. L. Brown on Brad dock St., Sunday while enroute to Harpers Ferry W. Va., to meet Mr W. W. Webb of Cleveland, Ohio They were the victims of an accident by their motorcycle on which the were riding collided with an automobile on the valley pike about three miles south of this place. They were quite shaken up but not serious; hurt and were able to continue their journey. Mr. G. W. Hollis of Strasburg, Va. attended the monthly meeting of the K. of P. Lodge here on Monday night Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Cooke ar in Baltimore, Md., attending the funeral of Mrs. Mamie Smith, wife o Mr. Waldo Smith proprietor of hotel Rev. G. O. Wing of Bethel A. M. E. Church preached at John Mann M E. Church at 3 p. m., Sunday. Hi choir furnished the music under the direction of Rev. James W. Stephen son. Mrs. Agnes W. Scott and little son George spent Saturday and Sunda with her mother at Pigeon Hill Clarke Co. Miss Elizabeth Jennings has returned from Martinsburg W. Va. where she has been visiting Miss Edna Ross. Mr. Wm. E. N. Laws returned hom Saturday last from York, Pa., where he attended the funeral of his mother, Mrs. ... Laws. Mr. James Harding of Hotel Jace is out again. He has been on the sick list for some time. Quite a number of our boys passed the examination for the army and so far not one has signed exemption cards, good boys; but the largest percentage of the white boys have. Look out for your patriotism. We all are very much taken up with the editorials in the Planet this week and my papers went fast. It shows what our folks think of our leaders. Let the good work go on. And I am sure there is no better way to advertise The Planet than those good straight heart to heart talks. What we want to do is to get our people to think that our leaders are interested in them and that will do more toward solving the Negro Problem than anything else. All we want is half a show and I believe that the colored boys of Uncle Sam will be a big factor in saving Democracy for the world yet. We are very much impressed with the reading of the silent parade in New York City the other night, would to God black people in other cities would take up. Perhaps it might have the same effect on our Government officials the small voice had on Elijah the Tish bite in the cave somewhere in Judah. Mr. J. Williams and wife spent Saturday last in Washington, D. C. Mr. Earl Evans has accepted the position of head waiter at Hote Evans. Mr. Larrie Turner has installed a fine billiard table in his home on E Hart St., for the convenience of him self and friends. He will make a tennis court in the near future. The Oceola Athletic Club a social organization of which Mr. M. L. Brown is President gave an outing on Friday last to its friends and members. All kinds of games were indulged in, refreshments were also served on the grounds. The club is strictly a charitable affair and helps wherever help is needed. Miss Carrie Walker is Secretary, Mrs. H. V. Gilc Treasurer. Mrs. Violet Burns has returned to Baltimore, after spending sometime with her daughter Mrs. Wm. H. Lewis. Read the Planet the best colored paper in good old Va. Mr. and Mrs. Walker James of St. Louis, Mo., is spending the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lampkin on S. Main St., the parents of Mrs. James, they both are looking fine. Mrs. Powell Gibson has returned home from Manassas where she has been visiting her father who has been very ill but is somewhat improved. We want agents in every city. Communicate with this office. We need also a skillful solicitor. One who understands the business is preferred. COMMITTEE FROM THE N. Y. SILENT PARADE CALLS ON THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE Washington, August 1.—Negroes of the nation carried to the White House today their protest against the atrocious attacks made upon them at East St. Louis and other industrial centres recently. They appealed to President Wilson through Secretary Tumulty to speak 'some public word' that would give hope and courage to the Negroes of the United States. Mr. Tumulty listened to the reading of a petition and promised the delegation, which was headed by James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, that "the matter would not be neglected." He told his callers also that the President has been in consultation with department officials concerning better protection for the Negro citizens of the country. The delegation requested a personal interview with the President which request Mr. Tumulty said he would place before Mr. Wilson. MR. JOHNSON'S REMARKS The remarks of Mr. Johnson in addressing Secretary Tumulty were as follows: "We, the Committee of the Negro Slent Protest Parade, in which 15,000 colored men, women and children took part last Saturday in New York, come to present to you and through you to the President and Congress a petition for redress of certain grievances. We come representing not only the Negro Slent Protest Parade, but the colored people of Greater New York, and the sentiments and inspirations and sorrows, too, of the entire Negro population of the United States. "We come representing twelve million citizens whose devotion and loyalty to the nation have never been questioned—twelve million citizens who, when the present storm broke over our land, took their unqualified stand side by side with the original American stocks that landed at Plymouth Rock and at Jamestown." "We feel that in coming to you, we are well within our rights—the right given by birth, the right given by labor, the right given by loyalty. We feel, further, that it is especially fitting that we come at this time when the heart of the nation is so deeply touched by the cause of democracy and humanity. "We come asking that the President use his great powers to have granted to us some redress for the grievances set forth in our petition, and we come, further, praying that the President may find it in his heart to speak some public word that will give hope and courage to our people, thus using his great personal and moral influence in our behalf. "And to these ends, I have the honor to read and respectfully present the following petition. "To the President and Congress of the United States. "We, the Committee of the Negro Silent Protest Parade, representing the colored people of Greater New York, and the sentiment of the people of Negro descent throughout this land, come to you to present a petition for redress of grievances. "In the last thirty-one years 2,867 colored men and women have been lynched by mobs without trial. Less than half a dozen persons out of the tens of thousands involved have received any punishment whatsoever for these crimes, and not a single one has been punished for murder. In addition to this mqbs have harried and murdered colored citizens time and time again with impunity, culminating in the latest atrocity at East St. Louis where nearly a hundred innocent, hardworking citizens were done to death in broad daylight for seeking to earn an honest living. "We believe that this spirit of lawlessness is doing untold injury to our country and we submit that the record proves that the States are either unwilling or unable to put down lynching and mob violence. "We ask, therefore, that lynching and mob violence be made a national crime punished by the laws of the United States and that this be done by Federal enactment, or if necessary, by constitutional amendment. We believe that there can be found in recent legislation abundant precedent for action of this sort, and whether this be true or not, no nation that seeks to night the battle of civilization can afford to march in blood-smeared garments. "We ask, therefore, immediate action by the Congress and the President of the United States." (Signed) REV. F. A. CULLEN, Chairman. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, Vice Chairman. Rev, Charles D. Martin, John E. Nail, Treasurer; Rev E. W. Daniel, Rev E. F. Miller, Fred R. Moore, A. B. Cosey, Dr. W. E. B. Dohris, Dr. I. Honge, B. A. Allen, Mrs. M. C. Lawnton, Mrs. C. J. Walker, Rev A. Clayton Powell, Rev Wm. P. Hayes, Rev J. W. Brown. Health Nurses and Field Studies Richmond, Va., Aug. 8.—Graduate nurses attending the elementary course in public health nursing being conducted by the State Board of Health have reached the second lap in their work and are now carrying on field studies under the direction of various social agencies in Richmond. These studies cover a wide field of problems and are designed to familiarize the nurses with the different sanitary and social questions they may expect to encounter when they take up duties as public health nurses. In addition, the attendants upon the course are receiving lectures upon various aspects of social work and sanitation and are reported by the State Board of Health as enthusiastic in their studies. The course will be concluded about September first. DANVILLE NEWS Danville, Va., August 6.—Dr. S. R. Wilson made a business trip to Richmond, Va., last Wednesday. Mr. J. H. Davis, of Almagro, is yet confined. We hope for him a speedy recovery. Rev. P. H. Kirby, one of Danville's oldest ministers, who has been sick for more than eight months, was out last week at the National Smith River Association. Miss Mamie Bonderant, of Lynchburg, Va., was the guest of Miss Louise Dunston, of Union Street, last week. Miss Myrtle Aurette and Miss Beatrice Williamson, of South Main Street, returned last Tuesday from Greensboro, N. C., and Hampton, Va., respectively, where they had been attending the summer normal. They came laden with fruit of intellectual knowledge. Miss Mattie Smith, of Almagro, left the city last Monday for Philadelphia, for a short stay. Miss L. M. Freeman, of Franklin Street, leaves the city Thursday for Durham, N. C. While there she will be the guest of Mrs. G. W. Adams. Rev. M. F. Hughes preached at the Calvary Baptist Church Sunday, at both the morning and evening services. He brought credit to himself and the gospel ministry. Mr. F. W. Jackson, of Clifton Forge, was in the city a few days last week visiting relatives and friends. Miss Annie Harris and Mr. J. L. Ragsdale were united in marriage Sunday by Rev. M. F. Hughes. Mrs. Jane Parker, of Union Street, died Sunday evening. Funeral services were held at the Union Street Baptist Church, of which she was a faithful member, Monday 3:30 P. M. The pastor, Rev. C. L. Stone, officiated. Mrs. Rena Wilson, the mother of Mrs. Florence Wilson, of Washington Street, North Danville, is very sick at this writing. Mrs. Marshall Hill, of Richmond, Va., is visiting her father, Mr. D. C. Hill, of Vanburan Street. Miss Beulah Carter, of West Thomas Street, was married to Mr. T. L. Tucker at the home of the bride last Wednesday. The Rev. W. F. Grasty performed the ceremony. Mrs. W. H. Davis, of Gay Street, who some time ago sustained an injury from a fall, is still lingering. Miss M. Alice Grasty, of Gay Street, is spending some time with Mrs. H. W. Wibson, of Washington Street, North Danville. Mrs. Beatrice Thomas and two children, who have been in the city for three weeks visiting relatives, left Wednesday for their home in Pittsburgh, Pa. There were many things in Danville that Mrs. Thomas admired. Among them was the Planet. She gave us her subscription for one year. Come again, Mrs. Thomas. Miss DeLacy Harris, of Gay Street, is spending the week in Roanoke with friends. The Cherristone Association meets with the Jones Chapel Baptist Church Wednesday, August 15. Rev. M. L. Burton, pastor. Prof. Robinson, president of Smallwood Memorial Institute, Claremont, Va., was in the city Sunday. He visited the Trinity Baptist Sunday School and church service at the Calvary Baptist Church. His many friends were glad to see him. Rev, N. G. Harris, of Martinsville, Va., preached at the Loyal Street Baptist Church Sunday night. He had the spirit of the Master FLORENCE (S. C.) NOTES Florence, S. C.,—Mr. D. F. Fields, of Dovesville, S. C., spent a day recently in our city. For more than twelve years he has farmed successfully. Mrs. Beatrice Dean, of Cordellia, Ga., passed through here recently en route to Newburn, N. C. Dr. W. F. Holmes and E. B. Webster assessed the county board in examining men for the National Army, Respectfully. E. B. WEBSTER MT. O.—GIVES ITS PICNIC TO BUCKROE. AUGUST 4 TIMES 4 PLUS 2 PLUS 4. Dear Friend:— We desire to notify you that Mount Olivet Baptist Sunday School had intended having its picnic elsewhere; but in order that the friends of the church who were left July 16th may have a chance and those who desire to go again and have another delightful trip may have the opportunity,—we have decided to change our plans and run a picnic excursion to Buckrobe Beach, Wednesday Aug 22, 1917.—Train leaves C. & O. Broad Street Station 9:30 a. m. Returning leaves Buckrobe Beach 7 p. m., sharp.—A peaceful trip guaranteed, for we carry the detectives of the company, with full power of arrest. 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'T, Roach, in Char- lotte county, Mr. Lancaster, counsel for the youth, submits the owing state- iment ‘or the case: “The undersigned was personally present and teok notes in the caso of Commonwealth vs. Albert Barrett, charged with tha murder of W. 'T. Roach in the cireuit court of Char: lotte county, and as the papers give 80 different an account of the faets as existed, I will try to have you pub- lish a correct statement. “Albert Barrett and his son made in substance, at the trial the same statement as’ they first made to the parties who caught and arrested them, and all of the witnesses who were’ placed upon the stand by the prosecution rented as the voluntary confessions of Albert Barrett and son, in “substance, what they stated upon the witness ‘stand, whieh statement and evidence, for there was none other in contitet, what Albert and his son at about midnight went to the wheathield of Mr. Roach and stole a load of wheat in the straw andre: moved it lo the wheat field of Albert Barrett, ‘The next morning — Mr, Roach ‘and Mr, Cullen, of Collins, tracked the wheat from the field of Mr. Roach to Albert Barredt's and {denned the wheat, ‘Then they com: pened Albert and his son to return the wheat, whereupon all four of the partios were again in Albert's wheat field, Mr. Cullen, by request. of Mr Roach, went for a warrant of arrest. Albert tried to settle or compromise by offering to pay Mr. Roach rather thax be proseeuted, but he refused, thereupon Albert ran and Mr. Roach ran after him. Mr, Roach fell, arose and continued pursuit. Albert, after running somo 160 yards, foll over a wrush pile and Mr, Roach caught iim while down and ‘was choking him, when he, Albert, called for his son to come and ‘strike Mr. Roach or help him, fs son took up a chestnut stick (not an fron “bar) and struck Mr. Roach on the back of his head, ‘Phe stick had a knot on it and tho Uck pierced’ to the brain, ‘The father ssald that next day, after ho and his son had gone and were about fivo tulles from home, his son gave him Mr. Reach's watch and the boy kept $1.68 of his money. ‘Tho boy. spent the money and he had on tho wateh when arrested. ‘The boy says ‘hat when Mr, Roach fell in sunning ho dropped ifs watch, monvy and knife ‘and he picked them up and gave the wateh to his father when he was ‘avout five miles from homo the next day. Dr. Walker sala the wound or Hick was a fatal blow and that some of the brains of Mr. Roach were oozing out. Albert turned Mr. Roach of of him and grabbed a rock the size of his two fists and struck Mr. Roach three blows, two on the head and one on the chest. Then Albert Ufted Mr. Roach's: body some _ five Stops, having hold of one leg and one arm ‘and deposited beside a log be- tween it and a small pine treo ant there covered it with jeaves. Dr. Walker stated that the three wounds bled scarcely any, if at all, the moat blood coming from the wound on tho back of the head, where the brains Were oozing. From appearances, Mr. Roach was dead or the blood was not circulating freely when the other Wounds were inflicted. The body was in a state of putrefaction when he ex- amined it, especially about the abdo- men. He said, also, that one of his hips was disiccated. OFFERED THREE INSTRUCTIONS. “Tho counsel for Albert offered {hree instructions: (1) ‘That every homicide is prima facia, murder in the second degree, ote. (2) ‘That if the jury believed ‘from the evidence that the killing was done in the heat of blood cr upon a sudden passion in an affray it could not be more than yoluntary manslaughter. (3) ‘That if one was arrested, detained or Ilegal ly restrained or imprisoned without f warrant in a case where a warrant swas Necessary, ete., that the party ar rested, cte., hag a right to resist and with such a provocation if he killed the other who was performing the iF legal act of arrest—that it woud. bo ho greater degree of homicide than voluntary manslaughter. “The ‘court gave the first instruc: lions and refused the third or last Instruction without opposition — by counsel for the state and refused to allow counsel to read to him any law in support of the instruetion. Counsel asked the court if he would change the Instruction or strike out any ob- Sectional portion, or allow him to sui- mit the instruction to the attorneys for tho state, and the court refused same, Whereupon counsel excepted and objected to the suling of tho court, but subsequently his counsel, after an interview with the prisoner and after his conviction by the ver dict and tho judgment of the court, and being informed that he, Albert Barrett, wad withowt means and a pauper, asked the clerk of the court to allow him to withdraw the instruc: tion No. 3 which was refused by the court, which request was granted hy tho clerk and said instruction, which was rofused is now in the hands of the attorney who “dofended — Albert. Tho counsel for Albort Barrett madd ah error, mistake and was guilty of an instruction from the court asking for an aequittal upon the ground that W. 'T. Roach was dead after the blow struck on the back of tho head by Aubrey Iirrett before the blows in- Hicted by Albert Barrett, whieh did not bleed, according io the testimony of Dr. Walker, although he stated that three blows, the cleavage of the Hlesh and the laying open of the same would have proven fatal had the other how and piercing into the brain not been intlicted by Aubrey Barrett for the mutilation of & corpse is not mur- der, Aubrey Barrett, the son of AL bert Barrett, had no’ counsel and the court, after the boy changed his plea from “not guilty’ to ‘guilty,’ tried the case, without Jury, by Mle boy's re- quest, and sentenced him to the elee- trig chair, Albert Barrett proved a geod reputation, which stood unde- nied."—Richmond Virginia, Aug. 1. ARKANSAS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS GRAND LODGE HOLDS 33KD ANNUAL SESSION. Hot Contest for Ollicos—Meots Next Yoar at Fort Smith, Little Rock, Ark.,~July 28, (Special to Planet).—In ono of the most close- ly contested, and fierce struggles for onices in Pythianism, the “inighty trl: umphed over its foe." ‘Tho Grand Lodge of Arkansas closed its 33rd an- nual session in Little Rock, at the Arkansas Baptist’ College, ‘after a week's struggle for offices, ‘The meet- ing was caltd to order by Grand Chancellor Avant, of Helena, and at- ter the reading of the proclamation by 'T. J. Walker, G. K. of R. & S. and the appointment of committees, the “political pot" began to boil. ‘Pho ad- ministration candidates for re-election and against them Were John H. Young, S. M. of EB. for Grand Chancellor; Pred D, Morris, of Littie Rock, for G. K. of R. & S.; Geo. W. Idwards, of Vine Bluft, for’ M, of 1. Supreme Grand Chancellor S. W. Green was present and prestfied over the elec: tion which resulted In the machine re- celying a slight “bust.” Grand Chancellor Avant, of Helena, Was re-elected over Sir Young by a vole of 246 lo 98. ‘Theo Bond was roolectod over his opponent by 8 voles, and I, D. Morris won over the uw. Ko of R. & 8. by a narrow margin of 3 votes, ‘Thus the Grand Lodge of Arkansas passed into history — with nothing to boast of being done except closely contested election. Quite a number of prominent Pyth- fans were present, among whom were J.T. Warren, of Hot Springs; Dr. ©. M, Wade, of Ilot Springs; Supreme Chancellor Green, of Louisiana; Rov. James Jones, of Pine Bluf;’ John 1. Young, of Pihe Bluff; Dr. Josoph A. Booker, of Arkansas Baptist Coilese; H.°0. ‘Trent, of Port Smith; br, 1. C, Morrie, of Helena; Prof. 1, ©. Yerger, of Hope; Dr. N. R. Parker, Dermott, ete. ‘The following officors were olected: Henry Avant, Helena, Grand Chancel: lor; J. H. Culler, Forrest City, Vico @. ©; W. Hi. Allon, Monticollo, Grand Prelate; Fred D. Morris, Little Rock, G. K, of R. & S.; Theo Bond, Madison, G. M, of B/E. J, Innon, Marianna, G. L. Matt Gillian, Hot Springs, @. M. at A; J. S, Davis, Tittle Réck, G. M.; Dr. % M. Masiquo, Wabbasoka, G. M. 1.5 Wm, Mecham, Camden, G. T. G5 J. b. MeGowan, ‘Tiilar, G. 0. G.; Frank A, Young, Little Rock, Grand Trustee, Supreme Ropresentattves: James Jones, Pino Blu; Ed Pem- broke, Gaines Landing. "Phe Grand Lodge will meet next, year in Fort Smith. EDITOR. MITCHELL'S visit thore. it did not in any manner atfect us. Wo then crossed the bridge to Anacostia, A fall Washingtonian was eying us, and T later found out that he know me, He gave me ex- plicit instructions as to how I could find my way to Frederick Douglass’ hone, Which place I could point out in the distance long before I had reached the place. When I arrived there with my companions, I found that it was covered with honey-suckles, ‘The weeds had grown up and tho honso itself was in a state of delepl- dation. Tho large estate showed that the present owners were not able to expend the necessary amount of money in keeping it as {t should be kept. NO ONE INTERESTED IN Us. We made enough noise in talking, but although we heard persons mov: ing around in the house, they scomed to Lake our being there as a matter of Tact and did not come to see who we were or to make any inquiries as to why we were there, We soon ox- pended our spare time in viewing Washington from this magnificent site and then we went down to the Anacostia car, passed through — the streets of Washington and were soon at the offices of ‘The Washington Deo, Where we found Attorney and Fuitor Calvin Chase lounging around reading & newspaper. He was attired in an immaculate “suit of cream. His Panama hat and white shoes made him as attractive as a dancing master. TALKING ABOUT OLD TIMES. Age has touched him lightly ana that Chase smilo of satisfaction was soon broadened by the soelal convivi- alities which followed with his. frat. ernizing with Dr, BR. Jefferson and the irrepressible ‘Thomas M. Crump 1 talked over old times with him, too. A few moments later, we were on our way to the Union Station, where we waited a few moments’ and then pasved through the gate to the train below for Richmond, We arrived in {iis ety at 9:25 that night, after a most pleasant trip to the Capital of the Nation. JOUN MITCHELL, IR. Your subscription to the Planet is duo. Have you paid it? If not why not? i. THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ROANOKE NOTES After being servd bountitully with fee cream and cake we adjourned to meet again te second ‘Tnesday in Auguat al the home of Sister Swift ov Wells AYley N. W. Sister Georgia A. Hairston, resident, Sister Octavia Guthric, ] Asst, Secretary. The Daughters of Pocahontas havo Just( closed their fifth grand siting which was the best one they have ever had. ‘rhe attendance was about thirty delegates from Virginia and West Virginia. ‘Their public program was held ‘Tuesday evening at the ML Zion Bap: Ust church. It seemed to have been Joyed by all who ‘attended. ‘The pro- ‘gram opened by introductory remarks | from Kev WD, Woods thet Great Hincohony. ‘Thia was followed by a | Welcome address from the City and ‘Church by Miss Georgia A. Hairston followed by an address by Mrs, Hewitt which was a welcome address form tne lodge. Response to the welcome adress Was by Mrs. Washington of Charleston West Va. and Mrs, Dr. White of Huntington, West Va. ‘Next was a solo by Mr. James T. Williams of Roanoke, Va. followed by one of Dunbar's selections, “The Party" by Miss Ethet Mrown of Montgomery vest Va. We then hid a solo by Miss Eunice Drew of Roanoke, Va. Reelta- tion by Mrs. Jones of Haroweod West Va. Following this came short. re: markes from different ones of the delegates. Wednesday evening they had thelr reception at the home of Mrs, Mary A. Hairston 333 10 Ave, N.E. IL seemed to have been enjoyed by every one present... ‘They closed their meet: ings Wednesday evening to meet again in the year 919 at Montgomery W. Va. Mrs, Mattie Cook seems to he much improved since being in our town at her home on 6th Ave., NW. She and her youngest daughter seems to. be | Netting along fine under civeumstances Jor health when Mrs. Cook arrived in j her home town several weoks ago. | Mrs, W. 0, Gertrude Stanfield re. turned home from a month's trip to Columbus Ohto and having enjoyed quite a pleasant trip with her sister: indaw Mrs, Lizzie Stanfield of Cham: pion Ave. she brought home little Gladys the only daughter and child W. 0, Stanfleld ner husband. ‘They are at thelr home across ‘Tucker Creek, Brother George Simpson ts at_ his post again after a flying trip to New ‘York, “Business 1s bright. Mrs, Bessle Stanflold returned home Sunday from Dublin, Va., whore she visited her mother and family spend- ing one week. Mrs. Stanfield return- ed accompanied by her father-in-law Mr. Isane Stanfleld of No, 66 Chestnut Aye. N. H. Roanoke, Va. Mrs, John Alexander of 7th Ave,, Is somewhat Indisposed at this writing. ‘The stork visited Aug. Gth, 1917 the home of My and Mrs. Andrew Croane of 634 Gregory Ave.. N. W. Monday and left a fine baby girl. ‘The mother is getting on nicoly. Mrs, Mary Fuqua Walker of No. 34 Gilmore Ave, N. W. left Aug. 5, to visit her mother, brothers sisters, rol- atives at Goodes, Va. Will visit her people nt Lynchburg the hilly city, -will spend two or three weeks, Mrs. Nora B. ‘Taylor gave a lawn entortainment ‘Thursday and, Friday evenings on the lawn of the Church for the benefit of the Trustees of Mt. Zion A&M. EB. Church which was a grand success socially and financially. As a result of the party Mrs. Taylor by her effort and assistance of the members who assisted her on Aug. 6th turned over to the Treasurer Mr. . ‘Traynham, the handsome sum of eleven dollars and oighty-five cents feeling to voice the sentiment of tho entire Board and congregation, We are reminded to us this method in thanks for the amount gained, at the entertainment and presented ‘to. the Board. M. Stanfield and others, _ Miss Plorence Jordan of 10th Ave. N. W. returned home last week after month's vacation having had a vory splendid stay away. Little George Wilson of Bristol, ‘Tenn., is visiting Mrs, Lovie, Maxwell cf No, 836 6th Ave. No W. He has spent a very pleasant three weeks slay and will return home August 15th, Mt Zion A.M. B. Church Sunday morning. Aug. 5th at 11 o'clock Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., filled his pul: pit with credit {o the occasion, {t he- Mt. Zion AL M. F. Church Sunday morning. Aug. 5th at 11 o'clock Rev, George C. Taylor, D. D., filled his pul- pit witheredit {0 the occasion, it he- ing the initiatory launching of tho Duplex Envelope System of financing the church which had heen devised by Rrother Jacob L, Reed, Brother Groen Penn and James W. ‘Traynham. ‘Tho Roverend used as a text from St, Paul's writing: “Oh for me to lvoe {5 Christ and to dio is gain.” His sub- Joct was “Solf-denial and he treated the same with care and good taste to the heart of all we admit, because of the strictness of attention and com- ments afterwards, Mrs. Hmma Deener Stokes of Columbus, Ohio but now in the Buek- eve State is visiting Mrs, Emma Wright at No. 722 Gainshoro Ave, Roanoke, Va. Waving previously vis. ited her Sister Mrs, Mattie Rayford of Glenn Wilton, Va. Mrs. Decner loft Roanoke a fow years after the death ef her husband, Brother Willian Deoner, 2 deacon of the Teh St., Baptist Church. ‘This her first. visit to tho city sinco sho left. Sho is looking fine which is proof positive that she is well cared for in her wes- tern home. Wé who knew her of oth- or years did not recognize her sho had 80 developed in flesh. All wore glad to meet her and grasp her hand. Her two daughters and one son. Mr. Wil- Mam Deener have all married weil and live In the Buckeye State near uelir mother. Bre, ‘Thos, Kinsey of Fifth Ave. N. W., is stat erittrally il, not improved sinee last mention, Mrs, Gillie Forguson of 225 5th Ave., N. W., whowmnderwent a serious opera: tion in Freedman Hospital about five weeks ago is home again getting along fine and relieved of the severe suitering eaused by a growth or tumor, Her many friends are’ pleased to see her at home again enjoying life as in days of youth so to speak com: pared with a month and a halt ago, | airs, Laoinna: Lavender 6 Lynéth burg Ave, N. W. who has been’ very much indisposed since the death of her husband Mr. James Lavender ts Foported improved at this writing. In the Duplex Envelope | Sutay, Aug. 5th 1917 the receipts were $52.41 very encouraging to begin with, At. zion A. M. B, Chureh. Mr, Odell of whom mention was made of his critical illness on 8th Ave. N. W., diew Friday last Aug. 3rd. ‘The funeral services took placo at’ 2:30 from the Ist Baptist church, Monday, Aug. 6th Rev. K, B, Ricks officiating in a beautiful discourse of short Dut beautiful Christian character Funeral tector W. i. Tughes had the funera) in charge. ‘The. flowers were very beautiful and numerous, ‘The deceased was only 27 years of age leaves a wile, mother, two sisters and a brother to mourn thelr. loss While ree! in God's love await. the coming ef the Christian hot. He told his wite ard pastor he was only waiung his release to go home. tc heaven and was perfectly resigned to His will and may each of us. talc warning and apply our hearts ante wisdom, The funeral of Mr, Frank —Odet too plac? at the First Baptist Churel Aus. Gth at 2:30 Rev. 18, B. Ricks, j Scripture read: “Wor we know that i our earthly house of this taber ‘nacle be dissolved we have a building of God, a house not made with hands eternal in the heaven,” 42nd— hymn: Prayer by Rey. 8, B, Ricks, pastor it charge officiating. “The choir sang “Oh “where shall rest be found. Mrs Kinma Surks of 202904 ave. Nis, left for Columbus and Cincin Rall. Chic where she wll spend Uwe weeks, Mrs. Bertha Woods Winston, of Baltimore, Md. is the guest of Mrs Mary Olds 112’ Patton Ave volt Gon LLY BE Mrs, Latwra’ Brues' who! ‘had “boon confined to her home some. time is improving. Mrs, alarita Washington of Rocky Mt, Franklin Co, Va., spent 10-day in Roanoke with Atiss Maggio Dehaver and Mrs. L. A. Bartle of bth Avent N. W." Mrs. “Washington lost het mother about three or four weaks ago She came to the city to relieve te mind of worry of the death vot het mother to be with her old. friends. whe Gedrge NEC of Knokvitlo, "enn Mrs. Churchman of Washington whé has been In Roanoke, for the. past two weeks lett for the Hast after a suecessful stay, Mr. and Mrs, James Ferguson spen Sunday in Lynchburg. Mrs. Martha Ricks of Washington D. C.. is spending some time with he son Rev. I, B. Mieks 208 Patton Ave Dr. J. Douglas Herben dott. Iridas wite will remain in Roanoke with her parents, 163 High Street No W. MEMORIAL, ‘To Ils Iuxcellency, ‘vhe President of the United States Dear Sir: We the members of the Baptist Minister's Union of Norfolk, Va., and V.cinity by reason of the recent out- ‘Tages of mob violence in Mast St. Louis, do address you tis memorial, setting forh our deep aflliction in consequence with a hope and prayer that you will give it consideration, and will within’ the range of your bower und influence ; seo that” the guilty parties are brohght to the bir of justice and that similar acts. of violence are not repeated. According to nowspaper advices scores of innecent meu and helploss women and children were murdered in Bast Saint Louis and thousands of dollars worth of property were burned by a mob for no other than that they were trying to earn an honest living by the sweat of a taith- ful toil, ‘The report further states that those in authority and armed with power to check the mob and protect ‘the innocent were either derilect in ‘their sworn duty or were too weak to withstand the mob and uphold the arms of the law. ‘The men, women and children brutally murdered were a part of our cilizenship and were members of a race who have always been loyal to the flag even to the ‘sacrifice of their lives whenever a call has been made for the same. In lay: ‘ing befcre you this memorial we do ‘not presume that the matter of such A gravity and shame has escaped your attention altogether; but we address you thus that you may know how much we have been pained and of show cur faith in you as a Christian President of this ‘great nation. leads is to believe that it pvill not fail on deat ears, We appreciate the trying ordeal ‘through which you @re passing and the Icad that nmist rest upon you as ‘our chief Magistrate and yet we feel ‘that nothing has transpired before ‘or since this great war is more de- serving of action and notice than this awful Saint Louis riot and massacre. Our conference will he glad to get one word from you and we feol ‘hat we shill not he disaproited in mak: ing this humble request. Your humble servants, The Baptist Ministers ‘Union of ‘Tidewater, . ‘Committee: A. 8, Jeffress, ©. C, Somerville, D. W. Jones, J. W. Riddick, A. Hobbs, ©. P Madison. Admits Virginia to Kegistration Area Richmond, Va. Aug. 8.—Virginia has been admitted as the first of Southern states to the biruh-registra ton area of the United States and hereafter the State's statistics of births will be accepted by the Federal census bureaw and wee be ineluded in au publications of American birth statistics, Announcement to this el- fect was made Loday on the receipt ot formal scion from Director Samuel L. Rogers of the census bu- rean, ‘The present birth-registration area ca the Unite States includes only those states in whioh public health work in general, and vital statisties W particular, reach a degree of pro- ficiency that’ make the figures com: piled by ute states reasonably accu- rate, In the area, prior to the ad- mission of Virginia, wero the six New Kingland States, Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Colum bla and New York City. As Virginia is already in. tho more _ extensive death-registration area, all hor statis: tes of birt and of death will here: after be accepted by the government. ‘The practicas baportance of this ts said by health officers to equal the compliment conveyed in oficial ree: ognition of Virginia's statistical stud- fes. Stale Registrar Plecker will now have the assistance’ of the Federal census in the study of vital statistics, Goples CG the Virginia birth-certif catos will be made for the census. bu- reaw in Washington, Co-operation Win likewise - given by the United im completing birth certificates that are improperly fled out and in WE demographical studies that. may he made. State oficers believe that admission to the Federal birth-regis tation area will greauy facilitate the aceurate collection of birth statistics in the commonwealth and, in this way will make moro complete the records from which in future years Virginians may settle mooted legal questions of Age, family connection, ete. The admission of Virginia came af. ter a very searchtg investigation of the state's records by Special Agents ermane and Mitchell of the Census bureau, ‘These officers were sent to pass upon Virginiv’s registration of births and deciwed to make a test of the recovds for the months of January and February. ‘Their plan was to as certain from Independent. sources. all the birtas that occurred In Vireinta wuring these two months and then. to compare their finished list with tha! of the state, ‘They accordingly elrew larized the state through postmasters, rural carriers and ministers and found that 92 per cent as many births as they could find were duly recorded inthe state's archives. On this show: ing, they discontinued their inyesti- gations aur checking over the ree. ords cv. one month, In their exam- fnation, they were very compliment: ary to the Virginia system and. ex. pressed _mucn satisfaction that a law which has been on the vooks less than uve years show... have yielded such good results, State Registrar Plecker has recolved the congratulations of Health Com. missioner ‘Williams and other officers nf. the Str * Health, which fas gonerar supurvisiwva over “GHG bw: ‘reau of vital statistics, Rev. W. H, Skipwith Here. Firat Baptist Chureh, Contralta, Va, ‘the great Mvangelist, Rov. W. H Skipwith, will begin a ton days meo: ing here Sunday, August 19, 1917 Rey. 1. M. Chapman, pastor. ‘The prospects are bright and we predict 4 glorious time. “Come thou with us and we will do tnee good,” Yours truly, H. M. CHAPMAN. DO YOU KNOW HER? Richmond, Va., Adele Hopkins, Communicate with undersigned at torney of Washington, D.C. and learn of something to your interest, State if you can come to Washing ton in Sepiember if necessary. ATTORNEY B. W. J. Care PLANET, Richmond, Va SOLDIERS MIS LOST TOBACCO Red Cross to Speed Shipment of Gift. ‘Ten Tons Needed. The Y. M. C. A.'s shipment of tobac ¢o for the Ame“iean troops In France has been lost, Word came fram Por's fro mth Re¢ Cross commission saving no suitable tobacco to revines the lost shipmen! was obialnabte there ‘Shey urged that ten tons he sent nt once. The Red Cross vor comnell tmmoat ately accepted an oer of a company tq donate 1,599,000 e-n-et'es, 20,000 pret ages of smokine tobacco and 10,006 cuts of chewing tobacco. ‘These witl be forwarded to tho American troop: at once. France wit sdm't the tobaceo free of duty, as well as all other articte for the Amorican sollers, KILLED BY SHFLI IN FRANCE Daniel Loughman, of Allentaw4, Deca- Itated—U. S. Trooner Read, Daniel Lowrhmn, of Allentown, was Informed of the death in action on the French front. June 7, of his nephew and namesake, Daniel Loughman, Tis head was taken off by a shell while fighting with the Anzacs, Young Loughman several years acc got the wunderlust. Ho reached Now Zealand as wir broke out. James Scheffler, for three years a private, ‘Troon A, ‘Third cavalry, dies at Fort Sem Houston, ‘Pexa>. Me was tetten MM suddenly, Me fs a son of Mrs. David SehoMiamer, ‘Phe body wilt bo browsht to Alentown. Sucks Poiras From Rattlar's Bite, Whey WEtan 1 Worster, a merchant of Wittlamsport, Pa was Witten by a ratttonake white the femity were on an outing ‘ry | Legan Hones townshtn, Wis wife eile Hy ent the flesh away with a knife an’ encke? the poleon from the wont Mra, wrursrae andaebin noe he husband's 1i’e by her prempt action WEDNESDAY. With territory and prisoners In thetr hands as tho result of the first day's Aghting I thelr new offensive, the British and French troops in Manders consolidated their gains and mooting Inevitable German counter attacks, Tho new line, which along the great. or part of its stretch Is two miles to two and half mites In advance of tho old and Includes ten towns within its Hmits, has been firmly held along the entire front, London and Paris say, ‘The importance to be attacked to arlye Into German-held territory In this sector must be gained not only by the reclaiming of Belgian soll from the in. vadors, but the threat ft offers to the German submarine bases along. the Bolgtan coast. THURADAY Germany Is battling to hold her lines In Flanders against the Anglo-French Attack, Notwithstanding the heavy handicap which the weather Imposed on them, the entente forcos have made good tholr important gains and ap: parently are only awaiting clearing conditions to resume operations, Reports from London say that des: pite the hampering rainfall, the British have negatlved the results of one of the German counter thrusts, complete. ly reestablishing their lino in the neighborhood of the Rotlors-Ypres rallay ag the outcome of a night at tack. : Some Important movement ts under way on the Russtan northern front which has been holding firm, while the southern end of the ne was fall Ing back. ‘The Russkins are reported to have evacuated Uskull bridgehead, fifteen miles southeast of Riga, the Germans marching In, ‘The oxact sig nificance of this development ts to bo revealed. FRIDAY. Russian forces are now back on their own soll alons a wide section of the front, opposite Galician border, and are fast being driven out of Bukowina, Czernowitz, the capital of this Austrian crownland, was occupied by Austrian troops and Kimpohing, in the south: ern part of Bukowina has been even: ated by the Russians, Petrograd admits a further success for the AustroGerman columns oper ating alone the Dnlester, chronicling the evacnation of the westerly bank of the Zhrocz, at its confmence with the Dafester near Chotin, ‘The Zbrocz here marks the Russian boundary, The Flanders front, where the offen. sivo Taunched by the entente on Tnes day ta stilt boing held un hy bad weath er, remains the center of interest. Along other sections of the Mne In the west, there {s notable activity, sug gosting attompts to deflect the course of the main entente effort. ae hat A ren ile = tpt While there has been no renewal of the smashing offensive on a large seale by the Anglo-French forces ir Flanders, the incessant pressure on the German lines is beginning to tell in the further yielding of ground. ‘The British established themselves in the village of St. Julicn, whict they lost during a German counter. attack closely following the initia dash. ‘The French in’ turn movec ahead in their sector, making fur- ther progress west of the Cabaret of Kortekcer. The Russians’ are fighting haré against the advancing Austro-Geimar forces, Petrograd reports indicate The driving back of Teutonic force: which had crossed the Zbrocz north of Husiatyn, is announced. SUNDAY. The weather moderating, Crowr Prince Rupprecht, after an all-nigh bombardment, sent his troops agains the British positions at Hollobeke, 01 the Ypres-Comines canal, —hetweer Ypres and Warneton, and, chargins forward on both siles of the canal, th Germans gained a footing In the vi lage of Hollebeke. ‘The success wei only momen‘ary, however, as the Brit {sh threw ont the Tentons by an imme mediate counter attack and took sony prisoners. Northwest of Rixschoote, whieh Ake to the north of Ypres, the French ar following up their suecesses of Ins week, In an attack against the Ger man Hnes Sunday thoy made furthe progress, In an offensive overattion near Bat an, east of Czernowitz, Me Russian: have taken more than 500. prisoner and captured three machine guns, Here the operations are virtually o1 Russtan soll, as is the fighting just t tho north around Chotin, where the re treat has halted measurably. In Bako wina, howeves, the Russians still ar “Aeoing before the AnstroGermans, whe have taken several more towns, MONDAY. Sunday's tremendous cannonado or the Flanders front was followed by two German attempts to shake the British from newly won gromnd, Noith er of these met with any stecess what over, Lond says On the French front, aside from the Flanders area there was considerable activity on the part of the Germans They made attacks In tho region of Roville, at Avecourt wool and in AL kreo, ‘The French guns were able te cove with the situatton 1) each case Parks declared. Kerensky Is again at the heim tr Russia, where tho personnel of the re organized exbinot has heer verse? upon moder his premiorship. ‘The con sUtutional democrats are roprosento, tn the list, German Coal Ship Torpedoe:t. Tre Amsterdam Handelsbind re. ports that the German steamship Nordorney, with a cargo cf eval was tornedocd in the North Sea, Mon day. She fs acround of the south coast of Trexel, Prielan Islonda, eam citenaincoeetil WILL ENLIST FRIENDLY ALIENS To Accept Those Who Walve Exemption on Nationality. THEY AID THE CAUSE Provision Has Been Made to Protect Harvesting From Shortage of Hands Because of Draft. . The ranks of tho new national army were opened formally to friendly aliens a3 yolunteors. A ruling by Provost Marshal General Crowder communicated to the local selection boards directs that all such aliens who watve thelr rights of ex: emption on nationality be promptly ac- cepted for service, General Crowder sont this telegram to the governors: “Reports reaching this oMeo recent. ly Indicate that in some quarters the bolle. prevails that friendly aliens, who have not declared their Intention to become citizens, but are ready and willing to serve, are disqualified from ontering the military service of the United States, and therefore that they must take out first papers before they can bo accepted, It ts to bo regretted that such a misunderstanding should have arisen. ‘The qualifications for voluntary enlistment In time of war are no more restricted for service in the new national army than for the regular army, Such alion non-dectar: ants are virtually volunteers, “The selective service act provided for thelr registration; but it did not regard (hem as under any liability to serve, and It therefore gave them full Mberty to claim exemption when ealled ( by local boards. Now that information reveals their willingness In large num. bers to deeline this exemption and to Aecept service In this war against the common cnemy of our elvilization, tt should be fil'y understood that thelr service is heartity weleomed, and they should be accepted whenever upon summons they fai! to claim their right of exemption “They are assisting the cause of thelr own conntry by atding the Un't: ed States to triumph in (us war. The more of them that enter the service tho better, for in this way will be re: moved the cause of dissattsfaction heard In some quarters that, although the quota was based on total Populi. tion, including aliens, the actual droft Feached only citizens and declarants, ! “Local boards are diracted to facil: tate in every way the acceptance of frlondly allicn non-declarants far mill. tary service and thus to enable the? i assist the suntry which has elven them a refuge ad np. honorable living.” . Provision to protect harvesting trem shortage of hands due to the mobilizy. tion of the national army has been made by the government in regulations now going out to the district exemn. tion boards, = Men needed In the felds to complete harvésting will be permitted to rema'n at work tntil the neod for them passes, when they will/join the colors. Loe! boards, because of their knowledge of local conditions, will determine what men are necessary in this class Application for delay on this ground may be snbmitted to the district boards. The papers of harvest hands will be returned by tho district boar! to the local board where selection will be made. ‘The local boards are author. ized to arrange their quotas In five divisions or increments, which will be ordered out for service in order, Har vest hands who are needed will be placed in the division which will not ‘bo called until after the need for them in the elds has passed. York Lawyer Disappears. Robert J. Lewis, Republican poll. tielan, school board president and attorney pf prominence in York, Pa., has disappeared and many per. sons are worried because he had been entrusted with their money, Among the men, it 1s said, who may lose. if present fears are realized, is brefier, Samuel S. Lowls, who was formerly postmaster of York, but now holds the position of deputy in the at torney general's oftice In Harrisburg It fs rumored State Banking Commis: sioner Lafenn ts a creditor, It fs reported that Mr. Lowis’ In- dehtedness will total more than $309, 000. He owns no property in York, but ts sald to have — consinderable Brooklyn real estate, failing to realize on which, with the consequent taxes and interest, are believed to have greatly emborrassed him. He has been malssing the past two weeks, and all effertso locate him have so far failed, A meeting of attorneys representing elents and estates which he handled is to he held soon, when a ne of ac, tion will be agreed upon. He fs a widower and has two children, iaiina: Reb, Garvtand Bodiciiaa: Piereo Robertson's store and the post- office at Keymar, near Westminster, Ma. were | burelarized, — supposedly by (ramps. ‘The thieves secured $20 in stamps and $25 In money from. the aafo, Inzether with a large quantity of merchandise, Guard Camps Not Ready. Delays in preparing national guard mobilization camps will postpone theh oponing, about two weeks. ‘The war department made this anouncoment ExPresident Taft Ill. Former President ‘Taft, who spoke i Clay Center, Kan, in con Junction with a nerer serene mooting, is Hand under t.c avo of phystetang ~*“shotel. Sis ewndition Is not sert- ous, Vee aretha