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THE RICHMOND PLANET UZZIAH MINER STILL LOYAL TO THE FLAG AND HIS COUNTRY Wants To Know If American Negro Is To Be Counted In World Democracy WILL GIVE AID TO PLANET FOR MAIL "HOLD-UP," IF NECESSARY— DID NOT SEEK TO ANTAGONIZE THE DRAFT LAWS OR TO INFLUENCE ANY TO HINDER U. S. WAR ADMS. WILL BE DRAFTED IN THE NATIONAL ARMY, AND IF PASSED WILL FILE NO EXEMPTION—WILL DO HIS DUTY VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 40 UZZIAH MINER STREET FLAG AND H Wants To Know If A Be Counted In W WILL GIVE AID TO PLANET FOR DID NOT SEEK TO ANTAGON INFLUENCE ANY TO H HE IS AN EMPLOYEE IN WILL BE DRAFTED IN THE NATION FILE NO EXEMPTION ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE WAR DEPARTMENT, U. S. A. August 14, 1917. My dear Editor Mitchell: In reading last week's edition of the "Planet" I was shocked to learn that the pubilition of my letter on the fourth of this month had caused your most valuable paper to be temporarily barred from the mail. I regret very much that the publishing of said letter has caused you the trouble that it has. WILL GIVE AID I beg to inform you, however, that I stand ready to give you whatever aid, financial or other way, that you may suggest as my share of the financial burden that this incident has brought upon you. I beg, also, to inform you that I am still loyal to the American flag, notwithstanding the fact that I have refused steadfastly to volunteer to fight for a "World Democracy," because I wanted to be convinced that it would include black men as well as white men. YIELD TO NO ONE. Editor Mitchell, I yield to no member of my race in my admiration of the brilliant record of our patriotic heroes in the various wars of this country from Bunker Hill to Carrizal. If I could not add something to this record, I certainly would not detract oneota from its glory. My letter was not intended to toment a rebellion amount. Nexries, nor to arouse any antagonism against the selective draft law; nor was it calculated to interfere with the mobilization of the United States' military forces. I certainly would not have Secretary of War Baker to think that he had any Negro employed in his Department who was so low and contemptible as to do such a thing. A. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE. While I am willing to encourage my race to maintain its brilliant record of patriotism, I must not hesitate to remind the public that: "patriotism and loyalty preoccupies protection and liberty." Now since I am willing to shed my blood for the protection of my country against the insults of Germany, I pray that my National Government will in turn give car to our humblecries and our pathetic petitions, to the extent that it will take some immediate step to protect the lives and property of her loyal black sons and daughters against the insults of Americans who ignore Christianity; who resort to barbarism; who deny us the opportunity to earn our bread by the sweat of our own brow, and who wantonly trample beneath their teeth those sacred rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness guaranteed to us by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. NOT DISLOYAL Mr. Editor, I wish to state as emphatically as I know how that I am not a pacifist, I am not a disloyal Socialist, I am not a war obstructionist, I am not a "conscientious objector" to war, I am not an anti-draft rioter, I am not one of those persons who are willing to embarrass the President and Administration by an attempt to test the constitutionality of the conscription law. I am a young man, twenty eight years of age. I registered on the fifth of June. My name has been drawn. I am expecting every day to be called before the examining board. I am sure I shall be able to meet the physical requirements. I shall ask for no exemption. I shall how to the inevitable fate. WILL DO HIS DUTY If I am drafted, I want the world to know that I go forth to fight and suffer, to shed my blood and to sacri- nee my life that German autocracy and Prussian militarism might be brought to an end; that America as well as the rest of the world might be made safe for humanity and democracy; that justice might be enjoyed by the Armenians, the Poles, the Belgians and the Jews across the sea, and that a "World-wide Democracy," of which President Woodrow Wilson is champion, might include within its embraces black men of America as well as white men of Europe. Very cordially and sincerely yours, UZZIAH MINER. THE SABRATH GLEE CLUB TOURS NORTHIRM CITYS. Richmond Singers Make Great Hits in Musicals—Royally Entertained The members of the Sabbath Glee Club have returned after a successful Northern tour, during which they gave musicals, which delighted the audiences attending. They were entertained Sunday, August 5th by the Mbaia Glee Club, of Baltimore. Mr. Bodder, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. welcomed the Sabbath Glee Club to the city after which a luncheon was served. That night they sang at the Ethegezer M. E. Church, of South Baltimore. Monday night, August 6th, they filled an engagement at Fitzgerald's Auditorium. "They pleased the large audience with their songs, receiving many encores. Their favorite songs made a deep impression on the critical audience and by request they sang "thearest Memories." Tuesday, August 7th they motorized in touring cars to Cape May, N. J. to fill another engagement. They stopped at Hotel Dale to get some refreshments and were shown through by Mrs. Namile Turner, of Richmond. On Thursday night August 9th, Mr. S. M. Williams and a host of young women served buffet lunch, which was the elixer to an auto party, the guest of Mr. Williams. The tour ended Friday, August 10th. Manager William Tinsley left for Boston, Mass. on business. Prof. Joseph Matthews, Messrs. George Wilkerson and Archer Ferris left for Philadelphia, where they spent a few days. Prof. Matthews sang at the Holy Trinity Baptist Church, of which Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. is pastor. The following was the personnel of the glee club on the trint: Tenors, William Tinsley, George Wilkerson, Charles Waddy, Dr. A. C. Johnson, Hamlet Randolph, John Jones, William Hally Baritones, Samuel Gatewood, Morris Tyler, Alex Dandridge, Judge Crump; Basses, Joseph Brown, Augustus Jefferson, Louis Bland, Archie Ferris, Prof. Joseph Matthews leader. If I was you, and yoy was me I pray tell me where on earf' you'd be, if the draft man called for thee. Aug. 6 times 3 plus 1 plus 3? What day is that? Oh yes I know; I would be down at Binkee, with the Sunday School of Mt. O, for 'tis 4 times 4 plus 2 plus 4. WOODLAND PARK A suburban park, with all modern improvements for colored people has been established adjacent to Woodland Cemetery, and can be easily and quickly reached over the Fifth Street viaduct. Boating on the lake is a feature. It will open to the public in the afternoon and evenings on Mondays. Wednesdays and Sundays. Bathing will also be allowed one day in the week for males and one for females. Tickets for this purpose may be obtained from the management. John Mitchell, Jr., President, 311 North Fourth Street; D. P. Brang, Secretary, 506 North Second Street. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1917 MAJOR J. R. JOHNSON Joseph Brown Johnson was born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, in 1845 of free parents. His early life was stent on the Colly Farm where he was born. He moved to the town of Manchester when a lad, and began life's work as an iron worker in the Trodegar and at the Belle Isle, from Works. By close attention to duty he soon became an indispensable factor in that industry. His fame spread throughout the South, he being in demand, so much so, in 1886 a very flattering offer came to him to take charge of a large rolling mill in Chattanooga. Teun, which he accepted and performed his commission with satisfaction to his company and with credit to himself. His military career began at the Civil War. He was one of the original members of the Union Guard of the city of Manchester, rising from first lieutenant to captain of the company. He served as adjutant of the battalion of which he afterwards became major in 1882 his service continuing up to and including the War with Spain, commanding the first battalion of the Sixth Virginia Infantry, United States Volunteers. He was a man of lofty aspirations and high ideals. Illustrative of this feature of his character, which was demonstrated in his canvas for a seat in the Congress of the United States, despite the great opposition at that time, he made a most creditable run, joining from the returns at the booths. Major Johnson died Tuesday, August 7th. His funeral was held on Friday 19th, August, 1917. Archdeacon Russell, of Lawrenceville, assisted by Rev. Jackson, of St. Phillips P. R. Church, Richmond, conducted the religious service. The body was interred on the farm with full Masonic and military honors. He was a member of W. A. Hankins' Camp No. 6, United Spanish War Veterans, Richmond, James H. Brown, commander. THE JUBILEE ECHO President Galvin Delivers Great Address—Prizes Awarded The Fifth Street Baptist Church, under the leadership of the pastor, won the gold medal and the banner in the money raising contest of the Baptists at the Jubilee meeting at Lynchburg, Va., in July. The formal presentation of the prize took place last Wednesday night at the above named church, and President A. A Galvin was present to deliver an address upon that occasion. He performed the task in a most appropriate and acceptable manner. The rostrum was occupied by leaders of the denomination. The following interesting programme was carried out: "The Year of Jubilee," Fifth Street Choir; invocation, Rev J. H. A. Cyrus; solo, Rev W. H. James; Echoes from the Women's Department, Mrs. Rosa Lovings; presentation of Banner from the Women's Department, Mrs. Lucy A. Coles; Echoes from the B. Y. P. U. Department, Mr. R. C. Mitchell; President of B. Y. P. U. State Convention, and Miss Kate Doyle; solo, Mr. N. G. Booker; presentation of the Speaker of the Evening, Dr. L. C. Garland; "After Rays of the Jubilee," President A. A. Galvin; solo, Mr. James H. Walls; "The Sunday School's Quota," by Superintendent R. H. Famuther; "My Impressions of the Jubilee," Deacon J. R. Page; presentation of the Gold Medal, Lawyer J. Thomas Hewin; presentation of the Jubilee Major Banner, President Galvin. The banner was received on the part of the Church by Deacon George Lee, Rev M. H. Payne, as Master of Ceremonies, was a success. The members of the congregation are jubilant over the success of the movement. More than thirteen thousand dollars was raised as a result of the rally. Crabs! crabs! crabs! hear the giorgious oars, fish just out the water ready down there for all. I am going down to get a few Wednesday August 22. When Mt. O, goes again, to Buckroe. Let Cephas do your Renting, Office 525 1-2 North Second street, Telephone, Raddolph 58N Rev. R. Beecher Taylor To Marry On Monday, August 27th, 1917, at 4:30 P. M., Rev R. Beecher Taylor and Mrs. Jennie R. Robinson will be united in the holy bonds of wedlock 606 Price Street, Richmond. Va Reception 4:45 to 6 P. M. same evening. Friends invited; no cards. The couple will leave at 6 P. M. for Danville, both being delegates to District Grand Lodge and Household of Ruth, G. U. O. F. PRESIDENT WALDRON ACTS The Planet's Attitude Commended Committee of One Hundred Outspoken. Office of the President of the Committee of 100 Colored Citizens on the War, 1334 V St., N. W., Washington, P.C., Aug 14, 17. Honorable John Mitchell, Jr., The Richmond Planet, Richmond, Virginia. My dear friend Mitchell: On the day I telephoned you I took up, as you suggested, the matter of passing resolutions with regard to the temporary exclusion of The Planet from the mails with your attorneys. I told the matter over with them carefully twice during the day and they advised that we defer passing resolutions with regard to the matter until later in the month promising to advise us with regard to the time when said resolutions should be passed. The article objected to by the Richmond Postmaster was read at the meeting of our Committee on last Wednesday night and the members were urged to encourage The Planet in every way in its fight for a free press and for the full rights of our people. The members seemed deeply in sympathy with you and desire that I press their sympathy to the editor of The Planet and assure him that they stand ready as individuals and as an organization to help the editor and his paper in any way they can. You are wading a splendid fight for the rights of our race and of humanity in general. Keep up the good fight and call on us whenever we can help you. I trust that your health is good and I beg to remain Yours very respectfully. J. MILTON WALDRON. President. REV REED'S PROPHECY. He speaks Boldly About Existing Conditions. Hartford, Conn., August 13, 1947. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Editor The My dear friend Mitchell: I wish to add my congratulations on your unlocking the papers. The holding-up of your paper is a common expression of the average southern office holder's attitude toward respectable colored people. If that letter had appeared in one of the white-tapers in Richmond, the Democrat in the P.O. there would have paid no attention to it. Suppose you had been a poor man without influence? There would have been no vindication of this shameful outrage. The South needs democracy a great deal more than Russia. When two or three million more of colored people leave, the South for the North, the South may learn a little sense. Thousands of colored people have come to our vicinity in the last twelve months and thousands are not needed. Common laborers get three dollars per day as fast as they strike soil. The industrial fields of the North are going to ceasar open to our people and they are coming. Don't try to keep them there any more, and in a few years we will send for you and "The Planet." Yours sincerely, W. B. REED. Mr H. H. Jones, of Powhatan county Va. was in the city this week. Mrs. Clarence Bowman, of New York City is visiting her mother, Mrs. V. J. Grinnan, who is indisposed at her residence, 722 E. Bates street. Mrs. E. R. Carter and daughter, Miss Karolyn M., left the city last Tuesday for Varina District, Va. Miss Carter had been ailing for some months but is now improving. She is spending her convalescing period with friends at Varina. Miss Lafon Cogbill, accompanied by Mr. Ernest Eggleston, left the city today (saturday) for Surry county, Va., where they will be the guest of their cousin, Miss Estgle Nelson, for a week. Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, accompanied by his daughter, Ethel, left for Farnville, Va. Wednesday. He will leave his daughter to spend the remainder of the Summer. Misses Juliet and Kenny Lee Fitzgerald, of Philadelphia and Hackensack, were among the out of town guest at the Mr. and Mrs. David J. Fitzgerald's wedding reception last Tuesday. After attending a picnic at Rock Castle, Va. The Misses Fitzgerald left for Deal Beach, N. J. This was Miss Kenny Fitzgerald's first visit to Richmond in twelve years. WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Albert Banks, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lillian Beatrice to Reverend C. A. Lindsey, August 29, 1917, at 3:00 o'clock P. M. In the Jerusalem Baptist Church, Sparta Va. The couple will be at home, File, Va., after September 2nd. They will begin house-leasing in Richmond, Va., October 1, 1917. THE NEGRO IS GOING NORTH- WHY? THE NEGRO IS GOING NORTH- WHY? The Southern newspapers are awakening in minor measure to their duty in calling a halt against the chain of iniquity being visited upon the Afro-American portion of the population. True base business lies on the bottom of the call; but it begins to look like base self-interest is about the only appeal which reaches the Southern white man, when it comes to dealing with the Afro-American. Just now a few first-class Southern white newspapers among them the Dallas News, Houston Post, Ft. Worth Record, are telling some old established truth about the cause of the unrest among the Afro-American and his new found desire to go North. These and a few more newspapers operated by white men, are telling other white people and the world, why the Afro-American is leaving the South. While making out their case, they incidentally tell of the grusome conditions which have settled over the South, wherever a colored person is to be found. There are colored people who find in these deliverances something for which to hope, touching the manhood rights of the Afro-American. There are members of the Afro-American population, who find much comfort in a respectable white person or newspaper, declaring that lynching should cease and that courts, not mobs, should execute the law. These colored men forget that a few white patriotic, Christian hearted white people like Windell, Phillips, Garrison, Lovejoy, Windell, Phillips, Beacher Stowe Bob Ingersol. Also Lincoln, John Brown and others, have always had the courage of their convictions and i am proud out for justice, but the residue of the white people have always treated the colored man as the interior of all other elements of the human family. Today, this is the universal practice of the American white people (South) to word the Negro, with scarcely an exception. The contempt by Southern whites is great for the Negro, until it is positively embarrassing to come in contact with or undertake to do any business with them. There is the informal Jim Crow law at every turn, affecting almost everything; there is the disposition to treat lightly the opinion of the Negro, even in matters affecting his own exclusive welfare; there is the idea that all racial differences of whatever character should be settled to suit the white men; in business, trade and labor; the Negro is treated as community and in the course of justice ("C"), the fact is not noticed that, sound rights and fair play are not to be expected, where the colored man and white man have a contest. We could go on recounting these inequalities from morning 'Till night without reaching the end of the chapter. A case in point in this city is the shameful neglect of the Negro in the matter of providing parks and play grounds for colored people. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent for the entertainment of whites, while scarcely anything has been set aside for the use of the more than 24,000 colored people of the city, notwithstanding the fact that they pay taxes on a million and a half dollars' worth of property in the city limits. Conditions in Dallas are not materially different in other Southern cities. These are the causes which have created unrest among the colored people of Texas and the South and in their effort to peaceably escape them, they are leaving the South for the North, where they hope to find a better chance in the battlefield of life. The Negro is advised that he is not wanted North. He knows that he will meet in measure the same kind of opposition from the same race of people, whether he behaves himself or not, but in deception, a large number have come to the conclusion that they can do no worse. The Dallas Express has never favored a wholehesebilengation of the Negro from the South. It does not now. It believes that the conditions which prevail in the South have been created by the white people. It believes that they should remove these conditions unshackle the greatest country beneath God's sun by giving every man a chance to be all that he can be. The time has come for character and worth to count, whether its possessor be a white man or a black man. The better element of the white people generally have nothing to lose by giving the colored man a man's chance, and the sooner they reach this conclusion the better. Of course there are a few lazy white people who think that if the Negro is given a fair chance they will be distance in the race upward. This is true. There are a few ignorant whites who are silly enough to think that the Negro desires social equality, forgetful of the fact that white men, almost exclusively are the ones who insist of cohabiting with Negro women. Social equality is an individual idea, and the law cannot regu- late it; but it is our opinion that the Negro cares far less about association with white people, than white people care about as co-educating with him. Let us try justice and fairness. Let us give special privileges to none and a fair aco for all, and it is our opinion that we shall have nothing to regret on account of the experiment. The Dallas Express wants to see the Negro in large measure remain in the South, but it demands for him fair treatment while he works out his destiny, and convinces the world that his entrainment was not a mistake. Dallas, Texas, Express. INDICT 105 IN RACE RIOT Grand Jury Calls (the East St. Louis Trouble "Deliberate Plot") Belleville, Aug. 15. Sixty-eight indictments against 105 persons, the charges including murder, arson, conspiracy, rioting and assault to murder were returned by the grand jury here Tuesday, which has been investigating the race riots in East St. Louis, July 1 to 3. The report of the grand jury said: "We believe riots, at least the occurrences which led up to them, were deliberately plotted. Indented public officials heard the rumblings, but overawed by cowardly inclination remained inactive. "We have found it obligatory to indict a high police official. An attorney at law, accused of making an inflammatory speech advocating mob violence, has been summoned by an indictment to answer the charge." SEE PROPAGANDA OF INTOLERANCE "We believe that the riot was caused by a propaganda of intolerance which the races were taught to have for each other. During the last two years there has been an influx of Negroes estimated at $9,000. This influx was brought about largely through the advanced prices of labor and the demand for labor in East St. Louis. There is, we believe, sufficient work for those who desire to work and at good wages." The report takes up in detail the growing antagonism between the two races thus made economic competitors and says arbitrators worked to create trouble by spreading reports that both sides were arming. CATHERED AT DR. BUNDYS PREMISES ```markdown ``` "on Sunday, July 1, a large number of Negroes were attacked near the Free Liberty. Throughout the afternoon hundreds of Negroes authored at the praesides at Dr. Bundy, a recreational leader of the coedent people in East St. Louis. Whether Dr. Bundy and its followers were of the honest opinion that they were obliged to employ arms for protection or whether Dr. Bundy was the paid tool of the authorities we were unable to discover. "We are satisfied, however that a wicked plot was formed to bring on the riot, the scheme being that if the police of East St. Louis could by having their officers shot, be made to sympathize with the action of the men, it could carry out its purposes without interference." MORE TOLERANCE IS ERGED The grand jury recommended that these "should be a greater degree of tolerance between the white population and the colored population, that the whites should recognize that the mental services of the Negro are necessary. The grand jury report recommends the establishment by the State of a constabulary of 1,000 or more trained state policemen to constant duty to be moved in sections from one place to another. Let Cephas do your Renting, Office 535 1-2 North Second street Telephone, Randolph 588 Ro ster, don't you crow, soloud, stand around and look so proud. Got my hatchet in my hand, soon you'll be in Burkwood, with Mt. O. Aug. , times 4 plus 2 plus 4. READ:—AND ACT!:—QUICK!!! SPECIAL NO. 1. For Sale. 2 New Brick Houses. West Leigh Street. Stucco Fronts. 6 Rooms. Tiled Bath. New Building. Specifications can be arranged. Small Cash Payment. Balance as Easy as Rent. SPECIAL NO. 2. For Rent, at once. Goodas-new 4 Room Frame House. 28th Street, Church Hill. Water and Sink in Kitchen. Garden of Vegetables in Yard. A nice home for you. SPECIAL NO. 3. PIRE!! Insure. Store Register Booklets for our Policy Holders Just received. Get in and get yours with our compliments. PROWN & ROBINSON, Real Estate, Loans, Insurance, Investments. St. Luke Bank Building. "The Golden Rule Service." PRICE, FIVE CENTS WHITE WOMAN KILLS COLORED GIRL WHITE WOMAN KILLS COLORED GIRL A very peculiar killing took place last Thursday morning at 547 North Fourth Street. Mrs. Vina Sear shot and killed Miss Louise Brown, a domestic employed by Mrs. S. R. Frederick in the same house. It was about 7:20 o'clock when a pistol shot was heard. Mrs Frederick thought it was an automobile tire bursted and paid no attention to it. A few moments later, Mrs. Sear rashed from her apartments with the statement that Lou had shot herself. She later admitted that she had fired the shot that killed the colored girl. She says that the girl came into her apartments and she was fingering with an army revolver. The whole affair is shrouded in mystery. Mrs. Sear was placed under arrest pending a further investigation of the affair. Mrs. Vina Sear, eighteen years old, a bride of only a few weeks, was arrested today charged with fatally shooting Louise Brown, nineteen year old colored girl, employed as a domestic by Mrs. S. R. Frederick, 547 North Fourth Street. The technical charge was involuntary manslaughter. In the opinion of Coroner Whitfield, the shooting was an accident. He said he did not deem an inquest necessary. It was about 7:30 o'clock this morning when neighbors of Mrs. Sear, who occupies the first-floor flat at 519 North Fourth street, heard a pistol shot. Mrs. Frederick, who had just sat down to breakfast, thought it was only the blowout of an automobile tire and did not pay much attention to it. A moment or so later Mrs. Sear ran out of her aparment across a porch leading to the front entrance of Mrs. Fredericks' home. Mrs. Sear was screaming at the top of her voice and crying out that "Lou had shot herself." Mr. Frederick first thought it was a little white girl of the neighborhood of that name until Mrs. Sear informed her that it was her domestic. Mrs. Frederick promptly called the city ambulance and when the doctor arrived and found the colored girl dead in Mrs. Sear's apartment, the police were summoned. About this time Mrs. Sear admitted that it was she who shot the girl, but she claimed it was an accident. According to Mrs. Sear's account of the affair, the girl came over to her atrium this morning to deliver a message from her washerwoman and while there began handling an army six-shooter revolver belonging to John Sear, Mrs. Sear's husband, employed at the Richmond Cedar Works, who is a veteran of the Spanish-American war. First the girl removed five car trifles from the revolver and snapped it playfully. Mrs. Sear took the pistol and, pointing it at the girl, pulled the trigger, thinking that all the bulbs had been removed. The revolver went off the bullet penetrating the girl's tett check just below the eye and entering the head, killing her almost instantly. According to Mrs. Frederick, who has charge of the flat in which Mrs. Sear Eyes as well as the one next door for rental purposes, the girl and Mrs. Sear were, so far as she ketows, on good terms. Mrs. Sear was taken to the First Police station and placed in the woman's department there, which is in charge of Mrs. Ogilvie, the police matron. Her husband, who was quickly notified, began preparations to have her bailed. The couple was married by the Rev. J. B. Hutson, of Fine Street Baptist Church. Captain Church. Warrant guarding. Mrs. Sear with involuntary nonsmiling was sworn out by Patrolman F. I. Hanky, of the Second district. Other patrolmen who investigated the case were Traffic Sergeant Bradley, B. A. Pillow and Detective Sergeant John Wily. One report of the tragedy had it that a woman had dropped dead on the street in that neighborhood. Sear, it is said, was not accustomed to keep his pistol loaded. A few nights ago he thought he heard a bursurial on the premises, and so when he went out to investigate he filled the six chambers with cartridges. When he returned without finding a bursurial he left the pistol on his dresser without unloading it. The first person to reach the scene of tragedy was Walter Lane, who resides in a flat above that of the Sear. He is said to have run in just as Mrs. Sear was rushing out of the room, screaming and highly excited. Coroner Whitfield did not probe for the bullet to determine what dige- tion it had taken. It was more than an hour after the tragedy before the police were notified, the call coming into the Second station about nine o'clock, according to the sergeant in charge at that time. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 535 1-2 North Second street. "Bake" photo. Randolph 588 THE SPACENET He Will be Sole Food Adminle. trator For U. 6. PETER H. This is the newest photograph of the man who President Wilson's victory over the senate made it certain will be the food administrator for the United States. Lynch I. W. W. Agitator. Frank Little, a member of the executive board of the Industrial Workers of the World, leader in labor troubles in Arizona, was taken from a lodging house by masked men and hanged to a railroad trestle on the outskirts of Butte. Since his arrival in Butte recently from Globe, Ariz., little had made a number of speeches, trikers to all of which he had attacked the government and spoke slightlyly of United States troops. He urged the men to shut down the mines of the Butte district. His record was under investigation by the federal authorities. A report was current that Little was in the employ of a detective agency and one theory was that he was the victim of the radical element of whom he appeared to be a member. Little was taken by the masked men in an automobile. He was not given time to dress. A card was found on Little's body. It was pinned to the underclothing, and bore in red crayon letters the inscription, "Others take notice. First and last warning, 3-7-77. L D C S S W T." A circle was about the letter "L." The letters were made with a lead penel. The figures "3-7-77" are the old stern of the vigilantes in Montana. Their custom was to send three warnings to a marked man, the third and last being written in red. Practical Practice of Multivariable Analysis Aviator and Pilot Killed Charles Fleischmann, son of Julius L. Fleischmann, former mayor of Cincinnati, was killed when his hydroairplane collapsed above Great South Bay, near New York. Harry Witz, polit of the machine, also was killed. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR — Quilt Straight, $10.75 @ 11.25; city mills, $14 @ 14.23. RYE FLOUR — Quilt; per barrel, $16 RYE FLOUR—Quiet; per barrel, $10 @11. WHEAT—Neminal. CORN—Firm: No. 2 yellow, $2.35@ 2.40. OATS—Strong: No. 2 white, $92 Charley Is Some Heart- breaker WAA! BLUB! BOO! YOU BIG BOOB, YOU BEAT ME OUT OF MY GIRL MOLLIE, DOGGONE YOU Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers GOLDING YE C'MERE YOU CAN'T STEAL MY GIRL. NOT AS LONG AS MY NAME IS REUBEN BARLEY TOSSEL POULTRY—Livе steady; Hens, 22@ 24c; old roosters, 16@17c. Dressed, steady; choice fowls, 25*c; old roosters, 18c. BUTTER --- Firm; fancy creamery 436 p. lb. 45@ Firm; selected, 45@46c; nearby, 37c; western, 37c. Live Stock Quotations CHICAGO—HOGS—Active, 10 @16 higher. Bulk, $15.45@16.45; light, $14.85@16.40; mixed, $15@16.55; heavy, $14.75@16.55; rough, $14.75@ 14.65; CATTLE—Steady, 10c higher, Top, $14.10 Blg Airplane Camp Planned A portion of the old site of camp Meade, of the Spanish and Philippine war days, near Harrisburg, has been leased by the government for the establishment of an immense depot for the assembling and testing of airplanes, motor boats and other equipment needed for the army Cuba Glves German Ship to U. S. Cuba has turned over to the United States the five German merchant ships seized in Cuban ports when Cuba declared war on Germany. The ships will be made ready for repair and operation. --- Manila's Name Widely Used. Manila's Namo Widely Used. Manila has given its name probably to more articles of commerce than any other city in the world. "Manila" to tobacco, cheroots, hemp, hats, paper, matting, bracelets and rings are just a few of the things which remind people in different countries of the capital of the Philippines—London Chronicle. His Trouble. Grimby—Does' Brown understand the purchasing power of a dollar? Blinks—Yes. What troubles him is the purchasing power of his wife! Some men prefer any load of infamy, however heavy, to any pressure of taxation, however light—Sydney Smith. Father and Son Die For Murder. Albert Barrott and his son, Aubrey, have been sentenced to die August 31 for the murder, July 12, of W. T. Roach, a white farmer og Charlotte county, near Richmond, Va. Crew Destroys Stranded U-Boat. A German submarine was stranded west of Calals, according to a despatch received in Paris. The crew destroyed the undersea boat and surrendered A Wise Boy's Reply Willie's Mamma -- Come now, While, I am ready to hear you repeat your history lesson. Willie -- Aw, let history repeat itself. -- Philadelphia Record. This Is a Section of Our Splendidly Equipped Press Room This Is a Section of Our A Before ordering your printing elsewhere give us a chance. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FIVE FRIDAYS Continued from Sixth Page. "The worst smugglers we have are so society people. We captured two of his accomplices on Huntingdon's island this morning, and when we get him we shall have wiped out one of the worst gangs of smugglers operating across the border." At the mention of Huntingdon's island we all pick up our cars. What connection did the smugglers have with the disappearance of Mrs. Green and Lipton? Clair? "While you were on Huntingdon's island," I asked, "did you see anything of Mrs. Green? "Why," began the officer, with a puzzled frown, "one of our prisoners A Cry From the Tug Startled Us. claims to be Mrs. Green, but that is only an alias for 'Mother Farrel,' whose portrait is in the rogues' gallery. I recognized her at once. "Who is your other prisoner?" I had an inkling of what had really happened at Huntingdon's island since I had left it. "The other one is a man masquerading in woman's clothes. He refuses to give his name, but I think he is Dan Maloney, a rather high class crook who does smuggling only as a side line for grand harcery." "I'm afraid you have the wrong parties." I smiled as I thought of Lipton S. Clair's outraged dignity. "The lady really is Mrs. Green, and the gentleman is not Dan Maloney, but Mr. L. S. Clair, a well known literary man." The revenue officer's face fell, then a suspicious look came into his eyes. "How do I know that you are not one of the gang yourself and this is merely a trick to get us to release your pals? What was Mrs. Green doing over there anyway?" "She was cut in a small boat and was blown over there during the storm," Vida volunteered. "Miss Green," the officer addressed her huskly, "I cannot refuse to take your word. I'll have the prisoners brought ashore, and if the lady is really your mother I shall be glad to release her/fastently." Vida did not correct his mistake, but asked, "How do you know I am Miss Green?" "Oh, I'd know you anywhere," he bragged, smiling. "I've seen your photograph in the newspapers so often." So he hust, but not with the name of Lucie Green attached to it. "Thank you ever so much for your kindness." "Not at all," he returned; then, addressing the man in the dinghy, "Smith" "Aye, aye, sir." "Report to Marshal Cochran on board and ask him to bring his prisoners ashore." (TO BE CONTINUED) Russians Win at Chotin. The Austro German troops between the Dneister and the Pruth have been thrown back on the front ten miles from Chotin, according to news from the battle area reaching this city. Chotin is at the junction of the Zbrocz and Dniester rivers on the Galk clan-Russian frontier. PRESIDENT WARY OF PEACE Intimates That Present is Not Time to Discuss Negotiation to Discuss Negotiations. President Wilson held a long conference with Senator Lewis, the Democratic whip, and urged haste in the final enactment of the food control bill and revenue bill and is understood to have indicated that he does not consider the present the time for discussion of peace negotiations with Germany. 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 CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO.1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO.2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MACHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. ALL METAL PARTS NICKEL PLATED AND HIGHLY POLISHED. THE RICHMOND PLANET 311 N. 4th St., - - Richmond, Va. --- Senator Lewis would not discuss the latter phase of the conference, but it was believed the president indicate that he did not consider Germany's peace feelers to be genuine and that he can be expected to let the country know when he believes the time has come for discussing peace. Senator Lewis declared the president would not allow the American people to lose any rights or suffer any wrongs which "his diligence could prevent." The Illinois senator told the president he believes congress could at fourn September 1. ONE U-BOAT SINKS 19 SHIPS Accomplishes Their Destruction on 7 Week Cruise, Commander Boasts. One German submarine, during three-week period ending July 19, sault nineteen vessels aggregating 66,000 tons. It was still in condition to remain longer away from its base, according to a report brought by Harold Hansen of Detroit, who was on one of the ships sunk. He said he received his information from the U-boat commander Hansen said he belonged to the Norwegian sailing ship Artensis, a vessel of 1789 tons gross register. It was sunk while on the way from Glasgow to Hampton Roads. It stopped when ordered to do so, and a detail from the U-boat boarded her and removed all the food supplies. The crew was ordered into the boats given the course to the nearest land and the Artensis was torpedoed. ```markdown ``` Woodland Park IS NOW OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENTS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNICS, ETC. PLENTY OF SHADE-FINE SPRING WATER. THE LAKE WILL BE OPEN TO BOATING. THESE GROUNDS ARE ADJACENT TO THE MAGNIFICENT WOODLAND CEMETERY GROUNDS, WHERE WIDE DRIVE-WAYS AND CONCRETE WALK-WAYS ARE A FEATURE. REST ROOMS FOR LADIES. LARGE PORCHES WITH HAMMOCKS, WHERE THE COOL AFTERNOON BREEZES CAN BE ENJOYED. GOOD ORDER GUARANTEED. TWO BLOCKS FROM THE HIGHLAND PARK STREET-CAR LINE. EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM CHURCHHILL John Mitchell, Jr., President D. P. 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He Forgot Luke YES LUKE, THE DAY IS Copyright, 1916, by J. Keeley. SEVEN ```markdown ``` SATURDAY Aug. --18 BRAZIL HEARD FROM To the Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va., U. S. A. My dear Mr. Editor,—In view of so much talk about Negro treachery or loyalty, I wish to make some observations of the Negroes and the Great War, and especially the American Negroes, who should have nothing at all to do should it possible. This matter of raising a question about the loyalty (or fealty, or even fidelity) of the American Negroes to their country proves one thing which has ever been my contentment. The first man to start a row is generally the biggest coward. Let me ask you or any other sane being, what has the fidelity of the Negro to do with the great European war? And what has it to do with the American patriotism of the American Negro? What has the new coward Anglo-Saxons are showing their race superiority? Yet, I was born and bred an Anglo-Saxon. Probably not wholly by blood or race, but by nationality and breeding, notwithstanding the fact that the lily-white says that I am neither. Well, I am not an African at any rate. And if I was an African, I would be Anglo-Saxons during my short life is their highest ideal of greatness. I do not care if I am not one. I once entertained an idea that the Anglo-Saxons were a brave, honest and hospitable people, but experience teaches me that some of the greatest cowards and braggarts of all the world and times are among the Anglo-Saxons. It does not take an unpatriotic person to observe this fact, either. And as some of those Anglo-Saxon lynchers of Negroes were pretending to hold America and the Americans upper most in their hearts... a forgetting the fact that these same "whole-souled Americans" were lynching their own best citizens and doing them every other conceivable injustice), one is such an ado about the making such an ado about the murder of the American Negroes, after what they have been doing to that race. But they know that the Negroes have every reason to take advantage of their embarrassments even if he does not. They think that every other race is just so unreliable as they are. "these very people have plainly shown that they are more interested in the Belgians and others in Europe than they are in some of their best citizens at home. And I ask any one, is that substantial patriotism? What poor American Negro in those Southern Belgians would be interested in Belgium? The people, and probably the American government, have sent millions of dollars to help Belgium, while the Negroes, who are descendants of those who followed George Washington in the old revolutionary days, are dying from consumption for the want of clothing, housing and general hygiene, and having hard for less wages than they can be on in their own homes, while the country flourishes with prosperity. Yes, many of those good, Christian Negroes have actually starved to death while taking their leader's advice about buying land, for which they must ever pay taxes to a government which openly declares that their participation is prohibited, and which grants them no justice in the courts, nor even humane consideration. Yet they are full and loyal citizens, thanks to the cursed leadership of Booker T. Washington and his like. We are now reminded that every effort has been used to clear the American army and navy of the black race so as to prevent the propaganda of not allowing Negroes to fight white men. And pray tell me, in face of this, how they could count the refugees he carried to Europe or any other foreign country to fight, while these conditions exist at home? The child which likes to hurt others deserves little sympathy when he gets hurt. The American propaganda against Negroes has greatly brought these conditions throughout the social world. She will pay for it, just as sure as she has brought it about. It was America who tried to break the alliance between England and Japan. She succeeded in getting Japan relegated to the Asiatics by England, as well as to the United States, getting General Joffre removed from the command of all the allied troops on the French frontiers; just as she was successful in getting him turned down about twenty-five years ago, when he proved to be the greatest general of the world. And just as she influenced England in that case, she has succeeded with in her many of her beloved country, in how warm you, my beloved country, in that those with whom you have plotted are going to prove your bitterest enemies in the time of distress. I am perfectly aware of how the idea of German agency became applied to the American Negroes! But I only ask you all to hold your ground. They can prove nothing as yet, and you all are getting the benefit of their fear. I did it on purpose, and those who gave the alarm were even slower than I would have given them credit for. I am the person referred to as a large German boss, because there is a large German boss like North of our farm, and the English who took the fright has been all through that part, with the result that, some say, that over 500 000 of you have been given employment in the North. Even more good things are in store for you. Yes, I am suffering much more than you can imagine, but I am winning, and shall have complete success ... God keeps His promise. This beats begging money to educate you, while selling your last right and privilege to exercise that little education which they give you. Yes, I remember swearing in the year 1881 Then the question with me is, to what side did the murderer belong? To which side belonged the victim? And is it the best for humanity that many millions should die for one murderer rather than let the laws take their course? Or in pray tell us how England got into the war not wilfully? And how do the Americans get drawn into it, if they are upholding justice? And then last, but not the least, what has the American Negro to do with this European squabble among all white men? It looks to me like the Germans are more justified than the others with their allies! Now, the side would those good Americans have in their Negroes to fight? I am for that, first, last and always, and the Negroes need justice at home, rather than protecting injustice in other countries. I have warned you all when the world was at peace and the white man oppressing every other race. And the great American leaders were advocating destroying all the arms and weapons. At that time Booker T. Washington was in his glory, while deceiving and destroying the Negroes of the country. If you have a greater portion of them in all the world. Therefore, I plead for more work and better conditions for the American Negroes at home. So now, you colored folks, remember that I told you that all this and worse was coming to you then, as I do now, to stand still and see the salvation of God. I am not hiding yet, and I am all alone so far as the world can understand. Now, if the right thing is done towards the Negroes, there will be nothing to fear from them, but that is not saying that you have escaped the punishment of others. This should teach you that the cause of a nation should be of direct concern by those who desire liberty. And it is of great importance, as for the good of the nation that all of the colored citizens get justice in the courts. Liberty and privileges to equal class or group of citizens, and decided favors over any set or group which are not citizens us. Learn to do everything which is useful and necessary in your country. Always try to occupy a healthy place in the market, and especially in all the various fields of industry, both public and private. Always remember that getting comes before saving, your leaders have all been absorbed in the thought of saving, that the getting end came very near slipping from your fingers. But I am trying to help you to get something first, and if you are careful, then the other follow will get it from you. Get a strong grip on the labor with the best possible conditions in the country, and then hold it necessary, fight to hold and protect it. Any person or group of people that discriminate against you as a race, try not let them live in peace, and all will soon come right with you. If those traitors cannot be taught their duties any other way, you must not hesitate to treat yours just as the white men have found it necessary to treat theirs. Get a good grip on every possible thing in the country. I am glad that so many of you are leaving South before the great trouble comes there. Get away and let those Northern gangsters and gunmen take your place, and those good white ladies to get all the white business they want. Those people who are most acquainted with white communities are more willing to mix matters than your good Southern people. But they will learn why, too some day. I am as ever, for the right and progress under all other conditions, and Very respectfully yours, I. S. MOORE, Rahia, Brazil, May 8, 1917. THE RICHMOND PLANET VALLEY BAPTISTS IN SESSION Buena Vista, Va., August 9.—The Valley Baptist Association of Southwest Virginia met August 8th with the first Baptist Church, Buena Vista, in its fifty-first annual session. The morning session was taken up in addresses of welcome as follows: on behalf of the Rev. James Moore; of the Sunday School, Mrs Watts; of the city, his honor, Maycyn James Updike. The Mayor, in well chosen words, assured the body that it had met in a city where the races live together as friends. He said that the morn of a brighter day for both his people and ours has dawned, because prejudice and race hatred are present, and we are beginning to see and recognize each other as men and women. On behalf of the citizens, Senator Willis Robinson. Senator Robinson is indeed an orator of no mean ability. Those who heard him were made to feel that they have a friend in the Senate. He said, among the many good qualities that the Negro has, that he has the capacity to love and to be a friend. Attorney H. Rucker was next presented to the body who spoke of the origin of the baptism of its wonderful history. The attorney said also that each race has its portions of good and bad, and that we rise and are recognized in proportion as we eliminate the worthless element. The response to the addresses was made by Rev. M. L. Gordon, B. D. pastor, Jerusalem Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va. Dr. Gordon, in an unerring manner and with select words, made a timely belting and helpful response. He said that of a truth the Negro has the ability to love and to embrace a variety of verse circumstances, and this very fact is manifested in the present condition. Dr. Gordon also said that the grand old body, The Valley Baptist Association, is praying that the great head of the church will put more men in Senate like Senator Robinson, and when that is done, there will be a National Legislation to handle the leaders of such lawlessness as occurred in East St. Louis. The annual sermon was preached by Rev. M. Hickes, of the Mt. Zion, Roanoke, Va. The election of officers took place in the afternoon, which resulted as follows: Moderator, Rev. Dr. S. S. Watts; Vice-Moderator, Dr. Dr. W. Hickes; Recording Secretary, Dr. W. D. Woods; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. C. E. Miller; Treasurer, Rev. Elkana Scott. The Association was addressed by Dr. E. I. Roe, President Female Seminary, Uptown Tampa, Va. I feel at home among colorado Baptist because my grandfather was a pastor gave to the colored people of Fredricksburg a church home. No man can know the meaning nor joy of life without the Christian religion. Conditions of race, color, circumstances, prestige, etc., are things which we do not understand, and adjustment must come through the Christian religion." Dr. R. C. Woods, A. M., rejoined the "We are joyful people, We must share what America people, We must share what America people, We must do not want the white man to through this struggle alone. Wherever we are placed in the front or rear we will be true to trust." The grand old body was favored with sermons by Revs. Elkana Scott, C. C. Harvey, Wm. Price, and Drs. E. Ricks, A. A. Spencer and M. L. Gordon, and addresses by Drs. T. H. White, R. C. Woods, Rev. Shadd, Prof. Hill, and others, all of which was good. From many viewpoints the creature or the most powerful sermon that was delivered to the body that delivered by Dr. M. L. Gordon, of the Journal Baptist Church, Ronoke, Va. The Va. closed a splendid session from every point of view. The next session will贴 with the First Baptist Church, East Radford, Va. REPORTER (Red Bank, N. J. Echo.) John Mitchell, Jr., editor of The Richmond Planet, gave out the following statement under the headline "Right of Free Speech Denied—The Richmond Planet Barred From the United States Mall—Must Not Condemn East St. Louis Riots In Conjunction with United States Officials." Editor Mitchell is an editor after our own heart. He prodded the United States officials so sharply that in order to silence him they have taken this step to deny him of free speech which the constitution says every citizen entitled to. Besides being an editor, John Mitchell, Jr., is the founder and president of the Richmond, the a.) Mechanics' Savings Bank, the b.) Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the State of Virginia, and is the a.) Negro belonging to the Banker's Association. No doubt if justice is not denied him that his paper will be admitted to the mails as usual. We anxiously await the outcome of this rank injustice. 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 Buckroe Beach, Wednesday Aug 22, 1917.—Train leaves C. & O. Broad Street Station 9:30 a.m. Returning leaves Buckroe 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, the whole summer long? When the cool sea breezes, your cheeks will fan for a song. Respectfully, Mt. Olivet Baptist Sunday School. James Epps, Supt. Rev. J. Andrew Rowley, Pastor ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE NOTES Ronolek, Va., August 14:—Mrs. Lula R. R. Penn left Monday August 13th for Winston-Salem, N. C. to visit her mother and father. She will return home the latter part of this month. Mrs. Penn's sister-in-law accompanied her, visiting her people in the above named places. Mr. R. R. Penn will join his wife, Sunday, August 19th. Mrs. Gillie Ferguson, of 225 Fifth avenue, N. W., who underwent a very serious but successful operation, at Precedent's Hospital, Washington, D. C. and returned home about two weeks ago, is getting along excellently. Mrs. Mary Dandridge came home Sunday morning, August 12th from Philadelphia to be with her sister until she has regained her strength and vigor from an operation. Mr. Ammon Jones, who returned from Buena Vista, Va., where he represented the High Street Baptist Church at the Valley Baptist Association. Mr. Foster Hutcherson and Mrs. Dessie Hutcherson, his wife, of No. 514 Ninth avenue, N. W. will leave the city Thursday, August 16th for one week's vacation in that western part of the State of Ohio visiting his sisters and friends of Columbus, O. Presiding Elder George R. Jones holds his District Conference at Boynton, Delaware county, Va. from August 7th to 12th, which was reported as the date of previous years. The delegate lighted and the Presiding Elder highly gratified. P. E. Jones is doing his share in making good the A. M. E. Church in this section. Mrs. Mary Law, of 628 Eighth avenue, N. W. Roanoke, Va. will leave Wednesday, August 15th for Charlestonville, Va. to take her elder son, Foster, to the hospital, after which she will proceed to Washington, D. C. to visit relatives. daughter and niece of Mrs. Gillie Hutcherson of 301 Ninth avenue, N. E. respective Mrs. Nannie Smith and Mrs. Lula Griffin, both of Williamson, W. Va. will spend one month in the city. Mrs. Josephine Sollins, of 418 Ninth avenue, N. W. is quite indisposed and has been for the last week or ten days. She is under the care of Dr. F. F. Williman. Mrs. Mary Odell, of 264 Eighth avenue, N. W., Roanoke, Va. wishes to take this method of thankening the many friends who assisted her so generously during the long illness and death of her beloved husband, who died Friday, August 3rd. He is gone but not forgotten, from this to the better land, to the better land where peace and happiness and where the arrival of the remaining human race. For someone to come to that one place, death and life is worth a M. Stanfield, of 153 Wells Alley, N. W., Roanoke, Va. will furnish, you with the 'Richmond Planet. He handles 230 copies per week. His friend, Joe Dugger, 207 Fifth avenue, N. W. is with him. Miss Rose Mae Weatherless, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Nelson Weatherless, of Washington, D. C. is the week-end guest of Miss Nelly L. Myers, of 208 Fourth avenue, N. W. Miss Weatherless is enroute to Irvin, Va. to visit her friends and relatives, feeling the need of rest before taking up her second term of teaching in the University. Mr. Cornellus C. Henry, a bluepacket on the "Hancock" who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Emma Mosby, at Salem, is spouting the last of his twelve day leave of absence from duty with his brothers, Messrs. Daniel and James Henry, of this city. Miss M. Josie Lewis, of Richsquare N. C. and a student of Kittrell College was the guest of Mr. C. O. Holland, the postman and was the honored guest of many receptions. Mr. Tom Bailey, of Washington, D. C. is visiting his mother, Mrs. Morton on Seventh Avenue. Miss Emma May Hughes, of Lynchburg, Va. was called to the city on the account of the illness of her cousin, Mrs. Stewart of 601 Eighth avenue, N. W. Miss Wilhelme Smith is in the city at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George Thornton, of 218 Henry street where she will spend about six or seven weeks recuperating from the burden of teaching. The Magic City Building and Loan Association hold their second annual meeting in the Cosmopolitan Building corner Fourth avenue, and First street on the 10th inst. with two-thirds of the stockholders present. The company had a successful year and they declared a 7 percent dividend on more than $10,000, an asset of $1,999.42 or $1,837.42 net increase on last year. The officers are: Dr. D. R. Dudley, president; Henry C. Johnson, vice-president; John L. Stoecken, secretary, Mr. Arnette Gallin, Cleveland, Ohio is visiting Roanoke for two weeks. He is the son of Mrs. Nora Briggs. Mrs. Jennie Thomas Clarke was quietly married to Mr. Ellis Mullen of Jetersville, Va. Saturday night at the residence of the bride, 115 High street. N. W. Only a few friends witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. E. E. Ricks. They will reside in this city. LITTLE WILLIE'S LETTER No, the Royal Order of Hogas have not pulled off their August dinner as yet. It is the report that they are waiting for the "man with the mountain soda." Proper Tate, the president says, "I tell you, B-I-L-I, we must have the mountain soda." Strangler Mosely says, "Right, if we don't get it, 'dares nothin doin'." Little Willie is singing, "What shall the harvest be." All right, Hogas. Mr. J. M. Avery, assistant general manager of the N. C. Mutual and Provider Association, of Durham, N. C. in war for a day, a week ago. Mr. Avery was entertained at the home of Mr. F. McCoy, on Glimor avenue, N. W. awake representatives of the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association in Ranokoe, Memors, McCoy, Reid and Crowell met Mr. Avery and after breakfast took him around the city that he might see our field and meet some of the policy-holders of the company which he seemed to enjoy highly. After dinner Dr. C. F. Gaylord, of Roanoke's popular druggists, took Mr. Avery, McCormick's growth in his Buick touring car for a long drive through the business and theidential sections of the city, then out Raleigh Court Road to Salem and back by the old rock road, then to the great Crystal Spring and Virginia Heights. Mr. Avery left at midnight and sang the praises of not only the company but the men are doing here for the company. Roanoke's good people. Come again. The District Grand Lodge of Virginia. Odd Fellows will be in Danville, August 28th.. Those attending from Ronoke will be, Major W. B. F Crowell, Deputy Grand Master of Virginia and P. N. F., R. F. Tate, M. V. P., D. R. Ronke and Dr. H. J. Mosely, as delegates. The Grand Household of Ruth meeting at same time and place will be represented by Mrs. R. E. Hart and Mrs. Milleh B. Paxton delegates. It is expected that Ronoke will get some now honors at this meeting. It is almost breaking Little Willie's heart because he cannot make a trip to St. Louis to the Supreme Lodge, K. of P. The Virginia delegation leaves Richmond Sunday. August 19th at 1:30 P. M. in special session of the Virginia Lodge of Old Fellows meeting on the 28th, Little Willie finds it out of the question to make both and he must be at Danville, for something is coming to him there, and he ought to have it. Southwestern Virginia has waited fourteen years and surely the other sections of the State are willing to have our chance after such a long wait and we think this is fair, don't you? Insure with the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association, the oldest, strongest, Negro old line, legal reserve company in the world. For the first six months of this year this company experienced the largest increase in business of any corresponding period since the organization over eighteen years ago. The gross collections or the last six of the gross assets of $400,000 over the corresponding period of last year, while the gross assets of the company have increased to over $226,000. Is that going some? Well, I should smile. Then sit up and take notice, what your people are doing. Are you helping by taking a policy with them. It's a Negro company, employing only Negroes, why not fall in line? Help make employment for Negro boys and girls. This company will do just what they say they will do. Help make the State of Virginia for the protection of the policy holders. The N. C. Mutual and Provident Association protects you and your family. The outside password is "Preparedness," the inside password is "Efficiency" the traveling word is "Promptness." Take the "hunch" and join the "bunch" of thinking people, who are preparing for the day that will come to all. See McCoy, Reid and Crowell for the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association. They pay a claim for $1,000 as freely as one for $10. The company's past record shows this fact. "Get on board, little children, there is room for many more." Go to the Hampton Theatre, enjoy yourself. Don't kick so much if you get the blues, you kick, if you get high class opera music, you kick, if it's a colored act, you kick, if it's a white act, you kick. Now what the "Hampton" do you want? Stop kicking and visit the Hampton Theatre and see the best pictures that can be put on any screen. A big stock company will soon be here, loaded with everything, so you can get just what you want. Until this company arrives the Hampton Theatre Company will give away cash prizes after the first show on Saturday night, so save your coupons until Saturday night. One $5, two $3 and fourteen $1 prizes this week—$25 in all, cash prizes. Come out everybody, try your luck. Yours truly. LITTLE WILLIE URBANNA NOTES. Urbana, Va., August 14.—On the first Sunday revival services began at the Antioch Baptist Church. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Tynes was assisted by Rev. M. H. Sparks, of King and Queen county. Revival services began at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church on the second Sunday. Mr. John Tallferro, of Philadelphia, Pa. spent several days here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Tallferro, Sr. 'Misses Pearlie and Lina Robinson and Miss Jennie Friend are visiting the formers' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson, near Wake. Mr. Henry Griffin, of Harmony Village was seen near Streets last Sunday. Miss Sarah C. Campbell visited Miss S. S Wood last week. Revival services will begin at the Calvary Baptist Church on the third Sunday. Rev, Dr. R. E. Berkley is pastor. Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Lockley visited Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Green last Sunday afternoon. Rev A. W. Adkin, pastor of Grafton Baptist Church preached an excellent sermon at the Antioch Baptist Church last Thursday. The subject was "The New Birth." Mrs. Helena Harris, of Wake who has been quite indisposed is much improved at this writing. Mr. E. G. Wood was seen on the Urbana road last Saturday. There was a reason. Mr. John Tallaferro, of Philadelphia, Pa. visited his sister, Mrs. Peachia Frazier last Sunday. —BACHELOR. SHRINERS IN DETROIT, MICH. Detroit, Mich., August 14. After an eventual session, the nineteenth annual meeting of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egyptian Arab Nobles of order of the Mystic Shrine came to an end Wednesday of last week. The Daughters of Isis, the female auxiliary, also met. The next session will be held in Kansas City, Missouri. The interesting features of the session were the adoption of a set of resolutions setting forth the loyalty of the colored people of this country; the election of officers for the ensuing year; the creation of a fund to fight the hostile litigation instituted by white Mystic Shriners of Georgia; the adoption of a plan for the rotation of officers, and the annual address of the retiring imperial potentate, Clarence R. Dunlap. To the Country presented the following resolution, which was adopted unanimously and cheerers: "We, your committee on Patriotic Address to the Country, take pleasure in saying that we most sincerely feel the importance of the subject given the committee for consideration. We are sensible of the fact that we occupy a peculiar and important position in the body politic of this great composite nationality, The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine stand as an important unit in the many units which compose this great nation. We, therefore, submit to you a few thoughts during the short time we have had before us. We believe that the following paragraph from the imperial potentate's address forcibly elucidates the standing of every Negro in America acquainted with the history of his own people, to wit; "Knowing but one flage, one country and one God, our race which has from Bunker Hill to Carrish never been subjected to the strain of treason or cowardice, steps forth to its duty in assisting the fight for democracy in the world, and will ever carry its banners without a murmur, and will render God the things that ard God's until the triumphant end shall come." "This forebids statement stands as an impregnable barrier against the vile criticism hurled against the American Negro by our enemies. The constitutional rights of the colored people of this country being deferred in almost every part of the United States, notwithstanding their unswerving devotion and loyalty to their country, their flag and their God. "We desire to go on record that the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine stand ready to put forth every possible effort to demonstrate the fact that our loyalty cannot be questioned. Our constructive work for the uplift of the classes in America, irrespective of color or religion, is conclusive proof of assent." "We notice with regard the justifiable infux of a large number of the colored people from the Southland to the Northern States has aroused the prejudice and malignant passions of so-called American citizens, cities and towns to which our people migrated. The reports that can be printed in the various newspapers of this country", or riots and murders of defenseless women and children have been appalled as to cause the blush of shame on the part of every law-abiding citizen of the United States. "Heliieve that all people who claim to be American citizens should enjoy the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, we unhesitatingly condemn every act that would deny any公民的 right to the payment of such constitutional rights, fact that the Negro appears to be the bone of contention is without cause or reason. We appeal to every loyal Newbern America to so deport himself that there will be no cause to arouse enemies of the race to take action that would be detrimental to the interests of our race. We appeal to the representatives in Congress, the ministers in the gospel, all law-abiding citizens and members of all fraternal organizations to render to the colored citizen their loyal support in defense of their rights, and in doing so we will prove ourselves worthy of their confidence and support. "In conclusion, as Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and great Masonic organization, individually and collectively, we pledge our undivided support in the maintenance of good government, square dealings and joyalty, and in so doing, put our trust in God." The election of officers for the Imperial Divan follows: Jordan M. Morris, Minneapolis, Minn., imperial potate; Caesar R. Blake, Charlotte; C. deputy imperial potate; R. E. Moore, Chicago, chief rabban; Samuel N. Franklin, Detroit, assistant rabban; Lobel Williams, New York, impetuai recorde; Charles D. Freeman, Washington, imperial treasurer; J. Frank Hurley, Clarkburg, W. Va., high priest and prophet; J. W. Barnes Portsmouth, Va., first ceremonial master; Harry Knight, New York, second ceremonial master; E. D. Fort, Fort Worth, Tex., captain of the guard, and John M. Murphy, Jr., Baltimore, oriental guide. BALTIMORE ELKS READY Baltimore, Md., August 15—Monumental Lodge of Elks will send a delegation to the approaching session of the Grand Lodge of Elks at Cleveland, Ohio, in an effort to capture the 1918 session. The lodge is one of the oldest and strongest in the country, and has never had the pleasure of entertaining a session of the Grand Lodge. It has a well-appointed home at 414 West Hoffman Sarect. The delegates will include: Thomas H. Buckingham, George W. F. McMechen, William Smith, Asa Porter, Samuel T. Hennessy, Jeremiah Hill, Raymond Coates, Joseph Matthews, William Lewis and Richard Morsell. Governor Harrington announced the naming of a number of local colored men, with Dr. Ernest Lyon as chairman, to assist in the work of the Maryland Council for National Defense. After an illness of a few weeks, Bishop John Hurst is now at his home, 1808 McCulloh Street, busily engaged in arranging for his fall work. City Councilman Harry S. Cummings, who has been ill, is at Harper's office. W. Wa. on a health-seeking trip. JOHNSON. 628 North Feway. RICHMOND Virginia WINCHESTER NOTES Winchester, Ma.-Mrs. John Carter and children are visiting at the home of Rev. Geo. A. Carter on South Main Street. Mrs. Carter's husband, who is a son of Rev. Geo. A. Carter, is also a minister of renown, and has a large church in Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Taylor Evans has returned home from visiting friends in Millwood. Mr. Samuel E. Bannister was initiated in the rank of Page in the K. of P. Lodge on Monday night. Mrs. Esther Turner gave a party at her home on South Main Street on Monday, in honor of her cousin, Miss Ann Carter. Mrs. Wahle Penn has returned home to Pittsburgh, accompanied by her young son, Gwen Courrent. Mrs. Penn has been spending the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Evans, on East Hart Street. Mrs. Jao, Terrel and niece, Miss Payne, of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Wm. Wilterson were the guests of the Oceola A. Club on Friday last. Mrs. A. J. Cooke has returned from Baltimore, Md. The Brotherhood had their regular meeting at John Mann Church Friday night last. An appreciative crowd was present. A midsummer bazaar will be given on Tuesday by the young people of Mt. Carmel Church for benefit of a piano. Miss Rosa Harmon has returned from visiting friends in West Virginia and Maryland. She had a delightful time and a very pleasant trip. LIBRARIES FOR THE SOLDIERS Richmond, Va., August 16—The Virginia Council of Defense is heartily in accord with the work undertaken by the American Library Association at the request of the War Department's Commission on Training Activities, to furnish public library facilities for the 32 cantonments and National Guard training camps to be opened by the War Department in the early part of September. The American Library Association in carrying out its plans will endower to supply thoroughly modern public library facilities for all soldiers in training. This service will be furnished through separate library buildings in all the principal camps and buildings, and by the utilization of Young Men's Christian Association, Knights of Colonies, and other similar buildings as brand distributing agencies in the larger camp and as the only or principal distribution points in the smaller camps. To carry out its plans the association will need to secure funds for the erection of 32 library buildings, at a cost that may reach $320,000, and for the purchase of the necessary books for stocking these libraries with 10,000 volumes each, at a possible cost of $300,000. In addition funds will be needed for incidental expenses, to meet which, the association solicit funds either as single gifts on the monthly payment basis. Subcription will be sent to Frank P. Hill chairman, committee on finance, 32 Brevoort Place, Brooklyn, New York. The association will shortly issue an appeal for gifts of books and magazines to be sent to local libraries for sorting and forwarding the proposed library buildings are erected. In this way it is hoped that quantities of good reading matter can be furnished the soldiers at practically no cost. Raymond B. Foedick, chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities, in a recent letter to Dr. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, and chairman of the association preliminary committee to make plans for this service, wro₁ as follows: "Because your organization can call to its service₂ the training abilities of all the librarians of the United States, it seems natural to ask you to administer this problem for the Government. We approach you with more assurance of your attitude, per se, than we would otherwise be justified in because of your evident willingness to take this task, as expressed in recent resolutions adopted by your organization." SOCIALIST PAPER LOSES MAIL RIGHT BY ORDER OF P. Q. Chicago, Aug. 11.—The American Socialist, official weekly publication of the National Socialist party, today received work from Washington that its second-class mailing privilege had been revoked by the Postoffice Department. This order is said to have grown out of the fact that the last issue of the publication in June were held unavailable under the espionage law. "Because these issues were held to be in violation of the censorship clause in the espionage act," declared J. L. Engdahl, editor, "it is asserted that the continuity of the American Socialist has been interrupted and therefore our mailing privilege must be recalled." "We had a hearing before the third assistant postmaster general in Washington three weeks ago. Our attorney had an interview with President Wilson early this week and the President declared he thought it a mistake to suppress socialist papers. "The Department of Justice also declares there is nothing in violation of the law in our paper. Two Federal judges, one in Baltimore and another in New York city, also have overruled the edicts of the Postoffice Department. "We are planning to make application for another second-class mailing permit." The Suproma Lodgo, K. of P. by an order of the court must pay the cost of the trin whereby it stumped to suspend the Grand Lodgo of Virginia. It seems to be a weakness of Negroes who are clothed with brief authority to conduct themselves as if they are above the law. This whole trouble was brought about by the overwhelming course of the Supreme Chancellor, W. W. Groon—Southern Indicator, Columbia, S. C. SATURDAY Aug. --18 BRAZIL HEARD FROM To the Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va., U. S. A. My dear Mr. Editor. In view of so much talk about Negro treachery or loyalty, I wish to make some observations of the Negroes and the Great War, and especially the American Negroes, who should have nothing at all to do with it, if possible. This matter of raising a question about the loyalty (or fealty, or even fidelity) of the American Negroes to their country proves one thing which has ever been my contention. The first man to start a row is generally the biggest coward. Let me ask you or any other same being, what has the identity of the Negro to do with the great European war? And what has it to do with the American patriotism of the American Negro to do with the great European war? Angle-Saxons are showing their race superiority! Yet, I was born and bred an Anglo-Saxon. Probably not wholly by blood or race, but by nationality and breeding, notwithstanding the fact that the Ilyl-whites say that I am neither. Well, I am not an African at any rate! And if such as have experience in my short life in their highest ideal of greatness, I do not care if I am not one I once entertained an idea that the Anglo-Saxons were a brave, honest and hospitable people, but experience teaches me that some of the greatest cowards and braggarts of all the world and times are among the Anglo-Saxons. It does not take an unpatriotic person to observe this fact, either. And as some of those Anglo-Saxon lynchers of Nerges were prefending to hold America and the Americans upper most in their hearts a forgetting the fact that these same "whole-souled Americans" were lynching their own best citizens and doing them every exercise (justice), one is exceedingly surprised that such an ado about the patriotism of the American Nerges, after what they have been doing to that race. But they know that the Nerges have every reason to take advantage of their embarrassments even if he does not. They think that every other race is just so unreliable as they are. These very people have plainly shown that they are more interested in the Belgians, and others in Europe than they are in some of their best citizens at home. And I ask any one, is it hard for a purist? What has the poor American do in those Southern States got to do in the Belgium? The people, and probably the American government, have sent millions of dollars to help Belgium, while the Negroes, who are descendants of those who followed George Washington in the old revolutionary days, are dying from consumption for the want of food, clothing, housing and general living, working hard for less wages than they are live on in their own homes, while the country flourishes with prosperity. Yes, many of those good, Christian Negroes have actually starved to death while taking their leader's advice about buying land, for which they must ever pay taxes to a government which openly declares that their participation is prohibited, and which grants them no justice in the courts, nor even humane consideration. Yet they are full and loyal citizens, thanks to the cursed leadership of Booker T. Washington and his like. We are now reminded that every effort has been used to clear the American army and navy of the black race so as to aid the propaganda of not allowing Negroes to fight white men. And pray tell me a face of this, how they could count the Negroes non-participate should they release to be carried to Europe or any other country to fight, while these conditions exist at home? The child which likes to hurt others deserves little sympathy when he gets hurt. The American propaganda against Negroes has greatly brought these conditions throughout the social world. She will pay for it, just as sure as she has brought it about. It was America who tried to break the dance between England and Japan. And she succeeded in getting Japan rebelled in getting states by England, as well as she succeeded in getting General Joffre removed from the command of all the allied troops on the French frontiers; just as she was successful in getting him turned down about twenty-five years ago, when he proved to be the greatest general of the world. And just as she influenced England in that case, she has succeeded with her, in many other of her beloved countries. I now warn you, my beloved country, that those with whom you have plottened are googing to prove your bitterest enemies in the time of distress. I am perfectly aware of how the idea of German agency became applied to the American Negroes! But I only ask you all to hold your ground. They can prove nothing as yet, and you all are getting the benefit of their fear. I did it on purpose, and those who gave the alarm were even slower than I would have given them credit for. I am the person referred to as a German agent, because there is a law German holding just North of your English agent who took the fright here and through that part, with the result that some say, that over 500 000 of you have been given employment in the North. Even more good things are in store for you. Yes, I am suffering much more than you can imagine, but I am winning, and shall have complete success ... God keeps His promise. This beats begging money to educate you, while selling your last right and privilege to exercise that little education which they give you. Yes, I remember swearing in the year 1881 that I would do all in my power to wipe out that lynching in the U. S. A., along with many other social injustices. I have made a mistake, it was in 1880 when I promised my God that if the would help me, I would make good, even if it cost me my life. I can not killing any one, nor am I now, but I can kill anyone I will with any of those who practice crime. But I have had the privilege of giving you some valuable tips to save Your own flag. Believe me, when I tell you that no man can say, that he ever gave me one penny to forward this undertaking; nor have I received any benefit from any government, or monies begged for education, or money given to me. I had, I have generally got it about as honest as possible, and what I have learned I have earned by hard work. But I must not stop to talk about myself, but that of the subject in question. I made my case public on the start, when I attacked that Waco, Texas, tragedy. And since they have far in advance that German agrees to work with that that are allied froces are defending justice and humanity, etc., I will make these few well known observations which they surely will not dare to deny, otherwise it is none of our business, nor would we say anything. But as they are always crying about what they are doing for justice, etc., I ask them, what started the war, if they were the murder of an Austrian prince? If they were the murder of her wished to protect the murderer from a just punishment? Was it the Germans? Did Germany declare war upon the allies on behalf of one or many assassips, or did she enter the war in the protection of the nation to which the victim belonged? And that was not against the actual nation of the original crime, but the nations which were backed up in her criminal act. It was backed up in Serbia, who committed the crime, and Russia, who wished to uphold her in not permitting the common laws to take their course. Then the question with me is, to what side did the murderer belong? To which side belonged the victim? And is it the best for humanity that many millions should die for one murder rather than let the laws take their revenge? And pray tell us how England got involved, if not wilfully? And how do the laws get drawn into it, if they are upholding justice? And then last, but not the least, what has the American Negro to do with this European squabble among all white men? It looks to me like the Germans are more justified than the others with their allies! Now, what side would these good Americans fight? Negroes to fight? I am for the first, first, last and always, and the Negroes need justice at home, rather than protecting injustice in other countries. I have warned you all when the world was at peace and the white man oppressing every other race. And the great American leaders were advocating destroying all the arms and warriors. At that time Booker T. Washington was in his glory, while deceiving and denying the Negroes of the country the greater portion of them in all the world. Therefore, I plead for more work and better conditions for the American Negroes at home. So now, you colored folks, remember that I did you that all this and worse was done to you then, as I do now, to stand off and see the salvation of God. I am not hiding yet, and I am all alone so far as the world can understand. Now, if the right thing is done towards the Negroes, there will be nothing to tear from them, but that is not saying that you have escaped the punishment of others. This should teach you that the cause of a nation should be of direct concern by those in authority. And it is of great imitation as for the good of the nation that all of the colored citizens get justice in the courts. liberty and privileges to equal any other class or group of citizens, and decided favorers over any set or group which are not citiz us. Do good to yourself and those who depend upon you, and the world will praise you. Also, I would advise the colored people to uphold their children in every good cause, until death shall stop you. So do not permit any body to make you starve yourself and family in a country full of everything when you can get all the necessities of life. Eat, drink, dress and houseselves well, under all conditions. And then educate ye, and save what is left. Do not only give your children time to play, but help them in their play. And instead of raising so much cotton, pear corn, peas and other eatables; sawdust hogs, sheep, goats and other useful animals. Sell meat, cheese, milk and butter, hides and wool, etc., rather than so much cotton. Learn to do everything which is useful and necessary in your country. Always try to occupy a healthy place in the market, and especially in all the various fields of industry, both public and private. Always remember that getting comes before saving. Your leaders have all been so absorbed in the thought of saving, that the getting end came very near slipping from your fingers. But I am trying to help you to get something first, and if you are not careful, then the other fellow will get it from you. Get a strong grip on the labor with the best possible conditions in the country, and then hold it necessary, fight to hold and protect it. Any person or group of people that discriminate against you as a race, try not let them live in peace, and all will soon come right with you. If those traitors cannot be taught their duties any other way, you must not hesitate to treat yours just as the white men have found it necessary to treat theirs. Get a good grip on every possible thing in the country. I am glad that so many of you are learning the South before the great trouble comes. Get away and let those North gangsters and gunmen take your place. I want those good white ladies to get all the lily white business they want. Those people who are most acquainted with white communities are more willing to mix matters than your good Southern people. But they will learn why, too some day. I am as ever, for the right and progress under all other conditions and Ve v respectfully yours. I. S. MOORE Rahie, Brazil, May 8, 1917. THE RICHMOND PLANET VALLEY BAPTISTS IN SESSION Buena Vista, Va., August 9.—The Valley Baptist Association of Southwest Virginia met August 8th with the First Baptist Church, Buena Vista, in its fifty-first annual session. The morning session was taken up in addresses of welcome as follows: On August 9, the Rev. James Moore; of the Sunday School, Mrs Watts; of the city, his honor, Maye James Uplike. The Mayor, in well chosen words, assured the body that it had met in a city where the races live together as friends. He said that the morn of a brighter day for both his people and ours has dawned, because prejudice and race hatred are present. We are beginning to see and recognize each other as men and women. On behalf of the citizens, Senator Willis Robinson, Senator Robinson is indeed an orator of no mean ability. Those who heard him were made to feel that they have a friend in the Senate. He said, among the many good qualities that the Negro has, that he has the capacity to love and to be a friend. Attorney H. Rucker was next presented to the body who spoke of the origin of the Baptist Church and of its wicked history. The minister said that each man has its portions of good and bad, and that we rise and are recognized in proportion as we eliminate the worthless element. The response to the addresses was made by Rev. M. I. Gordon, B. D. pastor Jerusalem Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va. Dr. Gordon, in an unmering manner and with select words, made a timely beftitting and helpful response. He said that of a truth the Negro has the ability to love and to be a friend even amidst the most adversities and circumstances; this very fact is manifested in the present dition. Dr. Gordon also said that the grand old body, The Valley Baptist Association, is praying that the great head of the church will put more men in Senate like Senator Robinson, and when that is done, there will be a National Legislation to handle the leaders of such lawlessness as occurred in East St. Louis. The annual sermon was preached by the Rev. Hicks, of the Mt. Zion, Roanoke, Va. The election of officers took place in the afternoon, which resulted as follows: Moderator, Rev. Dr. S. S. Watt;s Vice-Moderator, Rev. Dr. W. S. Hicks; Recording Secretary, Dr. W. D. D Woods; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. C. E. Miller; Treasurer, Rev. Elkana Scott. The Association was addressed by Dr. E. H. Roe, President Female Sem- inar, emma Ysta, Va. "I feel at home and am blessed. Baptists, because my grandfather was a Baptist, gave to the colored people of Prud- cricksburg a church home. No man can know the meaning nor joy of life without the Christian religion. Conditions of race, color, circumstances, prestige, etc., are things which we do not understand, and adjustment must come through the Christian relig- lion." Dr. R. C. Woods, A. M., re- sponDED: "We are joyful citizens, the Neo-No is no hope in any nation share with the American people. We must share what the American people give to we do not want the white man to go through this struggle alone. Wherever we are placed in the front or rear we will be true to trust." The grand old body was favored with sermons by Revs. Elkana Scott, C. C. Harvey, Wm. Price, and Drs. E. Ricks, A. A. Spencer and M. L. Gordon, and addresses by Drs. T. H. White, R. C. Woods, Rev. Shadd, Prof. Hill, and others, all of which was good. From many viewpoints the greatest or the most powerful sermon that was delivered to the body that delivered by P. M. L. Gordon, of the Jerusalem Baptist Church, Ranooke, Va. The Valley church of splendid session from every point view. The next session will be held with the First Baptist Church, East Radford, Va. REPORTER (Red Bank, N. J. Echo.) John Mitchell, Jr., author of *The Richmond Planet*, gave out the following statement under the headline "Right of Free Speech Barred—The Richmond Planet Barred From the United States Mail—Must Not Condemn East St. Louis Riots In Conjunction with United States officials." Editor Mitchell is an editor after our own heart. He prodded the United States officials so sharply that in order to silence him they have taken this step to deny him of free speech which the constitution says every citizen is entitled to. Besides being an editor, John Mitchell, Jr., is the founder and president of the Richmond, (Va.) Mechanics Savings Bank, the Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the State of Virginia, and is the only Negro belonging to the banker's Association. No doubt if justice is not denied him that his paper will be invited to the mails as usual. We anxiously await the outcome of this rank injustice. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL OF LITTLE MT. O.—GIVES ITS PICNIC TO BUKROEK, AUGUST 4 TIMES 4 PLUS 2 PLUS 4 ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE NOTES Roanole c. Va., August 14,—Mrs. Laura R. A. Penn left Monday August 13th for Winston-Salem, N. C. to visit her mother and father. She will return home the latter part of this month. Mrs. Penn's sister-in-law accompanied her, visiting her people in the above named places. Mr. R. R. Penn will join his wife, Sunday, August 19th. Mrs. Gillie Ferguson, of 225 Fifth avenue, N. W., who underwent a very serious but successful operation, at Predeemer Hospital, Washington, D. C. and returned home about two weeks ago, is getting along excellently. Mrs. Mary Dandridge came home Sunday morning, August 12th from Philadelphia to be with her sister until she has regained her strength and vigor from an operation. Mr. Aumon Jones has returned from Buena Vista, Va., where he represented the High Street Baptist Church at the Valley Baptist Association. Mr. Foster Hutcherson and Mrs. Dessie Hutcherson, his wife, of No. 514 Ninth avenue, N. W. will leave the city Thursday, August 16th for one week's vacation in that western part of the State of Ohio visiting his sisters and friends of Columbus. O. Presiding Elder George R. Jones held his District Conference at Boynton Mclellenburg county, Va. from August 10th to 12th, which was reported as occasion of previous years. The delegation was lighted and the Presiding Elder highly gratified. P. E. Jones is doing his share in making good the A. M. E. Church in this section. Mrs. Mary Law, of 628 Eighth avenue, N. W. Roanoke, Va. will leave Wednesday, August 15th for Charlestown, Va. to take her elder son, Foster, to the hospital, after which she will proceed to Washington, D. C. to visit relatives. Gillie Hutcherson and piece of Mrs. Gillie Hutcherson, of Ninth avenue, N. E., respectively. Mrs. Nannie Smith and Mrs. Lula Griffin, both of Williamson, W. Va. will spend one month in the city. Mrs. Josephine Sellins, of 418 Ninth avenue, N. W. is quite indisposed and has been for the last week or ten days. She is under the care of Dr. F. F. Williman. Mrs. Mary Odell, of 264 Eighth avenue, N. W., Roanoke, Va. wishes to take this method of thankening the many friends who assisted her so generously during the long illness and death of her beloved husband, who died Friday, August 3rd. He is gone but not forgotten, from this to the better land, to the better land where and happiness and where sorrow never comes. There he awaits the arrival of the remaining human race. For we all come to that one place, death and the grave. M. Stainfield, of 153 Wells Alley, N. W., Roanoke, Va. will furnish you with The Richmond Planet. He handles 230 copies per week. His friend, Joe Durger, 207 Fifth avenue, N. W. is with him Miss Rose Mae Weatherless, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Nelson Weatherless, of Washington, D. C. is the week-end guest of Miss Nellie L. Myers, of 208 Fourth avenue, N. W. Miss Weatherless is enroute to Irvin, Va. to visit her friends and relatives, feeling the need of rest before taking a sound term of teaching in Tuskegee Institute. Mr. Cornelius C. Henry, a blue-jacket on the "Haneeok" who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Emma Mosby, at Salem, is speeding the last of his twelve day leave of absence from duty with his brothers, Messrs. Daniel and James Henry, of this city. Miss M. Josie Lewis, of Richsquare N. C. and a student of Kittrell College was the guest of Mr. C. O. Holland, the postman and was the honored guest of many receptions. Mr. Tom Bailey, of Washington, D. C. is visiting his mother, Mrs. Morton on Saturday, of Miss Emma May Haines, of Lynnburg, Va. was called to the city on the account of the illness of her cons., Mrs. Stewart of 601 Eighth avenue, N. W. Miss Wilhelme Smith is in the city at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George Thornton, of 218 Henry street where she will spend about six or seven weeks recuperating from the burden of teaching. The Magic City Building and Loan Association held their second annual meeting in the Cosmopolitan Plaza corner Fourth Avenue and Flip street on the 10th inst, with two-thirds of the stockholders present. The company had a successful year and they declared a 7 percent dividend on more than $10,000, an asset of $1,999.42 or $1,387.42 net increase on last year. The officers are: Dr. E. R. Dudley, president; Henry C. Johnson, vice-president; John L. Steecker. Mrs. Jennie Thomas Clarke was quietly married to Mr. Elias Mullen, of Jetersville, Va., Saturday night at the residence of the bride, 115 High street, N. W. Only a few friends witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. E. E. Ricks. They will reside in this city. LITTLE WILLIE'S LETTER No, the Royal Order of Hogs have not pulled off their August dinner as yet. It is the report that they are waiting for the "man with the mountain soda." Proper Tate, the president says, "I tell you, B-I-L-I, we must have the mountain soda." Strangler Mosely says, "Right, if we don't get it, 'dares nothin doin'" and Little Willie is singing, "What shall the harvest be." All right, Hogs. Mr. J. M. Avery, assistant general manager of the N. C. Mutual and Provider Association, of Durham, N. C. in his office for a day, a week ago. Mr. Avery is entertained at the home of Mr. F. M. Coy, on Glimmer avenue, N. W. The awake representatives of the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association in Roanoke, Meers, McCoy, Reid and Crowell met Mr. Avery and after breakfast took him around the city that he might see our field and meet some of the policy-holders of the company which he seemed to enjoy 'bighly'. After dinner Dr. C. F. Gaytoll, the Raleighan's popular drugstores, took Mr. Avery, McCoy to growl in his Buick touring car for a drive through the business and was identical sections of the city, then out Raleigh Court Road to Salem and back by the old rock road, then to the great Crystal Spring and Virginia Heights. Mr. Avery left at midnight and the great praises of not only the good rock doing here for the company, but of Raleighan's good people. Come again. The District Grand Lodge of Virginia. Odd Fellows will meet in Danville, August 28th. Those attending from Rosanoke will be, Major W.R. F Crowell, Deputy Grand Master of Virginia and P. N. F., R. F. Tate, M. V. P., D. R. Rowe and Dr. H. J. Josely, as delegates. The Grand Lodge of Ruth meeting at same time and be represented by Mrs. Cora A. David D. Mrs. R. E. Hart and Mrs. Millibar. Paxton delegates. It is expected that Ronoke will get some now honors at this meeting. It is almost breaking Little Willie's heart because he cannot make the trip to St. Louis to the Supreme Lodge, K. of P. The Virginia delegation leaves Richmond Sunday. August 19th at 1:20 P. M. in special session of the Virginia Lodge of Old Fellows meeting on the 28th. Little Willie finds it out of the question to make both and he must be at Danville, for something is coming to him there, and he ought to have it. Southwestern Virginia has waited fourteen years and surely the other sections of the State are willing to have our chance after such a long wait and we think this is fair, don't you? Insure with the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association, the oldest, strongest, Negro old line, legal reserve company in the world. For the first six months of this year this company experienced the largest increase in business of any corresponding period since the organization over eighteen years ago. The gross col. sales this year show an increase of $19,000 over the corresponding period of last year, while the gross assets of the company have increased to over $226,000. Is that going some? Well, I should smile. Then sit up and take notice, what your people are doing. Are you helping by taking a policy with them. It's a Negro company, employing only Negroes, why not fall in line? Help make employment for Negro boys and girls. This company will do just what the say they want. Help them deal with the State of Virginia for the protection of the policy holders. The N. C. Mutual and Provident Association protects you and your family. The outside password is "Preparedness," the inside password is "Efficiency" the traveling word is "Promptness." Take the "hunch" and join the "bunch" of thinking people, who are preparing for the day that will come to all. See MeC. Reld and Crowell for the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association. They pay a claim for $1,000 as freely as one for $10. The company's past record shows this fact. "Get on board, little children, there is room for many more." Go to the Hampton Theatre, enjoy yourself. Don't kick so much. If you get the blues, you kick, if you get high class opera music, you kick, if it's a colored act, you kick, if it's a white act, you kick. Now what the "Hampton" do you want? Stop kicking and visit the Hampton Theatre and see the best pictures that can be put on any screen. A big stock company will soon be here, loaded with everything, so you can get just what you want. Until this company arrives the Hampton Theatre Company will give away cash prizes after the first show on Saturday night, so save your compons until Saturday night. One $5, two $2 and fourteen $1 prizes this week—$25 in all, cash prizes. Come out everybody, try your luck. 1'RBANNA NOTES Urbana, Va., August 14.—On the first Sunday revival services began at the Autioch Baptist Church. The pastor, Rev. J. W Tynes was assisted by Rev. M. H. Sparks, of King and Queen county. Revival services began at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church on the second Sunday. Mr. John Tallferro, of Philadelphia, Pa. spent several days here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Tallferro, Sr. Misses Pearlie and Lina Robinson and Miss Jennie Friend are visiting the formers' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson, near Wake. Mr. Henry Griffin, of Harmony Village was seen near Streets last Sunday. Miss Sarah C. Campbell visited Miss S. S Wood last week. Revival services will begin at the Calvary Baptist Church on the third Sunday. Rev, Dr. R. E. Berkley is pastor. Mr and Mrs. H. N. Lockley visited Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Green last Sunday afternoon. Rev A. W. Adkin, pastor of Gratton Baptist Church preached an excellent sermon at the Antioch Baptist Church last Thursday. The subject was "The New Birth." Mrs. Helena Harris, of Wake who has been quite indisposed is much improved at this writing. Mr. E. G. Wood was seen on the Urbanna road last Saturday. There was a reason. Mr. John Taliaferro, of Philadelphia, Pa. visited his sister, Mrs. Peachia Frazier last Sunday. — BACHELOR. SHRINERS IN DETROIT, MICH. Detroit, Mich., August 14.—After an eventful session, the nineteenth annual meeting of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Nobles of Order of the Mystic Shrine came to an end Wednesday of last week. The Daughters of Isis, the female auxiliary, also met. The next session will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, among the interesting features of the session were the adoption of a set of resolutions setting forth the loyalty of the colored people of this country; the election of officers for the ensuing year; the creation of a fund to fight the hostile litigation instituted by white Mystic Shriners of Georgia; the adoption of a plan for the rotation of officers, and the annual address of the retiring imperial potentate, Clarence R. Dunlap. The onsite on Patriotic Address to the Council of the Imperial following resolution, which was adopted unanimously and, cheers: "We, your committee on Patriotic Address to the Country, take pleasure in saying that we most sincerely feel the importance of the subject given the committee for consideration. We are sensible of the fact that we occupy a peculiar and important position in the body politic of this great composite nationality. The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine stand as an important unit in the many units which compose this great nation. We, therefore, submit to you a few thoughts that we have hastily considered durings our time, that we had before us. We believe that the imperial postulate's address forcibly elucidates the standing of every Negro in America acquainted with the history of his own people, to wit: "Knowning but one flage, one country, our race which has from Bunker Hill to Carrish never been subjected to the strain of treason or cowardice, steps forth to its duty in assisting the fight for democracy of the world, and will ever will render no benefit to a murmur, and will render no God the things that are God's until the trumpet end shall come." "This torrible statement stands as an impregnable barrier against the vile criticism hurled against the American Negro by our enemies. The constitutional rights of the colored people of this country being deplored almost every part of the United States, notwithstanding their unswerving devotion and loyalty to their country, their flag and their God. "We desire to go on record that the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine stand ready to put forth every possible effort to demonstrate the fact that our loyalty cannot be questioned. Our constructive work for the uplift of all men and classes in America, irrespective of creed, color or religion, is our assertion. "We notice with that the justifiable influx of a large number of the colored people from the South to the Northern States has arroused the prejudice and malignant passions of so-called American citizens, cities and towns to which our people migrated. The reports that have been printed in the various news and reports of this country of riots and murders of uncessess women and children have been so appalling as to cause the blush of shame on the part of every lawabiding citizen of the United States. "Believing that all people who claim to be American citizens should enjoy the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, we unhesitatingly condemn every act that would deny any constitutional rights. The fact that the Negro appears to be the bone of contention is without cause. We appeal to every loyal American to so deport himself that there will be no cause to arouse enemies of the race to take action that would be detrimental to the interests of our race. We appeal to the representatives in Congress, the ministers in gospel, all lawhaving citizens and ministers, all lawhaving to the colored organization to unit, serving to the colored citizen their loyal defense in defense of their rights, and in doing so we will prove ourselves worthy of their confidence and support. "In conclusion, as Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and great Masonic organization, individually and collectively, we wledge our undivided support in the maintenance of good government, square dealings and toyalty, and in so doing, put our trust in God." The election of officers for the Imperial Divan follows: Jordan M. Morris, Minneapolis, Minn., imperial poterate; Caesar R. Blake, Charlotte; a deputy imperial poterate; R. E. Moore, Chicago, chief cabban; Samuel B. Franklin, Detroit, assistant cabban; L. Will Williams, New York, imperial poterate; Charles D. Freeman, Washington, imperial treasurer; J. Frank Hurley, Charsburg, W. Va., high priest and prophet; J. W. Barnes Portsmouth, Va., first ceremonial master; Harry Knight, New York, second ceremonial master; E. D. Lock, Fort Worth, Tex., captain of the guard, and John M. Murphy, Jr., Baltimore, oriental guide. BALTIMORE ELKS READY Baltimore, Md., August 15.—Monumental Lodge of Elks will send a delegation to the approaching session of the Grand Lodge of Elks at Cleveland, Ohio, in an effort to capture the 1918 session. The lodge is one of the oldest and strongest in the country, and has never had the pleasure of entertaining a session of the Grand Lodge. It has a well-appointed home at 414 West Hoffman Sarect. The delegates will include: Thomas H. Buckingham, George W. F. McMechen, William Smith, Asa Porter, Samuel W. Hemsley, Jeremiah Hill, Raymond Lewis, Joseph Matthews, William Lewis and Richard Morsell. Governor Harrison has announced the naming of a number of local colored men, with Dr. Ernest Lyon as chairman, to assist in the work of the Maryland Council for National Defense. After an illness of a few weeks, Bishop John Hurst is now at his home, 1808 McCulloh Street, busily engaged in arranging for his fall work. City Counselman Harry S. Cummings, who has been ill, is at Harp mingles, W. W. Van auf a health-seeking trip 628 North Eauvay F. J. JOINSON 628 North Eauvay RICHMOND Virginia WINCHESTER NOTES. Winchester Va.- Mrs. John Carter and children are attending at the home of Rev. Geo. A. Carter on South Main Street. Mrs. Carter's husband, who is a son of Rev. Geo. A. Carter, is also a minister of renown, and has a large church in Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Taylor Evans has returned home from visiting friends in Millwood. Mr. Samuel E. Bannister was initiated in the rank of Page in the K. of P. Lodge on Monday night. Mrs. Ether Turner gave a party at her home on South Main Street on Monday, in honor of her cousin, Miss Amie Carter. Waldo Penn has returned home to Pittsburgh, accompanied by her young son, Gaycerven. Mrs. Penn has been spending the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wn, Evans, on East Hart Street. Mrs. Jno, Terrel and niece, Miss Payne, of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Wm. Wilkerson were the guests of the Oceola A. Club on Friday last, and Mrs. A. Cooke has returned from Baltimore, Md. The Brotherhood had their regular meeting at John Mann Church Friday night last. An appreciative crowd was present. A midsummer bazaar will be given on Tuesday by the young people of Mt. Carmel Church for benefit of a program. Miss Rosa Harnon has returned from visiting friends in West Virginia and Maryland. She had a delightful time and a eery pleasant ride. LIBRARIES FOR THE SOLDIERS Richmond, Va., August 16 — The Virginia Council of Defense is heartily in accord with the work undertaken by the American Library Association at the request of the War Department's Commission on "Training Activities, to furnish public libraries' facilities for the 32 cantonments of National Guard training camps to be opened by the War Department in the early part of September. The American Library Association in carrying out its plans will endeavor to supply thoroughly modern public library facilities for all soldiers in training. This service will be furnished through separate library buildings in all the principal camps and by the utilization of Young Men's Christian Association, Knights of Columbus, and other similar buildings as brass agencies in the larger camps and as the only or principal distribution points in the smaller camps. To carry out its plans the association will need to secure funds for the erection of 22 library buildings, at a cost that may reach $320,000, and for the purchase of the necessary books for stocking these libraries with 10,000 volumes each, at a possible cost of $300,000. In addition funds will be needed for incidental expenses, to meet which, the association solicit funds either as single rift funds or the monthly payment basis. Subscription fees are sent to Frank P. Hill, chairman, committee oninance, 26 Brevoort Place, Brooklyn, New York. The association will shortly issue an appeal for gifts of books and magazines to be sent to local libraries for sorting and forwarding when the proposed library buildings are erected. In this way it is believed that quantities of good reading matter can be furnished the soldiers at practically no cost. Raymond B. Fosseid, chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities, in a recent letter to Dr. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Council and chairman of the association's preliminary committee to make plans for this service, wrote as follows: "Because your organization quail to its service, the training abilities of all the librarians of the United States, it seems natural to ask you to administer this problem for the Government. We approach you with more assurance of your attitude, perseverance and skill otherwise be justified in feeling that of your evident willingness to undertake the task, as expressed in recent resolutions adopted by your organization." SOCIALIST PAPER LOSES MAIL RIGHT BY ORDER OF P. O. Chicago, Aug. 11.—The American Socialist, official weekly publication of the National Socialist party, today received work from Washington that its second-class mailing privilege had been revoked by the Postoffice Department. This order is said to have grown out of the fact that the last three issues of the publication in June were held unavailable under the espionage law. "Because these issues were held to be in violation of the censorship clause in the espionage act," declared J. L. Engdahl, editor, "it is asserted that the continuity of the American Socialist has been interrupted and therefore our mailing privilege must be reinstated." "We had a hearing before the third assistant postmaster general in Washington three weeks ago. Our attorney had an interview with President Wilson early this week and the President declared he thought it a mistake to suppress socialist papers. "The Department of Justice also de- dares there is nothing in violation of the law in our paper. Two Federal judges, one in Baltimore and another in New York city, also have over- ruled the edicts of the Postoffice De- partment. "We are planning to make application for another second-class mailing permit." The Suprema Lodge, K. of P. by an order of the court must pay the cost of the trial whereby it attempted to suspend the Grand Lodge of Virginia. It seems to be a weakness of Negroes who are clothed with brief authority to conduct themselves as if they are above the law. This whole trouble was brought about by the overwhelming course of the Supreme Chancellor, B. W. Green.—Southern Indicator, Columbia, S. C. THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library UZZIAH MINER STILL LOYAL TO THE FLAG AND HIS COUNTRY Wants To Know If American Negro Is To Be Counted In World Democracy WILL GIVE AID TO PLANET FOR MAIL“HOLD-UP,” IF NECESSARY— DID NOT SEEK TO ANTAGONIZE THE DRAFT LAWS OR TO INFLUENCE ANY TO HINDER U S. WAR AIMS. WILL BE DRAFTED IN THE NATIONAL ARMY, AND IF PASSED WILL FILE NO EXEMPTION—WILL, DO HIS DUTY. VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 40 UZZIAH MINER ST FLAG AND H Wants To Know If A Be Counted In W WILL GIVE AID TO PLANET FOR DID NOT SEEK TO ANTAGON INFLUENCE ANY TO H HE IS AN EMPLOYEE IN WILL BE DRAFTED IN THE NATION FILE NO EXEMPTION ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE WAR DEPARTMENT, U. S. A. August 14, 1917. My dear Editor Mitchell; In reading last week's edition of the "Planet" I was shocked to learn that the publishing of my letter on the fourth of this month had caused your most valuable paper to be temporarily barred from the mail. I re-read the letter and the publishing of a sold letter has caused you the trouble that it has. WILL GIVE AID. I beg to inform you, however, that I stand ready to give you whatever old financial or other assets that you may suggest as my share of the financial burden that this incident has brought to me. I beg, also, to inform you that I am still loyal to the American flag, notwithstanding the fact that I have refused standfastly to volunteer to fight for a "World Democracy," because I wanted to be convinced that it would include black men as well as white men. YIELD TO NO ONE. Editor Mitchell, I yield to no member of my race in my admiration of the brilliant record of our patriotic heroes in the various wars of this country from Bunker Hill to Carrish. If I could not add something to this record, I certainly would not detract one iota from its glory. My letter was not intended to roment a rebellion among Negrecs, nor to arouse any antagonism against the selective draft law; nor was it calculated to undermine mobilization of the United States' military forces, certainly would not have Secretary of War Baker to think that he had any Negro employed in his Department who was so low and contemptible as to do such a thing. A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE. While I am willing to encourage my race to maintain its brilliant record of patriotism, I must not hesitate to remind the public that: "patriotism and loyalty presuppose protection and liberty." Now since I am willing to shed my blood for the protection of my country against the insults of Germany, I pray that my Nation will help me. I will give ear to our humble cries and our pathetic petitions, to the extent that it will take some immediate step to protect the lives and property of her loyal black sons and daughters against the insults of Americans who ignore Christianity; who resort to barbarism; who deny us the opportunity to carm our bread by the sweat of our own brow, and who wantonly trample beneath their feet those sacred rights to our happiness guaranteed by the pursuit of happiness, Fourteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. NOT DISLOYAL: Mr. Editor, I wish to state as emphatically as I know how that I am not a pacifist, I am not a disloyal Socialist, I am not a war obstructionist, I am not a "conscientious objector" to war, I am not an anti-draft rioter, I am not, one of those persons who President and Administration have attempted to test the constitutionality of the conscription law. I am a young man, twenty-eight years of age. I registered on the fifth of June. My name has been drawn. I am expecting every day to be careful before the examining board, sure I am able to meet the physical requirements. I shall ask for no exemption. I shall bow to the inevitable fate. WILL DO HIS DUTY If I am drafted, I want the world to know that I go forth to fight and suffer, to shed my blood and to sacri- face my life that German autocracy and Prussian militarism might be brought to an end; that America as well as the rest of the world might be made safe for humanity and democracy; that justice might be enjoyed by the Armenians, the Poles, the Belgians and the Jews across the sea, and that a "World-wide Democracy," of which President Woodrow Wilson is champion, might include within its embraces black men of America as well as white men of Europe. Very cordially and sincerely yours, UZZIAH MINER. Richmond Singers Make Great Hit in Musicals—Royally Entertained The members of the Sabbath Glee Club have returned after a successful Northern tour, during which they gave musicals, which delighted the audiences attending. They were enclosed Sunday, August 5th by the Alba Glee Club, of Baltimore. Mr. Booker, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. welcomed the Glee Club to the city, after having a luncheon was served. That night they sang at the Ebenezer M. E. Church, of _South Baltimore. Monday night, August 6th, they filled an engagement at Fitzgerald's Auditorium. They pleased the large audience with their songs, receiving many encores. Their favorite songs made a deep impression on the critical audience and by request they sang "Dearest Memories." Tuesday, August 7th they motored in touring cars to Capo May, N. J. to another engagement. They stopped at Hotel Dale to get some refreshments and were shown through by Mrs. Nancy Neilholm On Thursday night August 9th, Mr. S. M. Williams and a host of young women served buffet lunch, which was the climax to an auto party, the guest of Mr. Williams, the tour ended Friday, August 10th. Manager William Tinsley left for Boston, Mass. on business. Prof. Joseph Matthews, Messrs. George Wilkerson and Archer Ferris left for Philadelphia, where they spent a few Prof. Matthews sang at the Holy Trinity Baptist Church, of which W. F. Graham, D. D. is pastor. The following was the personnel of the glee club on the trip: Tenors, William Tinsley, George Wilkerson, Charles Waddy, Dr. A. C. Johnson, Hamlet Randolph, John Jones, William Hall; Barnett, Sam Wood, Morris Tyler, Alex Dandridge, Grump; Basses, Joseph Brown, Augustus Jefferson, Louis Bland, Archie Curris, Prof. Joseph Matthews, leader If I was you, and you was me. Pray tell me where on earth! you'd be, if the draft man called for thee. Ang. 4 times 3 plus 1 plus 3? What day is that?—Oh yes I know; I would be down at Buckroe, wich the Sunday School of Mt. O, for 'tis 4 times 4 plus 2 plus 4. WOODLAND PARK A suburban park, with all modern improvements for colored people has been installed adjacent to Woodland Comet Court and quickly reached over the Fitzgerald Street viaduct. Boating on the lake is a feature. It will open to the public in the afternoon and evenings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays. Bathing will also be allowed one day in the week for males and one for females for this purpose may be obtained from the management. John Mitchell Jr., President, is 111 North Fourth Street; D P Drags, Secretary, 506 North Second Street. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1917 MAJOR J. B. JOHNSON Joseph Brown Johnson was born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, in 1845 of free parents. His early life was spent on the Colly Farm where he was born. He moved to the town of Manchester when a lad, and began life's work as an iron worker in the Titanic Company. By close attention to duty he soon became an indispensable factor in that industry. His fame spread throughout the South, he being in demand, so much so, in 1886 a very flattering offer came to him to take charge of a large rolling mill in Chattanooga, Tenn., which he accepted and performed his commission with satisfaction to his company and with credit to himself His military career began at the Civil War. He was one of the original members of the Union Guard of the city of Manchester, rising from first lieutenant to captain of the company. He served as adjutant of the battalion of which he afterwards became major in 1882 his service continued in a command with Spain, commanding the first battalion of the Sixth Virginia Infantry, United States Volunteers. He was a man of lofty aspirations and high ideals. Illustrative of this feature of his character, which was demonstrated in his canvas for a seat in the Congress of the, United States, despite the great opposition at that time, he made a most creditable run, winning the Battle of Hobson. He was a Past Master of Hobson's Lodge, No. 23, A, P. & A. M., South Richmond, Va. He leaves a devoted wife, daughter, son and two sisters Major Johnson aided Tuesday, August 7th. His funeral was held on Friday 10th, August, 1917. Archdeacon Russell, of Lawrenceville, assisted by Rev. Jackson, of St. Philips P. I. Church, Richmond, conducted the religious service. The body was interred on the farm with full Masonic and military honors. The body was buried in Kinsnell's Camp No. 6, United Spanish War Veterans, Richmond, James H. Brown commander. THE JUBILEE ECHO. President Galvin Delivers Great Ad dress—Prizes Awarded The Fifth Street Baptist Church, under the leadership of its able pastor, won the gold medal and the banner in the money raising contest of the Baptists at the Jubilee meeting at Lynchburg, Va., in July. The formal presentation of the prizes took place last Wednesday night at the above named church, and President A. A. Galvin was present to deliver an address upon that occasion. He performed the task in a most appropriate and earnest manner. The rostrum was occupied by leaders of the denomination. The following interesting programme was carried out: "The Year of Jubilee." Fifth Street Choir; invocation, Rev. J. H. A. Cyrus; solo, Rev. W. H. James, Echoes from the Women's Department, Mrs. Rosa Lovings; presentation of Banner from the Women's Department, Mrs. Lucy A. Coles; Echoes from the B. Y. P. U. Department, Mr. R. C. Hilti president of B Y. P. U. State Convention, and Miss Kate Doley; solo, Mr. N. A. hooker; presentation of the Speaker of the Dr. L. C. Garland; "After Rays of the Jubilee." President A. A. Galvin; solo, Mr. James H. Walls; "The Sunday School's Quota," by Superintendent R. H. Fanterley; "My Impressions of the Jubilee," Deacon J. B. Page; presentation of the Gold Medal, Lawyer J. Thomas Hewin; presentation of the Jubilee Major Banner, President Galvin. The banner was received on the part of the Church by Deacon George Lee. "Paye, as Master of Ceremonies, was a member of the congregation are jubilant over the success of the movement. More than thirteen thousand dollars was raised as a result of the rally. Crabs! crabs! crabs! hear the glorious call, fish just out the water, ready down there for all. I am going down to get a few. Wednesday August 22. When Mt. O, goes again, to Buckroe. Let Cophas do your Renting. Office 535 1-2 North Second street. Telephone, Randolph 588 Rev. R. Beecher Taylor To Marry. On Monday, August 27th, 1917, at 4:30 P.M. M., Rov. R. Becerber Taylor and Mrs. Jennie B. Robinson will be unified in the holy bona of wodlock. —606 Price Street. Richmond, Va. Reception 4:16 to 4:5 P.M. m. same evening. Friends invited; no card! M. for Danville, both have delegates to District Grand Lodge and Household of Rath, G. U. O., O. F. PRESIDENT WALDRON ACTS The Planet's Attitude Commended- Committed to Hundred Outgoing Office of the President of the Committee of 100 Colored Citizens on the War—1334 V St., N. W., Washington, P.C., Aug 11, 17; Honorary John Mitchell, Jr., The Richmond Planet, Richmond, Virginia. My dear friend Mitchell; On the day I telephoned you I took up, as you suggested, the matter of passing resolutions with regard to the temporary exclusion of The Planet from the mails with your attorneys. I tailed the matter over with them carefully twice during the day and they advised that we defer passing resolutions with regard to the matter later in the month promising to advise us with regard to the time when said resolutions should be passed. The article objected to by the Richmond Postmaster was read at the meeting of our Committee on last Wednesday night and the members were urged to encourage The Planet in every way in its fight for a free press and for the full rights of our people. The members seemed deeply in sympathy with you and desire that of The Planet sympathy to the editor of The Planet. They stand ready as individuals and as an organization to help the editor and his assistant in any way they can. You are waging a splendid fight for the rights of our race and of humanity in general. Keep up the good fight and call on us whenever we can help you. I trust that your health is good and I beg to remain REV REED'S PROPHECY. He speaks Boldly About Existing Conditions. Hartford, Conn., August 13, 1917. Hon John John, Editor. The Editor. My dear friend Mitchell: I wish to add my congratulations on your unlocking of your paper. The holding-up of your paper is a common expression of the average southern office-holder's attitude toward respectable colored people. If that letter had appeared in one of the white papers in Richmond, the Democrat in the P. O. there would have paid no attention to it. Suppose you had been a poor man without influence? There is no need for vindication of this shameful outrage. The South needs democracy a great deal more than Russia. When two or three million more of colored people leave the South for the North, the South may learn a little sense. Thousands of colored people have come to our vicinity in the last twelve months and thousands are yet needed. Common laborers get three dollars per day as fast as they strike$^2$ soil. The industrial fields of the North are going to remain open to your people and they won't try to keep them there any more, and in a few years we will send for you and "The Planet." Mr. H. Jones, of Powhatan county Va. was in the city this week. Mrs. Clarence Bowman, of New York City is visiting her mother, Mrs. V. J. Grimman, who is indisposed at her residence, 722 E. Bates street. Mrs. E. R. Carter and daughter, Miss Karolyn M., left the city last Tuesday for Varina District, Va. Miss Carter had been ailing for some months but is now improving. She is spending her convalescing period with friends at Varina. Miss Lafon Cogbill, accompanied by Mr. Ernest Egleston, left the city today (Saturday) for Surry county, Va., where they will be the guest of their cousin, Miss Estelle Nelson, for a week. Rev. J. Andrew Bowler—accompanied by his daughter, Ethel, left for Farmville, Va. Wednesday. He will leave his daughter to spend the remainder of the Summer. Misses Juliet and Kenny Lee Fitzgerald, of Philadelphia and Hackensack, were among the out of town guest at the Mr. and Mrs David J. Fitzgerald's wedding reception last Tuesday. After attending a picnic at Rock Castle, Va. The Misses Fitzgerald left for Deal Beach, N. J. This was Miss Kenny Fitzgerald's first visit to Richmond in twelve years. WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Albert Banks announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lillian Beatrice to Reverend C. A. Lindsay, August 29, 1917, at 3:00 o'clock P. M., In the Jerusalem Baptist Church, Sparta. Va. The couple will be at home, Filo, Va., after September 8rd. They will begin housekeeping in Richmond, Va., October 1, 1917. THE NEGRO IS GOING NORTH- WHY? THE NEGRO IS GOING NORTH- WHY? The Southern newspapers are awaking in minor measure to their duty in calling a halt against the chain of iniquity being visited upon the Aro-American portion of the population. True base selfishness lies on the bottom of the call; but it begins to loosen when the only appeal which reaches the Southern white man, when it comes to dealing with the Aro-American. Just now a few first-class Southern white newspapers, among them the Dallus News, Houston Post, Ft. Worth Record, are telling some old established truth about the unrest of the Aro-American in his newfound desire to go North. These and a few more newspapers operated by white men, are telling e other white people and the world, why the Afro-American is leaving the South. While making cut their case, they incidentally tell of the grusome conditions which have settled over the South, wherever a colored person is to be found. There are colored people who find in these deliverances something for which to hope, touching the manhood rights of the Afro-American. There are members of the Afro-American. There is much comfort in a respectable white person or newspaper, declaring that lynching should cease and that courts, not mohs, should execute the law. These colored men forget that a few brave patriotic, Christian hearted white people like Windell Phillips, Garrison, Lovejoy, Burney, Harriet; Beacher Stowe Bob Ingersol, Aba Lincoln, John Brown and others, have always had the courage of their convictions and spoke out for justice, but the residue of the white people have always treated the colored man of the inferior of all other elements of the human family. Today, this is the universal family of the American white people (South) to word the Negro, with scarcely an inch of the Contempt by Southern whites is so great for the Negro, until it is positively embarrassing to come in contact with or undertake to do any business with them. There is the infernal Jim Crow law at every turn, affecting almost everything; there is the disposition to treat lightly the opinion of the Negro, even in matters affecting his own exclusive welfare; there is the idea that all racial differences of whatever character, should be suit the white man; in business, trade and labor, the Negro is treated and imbodify and in the courts of justice, (P). the fact is notorious that, equal rights and fair play are not to be expected, where the colored man and white man have a contest. We could go on recounting these inequalities from morning 'till night without reaching the end of the chapter. A case in point in this city is the shameful neglect of the Negro in the matter of providing parks and play grounds for colored people. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent for the entertainment of whites, while scarcely anything has been set aside for the use of the more than 23 000 colored people of the city; notwithstanding the fact that they pay taxes on a million and a half dollars' worth of property in the city limits. Conditions in Dallas are not particularly different in other Southern cities. These are the causes which have created unrest among the colored people of Texas and the South and in their effort to peaceably escape them, they are leaving the South for the North, where they hope to find a better charge in the city. The Negro is advised that he is not wanted North. He knows that he will meet in measure the same kind of opposition from the same race of people, whether he behaves himself or not, but in desolation, a large number have come to the conclusion that they can do no worse. The Dallas Express has never favored a wholesale emigration of the Negro from the South. It does not now. It believes that the conditions which prevail in the South have been created by the white people. It believes that they should remove these conditions—unshackle the greatest country beneath God's sun, by giving every man a chance to be all that he can. The time has come for character and worth to count, whether its possessor he a white man or a black man. The better element of the white people generally have nothing to lose by giving the colored man a man's chance, and the sooner they reach this conclusion the better. Of course there are a few lazy white people who think that if the Negro is given a fair chance they will be distanced in the race upward. This is true. There are a few ignorant whites who are silly enough to think that the Negro desires social equality, forgetful of the fact that white men, almost exclusively are the ones who insist of cohanzitating with Negro women. Social equality is an individual idea, and the law cannot pun- late it; but it is our opinion that the Negro cares far less about associating with white people, than white people care about associating with him. Let us try justice and fairness. Let us treat him with a fair ear for all, and that it is our opinion that we shall have nothing to regret on account of the experiment. The Dallas Express wants to see the Negro in large measure remain in the South, but it demands for him fair treatment while he works out his desiccation. But that is not a mistake—Dallas, Texas, Express. INDICT 105 IN RACE RIOT. Grand Jury Calls due East St. Louis Trouble "Deliberate Plot" Belleville, Aug. 15.—Sixty-eight indictments against 165 persons, the charges including murder, arson, conspiracy, rioting and assault to murder, were resigned by the grand jury here Tuesday, which has been investigating the race riots in East St. Louis, July 1 to 3. The report of the grand jury said: "We believe riots, at least the occurrences which led up to them, were deliberately plotted. Indent public officials heard the rumblings, but overawed by wary indecision remained inactive. "We have found it obligatory to indict a high police official. An attorney at law, accused of making an inflammatory speech advocating mob violence, has been summoned by an indictment to answer the 'charge' SEE PROPAGANDA OF INTOLERANCE. "We believe that the riot was caused by a propaganda of intolerance which the races were taught to have for each other. During the last two years there has been an influx of Negroes estimated at 8,000. This influx has increased largely that the advanced prices of labor and the demand for labor in East St. Louis. There is, we believe, sufficient work for those who desire to work and at good wages." The report takes up in detail the growing antagonism between the two races made economic competitors and says they worked to create trouble by spreading reports that both sides were arming. GATHERED AT DR. BUNDY'S PREMISES. The report continues: "On Sunday, July 1, a large number of Negroes were attacked near the Free bridge. Throughout the afternoon hundreds of Negroes gathered at the premises of Dr. Bundy, a recognized leader of the colored people in East St. Louis. Whether Dr. Bundy and his followers were of the honest opinion that they were obliged to employ arms for protection or whether Bundy was the paid tool of the agitators, they were unable to discover. "We are satisfied, however, that a wicked plot was formed to bring on the riot, the suspect being that If the police of East St. Louis could by having their officers set be made to sympathize with the action of the mob, it could carry out its purposes without interference." MORE TOLERANCE IS URGED The grand jury recommended that there "should be a greater degree of tolerance between the white population and the colored population, that the whites should recognize that the mental services of the Negro are necessary. The grand jury report recommends the establishment by the State of a constabulary of 1,000 or more trained state policemen to constant duty to be moved in sections from one place to another. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 535 1-2 North Second street. Telephone. Randolph 588 Rocaster, don't you grow solo, stand around and look so proud. Got my myself, my hand, soon you'll be in Bucklewood, with Mt. O. Ang. 4 times 2 plus 4. READ!—AND ACT!!—QUICK!!! 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A moment later, Mrs. Scar rushed from her apartments with the statement that Lou had shot herself. She later admitted that she had fired the shot that killed the colored girl. She says that the girl came in her apartments and she was fingering the army revolver. The whole affair is shrouded in mystery. Mrs. Scar was placed under arrest pending a further investigation of the affair. Mrs. Vina Scar, eighteen years old, a bride of only a few weeks, was arrested today charged with fatally shooting Louise Brown, nineteen-year-old colored girl, employed as a doorkeeper. Mrs. S. B. Frederick, 517 North Fourth Street, the technical charge was involuntary imprisonment. In the opinion of Coroner Whitfield, the shooting was an accident. He said he did not deem an inquest necessary. It was about 7:30 o'clock this morning when neighbors of Mrs. Sear, who was the first-floor flat at 519 North Fourth Street, heard a platoil shot. Mrs. Frederick, who just sat down to breakfast, thought it only the blowout of an automobile tire and did not pay much attention to it. A moment or so later Mrs. Sear ran out of her apar nacer aerospace leading to the front entrance of Mrs. Frederick's home. Mrs. Sear was screaming at the top of her voice and crying out that "You had shot herself." Mrs. Frederick first thought it was a little white girl of the neighborhood of that name until Mrs. Scar informed her that it was her domestic. Mrs. Scarred promptly called the city ambulance and when the doctor arrived and found the colored girl dead in Mrs. Scar's apartment, the police were summoned. Again this time Mrs. Scar admitted that it was she who shot the girl, but she claimed it was an accident. According to Mrs. Scar's account of the affair, the girl came over to her apartment this morning to deliver a message from her washerwoman and while she began handling an army six-shooter revolver belonging to John Scar, Mrs. Scar's husband, employed at the Richmond Cedar Works, who is a veteran of the Spanish-American war. First the girl removed five cartridges from the revolver and snapped it, playfully. Mrs. Sear took the playful, and pointing it at the girl, pulled the trigger, thinking that all the balls had been removed. The revolver went on the bullet penetrating the girl's left cheek just below the eye and entering the head, killing her almost instantly. According to Mrs. Frederick, who has charge of the flat in which Mrs. Sear lives as well as the one next door for rental purposes, the girl's Mrs. Sear were, so far as she knows, on good terms. Mrs. Sear was taken to the First Police station and placed in the woman's department there, which is in charge of Mrs. Ogilvie, the police matron. Her husband, who was quickly notified, began preparations to have her bailed. The couple was married on Rev. J. B. Hutton, of Pine Street. Warrant charging Mrs. Sear with involuntary manslaughter was sworn out by Patrolman F. Hanky, of the Second district. Other patrolmen who investigated the case were Traffic Sergeant Bradley, B. A. Pillow and Defective Sergeant John Willy. One report of the tragedy had it that a woman had dropped dead on the street in that neighborhood. Sear, it is said, was not accustomed to keep his pistol loaded. A few nights ago he thought he heard a burglar on the premises, and so when he went out to investigate he filled the six chambers with cartridges. When he returned without finding a burglar he left the pistol on his dresser without unloading it. The first person to reach the scene of tragedy was Walter Lane, who resides in a flat above that of the Sear. He is said to have run in just as Mrs. Scar was rushing out of the room, screaming and highly exulted. Coroner Whitfield did not probe for the bullet to determine what digests it had taken. It was more than an hour before tragedy before the police were notified the call coming into the Second station about nine o'clock, according to the sorgeant in charge at that time. Let Cophas do your Renting. Office 535 1-2 North Second street. Tele- phone. Rancho 535 [3 A CONVICT FIT 10 BE A FIRST-CLASS —— SOLDIERR __ Bleven thor sand able-bodied men in New York state—100,000, perhaps many more throughout the country would eagerly weleomé an opportun. ily to go lo the front and fight for Unels Sam. But they eannet go be: ewuse they rs batuind the bars. sow do L know this? Because up to three weeks ago. Twas myself a prisoner in Sing Sing prison, where J have been serving a sentence of Uiree years. And beans ute government Wil] not take a oman with a prison record 1 cannot gy inte the army. or navy. WOULD I't Bi UNFAIR? 1 have paid socieiy in full the pen- alty assessed against me for an of- fense of which my own conscience ac- quits 1, but now that 1 haye done so 1 am still branded with he prison mark as unit to serve my country! even the mame signed to this article is not my own, Should’ the government permit t.e Vast army of men in our prisons. to Join the colors? Would it be unfair to other men who have never suffered the shame and humiliation ot a prison sentence to permit convicts to enlist? My answer to the rst qiestion is “yes” ana my answer to the second ix “no. Prisoners who desire to do. so ought to be permitted to enlist because the vast majority of the men behind bars today are "neither better nor worse than the average man outside the prison gaces. ‘They are simply more unfortunate, MEN WANT TO PIGLET, Lacrved as office nan to Me warden of Sing Sing prison during my. term there and Thad good opportunity to meet and observe all types of men in that prison, My work as a newspaper man qualified me to a certain exteat, to judge these men. Let me tell the story of one of these men. Pete Cul Jen. Peto is sorving a term of ten years. Yet Pete is absolutely inno: “nt af the erie for which he was anvieted, Sere was a robbery com. mitted by ong of Pete's friends, and Peto was arrestod for it, He fell bad: ly ahont it at first but when he found his friend hada wife and tour chil dren, Pee 'sat tight—he is UN in Sing Sing’ prison, I Is only a little while ago when he said to me: “Geo L'a give my right arm to go to France and fight.” And he meant it. When news of the coming conttiet with Germany was first brought to the prison, a petition was brought to Act. ing Warden George W. Kirchwey, signed by every able-bodied prisoner. In it they petitioned the warden to go fo Albany: and ask Governor Whit man to allow them to fight for theit country, Why ‘not? Is the thing too farteten. ed? “We do need men at the front. ‘The military authorities in Washing ten are making appeals for re- eruits, What is true of New York hols good in every state in the union, It has been proved that prisoners may he irusted. ‘They have proved the.r timber in “a hundred ways. and havo always come owt on top. WOULD SACRIFICE Lives, One © -nered thousand of these mei are ready to join the army tomorrow! Even the foreign horn prisoners. went about tLe thing with enthusiasm, This is the spirit manifested. by. the men confined in the:-prisons of New York state, and knowing prisoners as Well as 1 do, T know the same spirit animates those confined in other pris ons tiroughout the union. ‘The. au Morities haye confined these man be cause they were proven unworthy ol Uberiy “They were placed there on {we assum ption that when they ¢ me home they wou prove worthy of 4 place in the world again, Suppose a prisoner reforhed the first week he was there > 1 isw’t 4 question of time, but one of inclinatio: ‘The boys want to fight for thelr country-—isi't that_an evi denes of reform? ‘They are willing. 1 sacrifice thoir lives in an effort to wipe out the disgrace that had veen. the fortune, ® ChHAPER THAN PRISONS. It costs more to run a prison than te maintain an army in the fleld. Prisons manufacture criminals—sceiety must pay the damage, however unwilling they may be. One man with criminal Inctiaations ean do as much damage as a German U-boat. You are paying millions of dollars yearly in burglar Insurance, because “you insist upon treatng a follow human boing as 4 fog, or worse. Governor West. In Oregon, and Governor Munt in” Art zona have proved to the world that IT a prisoner is treated as a man, le acts like a man. There is a mighty force of energy stor dup in che prisons. This power Is ready to be used for good. | Whs not pve thom a ence?” ‘They wil make good soldiers becuse they nre used to hardships—the napkin, chafing dish or finged how! were not included tn their surroundings, ‘Their hands do not have to be beautifully manieur cd. or their scarfs Knotted to perfec tion—they want to fight in the caus © human liberty, heeause they, above all men, know what liberty means! Topeka Capital. MANY COLORED MEN CERTIFIED FOR SERVICH IN BURST DRAPT ARMY, Local Division No. 2 Announces 13 of Its Quota as Physically Fi¢ and not Exempted, and not Exempted, Division No, 2 Exemption Board has in compliance “ith a request from the provost-marshal-eneral, reported the names of one-third ef the men from hat district who wil be called upen fer the drafted army, Fifty-eight mon in this division have claimed no ex emption and have passed the physical examination, while the fifty-ninth man was examined out of town and passed tue physical examination and claim ed, no ‘exemption, | The list of tnose in Division No. 2 certified for army service follows: ~ Ployd Bocker, 730 Williams. Srtect dames Kdward Brown, 2226) West Moore, John Henry Harris, 906 St. Peter Street. Daniel W. Cooper, 1300 West Leigh Street George W Jones, 1313 West Leigh Street. “Vincent Grande, 418 West Marshall Street. ‘George Weodlin, 907 West Clay Street, eq overt Randolyi White, 1311 Boyd Street. *ienry #7. Schaefer, 1215 West Clay Street. Canton MeFarley 419 North Mat- son, William 1. Redd, 900 North First Screet. Marvel Marrow, 703 2 Catherine Street Henry ‘P. Manning, B.D, No. 9, south tien ond. Oliver Braneh, 1711 West Leigh Streei, James 1. Thornton, 712 Munford Street. Floyd Overby, 1102 St. Peter street, Anerow Poindexter, 1202 St. Joni Street. ‘Raymond W. Mills, ALC. 1. RR, Wilmington, N.C. Walter Ware, 12 North Muntord Street. Arthur 1. Hickman, 1407 West Leigh, Roy Gaines, 1211 12 St. James Street. Monroe 0, Robinson, 1114 1-2 West Moore. Jeseph Taylor, 512 Kenney. Street, “larry He Atgustine, 2304 Stusrt Avenue. “Victor J. Novothy, 17 West Clay Street. “ioyd C. Taylor, 1517 West Ave- nue. “Rufus Allen Price, 2003 Park Ave- nue. Nathaniel Eis, 122 Palliam street, “John E. Purks, 1714 West Marshall, saatles B. Gathright, 116-4. Wes! nin, “Russell J, Brooks, 1016 West Clay Street, “Henry W. Ballz, 700 West Clay Street, William A. Bolling, 816 St. Paul Sircet, James B. Hargrave, 1012 1-2 Miek- ory. John +. Henderson, 401 West Grace, “Philip B, Strause, 2616 Monunient Avenue. Wred Gray, Jr, 102% St. Jour Sivvet Freeman’ Frazier, 4) Mast Leigh Street, James HH, Parmer, 513 North Secona, Oscar Seott, 906 St Pant Street, *Anthony I) Monahan, Jr, 1016-4 W. Clay. Bddie 2. Thompson, 105 West Jack- son. Stanley Jackson, 408 West Duval Street. *Raymond C, Mahoney, 1204 West Marshall, Page Braxton, 1724 West Leigh Streot, “Louis Massucco, 1726 West Mar- shall, “Rowley M Goolsby, Erb Drug Com- pany, Lynchburg, Va, Willie Woodall, 918 Floyd Avenue, Wille Strane, 1009 1-2 Hiekory Street. Kdward 1. Smith, 717 Clark Street. Harvey 1. Cosby, 1017 St. James Street Julian A. Knox, 108 West Federal Street. “Dudley P. Bowe, 605 North Davis Avenue, Willie Taylor, 1112-1 St. John Street “Herbert, Robios, 14 Rast Main Street arvey Page, 1220 Boyd Street “Itomie I. Alley, 1004 North Boule. vard. Mardie M. Burgin, 2066 West Grace Street Walter Morris, 1112 West Leigh Street. *White, GRAND JURY MAKES 119 RIOT CHARGES, Trouble Oy Missouri District Blamed on German Agents, Farmington, Mo., Aug. 9—The St. Francois county grand jury today re. turned 119 indictments against 113 men in connection with the recent antiforeign riots at Mat River, Among the offenses charged are in. citing to riot, interference with lawful employment and assault with intent to Kili, Prosecuting Attorney Matthews said he had heen cooperating with the Fed: eral authorities who are satisfied that the riots which tied up operations in the lead mining districts werg incited by paid German agents, | Phe names of the indicted men were not made public. Muskogee, Okla., Aug, 9.—Six alles. ed Tndustrial Workers of the World agitators are under arrest at Miami, Ottawa county, and several others have heen driven from the mining distirets there as the reswit of attempts to dynamite freight cars, according to re: sports. tothe United States marshal's eflice here, Mianii is in the lead and zine min: ing district. Messages today from County Attorney MeNaughton, ot Miami, said the trouble was over, Popular Bluff, Mo., Aug 9.—Fifteen pounds of dynamite were found by section men en the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad bridge here yester day. ‘They reported the matter to the United States deputy marshal today. THE RICHMOND PLANE), RICHMOND, VIRGINIA AN ADVENTURE IN LAW. liuaee black men as well as white Sugar Grove, Va. men, L shatl consider myself a dis- of her sister Mrs. (Washington , D.C. Pest.) nen to mv race and mv conntry hy te ware OL Wa he ‘The United States takes a step into Fnew and strange fields today by the enactment of the law empowering the Vresident to control food and fuel. Tis one of the mest important pieces of domestic legislation ever devised by Congress, and may be more far-reach- {nus than any other in its effects upoh the daily Hfe of the people. AL successful in its scope and opera- tion, this law will put an end to the manipulation of prices of food and fuel, IO will enable the consumer to buy these necessities at a price repre. senting nothing more than a. reason. able pront to a restricted number of persons actually and necessarily hand- ling the goods on their way from the growl to’ the table or the fur- nace, Can the President through his cho- gen agents, accomplish this wonder. ful ideal? “We mean, can he accom plish it successfully and benefietally, without strikes, shutdowns, banic rupteies or denioraliaztion of legit: imate business? ‘Theoretically the task cannot be ae- complished, Practically, we believe tt can and will be done, In the frst place, it wil not be necessary to invoke the rigor of the law against offenders, as a rule. ‘The terror of the law will be suMeient to PUE nine out Of ten food speculaters to flight. ‘The fact thai. the Presi. dent can’ come down upon a specula. tor, hoarder. manipulator or monop- ols and put hime behind. the. bars Will he enough to cause these erimt nals to seek other pastures. ‘They are a shrewd lot, ag fs evident by what they have accomplished withon! detection and punishment; and they know when to quit. | On this side of the erin’nals are another lot, sll shrewder, who ope rate within’ the law. ‘They comprise the unuceessary aiiddlenien, the hans erson and leeches who. stick. profits out of food and fuel as these neces: saries pass along to the consumer. Te Will be diMienlt to destroy this class, and the process will take a consider: able time, but the work can he done. ‘The way fs cpen for the simplitica- tion and ‘systemization of marketing methods. "The producer and. eonsum er can be brought within sight of each other by this law. ' A great deal of the work must be experimental and tentative... ‘The preblem is peentiar to the United States in many respec's although in lis greater features there is much to he gained by studying the experience of other nations. Untortuntely, this war has already shown ws that na: tions are reluctant to take short ents to efficiency by profiling by the expe: rience ef other nations,” Bach prefers astumble along in its own way, often over ground that” hay already heen trod by its ally. ‘The food ad: ministrator of the United States has haw mich experience in foreign coun. tries during this war, and so far as he can he will apply ‘t's experience, Taken by and large, however, his ap: Pacation of the Taw must be hn the nature of an experiment. Bitter attacks are to be expected from tho interests alfected by this law, From the President down, everyhedy: concerned in enforcing tho law. will Wwe maligned. Nothing in the imme: diate future is more apparent. than the gathering of sinister forces to ham per and embarrass the government In executing this great law. ‘The peo- ple, however, are overwhelmingly. he hind the President and the food ad- ministration, and we may he sure that the people will not he eajoted, in- Himidated er swindled into. abandon- ment of the new law, "THREE WASHINGTON MEN ON TORPSDORD SHIP, Ten Lives Lost From Crew of the British Steamer Avgalia, Newport News, Va, Aug. 9.—'The Lritish steamer Argatia has been tor- pedoed and sunk olf the coast of Eng: land, Capt, Morris and ten of the crew losing their lives, according to a cable- gra received ‘here last night by agents for the steamer. ‘here were 40 American mutetcers on the steamer. Whether any of the crew reported lost were American was net stated. ‘The survivors were landed at Glas- Kow, Scotland, from which place the message was Sent, ‘The Argalia left here July 18 for a British port with a eargo of horses, ‘The United States Shipping Company was agent for the steamer, She was not one of the regular Brit: ish admiralty ships, according to Writ. ish Vice Consul C.'B, Kenworthy. ‘The Americans on hoard the Argalia were: H.C. Maherty, Russellville, Ky.i J. G. MeCauley, Chambersburg, Vaz W. P. Carpenter, Washington, D. C.; "B,J. Shannon, Bangor, Maine; Fred Baker, Cincinnati; William Hunter, Baltimore; John ' Gorman, Philadel: phia; Charies Nagle, Mamiiton, Ohio; G. G. Howell, Maryland; 1. B. Sear: berough, Buxton, N.C. ‘Thomas. Me- Auliffe, Raltimore; Howard King, Baltimore; William ‘Tneker, — Talti- more;James Bowles, Norfolk; 't'.’ Do. lan, Baltimore; J. 1. Moore, Newport News; IF, M. Runnels, Raleigh, N. C.; Marshall Crenin, Newport News; Wil: Ham Dunn, Springfietd, W.; James C Wright, ——; ‘Thomas Slater, Balti: more; Mailin Reifelt, Baltimore; John J, Duncan, Philadelphia; Evan ML. Mitchen, Camden, N. J; G.I. Le- hee. Milwaukee; Gus Felman, Phila- dolphias William Wallace, Scranton, Pa.; Vietor J. Messner, | Baltimore! Charles” ‘Tyron, "Baltimore; "Thome. Dughan, Waltham, Mass.;" ‘Thomas Mack, Washington; William MeGreg- or, San Francisco; Bert Seymour, Lake Geneva, Wis.; William ‘Thomp: son, New York; James BH. Ghallinger, Kaltimore,; Robert Wherhart, Balti: More; ‘Thomas Mekllingott, Washing. fon, and 1, Benson, Peoria, 1. PLANET STILL MOVES. (Baltimore, Md., Afro- American.) Unless President Wilson speaks out like Colonel Roosevelt, nntess I am assured that the flag will offer protec: tion to the 12,000,000 colored people in this country, and unless “I am con: vineed that World Democracy in- eludes black men as well as white men, L shall consider myself a dis. ‘grace to my race and my country by Treely volunteering to fight fora De- moeracy across the seas, because, I firmly betieve and maintain that De- moeracy like charity should begin at home and spread abroad.” ‘The above from the pen of Vzziah Miner. a correspondent of the Rich- mond Planet, caused that paper to be held in, the Richmond Post-oftice until last Wednesday. Postmaster ‘Thorn ton informed the editor that no mat- ter caleulated to interfere with the mobilization of the U. S. forces could be sent through the mails, When it is reasonable true that no newspaper should publish —ma‘ter arousing and inciting its readers to rebellion and resistance to the laws of the state and the government, it fs also truo that I isan inhereat Ameri can right to protest against any po- litleal policy, condition or taw, and to voice that protest. in private or in public. ‘There would be little differ- ence “between democratic America and autocratic Kurope if) citizens should feel themselves obliged to re- main silent under real or fancted in- Justices. The fact that Bdltor Mitchell final- ly won his point and had his paper delivered through the mails, is anoth- er victory for free speech In America. Had he failed, an effective muzzle would have been placed on every colored weekly. ‘The victory of the Richmond Planet is the victory of colored press. EDITOR CLIFFORD'S TRIBUTE, (Martinsburg. W.Va, Pioneer Press) } It is too bil that a man of editor John Mitchell, Jr's. patriotism who has done so much for he Red Cross society and this country's welfare, shout have his paper, the Manet har: red from the mail because he publish- ed a communication ‘ahout) that hor- reble Bast St. Louis, butchery of hu- man beings, He urged colored men to enlist and fight for this country, and although: too old to be drafted, regretted he could not go to war for his country, Editor Mitchell is one, if not the greatest living Negro. When the banks of Richmond, Va. were — al- most swariped and needed money ‘0 Ude them over the panie, his bank gloriously carried them over it He is a high-toned edueated man Whose vont is on fire for the rights and against the wrongs of his peo: ple, and a nation as big as this one, dy all means should weigh well the eases that arouse such men to ad- mii such Chings into their papers in the hope of making Uhings better for themselves and their, suffering peo. ple, Hditor Mitchell meant no harm and if, on the spur of a moment the powers that be saw as they “believed harmful results of that communiea- tion and will show it to Mr. Miteh- eH, we guarantee he will, editorial- ly put himself right before the pub- He and stand as firmly by the flag and its rights as any man in Amer- fea, For one, we will go to see the President and our noble townsman, Seeretar of War, Newton D, Baker iv ints behait BRISTOL, TENN -VA, NOTES. dir and Mrs, Jack Campbell and others went up to Chilhowie, Va. to attend the burial of Mr. Fisher Camp. hell who died ‘Thursday. Aug. 2nd at his beautify home in Chilhowie, Va, He had been a member of the Meth: odise chureh fer 40 years and was a faithful member, He had heen in failing health tor six months but the streng hand of death carried him. to that great beyond where the souls of just men are made perfect and the weary are at rest. fle hes one full brother Miro J. CL Campbell who. re. sides in Bristol, "Tenn. He tived to the age cf 63 years, He leaves. one uichter, and “one grand daughter and a host of friends to mourn theit loss, T cannot say, 1 will not say tha: he fs dead. “He is just away! With cheery smile and a wave of the dhand he has wanuaered into an unknown Jand. “Think cf him sty as the same. say he is not dead—he is just away! Miss Magnolia Pritchard has been quite ill for three weeks or more, hw: is able to be out again to the delish: of her many triends.she sone al Knexville College students, Dr. 8. P. Mayo avd MroRradly lett for Chieazo, Til, to attenu the Con- nectional Council. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Harrington epent ene day at Riverside Park the Hist of July. ‘They report a grand time. Mr Harrington spent some: tine fishing and to his surprise he canght a curtle, Mr. and Mrs. R. Clay and family Spent the day at Riverside Park, Tonn., last week. ‘They truly enjoy. ed the das Mr. and Mrs, Abram of W..Va., left for their home ‘Tuesday, duly” Bist. ‘They have been visiting their mother and sisters and other relatives. Mr. George Logan ene of the Negro Rusiness carve Glee Club members is very il. We all hope for hima speedy recovery, Mrs. Hallie—is here from the West to visit her mother, ‘The Lee Street Baptist Sunday School's grand picnic at Riverside Park, ‘Tenn., was largely attended. Mrs. Margie Whitman owner of the Mleetric Home Larndry on With St. is making Kood in her business and has purchased a lovely car for quick delivery. Call to see her when. you want first-class Inundry done, ‘The famous Negro Business League will give one of its uptodate con. certs Monday night at Christian church, making preparations for ¢he National Negro Business League meet ing Chattanooga, ‘Tonn., August 15, Mrs. Ethel Barber and tittle son Junius went t- Jonesboro, ‘Penn,, te visit home folks there: Sho has’ re turned and reports a pleasant time, Miss Mary Penn, left Monday for Sugar Grove, Va., to be at the bedside of her sister Mrs. Lottie Madison who is very Ml, We hope for her a speedy recovery, Miss Almeta Sherman and — Miss Bessie A, Smith will leave for points in Virginia next week on a_ vacation, There er wedding to be soon guess who? Mrs, Mary radly, Mrs, Alice Hughes, Mrs. Bell Carter all are on the sick list this week Mrs, James Smith had a lawn pitty on the campus of the ‘Tenn, Hight Scheol, ‘Thursday night, Aug. 9th for the benefit of “the Lee St.” Baptist ehureh, AN enjoyed the evening pleasantly. 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PXCELSIOR HAIR PREPARATIONS are made only by— THE EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO- 265 8. Bland St., Bluofield, W. Va. road and commenced to pine for a laste of red melon, Visions ofy a big feast with a grand rind battle as a fitting eilmax began to pass before their eyes and they became a sad and forlorn set of boys—but in their dis- tress they cried unto the Lord and suflice to say,.one of the melon cars jumped the track and spread the Juicy fruit all four ways of the com- pass. ‘There was a ery of delight, a rush for the scattered fruit and a chorus of Hp-smaecking and the fa- miliar gurgling sound of swallowed Juics, Some ate until they had to stretch out, others dropped on the way home —BUT ALL ARB SUPFER- ING WITIL THE BELLY-ACHE. e ```markdown ``` FIVE FRIDAYS $By$ FRANK R. ADAMS Copyright, by Frank A. Munsey Company SYNOPSIS. Lucio 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 mainland by motorboat. The boat breaks down and Bopp is marooned. During a fierce storm Mrs. Green faunts and is revived by a sturmland, which intoxicates her. Blainey discovers Lucio 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 Dummore, an actress, speaking of marriage. He is nonplussed, but Lucie's jealousy is aroused. A supply boat is wrecked on rocka near by. The crew hands 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 Blainey a dramatic critic 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 Chair, another stranded visitor. Not wishing to marry, he swims away from the island. Mrs. Green phones that a strange man is dogging her. Lucile hears her scream, then the phone won't work again. Lucile phones the sheriff on the mainland. A reporter invades the island to write up the mystery. Blainey makes him a prisoner and in the evening hires a launch to hunt for Mrs. Green. CHAPTER XV. A Disappointed Sheriff. "A "As we have no weapon with which to fight back, I suppose we had better surrender," said Clair. Suddenly the fusillade ceased, and a moment later a voice at the door exclaimed: "Resistance is useless. Every corner of the room is covered. John, show a light!" "I do," I promised solemnly. "Humph! Desperate characters!" declared the voice in the doorway. Several men entered and lit two kerosene lamps which they found in a cupboard and a lantern which seemed to belong to their party. In the illumination thus afforded I could make out at least a dozen men of the type which is indigenous to the bench in front of the small town grocery store. Just now, however, they were doing an imitation of the vigilance committee in the third act of "The Virginian." One carried a coil of half inch rope, and all were armed 100 "Lynch 'em!" yelled the man who carried the rope. "Lynch 'em!" yelled the man who carried the rope. with weapons, which ranged from shotguns to horse pistols. One, a little better dressed than the rest, carried a camera, which he proceeded to set up in one corner of the room. "Ye're arrested," announced the original speaker, a rather heavy set man with gray machetes of the trailing arbutus type. "I'm the sheriff." He displayed a brilliant new star plumed to a suspender bordering a shirt front which was slightly discolored by tobacco. "Arrested!" Clair demanded. "What for? "Fer willful murder." The sheriff shivered slightly as he spoke. "Ain't that so, boys?" A growl answered him. "Lynch 'em!" yelled the man who carried the rope, apparently fearful less he had brought his burden in vain. "Aye, that's it. String 'im up!" These and other enthusiastic cries reassured him. "Now, wait a minute, boys." The sheriff turned a cold eye on his enthusiastic retinue and spat with a fair degree of accuracy at the kitchen stove. "While as a private individual I have to admit, boys, that I would enjoy a lynchin' as much as any of you, still I have to remember that I have a duty to perform, a sacred trust—namely, to wit, to uphold the majesty of the law in Maskeloon county." "But we've never had a lynching in this county," protested the bloody thirsty man with the rope, "and they've had two over Lake county way." Local pride nearly swayed the sheriff against us, but at last he held up his hand. "I can't allow it, boys," he said regretfully. "All we can do, according to the law, is to take 'em to jail." "Before I move out of this place," Lipton S. Chair protested, "I've got to have some clothes." "All right, son," soothed the sheriff, "there ain't any call to get hectic about it. Si," turning to one of the others, "see if there ain't some old clothes in that closet in the hired help's room." Si departed and soon returned with a garment known in history as a Mother Hubbard, so called because of its resemblance to a squash. "This is all I could find," Si reported. "The Huntingdons' help was a female woman." "That'll do," the sheriff said briefly, tossing it to Clair. "Put this on without any arguments and we'll be on our way." Clair thought of protesting, but was overcome by the idea of the woman in the next room and hastily damned the garment, which was cut on lines designed to cover any sort of figure which nature could turn out. The effect of the dress plus the whiskers was startling, to say the least. "Before we go," the sheriff decided, "we had best have a look at the remains." To me he said: "Where is the deceased? Where is Mrs. Green?" "Mrs. Green hasn't been murdered," I started to set him straight. "I didn't ask how she met her death," the sheriff thundered. "Of course I don't expect you to admit you killed her. All I asked was where she is and, by George, I'll have an answer Where is she? I pointed silently at the locked door "Boys," said the sheriff, with emotion, "a poor, defenseless woman lies beyond that door fondly done to death by these here rufians. Smith, Wadsworth, Clancy, Snider, you will act an ambulance department." Four of his comedians went toward the door. "Wait," the leader commanded. "Be fore you enter that room take off then hats." The four nondescript hats came off silently. Then they discovered that the door was locked. However, that proved only a slight obstacle, for the lock was easily forced. It struck me as funny that Mrs. Green had not walked out on the scene before this A premonition of coming disaster gripped my heart. The four men re-entered, carrying reverently a limp figure, which was unmistakably Mrs. Green. Had she been struck by a stray bullet from the attacking party? If she had, things certainly were looking black for Clair and myself. We had no way of proving that we were innocent, and all these unanticipated evidences would be against us. A murmur of anger ran around the room, and the man with the rope fingered it nervously. "Steady, boys!" the sheriff ordered. "One moment." The young man with the camera held up his hand. "Don't move." There was a blinding flash, and my overwrought nerves jumped seven feet and rebounded before my brain assured them that it was only a flashlight. The effect on the four members of the ambulance squad was even more startling. Apparently not expecting the explosion, they dropped their burden and stood with mouths open. Accidentally they dropped the body in a sitting posture. There was a slight scream. Mrs. Green opened her eyes and demanded, "Where am I?" If the officers of the law had been startled before, their condition now was absolute consternation. "Madame," the sheriff inquired, "aren't you dead?" "I should say not!" "Then you are not Mrs. Green." "I certainly am." "But Mrs. Green is dead. Her daughter told us so." "Dead! Fiddlesticks! It's a wonder I'm not, though, after coming over in an open beat and being attacked by a half naked savage with whiskers, and, let's see—some one was shot. That's when I fainted, I guess, because I don't remember anything more until just now." "All I have to say," stated the man with the rope, jamming his hat on disrespectfully, "is that this is a bum night to get a man to play a joke on him." "Madame," the sheriff said, with gloomy politeness, "you have spoiled the only murder case we ever had in Maskelon county; that's what you have done. Come on boys." In majestic silence the members of the sheriff's posse filed from the room. The young man with the camera was left behind, hastily picking up his traps in order to join the others before their boat left the island. I approached him. "Now that there is no murder mystery," I began, "I presume that the picture you took will be useless." "Not at all," he answered, too busy folding up his tripod to notice that I had opened the shutter of his camera. "We'll find use for it some way." I lit a match and held it about an inch from the lens of the camera, pretending to examine the name of the maker on it. "What are you doing?" he demanded sharply. "Just looking at your lens," I answered, blowing out the match. "It's a Dalmeyer. I see." "Yes." I was afraid something might happen to that negative. I left the film in the camera." "Did you?" I asked innocently and closed the shutter, once more unobserved. "May we have one of the pictures if they turn out well?" THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "If this picture turns out well," he said, "nearly everybody in the United States will have a copy of it. I'm a photographer for the Hainanian Syndicate of Newspapers." "That's what I thought." I answered, returning his smile. After he was gone I added, "That's why I let that negative get light struck." My assorted companions were sitting on opposite sides of the table. "Is he the one who wrote the article about fasting?" Mrs. Green asked me, again ignoring her vis-a-vis. "He is," I admitted. Mrs. Green said nothing further. "I presume," Clair stated sourly. Mrs. Green has forgotten that she stuck a hatpin through my thumb less than half an hour ago. "It was not a hatpin. It was a safety pin bent out straight. I was afraid it would not reach. Was that your thumb you held over the keyhole? "It was, I suppose you are sorry it was not my eye." I could see that the more we talked the worse the situation would get, so I interrupted them. "We might as well go back," I suggested wearly, surveying my companions. "I am going to the mainland, Mrs. Green, and I can leave you at home as I go by." "You're not going away, Mr. Bluney?" Mrs. Green asked, with motherly kindness. "Yes," I answered. "What's one matter?" she queried gently, "Lucile? You mustn't let her fickleness hurt you. She has fads in beams as well as fads in foods and exercises." I assumed her with what dignity I had left that; I would prefer to consider my visit at an end. When we descended to the shore to embark on the Merry Widow, Mrs. Green took one look at the lake and "fatly declined to travel" by boat until it was calm. "I don't know how I care over here. I couldn't have been in my right senses even to start, but I certainly am perfectly now, and as long as I remain so I intend to stay on dry land while a storm is in progress." "But your daughter will worry," I protested. "Lucie has been very nearly distracted for twenty-four hours." "She might better be distracted today than an orphan on her mother's side tomorrow. Anyway, I'll telephone her that I'm all right." "But we can't leave you here," I renewed my argument, "and I have to go back." "Perhaps the gentteman here"—Mrs. Green began. "No," Clair declined, booking at his thumb. "I have to be in Fair View before morning to prevent my friend's marriage." "You can't go into Fair View wearing a Mother Hubbard," I reminded him. "Well, I can stop and get my own clothes." "On Green's island? And meet Miss Dunnmore again?" "I'd forgotten about her. What can I do?" "Stay right here and I'll send the boat back with a suit of clothes in an hour." "Is the lady, Mrs. Green, a wife or a widow?" "She has a husband living." "All right then. My own clothes that I came ashore in this morning are on a line on the back porch. Send them back soon. I don't know what I should do if Mrs. Green should fall in love with me." "I surveyed him from the hem of his skirt to the tip of his beard. "As long as you have those clothes on," I gravely assured him, "you're as safe as a dollar at the bottom of the sea." Before I left Mrs. Green telephoned to Lucie and told her that she was safe. I took the liberty of ransacking the pantries and storeroom of the Huntingdon house for supplies and carried away enough timed stuff to assure the garrison at Green's island at least one square meal. Bill and myself embarked alone. I carry with me yet in memory the picture of Mrs. Green and Lipton S. Clair as I left them, two strangely clad figures, one in a red ball gown, the other in a callo wrapper and whiskers, hob-nobbing over a pot of tea. CHAPTER XVI. A Fire and a Rescue. THE journey back to Green's island was unventureful. The sea had calmed down enough so that we shipped very little water. When we landed I was thankful to note that there were no lights in the house. Apparently every one had gone to bed for a much needed rest. I sent Bill up to get Clair's clothing, while I unloaded the supplies and hid them under the dock. I expected to telephone Jim in the morning and tell him where they were so that he could cook breakfast for the castaways. When Bill returned I helped him put out to sea again. This required considerable persuasion and $3 in money. I also had to promise to make it all right with the newspaper man whom he had brought over. Now the next adventure in this Arabian nightmare occurred. At first I thought it was the reflection of the rising sun in the windows of the cottage which caused the red light, but when I looked to the east I saw that the sun was not up. Then the house must be on fire! Clearly I had no time to lose. Probably every one was sleeping. I ran up the path from the beach to the house, my temples bursting with the exertion. By the time I got to the front door the flames were beginning to lick out of one of the upstairs windows. I threw myself against the front door and broke the lock without ceremony. The stairway was still clear. I dashed up, yelling, "Fire!" The people began to come out in various stages of undress, carrying clothing and valuables. Vida's stage experience stood her in good stead. She emerged from her room completely dressed and went downstairs as if she were answering a rehearsal call. All were accounted for but Lucille. I pounded on her door again and again. "Hurry!" I commanded at frequent intervals. "I'm hurrying," she always answered. At last the smoke began to be unbearable in the hallway, and the crackling of the flames warned me that I'm an instant the stairs would be impassable. I stood on ceremony no longer. I threw open Lucille's door. She was looking almighty about her, with a stocking in one hand. "I can't find my other stocking," she announced calmly. "Don't be excited!" I shouted. "The house is on fire, and we've got to get out." "I'm not excited. But how can I escape with only one stocking?" There was no time for argument. I grabbed a blanket that was funged over the foot of her bed, wrapped her in it and swept her off her feet and into my arms. The rescue was very simple. There was a little smoke on the stairway, and in a minute it would have been hard to get down, but as it was I only had to hold my breath for a few seconds and we were safe on the first floor, which had not caught yet. 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"How did you come to be around, Monty?" Bopp straightened up with a quick glance at me. "Mrs. Green telephoned that you were going to the mainland." It hardly seemed possible, but I knew that for a moment they all suspected me of having set fire to Lacie's house in revenge for our quarrel of the evening before. "I came back to the island for something, and I noticed the fire." I explained weakly. "The flames were coming out of the window of the northeast room." "Who slept there?" Captain Perkins asked practically. No one answered. "That's funny." Captain Perkins was sarcastic. "Didn't anybody sleep In the northeast room, or don't you know where you slept? "You slept there yourself," Jim explained, rather hesitant about calling his superior officer's attention to such a damning fact. "Oh!" The captain collapsed. "I guess I did." "Where did you empty the ashes of your pipe before you went to get that drink of water?" I interrogated. "Why, lenime see. 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WRITE OR NORTHWEST WALTER T DAVIS, CA RAILROADS Richmond-Washington Local, Lv. $1.50 weekdays; $1.15 LPM, Sundays; $1.15 AJ 5M, Wednesdays; $1.15 LPM, Thursdays; $1.15 LPM; Ar. $1.80 AJ, Ashland Account, day days; Lv. $7.50 AJ, 6.50 MJ, Ar. $6.30 AJ, 6.4F Ebba ticket and baggage office not open by 8:30 a.m. Byrd St, Sta. (stopping at Ebba) NORFOLK & WESTERN. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL-RAIL LIN. TO NORFOLK Leave byrd Street Station, Richmond FOR NORFOLK, "6:15 A. M., "9:00 A. M., "8:00 P. M. FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WEST "-"6:18 A. M., "9:00 A. M., "8:00 P. M., "8:25 P. M. Local to Curew, "6:35 P. M. Richmond from Norfolk "-"11:40 A. M. "6:35 P. M. From the West "-"11:45 A. M., "8:37 A. M. P., "1:40 P. M., "6:17 P. M., "9:00 P. M. Daily "Daily except Sunday "Sunday only Daily "Daily except Sunday W. O. BAUNDERB, P. T. M., Roanoke O. H. BOSLEY, D. P. A. Roanoke ATLANTIC COAST LINE THE STANDARD RAILROAD ON THE SOUTH (Effective January 8, 1918) Train Line For Florida and South: 8:18 A. M. and 8:18 P. M. 11:25 P. M. 12:20 A. M. For Norfolk: 8:15 A. M. 8:26 A. M. 8:26 P. M. 11:25 A. M. 8:26 A. M. For N. & W. Ry. West: 8:15 A. M. 8:18 A. M. 8:00 P. M. 9:25 P. M. P. Petersburg: 12:50 A. M. 8:18 A. M. 8:18 8:15 A. M. 8:18 P. M. 8:18 P. M. *4:00 P. M. **4:10 P. M. 8:18 P. M. 8:18 P. M. 9:25 P. M. 11:58 P. M. Addobbo and Payetteville: *4108* F. B For Houghton J. A. M., *4121* F. B, *M*, *4124* F. M., *4126* P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily: 4:18 A. M. 7:00 A. M., 8:18 A. M., 6:18 A. M., 8:17 A. M. 11:40 A. M., 12:00 A. M., 8:18 A. M., 8:17 P. M., 8:18 P. M., 8:18 P. M. 8:38 P. M., 7:45 P. M. *Except Sunday. *Sunday Only. Time of arrival and departures and excuse- tions not guaranteed. (N. B.—Following schedule figures published as information and not guaranteed). 5:80 A. M.—Dally—Local for Danville. 10:80 A. M.—Dally—Limited—For all points South. Fullman builer parlor car. 6:00 M.—Except Sunday—Local for Chase City to join Junct and intermediate stations. 6:00 P. M.—Hwy for Daville, Atlanta and Birmingham with Pullman observation sleeping car 11:16 P. M.—Daily—Limited—For all points South. Pullman ready 9:00 P. M. YORK RIVER LINE 4:15 P. M. —Daily—Local to West Point. 5:10 P. M. —Steam train, daily except Sunday for West Point and Baltimore. No stop. 7:35 A. M. —Daily—Local to West Point. Point to Point: 140 A. M., 6:15 P. M. daily, and Std. IX from train from Baltimore, daily except Monday. 907 East Main Street DENT, D. P. A. 875 East Madison Road 28 North Seventh Street CHESAPEAKE & OHIO Cindinnat, Louie & West, *23 p.*, *7 p.*, *11 p.* Cindinnat, Louie & West, *1:16 a.*, *5:18 p.* James River, Local, *1:16 a.*, *5:18 p.* Newport News, Norfolk and Old Point, *8:38 a.*, *13 m.*, *4 p.* Newport News Local, *7 a.*, *7 a.*, *15 p.* Trains arrive for Norfolk, *1:15 a.*, *5:30 p.* *8:30 p.* Newport News, *8:55 a.*, *11 p.* From West, *8:10 a.*, *8:58 p.*, *0:55 a.* From West, *7:10 p.* daily from Charlottetown, except Sunday from Hampton, Jace River, *0:55 a.*, *4:00 p.* *Except Sunday* Daily SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY ON THE SOUTH Southbound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 9:25 A.M. M., local to Hendon; 1:29 P.M. Birmingham; 1:30 P.M. Jacksonville, Atlanta, Birmingham; 9:25 P.M. M., local to Richmond; almost to Jacksonville; 11:50 P.M. M., Florida Land; 12:45 P.M. A., almost to Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tampa and coasts to Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive Richmond daily: 4:29 A.M. M., local to Hendon; A.M., local to M., local to M., local to re dei. 56 eo ee See oh Wace Nan NA eer ieee ¢ dea UT HW ee een era as a . ELAN ore i LSE SS a NRA AEA cate NN RR a Wy ¥ ERED Gin REIN WAS he cnet ea Published every Latusday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 311 N. 4th Street, Richmond, Virginia, JOHN MITOHELL, JR, EDITOR ‘AM communications intended for pub- Ucation should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond ‘ Virginia, ae second-class matter. SATURDAY........AUGUST 18, 1917 We are still praying for Gob's bless ing upon our people. Coroxri, Waraan J, Bryan is. still in this country, but it has taken a world war in which (he United States is engaged to stop him from talking. Ite may emerge from the woods of silence at some time and exclaim, “I told you so!” He Is not permitted to do so now, however. The grand jury investigating the horrible massacre at Mast St, Louis has brought indictments against one hundred and five persons. ‘The ar- raignment of the alleged guilty warties is caustic and denunciatory. Now let thovcourt follow this up and secure the conviction of he’ men and women, who brutally beat and mur- dered some of the most helpless and hermless people in all of this land. “OCCUPATIONAL EXEMPTIONS.” ‘The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispaten in a recent issue seems to consider itself and the people! buncoed by tho advocates of the selective dratt sys: tom, if wo &re to believe all that It says In its editorial commeat under ‘the caption, “Occupational Exemp- (ions." It says: Provost-Marshal-General _Crowder's statement te the Counell of National Defense that coal miners are not. to bo relieved from military duty as a “class” gives us an intimation of the governmont’s policy In dealing with the important question of exemptions because of needful occupations. We wore. all vrged to euppert tha selective drett system on the primary ground that under such a system, mon who wore least necdod at home could be called; that farmers, munition work. ers and ship carpenters, for instanco, ught not. bo taken away from. thelr labors while loafers, slackors and other nonproducers escaped. It continues: e ‘This was sound reasoning, and when Great Britain's early experience was cited to support it, many people hitherto wedded to the voluntecr sys- tem became earnest advocates of the conscription measure. ‘That measure became law, and we are now engaged in forming an army of more. than 1,000,000 men under it. All of us ne- eopted in good. faith the assurance that the dratt would be operated to exclude these classes of men whose labor at home would do more to fur. {her the war than could their service in the field, When the regulations outiining the exemption processes were first pub- Nished it was noted that wttle light was thrown upon the question of oc- cupational exemptions. Certain broad generalizations were indulged in. for the guidance of the district boards, which bodies have exclusive jurisdic. tion in the matter, but no definite In- dleation was given as to the purposes of the government in dealing with concrete eases, It piirsues the subject further when it remarks: If coal mining is not a “needful” industry in the present situation, it is dificult to point to an industry that is, Battleships and merchant ships must have fuel, and have it in unending quantities. Munition plants must have it, and have plenty of it, Our allies are clamoring for coal,” Italy threatening to lay down if she fails to gel it. AML of us must have coal if domestic business ig to thrive or tie people are to be kept warm in winter, Coal Is a prime necessity if any product of the land can be so rogarded. But we mention coal in this con. neclion only because General Crowder himself singled it out. ‘There aro other industries no tess vital to our war eflicieney, industries that require the labor of young and able-bodied mon. It would ‘seem, in the cirewmstances, that the administration might give serious and immediate attention to this question. ‘The country, no less than the district exemption boards themselves, are entitled to more than genoral statements in this connection, Men who are engaged in occupations manifestly necessary to the prosecu. tion of the war should have the gov. ernment reassurance that if they file claims tor occupational exemptions they are not to be classed as shirkers ‘This is a case of “spoaking out in the meeting.” ‘This, too, is an age for promising ono thing and for doing another, We do not know just how long the American people will staud this kind of treatment, but wo know that it has been in vogue during al: most out entire life time, and ft evoked from the late P. ‘T. Bansuat, the humorous observation, the truth of which has been repeatedly demon- started—rhe American people Ike to be humbugged."” Just as he mado a fortune in the humbuxging business of the sawdust ring, the politicians are making many fortunes in the al leged realm of statesmanship. ‘Tho mouse is sald to have begged the cat to take it out of a jar of milk and it would let the cat eat it for so doing. ‘The moment it got out it made for the nearest hole, from which it mocked the cat for believing tho false: hood that it had told. ‘The Times: Dispatch is in about the same pre: dicament, It may secure some relief, but the present indications are that tt will haye the trouble for its pains. se A GREAT GOVERNOR, racy, able statesmen should — be elevated to office who have high re- gard for their sworn obligations and Who will insist upon the rigid enforce- ment of the law, regardless of all opposition from any quarter, We are led to make this comment by a report that comes from Kentueky. Here it Is: Frankfort, Ky.. Aug. 1.—Kor the second time within a year Goy. A. O. Stanley ‘Tuesday intervened to pre: serve the peace and save Negroes from possible mob violence, Several months ayo he alone faced a crowd al Murray, Ky., sand told them that Lube Martin, “a Negro charged with Killing a policeman, would be lynched only over the bedy of the State’s chief executive, He had hurried by special train from Frank- ‘fort to Murray, when he recelyed re- horts that a mob was not only threat: ening the Negro, but also the safety of court officials. ‘Two Negroes, Jim Howard and ‘Harry Forter, were arrested today at Mayfield, Ky., charged with having Killed William Romaine, a Padueah policeman, with his own ‘revolver last Sunday. It was reported to Governor Stanley that threats to lynch the two men had been made on tho streets of Padueah when it was learned they had heen captured. He at once wired oft elals of McCracken county, urging them not to insist upon ihe return of the Negroes to Padueah at this time, ‘Tonight it was reported from May- fleld that Howard and Porter — had boon taken to the: Bddyville State prison, under orders from Judge dames M. Lang, of McCracken county, Olher advices from Paducah said the officials taking the two men from Mayfield had eluded a party of men which had started in automobiles from Padueah te Maytiold, | GovEKNOR Sraxuey is not In love with the colored folks as such, but he adores the Jaw, and he is determined lo live up to all of those great prin- ciples for which the forefathers. of the Republic contended. Colored peo- ple should do all in their power to support men of tis type. Polittes should not count in the matter, ‘This truly great ofticial has the courage of his convictions and should be sup- ported by every patriotic citizen. re gardless of race or color. Despite these troublous times Gon is raising up friends for the great principles that: we espouse. Govenxon Staxtey is upholding the law. In this he ts rendering the pecple of his State a great servieo, IL seems strange that a public official should be commended for doing his duty, but the Time is at hand when such a course is necessary. We doft our hat to the distinguished Governor of Kentucky. Goo grant that he may eventually land in the White House of the nation, where moral courage of this type is always needed, and where the power of tho: politicians is often exerted to cause the Chief lx: centive to “go blind” in the execution of the laws. LEABOUGH—WILLIAMS. Mr, and Mrs, Joseph Williams an- nonnee the marriage of their daugh- ler, Miss Josephine, to Mr. Jesse M. Leabough, Sunday ‘evening, August 12, 1917, at 6:30 o'clock, in their home. 1411 1. Ross street. Dr. W, 'T. Johnson officiated. Reception an- nouncement later, HLORENCE, S. ©. NOTES 7" Morenes, $. C,, August 14.—Miss Leona Mae Webster is visiting friends in Washington, D.C. Rev. W. R. Reese reports success at his Church, St. James Baptist, near Cades. Rey, Sampson Robinson, at Hyman S ©. enjoys reading Tho Planet. Revival services are to bo held at ‘Trinity Baptist Church this week. Rev, Grant, of Sumter, S. C. ts the assistant. Dr, 'T; Gallant, our city dentist, has made special offers to his customers for certain classos.of work during the Summer, Miss’Louise McFarland, of Sumter S. C, passed through the elty recently enroute to Winston-Salem, N. C. Mrs, Inez Ivory left the city recent- ly to visit relatives at ‘Timmonsvillo, 8. C, i B. WERSTRR, Wo want agents im avery city. Com municate with this oMee. We neo also a skillful solicitor. Ono wh undorstands the business is preferred THE RICHMOND PLANET, RIOHMOND, VIRGINIA Se VIRGINIA RATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION | 9 QA | Nover bofore in its history has Staid old Philade!phia been so enthust- astic or so active Jn making prepara: tions for a Convention as it now Is In xotting ready for the forthcoming, ses- sion of the National Medical Associa- tion, which convenes In this city, Aug- ust, 28, 29, 30. Although the ‘Local Committeo ‘has had but litte time in which to get ready, yet it has shown a great deal of enthusiasm tat in- sures a siecessful session for the Na- onal Medical Association, Under the leadership of Dr. i. 8. Burwell, the Local Physicians have already ‘completed plans for the Con- vention, which makes it seem abso- lutely certain thatthe National Med- ical, Association will have one of the best sessions in its history. | Tha Convention will open on ‘Tues: day morning, August 28th, when ad- dresses Wi vs -.vered by President i. W. Byrd, Norfolk, Va., and V. Pres. J.C. Johnson of Birmingham, Ala. ‘On ‘Tuesday evening a public meeting will be held at which me addresses of welcome will be delivered by Physicians representing the Local Medicaj Society, and other prominent Phitadeiphians. ' Responses to the ad- dresses of Welcome will bo delivered by Dr. Dumas of Washington, repre- senting the Physteians ‘and Surgeons, Dr "1. Bolsaw, of Mobile, Ala repre: senting the Dentists, and Dr. Ogelvie Lawson of Denver, Colo, representing the Pharmacists. On Wednesday morning and ‘Thurs- ay morning, » Medical and Surgteal, ‘and Dental Clinies will be conducted [by men who stand foremost in the profession. Some of those who. will conduct Clinies are Drs, Daly, and Vall of Chicago: Drs, Curls and Car- son of Washington; Dr. Brown of Rirmingham, Ala ‘Dr, Sheppard of Marshall. ‘Texas; DrSWilson, of Mem- phis, ‘Tenn.; Dr. ‘Tompkins, of Kansas City; Dr, ‘Jrunter of Lexington, Re and “Dr. Kenney, of Tuskegee Insti: tute, Ala. | On Wednesday evoning, a special Clinic in Tuberculosis will be con- ‘ducted by Dro J. W. Walker, of Ash- ville, N.C, Dr, AJ W. Williams, of | Chtengo and De, RS. arants a eae orado Springs, Cold. At tho close of {his Clinic, a smoker will be tondored tho Physiclans at O'Neal Hall, by the Local Medical Society, On ‘Tharsday evening, a reception will be tondored the visiting physt- cians and their friends. 'The Physt- clang are enthusiastically and ably assisted by a Citizens’ Committes, of which Mr. G. G. Williams is chatr- man and by a Ladies’ Auxiliary, of which Mrs, Tlelen Stevens Bayton ts chairman, ’ Dr. John P, ‘Turner, who fs chairman of the Programme and Censor Committee, acts as the repre- sentative of the N. M.A. in Phila. delphia, Delegates and friends who attond the'meeting of the N. M. A. will bo comfortably housed by ‘an’ effielent committee, of whieh Dr. ', G. Conts, 1413 Lombard street, is chairman. On Friday, August’ 80th, the Phy- siclans will Journey to Atlantic City where they will be the guest of tho Physicians of that city, On tho fol- lowing Monday, those ‘attending tho Convention, havo been Invited to visit Hotel Dalo, at Cape May, ‘The Philadelphia Academy of Mod- leno and Allied Selences, and ‘The North Hastern Medical Association haye planned and are earnestly hop- ing to make this the most profitable and pionsant session tno N. M, A. hag ever held; and sf their plans’ are carried out only in part, they are sure that no One will have any vegret for having come to Philadelphia, New August Agricultural Bulletin, Commissioner Kotner is mailing out the Department's August Bulletin. to all farmers whose names are on the Department's list. ‘This bulletin con- tains very praétical and helpful dis- cussions on most important matters conducive to profitable farming. ‘The importance of the farmers in increas- ing their live stock, precautions against the spread of hog cholera, the cost in the production of the wheat crop, blight on the late potato erop which is a large one in this State, the work in the division of markets, valuable information on the apple crop, the importance of farmers in co-operating in their shipments, the storage of crops, the saving of next year's seed, analysis of fertilizer, ete. ‘These bulletins are full of practical and helpiul information that will en- able the farmer, if he is guided by them, to sell at thetter prices and save useless expense. ‘They ¢ost the farmer nothing and every farmer who does not get them should at once send his name to Commissioner Koiner with the request that his name be en- rolled on the Department's lst. Funeral Diyector Price's Horse and Carriago Injured ‘The funeral of Mrs, Signora Wood took place last Sunday, 1 P, M., at tho fifth Street Baptist ‘Church, While the services were taking place, with Rey. 1 J. King, D. D., ofliciating, the horses to the hearse became frightened and finally one of them fot away, running hito another car- Tiago, badly injuring one of the horses and almost demolishing — the carriage, Me was finally gotten under control, while the other bleeding ant- mal was carried to A. D, Price's stables, ‘The veterinary ‘surgeon had him removed to. his’ establishment where tho latest information is that ho is improving. Funeral Director Vrice had ‘charge of the funoral, MRS, BARRETT COLLAPSES, ‘The wife of Albert Barrett. and the mother of Aubrey Barrett is in. the city here trying to save her husband and son from the electric chair, The strain has been too much for her, and she has been foreed to take to her bed. ‘Tho boy is sick, too. At. torney William Lancaster, of the firm of Tancaster and Lancaster, now has associated with him Hon H.'M. Smith, Jr. of this city, and an effort wil be made to save the lives of the un. fortunate individuals. Children don’t you hear mo calling? Tam tired at you bawling. Catelt them chickens, fry them brown, for I'm going to tak» them down, to Buek- roo, with Mt: O, Axgust 4 times 4 plus 2 plus 4. U.S, PICKS GUARD TO GO ABROAD 26 States and Uist Con- tribute to Force, CALLED “RAINBOW DIVISION” . Reading, Lancaster, Easton and Beth. tehem Companies to be Part of First National Guard to Go. The first of the Pennsylvania, national guardsmen to go to France to face the Germans will be four compantes of the Mourth Infantry, from the heart of the “Pennsyl- vanla Dutch" country, ‘The war department announced the make-up of a diviston of national guardsmen which will be the first of Such troops to be sent abroad. It will be based on the Fronch or- ganization system, recommended by Goneral Pershing for trench warfare whereby the diviston, with all auxiliary troops, is made up of less shan 20,000 men, Instead of the 28,000 under ‘the present tables of organization in tho United Sjates service, This division will be made up of troops from twenty-six states and the District of Columbia, and was prompt. ly dubbed “the Rambow Division" tn Washington becatse of its composite makeup. | Discussion of the time and place of mibilization or of its departure for France are not permissable undor the voluntary censorship, but it Is Inferred, from the tone of Washington despatch: es, that {ls departure will not be great. ly delayed. The four Pennsylvania compantes chosen, composing the third battalion of the Fourth Infantry, are Company T, stationed at Reading; Company K, sta. Uoned at Lancaster; Company 1, sta: tioned at Easton, and Company M, sta. toned at Bethlohom, Many of the men of these compantes aro more familar with , that -quaint patois of Interlor eastern pennsylva- nin known as “Pennsylvania Dutch" than they are with English, and havo been brought up In surroundings and among customs running straight back to the Fatherland, They are vallant fighting men; come of a stock which proved Itself many times on baftleflolds of the clvil war and in engagements of the Spanish: American war and last summer on the border showed themselves to be good soldiers, In one company of the same rogiment, that from Hamburg, Pa,, most of the conversation Is conducted in German, and In Texas last summer, Bl Paso visitors to the camp were as: tonished occasionally to hear the offi: cers give orders In German, It Is expected the Pennaylvanta bat: tallon will be commanded by Major Quinton O. Rettzol, of Lancaster, sont or major of $e Fourth, who has’ had special machine yun training for the Past few months at Fort Sill, Oklaho: ma, ‘The four conrpantes will bocomo the machine gun battalion of the diviston, and will be numbered Machine Gun Battalion 149. Other states contribut, ing to tho dlviston will be Louisiana, Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, Towa, Tinols, Tndfana, Min- nosola, Maryland, South Carolina, Call. fornia, Missouri, Virginia, North ‘Caro. Mna, Kansas, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebras. ka, Colorado and Oregon. The New Jorsey contingent in the division wi be the First Ambulance Company of New Jersey. Rrigadier General W. A. Mann, of the regular army, now chlef of the di- vision of military affairs ct the war department, has been appointed to the command of the diviston, and will be made a major gencral, ‘His chief of staft will be Colonol Douglas MacAr. thur, son of the late Lfentqnant Gen- eral MacArthur, ‘The division will be known as the forty-second of the army. ‘The second separate troop of cavalry of Lousiana will be division headquarters troop. ‘The Pennsylvanians will be the dlvis- fon machine gun battalion, The Amount May Approach $4,000,. ‘000.000. 1 Congress soon will bo asked to aw thorize another loan of between $3,000, 000,000 and $4,000,000,000 to the al Hes. Secretary of the Treasury MeAdoc and Claude Kitchin, chairman of the house ways and means committee agreed on this. They also agreed upon the desirability of raising a larger sum than $2.000,000,000° for war purposes by taxation, Congress probably will be” called upon at the December sosston to revise the war revenue bill now before the senate, increasing the snm to be ob tained through taxation. Will Harvest For Canada. Amerlean labor will be. suppltes for the harvesting of the Cana dian grain crop, under an arrange ment reached between W. W. Cory, Canadian deputy commissioner of the interior, and department of labor of ficlals. ‘American harvest hands. will bo permitted for the first time to en. ter Canada. Tmmigration regulations will be waived by both countries. Thousands of Americans are expected to go across the bordor to help save the Canadian crops, th. B Blane Alraralt: Ewanote. Neutral countries have been pouriny in orders for Amoriean airplanos at auch a rate that to conserve the supply for Itself and the allies the governmort has had to prohibit the export of ain eraft except by license, SLIM MEN GIVEN CHANCE IN ARMY The Piysiea! Requomants Ave Lessened, FIRST GALL SEPTEMBER 1 One-third of All Quotas Must be Ready Then—Men Serving Prison Terms Not Exempt. The revised regulations to gov- ern physical examination of men rogistered under the selective act have bocn issued by Su¥geon General Gorgas, of the army, and communicat- /ed to the governors of the states for | information of local boards, The changes deal for the most part with questions of proportionate weight and height, but will result in tho re- [all of some men rejected heretofore on physical grounds, | ‘The new rules grant an underweight allowance of from five to six pounds for men between sixty-four and sixty- seven Inches In height; seven to olght pounds batween seventy and seventy- four inches, and twolve pounds above seventy-five Inches, The effect of the Instructions is to reduce the normal weight requirements for tall men, An additional halfineh allowance on chest expansion also is allowed to men sbovo sixty-eight Inches in height whore thero is no sign of disease. Men with poor teeth also will be more closely scrutinized herevfter. |Where dental worl: will restore. the tocth they will elthar be enrolled and thé work done by army dentists or al- owed time to have work done. for themselves. | A punctured ear drum Js found to be no barrier provided the hearing ts half normal, Modifications are mado also In sight reqalrements which will glve phys clans wider fatitude in accepting men despite some defects -of vision. Provost Marshal General Crowder has urged prompt action by the local boards In certifying as held for service men who make no claim for discharge or exemption. A dafly report to the Alstrict boards ts required at the close Jot cach dny's work and similarly, dis. trict boards will report each night to the adjutant general the men finally aceented, | “Phe government will call upon local and district boards to furnish one. third of their quota on September 1,” General Crowder's message says under the heading: “Tho first eall to the colors.” : Evory person concerned In the exe. cution of the law will feel that a promnt and accurate response to ‘this att of the nation ts to precisé result for which he has labored so long, s0 arduously ayd wit’ such unselfish de volion, dall¥ reports of progrosa ae outlined, which General Growder says aro Inserted “to point the way to ox pedition and in order to insure that Jno state and no local board shall be placed tn the unenviable position of not heing able to answer ‘here’ with the full third of tts quote on the day ‘named* Cold Storage Supplies Bla. Cold. storage of food throughout the country on August 1 showed an In erense over a year ago. Heltngs of poultry increased 36¢ percent, Meats and poultry holdings amt to more than 915,000,000 pounds. The monthly report of the depart mont of agriculture, showing storage holdings compared with a year ago, an. nweuneed, shows: Frozen hecf, 112,442,629 pounds; in: crease, 62.3 per cent. Cured beef, 41, 657,780 pounds; increase 107.2 per cont, Frozen lamb and mutton, 3,597,388 pounds; Increase 82.3 per cent. Froz: en: pork, 93,684,410 pounds; decrease, 1.9 per cent. Dry salt pork, 226,062,210 pounds; Increase 6.1 per cent. Sweet Pickled pork, 389,661,187 pounds; in: ercase, 2.2 per cont. Lard, 109,528,379 rounds; Increase, 4.4 per cent. Pow! try, 48,588,865 pounds; Increase 366.1 per cent. Creamery butter, 85,640,972 pounds; decrease, 20.5 per cent, Amer. Jean cheese, 61,586,889 pounds; in. crease 39.5 per cent. Case eggs, 6.425,. 810 cuses; Increase, 0.7 per eent. Froz- on exes, 14,872,286 pounds; Increase, 109 per cent. Grabs Militant’s Banner An attompt to heckle President Wilson with a banner bear'ng tho words “Kaiser Wilson” as he left the White House for the Fort Myer Trainin: camp graduation, was nipped in the bud by a sailor in uni. form. When Miss Natali Gray, of Colorado Springs, took her position before the White House, Jack Connors, A yeoman, snatched the banner from her and carried it to the navy depart: ment. Russians Jailed in Arizona, Thirty-five Molokanas, members. of a Russian retizions sect, colonized at Glendate, were sentenced to ono year in rrison by Judie Saw: telle, In Phoon'y, Ariz, for fathure ty obey the nresttenvs proclamation yx. questing alions to register and the Keloctive ry low. Booty Talen by Germans. Accordiny to the Ameterdam Tacelleve Runtschau, of Perlin the booty captured by) the Germans uy to July 26 inehides 12.458 canon, 1,655,000 ‘Ties, $352 machine Runs, 2208 airplanes, 186 balloons end threo airships, Gtikna Vasdiawas Wis Reuter’s Limited, in London, hay been ofclally informed that’ Ching Nas declared war upon Germany and Austrin-tlungary. — ‘The declaration datos from ten o'clock Tuesday morn ing. Or PANAMA HATTERS y yw PANAMA & FELT HATS OLEANED BLOCKED, RETRIMMED, LATEST STYLES. SAMBP PLACE, RAK \ RELIABLE HATTERS. SEEN. WE HAVE NO CANVASSERS, EEE. SGQ AMERICAN HAT. CO. os SS.z'A\P 501 East Marshall Street 2s. !8 ee UNEQUALLED OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOTH SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOR IN THR NORTH. NOW IS THY ‘TIME TO COME. WRITE AT ONCE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. Wh CAN ASSIST THOUSANDS TO SECURE GOOD POSITIONS. WE MAKE NO CHARGE FOR JOBS. 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SATURDAY.....AUGUST 18, 1917 We are still praying for God's blessing upon our people. COLONEL WILLIAM J. BRYAN is still in this country, but it has taken a world war in which the United States is engaged to stop him from talking. He may emerge from the woods of silence at some time and exclaim, "I told you so!" He is not permitted to do so now, however. The grand jury investigating the horrible massacre at East St. Louis has brought indictments against one hundred and five persons. The arraignment of the alleged guilty parties is caustic and denunciatory. Now let the court follow this up and secure the conviction of the men and women, who brutally beat and murdered some of the most helpless and hermiless people in all of this land. "OCCUPATIONAL EXEMPTIONS." The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch in a recent issue seems to consider itself and the people'bunceed by the advocates of the selective draft system, if we are to believe all that it says in its editorial comment under the caption, "Occupational Exemptions." It says: Provoist-Marshal-General Crowder's statement to the Council of National Defense that coal miners are not to be relieved from military duty as a "class" gives us an intimation of the government's policy in dealing with the important question of exemptions because of needful occupations. We were all urged to support the selective draft system on the primary ground that under such a system, men who were least needed at home could be called; that farmers, munition workers and ship carpenters, for instance, might not be taken away from their labors while loafers, shackers and other nonproducers escaped. It continues: This was sound reasoning, and when Great Britain's early experience was cited to support it, many people hitherto wedded to the volunteer system became earnest advocates of the conscription measure. That measure became law, and we are now engaged in forming an army of more than 1,000,000 men under it. All of us accepted in good faith the assurance that the draft would be operated to exclude these classes of men whose labor at home would do more to further the war than could their service in the field. When the regulations outlining the exemption processes were first published it was noted that little light was thrown upon the question of occupational exemptions. Certain broad generalizations were indulged in for the guidance of the district boards, which bodies have exclusive jurisdiction in the matter, but no definite indication was given as to the purposes of the government in dealing with concrete cases. It pursues the subject further when it remarks: If coal mining is not a "needful" industry in the present situation, it is difficult to point to an industry that is. Battleships and merchant ships must have fuel, and have it in unending quantities. Munition plants must have it, and have plenty of it. Our allies are clamoring for coal, Italy threatening to lay down if she fails to get it. All of us must have coal if domestic business is to thrive or the people are to be kept warm in winter. Coal is a prime necessity if any product of the land can be so regarded. But we mention coal in this connection only because General Crowder himself singled it out. There are other industries no less vital to our war efficiency, industries that require the labor of young and able-bodied men. It would seem, in the circumstances, that the administration might give serious and immediate attention to this question. The country, no less than the district exemption boards themselves, are entitled to more than general statements in this connection. Men who are engaged in occupations manifestly necessary to the prosecution of the war should have the government reassurance that if they file claims to occupational exemptions they are not to be classed as shirkers. "This is a case of "spoaking out in the meeting." This, too, is an age for promising one thing and for doing --- another. We do not know just how long the American people will stand this kind of treatment, but we know that it has been in vogue during almost our entire life time, and it evoked from the late P. T. BANKUM, the humorous observation, the truth of which has been repeatedly demonstarted—"The American people like to be humbbugged." Just as he made a fortune in the humbugging business of the sawdust ring, the politicians are making many fortunes in the alleged realm of statesmanship. The mouse is said to have begged the cat to take it out of a jar of milk and it would let the cat eat it for so doing. The moment it got out it made for the nearest hole, from which it mocked the cat for believing the falsehood that it had told. The Times-Dispatch is in about the same predicament. It may secure some relief, but the present indications are that it will have the trouble for its pains. A GREAT GOVERNOR. It seems strange, but it is nevertheless true that in some of the southern states noted for bourbon democracy, able statesmen should be elevated to office who have high regard for their sworn obligations and who will insist upon the rigid enforcement of the law, regardless of all opposition from any quarter. We are led to make this comment by a report that comes from Kentucky. Here it is: Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 15.—For the second time within a year Gov. A. O. Stanley Tuesday 'intervened to preserve the peace and save Negroes from possible mob violence. Several months ago he alone faced a crowd at Murray, Ky., and told them that Labe Martin, a Negro charged with killing a policeman, would be lynched only over the body of the State's chief executive. He had hurried by special train from Frankfort to Murray, when he received reports that a mob was not only threatening the Negro, but also the safety of court officials. Two Negroes, Jim Howard and Harry Torter, were arrested today at Mayfield, Ky., charged with having killed William Romaine, a Paducah policeman, with his own reveler last Sunday. It was reported to Governor Stanley that threats to lynch the two men had been made on the streets of Paducah when it was learned they had been captured. He at once wired officials of McCracken county, urging them not to insist upon the return of the Negroes to Paducah at this time. Tonight it was reported from Mayfield that Howard and Porter had been taken to the Eddyville State prison, under orders from Judge James M. Lang, of McCracken county, Other advices from Paducah said the officials taking the two men from Mayfield had eluded a party of men which had started in automobiles from Paducah to Mayfield. GOVERNOR STANLEY is not in love with the colored folks as such, but he adores the law, and he is determined to live up to all of those great principles for which the forefathers of the Republic contended. Colored people should do all in their power to support men of this type. Politics should not count in the matter. This truly great official has the courage of his convictions and should be supported by every patriotic citizen regardless of race or color. Despite these troublous times God is raising up friends for the great principles that we espouse. GOVERNOR STANLEY is upholding the law. In this he is rendering the people of his State a great service. It seems strange that a public official should be commended for doing his duty, but the time is at hand when such a course is necessary. We doff our hat to the distinguished Governor of Kentucky. God grant that he may eventually land in the White House of the nation, where moral courage of this type is always needed, and where the power of the politicians is often exerted to cause the Chief Executive to "go blind" in the execution of the laws. LEABOUGH—WILLIAMS Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Williams announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Josephine, to Mr. Jesse M. Leachhough, Sunday evening, August 12, 1917, at 6:30 o'clock in their home, 1411 E, Ross street, Dr. W, T. Johnson officiated. Reception announcement later. FLORENCE, S. C. NOTES Florence, S. C., August 14.—Miss Leona Mae Webster is visiting friends in Washington, D. C. Rev. W. R. Ree reports success at his Church, St. James Baptist, near Cades. Rev. Sampson Robinson, at Hyman S. C. enjoys reading The Planet. Revival services are to be held at Trinity Baptist Church this week, Rev Grant, of Sumter, S. C. is the assistant. Dr. T. Gallant, our city dentist, has made special offers to his customers for certain classes of work during the Summer. Miss Louise McFarland, of Sumter S. C. passed through the city recently enroute to Winston-Salem, N. C. Mrs. Inez Ivory left the city recently to visit relatives at Timmonsville, S. C. We want agents in every city. Communicate with this office. We need also a skillful solicitor. One who understands the business is preferred. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN PHILADELPHIA Never before in its history, has Staid old Philadelphia been so enthusiastic or so active in making preparations for a Convention as it now is in getting ready for the forthcoming session of the National Medical Association, which convenes in this city, August, 28, 29, 30. Although the Local Committee has had but little time in which to get ready, yet it has shown a great deal of enthusiasm that insures a successful session for the National Medical Association. Under the leadership of Dr. F. S. Burwell, the Local Physicians have already completed plans for the Convention, which makes it seem absolutely certain that the National Medical Association will have one of the best sessions in its history. The Convention will open on Tuesday morning, August 28th, when addresses will be covered by President D. W. Byrd, Norfolk, Va., and V. Pres. J. C. Johnson of Birmingham, Ala. On Tuesday evening a public meeting will be held at which time addresses of welcome will be delivered by Physicians repr. setting the Local Medical Society, and other prominent Philadelphians. Responses to the addresses of Welcome will be delivered by Dr. Dumas of Washington, representing the Physicians and Surgeons, Dr E. T. Bolsaw, of Mobile, Ala. representing the Dentists, and Dr. Ogolvie Law.on of Denver, Colo. representing the Pharmacists. On Wednesday morning and Thursday morning, Medical and Surgical, and Dental Clinics will be conducted by men who stand foremost in the profession. Some of those who will conduct Clinics are Drs. Daly, and Hall of Chicago; Drs. Curtis and Carson of Washington; Dr. Brown of Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Sheppard of Marshall Texas; Dr. Wilson, of Memphis, Tenn.; Dr. Tompkins, of Kansas City; Dr. Hunter of Lexington, Ky. and Dr. Kenney, of Tuskegee Institute, Ala. On Wednesday evening, a special Clinie in Tuberculosis will be conducted by Dr. J. W. Walker, of Ashville, N. C., Dr. A. W. Williams, of Chicago and Dr. R. S. Grant, of Colorado Springs, Colo. At the close of this Clinie, a smoker will be tendered the Physicians at O'Neal Hall, by the Local Medical Society. On Thursday evening, a reception will be tendered the visiting physicians and their friends. The Physicians are enthusiastically and ably assisted by a Citizens' Committee, of which Mr. G. G. Williams is chairman and by a Ladies' Auxiliary, of which Mrs. Helen Stevens Bayton is chairman. Dr. John P. Turner, who is chairman of the Programme and Censor Committee, acts as the representative of the N. M. A. in Philadelphia. Delegates and friends who attend the meeting of the N. M. A. will be comfortably housed by an efficient committee, of which Dr. T. G. Ceats, 1143 Lombard street, is chairman. On Friday, August 30th, the Physicians will journey to Atlantic City where they will be the guest of the Physicians of that city. On the following Monday, those attending the Convention, have been invited to visit Hotel Dale, at Cape May. The Philadelphia Academy of Medicine and Allied Sciences, and The North Eastern Medical Association have planned and are earnest hoping to make this the most profitable and pleasant session the N. M. A. has ever held; and if their plans are carried out only in part, they are sure that no one will have any regret for having come to Philadelphia. New August Agricultural Bulletin. Commissioner Koiner is mailing out the Department's August Bulletin to all farmers whose names are on the Department's list. This Bulletin contains very practical and helpful discussions on most important matters conducive to profitable farming. The importance of the farmers in increasing their live stock, precautions against the spread of hog cholera, the cost in the production of the wheat crop, blight on the late potato crop which is a large one in this State, the work in the division of markets, valuable information on the apple crop, the importance of farmers in co-operating in their shipments, the storage of crops, the saving of next year's seed, analysis of fertilizer, etc. These bulletins are full of practical and helpful information that will enable the farmer, if he is guided by them, to sell at better prices and save useless expense. They cost the farmer nothing and every farmer who does not get them should at once send his name to Commissioner Koiner with the request that his name be enrolled on the Department's list. Funeral Djector Price's Horse and Carriage Injured The funeral of Mrs. Signora Wood took place last Sunday, 1 P. M., at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. While the services were taking place, with Rev. T. J. King, D. D., officiating, the horses to the hearse became frightened and finally one of them got away, running into another carriage, badly injuring one of the horses and almost demolishing the carriage. He was finally gotten under control, while the other bleeding animal was carried to A. D. Price's stables. The veterinary surgeon had him removed to his establishment where the latest information is that he is improving. Funeral Director Price had charge of the funeral. MRS. BARRETT COLLAPSES The wife of Albert Barrett and the mother of Aubrey Barrett is in the city here trying to save her husband and son from the electric chair. The strain has been too much for her, and she has been forced to take to her bed. The boy is sick, too. Attorney William Lancaster, of the firm of Lancaster and Lancaster, now has associated with him Hon H. M. Smith, Jr., of this city, and an effort will be made to save the lives of the unfortunate individuals. Children don't you hear me calling? I am tired at you bawling, Catch them chickens, fry them brown, for I'm going to take them down, to Buckle with Mt. O, August 4 times 4 plus 2. U.S. PICKS GUARD TO GO ABROAD Reading, Lancaster, Easton and Bethlehem Companies to be Part of First National Guard to Go. The first of the Pennsylvania national guardsmen to go to France to face the Germans will be four companies of the Fourth infantry, from the heart of the "Pennsylvania Dutch" country. The war department announced the make-up of a division of national guardsmen which will be the first of such troops to be sent abroad. It will be based on the French organization system, recommended by General Pershing for trench warfare whereby the division, with all auxiliary troops, is made up of less than 20,000 men, instead of the 28,000 under the present tables of organization in the United States service. This division will be made up of troops from twenty-five states and the District of Columbia, and was promptly dubbed "the Rainbow Division" in Washington because of its composite make-up. Discussion of the time and place of mobilization or of its departure for France are not permissible under the voluntary censorship, but it is inferred, from the tone of Washington despatches, that its departure will not be greatly delayed. The four Pennsylvania companies chosen, composing the third battalion of the Fourth infantry, are Company L, stationed at Reading; Company K, stationed at Lancaster; Company L, stationed at Easton, and Company M, stationed at Bethlehem. Many of the men of these companies are more familiar with that qualit patals of interior eastern pennsylvania known as "Pennsylvania Dutch" than they are with English, and have been brought up in surroundings and among customs running straight back to the Fatherland. They are valiant fighting men; come of a stock which proved itself many times on battlefields of the civil war and in engagements of the Spanish-American war and last summer on the border showed themselves to be good soldiers. In one company of the same regiment, that from Hamburg, Pa., most of the conversation is conducted in German, and in Texas last summer, El Paso visitors to the camp were astonished occasionally to hear the officers give orders in German. It is expected the Pennsylvania battalion will be commanded by Major Quibton O. Relftech, of Lancaster, senior major of the Fourth, who has had special machine gun training for the past few months at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The four companies will become the machine gun battalion of the division, and will be numbered Machine Gun Battalion 149. Other states contributing to the division will be Louisiana, Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Maryland, South Carolina, California, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, Kansas, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado and Oregon. The New Jersey contingent in the division will be the First Ambulance Company of New Jersey. Brigadier General W. A. Mann, of the regular army, now chief of the division of military affairs of the war department, has been appointed to the command of the division, and will be made a major general. His chief of staff will be Colonel Douglas MacArthur, son of the late Lientepant General MacArthur. The division will be known as the forty-second of the army. The second separate troop of cavalry of Louisiana will be division headquarters troop. The Pennsylvanians will be the division machine gun battalion. BIG NEW WAR LOAN TO ALLIES The Amount May Approach $4,000,000,000. Congress soon will be asked to authorize another loan of between $3,000,000,000 and $4,000,000,000 to the allies. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Claude Kitech, chairman of the house ways and means committee, agreed on this. They also agreed upon the desirability of raising a larger sum than $2,000,000,000 for war purposes by taxation. Congress probably will be called upon at the December session to revise the war revenue bill now before the senate, increasing the sum to be obtained through taxation. Will Harvest For Canada American labor will be supplied for the harvesting of the Canadian grain crop, under an arrangement reached between W. W. Cory, Canadian deputy commissioner of the interior, and department of labor officials. American harvest hands will be permitted for the first time to enter Canada. Immigration regulations will be waived by both countries. Thousands of Americans are expected to go across the border to help save the Canadian crops. U. S. Stops Aircraft Exports. Neutral countries have been pouring in orders for American airplanes as such a rate that to conserve the supply for itself and the allies the government has had to prohibit the export of aircraft except by license. SLIM MEN GIVEN CHANCE IN ARMY The Physical Requirements Are Lessened. FIRST CALL SEPTEMBER One-third of All Quotas Must be Ready Then—Men Serving Prison Terms Not Exempt. The revised regulations to govern physical examination of men registered under the selective act have been issued by Surgeon General Gorgas, of the army, and communicated to the governors of the states for information of local boards. The changes deal for the most part with questions of proportionate weight and height, but will result in the recall of some men rejected heretofore on physical grounds. The new rules grant an underweight allowance of from five to six pounds for men between sixty-four and sixty-seven inches in height: seven to eight pounds between seventy and seventy-four inches, and twelve pounds above seventy-five inches. The effect of the instructions is to reduce the normal weight requirements for tall men. An additional half-inch allowance on chest expansion also is allowed to men above sixxweight inches in height where there is no sign of disease. Men with poor teeth also will be more closely scrutinized hereafter. Where dental work will restore the teeth they will either be enrolled and the work done by army dentists or allowed time to have work done for themselves. A punctured ear drum is found to be no barrier provided the hearing is half normal. Modifications are made also in sight requirements which will give physicians wider latitude in accepting men despite some defects of vision. Provost Marshal General Crowder has urged prompt action by the local boards in certifying as held for service men who make no claim for discharge or exemption. A daily report to the district boards is required at the close of each day's work and similarly, district boards will report each night to the adjutant general the men finally accepted. "The government will call upon local and district boards to furnish one third of their quota on September 1," General Crowder's message says under the heading: "The first call to the colors." Every person concerned in the execution of the law will feel that a prompt and accurate response to this call of the nation is the precise result for which he has labored so long, so ardently and with such unselfish devotion, daily reports of progress as outlined, which General Crowder says are inserted "to point the way to expedition and in order to insure that no state and no local board shall be placed in the unenviable position of not being able to answer 'here' with the full third of its quota on the day named." Cold Storage Supplies Big. Cold storage of food throughout the country on August 1 showed an increase over a year ago. Holdings of poultry increased 366 percent. Meats and poultry holdings amount to more than 915,000,000 pounds. The monthly report of the department of agriculture, showing storage holdings compared with a year ago, announced; shows: Frozen beef, 112,442,629 pounds; increase, 62.3 per cent; Cured beef, 41,557,780 pounds; increase 107.2 per cent; Frozen lamb and mutton, 3,597,388 pounds; increase 32.3 per cent. Frozen pork, 93,684,410 pounds; decrease, 1.9 per cent. Dry salt pork, 202,626,210 pounds; increase 6.1 per cent. Sweet pickled pork, 389,664,187 pounds; increase, 3.2 per cent. Lard, 109,528,373 pounds; increase, 4.4 per cent. Poultry, 48,588,865 pounds; increase 366.1 per cent. Creamery butter, 85,540,972 pounds; decrease, 20.5 per cent. American cheese, 61,536,889 pounds; increase 39.5 per cent. Case eggs, 6,425,810 cases; increase, 0.7 per cent. Frozen eggs, 14,782,286 pounds; increase, 109 per cent. Grabs Militant's Banner An attempt to heckle President Wilson with a banner bearing the words "Kaiser Wilson" as he left the White House for the Fort Myer Training camp graduation, was nipped in the bad by a sailor in uniform. When Miss Natalia Gray, of Colorado Springs, took her position before the White House, Jack Connors, a yeoman, snatched the banner from her and carried it to the navy department. Russians Jailed in Arizona. Thirty-five Molokana, members of a Russian religious sect, colonized at Glenda's were sentenced to one year in prison by Judge Sawtelle, in Phoenix, Arizona, for failure to obey the president's proclamation requesting allons to register and the selective jury law. Booty Taken by Germans According to the Amsterdam Taagliee Rundschan, of Perlau the boaty captured by the Germans up '07 july 26 includes 12,518 cannon, 1,635,000 rifles, 8352 machine guns, 2298 airplanes, 186 balloons and three airships. 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Texas already had the largest acreage in 1916, though in 1909 it stood sixth, with most of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast States ahead. Georgia jumped from 190,000 acres last year to 420,000. The increase in Texas has been an indication of the increase throughout the lower South, where precipitate increase elsewhere has not been so great. For the South as a whole, however, it is remarkable that the acreage has increased from less than a million and a quarter acres to more than two million acres. The peanut may have been held in light esteem in the popular mind because of its association with cures and clown, or because the expression "peanut politics" has designated a low form of partisanship. Yet this crop has long been important in North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia, with Suffolk, Va., as the headquarters of the industry. Here the price of peanuts is to a large extent established for the whole country, and at prevailing prices peanuts are in competition with cotton. BEATING THE BOLL WEEVIL The boll weevil drove many a Texas farmer to peanuts. From what seemed to be a hopeless situation the peanut has rescued him, and at the same time rescued the oil-mill men who were on the verge of a shut-down with their supply of cotton seed diminished. The department of Agriculture had long been advocating a change from the single crop standard set by cotton. As long as we was the only money crop the arguments fell apart, the campaign up by the boll weevil, the campaign began bear fruit. The farmers began to give part of the cotton acreage to peanuts. This presented a new problem and the oil-mill men began to ask questions. They found that many of the growers were "hogging down" the peanuts; that is, they were turning the hogs into the fields to harvest the nuts, and were marketing the crop "on the hoof." The Department of Agriculture had proved that a 40-bushel crop of Spanish peanuts would produce more than 400 pounds of pork to the acre, and supplied a good ration that needed only a little topping off with corn to harden the meat. Furthermore, if the peanut hay is harvested the hogs are turned in, the hay alone alone provides the ing of the crop, because it furnishes a palatable food to which all kinds of stock will turn cagely from any other kind of hay. And if that were not enough, the peanuts, in common with other legumes, bear nodules on their roots which gather nitrogen from the air and put it in the soil. HELPING THE OIL MEN. Practically no peanut oil was made in this country prior to 1915, and so far the oil-mill men had not been benefited; but it was brought to their attention that the United States, in 1914, was importing 1,332,108 gallons of peanut oil, and 44,549,789 pounds of nuts. More than half of the oil went to Chicago and presumably went oleoamagarine, and the lower grades soo, soap, and bourbon were more than oleoamagarine oil. A changes in the oil mills, having to divergely with the cleaning of the peanuts, and they were ready for the extraction, and the peanuts began to come to them. Recently, there has been such a demand for the nuts themselves, for manufacture into products elsewhere, that the mills have not been doing much extraction because they could make more handling the nuts themselves than they were filling the extracted product. A single mills of peanut butter, for example, uses 1000 carloads of shelled mats a year and expects soo to go to 500 carloads. Bakers use immense quantities in cakes and confections, and it is stated that many a chocolate cake is coated with a mixture of which peanuts form a considerable part. With imports cut off by the war, prices are high for a present large impetus to growing for cotton, and at present prices for cotton, peanuts are more profitable where there is serious depreciation by the weevil. WHERE PEANUTS EXCEL The South has a great deal of sandy soil, and in many sections corn sucumbes to the dry weather just at the time when it most needs moisture. Such soils in such sections furnish just the right conditions for peanuts, but the require less rain than corn. If the peanuts require choose its own bed, it would pick these sandy lands as just the right place. Furthermore, the peanut improves these lands, if proper methods are maintained. Of course, if the pea vines are removed for hay, and the roots are wholly dug out in harvesting the crop, they will exhaust the soil just as any other crop will, where everything is taken away and nothing is returned. It is a fortunate circumstance, however, that the nuts themseeds are just elow the surface of the ground, and the module-bearing roots go considerably deeper digger which will go just below the nuts and cut the roots off at that point leaves the nitrogen-bearing part in the soil, and the same is true of a modified potato digger also used in harvesting the crop. Even if a good many nuts are lost by cutting them off too close, the nitrogen left in the soil by saving the roots is said to be would take good many peanuts to make in it. If hogs are turned in, even these peanuts are saved and are turned into bacon, while their manurial value goes back into the soil. PEANUT OIL MARKET Peanut oil promises to be in greater demand than ever before because, according to the Department of Agriculture authorities, it is one of the most important of the world's food oils and doubly important under conditions. With European imports cut, and a severity of cotton-seed oil there is an assessment of -- considerable demand at good prices. American mills, however, are not getting the best prices for their prod let because they do not shell and clean the nuts and remove the germs. Where this is done, and the first presser is made without heating the material, it is clear and clean and equal in quality. Imported olive oil: though of a different and more nu-like flavor. To many persons it is more palatable than olive oil. The Spanish type of peanut should be grown for oil, and the only additional equipment needed is that used in cleaning and shelling factories. Peanut oil, left as a by-product of oil extraction, is a very nutritious stock food. BALANCED AGRICULTURE The department's advice is not to substitute peanuts for cotton and thus maintain the uneconomic system of one-crop agriculture. On the contrary, the advice is to utilize the peanut in certain sections by making it a part of a well-balanced agriculture and especially by using it in areas of serious boorweil depredation as part insurance against cotton losses. The farmer need not hesitate to plant a somewhat larger acreage than his own for hog and cattle feed. If the priceupply is to be low, he can buy more hogs and marked the peanuts in that way; if the price happens to be high, he can sell the surplus to advantage. To raise peanuts year in and year out as the sole money crop would be as unwise as to depend upon cotton alone. Richmond, Va., Aug. 17.—The Virginia Council, of Defense is urging that water-power mills he put back into service as an agency in efforts to help win the war through conser- tion of food resources and the effec- tive use of every bit of machinery available. In a statement just issued from the offices of the Council, this subject is discussed as follows: "Stores of water-power mills formerly were scattered throughout the State, but most of these mills, all of which had gradually gave way to steam mills, which were custom grinding for local farmers who grew their own wheat and corn. "Towns and villages vied with each other in securing these steam mills, which were looked upon as community assets, and often liberal bonuses were given. At first, as each mill was opened, it did a flourishing business, a tale, though, many of these mills, compared with flour shipped in from other states, and sometimes substituting the exchange system for the toll method, saw their business decrease to the point where it was no longer profitable. "As farmers found that they could not get flour made directly from their own wheat and corn, they asked, 'Why go to the mill? Why not sell the flour at the elevator and buy the flour at the mill?' And that was just what they did as mill after mill was closed. Thus was the much heralded high cost of living higher as wheat was shipped out and flour shipped in. Thus did producer and consumer both make business for the middlemen. The machinery in many of the mills that are now idle is in fair condition and practically ready for the day's run. Opening such machines would be a simple matter and would not necessitate large expenditures. To that would represent good business. Real patroltism and home pride should make the move not only possible but profitable. In communities that have mining facilities, the establishment of small mills run by gasoline may well be neglected. The revival of the old-fashioned grist mill and the common corn 'cracker' is also in order. "To grind wheat and corn where it is grown instead of shipping the grain and later hauling back such of the wheat and flour as is needed for home consumption will not only mean food at less cost, but will greatly reduce transportation situation. Railroads, with new taxed to the utmost with the heavy freight tractor incident to military movement. So great is the pressure, in reality, that there is talk of curtailing passenger movement. In view of all these facts, any movement looking to the opening of local mills is of more than State interest." RUSH TO OBTAIN FARM LABOR Application for farm loans are pouring into the Federal land banks at the rate of more than $1,000,000 a day., the Federal loan board announced yesterday, the total for July having reached $34,310,000. During that month the board approved loans amounting to $16,000,000. About $4,000,000 has been loaned farmers thus far. Your subscription to the Planet is due. Have you paid it? If not why not THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA AMERICA'S CAUSE FOR WAR. "The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. They filled our communities with vicious spies and conspirators. They sought to corrupt our citizens. * * * They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our companies. We would take up arms against us and to draw Japan into hostile alliance with her. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of Europe. They hid under which we servo would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand."—Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States. THE FOURTH PAYMENT. The fourth payment, of thirty per cent, on Liberty Loan Bonds purchased on installments is due on August 15th. The payments must be made on or before that date according to the conditions of the sale of Liberty Loan Bonds issued by Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury at the time subscriptions to the bonds were invited. Whether the bonds were purchased from the Treasury or from the Fed, the banks or through other banks or agencies it is important that these and succeeding installments be paid promptly. THE PEOPLES BARGAIN "The annual increase of our wealth is estimated to be fifty billions of dollars. The American people are not asked to give anything to their government, but merely to invest a small percentage of the annual increment of wealth in this country and take in return from their government the strongest security on the face of God's earth; to receive in return for the money lent 3 1-2 per cent per annum, both principal and interest exempted all taxation except estate or inheritance taxes, and with the further provision that if the government should issue any other bonds during the period of this year at a higher rate of interest the purchaser of a Liberty Loan Bond may turn it in and get a new bond at the higher rate of interest. "In protecting the credit of the United States government, you are protecting your own credit, you are protecting your own business, you are protecting every interest you have in life and property. In doing that you are rendering a patriotic service in supplying the sinews of war to your country."—William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury. LABOR BUYS LIBERTY BONDS: While it is not possible to give exact figures either as to the number of subscribers or the amount of bonds bought, yet reports from many corporations and firms which are large employers of labor show that the working men of America were numerous and liberal purchasers in the in the two billion dollar issue of Liberty Bonds. There can be no doubt that the working men of America are a class of citizens whose patriotism and ability afford a tremendous market for government bonds. The safety of the Liberty Loan Bonds and their exemption from all federal, state and local taxation, except inheritance and estate taxes, constitute them an ideal element for the smaller investors, and the element of America seems to have been quick to appreciate the fact. They will be liberal purchasers in the next issue of the Liberty Loan Bonds may confidently be relied on. The working men are willing to buy liberally according to their means and are able to buy largely in the aggregate. The assistance given them by their employers, in many instances, the way of arranging it so that they may pay for the bonds by installments for the wages, together with similar facilities offered by practically all the banks of the country, greatly aided the wage carriers of the country in their purchase of Liberty Loan Bonds. LIBERTY BONDS PREFERRED STOCK. Likening the United States to a great corporation with more than a hundred million stock holders and with capital stock and resources of more than two hundred fifty billions of dollars, and an annual income of fifty billions of dollars, each American citizen is a stock holder in this great corporation. Even those whose only assets are their earning capacity own shares in our public domain and property and are working on a profit sharing basis with a vote and a voice in the management of the corporation and with the right to acquire more stock at any time. A Liberty Loan Bond may be likened to a share of preferred stock in this gigantic corporation. Like preferred stock in other corporations it may not return, at times, so large a dividend as common stock, but the dividend as common stock is correct and sure. It is stock that may have 12 or more dividend but the stock and dividend cannot be taxed and while crop failures may decrease the farmer's dividend from his land some years to less than nothing, and various causes may lessen or destroy dividends from all other sorts of property, the dividend from the Liberty Loan Bond is certain, subject to no failure or diminution. The owner of a Liberty Loan Bond holds written tangible evidence of being a preferred stock holder in the United States, the greatest, the most glorious, the most honorable and the most successful corporation in the world. He holds the certificate of being a citizen willing to support his government and to lend money to his country when it needs it and calls for it. There is honor in being the owner of Liberty Lonny Hond as well as profit. FINANCING THE WAR The United States is financing it self in this war by loans and taxes. It obtains funds from the people, some by taxation and some by the sale of bonds, and then it goes into the market, and then from the people what it needs. The people supply the government with money and the government with this money buys from the people what it needs for the war. There are three sources from which the United States can draw the sinews of war. First is the fixed property of the nation. This represents our farms, factories, mines, railways and all other property including accumulated savings. From the or body of none of these, except the government obtain war funds, and even from the accumulated savings it will draw a relatively small portion. These accumulated savings are invested in industries and business which are necessary to the country's welfare and prosperity and it is only that portion of these savings which including investment that the government will receive in exchange for bonds. The second and the great source from which the government is to derive its war, fund is the wealth produced during the war. Part of this will be the money and part in exchange for bonds. The production of the United States, from its farms, mines, factories, and other sources, amounts to fifty billion dollars a year and out of this fifty billion dollars come the funds, part from taxes and a sale of bonds, with which the United States will finance itself during this war. By taxation this generation will pay its portion of the cost of the war. By the sale of bonds the next generation is called upon to pay its portion, and this last portion will be paid from the wealth production after the war. By this method the capital of the country, its sources of income and wealth, are unimpaired. It is only the yearly increment of the property that is called upon to bear a portion of the cost of the war. Thus despite the waste of war and the destruction of property involved the country may emerge from the conflict stronger financially, more efficient and even wealthier than before. What the government receives it receives from the people about impairing the sources of wealth in the country, and passes it back to the people in exchange for the productions of the country. It is in a way only a shift. The government collects the current taxes and by means of bonds anticipates taxes of the years to come, and all the money thus acquired passes back into the hands of the tax-payers. This is why governments which follow sound economic methods not only are not impoverished by wars but sometimes emerge the stronger as England did after the Napoleonic wars and the United States did after our great Civil War. THANKS LOCAL PEOPLE FOR FLAG FOR ROUMANIAN HOSPITAL. Henry Watkins Anderson/ Chairman; Arthur Graham Glasgow, Vice-Chairman; Francis W. Peabody, Flexner, H. Gideon Wells, Griswold Porkins, Robert C. Bryan, C. T. Williams, Secretary and Treasurer. EN ROUTE TO VANCOUVER. July 30, 1917. Rev. W. T. Johnson Rev. W. T. Johnson, Chairman, Colored Branch, Richmond Chapter, American Red Cross, Richmond, Va. Red Cross, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir,—Mrs. Bryan was kind enough to hand me the flag which was provided by the Colored Branch of the Richmond Chapter of the American Red Cross, for the use of the Romanian Mission, together with your card of presentation. This is my first opportunity to write you and to express to you through you to your organization, the appreciation of my.off and the Commission, of this flag and of your thought and courtesy in presenting it. We will use it with the greatest of pleasure and always with the thought that it stands as an evidence of the interest of the colored people of Richmond in the great work in which this.Mission is engaged and an appreciation of their citizenship and their desire to participate in the task which America has undertaken to relieve the stricken world. I want to take this occasion to express to you and through you to the Richmond Colored Chapter of the Red Cross, my deep interest in your organization and its efforts. I had hoped that an opportunity might be given to do this personally before I left Richmond but, it was impossible because of the pressure of other duties. I have felt that the organization of the Colored Branch of the Chapter in Richmond could be more than merely a Red Cross organization, however great and important that may be. Yours was the first Red Cross organization among the colored people of the South and, I think, of whole country, and you thus enabled Richmond to blaze the way in this humanitarian movement among our colored people and have set an example of cooperation between the white and colored people in efforts for the advancement of their citizenship which I hope will be followed everywhere. I feel that Richmond has just cause to be proud of her colored citizens. They have had many difficulties to overcome, many discouragements to meet. They have had to learn that true liberty lies in the power of self-restraint and of self-development; and they have learned and have expressed this truth in a manner which should arouse the pride of the city and give promise of continued cordial relations and co-operation between white and colored people in the future. I believe this Red Cross movement affores a great opportunity for the development of American citizenship among all of our people, for a closer and more cordial union and purpose, for a better understanding and a greater spirit of helpfulness. I am anxious that our colored people should share in this great movement to the fullest extent possible. Is it not the mony but the spirit, the work which may be done, the service which may be rendered. I am accepting and carrying across the world this flag which you have sent to me, as embodying this, the true spirit and meaning of the Red Cross. I shall think of you whenever I use it and wherever I may be. It will aly ays be my desire and my prayer for my own people that this and other movements may lead them into close union, into a better understanding, to help them to form a cordial relationship which comes from tha. better understanding, and above all, into a higher and nobler American citizenship. Please accept, for yourself and your friends my cordial good wishes and my thanks for the valued gift which you have received and for the interest which you have manifested in our difficult mission. Very sincerely ours. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last Friday night was another great hour with the Y. M. C. A. The meeting was a good one. Where are the Reds? Every man and boy found an opportunity or service in the work of the Y. M. C. A. last Sunday. At 9:30 A. M. Committeeman William Thomas conducted the meeting for the workers at the Y. M. C. A. The committee for the jail work and city home was happy over the great success. (10 A. M.) Committeeman B. L. Allen gave the boys (4 p. M.) at the Y. M. C. A., a special address and every boy manifested much interest. The men enjoyed the special address, which was delivered to them (6:30 p. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. by Committeeman W. M. Ratney. The singing was a live wire. Every man is asked to be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for workers (:3:0 M. A.) at the Y. M. C. A. The boys will be addressed by Committeeman C. B. Gaston at the Y. M. C. A. (4 P. M.). Mothers, Help us by sending your boys. Director B. L. Allen will deliver a special address to the men (6:30 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. "A Line On the War." Let every man hear this. Warry music. Do not forget to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. (Every home). PLANET TEMPORARILY BARRED FROM THE MAILS. Awaiting instructions from Washington as to what disposition he should make of the case, Postmaster Hay T. Thornton recently barred from the mails the Richmond Planet for the printing a letter of Uzzlah Miner, and, stating his reason for refusing to volunteer in the United States Army. Editor Mitchell contends that the letter was not treasonable in form, and even that it did not purport to represent the views of either the colored race or of the newspaper; it merely represented the views and personal opinion of Uzzlah Miner. The Planet has been in existence for the past years, and, according to Mitchell, has never before been placed in such a position. Some time ago Miner edited the Howard University Journal at Washington and is evidently a prominent man among the colored race. Because it might be of interest to the colored letter was published, the editor argues, that Miner defended himself by saying that Miner was not the policy of the paper, nor were the members of the colored race advised by the paper to accept his letter in full faith, and, moreover, that Miner himself did not advise against attending, nor did he advise opposition to the draft act. He was merely a member of the opinions. Later the postmaster was from Washington that Mitchell's publication might continue the use of the mails—Rischmand Times-Dispatch. President to Probe Labor Troubles. President Wilson has taken cognizance of the I. W. W. agitation and labor troubles in the west by selecting Chief Justice Covington, of the District of Columbia supreme court, to make a personal investigation of the situation. Justice Covington conferred with the president and Secretary Wilson, of the department of labor, before starting on his work. German Professors All For War. 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No extra charge for fancy, swell styles. no extra charge for extra big, extreme size styles. belt loops, no extra charge for anything. all FREE. Before you take an- nouncement, you buy a suit or pants, get our free offer. Agents of other tailoring houses that will open your eyes. We ask many to answer this, every boy in long pants, every man, everywhere. No matter you wear, you will be asked to a letter or postal and say "Send Me You" New Free Offer the big, new mail and no extra charges. Cuts nothing, and no extra charges. Write tools, this minute. Address Photo by American Press Association. themselves. The state department acknowledged that it had received unofficial knowledge of the pope's proposal before news despatches from Rome were received. No official cognizance can be taken of it until the proposal is conveyed officially. Whatever consideration given to it will be after consultation with the allies. It was indicated that a peace proposal from the pope—the first actual proposal of the kind to come from the vatican—necessarily would have to be considered carefully and deliberately. An answer convincing to the world necessarily would have to be made. How far the proposal reflects the close relationship of the vatican with Austria—whose carnest desire for peace, despite German influence, is known—or how far it reflects the Catholic agitation for peace in Germany, no one would venture to say, it is recalled that leading Catholics were prominent figures in the recent peace flurry in Germany. Push Within 800 Yards of the Center of Lens. Posts were pushed out on a front of about 600 yards into ruined houses from which the enemy sniper们 have been annoying Canadians in the advanced line in the region to the north of the Lens-Livin road. Little resistance was experienced and only one prisoner was captured. The posts pushed out are only 800 yards west of the center of the city, but a belt of raided houses lies between the Canadians and Lens. Over the open space thus made the enemy is able to direct a heavy machine gun fire. British forces attacked the German positions on a small section of the Belgian front. They pushed the German posts back across the Steenbeke river, cast of the Ypres-Thourout railway. The British re-established their line on the eastern side of the river. The German lines near Rheims were penetrated in two places by the two decommissioning forces, Paris and Paris II, and the three man raids in the Champagne failed. ALSACE-LORRAINE THE CRUX Diplomat Does Not Believe Germany Will Give Them Up. The diplomatic representative of one neutral European country in Washington said that in his opinion, while the central powers might be willing to make peace on the terms outlined in the pope's communication, Germany never would relinquish Alace-Lorraine while she remained uncrushed. He believed Germany would suffer the loss of her colonies, he content to return Belgium and Serbia, recognize the autonomy of Poland and be given a huge sum in indemnities, and use peace fight to the last for Absace-Lorraine. This was by no means for sentimental reasons, he said, but because possession of these provinces was necessary for her economic existence. Several hundred department corks in Washington bombarded suffragette headquarters with eggs and vegetable tables after the militants had attempted three times to display "Kaiser Wilson" banners, only to have them destroyed. To Keep Negro Troops North. The war department has announced that negro units of the national guard will not be sent south. They will be utilized in the north to guard bridges, arsenals, etc., replacing other troops now on patrol duty. The order will affect regiments in New York and Illinois, battalions in Ohio and the District of Columbia, and companies in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland and Tennessee. POPE PROPOSES BASIS FOR PEACE Pontiff Favors Peaceable Discussion of Alsace-Lorraine, Trent, Trieste and Poland—Opposed to Forced Indemnities. The specific and concrete conditions, which his holiness, Pope Benedict XV, believes may form the basis of world peace, have been forwarded to the rulers of all nations. The pope, in outlining these conditions, makes a new and general appeal for the restoration of peace. An unofficial outline which has been received discloses that the pontiff includes in his suggestions principles for which President Wilson, in the past, has declared. Among the proposals are reduction of armaments, freedom of the seas, and that there shall be no retaliatory struggle after the war for world commercial supremacy. These are regarded as the foundation stones of the pope's plan. The pope's proposal declares the injuries to all belligerents have been so great, there should be no thought of reparation except for the return of territory. Unqualified approval of President Wilson's plan to avoid future wars by an international organization which shall have behind it power to enforce its judgments, is given. Included in the restoration of territory, the pope's proposal insists, should be the return to Germany of all colonies, as well as the complete restoration of Belgium to her sovereignty. Although special efforts are being made to facilitate its transmission to the United States, this may not be effected for a day or two. Meanwhile, an accurate outline of the principal points of the communication is in the hands of the government. Already it has received thoughtful consideration. In eloquent language, the pontifex describes the terrible conditions existing in Europe. Europe, he says, is headed for destruction unless the bellergents will listen to the appeals of disinterested friends to cease a suicidal war. Such conditions, the pope feels, amply justify him in taking the present opportunity to suggest what may be he hopes at least a foundation upon which peace negotiations may be started. It is inconceivable, the pope holds, that permanent peace can be maintained unless the various peoples are willing to gather in an anity founded upon a recognition of national rights. Any attempt to prevent free economic election between the bellergents, the pope points out, would be disastrous. Therefore, he says, there must be freedom of the seas in all that the term implies. In a spirit of conciliation and justice, he says, all the belligerents must submit to accept the losses they have sustained, except in the matter of territory. Beside the questions of indemnity and reparation, the pope says, there must be no continuation of the war by an economic struggle for supremacy thereafter, which would be purely evil. This refers directly to the so-called Paris economic conference, which was followed by one n Vienna, where the effort was made to bind the belligerents on either side after the war to have virtually no commercial relations with their late enemies. On the disposition of occupied territory, and territorial ambitions of the belligerents, the pope, by way of preface, admits special cases might justify special consideration and still be adjusted in conformity with the principles of equity and justice. As a general proposition, he feels a proper basis for discussion would be the restoration at once of all territory now in enemy occupation. That would involve liberation of Belgium, leaving not a trace of German control, political or military. The same principle of unumbered freedom in its full sense, he says, should prevail in regard to every power and nation. Not only must French territory now occupied by German he restored to France, he says, but all German colonies which have been occupied by England, Portugal, Belgium and Japan should be returned to Germany. The more difficult question of Italy Iredenta, the pope thinks, should be examined in a spirit of conciliation, and that special consideration should be given to national aspirations. Likewise the pope holds that the complex questions involved in readjustment of the Balkan states should be considered in the same spirit of equity and justice. He has especially in mind Armenia, the Balkans and Poland. The intimation conveyed is that these questions can be dealt with by direct diplomatic exchanges by the belligerents, once an agreement is reached upon the general principles of recognition of national aspirations and justice. The proposals, which already have been delivered to the resident ambassadors and ministers of the warring powers in Rome, is quite long. They make in print something more than a column of large newspaper type. At best, the pope's proposals are suggested only as a rough basis for such negotiations. He realizes that the details in all their compulsory must be worked out patiently and in a spirit of conciliation by the belligerents. FIVE Who Made Peace Proposals to Warring Nations. CANADIANS BORE IN Suffragists Polted by Clerks " - ‘ Se sx FIVE FRIDAYS (Continued from Page Three.) Mhe fire was all out” Any further discussion was cut short by the violent rhiging of the telephone Vell Inside the burning buttding. “Who can be calling up at this ‘tne of might?" wondered Vida, voteing th general curiosity, “We probably will never know." Bopp gazed adreamily into the fire “Maybe some one saw the blaze trom the mainland and is calling up about it” “No,” said Lucile, with conviction “It's my mother. She has seen the tir from Huntingdon's and wants to know ff Fam safe. We must answer I and fell her that everything is all right.” “No one could Ko in there," L pro tested. “The tire is raging In the My. ing room, and the walls may: fall any moment.” “1éut mother will worry.” “What it she does?" A man under stress of excitement Is sometimes wy intentionally: brut, “If you men are not brave enough,” Luelle declared, with exes flashing, “if you're so afraid of getting singed, Tm xolng In to answer that telephone mg: self and tell my mother that 1 am safe.” 1 “You wouldn't be safe if you were talking over that telephone." 1 was exasperated, bit {was Impossible (0 allow a girl ina flimsy negligee to go into that furnace, “Since you put it that way, FAL x0." F groped my way to the Instrument, Jammed the receiver to my ear and shouted, “Helo! “Sorry to waken you, old chap,” sald A nnle Voice apotogetically, “but'T sim. ply must speak to Miss Dunmore.” “You xo to Halifax!” 1 requested Joudly, and, drenping the recelyer, PSSA uf fot a UP [itl yp so se sea: Made “n wild dash for (ie door, from which 1 emerged with my clothing on fire in only one or Ovo spots. “Thank you!" —Luelle was very sweet in bestowing her gratitude, “Wats she very much worried?" “It wasn't. your mother,” 1 said shortly, “It was Mr, Blaney." “Ned’" asked Vida; then, without Wailing for an answer, “I must speak to him." + T gently restrained her. “Taney?” queried Lucile blankly; then, turning (0 me, “Your brother?” “No relation,” [ returned. “Me's my “flance," Vida explatned. “Just the darlingest old Blaney that ever lived. He's waiting for mo at Vair View. We were to have been married today, or yesterday, rather." “Ob!” Lucile retired to’ ber inner consciousness to think, I told Vida thet Haney knew sho was safe, as he had called up several times during the day. “Where was 12" “You were always out somewhere with Mr. Clair," 1 explained, “You didn’t tell Ned that, did you?” “Why, yes, L guess 1 aid. Why?” “He's so jealous,” sighed Vida. “It makes him furious when I talk to oth. er men, Of course after we're mar. ried I'l train him differently, but now T have to be eareful.” Our attention was distracted from the burning building by the arrival of BIN Johnson, who walked unannounced Into the circle of light. ‘The noise of the Merry Widow arriving had appar ently been lost in the crackling of the flames, “Well,” 1 inquired, “were Mrs. Green and Mr. Clatr all right?" “[ shall not know it." BIL reptied phlegmatically, “I can’t, by Yimminy find "em." “Can't find them? Nonsenset Di you go up to the house?” “Yes, sare. And I look in all th rooms. No one shall be in each.” “hey can't have left. Mra, Gree snid she wouldn't.” “What's up now" Bopp inquired, “Mrs. Green has disappeared one more.” “Ploped with Tipton 8, Clate?” “Impossible! You haven't seen hin slnco he left here.” “What else could have happened?” “{ can't Imagine, It's a small island and there would bo no sense in suy posing that sho was hiding any wher 2 aie duisile of the house, Bestdes, they both knew that the boat was coming back soon to get them.” “Mrs, Green iy So elusive,” Bopp criticised, “that 1 should) thhute that When ence you located her you would have kept your eye on her."* “ie To tatd PF reminded him, “you would probably all te burnt to cin. Gers now, ‘There must be some plaust Ie veason for Mrs. Green's disappear anice, Suppose we don't tell her ditugh. ter right away until we try to find out What bas lappened. It would only cause her additional worry.” That was agreed upon, “AC nny rate,” Hopp sald, “we ean all Ko over to the matiniand in the Mer. ry Widow and get breakfast.” “Noy” declared ill, shakings bis head, “Merry Widow she shan't ran, She broke her walve spring. Maybe I take all day to fix she up.” “Then for heaven's sake get ab it! Bopp growled crossty, “Lfix him up with some wire may. be," BIN cheerfully promised as ho de. parted Luclle and Vida rejoined us pres. ently. “IT haye some breakfast for you," 1 announced, “Soup?" Hopp uttered the word sar- castically, “Oh, ‘Pootles!" murmured Luctle. “I forgot.” said. “Pootles 4s found. T found ‘Pootles last anlght.” “Where is my little sweetheart now?" “In the summer house," LE replied. “Oh, my ‘Tootles sir,” she exclaimed, “locked up tn that cold barn of a place atl nissht “E was there.” 1 reminded her, #1 stood it all rishi" Lucile started. out as fast as she could for the stimmer house. “Wait a mjante," 1 protested, wish. ing {0 explain about the reporter. “Wait,” she tashed at me, “wher Pootles wants me? Never!" Lucile broke fito a ran when she saw that Twas following her and reached (he door of the summer house first. When I arrived 1 beard a serenm, CHAPTER XVII. Explanations, 1G pleture was a trifle starting On the floor lay “the reporter his fave wisted up Into an as onized expression, while ‘Poo (es stood over hin, fechly Meking his face, her Tittle red longue hardly ehh to wag, SOR! Laetle screamed, jumping an and down in her exeitement, he’ Uilling Toottes! Vin afraid ¢ laughed, Anyway, st east a look of reproach at me and ninde a dive for the Cred litte pnp ‘Pootles went through the door an dashed, barking, up the beach, Lucile followed after, ‘They were tov fast for me. “Phe last 1 saw of them was a tiny bobbing : > = bi lt A i\\ aan UR M \ ffl i Ve Ne i\\ WE (leh Yrcrk g ca i; C2 \\ Ay Se nr” be iy 6 Ok “Ob,” Lucille screamed, “he's killin: Tootles!”" speck—that was ‘Tootles—and a larger graceful figure with hair blowing tree and kimono flying back, which was Lucile. “What's all the excitement?" the re porter demanded. “Who's the pippin?" “We had a fire," 1 returned wearily. “Mr. Green's house burned down.” “Everybody asleep, L suppose.” ‘The reporter sketched in the story from im: agination, “You, the faithful wateh: man, see {he flames, dash into the burn ing ‘building and reseue the owner's beautiful daughter, It’s a peach of a story. It's too bad you can't marry her,” he added, eying me ruefully. “You've got a wie and seven kids, J suppose.” “I have not,” 1 retorted, “When you can marry her,” “Thanks.” “I mean you're not so terribly old and you might look all right 4 you washed your face and had some decent clothes.” For the first time 1 realized that 1 must be a pretiy sad looking object My clothes were wet, torn, singed and thoroughly mussed from having beer slept in and rained on, T looked at him sharply, “What sia collar do you wear?” “Fourteen and a half," he replied glibly, | -T granted. “I'l have a look, any way.” | <I rolled him over and removed th collar and necktic as carefully as pos sible, It was a fifteen and a halt, | “Because you lied T shall conflscat tho necktie also,” | “No,” he shouted, interpreting m; glance, “you couldn't wear anothe thing of mine.” | “Em afraid we colnelde only in th neck,” I sighed regretfully. “Look here,” he began belligerently “don't you think this farce hn gon far enough? I demand to be released THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA edie Sg nigga eee “What will you do with me? | “Ldow't know, Tt has been puzzling me, You know more about erie than Tdo. What do you suggest?” T meas. ured the height of his collar with my eye. ST cunt say that 1 etre much for your selection of collar style.” “1 fou aren't going to let me go," continued the young man, whose mind seemed to dwell constantly on hin | Sele, “when Is breakfast?” “There, you have rulned an other. wise perfect day. No one knows when, j Where or what breakfast is." “No breakfast?" he questioned, | SNoper nary breakfast." Te sighed.” “There's a elgar in my" j Me started fo tell me whieh pocket When he recollected my propensity for confiscating: his property. | “It'S all right." Passured him. “Fn not smoking at present.” | “In my left hand upper vest pocket," he finished, | T found a fat leather ease inthe pocket he had indicated, T opened the case, and a handful of crumpled tobne co fell out, “Lm afraid T sat on It." LE suid apolo Eotlealty, He tirned his face to the wall with. out a word. [left hh alone with the dust of iis last clear, | When 1 had gone a short distance 1 heard him sneeze, | When 1 was satisfled that 1 had done the best 1 could to rearrange my dls ordered clothes and Hnen T rejoined the Aisconsolate Kroup at the site of the one time house, ‘here were only four of them-Captaln Perkins, Jim, Vida and Kent, Tuctle had not returned, “Where's Luctle?" Vida inquired. | “Pootles Kot away,” 1 explained, “and sho chised her.” { “But ‘Tooties is here." Vida tudt- vated the dog playing around the shed. | “She came back quite awhile ago with {ls fn her mouth." | Vida hely up the torn and dirty rem. nants of what had) been Tuelle's kimono. : “Phas Lucile’s kimono!” 1 erted, An idea struck me. “What was she wearing under that?" { “E helped her put on my costumes"; Vida vouchsafed, “the one that was drying In the shed, 1 fits her beautt-| fully." | “hen 1 presume that you wit find Lucile over there behind that clump of bushes," Thazarded in a lou? tone of voice, | here was a sound of branches breaking: and leaves rustling as if some one were beating a hasty re- treat. | “Oh, T see!" Light dawned on Vida, “Just let her alone, She'll get used to them in an hour or so. You do fee! kind of funy at first. Now about that breakfast." t “Yes,” Bopp chimed in, “produce {hat feast you were speaking of. With the dox in sight we'll take a chanco on anything you've prepared.” “Sail ho!” cried Jim, | “Where be she?” demanded his au- verlor, “Coming around the polut." Jin re. pie® < | Sure enoush, a fat litle tugboat was hosing her way comfortably. through the waves info the cove. “It's the rev- enue (iz! exeltimed Captain Perkins, whose Knowledxe of luke craft was) naturally superior ‘to that of the rest of us. “A revenue tug?" Bopp repeated. “What fs she doing here?" “Let's xo and find out.” +The (ug came in as far as she dared, and then an aticer came ashore in a dinghy, “Pardon me, ladies and gentlemen,” he begin suavely, taking no notice of our disheveled appearance, “1 am the revenue oilicer in charge of this dis- trict.” A ery from the tug startled us. What's that?" we exclaimed, ‘The yeit was repeated, this time with a smothered finish, “I's Justa couple of prisoners we captured this morning.” explained the oflicer. “We are very glad to see you and your boat.” Bopp stated, doing the honors. “We have had a’ terrible fire here, and if you will set us safely ashore at Patr View we shall be for: ever In your debt." “Lm sorry," he replied, “but 1 cannot carry your party as passengers. Re- Ing du overnment service, my duties are very exacting. However, E shall be glad to notify the first vessel I meet and request them to call for you." “But, man," Bopp exclaimed, “we have been, without anything to eat for three days! 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