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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 49 BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY (Ry Lucian R Watkins) (By Lucian B. Watkins) At noon, August 15, 1917, our U. S. Army Transport "Thomas" pushed off from pier 1, Manila Bay. We were off for the Homeland. The Military band on the "old" mobilized the air with the grand old question, "Should old acquaintance be forget and never brought to mind?" "Then, "Carry me back, for I must go back to the girl I left behind me." A throbbing, reticative and interested crowd of friends, relatives, comrades and lovers, Americans and Filipinos — thronged the pier and waved farewell to the responsive men women and children who crowded the deck of the home bound "Thomas." SPENT MANY YEARS THERE. Many old sojourners of the Philippine Islands were on this beat. One Sergeant (Colored) I knew personally had lived here twelve years, another more than ten, another more than eight years. It had been my home for the past four years. Practically all of the officers and enlisted men now are returning to the United States had been here more than two years. In twelve ten, eight, four or even two years, one may, and usually does, become in some or a great degree attached to the animate and inanimate world about him. The roots of one's soul must ever grow deep in soil that is rich in affection, friendship, love, sympathy goodwill and kindness. To leave—to say goodbye is to injure these tender attachments and it is no light matter. As Manila faded in the distance, I went below to my cabin and wrote: GOODBYE MANILA Goodbye, Manila! We go. But as we leave your life, p Here in your sympathetic bay We leave our soul's regretful tear. Our country calls; our hearts are true Goodbye, Manila! We're fond of you We learned to love your days divine. The golden tales they seem to tell, Your Oriental ways and wine, Your moonlight madness and its spe Your moonlight madness and its spell Your wee brown girls with eyes goo- goo. Goodbye, Manila! We're fond of you! We love your youth-sweet evergreens Eternal Spring that knows no grief; "Manila and the Philippines" Will be our memory's dearest leaf. Will be our memory's dearest leaf. In dreams we'll live your heaven through, Goodbye, Manila! We're fond of you! You are it seems and let us say, The dearest home on earth, beside "God's Country," Good old U. S. A. That's why we leave you sorrow-eyed Now, a Dios! So long! Adieu! Goodbye, Manila! We're fond of you! NOT A PERMANENT HOME. Of course, no American soldier while residing in the Philippines can record it as his permanent home, but to most of us it had been an exceedingly interesting camping ground. Now we were on our way back to "God's Country," which is our soldier term for our United States. This return we all felt sure meant that we would be soon sent to take our places among the fighting force in France. I feel sure that this War will benefit the world in general; and in this we as a race will be blessed beyond any thing that we have received in the past. I feel that this war is going to put the true gold stamp on real men and women the world over; Good eft zenith in black men and women will be appreciated; intelligence and thrift will be colorless; lynch lawlessness is going to become unpopular. I noce that one of our people are going North to make new homes for their unborn sons and daughters. My soul etheographs through the Living spirit of Eternal Existence to these kindred souls of my people. "May God be with you. You are hunting more than gold. I know. May you find that which you seek." When I think about this war and its significance, I am glad to be a part, however small of this great movement for the betterment of the world. ETHIOPIA SHALL LIVE Somewhere within the Past, some where Up from the Void, the Ancient Dark, We know not whence it was, but there It came a Spirit and a Spark; It moves in flesh and blood and breath. And lives on, on death after death. When we were outside of Manila bay the sea was choppy Typhoon signals had been displayed in Manila for nearly a week before our departure. It was evident that the sea we were having was a part of this typhoon. All susceptible subjects were (Continued on the second page.) TROUBLE IN DANVILLE, VA. Dauville, Va.Oct. 12. Walter Clark, a colored neer do well, killed a police man, wounded six other' men and himself was shot to death by armed citizens early this afternoon as he was driven out from his retinue in the rear of Wilson street by flames start ed for that purpose. For two hours, white thousands of people gathered on roofs and near by vantage points, the colored defied citizens, who, learning that two of the most popular officers of the police force had been seriously wounded, determined to capture him dead or alive. Clamor for the body after it had been dragged, bullet ridden and half burned, from the house, was subdued by the authorities, who threw the corpse on a fire wagon, which was driven by a circuitous route to a colored undertaking establishment. The body was interred in less than The body was interred in less than an hour. The casualty list is: William H. McCray, policeman, dead. William Wirt Boisseau, deputy sergeant probably fatally wounded. Police Sergeant J. H. Martin, slightly wounded in the face. Policeman H. A. Perkinson, wounded in the face with buckshot. Policeman J. C. Lewis, wounded in the hip. John Wells, carpenter, wounded in the face. Fanny Evans, colored, wounded in the arm. McCray was killed when he went to arrest Clark, who was charged with shooting the colored woman. He was shot through the throat. Boisseau, who received the next call, was bending over the body of McCray when a load of shot was poured into the small of his back from a win dow. E. G. Moseley, president of the Virginia Press Association, was twelve feet from the gun muzzle when it was fired. For an hour the bodies of the two men lay in plain view, the colored man disputing approach to the building. For an hour or more there was a fusilade of bullets poured into Clark's house, citizens with guns of every type coming from all quarters. Dynamite, resorted, to failed wreck the building though two efforts were made. Once, Clark appeared at a window and fired twice, wounding two police officers and John Wells, a carpenter. This so angered the crowd that hehmed him in that it was decided to burn him out. Ten gallons of gasoline were thrown into one window of the house, and in a few minutes the building was roaring. Suddenly, Clark appeared in the doorway on which the beads of 200 guns were traced. His hand was upraised as though to ward off the storm of bullets which immediately sank into his body. BODY DRAGGED BY HEELS FROM BURNING BUILDING Seeing him fall and his hair and clothing on fire, the crowd ran forward and caught Clark by the heels, draining his body into the street. The fire department put out the flames. There was an unruly moment after the body had been dragged to the street. A colored 'understander mounted the fire wagon to convey a mess sure to a policeman. This was interrupted by the irate citizens to be an effort on the part of the colored man to save the remains. They mobbed the man, who fired headlong before a crowd of partners. Finally he sank under a rain of blows. His coat was cut, but he was protected from further violence by the police. The scene was a most remarkable one. The circle of armed citizens which hemmed in the series of out houses, was almost in the heart of the town, and a pall of smoke from rat riffle fire hung over the scene. Business was at a standstill virtual by the rest of the afternoon. All is quiet and normal tonight. Boiseau is reported, by his attending physician, to have been fatally shot He has a rugged constitution, however, and some hope is entertained for his recovery. Boiseau's condition, shortly before minight was reported to be unchanged. The gunshot made a bad hole in his back, injuring 'italian organs and RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917. MY APOSTLE OF FRIEND-AND ETERNAL PAL, THEY SAY OUR TIME IS UP. WE HAVE GOT TO GO. increasing a lung. He has been deputy sheriff fourteen years. His relatives in Dinwiddie, where Boisseau was born, have been summoned by P. H. Boisseau, servant of 'Anville, but not related to the wounded man. Officer McCray was sixty two years of age and a native of Mlamance County, N. C. He had been with the police and fire departments for twenty six years. He leaves a wife, but no children. THE BIG DAY AT Mt. O., 25TH AND 8 STREETS. The Mount Olivet Baptist Church will have on the 4th Sunday, Oc.4.28, 1917; a day of Special Services. 11:30 A. M.—"You Shall Reap, Just What You Sow," by Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, pastor. 4 P. M.—Address, "Get Ready," by one, whom the public has not heard for a number of years. (Guess who it is.) 8:30 P. M.—Sermon, "The Mid night Prayer," by Rev. Horace Wins low. (The Boy-preacher) of Philadelphia. Some of the best musical talent in the city have consented to assist in these services. All are welcome. See programmes. CHILES—SHEPARD Mr. T. R. Scott announces the marriage of his niece, Mrs. Cora L. Shepard to Mr. William H. Chiles Tuesday evening, October 16, 1917 at 9:00 o'clock, 814 N. 1st street. Reception October 25, 1917 at 814 N. 1st street, from 8:00 to 11:00 P. M. Friends are invited. No cards. E INEVITABLE. BIG COMMUNITY MASS MEETING. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., will introduce Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, Tuesday, October 23rd, 1917, at N30 P. M. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Come out and give these splendid men a splendid audience. The Lewis Quartette, Sabbath Glee Club and Madam Sevilla Ellen Briggs will sing. Persons prominent in community work, both white and colored will be the guests of the evening. Be on time. Admission Free. Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, Pres. Miss Lucy A. Peters, Secty. Mrs. M. M. Hill, Fin. Secty. Mrs. Alice H. Kersey, Tres Mrs. Eveline Epps is confined to her room, at her residence in North Third Street. She is improving. Mrs. Mary Casey, and daughter of New River, Va. were in the city last week. Mr. William B. Smith. ("Little Billy") now resides at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., spent a few days in the city. His many friends were glad to see him. Pev. W. H. Jackson, of Orange, N. J., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Marga ret Gordon and niece, Mrs. Arabela Charity, of 914 St. John St. MY APOSTLE & FRIEND-AND ETERNAL PAL, THEY SAY OUR TIME IS UP. WE HAVE GOT TO GO. In Memoriam. JONES.—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear son, H. Endoum Jones, who passed away October 17, 1912. By his parents, J. E. and ROSA K. JONES. Mrs. Jemima Moss spent her vacation in Charlottesville, Crozeq and Miller's School, Va. Mr. Howard S. Vaughan, of Farmville, Va. spent Sunday in the city visiting his wife and children. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Randolph, of 1007 1:2 N. Seventh street have returned home after a pleasant visit to New York, the guest of Mrs. Randolph's brother, Mr. James H. Hill. MAMMOTH PARADE AND SEND OFF FOR SELECTMEN. Parade to be Held Friday Night October 26. A Great Mammoth Parade and Send in honor of our selected men to be sent to Camp Lee Saturday, October 27, under the auspices of the Colored Branch of the American Red Cross and all the other organizations in the city. This is expected to be the grandest parade ever held in the city by colored people. On Monday afternoon October 22, there was held an enthusiastic meeting of the Colored Branch of the American Red Cross at which time representatives from the Spartans National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Civic League Pythian Cadet Corps, Spanish American War Veterans, St. Luke Organization and many others, unanimously decided to hold this great "Send Off" meeting to the Colored drafted and selected men of the city of Richmond. Eg Governor Montague addressed the meeting. His remarks were enjoyed by every one present. A mammoth parade is planned in which all fraternal, literary, beneficial organizations and schools in the city are invited to take a part, carrying special banners designating their organizations. Among the expectations expected to be present are: Pythians, Elks, Medical Association, Nurses Association wearing uniforms, Lincoln Beneficial Club, Southside Independents Love and Union No. 1, Excelsior Club Independent Beneficial Club, and many others. All organizations taking part in the parade will report to Mr. W. A. Jordan, Mr W. H. Anderson, Dr J. H. Blackwell and Col Roscoe Mitchell. All female organizations and all women who are members of the Red Cross will wear the Red Cross uniform and inquire at the Red Cross Headquarters 201 — 203 E. Leigh St. for instructions from the chairman, Mrs Mary E. Carter. Those who have been asked to take a part on the program are: Rev W. H. Stokes, D. D.; Rev Z. D. Lewis D.; Dr. Rosse E. Brown; Rev R. N. Peyton, D. D.; Rev M. E. Davis, D. D. Rev W. T. Johnson, D. D.; Mrs. Mangie L. Walker, Mayor George Ainstle and Mr. John Stewart Bryan. It has been definitely decided to have the march to the City Auditorium to begin at 7:30 o'clock. Following the exercises in the auditorium the drafted and selected men will be presented with housewives which contain many useful articles for the comfort of soldiers. A banquet will be tendered the men at Johnson's Hall after the conclusion of the services at the auditorium. The next meeting for the completion of the final arrangements for the "Send Off" will be held at the Southern Aid Office, 527 N. 2nd St. Monday October 22, 1917 at 6:30 p.m. UNION HAS PROSPECT OF A WONDERFUL SEASON The constant arrival of old and new players has caused Union to dream of championship honors. Coach Robinson has given out the information that this year's outlook is better than any of his previous years here. The return of Thompson and Slade, last year's lineemen, and Johnson, halffaced has materially strengthened the team. At present there are almost three teams on the field, which is the best showing that the Unionists have shown during their football history. The abundance of new players, in addition to the men of last year's powerful combination, gives the coach an excellent opportunity to pick a winning eleven for this fall. Every man is working hard and doing his best to win a place on the varsity squad. For the past week the red and steel boys have been engaging in hard scrimmages and signal pratices. The selection of a backfield will prove a difficult task; Woods is expected to resume his place at full but there are at least two or more candidates for the other positions with the majority being first string men. The Old Dominion boys are working hard each day and when the whistle blast announces the opening of the 1917 season the wearers of the red and steel will be ready for the fray. PRICE, FIVE CENTS AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT NOEL RE-APPOINTS JOHN MITCHELL, JR. To Conduct Campaign Throughout the Country—Secretary Harrison's Felicitation—Great Work Ahead for the Colored Leaders. The following correspondence explains itself: Savings Bank Section, American Bankers' Association, New York City, October 12, 1917. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. President, Mechanics Savings Bank Richmond, Va. My dear Mr. Mitchell—You are again appointed by the President of our Section, who this year is Joseph R. Noel, President, Noel State Bank, Chicago, IL, the chairman of the Special Thrift Committee for Work Among Colored People. We are indeed very happy to have you connected with our work and shall anticipate hearing the result of important activities from you from time to time. With kind regards and best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours. Richmond Va., Oct 18, 1917 Mr. M W Harrison, Secretary. Savings Bank Section, American Bankers' Association, Five Nassau St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Harrison—Your esteemed favor of the 12th inst., informing me of my re-appointment as Chairman of the Special Thrift Committee for Work Among Colored People received. Please convey to President Joseph R. Nocti my thanks for this recognition and assure him that I shall do care to the success of the movement. I use results in untold benefit to all classes of American people. With assurances of sincerity regard, I am. Very truly yours, JOHN MITCHELL OR A REMARKABLE INVENTION. Mr Essex Delance of Newport News, Va. colored is in the city and called on us. He had an exhibit in the Industrial Hall, Stall H H B, Virginia State Fair. It is wonderful in many respects. He has a circular self-feeding table, known as a scientific automatic distributor. This remarkable self-feeding device provides that from three to one thousand or more, the tables being multiplied in number can be fed in a few minutes. NO WAITERS NEEDED It is a time saver as no waiters are needed. The patron simply presses an electric button and marks with the letter X on the bill of fare just what he desires. The order goes automatically into the kitchen together with the marked bill of fare and the money. The cook, steward or server fills the order. The cashier places the change in the proper receptable and in a few moment he has put the food on the plate and started it book to the customer. PLATE STOPS The plate sits at the customer's number on the table and when he is through eating the empty plates cups, etc. are returned to the kitchen ready for the next customer. The table device has attracted attention throughout the United States and when put into actual operation in large cities will revolutionize the present methods of serving the public. It is estimated that the saving in time will appreciate millions of dollars. MANY PATENTS SECURED Mr. Debatech has had an eye on business in that he has patented the table device, there being seven improvements over all the self-feeding tables known in the United States, Germany, Mexico, Great Britain, Canada and patents depending now in France. He has twelve other patents under way, which he expects to bring before the public. Among these are clothes-drying machine, cider press, wrecking hammer, rat trap, river cleaning trap of all animals and fish and a boat rack for hoisting all small boats from the water, weighing from one to four tons. Mr. Essex Debatech's post office is 744 Nineteenth St., Newport News, Va. THE FATE OF THE WAR GOD' This mammoth patriotic play will be presented by a heavy cast next Monday night at the City Auditorium Selectmen will give a display drill. THE YLONET MONROE DOCTRINE OF THE FAR EAST Viscount Ishii Says Japan Will Not Permit Aggression "HANDS OFF" THE POLICY Special Envoy Declares Door Of Trade Is Always Open And That His Government Welcomes Competition. New York.—Proclaiming a Monroe Doctrine of the Far East, Viscount Ishii, head of the Japan mission to the United States, warned the nations of the world that his country would not tolerate aggressions against the territory or independence of China. At the same time he pledged Japan not to attempt similar aggressions on her part. Speaking at a formal dinner in honor of the Imperial envoys' visit to New York the Ambassador of Emperor Yoshihito outlined publicly for the first time since he set foot on American soil the policy of his Government as it relates to China. "Circumstances for which we were in no sense responsible gave us certain rights on Chinese territory," Viscount Ishil said, "but at no time in the past and at no time in the future do we or will we seek to take territory from China or to despoll China of her rights." Then with dramatic earnestness he expounded the "hands off" policy of his Government, "We wish to be and always to continue to be," he declared, "the sincere friend and helper of our neighbor, for we are more interested than any one else, except China, in good government there. Only we must at all times for self-protection prevent other nations from doing what we have no right to do. We not only will not seek to assail the integrity or the sovereignty of China, but will eventually be prepared to defend ad maintain the integrity and influence of China against any aggressor. For we know that our own landmarks would be threatened by any outside invasion or interference in China." While he boldly warned the world against any attempt to invade the rights of the republic of the Far East, Viscount Ishli promised with equal earnestness that the door to legitimate trade in China never would be closed by Japan. This declaration was cheered by the 1,000 public men, bankers, merchants and captains of industry who heard him. Viscount Ishli attributed to German machinations "sinister rumors of oppression or the false suggestion of a policy directed against China" whenever Japan or America appeared to make progress in that country. The Envoy declared emphatically that the "gentlemen's agreement" entered into between Ellhu Root, when Secretary of State, and Ambassador Takahira should be sufficient guarantee of continued friendly relations between the two nations. "Gentlemen, Japan is satisfied with this," he exclaimed, "are you?" Referring to the alliance between America and Japan in the war, he said in closing: "It is not conceivable that you of America or we of Japan, because of false cry of unstable peace, can change the course set by a star. It is not conceivable that for some petty gain secured by the sacrifice of principle at the price of honor lost we can be brought to swerve from our purpose, let fall the standard of right or break the bonds of friendship. It is not conceivable that America and Japan, our ideals one, our purpose fixed, can fail in this great common undertaking." FOREIGN Russians on the Rumanian front took part of a village, with 762 prisoners, but were forced to abandon positions under heavy fire from the enemy. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, calling President Wilson's peace note an insult to the German people and to the Pope, advised a policy of "holding on and waiting" as the one for Germany to pursue. The Peruvian government will hand his passports to the German Minister, Congress voted, 105 to 6, to break off diplomatic relations. Bands of Russian peasants have pillaged estate of the late Count Tolstoi. Australia will allow all wool purchased by the United States for uniforms to be exported. Extending its diplomatic representation, Switzerland will establish legations in Turkey, Rumania and Egypt. Information received by the Rod Cross in France definitely confirms the report of the death of Captain Georges Guynemor, famous air man. — Your subscription to the Planet is due. Have you paid it? If not why not? CONGRESS MAKES LEVY AT $27 FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE UNITED STATES Excess Profits Revenue at Billion, and Incomes at Nearly as Much Remain Practically Unchanged by Work of The Conferees. Corporations Will Pay Their Full Share Toward the Financing of the War—New System of Graduating the Amount of Assessment Adopted Believed to Be the Best That Could Be Devised. Washington.—The joint conferences on the war revenue bill completed their draft after two weeks of deliberation. As revised by the conferences the measure has been raised from the levy fixed by the senate of $2,416,670,000 to an aggregate of approximately $2,700,000,000. Chairman Simmons of the senate finance committee estimated that the increase made by the conferences would approach $275,000,000. virtually as written by the senate. The new 2 per cent normal tax on income of more than $2,000 for married persons and $1,000 for single persons in addition to the present law exempting incomes of less than $3,000 for single persons and $4,000 for married persons. Thus those between the new law exemption buses and the present exemptions will pay only the 2 per cent tax, but single persons having an in The excess war profits tax, as agreed to by the conferees, is a modification of the senate bill, the principal changes being in the maximum and minimum rates of exemption upon which the tax is to be determined. The senate graduated scale of exemptions ran from 6 to 10 per cent, while the house exemption rate was 8 per cent. The conferees adopted the graduated rate of from 7 to 9 per cent. The definition of capital, which was a point upon which the conferees argued for days, was modified so as to provide that the actual value of tangible property paid into a corporation or partnership or individual business before January 1, 1914, shall be taken as of that date. The proviso as to good will and other intangible property has been somewhat liberalized. As to "Invested Capital." In calculating war excess profits the ternus "invested capital" of corporations and partnerships was declared to include "actual cash paid in, actual cash value and other tangible property paid for stock or shares at the time of payment or January 1, 1914, but in no case to exceed the par value of the original securities; paid in or earned surplus and undivided profits used or employed in the business, exclusive of undivided profits earned during the taxable year;" The allowance for intangible assets includes "actual cash value of patents and copyrights paid in for stock or shares at the time of payment . . . good will trademarks, trade brands, franchises . . . if for bone-fide payments not to exceed the cash value." It stipulates that such intangible assets exchanged for securities before March 3, 1917, not exceeding 20 per cent of the total, shall be included at a value, not exceeding a fat-cash value at the time of purchase. Postal Increases. A flat increase on reading matter of $ \frac{1}{4} $ cent per pound until July 1, 1010, and $ \frac{1}{2} $ cent thereafter was provided. Advertising matter exceeding 5 per cent of the total space would be taxed from $ \frac{1}{4} $ to $ 2 \frac{1}{4} $ cents additional until July 1, 1010, and from $ \frac{1}{2} $ to $ 4 \frac{1}{2} $ cents more until July 1, 1020; and from $ \frac{1}{4} $ to $ 6 \frac{1}{4} $ cents to 1021 and from 1 cent to 9 cents thereafter. An additional tax of $ \frac{1}{4} $ cent per pound until July 1, 1010, and $ \frac{1}{4} $ cent thereafter, on religious, agricultural, fraternal and similar publications was adopted. The 1 cent tax on letters, excepting drop letters and postal cards, was restored by the conferences. A 1 cent additional tax on postal and private mailing cards was added. The first-class mail increases are estimated to raise $00,000,000, and are effective 30 days after the passage of the act. The senate provision exempting from postage letters written by soldiers and sailors abroad was retained. Railroad Tickets Hit. The conferees levied 8 per cent in lieu of the senate rate of 5 and the house rate of 10 per cent on passenger transportation, estimated to raise from the compromise levy about $80,000,000 instead of $87,500,000 under the senate plan. The 3 per cent tax on freight transportation was retained and the tax on express transportation was increased so that 1 cent would be levied on each 20 cents paid instead of onch 25 cents. The house 10 per cent tax on Pullman accommodations, cut to 5 per cent by the senate, was restored and is estimated to raise $5,000,000. In lieu of the house 5 per cent tax on sales of automobiles by manufacturers and the senate federal license tax on owners, the conferees adopted a 3 per cent tax on all motor vehicles, including trucks, payable by manufacturers, producers and importers. Taxes of 3 per cent of manufacturers' ales of musical instruments and jewelry also were written in, with a tax of $ \frac{1}{4} $ cent a foot on motion picture film. New Inheritance Tax. A new system of graduated inheritance taxes was written into the bill in lieu of the house plan and despite the senate's rejection of such taxes. The new rates on inheritances, with those of Americans in military service exempted, range from one-half of 1 per cent on $50,000 estates to 10 per cent on estates of $10,000,000 and more. The bulk of the increases of between $250,000,000 and $500,000,000 made by the conferences in the senate bill was secured from the postage, public utilities and manufacturing sales section and the new inheritance taxes. With but few exceptions, the new taxes are effective with the passage of the act. Senate Version Stands. The income tax section was adopted THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA virtually as written by the senate. The new 2 per cent normal tax on incomes of more than $2,000 for married persons and $1,000 for single persons is in addition to the present law exempting incomes of less than $3,000 for single persons and $4,000 for married persons. Thus those between the new low exemption buses and the present exemptions will pay only the 2 per cent tax, but single persons having an income of $1,000 or more and married persons whose income is $4,000 or more would pay the full 4 per cent normal tax. The senate income provision allowing an additional exemption of $200 for each dependent child to heads of families subject to the present law was retained. The exemption for children, however, does not apply to those subject to the new reduced taxes with the $2,000 and $1,000 exemptions, respectively, for married and single persons. Surtax Is Agreed Upon. Surtaxes were agreed upon as follows: One per cent on income over $5,000 and less than $7,500; 2 per cent between $7,500 and $10,000; 3 per cent between $10,000 and $12,500; 4 per cent between $12,500 and $15,000; 5 per cent between $15,000 and $20,000; 7 per cent between $20,000 and $40,000; 10 per 18 per cent between $80,000 and $100,000 per cent between $60,000 and $80,000; 18 per cent between $80,000 and $100,000; 22 per cent between $100,000 and $150,000; 25 per cent between $150,000 and $200,000; 30 per cent between $200,000 and $250,000; 34 per cent between $250,000 and $300,000; 37 per cent between $300,000 and $500,000; 40 per cent between $500,000 and $750,000; 45 per cent between $750,000 and $1,000,000, and 50 per cent on incomes exceeding $1,000,000. Increased Tax on Whisky. Increased tax on Whisky. Increased senate rates on whisky and beer were virtually retained, and that on wines somewhat reduced. The tax on distilled spirits was made $2.10 per gallon when for beverage use and $1 less for industrial purposes, estimated to raise $135,000,000. The amendment prohibiting importation of distilled spirits for beverage use was retained. Floor taxes to reach withdrawn liquors were approved. Beer was taxed $1.50 per barrel additional, to raise $46,000,000, an increase of 25 cents per barrel over the house rate. Present wine taxes were doubled. Taxes on nonaleoholic beverages were compromised. On prepared shrups and extracts the taxes graduated from 5 to 20 cents instead of from 3 to 12 cents a gallon were adopted. Grape juice and other soft drinks are taxed 1 cent per gallon, as provided by the senate in reducing the original 2-cent rate of the house. Senate rates on cigars and cigarettes were retained, but those on snuff were increased from 4 cents to 5 cents a pound. **Stamp Taxes Fixed.** Stamp taxes agreed upon are: Bonds of indebtedness, 5 cents on each $100. Indemnity and surety bonds, 50 cents. Parcel post packages, 1 cent for each 25 cents of the cost of transportation. Capital stock, original issues, 5 cents per $100. Sales and transfers, 2 cents per $100. Sales of produce on exchange, 2 cents for each $100 value in merchandise. Drafts, checks payable other than on sight or demand, promissory notes, except bank notes for circulation, and renewals, 2 cents for all sums below $100 and 2 cents for each additional $100 or fraction thereof. Conveyance papers, 50 cents between $100 and $500 and 50 cents for each additional $500. Custons house entries, from 25 cents to $1; entry for withdrawal from bonded warehouses, 50 cents. Passenger vessel tickets for ports other than those in the United States, Canada and Mexico, between $10 and $30,1; between $30 and $00,3, and above $00, $5. Voting proxies, 10 cents. Power of attorney, 25 cents. Playing cards, decks of not more than 54 cards, an additional 5 cents on the present rates. Taxes on life insurance, eliminated from the house bill in the senate, were amended and reinserted, raising about $5,000,000. Effective November 1 the new taxes on new insurance policies issued are 8 cents per $100 or fraction thereof on life insurance and 1 cent per $1 on the premium charged on marine, casualty, fire and inland insurance. Amusement taxes agreed upon provide that all persons entering places of amusement free, except employees and officials on duty and children under twelve, would pay a tax rate of 1 cent on each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the admission charge. This tax also would apply to cabarets and similar performances where the cost of entertainment is included in other costs, such as service. Holders of annual box seats would pay 10 per cent of the annual rental. Nickel theaters and shows, rides and other outdoor park amusements with a maximum ad- THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET No.1.-13x13x6 inches, No.2.-16x16x7 inches, CABINETS MAY BE SPRING MOTOR AND NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED ONE WINDING. THE CHINES. TURN-TA HIGHLY POLISHED THE R 311 N. 4 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. mission of 10 cents and benefit entertainments and agricultural fairs were exempted. After November 1, 1917, members of all clubs, except fraternal orders, paying more than $12 annual dues would be subject to a 10 per cent tax. Exemptions Are Allowed. On excess profits the conferences agreed upon a minimum deduction of 7 per cent and a maximum of 10 per cent, instead of the 6 to 10 per cent fixed by the senate. Other exemptions are $3,000 for corporations and $6,000 for individuals. Corporations, partnerships and individuals having no capital stock would pay a flat rate of 8 per cent on net profits in excess of $3,000 for corporations and $6,000 for individuals and partnerships. Miscellaneous income tax amendments inserted by the state were generally adopted, including the so-called Jones amendment for a tax of 10 per cent on corporations' indistributed surplus, without allowance for income taxes paid. The 10 per cent tax would not apply to undistributed income actually invested or employed in business or invested in federal securities after September 1, 1917, and 5 per cent penalty for surplus retained but not employed is provided. In making provision for administration and collection of the new and existing taxes the conferences provided that the special tax of $12½ per cent on war munitions manufactures shall be reduced to 10 per cent, but retained to January 1, 1918. It now yields about $20,000,000 annually and the senate had proposed its repeal. SPORTING Army defeated Carniegie Tech, 28 to 0, in a one sided football game at West Point. Yale University's Athletic Board decides to dispense with varsity football this year and to put all athletics on a military basis. After trotting seven hard heats, Ima Jay won the twenty-eighth renewal of the Transylvania at the Grand Circuit meet at Loxington. Omar Khayyam and Hourless will carry 126 pounds and race ten furlongs at Laurel, Maryland, for $10,000 and gold cup. T. A. D. Jones, football coach at Yale, announced that no man physically fit, who has not identified himself with some branch of the military service, will be permitted to play football at Yale this year. Giants finished their championship season by defeating Philadelphia. The Kentucky Futurity of $14,000 for three-year-old trotters was won in three straight heats by the Real Lady. Alexander in a contest with the pennant winning Giants gained his thirteenth victory of the season for the Phillies by a score of 8 to 2. HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR ND WILL PLAY TWO 10- C WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEE TH MACHINE HAS NEEDLE BLES 10 INCH DIAMETER RICHMO th St., - ESSENCE OF ALL CURRENT AFFAIRS A Summary For Busy Readers of the Significant Doings of the Day. OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST Progress of the World's War—War and Legislative Activities at the Nation's Capital—News From Every Corner of the Country. Germany's military chiefs, for the first time in the war, are beginning to talk about economizing the nation's "human material." German army orders signed by Quartermaster General Ludendorff have recently been taken from prisoners, emphasizing the need for this economy. Uruguay handed the German Minister his passports after the Chamber of Deputies approved the breaking off of diplomatic relations and the Senate had ratified the action, urged by President Viera as necessary in the cause of justice. Following the great battle east of Ypres, which complete reports prove was one of the most brilliant and important victories for British arms since the war began, an almost unprecedented calm has settled over the battlefield in Flanders. The British trook 4,446 prisoners. British troops in the renewed drive east of Ypres have pushed forward on a nine mile front, gaining a mile and a half in the centre and taking prisoner several thousand Germans, who surrendered by hundreds. "We shall bomb Germany with compound interest," declared Lloyd George, the British Premier, replying to the appeals of a crowd of poor residents of London for reprisals for recent air attacks on the capital. The crowd cheered the promise. Germany's U-boat bases along the Belgian coast will be throttled if good weather holds out on the Flanders front. This is Secretary of War Baker's official prediction on confidential reports. An increase of 35 to 50 cents in the price of coal was asked by operators at ```markdown ``` WAR BULLETINS WASHINGTON $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons Washington to meet the raise in wages granted to miners. An Ohio man has developed a "barred" leghorn chicken which threatens to break the egg laying record. Congress adjourned after a six months' war session, which is declared to be the most remarkable in parliamentary history. The Republicans will renew political activities at the December session. A conference of labor leaders and government officials will be held soon to draft recommendations for the establishment of a federal labor bureau, which will furnish workers for essential war industries. The United States probably will declare an embargo on coal exports to certain South American countries in which the public utilities are controlled by Germans. All persons liable under the new War Revenue law were warned to file their tax returns. Secretary Baker announced that when the nation's armies move against Germany the "oyes" will be ready in a great and powerful aerial fleet of 20,000 of every type and piloted by daring armen. The United States has refused coal to South American vessels bound for European neutrals unless established that their cargoes contain no contraband for Germany. Representative William E. Mason, Republican, of Illinois, in speaking on a question of personal privilege declared in reply to Representative Helfin's implied charges of treason that the Alabama Democrat had uttered a known untruth. Later the objectionable words were withdrawn. Action looking toward the expulsion of Mr. La Follette was not expected by leaders in Congress, but the Senate committee which will consider the charges of disloyalty may recommend consure for pacifist members. GENERAL Meatless days have proved a success in Wisconsin. The draft exemption claim made by Edsall Ford, son of Henry Ford, was denied. Twelve Boston Y. M. C. A. members have submitted themselves for a starvation test. American troops will be fed on turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is estimated that 2,000,000 pounds of fowl will be required. Little Rock, Ark., has a "boy wanted" famine. Girls are carrying messages. Cotton pickers are earning $3 and $4 a day in many sections of the South. Frost has ruined 60 per cent of the cranberry crop of Cape Cod. Two growers will suffer a loss of $1,000;000. The Treasury Department announces a decrease in transatlantic war insurance premiums of nearly 25 per cent, indicating an official opinion that the U-boat crisis is past. SEVEN ```markdown ``` The Republican State Convention of Massachusetts in a resolution consuring Robert M. La Follette, Senator from Wisconsin, pledges its support "in any effort to drive out of Congress any who by word or act give aid and comfort to the enemy." Adolph Pavonstedt, one time New York banker, admitted that he was the "entirely trustworthy source" to which Count von Bornstorff referred in his reports on the Bolo Pacha plot. The House of Representatives voted for an investigation of charges of disloyalty by Representative Helfin, of Alabama. Boston recruiting quarters were opened by Lieutenant May, of the Imperial Royal Engineers, to enlist men for inland water transport section. A battery of French 75 millimeter guns, with calissons and equipment, presented to the Yule artillery companies by the French Government, were placed in the Yale baseball cake. Hotels, saloons, drug stores and other concerns begin taking stock in compliance with the new War Tax act. Members of the National Foreign Trade Council at their annual meeting in New York were unanimously in favor of subordinating commercial interests to the exigencies of war. The Library War Council received $800,000 of the million dollar fund being raised for military camp libraries. Dr. Peter W. McReynolds, president of Doflance (O.) College, died of his injuries, and his wife was killed outright when their automobile was struck by a train near Curryville. "Pebbles From An African Beach." A Mission Study Text Book, giving the history, progress and present conditions of the Negro Republic—Liberia West Coast Africa. The book vividly portrays conditions and character of its peoples. Showing the great possibilities in this country, now the "JAYE-WAY" to that vast continent. This Interesting Book Was Prepared BY L. G. JORDAN, D.D. Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, after he had made Three Trips to Africa, and is written in almost romantic story form. It will interest any who have faith in the Negro, inspire any who doobt him and bring home to all who wish for Africa a place in the, "New World, Democracy." PRICE 27 CENTS POST PAID 701 South 19th Street Philadelphia, - - Penna. THE PLANET MONROE DOCTRINE OF THE FAR EAST Viscount Ishii Says Japan Will Not Permit Aggression "HANDS OFF" THE POLICY Special Envoy Declares Door Of Trade is Always Open And That His Government Welcomes Competition. New York.—Proclaiming a Monroe Doctrine of the Far East, Viscount Ishii, head of the Japan mission to the United States, warned the nations of the world that his country would not tolerate aggressions against the territory or independence of China. At the same time he plied Japan not to attempt similar aggressions on her part. Speaking at a formal dinner in honor of the Imperial envoys' visit to New York the Ambassador of Emperor Yoshifuito outlined publicly for the first time since he set foot on American soil the policy of his Government as it relates to China. "Circumstances for which we were in no sense responsible gave us certain rights on Chinese territory." Viscount Ishif said, "but at no time in the past and at no time in the future do we or will we seek to take territory from China or to despoil China of her rights." Then with dramatic earnestness he expounded the "hands off" policy of his Government. "We wish to be and always to continue to be," he declared, "the sincere friend and helper of our neighbor, for we are more interested than any one else, except China, in good government there. Only we must at all times for self-protection prevent other nations from doing what we have no right to do. We not only will not seek to assail the integrity or the sovereignty of China, but will eventually be prepared to defend and maintain the integrity and contention of China against any aggressor. For we know that our own landmarks would be threatened by any outside invasion or interference in China." While he boldly warned the world against any attempt to invade the rights of the republic of the Far East, Viscount Ishii promised with equal earnestness that the door to legitimate trade in China never would be closed by Japan. This declaration was cheered by the 1,000 public men, bankers, merchants and captains of industry who heard him. Viscount Ishii attributed to German machinations "sinister rumors of oppression or the false suggestion of a policy directed against China" whenever Japan or America appeared to make progress in that country. The Envoy declared emphatically that the "gentlemen's agreement" entered into between Elihu Root, Secretary of State, and Ambassador Takahira should be sufficient guarantee of continued friendly relations between the two nations. "Gentlemen, Japan is satisfied with this," he exclaimed, "are you?" Referring to the alliance between America and Japan in the war, he said in closing: "It is not conceivable that you of America or we of Japan, because of false cry of unstable peace, can change the course set by a star. It is not conceivable that for some petty gain secured by the sacrifice of principle at the price of honor lost we can be brought to swerve from our purpose, let fall the standard of right or break the bonds of friendship. It is not conceivable that America and Japan, our ideals one, our purpose fixed, can tail in this great common undertaking." FOREIGN Russians on the Rumanian front took part of a village, with 762 prisoners, but were forced to abandon positions under heavy fire from the enemy. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, calling President Wilson's peace note an insult to the German people and to the Pope, advised a policy of "holding on and waiting" as the one for Germany to pursue. The Peruvian government will hand his passports to the German Minister, Congress voted, 105 to 6, to break off diplomatic relations. Bands of Russian peasants have pillaged estate of the late Count Tolstoi. Australia will allow all wool purchased by the United States for uniforms to be exported. Extending its diplomatic representation, Switzerland will establish legations in Turkey, Rumania and Egypt. Information received by the Red Cross in France definitely confirms the report of the death of Captain Georges Guynemer, famous air man. - Your subscription to the Planet is due. Have you paid it? If not why not? CONGRESS MAKES LEVY AT $27 FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE UNITED STATES Excess Profits Revenue at Billion, and Incomes at Nearly as Much Remain Practically Unchanged by Work of The Conferences. Corporations Will Pay Their Full Share Toward the Financing of the War—New System of Graduating the Amount of Assessment Adopted Believed to Be the Best That Could Be Devised. Washington.—The joint conferences on the war revenue bill completed their draft after two weeks of deliberation. Virtually as written by the senate, the new 2 per cent normal tax on income of more than $2,000 for married pe The excess war profits tax, as agreed to by the conferences, is a modification of the senate bill, the principal changes being in the maximum and minimum rates of exemption upon which the tax is to be determined. The senate graduated scale of exemptions run from 6 to 10 per cent, while the house exemption rate was 8 per cent. The conferences adopted the graduated rate of from 7 to 9 per cent. The definition of capital, which was a point upon which the conferences argued for days, was modified so as to provide that the actual value of tangible property paid into a corporation or partnership or individual business before January 1, 1914, shall be taken as of that date. The proviso as to good will and other intangible property has been somewhat liberalized. As to "Invested Capital." In calculating war excess profits the ternus "invested capital" of corporations and partnerships was declared to include "actual cash paid in, actual cash value and other tangible property paid for stock or shares at the time of payment or January 1, 1914, but in no case to exceed the par value of the original securities; paid in or earned surplus and undived profits used or employed in the business, exclusive of undivided profits earned during the taxable year." The allowance for intangible assets includes "actual cash value of patents and copyrights paid in for stock or shares at the time of payment . . . good will trademarks, trade brands, franchises . . . if for bone-fide payments not to exceed the cash value." It stipulates that such intangible assets exchanged for securities before March 3, 1917, not exceeding 20 per cent of the total, shall be included at a value not exceeding a fair-cash value at the time of purchase. Postal Increases. A that increase on reading matter of $ \frac{1}{4} $ cent per pound until July 1, 1919, and $ \frac{1}{2} $ cent thereafter was provided. Advertising matter exceeding 5 per cent of the total space would be taxed from $ \frac{1}{4} $ to $ 2 \frac{1}{4} $ cents additional until July 1, 1919, and from $ \frac{1}{4} $ to $ 4 \frac{1}{2} $ cents more until July 1, 1920; and from $ \frac{1}{4} $ to $ 6 \frac{3}{4} $ cents to 1921 and from 1 cent to 9 cents thereafter. An additional tax of $ \frac{1}{4} $ cent per pound until July 1, 1919, and $ \frac{1}{4} $ cent thereafter, on religious, agricultural, fraternal and similar publications was adopted. The 1 cent tax on letters, excepting drop letters and postal cards, was restored by the conferees. A 1 cent additional tax on postal and private mailing cards was added. The first-class mail increases are estimated to raise $50,000,000, and are effective 30 days after the passage of the act. The senate provision exempting from postage letters written by soldiers and sailors abroad was retained. Railroad Tickets Hit. The confeees levied 8 per cent in lieu of the senate rate of 5 and the house rate of 10 per cent on passenger transportation, estimated to raise from the compromise levy aboat $80,000,000 instead of $37,500,000 under the senate plan. The 3 per cent tax on freight transportation was retained and the tax on express transportation was increased so that 1 cent would be levied on each 20 cents paid instead of each 25 cents. The house 10 per cent tax on Pullman accommodations, cut to 5 per cent by the senate, was restored and is estimated to raise $5,000,000. In lieu of the house 5 per cent tax on sales of automobiles by manufacturers and the senate federal license tax on owners, the confeees adopted a 3 per cent tax on all motor vehicles, including trucks, payable by manufacturers, producers and importers. Taxes of 3 per cent of manufacturers' ales of musical instruments and jewelry also were written in, with a tax of $ \frac{1}{4} $ cent a foot on motion picture film. New Inheritance Tax. A new system of graduated inheritance taxes was written into the bill in lieu of the house plan and despite the senate's rejection of such taxes. The new rates on inheritances, with those of Americans in military service exempted, range from one-half of 1 per cent on $50,000 estates to 10 per cent on estates of $10,000,000 and more. The bulk of the increases of between $250,000,000 and $300,000,000 made by the conferees in the senate bill was secured from the postage, public utilities and manufacturing sales section and the new inheritance taxes. With but few exceptions, the new taxes are effective with the passage of the act. Senate Version Stands The income tax section was adopted the Version Stande. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA virtually as written by the senate. The new 2 per cent normal tax on incomes of more than $2,000 for married persons and $1,000 for single persons is in addition to the present law exempting incomes of less than $8,000 for single persons and $4,000 for married persons. Thus those between the new low exemption bases and the present exemptions will pay only the 2 per cent tax, but single persons having an income of $3,000 or more and married persons whose income is $1,400 or more would pay the full 4 per cent normal tax. The senate income provision allowing an additional exemption of $200 for each dependent child to heads of families subject to the present law was retained. The exemption for children, however, does not apply to those subject to the new reduced taxes with the $2,000 and $1,000 exemptions, respectively, for married and single persons. Surtax Is Agreed Upon. Surtaxes were agreed upon as follows: One per cent on income over $5,000 and less than $7,500; 2 per cent between $7,500 and $10,000; 3 per cent between $10,000 and $12,500; 4 per cent between $12,500 and $15,000; 5 per cent between $15,000 and $20,000; 7 per cent between $20,000 and $40,000; 10 per 18 per cent between $90,000 and $100, per cent between $90,000 and $50,000; 18 per cent between $90,000 and $100,000; 22 per cent between $100,000 and $150,000; 25 per cent between $150,000 and $200,000; 30 per cent between $200,000 and $250,000; 34 per cent between $250,000 and $200,000; 37 per cent between $200,000 and $500,000; 40 per cent between $500,000 and $750,000; 45 per cent between $750,000 and $1,000,000; and 50 per cent on incomes exceeding $1,000,000. Increased tax on Whisky. Increased senate rates on whisky and beer were virtually retained, and that on wines somewhat reduced. The tax on distilled spirits was made $2.10 per gallon when for beverage use and $1 less for industrial purposes, estimated to raise $135,000,000. The amendment prohibiting importation of distilled spirits for beverage use was retained. Floor taxes to reach withdrawn liquors were approved. Beer was taxed $1.50 per barrel additional, to raise $46,000,000, an increase of 25 cents per barrel over the house rate. Present wine taxes were doubled. Taxes on nonalcoholic beverages were compromised. On prepared sirop and extracts the taxes graduated from 5 to 20 cents instead of from 3 to 12 cents a gallon were adopted. Grape juice and other soft drinks are taxed 1 cent per gallon, as provided by the senate in reducing the original 2-cent rate of the house. Senate rates on cigars and cigarettes were retained, but those on snuff were increased from 4 cents to 5 cents a pound. Stamp Taxes Fixed. Stamp taxes agreed upon are: Bonds of indebtedness, 5 cents on each $100. Indemnity and surety bonds, 50 cents. Parcel post packages, 1 cent for each 25 cents of the cost of transportation. Capital stock, original issues, 5 cents per $100. Sales and transfers, 2 cents per $100. Sales of produce on exchange, 2 cents for each $100 value in merchandise. Drafts, checks payable other than on sight or demand, promissory notes, except bank notes for circulation, and renewals, 2 cents for all sums below $100 and 2 cents for each additional $100 or fraction thereof. Conveyance papers, 50 cents between $100 and $500 and 50 cents for each additional $500. Customs house entries, from 25 cents to $1; entry for withdrawal from bonded warehouses, 50 cents. Passenger vessel tickets for ports other than those in the United States, Canada and Mexico, between $10 and $30, $1; between $30 and $60, $3, and above $60, $5. Voting proxies, 10 cents. Power of attorney, 25 cents. Playing cards, decks of not more than 54 cards, an additional 5 cents on the present rates. Taxes on life insurance, eliminated from the house bill in the senate, were amended and reinserted, raising about $5,000,000. Effective November 1 the new taxes on new insurance policies issued are 8 cents per $100 or fraction thereof on life insurance are 1 cent per $1 on the premium charged on marine, casualty, fire and inland insurances. Amusement taxes agreed upon provide that all persons entering places of amusement free, except employees and officials on duty and children under twelve, would pay a tax rate of 1 cent on each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the admission charge. This tax also would apply to cabarets and similar performances where the cost of entertainment is included in other costs, such as service. Holdors of annual box seats would pay 10 per cent of the annual rental. Nickel theaters and shows, rides and other outdoor park amusements with a maximum ad- 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. --- mission of 10 cents and benefit entertainments and agricultural fares were exempted. After November 1, 1917, members of all clubs, except fraternal orders, paying more than $12 annual dues would be subject to a 10 per cent tax. Exemptions Are Allowed. On excess profits the conferences agreed upon a minimum deduction of 7 per cent and a maximum of 10 per cent, instead of the 6 to 10 per cent fixed by the senate. Other exemptions are $3,000 for corporations and $6,000 for individuals. Corporations, partnerships and individuals having no capital stock would pay a flat rate of 8 per cent on net profits in excess of $3,000 for corporations and $6,000 for individuals and partnerships. Miscellaneous income tax amendments inserted by the senate were generally adopted, including the so-called Jones amendment for a tax of 10 per cent on corporations' indistributed surplus, without allowance for income taxes paid. The 10 per cent tax would not apply to undistributed income actually invested or employed in business or invested in federal securities after September 1, 1917, and 5 per cent penalty for surplus retained but not employed is provided. In making provision for administration and collection of the new and existing taxes the conferences provided that the special tax of $12½ per cent on war munitions manufactures shall be reduced to 10 per cent, but retained to January 1, 1918. It now yields about $29,000,000 annually and the senate had proposed its repeal. SPORTING Army defeated Carnegie Tech, 28 to 0, in a one sided football game at West Point. Yale University's Athletic Board decides to dispense with varsity football this year and to put all athletics on a military basis. After trotting seven hard heats, Ima Jay won the twenty-eighth renewal of the Transylvania at the Grand Circuit meet at Lexington. Omar Khayyam and Hourless will carry 126 pounds and race ten furlongs at Laurel, Maryland, for $10,000 and gold cap. T. A. D. Jones, football coach at Yale, announced that no man physically fit, who has not identified himself with some branch of the military service, will be permitted to play football at Yale this year. Giants finished their championship season by defeating Philadelphia. The Kentucky Futurity of $14,000 for three-year-old trotters was won in three straight heats by the Real Lady. Alexander in a contest with the ponant winning Giants gained his thirtieth victory of the season for the Phillies by a score of 8 to 2. ```markdown ``` ESSENCE OF ALL CURRENT AFFAIRS ESSENCE OF ALL CURRENT AFFAIRS A Summary For Busy Readers of the Significant Doings of the Day. OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST Progress of the World's War—War and Legislative Activities at the Nation's Capital—News From Every Corner of the Country. Germany's military chiefs, for the first time in the war, are beginning to talk about economizing the nation's "human material." German army orders signed by Quartermaster General Lundendorf have recently been taken from prisoners, emphasizing the need for this economy. Uruguay handed the German Minister bis passports after the Chamber of Deputies approved the breaking off of diplomatic relations and the Senate had ratified the action, urged by President Viera as necessary in the cause of justice. Following the great battle cast of Ypres, which complete reports prove was one of the most brilliant and important victories for British arms since the war began, an almost unprecedented calm has settled over the battlefield in Flanders. The British took 4,446 prisoners. British troops in the renewed drive east of Ypres have pushed forward on a nine mile front, gaining a mile and a half in the centre and taking prisoner several thousand Germans, who surrendered by hundreds. "We shall bomb Germany with compound interest," declared Lloyd George, the British Premier, replying to the appeals of a crowd of poor residents of London for reprisals for recent air attacks on the capital. The crowd cheered the promise. WASHINGTON Germany's U-boat bases along the Belgian coast will be throttled if good weather holds out on the Flanders front. This is Secretary of War Baker's official prediction on confidential reports. An increase of 35 to 50 cents in the price of coal was asked by operators at $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons Washington to meet the raise in wages granted to miners. An Ohio man has developed a "barred" leghorn chicken which threatens to brook the egg laying record. Congress adjourned after a six months' war session, which is declared to be the most remarkable in parliamentary history. The Republicans will renew political activities at the December session. A conference of labor leaders and government officials will be held soon to draft recommendations for the establishment of a federal labor bureau, which will furnish workers for essential war industries. The United States probably will declare an embargo on coal exports to certain South American countries in which the public utilities are controlled by Germans. All persons liable under the new War Revenue law were warned to file their tax returns. Secretary Baker announced that when the nation's armies move against Germany the "eyes" will be ready in a great and powerful aerial flotch of 20,000 of every type and plotted by daring airmen. The United States has refused coal to South American vessels bound for European neutrals unless established that their cargoes contain no contraband for Germany. Representative William E. Mason, Republican, of Illinois, in speaking on a question of personal privilege declared in reply to Representative Helfin's implied charges of treason that the Alabama Democrat had uttered a known untruth. Later the objectionable words were withdrawn. Action looking toward the expulsion of Mr. La Follette was not expected by leaders in Congress, but the Senate committee which will consider the charges of disloyalty may recommendensure for pacifist members. GENERAL Meatless days have proved a success in Wisconsin. The draft exemption claim made by Edsall Ford, son of Henry Ford, was denied. Twelve Boston Y. M. C. A. members have submitted themselves for a starvation test. American troops will be fed on turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is estimated that 2,000,000 pounds of fowl will be required. Little Rock, Ark., has a "boy wanted" famine. Girls are carrying messages. Cotton pickers are earning $3 and $4 a day in many sections of the South. Frost has ruined 60 per cent of the cranberry crop of Cape Cod. Two growers will suffer a loss of $1,000;000. The Treasury Department announces a decrease in transatlantic war insurance premiums of nearly 25 per cent, indicating an official opinion that the U-boat crisis is past. SEVEN 3 The Republican State Convention of Massachusetts in a resolution censuring Robert M. La Follette, Sonator from Wisconsin, pledges its support "in any effort to drive out of Congress any who by word or not give aid and comfort to the enemy." Adolph Pavenstadt, on time New York banker, admitted that he was the "entirely trustworthy source" to which Count von Bernstorf referred in his reports on the Bolo Pacha plot. The House of Representatives voted for an investigation of charges of disloyalty by Representative Heflin, of Alabama. Boston recruiting quarters were opened by Lieutenant May, of the Imperial Royal Engineers, to enlist men for inland water transport section. A battery of French 75 millimeter guns, with caissons and equipment, presented to the Yale artillery companies by the French Government, were placed in the Yale baseball cake, Hotels, saloons, drug stores and other concerns begin taking stock in compliance with the new War Tax act. Members of the National Foreign Trade Council at their annual meeting in New York were unanimously in favor of subordinating commercial interests to the exigencies of war. The Library War Council received $800,000 of the million dollar fund being raised for military camp libraries. Dr. Peter W. McKeynolds, president of Defiance (O.) College, died of his injuries, and his wife was killed outright when their automobile was struck by a train near Curryville. "Pebbles From An African Beach." A Mission Study Text Book, giving the history, progress and present conditions of the Negro Republic, Liberia West Coast Africa. The book Vividly portrays conditions and character of its peoples. Showing the great possibilities in this country. now the "MATE-WAY" to that vast continent. This Interesting Book Was Prepared BY L. G. JORDAN, D.D. Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the N. National Baptist Convention, after he had made Three Trips to Africa, and is written in almost romantic story form. It will interest any who have faith in the Negro, inspire any who doubt him and bring hope to all who wish for Africa a place in the, "New World Democracy." PRICE 27 CENTS POST PAID 701 South 19th Street Philadelphia, - - Penna. SATURDAY ‘ OCT. --20 I yp Rar MIAN SEA as: ce i g ROANOKE NOTES of Roanoke District of Virginia held his quarterly conference at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, Monday night, which showed progress along all lines and a very successful financial point of view under the duplex system as given to us by Mr. Green Penn, At- torney J. TL, Reed and Mr. James W. Traynham by thelr unfaltering of: forts, ‘The church raised 3411.46, from August 1 to September $0. ‘The P, FB. seemed welighted. Mrs. Millie Withers, of Gainsboro avenue, N. W, died Tuesday, October 9, at cleven o'clock. ‘The funeral took place ‘Thursday evening at two o'clock, "The ewlogy was delivered by Rey. D. R. Powell, pastor of the HIN Street Baptist. Church, of which Sister Withers was a faithful mom- her. She was also a member of the SL. Lukes. Rev. Powell spoke in very beautiful terms of the patient endurance of the deceased, who for several ears had been affifeted with a stroke of paralysis. She leaves a son, Mr. Charley Withers, to mourn his loss, while angels rejoice a sol- dler's coming home. Mr. J. 11. Turner, 608 Righth aye- nue, N. E. has been confined to his home since Saturday, October 13, with Rheumatism. Mrs, Bessie J. Curtis, 318 Seventh avenue, N. W. left the elty for Balt: more, Md. to visit her brother, Mr. Loney Branch. Mrs. Curtis left-on October Ath, Accompanied by her two children, Little Barnestine and Mas- ter Nornard Curtis. Mrs. Curtis will spend several weeks with relatives, Mr. Rufus W. White, 913° Fitth street, N. 1., who has been away from the city two years, residing mostly in Philadelphia, Montreal, Canada and Boston, is at home for’ the Win- ter with his mother, Mrs, Lizzio White. Miss Claudine Whito is also home from Pittsburgh, Pa., where sho had a seven months’ stay with her sister, Mrs. Virginia Blackman, Mrs. Lizzie White was over delighted to havo her son and daughter home again to spon the Wintor with her after a long absenee. Tho Rev, Dr. Bray, Secoratry of Edueation of the Colored Mothodist Chureh spoke to the poople at Mt, Zion A. M. 7. Chureh, Sunday, Oc. ober 14, at obwen_o'clock, Toxt, Galatians 6°9, “And let us not be weary in’ well doing: for in due goason wo shall reap, If wo faint not.” He preached the sermon of the day, “imo and age, noting tho reasons, why we should not weary in well doing. Mr. John Glasgow, of Lynchburg, Va., Dencon of Rivermont Baptist Chureh, died October 3. He was sick twelve months ani boro it with Christian fortitude. He died in full triumph of faith. Mo was born in Roanoke. Before he reached the river's brink he said to those in his room, “I am going home in the morning. Meet me." He — leaves four children, three’ grandchildren, four sisters ind ono ‘brother, Mr. Colling Glasgow and Mrs, Mary’ War- ren, of Roanoke. Those attending the funeral trom Roanoke were Messrs. Reubon Wado, Obe Lawson\ Robert Clemmons and many of his fellow workmen during his active service in Roanoke Ma- chine Works. Tis son eared for him mnitil the ond. ‘The funeral was very impressive, Mrs. D. G. Gaskins amd daughter, Miss Beatrice, left on October 2, for Philadelphia ‘and Quakertown, 'Pa., Daltimore, Washington, D.C. and Charlestown, returning to Roanoke, October 12, after a very delightful trip. ! Mrs. J. 'T, Thompson, 515 Ninth avenue, N. W. is expecting her cousin Miss Clyde Barnes, of Battle Creek, Michigan, here in a fow days. | Mr. Harry M. Barksdale, of Pitts- burgh, Pa. returned Tuesday, Octo- Der 9, after attending the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Phocbe Barksdale, | of Tonth avenue, whose death was mentioned tn last wook’s Issn. | It is learned with pleasure’ that Mrs. Cooper, of Lynehburg avenue, | N. EB. is somewhat improved at this. writing, which is a source of pleasure | to the community. She has been in| a eritical condition since sho had al stroke of Paralysis. ‘There is hope! ‘of her speedy recovery. | Air. T. W. Anderson, seerotary of| tho American Beneficial Insurance| Company, of Richmond, Va. was in! the city last week on business of the company. Rev. J. J. Jefferson voturned to the city after attending the Penn. Baptist Conference. He was highly entertained by Rev. J, H. Burks, Rev. W. R. Brown and Rev. R. R. Jones and others. He brought’ greetings to the Valley Baptist Association. Mrs, M. 1. Douglas, of 207 Path N. Bi. is confined to her home sut- fering with LaGrippo. Mr. Henry Pioree, Mr. William ¥. Cole and Mr, Walter Stowers, of De- trot, Michigan, wore in the city a fow days this week onroute to Ra- leigh, N. C., where thoy will attend tho Colored’ Fair, thon to Washing- ton, D. C., Philadelphia, Now York and Pittsburgh, thoneo’ to Detroit. Mr. Pierce is a former business man of Roanoke and Mr. Walter Stowors is an attorney for tho largost auto- mobile concern in the world at De- troit. Mr. William Cole Is a business man in: Detroit. Mrs. Virginia Amilorson, of Nor- ge ah ee ee OF OE eh —l— LISS SSSSZPXSESSESS- TES ae OE e Our National Government | {Sag HAS RECOGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE x ES Insurance for the National Army to protect dependent HS Ey ay widows, children, mothers and fathers, and for the future y pe RS) Protection of the living against the heavy toll of Pen- Beis ERR sions, and will insist on every soldier carrying the pro- ——S tection, SS SSS NO CIVILIAN WILL BE INSURED BY THE Gov- —S IW ) ernment under these policies, but x GAR SZ, . 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She Is the wif uf Reve W, R. -Howerton, secretary of the A. M. 1. Conferenco and pas: tor of Hampton station. | Mrs. D. W. Harth-is confined to her home on account of illness. | Miss Mary Holland loft for Hol: land, “Vas. whoro sho will tench this Winter. ‘The Teal Players are drawing a full houso each night at the Hamp- ton ‘Theatre. ‘The last. half of the week they are playing, “Dodging the Draft." ‘Seo it. Pictures changed daily, Monday, Stingaree and the Git “from Prisco; ‘Tuesday, ‘Pho Vighting ‘Trail and Comedy; Wednes- day, Pearl White, iny Fatal Ring, that great feature show, Should a Baby “Die?; Friday, Helen Holmes and the Railroad Raidors; Saturday, Our Girl Reporter and Shorty Ham: ilton, Bo thero. ‘Those who wero present at the services during tho week, October 8-12, at the Till Street Baptist Chureh certainly enjoyed the splen- did discourses delivered by the Rev. Dr. J. N, Pearson, pastor Israel Bap- list Church, of Baltimore, Md., who is conducting revival services at Ill Street, Chureh, Sunday morning, Oc- tober ‘14th, at 9:30 A. M. the Sunday School opened and continued services for an hour and forty-five minutes under the direction of their superin- tendent, Deacon R. B. Bailey. At eleven A. M. the general ser- vices began and an excollent. sermon from tho text found in Samuel 22:23, the words: “Rut with me thou shall be in safeguard,” was preached by the Rev. Dr. Pearson At five P.M, the BLY, P. U. opened with their splendid president, Trustee David R. Jones, presiding. At ight P. M., Dr. Pearson gave us another splendid sermon, using these words as a txt, “Glory to God in the highest,” found in ‘the second chapter of Tako and fourteonth vorse. Dr. Pearson is without doubt a splendid preacher. ‘Those who have heard him do not hesitate to say he is indeed a Minister of tho Gospel. AM are invited to hear him at Til Street Baptist Church.—M. C. B., Reporter. i Helping Wand Home Society held their regular monthly meoting at the residenco of Sister Minnio Johnson, Ninth avenue, N. F., Tuesday, Octo- ber 9, 1917. Scripture lesson read by the President, Psalms 3121-4. Prayer by Sistor Naney Scott. ‘There wore eighteen members present. There were four new members added to the Club by Sister Emma Brown. They were received with much love and gratitude, We had a lovely meeting. ‘The Secretary read communication from the President, Sister Georgia A. Tlairston, who loft us and went to school. ‘Sho was well and sont much love to the mombers and bid us God speed. Wo were proud to hear from her. We missed her dearly in our mooting. Tena Barnes, President; Mary Alico Robertson, Secretary. LITTLE WILLIN'S LETTER. 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Downing and Mr. ©. ‘Tiffany oliver, of the Mampton ‘Theatre, Ine. mado a flying trip. to Washington, D.C. on business for tho Theatre and landed contracts for some of tho best and highest priced feature pictures to be had. Priday is to bo tho Featuro Day at the “Ifampton.” Wate for thom, “Wall of a Nation, The Sins of the Mother, The Girl from Rector and Where Are My Children? are among somo of the big features. Hear Little Willig tell’ about them. ‘They. are moral and instructive. | Every “col- ored person should bo proud of tho “Hampton,” a race enterprise, owned and controlled by colored men, Como to your house, where you are always welcomo. Don't fail to seo the Six Musical Millers, all next week at tho “Hampton.” ‘They aro great. Well, look who's hero, | Henry Pierce, the prince of good’ fellows. Mr. Pierce, who lives now in Detroit, Mich. goes to his old homo in Raleigh N. C. every year to the Colored Fair, and on his way this year, he stopped over in good old Roanoke a few days. With Mr. Pierce on this trip are. tive of his friends from Detroit, Lawyer Walter Stawers and Mr.’ William Cole, a prominent real estate dealer. While here they wore the hous¢ guest of Judge Penn. Many social meotings greeted these gontlomen while here. Among thom was onc pulled off at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs, Albort Evans, on Fourth avenue, N. W. Monday might, after a theatro party at tho “Hampton,” which was stag, the party drovo tc the home of Mr. and Mrs, Evans, in Judge Penn's seven passongor Chand lor, whore cards held sway for a short time, then the good things started. A swell buffet lincheon was sorvet by the Madam. Music was furnished SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS, Mrs. W. A. I, Mosely of Thomasville Ga,, after spending five months visit ing Niagara Valls, New York, Phila delphia and Washington, D. 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E. left for Lynchburg Seminary, Thursday, the 12th to enter upon another year's studies in that institution, where it is hoped she will exceed all previous years. The Rev. George R. Jones, P. E. of Roanoke District of Virginia held his quarterly conference at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, Monday night, which showed progress along all lines and a very successful financial point of view under the duplex system as given to us by Mr. Green Penn, Attorney J. L. Reed and Mr. James W. Traynham by their unfaltering efforts. The church raised $411.45, from August 1 to September 30. The P. E. seemed delighted. Mrs. Millie Withers, of Galnshore avenue, N. W. died Tuesday, October 9, at eleven o'clock. The funeral took place Thursday evening at two o'clock. The categy was delivered by Rev. D. R. Powell, pastor of the Hill Street Baptist Church, of which Sister Withers was a faithful member. She was also a member of the St. Lukes. Rev. Powell spoke in very beautiful terms of the patient endurance of the deceased, who for several ears had been afflicted with a stroke of paralysis. She leaves a son, Mr. Charley Withers, to mourn his loss, while angels rejoice a soldier's coming home. Mr. J. H. Turner, 608 Eighth avenue, N. E. has been confined to his home since Saturday, October 13, with Rheumatism. Mrs. Bessie J. Curtis, 318 Seventh avenue, N. W. left the city for Baltimore, Md. to visit her brother, Mr. Loney Branch. Mrs. Curtis left on October 14, accompanied by her two children, Little Earnestine and Master Bernard Curtis. Mrs. Curtis will spend several weeks with relatives. Mr. Rufus W. White, 913 Fifth street, N. E., who has been away from the city two years, residing mostly in Philadelphia, Montreal, Canada and Boston, is at home for the Winter with his mother, Mrs. Lizzie White. Miss Claudine White is also home from Pittsburgh, Pa., where she had a seven months' stay with her sister, Mrs. Virginia Blackman, Mrs. Lizzie White was over delighted to have her son and daughter home again to spend the Winter with her after a long absence. The Rev. Dr. Bray, Secertry of Education of the Colored Methodist Church spoke to the people at Mt. Zlon A. M. E. Church, Sunday, October 14, at ofen o'clock. Text: Galatians 6.9. "And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we wait not." He preached the sermon of the day, time and age, noting the reasons why we should not weary in well doing. Mr. John Glassgow, of Lynchburg, Va., Deacon of Rivermont Baptist Church, died October 3. He was sick twelve months and bore it with Christian fortitude. He died in fall triumph of faith. He was born in Roanoke. Before he reached the river's brink he said to those in his room, "I am going home in the morning. Meet me." He leaves four children, three grandchildren, four sisters and one brother, Mr. Collins Glassgow and Mrs. Mary Warren, of Roanoke. Those attending the funeral from Ronokne were Messrs. Renben Wade, Obe Lawson, Robert Clemmons and many of his fellow workmen during his active service in Ronokne Machine Works. His son cared for him until the end. The funeral was very impressive. Mrs. D. G. Gaskins and daughter, Miss Beatrice, left on October 2, for Philadelphia and Quakertown, Pa., Baltimore, Washington, D. C. and Charlestown, returning to Ronokne, October 12, after a very delightful trip. Mrs. J. T. Thompson, 515 Ninth avenue, N. W. is expecting her cousin Miss Clyde Barnes, of Battle Creek, Michigan, here in a few days. Mr. Harry M. Barksdale, of Pittsburgh, Pa. returned Tuesday, October 9, after attending the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Phoebe Barksdale, of Tenth avenue, whose death was mentioned in last week's issue. It is learned with pleasure that Mrs. Cooper, of Lynchburg avenue, N. E. is somewhat improved at this writing, which is a source of pleasure to the community. She has been in a critical condition since she had a stroke of Paralysis. There is hope of her speedy recovery. Mr. R. W. Anderson, secretary of the American Beneficial Insurance Company, of Richmond, Va. was in the city last week on business of the company. Rev. J. J. Jefferson returned to the city after attending the Penn. Baptist Conference. He was highly entertained by Rev. J. H. Burks, Rev. W. R. Brown and Rev. R. R. Jones and others. He brought greetings to the Valley Baptist Association. Mrs. M. H. Douglas, of 207 Path N. E. is confined to her home suffering with LeGrine. Mr. Henry Pierce, Mr. William E. Cole and Mr. Walter Stowers, of Detroit, Michigan, were in the city a few days this week enroute to Raleigh, N. C., where they will attend the Colored Fair, then to Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, New York and Pittsburgh, thence to Detroit. Mr. Pierce is a former business man of Roanoke and Mr. Walter Stowers is an attorney for the largest automobile concern in the world at Detroit. Mr. William Cole is a business man in Detroit. Mrs. Virginia Anderson, of Norfolk, Va. arrived in the city where she joined her husband, Mr. B. Anderson, who conduces the Roanoke Shoe Repairing Company. Mrs. Belle Howerton, of Hampton. --- Our National Government HAS RECOGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE Insurance for the National Army to protect dependent widows, children, mothers and fathers, and for the future protection of the living against the heavy toll of Pensions, and will insist on every soldier carrying the protection. NO CIVILIAN WILL BE INSURED BY THE GOVERNMENT under these policies, but The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association is prepared TO ISSUE POLICIES ON ALL CIVILIANS AT ages from 6 Months to 50 Years. 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The last half of the week they are playing, "Dodging the Draft." See it. Pictures changed daily. Monday, Stingaree and the Girl from Frisco: Tuesday. The Fighting Trail and Comedy: Wednesday. Pearl White, in. Fatal Ring, that great feature show, Should a Baby Die? Friday, Helen Holmes and the Railroad Raiders; Saturday, Our Girl Reporter and Shorty Hamilton. Be there. Those who were present at the services during the week, October 8-12, at the Hill Street Baptist Church certainly enjoyed the splendid discourses delivered by the Rev. Dr. J. N. Pearson, pastor Israel Baptist Church, of Baltimore, Md., who is conducting revival services at Hill Street Church, Sunday morning, October 14th, at 9:30 A. M. the Sunday School opened and continued services for an hour and forty-five minutes under the direction of their superintendent, Deacon R. B. Bailey. At eleven A. M. the general services began and an excellent sermon from the text found in Samuel 22:23 the words: "But with me then shall be in safeguard," was preached by the Rev. Dr. Pearson. At five P. M., the B. Y. P. U. opened with their splendid president, Trustee David R. Jones, presiding. At eight P. M., Dr. Pearson gave us another splendid sermon, using these words as a text, "Glory to God in the highest," found in the second chapter of Luke and fourteenth verse. Dr. Pearson is without doubt a splendid preacher. Those who have heard him do not hesitate to say he is indeed a Minister of the Gospel. All are invited to hear him at Hill Street Bapist Church—M. C. B., Reporter. Helping Hand Home Society held their regular monthly meeting at the residence of Sister Minnie Johnson, Ninth avenue, N. E., Tuesday, October 9, 1947. Scripture lesson read by the President, Psalms 31:1-4. Prayer by Sister Nancy Scott. There were eighteen members present. 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C. 15 cars of Negro soldiers passed through the city recently en route for Newport News, Va. They were jolly and good natured, dressed in uniforms. The train was in charge of a few white officers. A literary entertainment was given at the A. M. E. Church Monday night, and well rendered. Mr. Mullens was manager. COLORED MEN—Learn the Barber Trade. Badly needed in Army and out. Fow weeks. Write WASHINGTON BARBER COL- LEGE, 1008 Penn. Avonuo, N. W. Washington, D. C. 4t The Planet (Richmond, Va.) will be sent to your door for only $1.50 per year in advance. Subscribe now, and get the newsy news. O Respectfully E. B. WEGSTER Jeffries No. 1 COUGH MIXTURE No1 TRADE MARK COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS LEAD TO BRONCHITIS PNEUMONIA AND WEAK LUNGS. Protect Yourself By Taking JEFFRIES NO. 4 COUGH MIXTURE ALL DRUGGISTS, 25c----50c----$1.00 Especially recommended to Speakers and Singers. It relieves the Throat and Strengthens the Voice. 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MFS., Northern Branch, Evanston, Illinois; Sout- Greenaboro, North Carolina; living in the South can days earlier if they will Hair Grower, Mfs., Box North Carolina. DIE Metrial School Virginia October 3, 1917 School, Normal and Industrial ing, Poultry Raising, Pig and Agriculture Without Further Examination rooms, Healthy Section through Training, from for Girls $8; Boys a. Address A. B., Dinwiddie, Va. W. H. Mme. Johnson, President JOHNSON LE, KY. Price $3.00 and Earn an for Life. FB wer eM OO A Sime. be 6. CK oe ne o \y Sea Pe Ws eV Ge SS Be BB BC << ES a EA ee kt (I BS ee — — « NRT) BS Ace a A“ aAe ea UM i 8 ( Vea Bese @ x oS si ew _ ie km TN eS] PONS po ) LP a rn @. he B72 AN MN A a \ | NN y ~_). Ww OW’ ‘ade GY \ << S.C SA SiGe eee \ \\S y: \ § CO WN Xe \ | XXXIV, NO. 49 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917. > BACK 10 600° COUNTRY (By Lucian B. Watkins) At noon, August 15, 1917, our U. S. Army Trangport_ “YPhonias}” pushed oft from Pier 1, Manila Bay, Wo were off for the Homeland. ‘The Military band on the ter melodized the air with the grand old question, “Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?—"Then, “Carry me back, for T must go back to the girt I left behind me.” A throbbing, retlee- tive and interested crowd of friends, relatives, comrades and lovers,— Americans and Filipinos — thronged the picr and waved farewell to the responsive men women and children who crowded the deck of the home ound “Thomas.” SPENT MANY YEARS THER®, Many old sojourners of the Philip- pine Islands were on thid boat. Ono Sergeant (Colored) I knew personally had lived here twelve years, another more than ten, another more than eight years, It had been my home for the past four years. Practically all of the officers and enlisted men now re turning to the United States had been here more than two years. In twelve ten, eight, four or even two years, one may, and usually does, become in some or a great degree attached to the animate and inanimate world about him. 'The roots of one’s soul must ever grow deep in soil that is rich in affection, friendship, love, sym pathy goodwill’ and kindness. To leave—to say goodbye is to injure these tender attachments and it i3 no light matter. As Manila faded in the distance, I went below to my cabin and wrote: Awe GOODBYR.:MANILA, =| —> Ne eRe eee le matte) rae eee But as wo leave your frianass py. Hore in your sympathetic bay Wo leave our soul's regretful tear, Our/country calls; our hearts are truo, Goodbye, Manila!’ We're fond of you! Wo loamed to love your days divine— ‘Tho golden tales they seem to tell, Your Oriental ways and wine, Your moonlight madness and its spel Your weo brown girls with eyes go0- 500, Goodbye, Manila! We're fond of you! We love’ your youth-sweet evergreens Bternal Spring that knows no griet; “Manila and the Philippines” Will be our memory'a dearest. leat. In dreams we'll jive your heaven through, Goodbye, Manila! We're fond of you! You aro it seems and let us say, ‘Tho dearest. home on earth, beside “God's Country,” Good old U.S. A. ‘That's why we ‘leave you sorrow-eyed Now, a Dios! So long! Adicu! Goodbye, Manila! We're fond of you! No? A PERMANENT TOME. Of couyse, "no Anierlean solatcl while residing in the Philippines ean regard it as his permanent home, but to most of us it had beon an excecd- ingly interesting camping — ground. Now we were on our way back to “God's Country,” which is our sol- dicr term for our United States. ‘Phis return we all felt sure meant that wo would be soon sent to take our places among the fighting foree in France, I feel sure that this War will benefit the world in general; and in this we a3 a race Will be blossed beyond any thing that we Nave received in tho Past. T feet that this war is going to PUL the true gold stamp on veal men and women the world over; Good eli zenship in black mon and women will ho appreciated; intelligence and thrift will become colorless; lynch lawless ness is going to hecome unpopular. Ino tice that some of our people are going North to make now homes for thelr unborn sons and daughters, My soul ethoographs through the living apir- it of Bternal Existence to these kin- dred souls of my people. “May God ho with you. Yeu aro hunting more than gold, T know. May you find that which you seck.” When T think about this war and its significance, Tam flad to be a part, however, small of this great movemont for the betterment of the world. ETHIOPIA SHALL LIVE. ( Somewhere within the Past, some whero Up from the Void, the Ancient Dark, We Know not whence it was, but there It camo a Spirit and a Spark; It moves in flesh and blood and breath And lives on, on, death after death. ‘When wo wero outside of Manila bay tho sea was choppy. ‘Typhoon signals had beon displayed in Manila for nearly a week before our depar turo, Tt was evident that the -sea wo wore having was a part of thia ty- Dhoon. All susceptible subjects wore (Continued on the second page.) TROUBLE IN DANVILLE, VA. | Colored Man Sheots Wife and Kills Officer-- Others Wounded. «-Hi vO Aim Deadly--Defies Arrest and Dies Fighting. Danville Va.,Oct. 12.—Walter Clark a colored ne'er do well, killed a police man, wounded six other’ men and himself was shot to death by armed citizens early this afternoon as he was driven out from his refuge in the rear of Wélson street by flames start ed for that purpose, For two hours, while thousands of people gathered on roofs aud near by vantage points, the colored defied citi- zens, who, learning that two of the most popular officers of the police foree had been seriously wounded, do termined to capture him dead or alive. Clamor for the body after it had been dragged, bullet ridden and half burned, from’ the houso, was subdued by the authorities, who threw the corpse on a fire wagon, which was driven by a circuitous route to a col- ored undertaking establishment. ‘The body was interred in less than an hour, ‘Tho casualty st is: William H. McCray, policeman, dead. William Wirt Boisseau, deputy ser- geant probably fatally wounded. _ Police Sergeant J. H, Martin, slight ly wounded in the face. Policeman H. A, Perkinson, wounded in the face with buckshot. | Policeman J. C. Lewis, wounded in ‘the hip. t John Wells, carpenter, wounded in the face, : Fanny Jyans, colored, wounded in the! arm, 5 MELOBR “MCORAY’ KIDLDD “) WHILD MAKING ARRBS1 MeCray was killed when he went to arrest Clark, who was charged with shooting the colored woman. He was shot throught the throat, Bolsseau, who received the next fall, was bending over the body of Me Cray when a load of shot was poured into the small of his back from a win dow. HB. G. Moseley, president of the Vir ginia Press Association, was twelve feet from the gun muzzle when it was fired Por an hour ‘he bodies of the two men lay in plain view, the colored man disputing approach to the build ing. For an hour or more there was a fussilade of bullets poured into Clark's house, citizens with guns of every type coming ftom all quarters. Dynamite, resorted, to failed wreck the building though two efforts were made. Once, Clark appeared at a window and fired twice, wounding two police otticers and John Wells, a carpenter. ‘This so angered the ' crowd that hemmed him in that’ it was decided to burn him out. Yen gallons of gaso- line were thrown into one window of the house, and in a few minutes the building was roaring. Suddenly, Clark appeared in the doozway on which the beads of 200 guns wore trained. His land was upraised as though to ward off the storm of bul lets which immediately sank into his body, BODY DRAGGED BY HEELS FROM BURNING BULLDING | Seeing him fall and his hair and clothing on fire, the crowd ran forward and caught Clark by the heels, dragging his body into the street. The fire department put out the flames. There was an ugly moment after the body had Leen dragged to the street. A colored * undertaker mount ed the fire wagon to convey a mes sage to a policeman, This was inter preted by the irate citizens to be an effort on the part of the colored man to save the remains, They mobbed the man, who fled headlong before a crowd of pursuers. Finally he sank under a rain of blows. His coat was ent, but he was protected from furth er violence by the police. The scene was a most remarkable one, The circle of armed citizens which hommed in the series of out houses, was almost in the heart of the town, and a pall of smoke from rat Uing rifle fire hung over the scene. Business was at a standstill virtual ly tho rest of the afternoon, All is quiet and normal tonight, Roisseau is reported, by his atten. ing physician, to have been fatally shot He has a rugged constitution, however, and somo hope is entertain ed for his recovery. Boissean’s condition, shortly boforo minight was reported to be unchang, ed. Tho gunshot made a bad hole in his back, injuring *{tal organs and. fg Te ae = ' HY Hos Tue» FRENDS FR ttt (Becca vam (Ere SAY on | | k LT Wee ie hE Let Sor ! i ASL, We ; ie \ Bs. y AW i Li ™ 4 tae hy \ ran ) a Y W/O RIA Ea Ns Sie SORA Me c ; Wi RW oo) aan hs) N wiih asa § | 7) oT i] f' ! ’ AN hy Veet? AGN ; ' NS Ae Hh ) Ve a eT Ml oe jf Sr it RU Ne AVE, Wy At | PTET Corea | MS | Vi ee : i PATS oo i ee a a ee? Po i eae | ee | i ve A y i i} \ A ( ‘ e A "_ aac OR SET | ers ee ie he Wp ee an - ae ae \ ait SS a INN AS 8 ek he ot a | lacerating a lung. He has been depu ty sheriff fourteen years, His rela-- tives In Dinwiddie, where Boisseau was born, have been summoned by P. H. Boisqeau, sergeant of Tfanville, but not related to the wounded man. Officer McCray was sixty two yeara of age and a native of Alamance County, N.C. He had been with the police and fire departments for twen ty six years. He leaves a wife, but no children, BIG DAY AT MT. 0, 2571 AND S STREWTS, ‘The Mount Olivet Baptist Church will have on the 4th Sunday, Oct.28, 1917; a day of Special Sorvices, STA t 11.20 A, M-—"You Shall Reap, Just What You Sow,” by Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, pastor, 4 P. M., —Address. “Get Ready,” by one, whom the public has not heard for ‘a number of years. (Guess who tt is?) | 8:30 P. M.—Sermon, “Tho Mid night Prayer,” by Rev, Horace Wins| low, (Tho Boy-preacher) of Philadel- phia. Somo of the best mustea’ talent fu tho city havo consented to assist in thoso sorvices. AN ara woleomo. Seo programmes, CHILES—SHEPARD, Mr. T. R. Scott announces the marniage of his niece, Mrs, Cora 1, Shepard to Mr. William HH. Chiles, ‘Tuesday evening, October 16, 1917 at 9.00 o'clock, S14 N. Ist street, Recep: tion Octover 25, 1917 at 8l4 N. Ist Street, from 8:00 to 11:00 P.M, Friends are invited. No cards. THE INEVITABLE. BIG COMMUNITY MASS MEETING. Hon. John Mitcholl, Jv., will intro- duce Dr. Douglas ,8. Freeman, ‘ucs- day, October 23rd,'1917, at $:30 P. M. at the Ebenezer — Baptist” Chureh. Come out and give titese splendid men a splendid audionee. ‘The Lewis’ Quartotte, Sabbath Glee Club and Madam Sovilla Elion Briggs will sing, Persons prominent im community work, both white and colored will be the guests of the evening. Be on time. Admission roo, ° Mrs. Ora B. Stokos, Pros, Misa Lucy A. Potars, Socty. Mrs, M. M, Hill, Fin, Secty. Mrs, Alico TH. Kersey, Tres, sist] Mrs. Evoline Epps is wonfined ta some.| hor room, at her residences In North ‘Third Street. Sho ts. improving. —Mrs. Mary Casey, and daughetor ot New River, Va, were in tho city last week, —Mr, Willlam B. Smith, (“Lite Billy") now residing at White Sul- phur Springs, W. Va., spent a fow days in tye city. His’ many frionds were gla to seo him, —Pev/W. IL. Jackson, of Orange, N. J. Is visiting his sister, Mrs, Marga ret Gordon and niece, Mrs. Arabela Charity, of 914 St. John St. In Memoriam. JONES.—In sad but loving remem- brance of our dear son, 1, Endom Jones, who passed away ‘October 17, 1912, By his parents, J. B, and ROSA K. JONES. Mrs. Jomima Moss spont her vaca- tion in Charlottesville, Crozet and Millor's School, Va. | Mr, Howard $, ‘Vaughan, of Farm- ville, Va. spent Sunday in tho city visiting his wife and children. Mr. and Mra. Robert Randolph, of 1007 1-2 N. Sovonth streot havo r0- turned homo ator a pleasant visit to Now York, tho guest of Mrs, Ran-| dolph’s brother, Mr, James H. Hill. MAMMOTH PARADE AND SEND- OFP FOR SELECTMEN, Parade to be Weld Wriday Night, October 26, A Great Mammoth, Parade and Send Of in honor of oitr selected man lo be sent to Camp Leo Saturday, October 27, under the auspices of the Colored Branch of the American Red “Gross and all the other organizations fh tho city. This ts expected to be thn grandest parade ever held in the city by colored people. | On Monday afternoon October 22, there was held an enthusiastte meet! {ng of the Colored Branch of the American Red Cross at which time Topresentatives fvom the Spartans National Assoctation for the Advance ment of Colored People, Civic Leaguo Pythian Cadet Corps, spanish Ameri- can War Vetcrans, St. Luke Organt— zation and many others, unanimously decided to hold this great “Sond Of” meeting to the Colored drafted and solected men of the elty of Itichmond, ExGovernor Montagno addressedy tho meeting. His remarks wero on- Joyed by every ono yresent, A mammoth parade {- planned in which all fraternal, literary, benefl- clal organizations and schools in tho city are invited to take a part, carry ing special banners designating their organizations, Among. thie Gro cottons oxpentod. 1 a Broad es BP RHR Medical Association, Nurses ‘Assocl-- ation woarkng uniforms, Lincoln Bene- flelal Club, Southside’ Independents, Love and Union No. 1, xcelsior Club Independent Benofielal Club, and many others, All organizations taking part in the parade will report to Mr, W. A. Jordan, Mr W. IT. Anderson, Dr. J. Hi. Blackwell and Col, Roscoe ‘Mitehel. All female organizations and all women who are members of the Red Cross will wear the Red Cross uni= form and inquire at the Red Gross Headqusrters 201 203 8. Leigh St, for’ instructions from the chairman, Mrs, Mary 1. Carter, ‘Those who have been asked to take 2 part on the program are: Rev, W. IT Stokes, D. D.; Rev. % D. Lewis, D. Di Dr, Roscoe Brown, ;Rev. Ro V. Peyton. D.D.; Rev. M, 8. Davis, D. D. Rov. W. 'T. Johnson, . D.;" Mrs. Maggie TL, Walker, ‘Mayor ’ George Ainslio and Mr. John Stewart Bryan, Tt has heen definitely decided to have the march to the City Auditork um to begin at 7:20 o'clock. Following the exereisos in the andi. torium the drafted and selected men WIN be presented with honse-wives which contain many useful articles for the comfort of soldiers. A hanquet will bo tendered the men at Johnson's Mall after the conclusion of the ser vices at the auditorium. ‘The next meeting for the comptotion of tho final arrangements for tho “Sond Off” will be held at the South ern Ald Office, 627 N. 2nd St, Mon day Octebor 22, 1917 at 6:30 P. M. UNION HAS PROSPECT oF A WONDERFUL SEASON. ‘The constant arrival of old and new Players has caused Union to dream of championship honors. Coach Robin- son has given out the information ‘that this year’s outlook is better than any of his previous years here. ‘tho return of Thompson and Slade, last year’s linemen, and Johnson, naltback has materially strengthened ‘the team, | At present there are almost threo {cams on the field, which is the best showing that the Unionites havo shown during their football history. The abundance of new players, in addition to the men of tast’ year's powerful combination, gives the coach an excellent opportunity — to pick a winning cloyen for this fall. Rvery man is working hard and do ing his best to win a placo on tho varsity squad. For the past week the red and steel boys have beon engaging in hard serimages and signal pratices, ‘The setection of a backfield will provo difficult task; Woods ts expected to resumo his place at full but there are at least two or moro candidates for the other positions with the majority being first string mon, The Old DoMinion boys aro worl ing hard cach day and when the whistle blast announces the opening of the 1917 season the wearers of tho red and stecl will be ready for tho fray. SOCIO To Conduct ‘Campaign ‘Throughout tho Countyy—Seerotary Harrison's Welicltations—Great Work Ahead for the Colored Leaders. The following correspondence ex- plains Iyselt: Savings Bank Section, American Bankers* Association. New York City, October 12, 1917, Mr. John Mitchell, ‘Jr., President, Mechanics Savings Bank Richmond, Va., My dear Mr. Mitchell—You are again appointed by the President of our Section, who this year is Joseph R. Noel, President, Nool Stato Bank, Chicago. M1, the chairman ot the Special ‘Thrift’ Committeo for Work Among Colored People. We are indeed very happy to have you connected with our work and shall anticipate hearing the — result of important activities from you from time to time, With kind regards and bast wishes, Tam, Sineerely yours, M. W. HARRISON, Secretary. deehmond Va, Oet. 18, 1917. Mr, M, W. Harrison, Secretary, Savings Bank Section, American Bankers’ Association, Five Nassau St., New York, N. Y., My dear Mr. Harrison—Your os- teemed favor of the 12th inst, in- forming me of my re-appointment as Chairman of the Special ‘Thrift Com mittee for Work Among Colored Peo- plo recelved. Pleaso convey to Presi- dent Joseph: R. Nool: my , thanks’ for this recognition andssuro, hin. that hall geste na Se NN siiecaus Of tho: nove inc. ises to result in untold benefit to all classes. of American people. With assurances of sincere regard, T am, Very truly yours, JOHN MITCHELL, JR., A REMARKABLE INVENTION. Mr Essex Deloateh of Newport News, Va., colored is in tho city and called on us. He had an exhibit in the Industrial Hall, Stall 41 B., Virginia State Fair. It ic wonderful in many respects, He has a circular self feed- ing table, known ‘as a scientific auto- matic distributor, Tis remarkable self-feeding device provides that from three to one thousand or more, the tables being multiplied in num: ber can be fed in a few minutes. NO WAITERS NEEDED. It isa time saver as no waiters are needed. ‘The patron simply presses an electric buttom and marks with the let ter X on the bill of fare just what he desires. Tho order goes ‘automatical- ly into the kitchen, together with the marked bill of fare and the mon- ey. ‘The cook, steward or server fills the order. ‘The eashier places the change in the proper receptable and ina Tow moment he has put the food on the plate and started it back to the customer, \ PLATE s'rops, The plate stops at the customer's number an the table and when ho is through eating the empty _ plates, cups, ote, are returned to the kitchon ready for the next eustomer, ‘The table device las attracted attention throughout the United States and when put into actual operation — in large cities will revolutionize the pres ent methods of serving the public. Ut is estimated that the saving in time will aggregate millions of dollars, MANY PATENTS SECURED. Mr, Deloatch has had an eye to business in that he has patented the table devieo, there being seven. im- provements over all the self feeding lables known in the United States, Germany, Mexico, Great Britain, Cana- da and patents depending now in France. He has twelve other patents under way, which he expects to bring before the public. Among these aro clothes-drying machine, cider — press, wrecking hammer, rat trap, river cleaning trap of all animals and fish and a boat rack for hoisting all small boats from tho water, weighing from one to four tons, Mr. Essex Deloatch’s post office is 744 Nineteenth St., Newport News, Va. THE FATE OF TIE WAR GoD! This mammoth patriotic play will be presented by a heavy cast noxt Monday night at tho City Audijorium Selectmon will give a display drill, TWO HEY PLANET SATURDAY...OCTOBER 20, 1917 BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY (Continued From First Page.) soon scasick. This included myself. THE POET SBA-SICK This was my sixth trans Pacific trip besides other short sea, bay and river trips, yet I was seasick. Surely there is no immunity for me in this unpleasant malady. I hadn't bothered about getting any treatment for it. I had been seasick so often that I had learned that seasickness has its own renamed. I thought of the story told of the lady who, when she was about to take a sea voyage asked a doctor what she should do in case she became sea sick. The doctor replied, Don't bother yourself about that Miss You'll it." All about me were distressful human beings doing the only thing that seems to prove successful in the cure of seasickness. A VICTIM'S QUERY One of the victims, a recruit, asked me, "Sergeant, is this your first attack?" I replied, "No; it is my forty first." He laughed and seemed to see a probability that he himself might recover from this, his first attack, since I had had it so many times and did not die. The "Thomas" was acting as if he were having a good time with old Neptune and had drunk overmuch, he was "seeing snakes," or something of the kind—sea serpents, I suppose. At times he acted as if he were the whale that swallowed Jonah and found him indigible. Anyhow, something had happened to our world. It was all topsy-turvy, whirly, unumpy dummy, every thing but the straight and well he haved world that one could like, or care to remain with. THE LAST STAGE This is the last stage of scaldness. We had been afraid that the boat would sink; now we were afraid that it wouldn't sink. One of my fellow-sufferers said to me, "Cheer up, Sergeant, a German submarine may strike us before long." "Let us hope so," I answered. The next morning the ocean was quietor. We had heaved old Jonah Maj De Mar overboard and felt better by reason of it. We began to cat and take interest in life again. We sure going back to the loved ones we left behind us. At this time I wrote: I am on my way to you! the wheeling sun Is spinning brighter gold upon the blue; The waves are shouting joy, lo, every one Seems glad with me—I'm on my way you! Sweet is the music of the world around This vessel speeding with a purpose true; The sea is but a harmony profound One with my soul—I'm on my way to you! Beyond those wave-washed clouds ahead, I see, That carry a horizon limiting my view You are the light upon the shore, for me. ٦٦ أَمْرَ أَمْرَ uu uu,I— أَمْرَ أَمْرَ uu uu,I to you! What matters it that I have known the ache And emptiness of absence, long days through? What matters it I've suffered for your sake— Now that I'm on my happy way to you? No less I know, has been your pain- ful part, The dragging hours have torn your spirit, too; No less, your prayers have troubled Heaven, Dear Heart, No less—but now, I'm on my way to you Springs rise and summers bloom and autumns fall; Song-birds and honey bees and flowers new Grow old and die, but Love's Youth more than all, Keep sweet our souls—I'm on my way to you! REFRAIN. .. I'm on my way to you! I'm on my way 'Tis worth the past of pain just for today; You are my darling dream amid life's sighs, And where you are, there is my paradise! The second day out, August 17th, the waters became angry again. The winds seemed to resent the trespass of the "Thomas" in this part of the ocean, and we were being hurled up over unbelievable mountains of billows then rolled down through unfathomable vallys beneath. Some body said that no boat can aright it self should it turn over at an angle of anything more than forty-five degrees. I don't know whether or not the "Thomas" demonstrated otherwise, but I know it often seemed quite questionable as to whether or not our boat would regain its equilibrium. The eighteenth was no better. THE WORST OF ALL: The nineteenth was the worst of all. All that day the winds and the waves seemed to be threatening us tragically. The second cabin dining room was flooded by the waves, nothough could be kept on the tables and no breakfast could be served. About SIR JOHN BROOKS FIRST CLASS SERGEANT LUCIAN B. WATKINS Sergeant Watkins' great and beautiful poems and writings have entertained Planet readers for years. This graphic story of the seq a beautiful combination of prose and poetry, is not surpassed. four o'clock in the afternoon the wind wrenched away apart of one of our ship's masts and put our wireless aparatus out of action. Thus this signa1 for help became impossible. The waves overrode the upper deck. All hatches and port holes had to be closed. But the heavy sea crushed in come of the port holes and some of the second cabin passengers were injured by the broken glass. But the worse was not yet. The old veteran ship's captain was at the stirring wheel. SHIP'S SAILINGS ERRATIC The ship could not be kept in any definite direction. He could only head it into the typhoon and endeavor to make his way toward its center. This he accomplished about 10 o'clock that night. The center was passed and the storm became worse than before. Our hundreds of tons "Thomas" was being hurled helplessly in the direction of a big Island Rock. This rock was sighted by the ship's officer on "look out." Al the ingenuity of the Old Master at the wheel came into play. The huge, throbbing, gleaning and straining engine hearts below responded with every ounce of their power to his orders. Sure death loomed large before him. The lives of more than two thousands of stern men, anxious women and questioning children were with him on this boat. He had to save them. He must keep this embarked city of humanity from being dashed to death against that destructible thing before him. A STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE He threw all of the ship's strength against the winds, again and again—yet, his utmost efforts seemed to be falling—suddenly, it seemed that some mighty bolt of the deep touched our boat, and then the hand of the would be executioner relaxed merely fully. The "Thomas" crawled as if were, a little way, stopped with a giantic jolt and trembled. All of us knew that some thing had happened—perhaps, the worst. Most of us felt sure that the "Thomas" had been damaged was, probably, leaking. There were some sailor passengers FIRST CLASS SERGEAN Sergeant Watkins' great and beautiful tertained Planet readers for years beautiful combination of prose in the cabin with me. These put on life belts. I afterwards learned that such are their instructions. Some of the soldiers put on life belts, went up to the mess deck and waited. A. SOLDIER LGST In the meantime one soldier of Company II. 8th Infantry ventured up on the upper deck; he was caught and carried away by the waves—drowned His body was never seen again. I re member wondering as to whether or not it was necessary or of any use for me to put on a life belt. It seemed to me that any one would be drowned in such a sea regardless as to whether or not he sank beneath. I arose, dressed, sat on my berth and tried to think. We afterwards learned that our boat was driven against the shoal of an island, one of the Formosa group, of Japan. I struck about 11:15, P. M. August 19th MANY INJURED Twenty nine persons were injured during the storm. These injuries were caused by being thrown against fixtures and by these fixtures being broken and thrown about the ship. Several of these injuries were fractured jimbs. The Old Master the Captain, got us clear of the rock and we went our way. The next morning, August 20th the sea was comparatively calm. The sun shone and the ship officers were able to get their hearing. We had been completely lost during the storm. We began to think anxiously as to when we would reach Nagasaki, as it had become known that the "Thomas" was leaking and water was being pumped out of it. None of us knew just how far we were from Nagasaki. We had made very little progress during the storm. Durfing one town's four hour day we advanced only one mile. This boat ordinarily travels three hunderd and twenty miles in twenty four hours. HAD LOST ALL: The second day after the storm August 21st, we observed a large sail boat flying distress signals. We went to its rescue. It was the "Irm THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA gard," an American vessel on its way to Manila from San Francisco. It had been caught in the typhoon that had so nearly cost us our lives. We took the Captain's wife on board our vesel and learned her story. They had lost nearly all of their crow, their fresh water had become entirely ex hausted and their boat was damaged. We took the "Irngard" in tow with us. Our supply of coal, having become nearly exhausted, owing to the typhoon, it became necessary for us to call at Kilung, Formosa, Japan. This we did, reaching there August 21st, remaining over night, and resuming our journey to Nagasaki the morning of the 22nd. We left the "Irngard" and its grateful crew at Kilung. They were to take on coal and continue their trip to Manila. VESSEL IN DRY DOCK We reached Nagasaki in the evening of August 26th, remained in the bay over night, and went into dry dock the morning of the 27th. When the huge steel gate had been packed in place and the water pumped out from beneath the "Thomas" we saw the extent of its injuries. There were dents and breaks which necessitated the removal of six of the massive steel plates from the sides forward in order to repair the damage done by the typhoon. Our boat was indeed leaking. Water poured from five or six holes. This was photographed. GOOD TIME IN JAPAN While the "Thomas" was being trapped we were free to "see Nagasaki." Nagasaki is built at the foot of and on the side of a pictureque mountain. It has many beautiful buildings of concrete, brick and native wood. It is well represented financially by a number of seemingly prosperous banks. The contents of its stores are for the greater part beautiful indeed. Comparatively little English language is heard there but they readily understand the speech of the American dollar eagle. The first day I went ashore was Sunday. In company with my particular friends, Hospital Sergeant Moses Montgomery and Ser T. LUCIAN B. WATKINS tiful poems and writings have on- This graphic story of the sea a and poetry is not surpassed. geant Ezekiel Spry, Medical Department, I visited the Shinto Temple of Nagasaki. We made the trip each in a one man power jirutkisha, the street rigs of this city. We reached the Temple climbed the two hundred some steps passing through seven Massive gates, then was met by a guide who offered to show us the Temple and contents for the sum of fifty cents in our money, one Yen in Japanese currency. We consented. TWO RELIGIONS. From the commanding height of this Holy Hill consecrated to and by the God of these people we looked back over the city, and the steps and gate leading up to where we stood. Shintoism is one of the two religions of Japan; the other is Buddhism. Shintoism is Nature worship, beginning with the sun, which is the Japanese Sun God, extending through the ancestors down to their living emperor, whoever he may be. The guide who spoke good English, showed us the "holy stallion," blessed by their god, kept and cared for there in his stall. He was just a small ordinary hook horse. He is a part of their temple worship. There is also a bronze statue of a stallion. The guide told us that this is believed to possess a cerain healing virtue for the cure of the sick. There was a large contribution box at the entrance of this temple. While we were there a Japanese girl came up to this box knot, clap her hands together twice, throw some money into the box and passed on around the temple. I saw no one enter the temple, nor were we permitted to do so. The Temple itself seemed nothing more than a large shed with open front. The guide told us that it is built of a certain kind of wood. The top is made of a peculiar kind of bark. NO PROHIBITION THERE After we had seen the temple, this guide directed our attention to the ad joining garden—refreshment garden. I should say. We saw many small tables. At some of these, some non commissioned officers and their families. passengers from our boat, were being served with beer, cakes candies, fruit watermelon and peanuts. We selected one of these tables. Two Japanese waltresses promptly filled our table with the fore mentioned articles. The fruit was fine; Large, sweet peaches pears, bananas, apples, and delicious grapes. I did not partake of the beer tried a little of the wine. We amused ourselves trying to pick up shalled peanuts with chopsticks. The watress es finally taught us the practical use of these sticks as substitutes for the American knives and forks. There be ing nothing else to be seen, we paid our bills and departed. LAND CULTIVATED All the land around and about Nagasaki is cultivated for all it is worth. As far as can be seen the mountain has been sheaved and on these are growing gardens of surprising fertility. Vegetables, watermelons, eggplants, peanuts, etc. are grown in abundance. The city itself is a city of novelties; Children's toys of the most interesting kinds, artistic beauties in metal; shells, wood and stone. Nature itself has been made to serve them in novel ways. These people with the Chinaman know the secret of arresting the growth of trees and plants so as to keep them miniature specimens of the fully matured species. Century old oaks, pines, cedars, and such of the big types are seen healthy and in good condition growing in a pot or box no longer than a two quart measure. These trees are only a foot or two in height, but have all of the marks on their ages. Many of these were bought by officers, soldiers and their families and brought over with us on the "Thomas." RAISED THE COLOR LINE THEIR During our stay in Nagasaki, we still remained on board the "Thomas," as cur living quarters. One day, a white lady (?) one of our second cab in passengers objected to eating at the same table with colored men. She expressed this objection by arising from the table, going to her state room and sending for the steward. We could overhear her explaining to the steward, "I think it is outrageous that I should have to eat it the same table with "niggers." The steward (white) told her that she might take her meals in her stateroom. If she preferred to do so, or he would pro vide for her a seat at one of the other two tables in the dining room. She enclose the latter suggestion. Hospital Sergeant Moses Montgomery and Sergeant First Class Lucian B. Watkins Medical Department, U. S. Army were the objects of this lady's "complaint." NO DISCRIMINATION MADE Both of us had been given second cabin accommodations through the due process of military regulations, and in accordance with our military ranks. There were other ladies (all white except one a Mexican) eating at the table with us. None of these seemed to mind it. Neither good be havior, nor personal worth, nor intellectual attainment, nor any other thing that makes men and women an capable with other men and women, mattered to the lady (1) who "objected" when these commandments qualities came about in black skins. The fact that each of us held rank senior to that held by her own husband did not matter with her. She saw herself as "superior" by virtue of the race to which she belongs. The personal superiority that has no individual worth as a base must be a meager kind of thing, indeed, it seems to me. Nothing else unpleasant or embarrassing happened in connection with our dining service. THE VESSEL FLOATED On the morning of September 6th, water was turned into the dry dock; that afternoon the "Thomas" floated out into the Nagasaki bay. Owing to typhoon signals being displayed, we remained in the bay three days. September 10th we left Nagasaki en route to San Francisco. We took the North ern route. Occasionally, a whale was sighted, spouting sea water high in the air as he traveled. After leaving Nagasaki I began to think again. While on board the "Thomas" at Nagasaki, the game of chess had occupied the greater part of my time. I am very fond of this ancient and intricate of kingdom against kingdom. I had met two players (white) on board the "Thomas", whose superior execution of this game against my ability to play it was questionable. In the final contest however, honors were even. This question being settled, I began to think along the lines of my next hobby verse writing. At this time I wrote: STORM AT SEA (Thoughts in the moment of impending death, on the U. S. Army transport "Thomas," Sunday night, August 19, 1917. The night is dark. Here on the deep Tumultuous mountain billows leap Within, without, beyond, between Low tumbling valleys blue and green. Mad winds breathe thundrously their power And storm wild passion of the hour, Our ship is doomed to fail and fall. The sea grave, hurtling over all, Thy one eternal man within And brotherhood beyond the skin; Will not remember us below, The tides as aye will come and go: We cannot live or past again— Lord, have we loved our fellow men! Time has bee ours in which to live Our heaven appointed tasks and give Full measures of our minds and souls In service, onward to our goals; Now at the end, (it seems so near), Lord God, forgive! alas, we fear That we have failed to heed or find Thy kship of all humankind— We have not kept Thy mandates ten, Have failed to love our fellow men! Not that again we see the sun We pray, but that "Thy will be done." These mothers and their infants here These buds and blooms of life—are dear To us who now await Thy will, Believing in Thy merey still. Oh, could we live our lives once more, We wonder, Lord, if, as before, We would forget Thy blessings wide And live ungrateful gods of pride! Ah, surely, we would serve our brothers. As Thou hast said, "Do unto others," 'tat when we come to die, at hast, And views as now our finished past We could implore Thee serve us then, Lord, as we served our fellow men! Then I wrote. AFTER THE STORM On the U. S. Army Transport "Thomas," Monday morning Aug st 20, 1917. The storm is past. Those fateful wind are o'er We look upon its crystal world of light Unmindful of the dark and threatening past, Our vessel swings along, length after length; Though once they groaned, and each one seemed the last, He Its purring engines breathe again in strength. Untrubbed are these waters, and the din Of riot waves, that once we heard, is gone. Most grateful are our hearts, Dear Lord, within— Our souls are thankful as we journey on. But never, while we breathe God's life swet: breath. Can we forget that tempest call of Death. Then one n'gh' I stood on deck and looked out over the pulsing sea, down into its mysterious blue depth below, and up into the wonderful space of innumerable world and wrote: WHENCE? Eternal Nature set to Time Throughout the universe afar, We know not whence your truth sublime We only see and sense You Are. Humanity and all its Dreams You are—and always were, it seems. You are the mysteries of Space. Of thought, of Force; the certain cause That swings the countless suns in place Is but your never falling Laws. You are all Fate, all Fortune, Chance Your order is each Circumstance. Philosophy, Geology, And kindred Questioners sincere— Astronomy, Histology, These seek and find you naught to fear; You hold no malice and Man May learn your secrets, if he can. You are Intelligence—the zone Of silence mightier than speech; Your vibrant atoms in the stone Are comrades conscious each with each: All elemental functions true Are they what are because of you. Some call you Science, you are more Some call you God, whate'er the name. You are the fact you wore before— The constant question, "Whence you came?" The Whence of all we love, adhor; The Whence of Peace, the Whence of War; The Whence we feel yet do not know To whom we pause and raise our shrine; The Whence along the way we go, Grave after grave, through storm and shine; The Whence—the faith inspiring Spark We glimpse beyond the wondrous Dark. You are the poet and his pen, The singer and her madness sweet; The will that moves the souls of men, Toil after toil, each incomplete. Death after death, you ever bring Your birth—inevitable Spring. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, September 26th, we reached the Army Transport Pier, San Francisco. A crowd of friends, relatives and acquaintances met us; we disembarked and thanked God that we had again reached the United States of America. We were indeed back: to God's Country. LUCIAN B. WATKINS. Sergeant First Class, Medical Dept. U. S. Army. 1807 1017 Howard University STEPHEN M. NDWMAN, A M., D: D: President COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES A. B. and B. S. Courses TEACHERS COLLEGE A. B. & B. 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LOND, VIRGINIA ALY HAPPENED! petites. At the next meeting this great young genius was introduced. Bowing graciously to the applauding audience, he announced that first in order he would recite, "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Drawing a deep breath and inspiration he started out to slaughter the immortal six hundred all over again, only he made a better job of it than was done at Bahachlava. He got as far as, "Cannons to the right of them, cannons to the left of them, cannons in front of them," CANNONS BEHIND THEM! He hesitated; there was a pained look on his face. Someone kindly suggested, "Tell 'em to TAKE THE WINGS OF THE MORNING." The SON of TARZAN by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Copyright by Frank A. Munsoy Co. FOREWORD Those strange original stories "Tarzan of the Apes" and "The Return of Tarzan" captured the delighted fancy of millions of readers. Although they were full of thrills, "The Son of Tarzan" holds the reader's interest with wonderful tenacity and yields nothing to them in the line of breathless adventure. In this wonderful Tarzan story you will meet Tarzan himself, who is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke; Lady Greystoke, his wife; Alexis Paul-vitch, friend of the murderer Rokoff; Akut, the gray ape, and many others, not the least of whom is Jack Clayton, the son of Tarzan. CHAPTER I. THE Marjorie W.'s long bont was floating down the broad Jacquard floating down the broad Ugambi with ebb tide and current. Her crew were lazily enjoying this respite from the arduous labor of rowing upstream. Three miles below them lay the Marjorie W. herself, quite ready to call so soon as they should have clambered aboard and swung the long boat to its davits. Presently the attention of every man was drawn from his dreaming or his gossiping to the northern bank of the river. There, screening at them in a cracked falsetto, and with skinny arms outstretched, stood a strange apparition of a man. "Wot in thunder?" ejaculated one of the crew. "A white man!" muttered the mate; and then: "Man the oars, boys, and they saw an enclosed creature with scant white locks, tangled and matted. The thin, bent body was naked save for a loin cloth. Tears were rolling down the sunken, pockmarked cheeks. The man jabbered at them in a strange tongue. "Rooshun," hazarded the mate. "Savvy English!" he called to the man. The scarcrow did, and that tongue, brokenly and hatingly, as though it had been many years since he had used it, he begged them to take him with them away from this awful country. Once on board the Marjorie W. the stranger told his rescuers a pitiful tale of privation, hardships and torture, extending over a period of ten years. How he happened to have come to Africa he did not tell them, leaving them to assume that he had forgotten the incidents of his life prior to the frightful ordeals that had wrecked him mentally and physically. His name, he said was Alexis Paulvitch. A few scraggly, yellow-white locks had supplanted the thick dark hair that had once covered his head. His limbs were bent and twisted; he walked with a shuffling, unsteady gait, his body doubled forward. His teeth were gone—knocked out by his savage masters. Even his mentality was but a sorry mackery of what it once had been. They took him aboard the Marjorie W., and there they fed and nursed him. He gained a little in strength, but his appearance never altered for the better—a human derelict, battered and wrecked, they had found him; a human derelict, battered and wrecked, he would remain until death claimed him. Alexis Paulvitch could easily have passed for elighty. The Marjorie W. had been chartered by a syndicate of wealthy manufacturers, equipped with a laboratory and a staff of scientists and sent out to search for some natural product which the manufacturers who footed the bills had been importing from South America at an enormous cost. What the product was none on board the Marjorie W. knew except the scientists; nor is it of any moment to us, other than that it led the ship to a certain island off the coast of Africa after Alexis Paulvitch had been taken aboard. The ship lay at anchor off the coast for several weeks. The monotony of life aboard her became trying for the crew. They went often ashore, and finally Paulvitch asked to accompany them—he, too, was tiring of the blighting sameness of existence upon the ship. The island was heavily timbered. Dense jungle ran down almost to the beach. The scientists were far inland prosecuting their search for the valuable commodity that native rumor upon the mainland had led them to believe might be found here in marketable quantity. The ship's company fished, hunted and explored. Paulvitch shuffled up and down the beach or lay in the shade of the great trees that skirted it. One day, as the men were gathered at a little distance, inspecting the body of a panther that had fallen to the gun of one of them who had been hunting inland, Paulvitch lay sleeping beneath his tree. He was awakened by the touch of a hand upon his shoulder. With a start he sat up to see a huge anthropoid ape squatting at his side, inspecting him intently. The Russlan was thoroughly frightened. He glanced toward the sailors—they were a couple of hundred yards away. Again the ape plucked at his shoulders, jabbering plaintively. Paulvitch saw no menace in the inquiring gaze or in the attitude of the beast. He got slowly to his feet. The ape rose at his side. Half doubled, the man shuffled cautiously away toward the sailors. The ape moved with him, taking one of his arms. They had come almost to the little knot of men before they were seen, and by this time Paulvitch had become assured that the beast meant him no harm. The animal evidently was accustomed to the association of human beings. It occurred to the Russian that the ape represented considerable and certain money value, and before they reached the sailors he had decided that he should be the one to profit by it. When the men looked up and saw the oddly paired couple shuffling toward them they were filled with amazement and started on a run toward the two. The ape showed no sign of fear. Instead, he grasped each sailor by the shoulder and peaced long and earnestly into his face. Having inspected them all, he returned to Paulvitch's side, disappointment written strongly upon his countenance and in his carriage. The men were delighted with him. They gathered about, asking Paulvitch many questions and examining his companion. The Russian told them that the ape was his. Nothing further would he offer, but kept harping continually upon the same theme; "The ape is mine. The ape is mine." Tring of Paulvitch, one of the men essayed a pleasantry. Chilling about behind the ape, he prodded the anthropoid "back with a pinn." Like a flash the bear whoeeded upon its tormentor, and in the brief instant of turning the pheasant, friendly animal was metamorphosed to a frzenzed demon of rage. The broad grin that had sat upon the sailor's face as he perpetrated his little joke froze to an expression of terror. He attempted to dodge the long arms that reached for him, but, falling, drew a long knife that hung at his belt. The ape toro the weapon from the man's grasp with a single wrench and flung it to one side; then his yellow fangs were buried in the sailor's shoulder. With sticks and knives the man's companions fell upon the beast, while Paulvitch danced around the cursing, snarling pack, mumbling and screaming pleas and threats. He saw his visions of wealth rapidly dissipating before the weapons of the sailors. The ape, however, proved no easy victim to the superior numbers that seemed fated to overwhelm him. Rising from the sailor who had precipitated the battle, he shook his giant shoulders, freeing himself from two of the men that were clinging to his back and with mighty blows of his open palms felled one after another of his attackers, leaping hither and thither with the agility of a small monkey. The fight had been witnessed by the captain and mate, who were just landing from the Marjorie W., and Paulvitch saw these two now running forward with drawn revolvers, while the two sailors who had brought them ashore trailed at their heels. The ape stood looking about him at the havoc he had wrought, but whether he was awaiting a renewal of the attack or was deliberating which of his foes he should exterminate first, Paulvitch could not guess. What he could guess, however, was that the moment the two officers came within firing distance of the beast they would put an end to him in short order unless something were done, and done quickly, to prevent. The ape had made no move to attack the Russian, but even so, the man was none too sure of what might happen were he to interfere with the savage beast, now thoroughly housed to rage and with the smell of new spilled blood fresh in its nostrils. For an instant he hesitated, and then again there rose before him the dreams of affluence which this great anthropold would doubtless turn to realities once Paulvitch had landed him safely in some great metropolis like London. The captain was shouting to him now to stand aside so he might have a shot at the animal, but instead Paulvitch shuffled to the ape's side, and, though the man's hair quivered at its roots, he mastered his fear and laid hold of the animal's arm. "Come!" he commanded, and tugged to pull the beast from among the sailors, many of whom were now sitting up in wide ceyed fright or crawling away from their conqueror upon hands and knees. Slowly the ape permitted itself to be led to one side, nor did it show the slightest indication of a desire to harm THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA the Russian. The captain came to a halt a few paces from the odd pair. "Get aslide!" he commanded. "I'll put that brute where he won't chow up any more able seamen!" "It wasn't his fault, captain," pleaded Paulvitch. "Please don't shoot him. The men started it—they attacked him first. You see, he's perfectly gentle—and his mine—he's mine! I won't let you kill him!" he concluded, as his half wrecked mentality pictured anew the pleasure that money would buy in London—money that he could not hope to possess without some windfall as the ape represented. The captain lowered his weapon. "The men started it, did they?" he repeated. "How about that?" and he turned toward the sailors, who had by @13.10.18 With Mighty Blowa of His Open Palma He Fellled One After Another. this time picked themselves from the ground, none of them much the worse for his experience except the fellow who had been the cause of it and who would doubtless nurse a sore shoulder for a week or so. "Simpson done it," said one of the men. "He stuck a pin into the monk from behind, and the monk got him—which served him bloomin' well right—an' he got the rest of us, too, for which I can't blame him, since we all jumped him to once." The captain looked at Simpson, who sheepishly admitted the truth of the allegation; then he stepped over to the ape as though to discover for himself the sort of temper the beast possessed. But it was noticeable that he kept his revolver cocked and leveled as he did so. However, he spoke soothingly to the animal who squatted at the Russian's side, looking first at one and then another of the sailors. As the captain approached him the ape half rose and waddled forward to meet him. Upon his countenance was the same straight, searching expression that had marked his scrutiny of each of the sailors he had first encountered. He came quite close to the officer and laid a paw upon one of the man's shoulders, studying his face intently for a long moment; then came the expression of disappointment, accompanied by what was almost a human sigh, as he turned away to peer in the same curious fashion into the faces of the mate and the two sailors who had arrived with the officers. In each instance he sighed and passed on, returning at length to Paulwich's side, where he squinted down once more, thereafter evincing little or no interest in any of the other men and apparently forgetful of his recent battle with them. When the party returned aboard the Marjorie W., Paulwich was accompanied by the ape, who seemed anxious to follow him. The captain interposed no obstacles to the arrangement, and so the great anthropoid was tactfully admitted to membership in the ship's company. Once aboard he examined each new face minutely, evincing the same disappointment in each instance that had marked his scrutiny of the others. The officers and scientists aboard often discussed the beast, but they were unable to account satisfactorily for the strange ceremony with which he greeted each new face. Had he been discovered upon the mainland or any other place than the almost unknown island that had been his home they would have concluded that he had formerly been a pet of man, but that theory was not tenable in the face of the isolation of his uninhabited island. He seemed continually to be searching for some one, and during the first days of the return voyage from the island he was often discovered nosing about in various parts of the ship, but after he had seen and examined each face of the ship's company and explored every corner of the vessel, he lapsed into utter indifference of all about him. Even the Russian elicited only casual interest when he brought him food. At other times the ape appeared merely to tolerate him. He never showed affection for him or for any one else upon the Marjorie W. Nor did he at any time evince any indication of the savage temper that had marked his resentment of the attack of the sailors upon him at the time that he had come among them. Most of his time was spent in the eye of the ship, scanning the horizon ahead, as though he were endowed with sufficient reason to know that the vessel was bound for some port where there would be other human beings to undergo his searching scrutiny. All in all, Ajax, as he had been dubbed, was considered the most remarkable and intelligent ape that any one aboard the Marjorie W, had ever seen. Nor was his intelligence the only remarkable attribute he owned. His stature and physique were, for an ane, awe inspiring. That he was old was quite evident, but if his age had impaired his physical or mental powers in the slightest it was not apparent. And so at length the Marjorse W. came to England, and there the officers and the scientists, filled with compassion for the pitiful wreck of a man they had rescued from the jungles, furnished Paulvich with funds and bid him and his AJax godspeed. Upon the dock and all through the journey to London the Russian had his hands full with AJax. 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The room was on the second floor of the house, and opposite the window to which their attention had been attracted was a large tree, a branch of which spread to within a few feet of the sill. Upon this branch they both discovered the subject of their conversation, a tall, well built boy, balancing with ease upon the bending limb and uttering loud shouts of glee as he noted the terrified expressions upon the faces of his audience. The mother and tutor both rushed toward the window, but before they had crossed half the room the boy had leaped nimbly to the sill and entered the apartment with them. "Oh, mother," he cried, "there's a wonderful educated ape being shown at one of the music halls. Willie Grimsby saw it last night. He says it can do everything but talk. It rides a bicycle, eats with knife and fork, counts up to ten and ever so many other women (continued Sixth Page.) 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In the alleged riot at Houston, Texas recently were found guilty by the court-martial. Six of them were sentenced to the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Of this number five were given five years at hard labor and the other one ten years The regiment will be ordered to Manila, Philippine Islands. The white police officers concerned in the same affair have not been punished. Colored folks always get the worst of the bar gain. Well, thank, God, there is some hope of their getting the best of heaven. SUPPRESSION OF SEDITION AND SUPPRESSION OF CRITICISM. The infringement upon the constitutional right of the freedom of the is becoming so serious that even the conservative New York Sun, which is also a staunch supporter of the administration is virtually calling a halt upon certain activities in this direction and sounding a warning to those in charge of affairs at Washington. In its issue of the 17th inst., it says: Whatever the merits of the Government's attitude toward radical publications which are alleged to be interfering with the conduct of the war, both American tradition and current public temper justify a belief that in many cases more harm than good will be accomplished by a roughshod policy of suppression. Radical men and radical publications receive more attention through the Government's opposition than they could possibly hope for were they free to speak their minds. There is about suppression an air of secrecy which is not relished by any normal American whatever the degree of his patriotism. One may despise the tenets of radicalism and distrust the radical in these ill balanced times, and yet feel that every opinion should have vent. There is a real danger that inconsequential movements will become magnified and inconsequential men be martyrized by a too broad application of the censorship and suppression powers now vested in the Post Office Department. If the German people turn against their Government a possibility which is now dictating American policy, it will be not because they have had too much freedom, but because they have had too little. Will the administration at Washington heed this warning? Certain it is that men born in this country and who have drunk deep at the fountain of liberty in all that, that term implies will not tamely submit to the curtailment of their fundamental and constitutional rights without a struggle, even though that struggle leads to the sacrifice of both life and liberty on this side of the grave. Serfs submit to a tyrant's yoke; freemen never. THE TROUBLE IN DANVILLE VA. Danville, Va., is again in the lime- sight and it seems that for a short while at least, reason and sound judgment left that part of the universe. Walter Clark, a colored man, who if reports are to be accepted at their face value was not "worth his salt" shot his own wife in the arm on his own premises. Policeman William H. McCray went to arrest Clark, whether upon the complaint of the wife or of the neighbors, deponent sayeth not. Anyway, Clark was keen-witted enough to demand that the officer show his warrant. No report as yet sent out shows that he had any. As a result, Clark opened fire on him, shooting him through the throat and killing him instantly. Then passion held sway. The fact that a colored man had defied the authorities caused discretion to be thrown to the winds and as a result, it was determined to capture Clark dead or alive. The building was set on fire and some reports say that dynamite was used. Why the building should have been destroyed and the man hemmed in as the reports say, resulting in a further loss of life, no one has been able to explain. Fully ten thousand people are said to have been in the neighborhood to witness the fight against one colored man, who is alleged to have not been worth his room in the world. What was the result? Walter Clark knew, crazed as he must have been by contraband liquor or insane emotions that his life had to be sacrificed and he proceeded to sell it as dearly as possible. He had killed Officer William H. McCray, one of the best on the police force, but who seemed to have lacked judgment and wounded Deputy Sergeant William Wirt Boisseau, Police Sergeant J. H. Martin, Policeman E. A. Perkinson, Policeman J. C. Lewis, John Wells. It is thought that Mr. Boisseau will die. The property damage has not been estimated. The mob got the body of Clark after beating an undertaker who was there to look after his end of the business. The mob leaders thought that he was in sympathy with Clark, and as a matter of fact, he was deeply interested in his business. The colored people of Danville regretted the affair as much as the white peo ple and even more so, for it is usual that they get the worst of these kind of happenings. Moreover, the police man went there to arrest the man, Clark on account of his treatment of a colored woman. Certainly race feeling could not enter into the af fair. All the officers needed to have done, was to have turned Walter Clark over to the colored folks. They would have captured him with little injury to themselves or to any one else. As the matter now stands, both white and colored people are disgust ed with the whole affair, regretting that so many people should have been injured as a result of this in same action of the man who has paid the penalty with his life. Mayor Wood ing and his associates seem to have ex ercised rare judgment in the matter and evidently did much to save further loss of life. or the contest seems to be that as against the loss of a man, whose greatest value may be placed at ten dollars, the community has lost one good officer and has six other persons under the care of the medical fraternity while the property damages with mount up to hundreds of dollars. As Clark was undoubtedly lynched and an honorable, self respecting colored citizen in the undertaking business beaten and narrowly escaped the same fate, the reputation of the community has been injured through out the civilized world. All of this could have been prevented by the exercise of a little good judgment. As for Clark he must have been crazy, there was much method in his madness and he went out of the world battling in a manner that would have reflected credit upon any colored citizen or white one either battling for right and not contending for wrong as he seemed to have been doing. We certainly regret the affair and it behooves every colored family to redouble their efforts to bring their children up right. Teach them good manners, keep them out of the streets after dark and tell them to avoid evil companionship. When a man shoots his own wife or any other man's wife for that matter, he severs himself from fraternal associations and can merit no sympathy. May God help the bereaved family of the man who lost his life and help those, who were even slightly injured, face feeling has not predominated in the matter. It could not for the causes and affect show that, everybody there - except Clark and the lynchers were in favor of upholding the majesty of the law NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. COLORED SELECTMENT WARMLY WELCOME AT ATLANTA. Atlanta, Georgia.—Some parts of the South may be opposed to the Negro Soldier, but Atlanta located in the heart of the South, gave as warm and as cordial a welcome to the Negro draft men as it did to its White draft men when they began to arrive last week. The Atlanta Constitution calls attention on its first page to the arrangements made for the reception of the colored men, and to the camp activities for their enjoyment which are being organized. The Constitution says that these camp activities for colored men will vary in no way from those organized for the white selectmen. Every effort will be made to minimize friction and misunderstanding. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA URBANNA NOTES. Sunday was a big day at the Mt Zion Baptist Church. The occasion being the Installation of the pastor, Rev. J. W. Tynes, B. D., Rev. Thos. Wright, preached the Installation ser- mon: Text, Eze, 3.17. "I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel." Amount raised $191.80. Rev. E. C. Johnson preached a stirring sermon at the Lebanon Baptist Church on last Sunday. Mrs. Ella (Burrell) Easton who has been indisposed for some time was taken worst Saturday and died on Sunday. Funeral services were held at the Lebanon Baptist Church, of which she was a faithful member. She was laid to rest in the family com- tery. Miss Meneely Grevious of Matthews is teaching at the Pine Grove School this term. Mr. Leary Dickerson who has been employed by Capt. H. C. Battioon in the mail route from Morattico to Tappahannock has resigned to accept another position. Mr. Bayton recommends Mr. Dickerson as a reliable young man. Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Martin and children, Olga and Jeanette of Tappahannock visited friends here last week. While here they made the home of Mr. W. E. Green their stop ping place. Miss Sallie Wood is teaching near Healeys this term. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Graves of Dragon ville, are wearing smiles. Mother and son are doing well. Mr. Sawood Burrell is offering his horse for sale. If you are looking for a good all around horse now is the time. Mrs. William Payne announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Myrtle to Mr. Christopher Robinson. On to Lebanon on the fourth Sunday to the Installation of the pastor, Rev. E. C. Johnson, and Ordination of Deacons, A. Talaferro, Jr., and William Thornton. BATCHCHELOR. DANVILLE NEWS Miss J. C. Moorman and Mrs. Sara Maorman of Ross St. returned to the city last week after spending a week in Lynchburg, Va. visiting their cousin, Mr. Allen Moorman. Mr. C. H. Flippin left last week for Biddle University, Charlotte, N.C. Four homes in Oaksville were destroyed by fire last Monday night, omitted were, Mr. Keene, dabgin of fire is unknown. Rev. J. Ralph Cooper, pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church conducted a very successful two weeks revival. His soul stirring sermons revived many a Cold christian, and caused many unsaved souls to proclaim the love of Christ. Mr. W. O. Ferguson, entertained the Baracca class of Calvary Baptist Church, last Tuesday evening from nine o'clock until twelve. Quite an enjoyable evening was spent. Refreshments were served. The closing exercises of the Trinity Sunday School's Cross and Crown class who held Sunday afternoon. Those attending fifty two Sundays in a year received a Gold badge and a certificate. The following persons reached the goal, Miss L. M. Freeman, Supt., Mr. J. R. Wilson, Assist, Supt., Miss Janet West, Organist, Rev. J. R. Cooper, pastor, and Masters, J. R. Wilson, D. B. Wilson; Charles Mosely Victor Woody, Geo. Burton, Jr., Victor Burton, Robert Pinchback, Herman Lee, Howard Lee and Mr. Geo, Burton, Prog. G. W. Woody, speaker of the occasion delivered a very helpful address from the subject "The Woes of Carlessness." Certifi cates were presented by Mr. C. L. Win free. Mrs. Eliza Grasty is home after spending some time with her daughter in Lexington, N. C. Mrs. Calle Davis of Gay St., who some time ago sustained an injured ankle is able to be up. She is under the skillful treatment of Dr. A. L. Winslow. Mr. Jas. Martin of Lawrenceville, Training School is home with his parents. Miss Florence Swann is teaching in the Westmoreland High School. The exhibits of the colored pupils at the fair last week were excellent. Mrs. L. W. Taylor is home after spending the summer in Media, Pa. Mr. Clarence Frye of Roberts St., died Sunday night after a brief illness. Mrs. Mariah Taylor of Holbrook St., is yet on the slick list. Her condition is somewhat improved. Mr. W. I. Wilson, who spent the Summer, in the Training Camp of Des Molnes, Iowa is spending a few days in the city. He is enroute to Washington, D. C. We want active agents in Lynchburg, Warrenton, Suffolk, Potersburg Williamsburg, Lexington, Hampton and Phoobus. GOOD PROPOSITION—SEND $1.00 for Big $1.75 Package of Saline Pain Cure and become a regular agent. Easy Seller. Saline Mfg. Co., 912 N. 1st, Richmond, Va. COLORED DRAFTS TO REPORT AT CANTONMENTS. Washington, Oct. 8.—(Spl.) Negroes included in the draft in northern states will be trained at Des Moines, Yapsank, Wrightstown, Annapolis Junction, Chillicothe, Rockford and Fort Riley, the War Department announced today. A regiment of Negroes at each canonment will be commanded by white officers of rank above captain. Six hundred and twenty six captains first and second lieutenants and Negro reserves, who complete their training at Fort Des Moines this week, will be assigned to the seven cantonments. No decision has yet been reached with regard to Negroes drafted in southern states. Neither has the department definitely outlined from what states each of the seven regiments will be selected. NEAREST CAMP But indications point to orders soon being issued to Negro conscripts to report to the cantonments nearest their homes. The Negro graduates at Fort Des Molines have been ordered to report at the cantonments Nov. 1, indicating that all northern Negroes will be called at that time. Lleut, Col. W. T. Johnston, chief of the division of training camps of the war department, left Sunday for Fort Des Molines to present the Commissions to the graduates. This is the first time that the de department has deviated from the plan of issuing all commissions direct from Washington. TO GIVE OATH Colonel Johnston, attached to the adjutant general's office, is empowered to commission the Fort Des Molnes graduates, administer oath of allegiance, extend to the men a furlough of two weeks and designate the can menton to which they are to report. The commissions bear the date of Oct. 15. The 626 students are all of the in fantasy arm of the service. The medi cal training school at Fort Des Molnes will continue for another month at least. Maj George R. Logan, Iowa quarter master corps, relieved from his prox ent duties, and is assigned as assis tant quartermaster of the Thirty six Divisional Staff, at Camp Bowle, Fort Worth, Tex. Maj. Van Buren Knott, and Capt. R. V. Smith, Iowa medical corps, is assigned to the ambulance companies of the Thirty fourth Division at Camp Cody. Capt. Floyd A. Rikard, ordinance de partiment, National Army, has been assigned as ordinance officer at Camp Dodge. Private Wilbur T. Mitchell, Company D. Thirty fourth Infantry, Camp Dodge, is transferred to the permanent school attachment, school for bakers and cooks. GREETING TO THE COLOREE NATIONAL ARMY. "Soldiers of Freedom."—The exigencies of the present circumstances—the utter disregard for the laws of nations the complete disregard for our plain rights upon the free seas, the constant and inexcusable interference with our commerce, the echoes of the voices of American citizens whose bodies now lie speckless, in their watery graves and the pitiful cries for protection of those living—demand that you now don yourselves with the honorable costumes of American soldiers. It is not of our own choosing to send greetings to you alone. We would prefer sending them to the national army and in fact, do send them. Because it is not the black national army, the red national army, the brown national army, the yellow national army or the white national army that is preparing to defend our rights. It is pure and simple, the national army. But this being your formal entry into it; and because of the prompt press and enthusiasm with which you have laid aside all thought of self to espouse the great cause of democracy we seize this particular and most honorable opportunity to send you our greetings. No peace league or any other organization moving in disguise has been allowed to interfere with your course, which is to your everlasting credit. You have simply been called as American citizens and as true. American citizens, you have not shirred. You have bravely and unhastitatingly answered. We have some discussions which we are satisfied were, at first, very unpleasant to you as well as those discussing. But, we implore you, let not that discourage you. Go forth in the same spirit in which those of your kind have always gone to battle—bravely, willingly and loyally. Re member that the greatest question that has ever confronted the world, as a whole, is confronting it now. 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Now that that stage has passed and gone, and men have returned to reason and open their eyes to the all important fact that you are not preparing to fight a selfish battle in your interest alone or in the interest of your wives and children alone, but in the interest of every color of man, woman and child who lives, moves and has his or her being under the protection of the Stars and Stripes—that you are not colored soldiers preparing to fight for colored people's right's, but American soldiers preparing to contend for American right; you, even more than that, sacrificing yourselves upon the altar of freedom for the benefit of the on earth world, there is no longer a question as to the whereabouts of your training. The joud and forceful eries PERFECTO QUININE POMADE makes the hair grow long, straight and beautiful. A marvelous preparation for straightening Kinky, Curly Hair. A new invention. Gold-Brand Products Co. 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May the all-wise and all powerful God of Creation keep, guide and protect you, and return you safely to your own individual family firesides where you can look back with fond recollections upon a righteous battle well fought and a great victory won and enjoy the delicious fruits there of. Marion, Oct. 8th. EDWARD W. MURRAY, M. D. Y. M. C. A. NOTES The Literary of the Y. M. C. A. met last Friday night and the fellows rended an excellent programme. The hour was full of help. Those who attended the class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson by Dr. W. H. Stokes last Saturday were well prepared for Sun day's work. My friends do you know that you are invited to this class? Come. Last Sunday was a nigh day with the boys and men for service. 9.30 A. M., at the Y. M. C. A. Build ing a special meeting was held for the workers and all were happy. The committees for the city home and jail found much to be done, 10 A. M. and were glad to serve. 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building the boys met under the directions of the committee. They enjoyed the address: Subject: Getting The Right key to Life. The singing was lead by Master Paul Morton accompanied by Committeeman George Howell. Every joy was happy. Mothers we thank you. Tell the other mother to send her boy. The open meeting for men 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building was a warm one. Subject: He Lost His Head. Every fellow took an active part. They sang the song "The Lord May Depend On Me." from their souls. This is one of them from Washington, D. C. Today 5 P. M., you and your friend are invited to the Y. M. C. A. Building to hear the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. Come and bring a man or woman. Free for every body. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for workers 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building. All boys are invited to the meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Come. Rev. F. W. Black will deliver a special address to the men 5:30 P. M. at the . M. C. A. Building. Mr. E. J. Gary will sing. Tell the other man. The Y. M. C. A. night school is helping the boy and man to fit himself for general service. The teachers are strong young men who have something for the other man. This is your opportunity to be helped. Come. The Y. M. C. A. needs special prayer now so we ask every home to have special prayer for us. Please do not forget us. Our anniversary exercises will open with the New Baptist Church Sunday November 4th; 8 P. M. Rev. T. J. J. Mosby pastor of the Church will preach the annual sermon. The choir will sing. Women and men are invited. Stoneographers and Typewriters Are Wanted in the Civil Service. The Editor, —Sir: The Commission requests, on behalf of the American people, that you publish in your journal as frequently as you can, as an item of news, a notice of the war need of the Government for stenographers and typewriters as set forth in the inclosed announcement. The difficulty in securing a sufficient number of stenographers and typewriters for the unusual demands of the Government is giving the Commission great concern. The Commission takes this opportunity to thank you for the assistance you have already given it in meeting the war demands of the civil service. By direction of the Commission: Very respectfully, JOHN A. MCILHENNY. President. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE HOUSES FOR SALE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. APPLY MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND CLAY STS. John Mitchell, Jr., President DO YOU KNOW THEM? Washington, D. C., Sept. 18, 1917. Mr. Editor,—I am hunting my people. My name is Osborne F. Dennis. I am fifty eight years old, was born in Henrico Co. Virginia, ran off from my mother when quite a child, have never seen nor heard from her since. A childish recollection of my home place was in Henrico Co. Virginia, thirteen miles from Richmond on the plike road, and four miles from deep bottom, my father died when I was quite young. My mother whose name was Silvia Dennis married again. There were three children of the first marriage, two girls and a boy; Manerva and Josephine Dennis; the youngest a boy was myself, Osborne F. Dennis. My father's name was Fred Dennis. My mother's owner was John Goffright. Please see if you can trace the whereabouts of my sisters or relatives. Yours truly, O F. 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(100 extra for postage) ACOBS WINTR -1 Hair-Grower, 1 Tempel Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Petroleum Oil, 1 Face Cream and Directions for Scalp. $8.90. 28 cents extra for postage --- That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments, and any citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.-Bill of Rights of Virginia, Article I, Section 12. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws by any authority, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.-Bill of Rights of Virginia, Article I, Section 7. NEW AMENDED CHARTER IS HOUSE OF REFUGE FOR ODD FELLOWS. Monday morning, Judge George L. Bell, in Fulton Superior Court, hand down a decision in the last of the long line of litigated cases that have obtained in Georgia for the past two years. The decision of the Supreme Court long ago and the decision of Judge Bell in denying an injunction in the month of August cleared the road of all obstructions for the meeting of the District Grand Lodge in Macon, Ga., on the 14th of August, last. When the Grand Lodge met there was never such a scene of oneness of mind and oneness of purpose as was manifested at that District Grand Lodge. After electing its officers and transacting its other business, the District Grand Lodge authorized and directed that application be made to the Superior Court of Fulton County for the amendment of its charter granted by that court, so that for all time to come there would be nothing left to doubt, but all men would know that the Georgia Odd Fellows were not only united, but that they proposed to so hedge their great property and interest with the authority of the law, that for all time to come no mean hand, domestic or foreign, could threaten its vitality. And so after adjournment of the Grand Lodge, it filed its application for amendment of its charter through its attorneys; but before the court granted the amendment, the same old scaly barks, learning nothing by past defeats, went into this court and sought an injunction to restrain the granting of this amended charter. Monday morning, Judge Bell after he had during the week before heard evidence and arguments exhaustively, denied the injunction sought and pass foregoing petition and hered. And it appears to the art that the petitioner has complied with all the requirements of the law for such cases made and provided, and the court being satisfied that the application for amendments proposed therein is legally within the purview and intention of the code and authorized by corporate action; it is there fore ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that the prayers of the petitioner as set forth in its said petition be, and the same are hereby granted and that the said charter be, and the same is hereby, amended as set forth and prayed for in said petition." With this judgment there was sounded the end of this manifold jittigation. It may here stated that counsel on both sides agreed that under the law and practice from this adjudication of Judge Bell there is no appeal. Therefore, we have reached the end of Odd Follow litigation that has distracted Georgia for the last two years. The District Grand Lodge of Georgia is victorious; the misguided and misinformed Odd Fellows, who followed the far away "Jack o'lantern" light, stand defeated in every respect. The new charter of the District Grand Lodge, as grant ed by Judge Bell, constitutes a House of Refuge, into which we may now enter and be absolutely free from the attacks of unkind and unfriendly hands. The Georgia holdings by this decree have become absolutely stabilized; and the holder of every Odd Fell low policy in Georgia has had his holding made secur by this judgment. Each and all have thus had thrown around us the highest protec- tion of the law in our property rights in our policy rights and in our frat ernity rights. The cost has been great The cost, however, was not self imposed. It was a cost imposed upon the Georgia brother- by unfriend l hands, and the Georgia brotherhood will meet it as a patriot who pulled out his pittance and said; "Millions for defense, but not a penny for tri- bute." We w ld rather that all this should not have been; but still with resolute Christian fortitude, we repeat that "but if offenses must come, woe be unto him by whom they come." After all this world and civilization's march therein has been but a constant succession of trials and tribulations. No man, who has essayed to do great work and build lasting monuments for the inspiration of a people has ever had his pathway strown with flowers; and, as much as we regret the dire necessity that was forced upon the Georgia brotherhood by a foreign jurisdiction, the title to whose office stands clouded by fraud and unfair dealings, still it exalts in the magnificent display of faith and loyalty in leadership that the Brotherhood in Georgia has hown and which challenges comparison anywhere in this or any other country. The noe pie stand unowned princes. The Odd Fellows of Georgia have set out a new mark and a new standard which their brothers elsewhere can emulate with profit. They have set the example of a standardized loyalty to a leadership that shall constitute the very proudest heritage that a group of back people anywhere on earth can transmit to their posterity. Under this new amended charter, the Odd Fellows of Georgia stand the undisputed masters of their own bushness. Under this now charter, their dollars earned in the sweat of their brows, which they have in all faith entrusted to their leader B. J. Davis shall forever be within their own juries diction power and control, and no one else's. Under its terms, they will amass the trust fund; they will build up the endowment fund, and the same people who built up the fund will have the right to elect the trustees of that fund. Under the new charter it is impossible for any outside authority to come and perform acts of dominion, power and control over the congregated wealth of the people here at home. And this is just as it should be. It is perfectly foolish for people to amass a fund of money an then vest the control of that money in some far away power that they have no right to elect or expel. Under the new charter, the Georgia people who raise the money shall have the power to appoint and unappoint those who will be the guardian of that money. The new charter makes us unassailable in our property rights and con situates us the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of America in the State of Georgia. This litigation now ended, puts in to force and effect the ancient laws and the old outstanding rules of Odd Fellowship. It changes no old land marks of the fraternity, but it keeps those old land marks sacred and secure, so that men, who are not proper officer cannot change the law to suit their will and destroy the business, in which they had no hand in produce ... In bidding adieu to the fierce controversies in the courts, we adopt the philosophy of Abraham Lincoln. "With malice towards none with charity for all," let us worshify and defend. We now have our House of Refuge, as the learned counsel for the state organization eloquently prayed Judge Bell to establish—a home strong as the man dates of the law can make it and as secure as the ingenuity of mankind can devise, a home safe from annoyance, a home for Old Fellows in the Higher sense of that word. There are not very n my to whom we bid farewell. Not many of the losing party were Old Fellows at heart, but joined the fraternity for its profits and emoluments. It is to that group of malefactors that we gladly say good bye and farwell. There is another group of honest and sincere men in most respects, but who allowed the glamour of sin to entice them away from the proper path, who allowed false lights to lead them far away from the proper course to these, we would say, return, return; come back home to the friends long tried come back home. Atlanta, Ga., Independent, Oct. 11, 1917.) --- COLORED SOLDIERS SENT TO Sapartanburg, S. C., Oct. 11,—Colonel William Haywood, of the Fifteenth Infantry, Negro, has arrived today with staff officers. Two battalions of Negro troops and the First Battalion, Second Field Artillery, are just arriving. Brigadier General William B. Wilson, commander of the old Fourth Brigade, is expected at Camp Wadsworth soon. The Twenty seventh Division Staff is puzzled at assignment of the Fifteenth and Forty seventh regiments to this bigade, as no War Department orders as to their disposition have been received. These contingents will get camp sites but no training schedules. Whether they will be used to strengthen first line regiments or become depot units is the subject of daily conferences. Clashes between Negroes and the Southern population is feared First detachments of reassigned of flicers today have left their old commands for new divisional posts. Col. Bates, of the Seventy first Regiment, received three hundred applications from enlisted men for assignments to engineers and artillery, several score more than the necessary quota. The feeling in transferred regiment com many streets remained extremely tense. Resentment at rules barring private es from hotel and country club hops attended by officers was expressed by enlisted men. Rookles, in particular, said they would organize their own dances and discourage admittance of officers. Veterans deplored sobbery in the National Guard, but admitted that the rule was customary in the regular army. Lieutenant Colonel Frank H. Hines of the Second Field Artillery today was appointed to command the Third Field Artillery. His appointment carried no promotion. Corporal Melvin P. Spalding, company I, Seventh Regiment was transferred to the camouflage section of the Twenty fifth Engl neers, Washington. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BALTIMORE CONFERENCE HAS FINE SESSION. Rev. Dr. Ransom Speaks—Interesting Items Baltimore—The annual mid year session of the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church on Thursday of next week. Bishop J. Albert Johnson will preside. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Turner, former residents of New York City, are making their home in this city. Headed by Grand Master Solomon Bond, a number of Baltimoreans will leave for New York Saturday, where the fifteenth annual of the Grand United Order of Moses, takes place next week. The annual session of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third and Last Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction will be held here next Monday. Robert L. Pendleton, of Washington, is the pres ent sovereign grand commander. The public night schools, including the one at the Colored High School are now in session. Mr. and Mrs. E. Paul Boykin have returned from a fishing trip on their yacht. The Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom, editor of the A. M. E. Review, delivered the principal address at the recent burning of the $15,000 second mortgage of Bethel A. M. E. Church. Daniel C. Creditt, principal of one of the public schools has been granted a year's absence on account of ill health. The twelfth General Conference of the Colored Methodist Protestant Church closed here Monday. The Rev. Dr. E. W. Scott presided. Warner T. McGullin, Republican State Central Committeeman from the Fourteenth, ward, has been appointed a member of the Republican Campaign Committee. The Schoolmaster's Club held a meeting at the Pythian Castle last Saturday night. William Anderson is the president. Charles H. Garland, a Democrat, has been chosen to succeed the late Harry S. Cummings as a member of the First Branch City Council from the Seventeenth ward. The ward will be redeemed by colored Republicans in the municipal election in 1919. The new $100,000 building for the Colored Y. M. C. A. will be erected on the present site and two adjoining properties. It will be four stories high and contain all modern conveniences. FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. WINCHESTER NEWS Winchester, Va., October 15. Mrs. Andrew Cooke entertained the Brotherhood of John Mann Church, royally at her handsome home on East Bond street on last Friday night Mrs. Cooke is a charming hostess and a zealous worker of the church. Mrs. Laura Hall, of Johnsnow, Pa, is visiting her cousin Mrs. J. Fletcher, on South Main street. Mrs. Hall was formerly a teacher in the Winchester Graded School. Mrs. Mary Conway, of Strasburg, Va. spent the week end with her daughter, Mrs. Seceres. The Woman's Day service of John Mann Church was quite a success. The collection for all purposes was $50. The President, Rev. Mrs. J. A. Reid is very grateful to all who helped her. Mr. Charles Jefferson was called to Baltimore to attend the funeral of his father. Mrs. Charles Strange, of Connellsville, Pa. visited her home town last week. Mr. Thomas Jordan of Coatesville Pa. spend Sunday in town. A committee of young men gave a stag social in their lodge room in honor of Mr. M. L. Brown who leaves here for Newport News, Va. to work for the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company. Mr. R. D. Jennings was chairman. Mrs. M. L. Brown spent last week visiting in Staunton, Va. Misses Blunch Gibson, Ada Brown Pocahontas Jackson were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Cooke last Sunday. Mrs. William Lewis of Woodstock spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jefferson on North Main street. Rev. Norris, of Carlyle, Penn, preached at Mt. Carmel Sunday night to an appreciative audience. The Odd Fellows will hold an entertainment on Tuesday, October 23, in lecture room of John Mann Church. The public is cordially invited to help make it a success. L. Turner, N. G., W. N. Laws, Sec. FOOD CONSERVATION WEEK. Washington, D. C., Sunday, Oct. 21—is to be observed as Food Conservation Day in all the churches of the country, in response to a patriotic call made of them by the Food Administration. It is expected that on this day the claims of food conservation will be presented to all congregations, and the home and pledge card program described so the people will know what is coming, and be ready to respond. During the next few weeks an off fort will be made to organize every church, society and other organization to help enroll all families for food conservation. Every man, woman and child can make some contribution to ward the winning of this war, and all good Americans will to their duty as soon as it is shown to them. It is only a question of a few weeks before a million Americans will be on the battlefield fighting for democracy. Some will give freely their lives for the cause. They are deter mined to win this war, and win it they must. Bue we must realize that they must be fed and it is up to us to feed them. Not only are we required to feed our own but we must feed the Allies for in France, England and Italy food is scarce, and we must supply it. Only a little care is required from each of us. If each individual of our millions saves a little, the total will be immense. The American Negro must do his part. The ministers must write to Arthur U. Craig, United States Food Administration, Washington, D. C., and get full information and prepare their people to take part in the Octo berive. They must all do their duty. The race has always been loyal and patriotic, and it must keep up the record now. If it "are necessary to eat only one meal a day in order to help win the war, then we would do that. But this is not necessary. We are not asked to starve ourselves. Mr. Herbert Hoover, United States Food Administrator asks that all loyal Americans "eat plenty, but wisely and without waste." Our sons will be in the trenches side by side with the white men. With them they will go to victory or to death. They will defend with their lives Old Glory, and they stand ready now to do what they are told. Fortunately for the Negro race in America, we know but one flag; one country and one president. We are not foreigners, but are truly Americans. There are not enough Germans in the world to get one Negro to raise his hands against Old Glory. For the education of our people in the matter of food conservation every Negro editor in the country will throw open his columns and freely give his space. They are anxious to help in this fight, and are asking the Government to tell them what is wanted, and it shall be done. Twelve million colored people in the United States must be reached and they must be educated. The selection of Arthur U. Craig, of Washington, D. C., for this work is considered by the colored people themselves a good selection. This department is being thoroughly organized, with some of the best colored men and women in the country connected with it. Every organization among Negroes is cooperating in the work. They are as signing one or more of their best workers to be associated with Mr. Craig, and these workers, as he is, are serving without pay. They are patriotic. They are interested in their country. Wanted. Three Teachers for Colored Schools Salary, $30.00 per month. Address, R. D. ALLNUTT, JEFFERSON, Powhatan Co., Va. VANTED—Colored Girls to act as Agents for our Hair and Scalp Treatment, a guaranteed hair grower. A full month's treatment for 25 cents stamps; six months, 75 cents, postoffice order. Write for a free reatise on how to grow beautiful hair and terms to agents. APEX MFG. CO., Richmond, Va. WASHINGTON'S GROWTH IS CHECKED. A Demand for the Return of the Right to Vote to Black and White Citizens of the District of Columbia.—Wealthy Citizens Being Driven Away. Washington, D. C., —Washington, the Capital of the Nation, still clamors for the right of suffrage. Years ago, the franchise was taken away from white citizens so as to deprive colored citizens of the right to vote, but like all such injustices this discrimination against colored citizens has reacted, and it is now White Washington which is clamoring loud est for a return to the Days of Suffrage. The Washington (D. C.) Times is most velhement in seeking to have this injustice undone. It compares conditions in Washington with Paris, capital the French nation, and says. The city of Paris—although some gentlemen from the middle West don't know it—is a temperate city, far more temperate, for instance, than the average prohibition city of the United States. In Paris they have temperance and NOT prohibition. And they have visitors from all over the world that spend tens of millions annually, and contribute to the vast wealth of Paris. If Paris were like Washington, a voteless city, and a group of Congressmen, indifferent to the rights and the interests of hundreds of thousands of citizens should make of Paris a prohibition city, as Congress is about to make a prohibition city of Washington, what do you think would happen to Paris? What would become of the prosperity of that city, of its throng of visitors from all over the world? Prohibition would affect Paris as the war affects her now—putting a damper on gayety, on travel, and on prosperity. Prohibition will affect Washington as it would affect Paris — if the Parisians were unfortunate enough to live in a city where they had no vote. Washington will be checked in its growth by prohibition, which will make of the Nation's Capital a middle West dreary prohibition example, ruled by well meaning and ignorant prohibitionists. Washington with a sane government, free from fanatism, would inevitably become the great center of wealth and social life in the United States. More and more well to do would come here to live, bringing with them the spending of wealth and the creation of prosperity. More and more would increase the value of the land in this hung of magnificence. bility of just and reasonable taxation, revenues constantly increasing with out hardship, because of the ever growing influx of wealthy citizens—and all to Washington's advantage. But wealth is NOT prohibitionist. Ice water is not the beverage of the successful man—prohibition "facts" to the contrary notwithstanding. It is not ice water that gave his fortune to J. Pierpont Morgan although, as the doctors pointed out, it was TOO MUCH ice water that killed E. H. Harriman before his time. There may be, there evidently are, American citizens that cannot trust themselves far from the ice water cities. But these are not the SUCCESSFUL men of America or of the world. They are not those that, if permitted, would, and WILL make Washington the city of wealth and prosperity that it ought to be. 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Now this lady is losing her mind. She has spine trouble and dropsy and the neighbors are getting up a petition to have her sent to the Insane Asylum. She owns her own home and if they take her there you know they will get her property unless her people get, here and look after her interest, and if you can find any of them tell them to come on right away and get here before it is too late. Right to my house and I will gladly take them up to her and if they are too poor to come for her, write and tell us what is the best thing to do with her. We are all white people and try to keep her in food. She says she was 18 years old in the Civil war times. Kindly let us know what information you can get. Oblige, Mrs. DAVID A. WAHL. 1723 Fahnlistock St. Willinsburg, Pa. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 28th day of August, 1917. IN VACATION. CHARLES NELSON, ..... Plaintiff against In Chancery ANNIE NELSON, ..... 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(By Henry Lincoln Johnson.) ee Le teen eat once enc eet oe Bell, in Fulton Superior Court, hand cu down a decision in the last of the Jong Ime of Titigated eases that have ootained M Georgia for the past two years, The decision of the Supreme Court tong azo and the decision of Judge Bell in cenying an injunction in the month of August cleared the road of all obstructions for the meet ing of the District Grand Lodge in Macon, Ga, on the 14th of August, last, When the Grand Lodge met. there was never such a scene of oneness of mind and oneness of purpose as was manifested at that District Grand Lodge. After electing Its officers and transacting its other business, the District Grand Lodge authorized and directed that application be made to tne Superior Court of Fulton County for the amendment of its charter granted by that court, so that for all time to come there would be nothing left to donbt, but all men would know that the Georgin Oda Fellows were not only united, but that they _pro- posed to so hedge their great proper ty and interest with the authority of the law, that for all time to come no mean hand, domestic or foreign, could Uireaten its vitality, And so after adjournment of the Grand Lodge, it filed its application for amendment of its charter through its attorneys; but hefore the court granted the amendment, the same old sealy barks, learning, nothing: by past defeats, went fito this court and sought an injunction to restrain. the granting of this amended charter, Monday morning, Judge Bell after he haq during the week before heard evi donce and arguments exhaustively, do nied to Injunction sought and pass Fottorchats ped foregoing peti + and cored. And it appe ay to the art that Uhe petitioner has complied with all the requirements of the law for such eases made and provided, and the court being satisfied that the ap plication for amendments — proposed (herein is legally within the purview and intention of the code and author ized by corporate action; it is there Fore ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court Mat the prayers of the petitioner as set forth in its said peti tion be, and the same are hereby granted and snat the said charter be, and the same is hereby, amended as set forth and prayed for in sald peti tion.” With Anis judgnient there was sounded the end of this manifold iti gation. It may = here stated that counsel on both sides agreed that un der the law and practice from this Adjudication of Judge Bell there Is no appeal. ‘Therefore, we have reach ed the ena of Odd Fellow litigation that has distracted Georgia for the last. two years. The District Grand Lodge of Georgia is victorious; the misguided and misinformed Odd Fel lows, who followed the far away “Jack o'lantern” jight, stand defeat- ed in every respect. The new charter of the District Grand Lodge, as xrant cd by Judge Bell, constitutes a House of Refugo, into which we may now enter and be absolutely free from the attacks of unkind and unfriendly hands, ‘The Georgia holdings by this de cree have become absolutely. stabiliz ed; and the holder of every Odd Fel low policy in Georgia has had his holding made secur by this jndg- ment. Hach and all have thus” had thrown around us the highest protec ‘on of the Jaw in our property rights in our policy rights and in our frat ernity rights. The cost has heen great The cet, however, was not self im posed. It" was a cost imposed upon the Georgia broth.” + by unfriend ly hands, and the Georgia brotherhood will meet it as a patriot who puted out his pittance and said; “Millions for defense, but not a penny for tr! bute.” We w Id rather that all this should not have been; hue still with resolute Christian fortitude, we repeat that “but if offenses must come, woe be unto him by whom they come.” After all this world and civilization’s march therein has been but a constant suc cession of trials and tribulations. No man, who has essayed to do great work and build lastiny monuments for tho inspiration of a people has ever had his pathway strown with flowers; and, as much as we regret the dire necessity that was forced upon the Georgia brotherhood by a foreign jurisdiction, the title to whose office stands clouded by frand and un fair dealings, still It exalts in the magnificient display of faith and toy alty in leadership that the Brother hood in Georgia has hown and which challenges comparison anywhere in this or any other country. ‘The nec ple stand unerowned princes. ‘Ing Odd Fellows of Georgia havo set out a now mark and a new standard which their brothers elsewhere ean emulate with profit. They have set the ex: ample of a standarized loyalty to 2 leadership that shall constitute the very proudest’ heritage that a group of biack people anywhere on earth can transmit to their posterity, Under this new amended. charter, the Odd Vellows of Georgia stand the undisputed masters of their own busi ness. Under this new charter, their dollars earned in the sweat of their brows, whieh they have in all faith entrusted to their leader B, J. Davis shall forever be within their own Juris diction power and control ,and no one else's. Under ita terms, ‘they will amass the trust fund; they will build up the endowment fund, and the same people who built up the fund will have the rirht to elect the trustees of that fund. Under the now charter it is Impossible for any outside au- twority to come and perform acte af dominion, power and control over the conerecated wealth of the people here at home. And this is Just oe tt should be. It is perfectly foolish for people to amass a fund of money an then vest the control of that money in some far away power that they have n+ right to elect or expel. Under the new charter, the Georgia people who raise the money shall have the power to appoint and unappoint those who will be the guardian of that money, ‘The new charter makes us unassall able in our property rights and con stitutes us the Grand United Order of Odd Peliows of America in the State of Georgia ‘This litigation now ended, puts in to foree and effect the ancient laws snd the old oustanding rules of Odd Wellowship. It changes no old land marks of the fraternity, but it keeps those old land marks sacred and se- cure, so that men, who are not proper officer cannot change the law to suit their Will and destroy. the business, in whieh they had no hand in produc In biddng adieu to the flere con- troversies in the courts, we adopt. the philosophy of Abraham Tincoln, “With malico towards none with charity for Al lot uc snavelsiy ond defond, We nuw ave our Touse of Refuge, as {he learn ed counsel for the state organization eloquently prayed Judge Boll to. es- tablish—a home strong as the man dates of the law can make it and as secure as the ingennity of mankind ean devise, a home safe from annoy ance, a home for Odd Pellows in. the Higher sense of that word. 'Thare fare not very Mm ny to whem) we bid farewell, Not many of tke losing par- ty were Odd Fellows at heart, but Joined the fraternity for its profits and emoluments TC Is to that group of malefactors that we ghudly say good tee and farwell, There ix another group of honest and sincere men in most respects, but who allowed the glamour ot sin to entice them away from the proper path, who allowed false lights to lead [them far away from the proper course to these, we would say, return, re turn; come back home to the friends long ‘tried come back home. | Atlanta, Ga. Independent, Oot, 11, OL COLORED SOLDIERS SENT ‘TO FORT WADSWORTH. Saprtanburg, 8. C., Oct, 11.—Cotonal William Haywood, ‘of the Pifteenth infantry, Negro, has arrived today with slait officers, ‘Two battalions of Negro troops and the First Battalion, Second Field Artillery, are just arriv ing. Brigadier General William — B. Wilson, commander of the old Fourth Brigade, is expected at Camp Wads- worth soon, The ‘Twenty seventh Division Staff is puzzled at assignment of the Fif- teenth and Forty seventh regiments to this b igade, as no War Depart. ment orders as to their disposition have beet received. ‘These contingents will get camp sites but no training schedules. Whether they will be uaed to strengthen first line regiments or become depot units is the subject of saily conferences. Clashes between Negroes and the Southern population is feared Virst detachments of reassigned of ficers today have left their old com mands for new divisional posts. Col, Tates, of the Seventy first Regiment, reecived three hundred application: from enlisted men for assignments to engingers and artillery, several scord more than the necessary quota. ‘The feeling in transfered regiment. com pany streets remained extremely tense Resentment. at rules barring privat es from hotel and country ehth hop: attended wy ofticors was expressed bs enlisted men. Rookies, in particular, said (ey would organize their own dances and discourage admittance o! officers, Veterans deplored snobbery in the National Guard. but admitted that the rule was customary in the regwlar army. Lieutenant Colonel Frank 1, Mines of the Second Wield Artillery today was appointed to comamnd the ‘Third Picld Artillery. Wis appointment cat rled_no_ promotion. Corporal Melvin P, Spalding, company TI, Seventh Res mont vas transferred ‘to the camou flago section of the Twenty fifth Eng! neors, Washington. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE HAS PINE SESSION, Rev, Dr, Ransom Speaks—Interesting lems, Baltimore—Tite annual mid year session of the Baltimore A, M. B. Con ference will be held at Bethel A. M. ©. Chureh on Thursday of next week, Bishop J. Albert Johnson will preside, Mr. and Mrs, Bugene ‘Turner, form cr residents of New York City, are making their home in this city, Headed by Grand Master Solomon Bond, a number of Baltimoreans will leave for New York Saturday, where the fiftieth annual of the Grand Unit- ed Order of Moses, takes place next week. ‘The annual session of the Supreme Connell of the ‘Thirty-third and Last Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction will be hold here next Monday. Robert 1. Pendleton, of Washington, is the prea ent sovereign grand commander, ‘The public night schools, Includ- ing the one at the Colored High School are now in session, Mr. and Mrs. B. Paul Boykin have returned from a fishing (rip on their yacht. ‘The Rey. Reverdy C. Ransom, edi lor of the A. M. , Review, delivered the principal address at tho recent burning of the $15,000 second mort kage of Bethel A.M. EB, Chureh. Daniel C. Creditt, principal ‘of one of the public schools has been grant ed a year's absence on account of ill health, Tho twolfth Gonoral ontercace ut the Colored Methodtst Protestant Church epsed here Monday. ‘The Rev, Dr, H.W, Scott presided. | Warner 'P, MeGuinn, Republican State Central Committeeman from the Fourteenth, ward, has been ap- pointed a momber ¢f the Republican Campaign Committees. ‘The Schoolmaster's Club held a meeting ‘at the Pyhian Castle last Saturday night. Welliam Anderson is the president, Charles I. Garland, a Democrat, has heen chosen to succeed the late Marry S$. Cummings asa member of the First Branch City Council from the Seventeenth ward, ‘The ward will be redeemed by colored Republicans in the municipal election in. 1919, ‘The now $100,000 building for the Colored Y, M. C, A. will be arected on the present site and two adjoining properties, It will he four stories high and contain all modern conveniences. FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. WINCHESTER NEWS, Winchester, Va., October 15,.— Mrs. Andrew Cooke enyertained the Rrotherhood of John Mann Chureh, royally at her handsome home on Kast Hond street on last Mriday night Mrs. Cooke is a charming hostess and a zealous worker of the churea Mrs, Laura Hall, of Johnstown, Va. is visiting her cousin Mrs. J. Fletcher, on South Main street. Mrs. Mall was formerly a teacher in the Winchester Graded School. Mrs. Mary Conway, of Strasburg, Va. spent the week end with hor daughtor, Mrs. Sceveres. ‘The Woman's Day sorvice of John Mann Chureh was quije a success, The collection for all purposes was $50. ‘The President, Rev. Mrs. J. A. Reid is very grateful to all ‘who helped her, Mr. Charles Jefferson was called to Baltimore to ajtend the funeral of his father. Mrs. Charles Strange, of Connolls- ville, Pa. visited her home town last week. Mr. Thomas Jordan of Coatesville Pa spent Sunday in town, A committee of young men gave a stag social in their lodge room in | honor of Mr. M. 1. Brown who leaves {here for Newport News, Va. to work for the Richmond Beneficial Tnsur- ance Company. Mr, R. D. Jennings was chairman. Mrs. M. Ty Brown spent last weele visiring in Staunton, Va, Misses Blanch Gitison, Ada Brown Pocahontas Jackson were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. B, Cooke last Sunday. | Mrs. William Lowis of Woodstock spent, Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Robert Jefferson on Norjh | Main street. i Rev. Norris, of Carlysle, Penn. preached at Mt. Carmel Sunday night to an appreciative audience. | ‘The Odd Wellows will hold an en- Herjainment on ‘Tuesday, October 23, Jin lecture room of John Mann Church. ‘The public is cordially in- vited to help make tt a success. L. Turner, N. G., W. N. Laws, See. FOOD CONSERVATION WEEK. Washington, D. C., Sunday, Oct. 21 —is to we observed’ as Food Conser vation Day in all the churches of the country, in response to a_ patriotic call rade ot them by the Food Ad ministration, It is expected that on this day the claims of food conserva ion will be presented to all congre gations, and the home and pledge card program described so the people will know set is coming, and be ready to respond. During the next few weeks an ef fort will be mado to organize every church, society and other organization to help enroll all families for food conservation, Every man, woman and child can make some contribution to ward the winning of this war, and all Jsood Americ: ns will Gs their duty as loon as it is shown to thom. It is only a question of a few weeks before «a million Americans will be Jon the battlefield fighting for demo leracy. Some will give freely their lives for the cause. They are deter hnined to win this war, and win it they must. Bue we must realize that they must be ted and it is up tous tofeed them, Not only are we required to feed our jown but we must feed the Allies for in France, England and Italy food is searee, and we must supply it. Only ju little care is required from each of us. If each Individual of our millions saves a little, the total will be immense ‘The American Negro must do his part. Tho ministers must write to Arthur U. Craig, United States Food JA iministr: ton, Washington, D. C., land get full information and prepare their people to take part in. the Octo her w.cive. They must all do their du ty. Tho race has always been loyal and patriotic, and it must keep up the record now. ‘ If it “ere necessary to eat only’ one meal a day in order to help win the war, thon we would do that. But this A> Mot neccwaury, We are NOL usked to starve ourselves. Mr. Herbert Hoy ler, United States Food Administrator jasks that all loyal Americans. “ eat plenty. but wisely and without waste." Our sons will be in the trenches side by side with the white men, With them they will go to victory or to death, ‘They will defend with their lives Old Glory, and they stand ready mow to do what they aro told Wortunately for the Negro race in America, we know but one flag; one rountry and one president. We are not foreigners, but are traly Ameri cans. There are not enongh Germans in the world to get one Negro to raise his hands against Old Glory. For the education of our people in the matter of food conservation every Negro editor in the country will throw open his commns and freely give his space ‘They are anxious to help in this fight, and are asking the Govern ment to tell them what is wanted, and it shalt he done. Twelve million colored people In tne United States must be reached and they must be educated The — se lection of Arthur U. Craig, of Wash ington, D, C., for this work is consid Jered hy the colored people themselves jt geod selection. ‘This department. is being thoroughly organized, with some Jot the best colored men and women in the country connected with it, Every organization among Negroes is Jcoonerating in the work. ‘They ara as signing one or more of their best work lers to bo associated with Mr. Craig, land these warkers, as he fs, are serv ing without pay. ‘They are’ patriotic. (They are interested in their country. Wanted. ‘Three Teachers for Colored Schools Salary, $30.00 per _montly. Addresa, R. D, ALLNUTT, JEFFERSON, . Powhatan Go., Va. WANTED—Colored Girls to act as Agents for our Hair and Sealp ‘Treatmon;, a guaranteed hair grow er. A full month's treatment for 25 cents stamps; six months, 75 cents, posoffice order, Write for a free réatise on how to grow beautiful hair and terms to agents. APEX MFG, CO., Richmond, Va. en earicen WASHINGTON'S GHOWTIT 15 : CHECKED, A Demand for the Return of the Right to Vote to Black and White Citjzons of the District of Colum-- bia-Wealthy Citizens Being Driv- en Away. Washington, D.C. —Washington, (he Capital of the Nation, still clam-- ors for the right of suffrage. Years ago, the franchise was taken away from white citizens so as to deprive colored citizens of the right to vote, but Ike all such injustices this dis- crimination against. colored citizens has reacted, and it fs now White Washington which is clamoring loud jest for a return to the Days of Sut frage. ‘The Washington (D. C,) ‘Time ix most vehement in seek ing to hav this injustice undone, It compares conditions in Washington with Paris eapitay © the French nation, and says. ‘The city of Paris—although some entlemen from the middle West flon’t know it—is a temperate city, far fmore temperate, for instance, | than the average prohibition city of the Mivited States, In Paris they have tom perance and NOT prohibition. And they have visitors from all over the world that spend tens of millions an- nuatty, and contribute to the vast Wealth of Paris. If Paris were Ike Washington, a yoteless city, and a kroup ot Congressmen, Indifferent to the rights and the interests of hun-- dreds of thousands of eitizens should make of Prais a prohibition city, as Con Isress is about to make a prohibition icity of Washington, what do you think would happen to Paris? What would become of the prosperity of that city, lof its throng of visitors from all over the world? Prohibition would affect Paris as the war affects her now— putting a damper on gayety, on trav lel, and on prosperity, Prohibition will affect Washington las it would affect Paris —if the Pari lsians were unfortunate enough — to live in a city where they had no vote. Washington will be ehecked in its growth by prohibition, whieh will make of the Nation's Capital a middle West dreary prohibition example, ruled by well meaning and ignorant prohibitionists, Washington with a sane Kovernngent, free from fanati loism, would inevitably become — the lsreat center of wealth and social life in the United States. More and ntore well to do would come here to live, bringing with them the spending of wealth and the creation of prosperity. More and more would ier * val ue of the land in ths6 v8 ing of magnifier bility of Just and reasonable causation, revennes constantly imeraasing with lout hardship, because of the ever krowing influx of wealthy citizens— find att to | Mushington’s advantage, Rut wealth Is NOT prohibitionist. lee water is not the beverage of the Buccesstuy man—prohibition “facts” lo the contrary notwithstanding. Tt is ot ico water that gave his fortune to J. Hierpont Morgan although, as the Kloctors pointed out, it was TOO MUCH ico water (hat killed BH, Harriman before his time. ‘There may be, there evidently are, American citizens that jeannot trust themselves far from the ice water cities. But these are not the SUCCESSFUL men of America or ot the world. ‘They are not those that, if permitt- led, would, and WIA, make Washing ton the city oft wealth and prosperity that it onght to be. Home Coming. Home coming will be observed at the First Presbyterian Chureh, cor. Iner Monroe and Catherine streets on Sunday Ocetuber 28th. All Presbyteri- ans in Richmond and vicinity are in vited to come home. Special services jail day. Rev. A. A, Hector, pastor. A Good Skin Bleach Pe neaee bey gee ee OSS er Cae Ci Rie m RE oy i em hee Cy) ee eg ea) Pe rouare | sou Pe ah eh ie) As eyes copyright appli for Black and White Ointment—For Re moving Freckles, ‘Tan, Blackhoade Skin Blomishes—Lightons Up Dark or Sallow Skin—Used by White and Colored Folks. ‘Give Black and Whito Ointment a trial. Just apply tho ointmont freely las directed on label, to your freckles, tans, dark or sallow akin. It bleaches hightens your skin and removes blem ishes and heals all oruptions, pim- ples or blackhoads, giving your skin that healthy, pearl light, smooth complexion 80 much dostred. Black land Whito causes the skin to grow brighter. Just think how much bottor vou would look with bright, smooth, hoalthy skin and cloar, clean com- ploxion, Costs only 25 cents a largo box, or five boxes for $1. Agents: [This black and white solls fast. Writo quick for territory and special deal. Plough Chemical Co., Dept. 6, Memphis, ‘Tonn. Sold in Richmond by all drug stores, Freedom of Speech and of the Press Guaranteed. | Congress shall make no law respecting the estab- lishment of religion, or pro hibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridéing the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceabl,» to assemble, and to petition the government for a rec dress of Grievances. Ane the Constitution of the United States. Join the Vacation Club for 1918 Now Forming. Have a Good Time Next Year. “*Ail work and no play makes Jack 2 dull boy.’’ Ratner ca te MON BL mee ee Sa Pies [PERRY SS) EM od oR er Wee MOAN ze HE LAD gin ari ee ae ‘at aS PR Pg ee 8 Me ene : ee Me bo TU : ue ea ROREEE AEE Se el oe Ea Sis Sleatigs« * ht amraess iy is ce Bul ean RN oes emete my a Rs CHT See 8 i. Rabat aati . i gal, Re mM. , 4 HY Gael it pReEN S| 7 At ea sarah TT Saae i BL 0 Gielen st a jt eM tease ost aT ce heb ae eae ORO a) NOS Boy, Ne eR Wt cc: aa Ur rit USS On ae See ot NSE: cme | Nea Ants teal ie aie Aen SORE ia 5 ‘Alea Anes ae See Pea oe Cr ao 0 REN Ng 5 a SE For iatormation, call and See us. MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, Join Mitchell, Jr., President. 3rd and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va. DO YOU KNOW HER? | vingiia—ma the Clerk's Office of Doar Str,—D you know any ono by the namo of Perry in Richmond? Wo have © colored Indy here by the namo of Alice Perry and sho says sho has a brother and 2 sisters. Now this lady is losing her mind . She has. spino trouble and dropsy and tho neighbors are getting up a petition to have hor sent to the Insane Asylum, She owna her own home and {f they take her there you know they will get her property unless her people get. hero and look after her interest, and if you ean find any of them teil them to come on right away and got hore before it is too late. Come right to my house and T will gladly take them up to hor and if they are too poor to como for her, write and tell us what Is the best thing to do with her. Wo aro all white people and try to kesp hor in food. She says she was 18 years old in_tho Civil war times, Kindly let us know what informa tion you can get. Oblige, ‘Mrs. DAVID A. WAHL 1723 Fahnistock. St, Wilrinsburg, Pa, VIRGINIA—In tho Clerk's OMico of the Law and Equity Court of tho City of Richmond, tho 28th day of Angust, 1917. 0 ee eee IN VACATION. CHARLES NELSON, ......Plaintin against Tm Chancery ANNIB NELSON, .......Dofondant _ The object of this sult is to obtain an absolute divoree from tho bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from. tho Mefondant on tho ground of desertion. And an affidavit having been mado ani filed that tho defondant, Annto Nelson is not a rosidont of tho Stato of Virginia; it 1s ordored that. sho appear hero within fifteen days aftor ‘the duo publication of this ordor and do what may bo necessary to protect her intorest horoin, ‘Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk, A Copy, Toate: LUTHER LIBBY, Clork. J, HENRY CRUTCHFIBLD, ‘p. ¢. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Ofteo of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 5th day of September, 1917, IN VACATION. MARYLAND BARBER,.... Plaintiff against in Chancery SYBELIA BARBDR......Dofendant ‘The object of this sult is to obtain an absolute divorce from tho bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from tho defendant, on the ground of doser- tion, And an aMdavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Sybelia Barber is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she ap- pear here ‘within fifteon days aftor the duo publication of this order and do what may bo necessary to protect her interest’ horoin. ‘Teste: LUTIER LIBBY, Clork, A Copy, Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clork. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIMLD, p. a. | $00 PANTS Measure —_ MEASURE Not $1.00, not, even Ge, not ane cont Ett coin untor Sue orey” comehtines No oxten charge for tansy nell sistes Rovira charg for ext bis, extremes -topm penti buttons, tunnel or fancy Sh Bolt Woon Ano extra charge for anys fod J thing, all FREE. Before you take an- A RA cthet order before yon tay niga or EXRURS Bante get" gue atinien and many 4G aN offer,’ Agents of othor tailoring houses /fits please writo, we haven now deal that /fil frltopen sour eyes, We ask overy mn Tonnawer this, every boy inom pants twhere you iva oF what yon ctorseriea [GD Uo tetice or pottel aga sy Sena We Your New see Gucrstns Rigs new Alkerent tilorine dear Conte nothings fp 8 Sndnsextra charges: Wate todageehie Cf ininute. "Atarees 3 KNICKERBOCKER TAILORING CO. Dopt. 718 Chicago, 1. ——