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RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library OLUME XXXVII, NUMBER 8. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1920 HARVEY JOHNSON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. Yes Issue With New York World on the Rights of Sovereign State. To the Editor: Will the Editor on the American allow space for some marks on what I consider one o most vital subjects: pertain to the United States Constitution and government which was so strongly amended upon by the New York world December 20, 1997. The American reephold "the conti- tinued for "Tribune Opinion," as follows: It was no association of dishe- rewers or saboteurkeepers that per- soned the Supreme Court of the United States for leave to bring it to forbid the enforcement of the abortion amendment. The pleaser is the State of Rhode Island jo- sess of its sovereignity, and resolves on defense of its liberty. The World says the State of Rhode-岛 is contesting the constitution of the Prohibition Amendment because it deprives that common health of its bill of rights. Rhode-岛 and nor any other State has a bill or law that makes it independent of the Constitution and government of the United States. The Tenth Article to the Constitution certainly does not give it, which reads as follows: "the power, not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor exhibited by it to the states are responsible to the states respectively or to people. Now the World would readers believe that the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution was, a bill of rights; but the artillery needs judicial construction in its relation to the sovereignty of the general government. The Sixth Article of the Constitution reads: "This Constitution and laws of the United States which he made in pursuance thereof, shall create, make or which shall undergo under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme of the land and the judges in the state, shall be bound thereby, acting in the Constitution or laws by state to the contrary notwithstanding." repeat that in view of the Sixth the Tenth needs judicial con- stitution as to whether it teaches the sovereignty and state independ- ence for the Sixth Article just quot- akes all of the States and judges serving and subordinates them to Constitution and the general gov- ernment. So the fact is the World simply jungling with facts and fig- tures to effect its purpose to subdivide the general government to what is pleased to call the sovereignty liberty of the states for neither these words is found in the Con- stitution. It begins with the pream- and the seven original articles, the words sovereignty and liber- do not come in either but are found the Colonial Articles of Confedera- tion and the declaration of independ- ence of the sovereignty of Great Brita- n and only in them. This Declara- tion reads: "Resolved, That these United Colonies are and of right ought the free and independent states; they are absolved from all allegi- se to the British crown and that political connection between them in the State of Great Britain is and not to be totally dissolved." Now we get the term "free and inde- endent states" which words do not once in the Constitution of the United States. REV. HARVEY JOHNSON, 1923 Drudg Hill Avenue, Baltimore December 22, 1919 Card of Thanks. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Chiles take me means to return thanks to their friends for their congratulations and valuable presents received the occasion of their Thirtieth adding Anniversary. May God's saving attend them. Tha Death of Mr. Waddy Died at Clifton Forge Hospital, Saturday December 20th 1919 George W. Waddy. Funeral service was conducted at his home, Fort Spring, W. Va. following Monday. The officiating sister, Rev. White of Fort Spring list Church. He leaves a wife, thirteen children, one grand child and one son-in-law. A father, John W. Waddy of a County, two sisters, Mrs. Rosa and Mrs. Sarah E. Hopkins of mond, Va., and a host of relativd friends to mourn their loss. TEDT—At Once Four Men or only canvassers, $5.00 per day cost made. Anawat at once be pro of J. 342, 343 to the y. Black Star Liner Yarmouth, from . Kingston is Given Big Welcome at Colon. Colen December 18. The Black Star Liner Yarmouth, manned by a Negro crew with the exception of the first officer, and carrying six Negro passengers, arrived from Kingston today. The boat which is the property of the first steamship company to be owned entitle by Negroes was given an entitlement reception by thouls cords of Negroes here. --- Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y. W. C. A The interesting and most delightful program rendered last Sunday evening at Leigh Street M. E. Church by the Girl's Club of Phyllis Wheat by Branch Y, W. C. A. was enjoyed by a large audience. Next Sunday at 5:30 P. M. the usual Vesper Service will be held at the building 319 E. Clay Street, features of which will be made by the Choral Club and an address by Mrs. Olivia Bush Banks. These services are increasing in popularity and are always full of inspiration, and helpfulness. The women and girls of the city are extended a ceremonial invitation to attend them. The bazaar at the Building on night, December 22nd was a complete success. Many articles for the house useful as well as dainty, were placed on sale and all were soon purchased. Card of Thanks. I wish to thank my many friends for their kindness rendered to me during the illness and death of my husband. May the blessings of the Lord be upon you all. (MRS.) ANNA H. CARTDR. The Eternal Magdalene. Once again for the benefit of the public, the Amateur Dramatic Association will present Miss Alice Holmes in the Eternal Magdalene Don't fail to see the greatest drama of its age at the St. Lake Auditorium, Monday January 5, 1929 at 8:15 P. M. Tickets on sale at Sampsonss Barber Shop between Leigh and Clay Streets on Second. Admission 25 cents. PORTER ENTERS GUILTY PLEA Ameriens, Ga., Dec. 26. Harris Jones a Pullman porter on the Semi-nole Limited, a central of Georgia train, who has been running between Columbus, Ga., and Chicago for some twelve years pleaded guilty to possession of the Equor and was fined $500. He promptly paid the fine. According to railroad detectives the porter obtained the whisky here drank some of it and then in the dark loaded it on the wrong train which caused him to be apprehended. HARDY—HOUSTON. Mr. and Mrs. J. Andrew Honton announces the marriage of their daughter, Senora R. A. to Mr. A. Henry Hardy, which was solemnized by Rev. T. J. King, Thursday, December 25, 1919, at eight o'clock. Reception, Thursday, January 9, 1920, at 812 North Fourth Street, from eight to eleven o'clock. + - + - + FIFTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH REMEMBERS PASTOR KING. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1920 WHEN A WOMAN TO BIGDOWN SOCIETY OUT HER OUT TO DOWN BUT HE IS NEVER OUT JOHN DOUBLE STANDARD NATIONAL IDEAL SOCIETY NEWS The year of 1920 finds the National Ideal Benefit Society in a very satis factory condition. At the close of the old year the officers met, reviewed the work of the Order and were highly pleased with its growth and general condition. The Richmond District is preparing for a great union public installation of officers of all Lodges of the city. On Thursday night January 29th at the 4th Baptist Church, Rev. Evans Payne D. D. pastor a large number of members will be received and add to the various Lodges. A new Lodge was organized a few days ago in the city, worked up by Mrs. Lillie C. Pinkney, and a Nursery by Mrs. B. E. Sims Mrs. Rosa Thompson National Lecturer did the organizing to the great delight of all. Mrs. Mary E. Overton of City Point Va. acted as Santa Claus for the Order by organizing a New Lodge on Christmas eve of 39 members in Charles City, Co., the national lecturer assisted her. Mrs. Luneda J. Carter past Supreme Mistress of Glen Allen, Va. was in the city a few days ago and called at the Ideal office. Rev. W. L. Anderson Vice Supreme Master has just returned from Pittsburg, Pa. where he spent several weeks on business and seeing old friends. He encouraged us with a good report from the west. True friendship lodge No. 56 Tettington, Va., held its fifth anniversary at Jerusalem Baptist Church, the members were out in full the pastor, Rev. J. W. Marrow preached a great sermon, Mr. A. W. Holmes su preme master was present and delivered an excellent address. Miss Mary E. Page the Deputy made a splendid address she thanked all for the part they took and presented the pastor with a purse from the society. Mr. W. H. Smith was master of ceremonies. Rev. M. E. Davis D. D. pastor of Third Street Bethel A. M. E. church was present at Rose Garden Lodge No. 58 of which he is a member and made an address which helped and encouraged all. Newport News district is doing a great work for the Ideal Society adding members to the lodge and nurseries. Recently a new Lodge and Nursery were organized by Mrs. Cora L. Jenkins and Mrs. Rosetta G. Arrington deputies assisted by Mrs. Gertrude Shaw; Willie Jennings; Ida Ridtick the supreme master was there looking after affairs. Refresh IS IT FAIR? THE DOUBLE men's were served to the great pleas ure of all present. The recent trip of Mr. A, W, Holmes S. M. to the north visiting Wash- ington D. C. and Philadelphia Pa. was quite a success for the order. WOOLRIDGE—JONES Mr. F. Woolridge and Miss March Jones were joined in wedlock on Wednesday evening, December 31 1919. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. E. Payne. At home, 1422 Moore Street Richmond Va. Dr. Hatcher Visits Here. Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Hatcher of Clinton, S. C., are spending the holidays with their parents Mr. and Mrs W. H. Hatcher of 1917 Decatur St., and Mr. and Mrs. George Jefferson of McDonald street. Dr. Hatcher was formerly of South Richmond. He now has an extensive practice in Clinton and has recently been employed as Medical Examiner of the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company. This is one of the largest colored insurance companies in the United States. Dr. and Mrs. Hatcher were given a hearty welcome by their many relatives and friends in their old home town. REVIVAL SERVICES Revival Services will begin at the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Mission, 17th and Venable Streets, Sunday evening January 4th, 1920 at 8:00 P. M. Subject: The Lreadfulness of God's Wrath. Dr. G. D. Pinkney the successful pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church of Hanover will preach upon the following subjects, namely: Monday Evening January 5th, The Bad Boy Coming Home; Tuesday Evening, January 6th, at 8:00 P. M. Doing as you are Told: Wednesday Evening January 7th, at 8:00 P. M. The Man Caught in a Lie; Thursday Evening January 8th at 8:00 P. M. Thorns in the Nest, and Friday Evening January 9th at 8:00 P. M. Good Looking Black Hatr but his mule left him. Come and let us win this battle for Jesus. resh P. S. Watch the Planet next week. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Chiles Celebrate 30th Wedding Anniversary. 316 W. Leigh Street the residence Mr. and Mrs. John R. Chiles was a scene of livelihood and beauty in hon or of their 30th Wedding Anniversary. The bride of 1889 was attired in silver gray silk, while the groom wore the conventional black and both seemed as cheerful and happy as when they stood at the altar in the Ehenez er Church before Rev. R. Wells, Dr. Scott C. Burrell made an impressive talk congratulating the couple for their influence in the community and the high standing family of nine chil dren that has been reared by them to their honor. Mrs. Margaree Mallory, Mrs. Cecelia Smith, Mrs. Z. D. Wood, Mrs. Betsy Brown and Mrs. Powell Williams assisted in receiving with Mrs. Chiles. The presents were numerous and costly, among them a fine dinner set and much silver and a purse of money from the many friends. Dr. W. H. Stokes offered a special prayer for God's blessings upon them. Many friends attended the reception notwithstanding the inclement weather and the couple felt that God had bountifully blessed them. ```markdown ``` SUNDAY EVENING MEETINGS The Sunday meetings of the Fifth Street B. Y. P. U. are becoming more popular every Sunday, because of the interesting programs and exercises. This Union has all of the features of an evening Sunday School and is convenient for those who cannot attend regular Sunday Schools. The public is invited out every Sunday evening at six o'clock. They are appealing for five hundred members in order to enlarge its scope and perpetuate its work. --- Mrs. John W. Howard of Pittsburgh is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. Callie D. Brown, who is indisposed. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, Va. will be held on Tuesday, January 6, 1919 at 8:30 P. 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Christmas Exercises of Sunday School at Westwood Baptist Church. --- There was a grand Christmas Exercise given by the Westwood Sunday School, Tuesday afternoon, December 30, at the Westwood Baptist Church. Several recitations and solos were rendered "The Holy City" was written by the Wardian Rancho Rev. (J. H. H. H.) delivered the chapel services, and Joachim rice's master of ceremonies. Police Conduct Round Up for Shop- Lifters in Downtown Stores. REGAIN GOODS WORTH $1,000. Accused Said to Be Members of Repu- table Families of Washington and Virginia—Girl Clerk Arrested— Another Had Loot Prepared as Girl's to Children. Detectives from police headquarters assisted by several members of the woman's bureau of the department yesterday conducted a roundup in downtown department stores and arrested four women on charges of shoplifting. More than $1,000 wort of goods stolen from stores in the last week was recovered. It was intimated at headquarters last night that the accused women were from reputable families of Wash- ing on and Virginia and for that reas on their correct names were with- held. CHARGED TO CUSTOMERS One girl was arrested by Police woman Clark charged with the theft of gowns and hats from a department store in which she was employed. According to the police, the girl charged the articles which she took to the accounts of credit customers and in this manner obtained several hundred dollars worth of merchandise. Another girl arrested was found in possession of several hundred dollars worth of articles alleged to have been taken from several stores. MADE GIFTS OF LOOT When this girl's home was searched the police say a number of parcels neatly wrapped and addressed to juvenile friends were found. The girl had not retained any of the articles she is alleged to have stolen for her personal use the police assert. Because of the girl's unselfishness in the disposition of the alleged stol en articles operatives of the police do partiment finally found a person to deposit collateral for her. Of all the women arrested during the Christmas rush only three have been sentenced to prison. The others were fined from $5 to $15 and released. The stores through the efforts of the shoplifting squad headed by Doctive Jacob Berman have recovered more than $8,000 worth of stolen goods in the last three weeks. The annual loss at the hands of shoplifters is estimated at more than $300,000. Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson and Miss Berneas Johnson from West Hampton, Va., spent their Christmas in North Carolina. Mr. Edward E. Baker, teller of the Tidewater Bank and Trust Co., called on us last week. He reports his institution as being in a prosperous condition. WIFE READY; BUT NO BABY. Basic Image Processing Emory Texas, Dec. 27, 1919. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Dear Sir—I notice in your paper an advertisement of a man, who wants a wife with a baby in her arms. So I see his box number but his surname fails to be there so I am writing to you to see if you know his name. So if you know him, please tell him to write to me. Of course, I have not got the baby as he asked, for my baby is four years old. My oldest son is seven years old. You will oblige one waiting for an answer. --- BOOKKEEPER WANTED—Apply at the Mechanics Savings Bank, Richmond, Va. Farmer Wanted. Wanted a colored farmer to take charge of a 300 acre farm. Modern machinery provided for a man with practical experience and the opportunity of a lifetime to the right party. Address: A. F. DAVIDSON, 122 N. Michigan Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. SCORES DEAD OP CHRISTMAS WHISKEY MADR IN BRONX. 12 Barrel Cargo Spreading Death and Blindness in Northeast. WOOD ALCOHOL BASE. b. 9 Agents Trace Makers Here. Four are Under Arrest in Harford. Stuff Shipped to Springfield and Holyoke, Where 26 Were Killed. Twelve barrels of booze made in The Bronx caused the death of eight men at Springfield and Holyoke Mass, eight at Hartford, Conn., and the blindness and critical illness of scores of others, according to agents of the Department of Justice who were put on the case late yesterday afternoon. The booze was made chiefly of wood alcohol and sold for $12,000 which was to be divided among four men, the agents learned. Under arrest in Hartford on charges of murder are Jacob Bronzewine, a saloone keeper, who is said to have been a party to the deal, but fearing the dangerous contents of the "whiskey" would not permit it to be sold in his own cafe; Frank Rose, proprietor of a saloon at 277 Windsor street Hartford where the police alleged the poisonous liquor was gold; Saul Joseph bartender and partner of Tronerwine and Nathan Salsberg, bartender. The death last from the poisonous goods made expressly for Christmas drinkaon undoubtedly will grow. Two deaths were reported from Manhattan, but it is not known whether the stuff they drank came from the same source. Soon after the report of eight dead in Hartford had been received a ninth was reported blind and near death. His recovery was problematical cat. SWEEPING PROBE STARTED Simultaneously with the reports from Springfield, Hollyoke and Hartford a sweeping investigation was begun by the Health Department agents of New England cities and in this city, Department of Justice men acting on advices from Hartford be gan combing The Bronx for the source of the liquor. It was said to have been brought by truck from the Bronx establishment several days ago and distributed rapidly through certain agents of whom the four un der arrest at Hartford are believed to be only a few to the liquor hun-ry of New England Within twenty-four hours after the Christmas celebration began the reports of the deaths began to come in. In each instance in both Spring field and Holyoke the men were dead in bed. Those who had drunk and survived were found egroping nindly through the streets or strick en with blindness in their homes. Fourteen of the deaths in Springfield were reported from the outskirts of the city in the Chicopee district. A score have been taken to the hospitals and they are not expected to live. The first reports received were those from Springfield. Three men found dead in their homes. These reports had hardly been turned in before others came in to the Springfield police headquarters. The death toll increased hourly until noon. Almost at the same time the details of the Christmas booze tragedy came in to Springfield from Holyoke and there was no estimate of the total reach of the poisoning. The police, State and Federal authorities in these cities began their work without delay. THREE HELD IN CHICOPEE Three men were arrested by the Chicopee police late last night and are being held pending autopsies. They are Alexander Perry, proprietor of the American House in Chicopee Falls, the place where the "whiskey" is believed to have been sold; Charles Perry his brother and William A. Baker bartender. In this city words of the Christmas tragedy in New England was met with direct action. Dr. Charles Norris chief medical examiner went into consultation with his aids and kept constantly in touch with the progress of the investigation. He will issue today a warning to every physician in the five boroughs to watch for cases of wood alcohol poisoning. Most drastic action will be taken wherever evidence can be obtained. Dr. Norris said last night he believed hundreds of persons were drinking a substitute for booze which was poisoning and would bring total blindness. His records show, he said that between January 1, 1919 and December 20, there have been forty-two deaths in Manhattan from wood also hot poisoning. For the entire year of 1918 there was five such deaths. Even with the large figures for this year Dr. Norris said he believed they represented but a small fraction of the actual number of deaths from this cause. William H. Edwards, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District with offices at the Custom House was asked by telegraph last night by the Connexe fent internal revenue officials to urge the greatest hustle and thoroughness in the investigation of the New York end of the crime. DEATH IN MANHATTAN One death in Manhattan directly ascribed to "Christmas booze" was that of James Dwyer 26, of 224 West Twenty-fourth street, found dead in bed at his home yesterday morning. The case was believed by members of the family to be heart failure but a physician from Bellevue Hospital and the police said it was alcohol poisoning. Matthew Berrifan, 45, of 219 West Twenty-eighth street was taken to Bellevue Hospital from his home but night in a serious condition from drinking liquor which had been tampered with. He was found unconscious on the steps of his home by Parramuth Joseph Parker of the West Thirty-seventh street station. Late reports from Hartford added two more to the list of booze cannals. Penny Perkley of 83 Portland street and Joseph Silverstein of 83 Hayshope avenue Hartford Elmstead and dying were taken to St. Francis Hospital. Michael Yus'o, a saxon keeper who is dying at the same hospital is being added in a slight degree by the effect of an emetic which he had the thought to take himself when he began to feel the effect of the polygamous stuff. He is the only member of the liquor dealing fraternity so far reported to be a victim of the goods. Warnings were sent to Danbury, New Britain and Holyoke, Mass., which led to a quick police roundup. J. I Quilty of New Britain and Adam Ostrowski of Holyoke were arrested during the afternoon. More arrests are promised today. There were none reported from Manhattan or The Bronx late last night. VICTIM TIPS OFF POLICE The tip on the manner in which the liquor was distributed from the Bronx establishment was given according to word from the Hartford police by one of the victims, James Charkovem formerly bartender for Frank Rose, one of the four arrested for murder in that city. The man came to the police with the sory. It is said after his brother died from drinking the liquor. A Danbury dealer is to be arrested soon. It was reported. The police learned that the first nine of the twelve poisoned bars were sold for $7,015; he last three for $4,048. None of them bore revenue stamps. The investigation in this city today will be made in behalf of the medical authorities by the New York County Medical Association through a subcommittee of which Dr. Ward A. Holden is chairman. The National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, 120 East Twenty-second street of which William Fellows Morgan is president will furnish special investigators. Dr. Holden said an attempt would be made to have manufacturers put an ingredient in wood alcohol for commercial purposes to make it un palatable for drinking. He said it is now impossible to control the use of wood alcohol as beverage. Only two deaths from this cause have been reported from Brooklyn during the year. New York, Dec. 27, 1919. 7,000 ANARCHISTS IN UNITED STATES SAYS WITNESS. Lusk Committee Told Union of Rus stan Workers Has 70 Branches LITERATURE IS VIOLENT. "Human Society Without Laws" Their Programme, Pamphlets Reveal. Evidence to the effect that the Union of Russian Workers, the anarchist organization whose leaders are now on their way to Soviet Russia aboard the transport Buford has upward of 7,000 members in this court noon at a secret session of the Lusak Legislative Committee on Bolshevism. It was also testified by expert investigators that the organization has seventy branches in this country and at tens seventeen in Canada, all of the members of which are taught to regard assassination of officials as a praiseworthy means of demonstrating their devotion to the cause, and are pledged to do everything in their power to bring about civil war. The members of the committee also were told that at present not only the large cities of this State but many of the small towns and villages are sown with professional agitators who are working persistently to undermine the Government, magnify wrongs and disseminate lying reports about official proceedings. These agents are aiding in the circulation of masses of radical revolutionary literature, most of which is printed in this city and which contains false tales of "injustice" and glorifications of Bel shevik Russia, written by paid propagandists. One interesting point brought out during the meeting of the committee was the fact that following the attempt to assassinate Premier Clemen ceasar last spring the leaders of the Union of Russian Workers caused to be circulated throughout all of the branches of their organization on this conent a paper in which they painted Emil Cotin the perpetrator of the deed, as a "bold and loyal son of the oppressed masses. THE Y. M. C. A. NOTES Christmas was a joyful hour with the Y. M. C. A. because of making others happy. Through the kindness of a friend the Y. M. C. A. was Santa Claus for randy. The Bible Class closed by making students and teacher happy. The meeting Christmas Morning was an eye opener for the season. Last Saturday Dr. W. H. Stokes was present as usual to explain the Sunday School Lesson. The hour was a profitable one. Everything was live with the Y. M. C. A. Last Sunday. Dr. Scott C. Burrell our general secretary was called to Tunstall, Va. to help one of his men (Rev W. R. Ball) who has an excellent field for good work. 9.30 A. M. at the building the workers held a good meeting. The work in the city fall 10 A. M. was excellent. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The inmates of the city home were happy 10 A. M. The meeting in the penitentiary for women 10 A. M. was enjoyed and will no longer be forgotten very soon. 4 P. M. at the building the boys had a great meeting and all were hap py. Supt. John L. Ballard conducted the meeting for men 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Director J. J. Carr. delivered an address that will be remembered—Christian Fellowship. Madame S. Alice Kemp Burrell reached the hear s of the men by the solos that she sung accompanied by Miss Martha L. Mnor. This was a great meeting. Today 5 P. M. come to the explanation of the Sunday School Lesson at the Y. M. C. A. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Meeting for the workers 9:30 A. M. at the building. All boys are invited to the building 4 P. M. Mothers send the boys. 3:30 P. M. the great evangelistic meetings will open at the 6th Mt. Zion Baptist Church for men. The Churches and Y. M. C. A. at work. Dr. W. T. Johnson will deliver a burning message Subject: Before The Judge. The music will be directed by Mr. A. L. Woodsfield. Bring along another Cr man and let us get right with God. Help this great effort. Every home is asked to have spells id prayer for the V. M. C. A. We were glad to have the many delega t to the West to use the Y. M. C. A. as a halfway house. Come back fellow. Hope you will have a great meeting. NINE COLORED SOLDIERS WERE LYNCHED IN 1919. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York today published a statement showing that nine colored ex-soldiers ad been lynched in the United States during 1919. Of the nine, two were burned to death, two were hanged, four were shot and one was beaten. One of he colored soldiers was shot to death because he did not turn out of the road soon enough for passing white men. The list follows: COLORED SOLDIERS LYNCHED DURING 1919. March 14, Castlebury, Florida: Bud Johnson, burned to death. Said to have confessed to attack on white woman. April 9, Pickens, Miss., admitted he had hired a woman to write an insulting note to a white woman. May 21, Eldorado, Ark., Frank Livingston, charged with killing his employer and the latter's wife; burned to death. July 15, Louise, Miss., Robert Truett, lynched for having made indecent proposals to a white woman. Hanged. August, Fayette County, Ga., Charles Kelly, shot to death by white man he cause he did not turn out of the road soon enough. August 14, Poole City, Ga., Jim Grant aided to have shot a white man and his son. Hongel, September 29, Montgomery, Ala., Robert Croskey charged with having assaulted a white woman. Shot, September 3, Star City, Ark., Clinton Briggs, accused of having insulted white woman Sot. December 21, Smithville Ga., Charles West accused of murder of white man. Shot. Walter W. Brown Oscar Brown Brown Hat Works MECHANICS BANK BUILDING. Hats Cleaned, Blocked, Re-shaped, Ladies Old Velvet Hats Made Over in the Latest Styles. We give special attention to parse post orders. 701 N. Third St. Richmond, Va Phon. Madison 3914-J. LET US SEND YOU THESE BOOKLETS. The Great Iniquity, by Leo Tolstoy Time Versus Famine, by F. F. In arn. The Single Tax: What It Is, by Henry George. 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He was highly respected by all who knew him as a citizen, as a neighbor and as a Christian a father in Israel, so to speak has fallen who will long be remembered by those who knew him. He leaves to mourn their loss, two sons, Messrs. Samuel and Russel Jennings, a devoted wife and a host of relatives and friends. Miss Chelsea B. Wythe was united in matrimony to Mr. Samuel Smith Thursday eve, December 18. The rites were performed by Rev. William Gilbert. The pair left for Norfolk on their bridal tour. Mrs. Vest Smith and daughter will leave for West Virginia to spend the Christmas season with her aunt and many friends. Mr. Baxter, wife and son will leave for Yager, w. Va. to spend Christmas with her sister, Mrs. Harris Crockett. Mr. Harry White will leave for his home Wednesday, December 24 to spend the season with his sister at Danville, Va. Little Hettie Carter, of Vinton is much indisposed at this writing. Mrs. Haynes Thompson, husband and little son, Haynes, Jr. are visiting her mother and father, of Vinton, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Woods. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Thompson are visiting his brother in Vinton this week, Mr. Thomas Thompson. The brother of Mrs. Willie Motleys is visiting her this week in Vinton. Mr. Charlie Martin is enroute to Chatham, Va. to get married. Mrs. Lye Ross has a very sick son in her home in Vinton, whose condition is much better. The father of Mrs. Lye Ross died at ton o'clock Sunday, December 21, at Bedford and was buried Monday, December 22, 1919. Mr. Ernest King, of Eighth Avenue, N. W, died Monday eve, after a few days illness from double pneumonia from which he seemed to have been rapidly recovering relapsed from which he never rulled. He related his willingness to die and his recent and unfalling trust in the Lord Jesus for salvation, after a life misspent until the latter end, when discovering that all other hopes had failed and vanquished the Lord too him up and saved him, was his dying testimony. He was the son of Mrs. Martha King who died some years ago. Sho was a noble Christian character, a staunch member of the Hill Street Baptist Church, loved by all who knew her. This young man was a nephew of Mr. Jacob King, of 206 Ninth Avenue, N. E. Mrs. Hattie Cooper, 514 Ninth Avenue, N. W, has been much indsposed for three or four weeks, but is slightly improved. Mrs. Mary Barbour, of 718 Fifth Avenue, N. W. is still much indisposed. Mrs. Elnora Shipps' infant babe of three weeks, is critically ill. Mrs. Shipp is the daughter of Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D. and is a resident of Sixth Avenue, N. W. Mrs. Powell, of Gilmer Avenue, N. W. is reported sick. She is the wife of W. H. Powell. Sir Irving Howard, of Union University, Richmond, Va. is expected to spend the holidays with parents Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Howard, 302 Seventh Avenue. The installation services of the First Baptist Church of this city held in honor of their new minister Rev. Arthur L. James who accepted the pastoral charge of the church in October ended on Monday night of last week with a grand reception. The program during the week was full of interest and the services were well attended. The several pastors of the city, their choirs and congregations filled numbers on the program both during the week night services and on Sunday. The sermon at the special installation service was delivered by the Rev. John E. Ford, pastor of Bethat Baptist Institutional Church, Jacksonville, Florida last Sunday morning in the presence of a large audience. His discourse on this occasion was regarded by all who heard him as a masterly production. All were delighted and benefitted. The reception on Monday night in the basement of the church under the auspices of the Deaconess Board was a most brilliant affair and thoroughly enjoyed by all. Mr. Hersey Steptoe is the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Sextoe on North Jefferson street. He met with an accident in the Biddle and A. and T. foot ball game when he had his collar bone broken. He is getting along fine. Let J. C. Dugger or M. Stanfield renew your subscription to the Planet, Journal and Guide, Freeman and Pittsburg Courier. Mr. Alfred Meadows of 505 Harrison Avenue is confined to his home on account of illness. Mr. James Hall and baby daughter Street is confined to her home on account of illness. Mrs. Luciel Thornton of 150 High Street is confined to her home on account of illness. Mr. George Gravely, Jr., of Pittsburgh is visiting in the city. Mrs. Gold'e Morgan who has been visiting her very ill sister at Christamburg, Va., spent a day in the city this week. Mr. Eugene Brown and Mr. Richard Faulkner who are working at South Boston, Va., are spending the holidays in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Woody and daughter, Misa Amie Young, returned to Roanoke, where they will reside. They have been living in Columbus Ohio for the past five years. Mr. Silas Holmes is patient at the Burrells Memorial Hospital. He has been ill for over six weeks. Miss Ursula Brown who is a student of Swift Memorial College of Rogerville, Teun., is spending the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Hatie B. Dugger of 505 Harrison Avenue, N. W. Misses Sallie Evans, Ernie Cooper Letha Moore, Doro hy Dugger, of the Va. Theological Seminary and College of Lynchburg, Va., spent Christmas in the city with their parents. Mr. Luther Porter and Thomas C. Jackson of White Post, Va., spent Sunday in the city. Mr. Nick Mosley and Thomas Carter of Madison, N. C., attended the meeting of the Brotherhood Union in this city this week. Miss Hester Scott, Miss Waller, Miss Henderson and Miss E. Bell of V. T. S. and C., of Lynchburg, Va., are spending the holidays in the city, the guest of their parents. Miss Grace Miller of Knoxville College is spending the holidays in this city the guest of her parents Mr. and Ms. G. P. Miller on 7th Avenue N. W. Mr. George Nesbit of Charleston, W Va., passed through the city en route to Durham, N. C. where he spent Christmas with his relatives. In loving memory of Helvestine W. Hendricks who died one year ago December 28th, 1918. Don't ask us do we miss him, Oh, there is such a vacant place, Often we think we hear his footsteps And long so for his smiling face, Every where we go we miss him. Each day more and more. But we all hope to meet him. On that bright and happy shore. MR. AND MRS. BEWERLY HEN DRUCKS AND FAMILY. Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church was blessed with two converts during the Christmas times. Rev. 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Admiral Sims' refusal to accept the distinguished service med al on account of the injustice which has been done to gallant officers under his command, brings the question of mismanagement of the Navy Department to the attention of Congress in such manner that it cannot be ignored with decency or safety. Mr. Daniels began the administration of the Navy Department with the good will of the service and the put me. He has not encountered any op position except that which he has created himself. It the naval officers are in a state of deep resentment and revolt it is not then fault. The put he is disgusted with the navy's mis management, and angered because of the denial of justice to brave officers while personal favorites are decorated with the honors that belong to others. It is not the fault of the public that affairs in the navy have gone from bad to worse. The people gladly support all appropriations for the navy and are thrilled with pride when they review its record in all the wars. The public willingly gave Mr. Daniels credit for all he accomplished during the recent war, and for much that he did not accomplish. There has not been any disposition to do anything more than smile at Mr. Daniels' vagaries, so long as they merely exhibited his odd unfitness for his place and did not injure the service. But now the situation has taken a sinister turn for the worse. What is head to be thought of a depart ment head who overturns facts and justice and substitutes falschool and injustice in the award of medals for distinguished service during the war against Germany? It is a peculiarly injurious offense against dececy and justice. It strikes at the navy's hon or—an act that no one ever dreamed would or could be committed by Josephus Daniels or any other Secretary of the Navy. The navy's honor is in his keeping. He is the last man in the United States who should tarnish it. His chief duty is to maintain the navy's honor, without which there can be no navy Naval officers are taught from first to last to cherish the honor of the service. Throughout the glorious history of the navy, the pursuit of hon or has been the inspiration of heroic deeds now famous throughout the world. The honors bestowed by this nation upon its naval defenders have been until this hour the reward above all others for which men have given their lives well knowing that these honors were unpurchasable by favoritism and unattainable by the under serving. But now—what a change! The choice honor provided by Congress and entrusted to the Secretary of the Navy for bestowal upon those who have honored their country by distinguished service is now made an instrument of malice and favoritism, so that the badge becomes a token of dishonor in the eyes of gallant officers and is prized only by the incom petent and the undeserving! Who is the naval officer who will wear a distinguished service medal bestowed by Josephus Daniels? How will he explain his possession of the dishonored symbol of honor? Will he take pains to say that he is in fact a hero, who, by some mistake of the Secretary of the Navy, was permitted to have a medal? Or will he wink and nod and whisper eagerly that he has a pull with the Secretary of the Navy and can get "honor" by the graft of favoritism or sectionalism? No individual of either of these types has ever worn the uniform of the United States Navy. Hence there will be no such shamful exhibition of dishonored badges purporting to express the gratitude of the United States for gallant service. The President cannot be expected to attend to this scandal. Unfortunately it has occurred during his severe illness, and advantage has been taken en of his condition to put through the plan without his knowledge. The matter is one that calls for the in stant action of Congress. Let the Secretary of the Navy and the board of awards be called forthwith. Let facts be ascertained and published, in order that the people may know where honor and dishonor lie. THE ARK EN ROUTE With curses for American polluting their tongues and with shouts for American revolution rising from their throats 249 undesirables desirables, under the ban of deportation sailed out of New York harbor bound for somewhere in Russia. Expelled as unworthy and dangerous from the land which gave them a refuge from the oppressions of their native countries, they shook defiant fists at the Statue of Liberty and hurled anathema upon America as they passed down the bay and out of the waters of the U. S. I fany jutsification for the deportation law were needed it was supplied in the attitude of the reds on the transport Buford's decks. As leader of the motley crew of anarchists and bolsovisists, Alexander Berkman threatened and cursed the authorities as they took him aboard the transport. "We are coming back, and we'll get you," was his parting thrust adorned with oaths. And as an accompaniment to his threat another red yelled, "To hell with America!" Emma Goldman friend and companion of Berkman whom the records show to have worked just eighteen months during the 34 years she has been in the United States and to have spent the remainder of her time, wherhe in or out of jail, in writing and proaching anarchy, occupied a stateroom on the Buford, carrying back to Russia a purse bursting with American greenbacks which she had collected from her dupes. The "anarchist queen" announced her intention of organizing the American revolution in Russia. Each one of the deported reds was well supplied with money. It was estimated that they carried back an average of $2,000 apiece, the gift of enthusiastic supporters in the Unit Ed States. If this estimate is accurate about $500,000 of good American money went out of the country with that band of radicals. But no doubt it was worth that much and more to get rid of them, for their absence will contribute materially to the peace and happiness of the country and its people. In this first "back to Russia" excursion went two archeminials—Goldman who inspired the weak-minded Cozolgosz to assassinate McKinley, and Berkman who attempted to murder the late Henry C. Frick and nearly succeeded. Among the other 247 on board the Buford no doubt were some who had been directly concerned in deeds of violence. May the cleaning up process so hapily inaugurated by the government be continued with vigor. Congress has adopted men's strengthening the deportation law, and with these additional weapons the work may be simplified. It is stated that 60,000 known radicals are under observation by government agents, and as quickly as any of them give reason able grounds for action they will be shipped out to join the Berkman and Goldman crew. Now that the alien situation is so well in hand, what of the native anarchists? Are radicals who hold American citizenship to be permitted to say and do things for which if they were aliens they would be deported? Are American traitors any less dangerous than foreign enemies? These are questions of which Congress must quickly take cognizance. If the citizenship of the United States is to be beeded out and purified, there should be no distinction between aliens and citizens who preach anarchy and revolution by force. Naturalization papers or even a certificate of American birth should never be allowed to serve as a screen for the protection of an enemy of the republic.—The Washington Post SAYS UNIONS TRY TO SWAY THE REPUBLIC. Beveridge Uyges Return to Principles of Common Welfare. Plymouth, Mass., Dec. 22.—"Plans for human betterment should be based on the fundamental principles of orderly freedom as set forth in the Mayflower compact the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States," said Albert J. Beveridge in his address today at the celebration of the 299th anniversary of the landing of the pilgrims. These mean he said just and equal government by free men under general laws freely made by their representatives "This truth is a primary condition of liberty and the common welfare," he added. Yet, it is denied in practice; by some it is denied even in theory. At one time combinations of capital at another time organizations of labor seek to control the government of all of us and to dictate legislation which affects all of us. These groups do this by corruption or by force. Yesterday it was evil wealth that worked its will through agents disguised as lawmakers, and smuggled into the councils of the nation; and also by adroit and skillful rogues hired to tamper with the representatives of the people Today it is ruthless labor that forces its sway by organized intimidation not only of our government in all its branches, buf of the people as a whole; and also by as crafty and shameless a lobby as ever capital maintained at the seats of legislation Just as yesterday the question was whether financial plunderers should exploit the nation, so today the question is whether labor bandits shall hold up the republic. At this particular time the crowning domestic issue immediately before America is whether er labor unions shall run the American government or whether the Amercian people shall run the American government." Portsmouth, Va., Oct. 6, 1919. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Va. 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A committee on Race Relationships, appointed by Nashville's Commercial Club, has worked out a simple, practicable plan as to markable in its way as that of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce which promises to reduce racial friction in this city to a minimum. It is well worth the attention of other cities. The committee composed of fifteen prominent white men, conferred with a number of leading Negroes who were asked as in Memphis to formulate a definite program of desirable local procedure. At a later meeting this was presented and adopted unanimously by the white committee. It covers six points: Humane treatment by the police when arrests are made, with fair and impartial trial at the petty city court and the deputy magistrate's court; correction of unfair discrimination on street cars whereby colored passengers do not receive the same treatment as is given white pas sengers; equal salaries in schools and equal wages for equal work; improvement and development of parks and playgrounds for colored people; courteous treatment at railway ticket offices, tax receiver's office and all public offices where Negroes must go in attending to routine business affairs a correction of unkind statements in the press, with suppression of unsubstantiated stories of Negro crimes. A sub-committee of three was appointed on each of these points. Money was provided for the employment of white counsel for one year, who will give his entire time to petty court proceedings and who will with the sub-committee on that section investi gate treatment of Negroes by police and sheriffs assessments of fines and bills of costs, and garnishment levies. A series of meetings will be held at the Commercial Club, beginning with the city officials including the chief of police, the city judge and a number of policemen who will be the guests of the white committee. Later the street-car officials and as many motormen and conductors as possible will be invited. There will also be a meeting with city reporters and editors. At each of these meetings the entire program of the Club committee will be outlined. "Probably the chief thing of importance that has yet been accomplished," says the chairman, "that fifteen busy men are greatly interested as well as deeply concerned in these matters, and are willing to make an open fight for fair dealing with the colored people. There is a genuine desire on the part of every member of this committee of white men to bring about a speedy correction of these matters that have here tofore rarely if ever been thought of as existing." This last sentence adds point to the urgency of the Federal Council of Churches the U. S. Department of Labor; the Y. M. C. A. and other civic and religious agencies for the formation of committees of both races in cities; towns; and counties which may meet together from time to time and learn more about local needs and the often simple things for lack of which bitterness between the races grows. Black and white as well as rich and poor each half needs to know in a democracy how the other half lives. --- RE-REGISTRATION AT SIXTH MT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. The members of the church are requested to re-register their names soon as possible. Cards have been printed for this purpose and you can get them by asking the clerk or any officer of the church. Parents are asked to see that their children re-register. Any member failing to re-register as is requested by the church will no longer be a member of this church. Hoping that every member will see the importance and re-register at once I remain. REV. R. V. PEYTON. Pastor. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Roanoke, Va. Nov. 7th, 1919. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Va., Knights of Pythias N. A.; S. A. E.; A.; A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Lee Hunter who was a member of Key West Lodge No. 76 of Roanoke Va. 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A week or two ago the prosect of such a thing wouldn't have worried me. I never suspected that sugar was the staff of life till I had to get along without it. This shortage of sugar appears to have got on he nerves of the grocers. Grocers are funny. If you went to an animal store and asked for an alligator, the dealer, if he was just out of alligators would be apologetic. He would tell you that he'd just sold last of the autumn crop of alligators but that the spring crop would be in by Christmas and he'd be glad to take your order for a nice one, if you'd tell him what kind of furniture you wanted it to match. But the grocer as I said, is funny. When you ask him if he has any sug ar he doesn't, even say, 'No,' he says "Naw." And 'naw' is not at all poite. I went to ten grocery stores before I got a pleasant word. The tenth grocer or explained to me that he didn't have any sugar, hadn't had any sugar, and didn't expect to have any sugar. He said he had some nice hams he would sell me at bargain prices, but I think it would be difficult to sweeten coffee or make a cake with nice hams, although not being a housewife I have never tried it. When I declined the hams he tasked up some new rat traps and sold me a couple of them. I don't know that he actually said so, but he gave me the impression that there is about to be a shortage of rat traps and got me so panicy that I bought two instead of one. The eleventh grocer saw me coming and stopped me in the door. "You want sugar, he snarled. Yes, I said. "Well go to your own grocer for it. You needn't come here trying to steal it from my customers." I suppose I should have hit him But it isn't much fun to hit grocers, especially big ones, so I went out. At the fifteenth store I received a pleasant surprise. We have no regular sugar said the grocer, but I can sell you some colored sugar for icings. I did not know what feelings were, but as I have no color prejudices I asked him to let me see it. It came in little cartons like regular sugar. He had three of them left. The sugar in one was red in the other green, and in the other blue. He explained that the coloring was vegetable and not harm a child and that the sugar was nearly as sweet as white sugar. So I bought all three packages and took them home in triumph. Next morning the coffee didn't look just right. It was highly decorative but one doesn't drink coffee to please the eye. On top it was a sort of warma pink where the red in the sugar had blend ed with the cream. Stirred a bit it took on a bluish tint, like the old fashioned telegraph batteries that had blue vitrol in them. A little more stirring brought out a strong underly ing stratum of green—not vegetable green like spinach or lettuce, but the green of green paint. I tasted the coffee, but it didn't seem like the same old coffee. I tried to shut my eyes and drink it but I couldn't keep them shut. I kept thinking of the kaleidoscopic tints in the beverage and every time I blanced at it I had some new color combination like a chameleon. I swallowed the coffee in a hurry and took the next cup clear. But I kept thinking about the dyes I had swallowed and the frightful suspicion burst on me that they might be German dyes sold to the sugar manufacturer turs with a horrible purpose. For three hours I was uncomfortable, but nothing happened so my suspicions faded. But I took my coffe clear after that. $ 50.00 ENDOWMENT PAID --- Louisa, Va., November 8, 1919 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Va. Knights of Pythias N. A.; S. A.; B.; A.; A. and AA.; (8150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the Death Claim of Brother D. J. Brown who was a member of Modella adre No. 160 of Louisa, Va. FESTET HUNTER. M. of F. FRANK BAKER. M. of F. J. RICE PARKINS. D. D. G. Ildoyd George Describes New Irish Measure to Commons. PLANS TWO LEGISLATURES Council for All Ireland to Be Selected by These Bodies—Each to Have Full Taxation Powers—Excess of Taxes Over Fair Contribution to imperial Expenses Goes to Irish. London, Dec. 22.—Premier Lloyd George addressed the house of commons this evening on the Irish question. The premier last week announced his purpose of presenting to the commons on this occasion the details of the government's Irish home rule bill. In opening his address today Mr. Lloyd George remarked upon the extreme difficulty of his task, "difficult indeed," he said after such a discreditable outrage as has just been permeated in Dublin The premier said that parliament must get the fact right into its mind that in existing circumstances no possible scheme for Irish home rule was universally acceptable. Therefore, he continued, parliament must assume the responsibility and propose what it thinks fair and just. A settlement would be found not in the enactment of a home rule scheme but in its working. WILL FIGHT SECESSION. Ireland said the premier was the only country in Europe except Rus sa where the classes who elsewhere were on the side of law and order, were out of sympathy with the ma chinery of the government. While Ireland was never so prosperous as today, the fact remained he declared, that Ireland was never so alienated from British rule as she is today. Any a tempt at accession, the premier announced would be fought with the same deermination force and resolution as had been shown by the Northern States in America. The premier said it was proposed to establish self-government over the whole of Ireland and to create two parliamentes one in the north and one in the south. Every opportunity would be given Ireland to establish unity if she desired it, and a council would be es ablished at the outset selected by the two legislatures, to form a connecting link between the two parts of the country. FULL CONSTITUENT POWERS The two legislatures to be created in Ireland the premier said, would be clothed with full constituent powers to create a single Irish legislature to discharge all powers not specifically reserved to the imperial parliament. The premier said that the Irish contribution to the imperial services was estimated at $90,000,000 annually. A joint exchequer board would set to the rate of contribution for the future and the question of taxable capacity. It was proposed to place $5,000,000 at the disposal of each of the two parliaments to cover the initial expenditure. The representation of Ireland at Westminster, Mr. Lloyd George anounced would be reduced under the proposed measure to 40 members as in the act of 1914. TAXATION POWERS GRANTED Each of the two parliaments would have taxation powers equivalent, to those of the State legislatures of the United States. The income tax and excess profits and super taxes would be levied imperially. The Irish parliaments would control all local matters and all machinery for the main tenance of law and order except the higher judiciary and the army and navy. The customs and excuse services would be retained by the imperial parliament, the premier stated, but when Ireland was united it would be open to the imperial parliament to consider whether united Ireland would have control of the customs. The premier said the bill would contain clauses protecting the rights of minorities. The postal service would not be transferred he added, until there was a single parliament in Ireland. BRITISH CONSENT UNNECESSARY The government proposed to give the Irish government the advantage of all duties and taxes raised in excess of a fair contribution to the imperial services and a free gift, in addition to finance the development of the Irish parliament, the premier declared. It would rest with the Irish people themselves said Mr. Lloyd George whether they desired union. The consent of the British parliament would not be required and in order to offer a greater inducement to union the government proposed that certain adDITIONAL taxing powers should be in trusted to the Irish parliament when the union was accomplished. All these proposals added the premier, would be embodied in the bill for the consideration of the parliament and be appealed to all to give the measure fair consideration. The present he said, was not the time for recrimination. PROFIT OP $1,600 DAILY MADE BY RAIDED STILLS Four Men Arraigned and 200 Acre Farm Confiscated Following Moonshine Haul. MYSTORIOUS SMITH IS MISSING Revenue Agents Seek White Man Supposed to Be South Side Store Proprietor an Owner of Illicit Distillery Found Near Lakeside. Profit of more than $3,000 a day more made by moonabillora whose outfit consisting of three giant stilts THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA was soiled Monday by revenue officers about a mile and a half north west of Richmond not far from the Lakeside Road. This was the testimony of revenue officers before United States Commissioner Flegenheimer yesterday afternoon at the preliminary hearing of four Negroes arrested as abductors and accessories to the moonshiners. Each was held for the April term of the United States grand jury under $1,000 bail. By order of S. R. Brame in charge of internal revenue officers here the 200 acre farm on which the distilling oil fit was found was confiscated yet yesterday. A mysterious Smith, who the Negroes under arrest declare owned the farm and employed them disappeared yesterday when internal recue officers went to his home in South Richmond to arrest him. SERVED IN UNITED STATES PRISON. Henry Harris, Harry Brooks, Edward Weaver and Augustus Watson all colored were the Negroes bound over to the United States grand jury yesterday. Weaver it was testified at the hearing yesterday was just released from a prison Camp last April where he was held by the United States government as an alien. In a search of the farmhouse which the moonshiners were said to have been using as headquarers, 100 bushels of wheat, two barrels of molasses and twenty four bushels of corn meal were discovered and seized. A pair of mules was also confiscated by the officers. Revenue officers of long experience testified yesterday that the outfit found Monday was the largest which they had ever seen east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. PLANNED FOR HOLIDAYS In four days there would have been 1,600 quarts of raw whisky ready for the bootleg market. Agent Brune declared yesterday. It is believed that the moonshiners were getting ready for the holiday rush of business when disturbed at their work. At the hearing yesterday before Commissioner Flegenheimer testimony offered by witnesses and statements of the prisoners quoted led to the belief that the on fit had been in operation since Thanksgiving Day. It is declared that the man known to his associates as Smith had purchased the farm about this time. All of the Negroes made their defenses that they were simply workmen and that they knew nothing of the operation of the stills. Revenue officers testified that the Negroes had told them that the man known as Smith was the proprietor of a grocery store located at Fourteenth and Perry Streets and that they had dealt with him there. Wages paid them were said to be $2 a day. BAIL FIXED AT $1,000 All of the prisoners were sent to the Henrico County jail, until arrangements for bail could be made. It was declared by the officers who saw the stills seized that they have a combined capacity of from thir y to forty gallons a day and that four or five days' operation would not the owner the price of his 200 acre farm. Among the articles confiscated by the raiders were fifty-seven fifty galon fermentors full of mash. So large was the plant that it took the officers until late yesterday afternoon to finish its destruction. Three men were required to lift any one of the three stills into a truck to be brought to Richmond. Many possessions flocked to the scene yesterday afternoon to get a first-hand picture of a moonshine still before destruction by the officers. MOB OF FIFTY KILLS MAN Charles West Is Taken From Georgia Train. Hurried to Scene of Crime and Bullet Riddled Body is Found Hanging to Tree. Columbus, Ga., Dec. 21.—A Negro known as Charles West, alias Johnny Webb was taken from a train near Smithville, Ga., early today and shot to death by a mob of about fifty men, bent on avenging the death of a Stewart County farmer. The account of the affair received here by telephone said the Negro was being brought back from Jacksonville, Fla., where he had been arrested, charged with the murder of Emmett L. Brightwell a returned soldier. Brightwell was shot and killed December 12 by a Negro whom he had ordered not to hunt on his farm MOB ENTERS RAILWAY CAR. The mob entered the train when it stopped at Smithville before daybreak and conducted itself so quietly that the members of the train crew said they did not know what had happened until Deputy Sheriff W. K. Johnston, Jr., had been forced to give up his prisoner. After seizing the Negro the men entered automobiles and drove to the scene of the crime, where the body was found later, bullet riddled and hanging to a tree. A coroner's inquest returned a verdict later in the day that the Negro came to his death at the hands of unknown persons. FEELING RAN HIGH. Feeling had been running high in Stewart County over the killing, which was said to have been unprovoked and a subscription of $400 had been raised and offered for the Negro's arrest. This it was said was paid to the Florida authorities who caught him. The work of the mob was done so orderly that it did not attract the suspicion of the train crew until it was over and the train was moving again. 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BROWN, Pho MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Residence, 610 N. First St. Shop in Rear. Phone, Randolph 3152 Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A specialty. ROBERT C. SCOTT, Funeral Director FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN 31 TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA HOUSE PAINTER and DECORATOR. ROOF PAINTING and ROOF REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. First Class Service at Reasonable Rates. PHOTOS—We Offer you the Latest and Most Artistic Photos at More Moderate Figure than you can Obtain Elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. We will Also be Pleased to Quote You Prices on Exterior and Interior THE NORTH SECOND STREET --- --- AND SUCCESSFUL BE AN AGENT FOR THE EXCELSIOR HAIR PREPARATIONS SPECIAL OFFER! We are making a special offer to double our number of agents. Hairdressers are beginning to rec ognize the merits of There is always work for competent Hairdressers. Those using The Excelsior System are sure of success. WRITE TODAY to THE EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Read The Richmond Planet $2.00 Per Year in Advance -- $2.00 It will be sent to any part of the U.S.for $2.00 Present day conditions demand that you should read a reliable race journal. Read our Prize Offer. Bring us your Job Work. Prices are high, but so is everything else and we will do your work at the lowest possible price. All kind of Job Work done at this office. Our linotypes are busy, but we can still do job work. Agents Wanted Everywhere THE PLANET, 311 N. Fourth Street Telephone, Long Distance, Randolph 2213. Richmond, Va. Our 1920 clubs are now open for Christmas depositors. For your convenience we are outlining the various clubs and the amounts which will accrue from weekly savings: CLUBS WITH UNIFORM AMOUNTS WEEKLY: Clubs starting at given amounts and decreasing like amounts each week for fifty consecutive weeks. $2.50 to .05, starting at $2.50 and decreasing five cents each week for fifty consecutive weeks. Amount of Ch istmas check ..... $63.75 $1.00 to .02, starting at $1.00 and decreasing two cents each week for fifty consecutive weeks. Amount of Christmas check ..... $25.50 50 cents to one cent, starting at 50 cents and decreasing one cent each week for fifty consecutive weeks. Amount of Christmas check ..... $12.75 Have you ever had an account in bank which you could check upon when in need of money? Have you anything to fall back on in time of sickness, unemployment or hard times which might envelop the entire country? Now is the time to consider these questions. The New Year is upon us; prepare now. Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous Year, MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, N. W. Cor. 3d & Clay Sts John Mitchell, Jr., President. Albert V. Norrell, Jr., Cashier FOUR THE PLANET Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 811 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., EDITOR. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia, as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES June Year..... $2.09 Fix Months..... 1.10 Three Months..... .68 Foreign Subscriptions..... 2.58 We should keep on praying, and also keep on working. Some people are so mean that they perspire meanness. Persons should marry when they are young and be done with it. The saloons are gone, but the liquor is still here and it is not pot-liquor either. The people seem to be having a good time, despite the high cost of living. Save your money colored folks for you will need your money, after while. The better you treat some people, the worse they get. This is sometimes true of children. "Dollar cash and dollar a week" has been very satisfactory to some people this Christmas. A mule is a mighty stubborn animal and so are some people. If you call them "mule," though, they get angry. Women certainly know how to deceive men and some men certainly do know how to fool some women. Be polite and obliging even to a yellow dog, but be polite and obliging by all means to other people. Lawlessness and crime are not on the decrease, but people proposing new methods and remedies are on the increase. A person, who can make a suggestion and then can act successfully in carrying the suggestion into effect 1 nas scarce as the proverbial 'her teeth.' The people, who thought they know how to run this Government have been unable to convince their neighbors that they were either correct in their thoughts or right in their conclusions. President Wilson continues indisposed. He has had a hard time of it himself and he has caused other people to have a hard time. Secretary Josephus Daniels has not been altogether a success in awarding service medals, if we are to judge by the comment of Admiral Sims, who has written a few lines up on that subject. This Christmas was so quiet and Christ-like that it reminded one of a cemetery that is well kept or a graveyard that has a memorial day. The church people really enjoyed the solves while the former "dramster went in hiding. You cannot do everything yourself, but from the way some folks serve you, the wish that you could do so is always uppermost. Those of us who remained on earth were very much like those who went to heaven,—neither had a 'wet' Christmas.4 All the colored folks who want to go to Africa should go and all of the colored folks who do not want to go to Africa should stay right here. Some colored folks wear out the seat of their breeches talking about other people, who seem to be "making hay, while the sun shines." Many couples, who married four or five years ago found happiness and contentment in company, but it was in other folks company. A man who is married and who has a large family deserves the sympathy of the community and the favor of God. The provided image is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. Some people will have tears in their eyes when they borrow a five dollar bill from you and you will have tears in your eyes before you get it back. The bullion value in a silver dollar is five cents more than the bullion value in a gold dollar. This has caused Hon. William J. Bryan to smile with delight. ```markdown ``` Wood alcohol as a substitute for whiskey does not seem to be a success. It has done much however to please the undertakers who sympathetically have been burying the victims. As a rule, one dose of matrimony will give the average couple that tired feeling that will cause the one to long for the companionship of another when the other is around. This is a world of trouble and some of us have to jump into the grave to get rid of it. To some of us, this is the beginning of our trouble for the Devil with a pitch-fork is presumed to be on the other side. "God loves a cheerful giver," but it is the person to whom you are giving, who says it. When it comes to his turn to give unto you, he is not so certain that God loves a cheerful giver. 1. Some people pray as they walk along the streets, but these people do not always work as faithfully as they always pray. If they did they would be above want. People, who are always engaged in attending to other people's business and meddling in other people's affairs find no time to attend to their own affairs. ```markdown ``` The Supreme Peace Council at Paris seems to have become a joke, so far as this country is concerned. It is plainly evident that they got President Woodrow Wilson over there for the first and the last time. Colored folks have been imitating the white folks and then some of the colored folks are put in jail for doing what they saw some of the white folks that they have been imitating doing. --- Hon. William J. Bryan should be President of the United States. His ideas and notions are being put into actual practice but not by the master mind, who thoroughly understands them. There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight" when Hon. William Jennings Bryan appears in the next Democratic National Convention. Hon. Champ. Clark and the noted THE RIQHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Nobraskan may combine forces or it may be that Wilson, Bryan and Clark will operate from separate platforms. good-bye to the remaining candidates. Some of the United States Senators are endeavoring to resurrect the Peace Treaty corpse with its League of Nations appendage. President Wilson insists that it must arise in the "new-ness of life" before he will re cognize it. It is useless to discuss the Constitution of the United States in dealing with existing conditions. Neither the Congress, the Courts or the Executive Departments of the Government seem to be paying any attention to that "out of date" instrument. Governor Brough of Arkansas has granted a stay in the execution of the twelve colored men sentenced to death as a result of an alleged uprising in that state. We were confident that some way would be found to prevent this wholesale execution of colored men, who had bee grievously mis represented and unjustly convicted. The idea of colored folks having an uprising to kill white people is too ridiculous to be considered by sensible people. Most of the colored folks think too much of the white folks to do this and thousands of them will patronize white folks in preference to patronizing their own. CAN THIS COUNTRY COMPETE? The recent world-war was largely a contest of commercialism. Great Britain as Mistress of the Seas controlled the World's commerce. Her nearest competitor was the Imperial Government of Germany. France was also active. Although defeated by the destruction of so much allied ship plag she seriously crippled her enemies. Samson-like she pulled down the pillars of the temple carrying with her, her enemies and leaving the United States of America free to secure the commercial supremacy. In the world once enjoyed by these three great nations. A serious situation confronts this country however. The laboring element is defiant, demanding high wages and fewer hours in which to work. This increases the cost of the products and it is a question as to whether this country can compete with the cheap labor of Europe in the sale of goods and products. The country too is without a merchant marine and it must depend upon foreign tonnage to carry the output of the mills and factories and the farm products that are being gotten together for foreign shipments. This is why the commercial interests are not only uncasy, but are practically in despair. With the world's markets inviting us to come in, we are unable to answer the call. Men will not work and capital is going in hiding the account of unsettled conditions. President Wilson is indisposed and worry may increase his indisposition. The outlook is gloomy for foreign business. --- THE OMAHA LYNCHING. Despite the fact that the white man, George Davis, charged with in tent to kill and an assault upon Mayor Smith of Qmaha, during the lynching of the colored man there recently, was identified by the Mayor as his assailant, upon the plea of an alibi, a white jury failed to agree to agree in the case and the indicat ions are that none of the lynchers will be punished. This emphasizes the fact that the time to punish the lynchers and the mob is when the offense is committed. Shooting into the mob at the time of the assault will positively establish their identity. Although photographs were taken at the time of the outrage, this, kind of positive certification did not suffice. When fearless sheriffs open fire at the time, the outlets from the revolvers and buckshot from the rifles will identity and punish the guilty prisoners without a further recourse to law. THE RAILROAD SITUATION. President Woodrow Wilson had previously announced that the Government would return the railroad to their original owners January 1, 1920 and the Congress has been busily engaged in enacting legislation 'to meet conditions which must necessarily follow as a result of such a return. The railroad men and labor leaders have been endeavoring to force the Government to retain con- rol of the railroads and to ultimately purchase them from their present owners. The general opinion seemed to have been that private individuals were making independent fortunes out of these railroads at the expense of the public and of the people employed to operate them. The experience of the Government during these few years of government operation, however did not justify this conclusion. The railroad men succeeded in having the Government increase wages beyond the point where the Government could operate the railroads at a profit even with the increase in freight and passenger rates at the expense of the public. The evident purpose was to so enumber the railroads with expense that the private owners would not wish for their return under existing conditions and would be willing for a fair compensation to relinquish their ownership of this proper ty. It was definitely ascertained that the railroads were costing the United States Government one million dollars per day more than the railroads were earning and then in the face of this condition, the shopmen were clamoring for more money. From where could this money come except out of the taxation of the people or from an additional increase in railroad rates, which were already too high, based upon past allowances to the railroads under private owner ship? Then came the anti-strike provision inserted in the Cummins Railroad Bill as passed by the United States Senate. It was a well-known fact that under the present railroad rates, private owners could not maintain the high rate of wages established by the Government, together with the eight hour system forced upon those same railroad companies. these same railroad corporations. The result would necessarily be a strike, unparalleled in the history of this country, should the railroad managers proceed to adjust wages according to the income of the railroads. The railroad organizations preferred to have the roads owned and operated by the Government that could stand the loss. They have demanded and are still demanding that the Government retain possession of these railroads. They went so far as to declare that the Government had not had a fair trial and they are now insisting upon two years more of operation at the hands of an operator who has already about bankrupted the railroads. If the Government is losing or has been losing one million dollars per day, what will be the ultimate loss upon the same basis for two years or seven hundred and thirty one days? The loss would be seven hundred and thirty-one million dollars more on less and who will pay the bill? Certainly not the railroad employees on the labour unions. But this is the hey-day of the demagogue and the "flannel-mouth" orator, who will shut their eyes to facts and care less for the ultimate condition of the country. The anti-strike clause is drastic and it is propable that it is unconstitutional but constitutional questions are held in abeyance these days and constitutional provisions are nullified. The outlook is gloomy, but there is satisfaction in knowing that right principles will ultimately come up permost after wrong theories have had their innings. DR. JORDAN'S PREDICAMENT Rev. L. G. Jordan, the energetic corresponding secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention is having a unique and embarrassing experience in Liverpool, England. The following letters explain themselves: Empire House, 253 Empire House. Upper Parliament St. Liverpool, England, Oct. 22, 1919. My Dear Dr. Robinson—We arrived here on the 17th inst., after a safe and pleasant voyage. On arrival we went to 33 Union Street where we had to pay $35.50 for our party from Friday night on 11 Monday morning when we moved to our present lodging where we are paying $10.00 per person per week for he grown persons and $9.00 for the two children aggregating our living expense $69.00 per week. At present we see no prospect of getting away before the 15th of November and no assurance of it then. As things stand I have money enough to get our tickets and keep us until November 15th after which we will be stranded I have been thinking of sending out an appeal to about 200 friends and may do it in a day or so. Call upon the church to pray for us. Some how we feel a way will open for us to get out of here earlier than we now see. One or two things transfixed to day which gave hope. In America we know nothing G Lo You Can Have Hair Like This Po It als druf ter a Herolin Pomade Hair Dressing is truly most satisfying. A scientific wonder and so harmless that a baby can use it. Straightens out the kinkiest hair that grows (no hot iron necessary), making it nice, long and velvety, of an elegant natural appearance so you can easily do it up in any style. 25c Sent by or Sold by Mail or Drug Stores Agents wanted everywhere. Barbers' trade urgently solicited. Write for particulars. Send 25c in stamps or coin. inconveniences and hardships. Do help us pray it thru. Yours in His service, L. G. JORDAN. 83 Chatham Street, Liverpool, England, November 3rd, 1919. My Dear Conrades in the Lord: Do you recall the play of our Childhood? I'm in some 'ladies' garden when each took the other by the hand, making a ring with one inside and how he would work to break. That old childhood play it thus rests our position at this time. For 46 years I have been preaching and 24 of these as Secretary of your Board. Now, for the first time I find my self so penned in and see no way out. All ships going to South Africa are booked full through February 1920; all ships going to West Africa are booked full to January 1920 and all ships for the United States are booked full to December. So hear we are, as in some "ladies garden." War conditions still exist here so each of us has to secure ration cards. This allows us to buy 1-2 pound aug ar per week each and 1 ounce of but ter each. Meat one pound per week per person. We reached the city Friday night October 17th. From Friday night to Monday morning we paid $30.25 and we are now paying $69.00 per week for our party. Through the Y. M. C. A., we are hoping to locate where we may do our own cooking and thereby cheapen our cost of living. These days remind us of the days of George Lisle, Lot Carey, Wm. Carey, and other early Foreign Missionaries. Oh! he obstructions they met and the hardships they encountered! but through faith in God and the prayers by those who stood by them, they overcame. So here we are with the bann good for the souls and bodies or thousands in Africa but we are penned in. If we are to remain here till January the money which we brought will give out. Unable to pay our bids our baggage will be taken and our cause put to shame. So, I am writing to ask that you have your good peo ple help us at once. Our backs are so the wait and the fight to save our demination from shame, ourselves from suffering and above all, the cause of our Lord from being retard ed—is on in real earnest. We are trying to get a few meetings among the churches here, so as to help ourselves, but the poverty of this land is sad and deplorable. It is bitter cold here now and yet there is no fire in the churches and very little in the homes, so that some of us have scarcely been warmed since we came here. Dr. Sisusa's children are all filled with cold. Indeed we all have colds, which we fear will make us easy victims of influenza. At times the whole thing seems a living death I would return to the States, but it is too expensive and again I must not desert these workers who have put all on the altar so together we will suffer and wait to hear from you; I hope to keep food and a place for us to stay until the latter part of November, when we shall expect relief from you. Do not disappoint us. Always pray for us—pray that a way may be opened that we go on to Africa and get to our work. Pray that we may learn good and useful lessons from these days of sore trial in this strange cold city. Do remember us to all who labour with you in the Lord. Yours in Ifis service. —I. L. G. JORDAN. Just how it was that this distinguished divine and veteran traveller could have permitted himself and others to sail without having the book made from this country to Africa is a mystery to us. Still, that does not help the situation any. The pre- Lots of Hair-Fluffy-Soft Brilliant-Straight Pliant-full of life and beauty is yours if you apply to your hair a little HEROLIN Pomade H It also stops it druff, removes ter and scalp pressing is truly most satisfy baby can use it. Straight on necessary), making it nice once so you can easily do it it Sold by Drug Stores Agents wa trade urgent particulars Medicine BEAUTIF Pomade Hair Dressing also stops itching scalp, dandruff, removes ringworm, teeth and scalp disorders. truly most satisfying. A scientific wonder use it. Straightens out the kinkiest hair), making it nice, long and velvety, of which can easily do it up in any style. 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He needs much money in order to make his risky venture a success. When he goes out again "gunning" for souls, he will no doubt carry enough ammunition with him without being forced to send an appeal cry to those friends, whom he has left behind. Prayers are "mighty good" for Brother Jordan in heaven, but prayers and money are of much greater service to Brother Jordan and his friends on earth. It may be that if he will "strike a bee line" for home he may raise more money on this side and have better back next time. Let the missionaries go on to Africa, but let Dr. Jordan come on back home. FULTON NOTES. The Sunday school in electing her officers for the ensuing year last Sunday made a very good choice. 11:30 A.M. and 8:30 P.M. M. Rev. Cobb preached two wonderful sermons. Sunday, January 4th at 11:30 A.M. our pastor will preach from the subject: "Have you received the Holy Ghost, since ye believed." 3:30 P. M. will be our Communion Services. You are cordially invited to attend all of these services. The Pastor wants 100 members to give $15 each during the year of 1920. The Ballies will be in May and October for the building fund. --- Hair Dressing teaching scalp, dan- sis ringworm, tet- disorders. ing. A scientific wonder ens out the kinkiest hair long and velvety, of an up in any style. printed everywhere. Barbers' untly solicited. Write for Send 25c in stamps or coin. Co. Atlanta Georgia FUL SKIN WHITENER WANTED! liberal terms MACY COMPANY TA, GA. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. The Vasper Services held in the rooms of the building last Sunday proved to be a very helpful and interesting occasion. In addition to other exercises inspiring and well thought out addresses were made by Mrs. Bush-Banks of Chicago; Miss Adelle Ruffin Executive Secretary of the Colored Women's Work, South Atlantic Field, and Mr. Pervall. Interest in these services is growing and it is the purpose of the management to increase their usefulness by arranging for addresses from time to time similar in a general way to those delivered on last Sunday. An interesting program has been arranged for Vasper Services next Sun day at 5 o'clock P. M. A most cordial invitation is extended to the women and girls of the city to be present. OPEN ALL NIGHT. Phone Randolph 5733 MYERS & CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Automobiles—Livery. Up-to-date Service Reasonable Prices 410 NORTH FIRST STREET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SATURDAY.....JANUARY 3, 1920 NOTES FROM CHICAGO. M. T. Bailey, 3633 South State St., President of the Bailey Realty Company closes another important deal in the realty field for Mrs. H. Pharim of Evanston, 111. By this deal, Mrs. Pharim gets three apartment building brick and a two apartment frame building and lot 232 x 200 feet. The above company has been commended for securing this property for their client $2,000 less than it could have been gotten through other sources. Management will be left with the company. Mrs. L. C. Graves, Treasurer of the Virginia Society, 15 W. 36th St. is still spending a very pleasant time in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. John F. Thomas pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church 3500 S. Dearborn Street who was injured some days ago, is getting back to himself, Mrs. Thomas, his wife is much improved. Mrs. D. J. Marion and Mrs. James N. Allen of Evamston, Ill., were in the city during the past week attend ing the Women's Baptist Congress which met at Ebenezer Baptist Church 3500 Dearborn street. Rev. B. H. Hunter pastor First Baptist Church, Lake Forest Ill., was in the city during the week... Major Arthur Williams who return ed a few days ago from Canada has gone to Washington, D. C. where he will spend the Christmas holidays with relatives and friends. Mrs. L. A. Mitchell, of Metropolis, Ill., anroute to Aurora Ill. to spend the holidays with relatives spent a short time in the city. She was accompanied by her niece, Miss Myra Scott. Mrs. Mitchell was met at the train by Mrs. Lou Ella Young and Chicago friends. Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 3556 Forest Avenue and other Chicagoans are going to Joliet, Ill., following the Christmas holidays and set up a Household of Ruth. Mrs. Nettie Anderson 3234 Vernon Avenue one of the former active members of the Eureka Fine Art Club, is still confined to the house suffering from the accident to her arm. Walter M. Farmer, Attorney-at-law 184 West Washington Street is about to close one of the most successful years during his practicing of law. The Eastern Star Temple No. 62 met at Bailey's Hall last Thursday evening and elected officers. Mrs. Lucy Shephard was elected Worthy Princess and Mrs. Rosa Miller, Worthy Secretary. Mr. Charles Delaware 4219 Prairie Avenue Clerk in the Chicago P. O. who has been very sick is much im proved and soon ready for duty again. The Bailey Realty Company 3638 South State Street of which M. T. Bailey is president completed a negotiation started some weeks ago in Morgan Park an exclusive suburb. Through this deal they take over $16,000 worth of lots, one block of which will be placed on the market at a bargain at once. Mrs. L. M. Able, of 4552 Prairie Avenue left for Monmouth, Ill., this week where she is expected to spend quite a little time. J. B. Street 26 B. 37th Place is well and out again. Mrs. Maggie Hayes of Finchley Va., will spend the Christmas holidays here with her sisters, Mrs. L. M. Canada residing at 602 E. 41st Street and Mrs. N. Nance 3808 So. Dearborn Street. Miss Lulu Jones of Roanoke, Va., who is visiting Mrs. L. M. Canada 602 E. 41st Street is thinking about making this her home. During the week Mr. R. F. Cooper of Grand Rapids, Mich., was in the city on business. The Pyramid Building and Loan Association 3539 South State Street is planning a campaign whereby to add 5,000 more members to the association. All are invited to become one of the 5,000. Hon. William Harrison is in Virginia lecturing. He is expected in Petersburg, Va., at an early date. He is speaking in the interest of The Alumni Association, M. T. Bailey, President. His engagements are being cared for by Mrs. Ora B. Stokes of Richmond, Va. North Star Lodge, U. B. F. 57 met last Wednesday evening at Bailey's Hall, 3638 South State Street and elected officers for the coming year. J. B. Street, W. M. M. T. Bailey, W. Seyc. Solomon Thomas, W. Trees. Gary B. Lovell, Magnolia Edison The Chicago Defender may be on the list to run for ward Committeeman in the 3rd Ward. Luck to him. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES Newtown, Va. Dec. 30, 1919. Among our many friends from the North who are spending the holidays in this section are Messrs Manly Rob inson, Fred Braxton; Joseph Roberson W. H. Holmes, Johnny Hill; Eddi Harvey; John Harvey; Mess Virginia Braxton and Mrs. Laura Washing ton of Philadelphia.. Miss Lucy Holmes of Washington, Mr. Charles Looker of Alexandria; Mr. and Mrs. John Alsop of New Jersey and Mr. Edward Dabney of Maryland. z Mr. H. M. Ruffin a student in Virginia Union University spent a few days with his parents during the holidays. A special collection was lifted at at First Mt. Olive last Sunday for the benefit of the sick and aged mem bers. The Baptist Conference because of inclement weather did not meet with First Mt. Olive. Deacon W. R. Harvey has been confined to his bed for several days. Clerks Wanted. WANTED- One Female and onto Male clerk. Must be well educated. Re- commendation required. Apply in own handwriting to "B" Care of Planet 311 N. Fourth Street Rich- mond, Va. CHRISTMAS SERMON To whom did the gospel come, hid den from the wise and prudent but revealed unto babes and suckling. This is God's way, not ours. The wise and prudent were in the high places in Jerusalem. They did hear the good news and glad tidings of great joy. The babes and sucklings were the humble shepherds in the fields, not fit for the king's guest neither were they given a seat on the king's throne. But to them the Angels of the Lord came unto them, the glory of the Lord shone around and about them, for the Lord said to this man will I look that he is of an humble and a contrite heart and that tremble at my word. The humble can see further than the wise. A man on his knees has a clearer view of heaven than one on his tiptoe. Let no man fret over the lowness of his stations, or the narrowness of his limits because not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty men, not many noble men are called. Therefore let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted. God's ways are not man's ways. 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Illicit Plant Camouflaged by Pine Needles and Boughs in Deep Gully. --- Unfolding a new chapter in moon shine raids, internal revenue agents last night within five miles of Virginia's State Capitol, half a mile north of Omaha, captured out the secret mouths of the city, found three large stiffs and forty barrels of mash and dealt the heaviest blow to Iliff liquor traffickers about Richmond in recent years. As a result of the raid, Henry Haris, Negro is under arrest and search is being prosecuted for another Negro, Nathan Grey, who escaped from a lone guard, fleeing across the snow covered wood armed with a rifle and defying capture. Moving swiftly, seven government officers and Detectives P. H. Hall of the Third Police Station, South Side found the fires under the great cop per boilers still burning and the discovery of food leads the officers to the belief that the stills were being worked three shifts of eight hours each daily by an organized band. FOLLOW FOOTPRINT TRAIL Working on a tip, the officers drove to a dillapidated farmhouse where they found Henry Harris. He averred he lived there alone and denied knowledge of the existence of a disillery in the neighborhood. Officers came upon a barrel of lime, which it was stated, is used by moonshiners to destroy the scent of mash. This strengthened the suspicions of the shouts, and their investigation took them outdoors. Following footprints leading from titarus caun to a near-by creek the revenue agents discovered an abandoned still, and further down the stream they came upon several kegs, evidently placed there to be cleansed. At this juncture a Nogro walking along the top of a ridge with a rite under his arm was intercepted and questioned but he would give no information to his interrogators. He gave the name of Nathan Grey. HIDDEN BY. CAMQUFLAGE If Grey had not beenearing a new pair of overshoes of a peculiar style, his silence might have baffled the officers. But the pattern, cut deep into the snow, enabled the invigilators to trace his footsteps into a gully, over a well-boatten train. Ten feet away stood an enormous still, camouflaged under shelters of boughs and pine needles. Two other stills were unearthed, with rows of barrels of mash hidden under the boughs and pine needles. Two other still and the odor of mash was easily detected. The mash was in various stages of manufacture and some of it would have been raw whisky by morning, it is declared. If the raid had not stopped its manufacture Then the greatest surprise of all greeted the eight officers. They found springs of water had been dammed up and the water conveyed through pipes to the most convenient place for use by the distillers. Food was abundant as well as every convenience for workers. AUTO DRIVER QUESTIONED Trees had been cut down, but investigation disclosed the fact that fuel had been hauled from other sections for use. Every physical factor about the stills afforded protection from prying eyes and even the topography was typical of Kentucky moon shining methods. An automobile drove into the wood while the officers were inspecting the stills. The driver was questioned but, he insisted that he came to see about some fuel he was having hauled. However the agents took his name. Grey and Harris was left in the custody of a guard while the remainder of the revenue agents returned to Richmond to secure warrants for the arrest of the two Negroes. Grey managed to elude the guard, taking with him his rifle. Both Negroes said they were employed by a Richmonder whose identity was not revealed. ORIGIN OF TRAFFIC HERE The deception employed by the moon shiners was such as to require shrewdness on the part of the agenis, to find the stills and mash. 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KNOX'S MOVE IS ATTACKED. Notice Served by Some Senators That Treaty Must Have Right of Way. Washington, Dec. 22.—Compromise efforts for ratification of the peace treaty moved forward with increasing impetus today when the leaders of both parties in the Senate, released from legislative duties by the holiday recess of Congress, entered actively into the negotiations for an agreement on reservations. Notable in the day's long series of conciliation conferences was a meeting between Senator Lodge,, (Mass.) the Republican leader and Senator Underwood, (Ala.) a prominent Democratic advocate of a speedy compromise. They are said to have discussed the whole range of possibilities for bring together on a common ground enough Senators to insure ratification. In his talk with Senator Underwood Mr. Lodge has before him the views of the mild reservation group of Republicans, who presented to him at a conference yesterday a plea for support of the compromise negotiations that have been proceeding ever since the treaty failed of ratification at the last session of Congress. Modifications in the language of the reservations as agreed up by the Senate majority are understood to have been suggested by the mild reservationsists, although it was said the question of the language to be adopted would be left open for the present. Redrafts of some of these reservations have been submitted to various Senators by pionent Republicans outside of Congress while many suggestions for changes have been received from other sources. All of these it is understood will be taken into consideration as the negotiations proceed. TALK OF RESERVATION CHANGES It was not revealed which of the fourteen majority reservations the mild group would be willing to modify but compromise discussions here o force have centred on the Art'ele X qualification and the preamble, which requires that the reservations must be accepted by three of the Great Powers before the treaty be comes binding. There also has been talk of changes in regard to Shantung and several other subjects dealt with in the majority programme. A protest against the action of the Foreign Relations Committee in reporting Saturday the resolution of Senator Knox (Pa.) to declare a state of peace also is said to have been made to the Republican leader yesterday by the mild reservationists. They are understood to have removed all possibility of Senate action on the measure in the near future by serving notice that they would not support it unless it became certain the treaty could not be ratified with reservations. As a result of yesterday's conference and of activity among the Democrats the whole subject of reservations seemed tonight to have been opened wide with both sides professing a willingness to enter whole heartedly into an energetic "give and take" effort at compromise. Predictions of early action on the treaty multiplied many Senators declaring action was likely before the end of January. OFFERS RAY OF HOPE TO WETS Some of the more optimistic expressed confidence that the ratification would come before January 16, thus formally establishing peace and permitting the President to lift prohibition for a brief wet spell before the constitutional prohibition amendment becomes effective on that date. There were other Senators however who took less stock in the compromise movement, predicting that in due time it would collapse like all its forerunners. It was pointed out that President Wilson might again intercede if reservations accepted by members of his party in the Senate did not meet with his approval. For the present, however there was every indication that Senatorora would go ahead with their compre mise negotiations without further light from the White House Senator Hitchcock said he had no appointment with the President and indicet ed that he did not now intend to seek one. There was wide discussion today of THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RIOHMOND, VIRGINIA the activities of Bernard M. Baruch of New York, a financial advisor to the Peace Commission at Versailles, who has seen several Senators dur ing the last week and is said to have discussed the treaty with them. Senator Hitehoeck said, however that he did not regard Mr. Baruch as speak ing for the President with whom he recently had a conference. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES Newtown, Va., Dec. 23, 1919. The house of Mr. and Mrs. George P. 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The booze was made chiefly of wood alcohol and sold for $12,000 which was to be divided among four men, the agents learned. Under arrest in Hartford on charges of murder are Jacob Bronerwine, a saloonkeeper, who is said to have been a party to the deal, but fearing the dangerous contents of the "whiskey" would not permit it to be sold in his own cafe; Frank Rose, proprietor of a saloon at 277 Windsor street Hartford where the police alleged the poisonous liquor was sold; Saul Joseph bartender and partner of Bronerwine and Nathan Salsberg, bartender. The death last from the poisonous goals made expressly for Christmas drinkers undoubtedly will grow. Two deaths were reported from Manhattan, but it is not known whether the stuff they drank came from the same source. Soon after the report of eight dead in Hartford had been received a ninth was reported blind and near death. His recovery was problematical. SWEEPING PROBE STARTED. Simultaneously with the reports from Springfield, Holyoke and Hartford a sweeping investigation was begun by the Health Department agents of New England cities and in this city. Department of Justice men acting on advices from Harford be gan combing The Bronx for the source of the liquor. It was said to have been brought by truck from the Bronx establishment several days ago and distributed rapidly through certain agents of whom the four un der arrest at Hartford are believed to be only a few to the liquor hun- gery of New England Within twenty-four hours after the Christmas celebration had begun the reports of the deaths began to come in. In each instance in both Spring field and Holyoko the men were dead in bed. Those who had drunk and survived were found egroping mindly through the streets or strick en with blindness in their homes. Fourteen of the deaths in Springfield were reported from the outskirts of the city in the Chicopee district. A score have been taken to the hospitals and they are not expected to live. The first reports received were those from Springfield. Three men found dead in their homes. These reports had hardly been turned in before others came in to the Spring field police headquarters. The death toll increased hourly until noon. Almost at the same time the details of the Christmas booze tragedy came in to Springfield from Holyoke and there was no estimate of the total reach of the poisoning. The police, State and Federal authorities in these cities began their work without delay. THREE HELD IN CHICOPEE Three men were arrested by the Chicopee police late last night and are being held pending autopsies. They are Alexander Perry, proprietor of the American House in Chicopee Falls, the place where the "whiskey" is believed to have been sold; Charles Perry his brother and William A. Baker bartender. In this city words of the Christmas tragedy in New England was met with direct action. Dr. Charles Norris chief medical examiner went into consultation with his aids and kept constantly in touch with the progress of the investigation. He will issue today a warning to every physician in the five boroughs to watch for cases of wood alcohol poisoning. Most drastic action will be taken wherever evidence can be obtained. Dr. Norris said last night he be- believed hundreds of persons were drinking a substitute for booze which was poisoning and would bring total blindness. His records show, he said that between January 1, 1919 and December 20, there have been forty-two deaths in Manhattan from wood also hol poisoning. For the entire year of 1918 there was five such deaths. Even with the large figures for this year Dr. Norris said he believed they represen- ned but a small fraction of the actual number of deaths from this cause. William H. Edwards, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District with offices at the Custom House was asked by telegraph last night by the Connecticut internal revenue offi- cals to urge the greatest haste and thoroughness in the investigation of the New York end of the crime DEATH IN MANHATTAN One death in Manhattan directly ascribed to "Christmas booze" was that of James Dwyer 36, of 224 West Twenty-fourth street, found dead in bed at his home yesterday morning. The case was believed by members of the family to be heart failure but a physician from Bellevue Hospital and the police said it was alcohol pots oning. Matthew Berrian, 48, of 219 West Twenty-eighth street was taken to Bellevue Hospital from his home but night in a serious condition from drinking liquor which had been tampered with. He was found unconscious on the steps of h's home by Pareshman Joseph Parker of the West Thirty-seventh street station. Late reports from Hartford added two more to the list of booze casualties. Penille Persky of S3 Portland street and Joseph Silverstein of E3 Hillshope avenue Hartford blended and dying were taken to St. Francis Hospital. Michael Yusho, a saxon keeper who is dying at the same hospital is being added in a slight degree by the effect of an ennetic which he had the thought to take himself when he began to feel the effect of the poisonous stuff. He is the only member of the liquor dealing fraternity so far reported to be a victim of the goods. Warnings were sent to Danbury, New Britain and Holyoke, Mass., which led to a quick police roundup. J. J. Quilty of New Britain and Adam Ostrowski of Holyoke were arrested during the afternoon. More arrests are promised today. There were none repeated from Manhattan or The Bronx late last night. VICTIM TIPS OFF POLICE The tip on the manner in which the liquor was distributed from the Bronx establishment was given according to word from the Hartford police by one of the vices, James Charkoviem formerly bartender for Frank Rose, one of the four arrested for murder in that city. The man came to the police with the sory, it is said after his brother had died from drinking the liquor. A Danbury dealer is to be arrested soon. It was reported. The police learned that the first nine of the twelve poisoned bar rels were sold for $7.015; the last three for $4.048. None of them bore revenue stamps. The investigation in this city today will be made in behalf of the medical authorities by the New York County Medical Association through a subcommittee of which Dr. Ward A. Holden is chairman. The National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, 130 East Twenty-second street of which William Fellowes Morgan is president will furnish special investigators. Dr. Holden said an attempt would be made to have manufacturers put an ingredient in wood alcohol for commercial purposes to make it un palatable for drinking. He said it is now impossible to control the use of wood alcohol as beverage. Only two deaths from this cause have been reported from Brooklyn during the year. New York, Dec. 27, 1919. 7,000 ANARCHISTS IN UNITED STATES SAYS WITNESS. Lusk Committee Told Union of Russian Workers Has 70 Branches LITERATURE IS VIOLENT. "Human Society Without Laws" Their Programme, Pamphlets Reveal. Evidence to the effect that the Union of Russian Workers, the anarchist organization whose leaders are now on their way to Soviet Russia aboard the transport Buford has up ward of 7,000 members in this counnoon at a secret session of the Lusik Legislative Committee on Bolshevism. It was also testified by expert investigators that the organization has seventy branches in this country and at least seventeen in Canada, all of the members of which are taught to regard assassination of officials as a praiseworthy means of demonstrating their devotion to the cause, and are pledged to do everything in their power to bring about civil war. The members of the committee also were told that at present not only the large cities of this State but many of the small towns and villages are sown with professional agitators who are working persistently to undermine the Government, magnify wrongs and disinform lying reports about official proceedings. These agents are aiding in the circulation of masses of radical revolutionary literature, most of which is printed in this city and which contains false tales of "injustice" and glorifications of Bol shevik Russia, written by paid pro-pugnandists. One interesting point brought out during the meeting of the committee was the fact that following the attempt to assassinate Premier Clemen ceau last spring the leaders of the Union of Russian Workers caused to be circulated throughout all of the branches of their organization on this continent a paper in which they painted Emil Cotin the perpetrator of the deed, as a "bold and loyal son of the oppressed masses. THE Y. M. C. A. NOTES Christmas was a joyful hour with the Y. M. C. A. because of making others happy. Through the kindness of a friend the Y. M. C. A. was Santa Claus for randy. The Bible Class closed by making students and teacher happy. The meeting Christmas Morning was an eye opener for the season. Last Saturday Dr. W. H. Stokes was present as usual to explain the Sunday School Lesson. The hour was a profitable one. Everything was live with the Y. M. C. A. Last Sunday. Dr. Scott C. Burrell our general secretary was called to Tunstall, Va. to help one of his men (Rev. W. B. Ball) who has an excellent field for good work. 9.30 A. M. at the building the workers held a good meeting. The work in the city fund 10 A. M. was excellent. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The inmates of the city home were happy 10 A. M. The meeting in the penitentiary for women 10 A. M. was enjoyed and will no longer forgotten very soon. 4 P. M. at the building the boys had a great meeting and all were hap py. Supt. L. Ballard conducted the meeting for men 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Director J. J. Cart er delivered an address that will be remembered—Christian Fellowship, Madane S. Alice Kemp Burrell reached the hear s of the men by the solos that she sung accompanied by Miss Martha L. M nor. This was a great meeting. Today 5 P. M. come to the explanation of the Sunday School Lesson at the Y. M. C. A. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Meeting for the workers 9:30 A. M. at the building. All boys are invited to the building 4 P. M. Mothers send the boys. 3:30 P. M. the great evangelistic meetings will open at the 6th Mt. Zion Baptist Church for men. The churches and Y. M. C. A. at work. Dr. W. T. Johnson will deliver a burning message. Subject: Before The Judge. The music will be directed by Mr. A. L Woolfolk. Bring along another or man and let us get right with God. Help this great effort. Every home is asked to have spes. al prayer for the Y. M. C. A. We were glad to have the many delegat to the West to use the Y. M. C. A. as a halfway house. Come back fellows. Hope you will have a great meeting. NINE COLORED SOLDIERS WERE LYNCHED IN 1910. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York today published a statement showing that nine colored ex-soldiers ad been lynched in the United States during 1919. Of the nine, two were burned to death, two were hanged, four were shot and one was beaten. 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