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RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VOLUME XXXVII, NUMBER 9. AN ECHO FROM PRESIDENT MARGARET CHELLES VISIT. Toledo's Hospitality, President Green- how, The mayor's Greeting. Editor Richmond Planet, Sir - Since our president, Rev. J. I. Greenhow is a virginian and the greatest impetus this movement has received since its inauguration was given it by President John Mitchel, Jr. of the Mechanics Bank of your City; I feel that in justice to the peo- ple of your gate and also to the in- dividuals of this city who made it pos- sible for us to receive properly our distinguish a guest that some mention should be made through the columns of your paper concerning the visit of President Mitchel, has reception and the influence of the message be left with the people of Toledo of both races. President Mitchell, arrived here 12:15 October 16th, Mr. E. B. Wanza our leading undertaker with his large touring car, accompanied by the reception committee consisting of the president, Rev. J. I. Greenhow, the Secretary, Rev. A. J. Anthony and Rev. Cunningham met president Mitchell at the depot, called by Atorney B. H. Fisher's office and then to the Harris Hotel where dinner awaited Mr. Mitchell and party. After dinner Mr. Wanza called for president Mitchell to show him some of the City First Mr. Wanza drove out to the great auto plant, known as the Willys Overland Company where twenty thousand employees work. Mr. Greenhow introduced Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Wanza, Mr. C. R. Miller the manager received the party and invited Mr. Mitchell and party very cordially to visit all departments. They hurried through several of the hundreds of departments and made a brief call to the vice president's office in the Administration Building where the coming of Virginia's great colored Financial had been heralded as the Toledo from this time had named Mr. Mitchell—the party was warmly received here where another invitation was extended welcoming the party to all departments. Mr. Wanza then turned on the juice tin dumade a half doe en miles look like a half dozen yards from Overland to National Madeleine on the East side of the city, Rev. A. J. Anthony introduced the party to the Manager, Mr. Leroux who personally escorted the party through many departments. That night, the Overland, the National Mallable, the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Toledo sent representatives to the Zenobia Hall to welcome President Mitchell to the city. The Mayor in a strong and forceful address welcomed Mr. Mitchell, to the city. Attorney B. H. Fisher with a flow of eloquence introduced Mr. Mitchell who held the great audience spell bound for one and a half hours. A committee consisting of the following then gave a banquet in honor of Mr. Mitchell at Mr. Ira Stewarts Cafo on St. Chair street: Dr. Randolph, Mr. Goo, Sawyer, Rev. A. J. Anthony; Mr. Cottrell, Miss Chapman, Attorney B. H. Fisher; Mrs. A. J. Anthony; Mr. Dupriest of Chicago; Rev. J. I. Greenhow and others, after which our treasurer, Mr. Goo. Sawyer had a private meeting with Mr. Mitchell and sent him on his way rejoicing. Since Mr. Mitchell left the following persons have joined Charter Member Ship Rank of the Working Men's Co Operative Association—Attorney B. H. Fisher, Dr. B. F. McWilliams of the Third Baptist Church, Rev. Earth er Bagnall of the All Saints, Rev. Woodson of the A. M. E. Mr. W. Armstrong and I myself have joined since and am one of the directors. The First National Bank is our present denpository. We are aiming to secure our Charter shortly for $50,000.00 and open our store at once carrying a full line of living necessities and offering employment to scores of our boys and girls. Respectfully, GEORGE WILLIAMS, Secretary, Ways and Means Com- of the Working Men's Co-operative Association. --- MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT. Miss Cectine M. E. Hudson and Mr. Charles Otis Wilson both of this city were united in marriage in Itha ca. N. V., December 23rd, 1919, the Rev William D. White officiating. Mr. Wilson is employed on the clerical staff of Treman King and Company as Secretary to Mr. R. E. Treman. Mr. and Mia. Wilson will make their home in Ithaca. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Mechanics Savings Bank was held, Tuesday, January 8, 1920 in the convent hall of the ry- hsa shrine. It proceeded to be one of causes, salutatory and enthusiastic meetings ever held by the body. Pres- ident John Mochiel, Jr., presided, while Dr. Albert A. Tennant, Secre- tary of the Board of Directors kept the minutes. It was nearly nine o'clock when the gavel fell and pre- cer was offered. After the roll call Cashier A. V. Norreit, Jr., made his annual report. The increase in deposits as of Jan- uary 1, 1919 and January 1, 1920 was $9,916.62. Prior to paying Christmas Savings Bank deposits, the bank's de- poss is had received $510,000.00. The in- crease in mortgage loans was $109,715. Nearly all of the office space in the Mechanics Bank Building is now rented. On January 3, 1920 the amount of money deposited in the Christmas Savings Club department above aggregated over one thousand dollars. The report created a pro- found impression. Vice President John T. Taylor assumed he chair and President John Mitchell, Jr., made his report. He reviewed the work of the past year, the True Reformers Bank deposit, the preface of the Strand Theatre, the trip to the American Bankers' Association and the steady increase in the bank's deposits. He staged that he had more than once announced that the fine banking house, the expensive round door vault and the palatial sure-undings were all twenty years ahead of the colored people. It had been ten years since the building was erected and the management just now began to see that they were reaching the point where the bank would pay. He congratulated the stockholders upon their patience and the bank directors and officials upon their service. A rising vote of thanks was extended to the President, Miss M. L. Chiles then moved that the present Board of Directors, con a sting of John Mitchell, Jr.; John T. Taylor; A. A. Teenant; J. M. G. Ramsey; R. W. Whiting, E. R. Jefferson, A. D. Price and J. L. Carter be reelected and this was unanimously carried. The meeting then adjourned. --- Mr. Harvey Jenkins, Sr. Dead. The funeral services of Mr. Harvey Jenkins, Sr., who departed this life December 27th, 1919 at his residence 2311 Decatur street, South Richmond were conducted Tuesday December 26th at Second Baptist Church. The pastor Rev. L. C. Garrland officiated, assisted by Revs. R. R Graham and A. L. Britton. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Elvira Jenkins, four daughters, Mrs. Leona Radford of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Alberta Stephenson, Mrs. Robena Baugh, Mrs. Amorotee Mayo; one son, Harvey Jenkins. He was a member of Good Samaritans; Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Henry Smith of Philadelphia, Pa., brother of Mrs. Elvira Jenkins attended the funeral. C. S. Cunningham, Funeral Director. Card of Thanks. I take this method of thanking the many friends for their kindness shown during the illness and death of my husband Harvey Jenkins, Sr. also for the beautiful floral designs sent. MRS. ELVIRA JENXINS Miss Kathrynn Hawes will speak at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, in Fulton on next Sunday January 11th, 3:30 P. M. Madame Bush-Banka will recite. A most excellent program has been arranged under auspices of Fulton Settlement House. --- Lawyer George Blackwell, of Chicago, III, visited his parents, Prof. and Mrs. J. H. Blackwell during the holidays. Last week Mrs. Ora Brown Stokes soiled worker of this city, visited the southern section of the State, where she secured the custody of a very interesting little girl, whom she turned over to the Neighborhood Association. Mrs. Stokes will leave the city next week for Rockingham County on business for the Juvenile Court. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1920 Don't For-ever Blow Bubbles NOISE MORE NOISE SOME BLACK LEADERS PROF. MOTON TELLS OF THE LYNCHING RECORD FOR 1919. Dear Sir I send you the following information relative to lynchings for the past year. According to the record compiled by Monroe N. Work of the Department of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute, there were 82 lynchings in 1919, of which 77 were in the South and 5 in the North and West. This is 18 more than the number 64 for the year 1918. Of those lynched 75 were Negroes and 7 were whites. One of those put to death was a Negro woman. Nineteen or less than one fourth of those put to death were charged with rape or attempted rape. Seven of the victims were burned to death. Nine were put to death and then their bodies were burned. The charges against those burned to death were: rape 3; murder 2; Killing sheriff 1; no charge given 1. The charges against those first killed and then their bodies burned were: attempted rape 3; shooting officers of the law 3; rape 1; murder 1; incendiary talk 1. The offense of murder was charged against all the whites lynched. The offenses charged against the Negroes were: murder 13; attempted rape 10 rape 9; abetting riots 4; shooting officers of the law 4; insulting a woman 4; killing officer of the law 4; alleged incendian talk 2; writing improper letter 2; charge not reported 6; shooting a woman 1; robbery 1; murder sentence changed to life imprisonment 1; shooting night watchman 1; shooting and wounding a man 1; alleged complicity in killing officer of the law 1; killing man in self-defense 1; killing landlord in dispute over crop settlement 1; no charge made 1; for being acquitted of shooting officer of the law 1; remarks about Chicago race riot 1; keeping company with a white woman 1; for being found under bed 1; for making boastful remarks 1; for alleged misleading of mobs searching for another 1; because apped was taken from ten years' sentence for attempting life of another 1; for discussing a lynching 1. The States in which lynching, etc curred and the number in each state are as follows: Alabama 7; Arkansas 12; Colorado 2; Florida 5; Georgia 21; Louisiana 7; Mississippi 12; Mississippi 12; Missouri 2; Nebraska 1; Norh Carolina 3; South Carolina 1; Tennessee 1; Texas 4; Washington 1; West Virginia 2; Kansas 1. Very truly, ROBERT R. MOTON, Principal. PROF. R. ALONZO SCOTT HERE Prof. R. Alonzo Scott, who has been residing in England for about sixteen years is in the city. He is a singer, poet, musician, elocutionist, musical composer; orator and humorist. He spoke last Tuesday night at the A. M. E. Zion Hood Memorial Church. He is impressive in his manner and pleasing in his delivery. He has made the tour of the world twice and succeeds in captivating and pleasing large audiences. Mr. Charles Hickmon of New York City spent the holidays here, visiting his mother, Mrs. Amelia Jones of 114 E. 18th street. Mrs. Mollie Booker of Philadelphia, was the guest of Mrs. Susie Robinson of 215 E. 17th street during the holidays. A Birthday Party Mrs. Sterling Pride of 2413 Bainbridge street, South Richmond, celebrated her 25th birthday on the night of January 1st, 1920. Quite a number of her friends were present. The parlor was beautifully decorated with ferns, and pink carnations and narcissus. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pernell, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pride; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Loney; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jackson; Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Christian; Mrs. Luolise Lynch, Mrs. Laura F. Pride; Mrs. Charles Williams; Misses Fanie Boughman; Annie Dabb, Laue and Lillian Manning; Elva Smith; Messrs. Joseph Pollard, Edward Pierson, Willie Pride, Joseph and C. A. Carrington. A pleasant evening was spent and all enjoyed themselves. Refreshmen's such as chicken salad, ice cream, cake etc., were served to the satisfaction of the inner man. All left wishing the host and hostess a happy and prosperous New Year. Death of Betsy Bryant. Mrs. Betsey Bryant died at the residence of her granddaughter, Mrs. Bettie Council 309 William Street, Saturday, December 13 1919. She was the mother of the late Isaac Crump and grandmother of the late Thomas M. Crump. Funeral was held from the Crump residence 603 W. Leigh Street Monday, December 15, 1919 at 3 o'clock. E. Wm. H. Stokes pastor of the declared spoke beautifully of her long useful life and Rev. Samuel Turner prayed. She was a member of J. Henry Sears Lodge Good Samaritans. Mr. A. D. Price Funeral Director. Interment Woodland Cemetery. Mr. C. C. Johnson of Atlantic City, N. J., is visiting friends here. He is looking well. Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Davis went in the city this week the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur James of 1513 Decatur street. Twenty-third Annual Meeting—A Program of Excellent Papers. Exection of Officers. Washington, D. C. January 2, 1920 The American Neo Academy, an organization in no authors, scholars, art, and other distinguished men of African descent, for the pr motion of letters, science and art and to tex as far as possible a form or an reflectent taste, convened in this city during the past week, and is four res ons, covering two days were well attended. An unusually large number of members attended the business sessions. Among those in attendance the following were noted: Bishop John Hurst of Baltimore, Md; W. H. Har Hurst of Baltimore, Md; W. H. Fervis of Philadelphia, Pa; Prof. J. E. K-Argyery, of Livingston College, Salisbury, N. C; W. Achille Hawkins of Baltimore, Md; John R. Clifford, of Martinsburg, W. Va; Robert T. Browne; Arthur A. Schoenburg; and John E. Bruce ("Bruce Griff") of New York City; Judge R. H. Terrell Rev. W. H. Brooks, Rev. Francis J. Grimke; Rev. L. Z. Johnson; Prof. Geo. W. Cook; E. C. Williams; L. M. Hershaw, T. Montgomery Gregory P. H. M. Murray; Neval H. Thomas John W. Cromwell and Robert A. Peham of Washington, D. C. and A. H. Grimke. THE SECOND TIME For the second time in the history of the organization the Academy gave a place on its program 'o a non member, Mr. A. Philip Randolph, editor of the Messenger, of New York City being the person so honored with "The New Radicalism of the Negro" as the subject of his address. For about two hours Mr. Randolph portrayed in a calm conversational manner the present world conditions. His language was chaste, his figures graphic, his gestures simple yet suitably appropriate and forceful to make a most profound impression. In his opinion, we are certain to have a revolution in the United States none the less so because it may be bloodless. He unhesitatingly insisted that the Negro masses should follow the lead of the "New Negro" in their line up with labor in order, as he said, to be on top in the genera round-up; his analysis of the situation being that in the impending conflict between Capitol and Labor the latter is sure to win. THREE GROUPS DEFINED He divided the classes or Negro Leaders into three groups. The first or the "old crowd politicians" he called the "right wing," and claimed that they were absolutely wrong and responsible or all the lills the race is heir to. "Having been bought and paid for" they are not worthy of leadership" said he. In his second group he placed the members of the Academy labelling them and those of their ilk as "the centris"-"the intelligencia" of the race. Nor were they deemed capable leaders, because though honest they were vascillating. The third group, he designated as the "left wing" of which he is a bright and shining light. This group he held were right beyond the shad owl of a doubt. His address was a masterly presentation of a well defined theory, and an animated discussion followed only to be cut short for lack of time. In his rebuttal he lost much of his poise by drifting into ridicule—a mistake common to most young debaters. Among those who joined in the discussion were: Prof. J. E. K. Aggery, Messrs. W. H. Ferris, Robert T. Browne; F. H. M. Murray, Prof Carter G. Woodson and Judge R. H. Terrell. Mr. Randolph's critics claim that he 'signally failed to define his position on the "open" or "closed" shop, or cite any history that would serve to prove his contention that Labor would keep any of "the promises" now being so profusely made now that the battle is on and the Negro is wanted. Judging the labor group by the same taken as he judged the "old crowd" his stricures on the latter could be more consistently applied to the former, for organized labor has ever been the bete noir of the Negro everywhere in this country. "THE WILLIAM TELL" OF THE RACE. Mr. John R. Clifford, editor of the Pioneer Press, Martin'sburg, W. Va. was first on the program with a paper "A New Religion for the Negro." He called for the weeding out of all unworthy ministers—contented for an exalted womanhood and the proper training of children and urged "a consecrated and able ministry to grapple with the problems that come from the race" as a means of their speedy and proper solution. President Archibald H. Ginnette in his annual address entitled "The Shame of America," graphically outlined the history of the race in the United States and most forcefully traced the record of the white man as a conning line of broken promises. Said he in closing: "Friends we are marching then a living and lowering present into the unknown, thus an enemy's land at the summons of duty. We are to face great laborers great dangers, to fight like men our passions and American caste prejudice and oppression and God Helping us to conquer them." BISHOP HURSTS CONTRIBUTION The paper of Bishop John Hirst of Baltimore, Md., was a historical presentation of the evolution of the different constitutions in Haiti and the part the United States is now playing in the affairs of that country. He convincingly showed by quotations from their several constitutions that the Haitian government needs no mandatory whether American or not. The several papers were well received and the speakers highly complimented. After fifteen years of continuous service as president, Mr. A. H. Grimke asked to retire and elected president emeritus. Rev. F. J. Grimke who had served as treasurer since the organization was founded also retired. Each gentleman was presented with a fine fountain pen as a token of appreciation of service rendered and a reminder of their efforts for the intellectual improvement of the race. Mr. John W. Cromwell who had served as corresponding secretary from the birth of the Academy was elected to the presidency as a reward for merit. He is credited with having been especially active in arranging for all the excellent programs presented to the public in the past 23 years. The annual election of officers resulted as follows President John W. Cromwell, Winston, ington, D. C.; Vice President Robert T. Browne, New York City, Prof. J. E. K. Aggery, Salisbury, N. C. Bishop John Hursti Baltimore, Md. Dr. C. V. Roman, Nashville, Tenn. Corresponding Secretary Robert A. Pelham; Recordning Secretary T. Montgomery Gregory; Treasurer, Leffette M. Hershaw; Executive Committee; Prof. Kelly Miller, Prof. M. Lightfoot, F. H. M. Murray, Prof. William Pickens, Baltimore, Md. John E. Bruce New York City REV. DR. SHEP WITH HER. Rev. W. B. Skipwith, D. D., the noted Gospel preacher evangelist and singer is here and in midst of a great and successful revival. Our Church was packed last Sunday to its utmost capacity with colored and white to hear this great preacher. Twenty-five persons accepted Chrish. Baptizing next Sunday. U. G. C. Teachere Wanted. Two teachers wanted, male and female or a man and his wife. Must be well educated and a knowledge of type-writing on the part of the one or the other desired. Wages $40.00 per month and board. A knowledge of music on the part of one of them is also desired. Address, Lowry Institute and Industrial School, Mayesville, S. G. W. M. HOLEY, President. 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. a ee Me, Oe ee Gonferencos Between Senator Lodge and Republcan and — Democratic Propouents of Ratification Follow ed by Announcemon: of Further Dis agreement. Washington, Jan. 2.—After many sonferences toilay botween Senator Lodge and Republican and Democratic Senators who favor ratification of tho treaty, both sides announced that thoy were furvher from agreement than at any time since the agitation for a compromise was begun. Senator Lode saw Senators Me- Nary, Lenroot, Capper and Curtis Re publicans and also talked with Sena tor Swanson, Democrat who had been In confereneo with Senators Hitch- cock and King. None of tho Senators presented to Sonator Lodge any definite proposal for a compromise or for modification of the reservations to which « majori ty of the Senate stands commitced. Farther than that Senators Hitehcock and Swanson stated emphatically that ho scheme of compromise will be pre sented by the Democrats and that any suggestion for a compromise — must bo made from the Republican side, WORKER'S SPHUTS DAMPENED. ‘Tho inexorable facts which served to dampen tho spirits of (hose work Ing toward a compromise are set forth in the following s atements Dy Senators after the day's conferences wero at an end: Senator Loage No conerete phan of compromise was tendered to me by auy ob the Senators 1 taiked with ‘They have not any. Senator Mexary—1 am waiting to see if the auministration Demoerais can work out any proposition upon which we can agree. Seaiator Capper-—"Phe sentiment ot the cowitry 1s tor the Lodge reserva tions, If any substantial changes are mauve in dem there will be lett forty five Kepublicans who will vote amainst ratification, ‘The reservations ot Art. elo A ad on the equality voting t which the Democrats particularly ob fect cunnoy be modified if the treaty ix to be ratified. Senator Swanson—The Democrats have nothing to propose. ‘They are waiting to see What he Republicans will do. MIVCHCOCK DASHES HOPES. — Senator Hitekcook dashed the hopes of (ho compromisers with Unis sig ficant statement, ‘There will have t bo very substantial modifications im the Lodge reservations berore the Domocrats can accopt them. ‘The ini Madye must be taken by the mild ¥¢ servatichists on tho Bepublican side. The Democrats do not intend to off er any compromise. ‘This statement by Senator WHiteh- cock apparently created a deadlock be tween the ‘mild reservationists' whe are working for a compromise and the administyation Senators who are Willing to make some sort of surrend er in order to get the treaty ratified. Senator New has already” informed Senator Lodge that there are ar least forty Senators who will defeat ravit ation if the Todge reservations ar¢ wubstantially modified; Senator Capnc er today told Senator Lodge prite:iew ly the same thing. Hence if the administration men un dor Senator Hitehcock's leadershiy hold out for ‘substantial” changes 0 the Lodge resolutions and reserva’ ions and the Republicans cied by Sena tors New and Capper refuse to vote for ratification if such changes are made iy would mean that the chanes of effecting a compromise whieh would get sixty-four votes In the Sen ato is small. MCNARY REVIVES SUBJECT. Senator McNary in his. tate with Senator Lodge revived the subject ot the Underwood resolution for a com mitteo on conciliation and told Sens tor Lodgo that ho believed about thi: teon Republicans would yote for *. Senator Lodge's opinions of the Un derwood proposal is that it is just the thing not {o do if a compromis is desired and he does not believe I can be passed. Senator Hitchcock also expressed Rimself regarding tho Underwood r solu'ion saying that he did not be Hove it had a chance. An alternative Proposal has been made by some ot the mild reservationists, he — sata, “which provides for an informal com m.ttee to carry on negotiations dé tween ‘he opposing faction.” Senator Hitcheork was asked wheth er he believed the treaty would — b¢ ratified before January 16, the date on which prohibition amendment. be comes effective. He replied that li Aid not think ratification by thal time would he possible but he Delier ed tho treaty would he ratified before the end of the month. 2 ee al ca cna eran sanariees aur eeneens a sreceama Virginia's Figures Made Larger by Wash'netoniang Seeking Release From Marital Bonds Richmond, Va. December 31.— An entiroly new and oxceodingly inter- esting feature of the annual report of Dr. WA. Plocker, director of the Rurean of Vital Statisties af the State Denartmont of Health {s that dealing with the divorce situation in Virginia, For every twelve and one third marriages in the Stace in the year of 1918 there was one divorce granted, ‘These statisties are avail Hw Lor the Erst Me in the history oF the Bureau of Vital Stats tes, tie new Luv on Cie subject requiring clerks of all courts entering divorce decrees to report the same to this Bureau. awawudria Comaty jJurnishes the (Most slarding array of divorces 1m the Commonwealth. During the year 182 persons were ivoreed while only 2YyZ were uated m the bonds of wed luck in that county. sxplanation of (is abnormal situation seems to lig in the fact that Washingtonians find it eas.er or more des.rable to shullle off the coils of wedlock in the nearby Virginia community than in their own city, securing rolicf from their marnage fetters with far less publi city than at home. ‘They consequen ly rent quarters south of the Potom- ae, gain a nominal residence and then sock tho Virginia Courts for divore- ies. | ‘Tho aggregate mumber of persons [securime divorces in Virginia in 1918 Was 3,728 a rate of 1.65 per thousand Jot population. Close on the heels of ‘Alexandria County with 14.96 divore es per thousand of population, Alex: andria city leads with municipalities of (he State with 204 divorces, or 11. HH per thousand of population. ‘The rural sections of Virginia furnished a yery small proportion of the di- vorco business of the courts, — the srevt majority of the counties not reaching one person per thousand of [Mopuation. Bland and New Kent counties have a clean slate, ne'ther reporting a single diverce for the year, Newnort News, with no Wash ington at hand to furnish grist for a divorce mill, shows ISS persons ai vorced, oF 7.62 per thousand of its 24,682 people, Norfolk City shows 275 persons divorced out of 136,000 popu lation or 2.69 per thousand, Rich: mond records show 754 persons dt yoreed in a population of 160,060 oF ASL per thousand ef population, Vir ‘ginia Bristol, with 7,634 people re ported 46 freed from marital bonds during the year or avout six per (thousand rather indicating: that some of those Who make the city a Gretna Green return to secure release from the fe'ters there assumed, Lynehbury shows a rate of 33H per thousand an aggremite of 114 divorced people in the year out of a population of 81, 054. Peversburg with 26,052. pomulat ion, reports U8 divorced or 4.63 per thousand, Portsmouth, population 41, 735 reports divoreed or 3.61 per thousand. | Muanoke City’s courts gaye treo: dom to exactly 200 of its 17,732 peo ple during the year, or 419 per dots ‘and. In Staunton but eigh.cen per sons or 1.60 per thousand were divere ed of its U,892 population. Owmgs (o failure of many of the clorks of courts to keep a record ot color, the Bureau of Vital Statistic: is mable lo estimate accurately. the actual rate of white and colored di vorced persons per thousand of pop ulation, So far as the cleras’ reports 0 tho White rate i .93 per thousand ‘and 1.68 per thousand of colored tn dividuals. THE Y. M. ©. A. NOTES | ‘The Women’s Auisilary of the Y. M. CG. A. amet last Friday night and had w very profitable meeting at the Duitding | saiaesinirnay a larige aNRaRR wa emt to hear the explanation on the [Sunday School Lesson and all were happy. “The boys and men of the Y. M. C. A. found much to do last Sunday and a full day for servieo was put in by them. | 10:00 A. M. tho committee holped many of the prisoners in the eity Jail and seven wero led to accept Christ ‘Tho inmates of the City Home 10 A. M. were happy and they enjoyed (ie meetings. j 10°A. M. General Secretary 8. C. Burrell conducted a special mecting for the women in the _ penitentiary jand one was won for Christ. ‘The sing ing was a live wire. At the Gth Mt. Zion Baptist Churet tho Evangelistic meetings were open ed with big results. A large number fof men was out and Dr. W. T. John son gavo the men A message that fs still burning. ‘Two men_ accepted Christ. Messrs, Hopkins and Wool folk rendered special muste. 1G SSRN SHAY ARR NTIS I |“ Today 6 P. M. you aro Invited te the building to hear the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. Bring |" friend. ! Nien be on time Sunday ready for “hard work and the other man. Meeting for the workers at the Y Mo G. AL 9:30 A. M. | :50 P.M. a great meeting tor men at the Fifth Street Baptist Chureh. Dr. Eldridge of Petersburg will deliver a special address to the men, Prof. Joseph Ma‘thews will lead the singing. Men be on time with a man. Right through here now the Y. M. C. A. is begging for special prayer. Who will pray for the ¥. M. C. A? ‘The boys of the Y. M. ©. A. went to the Friends Assylum and madc the hoys and girls happy there, Keer up boys, . | 4. P.M. last Sunday Master Danfot conducted the meeting for Vovs at the building and a great hit was mado. & wiUDMUND PLANET RIGHMOND viens FLORENCE LETTER, Mr, Geo. burno son of Mr, and Mrs, W. at, Baruo ot Richmond, Va. is hee sponuins the holds Wi fricnds and reiwaves, Daly it is auto rides, Pleasure parties and the lke. Wo wil wey weegncea lo have lim, Mo AM. tes whoom Aut Mung, OUpL. ot Cowied Schvois tor Sumer Coun AY vibsut dtu ule ety recemuy en youlo 0 xatangie, atu, Lo meet Humes Lgaetiteo aDsue alivit LO atrauge Wr sug duet meee Gace a tor UO aut nee ieee Ak 120. wey, Joan. MicLeoud a well known M. 8. mtuster dwe here on Satur aay, Lecemuer 224, 1919. Ee WEBSTER, BRYAN'S NAME WILL BE ON THE MICHIGAN WashaLaaga eeCa bee Commoner’s Friends’ Action Taken Without Consulting an He Says. Detroit, Mich, Jan, —-Waliwn Jen: ings Bryan will be entered in Michi gun's prevential —preierence prim. ay as a candidate tor vadorsement ax Democratic nominee tor Vrest dent according to local friends ot the former Secretary of State, Peutions in hs taver whieh wit require only 1,000 nates, Will be fu cuvculation shortly IE was sad. ‘the primaries will be held April § +e IMPORTANCE OF POURTEEN'T IL US, CENSUS ‘OL ‘COLORED PEOVLES Because of the many — economic changes see HAY the inpor ance of the approaching decennial census. to the colored people should not be un der estimated. ‘These changes will be & matter of record in the history. of the growth of the race, and of — the Nation, and the statistical informa- lion which will be compiled from the data collected by the Census enumera lors, who will canvass the United States in January should constitute & source of reliable imiermation for this and fer future generations. ‘Through migration the colored pop ulation of some states has consider: ably increased While in others it has decreased since the United States Cen sus of 1910. Agriculiural activities ap bear to be extending in new directions. ‘Thousands of colored men and wo: men havo entered into tie industriat sife of (he Nation as producers. Indi cations, in certain states point to 4 Marke inerease in home ownership. A substantial growth in the number of business “enterpribes owed — and opersied by celered men is reflected in their uewspaners and magazines wach ao grewing in rumber and ty which are growing in number and in flvence. ‘The number of professional men and women are steadily increas ing and tho percentage of tiltteracy is rapidly decreasing. Tho accuracy of tho Census reports depends largely upon the intelligence of each individual to answer fully each question asked by the enumera tor and it is only in Unis way that reliable data can bo obtained trom Which can be determined the social and economic progress made by each clement of the population tn. the United States. ‘The Census Bureau emphasizes the point Mat all information collected by the Census enumerators Is strict ly confidential, Tt can not be used as a basis for taxation for the enforeo ment of any Federal, State, or local Jaw or In any way whatsoever that ‘Will cause harm to the person giving At or to his affairs. No one therefore should hesitate to give to the Consus enumerators complete and. truthrul replies which the cnumerators can [uso in filling out the printed Census schedule carried by them, nor should any attempt bo made by any one to cover up tho true facts that pertain fo each man and woman. Walter W. Brown Oscar Brow? MECHANICS BANK BUILDING. 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As a citizen he stood on the top rounds and was highly respected by all who knew him. Major W. B. F. Crowell, Deputy Grand Master of Virginia Odd Fellows left the city December 29, for South Boston, Va. to deliver the oration at the anniversary of the Odd Fellows of Boston and surrounding county. Mrs. Hattie Cooper of 514 Ninth Avenue, N. W., who has been quite indisposed is much better. Mrs. Nollie B. Pierce, of Detroit, Mich. was in the city during the holidays with friends. She was looking the picture of health. Mrs. J. H. Withors and son, James of 28 Atkins Avenue, Asbury, N. J., spent Christmas with her sister, Mrs. Borta Howard, 302 Seventh Avenue, N. W. Master Irving Howard, of Union University spent Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Howard. Mrs. Lizzie Harris and husband were in the city during the holidays visiting mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hayden, of Seventh Avenue, N. W. Mr. C. D. Joplin, of Welfch. W. Va., formerly of Roanoke, spent the holidays at home with wife and mother. Mr. W. O. Stanfield, across Tinker Creek, has been sick. He is much improved under care of Dr. George E. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Newton and Mrs. Martha Minter, mother of Mrs. Newton and Miss Martha Bowles spent the Holidays in Washington, the guest of her sister. Mrs. Martha E. Brown was called to Montello, Pa., where she is at attending the bedside of her brother, Mr. Robert Gundin. Mrs. Mary Moore Turner, of Wash- ington, D. C., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Claytor Webster on Harrison Avenue, N. W. Miss Louvainia Moore returned to Washington, D. C., after spending the past two months in this city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. Webster. Mr. Bert Spencer returned to the city from Henry County, where he attended the bedside of his ill father. Mr. D. W. Harth, Jr. left for Youngstown, Ohio, where he will enter business with his brother. Mr. John Cobbs, brother of Mrs. Rodey Philot did last Sunday and was buried in Midway Cemetery. Mr. Cornelia C. Lawson, of Pittsburgh, Pa. spent Christmas at Holins, his old home. He is a son of Rev. Lawson. Mr. Garland Marbles returned from Lexington, Ky., where he was the guest of Mrs. Paul C. H. Smith. He reports a fine trip. Mr. William Harper, 110 Fifth Avenue, N. W. is confined to his home suffering with pneumonia, the second attack in two years. Mrs. M. A. Powell, of 39 Fourth Avenue, N. W., who has been confined to her home the past six weeks is slightly better at this writing. Mr. Leon Miller of the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Linwood Moss, of Biddle and Mr. Donald Redd spent the Holidays in the city. Mrs. Martha Edna Boland, wife of Mr. Robert Boland visited her mother, Mrs. Mary L. Jackson, of Goshen, N. Y., who was ill. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Clemont, 269 Ohio Avenue, Columbus, Ohio were in the city recently visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary J. Jones, of 10 Lynchburg Avenue, N. B. and other relatives, sisters and brother. Mr. Johnnie Jones, of Diamond Hill. Miss Lou Esther Daye spent the Holiday vacation at home with mother, auntie and uncle. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Landsey, of Ninth Avenue, N. 19. Mrs. J. A. J. Valentine, of Washington spent the Holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Jefferson, 11 Lynchburg Avenue, N. 16. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Jefferson passed through Roanoke enroute to Bedford City, Va. They spent a few days with his parents. They were accompanied by his brother, Mr. Lewis Jefferson. Miss Lula B. Tanner, of Pittsburg Pa., a student at Mary, Potter Oxford N. C. was a guest of Mrs. J. A. J. Valentine. Mr. Charles A. Jefferson, waiter on Southern 23 and 24, was painfully hurt in a wreck near Ashville N. C. He is at home with his parents. Mrs. Alice V. Jefferson has been much indisposed. S. C. McCalister, of Peach Road, has reopened his old place of business, where he had originally done a successful business. He claims he expects to stay if the public will sustain him by dropping in to examine his stock. Mrs. Carrie L. Walker, the proprietor of the Community Cafe, invites you to come in at her place for an up-to-date, all round meal, when your appetite is keen. The corner of Eighth Avenue and Peach Street. Messrs. Eugene Brown and R. D. Faulkner, who are nall driving in Halifax County, spent the holidays at home. They are working on the Dolphspring Church. Mrs. L. J. Day, Eighth Avenue, N. E. entertained her cousin, Mr. Davie Winn, from Louisa County. ROAONKE, VA., January 6.—At the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Minnis, 525 Tenth Avenue, N. E. was the scene of a dinner party Tuesday, December 30, in honor of Rev. A. L. James and wife and little son, Rev. J. J. Jefferson and wife, Deacon John T. Lindsey and wife, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy, of Winston Salem, N. C. A very delightful dinner was served, after which Mr. and Mrs. McCoy rendered some beautiful pieces of music on the organ and all engaged in singing All enjoyed themselves in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Minnis and wished them success, health and happiness for the year of 1920. Mrs. Catherine Stanfield of 153 Wells Alley, N. W. was taken quite ill January 5. Mrs. Clara Stanfield of the same address has been quite sick for several days. Sho is slightly improved. Master James Witers, of Asbury Park, N. J. has returned to Roanoke for a lengthy trip in the mountainous regions. Mr. Samuel Smith and Miss Clara With, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. With of Vinton, were united in marriage Thursday at the residence of Rev. W. M. Gilbert. The bride wore a grey suit with everything to match. They left for a short trip to Norfolk and will make their future home in Vinton. Mrs. Zoula Ramsey, of 55 Wells Alley, N. W., who has been ill for a long while, is slightly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Huey have received a visit from the Stork and a fine baby boy was left, January 4. They reside at 34 Gilmer Avenue, N. W. Baby and mother are getting on nicely. Miss Nellyle Myers spent the evening at the palatial home of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Joplin, 609 Sixth Avenue, N. W. with friends of Salem and Roanoke. The dinner was given in honor of Mr. C. D. Joplin, who leaves Monday evening for Welsh, W. Ya. Mrs. Elhui Myers visited Nellyle Myers from Philadelphia, also Mr. Robert Gilbert, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Hatton is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. S. Hatcher, wife of the pastor of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. She is from Jamesville, N. C. Mrs. Annio Campbell Read, of 400 You Street, N. W. was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Daisy C. Eavan, 117 Fourth Avenue. Miss Beatrice Gatliff, of Chillicothe Ohio and Mr. George C. Calloway, of Chicago, 111. was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Bannister, on Seventh Avenue, N. W. Miss Beatrice Gatliff of Chillicothe, Ohio and Mr. Charles Curtis of Abingdon, Va. were married at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Bannister, December 25, by Rev. M. F. Hayling. They will reside at Abingdon, Va. Miss Lillian Paxton and Miss Zenobia Brown spent the Holidays visiting in Danville. Mr. J, E. Brown, Jr. left for Philadelphia, where he will take a special study. One of the promoters of the film exchange, Mr. Kelly, will be in the city on the 12th and 13th. He will appear at the Hampton Theatre with Negro Player Films. Don't fail to see them at the Hampton Theatre. Mrs. Hattie B. Dugger is confined to her home suffering with a severe cold. Mr. Haywood Jones, Norfolk, Va. was the guest of Miss Ruth Curtis, 207 Fifth Avenue for four days the past week. Mrs. George Noe is confined to her home on account of illness. Mr. Christopher C. Clark and son of Williamson, W. Va. passed through the city enroute home from Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Bettie Grier, of Nuttallburg, W. Va. was the guest of her mother Mrs. Lucy Waller, 300 Seventh Avenue for ten days. Miss Crecile and Mario Hughes returned from Bluefield, W. Va. where they spent the Holidays with their sister, Mrs. W. T. Brown. A good number of members and friends of the A. M. E. Church met at the home of Brother William Holland, 305 Seventh Avenue, where he was pounded Wednesday night. Brother Holland has been confined to his home for three weeks. We are praying for his restoration to health. Mr. Louis Bennett, of Pittsburgh, Pa. died in the Smoky City, after two weeks suffering with pneumonia. His body was carried to Rocky Mount Va. for interment. He was a faithful Christian and a brother of Mrs. Ida Bolcher in this city. Mr. W. R. Gray, of Washington, D. C. is the guest of his son, Mr. Clarence Gray, on Wells Avenue. He works in the treasury department. Mr. and Mrs. Oble Taylor, 501 Second Street, N. E. spent the Holidays with her parents at Witcoe, W. Va. They spent an enjoyable week and returned much pleased. A Revival is in progress this week at the Hill Street Baptist Church. Rev. D. R. Powell is doing some successful work there. May the good work continue until many sons and daughters are saved to the Master's service! Mrs. Jane R. Price, of Lexington, Va was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. P. G. Gravely Ch. istmas at 123 Soventh Avenue, N. V. Roanoko City Lodge, 3225, hold their annual banquet December 31, at their hall on Harrison Avenue at 8:30 P. M. Master of ceremonies was Mr. J. K. Trent. Trimely remarks were made by Messrs. W. R. Simms, W. W. Brown, John Dent, Iven C. Mike, George Thornton, P. Buford and others. A purse of $6.30 was left on the table for two widows. Mr. Charles W. Polindexter was chairman of the committee, assisted by Messrs. Ward H. Hall, Manson Graham and George Thornton. Forty members were present and all loft wishing the Lodge much success in 1920. BISASTROUS BLUNDER IS ATTRIBUTED TO WILSON. London Paper in Wrath at League Failure; Lloyd George's Money. On Wrong Horse. Washing on, Jan. —The League of Nations covenant as submitted by President Wilson being a Brit sh document, Premier Lloyd George has in a speech in the House of Commons taken umbrella at its Americanization at the hands of the Republican members of the Sates Senate. "We have talked less about it" he says, but every needful action on to make the league a reality has been taken by Great Britain. It is not fair to suggest insincerity but if America comes in on conditions which will not be applicable to all the others it would be most difficult to have men sitting around the same board under different conditions with one nation being untrammeled and the others having their hands tied behind their backs" In view of the fact that it was only the idea of a league which originally came from President Wilson and that the terms were drawn up by General Smuts, an Englishman in such form that the United States would be compelled to uphold the boundaries of the British Empire in perpetuity, the attempt to throw the onus on America is not taken with good grace in Wash ington. The London Morning Post scored the Premier for "trying to throw the blame on the American nations," and called the speech "a confession of failure." It defends the Senate's action on the League of Nations and says Mr. Lloyd George "put his money on the wrong horse when he supported President Wilson's disastrous blunders." Meanwhile Henry Wise Wood in a letter to the forty-three members of the New York delegation in the House of Representatives moves the impeachment of President Wilson on the ground that he has endeavored to thwart, contravene, frustrate and defeat the Constitution." As the former president of the League for the Preservation of American Independence, he gives as his reasons that by fixing his signature to the League of Nations covenant thus deliberately attempting to subject the United States Congress and New York State to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws. He has shown contempt for the Senate for inciting the uninformed to clamor against the lawful use of the authority and by threats to diminish the prestige and authority of a coequal organ of the government in order that he might become the master of our foreign relations." --- GRAND TIME AT ANNIVERSARY President Fry Speaks to Monarchs. The first anniversary of the Monarch Pool and Billiard Academy was held at their club room, 619 North Second Street, Thursday nigh January 1st, 1920 at eleven o'clock. All business was suspended and preparations were made for the grand enter tainment. The Club room was beautifully decorated. The pool tables were converted into dining tables which were covered with white linen cloths. At the hour of twelve the members were ushered to their places by Mr. Samuel Dismond and Mr. Robert Walker. The members were then called to order by Mr. James H. Ammons Jr., Toast Master, Blessing was announced by Mr. Benjamin Taylor. Mr. James T. Fry, Jr., President, gave an interesting talk to the club members, concluding with a wish for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. The menu consisted of Turkey and Smithfield Ham sandwiches, chicken salad on lettuce, English peas, celery olives and hote chocolate. Robert Smalls Post No. 60. American Legion of Kentucky Box 340, Paducah, Ky. January 3. 1920. Dear Editor—Am sending you the following news item hoping that you will be able to publish same in your next edition. The Robert Smalls Post No. 60, American Legion of Kentucky has received its Charter. The Post is named in honor of the late General Robert Smalls of Beaufort, S. C., hero of the Star "Planter." The Constitution and By-Laws have been adopted and at the meeting held on Friday January 2nd the following officers were elected: W. Robert Smalls, Commander; James R. Johnson, Vice Commander; John A. Morton, Jr., Adjutant; Dr. Royal W. Grubbs, Finance Officer; Homer O. Kelley Historian; William B. Pleasant, Chaplain; Felix Bowles, Master-at-Arms The Post will launch its membership drive on Sunday afternoon January 18th at which time it will hold a mass meeting at Harrison Street Church. At this meeting several prominent speakers will deliver ad dresses among whom will be Captain H. G. Burke, late of Co. "M." 370th Infantry. At this meeting the Woman's Auxiliary will also be organized. It is also planned to open a soliders club as a home for the Post, within a few weeks. "Americanization Week" early in next month is also planned in connection with the other Post, McCracken County (white) of this city. Thanking you in advance for the publication of same, I am. Yours very truly. W. ROBERT SMALLS. Post Commander. TWELFTH ANNUAL ALPHA PR ALPHA CONVENTION AT CHICAGO. Chicago, Pl., Dec. 31.—What was said to be the largest gathering on Negro College men ever assembled was the Twelfth Annual convention of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Chicago, December 27th-31st. More than a hundred representatives from twenty-seven chapters located at this leading universities in the East and North formed the greatest gathering in numbers and enthusiasm so far attempted by this first of Negro college fraternities. The delegates to this convention reported a total membership of more than eighteen hundred with some six hundred at present engaged in undergraduate or on year's work. Among the members well known to Richmond who took an active part in the affairs of this convention were: Mr. L. L. McGee the General Vice President, who is soon to receive his Ph. D., from the university of Chicago; Mr. S. S. Booker the General Treasurer now Secretary of the Baltic moro "Y"; M. H. Vann a senior in the Dental School at the University of Michigan; H. B. Taliaferro Attorney of Detroit, Mich., Charles H. Thompson who receives his Masters Degree in Education at Chicago University next June; Charles S. Johnson associate secretary of the Illinois Race Commission; T. Arnold Hill and W. H. Harris of the Chicago Urban League and V. D. Johnston of the Northwestern University School of Commerce—all former students at Union. A. A. Thompson and A. D. Price represented the Gamma Chapter located at Virginia Union University. At a public meeting on Sunday, December 28th at the Wendell Phillips High School at which the Hon. Emmett J. Scott of the Beta Chapter at Howard University addressed a great assembly of representative Chicago citizens on "The Future of the Negro in Big Business" he said among other things that to his mind "the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is the most forward-looking group of the Young Negro in America and in the World." Mr. S. S. Booker and Mr. L. L. McGee were other speakers at this meeting at which Dr. George C. Hall the well known Chicago surgeon presided. The hospitality of Chicago people threatened at one time to disrupt the program of the Convention with social attractions. On Saturday a Smoker was provided by Chicago Alumni, Monday night Dr. Hall acted as host at a reception at the Unity Club followed by the reception of the Forty Club, Tuesday evening the Fraternity gave its Annual Formal Promenade, Wednesday afternoon the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority entertained at Tea and at night the Convention closed with its usual Banquet. Business of course had to be attended to between times. Delegates reported six of the fraternity elected to the Phi Beta Kapa pa from as many institutions as far separated as Pennsylvania and the University of Kansas and among other things established a commission whose duty it shall be to compile statistics on accomplishments of graduate members to list and make available information for the employment of its members upon graduation from college and to organize a "Go-To-College Campaign in the High Schools of the Country. Kansas City, Kansas was chosen as the meeting place of the next Convention at the seat of the Beta Lamvention at the seat of the Beta Lauba and Upsilon Chapters. On a whole the better class of Chicago people will have reason to remember the Alpha Phi Alpha for a long time to come. —OECONOMICUS ```markdown ``` Received a Diamond Scarf Pin. Mr. Archie L. Ferris, who for 15 years has been in the employ of Mr. Sedley D. Jones, furniture dealer, at 726 N. Second Street, was presented with a beautiful diamond scarf, as a token from his four daughters, Misses Thelma, Gladys, Gay and Lillian Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Sedley D. Jones presented him a purse. POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS In order that industrial production in the United States may be fully protected from an inundation of foreign cheaper-made goods, Representative Joseph W. Fordney, of Michigan, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, has introduced a bill which is calculated to prevent un fair competition. He provides that if any American manufacturer has an interest in or controls a plant in Europe which produces goods similar to those he turns out here and sells them in the American market at a lower price he will be charged not only the ordinary import duty upon such goods but the entire difference in price which he would have received if manufactured in this country. Regulation of prison labor is in effect in provided in a bill introduced in the House by Representative John I. Nolan, of California, Republican, and Chairman of the House Committee on Labor who is also a labor man. Nolan would employ such labor for the production of supplies and authorize their purchase by the federal government. He would regulate the compensation and hours of such labor and fix its standards and then probfit the purchase of supplies manufactured by it under private contract. He would have the government equip the United States penitentiaries and the United States Army and disciplinary prisons and disciplinary barracks and the minimum cost of supplies for the government. The bill provides that 'the compensation to be paid for such supplies shall to be as poss be to the prevailing price on the commodities in the vicinity of the institution receiving the Compensation and hours of labor for minutes of the in situations working upon such supplies shall be based upon the standard hours and wages prevailing in the vicinity in which the institution is located." No child hereafter born in the Uni ed States of foreign parentage will be eligible to citizenship unless both parents are eligible to become citizens, if a joint resolution introduced in the House by Representative Raker of California, is enacted into law. He takes the view that this would have the effect of making the parents more anxious to become permanently identified with the country and therefore helping in the work of Americanizing America. A FOURTH STREET DISTILLERY James Golden, the Ice Man, Arrested. James Golden, who does an ice-business at 621 North Fourth street was evidently betrayed late Wednesday night 7th inst. when internal revenue officers raided the place and found a still in fall operation. They arrested visitors as well as others and they destroyed the still and other paraphernalia. Ten gallons of whiskey were found on the premises. James Golden and James Harris alias Brooke were charged with owning and operating the still and Robert Bowles and George Golden with aiding and abetting them. One 50 gallon container full of mash, three oil stoves and boilers and the officers. The officers used an axe for destroying the outfit. It seems a lot of mixed grain were seized by that a rubber hoss was connected to the hydrant and this served to aid in the distillation. Water had been seen running almost continuously from the Golden ice establishment, but it awakened no curiosity on the part of anybody. The officers of the Government were of the opinion that the capacity of the Golden distillery was about one gallon of whiskey per hour. The wives of the two men directly involved were much upset by the arrest and when our representative visited the place were on the way down to the federal building to do what they could for their husbands, who had been incarcerated f inthe Henrice county jail until bail could be provided for them. Mrs. Paulino Bland is the Assistant Superintendent at Hopewell S. S. Good- Hopewell Sunday School Is glad to have Mrs. Pauline Bland as Assistant Superintendent again. We hope this year with her accomplishment and talent to have much success in our work. REV. J. E. FOUNTAIN, Pastor Wife Wanted! I am a young man, 22 years old; three years of High Schooling, two and one half years mechanical and electric trade. Wish to marry a young girl with a good character, that is able to back me in business for myself. Write at once, A. F. S. care of the Planet. BALTIMORE NOTES Baltimore, January 7.—Colored Republicans are up in arms here because the Republicans refuse to allow them two health wardens. Strong protests are being voiced against the "Lily -white" strain that has developed during the past twenty years, and threats or voting for the Democrats are being made freely, unless these condition are corrected. City Councilman Warner T. McGuinn and W. I. Fitzgerald and John H. Murphy Editor of the Afro-American are among those making the changes ring with the protests. Baltimore, January 7.—Judge Dobler of Circuit Court No. 2, handed down a decision last Saturday denying the petition of the most Worshipful United Grand Lodge of Masons of Maryland for a mandamus preventing the York Rite Masons from setting up lodges in Maryland, Benjamin H. Me Kindlass and Charles W. Main repented the defendants, W. Ashbie Hawkkins attorney for the plaintiffs will take an appeal. BOOKKEEPER WANTED—Apply at the Mechanics Savings Bank, Richmond, Va. RE-REGISTRATION AT SIXTH MT ZION BAPIST 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 falling 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. Yours as ever, REV. R. V. 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"Who Wants a Baby?" fox trot; $1.25. "You and I," fox trot, $1.25. The Carley Company The House That Made Richmond Musical. RICHMOND Virginia X. BOARD AND LODGING Don't be fooled by fake Kink Removers. You can't straighten your hair until it's soft and you must remove remnants dumbbell, feeds the roots of the hair and makes it grow long and silky AT THE RICHMOND BARGAIN HOUSE, $20 North First Street. CASH OR CREDIT. S. W. Robinson SATURDAY HE PUSH ROANOKE NEWS ROANOKIE VA.—Mrs. Novella Henderson, of 206 Sixth Avenue, N. 19, is confined to her home with inflammatory rheumatism. Mrs. Mary Barber is much improved at this writing. Mr. S. H. Holmes, a very strict member of the High Street Baptist Church died last Thursday at Burrell Memorial Hospital, after several weeks illness. He was a man of wonderful integrity and a noble Christian character. As a citizen he stood on the top rounds and was highly respected by all who knew him. Major W. B. F. Crowell, Deputy Grand Master of Virginia Odd Fellows left the city December 29, for South Boston, Va. to deliver the oration at the anniversary of the Odd Fellows of Boston and surrounding county. Mrs. Hattie Cooper of 514 Ninth Avenue, N. W., who has been quite indisposed in much better. Mrs. Nellie B. Pierce, of Detroit, Mich. was in the city during the holidays with friends. She was looking the picture of health. Mrs. J. H. Withers and son, James of 28 Atkins Avenue, Asbury, N. J., spent Christmas with her sister, Mrs. Borta Howard, 302 Seventh Avenue, N. W. Master Irving Howard, of Union University spent Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Howard Mrs. Lizzie Harris and husband were in the city during the holidays visiting mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hayden, of Seventh Avenue, N. W. Mr. C. D. Joplin, of Welch W. Va., formerly of Roanoke, spent the holidays at home with wife and mother. Mr. W. O. Stanfield, across Tinker Creek, has been sick. He is much improved under care of Dr. George E. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Newton and Mrs. Martha Minter, mother of Mrs. Newton and Miss Martha Bowles spent the Holidays in Washington, the guest of her sister. Mrs. Martha E. Brown was called to Montello, Pa., where she is attending the bedside of her brother. Mr. Robert Guntift. Mrs. Mary Moore Turner, of Wash- ington, D. C. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Claytor Webster on Harrison Avenue, N. W. Miss Louinia Moore returned to Washington, D. C., after spending the past two months in this city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. Webster. Mr. Bert Spencer returned to the city from Henry County, where he attended the bedside of his ill father Mr. D. W. Harth, Jr. left for Youngstown, Ohio, where he will enter business with his brother. Mrs. Eva G. Muse is visiting Mrs. L. W. Gramer, of Chicago, Ill. Mr. John Cobbs, brother of Mrs. Rodley Philpot died last Sunday and was buried in Midway Cemetery. Mr. Cornelius C. Lawson, of Pittsburgh, Pa. spent Christmas at Holins, his old home. He is a son of Rey, Lawson. Mr. Garland Marbles returned from Loxington, Ky., where he was the guest of Mrs. Paul C. H. Smith. He reports a fine trip. Mr. William Harper, 110 Fifth Avenue, N. W. is confined to his home suffering with pneumonia, the second attack in two years. Mrs. M. A. Powell, of 39 Fourth Avenue, N. W., who has been confined to her home the past six weeks is slightly better at this writing. Mr. Leon Miller of the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Linwood Moss, of Biddle and Mr. Donald Redd spent the Holidays in the city. Mrs. Martha Edna Boland, wife of Mr. Robert Boland visited her mother, Mrs. Mary L. Jackson, of Goshen, N. Y., who was UU. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Clemont, 269 Ohio Avenue, Columbus, Ohio were in the city recently visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary J. Jones, of 10 Lynchburg Avenue, N. B. and other relatives, sisters and brother, Mr. Johnnie Jones, of Diamond Hill. Miss Lou Eather Dayo spent the Holiday vacation at home with mother, auntie and uncle. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Lindsey, of Ninth Avenue, N. B. Mrs. J. A. J. Valentine, of Washington spent the Holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Jefferson, 11 Lynchburg Avenue, N. B. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Jefferson passed through Roanoke enroute to Bedford City, Va. They spent a few days with his parents. They were accompanied by his brother, Mr. Lewis Jefferson. Miss Lula B. Tanner, of Pittsburg Pa., a student at Mary Potter, Oxford N. C. was a guest of Mrs. J. A. J. Valentine. Mr. Charles A. Jofferson, waiter on Southern 23 and 24, was painfully hurt in a wreck near Ashoville N. C. He is at home with his parents. Mrs. Alice V. Jofferson has been much indisposed. S. C. McCalister, of Peach Road, has reopened his old place of business, where he had originally done a successful business. He claims he expects to stay if the public will sustain him by dropping in to examine his stock. Mrs. Carrie L. Walker, the proprietor of the Community Cafe, invites you to come in at her place for an up-to-date, all round meal, when your appetite is keen. The corner of Eighth Avenue and Peach Street. Messrs. Eugene Brown and R. D. Faulkner, who are nall driving in Halifax County, spent the holidays at home. They are working on the Bolstspring Church. Mess. L. L. J. Day, Eighth Avenue, N. E. entertained her cousin, Mr. Davie Winn, from Louisa County. ROAONKE, VA., January 6.—At the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Minnis, 525 Tenth Avenue, N. E., was the scene of a dinner party Tuesday, December 30, in honor of Rev. A. L. James and wife and little son, Rev. J. J. Jefferson and wife, Deacon John T. Lindsey and wife, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy, of Winston Salem, N. C. A very delightful dinner was served, after which Mr. and Mrs. McCoy rendered some beautiful pieces of music on the organ and all engaged in singing All enjoyed themselves in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Minnis and wished them success, health and happiness for the year of 1920. Mrs. Catherine Stanfield of 153 Wells Alley, N. W., was taken quite ill January 5. Mrs. Clara Stanfield of the same address has been quite sick for several days. Sho is slightly improved. Master James Withers, of Ashbury Park, N. J. has returned to Roanoke for a lengthy trip in the mountainous regions. Mr. Samuel Smith and Miss Clara With, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. With of Vinton, were united in marriage Thursday at the residence of Rev, W. M. Gilbert. The bride wore a grey suit with everything to match. They left for a short trip to Norfolk and will make their future home in Vinton. Mrs. Zoula Ramsey, of 55 Wells Alloy, N. W., who has been ill for a long while, is slightly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Huey have received a visit from the Stork and a fine baby boy was left, January 4. They reside at 34 Gilmer Avenue, N. W. Baby and mother are getting on nicely. Miss Nelly Myers spent the evening at the palatial home of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Joplin, 609 Sixth Avenue, N. W. with friends of Salem and Roanoke. The dinner was given in honor of Mr. C. D. Joplin, who leaves Monday evening for Welsh, W. Va. Mrs. Elhui Myers visited Miss Nelly Myers from Philadelphia, also Mr. Robert Gilbert, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Hatton is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. S. Hatcher, wife of the pastor of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. She is from Jamesville, N. C. Mrs. Annie Campbell Read, of 400 You Street, N. W. was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Daisy C. Eavan, 117 Fourth Avenue. Miss Beatrice Gatliff, of Chilicothe Ohio and Mr. George C. Calloway, of Chicago, III. was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Bannister, on Seventh Avenue, N. W. Miss Beatrice Gatliff of Chillicothe, Ohio and Mr. Charles Curtis of Abingdon, Va. were married at the residence of the Mr. and Mrs. William Bannister, December 25, by Rev. M. F. Hayling. They will reside at Abingdon, Va. Miss Lillian Paxton and Miss Zenobia Brown spent the Holidays visiting in Danville. Mr. J, E. Brown, Jr. left for Philadelphia, where he will take a special study. One of the promoters of the film exchange, Mr. Kelly, will be in the city on the 12th and 13th. He will appear at the Hampton Theatre with Negro Player Films. Don't fail to see them at the Hampton Tacatre. Mrs. Hattie B. Dugger is confined to her home suffering with a severe cold. Mr. Haywood Jones, Norfolk, Va. was the guest of Miss Ruth Curtis, 207 Fifth Avenue for four days the past week. Mrs. George Noe is confined to her home on account of illness. Mr. Christopher C. Clark and son of Williamson, W. Va. passed through the city enroute home from Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Bettie Grier, of Nuttallburg, W. Va. was the guest of her mother Mrs. Lucy Waller, 300 Seventh Avenue for ten days. Miss Crecela and Marie Hughes returned from Bluefold, W. Va. where they spent the Holidays with their sister, Mrs. W. T. Brown. A good number of members and friends of the A. M. E. Church met at the home of Brother William Holland, 305 Seventh Avenue, where he was pounded Wednesday night. Brother Holland has been confined to his home for three weeks. We are praying for his restoration to health. Mr. Louis Bonnett, of Pittsburgh, Pa. dled in the Smoky City, after two weeks suffering with pneumonia. His body was carried to Rocky Mount Va. for interment. He was a faithful Christian and a brother of Mrs Ida Belecher in this city. Mr. W, R. Gray, of Washington, D. C. is the guest of his son, Mr. Clarence Gray, on Wells Avenue. He works in the treasury department. Mr. and Mrs. Oble Taylor, 501 Second Street, N. E. spent the Holidays with her parents at Witcoe, W. Va. They spent an enjoyable week and returned much pleased. A Revival is in progress this week at the Hill Street Baptist Church. Rev. D. R. Powell is doing some successful work there. May the good work continue until many sons and daughters are saved to the Master's service! Mrs. Jane R. Price, of Lexington, Va. was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. P. G. Gravely Christmas at 123 Sovereign Avenue, N. W. Roanoke City Lodge, 3225, hold their annual banquet December 31, at their hall on Harrison Avenue, at 8:30 P. M. Master of ceremonies was Mr. J. K. Trent. Timely remarks were made by Messrs. W. R. Simms, W. W. Brown, John Dent, Iven C. Mike, George Thornton, P. Buford and others. A purse of $6.30 was left on the table for two widows. Mr. Charles W. Polindexter was chairman of the committee, assisted by Messrs. Ward H. Hall, Manson Graham and George Thornton. Forty members were present and all loft wishing the Lodge much success in 1920. DEASTROUS BLUNDER IS ATTRICTED TO WILSON London Paper in Wrath at League Failure; Lloyd George's Money On Wrong Horse. Washing on, Jan. —The League of Nations covenant as submitted by President Wilson being a British docu- ment, Premier Lloyd George has in a speech in the House of Commons taken umbrage at its Americanization at the hands of the Republic mem- bers of the United Sates Senate. "We have talked less about it" he says, but every needful act on to make the league a reality has been taken by Great Britain. It is not fair to suggest insincerity but if America comes in on conditions which will not be applicable to all the others it would be most difficult to have men sitting around the same board under different conditions with one nation being untrammeled and the others having their hands tied behind their backs." In view of the fact that it was only the idea of a league which originary came from President Wilson and that the terms were drawn up by General Smuts, an Englishman in such form that the United States would be compelled to uphold the boundaries of the British Empire in perpetuity, the attempt to throw the onus on America is not taken with good grace in Washington. The London Morning Post scored the Premier for "trying to throw the blame on the American nations," and called the speech "a confession of failure." It defends the Senate's action on the League of Nations and says Mr. Lloyd George "put his money on the wrong horse when he supported President Wilson's disastrous blunders." Meanwhile Henry Wise Wood in a letter to the forty-three members of the New York delegation in the House of Representatives moves the impeachment of President Wilson on the ground that he has endeavored to thwart, contravene, frustrate and defeat the Constitution." As the former president of the League for the Preservation of American Independence, he gives as his reasons that my fixing his signature to the League of Nations covenant thus deliberately attempting to subject the United States Congress and New York State to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws. He has shown contempt for the Senate for inciting the uninformed to clamor against the lawful use of the authority and by threats to diminish the prestige and authority of a coequal organ of the government in order that he might become the master of our foreign relations." President Fry Speaks to Monarchs The first anniversary of the Monarch Pool and Billiard Academy was held at their club ro m, 619 North Second Street, Thursday night January 1st, 1920 at eleven o'clock. All business was suspended and preparations were made for the grand entertainment. The Club room was beautifully decorated. The pool tables were converted into dining tables which were covered with white linen cloths. At the hour of twelve the members were ushered to their places by Mr. Samuel Dismond and Mr. Robert Walker. The members were then called to order by Mr. James H. Ammons Jr., Toast Master. Blessing was announced by Mr. Benjamin Taylor, Mr. James T. Fry, Jr., President, gave an interesting talk to the club members, concluding with a wish for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. The menu consisted of Turkey and Smithfield Ham sandwiches, chicken salad on lettuce, English peas, colery olives and hote chocolate. ```markdown ``` Robert Smalls Post No. 60, American Legion of Kentucky Box 340, Paducah, Ky. January 3, 1920. Dear Editor—Am sending you the following news item hoping that you will be able to publish same in your next edition. The Robert Smalls Post No. 60, American Legion of Kentucky has received its Charter. The Post is named in honor of the late General Robert Smalls of Beaufort, S. C., hero of the Star "Planter." The Constitution and By-Laws have been adopted and at the meeting held on Friday January 2nd the following officers were elected: W. Robert Smalls, Commander; James R. Johnson, Vice Commander; John A. Morton, Jr., Adjutant; Dr. Royal W. Grubbs, Finance Officer; Homer O. Kolley Historian; William B. Pleasant, Chaplain; Felix Bowles, Master-at-Arms. The Post will launch its membership drive on Sunday afternoon January 18th at which time it will hold a mass meeting at Harrison Street Church. At this meeting several prominent speakers will deliver adresses among whom will be Captain H. G. Burke, late of Co. "M." 370th Infantry. At this meeting the Woman's Auxiliary will also be organized. It is also planned to open a solders club as a home for the Post, within a few weeks. "Americanization Week" early in next month is also planned in connection with the other Post, McCracken County (white) of this city. Thanking you in advance for the publication of same, I am, Yours very truly, W. ROBERT SMALLS, Post Commander. CWELTH ANNUAL ALPHA P ALPHA BACON AT CORAZO Chicago, Pl., Dec. 31.—What was said to be the largest gathering on Negro College men ever assembled was the Twelfth Annual convention of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Chicago, December 27th-31st. More than a hundred representatives from twenty-seven chapters located at the leading universities in the East and North formed the greatest gathering in numbers and enthusiasm so far attempted by this first of Negro college fraternities. The delegates to this convention reported a total membership of more than eighteen hundred with some six hundred at present engaged in undergraduate or unversity work Among the members well known to Richmond who took an active part in the affairs of this convention were: Mr. L. L. McGee the General Vive President, who is soon to receive his Ph. D., from the university of Chicago; Mr. S. S. Booker the General Treasurer now Secretary of the Balti moro "Y"; M. H. Vann a senior in the Dental School at the University of Michigan; H. B. Taliaferro Attorney of Detroit, Mich., Charles H. Thompson who receives his Masters Degree in Education at Chicago University next June; Charles S. Johnson associate secretary of the Illinois Race Commission; T. Arnold Hill and W. H. Harris of the Chicago Urban League and V. D. Johnston of the Northwestern University School of Commerce—all former students at Union. A. A. Thompson and A. D. Price represented the Gamma Chapter located at Virginia Union University. At a public meeting on Sunday December 28th at the Wendell Phillips High School at which the Hon. Emmett J. Scott of the Beta Chapter at Howard University addressed a great assembly of representative Chicago citizens on "The Future of the Negro in Big Business" he said among other things to his mind "the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is the most forward-looking group of the Young Negro in America and in the World." Mr. S. S. Booker and Mr. L. L. McGee were other speakers at this meeting at which Dr. George C. Hall the well known Chicago surgeon proided. The hospitality of Chicago people threatened at one time to disrupt the program of the Convention with social attractions. On Saturday a Smoker was provided by Chicago Alumni, Monday night Dr. Hall acted as host at a reception at the Unity Club followed by the reception of the Forty Club, Tuesday evening the Friernity gave its Annual Formal Promenade, Wednesday afternoon the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority entertained at Tea and at night the Convention closed with its usual Banquet. Business of course had to be attended to between times. Delegates reported six of the fraternity elected to the Phi Bete Kapa from as many institutions as far separated as Pennsylvania and the University of Kansas and among other things established a commission whose duty it shall be to compile statistics on accomplishments of graduate members to list and make available information for the employment of its members upon graduation from college and to organize a "Go-To-College Campaign in the High Schools of the Country. Kansas City, Kansas was chosen as the meeting place of the next Convention at the seat of the Beta Lamvention at the seat of the Beta Lauba and Upsilon Chapters. On a whole the better class of Chicago people will have reason to remember the Alpha Phi Alpha for a long time to come. —OECONOMICUS --- Received a Diamond Scarf Pin Mr. Archie L. Ferris, who for 15 years has been in the employ of Mr. Sedley D. Jones, furniture dealer, at 726 N. Second Street, was presented with a beautiful diamond scarf pin, as a token from his four daughters, Misses Thelma, Gladys, Gay and Lillian Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Sedley D. Jones presented him a purse. POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS In order that industrial production in the United States may be fully protected from an inundation of foreign cheaper-made goods, Representative Joseph W. Fordney, of Michigan, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, has introduced a bill which is calculated to prevent un fair competition. He provides that if any American manufacturer has an interest in or controls a plant in Europe which produces goods similar to those he turns out here and sells them in the American market at a lower price he will be charged not only the ordi nary import duty upon such goods but the entire difference in price which he would have received if manufactured in this country. Regulation of prison labor is in effect in provided in a bill introduced in the House by Representative John I. Nolan, of California, Republican, and Chairman of the House Committee on Labor who is also a labor man. Nolan would employ such labor for the production of supplies and authorize their purchase by the federal government. He would regulate the compensation and hours of such labor and fix its standards and then proft bit the purchase of supplies manufactured by it under private contract. He would have the government coulp the United States penitentiaries and the United States Army and disciplinary prisons and disciplinary barracks and the United States Naval prisons for their behalf and to provide for the internment, and for provision that the compensation to be paid for such supplies shall to tar as poss be to the prevailing price for the commod ties in the vicinity of the institution internment from Compensation and hours of labor for inmates of the in stitutions working upon such supplies shall be based upon the standard hours and wages prevailing in the vicinity in which the institution is so cated." No child hereafter born in the United States of foreign parentage will be eligible to citizenship unless both parents are eligible to become citizens, if a joint resolution introduced in the House by Representative Raker of California, is enacted into law. He takes the view that this would have the effect of making the parents more anxious to become permanently identified with the country and therefore helping in the work of Americanizing America. A FOURTH STREET DISTILLERY James Golden, the Ice Man, Arrested. James Golden, who does an ice-business at 621 North Fourth street was evidently betrayed late Wednesday night 7th inst. when internal revenue officers raided the place and found a still in full operation. They arrested visitors as well as others and they destroyed the still and other paraphernalia. Ten gallons of whiskey were found on the premises. James Golden and James Harris alias Brooke were charged with owning and operating the still and Robert Bowles and George Golden with aiding and abetting them. One 50 gallon container full of mash, three oil stoves and boilers and the officers. The officers used an axe for destroying the outfit. It seems a lot of mixed grain were seized by that a rubber hose was connected to the hydrant and this served to aid in the distillation. Water had been seen running almost continuously from the Golden ice establishment, but it awakened no curiosity on the part of anybody. The officers of the Government were of the opinion that the capacity of the Golden distillery was about one gallon of whiskey per hour. The wives of the two men directly involved were much upset by the arrest and when our representative visited the place were on the way down to the federal building to do what they could for their husbands, who had been incarcerated i n the Henrico county jail until bail could be provided for them. Mrs. Pauline Blond is the Assistant Superintendent at Hopewell S. S. Good Hopewell Sunday School School is glad to have Mrs. Pauline Bland as Assistant Superintendent again. We hope this year's with her accomplishment and talent to have much success in our work. REV. J. E. FOUNTAIN, Pastor Wife Wanted! I am a young man, 22 years old; three years of High Schooling, two and one half years mechanical and electric trade. Wish to marry a young girl with a good character, that is able to back me in business for myself. Write at once, A. F. S. care of the Planet. BALTIMORE NOTES Baltimore, January 7.—Colored Republicans are up in arms here because the Republicans refuse to allow them two health wardens, Strong protests are being voiced against the "Lily-white" strain that has developed during the past twenty years, and threats of voting for the Democrats are being made freely, unless these condition are corrected. City Councilman Warner T. McGuinn and W. I. Fitzgerald and John H. Murphy Editor of the Afro-American are among those making the changes ring with the protests. Baltimore, January 7.—Judge Dobler of Circuit Court No. 2, handed down a decision last Saturday denying the petition of the most Worshipful United Grand Lodge of Masons of Maryland for a mandamus preventing the York Rite Masons from setting up lodges in Maryland, Benjamin H. M. Kindlass and Charles W. Main repre sented the defendants, W. Ashbie Hawkkins attorney for the plaintiffs will take an appeal. BOOKKEEPER WANTED—Apply at the Mechanics Savings Bank, Rich mond, Va. RE-REGISTRATION AT SIXTH MT ZION BAPSTIST 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 falling 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. Yours as ever, REV. R. V. 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"Cairo Love" fox trot; $1.25. "Hand-in-Hand Agan," waltz; $1.25. "Hold Me," fox trot; $1.25. "There's a Lot of Blue-Eyed Marys Down in Maryland," fox trot; $1.00. "Think of Me, Little Daddy," fox trot; $1.00. "Tumble In" (from "Passing Show"); $1.25. "Who Wants a Baby?" fox trot; $1.25. RICHMOND Virginia BOARD AND LODGING BLANKET SALE AT THE RICHMOND BARGAIN HOUSE, 220 North First Street. CASH OR CREDIT. S. W. Robinson GROCERIES Umbrella Coupons GOOD FOR FIVE VOTES RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library TIME IS FLEETING-KEEP POSTED VOLUME XXXVII, NUMBER 9. AN ECHO FROM PRESIDENT MUTCHELLS VISTE. Toledo's Hospital, President Greenhow—The Mayor's Greeting. Editor Richmond Planet, Sir—Since our president, Rev. J. I. Greenshow as a Virginian and the greatest impetus this movement has received since its inauguration was given it by President John Mitchell, Jr., of the Mechanics Bank of your City; I feel that in justice to the people of your state and also to the individuals or this city who made it possible for us to receive properly our distinguished guest that some mention should be made through the columns of your paper concerning the visit of President Mitchell, his reception and the influence of the message he left with the people of Toledo of both race. President Mitchell, arrived here 12:15 October 16th, Mr. E. B. Wanzo our leading undertaker with his large touring car, accompanied by the reception committee consisting of the president, Rev. J. I. Greenhow, the Secretary, Rev. A. J. Anthony and Rev. Cunningham met president Mitchell at the depot, called by Atorney B. H. Fisher's office and then to the Harris Hotel where dinner awaited Mr. Mitchell and party. After dinner Mr. Wanzo called for president Mitchell to show him some of the City First Mr. Wanzo drove out to the great auto plant, known as the Willys Overland Company, where twenty thousand employees work, Mr. Greenhow secured passes for the party and was ushered to the General Managers office, Mr. Greenhow introduced Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Wanzo, Mr. C. R. Miller the manager received the party and invited Mr. Mitchell and party very cordially to visit all departments. They hurried through several of the hundreds of departments and made a brief call to the vice president's office in the Administration Building where the coming of Virgina's great colored Finance'er had been heralded—as the Toledo from by this time had named Mr. Mitchell—the party was warmly received here where another invitation was extended welcoming the party to all departments. Mr. Wanzo then turned on the juice tan dumade a half dof en miles look like a half dozen yards from Overland to National Maleable on the East side of the city, Rev. A. J. Anthony introduced the party to the Manager, Mr. Leroux who personally escorted the party through many departments. That night, the Overland, the National Mallable, the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Toledo sent representatives to the Zenobia Hall to welcome President Mitchell to the city. The Mayor in a strong and forceful address welcomed Mr. Mitchell, to the city. Attorney B. H. Fisher with a flow of eloquence introduced Mr. Mitchell who held the great audience spell bound for one and a half hours. A committee consisting of the following then gave a banquet in honor of Mr. Mitchell at Mr. Ira Stewarts Cafe on St. Clair street: Dr. Randolph, Mr. Geo. Sawyer, Rev. A. J. Anthony; Mr. Cottrell, Miss Chapman, Attorney B. H. Fisher; Mrs. A. J. Anthony; Mr. Duprest of Chicago; Rev. J. I. Greenhow and others, after which our treasurer, Mr. Geo. Sawyer had a private meeting with Mr. Mitchell and sent him on his way, retiring. Since Mr. Mitchell left the following persons have joined Charter Member. Ship Rank of the Working Men's Co-operative Association—Attorney B. H. Fisher, Dr. B. F. McWilliams of the Third Baptist Church, Rev. Farther Bagnall of the All Saints, Rev. Woodson of the A. M. E. Mr. W. H. Armstrong and I myself have joined since and am one of the directors. The First National Bank is our present depository. We are aiming to secure our Charter shortly for $50,000.00 and open our store at once carrying a full line of living necessities and offering employment to scores of our boys and girls. Respectfully, GEORGE WILLIAMS, Secretary, Ways and Means Com- of the Working Men's Co-operative Association. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT. Miss Corlone M. E. Hudson and Mr. Charles Otis Wilson both of this city were united in marriage in Itha n. N. Y., December 23rd, 1919, the Rev. William D. White officiating. Mr. Wilson is employed on the clerical staff of Troman King and Company as Secretary to Mr. R. E. Treman. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will make their home in Itha. NOISE MORE NOISE TALK SOME BLACK LEADERS TALK PROF. MOTON TELLS OF THE LYNCHING RECORD FOR 1019. Dear Sir: I send you the following information relative to lynchings for the past year. According to the record compiled by Monroe N. Work of the Department of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute, there were 82 lynchings in 1919, of which 77 were in the South and 5 in the North and West. This is 18 more than the number 64 for the year 1918. Of those lynched 75 were Negroes and 7 were whites. One of 64 put to death was a Negro woman. Nineteen or less than one fourth of those put to death were charged with rape or attempted rape. Seven of the victims were burned to death. Nine were put to death and then their bodies were burned. The charges against those burned to death were: rape 3; murder 2; Killing guerrilla 1; no charge given 1. The charges against those first killed and then their bodies burned were: attempted rape 3; shooting officers of the law 3; rape 1; murder 1; incendary talk 1. The offense of murder was charged against all the whites lynched. The offenses charged against the Negroes were: murder 13; attempted rape 10 rape 9; abetting riots 4; shooting officers of the law 4; insulting a woman 4; killing officer of the law 4; alleged incendian talk 2; writing improp letter 2; charge not reported 6; shooting a woman 1; robbery 1; murder sentence changed to life imprisonment 1; shooting night watchman 1; shooting and wounding a man 1; alleged complicity in killing officer of the law 1; killing man in self-defense 1; killing landlord in dispute over crop settlement 1; no charge made 1; being acquitted of shoot officer of the law 1; remarks about Chicago race riot 1; keeping company with a white woman 1; for being found under bed 1; for making boastful remarks 1; for alleged misleading of mobs searching for another 1; because appeal was taken from ten years' sentence for attempting Life of another 1; for discussing a lynching 1. The States in which lynching, oo STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Mechanics Savings Bank was held, Tuesday, January 6, 1920 in the conect hall of the 7th yilian Castle. It proved to be one of enquiries, satisfactory and enthusiastic meetings ever held by the body. Presi- dent John Mitchell, Jr., presided, while Dr. Albert, A. Tennant, Secre- tary of the Board of Directors kept the minutes. It was nearly nine o'clock when the gavel fell and pray- er was offered. After the rollcall Cashier A. V. Norrell, Jr., made his annual report. The increase in deposits as of January 1, 1919 and January 1, 1920 was $89,916.62. Prior to paying Christmas Savings Club deposits, the bank's deposits' had reached $540,000.00 The increase in mortgage loans was $109,715 91. Nearly all of the office space in the Mechanics Bank Building is now rented. On January 3, 1920 the amount of money deposited in the Christmas Savings Club department alone aggregated over one thousand dollars. The report created a profound impression. Vice-President John T. T. Taylor assumed the chair and President John Mitchell, Jr., made his report. He reviewed the work of the past year, the True Reformers Bank deposit, the prephase of the Strand Theatre, the trip to the American Bankers' Association and the steady increase in the bank's deposits. He stated that he had more than once annuated that the fine banking house, the expensive round door vault and the palatial surroundings were all twenty years ahead of the colored people. It had been ten years since the build ng was erected and the manage ment just now began to see that they were reaching the point where the bank would pay. He congratulated the stockholders upon their patience and the bank directors and officials upon their service. A rising vote of thanks was extended to the President, Miss M. L. Chiles then moved that the present Board of Directors, con sisting of John Mitchell, Jr.; John T. Taylor; A. A. Tennant; J. M. G. Ramsey; R. W. Whiting, E. R. Jefferson, A. D. Price and J. J. Carter be reected and this was unanimously carried. The meeting then adjourned. Mr. Harvey Jenkins, Sr. Dead. The funeral services of Mr. Harvey Jenkins, Sr., who departed this life December 27th, 1919 at his residence 2311 Decatar street, South Richmond were conducted Tuesday December 30th at Second Baptist Church. The pastor Rev. L. C. Garrland officiated, assisted by Revs. R. P Graham and A. L. Britton. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Elvira Jenkins, four daughters, Mrs. Lena Radford of Philadelphia*a. Pa.; Mrs. Alberta Stephenson, Mrs. Robena Baugh, Mrs. Amorette Mayo; one son, Harvey Jenkins. He was a member of Good Samaritans; Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Henry Smith of Philadelphia, Pa., brother of Mrs. Elvira Jenkins attended the funeral. C. S. Cunningham, Funeral Director. Card of Thanks. I take this method of thanking the many friends for their kindness shown during the illness and death of my husband Harvey Jenkins, Sr., also for the beautiful floral designs sent. MRS. ELVIRA JENXINS. NOTICE Miss Kathryn Hawes will speak at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, in Fulton on next Sunday January 11th, 3:30 P. M. Madame Tush-Banks will recite. A most excellent program has been arranged under auspices of Fulton Settlement House. Lawyer George Blackwell, of Chicago, Ill. visited his parents, Prof. and Mrs. J. H. Blackwell during the holidays. Last week Mrs. Ora Brown Stokes soelk worker of this city, visited the southern section of the State, where she secured the custody of a very young girl, whom she turned over to the Neighborhood Association. Mrs. Stokes will leave the city next week for Rockingham County on business for the Juvenile Court. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1920 Don't For-ever Blow Bubbles curred and the number in each state are as follows: Alabama 7; Arkansas 12; Colorado 2; Florida 5; Georgia 21; Louisiana 7; Mississippi 12; Missouri 2; Nebraska 1; North Carolina 3; South Carolina 1; Tennessee 1; Texas 4; Washington 1; West Virginia 2; Kansas 1. PROF. R. ALONZO SCOTT HERE Prof. R. Alonzo Scott, who has been residing in England for about sixteen years is in the city. He is a singer, poet, musician, elocutionist, musical composer; orator and humor- 1st. He spoke last Tuesday night at the A. M. E. . Zion Hood Memorial Church. He is impressive in his manner and pleasing in his delivery. He has made the tour of the world twice and succeeds in captivating and pleasing large audiences. Mr. Charles Hickmon of New York City spent the holidays here, visiting his mother, Mrs. Amelia Jones of 114 E. 18th street. Mrs. Mollie Booker of Philadelphia, was the guest of Mrs. Susie Robinson of 215 E. 17th street during the holidays. A Birthday Party Mrs. Sterling Pride of 2413 Bainbridge street, South Richmond, celebrated her 25th birthday on the night of January 1st, 2012 Quite a number of her friends were present. The parlor was beautifully decorated with ferns, white and pink carnations and narcissus. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pernell; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pride; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Loney; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jackson; Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Christian; Mrs. Luolso Lynch, Mrs. Laura F. Pride; Mrs. Charles Williams; Misses Funnie Boughman; Annie Dobb, Lucy and Lillian Manning; Elva Smith; Messrs. Joseph Pollard, Edward Pierson, Willie Pride, Joseph and C. A. Carrington. A pleasant evening was spent and all enjoyed themselves. Refreshments such as chicken salad, ice cream, cake etc., were served to the satisfaction of the inner man. All left wishing the host and hostess a happy and prosperous New Year. Death of Betsy Bryant. Mrs. Betsey Bryant died at the residence of her grand-daughter, Mrs. Bettie Council 309 Williams Street, Saturday, December 13 1919. So she was the mother of the late Isaac Crump and grand-mother of the late Thomas M. Crump. Funeral was held from the Crump residence 603 W. Leigh Street Monday, December 16, 1919 at 3 o'clock. Rev. Wm. H. Stokes pastor of the deceased spoke beautifully of her long useful life and Rev. Samuel Turner prayed. She was a member of J. Henry Sears Lodge Good Samaritans. Mr. A. D. Price Funeral Director. Interment Woodland Cemetery. --- —Mr. C. C. Johnson of Atlantic City, N. J., is visiting friends here. He is looking well. —Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Davis were at the city this week the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur James of 1513 Decatur street. AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY Twenty-third Annual Meeting—A Program of Excellent Papers. Ection of Officers. Washington, D. C. January 2. 1920 - The American Negro Academy, an organization of authors, scholars, artists and other distinguished men of African descent, for the promotion of letters, science and art and to teach as far as possible a form of intellectual taste, convened in this city during the past week, and its four sess ons, covering two days were well attended. An unusually large number of members attended the business sessions. Among those were noted: Bishop John Hurst of Baltimore, Md; W. H. Harst of Baltimore, Md; W. H. Ferris of Philadelphia, Pa; Prof. J. E. KAggery, of Livingston College, Salisbury, N. C; W. Ashle Hawkins of Baltimore, Md; John R. Clifford, of Martinsburg, W. Va; Robert, T. Browne; Arthur A. Schomburg; and John E. Bruce ("Bruce Gril") of New York City; Judge R. H. Terrell Rev. W. H. Brooks, Rev. Francis J. Grinke; Rev. L. Z. Johnson; Prof. Geo. W. Cook; E. C. Williams; L. M. Hershaw, T. Montgomery Gregory F. H. M. Murray; Neval H. Thomas John W. Cromwell and Robert A. Pelham of Washington, D. C. and A. H. Grinke. THE SECOND TIME For the second time in the history of the organization the Academy gave a place on its program to a non member, Mr. A. Philip Randolph, editor of the Messenger, of New York City being the person so honored with "The New Radicalism of the Negro" as the subject of his address. For about two hours Mr. Randolph portrayed in a calm conversational manner the present world conditions. His language was chaste, his figures graphic, his gesures simple yet suficiently appropriate and forceful to make a most profound impression. In his opinion, we are certain to have a revolution in the United States none the less so because it may be bloodless. He unhesitatingly insisted that the Negro masses should follow the lead of the "New Negro" in their lineup with labor in order, as he said, to be on top in the general round-up; his analysis of the sit nation being that in the impending conflict between Capital and Labor the latter is sure to win. THREE GROUPS DEFINED He divided the classes or Negro Leaders into three groups. The first or the "old crowd politicians" he called the "right wing," and claimed that they were absolutely wrong and responsible for all the illis the race is heir to. "Having been bought and paid for" they are not worthy of leadership" said he. In his second group he placed the members of the Academy labelling them and those of their ilk as "the centris"—the Intelligence" of the race. Nor were they deemed capable leaders, because though honest they were vasillating. The third group, he designated as the "left wing" of which he is a bright and shining light. This group he held were right beyond the shad ow of a doubt. His address was a masterly presentation of a well defined theory, and an animated discussion followed only to be cut short for lack of time. In his rebuttal he lost much of his poise by drifting into ridicule—a mistake common to most young debaters. Among those who joined in the discussion were: Prof. J. E. K. Aggery, Messrs. W. H. Ferris, Robert T Browne; F. H. M. Murray, Prof Carter G. Woodson and Judge R. H. Terrell. Mr. Randolph's critics claim that he signally failed to define his position on the "open" or "closed" shop, or cite any history that would serve to prove his contention that Labor would keep any of "the promises" now being so profusely made now that the battle is on and the Negro is wanted. Judging the labor group by the same taken as he judged the "old crowd" his strictecies on the latter could be more consistently附ied to the former, for organized labor has ever been the bête noir of the Negro everywhere in this country. "THE WILLIAM TEIL" OF THE RACE. Mr. John R. Clifford, editor of the Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. Va., was first on the program with a paper "A New Religion for the Negro." He called for the weeding out of all unworthy ministers—contended for an exalted womanhood and the proper training of children and urged "a concereted and able ministry to grapple with the problems that confront the race" as a means of their speedy and proper solution. President Archibald H. Grimstone in his annual address entitled "The Shame of America" graphically outlined the history of the race in the United States and most forcefully portrayed the record of the white man as a continuing line of broken promises. Said he in closing: "Friends we are marching then a living and lowering present into the unknown, then an enemy's land at the summons of duty. We are to face great labour great dangers, to fight like men our passions and American caste prejudice and oppression and God Helping us to conquer them." BISHOP HURS'S CONTRIBUTION The paper of Bishop John Hurst of Baltimore, Md., was a historical presentation of the evolution of the different constitutions in Haiti and the part the United States is now playing in the affairs of that country. He convincingly showed by quotations from their several constitutions that the Haitian government needs no more dietary—whether American or not. The several papers were well received and the speakers highly complimented. After fifteen years of continuous service as president, M. A. H. Grimke asked to retire and elected president emeritus. Rev. F. J. Grimke who had served as treasurer since the organization was founded also retired. Each gentleman was presented with a fifteenth penin as a token of appreciation of services rendered and a reminder of their efforts for the intellectual improvement of the race. John W. Cromwell who had served as corresponding secretary from the birth of the Academy was elected to the presidency as a rear for merit. He is credited with having been especially active in arranging for all the excellent programs presented to the public in the past 23 years. The annual election of officers resulted as follows President John W. Cromwell, Winn- ington, D. C.; Vice President Robert T. Browne, New York City, Prof. J. E. K. Aggery, Sallburg, N. G. Bishop John Hurst Baltimore, Mo. Dr. C. V. Roman, Nashville, Tenn. Corresponding Secretary Robert A. Pelham; Recording Secretary T. Mong- gomery Gregory; Treasurer, Lara- ette M. Hersaw; Executive Commi- tee: Prof. Kelly Miller, Prof. G. Lightfoot, F. H. M. Murray, Prof. William Pickens, Baltimore, Mo. John E. Bruce New York City REV. DR. SHEW WITH HERE. Rev. W. H. Skipwith, D. L., the quoted Gospel preacher evangelist and singer is here and in midst of a great and successful revival. Our Church was packed last Sunday to its utmost capacity with colored and white to hear this great preacher. Twenty-five persons accepted Christ. Baptizing next Sunday. U. G. C. Teachers Wanted. Two teachers wanted, male and female or a man and his wife. Must he well educated and a knowledge of type-writing on the part of the one or the other desired. Wages $40.00 per month and board. A knowledge of music on the part of one of them is also desired. Address, Lowry Institute and Industrial School, Mayesville, S. G. President. Farmer Wanted. Wan'd 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. TWO ees ta SOME AACE (SSUES FROM COLORADO ta uct, otra, z December 20, 1919. ‘To The Editor of The Planey T think I will make another try in au essay on Negroes. Seat you an eftu- sion which you saw fit to publish in your issue of December 13. Although 1 doubted its propriety and probably you did. Un that letter I got far away off tho subject in chatering about the Interesting discoveries made by a “lady from tho north." Not a day passes but 1 observe somo new phase of the futile resist ance to the high cost of living. Here in Colorado a special session of the Legislature is being held and though the governor refused (o Include it tn his list of objects of the call it is be {ng persistently draggod in, as it a handful of wise debaters away out in the remote west could solve a prob Jem which convulses five wontinents, THE QUESTION OF PUBLICITY Ono of the most serious hindrances of our latter day civilization is the helpless and utter lack of means. of publicity. You remember how Mr. Roosovelt insisted on publicity and how boily he turned tho light upon anything and everything, But while he as an official could do th's, you and I of tho humble rabble are’ tied down dumb, voiceless. So now wo can not say a word in print, where it can coing before the public eye, about tho doings of the profiteers all around us. During the war Uncle Sam bade us he silent and disereet and we obeyed, After the war we still remain silent we fot the habit. Now while being plucked and robbed we make com- plaint on:y in a general way, hitting at somebody far away but saying nothing about those graftera hero al home in tho next block, COLORED PAPPRS STIFLED. Tho most tightly hogtied of all arc the American newspapers, ‘They are tied not only by those stringent feder al restrictions prevailing in Europe and (hose we experienced in war time Int by numerous others, most imperious of all being their lordly masters “(he advertisers. In the prev fous generation every newspaper was either Repubtican or Demucratic and wach one banged away at everybody and everything not in i's party, But now they are all on the fence each ono artfully posing ly attract dollars from wherever they may float, trying to catch ‘em going and eaten ‘em coming. Bul this is not an essay cn No groes, tho lady from the North ex- claims. Just you wail and Twill show you Read on, THE DAILY PRESS HANDICAPPED Tho daily papers are utterly and help lessly ted down, unable to speak out o hany tople obliged to wateh sharp hoths {he ads and the clrenlation, both of which are vulnerable at every point. ‘They live in the most flimsy glass houscs: They dare not — say their souls are thelr own or — that they havo any souls. Thoy tremble when the bankers shake a stick, for you know as the Bible says the borrow: or 18 servant to tho lender. Keager to got a 2 column ad from clothing man they say nothing and do nothing as to his nationality, his religion, — his politics or his opinions, What is that to them? Same way ns to the Maquor man; samo way as to the to acco man; same way as to the dc partment store, the backer, tho of shark, the unscrupulous promote: who solls stocks and so on all the way down the lino. THA THEATRICAL CRITIC. But first in the list of these, the masters of publication aro the pic ture shows. They run two to four col umns of live ads and their freo pass es to newspaper people are not to be sneezed at. In old times now and then newspaper did allow the thea trical critic to be candid in his ro- marks on tho actors (carefully om't ting any reference to the “house” st self) but now the only limit on. the picture shows is the board of censers and we often wonder whether that hoard does not sleep half the time, Never any comment in any nowspa per on films and serecn stories, ex cept those bloviating free puffs. of two stickfuls or moro which aro soaked with clover flattery. ‘This is unfalr to Moses Slovinsky; he is no! given A free writeup as a compliment ary with his clothing ad. Nor docs Antonlo Carliapiannittt! get any sur pins oxtra reader along with his wine-malt ad. “But what's alt this got to do with Nogroes.” The lady from tho north is gotling restivo again. THE PROPITEERS. | Speaking of profiteers 1 made a contract’, with a cemen: amar to bu ld a wall at $115.00; 1 was to furnish the door and window frame: and I got second hand ones to save expense. When tho work was a done this fellow’s bi was not $116.00 but $133.00, Ho had mo charged with two days work at $9.00 a day for etraightoning those old frames, which ho claimed were warpod. Thero are profiteers all around us, 1 know of ono of the most prominent groceries whoso pound weight is 16 ounces, One of the oldest ercamorics sells 14 ounces of butter for a pound and hag done so for years. ‘The Standard Oil Company’s metal barrels of gasoline were two to four gallons short, being sold all over Missouri a few years ago to my personal knowledge, Don't Know whether thos barrels have swelled out any yet. ‘There is no Possible way in which publicity ean bo turned upon any of these and 1, 001 other gratts. THE WEEKLY SITUATION. But how about the weeklies? asks an amiable listener, They are still more helpless. They have less momentum to move then along; they are still more vulnerable therefore more sensitive. But the main point is, they afferd less public ity, except In special instances such as the Planot. As a gereral rule here in the west, weekly papers are not read much except fn rural com munities. In cities they carry little influence and do not stand on the sam footing with the big pretentious selfish dailies, They fool all the peo- ple all the time, Step inside the pleture show and look at the sereen. It depicts either a roughand tumble fight or a trage dy or both and dees th's every night all the year round, and in the most realistic way possible. Not hundreds not thousands but millions of people are fed on brutality as a more steady et than potatoes. WHERE SAMBO COMES IN. ~ | Now do you begin (0 seo wherd the Negro gets into this ensay? | An hundred or more years ago tn England no actual scene of tragedy was allowed on the stage, ‘Thre hundred years ago men were hung for stealing &sheop or a pin or rotted in prison for debt. Revalsion — from stich harharities ad become so radi cal that no death scones were allowed Public sentiment shut ont tho ret o Killing and horrors were taboo, Bu how fs i now in this our beloved anc boastful America? Tt tx a continua nightly round of fis's and pistols ané Gaguers wil: our women and children Ahere to seo along with that isn of young ruffian that makes up’ ¢ largo element of male city lite— th male {hat classes himself with the “sports.” He gets so excited over the pictures ho ean hardly sit still, So fdiers who were overseas nnd’ got thelr pienty of real fighting aro tt mune to this roughneck stuff, bu te “sports who run with the fang actually envy the triumphant hero of tho pie“ure show. ‘They wan! 8 chaneo to give somebady such alt 0. (Cock out) as was dono by Thu rleano Bill when the Bittor erect! Joughs Jumped on him at the Sage brush dance hail. | ADSOLUTELY MELPLESS. | Thoughtful people who observe and realize the drift of all this are absc lutely helpless. We devote money and fiime amd pains (0 uplifting edu cation of young people—more than over in all history: yet the power of J these melodramatic picture shows Js ton times that of all the parent- teachers, ‘This fight and knock-out spirit ts alive and ready in every city and is nightly augmented. It is like those German mines and bombs. kktcking around No Man's Land ready to go (olf at a touch. Let any unusual social jar occur and these “sports” are veady to start up an Omaha fire orgy, ‘a Knozville riot, a Chicago etock yards raid a Mississippi night. ride. Here is where Mr. Negro comea tr fo this essay. He gets ran over and beaten up, not because he is loy al and friendly and peaceful put bi cause he ts in tho helpless minority and branded by naturo as a brunette paeifisy and not likely to fight hack at least, not very hard or in sufficiont numbers. If the Omaha outfit and the Knoxvitto outfit could be taker UP bodily and set down in the Cong: country it would turn things exact ly around and you would see the sweotest, most docite blondy pacifist crew on’ earth. AL this is exactly natural and tn accordance with animated nature everywhere including the universa tendency of wolves, dogs and humar brutes to run in packs. Our other co: oles out here on the Colorado plain do that way, Just here wo approach a périlow: Point— the question of whether th Negro victims ought to fight: back Also a Kindred question of whethe tho wolves would probably jump or defenseless minority people of som other race, say Mexicans or Yagni jor Armenians. T may try to framé some answer to this in another Ie ter, for T find T am having much ai fiewlty in snperabundance of Mig) pressure think works, in my. inten jed essay on Negroes | —W. HENRY GREEN. SAVE COUPUNS WORK AND SAVB UP Panne 1OUPONS AND GBT AN OPH HE OR A PRONAGRAPB.—-BOtU 4 65 9000. SHR ANVER Tian IN THIS Issum AND sTaRr. WORK YMMOSD4AR EY see pememnee ueterenenntctht AC OND PLANE AUR MOND, VIRGINA ASS et fae el ces darks GhpERRy on } What rights do the laws of ths Jeountry give to the child born out of J wedlock? What responsibility has. the {Stato toward him? What method ex- fists of placing a part of the burden Jot his support and education upon |tho father? Can the child inherit pro JPerty from either his father or his Jmother? Has ho a right 10 his father's namo? Does tho subsequent PMarrage of his parents make him hectimate mM the (ce of the law? J These and many other questions about ] the legal obligations of parents and of |tho state to children born out of wed lock aro answered in a bulletin entitl- Jed “Megitimacy Laws in the United States and Certain Foreign Countries” Issued by the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. ‘Tho English common law, in somo respects still unaltered in’ England and in paris of the United States, re gards tho childr horn out of wedlock ag the “child of no one.” He bears no legal relationship even to his moth er, and the subsequent marriage. of his parents can not legitimate him, Many of our States have altered tho common law by statutes more favor ablo to the child. One of the most radical departures is found in tho North Dakota law of 1917 which de clares every child the legitimate chitd of his natural parents, but which weakens this broad provision by the failure to provide adequate ad ministrative machinery. Minnesota in 1917 passed a law which aims to secur for children born out of wed locke “the nearest approximation to the care, suppor’ and — edueation May they would be entitled to receive if born of lawful marriage,” ‘The State Board of control is made the child's official guardian; «this Goard may bring complaint in illegitimacy Proceedings and must see that the child's interests are safeguarded, Provisions were adopied in Vir- Binia as carly as 1785 whereby the issue of certain annulled marriages could be made legitimate and where by subsequent: marriage could legit mate issue, and the ehild could in herit from (he mother. ‘These provis fons are not even yet universal in this country. Four States havo no provision for legitimation hy subse~ Avent marriage, and many limitations aro placed upon the right of children of annulled or void marriages to be considered legitimate. Attention is called in this report to tho fact that our legal provisions tor tho support of the child born out of wedlock are inadequate—the payments [Prescribed are often too low, and in most of the States the period of sup port {s too brief, sometimes reaching Jouly to the childs 10th or 12th year, [im one Siate only a single pay pment of $50 is required; — in Janomer $20 distributed over’ three years is reared. ‘The two most lib feral States havo allowances that to- Jtat im one case, $2,750 for the first 48 years of tho child's life and in the Jothor $1,760 for the first oleven years Jor tho ehita’s lite. | Tho report suggests thad ilegitt macy legislation in tho United Stat- 8 might bo improved by uniform Provision for tho establishment of legitimacy; the legitimation of ou dren of null or subsequent tMarrkages; possibility’ of adopt jon by the father; and deetara.! jon that the relation of mother and) child fs the same whether the child fs legitimate or not. | J IM addition to a critical analysis of! Mogitimacy legislation in this coun! try Uhe report contains an analysis of certain phases of the various State laws in tabular form, the complete Jtexe of all the State laws, the ec Jtimacy provisions of the Codes of Frauce, Germany and Switzerland Jand a reference index to the United States Megitimacy laws, 1919 RECORD LYCHING YEAR; 78 MET DEATH PROM MOBS Complete lynching statistics tor the year 1919, made available today by tho National Association for tho Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue New York showed 78 mob murders during the year, the Greatest number of any year since 1916 when 96 persons were lynched. Georgia leads the list of states with 21 lynchings, Mississippi follows with 12 and Alabama and Arkansas aro third and fourth in the list with eight and seven lynchings respect- ively. , Of the persons lynched in 1919 four were white Americans, two were Mexicans and 72 were Negro: es, Shooting to death claimed 27 ve tims, hanging 23 and burning at stake 13. Nine of the victims were ex-sol diers of the United States Army. in the list of alleged causes of lynching murder is given in 27 cases assuult in 14 cases, shooting of a white man in 7 eases. In less than one fifth of the lynch ings of 1919 was assault upon wo men even alleged as a justification. ‘Tho list of alleged causes of lynch ings is as follows: Members of Non-Partisan League 1; Insulting white woman 5; Alterca tion with white man 1; attempting to pull white woman from horse 1; trou ble between white and colored co‘ton mill workers 1; assault on white wo man 14; murder 27; Insulting white man 1; shooting white man 7; attempt ed assault on white women 6; result of raem riot 1; talking of Chicago rlot ts not turnin, ont of 6 9 ree! 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We have also some valuable Broad Street Property.—Prices Given Upon Application, As we have plenty of money on deposit at this time, we are in a position to give exceptionally good terms to those desiring to purchase any of this property. Address MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK RICHMOND, - - - - VIRGINIA JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President Call at the N. W. Corner of ‘Third and Clay Streets or see the President at 311 N. Fourth Street. Negroes 1; circulating incendiary. 1it erature 1; misleading mob 1; boast ful remarks of killing of sherift 1; intimacy with white woman 4; found under bed in white man’s house 1; expressing himself too fre« ly of Iynching of Negro 1; causes un Known 1; beating aud robbing white man 1; ‘Total 78. ee DO YOU KNOW ‘THEM? | I would like to kiow tho whero- abouts of Miss Maggle Womack, now Mrs, Maggio Harris, also Miss Laura Womack, now Mrs, Laura Giles. ‘When last heard from they were Iy- ing at Wissikeckon, Pa, around Phit adelphia, Pa, Address Mrs, Anna Graves, Caro of 626 Spring street, Daa ~ Va. 1 VIRGINIA —In Hustings Court Part | II City of Richmond. JOHN DARNEY,..........Plaintift vs. RUBID K. DABNRY,......Defendant | Tho object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorco from the bonds of matrimony for the platniif® from the defendant upon the grounds — of adultery and for desertion and aban ‘donment. 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BROWN, Ph jh .GE . , Photographer ¢ * 60S NONTH SROGND STREP RAOBMOND, VIRGINIA 4 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. THE PLANET, 311 N. Fourth Street Telephone, Long Distance, Randolph 2213. Richmond, Va. Clubs Now Open For Christmas 1920. Over Seventy-five Thousand Dollars Paid to Members in the 1919 Christmas Savings Club 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 HEAVY PLANET Published &, Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 81 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. all communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Interest at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia, as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION EATES June Year.....$8.00 Six Months.....$1.10 Three Months.....$6.00 Foreign Subscriptions.....$8.50 SATURDAY...JANUARY 10, 1920 Pray without ceasing does not mean for you to stop work in doing it. If you are polite to white people, you will be polite to colored people and vice versa. We wonder if colored folks will oyer practice cremation of human bodies. This is a world of appointments and disappointments, mostly disappointments. The New Year in here. What will you do with it and what will it do with you? Some of these widowers are casting longing eyes at some of these widows and at some of these single girls too. Proachers, who fearlessly seek the truth are having a hard time of it and so are all of the other folks, who did the same thing. Some times we think that one half of the people in this world are bitally engaged in trying to deceive this other half. Young folks will find out that their tastes, their desires and their loves change as the time comes and goes. When it comes to a gorgeous man riffle and a big funeral no race of people in the world can beat the color of people. The religion of Jesus Christ is all right, it is some of the people, who are professing to practice the religion of Jesus Christ, who are all wrong. Many a person who was opposed to liquor when it was here is banker-ing after it now that it is gone. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." Wonder of the hated liquor. A colored man who believes in the ultimate success of his own people will win himself in the long run, for he is a part of his own people and faith in success usually brings it to plains. Some colored folks fuss so much that their mouths become twisted. Some colored folks make some other colored folks fuss so much that their mouths should be twisted. The Africans want to come over herb and some of the colored folks over herb want to go to Africa. Both should be given an opportunity to be dissatisfied. Colored folks do not feel any one delicacy you into condemnation either the President of those W. S., or this Government. It's the white folks who are now engaged in that kind of business. Let the colored folks 'saw words and say nothing." Preachers are raising more money for their churches than ever before and the churches are raising more money for preachers than ever was known before. When a woman gets married, she is satisfied and is ready in a reasonable length of time for either a divorce or a black veil. They are not hankering after the latter if the man is any kind of a man at all or after the former, if the man will be just half way fair. The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a five to four decision that two and three quarter per cent. beer and the Volstead Act are constitutional. This looks as though those judges were just a bit split up among themselves. If they do not know what is constitutional well enough not to be split up about it. what are the ordinary citizens to know? Brethren, there is something wrong somewhere. It may not be in the Supreme Court of the United States but it is somewhere and the American people know it. The Congress has turned this country upside down and the Senate part of this Congress has turned President Wilson upside down CRITICISING THE PRESIDENT. Under the Espionage Law and the restrictive war conditions we were under the impression that the President of the United States was above criticism and to speak plainly about any of his official acts would result in immediate prosecution by the Department of (in) Justice. Evidently either peace has been declared or the war is at an end and the restrictive laws once so unmercifully used against outspoken citizens have gone into discard. These thoughts came to us as we read a most caustic review of some of President Wilson's acts by that remarkably edited newspaper the New York Sun. In its issue of the 31st ult., it says: In negotiating the peace treaty he tried to jam down the throats of the people of America, Woodrow Wilson displayed an amazing capacity for compromise in his dealings with every nation in the world except the United States and Italy. He compromised with England on the freedom of the seas by throwing that principle of his world peace out of the window. He compromised with Japan by the self-determination of nations by agreeing to Japanese domination of the Chinese province of Santung. He compromised with England again on self-determination of nations by recognizing Great Britain's wartime proclaimed protectorate over Egypt. He compromised the principle of open covenants, openly arrived at with about everybody he met in Paris, he was willing to compromise with the Bolshevki and invited them to confer to that end. But with the Italians he would not compromise over Flume and with the American people he refused to compromise over anything. Why Mr. Wilson is willing to come promise with everybody except Ialians and Americans and on all subjects except those of interest to Ialians and to Americans is one of mysteries of his personally conducted statesmanship. Some day we may be enlightened concerning it. In the meantime it is irrelevant to observe that the Ialians are supreme in Fiume where Mr. Wilson said they should not go, and the American peo ple are supreme in the Senate of the United States, where Mr. Wilson sought to be supreme himself. For a sick man to have his policies analyzed in such a manner, even by a political enemy is to make him sicker than he was before. We would like very much to publish a defense of President Wilson's policies in reply to this mercilessly caustic criticism, which seems to bear the ear-marks of the truth, ruthlessly applied. President Wilson has had a remarkable career and has proven himself to be the one central figure in American policies and performances. In the lime light of these disclosures, how could he be re-elected or how could a candidate representing ineto his policies and doctrines be elected? Perhaps that distinguished resident of Nebras ka the Hon. William J. Byran can give the answer. "GOOD-BY" GOVERNMENT OPERATED PASSENGER SHIPS. It seems to be the essence of folly in the action of our Government in dealing with the merchant marine. By command of short sighted labor leaders, our commerce is slowly but surely being strangled. In dealing with this situation, and in discussing present day conditions, the New York Sun, under the cation of "Good THE RICHMONE PLANET RICHMONE. by Government Operated Passenger Ships" says: Having alked ships and planned ships, built ships and bought ships, it must be something of a shock to the American people to learn that the Government is going to sell all the German passenger ships it captured and otherwise got out of the war. It is a fine fleet of a quarter of a million of tons, among them the greatest of all the transatlantic liners, the Leviathan. It is a fleet which directly and immediately cost the United States Treasury nothing. It is a fleet part of which performed enormous service to our armies in the war. It is a fleet which can give us tre to our Stars and Stripes afloat. But the Government cannot afford to operate these passenger ships, big or little, swift or slow. It will be neither a shock nor a surprise to the practical ship operator to hear that the Government cannot compete with other passenger vessels. And the reason is not as was suggested that Uncle Sam's vessels cannot like others, sell liquor on the high seas. Bars or no bars for soft drinks or hard drinks there are economic conditions, political evils and food laws which scuttle the efficiency of American bottoms as against forign bottoms and of Government owned and operated bottoms as against privately owned and operated bottoms. This is plain talk, but it means that every dollar the Government fails to earn by the ownership and operation of these ships, it must get out of the pockets of the already over burdened tax-payers, big and little, white and colored in the U. S. A citizen with money is slowly, but surely having the larger portion of his fortunes confiscated. The Sun continues: In our merchant marine wages are higher than in any other merchant marine. Costs of feeding the crews are higher. Costs of general maintenance are higher. But as if that were not enough of a handicap our shipping statutes concocted by labor union politicians compel our vessels to carry more than are carried on the ships of other nations. On top of all that economic load there is the fundamental shortcoming of Government ownership and operation in any business proposition There are more men, they get more pay to the man, but they don't do the work that other men do. They can not be inspired to do it. They can not be driven to do it. Whether in the merchant marine, railroad, express field or whatever field where business can live against competition on by productive efficiency and super or service, Government operation simply does not function economically. There is an old saying that "what goes up is bound to come down." This is as true of an artificial advance in wages as it is in an artificial regulation in the operation of our merchant marine. When men de mand an increase of pay of an employer and that employer is made up of the American people, when they know according to authentic information that that employer is operating railroads at an approximate loss of a million dollars per day and then the representatives of the employees demand that this kind of operation shall continue two years longer for the reason that it has not had "a fair trial, we have an example of where the demagogue has "run mad" The New York Sun states the following same economic truths: Imagination alone cannot sail ships to safe and sure financial harbors, Ambition cannot. Parrotism cannot. On the sea or on the land in private hands or in Government hands any business proposition required to pay its own way must be governed by the natural laws. In any self-supporting undertaking seeking to maintain it self against free and energetic competition the basic element of the whole economic problem is costs—costs of production, costs of maintenance, costs of renewals, costs of operation. In these costs the major, the over whelming factor is labor—what it gets in pay and what it does for its pay. In Government ownership and operation bitter human experience teaches that what it does is the irreducible minimum. So our Government operated passenger ships go on the rocks. And—let us not decalze ourselves—for our Government owned freight ships lurk the same peril. It may be that much more of this kind of logic will awaken the sobers, cool, calculating American citizens to the danger now confronting the Nation and cause them to take charge of the helm of the Ship of State be done it is no late. AN OVER QUESTION It is not necessary to know which command is the purpose of the movement of the process of the throw is no of the daily newspapers contained glaring head-lines of some plot uncovered or some ac of lawlessness about to be consummated by somch dy. In the meantime promises are being made that the high cost of living will come down, while as a matter of fact it is steadily going up. Poor people can barely eke out a miserable existence, while millions of dollars are being expended in the employment of spies and informers in order to make it appear that some people are about to undermine and overthrow our Government. At first, the anarchists were charged with stuister crimes, but as their numbers were too limited, the Industrial Workers of the World were 'hrown in' for good measure. When these people did not furnish enough grasf for this propaganda mill, the Socialists were included in the number plotting to overthrow this Government. Not stopping there, it was found necessary to include Communists in the denunciation. The Communist Labor Party is also included in this general condemnation. It is charged that a plot exists among these element's to control the world. The charge is made that bolehevism is rampant in this country. Not satisfied with this kind of propaganda, the poor Negro, although he no where appears as an active character in any of these movements, is lugged in any way by the statement that attempts will be made to have him join the movement. All of the white elements charged and chargeable with these offences against the Government, either real or imaginary have been enjoying all of their rights and privileges in this country, while on the other hand, the Negroes have been denied many of their rights and privileges. It is also a noticeable fact that this revolutionary movement or alleged revolutionary movement has its origin in the North and not in the South. This time, the revolutionists, secessionists, rebels, or whatever you choose to call them are white northern extraction The Negroes have been and are now, one hundred per cent loyal. When the movement comes, the distinguished occupant in the White House has but to blow "one blast up on his bugle" in the Negro quarter and it "were worth ten thousand men." The dark-skinned southerners were loyal during the World War and they are loyal today. The Department of (in) justice that has taken so much palms to misrepresent and slander this lowly race of people will find them marching military fashion to the music of the Union. Who believes all of this talk about revolutionists and revolutions? Who believes that this movement is as widespread as it is represented to be? Let us see. The Anarchists believe in no organized form of Government. They are opposed to all forms of Government, but they are few in number and far between so to speak. The greater danger is in their violent practices, their disposition to kill without mercy and to blow up organized society without stint. The place for them is the foreign land from which they came. But there are other forms of revolution, recognized by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. In this class may be included the Socialists, the Communists, the Laborites and the Industrial Workers of the World. We assume this from their declarations of principles as set forth in their constitutions and by-laws. They would bring about a revolution and change of government by appealing to the electorate, which electorate has the power to change the government and the fundamental principle is that just governments get their power and authority from the consent of the governed. In this campaign though all such organizations are considered treasonable and methods are used and enforced as though the persons or organizations against which they operate are traitors or are treasonable. We do not believe that the great majority of the American people, if left to themselves will approve of the principles of these organizations. On the other hand changes in this Government have already taken place. The basic principles of the Constitution of the United States have been revolutionized already and socialistic principles and practices are in vogue in the nation. Solomn judges render decrees antagonistic to the principles of the very Constitution that they are sworn to recognize and support. What greater calamity could tend to undermine the Government than this? Men in high places are demanding the recall of judges and insisting that they should be subject to the mob, so speak. 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Barger's exclusion, however. No other members joined forces with him, so far as could be learned. What does this mean? Was Victor Berger legally qualified to become a candidate for Congress and if so qualified, did his conviction, pending an appeal make him intelligible to take his seat in the House of Representatives? Hon. James R. Mann decides that he was qualified and that he is not at the present time in eligible. We have entertained the same opinion. We do not agree with Victor Berger and we are not affiliated in any way with his kind of people, but we too have been and are now of the opinion that these agitators are best eliminated by permitting them to talk themselves to death, so to speak and that the effort to throttle them by questionable means and practices tends to give them a notoriety and publicity that do them little harm and us no good. This feeling was over the land during the late Civil War and for a long time, it was a debatable question as to whether the Confederates should participate in the deliberations and legislations of a Government that they had sought to destroy. Sound common-sense came uppermost and as a result some of the most distinguished statesmen in the history of the nation belonged to that class that had been regarded as unpatriotic. Certainly Mr. Berger is presumed innocent or rather he cannot be considered as guilty until the Court of last resort has passed upon his case. He is now under a twenty year sentence in a federal prison for upatriotic utterances and he may be classed as a political convict. But the Fifth Wisconsin Congressional D'strict has given him "a clean bill" so to speak and that District is with out any other representative. Can the other part of the country pledged to make a world safe for democracy unceremoniously deny to this congressional district representation in congress? If I can deny it to him, a precedent is set by which it can be denied to some one else on one excuse or another. We take it that conditions which have affected the colored man, who has also been barred from a seat in Congress by different methods are now uppermost in visiting upon cer tain white men the same kind of exclusion. In days past and gone, it was a black southern representative, who was thrown out, but in the year of 1919 and 1920, it is a white one. Truly may it be said of some of the managers of our representative form, of government. "Thon art weighed in the balances and art found wanting." Subscribe to The Richmond Planet. torate or a part of the electorate, when the original intent of the founders of the Republic was that they should not be subject to every blowing political wind and every passing political breeze. Now comes a great upheaval, where the inherent rights of the citizen are jeopardized by the indiscriminate asault upon the guilty and the innocent. The scum of Europe that has been founded and petted and lionized under our American institutions,, while the brother in black has been ostracised and humiliated now turns upon the hand that fed upon the sheltering arm that protected, while the loyal white people of the nation look to the colored people for support in the hour of their dire distress. They will not be disappointed. In the meantime, we shall watch with interest the result of this crusade against the "invisible foe." For every person deported one hundred will arise to take their places as a robuke to what they consider a rank injustice on the part of the Government. It is far more sensible to keep this class of people out than it is to put this class of people out after they have been admitted. The wholesale punishment of white people for political crimes is bound to react upon the officials practicing it. It is true that desperate diseases may require desperate remedies. Still, there is such a thing as carrying a campaign too far. Common sense and common justice are needed at the fountain head of the nation. The recognition of the loyalty and sublime sacrifice for the Government on the part of the "brother in black" will be a start in the right direction. The 'Soviet Ark' the vessel on which the anarchists have been transported to Russia shows that these lawless people were treated with the greatest consideration. Time will tell and at last the divine principles will be recognized and truth and justice will have its sway in high places where at present both seem to be a stranger. --- THE EXCLUSION OF BERGER. Some very delicate questions are being raised now and the fundamental principles of the Republic seem to be on trial. Statesmen and citizens, who, while not agreeing or sympathizing with alleged unpatriotic individuals are nevertheless unenemy less some of the guarantees of the Constitution be undermined by the exercise of the spirit of intolerance and by the outbursts of alleged patriotism. This is emphasized in the following interesting information: The surprise of the Berger case devolved today when Representative James R. Mann of Illinois, former Republican leader in the House anounced that he was opposed to the exclusion, however. No other members man cloest. "I had I been here I would have voted against his exclusion of 'Berger in the last session," said Mr. Mann. When the case comes up again I will explain why I take this position." None denied, however that he had Berger's fight for a seat. He believed that he will "declare and let it go a that." 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We attended the sessions at our own expense and we do not understand how the meeting could be successfully handled for double the amount alleged to be collected The attempt to reflect upon the management and to allege that someone has been dishonest simply because the sum of two thousand dollars was collected seems to us to be ridiculous. If the amount had been two hundred thousand dollars, then some effort might or should be made to secure an accounting. Two thousand dollars are not enough to pay Rev. Dr. Jernigan himself for the time and trouble he took to work up the meeting. To our mind, it is certainly time that this "small minded" business cease and the colored people and their leaders be ready to afford adequate compensation to the men, who work. KINKY HAIR LOOK! 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SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ive Dead.....$2.00 Iris Monthly.....1.10 Therapy.....1.60 Sports Subscription.....2.50 SATURDAY...JANUARY 10.1920 Pray without ceasing does not mean for you to stop work in doing it. If you are polite to white people, you will be polite to colored people and vice versa. We wonder if colored folks will over practice cremation of human bodies. This is a world of appointments and disappointments, mostly disappointments. The New Year is here. What will you do with it and what will it do with you? Some of these widowers are casting longing eyes at some of these widows and at some of these single girls too. Proachers, who fearlessly seek the truth are having a hard time of it and go are all of the other folks who do the same thing. Some times we think that one half of the people in this world are bigly engaged in trying to deceive the other half. Young folks will find out that their tastes, their desires and their loves change as the time comes and goes. When it comes to a gorgeous man riffle and a big funeral no race of people in the world can beat the colorful people. The religion of Jesus Christ is all right, it is some of the people, who are professing to practice the religion of Jesus Christ, who are all wrong. ```markdown ``` Many a person who was opposed to liquor when it was here is banker-leg after it now that it is gone. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," wizard of the hated liquor. --- A colored man who believes in the ultimate success of his own people will win himself in the long run, for he is a part of his own people and faith in success usually brings it to pliai. X Some colored folks fuss so much that their mouths become twisted. Some colored folks make some other colored folks fuss so much that their mouths should be twisted. The Africans want to some over hort and some of the colored folks over hort want to go to Africa. Both should be given an opportunity to be dissatisfied. Colored folks do not let any one deflate you into condemning either the President of those W. S., or this Government. It's the white folks who are now engaged in that kind of business. Let the colored folks 'saw worm and say nothing.' Preachers are raising more money for their churches than ever before and the churches are raising more money for preachers than ever was known before. When a woman gets married, she is satisfied and is ready in a reasonable length of time for either a divorce or a black veil. They are not hankering after the latter if the man is any kind of a man at all or after the former, if the man will be just half way fair. The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a five to four decision that two and three quarter per cent, beer and the Volstead Act are constitutional. This looks as though those judges were just a bit split up among themselves. If they do not know what is constitutional well enough not to be split up about it, what are the ordinary citizens to know? Brethren, there is something wrong somewhere. It may not be in the Supreme Court of the United States but it is somewhere and the American people know it. The Congress has turned this country upside down and the Senate part of this Congress has turned President Wilson upside down CRITICISING THE PRESIDENT. Under the Espionage Law and the restrictive war conditions we were under the impression that the President of the United States was above criticism and to speak plainly about any of his official acts would result in immediate prosecution by the Department of (in) Justice. Evidently either peace has been declared or the war is at an end and the restrictive laws once so unmercifully used against outspoken citizens have gone into discard. These thoughts came to us as we read a most caustic review of some of President Wilson's acts by that remarkably edited newspaper the New York Sun. In its issue of the 31st ult., it says: In negotiating the peace treaty he tried to jam down the throats of the people of America, Woodrow Wilson displayed an amazing capacity for compromise in his dealings with every nation in the world except the United States and Italy. He compromised with England on the freedom of the seas by throwing that principle of his world peace out of the window. He compromised with Japan by the self-determination of nations by agreeing to Japanese domination of the Chinese province of Santung. He compromised with England again on self-determination of nations by recognizing Great Britain's wartime proclaimed protectorate over Egypt. He compromised the principle of open covenants, openly arrived as with about everybody he met in Paris. He was willing to compromise with the Bolshovik and invited them to confer to that end. But with the Italians he would not compromise over Flume and with the American people he refused to compromise over anything. Why Mr. Wilson is willing to compromise with everybody except Italians and Americans and on all subjects except those of interest to Italians and to Americans is one of my mysteries of his personally conducted statesmanship. Some day we may be enlightened concerning it. In the meantime it is irrelevant to observe that the Italians are supreme in Fiume where Mr. Wilson said they should not go, and the American people are supreme in the Senate of the United States, where Mr. Wilson sought to be supreme himself. For a sick man to have his policies analyzed in such a manner, even by a political enemy is to make him sicker than he was before. We would like very much to publish a defense of President Wilson's policies in reply to this mercilessly caustic criticism, which seems to bear the car-marks of the truth, ruthlessly applied. President Wilson has had a remarkable career and has proven himself to be the one central figure in American policies and performances. In the lime light of these disclosures, how could he be reelected or how could a candidate representing in toto his policies and doctrines be elected? Perhaps that distinguished resident of Nebraska the ka the Hon. William J. Byran can give the answer. "GOOD-BY" GOVERNMENT OPERATED PASSENGER SHIPS. It seems to be the essence of folly in the action of our Government in dealing with the merchant marine. By command of short sighted labor leaders, our commerce is slowly but surely being strangled. In dealing with this situation, and in discussing present day conditions, the New York Sun, under the caption of "Good by Government Operated Passenger Ships" says: Having alked ships and planned ships, built ships and bought ships, it must be something of a shock to the American people to learn that the Government is going to sell all the German passenger ships it captured and otherwise got out of the war. It is a fine fleet of a quarter of a million of tons, among them the greatest of all the transatlantic liners, the Leviathan. It is a fleet which directly and immediately cost the United States Treasury nothing. It is a fleet part of which performed enormous service to our armies in the war. It is a fleet which can give us tre to our Stars and Stripes afloat. But the Government cannot afford to operate these passenger ships, big or little, swift or slow. It will be not her a shock nor a surprise to the practical ship operator to hear that the Government cannot compete with other passenger vessels. And the reason is not as was sugged that Uncle Sam's vessels cannot like others, sell liquor on the high seas. Bars or no bars for soft drinks or hard drinks there are economic conditions, political evils and food laws which scuttle the efficiency of American bottoms as against foreign bottoms and of Government owned and operated bottoms as against privately owned and operated bottoms. This is plain talk, but it means that every dollar the Government fails to earn by the ownership and operation of these ships, it must get out of the pockets of the already over burdened tax-payers, big and little, white and colored in the U. S. A citizen with money is slowly, but surely having the larger portion of his fortunes confiscated. The Sun continues: In our merchant marine wages are higher than in any other merchant marine. Costs of feeding the crews are higher. Costs of general maintenance are higher. But as if that were not enough of a handicap our shipping statutes connected by labor union politicians compel our vessels to carry more than are carried on the ships of other nations. On top of all that economic load there is the fundamental shortcoming of Government ownership and operation in any business proposition There are more men, they get more pay to the man, but they don't do the work that other men do. They can not be inspired to do it. They can not be driven to do it. Whether in the merchant marine, railroad, express field or whatever field where business can live against competition on by productive efficiency and superv or service. Government operation simply does not function economically. There is an old saying that "what goes up is bound to come down." This is as true of an artificial advance in wages as it is in an artificial regulation in the operation of our merchant marine. When men deand an increase of pay of an employer and that employer is made up of the American people, when they know according to authentic information that that employer is operating railroads at an approximate loss of a million dollars per day and then the representatives of the employees demand that this kind of operation shall continue two years longer for the reason that it has not had "a fair trial, we have an example of where the demagogue has "run mad" The New York Sun states the following same economic truths: Imagination alone cannot sall ships to safe and sure financial harbors, Ambition cannot. Patriotism cannot. On the sea or on the land in private hands or in Government hands, any business proposition required to pay its own way must be governed by the natural laws. In any self-supporting undertaking seekag to maintain it self against free and energetic competition the basic element of the whole economic problem is costs—costs of production, costs of maintenance, costs of renewals, costs of operation. In these costs the mator, the over whelming factor is labor—what it gets in pay and what it does for its pay. In Government ownership and operation bitter human experience teaches that what it does is the irreducible minimum. So our Government operated passenger ships go on the rocks. And—he us not decalze ourselves—for our Government owned freight ships lurk the same peril. It may be too much more of this kind of logic will awaken the sobers, cool, calculating American citizens to the danger now confronting the Nation and cause them to take charge of the helm of the Ship of State be ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` of the daily newspapers contain glaring head lines of some plot uncovered or some ac of lawlessness about, to be consummated by some dy. In the meantime my promises are being made that the high cost of living will come down, while as a matter of fact i is steadily going up. Poor people can barely eke out a miserable existence, while millions of dollars are being expended in the employment of spies and informers in order to make it appear that some people are about to undermine and overthrow our Government. At first, the anarchists were charged with shister crimes, but as their numbers were too limited, the Industrial Workers of the World were thrown in for good measure. When these people did not furnish enough grats for this propaganda mill, the Socialists were included in the number plotting to overthrow this Government. Not stopping there, it was found necessary to include Communists in the denunciation. The Communist Labor Party is also included in this general condemnation. It is charged that a plot exists among these elements to control the world. The charge is made that bolechevism is rampant in this country. Not satisfied with this kind of propaganda the poor Negro, although he no where appears as an active character in any of these movements, is lugged in any way by the staement that attempts will be made to have him join the movement. All of the white elements charged and chargeable with these offences against the Government, either real or imaginary have been enjoying all of their rights and privileges in this country, while on the other hand, the Negroes have been denied many of their rights and privileges. It is also a noticeable fact that this revolutionary movement or alleged revolutionary movement has its origin in the North and not in the South. This time, the revolutionists, secessionists, rebels, or whatever you choose to call them are white northern extraction. The Negroes have been and are now, one hundred per cent loyal. When the movement comes, the distinguished occupant in the White House has but to blow "one blast up on his bugle" in the Negro quarter and it "were worth ten thousand men." The dark-skinned southerners were loyal during the World War and they are loyal today. The Department of (in) justice that has taken so much palms to misrepresent and slander this lowly race of people will find them marching military fashion to the music of the Union. Who believes all of this talk about revolutionists and revolutions? Who believes that this movement is as wide-spread as it is represented to be? Lot us see. The Anarchists believe in no organized form of Government. They are opposed to all forms of Government, but they are few in number and far between so to speak. The greater danger is in their violent practices, their disposition to kill without mercy and to blow up organized society without a hint. The place for them is the foreign land from which they came. But there are other forms of revolution, recognized by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. In this class may be included the Socialists, the Communists, the Laborites and the Industrial Workers of the World. We assume this from their declarations of principles as set forth in their constitutions and by-laws. They would bring about a revolution and change of government by appealing to the electorate, which electorate has the power to change the government and the fundamental principle is that just governments get their power and authority from the consent of the governed. In this campaign though all such organizations are considered treasonable and methods are used and enforced as though the persons or organizations against which they operate are traitors or are treasonable. We do not believe that the great majority of the American people, if left to themselves will approve of the principles of these organizations. On the other hand changes in this Government have already taken place. The basic principles of the Constitution of the United States have been revolutionized already and socialistic principles and practices are in vogue in the nation. Solomn judges render decrees antagonistic to the principles of the very Constitution that they are sworn to recognize and support. What greater calamity could tend to undermine the Government than this? Men in high places are demanding the recall of judges and insisting that they should be subject to the mob so speak. Others are calling for the legislative restrictions which protected the Senate of the United States and which tend to make it response direct to the stammer of the also You Can Have Hair Like This 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. torate or a part of the electorate, when the original intent of the founders of the Republic was that they should not be subject to every blowing political wind and every passing political breeze. Now comes a great upheaval, where the inherent rights of the citizen are jeopardized by the indiscriminate asault upon the guilty and the innocent. The scum of Europe that has been fondled and petted and lionized under our American institutions., while the brother in black has been ostracised and humiliated now turns upon the hand that fed upon the sheltering arm that protected, while the loyal white people of the nation look to the colored people for support in the hour of their dire distress. They will not be disappointed. In the meantime, we shall watch with interest the result of this crusade against the "invisible foe." For every person deported one hundred will arise to take their places as a robuke to what they consider a rank injustice on the part of the Government. It is far more sensible to keep this class of people out than it is to put this class of people out after they have been admitted. The wholesale punishment of white people for political crimes is bound to react upon the officials practicing it. It is true that desperate diseases may require desperate remedies. Still, there is such a thing as carrying a campaign too far. Common sense and common justice are needed at the fountain head of the nation. The recognition of the loyalty and sublime sacrifice for the Government on the part of the "brother in black" will be a start in the right direction. The 'Soviet Ark' the vessel on which the anarchists have been transported to Russia shows that these lawless people were treated with the greatest consideration. Time will tell and at last the divine principles will be recognized and truth and justice will have its sway in high places where at present both seem to be a stranger. THE EXCLUSION OF BERGER. Some very delicate questions are being raised now and the fundamental principles of the Republic seem to be on trial. Statesmen and citizens, who, while not agreeing or sympathizing with alleged unpatriotic individuals are nevertheless uneasy less some of the guarantees of the Constitution be undermined by the exercise of the spirit of intolerance and by the outbursts of alleged patriotism. This is emphasized in the following interesting information: The surprise of the Perger case developed today when Representative James R. Mann of Illinois, former Republican leader in the House announced that he was opposed to the exclusion however. No other members maneuvered. "I had I been here I would have voted to just be exclusion of Berger in the lost session," said Mr. Mann. When the case comes up again I will explain why I take this position." He deed, however that he Berger's fight for a seat said that he will "declare and let it go a that." State of the former Rebublic Lots of Hair-Fluffy-Soft Brilliant-Straight Pliant-full of life and beauty is yours if you apply to your hair a little Pomade Hair Dressing It also stops itching scalp, dandruff, removes ringworm, tetter and scalp disorders. Agents wanted everywhere. Barbers' trade urgently solicited. Write for particulars. Send 25c in stamps or coin. Medicine Z. D. LEWIS. JR. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBASSY AUTOS FOR HIRE, UP TO DAY WELL VENTILATED HALL T PHONES—MADISON 111 119 SOUTH SECOND STREET. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN. AUTOS FOR HIRE, UP TO DATE SERVICE. LOW PRICES. WELL VENTILATED HALL TO RENT FOR MEETINGS. THONES—MADISON 1102; MADISON 4881. 110 SOUTH SECOND STREET can leader will not prevent Barger's exclusion, however. No other members joined forces with him, so far as could be learned. What does this mean? Was Victor Berger legally qualified to become a candidate for Congress and if so qualified, did his conviction, pending an appeal make him inteligible to take his seat in the House of Representatives? Hon. James R. Mann decides that he was qualified and that he is not at the present time inteligible. We have entertained the same opinion. We do not agree with Victor Berger and we are not affiliated in any way with his kind of people, but we too have and are now of the opinion that these agitators are best eliminated by permitting them to talk themselves to death, so to speak and that the effort to throttle them by questionable means and practices tends to give them a notoriety and publicity that do them little harm and us no good. This feeling was over the land during the late Civil War and for a long time, it was a debatable question as to whether the Confederates should participate in the deliberations and legislations of a Government that they had sought to destroy. Sound common-sense came uppermost and as a result some of the most distinguished statesmen in the history of the nation belonged to that class that had been regarded as unpatriotic. Certainly Mr. Berger is presumed innocent or rather he cannot be considered as guilty until the Court of last resort has passed upon his case. He is now under a twenty year sentence in a federal prison for upatriotic utterances and he may be classed as a political convict. But the Fifth Wisconsin Congressional District has given him "a clean bill" so to speak and that District is with out any other representative. Can the other part of the country pledged to make a world safe for democracy unceremoniously deny to this congressional district representation in congress? If we can deny it to him, a precedent is set by which it can be denied to some one else on one excuse or another. We take it that conditions which have affected the colored man, who has also been barred from a seat in Congress by different methods are now uppermost in visiting upon certain white men the same kind of exclusion. In days past and gone, it was a black southern representative, who was thrown out, but in the year of 1919 and 1920, it is a white o e. Truly may it be said of some of the managers of our representative form, of government. "Thon art weighed in the balances and art found wanting." Subscribe to The Richmond Planet --- A QUESTION OF FINANCE. Mr. J. C. Cunningham has been accorded "front page" recognition by the Washington Bee in order to demand an accounting on the part of Rev. Dr. W. H. Jernigan and his associates relative to the expenditure of two thousand dollars lifted by the National Race Congress recently held in that city. We attended the sessions at our own expense and we do not understand how the meeting could be successfully handled for double the amount alleged to be collected The attempt to reflect upon the management and to allege that someone has been dishonest simply because the sum of two thousand dollars was collected seems to us to be ridiculous. If the amount had been two hundred thousand dollars, then some effort might or should be made to secure an accounting. Two thousand dollars are not enough to pay Rev. Dr. Jernigan himself for the time and trouble he took to work up the meeting. To our mind, it is certainly time that this "small minded" business cease and the colored people and their leaders be ready to afford adequate compensation to the men, who work. KINKY HAIR LOOK! 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Mr. Willie Jackson, the best man. She was given away by her brother, Mr. Everett Burrell. Lucy Burrell n'ce of the bride of Naional Branch were the flower girls. Little Lavalet e Branch was the ring bearer. The bride and bride-mids were handsomely gowned in white crepe de chine. The brides wreath was of orange blossoms and carried a bouquet of white roses and ferns. The brides-mids' haskets were yellow, pink, white roses and holly. The flow er girls wore pink and baby blue Jap silk and the ring bearer wore a white messaline dress trimmed in white beaded fringe and carried a large silver tray. Miss Theresa Hill sang a sweet solo just before the bride en erod. Perfect Day. WOODSON— WEST. On December 29th Miss Lillian West and Mr. David M. Woodson were quietly married at home of the bride. Those present wore a few friends and the family. Mrs. Mattie Allen has returned home after spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Adams of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Clarence Jackson and wife have moved to Charleston, W. Va., to live Dr. Mason and family have moved to Washington, D. C. Little Alfred Paige, Jr., was here during the holidays from Detroit, Mich., visiting his grand-mother, Mrs. Mary Paige on Race street. Mrs. Fannie Scott Blanche, is here from Ohio visiting her sister, Mrs. William Paige. She has been away thirty-three years. Mrs. Lottie Glaze is in Bedford City visiting her sister, Dr. and Mrs. Pogue. Mr. Richard Watson died at his home, Virginia street January 1st. He was hurried from Frisco Baptist Church with Funeral Director Mr. John W. Holmes who has his business on Third street. Mr. Watson was an old citizen of Farmville and you may well know it was a large number out to pay their last respects to him. The Christmas Tree exercises at the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church December 31st, 1919 were very unique and the committee needs much praise in the way they trained the children. After the exercises we held watch night until about 12:05 and every one present seemed to have enjoyed them selves. We had a very nice gathering in our S. S. last week. We had some to make a new start, of which we all feel proud. You can't make a good ending except you start first. 11:30 A. M. Rev. Coobs preached *Powerful sermon*. His subject was The Power of the Spirit and the Need of the Church. He gave us a New Years' gift and if we all will thus look at the message as personal and use a rake instead of a pitchfork we all will render batter lives to God in the future than what we have done in the past. 2:30 The Communion services were very impressive, Rev. C. T. Martin administered the Lord's Supper. The Church and friends gave to the pastor about $65.00 as a Christmas and New Years Gift. Monday, January 12th, at 8 P. M. the Sabbath Glee Club will s'ing at our Church. Admission free, but bring along a silver offering. We the officers of the Mt. Calvary Baptist Sunday School call upon the members of the church for their presence in our school. You are needed in the Sunday School. In memory of my friend and brother, Deacon William Grenshaw, who departed this life. January 11, 1917. "Gone, but not forgotten." Some of the slik are Mrs Selma Robinson, Nathaniel Yatea, Sr., Julta Dodson; Charlotte Lowls; Bessie Johnson and Lillian Wooldridge, who is now at home. BRYAN KNOWS NOTHING MICHIGAN PROPOSAL Miami. Fri., Jan. 2.—It must be a mistake for I have heard nothing of it, said W. J. Bryan today when shown the dispatch from Detroit that his name would be entered in the Michigan presidential preference primaries. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan arrived in Miami last week to spend the winter come here. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES. Newtown, Va., Jan. 6, 1920. Miss Lucy J. Hines, Luvy M. Holmes, Mec. Holmes and Julia B. Holmes left for Washington, last week. Messrs. John W. Braxton and family and Pen Newtown and family have moved to Maryland. Messrs. Dong as Johnson and Charles Booker have returned to Alexandra a and Fred Braxton to Quantico. Mrs. Eva Peyton left Su day for Richmond. Miss Mamie Braxton has returned after a p'easant stay of a few days in Lancaster County. Mrs. D. C. Dabney who spent several days during the holidays, visiting his sisters in Essex and lower King and Queen has returned home. Miss Emily Hawes, was a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Robinson during the holidays. Mr. Lynn Thomas has been quite sick for several weeks. Mrs. Carter Richard who has been sick for some time is a little improved. Deacon W. R. Harvey is out again and able to look after his ice for next summer. The Misses King, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George King spent a pleasant evening with Miss Mandy Thomas a few days ago. Mrs. Rosa L. Dego spent a short while last week with her sister, Mrs. Lottie Thomas. Deacon Charles Taylor of First St. Olive Baptist Church passed away last Sunday evening after a lingering illness; his condition became critical a few days ago and the end was not a surprise. The obsequies were held last Tuesday afternoon at the church, conducted by the pastor and Rev. J. R. Taffin. The remains were laid to rest be side those of his father who was pas tor of Mt. Olive for more than two score years. His labors are over. God called him home; it was Hla will but in our hearts we love him still. NOTES FROM CHICAGO. Daughter Elizabeth Rochen, of Leona Council 109 Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa has been noted as the organizer of another Council, 136 known as Thebes Council. The officers are: Mrs. E. Rochen M. E. Q. Daughter Lambert W. A., Daughter Magnolia Lewis, W. B. P. Daughter Virginia Boddle, W. Treas, Daughter Sarah Hammond, Rec. So'y. They have fifty members Other visitors present were N. G. M., W H. Fields, St. Louis, Mo. Daughters Dora Cannon; Ella L. Holmes, Eliza Jackson, Leona Dixon and Sir Knight M. T. Balley. Mrs. Annie Arnolds, Sedalla, Mo., was given a luncheon on Christmas day in honor, of her 73rd birthday anniversary by Mr. and Mrs. Shanklin, 1653 Fulton street with whom she is stopping. Besides the family, there was present Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Young, 3556 Forest Avenue; Mrs. Nora F. Taylor, Mrs. Willene J. H. Waters of Sedalia, Mo. Mr. B. S. Crump of Morgan Park, Ill., instead of spending the day in his beautiful home was in the city visiting friends on Christmas. Marmon Terrell who has been ill for some time has made arrangements to go to the Northside Hospital where he will have an operation performed. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, have pur chased through the Bailey Realty Co 3638 South State Street several more lots in Morgan Park, Ill. on which they will build this spring. Mr. W. A. Wallace Superintendent of the Trinity Mission Sunday School 1840 Archer Avenue is pushing the work of his Sunday School so that it will measure up to any Sunday School in the connection. Mrs. Willene J. H. Waters of Sedalia Mo. will spend some time in the city visiting friends and relatives and while here will be stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Shanklin 1653 Fulton street. Attorney Walter M. Farmer who has been ill for some time is out again and can be found in his office now 184 W. Washington Boulevard. About New Years' day, Rev. G. W. Register, Presiding Elder Idianapolis District A. M. E. Zion Church is expected to be in our City. Beginning the New Year, there will be a number of assistants added to the offices of the Balloy Realty Company, The Balloy Press Bureau, and the Milton Mercantile Agency. They will be instructed in collections, buying, selling and exchanging property also preparing newspaper articles. Rev. D. S. Blackwell presiding Elder Montrose District Ark. Conference is in the city and will spend the holidays with his brother at 3400 Vernon Avenue the Rev. W. A. Blackwell. Mrs. Georgia Harding 3710 Indiana Avenue State Grand Secretary S. M. T. who has been out of the city attending the Executive Board Meeting has returned. The members and friends of the A. M. F. Zion church extend their sympathies to the Bishop Geo. L. Blackwell of Philadelphia who has been ill for some time and are earnest praying for his early recovery. It is expected that on Wednesday eve. January 21, 1920 the officers and members of the Virginia Society will have an enjoyable meeting and wish all the members and Virginians to be present. if there is no Planet Agent in your neighborhood, write a short sentence one there for you AGREST TWO IN POISON PLOT. May Solve the Mystery of the Source of Wood Alcohol. New York January 5.—Two archaic which David E. Sloes believe will solve the mystery is to the source of the wood of oob which cause 100 deaths in this city. New Jersey and New England were announced today by Harold B. Dolbs, reeve agent. They were Cosimo d'Ambrosia a Brooklyn chauffeur who was taken into custody. Saturday in a farm house in the Castle of Kiskat, N. Y., where he is alleged to have been in hiding and William Weller a Brooklyn lyngeaker keeper and printer. Ten large drums of alcohol are said to have been found on Woller's premises. D'Ambrosa'a is alleged to have carried the alcohol over to Manhattan for shipment and to have returned to Brooklyn putting the alcohol in two v-one barrels part of which was sent to Connecticut and Massachusetts and then filling the drum with water. D'Ambrosa'a was later arraigned be fore United States Commissioner Hitchcock and held in $25,000 ball. Woller wasurned over to the Federal authorities in Brooklyn. D'Ambrosia confessed according to Attorney Muloneen that the alcohol was removed from the drums in the garage of John Ramanelli, a Brooklyn undertaker who is being held on a charge of conspiracy to violate the war-time prohibition law. The drums were then filled with water, he said and loaded on a ship for England, where they are due January 13. FLING GRAFT CHARGES AT THE WAR DEPARTMENT. House Assailis R. H. Long, the Democratic Candidate in Massa... chusets and Glves Figures. Washington, Dec.—Charges of graft, waste and extravagance on the part of the Wilson Administration in its conduct of the war were made during the debate in the House on the report of the special investigating committee after the Democrats had filibustered in a futile effort to prevent their being heard. It is not surprising," said Representative Phillip P. Cammell of Kansas, chairman of the Committee on Rules, that the minority should put in the day filibustering against a resolution that enables the House to discuss the manner of the expenditure of the billions of money that the American people paid in loans and taxation into the treasury for the conduct of the war. The grossly incompetent manner in which the Administration conducted the business so notorious that the country has already taken notice of it and the minority in this House cannot prevent a further discussion of it. The Democrats even sought to cause us to discuss the manner in which the officers and men of the army and navy conducted themselves No encomiums are too great upon the conduct of the officers and men of the army of the United States. They did their part. We are here to discuss the manner in which the President and the Secretary of War and those responsible for the business of the Government did their part." "Does the gentleman think we would have done better under Secretary of War Alger than we have done under Secretary of War Baker?" asked Representative Benson of Maryland. "Yes, a thousand to one," replied Campbell, amid applause. Someone said that if this had been a Republican Administration this resolution would not now be before the House," he went on. That is true. There would have been no occasion for it. Incompetency would not have marked every act of the Administration. "This war has been unusually expensive. Waste follows war—waste of material, waste of money, waste of everything God and man created. This is to be expected but war is not a license for persecution or an excuse for incompetency in the conduct of war. It does not justify anyone connected with it to show favors through which men may accumulate millions out of the war. The people of our country expected the war would be expensive. They appropriated for its conduct $24,000,000 000. Twenty-four billions have been expended in the conduct of the war. Ten billions were loaned to our allies." Cammell told of the contracts of R. H. Long, of Massachusetts, Democratic candidate for governor against Calvin Coolidge and snowed under by 125,000 majority. "Mr. Long" said the Kness man, had contracts not completed at the end of the war run into millions of dollars. Nothing was done by Mr. Long toward supplying the Government with the articles called for in these contracts. The contracts were entered into during the period of from five months to two days before, the end of the war. He brought claims against the Government for $10,000,000 for what service he had rendered. God alone knows because the testimony does not disclose, but it does say that he had done nothing toward completing his part of these contracts. The War Department met the soldiers in the field as the tenacious of the company _____ the War Department settled with Mr. Long for $27,875,000 for contracts which he had currupted the Government nothing." LAND FOR NALE ON SALE. Sixty acres of Land Owned. Areas are well timbered, pine oak and poplar—a chance for a Good Home. Address, J. H. ROBINSON, Owenton, Va. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DR. PALMER'S TOILET Dr. FRED PALMER'S SUN WHITEWOOD SOAP IT IS FOLLOWED FOR DECATHLON, ALCOLATE BASIC AFLATING SODIUM, AND MELTING SUN WHITEWOOD FAKE SOAP DR. PALMER'S BADMAGGIE ADDRESSING DR. PALMER'S SUN WHITEWOOD FAKE SOAP DR. FRED PALMERS TOILET REQUISITES DR. FRED PALMERS GIRL WHITENER SOAP Palmers SkinWhitener Girl in Evening Dress THE COURT HOUSE SUBORDINATE LODGE BENEFITS are to pay no less than Fifty Cents a JOLLING FEES—Lodges regulate cannot charge less than $2.00, they may more as much as the Organizer MENEFITS OF THE ENDOWMENT policy when they send in an application $100). Immediate benefits, $25.00, ordinate Lodge shall pay 20 cents a AGE LIMIT—Not under Sixteen years. In Eighteen years, paid for the Hundred Ninety-five Dollars a JUVENILE CLASS DEPARTMENT monthly dues. To this Department, 5 cents, monthly premium 5 cents. Why not put your children in the Jeers from lodges by promise and by F. HUBBARD, Grand Chief, 12 W. THOMPSON, Secretary-Manager. BRIGHT And Mature Smoot What would you make your dark coat and make your skin money would be tive, to look your be are, therefore, of the Long ago realize ambitious people to chemists were put the home to brighten the SUBORDINATE LODGE BENEFITS—Lodges pay from a $1.50 to $3.00 per week as sick benefits, for which you are to pay no less than Fifty cents as monthly dues. The Subordinate Lodge regulates its weekly sick benefits. JOURNAL BENEFITS—Lodges regulate what a member shall pay to become a member of that respective lodge. They cannot charge less than $2.00, they may charge more. New lodges' joining fees shall not be less than $2.00, and as much more as the Organizer may deem best. Dispon iffos are granted by the Grand Chief only. BENEFITS OF THE ENDOWMENT Department of the State Grand Lodge, No. 6. They give each member a policy when they send in an application with $1.00 to the Grand Secretary's office for One Hundred Dollars ($100). Immediate benefits, $25.00; after Six months, $50.00; and after Twelve months, $100.00. The Subordinate Lodge shall pay 20 cents out of your monthly dues to the Endowment Department as premium. AGE LIMIT—Not under Sixteen years, nor over Fifty years. YOUR ADVANTAGE—Our policies are not graded, they are the same amount for all ages, from 1$ years to 50 years. In Eighteen years, paid 1776 Death Claims, to the amount of One Hundred Twenty-four. Thousand, Five Hundred Ninety-five Dollars and Eighty-five Cents. Join now and become immediately benefitted. JUVENILE CLASS DEPARTMENT—The Classes regulate their joining fees and weekly sick benefits, and monthly dues. To this Department there is a "Charity Fund," from which death benefits are paid. Joining Fee 25 cents, monthly premium 5 cents. For this the parent, or guardian will get at the death of the child $25.00. Why not put your children in the Juvenile Class and Charity Fund Department? It pays better than getting herds from lodges by promise and no money. BATTLE CRY—"3000 Now Members Wanted!" C. F. HUBBARD, Grand Chief, 1202 Thirteenth Street, Lynchburg, Va. J. W. THOMPSON, Secretary-Manager, Home Office, N. W. Corner Sixth and Duval Streets, Richmond, Va. antiseptic toilet and beauty soaps made. copy of the Black and White Dream Book. Plough Chemical Co., Memphis, Tenn., U. S. A. FREE: Sample of BLACK and WHITE Ointment and literature on receipt of name and address. Ploug M FREE: Samp VESPER SERVICES AT PHYLLAS WHEATLEY BRANCH Y, W. C. A. In spite of the intensely cold weather prevailing at the time the rooms of the Y. W. C. A. building were crowded at the vesper services last Sunday. It is manifest that interest in these services is steadily growing and they are becoming a potent influence for good in the lives of the young people of the community. In addition to the spiritual value of the services the management thus provides a most appropriate way of spending an hour of the Subbath afternoon. On Sunday, January 25th Miss May Becher, member of the Speakers Bureau National Board, Y. W. C. A. will address the vesper meeting, Miss Becher's message will be very much worth while and all are invited to be present. Until further notice these services will begin at 5 o'clock P. M., in stead of 5:30 as heretofore. --- Negro Reformatory Broad Neck Farm, Hanover Virginia January 6. 1920. The Officers and Members of The Neighborhood Association of Colored Women of Richmond, Virginia. The officers and boys of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia do most gratefully thank the members and the Committee of five, namely, Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, Mrs. Anna J. Blackwell; Mrs. Artena J. Miller; Mrs. Mary J. Peters; Mrs. W. H. Muse, Mrs. Hannah J. Branch and Mrs. Mattie Holmes who contri- buted in money, time and effort in presenting to our boys a New Years' Dinner long to be remembered. We want each member of the Association to feel that the contribution of over $50.00 put into the hands of such an efficient Committee as named above, and who made possible the well planned dinner of sandwiches and hot chocolate and the distribution of over 200 bags containing candy, nuts, oranges and apples; the effects of such a treat extend beyond the limitation of our Campus into many homes represented in our institution. This method of expressing good wishes for a Happy New Year, to those limited in such goods as the dinner afforded, is most impressive in its manner and at once establishes a friendship between the givers and those receiving the gifts of untold consequences. The opportunities at Broad Neck for just such expressions from the outside have been long desired and for many years needed. How wonderful it is that such opportunities for helpfulness have been left as a herd tage for The Neighborhood Association of Colored Women, who have made it pleasant for our boys in a similar manner many times. Again, kindly accept the thanks of all for what you have done, to bring happiness and cheer to our boys. Wishing for one and all continued progress in the work so well begun and continuing. Yours very respectfully, THOMAS J. EDWARDS, President. NOTES FROM THE REFORMATORY Rev. J. R. Henderson of Virginia Union University was the guest of Mr. T. J. Edwards and family during the Christmas holidays. Miss Annie E. Edwards has recently returned to office after a very pleas ant visit to Miss Effie A. Johnson, Staunton, Vn. Many dinner parties and teas were given in honor of Miss Edwards. Messrs. E. T. Sully, Arthur Sully and Mr. Trent of Philadelphia were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lay ton during the holidays. WORK FOR COOLIDGE James R. Reynolds Directed Affairs of Party Since Campaign of 1914. Chicago, January 4.—James B. Reynolds of Massachusetts secretary of the Republican National Committee since 1912, has resigned, it was anounced here today, to take the management of the campaign of Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts for the nomination for President. The resignation is effective January 10. It was expected that Clarence B. Miller of Minnesota, for ten years a member of Congress from the Duluth district would be made acting secretary. He was to assume all of Mr. Reynolds duties until the national committee takes formal action. Reynolds will open Governor Coolidge's campaign headquarters in Washington. VIRGINIA—In the Low and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 3rd day of January 1920. CELIA OWENS.....Plaintiff against In Chancery. RICHARD OWENS.....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond or matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, upon the ground of adultery. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Richard Owens is not a resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. GILES B. JACKSON Teste: LUTHER LIBBY. Clark MONTREAL BURDENATE LODGE BENEFITS—Lodges pay for no less than Fifty Conts as monthly dues. 75 FIFTY—Lodges regulate what a member's large less than $2.00, they may charge more, more as the Organizer may deem best. DISPOSITIONS OF THE ENDOWMENT Department or office, they send in an application with $1.00 to immediate benefits, $25.00; after Six month lodge shall pay 20 cents of your monthly LIMIT—Not under Sixteen years, nor over EIGHT—Our policies are not graded. In Eighteen years, paid 1776 Death Claims, red Ninety-five Dollars and Eighty-five Centes. CLASS DEPARTMENT—The Classes reserve. To this Department there is a "Charity monthly premium 5 cents. For this the part your children in the Juvenile Class and 0 lodges by promise and no money. BARD, Grand Chief, 1209 Thirteenth St. JUMPSON, Secretary-Manager, Home Office, BRIGHTEN And Make Your Smooth as T What would you spend if you make your dark complexion many years and make your skin clear and smoother. Money would be no object, for tive, to look your best. A clear, sane, therefore, of the greatest impulse. 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VICTORY CAMER THOUSAND ENDING "THE OLD RELIABLE" STATE Independent Order Daughter OBJECT—To carry forward the war a manner that all may receive and STATE GRAND LODGE, No. 6, under its jurisdiction pledge to do they shall keep the obligations to the Order. Ours is a secret benefit to look after our sick, pay them sick member when needed, turn deceased member and follow their burial. Care for the widows and benefits—Lodges pay from a $1.60 to $3.00 cents as monthly dues. The Subordinate regulate what a member shall pay to become, they may charge more. New lodges' job or may deem best. Dispense department of the State Grand Application with $1.00 to the Grand Seek $25.00; after Six months, $60.00; and cents out of your monthly dues to the Enlivene years, nor over Fifty years. Policies are not graded, they are the same paid 1776 Death Claims, to the amount and Eighty-Rive Cents. Join now and ATMENT—The Classes regulate their joint application there is a "Charity Fund," from which For this the parent or guardian of the Juvenile Class and Charity Fund Debts and no money. BATTLE CIRCLE, 1202 Thirteenth Street, Lynchburg, Manager, Home Office, N. W. Corner S RIGHTEN YOUR COMFORT Make Your Skin smooth as That of Could you spend if you knew some risk complexion many shades bright or skin clear and smooth? Could be no object, for above all this your best. A clear, smooth skin and of the greatest importance to you realizing the need of some prepareble to make themselves more attractive to work to perfect a compounden their complexion. VICTORY CAMPAIGN FOR THREE THOUSAND NEW MEMBERS ENDING MAY 31, 1920! "THE OLD RELIABLE" STATE GRAND LODGE, NO. 6, OF THE Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria OBJECT—To carry forward the work of Temperance and Reform in such a manner that all may receive and enjoy its healing influences. STATE GRAND LODGE, No. 6, of Virginia and the Subordinate Lodges under its jurisdiction pledge to do certain things for their members when they shall keep the obligations taken when initiated into the mysteries of the Order. Ours is a secret benefit and fraternal society, in that we promise to look after our sick, pay them weekly benefits, sit up and wait upon the sick member when needed, turn out in attendance at the funeral of the deceased member and follow their remains to the grave and see that it is buried. Care for the widows and orphans of the deceased members. ough Chemicals Memphis, Tenn., U. Sample of BLACK and WHITE Oil on receipt of name and addr CAMPAIGN FOR THE THIRD NEW MEMBER ENDING MAY 31, 1920! EMABLE" STATE GRAND LODGE, NO. 6, at Order of Good Samaritan Daughters of Samaria forward the work of Temperance and Reform may receive and enjoy its healing influences. 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Raval Streets, Richmond EXION soft and by specialist could the blemishes not to be attrac- tant complexion would enable specialists and mole could use at Co., literature FIV. 9 FARMVILLE NOTES. On December 27th, at the First Baptist Church Mr. and Mrs Daniel Burrell gave in marriage their daughter, Viola to Mr. Herman Johnson The bridal party was as follows: Miss Jessie Cousin with Mr. Henry Anderson; Miss Cecil Murry with Mr. Lemuel Blaud; Miss Viola Cousin with Mr. Eddie Williams; Mrs. Mary B. Berkley-the brides sister was matron of honor, Mr. Willie Jackson, the best man. She was given away by her brother, Mr. Everett Burrell. Lucy Burrell née of the bride. Naomi Branch were the flower girls. Little Lavate e Branch was the ring bearer. The bride and bride-mails were handsomely gowned in white crepe de chine. The brides wreath was of orange blossoms and carried a bouquet of white roses and ferns. The brides-mails' baskets were yellow, pink, white roses and holly. The flow er girls wore pink and baby blue Jap silk and the ring bearer wore a white messalino dress trimmed in white beaded fringe and carried a large silver tray. Miss Theresa Hill sang a sweet solo just before the bride en ered. Perfect Day. WOODSON—WEST. On December 29th Miss Lillian West and Mr. David M. Woodson were quietly married at home of the bride. Those present were a few friends and the family. Mrs. Mattie Allen has returned home after spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Adams of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Clarence Jackson and wife have moved to Charleston, W. Va., to live Dr. Mason and family have moved to Washington, D. C. Little Alfred Paige, Jr., was here during the holidays from Detroit, Mich., visiting his grand-mother, Mrs. Mary Paige on Race street. Mrs. Famile Scott Blanche, is here from Oh'o visiting her sister, Mrs. William Paige. She has been away thirty-three years. Mrs. Lottie Glaze is in Bedford City visiting her sister, Dr. and Mrs. Pogue. Mr. Richard Watson died at his home, Virginia street January 1st. He was buried from France Baptist Church with Funeral Director Mr. John W. Holmes who has his business on Third street. Mr. Watson was an old citizen of Farmville and you may well know it was a large number out to pay their best respects to him. FULTON NOTES. The Christmas Tree exercises at the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church December 31st, 1919 were very unique and the committee needs much praise in the way they trained the children. After the exercises we held watch night until about 12:05 and every one present seemed to have enjoyed them selves. We had a very nice gathering in our S. S. last week. We had some to make a new start, of which we all feel proud. You can't make a good ending except you start first. 11:30 A. M. Rev. Coobs preached $ powerful sermon. His subject was The Power of the Spirit and the Need of the Church. He gave us a New Years' gift and if we all will thus look at the message as personal and use a rake instead of a pitchfork we all will render batter lives to God in the future than what we have done in the past. 2:30 The Communion services were very impressive. Rev. C. T. Martin administered the Lord's Supper. The Church and friends gave to the pas'or about $65.00 as a Christmas and New Years Gift. Monday, January 12th, at 8 P. M. the Sabbath Glee Club will sing at our Church. Admission free, but bring along a silver offering. We the officers of the Mt. Calvary Baptist Sunday School call upon the members of the church for their presence in our school. You are needed in the Sunday School. In memory of my friend and brother, Deacon William Greenshaw, who departed this life. January 11, 1917. "Gone, but not forgotten." Some of the stile are Mrs Selma Bobinson, Nathaniel Yates, Sr., Julia Dodson; Charlotte Lewis; Besale Johnson and Lilian Wooldridge, who is now at home. BREYAN KNOWS NOTHING OF MICHIGAN PROPOSAL Miami. Fri., Jan. 2. It must be a mistake for I have heard nothing of it, said W. J. Bryan today when shown the dispatch from Detroit that his name would be entered in the Michigan presidential preference primaries. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan arrived in formal last week to spend the winter somewhere here. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES. Ne. Town, Na. Jan. 6, 1920. Misses Luey J. Hines, Luey M. Holmes, Mec. Foster and Jana D. Holmes left for Washington, last week. Messrs. John W. Braxton and family and Pen Newell and family have moved to Maryland. Messrs. Douglas Johnson and Charles Booker have returned to Alexandra and Fred Braxton to Quantico. Mrs. Eva Peyton left Su day for Richmond. Miss Manie Braxton has returned after a present stay of a few days in Lancaster County. Mrs. D. C. Dabney who spent several days during the holidays, visiting his sisters in Messe and lower King and Queen has returned home. Miss Emily Haves, was a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Robinson during the holidays. Mr. Lynn Thomas has been quite sick for several weeks. Mrs. Carter Richard who has been sick for some time is a little improved. Deacon W. R. Harvey is out again and able to look after his ice for next summer. The Misses King, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George King spent a pleasant evening with Miss Mandy Thomas a few days ago. Mrs. Rosa L. Dego spent a short while last week with her sister, Mrs. Lottie Thomas. Deacon Charles Tuxter of First Olive Baptist Church passed away last Sunday evening after a lingering illness; his condition became critical a few days ago and the end was not a surprise. The obsequies were held last Tuesday afternoon at the church, conducted by the pastor and Rev. J. R. Ruffin. The remains were laid to rest be side those of his father who was pastor of Mt. Olive for more than two score years. His labors are over. God called him home, it was Ha will in our hearts, we love him still. NOTES FROM CHICAGO. Daughter Elizabeth Rochon, of Leona Council 109 Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa has been noted as the organizer of another Council, 136 known as Thebes Council. The officers are: Mrs. E. Rochon M. E. Q. Daughter Jennie Lambert W. A., Daughter Magnolia Lewis, W. B. P. Daughter Virginia Boddie, W. Treas, Daughter Sarah Hammond, Ree. So'y. They have fifty members Other visitors present were N. G. M., W. H. Fields, St. Louis, Mo Daughters Dora Cannon; Ella L. Holmes, Eliza Jackson, Leona Dixon and Sir Knight M. T. Bailey. Mrs. Annie Arnolda, Sedalla, Mo. was given a luncheon on Christmas day in honor of her 73rd birthday anniversary by Mr. and Mrs. Shanklin, 1653 Fulton street with whom she is stopping. Besides the family, there was present Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Young, 3556 Forest Avenue; Mrs. Nora F. Taylor, Mrs. Willene J. H. Waters of Sedalla, Mo. Mr. B. S. Crump of Morgan Park, Ill. instead of spending the day in his beautiful home was in the city visiting friends on Christmas. Marmon Terrell who has been ill for some time has made arrangements to go to the Northside Hospital where he will have an operation performed. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, have pur chased through the Bailey Realty Co 3638 South State Street several more lots in Morgan Park, Ill. on which they will build this spring. Mr. W. A. Wallace Superintendent of the Trinity Miss' on Sunday School 1940 Archer Avenue is pushing the work of his Sunday School so that it will measure up to any Sunday School in the connection. Mrs. Willene J. H. Waters of Sedalia Mo. will spend some time in the city visiting friends and relatives and while here will be stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Shanklin 1653 Fulton street. Attorney Walter M. Farmer who has been ill for some time is out again and can be found in his office now 184 W. Washington Boulevard. About New Years' day, Rev. G. W. Register, Presiding Elder Idianapolis District A. M. E. Zion Church is expected to be in our City. Beginning the New Year, there will be a number of assistants added to the offices of the Balloy Realty Company, The Balloy Press Bureau, and the Milton Mercantile Agency. They will be instructed in collections, buying, selling and exchanging property also preparing newspaper articles. Rev. D. S. Blackwell presiding Elder Montrose District Ark., Conference is in the city and will spend the holidays with his brother at 3400 Vernon Avenue the Rev. W. A. Black well. Mrs. Geogia Harding 3710 Indiana Avenue State Grand Secretary S. M. T. who has been out of the city attending the Executive Board Meeting has returned. The members and friends of the A. M. F. Zion church extend their sympathies to the Bishop Geo. L. Blackwell of Philadelphia who has been ill for some time and are earnest praying for his early recovery. It is expected that on Wednesday eve, January 21, 1920 the officers and members of the Virginia Society will have an enjoyable meeting and wish all the members and Virginians to be present. if there is no Phone Agent in your neighborhood, write one there for you. AGRUST TWO IN POISON PLOT. May soave the history of the Source of Wood Acohol. New York January 5. Two arrows which had been closed, believe will solve the mystery, is to the source of the wood of plot, which cause 100 poisons in the old New Jersey and New England were announced today by Harold B. Biddle, a crime agent. They were Cedars d'Ambrosia a Brooklyn druffer who was taken into custody. Saturday in a farm house in the City of Kiskat, N. , where he is altered to have been biked and William Wether a Brook lyn garage keeper and printer. Ten large drums of alcohol are said to have been found on Woller's premises. D'Ambresa is alleged to have carried the alcohol over to Manhattan for shipment and to have returned to Brooklyn but was the alcohol in two x-one barrels part of which was sent to Connecticut and Massachussetts and then filling the drum with water. D'Ambresa was later arraigned to fore United States Commissioner Hitchcock and held in $25,000 bail. Woller was arrained over to the Federal authorities in Brooklyn. D'Ambrosia confessed according to Attorney Mulcouse, that the alcohol was removed from the drums in the garage of John Kennanelli, a Brooklyn underwriter who is being held on a charge of conspiracy to violate the war-time prohibition law. The drums were hen filled with water, he said and loaded on a ship for England, where they are due January 13. FLING GRAFT CHARGES AT THE WAR DEPARTMENT. House Assails R. H. Long, the Democratic Candidate in Massa... chusets and Gives Figures. Washington, Dec.—Charges of graft waste and extravagance on the part of the Wilson Administration in its conduct of the war were made during the debate in the House on the report of the special investigating committee after the Democrates had filibustered in a futile effort to prevent their being heard. It is not surprising," said Representative Phillip P. Campbell of Kansas, chairman of the Committee on Rules, that the minority should put in the day filibustering against a resolution that enables the House to discuss the manner of the expenditure of the billions of money that the American people paid in loans and taxation into the treasury for the conduct of the war. The grossly incompetent manner in which the Adminstration conducted the business so notorious that the country has already taken notice of it and the minority in this House cannot prevent a further discussion of it. The Democrats even sought to cause us to discuss the manner in which the officers and men of the army and navy conducted themselves No encomiums are too great upon the conduct of the officers and men of the army of the United States. They did their part. We are here to discuss the manner in which the President and the Secretary of War and those responsible for the business of the Government did their part." "Does the gentleman think we would have done better under Secretary of War Alger than we have done under Secretary of War Baker?" asked Representative Benson of Maryland. "Yes, a thousand to one," replied Campbell, amid applause. Someone said that if this had been a Republican Administration this resolution would not now be before the House," he went on. That is true. There would have been no occasion for it. Incompetency would not have marked every act of the Administration. "This war has been unusually expensive. Waste follows war—waste of material, waste of money, waste of everything God and man created. This is to be expected but war is not a license for predation or an excuse for incompetency in the conduct of war. It does not justify anyone connected with it to show favors through which men may accumulate millions out of the war. The people of our country expected the war would be expensive. They appropriated for its conduct $34,000,000,000. Twenty-four billions have been expended in the conduct of the war. Ten billions were loaned to our allies." --- LAND FOR SALE ON SALE! Exclusive Acres of Land in Acre Area well timbered, one oak and father a chance Good Home, Address, J, H. ROBINSON, Owenton, Va. GORMUND, VIRGINIA DR PA TOILET DR. HED PALMERS DR. HED PALMERS DR. HED PALMERS CURE WOODSCRAP SOAP FOR WOODSCRAP CARE SINCE 1870 HALF PAPER DR. PALMERS ADDRESSING DR. PALMERS ADDRESSING JAC DR. FRED PALMERS TOILET REQUISITES DR. FRED PALMERS DR. FRED PALMERS GIRL WHITENES GIRL IN Evening Dress FEDERAL COURT SUBORDINATE LODGE BENEFITS are to pay no less than Fifty Cents a month. LODGE FILLS—Lodges regulate cannot charge less than $2.00, they may not charge less than $2.00, they may more as the Organizer may BENEFITS OF THE ENDOWMENT policy when they send in an application ($100). Immediate benefits, $25.00, ordinate Lodge shall pay 20 cents aAGE LIMIT—Not under Sixteen years. In Eighteen years, paid to the Hundred Ninety-five Dollars at JUVENILE CLASS DEPARTMENT monthly dues. To this Department, 5 cents, monthly premium 5 cents. Why not put your children in the Jebers from lodges by promise and by F. P. HUBBARD, Grand Chief, J. W. THOMPSON, Secretary-Manual. BRIGHT And Mature Smoot What would you make your dark coat and make your skin money would be tive, to look your be are, therefore, of the Long ago realize ambitions people to chemists were put to home to brighten the SUBORDINATE LODGE BENEFITS—Lodges pay from a $1.60 to $3.00 per week as sick benefits, for which you are to pay no less than Fifty Cents as monthly dues. The Subordinate Lodge regulates its weekly sick benefits. JOINT FEE—Lodges regulate what a member shall pay to become a member of that respective lodge. They cannot charge less than $2.00, they may charge more. New lodges' joining fees shall not be less than $2.00, and as much more as the Organizer may deem host. Disponi fiores are granted by the Grand Chief only. BENEFITS OF THE ENDOWMENT Department of the State Grand Lodge, No. 6. They give each member a policy when they send in an application with $1.00 to the Grand Secretary's office for One Hundred Dollars ($100). Immediate benefits, $25.00; after Six months, $50.00; and after Twelve months, $100.00. The Subordinate Lodge shall pay 20 cents out of your monthly dues to the Endowment Department as premium. AGE LIMIT—Not under Sixteen years, nor over Fifty years. YOUR ADVANTAGE—Our policies are not graded, they are the same amount for all ages, from 16 years to 50 years. In Eighteen years, paid 1776 Death Claims, to the amount of One Hundred Twenty-four Thousand, Five Hundred Ninety-five Dollars and Eighty-five Cents. Join now and become immediately benefited. JUVENILE CLASS DEPARTMENT—The Classes regulate their joining fees and weekly sick benefits, and monthly dues. To this Department there is a "Charity Fund," from which death benefits are paid. Joining Fee 25 cents, monthly premium 5 cents. For this the parent or guardian will get at the death of the child $25.00. Why not put your children in the Juvenile Class and Charity Fund Department? It pays better than getting heirs from lodges by promise and no money. C. F. HUBBARD, Grand Chief, 1202 Thirtenth Street, Lynchburg, Va. J. W. THOMSON Secretary-Manager Home Office N.W. Washington. Plough Chemical Co., Memphis, Tenn., U. S. A. FREE: Sample of BLACK and WHITE Ointment and literature on receipt of name and address. Ploug M FREE: Sampl VESPER SERVICES AT PHILLIES WHENETT BRANCH Y. W. C. A. In spite of the intensely cold weather we provide at that time the rooms of the Y. W. C. A. building were crowded at the vesper services last Sunday. It is manifest that interest in the e services is so socially growing and they are becoming a potent influence e for good in the lives of the young people of the community. In addition to the spiritual value of the services the management thus provides a most appropriate way of spending an hour of the Sabbath afternoon. On Sunday, January 25th Miss May Becher, member of the Speakers Bureau National Board, Y. W. C. A. will address the vesper meeting, Miss Becher's message will be very much worth white and all are invited to be present. Until further notice these services will begin at 5 o'clock P. M., in stead of 5:30 as heretofore. --- Hanover Virginia. January 6, 1920. The Officers and Members of The officers and boys of the Negro Reformatory Association on of Virginia do most gratefully thunk the members and the Committee of five, namely, Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, Mrs. Anna J. Blackwell; Mrs. Artena J. Miller; Mrs. Mary J. Peters; Mrs. W. H. Muse, Mrs. Hannah J. Branch and Mrs. Mattie Holmes who contributed in money, time and effort in presenting to our boys a New Years' Dinner long to be remembered. We want each member of the Association to feel that the contribution of over $50,00 put into the hands of such an efficient Committee as named above, and who made possible the well planned dinner of sandwiches and hot chocolate and the distribution of over 200 bags containing candy, nuts, oranges and apples; the effects of such a treat extend beyond the limitation of our Campus into many homes represented in our institution. This method of expressing good wishes for a Happy New Year, to those limited in such goods as the dinner afforded, is most impressive in its manner and at once establishes a friendship between the givers and those receiving the gifts of untold consequences. The opportunities at Broad Neck for just such expressions from the outside have been long desired and for many years needed. How wonderful it is that such opportunities for helpfulness have been left as a heri tage for The Neighborhood Associat ion of Colored Women, who have made it pleasant for our boys in a similar manner many times. Again, kindly accept the thanks of all for what you have done, to bring happiness and cheer to our boys. Wishing for one and all continued progress in the work so well begun and continuing. Yours very respectfully, THOMAS J. EDWARDS, President. NOTES FROM THE REFORMATORY Rev. J. R. Henderson of Virginia Union University was the guest of Mr. T. J. Edwards and family during the Christmas holidays. Miss Annie E. Edwards has recently returned to office after a very pleas ant visit to Miss Effie A. Johnson, Staunton, Vn. Many dinner parties and teas were given in honor of Miss Edwards. Messrs. E. T. Sully, Arthur Sully and Mr. Trent of Philadelphia were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Layton during the holidays WORK FOR COOLIDGE James R. Reynolds Directed Affairs of Party Since Campaign of 1914. Chicago, January 4.—James B. Reynolds of Massachusetts secretary of the Republican National Committee since 1912, has resigned. It was an announced here today, to take the management of the campaign of Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts for the nomination for President. The resignation is effective January 10. It was expected that Clarence B. Miller of Minnesota, for ten years a member of Congress from the Duluth district would be made acting secretary. He was to assume all of Mr. Reynolds duties until the national committee takes formal action. Reynolds will open Governor Coolidge's campaign headquarters in Washington. VIRGINIA—In the Low and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 23rd day of January 1830. CELIA OWENS.....Plaintiff against In Chancery. RICHARD OWENS.....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond or matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, upon the ground of adultery. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Richard Owens is not a resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. GILES B. JACKSON. 611 North Second Street. THE CITY OF NEW YORK DONATE LODGE BENEFITS—Lodges pay no less than Fifty Cents as monthly dues. 15.15%—Lodges regulate what a member may large less than $2.00, they may charge more more as the Organizer may do best. DISPOSITS OF THE ENDOWMENT Department of them send in an application with $1.00 to immediate benefits, $25.00; after Six month lodge shall pay 20 cents out of your monthly LIMIT—Not under Sixteen years, nor over 18. In Eighteen years, paid 1776 Death Claims, freed Ninety-five Dollars and Eighty-five CentLE CLASS DEPARTMENT—The Classes require. To this Department there is a "Charity monthly premium 5 cents. For this the pay out your children in the Juvenile Class and lodges by promise and no money. BARD, Grand Chief, 1202 Thirteenth St. OMPSON, Secretary-Manager, Home Office, BRIGHTEN And Make Your Smooth as T What would you spend if you make your dark complexion many and make your skin clear and smo Money would be no object, for tive, to look your best. A clear, s are, therefore, of the greatest imp Long ago realizing the need of ambitions people to make themselves chemists were put to work to perf home to brighten their complexion. BRIGHTEN YOUR COMPLEXION And Make Your Skin as Soft and Smooth as That of a Baby What would you spend if you knew some beauty specialist could make your dark complexion many shades brighter, remove the blamishes and make your skin clear and smooth? 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Ours is a secret benefit and fraternal society, in that we promise to look after our sick, pay them weekly benefits, sit up and wait upon the sick member when needed, turn out in attendance at the funeral of the deceased member and follow their remains to the grave and see that it is buried. Care for the widows and orphans of the deceased members. ugh Chemicals Memphis, Tenn., U. S. Sample of BLACK and WHITE Oint on receipt of name and addr CAMPAIGN FOR THE BAND NEW MEMBER ENDING MAY 31, 1920! IN DISABLED" STATE GRAND LODGE, NO. 6, A First Order of Good Samaritan Daughters of Samaria forward the work of Temperance and Reform may receive and enjoy its healing influences. DUDGE, No. 6, of Virginia and the Subordination pledge to do certain things for their members' obligations taken when initiated into the war, a secret benefit and fraternial society, in that they pay them weekly benefits, sit up and wear needed, turn out in attendance at the funeral and follow their remains to the grave and see the widows and orphans of our deceased men. $1.60 to $3.00 per week as sick benefits, for Subordinate Lodge regulates its weekly pay to become a member of that respective lodges joining feces shall not be less than fifteen are granted by the Grand Chief only. State Grand Lodge, No. 6. They give each the Grand Secretary's office for One Hundred $50.00; and after Twelve months $100.00 to the Endowment Department as presidents years. They are the same amount for all ages, from one to the amount of One Hundred Twenty-four John now and become immediately benefited by their joining fees and weekly sick beard, from which death benefits are paid. 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FOR THREE MEMBERS 2020: LODGE, NO. 6, OF THE Samaritans and Samaria Performance and Reform in each dealing influence. and the Subordinate Lodge Angels for their members who instituted into the mysteries a social society, in that we promiscuity, sit up and wait upon the dance at the funeral of the grave and see that it our deceased members. us sick benefits, for which we weekly sick benefit of that respective lodge. The not be less than $2.00, and Grand Chief only. They give each member for One Hundred Dollars months $100.00. The S department as premium. For all ages, from 16 years and Twenty-four. Thousands immediately benefitted. weekly sick benefits, and fees are paid. Joining For the death of the child $26.00 it pays better than getting new Members Wanted!" Royal Streets, Richmond, V EXION Lift and fly Specialist could the blamishes not to be attract complexion would enable specialists and able could use at CO., iterature FIV. ak i 49 (wen aD i SNe ee Ts CRE EN OR DNY Re MIAN SATURDAY... SENUAEESIO.aDEA ‘COURT SRTS THIRD TRIAL OF" INSPECTOR MALE, AUIUL 1, Jury Reportod to Mavo Stood Nino for Convictiva w Thrve for ‘Aoquittal OTHER OFFICERS ARE FREED Nolle Prosequi Entered by State in Charges Agaimst Swoet, Dunleavy and Sullivan, Manassas, Va., Jan. 2.—Twolvo Prmeo Walliwn Gounty farmers ater listening to ev.denco amd legal argu- mont for four days fil into the courtroom here on tho #:roke of 12 to duy and told Judge Samuel G. Brent uUirough (hoi forewan (hat they dis agreod hopelossly on whethor they should acquit or convict W. C. Hail special officer of tho Stato Prohibl— tion Dopar.mont for tho Killing of Lawronco Hudson ig a whisky-fillod car on Valley Turnpike last March. Judgo Bront loaued over from the donch and asked them if they thought they vould agreo if given longer time Practically every Jarymun shook his hoad. ‘Thoy were then ordered to be digchargod. ‘They hed reported at 10 o'clock thoy could nok agres. MN MAKES MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL Motion for a now trial of Tall wad mado at once by Commonwealth At torney Lion of Princo William Coun ty, Tho first day of the April term of court April , was thon set aa the dato for the rotriat. Attornsy Wen denberg ontorod a plea for a reduc- tion of tho bail bond of Tall from $10 000 to $1,000. ‘This was opposed by Mr, Lion and Judge Bront set tho now Dail at $2689. Oommissionor of Poohtbtion J. Sidney Petera went se curity for Hall. Foroman Hooker sta'ed after tho Jury was dismissed that 9 wore for conviction and 3 fer acquittal. Thoro wns no dlecusstea by the jury of what tho sontenon should bo in case of conviction, but only whethor Hall should bo set free or punished was tho information secured from a rell able source. OTHER OFFICERS AN FREED. Prohibtion Officers, Marry Sweet, J. H. Sullivan ant W. B. Dunteary will not bo prosecuted for their con nection with the shpoting of Shackle ford and Tudsow waless wow evidence ts dincovered which would tneriml- nate them. Mr. Ton moved that the cases against tho three associates of Hall on tho night of the tracody bo nol- prossed. Mr. Ston qualified the mo tion with tho clause ‘wales now ovi- dence is discovered.” Neither Sweet, Dunkavy nor Sut livan ts now connected with the Stato Prohibition Denrrtment. Sullivan loft this afternoon for his home fn Toxas and Sweet and Dunleavy start ed for Richmond. Searcely any ono connected with the trial now remains in Manassas. Among those to Yeave during the day was a small bevy of newsnaner men. ‘The vilnne wit again settle down to voutine aftnire. Tt ie enrich ed only by the erent stock of matorinl for converention whieh the trial turn ishod and the prospert of another trlal of the case ia April. ONT AMERICANO WHOLLY BAD * Of tho seventy-eight parsons tynch- ed in the United States last yoar sov- onty-two wore Negrous, nine of them former soldiers. Mob judgment was executed in varying forma of barber ity, shooting, hangiug and burning alive accounting for most of the mur dors, With mearty all auch lawless- ness confined to Soathorn States, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama — and Arkansas must be awarded the evil dfotinction of tending the tict. ‘This is what we complain of In Soviet Rusala. Wheu we say that it {f our purpose t make the world safe Yor democracy we de wot mean sim-- ply that democracy shat! not be rid- den down by monarchs booted and spurred. We are jst as determined that democracy shall not he over- thrown by violent minorities agsert- ing the right 10 autocratic rate regard Tosa of law. 1€ more than one persn A week were done te death w'thout trial in Kngiand, Prance or Italy, a Dractire rorataed tere ae a bail hab. lt would in thoge countries be accept +d ag anarchy. Tho American Cexion has many praiseworthy wans for che promotion ot what is called Americanizatton, Tt Might with propriety devote some of its energies to the decouraement of a crime that 42 atmnet exctusively American. Ta partientar i whould bo moved by the fate of ite nine follow Veterans. A Renuttir "hat dente to its formor zold'ere dno procsea of Inw needa a homseetenaine which — tho Legion with ite hich tents of aorvice is woll fitted te perform. (New York Wreit, Janvary 4, 1920.) = ES TP weet ‘nena Pe wc oy 8 Resinall Cocea Balm | WOE PER A Av stica’s Greatest Nelr Grower ABABA ET Levies, Hoke "> Kai tong and Beauiiiull PEA Sed | take machantersenttha brats ane sto are ee comet, Sia Seles RO aren aCe reco Petes ap TR OCB 1 oss 1 Who hae AES out stove to hele Hae eae eee agen BORG ike HO) al atk toe sonic tonaratselel he say cBeatine | Asin acakeeyoe | Coco bata) ssi Ca ulving pertctsatistactientort tess sees Wa uiGecdce | Ligy bux toutecaniomyaten. geumtatacti tion titteca Senta, ‘3 i Ss] ford Onsgtect Vir hair end face. Look cord und tmeke big May rnoney Ly selling sd usin tho Reginall Laboratory's Tine cf | Oude CU graded got iho following teentmenas Weta eng Ore tox cf Cocoa Palm. Ie. One box ef Shampoo Jelly .-23 PRUE Ors hoe Ghent ae OES LOX gf Shamnoe Setty..2¢ Ons box Pressing Oil Se. “Total 2.1$2.00 AigivecsuePoct Pata sertt 73, Acenta wanted everywhere. Largo essh comming, patd. Writefor cvutldentiat i ea8s 10 ACE NIS ABIES, THE REGINALL LACORATORY, 161 Bell St. Atianta, Gas ne NALL LACORATORY, 161 Bell St., COLORED DEATH RATE IS VER) HIGH LN THLE CLEIES, OMeial Statistics Show Fewer Births + Than Deaths in Nearly Kvery. , Virginia Municipality 1 Richmond, Va, December 30.—Ie! Glstrar of Vital Statistics of Virgin tt. De W. A. Plecker says there is either a woefully high colored intunt ‘death rate or terribly defective birth registration in Virginia ci ies, Tvery one of the ten larger Virginia cit es except (wo, Roanoke and) Charlottes Ville, shows more colored — deaths than births according to the U.S. Bureaw of Census" Birth Statist’es Just issued for 1917. During 1917 ac- cording to the Census report, Virg'n fa registered 60,763 living births of which 41,924 were white and 18,829 colored. ‘The birth rate of the State was 27.5 per thousand of population he white rate being 27.3 and the col ored rate being 27.7. ‘This rate is ex ceeded In the entire registration are including twenty states and the D's trict of Columbia representing 53.1 ver cont of the toal population of the country only by North Carolina with a rato of 31.6 per thousand. Utah, with 30.9; Connecticut with 29.6 and Michigan with 28.8. Virginia deaths aggregated 31,527 during 1917. Of this number 18,017 woro white and 12,510 colored ‘tho total death rate being 14.2 per thous and, the white rate being 11,7 and the colored rate 19.9. ‘There “were 233 whito births for ench 100 white doaths and 139 colored births for each 100 colored deaths. Bighty white in fants and 137 colored infants out ot every 1,000 died the first year, the, total rato being 98, with a country: wide {otal of 94 per thousand birns. ‘Tho ton principal citles of Virginia show a white birth rato of 23.8 per thousand of population and 23.6 per cont colored birth rate, with a white death ra’o of 14. and a colored death rato of 25.7. The white city infant death rate is 87 against a colored rato of 215. Bristol, Virginia reports two colored’ births and twenty-seven colored deaths. ‘Tho Registrar re- marks that this report would indicate cithor that colored hirth registration was a joke in Bristol or the compara tivo colored dea'h rate there surpass es that of any other civilized com munity on tho globe.’ Tho conclusion which the State Re gistrar draws {s eithor that colored bir'h rogistration in tho eitles fa very defective or that the colored’ death ra’o is shamefully high. Bith- or, ho declares, should call for active efforts for correction, In the countios of Amhorst, Anpomat ox, Brunswiek Rockingham, Glarke, Essex, Glouces- ter; Greene, New Kent; Orange: Urin: cess Anne; Roanoxs, Staford; Taze well and Warren a h'gher white than colored infant death rate is taken to indieato either defee'ive white birth rogistration or incomplete colored in fant death rate registration, Colored births and deaths for 1917 In Virgin in cities follow: Alexandria births 90; deaths 116; Danville, births 119 deaths 163: Lynch burg, bir‘hs 201; deaths 219; Newport News births 208; deaths 252; Norfollc births 813; deaths 882; Petersburg, births 498; deaths 416: Portsmonth, Births 286: deaths 33%: Richmond, births 1.290; deaths 1.266; Roanoke, Wirths 206 deaths 190: Staunton births 29; deaths 40; Rristol, births 2; oaths 27; Charlottesville, births 63 deaths 61; Clifton Forge births 14; deaths 16: Fredericksburg hivths 36; doaths 22; Winchester births 32: deaths 35. : WILT, DENY RERGER ALL USUAL ALLOWANCE IN HIS PIGHT, His Credentials Without Delay Washington, Jan, 2—Victor Ber ger Social'st Representative-elect from Wisconsin not only will be denied a goat in the House when he presents his second certificate of election to tho present Congress but wi'l be pre Vented from drawing mileage or any of the several allowances provided for a membor. ‘This is the purpose of a resolution which has been agrecd upon by Rep resentative Dallinger, Republican of Massachuset's chairman of the com mittee which previously recommend- ed his exclusion and Representative Kage of Texas ranking Demceratic Member of the comm’ttec. Mr, Engle stated today that he had wgreed with Mr. Dallinger on the form of the resolu jon and wil! join with the Massachusetts members in urg- ing its immed'ate adovtion when Ber ger presents his credentials nex! Monday. Under the working of the resolu tion said Mr, Ragle Bereor's ereder tlals will be returned to him instant W and the sergeant at arms will bi ordered to deny any claim the ex cluded member-clect may make — fo: mileage: salary; clerk hire or stat- tonery allowance. ‘Thero is ample precedent for th ‘resolution according ito the ‘Texn: Congressman. He believes it will Wb thr MOXMONT PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGTR: adopted virtually wi.hout opposi- tion, + 8150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID, Boykins, Va, Dec. 30, 1919, ‘This is to coruty that 1 ‘have re- ceived from John Mitchell, Jr, Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Va. Order of Calanthe, ($150.00) One Hunderd and Fit y Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sister Susie Warren, who was a member of Boykins Court No. 188 of Boykins, Va, Signed: | SAM B. WARREN, Beneficiary Witnesses: o D. W. WINFIELD, D. D. GC. A. P. DAVIS. L. 11. RUSSELL. ——_-2- $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Chase City, Va, Nov. 19, 1919. This is to certify that I havo re ceived from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge. of Va., Knights of Pythias N, AG SAL; KW. AL: A. pnd AL ($150.00) One Tun dred and Fifty Dollars in payment: of the death claim of brother Henderson Hardy who was a member of Sons of Lherty Lodge No, 77 of Chase City Va., Signed: FRANCES HARDY, Beneficiary. Witnesses: +e WF, B. SMITH, K. of R. of S. JOHN L. AVIN. GEO. C. LANCASTER, D. D. Gc. ——+-2-2 WANTED—A Live Canvasser, male or female. Much money can bo made by the right party, Apply 311 North Fourth Street, Rich mond, Va. Se Get in the swim, Save Lhe Pluuet Coupous, Get a Prinv. Uiuece Feuslvy Ldeul; YUU LU UU the wauie sai “News-atand. wir MdWard Dauisiowe, da a. Val Serewy, agent Lor we stem Maudiog OL KINGS Of Le TLywpeae (cormmemmemneunrremrenicimee mia 6 VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 27th day of October, i919. MARY E WHITE, ........Piaintitt, against In Chancery. HARRY W. WHITE ....Defendant. ‘Tha object of this auit is to ob tain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant upon tho ground of dosortion And an affidavit having been made aud filed that the defendant, Harry W White Is not a resident ‘of the Stato of Virginia; it is ordered that the sald Harry W. White ppear here within fifteen days after due publi cation of this order and do what may bo necessary to protect his intorast horein. A Copy, | Testo: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. 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