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VOLUME XXXVIII, NO. 22 THE AMERICAN CONGO -THE BURNING OF HENRY LOWRY (ByWilliam Pickeng.) The valley of the Mississippi River from Memphis to the great delta may properly be termed the "Congo" of America. It includes the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, western Tennessee, and eastern Texas. The quest of this Congo is not tor rubber and ivory but for cotton and sugar. Hero labor is forced, and the laborer is a slave. The slavery is cunningly contrived debt slavery, to give the appearance of civilization and the sanction of law. A debt of a few hundred dollars may tie a black man and his family of ten as securely in bondage to a great white plunder as if he had purchased their bodies. If the Thirteenth Amendment, which has never been enforced in this region, means anything, it is that a man's body cannot be held for an honestly contracted debt; that only his property can be held; and that if a contracting debtor has no property, the credit tor takes the risk in advancing credit. Otherwise a law abolishing slavery could be easily evaded, for the wealthy enslave could get the poor victim into debt and then hold his body in default of payment. Wages could then be adjusted to expenses and the costs of "keep" that the slavery would be unending. The only way for this debt sale to get free from each master is to get one one else to take this debt; that is, to sell himself to another with added charges, expenses of moving and housing. By this method the enslave gets his lendsmen he enslaves gets his slave system for in the debt system he does not have to pay the full market price of a man. The effect is to allow the lendsman and the poor unwittingly and unwittingly to sell them selves for much less than an old slaveholder would have sold them. The debtmaster has other advantages, in that he is free from liabilities on account of the debtors' health or the failure of his crops. The debtor takes all the risk; and in case of misfortune or crop failure, gets deeper into debt—more securely the in bondage. This is the system that shines in the great Mississippi Valley, and it has not been modified for thirty years or more. The evil of this system is responsible for all of the horrible lynchings and burnings of individual Negroes that have totally taken place in this region. T. H. Green most bar burious of all burnings of a human being that of Henry Lowry, at Nodena, Arkansas. (See Memphis, Tennessee, is directly and immediately traceable to this debt-save system. The newspapers of that section which described in great detail the Negro "murderer" deed of killing a white planter and the savage torture which the farmers inflicted upon the slayer, either pretend not to know the cause of all this or do not take ignore it. Some of the new newspapers whose representatives saw members of the white planter's family and found out everything, said that "no reason could be ascertained" as to why the Negro shot the white man and other papers in vowed or accorded a beautiful little fiction, that Lowry had clashed a colored woman for a pole or more trying to kill her; that this colored woman finally ran into the home of O. T. Craig, the planter, for protection; that the planter stalled out so "remonstrate" with Lowry, when the latter shot him dead, incidentally killing his dancer, a Mrs. Williamson, who stood in a ship and wounding his 2 sons. That scene, thirty-five years old and Richard Craig, twenty-seven years old. As we know the South, we would have to be very simple-minded to believe this even if we had not gone immediately to the section and found the facts otherwise. For a Negro in Arkansas to do what the papers of Memphis say Lowry did, that Negro would have to be a maniac; and so the papers tried to be consistent by asserting that he was "drunk," one even going so far as to report that a still had been found at his house. Let us look at the facts. We should always bear in mind when there is trouble across the color line that we never read the side of the colored people in these papers, and also that many white people say over their dinner tables and to a few of their colored servants what they will not say in public. About two years ago Henry Lowry, the Negro, came from the State of Mississippi to work on the arms of O. T. Craig, a largeplanter in Mississippi County, Arkansas. With him came his wife and a six year old daughter. He was well behaved and industrious, and knew nothing of whiskey and stills. Even the Memphis newspapers admitted finally that he was an honest, hard working, inoffensive Negro. They admitted this to make it sound reasonable to assert that he ran a still and got drunk O. T. Craig, the planter, owned all the land thereabout. The colored tenants could own nothing, and Craig controlled everything. He hired, paid, and tired the colored school teacher for such schooling as he allowed. His son Hugh was his farm manager. His son Richard, "Mr. Dick," was a "bad man" to the colored people. He was postmaster and clerk of court. As the Lowry case proves, the malt of the colored tenants could be opened any time, and they got such "justice" as the landlords willed. Craig and his household therefore, were about all the "government" the black tenant knew. The Constitution does not follow them into the backwoods of Arkansas. A few weeks before Christmas Henry Lowry ran afoul of the policies of the debalsev system by going to Craig and asking for a settlement that is a summing up of the debts and credits for the two years or so, and a delivery to Lowry of the balance due if any Xmps was coming; and it is thought also that Lowry wanted to move away, which the Craigs perhaps knew, as they controlled the mails. And Lowry knew that it he attempted to move away without having written evidence that he was debt-free all his household goods would be "attached," and he and his family might be attached, too. But although Craig could have "settled" on his own eg parte figures, as is the rule, he refused to have any settlement, at all. That would be bad policy; to console these Negro tenants a reckoning might lead to other presumptions on their part. Who knows? If they can ask for a settlement once in two years and get it, they might come to ask for monthly statements, with bills and receipts. And what would become of debt-bondage if the debtmaster must keep true and actual amounts? Craig would not settle. Moreover, any presumptions Negro who insisted upon a settlement must be answered—emphatically So Richard Craig struck Lowry and admonished him not to come again for a settlement, for there would be no settlement. Lowry was a man of forty years or more, and being indignant, he said among his fellow-blacks that he would go back grain and insist upon a settlement. Now, there was a woman named "Bessie," who was cook for the Craigs, about twenty-five years old, and on perfectly friendly terms with "Mr. Dick." She is the principal in the fiction about the colored woman (Cont pued On Fourth Page.) --- CITIZENS MEETING IN INTEREST OF COLORED SCHOOLS. The public is invited to attend a Mass meeting, at Reformer's Hall, Friday, 5:00 P.M. M April 15, 1921 to form a City Wide Parent-Teacher Association for the improvement of the Colored Public Schools of Richmond. The following program will be rendered: America, Congregation, led by Chorus, devotionalists, W. D. L. Ransom, pastor, First Baptist Church South Richmond; Music, Chorus; Involvement, Remarks, W. A. Jordan, Chairman; Results of Efforts Hereto fore Mute to Improve Colored Schools Hon. J. Theo. Hawkins; Fight for Sydney School Building, Mrs. E. F. Johnson, President Sydney School Improvement League; Music, Chorus; School Standards, Prof. C. H. Thompson, Va. Colon University; Report of Activities of Joint Committee of Literary Societies; Music, Chorus; Symposium, Our School Problems; Opened by Prof. Nelson Williams, Jr., Ministers, Teachers and Citizens will be asked to give two minute talks on these problems. Organization-election of Officers and Committees, Remarks and Benediction. COMMITTEE Mrs. L. J. Standard, Mrs. Hannah Johnson, Miss Robinson, Prof. Nelson Williama Jr., Prof. J. H. Blackwell; Prof. J. M. Sampson; H. W. Harris; B. T. Voughan; W. A. Jordan, Tem. Chairman; Miss R. C. Carter, Secretary. CASCADE LODGE ANNIVERSARY Hot Springs, Va., March 31, 1821. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Dear Sir and Brother—Cascade Lodge No. 99 K. of P., and Cascade Court No. 181 of Calanthe, hold their annual services in the Chapel here, Sunday night March 27th amid a pro- fusion of Illies, palms and ferns. The numbers on our program were beautifully rendered before a large and an appreciative audience. A liberal offering was given. You're fraternally, C. B. CALLAHAN. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, APRIL 9, 1921. GRUESOME CONDITIONS IN GEORGIA Star Witness Tells About the Slaughtering and Drowning Eleven Colored Men. Surprising Conditions in the Southland. Peonage the Issue. Covington, Ga., April 6.—Fear for his own life was the motive that prompted Clyde Manning, colored farm boss to help kill eleven colored farm hands employed on the Jasper County plantation of John S. Williams, the colored boss told the jury in the William's trial in Newton County Superior Court here today. Manning asserted on cross-examination he did not want to help kill them but was afraid to disobey Williams whom he declared was trying to do away with the Negroes for fear they might testify regarding peonage conditions on the Williams' farm. AGAINST HIS WILL They wasn't a bothering me," said Manuling, a coal black, short stockily built man of about 150 pounds, "and I didn't want to get 'em out of the way," but he added a few moments later, "Mr. Johnny said 'its their necks or yours.'" The Negroes met death shortly after Federal authorities started an investigation of alleged poonage on the farm, six of them according to Manuling, being chained to rocks and thrown alive into rivers and five Knocked in the head or shot and buried on the farm. Williams is on trial charged with the murder of Lindsey Peterson one of three of the Negroes alleged to have been brought into Newton County and drowned and the defense sought to confine the witness to his account of Person's death and to bar him and two Federal agents from testifying to poonage conditions. Judge John B. Hutchison overruled both motions, and Green F. Johnson, chief counsel for Williams, indicated he would appeal on these grounds to higher courts in event of conviction of Williams. INDICTED WITH WILLIAMS Throughout an hour of cross-examination Manning who was indicted jointly with Williams, solidly denied any pressure had been brought to bear on him to make him tell the story. It was only after long questioning by officers he said, that he first told his story but he denied he had been beaten threatened with drowning, or promised a light sentence if he would help convict Williams as the latters counsel intimated. "I'm just telling the truth." Manning, old the attorney and added that he had not talked when first arrested "because Mr. Johnny told me not to." "Well drilled," was the only comment that could be obtained from Williams after the trial. He had watched the witness closely through out the day and on one occasion smiled broadly when Manning described how in his one attempt to operate his employer's automobile he had run into a mail box. ASK INDICTMENTS FOR SONS Huland Marvin and Leroy Williams sons of the defendant for whom Governor Dorsey has asked indictments in Jasper County when the grand jury there takes up on April 11 investigation of the deaths of the eight Negroes in that county were not in court again today, but Dr. Gus Williams, the oldest son flatly denied reports they had left the State. They probably will attend the trial later he said. The State put up four other witnesses beside Manning—two Federal agents; Clyde Freeman, a colored farm hand a colored woman cook—and was expected to conclude his case by tomorrow night. The defense indicated it would conclude its testimony in about one day and that the case should go to the jury on Saturday. Manning was the State's chief wif (Continued on Fourth Page) Dentist W. J. Pettis was in his office in the Mechanics Bank Building Easter Monday, when a youngster came up the stairway to the door and inquired of him about the charge of pulling a tooth. He told him $2.00. He said all right, he would bring the party up. He had handed Dr. Pettis two new one dollar bills and he held them in his hand, later patting them into his vest pocket. In the meantime some one came up the stairway. It proved to be a Federal officer, who stated to the dentist that he had a warrant to search his office. He preceeded to do this and he took two small bottles of erys alcooline and another bottle with tablets. DISPENSING COCAINE He then told Dr. Pettis that he must go with him to the Federal building, where a charge was lodged against him for unlawfully dispensing cocaine. The youngster had a very small package of powdered cocaine, which he claimed Dr. Petti had sold him for the two dollars. The bill were marked and these being found on Dr. Pettis were used in evidence against him. John Mitahall, Jr., became surety for Dr. Pettis, with Attorney J. R. Pobard as counsel. The hearing was set for Friday. April 1, but was later postponed until Monday April 4th, the Government not being ready to proceed. FAILED TO MAKE OUT ▲ CASE In the meantime, Hon. H. M. Smith Jr., was also retained in the case. When the case was called before United States Commissioner Flegen heimer on Monday, after hearing the evidence and the colored boy, who claimed to have purchased the cocaine failed to appear, the case was dismissed. It was brought out that no cocaine of the kind and grade alleged to have been purchased was found in Dr. Pettis' office. --- MOON—CLAY Mr. and Mrs. George C. Clay, wisen to announce the engagement of their daughter, Beatrice to Mr. Hamden Moon of South Richmond, Va. Marriage to take place in June. MARRIED Mr. Winston D. Boisseau and Miss Addie B. White of Chesterfield Co. Va., were united in marriage at the home of her pastor Rev. J. H. Binford D. D. 900 N. 300th Street Richmond Va. Wednesday April 9th, at 7:15 A.M. and left for Washington, D. C., on the 8:40 A. M. train for a short stay We wish them a happy life. IN MEMORIAM Blackstone, Va., April 6, 1921. PETTUS: Sacred to the memory of our sainted and devoted mother and mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Pettus who fell asleep in Jesus April 5th, 1913. However long our lives may be, Whatever lands we view; Whatever joy or grief he ours, We shall still remember you. Her Son and Daughter-in-law, MR. AND MRS. JOHN PETTUS IN MEMORIAM. In sad but loving remembrance of our dear husband and father, Arthur E. Alston, who fell asleep in Jesus, three years ago April 1, 1918. I stood beside your dying bed As long as I could stay, It was so hard for me to stand And see you fade away. You are gone but not forgotten, Fresh your memory will ever be, God called you home, it was His will But in my heart I love you still. His devoted wife, CHARITY ALSTON. Farewell dear father, both true and kind A truer father to me I cannot find; Just three years you left us father, Never more your face to see. But I know that you are waiting, Waiting father dear for me. His devoted children, FAIRL, PLUMMER, LENORA, AND LUCILE ALSTON. 705 Denny Street. --- AMERICAN EMIGRATION NOTES There will be a very important meeting of the Urban B. Bass Post No. 115, of the American Legion on Tuesday night April 12th, at the ArmyNavy crab at 8:30 P. M. At this meeting three will be a limited number of American Legion buttons on sale by a member of the post, for members only; price twenty-five cents. Also certificates of membership will be issued to those who have paid their dues for 1921. Up to the present time only the following named men have paid their state and national dues for 1921: Jessie Brown * Mack Bryant, Bonner Cockfield, John L. Dubney, Isaiah Dickerson, Jacob Dickerson; W. A. Hall, Mach Hudson; Bugene Houston Edgar Jackson; Bradford Johnson; Walter Jones; David Peterson; M. D. Walker and Wilie Wyche. It is earnestly requested that all these men and all others who are interested will be present and on time at the meeting on next Tuesday night at 8:30 P. M at the Army and Navy Club on Clay Street. --- MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT Miss Norma C. T. Horton, of Augusta georgia announces the marriage of her sister, Fredrika Bremer, to L. H. Shackelford, Ph. D., of Richmond, Va. on January the third, 1921. At home after April 15, 2813 P. Street, Richmond, Va. REV. PEYTON PREACHES THE PYTHIAN ANNIVERSARY AT MIDDLEFERN. Rev. R. V. Peyton, pastor of the Sizith Mt. Zion Baptist Church preached a most wonderful sermon to the Knights of Pythias and the Courts of Calanthe at Midtulhian, Virginia on Sunday March 27, 1921. Leaving Richmond at 2 P. M. by way of automobile and arriving at Midtulhian at 2:45 P. M. he was in time to begin service at 3 P. M. Rev. R. V. Peyton was accompanied by Mrs. M. V. Peyton and Deputy Grand Chancellor, John Bland. He was gracefully welcomed by members of the Order and friends who were waiting his arrival. There were many people from all sections of the county attending the exercises. At the close of the exercises dinner was served in a most splendid style. A. D. FEUCE LOSES LEFT FOOT. M. A. D. Price, the well known funeral director and embalmer was removed from his residence Thursday night, April 7th, to Richmond Hospital, where surgeons associated with Dr. Stuart McGuire on Friday, April 8th, amputated his left foot above the ankle on order to save his life. He has been suffering with the foot for some time. THE FYTIRIAN ANNIVERSARY AT BOYKENS. The sermon was preached at New Bethel Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. T. O. Bryant and the sermon was indeed a splendid one. They had in the midst G. C. D. C. D. Sir W. W. Urquhart. In his usual way he gave us some very helpful and instructive remarks he returned to Franklin and reported a very splendid time. The Lodge as well as Courts are really preparing the principles of the Order and Court. There has been a talk about hard times, the scarcity of food, owing to wage cuts everywhere, but if you could have seen the food these sisters had on that ground all of us would have concluded no more hard times. D. D., was accompanied by Sir Henry Carter of Fidelity Lodge at Franklin. The collection raised was about $62.00. The D. D. G. C. of Boykins, D. W. Whitfield, had in charge all money paid in the usual way. The hospitality shown the visitors cannot be surprised by any people. They known how to honor and recognize their leaders. From a good wisher of the Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calcutta everywhere. --- OFFICIALLY COMMISSIONED Mrs. Lallika I. 15, Payne. Es. Secretary of Community House for Colored People, Incorporated has been appointed delegate, one of a number officially commissioned by the Hon. Westmoreland Davis, Governor of Virginia to represent the commonwealth at the State Confidence of Charities and Corrections convening in Norfolk, Va. April 10-13 inclusive. Mrs. Payne, Mrs. Mary N. Binga, diree or Miss Emma Bailey stock in office and worker in office of State Board of Charities and Correction leave for Norfolk, Sunday morning. --- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sully of 1915 Decatur Street, Southside, delightfully entertained Mr. and Mrs. Odell English of Philadelphia on last Tuesday evening. Quite a number of friends and new acquaintances assembled and a grand time was had --- Mrs. P. M. B. Hodge, D. D, G. W. C. of Danville, Va., made a special visit to the city this week to see Miss M. L. Chiles, G. W. R. of D., of the Grand Court of Virginia who has been seriously ill for the past month. She brought her a lovely bunch of flowers sent by Gadiius Court No. 227, fruit, also a token from one of the members and their sincere prayers that she will soon be able to resume serene duty. --- RICHMOND CHAPTER N. A. A. C.P. WIRING ATTORNEY GENERAL Hon. Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General U. S. A. My Dear Sir: The Richmond Chapter for the Advancement of Colored People views with alarm the increasing spirit of lawlessness in the United States. This Chapter has considered the horrible conditions shown to exist under the Peoria System in Jasper County, Georgia, where a land owner murdered in cold blood eleven Negroes because of a fear that they might testify against him regarding Peoria. This is the most revolting crime that has been brought to light in the History of our Country. We are horrified to consummate what effect this state of affairs will have upon the safety of our Democratic Institutions. The Richmond Chapter directs us to appeal to you to use all powers conferred upon you by the laws of the United States of America to stamp out Peoria in this Country forever, whether it is practiced against Negroes or any other race of people. We earnestly appeal to you to use all of the power conferred upon you to begging to trial before a court of Justice all newswors who may be guilty of this horrible crime committed in Jasper County Georgia. We are furiously directed to appeal to you and to President Harding to institute at once a complete investigation of Peonage in the United States, to ascertain to what extent citizens of this country are held in Peonage. We firmly believe that as long as any vestige of this condition remains in our country, we will threaten the safety of our Democratic institutions. We ask an immediate investigation. J. THOMAS HEWIN, Press. L. L. SCANARD, Secretaries. PRICE, FIVE CENTS MAN IS BRANDED K K K BY USE OF ACID IN HANDS OF MOB Dallas, Texas, April 2.—Police today were investigating the activities of masked men who took Alex Johnson, colored bell boy in a Dallas hotel to a lonely spot south of Dallas late last night, flogged him and those branded with an acid the letters "K. K. K." on his foreheaded. Johnson was brought back to Dallas in an auto mobile and thrown from the machine in front of the hotel where he had been employed. Six automobiles drove to Johnson's home and a number of masked men forcibly placed the boy in one of the cars where he was tied. With Johnson pleading for his life the party drove to a lonely point on Hutchinson road. Here he was tied to a rope post and given 25 lashes, after having been stripped of clothing to the wrist. The whipping over, a bottle of acid was procured and branding of the boy's fereheaded accomplished. The masked party was said to have been composed of well dressed white men. Charges were filed in county court last week against Johnson after police said he had been discovered in the room of a white woman guest at the hotel. NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS. The National Race Congress of the United States of America Incorporated Dr. W. H. Jermagin, founder and President, Dr. H. J. Callis, Executive Secretary, hold a unique and enviable place among the National organizations whose object is to better the condition of the race. The founder of this great organization brings more wisely than he knew. The officers of the Congress are men and women of National reputation and are among the most influential of the race. Dr. Jermagin is a man of international reputation great ability, unquestioned loyalty and energy, he is a tireless worker. The Executive Secretary to the person of Dr. H. J. Callis, the former chairman of the Executive Committee is one of the most able men the race has produced and he is leafless, no stone unturned to make the equipping session of the Congress the greatest in its history. Dr. J. Harvey Randolph the new chairman knows how to bring ships to pass. The officers are heartily supported in their plans to take care of the Congress by much men as Dr. Walter H. Brooks, W. J. Howard, J. Milton Waldron, D. E. Jones and others. Washington is preparing to give this Congress the greatest welcome this year it has ever seen. The session will be held in Zion Baptist church, F. S. between Third and Four and One Third Streets, S. W. Rev. W. J. Howard pastor, S. Zion Baptist church is one of the most beautiful edifices in the National Capitol. The main auditorium has just been renovated at a cost of $12,000. It is agreed on all sides that the coming session of the Congress will be the most important in its history. It will be the first time since the organization of the Congress that the Republican party has been in complete control of all branches of the Government and there is no excuse now for failure to enact such laws and will protect all of its citizens everywhere in the country in their civil and political rights. In a recent session of the Executive Committee it was unanimously decided to insist upon the passage at the next session of the United States Congress an anti-lynching bill and a Federal election law that all of the citizens of the U. S. who are eligible to cast their ballots at the elections and have them honestly counted. In order that the organizations interested in such legislation may present a solid front they are urged to send delegates to the Congress which will meet in Washington, D. C., May 4th, 1921 with power to act for their respective organizations. We are sure the colored Editors for the country will do their bit in getting over this program in the interest of the race. They were sound to the core and loyal to the man during the late world war in the fight for Universal democracy and we are sure they will not be less loyal to their own people. This fight needs the hearty support of every true man and woman. There must be no slacken. Rally around the flag boys, rally before again. S. G. LAMPKINS, Publicity Agent 4 WE SERVE - INFORM - ADVERTISE THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS --- VOLUME XXXVIII, NO. 22 THE AMERICAN CONGO THE BURNING OF HENRY LOWRY (ByWilliam Pickeng.) This is the system that obtains in the great Mississippi Valley, and it has not been modified for thirty years or more. The evil of this system is responsible for all of the horrible tynchings and burnings of individual Negroes that have likely taken place in this region. T. is recent most barious of all burnings of a human being, that of Henry Lowry, at Nodene, Arkansas, near Memphis, Tennessee, is directly and immediately traceable to this debt-slave system. The newspapers of that section which described in great detail the Negro "murderer" deed of killing a white planter and the savage torture which the farm infiltrated upon the slayer, either preempted to know the cause of all this or delicately snare it. The newspapers whose representatives saw members of the white planter's family and found out that he also said that "no reason could be ascertained" as to why the Negro shot the white man. And other papers in vented or accented a beautiful little fiction that Lowry had chased a colored woman for a mile or more trying to kill her; that this colored woman finally ran into the home of O. T. Craig, the planter, for protection; that the planter stepped out to "remonstrate" with Lowry, when the latter shot him dead, incidentally killing his daughter, a Mrs. Williamson, who stood near him and wounding his 2 sons, High Cray, thirty-five years old and Richard Cray, twenty-seven years old. As we know the South, we could have to be very simple-minded to this heiress if we had not gone immediately to the section and found the fact otherwise. For a Negro in Arkansas to what the papers of Memphis say Lowry did, that Negro would have to be a man so the papers' tried to be consistent by asserting that he was "drunk," one even going so far as to report that a still had been found at his house. Let us look at the facts. We should always bear in mind when there is trouble across the color line that we never read the side of the colored people in these papers, and also that many white people say over their dinner tables and to a few of their colored servants what they will not say in public. About two years ago Henry Lowry, the Negro, came from the State of Mississippi to work on the farms of O. T. Craig, a largeplaner in Mississippi County, Arkansas. With him came his wife and a six year old daughter. He was well behaved and industrious, and know nothing of whiskey and skills. Even the Memphis newspapers admitted finally that he was an honest, hard working, inoffensive Negro. They admitted this to make it sound reasonable to assort that he ran a still and got drunk. O. T. Craig, the planter, owned all the land thereabout. The colored ten and own nothing, and Craig controlled every yard, paid, paid, and fired the colored school teacher for such schooling as he allowed. His son Hugh was his farm manager. His son Richard, "Mr. Dick," was a "bad man" to the colored people. He was postmaster and clerk of court. As the Lowry case proves, the malt of the colored tenant could be open at any time, and they got such "justice as the landlords willed. Craig worked in the school therefore, were about all the schoolmen" the black tenant knew. The Constitution does not follow them into the backwoods of Arkansas. A few weeks before Christmas Henry Lowry ran afoul of the policies of the debt-sensitive system by going to Craig and asking for a settlement; that is a summing up of the debts and credits for the two years or so, and a delivery to Lowry of the balance due if any. Xmas was coming; and it is thought also that Lowry wanted to move away, which the Craigs perhaps knew, as they controlled the mails. And Lowry knew if he attempted to move away without writing written evidence that he would be "attached" all his household goods would be "attached," and he and his family might be "attached," too. But although Craig could "settled" on his own ex parte figures, as is the rule, he refused to have any settlement at all. That would be had polley; to concede these Negro tenants a reckoning might lead to other presumptions on their part. Who knows? If they can ask for a settlement once in two years and get it, they might come to ask for payments, with bills and receipts. And if they would become of debt-bon-dage, the debt-master must keep true and actual counts. Craig would not settle. Moreover, if presumptuous Negro who insisted upon a settlement must be answered formally. So Richard Craig struck Lowry and adamished him not to come again for a settlement, for there would be no settlement. Lowry was a man of forty years or more, and being indignant, he said among his fellow-blacks that he would go back again and instil upon a settlement. Now, there was a woman Thessle, who was the cook for the Craigie house for twenty-five years old, and on perfectly friendly terms with "Mr. Dick." She is the principal in the fiction about the colorful woman (Continued On Fourth, Pass.) --- CITIZENS' MEETING IN INTEREST OF COLORED SCHOOLS. The public is invited to attend a Mass meeting, at Reformers' Hall, Friday, 8:00 P.M. M. April 15, 1921 to form a City Wide Parent-Teacher Association for the improvement of the Colored Public Schools of Richmond. The following program will be rendered: Amerika. Congregation, led by Chorus, devotions, Dr. W. L. Ransom, pastor. Plain Baptist Church South Richmond; Music Center. Introductory Remarks. W. A. Jordan, Chairman; Results of Efforts Hereto Made to Improve Colored Schools Hon. J. Theus. Hewin; Fight for Sydney School Building, Mrs. E. F. Johnson, President Sydney School Improvement League; Music, Chorus; School Standards, Prof. C. H. Thompson, Va. Union University; Report of Activities of Joint Committee of Literary Societies; Music, Chorus; Symposium, Our School Problems; Open教室; Teachers on Williams, Jr., Ministers, Teachers on Williams will be asked to give two intimate talks on these problems. Organization-Election of Officers and Committees. Remarks and Benediction. COMMITTEE Mrs. L. I. St. Standard, Mrs. Hannah Johnson, M. I. Robinson, Prof. Nelson Williamia Jr., Prof. J. H. Blackwell; Prof. J. M. Sampson; W. H. Harris; Vaughan; W. A. Jordan, Tem. Chairman; Misa R. C. Carter, Secretary. CASCADI LODGE ANNIVERSARY Hot Springs, Va., March 31, 1921. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Dear Sir and Brother—Cascade Lodge No. 99 K. of P., and Cascade Court No. 181 of Calantah, held their annual services in the Chapel here, Sunday night March 27th amid a profusion of illies, palms and ferns. The numbers on our program were beautifully rendered before a large and an appreciative audience. A liberal offering was given. Yours, fraternally, C. B. CALLLAHAN. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, APRIL 9, 1921. GRUESOME CONDITIONS IN GEORGIA Star Witness Tells About the Slaughtering and Drowning Eleven Colored Men. Covington, Ga., April 6. -Fear for his own life was the motive that prompted Clyde Manning, colored farm boss to help kill eleven colored farm hands employed on the Jasper County plantation of John S. Williams, the William's trial in Newton County Superior Court here today. Manning asserted on cross-examination he did not want to help kill them but was afraid to disobey William whom he declared and trying to do away with the Negroes for fear they might testify regarding peonage conditions on the Williams' farm. AGAINST HIS WILL They wasn't a bothering me," said Manning, a coal block, short stockily built man of about 150 pounds, "and I didn't want to get 'em out of the way," but he added a few moments later, "Mr. Johnny said 'its their necks or yours." The Negroes met death shortly after or Federal authorities started an investigation of alleged peonage on the farm, six of them according to Manning, being chained to rocks and thrown alive into rivers and five Knuckled in the head or shot and buried on the farm. Williams is on trial charged with the murder of Lindsey Peterson one of three of the Negroes allogated to have been brought into Newton County men and the defense sought to confine the crimes to the account of Person's death and to have and two federal agents from testifying to peonage conditions. Judge John B. Hutchison overruled both motions, and Green F. Johnson, chief counsel for Williams, indicated he would appeal on these grounds to higher courts in event of conviction of Williams. INDICTED WITH WILLIAMS Throughout an hour of cross-examination Manning who was indicted joined with Williams, solidly denied any pressure he had been brought to bear on him to make him tell the story. It was only after long questioning by officers he said, that he first told his story but he denied he had been beaten threatened with drowning, or promised a light sentence if he would help conquer Williams as the latter counsel him. "I'm just telling the truth," Manning told the attorney and added that he had not talked when first arrested "because Mr. Johnny told me not to." "Well drilled," was the only comment that could be obtained from Williams after the trial. He had watched the witness closely through the day and on one occasion smiled broadly when Manning described how in his one attempt to operate his employer's automobile he had run into a mail box. ASK INDICTMENTS FOR SONS Huland Marvin and Leroy Williams sons of the defendant for whom Governor Dorsey has asked indictments in Jasper County when the grand jury there takes up on April 11 investigation of the deaths of the eight Negroes in that county were not in court again today, but Dr. Gus Williams, the older son flatly denied reports they had left the State. They probably will attend the trial later he said' The State put up four other witnesses beside Manning—two Federal agents; Clyde Freeman, a colored farm hand a colored woman cook—and was expected to conclude its case by tomorrow night. The defense indicated it would conclude its testimony in about one day and that the case should go to the fury on Saturday. Manning was the State's chief wrt (Continued On Fourth Page) Dentist W. J. Pettta was in his office in the Mechanics Bunk Building Euster Monday, when a youngster came up the stairway to the door and inquired of him about the charge of pulling a tooth. He told him $2.00. He then asked if he would party up. He had handed Dr. Pettta two new one dollar bills and he held them in his hand, laurer putting them into his vocket. In the moment some one came up the stairway. It proved to be a Federal officer, who stated to the dentist that he had a small bottle of his office. He proceeded to do this. He two small bottles of crystal incense and another bottle with tablets. DISPENSING COCAIN2 He then told Dr. Pettis that he must go with him to the Federal building, where a charge was lodged against him for unlawfully dispensing cocaine. The youngster had a very small package of powdered cocaine, which he claimed Dr. Pettil had sold him for the two dollars. The bill were marked and these being found on Dr. Pettis were used in evidence on Dr. Pettis in John Mitchell, Jr., became murderer, Dr. Pettis, with Attorney J. R. Poleard a witness hearing was set for Friday April 4th, the Government not being ready to proceed. FAILED TO MAKE OUT A CASE In the meantime, Hon. H. M. Smith Jr., was also retained in the case. When the case was called before United States Commissioner Fleger heimer on Monday, after hearing the evidence and the colored boy, who claimed to have purchased the cocaine failed to appear, the case was dismissed. It was brought out that no cocaine of the kind and grade alleged to have been purchased was found in Dr. Pettie' office. MOON-CLAY. Mr. and Mrs. George G. Clay, wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Beatrice to Mr. Hamden Moon of South Richmond, Va. Marriage to take place in June. MARRIED. Mr. Winston D. Bolassean and Mias Addie B. White of Chesterfield Co., Yn., were united in marriage at the home of her presor Rev. J. H. Binford, D. D. 900 N. 30th Street Richmond, N. A. Wednesday April 9th, at 7:15 A.M. at Washington, D. C., on the 8:40 M. Washington, D. C., stay We wish them a happy life IN MEMORIAM. Blackstone, Va., April 5, 1921. PETTUS—Sacred to the memory of our sainted and devoted mother and mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Pettus who fell asleep in Jesus April 5th, 1913. However long our lives may be, Whatever lands we view; Whatever joys or grief be ours. We shall still remember you. Her Son and Daughter-in-law. MR. AND MRS. JOHN PETTUS IN MEMORIAM. In sad but loving remembrance of our dear husband and father, Arthur E. Alston, who fell asleep in Jesus, three years ago 1 April, 1918. I stood beside your dying bed As long as I could stay. It was so hard for me to stand And see you fade away. You are gone but not forgotten, Fresh your memory will ever be, God called you home, it was His will But in my heart I love you still. His devoted wife, Overspentness. Farewell door father, both true and klud A truer father to me I cannot find; Just three years you left us father, Never more your face to see, But I know that you are waiting, Waiting father dear for me, this down this road, EARL, PLUMMER, LENORA, AND LUCILE ALSTON, .708 Denny Street. --- AMERICAN LEGION NOTES There will be a very important meeting of the Urban F. Bass Post No. 115, of the American Legion on Tuesday night April 12th, at the Army-Navy club at 8:30 P. M. At this meeting there will be a limited number of American Legion buttons on sale by a member of the post, for members only; also certificates of membership will be issued to them. They have paid their dues for 1921. Up to the time only the following named men have paid their state and national dues for 1921: Jessie Brown, *Mack Bryant*, Bonner Cockfield, John L. Dubney, Isaiah Dickerson, Jacob Dickerson, W. A. Hall; Mach Hudson; Eugene Houston Edgar Jackson; Bradford Johnson; Walter Jones; David Peterson; M. D. Walter and Willie Wyche. He is enormously requested that all these officers who are in forested will be present and on time at the meeting on next Tuesday night at 8:30 P. M. at the Army and Navy Club on Clay Street. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT Miss Norma C. T. Horton, of Augusta ta Georgia announces the marriage of her sister, Fredrika Bremer, to L. H. Shackelford, Ph. D., of Richmond, Va. on January 1921. At home after April 1921, 2813 P. Street, Richmond, Vn. REV. PEYTON PRABACHES THE PYTHILOPHILISARY AT MIDIOTHORA Rev. R. V. Peyton, pastor of the Sizith M. Zion Baptist Church preached a most wonderful sermon to the Knights of Pythias and the Courts of Calanthe at Midlothian, Virginia on Sunday March 27, 1921. Leaving Richmond at 2 P. M. by way of automobile and arriving at Midlothian at 2:45 P. M. he was in time to begin service at 3 P. M. Rev. R. V. Peyton was accompanied by Mr. R. V. Peyton and Deputy Grand Chancellor, John Bland. He was gratefully welcomed by members of the Order and friends who were waiting his arrival. There were many people from all sections of the county attending the exercises. At the close of the exercises dinner was served at a most splendid style. A. D. PRICE LOSES LEFT FOOT. Mr. A. D. P. Price, the well known funeral Director and embalmer was removed from his residence Thursday night, April 7th, to Richmond Hospital, where surgeons associated with Dr. Stuart McGuire on Friday, 8th, amputated his left foot above the ankle in order to save his life. He has been suffering with the foot for some time. THE PYTHIAN ANNIVENSARY AT BOYKENS. The serenian was preached at New Bethel Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. T. O. Bryant and the sermon was indeed a splendid one. They had in the midst G. C. D. D. Sir W. W. Urquhart. In his usual way he gave us some very helpful and instructive remarks. He returned to Franklin and reported a very splendid time. The Lodge as well as Courts are really practicing the principles of the Order. There has been a talk about hard times, the scarcity of food, owing to wage every where, but if you could have seen the food those sisters had on that ground all of us would have concluded no more hard times. D. D., was accompanied by Sir Henry Carter of Fidelity Lodge at Franklin. The collection raised was about $62.00. The D. D. G. C. of Boykins, D. W. Whitfield, had in charge all money paid in the usual way. The hospitality shown the visitors cannot be by any people. They known how to honor and recognize their leaders. From a good wisher of the Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calantin everywhere. OFFICIALLY COMMISSIONED Mrs. Lillian B. Payne, Ex-Secretary of Community House for Colored People, Incorporated has been appointed delegate, one of a number officially commissioned by the Hon. Westmoreland Davis, Governor of Virginia to represent the commonwealth at the State Conference of Charities and Corrections convening in Norfolk, Va. April 10-13 inclusive. Mrs. Payne, Mrs. Mary K. Blinga, direc-tor and Miss Emma Bailley clerk in office worker in office of State Board of Charities and Correction leave for Norfolk, Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sully of 1915 Decatur Street, Southside, delightfully entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ed. English of Philadelphia in last Tuesday evening. Quite a number of friends and new acquaintances assembled and a grand time was had --- Mrs. P. M. B. Hodge, D. D. G. W. C. of Danville, V., made a special visit to the city this week to see Miss M. L. Chiles, W. G. R. W. O. of the Grand Court of Virginia who has been seriously ill for the past month. She brought her a lovely bunch of flowers sent by Gadlious Court No. 227, fruit, also a token from one of the members and their sincere prayers that she will soon be able to resume ser duties. RIGHTMOND CHAPTEER N. A. A. C. P. WIRES ATTORNEY GENERAL. Hon. Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General U. S. A. My Dear Sir—The Richmond Chapter for the Advancement of Colored People views with alarm the increasing spirit of lawlessness in the United States. This Chapter has considered the horrible conditions shown to exist under the Peonage System in Jasper, North Carolina, where a land owner murdered in blood because of a fear that they might testify against him regarding Peonage. This is the most revolting crime that has been brought to light in the History of our Country. We are horrified to contemplate what effect this state of affairs will have upon the safety of our Democratic Institutions. The Richmond Chapter directs us to use our power to use our powers conceived upon you in the United States of America to stand out Peonage in this Country forever, whether it is practiced against Negroes or any other race of people. We earnestly appeal to you to use all of the power conferred upon you to bring to trial before a court of Justice all persons who may be guilty of this horrible crime committed in Jasper County Georgia. We are further directed to appeal to you and to President Harding to institute at once a complete investigation of Peonage in Jasper counties, to ascertain to what extent危害 of this country are held in Peonage we firmly believe that as long as any law of this condition remains in our opinion it will threaten the safety of our Democratic institutions. We ask an immed late investigation. J. THOMAS HEWIN, Press, L. L. STANARD, Secretral PRICE. FIVE CENTS MAN IS BRANDED K K K BY USE OF ACID IN HANDS OF MOB Dallas, Texas, April 2.-Police, today were investigating the activities of masked men who took Alex Johnson, colored bell boy in a Dallas hotel to a lonely spot south of Dallas late last night, flogged him and then branded with an acid the letters "M. K. K." on his forecaded. Johnson was brought back to Dallas in an auto mobile and thrown from the machine in front of the hotel where he had been employed. Six automobiles drove to Johnson's home and a number of masked men forcibly placed the boy in one of the cars where he was tied. With Johnson's help he fled to a lonely point on Hutchins road. Here he was tied to a rope post and given 25 lashes, after having been stripped of clothing to the wrist. The whipping over, a bottle of acid was procured and branding of the boy's forehead accomplished. The masked party was said to have been composed of well dressed white men. Charges were filed in county court last week against Johnson inflicted on the he had been discovered in the room of a white woman guest at the hotel. NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS. The National Race Congress of the United States of America Incorporated, Dr. W. H. Jernagin, founder and President, Dr. H. J. Callis, Executive Secretary, hold a unique and enviable place among the National organizations whose object is to better the condition of the race. The founders of the Congress are more wisely than he know. The officers of the Congress are men and women of National reputation and are among the most influential of the race. Dr. Jernagin is a man of International reputation great ability, unquestioned loyalty and energy, he is a tireless worker. The Executive Secretary to the person of Dr. H. J. Callis, the former chairman of the Executive Committee is one of the most able men the race has produced and he is leaves, no stone unturned to make the greatest session of the Congress the greatest in its history. Dr. J. Harvey Rindolph the new chairman knows how to bring thlippy to pass. The officers are heartily supported in their plans to take care of the Congress by such men as Dr. Walter H. Brooks, W. J. Howard, J. Milton Waldron, O. E. Jones and others. Washington is preparing to give the Congress the greatest welcome this year it has ever seen. The session will be in Zion Baptist church, F. H. between Third and Four and One Hair Street, S. W. Rov. W. J. Howard pastor. Zion Baptist church is one of the most beautiful edifices in the Natl Capitol. The main auditorium has just been renovated at a cost of $12,000. It agreed on all aspects that the coming season of the Congress will be the most important its history. It will be the first time since the organization of the Congress that the Republican party has been in complete control of all branches of the Government and there is no excuse now for failure to enact such laws and will protect all of its citizens everywhere in the country. In their civic and political rights. In a recent session of the Executive Committee it was unanimously decided to insist upon the passage at the next session of the United States Congress an anti-lynching bill and a Federal election law that will all of the citizens of the U. S. who are eligible to vote to cast their ballots at the elections and have them honestly counted. In order that the organizations impressed in such legislation may present a clear front they are urged to send delegates to the Congress which will meet in Washington, D. C. May 14th, 1521 with power to act for their respective organizations. We are the colored Editors of the country will do their bit in putting over this program in the interest of the race. They were sound to the core and loyal to the man during the late world war in the fight for Universal democracy and we are sure they will not be less loyal to their own people. This fight needs the hearty support of every true man and woman. There must be no slackers. Rally around the flag boys, rally for again. S. G. LAMPKINS, Publicity Agent. TWO THE PLANET published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 811 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. DITOR - JOHN MITCHELL, JR. All communications intended for publication could be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Referred at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES No. Year ..... $ 2.00 32 Months ..... 1.19 Three Months ..... 1.00 Foreign Subscriptions ..... 2.59 SATURDAY..... APRIL 9, 1921 You cannot spend your money and have it too. Doing wrong is easy, but doing right is a difficult task. This life is a struggle from the cradle to the grave. Dying is easy. It is living that gives us the trouble. You may sing 'all you want but don't forget to keep on working.' People, who work other people are the most unhappy people in the world. Humility is born in suffering. That is why some people do not care, to suffer. The thunderbuses in finance have at last been put out of office at Washington. If you have too much patronce, operat and own an automobile and you will lose it. The quickest way to the "hot place and the poor-house is by the automobile route. The "nish-can case" was won by Mr. B. Craig Pelouze, much to his own and his friends' satisfaction. Saving money is all right and find ing out the right way to spend it is equitly important. Some people are so acoustomed to telling falsehoods that their mouths have become twisted. Colored folks who fight each other cannot win a place in this world by such practices. Women used to be regarded as "angels," but at that time they did not have the right to vote. Raising some preacher's pay seem to be about as difficult a task as lifting a ten ton weight. The colored press is doing yeoman service for the colored people and the colored people should support the color of press. Going to Heaven by the broad road us impossible and yet there are many professed Christians, who are travel liq it. Colored folks believe in fine dress. Some others believe in a good time. Some others believe in living right and saving what they earn. Some people give words only to break them and they then wonder why they do not get along successfully ly in this world. People, who seem happy are not always happy, but people, who seem miserable are usually always that way. Colored folks are still fussing and quarrelling among themselves. In this respect they are very much like the Irish. People who openly violated the peon age laws under Wilson will find that they cannot do the same thing safely under Harding. People are more solicitous in collecting money for charity than they are in collecting money due other people for actual service rendered. This world now seems to be about eighty per cent decolt and deception and about twenty per cent up to the standard of straightforward dealing. Jesus Christ had a hard time of it when he was here and people, who are in any respect like Him have a hard time now in this world. If President Warren G. Harding could get as much money as he has gotten advice since he has occupied the chair at the White House, he would be the wealthiest man in the world. Some people raised in back alleys by good parents with good manners can serve the public and win friends much better than some other people reared in palatial residences with no manners. We are as prone to sln as the sparks are to fly upward, but that atoming grace goes a long way to wards restoring us to our pristine virginity. Let one colored leader believe that some other colored leader is making too much money or more money than he is making and the artillery of abuse will be let loose upon his devoted head. Being polite and obliging to white folks will make you polite and obliging to colored folks and it is necessary to be on good terms with both in order to make your way in this world. President Harding took the Bible as his guide, when he took the oath of office and he will need it when he takes up some of the appointments to office in which colored office-seekers are involved. Many professional men are of a selfish trend of mind. They support only those things that are of individual benefit and profit to themselves. There are many professional men, though, who act otherwise --- Gov. Westmorland Davis has a mind of his own and as to his opinions, he doesn't seem to care who knows them. A square man will be this way. A man, be he black or white, Republican or Democrat, who draws a line on account of race or color, and says a man, who is qualified and entitled to vote is not entitled to hold office is a veritable back-number and "should go way back and sit down." The technical state of war with Germany will be ended by the Congress just as soon as a roll-call of the two branches can be had and President Harding has declared that his hand and pen are ready to sign the document. Hon. Emmett J. Scott announces that he is not a candidate for any political office under the present administration. He is satisfied with his present position of Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager at Howard University. He hopes that all talk about his political proferment in the premises will cease. While Hon. Emmett J. Scott is denying that he is a candidate for any political office, it must be understood that Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Georgia is a candidate for political office. Those friends, who were ever anxious to back and support Mr. Scott for a position that he does not want can now transfer their support to Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson for some office that he does want. The latter statesman wishes it understood too that he wants to serve his country within its present boundaries without having to cross any ocean in so doing THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The leaders of the mob who led the attack on the Houston County jail are now on trial. (Whether they win or lose, are punished or acquitted), they all have learned a lesson which will last them a mighty long time. In attempting to lynch the colored man, Coleman, they were attacking and attempting to destroy legally constituted government. The prosecution will tell them all about it before these trials end. THE SAVING HABIT. Saving money is a habit, just an spending money is a natural requirement. Persons, who imagine that they do not earn enough to save will never save anything they earn no matter how large their annual salaries may be. This is an axiomatic truth. The reason for this is that one's expenses keep step with one's income unless a radical step is taken to curtail and regular golf dental becomes a rule of life. There are people now, who are no better off making twenty-five dollars per week than they were when they were earning six dollars per week. They vainly imagine that the trouble is with the salary, while as a matter of fact the fault is with their appetites and with their wants. The only purpose of an increase of salary is to enable a person to live decently and comfortably without too much self denial. But it is not long before a fifty dollar a month employee will find that at eighty dollars per month he got on better for the first month or too and then the routine settled to its usual standard and he really needed one hundred dollars per month in order for his family to live comfortably. Then he will find that one hundred and fifty dollars per month disappears just as quickly as did fifty dollars per month. The reason for this is that expensive food, household, foot-wear and then the evening dress and the desire to "look decent" soon take what remains of the increase and then the employee goes out to hunt for more money, raise in salary with the hope that in time wealth will be hovering over the humble mansion. But advice of this kind is generally misunderstood and is regarded as an argument for a reduction of salary. Not at all. More money should be given for more service, but in getting the more money, it should go into the strong box, the savings bank for the rainy day. Those people, who care to accept this advice can do so, while those others, who are wedded to their own opinions can go on with the crave for an increase of salary solely for the purpose of increasing their ability to spend. People, who are saving their money should have more money and people, who are spending all that they make should have less. It may be that the spendthrifts of both races will realize the truth of all that we say and cease to be critics, but profit by the advice given. They will then be well to do in their old age and their own off-spring and relatives will rise up and call them blessed. RACE PREJUDICE. The action of the white employees in the office of the Register of the Treasury in filling a protest against the elevation to that position of a cut zon on account of his race and color is without a precedent in the history of the Government, so far as it relates to that office. We have heard protests being made after a candidate had been nominated, but not before any action whatever had been taken. It seems so that the present occupant of that position may have had more to do with this "tempest in a tea-pot" than he is willing at this time to admit. It may be that he has taken this moth oI of delaying the confirmation of his successor, in order that he may hold the office over time. We see it announced that there is to be a reduction of office-holders in Washington to the number of twenty thousand and it is to our mind a good time to begin on this list of protestants, who do not seem to understand the fundamental principles of this Government. President Warren G. Harding is sworn to accord to all citizens of the United States their rights and privileges under the law. All citizens who are not disqualified under the law are entitled to hold office and in this respect, the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States are plain. They read: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State in which they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law, which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within his jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Article XV read The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. This by implication equally provides that the right of citizens to hold office shall not be denied or abridged by the United States on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. It is apparent that the untrammeled right to citizenship carries with it the untrammeled right to hold office. The elevation to power of the Democratic Party for eight years brought to Washington a horde of unreconstructed white folks, who have not as yet realized that we are living in one of the best republics on the globe where racial discriminations should have no place. President Woodrow Wilson had the time of his life in according to colored men, who supported him that recognition which he had promised them and to which they were entitled. He had colored troops to guard the White House. He had colored servants to minister to his wants and when his stooping figure sought repose in Washington, colored people said the words of farewell to him and his family. In the matter of race prejudice, we are forced to contend for our rights and privileges over and over again. This contention will go until the end of time, unless the Negro-haters see fit to yield. A colored man as a Register of the Treasury is not much more than a "rubber stamp." He does not exercise any actual control over his subordinates in office. We went there when Hon. Judson W. Lyons occupied that position and also when his influential successor (Vernon) filled that office. He is over these white folks only in name and there is no good reason why a colored citizen should not hold the office. This sending of influential colored men out of the country and recognizing them abroad without according similar recognition to them at home is ridiculous. We knew that it would come to this when Dr. Booker T. Washington had his famous interview with President Theodore Roosevelt. Then it was that only the ablest men in the country would be recognized and Dr. W. D. Crum had the time of his life to hold the position, to which he was appointed in his home town. He finally died, but he had reached the height of his ambition. The effort on the part of this Negro hating clique is to set up an "African in America, to segregate the citizen of color as an office holder and to relegate him to the region of "outer darkness, when it comes to hold office. He is to be permitted to push the wagon but at no time to ride in it. They want a caste system in this country under a Republican administration. The issue might as well be made now as at any other time. We should respectfully and courteously insist up on all of our rights and privileges in this Republic. We have worked for this country. We have prayed for this Republic. We have offered our lives for the United States of America and we respectfully insist that even and exact jacinto shall be recorded to us along with all other citizens. America is our home and not Africa or Europe and we stand with the flag of this country wrapped about our person, while we call for all of the rights and privileges that its protective folds guarantee any and all other citizens. 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Agents Wanted Everywhere—Write for Particulars EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Georgia EXELENTO BEAUTY FACE POWDER A face powder of exceptional fineness, superiority and quality that is a necessity for a beautiful complexion. Black white, flesh, high brown. Price 35c. COMFORTS , Shoes, Skirts, Rugs Spreads, Curtains TERMS ARGAIN HOUSE PHONE MADISON 7104-J BLANKETS - COMFORTS Fine Dresses, Hats, Shoes, Skirts, Rugs Waists, Sheets, Spreads, Curtains EASY TERMS RICHMOND RARGAIN HOUSE 818-820 N. FIRST STREET PHONE MADISON 7194-3 PAUL L. DONALDSON Automobile Delivery ER HOUR OR BY THE TRIP. MINMENTS ARE SPECIALTIES. PH 171, DAY OR NIGHT. ET RICHMOND, VA. CARS FOR HIRE AT $3 PER HOUR OR BY THE TRIP. MARRIAGES AND ENTERTAINMENTS ARE SPECIALTIES. JUST CALL RANDOLPH 171, DAY OR NIGHT. 400 EAST CLAY STREET RICHMOND, VA. DOWN GO BADGE PRICES! LODGES TAKE NOTICE. Big reduct on in prices on badges. Our price 1 st for your society and e money. OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE YOU NOW BY YOUR FURNITURE! When you can get Furniture and Rugs from an Old Established house like JURGENS—that's known to sell the best quality goods, just as reasonable as elsewhere—why not give your friends a good impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show you our wonderful stock of home making, comfort giving Furniture and Rugs and—don't fall to ask our salesmen about our Banking Plan, which gives you 5, 10 or 15 months in which to pay for any purchase. CHAS. G. JURGENS SON ESTABLISHED 1886. ADAMS AND BROAD --- 660 Dighth Avenue, New York City EXELENTO MEDICATED SKIN SOAP A mild, healing soap that gives the skin the soft, clear look of perfect health. Wonderful results are obtained when used with Exelento Skin Beautifier. Price $26. DOWN GO BADGE PRICES LODGES TAKE NOTICE. Big reduction in prices on badges. Get our price list for your society and save money. In our new and permanent home we have ample equipment to give prompt service. Let this old and re- liable race enterprise serve you what- ver your needs. Reduct on all regalia. CENTRAL REGALIA CO., 641 W. Ninth St. Chinchatti, O. Joseph L. J. Jones, Sr., President Joseph L. J. Jones, Sr., President CREOLE WIGS HUMAN HAIR! Either Wavy or Crimpy. Can be combed or dressed. Buy directly from manufacturer. Write for free catalog of Switches, Transformations, Straightening. Either Wavy or Crimpy. Can be combed & dressed. Buy directly from manufacturer. Write for free catalog of Switches, Transformations, Straightening Combs and Everything in Hair Goods ALEX MARKS ROANOKE NOTES RQANOKE, VA., April 4.—Rev. James S., Hatcher, B. D. of the A.M. E. Church delivered the Gospel message Sunday morning on "The Pewalty of Unholbel." It was very forceful. Sunday was the last Communion service before the Annual Conference convenes in Newport News on April 17. Two young men and one boy came forward and two accepted the offered salvation, while one failed to accept it. Dr. Hatcher preached Sunday night on the awful destruction following pharaonic religion and selfish motives of goodness. A large number commuted and the collection for the day was one hundred and fifty dollars. A reception will be tendered the delegation enroute for the Virginia Annual Conference by the hospital membership of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, Monday night, April 11 from 8 to 11 o'clock. Rev. Rowbuck of Wytheville will preach at 8 o'clock. Hear this wonderful prelate. The delegates and ministers will leave on the midnight train for Norfolk where they will take boat for Newport News the seat of the Virginia Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Mary Stultz of Cherry Avenue received intelligence of the serious illness of her husband Mr. Charles Stultz in Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Stone expects to accompany him homeward Wednesday. A splendid anniversary service was held at the High Street Baptist Church commemorating the pastorate of Rev. W. E. Lee during the past three years. Sunday morning Rev. Lee preached a wonderful discourse on "Reminiscence." Music rendered by the High Street Choir. At 3:00 P. M. the anniversary sermon was preached by Rev. J. H. Robinson, pastor of Jerusalem Baptist Church. Music by the choir of above named Church. During his three years at High Street, the Church has raised over $28,000, has increased her memborship in a very large degree; systematized her work and organized her forces. At three o'clock Sunday, April 10, Rev. A. L. James will deliver the annual sermon to the Order of Elka at the First Baptist Church. The public is cordially invited. The home of Mr. Andrew Dickerson, 241 Tenth Avenue, N. E. was the scene of much rejoicing Friday night, March 25 when Mrs. Maria Brown, a sister of Mr. Dickerson returned to Roanoke from Huntington W. Va. after an absence of thirty years and made herself acquainted with her brother. She was in com pany with Mrs. Mary Howerton and little son. Mrs. Brown came to the city to see Dr. J. H. Plunkard: The home of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Dickerson was the scene of immeasurable joy and happiness while this dislini guished guest remained in the city. Mrs. Jamie Calkway who has been under treatment at Burrell Memorial Hospital is much improved and oxpeets to be out in a few days. Mrs. Martha Wales, of Eighth Avenue, was reported very ill Monday but is resting quietly now. The Southwest Virginia Basket Ball League met in this city Monday night April 4 and awarded the championship for the boys to Harris on High of Roanoke and girls to Danville High who won 6 and lost 1. The trophy cups will be presented to the respective teams on the 15th of April at Danville, Va. The Progressive Printing Company at 435 Gaensboro Avenue is in position to care for all kinds of job work. Home Cooking at Franklin C. 102 Henry Street, N. W. Soft drinks launches at all hours. Eat there when hungry. J. C. Dugger is manager. Mrs. Nannie B. Gregory left for Mullins, W. Va. where she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Abo Smith for a short while. Mrs. Della Tibbs of 106 Fifth Avenue has gone on a trip visiting relatives and friends at Charlotte, N. C., Atlanta, Ga., Birmingham, Ala. and Indianapolis, Ind. Dr. Bullocks of Danville, Va. and Prof. Drewey of Virginia Theological Seminary and College of Lynchburg, were in the city this week. The stork visited the home of Mrs. Mary Stultz and left a bouncing baby Mother and baby are well. We learn with deep regret of the serious illness of the Rev. R. R. Jones, of Pittsburgh. Mr. Tishie Griggs of Third Avenue is indisposed at this writing. Mrs. Brooks, of Eleventh Street and Salem Avenue who has been quite ill for ten days, is improved. Mr. Edward Hastron is somewhat improved. Mr. Stanfield will furnish you with Blanots and all the plasters and pills for your aches andills. LANSING AND BOOK Washington, March 25.—Former Secretary of State Lansing, in his book a "personal narrative" of the peace negotiations, declared "in the circumstances it is so too much to expect to escape criticism." Hence, he probably was not surprised when he opened his mail to lay and found a letter from William Bullitt, who was attached to the American peace commission, who resigned because he opposed the treaty provisions as drafted and whose disclosures before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee lent Lansing's attitude toward the treaty are made the subject of a full chapter in the Lansing book. Bullitt declares that Lansing, in correcting Bullitt's version of Lansing's attitude, enunciated what was "clearly an evasion" and the argument Lansing based on it in his book and "no foundation in the facts established by the contemporary evidence." ENTIRELY HANGES MEANING In addition to this retort to Lansing's declaration that Bullitt "possibly unintentionally" by omitting the context, entirely changed the meaning of Lansing's expressed attitude toward the treety, also assails the former Secretary of State for withholding his information while at the same time pleading the cause of "open diplomacy." "In spite of your realization of the criticism which must follow," Bulliett writes, "you have at last laid bare your personal relations with your superior officer, and all your knowledge of the peace negotiations. When I was summoned to appear before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, I followed the same course with the same realization of the consequence to me. The real difference between us is this—you now publicly urge that the American people were and are entitled to know the truth. You have taken them into your confidence after they have given judgment upon the treaty, when it is too late for the facts you reveal to help them. I acted when the issue was still doubtful, and it seemed certain that the treaty would be passed. Your present criticism seems to spring from the single difference that I spoke to representatives of the American people at an hour when the American people needed facts and were reckoning facts upon which to base their decision on the treaty. It is Wilson's attitude as reported by Lansing on the subject of "open covenants openly arrived at"—one of his fourteen points—that has perhaps, aroused the most discussion in Washington. It is stated by some that Lansing revealed the surprising situation that Wilson was a party to the procedure employed at Paris regarding the method of drafting the treaty by the so-called "big four." Lansing has "revealed," they say, that the President did not fight against this. Which is only one instance of how little Lansing was in the President's confidence even before the treaty negotiations began. Wilson's original idea—at least it was his idea when he started for Paris—of "open covenants openly arrived at was exactly the pro-ve which ultimately was put into at Paris. In conversation on board the George Washington, en route to Brest, Wilson told the writer his exact interpretation of the "open covenants" provision in his fourteen points. WASTE HOURS OF TIME "I know, of course," he said in substance, "that it would be futile to have all the provisions of the treaty have all the provisions of the treaty discussed and debated in the open. Every representative would waste hours of time playing to the gallery. A situation would arise which would be analogous to debates in our Congress." "My idea is that one representive 'My idea is that one representative from each of the great powers, the United States, England, France, and Italy, should meet much as a Senate or House committee meets, and frame the provisions of the treaty, reporting out their findings into a full session of those delegates to the peace conference, just as the House and Senate committees report measures to the full memberships of the lower and upper branches of Congress. Obviously it would not be possible to give out information on all of the discussions of this committee on such measures of tremendous importance any more than would be advisable for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make fully public all of its discussions of a delicate international problem pending some final decision." Whether or not this was an advisable procedure or whether or not it constituted the carrying out of the principle of "open covenants openly arrived at" may well be a debatable question. Nevertheless this was Wilson's interpretation of that clause. It is perhaps unfortunate he did not clarify his interpretation publicly at the time. TWO ARMED BANDITS MOLD BY MERCHANT. Covering the proprietor with pls tolk two Negroes entered the store of James Daley, 1201 St. Paul street about 10 o'clock Thursday night while toy looted the cash register and made off with all the money on the place. Although Daley <em>emptied a revolver at the fleeing bandits as they backed away from the store the thieves made good their escape. POLICE ARE NOTIFIED Word was immediately phoned to the police at the Second Police Station and two mortorecycle officers were dispatched to the scene. But the time involved in notifying the authorities gave the thives plenty of time to make good their escape, as the police could find no trace of them despite the fact that Daisy was able to give a fairly accurate description of them. According to the police, the Negroes entered Daly's place of business and asked for a package of cigarettes. While he was in the act of waiting on his supposed customers they drew their guns and the storekeeper turned to face the muzzles pointed at him. The suddenness of the holdup took him completely by surprise and he was unable to defend himself. OWNER PURSUES THIEVES INTO STREET. Covering Daisy with their guns the bandits opened the cash register and seized the contents. As far as can be acquainted nothing else was taken. As the thieves backed out of his place of business. Daisy followed them and as they took to their heels down the street, he fired several times at the fleeing figures. None of these are believed to have taken effect by the officers who investigated. Both of the men were described as being about five feet four inches high and both wore light caps and light suits. Daisy said that they were young Negroes and as far as he could judge one was about eighteen years old and the other about twenty two years old. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Not so many months ago a writer in a widely read magazine published in a Northern city called attention of the world at large to the miserable housing conditions in which the Negroes of Richmond were compelled to exist. Whereupon most of us waxed rightly indignant at the alleged injustice he had put upon this city. All of us know that housing conditions in the Negro sections were not ideal but we insisted they were nothing like so bad as this Northern writer had painted them. But now come a committee of our own Chamber of Commerce, making a formal report that housing conditions in various Nogro sections are not on deplorable, but "such as to invite pestilence." There can be no denial of that report on the ground of blas, or ignorance, or haste and superficial investigation. It is made by our own citizens after a careful inquiry into the living conditions of our own colored citizens. Many times in the past The Times Dispatch has pointed out the constant menace of housing conditions in the Negro sections, a menace not only to the white citizens into whose homes these colored people go daily, but a greater menace to the Negroes them solves and a bar to their advancement in good citizenship. Little that was not already known to many has been made public in the chamber's report. Such citizens as Mrs. Norman V. Randolph have been fighting the battle for better living conditions among the Negroes for years, but with indifferent success. But now the chamber has put the case for the Negroes into concrete form, and the city, in justice to itself and to them, cannot afford to delay steps to give the Negroes decent, healthful places in which to live. The Negroes deserve well at the hands of Richmond far better than they have received. Industrious, thrifty and law-abiding they have earned their place here. Never has this been more vividly realized than during the recent wombles days when in fainted minds incited to race antagonisms. Throughout that time of un certainty the Negroes listened to the wise and calm counsel of their recognized leaders and it was due largely to their exemplary behavior that Richmond's reputation as a respecter of the law was maintained. That is but an instance, but it is indicative of the general good feeling between the white and colored citizens of this city. To preserve and promote that feeling and in common justice to the Negroes and as a safe guard to the health of the city itself Richmond should delay no longer in housing them decently and comfortably. (Richmond, Va., Timra-Dispatch, March 24, 1921.) METHODIST PUSH NEGRO EDUCATION DHSPITE FINANCIAL LOSSES Enlargement and extension of the fa facilities in the 18 schools and colleges or Negroes maintained in the South by the Methodists Episcopal Church, to gather with the receipt of $00,000 put of the Centenary Fund of that denom, nation, is reported in the current issue of the Christian Advocate, the Methodist weekly, by Dr. P. J. Macey, Corresponding Secretary of the Methodist Board of Education for Negroes, successor to the Freeman's Aid Society. This statement shows that of the $1,075,000 pledged for Negro Education by the Methodist Centenary for a period of five years, at the end of the first year $230,000 over the fourth the entire sum has been paid, in spite of the fact that the financial depression has cut down the Centenary collections to 72 per cent of the sum expected. The support given to the cause of Negro education by the leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church thus exceeds that given to any other of the many pressing demands upon their funds which were apportioned on the basis of complete collection. This loyalty in time of depression and shrinkage has been much appreciated by the 350,000 Negro Methodists whose devotion to their church has been an outstanding feature of their group and was recognized in many speeches on the floor of the quadrennial general conference at Des Molines, May has, where two Negro ministers were elected bishops with full rank and power. The Methodist Board of Education for Negroes supervises such institutions as Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.; George R. Smith College, Sedalia, Mo.; Wiley College, Marshall, Texas; Samuel Huston College, Austin Texas; Rust College, Holly Springs Miss.; Flint-Goodridge Hospital, and Nurse's Training School and New Orleans College, New Orleans; and Bonnett College, Greensboro, N. C. At practically all of these institutions new buildings or extensions and repairs are either in process or in contemplation, according to Secretary Maveyet. --- OR SNUFF HABIT Cured by harmless remedy, Guaranteed. Sent on trial. If it cures, costs you $1. If it fails, costs nothing. SUPERBA CO., G. S., Baltimore, Md. DROPSY TREATED ONE WEEK FREE Short breathing relieved in a few hours; swelling reduced in a few days; regulates the liver, kidneys, stomach and heart; purifies the blood, strengthens the entire system. Write for Free Trial Treatment. COLLUM DROPSY REMBDY CO. Department X-43, Atlanta, Ga. A Woman's Glory Is Her Hair A. D. PRICE. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by Telegraph or Telephone. Halls Rented for Meetings and Nice Entertainment. Plenty of Room with all Necessary Conveniences. Large Picnic or Band Wagons for Hire at Reasonable Rates and nothing but First-class Automobiles and Carriages, Etc. Keep Constantly on Hand Fine Funeral Supplies. Open All Day and Night. PHONE MADISON 577—Man On Duty All Night—RICHMOND, VA. (Residence next door.) AGENTS WANTED 7,000 more Agents wanted to sell Meccooroo Dandaroo, the most marv ulous and magic-like preparation for Dandruff and Shampoo (2 in l. I.) ning like it; nature's mightiest clean er; result astounds and delights every man and woman, $5 to $15 daily. Enormous Repeater. Price $1.10. MECCOOROO HAIR TONIC Mfg. Co. Station J. P. O. Box 61; New York City. EDW. STEWART EDW. STEWART 203 S. SECOND STREET RICHMOND, VA. DEALER IN FANCY GROCERIES FRESH MEATS, VEGETABLES, FISH AND OYSTERS. PHONE, MADISON 1687 S OUTFIT Composed of 1 Crown Razor Shirt, 1 Razor Shirt, 1 Shaving Brush, 1 Cake of Soap- $2.00. Just send your name, address and we will send you this fine shaw- equal for the price; and postmaster $2.00. Rush only a small latch at this equal for the price; and on its arrival pay the postmaster $2.00. Rush your order, as we have only a small loot at this profit-simulating price. Address EDWARDS SUPPLY COMPANY No. 2 Lady Mile St. Richmond, Va. SAVE PLANET COUPONS A Woman's Glor MILK HOLD A. D. PRICE, 212 FUNERAL, DIRECTOR, EMB All Orders Promptly Filled at Telephone. Halls Rented for ments. Plenty of Room with Large Picnic or Band Wage Rates and nothing but F Carriages, Etc. Keep Con eral Supplies. Open PHONE MADISON 577—Man On M (Residence SORES ON YOUR HORSES, CATTLE SEND FOR SALLINE SALVE AND CURE THEM. Sallire Manufacturing Co., 912 N. 1st St., Richmond. STOP! LOOK! READ! TANGORENE CREAM FOR MEN'S HAIR Makes Bad Hair Good and Good Hair Better. Guaranteed to Straighten Hair in 5 to 15 minutes. It is a great money maker for Barbers and Agents. Write for special prices. Better and cheaper than any other straightener on the market today. I have used them all. Address all letters to TANGORENE COMPANY, 693 N. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pa. THE PLANET Umbrella Coupons GOOD FOR FIVE VOTES BUNION Cure Sent FREE Instant Relief! Don't send a cent. I prove it at my expense. Your name and address bring the business and I MONTH that mean instant relief, and proof that your botheres bunion can be healed by the best treatment—how many times you have failed to get rid of your peat—how unbelieving you are that there is help for you—how to treat your bunion—how to send you—FREE—my wonderful home treatment that will remove the cause and relief of that bunion misery. Send your peat, just as your bunion disappears. Your name and address bring the FREE treatment at once in plain, sealed envelope. Written FOOT EMEDY 60, 3561 Ogden Ave., Depot 152 Hiloho Dont Send a Penny C. P. HAYES Successor to A. HAYES' SONS FUNERAL DIRECTORS 727 N. SECOND STREET RESIDENCE, 735 N. SECOND ST. FIRST CLASS AUTOMOBILES AND HACKS, CASKETS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Chapel Service Free to All of Our Patrons. ALL COUNTRY ORDERS ARE GIVEN OUR SPECIAL ATTENTION. PHONE MADISON 2778 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. The only POSITE HAIR GROWER and DANDRUFF REMOVER GLOVER'S IMPE- MANGE MEDICINE Sold for 36 Years. Camphled on the scalp made free on application to h. CLAY GLOVER CO., 118 W 31st St. N.Y.C. SEAMSTRESS WANTED SHIRT AND SHIRTWAIST MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENT GOOD SALARY. 1001 E. PINE ST. PHONE 290-J Florence, S. C. J. W. TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR Rush at this WANT A FARMER. Wanted—a farmer. The right practical man will find a first class paying job by applying to A. F. DAVIDSON, 122 N. Michigan Ave. Atlantic City, N. J. Glory Is Her Hair You need no longer sigh for silky coils of thick, soft hair—they are yours if you will use DILL'S HAIR POMADE Once a day it should be rubbed into the roots of your hair, and soon the coarse, harsh hair will grow shiny and beautiful. Dill's Pomade is a delightful preparation, highly perfumed, easily applied and giving immediate relief from itching and dandruff. Use it on baby's head, too, to remove unsightly sores and soothe the delicate skin. Dill's Hair Pomade can be had at all drug stores, 150 a box. THE DILL COMPANY, Norristown, Pa. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET R, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN called at Short Notice by Telegraph or used for Meetings and Nice Entertain- nment with all Necessary Conveniences. and Wagons for Hire at Reasonable but First-class Automobiles and keep Constantly on Hand Fine Fun- Open All Day and Night. Man On Duty All Night—RICHMOND, VA, idence next door.) The East India Hair Grower Good straight- It is a rises and prices. other day. I am all PANY, Pa. Will Promote a full Growth of Hair. Will also restore the Will Promote a full Growth of Hair. Will also restore the Strength, Vitality and Beauty of the Hair. If Your Hair Is Dry, and Wiry Try— EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER druff, Itching Scalp, or any Hair Trouble, we want you to try a Jar of East India Hair Grower. The remedy contains medical properties that go to the roots of the Hair, stimulate the skin, helping Nature to do its work. Leaves the Hair Soft and Silky. Perfumed with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy for heavy and beautiful black eyebrows, also Restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. Price Sent by Mall, 50c, S. D. ILYONS, Gen, Agt, 310 N. Central St., Oklahoma City, Okla. (100 extra for postage) AGENTS OUTPUT—1 Hair Grover, 1 Temp. oil Oil, 1 Hair Cream, 1 Rake Cream and Directions for Selling $2.00 25 cents extra for postage. $2.00 sent to this office will place The Planet in your home If so, call and see L. J. HAYDEN, Manufacturer of Pure Herb Medicines, 220 West Broad Street. My Medicines WILL CURE YOU. Hundreds of people, in the United States and Europe have testified that my medicines have cured them. I use nothing but Herbs, Roots, Barks, Gum, Balsam, Leaves, Seed, Berries, Flowers and Plants in my medicines. MY MEDICINES CURE the following diseases: Blood, Kidney, Bladder, Plies in any form, Vertigo, Quilasy, Sore Throat, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatism in any form, Pains and Aches of any kind, Colitis, Bronchial Troubles, Skin Diseases, All Itching Sensations, Female Complaints, LaGriffe, Pneumonia, Ulcer, Carbuncles, Bolls, Cancer (externally) without the use of knife or instrument, Eczema, Pimples on Face and Body, Diabetes and Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. MY MEDICINES SENT ANYWHERE. For full particulars, send or call on L. J. HAYDEN, 220 WEST BROAD STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Residence, 610 N. First St.—Shop in Rear—Phone, Randolph 2106. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION THE SUNDAY SCHOOL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 505 E. N. 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BROWN, Photographer 608 NORTH SECOND STREET BACHMOND, VIRGINIA THE BOOK OF SEVEN SEALS by Lucinda Young, who in the year 1890 laid on her bed for twenty-four days and saw dreams and visions; was commanded by God to write the wonders she saw into a book. This book tells about the seven year famine that began in 1917 and will last for seven years and extends to the foreign lands. She saw also a series of diseases rage among the people and saw them starving and dying so fast that there were not enough living left to bury the dead, and this is already in the land. The book is sold at 60 cents and is on sale at Mrs. Davenport's, 710 N. First Street, also at Mr. O. R. Roblisson's Wonderful Hair Grower and Restorer, 1103 W. Leigh Street, Richmond, Va. Address all communications to MRS, LUCINDA YOUNG, R. F. D. No. 4, Box 78-d, Richmond, Virginia. AGENTS WANTED. Centre Cross, Va. L. J. Hayden, Richmond, Va. 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Phone, Randolph 6168 Sunday School Lite- tory for Church and School. thirty years experience, supply Sunday School --- FOUR THE AMERICAN CONGO (Continued from First Page) being "protected" from Lowry by the Craigs. She had reported that Lowry had said he would "come back," and on Christmas day when she gave him coming, she simply ran into the house where the Craigs and I were diving and reported that Lowry was coming. She has not closed a mile, for she was the cook and the Craigs were eating her Christmas dinner. When Lowry arrived on the porch he announced that he had come again to ask for a settlement and the senior Craig, with appropriate language told him to leave the place and emphasized his remark with a billet of wood which he hurried through the door, where he hurried through the family and guests came pressing through the door, Lowry, was backing off the porch as if fearing and seeking to escape from bodily harm, when bad-tempered "Dick" rushed out of the door and shot Lowry. It is said that others also were menacing the Negro with guns. But not until he was shot at and as he himself claims hit by a bullet from the Cradle did he shoot—unfortunately killing the fath er and the married daughter and wounding the two sons. Immediately the newspapers, especially those of the nearby city of Memphis, began to work up a lynching by advertising the "outrage," the "Negro murderer," and "bad whiskey"—with out one word of explanation or one syllable of editorial comment upon the hinder cause; it was the hinder cause and was caught in El Paso, Texas, on the 19th of January, being traced through a letter which he had written to a friend in an effort to get news to his wife and child, who had been moved into the Craig back yard for "protection." The colored people whom Lowry mentioned in this letter as his friends were thrown into jail, with others whom he did not mention, with others who were officers of the Old Fellow Lodge to which he belonged. Two wives were jailed with their accused husband. Governor McAfee, of Arkansas, tried to forestall a lynching by ordering the deputy sheriffs who had gone to Texas to bring Lowry to Little Rock. The Governor had said that Lowry would have a fair trial. The nearest route from El Paso to Little Rock would lie through Dallas and Texarkan and would not pass anywhere near the scene of the original trouble. But the deputies took Lowry several hunts out of the way, down through New Orleans or an arkan blink to the waited moth in Mississippi County. The mob leader received a tole gram from New Orleans to meet a certain train in Mississippi. Misa We have here a good example of the contour for local law, and a good indication of the incapacity of the counties and States to protect prisoners who are the objects of mob feeling or to punish those who are guilty of intracratic lynchings. This mob paraded itself unhindered through three States; going from Arkansas through Tennessee to Mississippi, announcing its purge house. We killed officers of another State, then killing at the railway station and a hotel, "owering" the deputies in the face of the public, and parading again with its vicinity through three States past the great city of Memphis to the spot in Arkansas where the burning was ached to take place. Some of the mob even stopped at a principal Memphis hotel, tipped off the news so that the afternoon papers could announce the hour when the lynching and burnt with a take place and "celebrated" with a good paper. The papers anecdosed the burning for 5, 8, and it actually took place at 6:30. The spirit of all the news in the报纸 made heroes out of these lynchers, who had captured a handcuffed Negro from convicting officers. The papers spoke of them as being "all men." Meanwhile all law was prostrate, and if it were non-existent. Everybody seemed to know just when and where the burning was to take place, except the sheriff of that county. The papers say that there were six hundred lynchbins and sightseers, from all the surounding communities. The Memphis papers even had a correspondent on the scene to cover the affair for them. But there was no evidence of the pow. br of the State or the nation to protect, not Lowry but civilized law. The torturers burned the victim for nearly an hour before he died. They began with his feet, sprinkling dry But after the handful on a slow fire. But after that and thus burned off all the tower part of his body and his abdomen began to hurt they decided to prevent the anti-army breathed out life; they poured one olive over all the upper part of the body so that the victim expired in a great flame. According to the sheriff of the county, who managed to be absent when the burning took place, "every man, woman and child," white of course in that county wanted that burning to take place. And yet some Southern members of Congress got greedy when a witness before the Census commissioner testified recently that in some communities of the South the majority of the white population is lawless in its attitude toward Negroes. Seven other colored people, two of them perfectly innocent women, would have met the same fate in that same hour if the Arkansas roads had not been so bad. These others were in jail in Mississippi County, accused or merely suspected of having helped Lewy to escape. Indeed, the afternoon papers had almost jubilantly announced that at least three would be burnt six p. m., and maybe "an even half" six p. m. But the automobiles of the mob bank in the mud up to the hub so that they could not reach the failed Negroes that might be the next day the governor had two of the prizes hurried across the State into Missouri and had five others brought to Little Rock and incarcerated in the State Penitentiary. For once had roads proved to be the best route for the anticipated murder of these prisoners, the papers had said that Lowry had "contended" that they helped him, and they told much about his talking and "joking" with the mob all the way from Mississippi to Arkansas and that he had talked and answered question even while they were barring his life off to see him in the adjoining. We learn from better ours that the Negro said never a word except when the mob brought his wife and little daughter to see him burrowing, he spoke to them. Several times he did try to eat hot ashes or fire and, but the kindly mob would kick the embors out of his hands and one of his reach. Even members of the mob admitted to coloured people: "He was the gamer his girlfriend all the newspaper talk about his anew answering questions and eating jessie is an evident attempt to lend an air of romance to a beautiful crime. In one respect this murder did not reach the low depth of barbarism usually attained in orgies of this kind. The mob did not fumble in the ashes for the carved bones and other "sow enir" as is used in such Southern Roman holdouts. This charming cuspidality is immediately on civilization that is trying to work up a feeling of righteous indignation about alleged instances of cannibalism in Haiti. There is no evidence that these exist. If they did, however, it is questionable whether, as a visitor to our shores remarked not long ago, "it would not be somewhat loss revolting, in view of the ullitarian motive involved, (amn the sadistic carvings) give us a glimpse of the established ritual in the South at regular intervals throughout the year." WHITE WOMEN PROTEST NAMING OF COLORED MAN TO U. & POST. Resent Proposed Appointment of Black to Office of Treasur— Sign Petition to Members of Senate and Others. (By J. Frederick Hegary.) Washington, April 1.—An unusual petition, signed by 587 white women who dislike the prospect of service under a Negro chief of a government bureau was sent today to Mrs. Virginia White Speel, chairman of the National Woman's Republican Committees. Copes were sent to members of the Senate, among the recipients being Sonner Carter Glass, of Virginia former Secretary of the Treasury. The petition is signed by white women employees of the office of the Register of Treasury. Its signatures indicate the desire of women more than a score of Shares, North as well as South, and women of both political parties. Many of the signers were appointed to positions in this bureau during the war from Maryland and Virginia. APPOINTMENT WOULD BE INTOL ERABLE. We have been definitely informed, says the petition "that the appointment of a colored man as Register of the Treasury is being considered. The registers office is now very large and doing responsible work. Its personnel includes more than 500 clerks, mostly ex-service men and white women, who are dependent upon their income here for support. For a Negro to have jurisdiction over these clerks would be intolerable. "It is true that colored men have served as Registers of the Treasury, but out of the twenty-two registers on four have been colored. At no time when this office was under the super vision of a Negro did the personnel consist of more than nineteen clerks and one messenger." NOT INSTIGATED BY PREJUDICE In a letter of transmittal, copies of which have been sent to Congress, the petitioners say the appeal does not come from any political faction, nor was it instigated by Southern prejudice. Women of all sections and both parties have signed it. The letter of transmittal adds that "if the war it was thought advisable by Negro officers in charge of white troops. In times of peace, it would certainly the inexpert to give Negroes jurisdiction over white citizens." Members of Congress are appealed to to prevent the appointment of a Negro to the office of Register of the Treasury. During the war the register's force was greatly augmented because of the issuance of Liberty bonds, the records covering which are kept in the register's office. Recent reports have been Henry Lincoln Johnson, colored Nation Committeeman from Georgia, was slated to succeed the present white register William S. Elliott, of Georgia. Since 1897 there have been four Negro and two Indian registers of the Treasury. Mr. Elliott is the first Caucasian to serve since 1897. It is understood the unusual petition is sent to Mrs. Speel as the head of the woman's committee of the Republican parlay so that she may present the mater to President Harding and Secretary Mellon. Government clerks, appointed from more than a score of States, including the following, have appended their names. Massachusetts, New York, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas Kansas Michigan, Vermont, Pennsylvania vania, and President Harding's own State Ohio. SEVERAL COLORED PERSONS WANTED TO JOIN IN PROMOTING A VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE AND PAYING BUSINESS, which has no opposition and in a field all its own. Each Stock holder is required to have $75.00 of stock, payable in 9 month payments. We will statements with remittances will be shared under, I know this business from A to Z and will be fair to all. Write for particulars to the E. R. T. GO., 1000 Twelfth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA WEST AFRICAN PRINCE MORE POWERFUL THAN GARVEY Nigeran an Educator Proves Royal Nobility and Says That He Will Knock Black Star Line Into Pieces With Supernatural Power in Africa. Prince Madarikan Denyl Is Grandson of Balogun Ienyo, Chief of Yoruba Tribe at Akwa Ibom, Nigerin, West Africa. Born in Lagos, West Africa, March 2, 1892 and Came to America May 5, 1914. CHANGED FIR NAME. 'When I came to Chicago, Illinois May 5, 1914 I changed my name and registered in the United States by my new name in St. Louis, Mo. Jue 5, 1917 to fight as a soldier for Uncle Sam, but I was lucky and sorry that I wasn't drafted in the army to fight the Germans. I changed my name because I thought the Germans wuld think that I was a white man, if I were to use the single name which my father inherited from me. I was disheartened on the battlefield in Europe. Therefore, on my cannot blame me for this reason, that I like my African name better than white man's name. Madridiria means 'Don't play with the devil' in Yoruba language. If my grandfather was a Yoruba sheil and was born by Yoruba parents without any drop of white man's blood, I would have the right at Abokun and Lagos myself a Prince among the Yoruba royal nobility in Nigeria and all parts of Africa. But If Marcus Garvey and Bruce Grit are advertising me in the Negro World that I am not an African Prince to rule my good reputation in America, I will knock the black Star Line into pieces with natural power and influence in Africa. The native Kings and Chiefs will help me to hand Marcus Garvey over to the Federal Government for his conspiracy and threatening speeches against the African rulers. The de sectives and postoffice inspectors in Africa hope and America will also come to me to the schemes of this Black Star Lunar Screamship Corporation in America. I don't have to carry any credential in my pockets to show the American people that I am an African Prince, because Jesus Christ did not bring any credentials into this world from heaven to prove to the Pontius Pilate and the Jews in Jerusalem that he was the Son of God and Heil to the Throne. That is why the Jews did not believe that我我 at Jesus Christ was the Son of God. The good reputation which my father left for me in Nigeria is enough credential for me in Africa. My grandfather also left good record of his bravery for我我 at Abokuta, Nigeria, West Africa. I just came to America to receive an education and will soon return to my home in Lagos, West Africa. Then if any native King or Chief in Nigeria desires to see我 my credential I will take him to my grandfather's palace at Abokuta and show him the credential and ancient war weapon "that he used in those days to save the Egypt and IHemo people from the oppression of the Asfantees and Dahomans. But I haven't got any time at present to write my ancestors' biography for Marcia Garvey and Bruce Grit, because they are known in America as granddons of white folks slaves and now getting too big for their shoes. If these two Nogreas can't respect the members of the African Royal nobility in America, the Norwegian National Society Association and the Black Star Line will not be able to have any success in Africa. When Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, he did not write credentials for the Indian Chiefs that he met in this country. When Great Britain also sent her warships to the West Coast of Africa during the reign of Queen Elizabeth in 1832 she couldn't write credentials for the African Chiefs in Gold Coast and Nigeria because the native Chiefs in those days were powerful with their black magic and tried to harm the people into frogs in the interior. (To Be Continued) GRUESOME CONDITION GRUESOME CONDITION (Continued From First Page) ness, and during his testimony the courthouse was packed to capacity. Judge Hutcheson, out of deference to the spectators, permitting all who could to stand in ales and around the bar after all seats had been filled. The court asked for order, and again today as was the case yesterday there was hardly a murmur from the crowd as men and women leaned forward to catch every word. SEEMED LITTLE AFFECTED. Manning seemed little affected by his recital and rarely changed the infection of his voice. He is unable to read or write, he said, and about 29 years old but does not know where he was born. When I first remember myself, he said, I was in Jaasper County." During some three hours of direct examination Manning told in detail of the alleged murder of the eleven Negroes giving his description in simplest words. He was not asked to describe the alleged binding of the Negroes who were drowned, but told how they were thrown off the bridges by himself and Charlie Chrisholm, another farm hand whom he said, he later helped Williams drown. "They were stubborn and a beringing" Manning said simply in his version of the death of Peterson and Willie "he'enoughed the hammer of the bridge, MEN LURED FROM FARM The men as were the others killed he said, had been lured away from the farm by Williams on the pretext that they were being taken to trains and would be allowed to return to their homes in Atlanta or Macon, where they had been taken from by Williams paying their fines. Peter and Preston, Manning said were bound together by wires, proud their necks to which was fastened a sack containing about 100 pounds of rocks. Their hands were bound together by wire he said. Williams was present and drove the auto mobile in which the Negroes were carried Manning testified. Harry Price another Negro taken to be drowned jumped off the bridge himself, Manning said, when he found there was no hope for him. Harry throw me over; I'll get over, Manning said, as paying and added that he with a cry of "Lord, have mercy!" flung himself into the river. GOES INTO DEFAILS Manning then went he) do all of the alleged murder of other Negroes, declaring one known on the farm on ly as "Little Blt" was induced to help lift "Bred" Brown another Negro over the river bridge rolling on the pretext "Whitens merely wanted to 'scare' the one known a savvy. The latter, already weighted Brown. The latter, in Manning said, and then he helped send "Ligable Bit" to the same fate. Another farm hand, known only as "Big John" was induced to help dig his own grave on the pretense that he was digging a well and when the hole was about shoulder deep, Manning testified, Charlie Chisholm the head and he and Chisholm filled the hole. Manning continued his testimony until he had described each alleged murder in do tell. Covington, Ga., April 5. — Selection of a jury to try John S. Williams in Newton County Superior Court on a charge of the murder of Lindsey Peterson was completed have late today and the state made ready to put on the stand tomorrow Clyde Manning, colored farm boss, to relate his verdict to deaths of eleven colored farm hands, whom the prosecution contends, were slain to block Peter investigation of postage conditions. The jury, a body of rather young looking men made up of seven farmers, two merchants, a clerk, a barber and a druggist was selected in the following order: T. L. Hill, farmer; G. W. Gober, farmer; Robert Stanton, farmer; W. A. Pate, merchant; Charles A. Cuson, farmer; C. M. Moore farmer; T. R. Stanton, farmer; T. Thucker, grocery clerk; F. G. Crouse, mechanic J. T. Dennard, farmer; J. S. Rawlin barber of Oxford and Reginaid Robinson, druggist. SPECTATORS GET WARNING Extra deputies were on duty in the courtroom and only as many personal as could find seats were permitted to remain. Judge John B. Hutcheson warned the spectators that any "approval or disapproval" would be "severely punished," and there was hardy an occasion for the sheriff to rap for order. Efforts by the State to prove that the death of Peterson was one of a "series of crimes" which, it was understood would be undertaken early in the first day of evidence was expected to bring from the defense one of its indictments in seeking to bar from the court, all reference to the other deaths in hold evidence down to the single death of Peterson whose body was found in Yellow river, and who the State court was brought into Newton County and drowned by Williams and Manning, Williams being held to be the instigator of the alleged murder. PLAN FAST TRIAL Unless there should develop long arguments over admissibility of evidence and lengthy cross-examination of witnesses, it was indicated that the prosecution might conclude its case by tomorrow night. There are some score of 'witnesses under subpoena by the State. While the defense has kept secret the number and identity of its witnesses and also has declined to indicate how much time was expected to be taken up with the defense of Williams. There were indications, however, the case would be concluded before the end of the week. The first day's proceedings moved rapidly. The motion of the defense for postponement to allow more time for preparation and so that Green F. Johnson, chief counsel and that Green Williams might examine Manny, who did elected jointly with Williams was disposed of shortly after court opened by Judge Hutcheson ruling that the trial should proceed. DEFENSE MAKES INQUIRY The defense also inquired into the employment of W. M. Howard, of Augusta, Ga., to aid the prosecution and E. Marvin Underwood Atlanta, to defend Manning. Both said their compensation had been guaranteed by groups of citizens. The Rev. C. B. Wilmer and the Rev. M. A. Ashby Jones Atlanta pastors, promised Governor Dorsey the financial backing that made it possible to employ Howard, he said. W. Woods White, Atlanta capitlist, headed the group of citizens who employed Underwood, the latter declared. He named others in answer to a question said that as far as he knew none of them was connected with the National Association for the Advanced Studies of Colored People. Graham Wright, associate State Attorney General, said he was designed by the Governor to aid the prosecution. Williams defended by Johnson, whose home is in Monticello county seat of Jasper County; W. H. Key of Monticello and C. C. King of Covington sat quietly throughout the day, watching the proceedings appear only with unfugging interest, but betraying no emotion. Members of his family were in the courtroom near his side and at the noon recess joined him in a basket dinner in an intercourse. He had been held in jail in Atlanta until brought here today and when court adjourned he was placed in the Newton County jail where sheriff B. L. Johnson announced he would spend his nights during the trial. BEDROOM SUITE FOR SALE. Handsome Bedroom suite from gentlemen's mansion; nine pieces, large wardrobe, bureau and washstand, have mirrors and marble tops. Address, OFFICE—C. Special message to the guest on March 29th. Bolt regiment re-enforced, double quick time. April 5, 10:30 God says April 5, all the weather forecast will be blown to pieces world wide east and west. The Indoors is a newspaper cloud was on the 5th over the sun 11:30 in the midst of the cloud, 28 hours sign all ahead of the storm, Proved 7 o'clock April 6th ahead of storm. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES Newtown, Va., April 5.—A large number from this section attended the exercises held at Tuppahannock last Saturday. Mr. Dupont Berry motored to Frederickburg a few days ago. Mr. William Holmes was taken ill yesterday. Mr. Hugh Johnson and Miss Lizzie Booker were quietly married in the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Holmes a few days ago. Ms. R. L. Nawau and little son, are spending a few weeks with her parents in Spotylynia County. Mr. Jack Holmes is still on the sick list. Miss Meta Holmes returned from Washington last Sunday. Mr. G. F. Holmes has been confined to his room for the past few days with mumps. Mr. James Alsop is out again. Miss Anna Ellen spent the week-end when Norvella Holmes of Essex. Mr. Holmes and family have moved into this section. The Sunday School and B. V. P. U. of Mt. Olive were largely attended last Sunday. FULTON NOTES We had a very interesting lesson last week in our Sunday School. The teachers endeavored to show their students the necessity of the whole man is for the service of God. Brett or L. R. Fields of St. James gave us a very helpful talk. The Young People's Bible class of the Mt. Calvary Baptist Sunday School will presume uniq program tomorrow at 5:20 P. M. Cone one and all and have a joyful time. At 11:30 A. M. our pastor, preached from the thought of six mornings; found Isaiah 21:12. The devotionals were conducted by Brother C. B. Joterson assisted by Rev. A. D. Clarke and Coleman. The Choir under the leadership of Deacon Beverly Valentine the Assistant leader sang very beautifully. Brother Lee R. Fields of the St. James Baptist church, Henrico Co. Illinois, joined us by letter. 21:30 P. M. Cone we had a joyful time as usual; many friends were present including Reva. Booker, Collins, W. E. Brown, T. H. Jones and Greene. Brother Robert Wilson, Charles Wilson, Mark Tomb, James Fuller and sisters Robecca Terrell, Laura Garlic Mary Mitchell, Victoria Hughes, have been added to the sick list. Tomorrow at 8:30 P. M. there will be a sacred concert and Pew rally at the McCarthy Baptist church Rev. W. L. Tuck, Manager. Come early and get a seat. Monday night at 8:30 P. M. a musical contest will be held between the Capitol City Lodge of Blks and the Nightmongale Quartette of Fulton. Admission fifteen cents. Rev. F. W. Williams of Norfolk, Va. paired a flying trip through Fulton last week. We all wore glad to see him. Mr. Henry Jefferson of the U. S. N. reserve force is visiting his parents at 408 Orleans street, Fulton. GASTON—ALSTON Mrs. Charity E. Pottus take this method in announcing the marriages of her sister, Miss Wille M. J. Alston to Mr. Samuel Gaston. The marriage took place March 24th, at Philadelphia, Pa. They will make their future home in Richmond, Va. Rev. Harry Jones at Now York, now a student of the Va. U. U., preached a soul sighing sermon last Sunday night at the Macedonia Baptist church situated on Main Street befor and after 22nd Streets, City. Rev. Joseph Brum is pastor. The church is getting along well, and let us all rely on their call. Rev. Cobbs will preach from the subject: The Great Wonder in Heaven, tomorrow at 11:30 A. M. Y. M. C. A. NOTES The Y. M. C. A. all cliffs to what was handed down by Sir George Williams. (Christian doing like Christ.) The fellows are crowding the lot for the outdoor help. Last Saturday was a full hour 5 P. M. at the building with the chasse for explanation on the Sunday School Las son. Another Triangular Day on last Sunday with the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. at the building worker's meeting. The meeting 10 A. M. in the penitentiary for the women was a good one. tiary for the women was a good one. 11 A. M. General Secretary, Scott C. Burrell spoke to the brotherhood in the militantism. These men are BE EFFICIENT AND SUCCESSFUL BE EFFICIENT AND SUCCESSFUL MRS. W. H. CALLAWAY President Excelsior Mfg. Company, Excelsior System of Hair Culture. The committees for the jail and city home were very active 10 A. M. in these places. 1200 men met 3:30 P. M. at the 6th Mt. Zlon Baptist church to hear Dr. Mt. R. V. Peyton and Rev. A. D. Daly. The meeting was a live wire. Dr. Peyton gave the men one that was an eye opener. I Have Played the Fool. Rev. Daly was right with the Doctor. The singing was directed by Measures. Matt Trewes and Wolfeh. Fair men were won for Christ. At the 5th Street Baptist church the women crowded to hear Rev. Boll and Town Rev. Arrington. Subject Frog Town Rev. Boll made the hour a blessing to Rilionond backed by Arrington. Three women were won for Christ. The singing under the directions of the women was a key to the meeting. Workers 9:30 A. M. at the building. All boys are invited to the building 4 P. M. Do not forget to pray for the Y. M. C. A. 4 P. M. at the building the boys held a special meeting and the hour was of a great help. Mothers we thank you. Do not forget that you are invited to the building to day 5 P. M. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. THE WHEREABOUTS OF ROBERT SPURLOCK. I would be very glad to hear some thing of the whereabouts of by brother, Robert Spurrock. He was born in Goodland County, Va. Several years ago he left Richmond to work on the railroad and when last heard from he was somewhere in Louisiana. Any information will be gaily received by his sister. My maiden name was Susan Spurlock. If any one knows anything of him living or dead, Write MRS. SUSAN BLAKWELL, 712 W. Franklin, Street, Richmond. DO YOU KNOW HER? Any information will be gladly received as to the whereabouts of my mother, Mrs. Carrie Wilson, last I heard of her she was in the city of New York. Information is desired by her son, Robert Wilson of Richmond, Mr. C. B., a cent in care of Mr. C. 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VIRGINIA—In the Clorks Office of the Hustings Court Part II. of the City of Rickmond, March 14, 1891. SUSIE A. TARLETON. ... Plaintiff vs. In. Chancery. JAMES E. TARLETON. ... Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony by the Plaintiff from the defendant, upon the grounds of adultery, and an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, James E. Tarleton is not a resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that he do appear within ten days after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy. Testee: W. E. DU VAL. Clerk. J. M. Turner, P. Q. Virginia—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 14th day of March 1921. JENNIE BANKS .....Plaintiff VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Rhemond the 10th day of March 1921. ARNETTA E. HOMES ... Plaintiff against In Chancery CHARLES W. HOLMES, ...Defendau The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bone of matrimony by the plain tiff from the defendant on the ground natural impotence of the body exist at the time of marriage. And an amdavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Charles Will' ms Holmes is not a resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that he appear here within ten days after the dude publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy. Teach. LUTHER LIBBY, Clark J. R. BYRD, P. Q. 538 1-2 N. Second Street.