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WE GEAR - INFORM - ADVERTISE THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Line RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS A RICHMONDER WINS RENOWN IN NEW YORK Chas. L. Gilpin Enthusiastically Received at Actors' Banquet. Modest and Diplomatic, He Wins His Way Over Race Prejudice. The New York Tribune Sends the News Abroad=Was at One Time an Em= employee on The Planet. The New York Tribune Sends the News Abroad=Was at One Time an Em= employee on The Planet. VOLUME XXXVIII, NO. 28 A RICHMO RENC Chas. L. G Received Modest and Way O The New York Abroad--W ploy "Did I have any thriller? I say I did, I had an all I had the thrill of my life, and a whole lot let there throw in, in the club. They have the joy of my feet. Thus, please Charles & Gipon, once time, Patricia, porter and elevator boy, now the Negro star of "Imperior Jones," when asked to describe the emotions he experienced at the Drama League banquet, when a crew of a team and members of the league jumped to their feet, tossed nephilim, in the air and shoted themselves with hooves to make the Negro feel that he was well come at their heart." HAD A FINE TIME There was more than that to the demonstration. They wanted Gilpin to know how to play every one out about the unfamiliar blender made by some of the numbers in an all-purpose attempt to draw the color line in an art. They wanted to make some rattle and appear it, try in cooled "I only in ended to drop in, and pay my respects." Gilpin said "I planned to stay for four minutes and then retire gracefully. I stayed four hours and had the time of my life." "No, it didn't take much nerve to go and face the crowd. I knew some of my friends would be there and I be alright with them. I could count on the arthritis to rise." "Fairly, and I didn't care a hank in and the others. They could sit there and store at me as though I were some kind of prize monkey and it wouldn't disturb me at all." FOR A FRIENDE SAKE. "First off I thought I wouldn't go at all, even if they did ask me I got to thinking: if it didn't no I would be dishearted to the stern friends who wanted me there who had a urge to all the trouble of protecting against any discrimination against me I felt to go and show my appreciation of their kindness." "So I planned just to drop in and say thank you. I had a nice little speech all prepared, the rower words I could think of" or "to show how grateful I was not how I really couldn't feel. I expected them to be polite. It wasn't hard for" or "as and would not be polite but I expected nothing more." "I hadn't gone more than two feet inside the door beore I realized that it wasn't going to be an ordeal. They were treating me as though I really belonged there. They took me right down to a table and set me down beween Gilda Vurest and Mrs. Rollin Kirby. And there I stayed. "When I get up to speak every line my 'speech had gone shooting' off to the four winds. But it wouldn't have served anyway, for in it I had apologized for not staying for the dinner, and there I was! LIFE'S GREATEST MOMENT "All I could say was thanks you, and I guess I said that pretty badly, but I hope they understood how I felt. It was the greatest moment of my life." And well it may have been. Here was a colored man well on his way toward fifty years. He has been knocked around from prior to post all his life, who is now in my bed by night she is along in vaudeville musical comedy, barn-storming minstrels in most of the bad and a few of the good theaters in this country and Canada. In between acting jobs he has served as a full man poster, hotel porter, elevator man, barber—nothing to make a living. And all of it — when the crowd opens break of music — the fun! himself little less than the hero of a three-bandit turned into a testimonial meeting in honor of his color and his art. A better man might have but his head under the same pressure. NOT IN HERO'S POSE Gilpin took his glory, modestly, unabetted, and in repose. He apprehended every bit of it, but he wouldn't admit that he was in any sense a hero. He didn't want to talk with the press. "I like to keep the toothtails. Between me and the public," he said. "I don't go in much for sociality or hob nobbing. I can give any one pleasure with my acting. I am very happy to do it. But that" all. A vise cup of Charlie Gilpin does not book very in writing. "I have my own little circle of friends and I have them. I live quietly up in Harlem where I belong. When I leave the theater I like to leave it. "I am really a nice man. A Negré and proud of being one, proud of the progresses the Negroes have made in the time and with the opportunity they have had. And I don't want" the public to think anything different. "It was only with great reluctance that Gilpin consented to tell anything about himself where he came from and how he happened to be where he is today. Throughout the conversation he kept trawning over the idea that he was trawning under false colors. He didn't want any one to imagine that a little prominence in the headlines had made him lose his sense of proportion. NOT EASY TO INTERVIEW As a matter of fact, we didn't interview him as well. We also examined him, putting the facts out one by one with a pair of heavy pliers. "I was born down in Richmond. No A colored man doesn't have any dates. He is just born I went to the St. Francis Roman Catholic School, where one of the sisters taught me a few of the fundamental of the acting business, elocution and gesturation. I took part in some theatreicals there at the school. "When I was about fourteen I started ed in at the printer's trade on The Richmond Pharoah, worked at every thing from printer's aid up to a pressman. Occasionally I'd go on at Putnam's Music Hall in a song and dance skit. Just for the excitement. There wasn't any money in it. "About 1890 I came up to Philadelphia and worked three hours as a pressman. Then they fired me on a count of my color. So I sort of got tossed back on to the stove again." A BARBER SHOP PORTER "I wasn't fussy; I take any job that was offered. Away wed start with a show, get paid for the first might or so and then wed live on art for a while. Finally I got stranded down in Charlottesville after a barnstorming tour with a unisex show, and took oath never to play again. I worked in a barber shop as a porter and learned the trade until I wasn't much worse than some of the other barbers. "One day a wire came from the Canadian Jubilee Singer. I jumped at the chance and joined them at Hamilton, Ontario. We put in the win for of 1990'04 touring Canada. From there I drifted out with Bert Williams and Walker in 'Abbeyside' and with Cus Hilla Smart Set in the Black Policeman." FIRST COLORED THEATER drawn in Chicago, the first colored RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, MAY 21, 1921 theater in the country. Mostly we did musical comedy, but there were clever on of us in he company who wanted to have a try at the serious drama. One night we took an awful chance and produced "Captain Swift." "The general character of the remarks of the folks who had paid down their good money for admission was that they were there for a good lunch. They came to launch and they remanded to applaud. It was an artistic hilf." PLAYED IN MANY PARTS "After that we used to do one secreta drama every two weeks. I got my chance to play varied parts. With a little grease paint and powder I could make up into any color or on demand. I played everything from block face comedy to a Chihuahua. But when Metis died it was all over. "I went back to pettering again. When there was nothing else doing I always went back to pettering. I lot of times I could make more money on the railroads than I could at getting it. It was better than going home any way, and I had it on a lot of actors who didn't have any second trade." AWAY FROM RACE "In 1912 I toured Canada with a double quartet, and had one of the pleasantest trips of my career. For a few months I got away from their damned race thing all about what I could do if I wasn't a black man. Then he took to vaudeville and more portering. In 1916 I began producing last year's Broadway shows at the Lafayette Theater in 1922 Street. I guess I was the first colored man to try such a thing. The theater is still running. IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN "When the producers were staring Drinkwater's 'Abraham Lincoln' they had some difficulty finding an actor o day William Curtis. I got a wire when I was out on the cool and caught the dress (hearled by a hair) They proudd to put me on after the first two weeks. I opened with the show the next night" in Stanford Coun, and stayed with it throughout the Broadway run. "Last call I joined the Providence Town Players with 'The Emperor Jones.' We were going to play it for two weeks. We're still going. That's all." Few producers would have cared tackle Eugene G. O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones." It was too radically different from anything that had ever happened before. There were eight scenes, of which all but two were straight monologue by a Negro character. For relief there was only a tom drum that began in the first scene and continued throughout the play. It was one of those things that could not be done. Yet George Cram Cook did it down at the little theater in Macrougal Street. MOVED UP TOWN The critics came and were impressed. The small public that could crowd into the tiny house came, too, and up plaudted "The Emperor Jones" was making a good bid for attention. Some one took it up to the Sidowy Theater for a few special matines. Then it moved into the Princess for a regular run. Between O'Neill and Gilpin, "The Emperor Jones" became established as an artistic and commercial success. Exceptually it was a play that the actor could handle well. It tells (Continued on Fourth Parce) Y. M. C. A. NOTES The N. M. C. A. — "God send us men, alert and quick. His Lotty people to Translate until the laws of Christ become the laws of the State." L. E. Saturday, 5 P. M. a. the building men and women crowded to be helped by the explanation on the Sun Day School. Lesson and everybody a thankful for the privilege. No time was lost by the boys and men of the N. M. C. A. a. Sunday. A are ready hour with the wonders at the building 9:20 A. M. and every man not full. 9:20 A. M. our General Secretary Set C. Barnell visited the man who is now in the death chamber awake at the hour to go to the electric chair and shall have gone when you read this. He is a happy man for death bees joy to every man who ready to go. There are two more to go in a room. Please do not forget to pray for them. A great meeing was held for the women of the penitentiary 19 A. M. and new ones were there. 10 A. M. the committee for the Call and city house did some very good work. Men do... sorry for the men who serve God has are those who serve their fellowmen well. M. and every boy was active as he boarded the address by their president Subject: Team Work. The student was full of ginger accompanied by their pianist. Master Joseph Hahn on The electric wire fell in the men's meeting 5.30 P. M at the knitting and every man was well chained by the wide open address which was delivered to them by one of the leading Doctors of Richmond, Dr. D. L. Ramey Subject; The Secret that the Men of Richmond ought to know Too late now for the men have no it and gone. A hot meeting and the rooms were alive. The examinations for the classes are new on and every body is at the morning bench. Hear the call for this hour 5 P. M. today on to two Y. M. C. A do not hold Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. 9:30 A. M. an hour for the workers attend at the Y. M. C. A. Boys you are invited to the building. Ask your mother, 4 P. M. No man should miss the great meeting for 5:30 at the building and Lelia's roots. One of the merchants Joseph Charity of Richmond will address the man. Subject is at any Cost. Bring the other man and join us heartily in the game. We music Mr. William Armstead of Mt. Carnead Baptist church has been asked to direct the singing. All on fire come. Still the Y. M. C. A. is knocking at your door for prayer. Please let us in? The Y. M. C. A. is getting ready, for a great time for women and men. The speaker is one whom Richmond wants to hear. The Sabbath Gloe club will sing. Watch for date. Where do you stand for right or wrong. The hour demand. your vote. PREACHER WANTED In Oakland California, a City of two hundred and twenty thousand, ($290,000) population, and the third largest city in the State of California with a Negro population of six thousand, (6,000). Seven churches, six of which have paid tax and the city is out of little half educated preachers; is a Missionary Baptist Church just four months old, with a seating capacity of four hundred and a large Sunday School room. The Church is fitted out with Pews a Baptistery, a good Organ and a good pianist. A eager to and the most church building in the city with only a small herd of members We Want and Will have reaching short of a consistant, educated Christian Minister as a pastor. If you want to come West and can pass this examination, we will be gled to look you over. The salary is one hundred, ($190,000) dollars per month to begin with. Address all communications to. L. A. PROWN, 1128 Broadway Oakland, California CARD OF THANKS FOR CLAIM Petersburg, Va., Mar 7, 1921 Mr. A W Holmes, Supreme Master of the National Ideal Donation Society Dear Sir—I wish to thank you all for your kindness to me and for the check of ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars. Death claim of Delilah Gee who was a member of Charlotte Lodge No 42. We are very grateful to you and The Order. Shannon Jones HENRY GEE. EN SERVICE MEN. 112 Capitol Street, Richmond, Va. May 6, 1921 --- TO THE EDITORS. In Service we may have received your Victory Medal? Or are you one of the 40,000 men in the State of Virginia who have not received their Medal. If you are why not present your discharge to the nearest American Embassy, United States or your Nation, and are glad to give you all the help you can in prescribing and forwarding your application, or you may mail your discharge to the Visitation Medal Office 1112 Capital street, Richmond, Va. We will approve your deposition and forward it to the Department, Philadelphia, Pa. who will send you the Medal direct, and the discharge will be returned at once from this office. This is not the Medal given to the State or any welfare organization. But it is a beautiful medal designed by noted Medalist, Professor of New York, and it is awarded by the United States Government to all men and nurses who served seriously in the United States Army during the period of the World War. Need not have gone to France to be eligible for the Medal, if you served in the United States Army during the War you are entitled to it. Now discharged for disability are entitled to the Medal providing their services was honorable. Conscientious Objectors who refused to wear the uniform, and men discharged from the draft are not entitled to the Medal. --- THE NATIONAL IDEAL CHILDREN ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES The Nursery Department of the National Ideal Benefit Society will hold their annual exercise of the Leigh Street Methodist Church Sunday. May the 29th at 3:30 P.M. An excellent programme has been arranged under the guidance of the Ideal Nursery Board. All children will meet at the Ideal Hall at 2 o'clock and march with their councillors to the church. The public is invited to be present. LOOK! LISTEN! A Grand Concert given by the Colon Vil Chorus at the Time Referenc Hall, Monday night, May 3rd, 1921 for the benefit of Imperial Order of King David. A special sermon preached by Brother Bendine, Text: "I" poked his pistle at dem Romans, when he died sets on a red box stone shall sure be rise again." Come one and all and laugh your self fat. Admission twenty five cents, Rosa Tallay, Manuscript, Pearl Johnson Organist: Mrs. A. C. Thompson, Grand Worthy Ruler. MOON—CLAY. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Clay, wish to announce the approaching wedding of their daughter Desiree, to Mr. Hamden G. Moon. The wedding will take place at the residence of the brides parents 910 N. 26th street. We daylunch June 6th, at 10:30 A.M. Reception June 22nd, 9 to 12 P.M. Friend: invited. No cards. ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified this day as Administratrix of the estate of the late A. D. Price, I hereby request all persons having claims against paid estate to present same to me for payment, and all persons owing said estate will please settle with me. MRS, GEORCIFE A. PRICE, Administratrix of A. D. Price deceased. May 6th, 1921. LETTER OF THANKS To the Officers, and Members of the National Ideal benefit Society, Mr. A. W. Holmes, President. You will please accept our many thanks and highest appreciation, for your kindness and for the prompt payment of the death claim ($50,000). One Hundred Dollars on account of the death of A. D. Price, who was a member of Prospect Lodge No. 1 in Supreme Lodge. It will be our pleasure to speak of the good that the Order is doing for our people in many ways. Again thanking you, and the Lodge Lem. Witnesses: R. H. THURSDAY F. L. DUBBLE MEMORIAL AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY The annual Memorial Day celebration will take place at the National Cemetery, Monday May 30 under the auspices of Clerk Post of the Grand Army of the Republic and Win. A historic Camp, Spanish War Veterans at three P. M. The memorial sermon will be delivered at Eighth Street Street Church Sunday the 20th at 11:00 A.M. by the pastor, Rev. Foel, King, D. D. Ivory, P. Andrew Bowler, A.M. will deliver the oration at the cemetery. Prominent part will be taken by the World War Veterans and the Pythian Unit unifam. Knock. The parade will have from St. James and St. Mary Streets at 1:30 M. Day. Richard Davis is Commander, Gts. Hopson, Chairman and George L. Brauch, Secretary. T O THE TWENTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. William Aikinson request the honor of your presence in the celebration of the Twentieth year of their marriage, Monday May 2nd, 1921 in their residence 2064 Q Street, Oriental, method. No card. ```markdown ``` THE VICE SUPREME COMMANDER WIDE, ADDRESS WOODMEN HON. H. L. BILLUPS, LL. D. Richmond Camp No. 1 American Woodmen will entertain Hon. H. L. BILLUPS, Vice Supreme Commander of The American Woodmen at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Monday, May 23 at 8:15 P. M. Mr. 30 burs is a national figure and one of the greatest thinkers of the country and one of the races best orators. Hear Mr. BILLUPS speak on The Dawning of a New Day. Admission free. WIFE WANTED. WANTED - A good looking wife. One qualified to be the help-meet of a minister with a good charge. Address. REV. W. W. A.. 251 West Pull St. New Castle, Pa. BROWN—KEMP. Mrs. Catherine R. Kemp to preside the presence of friends at the marriage of her daughter, Vivian Jeanette, to Dr. Rescue C. Brown, Satur day afternoon, June 4, 1921, free-thirty oclock, 912 Abigail Street. Wedding reception, six to seven thirty. At home after June 25, 1845 Highteenth street, N. W. Washington, D. C. ```markdown ``` Mr. Henry Moore, the well known general contractor, who has been seriously ill at his residence is much improved and is believed to be convalescing. Mr. William Howard Jones, was seen upon the streets this week after a long and painful illness. Mrs. Georgie Price has qualified as administratrix of the estate of the late A. D. Price and is at present conducting the business and rendering old tilme efficient service. The estate was placed at $53,102, and bond for this amount was required. The many friends of Mr. Daniel Robinson are happy over his return to this city, after it was reported that he had gone to Pennsylvania to spend the remainder of his life. He is looking well. PRICE, FIVE CENTS KNIGHTS OF PYTRIAS. A Lodge and a Court Organized at Wilder, Va. Grand Master of Exhequer, E. R. Jefferson, M. P., and Col. R. C. Joveth, arriver at Winer, Va., Novay afternoon at or long itt) in Ribbond. They came to set up a lodge and a court. Owing to presi-ness enquiries, Grand Chancellor Jim McClachy Jr., who was appointed was unable to come. The Knights of Hyacinth long to be know, as Gold en Lice Lodge, No. 290. The fellow and others were installed: Chancellor Commander, Arnet Mitchell, Master of Work, Samuel Stinney; Vice Chancellor of Les Beattie, Professor, Currier Hill, Master of Exhequer, Charles Bank head; Master of Finance, Coconut Sturge, Keeper of Record and Seal Charles Lee Mitchell, Master at Arnes Chandley Mook; Interior Court, Edward Trustee, Currier Gerd, Olive Waltman; Trustee, Emmett Wade, Jacobs Mehle and J. A. Williams. A Donation report was spread for the victors. District Deputy Grand Chancellor, R. K. Anderson, who had been active in the work here was passed out. Rev. G. M., Stinney also assisted. In the meantime a Court of Catar, the known as Golden Fleece Court, No. 211 had been previously organized with the following officers: Worthy Commissioner, Mrs Martie Hill Worthy Inspector, Mrs Nerra Mc Perry; Worthy Inspector, Mrs Nela Davies; Inspector, Mrs Mary Cole; Re- server of Deean, Mrs Hewittie Ervin; Register of Account, Mrs Mary Cun- nichard; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs Nancy Burchfield; Senior Treas- ress, Mrs Beath Gilmore; Junior Dre- trees, Mrs Beath Gilmore; Junior Dre- trees, Mrs Beath Gilmore; Assistant Conductress, Mrs Beath Payne; Es- cort, Mrs Emma Hill; Herald, Mrs Hattie Williams; Protector, Mrs Rea Albert; Trustee, Mrs Maude Carter, Mrs Alice Ervin and Mrs Celti Tur- fer. All were delighted and the visita- ware undertaken in commendation of those who had changes of their con- tinue in deean. Dr. Jerome and Col Mitchell left Tuesday morning for Blueline, on route home. ANOTHER COURT IN HALIFAX Under the direction of the Worthy Counselor, John Mitchell, Jr., who is unable to present Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor Mary L. Martin organized a court of Calcutta at Mayo, Va. April 29, 1921. The following officers were instituted by Worthy Counselor, Caroline Crowder, Worthy Inspector, Mattheus Poster; Worthy Instructor, Ollie Dempster; Orator, Ross Johnson; Registrar of Doeds, H. B. Crowder; Registrar of Accounts, Martha Owen; Receiver of Deposits, Jasaw W. Owen; Senior Dir.ressress, Katie C. Smith; Junior Dir.ressress, Mary F. Burcher; Conducer Rose, Chunne Owen; Asst. Correspondent, Nannie Bevere, Phoebe Herald, Bertha Lawson; Procter, Dora Warren. Rising Star Court No 240 will be the official designation of the new court. Fannie Wilkinson, Ellen Faille, nor and Pearl Owen were named Trustees. The widowed parents were Mrs. Amie P. Well, Mrs. Lois Owen, Mrs. Phoebe Martin, Mrs. Plasto Houston, va. ILLEGAL BAPTISM AT DEAGES The Ministers Conference of Richmond and Vicinity in session at the phone or Baptist Church late Monday expressed a surrender at the conflagration of the Meirton of the Girls Home at Pearles, Va., in that she was only period to have Rev. Montague (white) of the Episcopal Church of Richmond to baptize 30 or more colored girls for some Baptist Church. This act is an encouragement upon our denomination and raises the question of the validity of the baptism. We believe that the admitting trator as well as the one baptized must be of the same faith for the baptism to be valid. --- SPECIAL NOTICE: There will be a public Exhibition of Clubs by the Girl Reserves of the W. C. A. Tuesday evening, May 31, at $20 P. M. at St. Luke Hall. The public is cordially invited. Tickets are 25 cents each. The proceeds of this entertainment will go toward sending our club girls to the Camn conference in July. The conference will be held in Kittrell N.C. this year. It is hoped that the public will purchase and encourage our voting needs who are presenting a ching worth white. WE SERVE - INFORM - ADVERTISE THE RICHMOND PLANET VIRGINIA DORNE LANEET RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS A RICHMONDER WINS RENOWN IN NEW YORK Chas. L. Gilpin Enthusiastically Received at Actors' Banquet. Modest and Diplomatic, He Wins His Way Over Race Prejudice. The New York Tribune Sends the News Abroad--Was at One Time an Employee on The Planet. And all of a sudden due to a card! "When I joined Robert Mills at the ous break of circumstances, he finds. Pink in Chicago, the first colored VOLUME XXXVIII, NO. 28 A RICHMOND RENO Chas. L. G Received Modest and Way O The New York Abroad--W ploy (By Torrey Ford) "Did I have any thrills? I'll say I did. I had 'em all! I had the thrill of my life, and a whole lot more throw in on the side. They knocked me off my feet. Thus spoke Charles S. Gilpin, oe-time Pullman porter and elevator boy, now the Negro star of "Emperor Jones," when asked to describe the emotions he experienced at the Drama League banquet, when nearly a thousand and members of the league jumped to their feet, tossed mopkins in the air and shouted themselves hoarse to make the Negro feel that he was wet come at their board. HAD A FINE TIME. There was more than that to the demonstration. They wanted Gilpin to know how badly every one felt about the unforgivable blunder made by some of the members in an ill-considered attempt to draw the color line in art. They wanted to make some rant button and apparently; they succeeded, "I only insisted to drop in and pay my respects," Gilpin said. "I planned to stay about four minutes and then retire gracefully. I stayed four hours and had the time of my life." "No, it didn't stare much nerve to go and face the crowd. I knew some of my friends would be there and I'd be alright with them. I could count on the artists treating me fairly, and I didn't care a hung about the others. They could sit there and stare at me as though I were some kind of prize monkey and it wouldn't disturb me at all. FOR A FRIENDS SAKE "First off I thought I wouldn't go at all, even if they did ask me. Later I got to thinking the tiff didn't go I would be disloyal to the stanch friends who wanted me there, who had good to all the trouble of protesting against any discrimination against me. I had to go and show my appreciation of their kindness. "So I planned just to drop in and say 'thank you,' I had a nice little speech all prepared, the fewest words I could think of to explain how grateful I was and how I really couldn't stay. I expected them to be polite—itn't hard for ladies and gentlemen to be polite—but I expected nothing more. "I hadn't gone more than two feet inside the door before I realized that it wasn't going to be any ordeal. They were treating me as though I really belonged there. They took me right down to a table and sat me down btew Gilda Varesi and Mrs. Rollin Kirby. And there I stayed." 'When I got up to speak every line my 'speech had gone shooting off to the four winds. But it wouldn't have served anyway, for in it I had apologized for not staying for the din ner, and there I was! LIFE'S GREATEST MOMENT "All I could say was 'thank you,' and I guess I said that pretty badly; but I hope they understood how I felt. It was the greatest moment of my life." And well it may have been. Here was a colored man, well on his way toward fifty years old, who has been knocked around from pillar to post all his life, who has played in any od-by-night show that came along—in vaudeville, musical comedy, barn-storming minstrels—in most of the bad and a few of the good theaters in this country and Canada. In between acting jobs he has served as a Pullman porter, hotel porter, elevator man, barber—anything to make a living. himself little less than the hero of a huge banquet turned into a testimonial meeting in honor of his color and his art. A better man might have lost his head under the same pressure. NOT IN HERO'S POSE Gilpin took his glory, modestly, un affected, and in repose. He apprehend, ed every bit of it, but he wouldn't ad mit that he was in any sense a hero. He didn't want to talk with the press. "I like to keep the footlights between me and the public," he said. "I don't go in much for sociality or hob nobbling. If I can give any one plea are with my acting I am very happy to do so. But that's all. A close-up of Charles Gilpin does not look very in viting. "I have my own little circle of friends and I love them. I live quietly up in Harlem where I belong. When I leave the theater I like to leave it. "I am really a race man—a Negro and proud of being one, proud of the progress the Negroes have made in the time and with the opportunity they have had. And I don't want the public to think anything different." It was only with great reluctance that Gilpin consented to tell anything about himself—where he came from and how he happened to be where he is today. Throughout the conversation he kept trowning over the idea that he was sailing under false colors. He didn't want any one to imagine that a little prominence in the headlines had made him lose his sense of proportion. NOT EASY TO INTERVIEW As a matter of fact, we didn't interview him at all. We cross-examined him, pulling the facts out one by one with a pair of heavy pliers. "I was born down in Richmond. Va. A colored man doesn't have any dates—he is just born. I went to the St. Francis Roman Catholic School, where one of the Sisters taught me a few of the fundamentals of the acting business—elocution and gesticulation. I took part in anuteur theatricals there at the school. "When I was about fourteen I started ed in at the printer's trade on The Richmond Planet; worked at every thing from printer's devil up to a pressman. Occasionally I'd go on at Putnam's Music Hall in a song and dance skit. Just for the excitement. There wasn't any money in it. "About 1890 I came up to Philadelphia and worked three hours as a pressman. Then they fired me on an account of my color. So I sort of got tossed back on to the stage again." A BARBER SHOP PORTER. "I wasn't fussy; I'd take any job that was offered. Away we'd start with a show, get paid for the first night or so, and then we'd live on 'art' for a while. Finally I got stranded down in Charlottesville after a barnstorming tour with a munistrel show, and took oath never to play again. I worked in a barber shop as a porter and learned the trade until I wasn't much worse than some of the other barbers. "One day a wire came from the Canadian Jubilee Singers. I jumped at the chance and joined them at Hamilton, Ontario. We put in the win ter of 1902-04 touring Canada. From there I drifted out with Fort Williams and Walker in 'Abyssinia' and with Gus Hill's Smart Set in the Black Politician." FIRST COLORED THEATER RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, MAY 21, 1921. theater in the country. Mostly we did musical comedy, but there were clever en of us in the company who wanted to have a try at, the serious drama. One night we took an awful chance and produced 'Captain Swift.' "The general character of the remarks of the folks who had paid down their good money for admission was that they were there for a good laugh. They came to laugh and they remained to applaud. It was an artistic hft. PLAYED IN MANY PARTS. "After that we used to do one serious drama every two weeks. I got my chance to play varied parts. With a little grease paint and powder I could make up into any color on demand. I played everything from black face comedy to a Chihuahman. But when Motts died it was all over. "I went back to portering again. When there was nothing else doing I always went back to portering. Lot of times I could make more money on the railroads than I could at acting. It was better than going hungry, any way, and I had it on a lot of actors who didn't have any second trade. AWAY FROM RACE "In 1912 I toured Canada with a double quartet, and had one of the pleasantest trips of my career. For a few months I got away from that damned race thing—all about what I could do if I wasn't a black man. "Then back to vaudeville and mere portering. "In 1916 I began producing last year's Broadway shows at the Lafayette Theater, in 1320 Street. I guess I was the first colored man to try such a thing. The theater is still running. IN 'ABRAHAM LINCOLN' "When the producers were staging Drinkwater's 'Abraham Lincoln' they had some difficulty finding an actor to play William Curtis. I got a wire when I was out on the road and caught the dress rehearsal by a hair. They promised to put me on after the first two weeks. I opened with the show the next night in Stamford, Conn., and stayed with it throughout the Broadway run. "Last fall I joined the Province town Players with 'The Emperor Jones.' We were going to play it for two weeks. We're still going. That's all." Few producers would have dared tackle Eugene G| O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones." It was too radically different from anything that had ever happened before. There were eight scenes, of which all but two were straight monologue by a Negro char acter. For relief there was only a tom tom drum that began in the first scene and continued throughout the play. It was one of those things that could not be done. Yet George Cram Cook did it down at the little theater in Macrougar Street. MOVED UP TOWN The critics came and were impressed. The small public that could crowd into the tiny house came, too, and applauded "The Emperor Jones" was making a good bid for attention. Some one took it up to the Solwyn Theater for a few special matines. Then it moved into the Princess for a regular run. Between O'Neill and Gilpin, "The Emperor Jones" became established as an artistic and commercial success. Essentially it was a play that the actor could make on break. It tells (Continued on Fourth Pago) Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. — "God send us men, alert and quick. His Lotty Precepts to Translate until the laws of Christ become the laws of the State." Last Saturday, 5 P. M. at the building men and women crowded to be helped by the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson and everybody felt thankful for the privilege. No time was lost by the boys and men of the Y. M. C. A. last Sunday. A get ready hour with the workers at the building 9:30 A. M. and every man got full. 9:30 A. M. our General Secretary, Scott C. Burrell visited the man who is now in the death chamber awaived the hour to go to the electric chair and shall have gone when you read this. He is a happy man for death brings joy to every man who is ready to go. There are two more to go in a few days. Please do not forget to pray for them. A great meeting was held for the women of the penitentiary 10 A. M. and new ones were there. 10 A. M. the committees for the jail and city home ditch some very excellent work. Men do . . . get war for the men who serve God bes are those who serve their fellowmen well. A happy bunch at the building 4 P. M. and every boy was native as he heard the address by their president. Subject: Team Work. The singing was full of ginger accompanied by their pianist, Master Joseph Hudson. The electric wire fell in the men's meeting 5.30 P. M. at the blubing and every man was well charged by the wide open address which was delivered to them by one of the leading Doctors of Richmond, Dr. D. L. Blaney Subject: The Secret that the Men of Richmond ought to know. Too late now for the men have go' it and gone. A hot meeting' and the songs were alive. The examinations for the classes are new on and every body is at the mourning bench. Hear the call for this hour 5 P. M. today on to the Y. M. C. A. do not fah. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. 9:30 A. M. an hour for the workers come at the Y. M. C. A. Boys you are invited to the building. Ask your mother. 4 P. M. No man should miss this great meeting for mn 5:30 at the building 3rd and Leigh streets. One of the leading merchants Joseph Charity of Richmond will address the men. Subject: Right at any Cost. Bring the other man and join us heartily in the songs. Live music. Mr. William Armstead of Mt. Carmel Baptist church has been asked to direct the singing. All on fire come. Still the Y. M. C. A. is knocking at your door for prayer. Please let us in? The Y. M. C. A. is getting ready for a great time for women and men. The speaker is one whom Richmond wants to hear. The Sabbath Glee club will sing. Watch for date. Where do you Stand--for right or wrong. The hour demands your vote! PREACHER WANTED In Oakland California, a City of two hundred and twenty thousand, ($220,000) population and the third largest city in the State of California, with a Negro population of six thousand, (6,000). Seven churches, six of which have pastors and the city is full of little half educated preachers; is a Missionary Baptist Church just four months old, with a seating capacity of four hundred and a large Sunday School room. The Church is fitted out with Pews, a Baptistery, a good Organ and two good pianos. A corner lot and the nicest church building in the city with only a small handfull of members We Want and Will have nothing short of a consistant, educated Christian Minister as a pastor. If you want to come West and can pass this examination, we will be glad to look you over The salary is one hundred, ($100.00) dollars per month to begin with. Adress all communications to, L. A. BROWN, 1128 Broadway ? Oakland, California CARD OF THANKS FOR CLAIM Petersburg, Va., May 7, 1921. Mr. A. W. Holmes, Supreme Master of the National Ideal Benefit Society Dear Sir—I wish to thank you all for your kindness to me and for the check of ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars, Death claim of Delliah Gee who was a member of Charlotte Lodge No 42. We are very grateful to you and the Order. Sincerely yours, MENRY GEE. EX. SERVICE MEN. 112 Capitol Street, Richmond, Va. May 6, 1821 --- TO THE EDITORS—Ex-Service men have you received your Victory Medal? Or are you one of the 40,000 men in the State of Virginia who have not received their Medals; if you are, why not present your discharge to the nearest American Legion Post, Red Cross or your Minister, they will be glad to give you all the help they can in preparing and forwarding your application, or you may moll your discharge to the Victory Medal Officer 1112 Capitol street, Richmond, Va. We will approve your application and forward it to the Depot Officer, Philadelphia, Pa., who will send you the Medal direct, and the discharge will be returned at once from this office. This is not the Medal given by the State or any welfare organizations. But it is a beautiful medal designed by noted Medalist, Frezier of New York, and it is awarded by the United States Government to all men and nurses who served honorably in the United States Army during the period of the World War. You need not have gone to France to be eligible for the Medal, if you served in the United States Army during the War you are entitled to it. Men discharged for disability are entitled to the Medal providing their services was honorable. Conscientious Objectors who refused to wear the uniforms and men discharged from the draft are not entitled to the Medal. THE NATIONAL IDEAL CHILDREN ANNIVISARY EXERCISES The Nursery Department of the National Ideal Benefit Society will hold their annual exercises at the Leigh Street Methodist Church, Sun day. May the 29th, at 3:30 P. M. An excellent programme has been arranged under the auspices of the Ideal Nursery Board. All children will meet at the Ideal Hall at 2 o'clock and march with their guardians to the church. The public is invited to be present. LOOK! LISTEN! A Grand Concert given by the Union Aid Chorus at the True Reformer's Hall. Monday night, May 23rd, 1921 for the benefit of Imperial Order of King David. A special sermon preached by Brother Bendine Text: "Paul poked his pistle at dem Romans, when he dat sets on a red hot stove shall surely rise again." Come one and all and laugh yourself fat. Admission twenty five cents Rosa Talley, Manager, Pearl Johnson Organist; Mrs. A. G. Thompson, Grand Worthy Ruler. MOON—CLAY. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Clay, wish to announce the approaching wedding of their daughter Beatrice, to Mr. Hamden G. Moon. The wedding will take place at the residence of the brides parents 910 N. 29th street. Wednesday June 8th, at 10:30 A. M. Reception June 22nd, 9 to 12 P. M. Friends invited. No cards ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified this day as Administratrix of the estate of the late A. D. Price, I hereby request all persons having claims against said estate to present same to me for payment, and all persons owing said estate will please settle with me. MRS. GEORGIE A. PRICE, Administratrix of A. D. Price deceased. May 6th, 1921. LETTER OF THANKS. May 9 1921 To the Officers and Members of the National Ideal Benefit Society, Mr. A. W. Holmes, President. You will please accept our many thanks and highest appreciation, for your kindness and for the prompt payment of the death claim ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars on account of the death of A. D. Price, who was a member of Prospect Lodge No. 2, of Supreme Lodge. It will be our pleasure to speak of the good that the Order is doing for our people in many ways. Again thanking you and the Lodge I am, Sincerely years, Sign: GEORGIA A. PRICE, Beneficiary, Witnesses: R. H. THURSTON, F. L. DEVERGLE. MEMORIAL AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY. The annual Memorial Day celebration will take place at the National Cemetery, Monday May 30 under the auspices of Custer Post of the Grand Army of the Republic and Wm. A. Hankins Camp, Spanish War Veterans at three P. M. The memorial sermon will be delivered at Fifth Street Baptist Church Sunday the 29th at 11:30 A.M. by the pastor, Rev. T. J. King, D. D. Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, A. M. will deliver the oration at the cemetery. Prominent part will be taken by the World War Veterans and the Pythian Uniform Rank. The parade will save from St. James and Clay Streets at 1:30 Monday. Richard Day's is Commander; Gus Hopson, Chairman and George L. Branch Secretary. THE TWENTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Mr. and Mrs. William Atkinson request the honor of your presence at the celebration of the Twentieth year of their marriage, Monday May 23rd, 1921 at their residence 2016 Q street, Friends invited. No cards. THE VICE SUPREME COMMANDER WILL ADDRESS WOODMEN. HON. H. L. BILLUPS LL. D. Richmond Camp No. 1 American Woodmen will entertain Hon. H. F. Billups, Vice Supreme Commander of The American Woodmen at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Monday, May 23 at 8:15 P. M. Mr. Billups is a figure and one of the deepest thinkers of the country and one of the races best orators. Hear Mr. Billups speak on The Dawning of a New Day. Admission free. WIFE WANTED. WANTED--A good looking wife. One qualified to be the help-meet of a minister with a good charge. Address, REV. W. W. A.. 251 West Fall St.. New Castle, Pa. BROWN—KEMP. Mrs. Catherine R. Kemp requests the presence of friends at the marriage of her daughter, Vivian Jeanette, to Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Satur day afternoon, June 4, 1921, fire-thirty o'clock, 912 Abigail Street. Wedding reception, six to seven thirty. At home after June 25, 1815 Eighteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C. --- —Mr. Henry Moore, the well-known general contractor, who has been seriously ill at his residence is much improved and is believed to be convalescing. —Mr. William Howard Jones, was seen upon the streets this week after a long and painful illness. —Mrs. Georgie Price has qualified as administratrix of the estate of the late A. D. Price and is at present conducting the business and rendering old time efficient service. The estate was placed at $53,102 and bond for this amount was required. —The many friends of Mr. Daniel Robinson are happy over his return to this city, after it was reported that he had gone to Pennsylvania to spend the remainder of his days. He is looking well. PRICE, FIVE CENTS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS A Lodge and a Court Organized at Wilder, Va. Grand Master of Exchequer, E. R. Jefferson, M. D., and Col. R. C. Mitchell, arrived at Wilder, Va., Maygay afternoon after a long trip from Richmond. They came to set up a lodge and a court. Owing to pressing business engagements, Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., who was expected was unable to come. The Knights of Pythias body will be known as Gold en Piece Lodge, No. 260. The following officers were installed: Chancellor Commander, Archer Mitchell; Master of Work, Samuel Simus; Vice Chancellor Leslie Mitchell; Preclude Charles Hill; Master of Exchequer, Charles Bankhead; Master of Finance, Coleman Smith; Keeper of Records and Seal, Charles Lee Mitchell; Master at Arms Chandler Mock; Inner Guard, Edward Farris; Outer Guard, Ollies Williams; Trustees: Emmett Wade, Jacob McBride and J. A. Williams. A bountiful repast was spread for the visitors. District Deputy Grand Chancellor, R. K. Anderson, who had been active in the work here was present. Rev. G. M. Sims also assisted. In the meantime a Court of Calan the, known as Golden Fleece Court. No. 241 had been previously organized with the following officers: Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Mattie Hall Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Nerva McBrayer; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Noba Davis; Orator, Mrs. Mary Coles; Registrar of Deeds, Mrs. Henrietta Erwin; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Mary Carmichael; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Nancy Bankhead; Senior Directress, Mrs. Bertha Gilmore; Junior Directress, Mrs. Beutah Glover; Conductress, Mrs. Mattle Massey; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Bertha Payne; Escort, Mrs. Emma Hill; Herald, Mrs. Hattie Williams; Protector, Mrs. Rosa Allen; Trustees: Mrs. Maude Carter, Mrs. Alice Ervin and Mrs. Celia Turner. All were delighted and the visitors were outspoken in commendation of those who had charge of their entrainment here. Dr. Jefferson and Col Mitchell left Tuesday morning for Bluefield, en route home. ANOTHER COURT IN HALIFAX Under the direction of the Grand Worthy Counsellor, John Mitchell, Jr., who was unable to be present, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellor, Mary L. Martin organized a court of Calanthe at Mayo, Va., April 29, 1921. The following officers were instated by her: Worthy Counsellor, Caroline Crowder; Worthy Inspector, Matilde Royster; Worthy Inspectrix, Ollie Diane; Orator, Rosa Johnson; Register of Deeds, H. B. Crowder; Register of Accounts, Martha Owen; Receiver of Deposits, Jacob W. Owen; Senior Directress, Katie C. Smith; Junior Directress, Mary Faulkner; Conductress Fannie Owen; Assistant Conductress, Nannie Bettis; Phoebe Johnson, Herald, Bertha Lawson; Protector, Dora Warren. Rising Star Court. No. 240 will be the official designation of the new court. Fannie Wilkerson, Eliza Faulkner and Pearl Owen were mankind Trustees. The visitors present, were Mrs. Amie E. Wells, Mrs. Polly Graham, Mrs. Flossie Martin of Sunlight Court No. 175 at Houston, Va. ILLEGAL BAPTISM AT PEAKES The Ministers Conference of Richmond and Vicinity in session at the phenecer Baptist Church last Monday expressed a surprise at the conduct of the Matron of the Girls Home at Peakes, Va., in that she was expected to have Rev. Montague (white) of the Episcopal Church of Richmond to baptize 30 or more colored girls for some Baptist Church. This act is an encroachment upon our denomination and raises the question of the validity of the baptism. We believe that the admiringator as well as the one baptized must be of the same faith for the baptism to be valid. SPECIAL NOTICE There will be a public Exhibition of Clubs by the Girl Reserves of the V. W. C. A. Tuesday evening, May 31, at $30 P. M. at St. Luke Hall. The public is cordially invited. Tickets are 25 cents each. The proceeds of this entertainment will go toward sending our club girls to the Camp conference in July. This conference will be held in Kittrell N. C. this year. It is hoped that the club will purchase and encourage our young people who are presenting some thing worth while. THE PLANET published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. f 811 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va EDITOR JOHN MITCHELL, JR. a communications intended for publication and be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Arrived at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES as Year.....$ 2.00 at Months.....1.10 free Months......80 foreign Subscriptions.....2.50 SATURDAY.....MAY 21, 1921 The more you do for some people, the less they appreciate it. This is a life of "ups and downs, but mostly "down." The National Race Congress did what it could and adjourned. Morning prayers are beneficial; evening prayers are consoling. The pressure for money is on the increase instead of being on the decrease. Rendering service for compensation paid is the fundamental principle of square dealing. Many people were born all doubled up and they have been living that way ever since. The chancelleries of Europe are still seeming to be practicing deception. Some people are always sick, just like some other people are always well. Public opinion is all right, when it is right, but it is mighty inconvenient when it is wrong. The American Legion seems to be anxious to attract the attention of this and other countries. Some people believe in keeping their word only if it suits their own convenience. Meeting in Heaven is all right but sight through here, it is more convenient to meet on this earth. Worry kills as many people as disease. Some people are of the opinion that it kills more. We thank our friends and subscribers for heeding our appeals and for sending in to us money due. The colored press is doing a great work for the colored people and it should be supported. Men, who have good wives, konw it al though some men, who have the other kind do not know it. Leading a gay life is all right, if you are willing to pay the price in the hereafter. Publishing the "slacker list" seems to be dangerous business and many newspapers in this country know it. People, who try to do right are dis heartened at times, by the apparent success of some people, who do wrong. If some of these people hereabouts ever reach Heaven, St. Peter at the gate, will want to know how they got there. Some people, are too perish to die with anybody. They care not who slink, so they swim. It is not well to be this way. Blundering belongs to some people They hope to blunder finally into Heaven after they have blundered into the grave. They promised the colored folks of Ri£mond a public park. They gave the park all right, but the white folks got it. Trying to get justice in this world is very much like climbing the Alps. Sometimes, you get there and sometimes you dont. The habit of speaking well of people is a good habit. Unfortunately most of us have acquired the habit of speaking ill of our neighbor. Sliding down a hill may cause you to lose the seat of your breeches. You may find it more profitable to climb up the same obstruction. Contending for right principles is at times very tiresome and expensive business. In it however, is a world of satisfaction for the contender. The eye is an indicator of character and purpose. Blessed is the individual, who can read character in the human eye. Few wives get enough money to support their children properly. They rely upon their husbands and sometimes they rely mostly upon themselves. Good mothers are the corner stones of the Republic and every man who has achieved success has an angel mother, either dead or alive to inspire him. President Warren G. Harding took his own time about getting elected to the presidency and now he is taking his own time about putting some of these Republicans into office. Measuring your goods with your neighbor's yard-stick often leads to a loss in your business. He knows how to use his yard-stick in a way that you have not been advised. It is not always, the member, loadest in his profession of religion, who will do the most to aid you in right living and will guide you straight on the road to Heaven. Some people become indisposed as soon as they hear that any work is to be done and they become absolutely well as soon as they learn of a troic where they can enjoy themselves and display their good clothes. This short skirt business has proven very embarrassing to some people, we know and it has proven a revelation to some others. Some females have shown themselves to be Venus adorned. War is now going on in Upper Silesia. The Germans have combined with the Italians and heavy battles have taken place. The League of Nations has proven to be a fomenter of war rather than a proventer of this same evil. Many people are influenced and guided by inherited traits. They do not try to change them and they accordingly live just as their fore-parents did and they get no further in the race of life than their fore-parents got. We thank those, who have been sending us their subscription for the Planet and those, too who have induced their neighbors to subscribe. Some of our readers have been on our lists for a decade and they have not forgotten the great work this journal has done for the race. When it comes to good looking females, the colored race will rank beside any other race in the world. When it comes to bad looking specimens of the same kind of humanity, we have no other race any other other. So, "There ye are." THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Practically all Government officials are in the race for liquor. They don't seem to have any time for any other offenses against the law. New York State saw the chance and enacted its own liquor laws and now the police force of that commonwealth have much liquor and more money. They have practically driven "Uncle Sam" out of business. The cry of the Allies now seems to be "Work Germans, work for the governments of the Allies; white neglecting your own. They are not exactly in the penitentiary but they are expected to work under penitentiary rules and regulations. The amusing part of the whole business is that the hastily formed German cabinet has agreed to do it. The conviction of the white farmer and planter, Williams upon the charge of peonage, better known as slavery in a Republic and the over-ruling of the motion for a new trial in a court of Georgia mark a now day in American affairs. The story told upon the witness stand was horrible in all of its details. It exceeds in atrocity the scenes portrayed in Uncle Tom's Cabin. That it was possible to secure a white jury to convict the guilty man shows that a better class of white people are now upon the scene of action and that the colored people of the country have grounds for hope. Out of (39,232,032) thirty-nine million, two hundred and thirty-two thousand and thirty-two cans of salmon examined, which had been furnished the army of the United States, (5,013,120) five million, thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty cans were found by an investigating committee, to be spoiled and unfit for use. To have eaten this spoiled salmon would probably have resulted in death. It was proven that this fish was rotten when it was canned. Great Britain is still struggling with Ireland. It begins to look as though the expense of this struggle will financially cripple this great Empire. Repressive measures used by the crown forces seem to have inelted the revolutionist's to greater activity and impelled them to the commission of greater crimes. The Shim Feiners as these Irish revolutionists are called are now carrying their attacks into London and other large English cities and it begins to look as though the time will soon come when no man's life will be safe. The insurgent Poles have over-run upper Silesia. The German Government has taken no action, but it evidently is doing a powerful lot of thinking. When the German people agreed to disarm and to render their selves helpless, they sacrificed the last vestige of man-hood and proceeded to play the role of the cur dog awakening contempt in the minds of all self respecting people. --- The following extract will prove to be interesting information: Boston, May 11.—Louis Agassiz Shaw, an instructor in the Harvard medical school, in whose Back Bay home prohibition enforcement officers reported finding an elaborate still in operation recently, was before a Federal Commissioner today charged with manufacturing Iliquor. Statements that "everybody was doing it" and that he saw no more harm in making Iliquor than in buying it, were attributed to Shaw by Richard A. Kelley the agent who was in charge of the raiding party. Shaw told him he said, the brews obtained from different kinds of mash were discussed among his social acquaintances and that there was much rivalry among them to see who, could produce the boat Iliquor. Arguments will be completed tomorrow. This Harvard professor was making this liquor for his own use and not for sale. This presents an interesting question. It will be a long time before the courts of the land will finally decide it. This is an age of hypocrites and hypocrisy. One thing can be said of Prof. Louis Agassiz Shaw, he is no hypocrite. THOSE HAITIAN OUTRAGES. The demand of the Government of Haiti for the withdrawal of American marines is a remarkable though unsavory recital of the abuses of a branch of the service of a country that started out in a Democratic President to save the world for Democracy and set up the theoretical declaration that no people should be held in subjection by any other race of people. President Harding is already committed relative to this Haitian question and must necessarily accept in good faith the demands now being made by this Government. The Government of Haiti charges the United States marines with torturing the natives, removal of five hundred thousand dollars of the funds of the Haitian Government to the United States gun-boat. We presume that this money is now in the custody of the United States and will be refunded. A charge is made that an American Brigadier General on June 19, 1917, with a revolver in his hand followed by American officers, also armed with revolvers entered the legislative hall of the Haitian Republic and forced a dissolution of the Haitian Legislative Assembly. It is also charged that these armed forces of the United States on June 12, 1918 forced the ratification of the new Haitian Constitution, with marines presiding at the ballot box and only a ballot marked "Yes" being issued. It is further charged that four thousand prisoners died in 1918, 1919 and 1920 in prison camps in Haiti and that in three other camps including the American camp, five thousand, four hundred and seventy-five prisoners died in three years. This is how under President Woodrow Wilson's regime, the world was being made "safe for democracy." The Haitian Government is asking of this country reparations, which places that Republic in the same attitude towards the United States of America as that now occupied by France in the demands now being made upon Germany. In reading this account there is much "food for thought." Will the American people never see and will they continue not to understand? It is but a reproduction of conditions in this country and brings to mind Thomas Jefferson's famous comment: I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty God has no attribute, which can take side with us in such a contest. THE DEMANDS OF THE ALLIES. The demands made upon Germany by the Allies have not been accepted by one cabinet and it has been accepted by another hastily formed body, which seems not as yet to have entered upon its actual career of existence. Some of the antagonistic German papers declare it to be only "a scrap of paper." There is good reason for this designation of the document signed and sealed by the present Government. The Allies have demanded some thirty billion dollars. This is all right, although the Germans declare their in ability to pay any such sums. Then came a demand for the punishment of what is known as "war criminals." This means men or troops who violated the rules of civilized war-fare. This cry has been heard before in wars between nations and countries, but few, if any soldiers have ever been punished for this offense unless the offense was punished at the time by a summary court-martial. The Germans are supposed to set in judgment upon their own countrymen. The Germans have accepted too the demand that all forces en both land and sea be disarmed. Taking a gun away from a man, who is holding the gun loaded against all comers is quite another matter. The question now is as to whether the present German Government has an army to be disarmed. We hope that we shall live long enough to see these Germans live up to their promises. The situation in that country is anomalous. The monarchists have a large following and the organized forces of the Kaiser are waiting only for an opportunity to asert themselves and then the revolution will prove to be a revolution with in a revolution. Germany would never have been so humiliated had the people of Germany remained united. Disunion has brought disaster. Men and women could not be held together, where softness was the basic foundation of the cohesive power. As a result, each citizen is for himself and the Kaiser and his following are said to be for themselves. This spirit has permeated all Europe and the nations are in the category of snarling dogs, saying anything and doing anything to maintain an ignominious existence. The United States of America has decided to keep out of the entanglements of Europe and it is well that this is so. They have much of our money, for which there is much suffering in this country. Under conservative leadership and skillful financiering this country will forge ahead of all other nations of the world. We entertain the opinion that the dawn of our prosperity is at hand. The pendulum of finance is swinging in our direction. The way affairs have been handled during the past eight years has come dangerously near ruining this Government and the people constituting it. Great Britain has suffered severely and she barely now maintains the traditions of history and bonds in authority in power for which she was always noted. The cry, 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more,' applies to Great Britain. Her dependencies are practically independent. They have only to relinguish the name of the Mother Country in order to start them off in the direction of free, independent governments, many of which won their independence at the expense of blood and treasure. CAN NEGROES WIN? The question is being asked. "Can Negroes win? This relates to their struggles in obtaining civil justice, civil and political equality and that official recognition, to which they are entitled under the laws of this country. It is indeed a momentous question and it demands an answer. Individually speaking there is but one answer. They are already winning but can this selfish policy of individualism get this people to the table land of prosperity as a race, where they will not be handicapped by racial characteristics? We are frank to say that we do not believe that they can win along the lines marked out by the average in individual. Thousands of colored people have an antipathy to their own people and will join in with white people to deride and belittle them. Much of this has come through the sources, where money has been contributed by philanthropists for the education and betterment of a people known as Negroes and regarded in the same category with the tribes of Africa or the Indians upon the plains of the Far West. But there are thousands of "new day Negroes." They have been educated in the schools and colleges of the country and while professing an equality with all other citizens with their mouths, away down in their "heart of hearts," they believe the teachings engrafted in them in south on schools that they are inherently inferior and that "they are nothing but a Negro, no how." Can this manner and method be obliterated save by organized concerted effort, backed by money? Leading colored men have seen the danger of all of this and have vainly attempted to organize the Negroes of the country. It has required money to do this and when the call for money has been made, the "Negro has just gone." This has been disheartening. Of course, some have put up some money, but the amount has been so small when a comparison is made of the work that is to be done, that it has caused a feeling of despondency to seize most of those engaged in the work. If five thousand dollars are raised, it is regarded as being too much money and if ten thousand dollars are available, it is regarded as too much money. And yet, what can men like Dr. William E. Du Tois, Editor William Monroe Trotter, Rev. Dr. W. H. Jernigan, do with ten thousand dollars in a campaign, where five hundred thousand dollars are needed? The Hebrews talk very little, when it comes to money and then'surt out a most powerful propaganda after the money is raised. The amount is the smallest part of the business. The campaign waged by the Probationists represented many millions. They were contending for a principle and when the women came into the limelight in demanding Woman's Suffrage, they made no secret of the golden waves that lashed upon the shores of the opposition until, a calm came and their bark was brought safely into'port. But colored folks , sometimes called Negroes cannot trust each other enough to give them the necessary funds to conduct a campaign in their own interest. If they think a race leader has secured a million dollars, they become frantic. They forget the principles for which they are contending. They are thinking of the golden flood that fails to reach either their front door or their back gate. We are of the opinion then, when this individualism as to action becomes broadened into that universal brotherhood between one colored individual and another, then will come the dawn of the day, when all of our rights and privileges shall be secured by the action of our own leaders, duly chosen and substantially backed by money enough to make their plans for our absolute recognition heard and granted not only in this country, but in the chancelleries of Europe. --- GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR PEACE The situation in Europe at the present time is critical and will not be understood by the average individual. It really is the culmination of the intrigue and deceptions of some of the Great Powers of Europe and show plainly that selfishness and gain are really the controlling interests in this graft struggle. When the end came in the great World War, each nation that had been a party to the struggle sought to get for itself everything possible. France had been the greatest sufferer and had borne the brunt of the German payments in money, which were out of all reason with the ability of this defeated country to pay, unless the other nations yielded up the amounts to which they were entitled. In making peace, it was specifically agreed that Germany should pay no indemnity. This threw the cost of the war upon each country, which had participated in the contest. Germany agreed to pay reparation charges. That is, she agreed to rebuild private properly destroyed in the fighting area, but not to pay for the cost of allied movements. This caused France specifically to lose many millions of dollars. She sought to recoup her losses by occupying German territory and by levying taxes upon the people thereof. By the terms of the agreement, the country of Poland was resurrected out of Russian, Austrian and German territory that formerly belonged to Poland. It was agreed that the people of Silesia, who had been in the German Empire should vote whether the country should unite with Poland or with Germany. When the vote was taken, they voted to go with the Germans. Now, this country is rich in natural wealth and the Poles, who were being backed by France decided to upset this arrangement and as a result organized bodies of men invaded Upper Silesia, driving out the Germans. When the Allies demanded of Poland that she take steps to prevent this invasion, they coolly replied that they were not regular Polish troops and that country would remain neutral. French troops remained inactive and refused to assist in enforcing the decrees and mandates of the League of Nations. Then the German Government got busy and asked permission to send troops to repel the invaders. France objected to this and declared that such action would be regarded by France as a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and an act of war. It was then that Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain voiced his ringing resentment of the attitude of France and declared that the Germans had the right in the interest of fair play to defend themselves. The meaning of all of this is that if France occupies the Ruhr Valley and Upper Silesia, with the Polish Government, with which Government she is in an alliance, Great Britain, Italy and even the United States, Belgium and Japan would not get their proportion of the reparations, to which they are entitled, for the very good reason that the iron and the coal so much needed would not be available for use in their industries. In the meantime, Italian troops fought the Poles and lost many men in so doing. Italy has demanded indemnity of Poland. The indications are now that unless great skill is exercised, another way of alarming proportions will break out in Central Europe, with Poland and France as the storm centre and with Germany fighting for her commercial and industrial existence. The wisdom of keeping out of the entanglement's of Europe is now apparent to everybody and even to ex-President Woodrow Wilson, whose theoretical doctrines put into action have well high ruined this country, along with many others. MOR LYNCHES NEGRO FOR AN ALLEGED ATTACK. Little Rock, Ark., May 12. A Negro, whose name has not been learned, was lynched at McGhee, Wednesday night for alleged participation in an attack on J. P. Sims and a young white woman while they were riding in an automobile along a lonely country road. The lynching occurred after Sims, a blacksmith for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, identified the Negro as one of three Negroes who stopped him on the road. Instead of complying with the Negroes' demand that he leave the young woman, Sims opened fire and the Negroes fled. His description of the Negroes led to the arrest of one of them and the subsequent lynching. --- CHANCELLOR DECLARES THAT GERMANY WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO FULFILL PACT. --- Paymen's to President Utmost or Capabilities. Berlin, May 11.—The newspapers of the Nationalists and Industrialists today receive the new Cabinet, and its action in accepting the allied ultimatum with expressions of scorn and contempt. "The German people, in so far as it has yet been able to think and feel, will not have anything in common with the government." says the Pan-German Zeitung, "for us this document is but a scrap of paper." Count Frederick von Western, conservative member of the Reichstag, writing in the Kreuz Zeitung, declares the Conservatives did their duty in opposing acceptance of the ultimatum. He expressed the hope that their action will resolve itself "into a seed from which the national will for selfassertion and deeds will spring forth." The Times Zeitung charges that the so-called German Parliament" played of the new cabinet accommodates the French wishes. HUN CABINET TO BE "ONE OF DEEDS, NOT WORDS." Berlin, May 11.—The new German Cabinet is a Cabinet of reconcilation and understanding, the busy, hustling Chancellor, who divides his time between that job, the Foreign Ministry and the Finance Department made this declaration of policy to the United News on the way from the office where he performs the functions of Chancellor to the one where he handles the nation's financial policy. "We will be a Cabinet of deeds, not words," said Chancellor Wirth. There has been enough talking. We will honestly and uprightly make our most efforts to tailfill the obligations that we have taken over. Our deliveries will correspond to the utmost of our capabilities." SHORT, BUSINESSLIKE TALKER Dr. Wirth is a tall, heavily built man, but a short, businesslike talker. He had just leeked his Chancellor's offey and was rushing away to the Finance Ministry when the United News correspondent met him. At that moment also a messenger came up breathlessly with an important document to be signed. The Chancellor borrowed a fountain pen, signed and said, "Come along. I'm awfully busy; would you mind coming with me in my car to my next job? We can talk on the way." It was only a couple of blocks, so he spoke briefly, in snappy sentences. Disarmament was the topic as the car drew up at the Finance Ministry, and he got out. "The disarmament question also is one for understanding." The new Chancellor does not give the impression that he regards him self merely as a stopgap Chancellor due to step out at once, having served the purpose of accepting the allied do mands, as some people predict for the man who should make the acceptance. And it is a known fact that, when the old Cabinet was considering reparations, Wirth was one of those who most strongly urged the Cabinet to make a higher offer. ROANOKE NEWS ROANOKE NEWS ROANOKE, VA. MAY 16—Rev. George P. Miller preached at Mt. Ziaea A. M. E. Church Sunday morning from St Luke 22:31. He made his discarse very plain and instructive. He also preached at night, Rev. Hatcher being in Montgomery, Ala. bung in a revival. Collection for the day was $54.54; $31.90 of this was raided by the Tithing Band. The stork visited the home of Mrs. Nathaniel Moore, 309 Ninth Avenue N. W. and left a fine baby girl. Mother and baby are getting along very nicely. Mrs. Rosa Johnson of Tinker Creek died Thursday morning at one oclock and the funeral took place at her home Saturday morning. The interment was in Green Ridge Cemetery, near Hollins, Va. She leaves to mourn their loss, husband and nine children and a host of friends. James Johns a was shot and killed and another man seriously wounded in a gun battle near the city aims house last Monday. The first monthly meeting of Roamoke Lodge, No. 51, Knights of Pythias went on record as a record breaker, May 13 when its receipts for the evening were $150.10. That sounded good to me. The Ants Dramatic Club met at the home of Mrs. Mattie Jones on Fifth Avenue, May 16 at 7:30 P. M. with the President, Mr. A. P. Holand officiating. An excellent man was served by the hostess. The May Day Fete given by the teacher and pupils of the Harrison Avenue School Monday afternoon May 16 was a great success. Mrs. Nowlin of the Washington Heights died Sunday and was buried Tuesday morning. She had suffered three strokes of paralysis and had been confined to her home for a long period. Mr. Floyd L. North, of Davy, W. Va. is in the city this week. Rev. W. E. Lee of the High St. Baptist Church arrived home Monday morning from the Baptist State Convention held at Washington, D. C. last week. He reports a grand meeting. There was quite a grand thanksgiving annual sermon delivered to the Odd Fellows of Roanoke Sunday May 8, by Rev. Roberson, pastor of the Jerusalem Baptist Church. All were delighted over the manner in which he preached to the men of the Order. Mrs. Alice Brandon, 116 Sixth Avenue was called to South Radford last Saturday to the bedside of her mother. Yes, The Planet Agent will put your paper to your door at the same time will furnish you with Ordway Plasters, Foot Plasters, Salves for Piles and Dr. Burker Kidney and Bladder piles. They are an hand at 153 Wells Alley, N. W. the home of Madison Stanfield and be served with the one remedy that beats them all. The services were well attended at the various Churches in the city, though a great number of the minis tors were out of the city attending the Virginia Baptist State Convention at Washington. The Rev. P. G. Gravety preached Sunday down the Shenandoah Valley to a large audience. He made a great impression. BASEBALL The Harrison High boys met the strong Black Sox team of the North east of the city on the 17th to decide the championship and the Harrison Avenue boys romped away with the victory of 6 to 0. The Black Sox were helpless before Big Babe Ruth Biggleson, who nodd the Black Sox to 2 hits and struck out 18 men. He was at his best in this game, his curve and speed was blinding. The batting of Payne, who knocked a home run and Jefferson Jones and W. Biggleson, who doubled, were features. B. Cole, B. and H. Eggleston; W. Eggleston and Jones. Umpire, Jim Smith. 1G MEN INVOLVED LN GIGANTIC LIQUOR SMUGGLING PLOT, | Asserts. Practically every Nook — Along Coast Is Being Used ‘To Rush in Booze. Atlantic, City, May 11.—The most elaborate system of Hawor smuggling ‘et uncovered, a system backed finan clally by some of the most prominent men In the Atlantic coast. cities, will pe exposed within a few days, it was nude known here tonight by Charles R. Kurtz, Surveyor of Customs of Philadelphia, It was stated that the warrants In the case already have yeen issued and that the men navavd n them are under surveillance, "Lue elzure here Monday of $60,000 worth pe Hiquor found on board a ship was he first move in the Goverument’s Jan of action, Mr. Kurtz said According to the Surveyor, alt tis iquor handled by the smugglers ty ini horted stock and worth aimost its eight in gold once it is taken ashore ind offered for sule. ‘The plot to bring n the tiquor it was explained was dis overed by customs agents, and the varrants Will charge violation of cus loms regulations as well as of the Federal prohibition act. ‘Transatlantic liners, their shabby sts ers, the freighters, speed yachts and rotor boats, tishing schuoners, and ight draught vessels and even afr lanes, seaplines and hydrouirplanes heing wlilized by the smugglers, ac: Fovding to information in te posses: fon of Mr. Kurtz's men. In the great nass of evidence the Surveyor says he has there ts proof that practically very nook along the seaboard is a necting place at one timo or other for he smugglers who operate (he boats nd their assistants who operate thes Just automobiles ashore.% LIQUOR 18 TRANSSIIPPED, According to Mr. Kurtz. the greater art of the Hauor being bronght here rom Burope is (ransshipped to vessels f flight draught at a point just east f Atlante City and just beyond the free mite limit. The liquor seized here Monday was nid to have heen taken from a light ratght ship that had carried It from lust that, point. Mr. Kurtz said (onight that the bix eeangoing ships take the whiskey nd wines aboard in foreign ports and ring them to a designated spot on His side of the AUantic. Upon arriv Tat the seeret meeting plice knuwn the skippers of both dhe small and he big ships us was the meeting pla: fs of army transports and their es: forts during the war the light draught oats run up heside the others ane Fike the cases of contraband abourd n time of storm the transshipment. is ade under the greatest difticulty nt fie reward fx big and the smugglers ike their chances willimely. The vessels operating besween the orican cities and Uhe incoming tin: fs ure all of size that ean easily nn into practically every coast town, ey draw little water and as. they Itiownt lueaily aitraet no uttention Shing thoats and motor boats. wre pd iu hurrying the Hquor from the int of arrival of the bigger local nip (o other cities up and down tho past. IRPLANES SEEN AS MESSENGER Just what part the airplanes and he seaplines play in the smuggling hime is a mystery: just now so far as buld be learned. I is believed, — now ver, that the airphines are used for hrrying messages aud reporting the prow of liquor laden treighters nd that the seaplines in times of eeessity are used for carrying Ub tor. Auantic city is resarded by Mr. uirtz. as one of Mhe —chieg landing jaces used hy the smuruders. Mr, lurtz whose territory. inelades’ part New York, all of Now Jersey, Dela are and Pennsylvania ead that the lew Jersey const line offers many un fequentedy spots for the landing o1 huor, and that the smugglers have ken advantage of them. * The Kame of smuggling liquor has ached the point, the Surveyor sat, here the smugglers are employing timmy ships, whose skippers have or Hrs to navigate as if afraid of investi tion by the authorities. ‘The dum ies draw the attention of revenue tters that may be watehing for the hugglers and the smugglers slip withot «being inspected } the smuggling ts done at night he a. The prospect of immediate and large ofits has brought business men. of "ans to the support of the smugi he gane Investigators have renor'ed the Surveyor. ‘They have refused believe that. their operations could uncovered, Mr. Kurtz says the exe tion of the warrants will surprise le persons named in tiem, Sala Woll planned and careful wert in itivating the mutual interest of the ss and tho laborer has been done the American Rolling Mi Conipa of Middletown, Ohio. , tt 1s a far call from ‘the aetton ds and the small gins and of! ils of the South to the eomplexities large-seale production, hut as hny as a thousand Negroes were ployed by this company during p war when all their cnorgics were nt on making big shells. Even att: unemployment inereased in other ees, there were some four or tiv) Indred colored employes: the herican Rolling Mills. ‘The manaco nt hgs been very fair fn the hiv. and tiring of Negros: and this Hing that they are getting a scare hl, with no spectal favors and no hits, goes a long way towards at lcting and holding colored labor. ‘agés nre fixed aceording &. tha done and not according 19 the lor of the workers. In the words the employment manager they Ve not het to layoff any M-gve or, but, when demand sty kenod yy moraly ceased hiring any men.” t meant that among the Inrye wn i meant Laat antoug the coumen lorers the large number of io vars always come and KO Wore no Long fe tke wecmyary redaction jn the w force. . MARDING MAKHS GOOD IN THE OPPNING OF HIS TERM. Good Nature and Quiet Determinu tion Felt in Regations With Con ‘gress. Washington, May.—President Hard ing has made good. This Is the unanimous verdict ot Washington. Members of Congress and exeeutlye officals outyie in pritiso of an administration whieh has gone ahead without blunders and has tune tioned with the ease of a wellotied machine. | Before the Republican convention last June the party was rent with tte temporary dissension of a great con test for the presidency, When Warren G. Harding was nominated Hose lead 5 who had been opposed to bin awaited with confidence the impres sion he would make upon the coun: (ry. They were not disappointed. He conducted himself during the cam paign without an error, After the in auguration the Democrats expressea ‘the hope that serious mistakes wontd be made that the Inrge majorite in the Tiouse and Senate would be un wieldy, and that patronage would feause "dissension, But two months Dave passed without mistakes, witlt a unity of purpose in doing away with the malad-ministration of the Wilson regime, and with 1 slow parcelling out of the larger offices on a basis of efliciency alone. ‘The result is that the Democrats are even more Gesyn dent “han immediately after the oteet fon, for then they were merely defeat ed and now they are without immed fate hope of restoration. ‘The salutary change of ndnitutstin tion is noticed especially in the ait tide of the President toward Congress, Mr. Wilson was arrogantly dispuxed, brooked no opposition and contd sain ho concessions from an opposition de termined upon the maintenance of the firmest Americanism. Mr. Hard: ing maintains (he dignity and inde- pendence of the chief executive office in the Tand, but does it with a harm- onious and friendly relationship with Congress, based “upon mutual ap: proachability, which heightens the effect of © yule of reason rather than of unreason. Mr. Wilson kept the gates of the White Honse locked two Years after “he war. Mr. Haréing tn locked them and the crowds. have cvily gained —ammittance. Alliances with Europe have gone by Me noasd, Unele Sam is asserting his own rights rather than yield them to an abstract ion of Ingernational amity. Ixtrava samee and weste have coased, Com. Meree ix being stimuleted without crippling busines cher es secon fin aneiat depression brouht on during (he List two years of the Wilson nd ministration Shundness and intelli sence reign in all the depar'ments. And the President's unfailing good na tare and quiet determination of char neter are accepted ax the reliance of the nation. CHICAGO NOTES, Mrs, Low Ella Young, DG, M,N. G., 3556 Gies Avenue visited the various households of katy of the GUO 0 Win Milwaukee, Wis. during who week. “The work in Milwaukee 1s rapidly advaneing and muh Interes: is being manifested concernins te mecting to he held in August at Joliet Ulinois. | Miss W. M. Winston murse at Prov den’ Hespital who was sick for Hares weeks Will pnetmonia is mueit im: proved ond will spend several weeks in the country for her health, A Morris Williams of Springfield, Minois, Tmperial Regent of the Knights of Ladies of Honor, is In tte city visiting the various Todyes. A largely ationded meeting was hetd last Prifay evening st Bailey's hall at whieh time Mr. Williams. pratsed the great work of Mrs, Ella G. Berry local recorder treasurer and Mrs. Jennie B. ‘Tyler presiding officer 01 Liberty Council. Rey, G. HT. MeDaniels, president. the Enterprise Tastilute, 516 Aldine Place is able (o be out again after an ill ness of more than ten weeks. AM Virginians in general and espec ially members of the Virginia Society are urged to be present atthe rest Jar meeting of the Society, Wednes day evening, May 18, at 3638 State street second floor. Mrs, Marietta SwiftJordan, 3800 Wabash vento is back from Cinein: nati, Ohio, where she went with the re mains of her husband, % T. Jor: dan for burial a few days ago. Mrs. Jordan is formerly of St. Louis, Mo. ‘™M. 'T, Bailey president the Bailey Realty Co., 3638 Stato street has tak en over more property. in Morgan Park whieh suburb he is trying — tc push developments to kelp relieve con ditions now existing in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shanklin, 1653 Fulton street entertained a number of frionds with a midnight Iunehoon at thelr residence Inst Sun day ovening following the annuat sor mon of GU. 0. 0. F, at Friendship Baptist church, Morgan Park Counell of A. U. KK. 2114 (0. CfA. will hold Hts amual nicet ing Sunday May 15, at Arne‘it Chapel, 112 Place and ‘Miroop street. 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SAYS GERMAN sumuEsION DUS; BE BRRICIENT AND ST | London, May 11.—Loud cheers ‘greeted Premier Lipyd George in the ‘House of Commons this evening when ho read Ambassador St. Hamer's statement announcing Germany's ac eeptance of the allfed terms. ‘The premier then read a communt- cation which had been received — by Herr St. Hamer, the German Ambas: sador, and) communicated (0 kim (Lloyd George) just betore commons hud convened. ‘This communication follows: “Tam commanded by my govern: yment, in accordance with the decision Of the Reichstag, with reference to the decisions of the allies on May 6 and in the name of the new German government at Berlin, to declare that the German government is resolved: “1. "To carry out without reserve or condition the obligations defined by the reparations commission. 2, To accept and carry out without reserve or condition the guarantess In respect to these obligattons pre- sonted by the, reparations commis: sion, 3. 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He starts out alone, whining, with all the bravery he can assume. The rest of the play takes place in the forest at night, showing the gradual breaking down of the Negro's nerve under the pressure of the dark, the tom-tom and his racial imagination Gilpin seemed to be made for the part. He could interpret the darky humor, the bravado and later the agony of the confused, half-crazed creature stumbling to his doom. And, he sides, it must be remembered that Gilpin had been a Pullman porter. But however he achieved it, the general verdict was that Gilpin gave a performance of heroic stature. Along came the Drama League with plans for its annual dinner on March 6 to honor the ten biggest contributors to dramatic art during the year. A vote was to be taken among the league members to determine the personnel of the favored ten. As the voting proceeded it was seen that Charles S. Gilpin was up among the leaders. The directors of the league made a hasty and thoughtless move. They announced that even if Gilpin should be among the ten receiving the highest number of votes he would not be invited to the dinner. A storm of protest immediately broke out from the leading actors and actresses in the profession. If the league were going to exclude Gilpin on account of his color they would stay away from the dinner, too. From Mary Garden to Ben Amit the demand was insistent that Gilpin should be invited. A few days later the Drama League came out with a retraction. If Gilpin were among the first ten he would be invited. Then came hints from Gilpin that perhaps he wouldn't go, any way. But the dinner came off and Gilpin was there. Among the ten selected were Charles S. Gilpin, selected for his work in "The Emperor Jones;" Dudley Digges, director of "Heartbreak House"; Gilda Varest, for her work in "Enter Madame;" Lionel Atwell, for his acting in "Deburau"; Lee Simonson, scenic artist for "Heartbreak House"; Margaret Severn, for her use of masks in the "Greenwich Village Folies"; Jacob Ben-Ami, for his work in "Samson and Dellah"; David Beasco, as manager and director; Fred Stone, for being the leading American comedian, and Eugene G. O'Neill, for being the author of "The Emperor Jones." GREAT CROWD ATTENDED. Usually there are about 250 persons who attend the annual Drama League dinner. This year close to one thousand people tried to jam their way into the grand ballroom at the Hotel McAlpin. An adjoining room had to be made ready at the last moment to accommodate part of the over flow. When America wakes up to the spirit of fair play it doesn't do things by halves. Gilpin had his well deserved hour of triumph. And no one begrudged him a minute of it. FULTON NOTES. Miss Francis Greene is sick at 917 State street. The Sunday Schools of Fulton were well attended last Sabbath, but we realize that a good many of those who ought to be in our midst, are lagging along and needs to spur up. The Superintendents Mr. George Joices Herbert White and John Foster are putting forth their best efforts to get the Schools together. 11:30 The services at Calvary were very inspiring and uplifting. Our pastor seem to be at his best. Come early tomorrow morning and get a good seat the subject will be "The Rent Vell." 3:30 P. M. Our pastor preached Anniversary of the Sons and Daughters of the Valley. Monday night the church was crowded to its capacity to witness the Queen of May. Much praise is due to those who trained the children. 11:30 A. M. the services at the Rising Mt. Zion were very electrifying. Rev. Walter Johnson one of Zion's license minister's delivered the message. For a young man he can hardly be suprassed. Tomorrow at 11:30 A. M. Rev, W. E. Brown will preach at Zion. Let us encourage these young men who are trying to qualify to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. At 8 P., M. The Rev. O. Sims of the First Baptist church, West Point, Va. will preach. Now if you want to hear some preaching, come out and hear for yourself. And if you want to be sorry you did not hear him, I dare you to stay away. In memory of my father, Anderson Jefferson who departed this life May 21st, 1919 two years ago. And strive with plentitude of bitter pain. and loses its undelivered force in vain. His Son, C. B. JEFFERSON. REVISION Berlin, May 11. - It is freely predicted in the ranks of the Democratic party which is represented in the Wirth Cabinet, but most of the members of which in the Leichstag yesterday voted against accepting the allied ultimatum, that the new Ministry will soon undergo reconstruction now that its primary function as a "singing Cabinet" has been disposed of. Gossip in the hobbies today was wholly devoted to speculation as to whether the Cabinet, written commands only a parliamentary minority would be able to carry out a constructive program, in view of its precarious support. The Liberals insist upon the inclusion of the German People's party in any present Government if only for the reason of nullifying opposition from the Right Side of the House. As the Majority Socialists are fundementally opposed to allying themselves with that party it is a foregone conclusion that any attempt to extend the present Cabinet's party structure would promptly precipitate another crisis. A SCRAP OF PAPER.. The newspapers of the Nationalists and industrialists today received the new Cabinet and its action in accepting the allied ultimatum with expressions of scorn and contempt. The German people, in so far as it has yet been able to think and feel will not have anything in common with the Government," says the Pan-German Deutsche Zeitung. "For us this document is but a scrap of paper." Count Friedrich von Westarp, Conservative member of the Reichstag, writing in the Kreuz Zeitung, declares the Conservatives did their duty in opposing the acceptance of the ultimatum. He expresses the hope that their action will resolve itself "into a seed from which the national will for self-assertion and deeds will spring forth." The Tages Zeitung charges "the so-called German Parliament" played France's game and that the maxcup of the new Cabinet accommodates the French wishes. The Taegliche Rundschau interrets the adoption of the resolution accepting the ultimatum as a mere continuation of the old governmental policies, which, while aiming to escape from temporary predicaments, are only inviting more serious troubles for the future. The Clerical organ Germania believes acceptances of the ultimatum marks the beginning of an era of international tranquility and that will also promote internal consolidation in Germany. The Vossische Zeitung demands that the new ministry shall not reveal itself as merely "a signing Cabinet," but shall also proceed to carry out its programme. VIEWS OF LIBERAL PRESS The Bourse Gazette says: "It is evident that the Wirth Government cannot aspire to be more than a second 'signing Cabinet'; also it is not improbable that the Majority Socialists are likely to prove a hindrance in connection with the process of affecting internal assimilation." The Independent Socialists organ, Freiheit, believes that the crisis has only been temporarily overcome, and warns the new Cabinet against interpreting the current impression that it is only a temporary makeshift as an excuse or pretext for inactivity. "The situation," adds the Freiheit, calls for action in every direction." The new Cabinet is only able to rely upon 216 out of 469 voices, assuming that the Democrats vote solidly with the Ministry, in which they are represented in a provisional manner only. Chancellor Wirth, therefore, will be obliged to depend upon the "benevolent neutrality" or support of either the People's party or the Independent Socialists in a critical stage or he may weather a parliamentary storm if given the twenty-one votes of the Bavarian People's party, which were cast in opposition to acceptance of the allied ultimatum Tuesday night. MARRIAGE AT TIMMONSVILLE. (E. B. Webster) FLORENCE, S. 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Mr. Thomas Henry left the city for a short visit to Charleston, S. C. to spend awhile with his children. Mrs. Ethel Brockington, Mrs. Dora Gurley, Mrs. Ruth Moses and Mrs. Jennie Mankey left for Richmond Va. to visit relatives and friends. Rev. Youngblood passed here on route from a visit to his father who is sick at Charleston. The Scabtown Convention at Trinity Baptist Church recently was a financial success. Mrs Leonna Mac Webster is planning to spend her vacation at tramp ton Summer School this year. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA May Gilbert Praises EXELENTO QUININE POMADE silky hair that can be easily dressed, made happy thousands of women who had it will do the same for you. If your less or if you have dandruff and itch-box of EXELENTO QUININE POMADE. Price by mail 21c on receipt of stamps or coin. WANTED - Write for Paciulars MCIE COMPANY, Atlanta, Georgia BRAINTREE, an institution for dark, callow skins, in treatment of skin troubles. 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