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WE SERVE - INFORM - ADVERTISE THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library RAGE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS LIKELY TO AID LIBERIA Government Reported Disposed Grant $5,000,000 Loan. Temporary Withdrawal of Latter Nations From the Receivership Leaves This Country in Position to Become Controlling Sponsor, Rich Re Resources Will Be Opened to Whoever Rehabilitates Finances. (By George Rothwei Brown.) The whole question of the new rela- tionship beween the United States and the republic of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, probably will be submitted at an early date to Congress. There is reason to believe that the government is disposed to reach an adjustment on a basis involve a new plan to Liberia to reg the re- habilitation of her finances, when are in such a condition under the suspended international receivership that unless this country decides to take a commanding place in Liberia affairs that small and backward nation will be thrown into the hands of British and French bankers. There is now no expectation than the United States will consent to make further extensions of money to Liberia under the war loan of $2,000 against which Liberia has drawn only $26,000. MUST AGREE TO TERMS In this respect the work of the Liberian mission, headed by the president of the republic, Charles Dunbar Bradley King, which has been in Washington since early in March, has been a failure. If a new town is obtained by Liberia sufficient to enable her to meet her obligations under the internation al receivership; to pay the lapsed interest on her foreign loans and restore her credit it will be upon terms to be stipulated by this government to which Liberia must agree. What these terms will be has not been disclosed. It is understood that the reason why Liberia was able to draw only $26000 against her war credit of $5000000 was her failure to meet the requirements stipulated when that credit was advanced. What those requirements' were have also never been made public and doubtless will not be. WITHOUT LEGAL ORLIGATIONS Whatever moral obligation this government may be under to grant further allowances under the war credit and it is doubtful if there is any such, there is no legal obligation and action taken in Congress and in the courts since the departure of the Liberian mission from Monrovia, and before its arrival here, preclude the possibility of such extensions being made. It is the understanding that new negotiations with the Liberian mission will begin on Wednesday of next week looking toward the placing of the question on an entirely new basis and that if a satisfactory arrangement can be agreed upon the matter will be referred to Congress where authority for making a new Liberian loan must be sought. A week ago the colored delegates sent here by Liberia were in a state of discouragement at the failure of their efforts to obtain the balance of the $5,000,000 war fund. The finances of the mission depleted by a loss of $5,000 in exchange were running low and its members, headed by President King, in a melancholy state, were on the point of returning to Liberia with whose affairs the President has been out of touch for some months. He was obviously in something of a predicament, being equally embarrassed by remaining in Washington any longer or in returning to Monrovia with his mission a failure. Since then Liberian finances have picked up so far as the mission is concerned, the delegation has begun to smile once more, and now that the indications are that the United States which has been rather busy with hard work and more pressing problems, is going to look into the Liberian situation a bit the mission has delayed its departure. TALKED OF $10,000,000 LOAN Although they came to Washington ostensibly to obtain the remainder of the $5,000,000 war credit, it developed after the arrival of the members of the mission in Washington that their plans were more ambitious. Itently they have tasked of obtaining $10,000,000 loan, out there is exact reason for believing that the smaller sum will be the maximum which this government will be likely to extend to its colored ward on the side of the south Atlantic. Heretofore, American interest in alberia, if there has been any at all, has been wholly sentimental, grow out of the circumstance of the founding of the republic about 100 years ago under American auspices. Germany has been eliminated by the trealty of Ceres allies from participation in the Liberian receivership and Great Britain and France have temporarily withdrawn leaving only the American representative. At Morrovia. CAN BE SOLE SPONSOR This government must now decide whether to become the sole sponsor for Liberia, or by declining to assume this role of guardianship, to throw Liberia back upon England and France. The United States is thus offered no opportunity to gain a commanding place on the West African coast, in a country the size of Ohio, whose natural resources have been scarcely touched and whose capital is one of the best of African harbors, with its important cable and wireless communications to Europe and South America. Oil has been discovered in Sierra Leone, and while some has yet been found in Liberia the delegates have believe that oil deposits exist as well as diamonds and gold. The country requires large quantities of manufactures here before obtained from Europe and exports valuable native products. AID OFFERED BY BANKERS The government will have to determine what its policy will be toward Liberia and with respect to the opportunity offered for American participation in African development. Certain American banking interests in New York have been in correspondence with President King with respect to the financing of American enterprises in Liberia but it is readily of course that any private loan would have to meet the approval of the government and the mission has confirmed its negotiations to official places. Some colored groups in Philadelphia and other cities have offered their aid, and have volunteered to submit the case of Liberia to President Harding, but these offers have not been accepted. COLORED MAN HURLS OFFICER FROM MOVING FREIGHT. Detective B. A. Angle in Desperate Battle on Roof of A. C. L. Car Petersburg, Va., June 14--Despite the efforts of the police of his city and towns along the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, between near and the North Carolina border, the colored desperado who last night engaged B. A. Angle, special agent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, in a hand-to-hand struggle on top of a speeding treight train near Culler's station, about three miles south of this city, and threw the detective from the car after he had wrested the officer's gun from him and knocked him almost unconscious, remaining at large. A colored man answering the description of Angle's assailant was arrested here today and is being he depending investigation ANGLES ESCAPE MIRACULOUS Angle is now in Emporia suffering with injuries about the head and body received when struck on the forehead by the man and in the fall frota the speeding train. He is not seriously injured, but his escape from death is considered almost miraculous. Angle was detained on the through freight, from Richmond to Rocky Mount, and discovered the man on the train near Collier's station. He placed him under arrest and was walking him along the top of a freight car to vaults the caboose when the prisoner turned and grappled with the directive. While the train was moving rapidly the officer and the man engaged in a desperate struggle, both coming pleasantly near the side of the car. The man gained possession of the detivative gun and struck him a blow over the forehead, knocking him almost sourceless. He then hurled the prostrate officer from the car. SAW OFFICER FALL. Members of the train crew saw him being hurled through the air and stopped the train immediately, the man escaping while they turned their attentions to the detective. Angle landed in some dirt when thrown from the train and to this owes his life, trainsmen say. He was pushedto Emporia on the Southbound freight and given medical attention, physicians finding his injuries not as serious as first thought. An aarm for the man was given and farmers in the neighborhood warned not to molest the man, but warn the authorities for he was heavily armed in addition to having Angle's gun. Angle lives in Chesterfield county near South Richmond, and is married. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921 THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. Uniform Rank Reaches There. A Long Trip--Fine Session. The Uniform Rank and the Pythian Caesars of Richmond left the city shortly after 8 o'clock Sunday morning for a "mike" to Charlotteville, Va., the scene of the meeting of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia, N. A., S. A., E. A. and A. A crowd had gathered at the Pythian Castle, 727 North Third Street, from which the start was made. The Municipal Band, Captain Moses Johnson, leader, was on hand to escort the party to the outskirts of the city. Colonel Robert Ammons was in command, together with Major Jerome Davis, Colonel Roscoe C. Mitchell in a Ford car led the way. Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr., was seen marching with the party. He had sent his Stanley steam car, in charge of Robinson Davis. When the Hermitage Road was reached, he got in his car and went with the men to a point beyond Glen Allen. Then he returned in a car driven by Edinboro Norrell. The party arrived at Louisa at about 5:30 P. M. They spent the night in that town. Robinson Davis returned to Richmond, leaving Louisa, 55 miles away, and arrived at Richmond shortly after 11 o'clock Sunday night. welcome was extended by Captain O. G. Coun. This was responded to with enthusiasm by that remarkable orator, Grand Lecturer W. B. E. Crowell, Music was rendered by the choir, Mr. W. L. Terry, District Deputy, was extended a welcome on the part of the Courts. ELLAS COGBILL PASSED AWAY. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." After an illness of nearly ten weeks, Mr. Ellis Cogbil, of South Richmond, succumbed to the grim monster death on Friday, June 17th, at his home in East Thirteenth Street. He bore his sickness with Christian toritude and was at all times hopeful until the end. The funeral took place last Sunday from the First Baptist Church of South Richmond at 12:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. W. L. Ransome preached a very powerful and sympathetic son. A large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends were present to pay the last tribute of respect to Ellis, who had become endeared to LETTER OF THANKS. Richmond, Va., June 7, 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, $10,000 on account of the death of Mary L. Patham, who was a member of Pink Carnation Nursery, No. 25, of Richmond, Va. It will be our pleasure to speak of the good that the Order is doing for our people in many ways. Again thanking you, I am, Sincerely yours. NANNIE B. PARHAM, Beneficiary. Witnesses: F. L. BEVERLY. LETTER OF THANKS. Richmond, Va., June 21, 1921. To the Officers and Members of the National Ideal Benefit Society Mr. A. W. Holmes, President: The Richmond delegates left Richmond via C, & O, R, R, for Charlottesville, Va., at 1 P, M, Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., left in the Stanley steam car at five minutes to 1 o'clock. He arrived at Louisa about 4 o'clock. He overtook the Uniform Rank and the Pythian Cadets about 17 miles from Charlottesville. They were tired and the steam car carried 18 persons into Charlottesville. Sir Mack Swann's car was active, while Colonel R, C, Mitchell and his Ford car did yeoman service towards helping the walking brigade on the way. It was interesting to see the determination to make the trip. They assembled at the bridge crossing the Rivanna River. When all had gathered, all marched to the camp, where ten tents had been set up. The Grand Lodge convened at 9 A, M. at the First Baptist Church, Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., called the meeting to order, and at the roll call by Grand Keeper of Records and Seal A, V. Norrell, Sr., those present were Grand Vice-Chancellor T, J. Pree, Grand Prelate Thos. H, White, D, D., Grand Master of Exchequer E, R, Jefferson, M, D, Grand Medical Registrar Albert A, Tennant, M, D., Grand Master at Arms Wm, M, Willis, Grand Inner Guard W, T, Stokes, Grand Outer Guard J, H, Hyrd. A large delegation was present, The Committee on Returns and Credentials made their report, after which the Grand Chancellor proceeded with his report. The Grand Court met at 9:30 P. M. in the First Baptist Church, Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr., presiding. Mrs. Lucie E. C. Scott served as Grand Worthy Register of Deeds. The roll of officers was called. The body took a recess until the Committee on Returns and Credentials was ready to report. The public meeting held Tuesday night was a great success. Editor J. G. Shelton, of the Charlottesville Messenger, was master of ceremonies. He made extended but appropriate remarks. The choir sang admirably, after which Rev. J. W. Pryor offered an impressive prayer. Mayor B. E. Wheeler delivered an admirable address of welcome. He paid a glowing tribute to the work of the worthy colored people of the community. He declared he appreciated their efforts. In turn he proceeded to introduce Mr. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, a direct representative of that great statesman and scholar, Thomas Jefferson. His remarks were enthusiastically received. Grand Prelate Dr. Thomas H. White responded in a practical and eloquent address. He aroused the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm. A fine solo was rendered by Miss R. B. W. Hawkins. A welcome was extended by Mr. L. D. Case and a welcome was extended by Captain O. G. Conn. This was responded to with eithinessism by that remarkable orator, Grand Lecturer W. B. F. Crowell. Music was rendered by the choir, Mr. W. L. Terry, District Deputy, was extended a welcome on the part of the Courts. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." After an illness of nearly ten weeks, Mr. Ellis, Cogbill, or South Richmond, succeeded to the grim monster death on Friday, June 17th, at his home in East Thirteenth Street. He hore his sickness with Christian fortitude and was at all times hopeful until the end. The funeral took place last Sunday from the First Baptist Church of South Richmond at 12:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. W. L. W. Ransome preached a very powerful and sympathetic serion. A large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends were present to pay the last tribute of respect to Ellis, who had become endeared to all who knew him. His kind and gentle disposition had won the admiration of the entire community. Prof. P. J. Henry, of the Virginia Union University, and Mrs. Annie E. Blackwell paid glowing tributes to the life and character of the deceased. Mr. Walter White, of North Wichmond, sang with sympathetic feeling "He is the One, Only One." The active palbearers were Messrs. Clyde Brown, Clay Cunningham, Clifford Winfree, Jr., Herbert Brooks, Reginald Hatcher, Joseph Goode. Honorary—Elbahowe Lewis, Geo, Ransome, William Pryor, William Reid, Woodson Mason, Willie Johnson, Herbert Baugh, Robert Branch, Edward Stovall, George Patterson, Bernard Smith, Oscar Powell and Charlie Byrd. The popular young undertaker, Mr. Clarence Cunningham officiated. The floral designs were beautiful and numerous. The interment was in the family plat in Mt. Olivet Cemetery —the colored section of Maurya, "Peace to his ashes, rest for his soul." The family wishes to extend their many thanks for the kindness shown and the sympathy expressed during the illness and subsequent death of Ellis Cobbitt. Dr. and Mrs. O. B. H. Bowser announce the arrival of Barrington Herndon Bowser on June 9, 1921. IDEAL SOCIETY IN FULTON Members of the National Ideal Benefit Society will hold a great meeting at Union Level Baptist Church, Fulton, Sunday, June 26th, at 3:30 o'clock, Members of Superior Lodge, Pride of Fulton, Eastern Star and members of the various kinds of the city will be out. An information program has been arranged for the occasion. Mr. A.W. Holmes, founder of the order, will address the meeting. The public is invited. PEW RALLY—SPECIAL SERMON Under the auspices of the Ladies' Foreign Mission Society of the Second Baptist Church, there will be a grand pwr rally Sunday afternoon, June 26th, at 3:30 P. M., instead of Monday, June 27th. Rev. T. P. Dailey, of Randolph, Va., will preach a special sermon; subject "Funeral Procession With God As the Undertaker." All members and friends are especially invited to attend these services and hear this great preacher. MRS. ADA P. LEWIS, President; MRS. G. D. L. WASHINGTON; Secretary; DR. Z. D. LEWIS Pastor LETTER OF THANKS Richmond, Va., June 7, 1921. To the Officers and Members of the National Ideal Benefit Society, Mr. A. W. Holmes, President; TOMES, President: You will please accept our many thanks and highest appreciation for your kindness, and for the prompt payment of the death claim, $10,00, on account of the death of Mary L. Palham, who was a member of Pink Carnation Nursery, No. 35, of Richmond, Va. It will be our pleasure to speak of the good that the Order is doing for our people in many ways. Again thanking you, I am, Sincerely yours, NANNIE B. PARHAM, Beneficiary. Witnesses: F. L. BEVERLY. LETTER OF THANKS Richmond, Va. June 21, 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 payment of the death claims, $100.00, on account of the death of Lewis Ford, who was a member of Church Hill Lodge, No. 123, of Richmond, Va. It will pleasure to speak of the good that the Order is doing in many ways. Again thanking you and the Lodge, I am. theses: FANNIE M. TAYLOR, S. B. COGBILL. --- "MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE." a most serious proclamation, built upon Bible facts. No matter what your present ideas on the great question of life and death may be you should hear Mr. Louis F. Hildebrandt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Sunday night, June 26th, at S P. M. You can't afford to miss it. All welcome. No collection. Complete lecture in book form, 25 cents. Write F. T. Allen, Box 229, Richmond, Va. --- IN MEMORIAM EPIS—In loving memory of our dear husband and father, who departed this life six years ago, June 20, 1915. Papa, today recalls sad memories Of our loved one gone to rest. And those who think of and miss him not. Are those who loved him best. Mother and Children --- HUNDREDS ARE ATTRACTED TO HAUNTED HOUSE IN BRISTOL Bristol, Va. Ten., June 16.—A noise that cannot be accounted for in a house in the residential section here is still holding the center of interest, and hundreds of people visit the place each day. An investigation conducted today in the presence of city officials and newspaper man failed to reveal the source of the strange sound which is like a woman's moaning. The noise seems to come from under the floor. The noise was heard at least a doz. times today, near the hearth in a front room. Investigators who went under the house said the noise appeared to be directly in front of them. At 11 o'clock tonight there were several hundred people in the vicinity of the house. The family of Marshall Godsey, which occupies the house is making arrangements to move. FULTON NOTES. Our Sunday school is seeming to increase greatly these days. We had two visitors present, Mr. Frank E. Lightner and Mr. Andrew Whitehead. Miss Alma Logan, our assistant superintendent, is making a good showing, both intellectually and spiritually, Mr. C. B. Jefferson, the department superintendent, assisted by other officers of the school, is endeavoring to establish a teacher's training class in the school. Owing to the fact of our pastor, Rev. C. A. Cobbs, being absent last Sunday, the Rev. R. E. Stanton preached. He preached from 2 Samuel, 9th chapter and the 3rd verse; subject, "Kindness." Everybody present expressed their joy in some way or the other after hearing our brother. The devotionals were in charge of Brother C. B. Jefferson, Others on the rostrum were Rev. M. Fuller and George Coleman. 3:30 P. M., the Morning Star Beneficial Club, No. 1, held their thirteenth anniversary at the Calvary Baptist Church. Rev. George Coleman preached an excellent sermon, to the delight of all present. 8:30 P. M., the exercises in honor of the graduates were fine. We take great pleasure in thinking our pastor for the sure that is allowed us, whereby we may grow stronger in the work we are called to. Tomorrow is the termination of the rally. Let's get our five dollars together and meet the required amount. June 27th, at 8:30 P. M., there will be a June wedding at the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, consisting of seventy cast of characters. Admission, 15 cents. Prayer services at 8:30 P. M. Come and enjoy yourselves in the Lord. The Pride of Fulton, National Ideal Benefit Society, Inc., will hold their anniversary services tomorrow at the Union Level Baptist Church, 3:30 P. M. The public is invited. Sirs John H. Foster and Rev. W. E. Brown left for Charlottesville, Va., last Monday as delegates from the Fulton Lodge, No. 42, K. of P. of N. A., S. A., E. A., A., A. The following are on the sick list: Sir James Cox, Sir Yancey Orange, Mrs. Mary E. Smith, Sissette Washington and Susan Jones. Let us call to see them. Rev. W. L. Tuck, the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Bermuda Hundreds, is getting along nicely. An excursion will be carried to the Hundreds by the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church on the 11th of July. Adults $1.25; children under 12 years, 75 cents. During the fifty-second annual commencement of the Howard University, Washington, D. C., a degree in dentistry was conferred upon Mrs. Addie Gatewood Williams, of Richmond, Va., who completed her course in the school of dentistry. We feel very proud of the success that the young ladies of Fulton are making. --- WANTED—A sewing teacher and a laundress with strong personality and intelligence to direct the sewing and laundry divisions at the Broad Neck Farm, Hanover, Va. Good académics, excellent experience Planet Office, 311 North Fourth Street, or T, J, Edwards, Prin., Hanover, Va. ELLIS—BEVERLY Mr. and Mrs. Coracius L. Beverly, requests the presence of friends at the marriage of their sister, Nannie Bertha, to Rev. Clitton Degne Ellis. Wednesday evening, June twenty-ninth at six o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Holmes, 1518 West Leigh street. Reception from sixth thirty to seventh-thirty. At home, after July fifth, Lightfoot Virginia. WOULD PROBE VOTING COND TIONS IN THE SOUTH --- Representative Tinkham Declares Many Persons of Age Are Hegally Deprived of Ballot. Republican From Massachusetts Determined to Bring Abnot Decrease in Representation From This Section of Country. Washington, June 11.—Determination to bring about a decrease in the representation of Southern States in the House of Representatives and electoral college on account of what he charged was distranchishment there of Norwegians, was expressed tonight an announcement by Representative Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts, that tomorrow he would in produce a resolution for an investigation of the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment in the South. Mr. Tinkham already has petitioned for a conference of Republican members of the House for discussion of voting conditions in the South and it is expected to be held Thursday night. DEFEATED LAST SESSION. Defeated during the last session and thus far this session in his attempt to forge an issue on Southern representation, Mr. Tinkham said his new resolution would be drawn in conformity with the opinion of the House Census Committee that specific instances of disfranchisement must be cited before a congressional investigation can be undertaken. The Massachusetts member announced he would charge that in the general elections last November the eleven Southern States, Negroes were denied the right of easing ballots. He declared it was "susceptible to proof that in some of the eleven States the laws in relation to registration and to the counting of ballots and otherwise were so unfairly and with such partisan partiality administered in and prior to the congressional elections of 1920 as to designately disfranchise persons constitutionally qualified to become electors." The resolution, Mr. Tinkham, amoined, will also contain a charge that in all of the eleven States after there were in 1920 "many thousands of male and female citizens more than 21 cars of age," who did own forty acres of land or possess a curricular amount of property, who had not paid taxes or poll taxes, and who could not read or write or understand and tacet the Constitution, as required by various State Laws and Constitution. SET FORTH REQUIREMENTS Requirements of the States on voters will be set forth in the resolution according to Mr. Tinkham. He stated Alabama with a total of 1,143,295 males and females over 21 in 1920, cast a vote of 227,293 for congressional candidates of the two major parties last fall; Arkansas with 536,614 of voting age, cast a vote of 189,410; Florida with 536,614 of voting age, cast 116,364 votes; Louisiana with 924,184 males and females over 21, cast 91,587 votes; Mississippi With 876,106 of voting age cast 70,657 votes; North Carolina with 1,210,727 cast 522,287 votes South Carolina with 779, 657 cast 523,737 votes; Tennessee with 1,214,947 cast a vote of 395,946; Texas with 2,257,003 cast 405,828 votes; and Virginia with 1,207,074 cast 238,803 votes. Comparative figures for Georgia, Mr. Tinkham said were not available. THEY ARE DETERMINED TO KNOW AFRICA. Major York, Business Manager of the American and African Tourist Company, reports interest in the trip to Africa growing. The Virginia Baptist voted the money for the trip of Dr. T. J. King, their President, Rev. D. Tinley, of the M. E. Church, Bishop Heard of the A. M. E. Church and a number of others have enrolled. When we consider that Doctors Graham, Brown, Dwchel Patterson, Jernagin, Jordan, Frank, with Mrs. Layton who heads our Bapstist women are among the leading Baptist who are to go, we can see that the Baptists are determined to know conditions in West Africa that they may more adequately enlist the Baptist forces of this country to turn their share of men and women and money for day break in darkest Africa. Grant as we may, plan as we will just so long as Africa remains prostrate in the dirt without God and with out hope, the Negroes throughout the world must suffer, politically, economically and religiously. When one hundred strong men and women who are prepared to intelligently tell by tongue and by pen and inform our people, a better day will come to us. There are few State Conventions in this country which will not make an effort to have their President or some representative man to join this party that they, too, may know. The spirit to help save others makes the name of Abraham Lincoln stand spirit which made Frederick Douglass Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington speak and suffer for others hold them up as ideal examples to the young men and women of all lands. The great leaders of our Baptist, Zion of the A. M. E. Church, the A. M. E. Zion Church, the C. M. E. Church and the M. E. Church, you not fail to be interested in helping their brethren and sisters in Africa. The great command of our Lord, "Go with the message of life to all people and the glorious promise," "Lo am with you always until the world shall end," can but prompt these leaders to seek every opportunity to know conditions that they may share in the betterment of the uncounted millions in the land of our fathers. If you have an idea of going, write to Major York, 549 S. 19th street, Philadelphia, Pa. Unless you enroll early you will not be able to secure a passage for this trip. THE BAPTIST DEFENDER WE SERVE - INFORM - ADVERTISE THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Liberty RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS VOLUME XXXVIII. NO. 33 LIKELY TO AID LIBERIA. Government Reported Disposed to Grant $5,000,000 Loan. Temporary Withdrawal of Latter Nations From the Receivership Leaves This Country in Position to Become Controlling Sponsor. Rich Resources Will Be Opened to Whoever Rehabilitates Finances. (By George Rothweil Brown.) The whole question of the new relationships between the United States and the republic of Liberia, on the vest coast of Africa, probably will be submitted at an early date to Congress. There is reason to believe that the government is disposed to reach an adjustment on a basis involving a new plan to Liberia for the rehabilitation of her finances, which are in such a condition under the suspended international receivership that unless this country decides to take a commanding place in Liberian affairs that small and backward nation will be thrown into the hands of British and French bankers. There is now no expectation that the United States will consent to make further extensions of money to Liberia under the war loan of $5,000,000 against which Liberia has drawn only $26,000. MUST AGREE TO TERMS. In this respect the work of the Liberian mission, headed by the president of the republic, Charles Dunbar Bradley King, which has been in Washington since early in March, has been a failure. If a new loan is obtained by Liberia sufficient to enable her to meet her requirements under the international at reception on her foreign loans and interest on her foreign loans and interest her credit it will be upon terms to be stipulated by this government to which Liberia must agree. What those terms will be has not been disclosed. It is understood that the reason why Liberia was able to draw only $26000 against her war credit of $5000000 was her failure to meet the requirements stipulated when the credit was advanced. What those requirements were have also never been made public and doubless will not be. WITHOUT LEGAL OBLIGATIONS Whatever moral obligation this government may be under to grant further allowances under the war credit and it is doubtful if there is any such, there is no legal obligation and action taken in Congress and in the courts since the departure of the Liberian mission from Monrovia, and before its arrival here, preclude the possibility of such extensions being made. It is the understanding that new negotiations with the Liberian mission will begin on Wednesday of next week looking toward the placing of the question on an entirely satisfactory and that if a satisfactory arrangement can be agreed upon the matter will be referred to Congress where authority for making a new Liberian loan must be sought. A week ago the colored delegates sent here by Liberia were in a state of discouragement at the failure of their efforts to obtain the balance of the $5,000,000 war fund. The finances of the mission depleted by a loss of $5,000 in exchange were running low and its members, headed by President King, in a melancholy state, were out of money of returning to Liberia with whose affairs the President has been out of touch for some months. He was obviously in a situation of a predicament, being equally embarrassed by remaining in Washington nay longer or in returning to Monrovia with his mission a failure. Since then Liberian finances have picked up—so far as the mission is concerned—the delegates have begun to smile once more, and now that the indications are that the United States which has been rather busy with large and more pressing problems, is about to look into the Liberian situation a bit the mission has delayed its departure. TALKED OF $10,000,000 LOAN Although they came to Washington ostensibly to obtain the remainder of the $5,000,000 war credit, it developed after the arrival of the members of the mission in Washington that their plans were more ambitious. It usually they have tailed of obtaining a $10,000,000 loan, out there is excellent reason for believing that the smaller sum will be the maximum which this government will be likely to extend to its colored ward on the side of the south Atlantic. Heretoforce, American interest in Liberia, if there has been any at all, has been wholly sentimental, growth of the circumstance of the founding of the republic about 100 years ago under American auspices. Germany has been eliminated by the treaty of Versailles from participation in the Liberian receivership and Great Britain and France have temporarily withdrawn leaving the American representative At Monrovia. CAN BE SOLE SPONSOR This government must now decide whether to become the sole sponsor for Liberia, or by declining to assume this role of guardianship, to throw Liberia back upon England and France. The United States is thus offered an opportunity to gain a commanding place on the West African coast, in a country the size of Ohio, whose natural resources have been scarcely touched and whose capital is one of the best of African harbors, with important cable and wireless communications to Europe and South America. Oil has been discovered in Sierra Leone, and while none has yet been found in Liberia the delegates here believe that oil deposits exist as well as diamonds and gold. The country requires large quantities of manufactures here/after obtained from Europe and exports valuable native products. AID OFFERED BY BANKERS The government will have to determine what its policy will be toward Liberia and with respect to the opportunity offered for American participation in African development. Certain American banking interests in New York have been in correspondence with President King with respect to the financing of American businesses in Liberia but it is realized that any private loan would have to meet the approval of the government and the mission has confined its negotiations to official places. Some colored groups in Philadelphia and other cities have offered their aid, and have volunteered to submit the case of Liberia to President Harding, but these offers have not been accepted. --- COLORED MAN HURSL OFFICER FROM MOVING FREIGHT. Detective B. A. Angle in Desperate Battle on Roof of A. C. L. Car Petersburg, Va., June 14- Despite the efforts of the police of this city and towns along the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, between moors and the North Carolina border, the colored desperado who late night cagged ed B. A. Angle, special agent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, in a hand-to-hand struggle on top of a speeding freight train near Caller's station, about three miles south of this city, and throw the detective from the car after he had wrested the officer's gun from him and knocked him almost unconscious, remains at hurge. A colored man answering the description of Angle's assailant was arrested here today and is being held pending investigation ANGLE'S ESCAPE MIRACULOUS Angle is now in Emporia suffering with injuries about the head and body received when struck on the forendhe by the man and in the fall from the speeding train. He is not seriously injured, but his escape from death is considered almost miraculous. Angle was detailed on the through freight, from Richmond to Rocky Mount, and discovered the man on the train near Collier's station. He placed him under arrest and was walking him along the top of a freight car to vards the caboose when the prisoner trained and grappled with the deceive While the train was moving rapidly the officer and the man engaged in a desperate struggle, both coming perfusely near the side of the car. The man gained possession of the detritives gun and struck him a blow over the forehead, knocking him almost senseless. He then hurled the prostrate officer from the car. SAW OFFICER FALL. Members of the train crew saw him being hurled through the air and stopped the train immediately, the man escaping while they turned their attentions to the directive. Angle landed in some dirt when thrown from the train and to this owes his life, trainsmen say. He was rushed to Emporia on the Southbound freight and given medical attention, physicians flushed his injuries not as serious as first thought. An arm for the man was given and farmers in the neighborhood warned not to molest the man, but warn the authorities for he was heavily armed in addition to having Angle's gun. Angle lives in Chesterfield county, near South Richmond, and is married. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921 THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. Uniform Rank Reaches There. A Long Trip--Fine Session. The Uniform Rank and the Pythian Cadets of Richmond left the city shortly after 8 o'clock Sunday morning for a "tike" to Charlottesville, Va., the scene of the meeting of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia, N. A., S. A., E. A. and A. A crowd had gathered at the Pythian Castle, 727 North Third Street, from which the start was made. The Municipal Band, Captain Moses Johnson, leader, was on hand to escort the party to the outskirts of the city. Colonel Robert Amnons was in command, together with Major Jerome Davis, Colonel Roscoe C. Mitchell in a Ford car led the way. welcome was extended by Captain O. G. Conn. This was responded to with enthusiasm by that remarkable orator, Grand Lecturer W. B. F. Crowell. Music was rendered by the chair, Mr. W. L. Terry, District Deputy, was extended a welcome on the part of the Courts. ELLIS COGBILL PASSED AWAY. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." After an illness of near ten weeks. LETTER OF THANKS. Richmond, Va., June 17, 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, $40.00 on account of the death of Mary L. Prafham, who was a member of Pythian Carnation Nursery, No. 35, of Richmond, Va. It will be our pleasure to speak of the good that the Order Brigadler General John Mitchell, Jr., was seen marching with the party. He had sent his Stanley steam car, in charge of Robinson Davis. When the Hermitage Road was reached, he got in his car and went with the men to a point beyond Glen Allen. Then he returned in a car driven by Edinboro Norrell. The party arrived at Louisa at about 5:30 P.M. They spent the night in that town. Robinson Davis returned to Richmond, leaving Louisa, 55 miles away, and arrived at Richmond shortly after 11 o'clock Sunday night. The Richmond delegates left Richmond via C. & O. R. for Charlottesville, Va., at 1 P.M. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., left in the Stanley steam car at five minutes to 1 o'clock. He arrived at Louisa about 4 o'clock. He overtook the Uniform Rank and the Pythian Cadets about 17 miles from Charlottesville. They were tired and the steam car carried 18 persons into Charlottesville. Stir Mack Swann's car was active, while Colonel R. C. Mitchell and his Ford car did yeoman service towards helping the walking brigade on the way. It was interesting to see the yeoman assembled at the bridge crossing the Rivanna River. When all had gathered, all marched to the camp, where ten tents had been set up. The Grand Lodge convened at 9 A. M. at the First Baptist Church, Grand Lodge, where John Jr., called the meeting to order, and at the roll call by Grand Keeper of Records and Seal A. V. Norrell, Sr., those present were Grand Vice-Chancellor T. J. Prec, Grand Prolate Thos. H. White, D. D., Grand Master of Records and Seal A. V. Norrell, M. D., Grand Official Thos. Tennant, M. D., Grand Master at Arms Wm. W. Willis, Grand Inner Guard W. T. Stokes, Grand Outer Guard J. M. Byrd. A large delegation was present. The Committee on Returns and Credited their report, after which the Grand Chancellor proceeded with his report. The Grand Court met at 9:30 P. M. in the First Baptist Church, Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchler, Jr., presiding, Mrs. Lucie E. McCarthy, as John W. Register of Doeza. The roll officers was called. The body took a access until the Committee on Returns and Credentials was ready to report. The public meeting held Tuesday night was a great success. Editor J. G. McCarthy, the Chairman of the Messenger, was master of ceremonies. He made extended but appropriate remarks. The choir sang admirably, after which Rev. J. W. Pryor offered an impressive prayer. Mayor B. E. Wheeler delivered an admirable address of welcome. He presented the flowers of the worthy colored people of the community. He declared he appreciated their efforts. In turn he proceeded to introduce Mr. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, a direct representative of that great statesman and scholar, Thomas Jefferson. His reception were enthusiastically received. Grand Prelate Dr. Thomas H. White responded in a practical and eloquent address. He aroused the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm. A fine solo was rendered by Miss R. B. W. Hawkins. A welcome was extended by Mr. L. D. Case and a welcome was extended by Captain O. G. Conp. This was responded to with enthusiasm by that remarkable orator, Grand Lecturer W. B. F. Crowell. Music was rendered by the choir, Mr. W. L. Terry, District Deputy, was extended a welcome on the part of the Courts. ELLIS COGBILL PASSED AWAY "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." After an illness of nearly ten weeks, Mr. Ellie Cogbill, of South Richmond, succeeded to the grim monster death on Friday, June 17th, at his home in East Thirteenth Street. He bore his sickness with Christian fortitude and was at all times hopeful until the end. The funeral took place last Sunday from the First Baptist Church of South Richmond at 12:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. W. L. Ransome preached a very powerful and sympathetic seron. A large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends were present to pay the last tribute of respect to his, who had become endeared to all who knew him. His kind and gentle disposition had won the admiration of the care community. Prof. P. J. Herry, of the Virginia Union University, Mrs. Annie E. Blackwell paid glowing tributes to the life and character of the deceased. Mr. Walter White, of North Richmond, sang with sympathetic feeling "He is the One, Only One." The active palearbears were Messrs. Clyde Brown, Clay Cunningham, Wilford Winfree, Jr., Herbert Brooks, Reginald Hatcher, Joseph Goode. Honorary—Ethahowe Lewis, Geo, Ransome, William Pryor, William Reid, Woodson Mason, Willie Johnson, Herbert Baugh, Robert Branch, Edward Stovall, George Patterson, Bernard Smith, Oscar Powell and Charlie Byrd. The popular young undertaker, Mr. Clarence Cunningham officiated. The floral designs were beautiful and numerous. The interment was in the family plaid in M. Olivet Cemetery—the colored section of Maurya. "Peace to his ashes, rest for his soul." The family wishes to extend their many thanks for the kindness shown and the sympathy expressed during the illness and subsequent death of Ellis Cogbill. Dr. and Mrs. O. B. H. Bowser announce the arrival of Barrington Herndon Bowser on June 9, 1921. IDEAL SOCIETY IN FULTON Members of the National Ideal Benefit Society will hold a great meeting at Union Level Baptist Hall on Sunday, June 26th, at 3:30 o'clock, on the floors of Superior Lodge, Pride of Pufulton Eastern Star and members of the various lodges of the city will be out. An interesting program has been arranged for the occasion. Mr. A. W. W. the founder of the order, will address the meeting. The public is invited. PEW RALLY-SPECIAL SERMON. Under the auspices of the Ladies' Foreign Mission Society of the Second Baptist Church, there will be a grand pew rally Sunday afternoon, June 26th, at 3:30 P. M., instead of Monday, June 27th. Rev. T. P. Daley, of Randolph, Va., will preach a special sermon; subject, "Funeral Procession With God As the Undertaker." All members and friends are especially invited to attend these services and hear this great preacher. MRS. ADA F. LEWIS, President; MRS. G. D. L. WASHINGTON, Secretary; DR. Z. D. LEWIS, Pastor LETTER OF THANKS Richmond, Va., June 7, 1921. To the Officers and Members of the National Ideal Benefit Society, Mr. A. W. Holmes, President; 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 in our death claim, $40.00, on account of your kindness. Pafham, who was a member of the Carnation Nursery, No. 35, of Richmond, Va. It will be our pleasure to speak of the good that the Order is doing for our people in many ways. Again thanking you, I am, F. L. BEVERLY. LETTER OF THANKS Richmond, Va, June 21, 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 payment of the death claims, $100.00, on account of the death of Lewis Ford, who was a member of Church Hill No. 142, of Richmond, Va. It will be appropriate to speak of the good that the Dodge is doing in many ways. Again thanking you and the Lodge, I am. FANNIE M. TAYLOR, S. B. COGBILL --- "MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE." a most serious proclamation, built upon Bible facts. No matter what your present ideas or what your question of life or death may be you should hear Mr. Louis F. Hildebrandt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Sunday night, June 26th, at 8 P. You can't afford to miss it. All welcome to the church, a true culture in book form, 25 cents, Write F. T. Allen, Box 229, Richmond, Va. IN MEMORIAM. EPPS—In loving memory of our dear husband and father, who departed this life six years ago, June 20, 1915. Papa, today recalls sad memories Of our loved one gone to rest, And those who think of and miss And those who think of and miss blue most Are those who loved him best. Mother and Children. HUNDREDS ARE ATTRACTED TO HAUNTED HOUSE IN BRISTOL Bristol, Va. - Ten., June 16 — A noise that cannot be accounted for in a house in the residential section here is still holding the center of interest, and hundreds of people visit the place each day. An investigation conducted today in the presence of city officials and newspaper men failed to reveal the source of the strange sound which is like a woman's moaning. The noise seems to come from under the floor. The noise was heard at least a dozen times today, near the hearth in a front room. Investigators who went under the house said the noise appeared to be directly in front of them. At 11 o'clock tonight there were several hundred people in the vicinity of the house. The family of Marshall Godson, who occurs in the house, is making arrangements to move. FUL/TON NOTES. Our Sunday school is seeming to increase greatly these days. We had two visitors present, Mr. Frank B. Lightner and Mr. Andrew Whitehead. Miss Alna Logan, our assistant superintendent, is making a good showing, both intellectually and spiritually, Mr. C. B. Jefferson, the department superintendent, assisted by other officers of the school, is encouraging to establish a teacher and spiritually the school. Owing to the fact that Rev. R. C. A. Cobbs, be absent last Sunday, the Rev. R. E. Stanton preached. He preached from 2 Samuel, 9th chapter and the 3d verse; subject, "Kindness." Everybody present expressed their joy in some way or the other after hearing our brother. The devotionals were in charge of Brother C. B. Jefferson. Others on the rostrum were Rev. M. Peller and George Coleman. 3rd chapter of the Beneficial Club, No. 1, held their thirteenth anniversary at the Calvary Baptist Church. Rev. George Coleman preached an excellent sermon, to the delight of all present. 8:30 P. M., the exercises in honor of the graduates were fine. We take great pleasure in thanking our pastor for the sure that is allowed us, whereby we may grow stronger in the work we are called to. The definition of the rally, Let's get our five dollars together and meet the required amount. June 27th, at 8:30 P. M., there will be a June wedding at the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, consisting of seventy cast of characters. Admission, 15 cents. Driver services at 8:30 P. M. Come and enjoy yourselves in the Lord. Sirs John H. Foster and Rev. W. E. Brown left for Charlottesville, Va., last Monday as delegates from the Fulton Lodge, No. 42, K. of P., of N. A., S. A., E., A., A., A. The following are on the sick list: Sir James Cox, Sir Yancey Orange, Mrs. Mary E. Smith, Sletta Washington and Susan Jones. Let us call to see them. Rev. W. I. Tuck, the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Bermuda Hundreds, is getting along nicely. An excursion will be carried to the Hundreds by the Mt. Culvary Baptist Church on the 11th of July. Adults, $1.25; children under 12 years, 75 cents. During the fifty-second annual commencement of the Howard University, Washington, D.C., a degree in dentistry was conferred upon Mrs. Addie Gatewood Williams, of Richmond, Va., who completed her courses in the school of dentistry. We feel very proud of the success that the young ladies of Fulton are making. --- WANTED—A sowing teacher and a laudress with strong personality and intelligence to direct the sowing and laundry divisions at the Broad Neck Farm, Hanover, Va. Good access to the farm, overseeing once Planet Gifco, or 311 North Fourth Street, or T. J. Edwards, Prim, Hanover, Va. ELLIS—BEVERLY. Mr. and Mrs. Coracius L. B. Severity, requests the presence of Friends at the marriage of their sister, Nannie Berthin, to Rev. Clifton Deane Ellis, Wednesday evening, June twenty-ninth at six o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Holmes, 1618 West Crest, adoption from sixth-thirty to seven-thirty. At home, after July fifth, Lightfoot Virginia. WOULD PROBE VOTING CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH. Representative Tinkham Declares Many Persons of Age Are Illegally Deprived of Ballot. Republican From Massachusetts Determined to Bring About Decrease in Representation From This Section of Country. Washington, June 11.—Determination to bring at least a decrease in the representation of Southern States in the House of Representatives and electoral college on account of what he charged was disfranchisement there of Negroes, was expressed tonight an announcement by Representative Tinkham, Republican, Massa cushtes, that tomorrow he would in produce a resolution for an investigation of the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment in the South. Mr. Tinkham already identified for a conference of Republican members of the House for discussion of voting conditions in the South and PRICE, FIVE CENTS it is expected to be held Thursday night. DEFEATED LAST SESSION. Defeated during the last session and thus far this session in his attempt to force an issue on Southern representation, Mr. Tinkham said his new resolution would be drawn in conformity with the opinion of the House Committee of the specific instances of disfranchisement must be cited before a congressional investigation can be undertaken. The Massachusetts member announced he would charge that in the general elections last November in eleven Southern States, Negroes were denied the right of casting ballots. He declared it was "susceptible to proof that in some of the eleven States the laws in relation to registration and to the counting of ballots and otherwise were so unfairly and with such partisan partiality administered in prior to the congressional elections of 1920 as to designately disfranchise persons constitutionally qualified to become electors." The resolution, Mr. Tinkham announced, also contain a charge that in all of the eleven States often there were in 1920 "many thousands of male and female citizens with 21 cars of age," who did not forty acres of land or possess a certain amount of property, who had not paid taxes or poll taxes, and who could not read or write or understand and tainted the Constitution, as required by various State Laws and Constitution. SET FORTH REQUIREMENTS Requirements of the States on voters will be set forth in the resolution, according to Mr. Tinkham. He stated Alabama with a total of 1,143,295 males and females over 21 in 1920, cast a vote of 227,293 for congressional candidates of the two major parties last fall; Arkansas with 366,614 of voting age, cast a vote of 189,190; Florida with 366,614 of voting age, cast 116,364 votes; Louisiana with 924,184 males and females over 21, cast 91,587 votes; Mississippi with 376,106 of voting age cast 70,657 votes; North Carolina with 1,210,727 past 522,287 votes South Carolina with 779 991 cast 65,737 votes; Tennessee with 1,214 947 cast a vote of 396,946; Texas with 2,257,003 cast 405,828 votes, and Virginia with 1,207 743 cast 238,806 votes. Comparative figures for Georgia, Mr. Tinkham said were not available. THEY ARE DETERMINED TO KNOW AFRICA. Major York, Business Manager of the American and African Tourist Company, reports interest in the trip to Africa, growing. The Virginia Baptist voted the money for the trip of Dr. T. J. King, their President, Rev. D. Tinley, of the M. E. Church, Bishop Heard of the A. M. E. Church and a number of others have enrolled. When we consider that Doctors Graham, Brown, Dwelle Patterson, Jernagin, Jordan, Frank, with Mrs. Layton who heads our Baptist women are among the leading Baptist who are to go, we can see that the Baptists are determined to know conditions in West Africa that they may more adequately enlist the Baptist forces of this country to furnish their share of men and women and money for day-break Darwin and money for day-break Darwin and we will just so long as Africa remains prostrate in the dirt without God and with out hope, the Negroes throughout the world must suffer, politically, economically and religiously. When one hundred strong men and women who are prepared to intelligently tell to tongue and by pen and inform our people, a better day will come to us. There are few State Conventions in this country which will not make an effort to have their President or some representative man to join this party that they, too, may know. The spirit to help save others makes the name of Abraham Lincoln stand spirit which made Frederick Douglass a representative man who "shook" Washington speak and suffer for others hold them up as ideal examples to the young men and women of all lands. The great leaders of our Baptist, Zion of the A. M. E. Church, the A. M. E. Zion Church, the C. M. E. Church and the M. E. Church, cannot fall to be interested in helping their brethren and sisters in Africa. The great command of our Lord, "Go with the message of life to all people and the glorious promise," "Lo I will go to always and永远 work shall end." Therefore these leaders to seek every opportunity to know conditions that they may share in the betterment of the uncounted millions in the land of our fathers. If you have an idea of going, write to Major York, 549 S. 19th street, Philadelphia, Pa. Unless you enroll early you will not be able to secure a passage for this trip. —THE BAPTIST DEFENDER THE PLANET THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Some people are very much like some animals, but as a rule, it is best not to tell them the kind of animal they resemble. It is liable to make a fuss and cause trouble. Some folks carry sunshine into their homes as well as in the streets and it is a pleasure to be in their company. Others are never satisfied and always want something that they know they cannot obtain. God help the one class and pity the other. You cannot win by being fretful and neevish. If you are sick, consult a physician. If you are lame, consult a surgeon. If you are dead, have your surgeon call in an undertaker aul if you want to be buried in a first class cemetery make arrangements in advance with the keeper. The whole-sale liquor dealers are getting from ten to fifteen dollars per quart for seventy-five cent per quar liquor. The Prohibitionists helped them and ruined the retail dealers. As for the "boot-leggers" they are getting rich off the traffic and spending time in jail during the year at the expense of the State or the Federal Government everytime they get caught and that is not often. Nowadays, young girls are busily engaged in fooling the young men and the young men are everlastingly practicing how to deceive the young girls When they marry, both find out how badly they have been deceived and then comes in the work and foes of the divorce lawyers. Every young man should get married. By this course he secures an experience that will come to him no other way. Matrimonial experience will make a young man as careful and experienced as a fireman, who has learned to run an express train or I will land him in the ditch with the hope of living forever with the devil and his angels. The Republican National Committee ordered a reorganization of the Republican Party of Georgia, where Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, the only member of that committee, who is identified with the citizens of color holds sway. Why should a reorganization of the Republican Party be demanded in the rock-ribbed Democratic State of Georgia? Do the Republicans realize that the great body of Republican voters in this country are entitled to representation inside of the Republican Party or is it there intention to deny this body representation? The white men of Georgia, who constitute the disaffected element of the Democratic Party are not Republicans and with their present ideas and notions cannot be. They will eventually prove to be as much a handicap to the Republican leaders as they now seem to be to the Democratic ones. You cannot mix oil and water. You cannot bring about absolute cohesion between a Democratic and a Republican organization. The reason for this is that the principles of each are antagonistic to each other. When the Republican Party sells out its fundamental principles for a "mess of帖语," it is undermining the Party it self and this action will lead eventually to the dissolution of the great organization itself. The recent victory was brought about by a combination of all parties but there is no need of sacrificing party principles in order to retain this support. We can see no reason why Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson and his friends having fairly and squarely carried Georgia in the Republican primaries or party conventions should not be permitted to retain the advantage he has gained until another "show down" before the people is forthcoming. He has the right of way for four long years and he should be permitted to retain it, the howling of the Negro haters to the contrary notwithstanding. It remained to be seen whether that great statesman now occupying the White House will set his face "like flint" against these trouble breeders. Can he accord equal and exact justice to the colored men, who have so ably managed the campaign in Georgia and who are only demanding the same recognition accorded to other Republican organizations in other States, North and South, which went against Harding and Coolidge and which cast their votes for the nominees of the Democratic Party? We shall see what we shall see. WILL MEET ALL COMERS Jack Dempsey, champion heavy-weight pugilist of the world has announced that he is ready and willing to meet all comers, barring none. This means that the color line, so far as he is concerned is blotted out. This was the only proper course for him to pursue, otherwise his title would have been the champion heavy-weight pugilist of the white race. It shows too that he is a dangerous proposition to tackle. It is an interesting fact that both he and Georges Carpentier, the heavy-weight champion of Europe have employed colored pugilists as their trainers. While the colored race is noted for its peaceful characteristics, it has amongst its numbers some of the greatest fighting characters in the world. SECRETARY DENBY. It is almost inconceivable that a citizen, who but a few days ago was a subordinate, in the Navy Department, the Department, where the most rigid discipline exists and where elevation to high office means the subordination of all others to the rules governing the Navy should issue an order to a Rear Admiral, regardless of his infractions of the rules of propriety, that carried with it a reprimand before he had been heard from in his own behalf relative to his alleged utterances. We take it that in doing this Secretary of the Navy Denby emphasized the fact that he was a small man occupying a big place. It indicates that he had his "ear to the ground" so to speak and was endeavoring to cater to a certain class to the end that he might win their approval. President Harding has been fortunate in his selection of men for the important positions, but in this instance, he must have taken the advice of friends In the light of this experience, there is little to choose between Secretary Daniel's of Woodrow Wilson fame and Secretary Denby of Warren G. Harding creation. Rear Admiral Sinus has reached an age, where discretion is no longer the better part of a or. His reputation is secure from attacks of his enemies and his words will hardly detract from the great achievements for which he has been noted. It is conceded that he talked too much and at a time, when he should have kept silent, but Secretary Denby was not the one to rebuke him. He has not risen high enough in public esteem or nationalservice to do this. In this respect, the New York Herald expresses an opinion, which will be echoed and re-echoed from one section of this country to the other. It says: Mr. Denby, Secretary of the Navy, has given the American people a very poor performance in the Sims incident. However, far the great Admiral in the expression of his convictions with regard to hyphenates as such, wandered from discretion, it is certain that Mr. Denby has wandered much farther. The Admiral is a strong man accustomed to strong work, and men of strength who think strongly and act strongly express themselves strongly. In what he said he made no attack on any individual, sought to belittle no individual, to humiliate no individual. It would be quite impossible for that illustrious sea warrior, the foremost figure in all our naval activities during the war, the terror of the German U-boats, to speak softly and diplomatically of types against which his whole soul revolts. Mr. Denby seems not to have taken into consideration the proprieties of the occasion; seems not to have taken into consideration the stature and the standing of the man he so peremptarily ordered home; seeps not to have taken into consideration the major part Admiral Sims played in turning the fortunes of war against the Central Powers in the dark days of Allied desperation. If Mr. Denby had despatched that peremptory order to a catow lieutenant having as yet, to his credit no great achievement and this young lieutenant was already booked to sail in three days, the Secretary of the Navy would still have committed an offense against good taste and fair dealing in the eyes of the American people. But to have done such a thing to a man like Admiral Sims is unthinkable and unpardonable. To make the matter worse, it is a fact that there was no boat sailing on which Admiral Sims could have sailed a, an earlier date than the boat on which he was already booked to come, and this the Secretary of the Navy knew full well or should have known full well. Rear Admiral Sims is of Canadian birth and is loyal to the core to all things British, just like some of the rest of us are admirers of all things anti-British. It may be that in future selections, President Harding will set the same pace in the selection of other officials as was exercised in the naming of that master diplomat and jurist, Charles Evans Hughes and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. As for Secretary Denby he has certainly swung public opinion in favor of a Dear Admiral, who had forfeited apparently the good opinion of a large proportion of his fellow citizens by his indiscreet utterances. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS That the League of Nations was a theoretical proposition, impossible of realization has been proven by time and experience. It was intended to prevent war and yet with this new organization in operation, war is raging both in Europe and in Asia Minor at the present time, with every prospect of it breaking out in other parts of those ill-fated countries. In the meantime, a civil war is in progress in Ireland and all rules of civilized war-fare are being disregarded. There is a serious unrest, in India and in Egypt, while numerous small wars are in evidence in other parts of the world. It shows that the realization of the end of wars and rumors of wars cannot come until the Millenium and that the Millenium cannot come until this age of deceit and deception cannot come until the end of time. We have noted the efforts of the Socialists to establish a Utopian form of government in a Republic, which was never framed or formed for any such organization. The theories, like those relating to perpetual motion are all right, but the man or set of men, able to put them into successful action has not been found. President Wilson proved his point and impressed upon the nations of the civilized world the feasibility of his plans around the table at Versailles, France, but no statesman in this or in any other country has been able to put them into successful operation. We take it then that the League of Nations will in time go out of existence for the reason that it is impracticable in this day and time. EDITOR ADAMS OUTSPOKEN. Editor John Q. Adams, of The Appeal published at St. Paul, Minn., is as "true as steel" upon every question affecting the rights and privileges of the citizens of color in this country. We have before us an extract from his issue of June 11, 1921, which reads "mighty good" to us. Even those of us, who may disagree with him as a matter of policy must admit that he is fundamentally right and that we as a people cannot achieve permanent success other than by following the lead of this distinguished leader and by heeding much that he has to say. The Appeal says: William H. Lewis of Massachusetts was appointed Assis'ant Attorney General of the United States, a presidential appointment, confirmed by the Senate of the United States. Perry Howard of Mississippi has been appointed Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States. Lewis was an assistant attorney general; Howard is an assistant to the Attorney General. There is a great difference in the status. Lewis was an official; Howard is an assistant to an official and has been assigned to special work on the clauses of colored people against the United States. If the matter stopped with Howard it would not make much difference, but it affects the citizenship status of every colored person in the country and segregates colored people from every other group of American citizenship and establishes a dangerous precedent. While we are glad and appreciate the fact that Attorney Perry W. Howard got this appointment, the facts stated are true. It is a precedent that will confront us before we are a year older. It shows that the present Administration is already "pussy-footed" and afraid to meet the issue. It is deemed inadvisable to launch a fight for the confirmation of a colored presidential appointee at this time. If the Administration hesitates to do this now, with all power in its hands, it will pause before making a nomination later. The Appeal says further. Now after 400,000 colored men served in the war "to make the world safe for democracy, and with the Republican party, to which the colored voter has always been a faithful ally, in complete control of the government, it is infamous that the party leaders should insult the people by giving inferior appointments, and it is humiliating to think that colored men will accept such places. It will be noted that the men appointed are Southerners. Northern voters, who voted for the Republican nominees and whose votes were counted are not satisfied with what has been done. They feel that it would have been better to have had nothing at all rather than inferior ap pointments which tend to lower their status as citizens. Some high class colored men ought to get a few high class presidential appointments just as under former Republican administrations. We do not go so far as to advise that these appointments be not accepted, but we do urge that they be passed over without being credited upon the bill of recognition, to which we as Republicans are entitled. Let us have those presidential appointments in keeping with the support that we have vouchsafed this country and the Republican Party in particular. Thousands of colored citizens have votes and they should see to it that the influence of these votes be felt to the extent that the white representatives from the northern States shall force this issue upon the Republican Administration at Washington and the Republican leaders of the party in this United States of America. Striely speaking though, Editor John Q. Adams has outlined the proper course and has enunciated fundamental principles by which we all should stand, regardless of the cost or the consequences in so doing. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Cape Charles, Va. Feb. 20, 1921. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Va. Knights of Pythias, N. A.; S. A.; E. A.; A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Nathan Overfon who was a member of Cape Charles Lodge No. 174 of Cape Charles, Va. Witnesses: JAMES C. DREENTON S. J. LOGAN. CHAS. L. BRAGG. CHAS. N. MCCUNE, G. D. I. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Va., Order of Calanthe, ($150.00 One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sister Rachel Gibbon who was a member of Pleasant Grove Court No. 151 of Ellison, Va. WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE? The Story of a Man Who, Even With a Great Success to His Credit, Asks Himself That Question—and Finds No Answer. (By Mary B. Mullett.) (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) There was no smile on Gli pin's face now; and the melancholy in his eyes was full of bitterness. "Well," he went on, "you can see how it is. I needn't go into all the deails. I got back finally into vaudeville; but then the war came aong, and sometimes I couldn't secure any engagement at all. I had to live, so I got work as a porter on trains that were hauling soldiers. "The papers have said I was a Pulman porter. It is true that I worked on Pullman trains, but only those used by the army. It wasn't so bad. Most of the soldiers were fine, demo cratic young fellows. But when we were hauling them from a Northern camp to a Southern one, it was rath er curious how theirs "...drew toward me changed when we go below Mason and Dixon's line. "Still, I got along fairly well. But I don't think I ever could take a regular Pulman's porter's job—going around and gathering up the boots and blackening them, putting my hand out for a tip—no! I don't think I could do that." "But I did run an elevator in a New York apartment house. Oh yes—I was an 'elevator boy' for quite a while. I had come to New York with an excellent letter of introduction to one of the theatrical agents; but I never could get a chance to present it. I tried repeatedly; told his office boy that I had a letter to the man. But the boy always came out from the inner sanction with the message that I might call again. I did call call again—and many times again; but the gentleman was always too busy. "The war ended finally, the theatrical business seemed good, so I got out the wig I had worn as the old Baptist preacher, spent a couple of dollars having it fixed up, and was just about to try for a chance in vaudeville again, when the stage manager of 'Abraham Lincoln' sent for me. "In that play there was the small part of Custis, an old Negro servant, and Mr. Longeran was not satisfied with the way it was being done. They asked me to come down to a rehearsal—the play had not been protruded—and look it over. I found that this was the dress rehearsal and that the play was to cross the very next night in Stanford. Could I learn the lines immediately and go on at the first performance? I said I could, if they would settle it with the other actor. "I had no rehearsal with the company. The next day, through a mistake, I went to New Haven instead of Stanford; and when I finally reached the theatre in the latter town, it was after seven o'clock and I had only time to dress and make up before the performance began. But I got through all right; and it was be cause of my work in the role of the Custis; that the Provincetown Players asked me to do this part in "The Emperor Jones." "It must seem pretty wonderful to have made such a success, after the years you have waited for it," I said. The somber look in his eyes did not change as he replied: "I don't know just how much it amounts to. It seems to me a good deal like people saying 'Well! I know the poll-parrot could say a few words; but I didn't know the poll-parrot could carry on a conversation! It really talks very well—considering the fact that it's only a poll-parrot." "You're cynical," I protested. "I don't want to be," he said earnestly. "I am pleased; especially with the generous praise of the critics. But I don't fool myself about the stone walls that are in my way. Mr. O'Neill made a breach in those walls by writing a play that had in it a serious dramatic role for a Negro. The Provincetown Players gave me the chance to do the part. But—what next? If I were white, a dozen opportunities would come to me at once as a result of a success like this. But I'm black. It is no joke when I ask myself, 'Where do I go from here?' "There may be a small part open to me in something—like the part of Custis. But do you know that it is hard for a colored man to get a chance to play even Negro in regular companies? I played such a part in one company, and some of the actors used to stand outside my dressing-room and talk about me, evidently intending me to overhear them. "Why did they get a nigger for that part? They would say? 'A white man could play it better than any nigger that ever was born'? "The ladies in the company were always courteous. So were a few of the men. The rest did not see me. They never even said 'Good-evening' them, or attempt to speak to them. When we arrived in a town, there would be on the call board a list of the members of the company, with the hotels to which they might go. But my name was never among them. I was a pariah dog who must hunt a kennel for himself, if he was to have one. "Don't misunderstand me. I don't know that they could have done anything else. I don't mean to be blaming anyone. I am simply telling what the conditions are. But my present success has at least accomplished something. I now have a letter on my table from the very agent who was once too busy to see me, asking me to come to his office. "And speaking of letters, I have received scores of them since I have been playing this part. Many of them are from while people, generously congratulating me on my success. I prize them more than I can express. I shall keep them always. Whatever happens, I shall have some evidence to prove that I was not a fool in thuk ing that a Negro can act. "Here in New York there are said to be more than 110,000 Negroes, and that about 100,000 of them live in Har lem. Of that number I doubt whether more than 25,000 over have been in a theatre outside of the section where they live. There are several theatres in that district that are for colored people. I played in one of these com panies and also acted as manager. We gave such plays as "Within the Law, and 'Paid in Fall' producing them a year or two after they had made a suc cess on Broadway. "Those audiences were not what you might call 'theatre-wise.' Most of the people, as I said before, never gin inside the regular theatres. But there is surprisingly little difference between them and a white audience. The colored people are more impressionable and more demonstrative. They not only let you know what they like, but also let you know what they don't like. If an actor fails to please, they grumble audibly. If he keeps on they shout 'Oh, take him off!' We don't want him! They are particularly fond of melodrama. 'Within the Law,' for instance, could be put on again in Harlem and draw crowds. They will go to such a play three or four times. "All the large cities, and in the South many of the smaller towns, have theatres for colored people. There are five here in New York, two in Philadelphia, two in Baltimore, one Richmond and so on." Some of them are up-to-date houses seating from one thousand to eighteen hundred persons. Only Negro companies appear there and only colored people attend; but in many of the plays given the characters are white, played by Negro actors who 'mike up' for these white roles. "On the other hand, Negro companies give performances at other theatres in the South where white people attend. But the plays given in those houses contain only Negro characters. That is white people will go to see colored actors appear as Negroes—but they will not see them portray white characters. "I have played every kind of a char acter: black, white, Jews, Chinamen everything you can think of. But I have got my conceptions of these actors from life not from seeing other actors do them on the stage. I think I can count on the fingers of one hand all the plays I have seen done by white companies: 'Disraeh, with George Arliss; 'Tosmersholm, with Mrs. Fiske; 'The Music Master, with David Warfield; and I saw 'Ham let' once and 'Oliver Twist' once. I would like to see 'Oliver Twist' a doz en times. "When I have a certain role to play I go out and look for real people who are represented by the role. If it is a Chinaman, I go to Chinatown and study the people there. If it is an East Side Jew, I go down to Grand Street and hang around watching the people and trying to get their tricks of speech and of manner. That seems to me a better way than to take someone else's idea and try to copy it. "There is a satisfaction in trying to do something worth whille" he went on after a pause "even though it doesn't seem to get you anywhere. If it were not for the insistent question of bread and butter, I might keep on trying. But there is my boy. He is seventeen years old, and I'd like him to have the advantages I missed. If he wants to go through college I am determined that he shall. I'm not going to put the idea into his head; but if he expresses the wish of his own accord, I will earn the money somehow. "People are saying now that I can act. I have known for a long time that I could. It has been demonstrat ed that a play can be written that will give a colored actor a chance. Perhaps someone will write another such play. Anyway, if I can get any thing else to play I suppose I can at least 'play the game.' After all, that's what everybody has to do one way or another." He finished with a smile; but his eyes were still profoundly sad. He had played a tragic part on the stage that afternoon. The echoes of the applause that had called him before the captain again and again were still in my cars. But Charles Gilpin, the man, with his unsolvable problem to face, and with his hopeless "Where do I go from here?" was a far more tragic figure than any make-believe charac ter ever portrayed in the theatre. (THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE) REPUBLICANS CUT SOUTHS POWER IN PARTY COUNCHLS. National Committee Again Votes Reduction, This Time of 17 Per Cent. Washington, June 8.—Election of John T. Adams, of Dubuque, Iowa as chairman to succeed Postmaster-General Hays, whose resignation was formally announced and adoption of a new basis of representation at national conventions, resulting in a further cut in the number of delegates from the South marked the meeting today of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Adams, who was vice-chairman, was succeeded in that office by Ralph E. Williams of Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Leonard G. Woods of Pittsburgh was elected second vice-chairman an office created by committee action in recognition of the woman memberships in the party. The change in representation, based on the Republican votes of the last election, reduces by twenty-three the number of delegates who were accredited from the Southern States to the Chicago convention last June. This represents a cut of 17 per cent and makes a total cut of 40 per cent in the number of delegates from those States since the 1912 convention. NEXT CONVENTION TO BE LARGER. Under the new plan of apportionment, the next national convention will be made up of 1,037 delegates, fifty-three more than the last, unless there are great changes in the State votes of last fall upon which the calculation was made. The old system allowed for one delegate from each congressional dis trict, but under the new plan a district must have cost 2,500 Republican votes in the last preceding election before it may send a delegate to the convention. To have two district delegates, there must have been cast 10,000 Republican votes, or a Republican representative must have been elected to Congress. Under the former plan 7,500 votes gave two delegates. Provision is also made in the new plan for the seating of two additional delegates at large from each State carried at the last preceding election by the Republicans. NEGRO MEMBER FIGHTS PLAN The plan was submitted by R. J. Howell, of Nebraska, for a subcommittee appointed by the Chicago convention. Its presentation on the floor of the meeting precipitated a bitter fight by members from the States affected. The principal drive on the change was by Henry Lincoln Johnson a Negro member from Georgia and H. L. Remmell of Arkansas The report, however, was approved by a vote of 35 to 12. "As outlined by Mr. Howell, Tennessee, is no longer considered a part of the solid South and is given an increased representation of two delegates as a result of the last election when the State was carried by the Republican national ticket, and a Republican Governor and five of the Congressmen were elected. VIRGINIA GAINS DELEGATE "The Southern States, it was announced, are affected as follows up under the new plan: "Arkansas, increased 1; Florida increased 2; George, reduced 7; Louisiana, reduced 3; Mississippi, reduced 8; South Carolina, reduced 7; Tennessee, increased 2; Texas, reduced 2; Virginia increased 1. "The representation of North Carolina and Alabama remain the same. Mr. Howell said the net result was that those States, unless changes come in the voting, would send 147 delegates to the next national convention instead of 167, by which they were represented in Chicago last June. Although Mr. Hays said, when he quit the chair that he could spare no further time to the committee, it drafted him as a member of the executive committee. The meeting adjourned lina and Alabama remain the same; late today and tonight members of the committee were guests at a dinner at the White House. DO YOU KNOW HER? Any information will be gladly received as to the whereabouts of my mother, Mrs. Carrie Wilson, last I heard of her she was in the city of New York. Information is desired by or son, Robert Wilson of Richmond, Va. Information can be sent in care f Mr. C. B. Jefferson, 408 Orleans street, Richmond, Va. DO YOU KNOW THEM? I desire to know the whereabouts of Anty Jackson's sons, who lived in Richmond or in Virginia somewhere during slavery times. 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At night Dr. Hatcher preached to his congregation on the subject of impatience, and the consequences following. The collection was $110.00. The rally for Mt. Zion is launched and every one is asked to do their full duty. The trustees are confident that all members will do their part in making this the banner in Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church; for to fail would be discouraging to the trustees and pastor as well as the connection, and Roanoke especially. The tithing band is gradually growing. Mrs. Finney, of No. 718 Gainboro Avenue, is suffering with rheumatism very much at this writing. She underwent an operation at Burrell's Memorial Hospital several weeks ago; had quite a successful time and is at her home at this writing. Mrs. Dicy Hairston, of Ninth Avenue, N. W., Roanoke, Va., died Sunday morning in West Virginia, where she had gone to visit her son and relatives. She was the mother of Mrs. James Rose, of Ninth Avenue, N. W. "The remains were buried in the West, where she died suddenly. She was an aged lady. Mrs. Traynman died here after a short illness. She died at the home of Mrs. Bula Lawson on Seventh Avenue, N. W. Rev. James delivered the funeral oration in a very fitting manner at 2 o'clock from the First Baptist Church. Remains were entered in First Baptist cemetery Sunday evening at 3 o'clock. The Arts Dramatic Club met at the home of Mrs. Mary Stultz Monday evening, June 20th, with the president, Miss Helena Traynham, presiding. After devotions a short business meeting was called into session. A short spicy program was rendered as follows: Piano solo, Mr. Owen Telfair; selection from Dunbar, Mrs. Ruby Marchant; solo, Mr. Arnette Holland; life of Dunbar, Mr. O. C. Holland; reading, original, Miss Sophia Pittman. A few minutes were given to the Merchant of Venice conducted by Mrs. Marchant. Several visitors were present. An excellent menu was served by the hostess. The first intercollegiate program will be given at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church Monday evening, June 27, 1921, at 8 P.M. Every one is invited. Prof. E. A. Long, of Christiansburg Industrial Institute, was a visitor in the city this week. The Mountaineer Tennis Club grounds on Third Avenue, N. W., is about completed. It is the best court in the city for the colored people. It will be arranged so that some of their members can play at night. Springwood Park is being put in condition rapidly as possible. This is a new recreation park and athletic field. Surrounded by the Negroos in this city, it is a long-felt want, and it will be well patronized. There will be a swimming pool and other amusements. Mr. Samson S. Wester is the guest of his nephews, Messrs. Columbus and Edward Wester, in Chattanooga, Tenn., for ten days. The T. B. P. O. Elks were neatly trimmed by the fast Harrison Stars on the 21st to the tune of 7 to 3. The game was interesting until the seventh inning, when the Stars tarned their bats on Pitcher Abbott for a triple, double and single, and, with two errors, they clinched the game. Eggleston pitched his usually strong game, striking out 17 men and allowing only 5 hits. A. Jones' catching and batting, Shillo's one-hand catch of a liner, fast double killing by Bell and Johnson was the feature of the game. Score by innings: R. H. II. ELks.....0 10 10 1 -3 5 5 H. Stars.....0 0 2 0 1 3 1 -7 10 Batteries—Abbott and Boss; Eggleston and Jones. Umpire: f. Smith. Mrs. Alice Rayford wishes to announce the marriage of her daughter, Mary S. Rayford, to Mr. Harry N. Holland, Tuesday, October 19, 1926, at Roanoke, Va. Miss Rayford taught in Roanoke public school nine years. Mr. Holland, the cleaner, at 602 Gainsboro Avenue. They reside at 507 Seventh Avenue, N. W. Mr. W. M. Hunt, of Lynchburg, Va., is the guest of Dr. E. D. Downing. Excursions from Lynchburg, Va., and from Winston-Salem, N. C., will arrive in Roanoke on the 27th. Mr. Harvey Young, of Bluefield, W. Va., is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Lula Woody, on Eighth Avenue, N. W. WANTED—A Good Colored SAXO PHONE Player and a PIANO Player at once for Cabaret and Dance Hall service. None but competent woman or man need apply. Transportation furnished. Good Salary. Room and Board. Apply J. T. WHITE, Propeller, HOTEL DIXIE, Raleigh. West Virginia. From Florence, S. C. Mrs. Martha P. Brown speaks in glowing terms of the school closing as a visitor. Mr. J. H. Robinson and madame, Mrs. Orelia Robinson, and Mrs. Inez Frank, very much enjoyed the exercises on Friday evening. Mrs. Blanch Robinson made regular visits to the school building during the exercises. Messrs. Seth Eddy, Willie Strother, Burnett and Walter Long were患脑病. Didn't they rush them to be seated. Mrs. Marle Kenner and James, Jr., very much enjoyed the postoffice play. Mr. and Mrs. P. P. S. Lipscomb enjoyed the play of the Fifth Grand Division Friday evening. Mr. Edgar Ramey and daughter, Miss Borneather Ramey, of Lakeland, Fla., passed through the city recently en route to Timmonsville, Fla., with the body of his uncle, H. J. Washington, for burial. Mr. Borneather graduated at Walker's Business College, Jacksonville, Fla., and his other daughter, Miss Addie Ramey, graduated at Cookman Institute, Jacksonville, Fla., June, 1921. Mr. Ramoy is a successful business man of which the race is proud. Also he regularly reads Negro journals. Mrs. Eugenia Brayboy, of Detroit, Mich., after visiting relatives and friends here, returned home recently. She is a South Carolinian. Miss Henrietta Love, of Georgetown, S. C., passed through the city recently, returning from the Slater State Normal at Winston-Salem, N. C. Mr. Robert J. Webster, of Benedict College, has returned from the Y. M. C. A. Conference at King Mountain, N. C. Mrs. Bessie Jenkins, after visiting relatives and friends here and Washington, returned to Savannah, Ga., her home, recently. Mr. Washington Smith accompanied her to the A. C. L. station. Rev. H. E. Graham, a successful worker from Myrets Bench, S. C., spent a day in the city recently. He preached at the Little Pee Dee Association at Land, S. C., session 1920, and is pastoring the Old Field Baptist Church and Aflingham Baptist Church near Mullins, S. C. Master Charles Lester delivered a fine address at the graded school closing recently. Mrs. Adane Howard, of Philadelphia, Pa., is spending a while here visiting relatives and friends. She also visited the graded school commencement. Mrs. Delia Atkins passed through the city recently on route to Willow, S. C., preparing to move back to Augusta, Ga., her old home. Miss Dora Boston and aunt, Mrs. Marla, White, of Sumter, S. C., passed through the city recently on route from Dillon to Sumter. Miss Boston is a graduate of the State College class 1918, Orangeburg, S. C., and county superintendent of Aiken county. Rev. W. C. McCoy, of Hartsville, S. C., passed through the city recently, returning from his work at Meadow Bront Prigst Church near Effingham, S. C., after closing a successful revival with 20 converts and 6 additions. He used as a text on Sunday morning 32 Gen., 26 verse. He is budding a fine new church at this point and succeeding nicely. Mrs. Fred Thomas and Washington Brown are numbered among the visitors during commencement week. Mrs. Marie L. Wright, of Darlington, and Mrs. A. P. Brown, of this city, enjoyed the exercises on Thursday evening. Miss Natalie B. Sweet speaks in praise of the school closing. She taught at St. Luke's School last session. Miss Everlyn Franklin, of the Madersonville Graded School, passed through the city recently en route to Wadesboro, N. C., and vicinity of. Mrs. Maggie Jesse has returned from a pleasure trip North, visiting Richmond, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Irene Myers visited Chew, S. C., recently. Miss Viola Christian, after visiting her mother here, Mrs. Lucy Roberts, returned to Richmond, Va., recently. Rev, J. M. Alston spent Saturday and Sunday here recently visiting his family and friends. On Sunday morning he attended services at Windy Baptist Church, and in the afternoon attended the baccalaureate sermon at the graded school building at night at Windy Church. He left on Monday evening on train 80 for Richmond, Va. Mr. Lawrence McFarland, of Kings Still, S. C., passed through the city recently on route for Roanoke, Va., to visit his sister, Miss Lathonia McFarland, who is teaching there. Miss Leona Mae Webster, of the city graded school, left for Hampton Summer School at Hampton, Va., Friday evening, June 18th. CHICAGO NOTES Rev. T. L. Scott, Grant Chapel, Rev. S. L. Bort, Bethel, Rev. H. E. Stewart, Quinn Chapel and Rev. R. E. Wilson, Ehonzeer A. M. E. Church, Evanston was at the Witherforce commencement exercises. Mr. John A. Yeatman is now residing at 6205 Loomis Boulevard Englewood. Miss Johnella Marie Frazer and Miss Felicia D. Anderson visited in the city several days. Miss Frazer was the guest of her parents and Miss Anderson visited Mr. and Mrs. Smith of 522 Bryant avenue. While here they were shown the city by M. T. Bailey president of the Alumal Association of the V. N. and I. I., Peters Valley. Miss Lou Ella Young. 3556 Giles avenue is toring Southern Illinois in interest of the Household of Ruth of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of which she is head Officer. Miss Aemila M. Keele stenograph or for the Balloy Realty Co. 3623 State street is improving at her residence 4415 Dearborn street. M. T. Balloy of the Balloy Realty Co., has been visiting many suburbs this week. While there he closed dole THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA for clients, recommended loans for people to build homes, and pay off mortgages. He was accompanied by Anderson H. Richy and Walter B. Anderson of Anderson and Terrell, Appalachia. The City Federation of Colored women's club met at Evanston LL, on Monday. They had a good meeting and much business was accomplished. Mrs. Ellen Kninley, 3112 Calumet avenue, will soon visit relatives in St. Louis, Mo., Greenville and Centralia. Mr. W. B. Lyle of the Lyle and sons and John W. Faulkner and many other persons visited Morgan Park Sunday. Rev. V. S. Cooper, who has been visiting the city on business, has returned to Arkansas. Mrs. Mary B. Foster of the Sisters of Bethany, who has been recontacted to the office has many good plans to carry out this year. HOUSE IN LANDSLIDE VOTES TO END STATE OF WAR. Is Substitute for Knox Measure, Already Passed by Senate. Washington, June 13.—By a vote of exactly five to one, the House tonight passed the Porter resolution to terminate the state of war between the United States and the central powers. As a substitute for the Knox resolution, already passed by the Senate, repealing the declaration of war, it was put through 305 to 61, as a Republican measure, with the loss or only one Republican vote—Kelley of Michigan. Forty-nine Democrats joined in the landslide. Among the forty-nine Democrats who voted for the resolution were: Almon, Alabama; Aswell, Louisiana; Black, Texas; Wyant, Texas; Carter, Oklahoma; Collins, Mississippi; Crisp, Georgia; Dominick, South Carolina; Driver, Arkansas; Dupre, Louisiana; Pavert, Louisiana; Fulmer, South Carolina; Hawes, Missouri; Huddleston, Alabama; Humphreys, Mississippi; Jones, Texas; Larsen Georgia; Lankford, Georgia; Logan, South Carolina; Lowry, Mississippi; McClintie, Oklahoma; Mansfield, Texas; Martin-Louisana; O'Connor, Louisiana; Overstreet, Georgia; Park, Georgia; Parks, Arkansas; Quin, Mississippi; Rankin, Mississippi Sandlin, Louisiana; Smilwick, Florida; Swank, Oklahoma; Taylor, Arkansas; Tyson, Alabama; Upshaw, Georgia; Vinson, Georgia; and Wilson, Louisiana. First throwing out on a point of order, a motion by Representative Flocat, Democrat, Virginia, to send the resolution back to committee with instructions to report a substitute requesting the President to negotiate with the enemy countries, for a treaty of peace, the House voted down, 254 to 112 another recommitting proposal relating to disarmament. There was no debate on the latter motion, which provided for an amendment to the pending measure reserving the right under the treaty of Versailles to enter into an agreement with Germany and her allies and the powers associated with the United States in the war for joint disarmament." The effort of the Democratic leader ship to hold the party in Ine against the resolution failed, and the minority crumbled on roll call. The crack of the gavel, ending two solid days of debate, which had not changed one vote, brought a sigh of relief to weary members. SPRING LAST-MINUTE SURPRISE Springing a surprise at the last moment, Chairman Porter, of the Foreign Affairs Committee in charge of the fight, presented Representative Bourke Cockran, Democrat New York; to make the closing argument for passage of the resolution. There had been talk during the day that Mr. Cockran would not be found in line with his party, but putting him forward to end the debate upset calculations. In the end, however, the New York member did not actually vote, as he was paired. Mr. Kelley, who is chairman of the House conference at work on the navy bill with its disarmament amendment made a bitter attack on the resolution, declaring Congress would live to apologize for its act, which he described as making peace with a mere clasp of the hand, after the fashion of professional wrestlers. The principal attack on the resolution was based by Democrat on the ground that it did not properly protect American rights. United States, in attempting to negotiate a treaty with Germany and her ally would sit down, with feet and hands tied and without being able to demand the rights won by war. Republicans held, however, that all rights were safeguarded. FLOOD OPPOSES RESOLECTION Representative Garrett, Tennessee, the acting Democratic leader; Representative Connally, Democrat, Texas; and Mr. Flood made the principal speeches against the resolution, all declaring that the chief argument in support of its adoption was that it would pave the way for greater trade with Germany? Failure of the Senate to accept the House substitute will send the whole question of peace to conference. Most of the Republican speakers declared Congress ought not to repeal the war declaration itself, holding it would be regarded as a repudiation of the war, but Democrats reminded them that a Republican House twice had passed a peace resolution with that provision. WANTB—A Positon as job Printer Apply T. H, Jones, Ware Neck Va. WANTED—A MATRON FOR 125 GIRLS IN NORTHERN SCHOOL, Refined Personality. Intelligent. Experience Preferred. Address: SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, Care of The Planet. $300.06 ENDOWMENT PAID Boykins, Va., Jan. 11, 1921. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchel, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Va. Knights of Pythias, N. A.; S. A.; E.; A.; A. and A. ($200.00) Three hundred dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother William Barmer, who was a member of Light of Shiloh Lodge, No. 192 of Boykins, Va. Signed: ROSA BARMER. Beneficiary. Witnesses: HAYWOOD RUSSELL, C. C. AUSTIN. D. W. WHITFIELD, D. D. G. C. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Richmond, Va., June 17, 1921. This is 4c certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Va. Knights of Pythias, N. A.; S. A.; E.; A. and A ($150.00) One hundred and fifty dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Matthew Frazier who was a member of Myrtle Lodge No. 17 of Richmond, Va. Signet. 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