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THE RICHMOND PLANET THE SOUTH'S MEANING OF SOCIAL EQUALITY REV. W. B. REED'S GREAT EMANCIPATION ADDRESS—DISCUSSES PRESENT DAY ISSUES IN MASTERLY ORATION. Delivered at Shiloh Baptist Church, Hartford, Connecticut, at Emancipation Proclamation Celebration, January 2nd, 1922, (Noon) VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 14 Ladies and Gentlemen: We are met today to commemorate not only the greatest moral victory in the life of our nation but the greatest of any nation since deprivacy littered bigots to leadership among the divisions of men from whose decisions no appeal could be effectively made save through blood. I believe the day was come when our nation will cease to lag behind the civilized nations of earth in recognition of the great triumph of righteousness 59 years ago and will take the lead in proclaiming it one of the great victories of Christian civilization since God drew the line between right and wrong. It is generally conceded that America; slavery was one of the blackest crimes ever infested any nation; men were born to cruel venerity, bloody hash and the auction-block; women were born victims to rapers, forced immorality, eternal severance of children, the wettness of the hash cracking the skirt, of husband and to a life of torture and shame. When the pillars of this system were cracked by moral warfare of goo, people backed by armed forces of a brave nation, the scandal had to be atoned for in blood and the scavenger lost his sword; the victory at once became one of the greatest moral triumphs of human history and Lincoln tell heir to the ages. THE SOUTHERN MEANING I am to speak today on: "The South's meaning of social equality." I cannot give a comprehensive exposé on this false doctrine in a limited address; will have to be brief on points taken up, and necessarily leave untouched many things of paramount interest. I am not to speak on "Social Equality," for that is a private matter of individuals, as to whom they consider soctely endowed to enjoy the felicities of their homes and private functions, and no law can rightfully function in the private choice of law abiding individuals who make choice of other individuals as their social friends and comrades. But I am to print out some of the things the South mee as by parading this ghost up and down the land. Tersely speaking, this might be explained to those of us who know the South from skin to marrow in a few words; for we know that this bugbeak is a trick of the South to gain behind a mask what she lost on the field of battle; it is a southern propaganda, launched to leaven the nation with southern ideas touching the Colored people that they might see with a different eye and play hands off while southern madness rages. The South does not want us to be free, nor enjoy the blessings of citizenship; she wants, us to be proscribed against and to become a football for mankind. As she dug her elf out of the rebish stitch into which the war had flung her, she played well a double gasshe must regain her place power and influence in the Federal Government, and at same time work out a system by which she can keep the colored people down. They bowed to the terms of the conqueror and came back with but in hand, but in their secret connect, launched their propaganda under caption, "Social Equality" but seating its real purpose from the desismed Yankee NOT A GOOD LOSER The South was too small of manly and narrow of soul to prove a good loser; too ungrateful to be gracious; had gone too far in wrong doing to be reformed in two generations, so she must follow the grusome business of human slavery. The feet that she had driven a people in slavery for two and a half centuries without pay, kindness, friendship and humane protection counted for nothing, they must be reinslaved. So under the slogan of "social equality" they started out to poison the North's mind against an unprotected people. "White Supremacy," they cried; "White Superior," they proclaimed. "White women must be protected." they thundered from; shore to shore from "niggers." It is a pity the North ever gave credence to this false alarpy with the abuse of slave owners and slave drivers against women in chains an open book before them. An old man in Virginia told me a few weeks ago of a slave owner near Lynchburg by the name of Placed who was the father of his grandchild. That was common. Thousands of people now living, can tell how these southern gentlemen their slaves to trees and beat them into an consciousness for being, non submissive to heathy passion. The things told at this late day are not printable, but they still keep up the cry of white women. Living in perpetual fear, which statement has no foundation $i_h$ fact. Some two weeks ago when the Anti-Lynching Bill came up in the House, Con. Gerret of Tennesse said the bill should be "Entitled a bill to encourage rape." With three million mulattoes in this country the world evidently knows the white men of the South need no Federal encouragement along this line. VISIBLE SIGNS OF DISTINESS In spite of the large majority of whites in the South, they implemced northern politicians with visible signs of distress to protect them from nigeri "Domination." They sent their best tief painters North to show up the Colored man as a dragon craving to destroy white women and rude white men, and squander the people's money; then too, they were ignorant and unprepared for the ballot but when they are prepared the South had no objection. Thousands upon thousands fell speechless before their enchantment, and decided to wait on education; but while they waited the South was pushing her "Social Equality" false doctrine to the farthest lines of our land. I do not need to say that the South won over many of our friends. First, they were talked into silence, then into the dangerous position of laying hands off, and to acquiesce in the log rolling of our rights into a new form of slavery. With all the talk the South has put up about our not being prepared for the ballot, at heart, she has never wanted the Colored people educated; the old guard claims to this happy day, that education spoils the "nigger as a farm." Their unfairness in the entire educational system of the South toward the Colored people is sufficient answer for the present to this charge. BUT LITTLE DONE It is a universal fact that the South has done a precious little for the higher education of the colored youth on the ground that it inspires them for social equality. Arpies of crackers to the South believe this to be the case, because they have taught it for generations. Of course, veracity is a thing without value in southern propaganda. Ex-Senator Bailey of Texas says academic training spoils a "nigger" and proves it by saying when he comes from college, and has some business with a white man instead of coming through the back yard to the back door with hat in hand, he comes to the front door and rings the bell. As the South holds that this on the part of a Colored man, is soaking social equality Senator Bailey's deduction is that, college training has ruined that "Niggers' good manners; and we need not say such a statement as this in any political campaign to any southern state is worth more to the candidate than any sensible argument on tariff or governmental justice, he might make. MISREPRESENTING FACTS It is not because Senator Bailey and other southerners of learning do not know better; men of this caliber know they are misrepresenting facts, for Senator Bailey would have been another man if he had been denied the blessings of education; but they say it by force of circumstances; they shoot out this kind of tomorality to play to the gallery and court the plaudits of devotees of a false theory in ferment for three hundred years. They find themselves as it were in quicksand but they are not willing to be resued unless the Colored people are left there at their mercy; they find themselves backward in nationa, progress, but they are not willing to be helped forward unless the Colored people are left behind a kind of adjunct to their back door; they find themselves the worst hawkbreakers and the most bloody criminals in all civilization, but they are not willing to be reformed if the reformation means the blessings of freedom to the Colored people. Thus, they live on in the foul gush of their forbears. CLOSING SCHOOLS IN THE NORTH Whenever the South has been able to close schools of higher learning against us in the North, she has not spared means or sacrifice. It was not the people directly of Canterbury, Conn. eighty-nine years ago who brought disgrace on themselves, the State and the Union when Miss Prudence Crandall was pelted with eggs, boycotted perceived, sued and imprisoned; they were victims of this same false theory of southern statesmen who had supplied the North with vision and understanding concerning things racial; and when Miss Crandall opened her school of age. vanced training to "Young ladies and little misses of color," the well organized South objected through the people of Canterbury who had allowed them, themselves to become the actors of southern thought. When the minds of the people of Canterbury were opened to reasons of better men they saw that they had been doped by southern schemers and it is written that Canterbury "Became the strongest anti-slavery part of the (Continued on the Third Page.)" HOLDS FIFTY POLICE AT BAY IN BOSTON; KILLS ONE. Colored Man Shoots Officer and Then Has Battle in Bonicaded House Boston, Jan. 31.—Renzy Murray, colored, 62 years old, who stood off fifty policemen for more than an hour early today in a gun battle near his home, is in jail, charged with the murder of Patrolman Daniel McShane. The police man was shot by Murray from a gun. FUGITIVE BULLOCK IS FREED IN CANADA Matthew Bullock, colored, whom the State of North Carolina sought to have returned to that State from Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada, whether he had fled, has been freed, according to an announcement made today by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York. A telegram from Canada, announcing the liberation was received at the National Office of the N. A. A. C. P., reading as follows: "Bullock is Freed, J. D. Howell." This means that the Canadian Government has declined to deport Bullock as the State of North Carolina through the United States Department of State had requested. The N. A. A. C. P. was prepared, in the event that Bullock was returned to the United States territory from Canada, to fight his extradition to North Carolina, North Carolina on the ground that he would be lynched, as his brother was a year ago. As evidence of the state of feeling in North Carolina, the N. A. A. C. P. is in possession of the following editorial from the Durham, N. C., Sun of January, 34, 1922: "Governor Morrison of North Carolina assures Canada that Bullock will be in no danger if he returns to this State. Depend upon it however, I Bullock does, come back it wont be because of Governor Morrison's assurance. A North Carolina nigger who has killed big white man knows more about a white man's uncertainty when fooling with a hair trigger than any Chief Executive that ever reigned in Raleigh." "It is because of this state of mind, in North Carolina that the N. A. A. C. P. sent its assistant secretary, Walter F. White, to Canada to help in the fight against Bullock's deportation. --- VIRIGINA WOMEN DECLARE FOR BETTER RACE RELATIONS. Some weeks ago a group of leading Virginia women, representing various Christian bodies, met in Richmond and organized the Women's section of the Virginia Inter-Racial Committee. A strong statement was adopted expressing the mind of the group on interracial relations, and steps were taken to enlist the white women of the state in an earned study of Negro life and needs to the end that a greater degree of just, sympathetic and helpful relations may be established between the races. The following extracts comprise the most significant parts of this statement: "We deplore any conditions in our midst that tend to widen the breach between peoples whom circumstances have thrown together and whose destinies are inevitably interwoven in our own and coming generations. We believe righteousness, justice, peace and good will can be established between races of different colors. We accept this challenge in the spirit of the gold on rule and pledge our whole-hearted support to the educational movements now sweeping over the entire South for better racial conditions, human liberty and preservation of the ideals up on which this government is founded. To this end we suggest the following "That, we strive to bring our women to a better understanding of the opportunity at our doors by a more intelligent study of Negro life in the home, in the school and in the church, to the end of deepening the public conscience as touching our responsibility to our Negro neighbors. That we emphasize the fact that no community is stronger than its weakest link and that therefore in matters of education, public health, child welfare, recreation and general living conditions more adequate provision should be made for the Negro. That we stand uncompromisingly against lawlessness in all forms and for the administration of justice through the regular constituted channels and not by self-constituted bodies for which there is no place in our midst. We pledge ourselves to uphold the hands of our officials in maintenance of the law." Mrs. H. L. Schmelz, of Hampton, Va. was elected chairman of the committee: Mrs. Julian P. Thomas of Richmond, vice-chairman; and Mrs. R. H. Potts of Lynchburg, secretary. (Southern Publicity Bureau.) HOLDS FIFTY POLICE AT BAY IN BOSTON; KILLS ONE. Colored Man Shoots Officer and Then Has Battle in Barricaded House Boston, Jan. 31. — Renzy Murray, coloried, 62 years old, who stood off four policemen for more than an hour early today in a gun battle near his home, in jail, charged with the murder of Patrolman Daniel McShane. The policeman was shot by Murray from a window. Two hundred shots were fired be fore Murray was captured. William Jackson, colored who lives in the same house and Julia Scott, a resident of the neighborhood, are sufering from bullet wounds. The trouble started when a woman lodger left the house to tell the police Murray had threatened to shoot her McShane and three other patrolmen are compained her back to the house. They found the door barricaded and Murray shouted an invitation to them to come to a window. They did so and McShane started to clamber in. He was greeted with three shots from Murray's revolver and droped with a bullet in his abdomen. Lieutenant Dunlap at the station ordered out the reserves and sent several patrolmen to the scene and directed the dispatch of two riot guns to Murray's barricaded dwelling. Meantime the Fire Department prepared to bring out Murray by the use of high pressure nozzles. From both front and rear the police fired several volleys in to the house, but Murray refused to come out. Two patrolmen who worked their way through the house finally found him in the attic and brought him down stairs. At the station Murray told the police he had saved one billet for himself and another for his wife at her request but that when they got into the attic his courage failed him. When arraigned for the murder of Patrolman McShane Murray explained: "Murder Who did I kill, I didn't know McShane was dead." CHI DELTA MU MEDICAL FRATERNITY CONVENTION The Chi Delta Mu Medical Fraternity will convene at its annual Convention on February 22-24 inclusive at Washington D. C. where the Alpha Chapter is located. The public session, to which everyone is invited will be held at the chapel of Howard University on the evening of Thursday, February 23rd at eight o'clock. The most distant and isolated "Chi" men will attend. A full program has been arranged Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, President of Howard University, will speak briefly on "Fraternalism." Dr. Charles Humbert, Pathologist at City Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., will deliver the address of welcome; Dr. E. C. Terry, one of the founders of the Chi Delta Mu Fraternity, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Howard, will speak on "For What the Fraternity Stands;" Dr. E. B. Keemer, Vice Dean of Howard College of Pharmacy will discuss "Pharmacy in its Relation to Public Welfare." Dr. Thomas W. Edwards Demonstrator at Howard Dental College will speak on "Dental Prophylaxis;" and Dr. B. Price Hurst, Pathologist at Freedman's Hospital will take for his subject "Prevention of Pneumonia." These addresses will be semi-scientific and their chief purposes will be to enlighten and help the public. Mrs. Ida Charlly Improving Mrs. Ida E. Charity, who has hee very sick for several weeks, has improved. She highly appreciate and wishes to thank the First and Second Baptist Church Sunday Schools, Richmond Neighborhood Association, Inc., and many friends for their kindnesses shown her. Thomas E. Chick Passed Away Thomas Ellis Chick, departed this life, January 18th, 1922 at his home to Washington, D. C. Age thirty-two years, four months and thirteen days. He was born September 7th, 1889 in King William Co. Va., near Mangobick Professed religion in 1907; was baptized by Rev. W. H. Ford and was a merber of the Mangobick Baptist church. He lived a consistent christian life up to the time of his death. He made for himself many friends by the life he lived among them which helped him a great deal during his long illness. He was married to Miss Ida Mey Rucker of King William Co. he was a loving husband and devoted father. He was buried in King William Co. His funeral was conducted at the rest deuce of Mr. Jas. Rucker. A large crowd was present to pay the last tribute of respect, to him. He leaves a father, one brother, wife and one child and a host of friends to mourn their loss. His father. JAMES E. CHICK. Hewlett, Va. TERRIBLE FIRE TAKES HEAVY TOLL HERE THE LEXINGTON HOTEL BURNS DOWN—MANY LIVES LOST. Shortly, after 4 o'clock last Tuesday morning, fire was discovered in the Lexington Hotel, located on the corner of Twelfth and Main streets. The night clerk saw the blaze coming up the elevator shaft and he told the bell-man to notify the guest. By the time the fire department engines arrived, the hotel structure and the Pearl Laundry in the rear was a burning cauldron. Nets were stretched and into these some guest jumped. One man broke his neck in so doing. Four bodies have been recovere[ from the ruins. Nine other persons are said to be missing. Many others were injured. The establishment of Branch, Cabell and Company, the Savings Bank of Richmond, on Main street. The Pearl Laundry, E. R. Laferty's Linotype plant, Clyde Saunders Printing Co., on the corner of Twelfth and Cary streets, and The Anderson-Wilson Paper Company adjoining. MILES DEBBRESS LOSES SHOP. Mr. Miles C. Dobbress, who for so many years has completed a tensorial parlor under the Lexington Hotel was also burned out. He did not learn of the fire until about 7 o'clock Monday morning. It is thought that others may have lost their lives. The number injured will reach twenty. Colored workmen have been engaged in digging up the mass of wreckage in searching for other bodies. Crowds line the streets in the neighborhood and the Police Department has placed some of its best men in the neighborhood to expeditie traffic and to prevent interference with the work of the men. The damage is expected to reach a quarter of a million dollars. VICTIM CAME TO SEE EXECUTION H. S. Austin, of Fincastle, Va. came to Richmond to witness the execution in the electric chair of the colored youth. Edward Thompson, Tuesday morning. Thompson was convicted of having killed the young son of H. S. Austin. He never saw the execution. He died first, his life being snuffed out that morning while Thompson was electricite! Tuesday morning. Thus he lost his life in seeking to witness the taking of that of another. NOTICE! The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Mechanies Savings Bank will be held, Tuesday, February 14, 1922, 8:30 P. M. at the Pythian Castle 727 N. Third Street. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pross J. M. G. RAMSY. Secretar N. A. A. C. P. FIGHTS FOR NEGRO IN NEW YORK SCHOOL HISTORY BOOKS The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, To Fifth Avenue, New York today announced that its associate field secretary, William Pickens, had appeared at an investigation in New York City on the rewriting of history books. The tolloving account of Mr. Pickens's testimony before the Commissioner of Accounts of New York is taken from the New York World: William Pickens of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made a plea that the part played by Negroes be included in American History. "I went through public school, as said, "and graduated from Yale and was a grown man before I ever learched that it was a black man who shot Maui or Pitcher at Tanker Hill, or that one man out of every ten at the Battle of Lake Erie was black, or that in the War of 1812 there were many black men behind the American parapet of cotton bales, or that George Washington had hundreds of colored soldiers, or that Abraham Lincoln said that without the 200,000 black troops on the Northern side they never would have won. "For the sake of good feeling between black and white that is essential I want our histories to show the part that colored soldiers played in the great war." --- REV. JEFFRESS CALLED. Rev. L. V. Jeffress, of this city has received a call to the pastorate of the Mt. Nobo Baptist Church, West Point, Va., a very promising field. Rev. Jeffress, who is a recent graduate of Virginia Union University, is now pastoring in Louisa County and conducting a successful ministry. It is not known that he will accept. Mr. H. B. Hundloy. Probation Officer, Fayette County, W. Va., called on us last week. BODDY LODGED IN DEATH CELL Tombs Fellow Prisoner Betrays Plan to Effect an Escape New York, Feb. 3.—Luther Boddy, shayer of Detectives Miller and Buckley, was transferred yesterday from the Tombs to the death house at Sing Sung where he is sentenced to die in the electric chair the week of March 17. Boddy did not submit to his fate with our final attempt to escape. Thursday afternoon, a woman who said she was Boddy's sister smuggle into his cell two steel hacksaws coealed in the soles of a pair of patent leather shoes. Boddy hid them in the wall of his cell hoping to use them yesday on his trip up the river. He intended, if possible to saw off the hand cuffs that bound him to its guard and leap of the train somewhere between Grand Central Terminal and Ossimum. His plans were upset, however, by the prisoner who occupied the cell next to him in the Tombs, to whom Boddy gave the shoes. This man noticed the soles had been tampered with and not fied Warden Hanley. A search of Boddy's cell disclosed the saws. As soon as the trick was discovered Warden Hanley ordered extra precautions taken. Two guards sat up a night watching the prisoner and a yester day morning the warden himself supervised Boddy's dress. He was led before Justice Wasservogel under close guard. Before the sentence was pronounced Boddy's counsel, Morris Koenik, made the necessary statutory motions to assure an appeal. Boddy appeared undisturbed as Justice Wasservorcul in a monotone recited the first sentence of death he has been called upon to impose since he assumed office. Sheriff Naseel immediately chapped the handcuffs on the prisoner and led him to the Sheriff's room, where Boddy's mother joined him. As soon as the papers were ready he was taken in an automobile to the Grand Central Station accompanied by seven other prisoners and four deputy sheriffs. Boddy arrived at Osmington station at noon and was placed in a taxi cab with two叮叮es. In five minutes he was at the prison. He made no effort to free himself throughout the journey and when the prison gate closed after him he said: "So long, as I have to be up here I feel easier." He gave his pedigree in the Woods' office and was now taken to the wash room and given a bath after which he put on his prison clothes. "When do I eat?" he demanded when this was over. Boddy was assigned to a cell in the old death house as all the new cells are occupied. His dinner consisted of toff bread, milk and coffee. He is the twentysix prisoner in the death house. Detectives Miller and Buckley of the West 135th street station were swet and killed by Boddy on the night of January 5 while they were taking him to the station house. --- —Mrs. Thos. Haymes of Brooklyn, N. Y., spent the week enlisting her sister, Mrs. Carter, of W. Leigh street, also Mrs. R. E. Wesley. BODDY MAY LIVE FOR A YEAR. Has Considerable Time to Wait for a Final Decision. New York, Jan. 31.—In spite of the rapidity with which Luther Bodley was tried and convicted of the murder of Detective Sergeant Francis J. Buckley it may be at least a year before he pays the death penalty for his crime. It generally takes the Court of Appeals that long to render a decision in such cases. The prisoner slept soundly in his cell in Tombs prison Monday night and appeared cheerful yesterday saying he wouldn't worry as long as there was a chance of appeal from the first degree murder verdict. The death sentence will be passed by Justice Wasservogel on Friday. --- FULTON NOTES The Mt. Calvary Baptist Sunday School is getting ready to put on an membership Campaign and the Barra Bible Class, is asked to increase numbers to at least Fifty men. This can be done easily if those members of Church who are not attending the school directly would join the Sunday School forces. Let us do all we can to carry out the suggestions and play laid down by our Assistant Superintendent Miss Alma Logan. Owing to the funeral services of Sister Lizzie Ruffin being held at the Church last Sunday, our pastor Rev. Cobbs and the officers had the same to be held at the regular morning services. She was a member of the Church for a number of years. She was also a member of the Rebecca Council I. O. St. Luke which hurried her by a committee but had a large attendance of their members at the Church. 3:30 P. M. We had a joyful time during the communion services; many visitors were present, including our loved co-worker in the ministry. FACE - CURIOUS - WORLD NEWS PRICE, FIVE CENT O. B. Simms the pastor of the Resine Mt. Zion Baptist church. We have a good many people sick or our community the times seems to be at par with that during the Fin epidemic. Let us call to see those who are sick. The Revival services began last Saturday night at the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church. They had two converts as a start. Special Evangelistic services toower row during part of our Sunday School time. Our pastor Rev. Cobbs will preach an Evangelistic sermon tomorrow at 11:30 A.M. If there ever was a young man striving to do what the Lord would have him to do, it is our pastor. He is loved by the people of his church as they usually love a pastor. We felt very sorry to hear of the accident of Master Raymond Yates. We hope by all means that his eye can be saved. Let us pray for him, it seems to be too bad for him to lose his eye. RISING MT. ZION NOTES Our great Evangelistic Campaign began Sunday February 5, 1922 conducted by the Rev. O. S. Simms of the Rooseman Street Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Rev. Simms is one of the oldest and greatest preacher of the race and we feel that with all Christians having the full armour of Jesus Christ, this revival will be the greatest in old Zion through the leadership of so great a divine. Already quite a number have accepted Christ and each night the church has been packed to its utmost capacity. Therefore those who desire comfortable seats must come out on time. UNION LEVEL BAPTIST CHURCH ! Sunday was a great day at Eaton Level Pupil Church. The superintendent was at his post and called the Sunday School to order at 9:30 and in spite of the rain, every class was well filled. At 11:30 our pastor ascended the rostrum and preached from first Timothy. 3rd Chapter. The servant was to the Deacons and Deacons wives. Our pastor was at his host and preached a powerful sermon which was full of spirit and power. We find that we have made no mistake in calling this wonderful man of God. Dr. Bush comes to us highly recommended from the Pittsburgh conference also from the Philadelphia conference and also from the Alleghany Gen. Association of Pa. Our Church has grown spiritually and financially. At S. o'clock P.M. there was a sacred concert which was a grand success in every respect. All enjoyed the spirituality of the program. We ask that you will pray for the success of our pastor and church. Mrs. S. I. Bush our dear pastor's we arrived here from Washington, D.C. Saturday at noon and the members give her a grand reception Saturday night. The pastor and members coolly invite the public at all times to attend their services, as we have always had the support of all the churches of the City of Richmond and we hope they will continue to support us. BULLOCK HIDES IN CANADA Hamilton, Ontario, Feb. 3. —Once again Canada showed to the world that she was the true friend of the dover troden and a firm believer in justice and fair play when the deputy minister of immigration issued an order for the immediate release of Matthew Bullock for whom the authorities of the state of North Carolina had asked the tradition. He was issued upon his release, a permit to remain in Canada for three months, conditional upon his good behavior and this permit can be renewed from time to time. Bullock was immediately spitued away by his friends, for fear that the North Carolina authorities would again cause his arrest and his whereabouts will remain a secret. It was imitated by state department officials that an attempt will be made to extirpate him when the papers which were back to the North Carolina capital for correction are returned. It is not definitely known here, whether the Wabashgirgin introit hotel whether the Washington authorities will press the extradition proceeding; but it is thought that in view of the Canadian attitude, the state department will turn a deaf ear to the cries of the North Carolina authorities for extradition. After cheering of Bullock's release by the Canadian officials a prominent North Carolina politician expressed doubt as to whether there was any great desire to have him extradited; for if he was the North Carolina authorities would be under the necessary of protecting him from lynching, so that, in his estimation if Bullock remained out of the United States, they would be just as well pleased. Joy among the members of Bullock own race is unrestrained, and hundreds of whites, express themselves as well pleased at the outcome. It is reported that the deputy minister of immigration is in receipt of hundreds of letters from white people of power and influence commending him upon his interpretation of British justice. THE RICHMOND PLANET THE SOUTH'S MEANING OF SOCIAL EQUALITY REV. W. B. REED'S GREAT EMANCIPATION ADDRESS—DISCUSSES PRESENT DAY ISSUUS IN MASTERLY ORATION. Delivered at Shiloh Baptist Church, Hartford, Connecticut, at Emancipation Proclamation Celebration, January 2nd, 1922, (Noon) VOLUME XXXIX, NO.14 Ladies and Gentlemen:---- We are met today to commemorate not only the greatest moral victory by the life of our nation but the greatest of our allies who defied the enemy to leadership among the divisions of men from whose decisions no appeal could be effectively made save through blood. I believe the day will come when our nation will cease to ing behind the civilized nations of earth in recognition of the great triumph of righteousness 59 years ago and will take the lead in proclaiming it of the greatest of Christian civilization since God drew the line by twine right and wrong. It is generally conceded that American slavery was one of the blackest crimes ever infested any nation; men were born to cruel servitude, bloody lash and the auction-block; women were born victims to rapers, forced immorality, oternal soverevance of children, the wittnessing of the lash cracking the skull of husband and to a life of torture and shame. When the pillars of this system were cracked by moral warfare of good people backed by armed forces of a brave nation, the scandal had to be attested for in blood, and the scavenger lost his sword; the victory at once became one of the greatest moral triumphs of man history and Lincoln fell heir to the ages. THE SOUTH'S MEANING I am to speak today on: "The South's meaning of social equality." I cannot give a comprehensive exegesis on this false doctrine in a limited address; will have to be brief on points taken up, and necessarily leave untouched many things of paramount interest. I am not to speak on "Social Equality," for that is a private matter of individuals, as to whom they consider socially endowed to enjoy the felicities of their homes and private functions, and no law can rightfully function on private choice of her holding individual or other of her holding individuals as their social friends and comrades. But I am to point out some of the things the South means by parading this ghost up and down the land. Tersely speaking this might be explained to those of us who know the South from skin to marrow in a few words; for we know that this bughead is a trick of the South to gain behind a mask what she lost on the field of battle; it is a southern propaganda, launched to leave the nation with southern ideas touching the Colored people that they might see with a different eye and play hands off while southern madness rages. The South does not want us to be free, nor enjoy the blessings of citizenship; she wants us to be proscribed against and to become a football for mundane. As she dug herself out of the rebish stitch into her body she had fungi growing inside her well a double-gauged she must regain her place, power and influence in the Federal Government, and at same time work out a system by which she can keep the colored people down. They howed to the terms of the conqueror and came back with in hand, but in their secret council, launched their propaganda under caption, "Social Equality" but sealing its real purpose from the despised Yankee. NOT A GOOD LOSER The South was too small of mouth and narrow of soul to prove a good loser; too ungrateful to be gracious; had gone too far in wrong doing to be reformed in two generations, so she must follow the grusome business of human slavery. The fact that she had driven a people in slavery for two and a half centuries without pay, kindness, friendship and humane protection counted for nothing, they must be reshaved. So under the stealth of "social equality" they started out to poison the North's mind against an unprotected people. "White Supremacy," they cried; "White Superior," they proclaim ed. "White women must be protected they thundered from shore to shore, from "niggers." It is a pity the North ever gave credence to this, false alarms with the abuse of slave owners and slave drivers against women in chains an open book before them. An old man in Virginia told me a few weeks ago of a slave owner near Lynchburg by the name of Fleed who was the father of his grandchildren. He told me of people now living, can tell how these southern gentlemen their slaves to trees and beat them into an consciousness for being non submissive to heavily passion. The things told at this late day are not printable, but they still keep up the cry of white women living in perpetual fear, which statement has no foundation in $n$ fact. Some two weeks ago when the anti-Lynching Bill came up in the House, Con. Gurret of Tennesse see said the bill should be "Entitled a bill to encourage rape." With three million matteouts in this country the bill would be the white man of the South need no Federal encouragement along this line. VISIBLE SIGNS OF DISTRESS In spite of the large majority of whites in the South, they implored northern politicians with visible signs of distress to protect them from niger "Domination." They sent their best painters North to show up the Colored man as a dragon craving to destroy white women and rule white men, and squander the people's money; then too, they were ignorant and unprepared for the ballot but when they are prepared the South had no objection. Thousands upon thousands fell speeches before their enchantment, and decided to wait on education; but while they waited the South was pushing her "Social Equality" false doctrine to the face of our hand. I do not need to say that the South won over many of our friends. First, they were talked into silence, then into the dangerous position of laying hands off, and to acquiesce in the log rolling of our rights into a new form of slavery. With all the talk the South has put up about our not being prepared for the ballot, at heart she has never wanted the Colored people educated; the old guard claims to this happy day, that education spoils the "nigger as a farm man." Their unfairness in the entire educational system of the South toward the Colored people is sufficient answer for the present to this charge. BUT LITTLE DONE It is a universal fact that the South has done a precious little for the higher education, of the colored youth on the ground that it inspires them for social equality. Armies of crackers in the South believe this to be the case, because they have been taught it for generations. Of course, veracity is a thing without value in southern propa ganda. Ex-Senator Bailey of Texas says academic training spoils a "nigger" and proves it by saying when he comes from college, and has some business with a white man instead of coming through the back yard to the back door with hat in hand, he comes to the front door and rings the bell. As the South holds that this on the part of a Colored man, is seeking social equality Senator Bailey's deduction is that, col- lored being has ruined that "Niggers"'s good standing, and need not say such a statement, and this is the political campaign in any southern state is worth more to the candidate than any sensible argument on tariff or governmental justice, he might make. MISREPRESENTING FACTS It is not because Senator Bailey any other southerners of learning do not know better; men of this caliber know they are misrepresenting facts, for Senator Bailey would have been another; man if he had been denied the blessings of education; but they say it by force of circumstances; they shoot out this kind of tomfoolery to play the role of a false theory in ferment for career hundred years. They find themselves as it were in quicksand, but they are not willing to be rescued unless the Colored people are left there at their mercy; they find themselves backward in nationa, progress, but they are not willing to be helped forward unless the Colored people are left behind a kind of adjunct to their back door; they find themselves lawbreakers, and the most bloody criminals in all nations they are not willing to be reformed if the reformation means the blessings of freedom to the Colored people. Thus, they live on in the foul gush of tholls forbears. CLOSING SCHOOLS IN THE NORTH Wherever the South has been able to close schools of higher learning against us in the North, she has not spared means or sacrifice. It was not the people directly of Canterbury. Conn, eighty-nine years ago, who brought disgrace on themselves, the State and the Union when Miss Prudence Crandall was pelted with eggs, boycotted, persecuted, sued and imprisoned; they were victims of this, same false theory of the North with vision and understand concerning things racial; and when Miss Crandall opened her school of ad- vananced training to "Young ladies, and little misses of color," the well organized South objected through the people of Canterbury who had allowed them selves to become the actors of southern thought. When the minds of the people of Canterbury were opened to reasons of better men they saw that they had been doped by southern schemers, and it is written that Canterbury "Became the strongest anti-slavery part of the (Continued on the Third Page.)" HOLDS FIFTY POLICE AT BAY IN BOSTON; KILLS ONE. Colored Man Shoots Officer and Then Has Battle in Barricaded House Boston, Jan. 31.—Ronzy Murray, colored, 62 years old, who stood off fifty policemen for more than an hour early today in a gun, battle near his home, is in jail, charged with the murder of Patrolman Daniel McShane. The policeman was shot by Murray from a win- FUGITIVE BULLOCK IS FREED IN CANADA Matthew Bullock, colored, whom the State of North Carolina sought to have returned to that State from Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada, whether he had fled, has been freed, according to an announcement made today by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York. A telegram from Canada, announcing the liberation was received at the National Association, the N. A. A. C. P., returning as follows: "Bullock is Freed, J. D. Howell." This means that the Canadian Government has declined to deport Bullock as the State of North Carolina through the United States Department of State had requested. The N. A. A. C. P. was prepared, in the event that Bullock was returned to the United States territory from Canada, to fight his extortion to North Carolina on the ground that he would be lynched, as his brother was a year ago. As evidence of the state of feeling in North Carolina, the N. A. C. P. is in position, following editorials from the Darham, N. C., Sun of January 34, 1922. "Governor Morrison of North Carolina assures Canada that Bullock will be in no danger if he returns to this State. Depend upon it however, if Bullock does, come back it won't be because of Governor Morrison's assurance. A North Carolina nigger who has killed his white man knows more about a white man's uncertainty when fooling with a hair trigger than any Chief Executive that ever reigned in North Carolina. It is because of this state of mind, in North Carolina that the N. A. A. C. P., sent its assistant secretary, Walter F. White, to Canada to help in the fight against Bullock's deportation. --- VIRIGINA WOMEN DECLARE FOR BUTTER RACE RELATIONS. Some weeks ago a group of leading Virginia women, representing various Christian bodies, met in Richmond and organized the Women's section of the Virginia Inter-Racial Committee. A strong statement was adopted expressing the mind of the group on inter-racial relations, and steps were taken to enlist the white women of the state in an earnest study of Negro life and needs to the end that a greater degree of just, sympathetic and helpful relations may be established between the races. The following extracts comprise the most significant parts of this statement: "We deploy any conditions in our midst that tend to widen the breach between peoples whom circumstances have thrown together and whose destinies are inevitably interwoven in our own and coming generations. We believe righteousness, justice, peace and good will can be established between races of different colors. We accept this challenge in the spirit of the gold en rule and pledge our whole-hearted support to the educational movements now sweeping over the entire South for better racial conditions, hence the liberty and preservation of the ideals in, on which this government is founded. To this end we suggest the following to bring our women to a better understanding of the opportunity at our doors by a more intelligent study of Negro life in the home, in the school and in the church, to the end of deepening the public conscience as touching our responsibility to our Negro neighbors. That we emphasize the fact that no community is stronger than its weakest link and that therefore in matters of education, public health, child welfare, recreation and general living conditions more adequate provision should be made for the Negro. That we compromisibly against helplessness in all forms and for the administration of justice through the regular constituted channels and not by self-constituted bodies for which there is no place in our midst. We pledge ourselves to uphold the hands of our officials in maintenance of the law." Mrs. H. I. Schmelz, of Hampton, Va. was elected chairman of the committee of Richmond, vice-chairman; and Mrs. R. H. Potts of Lynchburg, secretary. (Southern Publicity Bureau.) HOLDS FIFTY POLICE AT BAY IN BOSTON; KILLS ONE. Colored Man Shoots Officer and Then Has Battle in Buriedead House Boston, Jan. 31—Renzy Murray, colored, 62 years old, who stood off fifty policemen for more than an hour early today in a gun battle near his home, is in jail, charged with the murder of Patrolman Daniel McShane. The policeman was shot by Murray from a window, and the shots were fired he force Murray was captured. William Jackson, colored who lives in the same house and Julia Scott, a resident of the neighborhood, are suing from bullet wounds. The trouble started when a woman lodger left the house to tell the police Murray had threatened to shoot her. McShane and three other patrolmen are compelled her back to the house. They found the door barricaded and Murray shoot an invitation to them to come to a window. They did so and McShane started to clamber in. He was greeted with three shots from Murray's revolver and dropped with a bullet in his abdomen. Lieutenant Dunlap at the station ordered out the reserves and sent several patrolmen to the scene and directed the dispatch of two riot guns to Murray's barricaded dwelling. Meantime the Fire Department prepared to bring out Murray by the use of high pressure nozzles. From both front and rear, several vehicles to the house, but Murray refused to come out. Two patrolmen who worked their way through the house finally found him in the attic and brought him down stairs. At the station Murray told the police he had saved one billet for himself and another for his wife at her request but that when they got into the attic his courage failed him. When arranged for the murder of Patrolman McShane Murray exclaimed: "Murder Who did I kill. I didn't know McShane was dead." CHI DELTA MU MEDICAL FRATERNITY CONVENTION. The Chi Delta Mu Medical Fraternity will convene on its annual Convention on February 22-24 inclusive at Washington D. C. where the Alpha Chapter is located. The public session, to which everyone is invited will be held at the chapel of Howard University on the evening of Thursday, February 23rd at eight o'clock. The most distant and isolated "Chi" men will attend. A full program has been arranged Dr. J. Stanley Durkee. President of Howard University, will speak briefly on "Fraternalism." Dr. Charles Hum bert, Pathologist at City Hospital, Kaq, will deliver the address of welcome. Dr. E. Larry, one of the founders of the Chi Dewey Friendship, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Howard, will speak on "For What the Fraternal Stand;" Dr. E. B. Keemer, Vice Dean of Howard College of Pharmacy will discuss "Pharmacy in Its Tolation to Public Welfare." Thomas W. Edwards. Demonstrator on "Dental Mental College will speak on "Dental Mental College will speak on "Dr. B. Price Hurst, Pathologist Freedman's Hospital will take for his subject "Prevention of Pneumonia." These addresses will be semi-scient these purposes will be to enlighten people, help --- Mrs. Ida Charity Improving Mrs. Ida E. Charity, who has been very sick for several weeks, has improved. She highly appreciate and wishes to thank the First and Second Baptist Church Sunday Schools, Richmond Neighborhood Association, Inc., and many friends for their kindnesses shown her. Thomas E. Chick Passed Away. Thomas Ellis Chick, departed this life, January 18th, 1922 at his home in Washington, D. C. Age thirty-two years, four months and thirteen days. He was born September 7th, 1920 in King William Co. Va., near Mangokhie Professed religion in 1907; was baptized by Rev. W. H. Ford and was a member of the mangokhie Baptist church. He lived among the mangokhie church up to the time of his death. He made for himself many friends by the life he lived among them which helped him a great deal during his long illness. He was married to Miss Ida May Rucker of King William Co. he was a loving husband and devoted father. He was buried in King William Co. his funeral was conducted at the rest dence of Mr. Jas. Rucker. A large crowd was present to pay the last tril of respect, to him. He leaves a father, one brother, wife and one child and a host of friends to mourn their loss. TERRIBLE FIRE TAKES HEAVY TOLL HERE THE LEXINGTON HOTEL BUINS DOWN—MANY LIVES LOST. Shortly after 4 o'clock last Tuesday morning, fire was discovered in the Lexington Hotel, located on the corner of Twelfth and Main streets. The night clerk saw the blaze coming up the elevator shaft and he told the fire department that the time the fire department engines arrived, the hotel structure and the Pearl Laundry in the rear was a burning cauldron. Nets were stretched and into these some guest jumped. One man broke his neck in so doing. Four bodies were found in the building. Nine other persons are said to be missing. Many others were injured. The establishment of Branch, Cabell and Company, the Savings Bank of Richmond, on Main street; The Pearl Laundry, E. R. Lafferty's Linetype Company, the Savings Bank on the corner of Twelfth and Cary streets, and The Anderson-Wilson Paper Company adjoining. MILES (DEBBRESS LOSES SHOP M. Mrs. C. Dobbress, who for so many years has conquered a tensorial parlor under the Lexington Hotel was also burned out. He did not learn of the fire until about 7 o'clock Monday morning. It is thought that others may have lost their lives. The number injured will reach twenty. Colored workmen have been engaged in digging up the mass of wreckage in searching for other bodies. Crowds a mile the streets in the neighborhood and the Police have been working to best the men in the neighborhood to expeditie traffic and to prevent interference with the work of the men. The damage is expected to reach a quarter of a million dollars. VICTIM CAMED TO SEE EXECUTION H. S. Austin, of Finestle, Va., came to Richmond to witness the execution in the electric chair of the colored youth, Edward Thompson, Tuesday morning. Thompson was convicted of having killed the young son of H. S. Austin. He never saw the execution. He died first, his living being killed while Thompson was electrocuted Tuesday morning. Thus he lost his life in seeking to witness the taking of that of another. NOTICE! The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Mechanics Savings Bank will be held, Tuesday, February 14, 1922, 8:30 P. M. at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third Street. JOHN MITCHELL, J. Pres. J. M. G. RAMSEY, Secretary. N. A. A. C. P. FIGHTS FOR NEGRO IN THE HOLLOW HISTORY BOOKS The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York today announced that its associate field secretary, William Pickens, had appeared at an investigation in New York City; or the rewriting of history books. The following account of Mr. Pickens's testimony before the Commissioner of Accounts of New York is taken from the New York World: William Pickens of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made a plan that the part played by Negroes be included in American History. "I went through public school, he said, "and graduated from Yale and was a grown man before I ever learned that it was a black man $m_1$ who shot Maj-19 Pitcairn at Bunker Hill, or that one man out of every ten at the Battle of Gettysburg was black, or that the War of 1812 there were many black men behind the American parquet of cotton bales, or that George Washington had hundreds of colored soldiers, or that Abraham Lincoln said that without the 200,000 black troops on the Northern side they never would have won. For the sake of good feeling he twice black and white that is essential I want our histories to show the part that colored soldiers played in the great war." --- REV. JEFFRESS CALLED Rov, L. V. Joffress, of this city has received a call to the pastorate of the Mt. Nobo Baptist Church, West Point, Va., a very promising field. Rov. Joffress, who is a recent graduate of Virginia Union University, is now pastoring in Louisa County and conducting a successful ministry. It is not known that he will accept. —Mr. H. B. Hundley, Probation Officer, Fayette County, W. Va., called on us last week. BODDY LODGED IN DEATH CELL Tombs Follow Prisonite Betrays Plan to Effect an Escape. New York, Feb. 3.—Luther Boddy., shayer of Detectives Miller and Buckley was transferred yesterday from the Tombs to the death house at Sing Sing, where he was electric chair the week of March 17. Boddy did not submit to his fate with out a final attempt to escape. Thursday afternoon a woman who said she was Boddy's sister snugged into his cell two steel hackaws, coached in the soles of a pair of patent leather shoes. Boddy hid them in the wall of his cell hoping to use them yes terday on his trip up the river. He in conded, if possible to saw off the hand that beat him, but he at the latter leap off the train somewhere between Grand Central Terminal and Ossium. His plans were upset, however, by the prisoner who occupied the cell next to him in the Tombs, to whom Boddy gave the shoes. This man noticed the shoes had been tampered with and notified Warden Hanley. A search of Boddy's cell disclosed the saws. As soon as the trick was discovered Warden Hanley ordered extra precautions taken. Two guards sat up at night watching the prisoner and yester day morning the warden himself supervised Boddy's dressing. He was led to be force Justice Wasservogel under close guard. Before the sentence was pronounced Boddy's counsel, Morris Koenig, made the necessary statutory motions to assure an appeal. Boddy appeared undisturbed as Justice Wasservogel in a monotone recited the first sentence of death he has been called upon to impose since he assumed office. Sheriff Nargel immediately clapped the handcuffs on the prisoner and led him to the Sheriff's room, where Lloyd's mother joined him. As soon as the papers were ready he was taken in an automobile to the Grand Central Station accompanied by seven other prisoners and four deputy sheriffs. How arrived at Ossining station on Monday he piled in a tautness with two dentures. In five minutes he was at the prison. He made no effort to free himself throughout the journey and when the prison gate closed after him he said: "So-long as I have to be up here I feel easier." He gave his pedigree in the Wendon's office and was then taken to the wash room and given a bath after which he put on his prison clothes. "When do I eat?" he demanded when Boddy was assigned to a cell in the old death house as all the new cells are occupied. His dinner consisted of beef stew, bread and coffee. He is the twenty-six prisoner in the death house. Defectives, Miller and Buckley of the West 135th street station were shot in the back by Bobby on the night of January 19, 1942, were taking him to the station house. --- Mrs. Thos. Haymes of Brooklyn N. N. spent the week end visit mg her girl. N. W. spent the week end visit W. Leigh street, also Mrs. R. E. Wesley. BODDY MAY LIVE FOR A YEAR. Has Considerable Time to Wait for a Final Decision. New York, Jan. 31.—In spite of the rapidity with which Luther Boddy was tried and convicted of the murder of Detective Sergeant Francis J. Buckley it may be at least a year before he pays the death penalty for his crime. It generally takes the Court of Appeals that long to render a decision in such cases. The prisoner slept soundly in his cell in Tombs prison Monday night and appeared cheerful yesterday saying he wouldn't worry as long as there was a chance of appeal from the first degree murder verdict. The death sentence will be passed by Justice Wasservogel on Friday. FULTON NOTES. The M. Calvary Baptist Sunday School is getting ready to put on an membership Campaign and the Barca Bible Class, is asked to increase its numbers to at least Fifty men. This can be done easily if those members of Church who are not attending the school directly would join the Sunday School forces. Let us do all we can to carry out the suggestions and plans laid down by our Assistant Superintendent Miss Alma Logan. Owing to the funeral services of Sister Lizzie Taffun being held at the Church last Sunday, our pastor Rev. Cobba and the officers had the same to be held at the regular morning services. She was a member of the Church for a number of years. She was also a member of the Rebecca Council I. O. St. Luke who buried her by a companion who had attended the advance of their members at the Church. 3:30 P. M. We had a joyful time during the communion services; many visitors were present, including our be loved co-worker in the ministry. Rev. RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS PRICE, FIVE CENTS O. B. Simmons the pastor of the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist church. We have a good many people sick in our community the times seems to be at par with that during the Fun epidemic. Let us call to see those who are sick. The Revival services began last Sun day night at the Rising Mt. Zion Bapt ist Church. They had two converts as a start. Special Evangelistic services tomor row during part of our Sunday School time. Our pastor Rev. Cobbs will preach An Evangelistic sermon tomorrow at 11:30 A. M.. If there ever was a young man striving to do what the Lord would give him to do, it is our pastor. He is loved by the people of his church as they usually love a pastor. He felt very sorry to hear of the ac- ident of Master Reymond Yates. We hope by all means that his eye can be saved. Let us pray for him, it seems to be too bad for him to lose his eye. RISING MT. ZION NOTES Our great Evangelistic Campaign began Sunday February 5, 1922 coiffed by the Rev. O. S. Simms of the Roemen Street Church, Pittsburgh Pa. Rev. Simms is one of the oldest and greatest preacher of the race and we feel that with all Christians having the full armour of Jesus Christ, this valour will be the greatest in old Zion through the leadership of so great a divine. Already quite a number have accepted Christ and each night the church has been packed to its utmost capacity. Therefore those who desire comfortable seats must come out on time. UNION LEVEL BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday was a great day at Udghen Level Baptist Church. The superintendent was at his post and called the Sunday School to order at 9:30 and in spite of the rain, every class was well filled. At 11:30 our pastor ascended the rostrum and preached from first Timothy, 3rd Chapter. The serpent was to the Deacons and Deacons wives. Our pastor was at his best and preach of a powerful sermon which was full spirit and power. We find that we have no mistake in calling this wonderful man of Goal. Dr. Bush comes to us highly recommended from the Pittsburgh conference also from the Philadelphia conference and also from the Aleghany Conference of Pa. Our Church has grown spiritually and financially. At 8 o'clock P.M. there was a sacred concert which was a grand success in every respect. All enjoyed the spirituality of the program. We ask that you will pray for the success of our pastor and church. Mrs. S. 1. Bush our dear pastor's we arrived here from Washington, D.C. Saturday at noon and the members gave her a grand reception Saturday night. The pastor and members cordially invite the public at all times to attend their services, as we have always had the support of all the churches of the City of Richmond and we hope they will continue to support us. BULLOCK HIDES IN CANADA. Hamilton, Ontario, Feb. 3.—Queen again Canada showed to the world that she was the true friend of the town-trodden and a firm believer in justice and fair play when the deputy minister of immigration issued an order for the immediate release of Matthew Bull for whom the authorities of the state Carolina and asked extradition. He was issued a release, a permit to remain in Canada for three months, conditional upon his good behavior and this permit can be renewed from time to time. Bullock was immediately spitited away by his friends, for fear that the North Carolina authorities would again cause his arrest and his whereabouts will remain a secret. It was in response to the state department officials that an attorney will be exhorted him when the papers which were sent back to the North Carolina capital for correction are returned. It is not definitely known here whether the Wahshongintromit hono whether the Washington authorities will press the extradition proceedings but it is thought that in view of the Canadian attitude, the state department of North Carolina authorizes to the cries of the Washington authorities. Afte rhearing of Bullock's release by the Canadian officials a prominent North Carolina politician expressed doubt as to whether there was any great desire to have him extradited, for if he was the North Carolina authorities would be under the necessity of protecting him from lynching, so that, in his estimation if Bullock remained out of the United States they would be just as well pleased. Joy among the members of Bullock own race is unrestrained, and hundreds of whites, express themselves as the outcome, the outcome ported that the deputy minister of immigration is in receipt of hundreds of letters from white people of power and influence commending him upon his i, interpretation of British justice Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. EDITOR. - JOHN MITCHELL, JR. All communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday offered at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia as second class matter. One Year ..... $ 2 04 Six Months ..... 1 10 Three Months ..... 61 Foreign Subscriptions ..... 2 50 SATURDAY, . FEBRUARY 11, 1922 Doing right is much more difficult / than doing wrong. People, who talk too much as a rule work too little A person who goes up rapidly usually comes down the same way. High temper is a characteristic of some people. Most of them are born that way. Colored men, who succeed deserve great credit, even though they may not get it. Those who fail deserve credit for having made an effort to succeed. --- Some people are given to forming plans for other people to work by and when pressed, they cannot work by any of their own plans, which they may have prepared. Common-sense is scarce around this "neck of the woods." People without it are sometimes called "mutton-heads" and some others have the designation of "pudden-heads." One name is just about as bad as the other. --- Some praying people spend more time praying than they do working. As a result, they are all the time living at the expense of somebody else. They may reach Heaven, but it will be just before the door closes or just after wards. ```markdown ``` The street-car strike seems to be a thing of the past, so far as the operation of the street cars is concerned. The street-car strikers' leaders may have had plenty of sense, but it does not seem that they used it. --- The office-holders were compelled to labor at old salaries during the time that wages were highest and the cost of living was the same way. Now, somebody, is proposing to reduce their salaries. If there is any justice or fair-play in this proposition, we fail to find it. THE PUGILISTIC OUTLOOK Harry Wills, who now halls from New York, but who is accredited to New Orleans, Louisiana is the latest Negro candidate, for the heavy-weight championship. Manager Brady of New York has agreed to post two hundred thousand dollars to back him in a fight against Champion Jack Dempsey. Fifty thousand dollars of this amount have already been posted as a forfeit. This is virtually a reply to the declaration of the champion that he is not afraid of any man living and that he barred none in his confidence that he can retain his title. He now says that if there is a demand on the part of the people of the country that he meet Pugilist Harry Wills, he will fight him. This is equivalent to saying that he will not accept the wager. It will be a long time before a championship bout between a white and a colored one for the championship will be staged in this or any other country. It will be necessary for Harry Wills to vanquish every white and colored heavy-weight pugilist in the country without half trying before he will come into the limelight to wry Champion Jack Dempsey and force from the sporting people of this country a demand that he meet him. EDITOR LEWIS' DIPLOMATIC COMMENT. Editor John Mitchell published the fact in great headlines that he and Col. Giles Jackson called on President Ha-ing, with Congressman B. Cascom Slemp; but Mr. Mitchell neither said what was the purport of his visit or if it was necessary to get his passport to the White House through the Virginia Congressman.----Newport News, Va., Star. We got our "passport" to the White House through the Virginia Congressman. It is a rule of official etiquette to permit the President to give out the purport of a conference or an interview and for this reason deponent sayeth not." "THE MOB MIND AND CIVIL LIBERTY." We have received a pamphlet, entitled "The Mob Mind versus Civil Liberty" by Everett Dean Martin, Director of the Cooper Union Forum of the People's Institute, of New York city. It is published or rather extracts there from are given to the public at this time by the American Civil Liberties Union, 138 West 13th Street New York. We are reproducing extracts, which will be of particular interest at this time. It says: In this discussion the word "crowd" must be understood to mean the peculiar mental condition which sometimes occurs when people think and act together, either immediately where the members of the group are present and in close contact, or remotely, as when they affect one another in a certain way through the medium of an organzation, a party or sect, or the press. Both the individual and society suffer, as we shall see, from crowd-behavior. I know of nothing which today menaces not only the values of civilization, but also—is the same thing in other words, perhaps—the achievement of personality and true knowledge of self, as the growing habit of behaving as crowds And again: Our society is becoming a veritable label of gibbering crowds. Not only are mob outbreaks and riots increasing in number, but every interest, patriotic, religious, ethical, political, economic, easily degenerates. Into a confusion of propagandist tongues, into extravagant partisanship, and intemperance. Whatever be the ideal to which we would attain, we find the path of self-culture too slow; we must become army worms, eating our way to the goal by sheer force of numbers. The councils of democracy are conducted on about the psychological level of commercial advertising and with about the same degree of sincerity. While it can not be said that the habit of crowd-making is peculiar to our times—other ages, too, have indulged in it—it does seem that the tendency to crowd-mindness has greatly increased in recent years. He continues; Whether it is temperance, or justice, or greater freedom, moral excellence or national glory, that we desire,— whether we happen to be conservatives or radicals, reformers or liberals, we must become a cult, write our philosophy of life in flaming headlines and sell our cause in the market. No matter if we meanwhile surrender every value for which we must strive to enable the majority into imagining itself on our side, for only with the majority with us who wever we are, can we live. It is numbers, not values, that count—quantity not quality. Everybody must "moral crusade," "agitata," "press-agent," play politics. Everyone is forced to speak as the crowd, thin' as the crowd, understand as the crowd. The tendency is to smother all that is unique, rare, delicate. If you are to get anywhere in this progressive age you must be vulgar, you must add to your vulgarity function. You must take sides upon dilemmas which are but half true, change the tempo of your music to ragtime, eat your spirit food with a knife, drape yourself in the flag of the dominant party. In other words, you must be "one hundred per cent." crowd man "This is a condition and not a theory that confronts us." He says: The effect of all this upon the individual is that he is permitted neither to know nor to belong to himself. He be comes a mere banner toter. He must hold himself ever in readiness to wiggle-waggle in the perpetual Simon-says thumbs-up game which his crowd is playing. He spends his days playing a part which others have written for him loco-much of his gentulness and courge and pamper himself with imitation virtues and second-hand truths. Upon the social peace the effect is usually bad. Unnecessary and meaningless less strife is engendered. An idolatry of phrases is enthroned. A silly game of bullying and deception is carried on among contending crowds, national, rigid, moral, social. The great truths of patriotism, morality, and religion become hardly more than caricatures—mere instruments of crowds for putting their rivals on the defensive and securing obesience from the members of the crowd itself, easily repudiated in the hour of the crowd's victory. This is a very good description of all of our politicians and many of our statesmen. He continues further: The crowd is a state of mind. A peculiar psychic change must happen to a group of people before they become a crowd. And as this change is not merely a release of emotion, neither is it the creation of a collective mind by means of imitation and suggestion. My thesis is that the crowd-mind is a phenomenon which should best be classed with dreams, delusions, and the various forms of automatic behavior. The controlling ideas of the crowd are the result neither of reflection nor of "suggestion," but are akin to what the psychoanalysts term "complexes. Crowd ideas are "fixations;" they are always symbolic; they are always related to something repressed in the unconscious He describes this condition further: Let us notice what happens in a pub- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Ice meeting as it develops into a crowd, and see if we can trace some of the steps of the process. Picture a large meeting-hall, fairly well filled with people. Notice first of all what sort of interest it is which as a rule will most easily bring an assemblage of people together. It need not necessarily be a matter of great importance, but it must be something which catches and challenges attention without great effort. It is most commonly, therefore an issue of some sort. If the matter to be considered is one about which there is keen partisan feeling and popular resentment—If it leads tisch to the spectacular personal ach'vement of one whose name is known, especially in the face of opposition or difficulties—or if the occasion permits of resolution, of protest, of the airing of wrongs, of denouncing abuse of some kind, or of casting statements of external principles in the teeth of "enemies of humanity," then, however trivial the occasion, we may count on it that our assembly will be well attended. The next thing in importance is the speaker. Preferably he should be an "old war horse" a victor in many occasions, and this for a psychological reason which we shall soon examine. Who ever he is, every speaker with any skill knows just when this state of mind which we call "crowd" begins to appear. This is the most dangerous situation in a republic. It has usually been suppressed in an absolute monarchy. In the sweep of drastic reforms or backward movements, the rights of the individual are forgotten and the guarantees of the minority swept away. This condition carries with it the seed for not only its own destruction, but that of the government which panders to and tolerates it. PRECEDED THE VICTIM "Vengeance is mine, and I will re pay." To us, it looks like the "irony of fate," a practical demonstration of the divine announcement, "The same measure ye meote, the same shall be measured to you again." Away up you render in the South-western part of the State, in the neighborhood of Fincastle Virginia, some time ago, a crowd of white urchins chased a colored boy, named Edward Thompson. While he should not have had a revolver, he had the weapon and he fired it into the crowd of his tormentors, with the unfortunate result that he shot and killed the young son of Mr. H. S. Austin. The colored boy's parents and his relatives and friends regretted the hapening and they sympathized with the bereaved white parents. But this did not do. Edward Thompson was in hiding for some time and then his parents gave him up although a movement was on foot to lynch him. The cry of "Let the law have its course" prevailed. Thompson was tried, convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair despite all efforts on the part of the parents and other friends to save him. So far as we have been able to understand the facts in the case, it was a case of plain killing, not premeditated and while it might have been classed as second degree murder, for which the highest punishment is confinement in the Virginia penitentiary, by no scheme of reasoning could it be elevated to first degree murder for which the punishment is death. But this is a past event now. The boy was sentenced and on last Tuesday morning, February 7th, 1922, he went to his death. Mr. H. S. Austin was anxious to see the destroyer of his son die in the electric chair and so he brought with him Mr. J. H. Webb, Mr. I. A. Crowder and Mr. H. S. Cahoon to witness, the gruesome tragedy. He apparently wanted "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." He went to bed Monday night in the ill-fated Lexington Hotel expecting to arise early and go over to the grim walls of the Virginia penitentiary. But the Angel of Death was hovering in two places, the Lexington Hotel and the death-cell at the penitentiary. The Angel reached the Lexington Hotel first and H. S. Austin, white preceded Edward Thompson, colored into that Unknown Leaf. It is a sad conclusion, for the Austin family now have a double sorrow. This life is too short to cherish animosities and to demand revenge. Mr. J. H. Webb is a cripple as a result of his experience. We sympathize with the Thompson people and with the Austin people. White people and colored people should live here together in a spirit of friendliness and they should reciprocate in kindly acts and not permit the temporary vagaries of children to estrange them. Hiram F. Austin was over-zealous and for this he has paid the penalty and given his life. Let us conclude with the words of William McKinley, "It is God's way; His will be done, not ours!" Selah. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID: Portsmouth, Va., Dec. 26, 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 Orcar Weston who was a member of Pride of the East Lodge No. 33; of Portsmouth, Va. Signed: VIOLA STEADMAN. Beneficiary. Witnesses: HENRY D. OUINN. ARCHER DREW, D. D. G. C. WHIRE ARRESTS OUTNUMBER COLORED IN PETERSHURG. Petersburg, Va., Feb. 5.—White arrests in Petersburg outnumbered colored arrests in January according to police reports just made public. According to Major John O. Walker the month just ended appears to have been an extremely quiet one for the law enforcers. There were 162 arrests made during January. Of these eight-six were white and seventy-six colored. January was not exactly prolific In fines, only $329 being collected during the month. The sum of $1,530 was received in automobiles permits. Four stolen automobiles were recovered by the police fifteen accidents reported, two defective streets, twenty-eight electric lights out, six traffic cautions, eighteen fire alarms, one plumber reported, two instances of water running and two contractors reported. The patrol wagon made 295 trips and covered a distance of 574 miles. Seven trips were made in behalf of sick or in injured. Drunkenness lead all offenses during the month with a total of twenty-nine. DYNAMITE TRUCK DROPS FIFTY FEET, NO EXPLOSION. Skids on Bridge. Jumps Over Retain Wall. Falls Down Hill. Winchester, Va., Feb. 3.—Over 1,000 pounds of dynamite dropped from fifty to sixty feet and failed to explode when a motor truck, owned by W. J. Gochenour, well-driller of Maurertown, Va., skidded on ice, plunged over a retaining wall on Shenadoah Valley Pike at Fishers Hill today and rolled to the bottom of the hill. The driver and a man with him jumped as the truck started over the wall and ran from the scene as fast as their legs would take them, expecting to be blown to atoms. Two broken wheels and a dented fen der constituted the damage. A number of serious accidents and several fatalities have occurred at that point in the last few years. NEGRO VETS FORM NATIONAL ORGANIZATION. Claim Condition of Ex-Soldiers Intolerable. Washington, D. C., Feb. 4. "Least they forget" was the slogan of a determined group of over 100 ex-servile men who gathered here at the Nation's capital this week to form a national organization of Negro veterans of the World War. Enlisted men and ex-serviles mingled freely in a real spirit of comradship which bespoke success for the movement. One of the first motions to be adopted was the abolition of rank, thereby eliminating all of the friction and petty jealousy that might come as the result of past military disfinitions. "The organization, which is to be known as the Negro American Veterans of the World War, is the inevitable outgrowth of the discrimination that has been practised everywhere against the Negro veteran," said Dr. T. E. Jones, former Captain in the Medical Corps and a wearer of the Distinguished Service Cross, "especially has this discrimination been most rampant in the South, in the treatment of suffering and dis abled men." Our organization means to root out these cases and to stir up the country to the suffering and dire need of these men. Denied admission into the hospitals of the South, thousands of these veterans, suffering from tuberculosis and mental disorders, are languishing away in the unsanitary jails and almo houses, to which they have been sent for treatment because the hospitals will not take Negroes. Hundreds of men with active tuberculosis are being inadequately cared for in their homes, taking chances with the lives of their own people rather than be sent into the miserable holes that are being improvised for them. Even worse than this is the condition of still other thousands of needy veterans who are entitled to compensation but who are intimidated from making claim for government relief. When the soldiers find that their organizations will actually bring them into contact with the government, and its further more ready to carry on an active fight in their behalf in what hearted an unselfish manner, this movement will spread faster than any other organization that has ever been starved among Negroes." The organization considers itself particularly fortunate in having as a National Vice-Chairman Capital Campher C. Johnson who is an official of the Veterans' Bureau in Washington, Captain Johnson's knowledge of conditions among Colored veterans together with his ability to be of help to them, particularly qualifies him for an important role in the newly-formed organization. Dr. T. E. Jones was elected National Chairman Louir R. Mehlinger, a prominent young attorney was elected Secretary; Victor R. Daly. Business Manager of the Journal of Negro History was chosen as the National Organizer, Elijah Reynolds was made Treasurer William A. Ryles Director of Publicity. Victor W. Daly, the National Organizer located at 1216 You street, N. W. Washington, D. C., stated to representatives of the press that no efforts would be spared to reach every available veteran and to muster him into the ranks of the organizations. We want to make the Negro American Veterans of the World War a model organization of efficiency and strength. We have a common bond between us, and outside influences are cementing that bond in a way that may prove a very annoying matter to those who are responsible for it. The founders of this movement have but a single purpose in mind, to insure to the Negro veterans and their families those rights and privileges that are justly theirs as a result of the part that they have played in the war. JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY. The Crispus Attacks Call To Colored Fellow Americans of Color Last year the National Equal Rights League began the effort for a country-wide observance of the death of Crispus Attacks as a National Colored American Day, a race-day for liberty for public observance. We now renew the effort. The United States of America came into being not as a piece of adventure nor by war of conquest but by sa riffice and the spilling of human blood for the sacred principle of liberty in government because "all men are born equal." The inalienable rights of men were writ down in defense of rebellion and revolution. Realize then the glory to the element who spilled the first blood and the claim to equal liberty of the race who gave the first martyr of the fight. The honor of producing the prote-martyrs for this Republic, belongs solely to us. Anglo-Saxonism says that "Blood is the price of Liberty" since we produced the first martyr and we alone have been enslaved and are now deprived equality, held in contempt by Americans of Fighter hue, the call comes, in pride of race, to publicly observe the death of Crispus Attucks, who fell facing British soldiers leading a band of white men, on State street, Boston. March 5, 1770 sealing our American birth-right. By that first blood we attained foundation title to all of Theory and rights. We need to tell our rising generation of this ground title to citizenship to assure the middle-aged. We need universally to celebrate this date that we may cause our white fellow-Americans to realize our real original Americanism and our claim to every right. Well may there be added the war and principle, the black man's fight for rights under the black man's anspies and observances of "Citizenship Foundation Day" he held by committees of our race formed now to observe the 105th Anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth, or formed at these Doughas celebrations on February 14th, these committees to be permanent for race days observances and any race defense which they may serve becoming local branches of the races own national body, the National Equal Rights League. From our National Headquarters in Boston the home of Abolition at 34 Cornhill directly opposite the spot where Attucks started with his band to charge the Red-Coats, we appeal to our race to make March 5th a permanent Annual Race Day on which to notify the country of the tremendous service to white Americans which our race has rendered in every danger from Boston Massacre to the World War. Likewise we appeal to our race for concerted action in the creation of a strong national racial agency for American rights through these Douglass Day and Attacks Day Committee making them in to local branches of our national body. Let us stand on our own legs in a fight for rights. We await your response. Rev. M. A. N. Shaw, Pres.; Rev. T. J. Moppins, Vice-president; L. J. Nell Ree, Sec.; Rev. H. B. Mays, Organizer; M. W. Spencer, Treas.; Rev. C. M. Tanner, Fin. Sec.; Rev. S. E. Watson, Executive Chairman; W. Monroe Trotter, Corr. Sec.; 34 Cornhill, Boston, February 1, 1922. ORDER AIRPLANE TO ROUT BOOTLEGGERS. Teague, Tex. Feb. 3.—Having failed to rout out guerrilla bootleggers hidden in the canyons of Freestead County, Brigadier-General Jacob Wolters to day ordered an attack $o_1$ their forces by airplane. Leutenant Y. H. Taylor flying low over a ravine near Fairfield found the secret rendezvous of the bootleggers and opened fire with the machine gun on his plane. The bootleggers returned the fire and a pitched battle ensued. Lieutenant Taylor escaped uninjured and flow back to headquarters of the National Guard, now patrolling this district, for re-enforcements. He led Captain Tom Hickman, veteran of the Mexican border warfare with twenty-five rangers back to the site of the air battle. The rangers invaded the dense Trinity River bottoms and captured fifty bootleggers and seven stills, according to reports brought in from the "war zone." Following the battle. Governor Neff declared martial law throughout the county and re-enforcements are being ordered in to move against the hundreds of bootleggers believed to be in festing the densely underbrush river bottoms and almost inaccessible ravines. Hundreds of shots were fired during the engagement that followed Lieutenant Taylor's air-scouting expedition but the number of casualties is not known. There were no losses by the rangers. --- STRANGGE DISEASE KILLS HOGS IN JAMES CITY. Williamsburg, Va., Feb. 3.—A strange new disease has appeared among a herd of about 300 hogs owned by Walter E. Flanders on his farms in James City County. The disease appeared several weeks ago and about seventy-five fine graded animals have died to date and the disease continues its ravages. Three veterinary experts one from the department at Washington have already been on the scene, but it appears that they have been un successful in finding a remedy and stop the losses. Mr. Flanders is specializing in high grade hogs and his pens and breeding systems have been watched carefully. Only recently he received a shipment of some of the finest stock hogs procurable. It is said that the new disease come with this shipment from another State. Just before Christmas H. D. Colo, who owns a fine farm near this city, lost his entire herd of 52 head from a disease, that baffled all who were called in to treat them. It was not cholera. The animals, appeared, to be suffoated and when water, was given them invariably died after drinking it. MR. HARDING SLIPS AGAIN WITH THE NEGRO. (Charlotte, N. C., Star of Zion. It is finally announced that President Harding has appointed Hurley S. Speelman, of Marletta, Ohio, a white man, Registrar of the Treasury. This, of course, is the first Republican white man to hold that position in a generation. It has been regarded by McKinley Roosevelt and Taft a chief piece of reward to the Negro in the party, and has been spired to by the ables of the race in politics. The change of policies, of course is due to the spirit it imparted to the country from the Wilson administration which expressed itself in a petition signed by the employees of the department, chiefly Curtles, against a Negro being appointed. It has been very closely watched, for it has been along regarded as a sort of toonstone to the Harding administration led by the Negro office holding easily when it was made a cost case by institution both the Negro and the white employees who were in conflict it looks very dark for the Negro in this administration in so far as President Harding's executive initiative. There never has been and never will be a time when the majority of the party would be willing to endure the Negro official. But when there have been a strong executive and a wise representative legislative group, strong Negroes have been given high and important positions from Frederick Douglass to John C. Daney and W. T. Vernon, and it has been tolerated when it was learned that oppose it was of no avail. The only hope he had when he supported the party was that he was adding in the election of strong men to its head who would give a square deal without regard to section and conceived race clamors. If Mr. Harding as he has done in the case of the Registrar of the Treasury, continues to fall down on the black man's rights and rewards, he and the party may expect a revolt of the Negroes all along the line that they will not fail to feel when the votes are counted. HOLD BOXER AFTER DEATH OF HIS OPTIONNEL. Philadelphia, Feb. 3. —Edward "Spike" Boyer, colored lightweight boxer was held without bail today to await the action of the Coroner on a charge of unlawfulaughter growing out of the death of Alphonse Hewlett, also colored fighting under the name of "Sailor Miller." Hewlett fell unconscious in the first round of his fight with Boyer last night and died shortly afterwards. The seconds of both men and George Rogers, colored interne at a local hospital who was said to have examined Hewlett before he entered the rins, were held in $500 ball each as material witnesses. World Wide Praver Among the Hamitic People. We are calling for world-wide prayer among the Hamitic peoples numbering 750,000,000 or more including North and South America, the West Indies, the whole Continent of Africa, and adjacent Islands, India, Turkey and the Tribe of Judah. We also request 10,000,000 signatures to a petition against lynching before the President, Cabinet, Congress and the Governors of every State in the Union. Send signatures to the Committee of Twelve, Care John P, Lorenzo, 31 E 132nd Street; N, Y. City. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Quillins, Va., Nov. 12 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 Joseph Saunders who was a member of St. Stephen's Lodge No. 89 of Quillins, Va. Signed: MAIVER x SAUNDERS. Beneficiary. Witnesses: MAJOR BRANCH. JOSEPH RIDDICK. ARCHER DREW. D. D. G. C. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Portsmouth, Va., Oct. 25, 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. ($160.00) One hundred and fifty dollars in payment of the Death Claim of Brother James H. Halstead who was a member of Jonathan Lodge No. 20 of Portsmouth, Va. Witnesses: REUBEN PETTY. MOSES C. BROWN. ARCHER DREW, D. D. G. C. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Norfolk, Va. Nov. 15. 1921. This is to certify that we have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Va., Order of Calanthe ($150.00). One Hundred and Fifty dollars in payment of the Death Claim of Sister Cora Warre₉ Greggs who was a member of Bloom of Youth Court No. 194 of Norfolk, Va. Signed: Benutzeridés Witnesses: MAUDE RUFFIN. SALLIE JONES. LIZZIE ARCHER, D. Debuty. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE APPLY TO Mechanics Savings Bank JOHN MITCHELL, JR., PRESIDENT PRESIDENT NAMES ARTHUR G. FROE RECORDER OF DEEDS Washington. Feb. 2.—The nomination of Arthur G. Froe, West Virginia Colored to be Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia was sent to the Senate today by President Harding. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Prince George, Va., Oct. 29, 1921. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell Jr. Grand Worthy Course for the Grand Court of Va. Order of Calanthe ($150.00). One Hundred and Fifty dollars in payment of the debt claim of Sister Joan Tyler who was a member of McUo o Court No. 216 of Prince George, Va. Signed: JANE x GRAMMER. Witnesses: KATIE E. LOWRY, ELIZABETH WYNN & LOUISE ALLEN. LUCY A. PETERS, D. D. $100.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Newport News, Va., Oct. 28, 1921 This is to certify that we have received from John Mitchell Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of the Va., Order of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sister Catherine Davies who was a member of Pride of the East Court No. 56 of Newport News, Va. Signed: JOSHUA DAVIS. MARGARETT J. CQTTON. Beneficiaries. Witnesses: NANNIE J. CARTER. J. E. BYRD C. C. CUNNINGHAM L. D. BYRD, Deputy. $100.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Randolph, Va., July 14, 1921. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Va. Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred dollars in payment of the death claim of Sister Harriet Reed. was a member of Randolph Court No 150 of Randolph, Va. Signed: JOHNNY x REED, Beneficiary. Witnesses: MACINDA BROOKS. MARY FAULL. JEPPERSON JACKSON. CATHERINE S. JACKSON. D. D. G. W. C. $100.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Prince George, Va. October 24, 1921. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Va. Order of Calamthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sister Mary Carpenter Allen who was a member of Queen Victoria Court No. 115 of Prince George Va. Signed: MALINDA CARPENTER. Bonnet'cary. Witnesses: DELIA IRING. MATTIE THOMAS. MRS. L. A. PETERS, D. D. $75,00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Portsmouth, Va. Dec. 17, 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. ($75.00) Seventy-five dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Walter Reese who was a member of Tangier Lodge No. 256 of Portsmouth, Va. Signed: RUTH REESE. Benefictary. Witnesses: CORNELIA DREW. ARCHER DREW. D. D. G. C $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Portsmouth. Va. 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. ($150.0)) One Hundred and Fifty dollars in payment of the Death Claim of Brother William Leake who was a member of Mt. Ararat Lodge No. 134 of Portsmouth, Virginia. Signed: OCTAIROUS LEAKE. Benefictary Witnesses: J. W. DAUGHTRY. PRIMUS COTTON. ARCHER DREW. D. D. G. C $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Portsmouth, Va. Nov. 17, 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 Desch Claim of Brother H. S. Cooper who was a member of Jonathan Lodge No 20 of Portsmouth, Va. Signed: JESSE COOPER. Beneficiary. Witnesses: EDWARD MOORE. ARCHER DREW, D. D. G. C. THE SOUTH'S MEANING OF SOCIAL EQUALITY (Continued from First Page.) State." Though Miss Crandall's school was demolished, set afire, the heroine thrust into prison, the cause she espoused did not go down, her memory is sacred her name fixed in history and her deeds immortalized. And may we cherish the hope that a fitting monument may yet stand in Canterbury to her memory; a silent acclaim to the South that her power is broken and "Ladies and Little misses of color" are musing with poets of other times upon a thousand hills. And the young men and women coming from these institutions are pleading themselves to complete the unfinished task of Appomattox, to bridge over the blunders of the "Reconstruction" and to meet the enemies of our freedom as men meet men and fight out our common destiny on the soil our blood helped to sanctify from our first battle ground to the trebling hills of Europe. THE SOCIAL EQUALITY PROPAGANDA This social equality propaganda is a studied scheme, and is thrust like a serpent's tooth into every phase of our freedom, to humiliate, discourage and cover our spirit; and they want us to bring up our children under this hell-born propaganda without a protest. The Jim Crow car is the answer to the call of these false prophets of de moracy; we must separate them on the trains or they will seek social equality. So they have given a dual system of psychology to the colored man; he must believe God's plan of universal brotherhood and at the same time believe the contradiction of it by the southern white man; he must believe it is wrong for Germany to deny the American white people the freedom of the seas and at the same time believe it is right for the American white man to deny us the freedom of travel on American soil and in its territorial waters; he must believe it is right for him to fight for the rights of white men on foreign soil and at the same time believe it is wrong for him to have the same rights on home soil. He must believe that a colored nurse or valet can travel with a white employer without catching the terrible social equality disease and at the same time believe that an educated colored lady or gentleman cannot travel in the same white coach without catching that terribile social equality disease. The white man who believes it needs the spirit of Christ and the colored man who believes it would be safer in the mad house. THE DISGRACE OF THE COUNTRY The Jim Crow car is a disgrace to our country and a serious reflection on the white man's expressed belief in the teachings of Christ and his boasted faith in the Christian Religion. A boxed off part of a car, filthy, uncleaned, unsanitary and usually crowded with men and women standing for lack of seats, while full clean coaches, Fullman and observation cars are provided for whites, native and foreign born who pay no more for tickets than the colored people are demanded to pay. We want no Jim Crow cars in this country we want the freedom to travel as others have. If this is social equality we want it. This social equality propaganda denies the colored man freedom of speech in the South. Outside the large cities like Richmond, Norfolk, Atlanta and Louisville and possibly a few others, colored editors have to be very careful how they touch certain sins of white men; and even in these large cities they cannot say all they would like to say. Colored ministers must confine their sermons to the goodness of the Lord without even referring to the lynching which took place Saturday night, not withstanding the bullet-riddled body was burned in the town square. In a town down in Georgia, a colored man was lynched, his body dragged through the town on Saturday and left in the center of the town over Sunday for the purpose of "Teaching the niggers a lesson." On Monday morning a colored undertaker was summoned to bury him without comment. This they say is absolutely necessary so as to make the "nigger know his place." In Roonokie, Va., a mob went into colored church to lynch the pastor because he said from his pulpit he did not believe a certain colored man committed the crime for which he was lynched. The pastor was not in the church, and had to leave that night to save his life. The mob went all through the church. THE KU KLUX KLAN Say what you may about the Kuwait Kluxt Klan but they represent the politicians of the South in sentiment and purpose, and when the mighty Simmons was summoned to meet a Congressional Committee he was defended by southern senators and congressmen and it is universally known that political clans run the South absolutely. This unseemable Klan vests itself with the authority to censor public expression by private persons as well as to regulate the conduct of a private citizens. The money making side of the klan with fat jobbed favorites corresponds precisely with the crookedness of southern politicians. A quotation from last weeks National Republican (white) shows that the object of these two groups of the same lovable family is the same, in spirit and living in perfect harmony and peaceful fellowship one with the other: "The baneful effects of the suppression of representative government and the maintenance of a 1-party system by force, fraud and legal trickery in the Solid South, are by no means confined to political misrepresentation. The control of these States by powerful cliques of politicians interested only in the building up of office-holding machines and the distribution of spoils among themselves, has resulted in inflicting upon the people of these commonwealths government that is at once wasteful, inefficient and reactionary in spirit." NO ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE We can find no essential difference in the principles of these two groups of children of the same political household and they can say in part as truly as did Jacob's sons: "We are the son of one man," in the hand of mob rule. That there is an element of white people in the South that would like to throw off the yoke of both of these unprincipled groups is undeniable but to break a well organized ring is a most difficult thing to do. The Tiger in New York is well organized and the combined press of that great city last fall with the exception of Hearst papers could not extract one of his spoil grinding mollars; the decent people of New York have not as yet found a way to unite on one common ground to smash Tam many, Thompson's ring in Chicago still lives; the rings of Pilate and Hero joined hands against the Christ. So the Ku Kux Klan, Democratic machine and the Lily Whites are one and the present administration is losing a lot of precious time patting them on the shoulders and trying to dress them up. 14,000,000 colored people have as sacred right to fight thieves of our freedom as five million Irish hale to fight England, and we are preparing for the contest as never before. Freedom of speech in the South means the colored man may answer the white man and this must not be allowed for it would be social equality. It is considered social equality if when a white man calls a colored man a liar the colored man says you are another and a violation of this article of their faith entitles the white man to shout down the colored man. THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE When we come to the ballot we come to the crux of the whole rotten thing; social equality in the highest degree and for that reason ballot box staffers, shotguns, disfranchisers, grand father's clauses, mobs and the police have bee $ ^{h} $ stationed between the colored men and this coveted social equality. The North has been greatly deceived on this theory of social equality emanating through the power of the ballet box and has done us untold harm by allowing these dupes to beguille it in spite of the "spool system which is an open book. "Doth Job fear God for nought?" was the bewailing of Satan when he wanted to put through a mean and low-down plot against the innocent. Social equality bewaits the southern cheap politician and publicist when they wish to put through a low-down piece of business; their lips sing it but their heart is fixed on the spoils of office; anything white may come to Congress and draw seven thousand a year from the Federal Treasury and enjoy frank and mileage privileges, but colored citizens must not do this for that is social equality. They cry about office holding bringing us in contact and that, is social equality; but, what about the millions of mulattoes, the offsprings of those howlers about social equality? It would seem that their social equality would, after all, be safer in the public than in secret. If office holding is social equality, we want the fullest measure of it. GIVE JUSTICE IN THE COURTS Again, the ballot would give the colored people justice in the courts, they would have a say as to who is to be the judge, the sheriff, police commissioners and this means they could demand even respect, and rebuttals in court; this would be social equality and for that reason it must not be. In the name of social equality they say, we take from him the ballot and he can not demand respect or protection and we can arrest him on any pretence and sell him to a white farmer for twelve months on a promise. Every body knows how the South magnifies the crimes of the colored people through their statesmen and editors, its their game and the colored man is vilified on every side; to those who believe the vilification the honest and industrial among us becomes a suspect to the average passing white person. It is the fruit of political epression for no man without a vote is free in the fullest sense, and when we look at the deeds white men in the South do in the name of white superior it is a most difficult thing for us to understand how any fair-minded person can sanction it. Jails in the South are not built for criminals, but for colored people. In the North the jails are built for any man who violates the law and violators go there white and black the same but in the South this smacks of social equality and white men have to commit a very heinous crime even to be arrested. The average white criminal in the South would consider it a violence to the doctrine of social equality to send him to work on a gang with "niggers" matters not what crime he has committed. FALSE DOCTRINE It is remarkable how this false doctrine has taken hold of so many people of the North who have not had their first lesson in southern trickery. In many places white people don't want colored people to live on nice streets, perfectly willing to send missionaries to Africa or build up schools in the black belt but no charity at home so far as their immediate community is concerned. And Southern members of Congress have used the cry of social equality as a mighty weapon in Congress against our sacred rights and year after year we see northern members become passive when southerners are lying on us faster than a mule can kick. We help to send them there but they will not defend us. In our own State foreigners and red-headed haltbakes feel privileged to insult us in public places, many of whom refused to defend the Government in battle but insult those who did defend it. My friends the ballot must be our weapon in Connecticut, as well as in the general government. Every two years we make a trip to the Capitol to ask for a Civil Rights bill to be turned down; we come back and wait another two years. In a close election in this State, the colored people could turn it either way if we were organized. We should know every man whose influence and vote have been inimical to our interest, whether commissioner, mayor or state or national representative. We should know them. president Mr. W. E. Davis asked that each school send a large representation REPUBLICANS AND THE COLORED FOLKS. Last year when we with white friends asked the Judiciary Committee to make a favorable report on our bill the late Mr. Spooner told me that he thought every member of the Committee was a Republican, but they turmoil us down, knowing that if it had been favorably reported it would very likely have been made a part of the law. Here are the names of the Committee: Senators Delaney, (Chairman); Brown House Chm, Mr. Buckley Union Clerk of Committee, Mr. Darbie Killingly; Law Clerk Milton C. Isabel, Ansonia, Messrs. Williamson, Darrien; Sherwood, Westport; Perry, New Haven, Hall, Orange; Campbell, Entfield; Niekerson, Cornwall; Wall, Torrington; Barry, Griswold; Storrs Ansonia. This is the Committee that gave us the black eye and we must remember them to the extent that if any one of them comes up for office in the future we must retreat their action at the bat lot box. If going into places of public accommodation is social equality, then again, we want it. Two short months ago the President of the United States went arm in arm with a southern Democrat to Birmingham to deliver himself on the race question and the world knows how well it was done. No man can say that. Mr. Harding did not have a chance to prove himself a gladiator worthy of his steel but the South had been feeding him with this false doctrine of social equality and he lost the opportunity of fulfilling his own prophecy. Everywhere freedom of speech is a fact colored leaders have dissented from Mr. Harding's harmful course on social equality. God has never made one man greater in his creation than another; Infinite Wisdom has never cursed one of its creatures of the human race by creating him a second class man, and the colored people of this country were not prepared to hear the President of the United States commit himself as he did at Birmingham. I went to Mr. Harding's front porch during the campaign, when the southerners were trying to destroy him and heard his words: he spoke, in southern states before his election but did not commit himself on this mythical question of social equality. NOT CURSED OF GOD We are, not cursed of God because the President says so, and as for us dividing our vote, his prayer will be answered unless he runs again- and this is not likely. The question may be appropriately asked why did Mr. Harding go to Alabama asking Democrats to "Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote. He is president of the United States and has it in his power; to let the black man vote; Congress is Republican about two to one why not ask his Congress to let us vote? If he is willing to be the big brother of the world and to disarm the warring nations of earth, why not instruct the Republicans in Congress to support the Bill of Congressman Tinkham which is meant to do the very thing Mr. Harding is asking his enemies to do? If he wants the colored people to vote in the South give orders to his Congress, and stop losing so much time with southern white-washed Democrats, for Mr. Harding and all his Cabinet will be in some other world before one Solid South State will be carried by the Republican Party without the vote of the colored people. We want full rights unfettered and unprescribed in common with all other or people; if this is social equality we want it. ROANOKE NEWS Rev. James S. Hatcher, B. D., of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church left Sunday afternoon February 5th to attend the Bishop's Council in Selma, Ala. Rev. Hatcher anticipates visiting his parents and family before returning home. We hope for him a very pleasant trip. He delivered a very fine discourse to his hearers on Sunday. Mr. P. C. Price of Philadelphia, Pa., is in the city visiting his father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Price of Eleventh Avenue N. E. Brother L. B. Brodnax, local preacher of Mt. Zion preached to the people of the Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, Sunday night at 8 o'clock. Mr. W. F. Dalton 701—N. E., has opened business and will furnish you with fresh country butter and eggs as well as anything found in first class groceries. You will find him an honest dealer. Try him. Our new Spring and Summer samples are in and all Spring suits made to measure. An extra pair of pants or a pair of shoes will be given with each suit. Gainsboro Tailors, H. E. Grady Manager 405 Gainsboro Avenue N. W. Mrs. Bessie Ford, 6th Avenue N. W., custained injury from a fall last week which has confined her to her room Mrs. Annie Mitchell 6th Avenue N. W. is much indisposed at this writing. The collection from the Titling Band of Mt. Zlon A. M. E. Church Feb runy 6th was one hundred dollars. Mrs. Clara Stanfield 163 8th Avenue N. W. has been indisposed but is in proving. Mrs. Minnie Mitchell, 536 10th Avenue N. W., left for New York Tuesday, Feb 7th, to stay with her brother Mr. John Williams during his illness. The old agent wishes his patrons to be present in paying the delivery boy thereby encouraging Thomas Howard and myself. Don't forget the Community Café 634 Peach Road the home of good cooking. We also carry a full line of choice groceries, ice cream, soft drinks, candies and cakes. We are sole agent for Lee's Safety Hair Straightening Combs. You can see them in our Jewelry Department. W. Henri. Walker, Agent and Manager. The Sunday School Union of Roanoke, Salem, Vinton and vicinity will hold its regular monthly meeting with the Jerusalem Baptist Sunday School, the second Sunday February 12th at 3 o'clock. An excellent program has been prepared for the occasion. The president Mr. W. E. Davis asked that each school send a large representation Officers elected at the last meeting, President, Mr. W. E. Davis; vice-president, Mr. E. C. Noel; first vice-president, Mr. Gus Law; secretary, Miss G. A. Hairston; assistant secretary, Rev. Hanes; treasurer, Deacon R. B. Bailey Chairister, Mrs. Lucy Straton; orga- chair Mr. Theodore Macklin. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. "The Propositions of Salesmanship" was the subject of the excellent address made by Mr. G. N. Lew at the vesper service on last Sunday afternoon. Mr. Lew illustrated how every individual was a salesman and how the commodities for sale were ideas and ideals. To be a successful salesman and must believe and have faith in the idea or ideal he offers for sale. Mr. Lew showed how necessary it was for the members of the "Y" to know and believe in the purpose of the "Y" if they were going to sell its standards to the girls and women of this community. The instrumental solo by Miss Florine Flourney and the vocal solo by Miss Salene Tyler were enjoyed by the audence. The attendance was very good and we were pleased to welcome many who had never before attended our ves per servless. Miss Kathryn M. Johnson who served with the Y. M. C. A. overseas during the World War will be the speaker at the vesper hour on Sunday. Special music will be rendered under the direction of Misses Louise and Mildred Johnson. There will also be a vocal solo by Miss Thelma Jenkins and a vio lin solo by Miss Myrtle Griffin. Twenty one members have enrolled in the millinery class and great interest is being manifested by them in their work. The class in Home Nursing completed its course this week. The average number taking the full course was nine. Mrs. Mary Leuens who instructed this class deserves much praise for the very excellent course given and the "Y" sincerely ap preciates the service which she has rendered. Miss Clayda J. William arrived on Monday evening and will spend four weeks with us in interest of Health Education Work. A full account of Miss William's program will be given next week. The Annual meeting and Membership Banquet of the Phyllis Wheatley Branch was held at Court Street Bantl 1st Church on Monday evening January 31st. The meeting was a decided success from every point of view. About 250 members and friends attended the banquet. The Girl Reserves served the guests who were seated at prettily decorated tables. Miss Maggie Hunter, secretary of the Committee of Management, as toastmistress called for toasts from various guests who responded with witty but sincere remarks concerning the Association's place with the church the women and the girls of Lynchburg the music, solos, drills and stunts kept any guest from having a dull moment. Mrs. Nannie Johns, Chairman of the Finance Committee accounted for all money received and expended during the past year. Mrs. C. M. Harper, Chairman of Committee on Management read the Annual Report and announced the election of new members of the Committee of Management: Mrs. Jennie Ward Mrs. Jennie Singleton; Mrs. A. M. Lushington; Mrs. Elizabeth Wells and Mrs. Lavinia Merriman. The Baby Contest for the Silver Loving Cup Prize is receiving wide-spread popularity throughout the city. Twenty-one babies have been entered as contestants and 45000 tickets are on sale. These are the contestants, all under two years of age: Raymond Giles, George Fields, Ruby Houston, Aurelia Lester, Frances Abbott, John Fisher, Samuel Thompson, Elizabeth Blair, Winifred Jones, Ollie and Raleigh Carson (twins - Morris Spraggins, Levi Johnson, Robert Austin; O. J. Kenley, Ruby Daniels, Leonard Dewry, Jela Weeden, Margaret Smith, Richard Blake, Lucille Cabell and Warren Petts. The Contest closes Friday February 10, 1922. Prior to awarding the prize a musical program will take place. Refreshments will be served. FARMVILLE NEWS. Wednesday, February 16, Mr. William Ross, departed this life at the home of Mr. Robert Armistead. He is survived by two brothers Mr. Welton Scott of this city and Mr. David Ross of N. J., and three small children. Funeral was preached Friday at 2 o'clock at the First Baptist Church by Rev. J. T. Augustus. Mrs. Agnes Farrar is ill at this writing. The Art Circle was delightfully entertained by Mrs. A. W. Helm at her home on Franklin street. Mrs. Mary Pettls and Miss Masine Petits are home again. Mrs. Pearl Madden was called to Petersburg by the illness of her son, Joseph, a student of Dinviddle Normal School. Mrs. Alberta Reif has been confined to her home on account of illness. If its wearing apparel, groceries or toilet preparations you want don't buy until you see the line at the Ideal. Special articles in Men's wear at lowest prices for good quality. How about that Spring Suit? Inquire at the Ideal if you wish to save money. Sunday February 6th Mrs. Sally Brown was united in marriage to Mr. Henry Johnson by Rev. J. R. Augustus The Council for Colored Women will meet with Mrs. Ida Bolding, Ely street Tuesday evening February 14, 4 o'clock. Let every member try and be present as we have some very important business to transact. Come, rain or snow with or w/without money. Let each one make themselves a committee to tell the other one. 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Elimination of duplicated names brought the final total down from the unofficial peak of 112, at which the toll of the catastrophe was placed late last night. The list of injured stood at 134 with fourteen listed as "seriously injured." This was said to include every body thus far recovered from the ruins, leaving none unidentified. Rescue workers, fighting a desperate battle through dark and daylight, had recovered that number tonight. SEARCH OF TRUINS UNCHECKED The large majority of the victims both killed and injured, were residents of this city, although many came recently from other places. Exploration of the ruins went on unchecked after dark, but those in charge believed few additional bodies would be found. Without regard to their own risks, soldiers, marines, sailors, police, firemen and citizen volunteers had fought their way beneath the wreckage over practically the whole floor space of the auditorium. The exact number in the theater when the steel and concrete span of the roof buckled and fell under its two foot load of snow probably will never be known. The stories of perhaps a hundred who got out uninjured have been reported. These account for a few more than 300 in the audience that was roaring in laughter at a film comedy when the roof fell on them like a blanket, carrying down the front of the wide balcony in its crash. STORM KEPT MANY AWAY Normally, the theater has had every seat filled at that hour and nearly 2,000 persons was its capacity. The same unprecedented snowfall which brought death to the venture some few kept the many at home. Street car traffic had been abandoned, and streets and sidewalks were all but impassible with drifts. There has been no time as yet for official inquiry as to the cause of the disaster. The ruins themselves disclose however, that the entire mass of steel held concrete that formed the roof had come down. The crash swept the supports out from under the balcony, apparently, and this hinged down at an angle of 45 degrees, adding the tangled mass of wreckage to the floor below. Senator Capper, of Kansas, a member of the Senate District of Columbia Committee announced tonight that as soon as the Senate reconvened he would introduce a resolution calling for an investigation of the Knuckleboro Theater disaster and also of all large building construction in Washington since the beginning of the war. Senator Capper said reports had come to him that to a more or less degree the building code of the District of Columbia had been violated during the rush of construction following the increase in the city's population following the war declaration. INVESTIGATION ORDERED Investigation of the collapse of the Knickerbocker Theater roof, was ordered today by the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, the governing body of the city of Washington. At the same time orders went out to close all theaters until the snow had been cleared from the roofs and inspectors had made examination of the structure ea. Officials said that until an inquiry had been made, the direct cause of the collapse of the Knickerbocker roof could not be determined. "No man can tell at the present time just what was directly responsible for the collapse of the roof," said Building Inspector Healey. The inspector could not recall a previous case of the collapse of a building in the District of Columbia directly as a result of the weight of snow on the roof. It was stated that the inquiry would be started as soon as the rescuers at work in the wreckage had made certain that all of the bodies had been removed. The examination of the wreck age will be made by Major Cary H. Brown, assistant engineer commissioner, added by structural engineers from the building inspector's office. ROOFLESS IN A SECOND The building stands in an acute angled corner at Eighteenth Street and Columbia Road. Northwest, the heart of the most favored residence section of the city. The narrow niche of the stage on which the screen was hung, was backed into the corner angles while to the left from the stage, t the line of the auditorium wall runs in a straight line for some 200 feet down Eighteenth Street. To the right, the wall follows the slow curve of Columbia Road for about the same distance, and at the far end, paralleling the stage front; the backwall completes the auditorium proper also about 200 feet in length. This whole space stood rooftop to the sky a moment after the first missing sound of the breaking roof gave warning above the music of the orchestra. There is only one survivor thus far who has told of having heard that warning and seen the first powdery handful of snow sift down over the head of the orchestra leader in time to make his escape uninjured. From his seat well forward on the main floor he raced for the doors at the back. A great blast of air expelled as the roof came down, hurled him-through the doorway to safety. Most of the bodies were recovered from the floor of the pit beneath the wreckage of the balcony or from the front of the balcony itself. Following the rule of motion-picture audiences and with an almost empty house to pick from, those on the main floor had grouped themselves in the rows of seats just below the front of the balcony. They were back far enough to see well and the front and back rows were almost empty. At the point they had chosen, the danger proved to be just double. Few of those soaked there could have escaped. Even if the falling concrete shook and steel work of the roof missed them, the solid mass of the balcony front came down on the first wreckage with crushing weight. The gleaming brass rail that adorned the balcony front lay spread over the wreckage of the roof, fifteen feet below, when rescuers reached the scene. Those farther back on the main floor probably all escaped. The beams that supported the back end of the balcony did not let got their clutch on the wall. The wide sweep of seats they supported titled down until the wreck age below took the weight of the front end, then stood covering the back rows of the main floor like a tent. The front rows of the balcony were ground to a twisted mass of ruin in the fall. There was no wood in the structure. It was all steel and concrete but the enormous weight of the balcony, was itself sufficient to wind the tortured beams into fantastic shapes. FRANTIC CALLS FOR AID Here again chance played a part in reducing the number of victims. The fratrids down the balcony, four or five tiers deep, were known as "reserved" seats. They were priced above the sure seeding rows and except when the house was jammed, commonly were not all occupied. With the small attendance of last night, probably only a few had paid the extra price for these seats, the majority preferring to sit further back in the balcony. And many of those behind scrambled up the slope of the fallen balcony to safety, although many were struck down in the first blow when the roo feenue in. Some were hurled down into the pwickage when the balcony from fell, and even some of these escaped with bruises. There is 1 no record, how ever, of any survivor among those in the foremost balcony seats. Frantic calls for aid went out as soon as those in the double-walled structures which form the Eighteenth Street and back wall of the auditorium realized what had happened. These two three-floor wings form the offices, stores along the Eighteenth Street front and house the stairways and the approaches and exits both on that side and along the back walls and they were not involved in the disaster, which was confined to the auditorium itself. Later these stores and corridors became the first-aid stations as the mangled victims were dragged from the wreckage. Firenom fought their way through heading snowdrifts in answer to a general alarm. Police patrols filled with men churned and skidded through the white muck and in answer to a summons, marines from the barracks clear across the city came at double time, panting through the heavy going. At Fort Myer, across the river, the cavalry was turned out and started in truck loads to the rescue only to find roads blocked with snow. The men shovelled their way frantically, but finally four mule teams from the fort and from the engineers barracks were called on. WILD CONFUSION At the scene of the disaster there was wild confusion for a time. Those who first made their way to the auditorium doors saw before them a dime, mysterious heap of wreckage, faintly lighted by a string of colored electrics on the stage that still stood intact, and by the reflected glow from the leaden skies above where the roof had been. Minute by minute the crowds about the door thickened. The crash of the falling roof had drawn many, some who had relatives in that mass of ruin and molting snow inside. The chang of fire apparatus brought other hun dreds, and until the marines came painting up the police were powerless to fight off the crowd. Firemen plunged into the wreckage with lanterns. Men with electric torches came from all sides to aid. And it was a dawning task they faced. They stood on the debris they must lift to reach those dead or dying below. On the Columbia Road side the single wail towered menacingly above their heads stripped almost bare except for the high exit signs marking the way out of the balcony, now a crumpled mass below. Not a window in the long wail was broken. With infinite care the rescuers began work. Every beam they touched might lot another mass of concrete down if it was moved too swiftly. There were some grooms in the darkness below, and no one knew how many men., women and children had been crushed or trapped there. The huge slabs of concrete from the roof torn from their steel supporting girders, stood in crazy attitudes. A touch might send them toppling. TOILED DESPERATELY But against every difficulty, the soldiers, sailors and firemen and police and citizens toled desperately and a slow stream of dead and injured began to trickle out through the doorways. Nearly every house and store in the vicinity became a rescue station. 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