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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 17 COMMENDS CANADIAN JUSTICE IN BULLOCK DECISION Canadian Justice in the case of Matthew Bullock the colored prisoner held at Hamilton, Ontario, on a murder charge preferred by yAmerican authorities, is not likely to be altered or diverted from its usual course as a result of the hot declaration by Gov. Morrison of North Carolina that he is not going to try his State's honor and integrity "before any judge in any foreign country" in order to obtain Bullock's extradition. Judge Sudder at Hamilton has declined to grant the extradition of a man described by Governor Morrison as a "desperate criminal" until some evidence other than abduvails shall have been submitted to prove that the charges against Bullock have sufficient basis to justify this returning to the United States. In this case, as in others in which serious charges are made against a prisoner held for extradition, the custo mary rule has been followed and oral evidence has been requested. This assures justice to the prisoner, a requisite equally important in the eyes of the law as justice to the State of North Carolina. It is a protection against political persecution, but it is not a hindrance to legitimate extradition proceedings. If the man is a deserate criminal it should be no more difficult to produce witnesses to prove this fact to the satisfaction of the Canadian authorities than it will be later to obtain the testimony necessary to convict the defendant on his trial in the courts of North Carolina. CAROLINA GOVERNOR SCORES CANADIAN DEMAND. Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 24.—I am going to stick to my guns. This was the answer which Judge Snider made (tonight to the declaration of Governor Morrison, of North Carolina, that his State "would not send witnesses to have a trial before any Canadian court," and that if Canada would not honor "in the regular way" request for extradition of Matthew Bullock, colored charged with attempted murder in connection with a race riot in Norlina, N.C., he hoped the American State Department would not request North Carolina or any other self-respecting State to honor a Canadian request. Interviewed at the Hamilton Club, after having, in day refused to honor the American warrant unless witnesses were brought from North Carolina within a week to testify as to the nature of the charge, Judge Snider said. "When the case was first opened, I told the United States consul that he must produce oral evidence. I refuse to take affidavits." Canadian officials asserted that the customary procedure would be followed, and that Bullock's fate would not be affected by the fact that international interest had been aroused. WILL NOT MEET COURT REQUEST Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 24.—Governor Cameron Morrison telegraphed Acting Secretary of State Fletcher at Washington today, stating that he will not send witnesses to testify at the extension trial of Matthew Bullock, at Hamilton, Out., which was suggested in a message from the acting secretary yesterday. Bullock is wanted in this state in a charge of attempted murder in connection with a race riot at Norlinge, N. C. "North Carolina will not make an appearance through attorney in any Canadian courts" Governor Morrison told in his telegram. "It will not send witnesses to have a trial before any court there." SUGGESTS RETALIATION "If Canada will not honor our request in the regular way and you can, through diplomatic channels, convince them they should do so, then I誓你 will not hereafter request North Carolina or any other self-rejecting State of the Union in any way to honor a request from Canada. "If treaty relations with Canada are not such as to guarantee the return to this country of desperate criminals like Matthew Bullok k without the States of this Union being subjected to the humiliation of having to appear be fore some judge in a petty judicial proceeding in Canada, it is certainly a distressing situation. I am not going to try North Carolina's honor and integrity before any judge in any foreign country. "If there is any error in form or regularity of application for the extradition of this fugitive from justice," said the Governor, "I will be glad to have it corrected, as far as correction can be made in truth." WASHINGTON SAYS ITS UP TO CANADA. Washington, Feb. 24. The extradition from Canada of Matthew Bullock wanted in North Carolina on a charge of attempted murder is in the hands of Canadian courts, according to State Department officials. These officials said today that the treaty between the United States and Canada providing for extradition of alleged criminals specifies that a principal case of an extraditable offense must be made out by either nation seeking a fugitive from justice. There have been instances in past history when Canada has accepted alludias submitted by American authorities and has turned over into the custody of the United States the person or persons thus sought. The matter of requiring oral testimony regarding the offense for which Bullock is sought, however, officials said, is one purely for the Canadian court to decide and should that court require the presence of witnesses to testify regarding the offense for which Bullock is sought this government can not well take any other position than acknowledge the court's authority. Double Birthday Party. One of the finest entertainments given in South Richmond for a number of years was that of the birthday party of Messrs. Arthur Lewis and Edward Miller at the residence of the former's mother, Mrs. Mary L. Lewis, 21 Midlothian Pike, on Tuesday night, February 22nd. The parlors were brilliantly lightened and the handsomely evening gowned ladies and the tall-dressed young men presented a beautiful scene. Fine music was furnished by the five-piece orchestra of Mr. Clem Scott and the guests enjoyed themselves to the utmost until about 3 o'clock A. M. Messrs. Reginald Hatcher and Floyd Langhorne served the larger number present and they deserve great credit for the unique manner in which they served the dainty menu. All the delicacies of the season were served abundantly and the guests regretted when the hour came for departure. REV. BETTS MAKES STATEMENT Claims His Expulsion Was Wrong Leaves It to the Public. In reply to the exclusion of a Colored minister by the Shilo Baptist Church of Alumagro, Va. which was published in your Register and also Daily Bee January 21, 1922. To the readers of the said paper, I feel that I would do myself an act of injustice should I fail to reply to that article since the writer failed to state why I was expelled and my license revoked from the Shiloh Baptist church, that you should know the cause. I shall state first that I fail to get, a fair deal by the moderator on the night of my trial There were fifteen Baptist Churches represent in the mutual council, and several other ministers of the Gospel present and when a committee of finding was chosen, the Moderator selected them from five churches which, consisted of five preachers and four deacons from the same school or schoolmates of the said Rev, M. C. Allen who was involved against me in a personal difficulty. In selecting this committee, several able ministers who had been preaching many years were overlooked and younger ones accepted. My charge for which I was expelled and licenses revoke as as follows: First, for carrying the church pastor, Rev, M. C. Allen to court to be tried by unbelievers. I shall say that the Rev, Renl owe me (W, M. Bette) a big bill for groceries, which he failed to pay for and refused to give any explanation what he would do about it. Second charge, for inferring or saying that I believe that the pastor, Rev. Allen which is the principal of Alma-gra, Va. public school, was guilty of in sulting a little girl. In refrence to this Rev. M. C. Allen gave one of the school girls 15 cents in school and her mother brought the money back and asked him not to do so again. Third charge for giving aid and sympathizing with those who sought to blacken the pastor's character. How and what ways Rev. M. C. Allen had threatened the father and brother of the girl and that they better not approach him about the matter and the father of the five children wanted to get his children back in school, when he came to me (W. M. Betts) and asked me would I phone to one of the county school trustees to tell him that he wanted to see him. I phoned for him at his expense. For the charges stated above I was expelled from the church. Aside from taking him to court. I deny the other charges and leave the public to decide whether I was fairly treated. (Signed:) —REV. W. M. BETTS. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1922 WHITE COLLEGE MEN STUDY RACE ISSUES An Open Letter to the College Men of the South from the University Commission on Southern Race Questions. The University Race Commission in its last letter to the college students of the South called attention to the fact that college men are expected to assist in moulding public opinion and to cooperate in all same efforts to bring about a more tolerant spirit, more generous sympathy, and larger measure of good will and understanding between the best elements of both races. In this letter the Commission wishes to call attention to the progress made in the last few years in interracial cooperation. Already there are agencies at work developing such cooperation in local communities throughout the Southern States. Noteworthy in 1915 connection is the establishment of more than eight hundred county interracial committees in the Southern States as a result of the efforts of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, organized in 1919 by representative Southern men and women, with its headquarters in Atlanta. This is a practical method of putting into service the leadership of both races. Sane, thoughtful men, who love truth and justice, can meet together and discuss problems involving points of eye strong disagreement and arrive at a common understanding. If only they remember to look for the next best thing to do rather than attempt to determine for all time any set of fixed policies or lay down an inclusive program for the future. The most fruitful forms of cooperation have been found in connection with such vivid community problems as better schools, good roads, more healthful living, and more satisfactory business relations. In all these community efforts the good of both races is inseparably involved. No fact is more clearly established by history than that hatred and force only complicate race relations. The alternative to this is counsel and cooperation among men of character and good will, and, above all, of intelligent and comprehensive knowledge of the racial problem. The number of those who possess specific knowledge upon which to base intelligent thinking and, ultimately, wise action is still too small. There is great need, therefore, that facts now available concerning the advancement of the Negro race in education, in professional accomplishment, in economic independence and in character, be studied by thoughtful students in our colleges. Such facts as are definitely established can be made as has already been done in some institutions, the basis of instruction in race conditions and relations as a part of a regular course in social science. This body of information would undoubtedly allay race antagonism a would serve as a foundation for tolerant attitude and intelligent action in every direction of interracial cooperation. Signed:—James J. Doster, University of Alabama; David Y. Thomas, University of Arkansas; James M. Farr, University of Florida; C. J. Heatwok, University of Georgia; William L. Kennon, University of Mississippi; E. C. Branson, University of North Carolina; Josiah Morse, University of South Carolina; Chairman; James D. Hoskins, University of Tennessee; William S. Sutton, University of Texas; William R. Smithey, University of Va. W. M. Hunley, Va. Military Institute, Secretary; Knoxville, Tenn., January 14, 1922. Resolutions This is to certify that Sister Ressie Anderson was a member of Noel Court No. 202 from its organization. She was a true and loyal member, doing what ever she could for its upbuilding. She sided with the weak and with willing, hands gave what she could when called on. With loyal heart and puret hand she faithfully discharged her duly. To us should come the sweet thought, Sister Anderson's eyes are closed to all that is earthly, but has awakened to an eternal day. It is not ours to question the reason why for He who holds the destiny of each life, within his hands, knows best but ours only is to do what our hands find to do while it is day. We greatly mourn the loss of our Sister, that has been called from labor to reward and shall ever hold her in loving memory for the sweet fellowship we have had thru joys and sorrows, while traveling here on earth. We therefore, beow in humble submission to our Heavenly Father and pray He who doeth all things well may comfort the bereaved. Done by order of the above named court, Mrs. Lennie G. Thompson, R. of D. In Memory ARCHER—In sad but lozing remembrance of our dear mother, Mrs. Martha J. Archer, who departed this life March 5th, 1920, two years ago. Decarest mother, you have left us. Left the ones you loved so well. But some day we hope to meet you And together we shall dwell. There is no death on angel form. Walks over the earth with silent tread And bears our mother awake; And then we call her dead. Oh! mother is sleeping, so free from all pains. Oh! wake her not sweet spirit to suffer again. She is resting so sweetly Oh! let her rest on; Her sickness ended and her troubles all gone. Oh! think how she meant and suffered with pain. In long nights of ours as we soothed her in vain. 'Til God in his mercy sent down from above An angel that whispered a message of love. By her children, JOHN ROANE. HATTIE ROANE. HATTIE L. FOUNTAIN. SARAH A. DANDRIDGE. In Memory. Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 22.—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband, Rev. J. L. Jones, who departed this life five years ago. Dearest one, thou hast left me. And my lost I deeply feel; But it's God that has bereft me; He can all my sorrows heal. Yet, again I hope to meet him. When the day of life is fled. When in Heaven enjoy to greet thee. Where no farewell tear is shed. His wife. —MARY E. JONES. --- Deacon D. G. Golden Passed Away. Deacon D. G. Golden, died at his home, near Ruther Glen, Va., Saturday February 18th, after a long illness. He was 57 years old and had been a faithful member and deacon of Oxford Mr. Zion Baptist Church for a number of years. He lived a consistent christian life and in full triumph of faith. REV. MCGEE OFFICIATED The funeral was held at the above named church, Monday February 2014 conducted by the pastor, Rev. G. G. McGee. His text was from Matthew 25: 34; "Come ye blessed of my father, in herit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Rev. McGee preached a soul-stirring sermon, one worthy of praise, and one which will live long in the hearts of his hearers. ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL Rev. L. E. Terrell was present and also spoke in the very highest terms of Deacon Golden, and of the Christ-like life, which he lived in the community thereby winning for himself a host of friends. He was survived by a widow and three sons. We express our hope that even so great a loss to us may he over rued for good by Him who knowest best. —THE OXFORD ZION CHURCGL In Memory. In the death of brother M. L. Perkins the Imperial Order of King David, last a true and faithful member. He was a member of the Board of Regents and was the organizer of the work in West Virginia which work is now in the hands of Deputy W. E. Porter, of McDonald, W. Va. May Heaven's richest blessing rest upon his family, is the prayer of A. G. Thompson, G. W. R. PRESIDENT RIDDICK HERE. President W. E. Riddick of the State B. Y. P. U., Convention of Virginia will be the guest and principal speaker of all the B. Y. P. U. Workers of Richmond, at the Fifth Baptist Church, corner Harvie and Cary streets, Sunday, March 12th, 3:30 P. M. Unions and Sunday Schools and friends are invited and urged to be out to hear this distinguished speaker from Portsmouth Va. EASY MONDAY selling our goods. Make $3 to $6 day. Men or women. Write quick for particulars. Box 682. Helena, Ark. TWENTY MILLION WON BY COLORED GIRL TWENTY MILLION WON BY COLORED GIRL New Orleans, La., Feb. 28—Oil lands in Claiborne parish, said to be wort nearly $20,000,000 were declared yester day by the Louisiana Supreme court to be the property of Lillie G. Taylor, a colored girl, when the court denied a request for the appointment of a curator for the estate of Leona McGee, her mother. J. Ephus Wimberly, District Attorney of Claiborne parish, brought action in the District court of that parish to have himself named curator for the estate, contending that the estate was a "wacunt" one as no legitimate here were living. Upon dismissal of his suit in the district court he appealed to the supreme court, which upheld the lower court. Lillie Taylor was declared by the Supreme court, reiterating a form or opinion decreeing the land hers, to be the acknowledged daughter of L. oma McGee wife of the former owner of the land. A. SPEAKING SILENCE. The unbroken silence of the Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, member of the Republican National Committee from Georgia has been the subject of considerable discussion, between Editor John Mitchell, Jr., of The Richmond Planet, and Editor Benjamin Jefferson Davis of the Atlanta Independent. The former contended that an open break had taken place between the latter and the National Committeeman, which indicated a split in the Republican organization of Georgia. Editor Davis repelled the impachment with the following reservations: You are wrong, Brother Mitchell. There is no split in the organization, except that Mr. Johnson has adopted himself the policy of sitting in humiliation at the feet of the Lily whites and undertaking to stand at the same time at the head of the column of thirteen million Negro citizens as their political leader. He has adopted the policy of running with the Lily whites and holding with the organization of which he is leader. The organization in the state is solidly against the policy of vacillation and surrender and there is no personal break between the Editor and Mr. Johnson. It is not that we love the Colonel less, but that we love the rights of our group more than we do the personal ambition of any one individual. It is a question of principle with us that envolves the entire race's political status for all time to come. We are thinking in terms of a thousand years and not of a political meal for one man. We love Mr. Johnson and we'll serve him personally whenever we can; but we cannot subscribe to his political leadership; we cannot adopt nor follow his policies; we believe in no ruler of our rights to any man or set of men. The rights of all first and jobs for the individuals last. Mr. Johnson is a public servant and directly accountable to the Republicans of Georgia; and if the President has not treated him right—and the country knows it—it is his business to report to us and let us fight his battle and not acquiesce in or surrender the rights of all of us for peace with an administration that has violated every promise it made when bidding for votes. If this declaration of independence by his former political henchmen does not serve to break the silence maintained so strictly by the Georgia leader, we shall have to seek a solution of the situation by consulting the narrative of "Unde Remus" as interpreted by amethi er famous Georgian: "En Bre Rrabit, he hay low." (New York Age.) IDEAL SOCIETY NEWS. The Richmond District Council of the National Ideal Benefit Society held quite a meeting on Friday night, February the 24th. The reports made were very encouraging. The campaign committee reported many members having joined the Order and the organization of three new lodges and two nurseries in Richmond since January 1st, 1922. The grand union instillation of offices which took place at the 5th Street Baptist Church on January 30th was indeed a remarkable success considering the great snow storm, as well as the meeting held at the New Baptist Church on February 17th. Applications have just been received requesting charters for a new lodge and nursery at Pittsburg, Pa. The Union Nursery Board of City Point, Va., held its meeting at the residence of Mrs. Hines on the 25th of February. This was a splendid meeting which every one enjoyed. Mrs. M. E. Overton was elected President; Mrs. L. A. Cooke of Charles City. Secretary. The meeting adjourned to meet again the 4th Saturday in April at Bormuda Hundred. At the close of the meeting refreshments were served. —Mr. Jas. Jones of 1541 Decatur St. continues sick. —Mr. and Mrs. Gartfield Davis of New York, arrived in the city last Sun dayto attend the funeral of their sister Mrs. Mary Johnson. —Mrs. Roberta C. Miller of 12 E. 20th street, who has been sick for the past two weeks is improving. —Bishop G. L. Blackwell, D. D., LL., D. of Philadelphia, will be in the city on next Sunday, March 5th. He will preach at Hood A. M. P. Zion Church morning and night. A coedal invitation is extended to a1 to come and hear him. —Rev. M. F. Gregory, the pastor has been extremely ill, in his home, 21 W. Clay Street. We solicit the prayers of all that he may have a speedy recovery. —Col. W. Henry Jones, Grand Patron of the Eastern Star, has been confined to his home, 723 W. Marshall Street on account of illness for sever, 1 weeks. Rev. Peyton in Washington. At the Memorial Services held in honor of the late Rev. George W. Lace, at the Vermont Avenue Baptist church Sunday, February 5, 1922, Rev. R. V. Peyton, D. D., pastor of the Sixth Mt. Zioh Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., preached a soul-stirring sermon. We were pleased to have him here. He was the guest of Mrs. Minnie Liggins at the residence of Mrs. M. E. Holmes, 3305 Sherman Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Mrs. Johnson Visits Richmond. Mrs. Eliza J. W. Johnson, of Washington, D.C., a former Richmond resident and well known in religious circles, arrived in the city last Saturday, for a few days' visit. She spoke at the First Baptist Church last Sunday morning and was warmly greeted by a large concourse of admiring friends. Sunday night, at the Woman's Day Exercises, held at Leigh Street M. E. Church, she was the principal speaker and highly delighted and inspired her audience in a well selected address on "How Large is your World?" While here she was the guest of Miss Rosa Brooks. Y. W. C. A. NOTES The very splendid address made by Miss Clayda J. Williams at Vesper services on last Sunday were indeed full of inspiration to all who heard it. Miss Williams in a very charming manner told the story of the Health Fair, Cia Chow, and how with the aid of Education and Publicity he endeavored to overcome the evil work of the impulse, Ignorance and Neglect. She showed how each individual could assist in working out the program of Health Education as outlined by the National Board. A Musical and Literary program will be rendered at the Vesper Hour on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Susie Williams Chairman of the Religious Education Committee will have charge of the program. On Tuesday evening the Association held an informal reception in honor of Miss Williams and Miss Walker. About eighty-five persons attended. The Virginia Union University orchestra played several selections during the evening and added very much to the enjoyment of the guests. Among the numbers on the program were a select reading by Miss Miraura Edmunds, a vocal by Miss Marion Hayes and a duo by the Misses Griffin. Dr. Bessie Tharp made a short address stating how much the Association had appreciated the visit of Miss Williams and the work of Miss Walker as Girl Work Secretary during her stay with us. She presented to Miss Williams and Miss Walker tokens of appreciation from the Association. Because the members of the classes have enjoyed their Recreation work so much and wished to continue their classes, we have succeeded in getting Miss Webster. Head of the Physical Department of the Central Association to continue these classes after Miss Williams' departure. Plans have been made for a course of eight lessons, one a week on Monday evenings from 7:15 to 8:15. We feel ourselves very fortunate in being able to secure Miss Webster as our instructor and appreciate highly her consenting to take up this added work. We feel assured that all members are desirous of continuing their course and would ask that they call or phone for further information. Miss Adela F. Ruffin. Field Secretary of the South Atlantic Field will arrive on March 6th for a two weeks visit to our Branch. Miss Ruffin comes to us in interest of developing and training the committees in organization methods. Various group meetings will be arranged for during he restay RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS PRICE, FIVE CENTS PROF. MOORE SPEAKS ON OUR POLITICS Bahia, Brazil. December 16, 1921 Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Richmond, Virginia. U. S. Dear Sir: It is needless for me to remind you that your national politics of this year have caused unusual interest from all parts of the civilized world and the reasons are various, as well as striking Your apparent success in maintaining dry laws for the nation; your international conference on disarmament; your dominating position over world's exchange of currency; your great industrial questions which seem to enable you to supply the great needs of the world with American goods, not withstanding the fact of your absence and incompetible position at present. Also your great race question, and last but not least, your success at running for Governor of Virginia, with a full ticket of colored people. We must frankly admit that the latter has caused us much impatience in waiting for the news of results. Now, being so somewhat relieved from that suspense, we offer you our congratulations on being the first colored person to get the nomination of the Governorship of Virginia and heading the first State ticket of all colored people in the country. This is indeed making history! Now we beg to congratulate you up on the success, you made at winning votes. You did well, but not half as well as I wished. Your efforts proceed that however, tame one may seem, a mule never forgets how to kick. The stuff is in you sir, and it must come out. "I knowed it all do time. But I jeasn't couldn't git dem udder fellos! I gree wid me." Yes, taking it all together, you done dog-gone well, and they must all give it to you." But before we go any further; how does it feel to be a running for governor of your State?" I guess it must give you swimming in the head on the start off. Did it? Thinking it I tried to ride a bicycle. Give me an awful swimming in the head, but I just kept on at it until my head became used to it, and the ground did not seem to be running backwards from under my feet any more. When I got so that I could take my eyes off that front wheel and look straight before me, it seemed that all the world was glad and was running to meet me. When I passed a tree it seemed to be so delighted, that it was running to tell the others behind me. But when I learned a bit more, I felt well paid for all the bruises I had gotten while falling off; even when I came "dog-good" near sticking my head under the front wheel of a wagon, which was loaded with stone, one time. So just keep on at it until you get use to it and then you will like it; just the same as the white folks do. I suppose that you wont like this kind of congratulation very much and especially after you've been running for governor of Virginia, but I just can't help it, for I am just so glad that I don't know what to do. The word is, you did not win. But even that does not hinder you from trying again. I may not send you this letter, but if I do you can just read it to yourself and tell nobody what I said. This is kind of between useless you would like to tell it to somebody else. I am going to write you another letter, such as should be sent to an ex-candidate for governor. So coming down to business again we must remark that your 20,000 votes did not elect you by a long shot but it counted for more than 5,000 against the other parties. It was 20,000 votes which they might have had in their favor and the 20,000 which were against them on the other side caused a great loss to them. Therefore, some of the democrats must be congratulating you away down in their hearts for playing Theoreo Roosevelt on them. I am as ever, yours for absolute social equality to all under similar conditions. Of course, you did not hit the bull's eye, but you certainly did hit the plate and that is not ba dior the first shot. I. S. MOORE Bahia, Brazil. December 17, 1921 Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. I take great pleasure in congratulating you upon your recent adventure as candidate for Governor of Virginia, and your success of having upward of 20,000 votes cast for you. Your simplicity in manners and your sterling char acter have combined to make this a possibility; like the other remarkable things you have done in society. There fore we say with the fullness of our hearts, that we do hope that even your candidacy, will lend courage to (Continued on Page 2.) THE PLANET Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Published Every Saturday by Mitchell Jr., at 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. All communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... $ 2.00 Six Months ..... 1.10 Three Months ..... 6.1 Foreign Subscriptions ..... 2.50 SATURDAY.....MARCH 4, 1922 You can pray all you wish, but you will not get anywhere unless you work. Climbing up to Heaven is much more difficult than going down to the other place. Some people complain about hard times and still they throw their money away in riotous living during good times. Some people naturally know how to go downward; but they have the time of their lives figuring out just how they can go upward. People, who eat too much will soon find that they are undermining there health, just as much so as though they ate too little. Young people, who keep their eyes open all night at dances and frolics cannot keep them open the next day at their places of labor. President Harding is an admirable orator and he can sway an audience at Will. He has a monstrous job on his hands and he is proceeding to accomplish a Herculean tusk. --- Yes, some people are like a corkscrew. They are naturally crooked and even the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ does not seem to be sufficient to change them. As a matter of fact, they will not have any religion. Colored people have made progress and they know it. There is a long distance to go and the ascent is upward. Some of them get tired and sit down on the wayside. but thousands of others are marching steadily forward. A man, who will not get tired of a woman, who is single, even if he goes with her for six years will often get tired of this same person if he marries her, within six months. Now, look here, there are exceptions, yes, remarkable exceptions. --- We have not heard from Toldeo, Ohio, where Hon. Charles A. Cottrell resides or from Cleveland, Ohio, where Hon. Harry C. Smith holds sway, so far as it refers to the distinguished occupant of the White House, who hails from the Buckeye State. They are not saying anything against him, but there is a silence when it comes to saying anything in his favor. A. PECULIAR CASE. A riot took place some time ago at Norlina, North Carolina, and among other happenings, the brother of Matthew Bullock, colored, was lynched and he by peculiar good fortune and the aid of his friends escaped to Canada with his life. Negro-hating white citizens found out his whereabouts and swore out a warrant charging hire with having incited a riot. This plea aroused the colored people of Hamilton Ontario, Canada, where Bullock had found work and steps were at once taken to prevent his extradition. In the meantime, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people took an active interest in the case and directed their attorneys to aid in the prevention of the extradition of Matthew Bullock. At one time, the situation was critical as Bullock was charged with entering Canada without the proper papers. The came the fight on the merits of the case. Finding that the indictment against Bullock was not sufficiently strong, the North Carolina officials sent another one, which charged Matthew Bul- lock with attempted murder. It was then that Judge Snider of Hamilton, Ontario, decided to take a positive stand and he announced that he would require witnesses to come from North Carolina to Hamilton and appear in person against Bullock. The fundamental purpose of English law is the protection and the safe guarding of human life. The fact that Bullock's brother had been lynched was positive evidence that Matthew Bullock, his brother could not secure a fair trial in North Carolina. Governor Cameron Morrison in an open letter declared that he would not send witnesses to Canada. The State Department, through Acting Secretary of State Fletcher announced that the Canadian authorities were within their rights and no further steps could be taken in the premises. Thus Matthew Bullock is an exile in Canada, safe so long as he remains away from home, but liable to arrest whenever he crosses the line into the United States of America. It is indeed peculiar and unreasonable that these people should seek to have M. Bullock brought back to the secree of this unfortunate affair. It will tend to inflame both races and do absolutely no good. The expense to the State of North Carolina would be great. It should be regarded as a closed book. Bullock is in Canada, why should he not remain there? We can see no reason in this kind of action and we are glad to know that conserva tism and justice were in evidence in Hamilton, Ontario as in contradistinction to race hatred and malice in North Carolina. MORE LEGISLATION. The legislature of Virginia is in the throes of additional prohibition legislation. One branch after an acrimonious fight has passed a provision placing the purchaser of liquor in the same class as the salesman. This is regarded as logical. It is known though not to be practicable as it will be difficult to secure evidence to convict. Another provision makes it a punishable offense for a prohibition officer to fail to turn in to the State all of the liquor that he captures from the "boot-leger". This will make the business of the prohibition officer unprofitable from a personal point of view. Some of the best prohibition officers have been noted for their ability to trace "boot-leggers" on the scent alone. When they have not had a drink them selves for weeks, it has not been a difficult task for them to scent liquor with the primary desire to quench their own thirsts first and to punish the violators of the law afterwards. So flagrant had become these conditions that before quitting office as Governor, Hon. Westmoreland Davis proposed that prohibition officers be required to take an oath of abstemiousness with reference to liquor. This brought forth a storm of protest from that quarter and the measure has never been reported out of the committee. In the federal court, Judge Edmund Waddill handed down a decision relative to search and sozure, which will have a far-reaching effect in federal cases. He cited the constitutional guarantees of the Constitution of the United States concerning this question and announced that warrants known as search warrants not drawn strictly in accordance with the provisions of this supreme instrument would be null and void and the evidence secured in this manner would be thrown out of court. As the State and Federal systems of government are so closely intertwined, it is evident that when State prohibition officials, persecute a person, where a federal question is raised at the trial the accused will enjoy those rights specified by Judge Waddill, even though the state law provides otherwise. Thanks to President Woodrow Wilson and his administration, the federal statutes are supreme. It will ultimately be found that we are at present in the hands of legislators, who believe that every evil can be remedied by legal enactments. It is now being seen that there is coming about a steady contempt for legislative provisions and a disposition in even respectable quarters to evade it. Injustice is being enthroned in high places and justice has been imprisoned in the dungeons of the world. --- THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO CHURCH. We have received a copy of "The History of the Negro Church" by Carter G. Woodson, Ph. D., of Washington, D. C., and is dedicated to his mother, Anne Eliza Woodson. It is handsomely bound in cloth and lettered in gold, embracing 330 pages. The Associated Publishers, Inc., of Washington, D. C., are the publishers. The frontispiece contains a Christianized African. Except for his hair, he is of the type of Benjamin Franklin. He traces the history back to the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. He tolls of the work of the Catholie Church in Maryland, the priests and missionaries despite the THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA disinclination of the Catholic settlers to have them do so, they proceeded to instruct the Negroes. The Protestants were less disposed to deal in this manner with the Negroes. In the book is published a picture of the first colored Baptist Church in North America. This is unquestionably the best treatise on this most important subject that has as yet boe brought to our attention. It is un-denominational, following the history of the Negro church into all churches and in a strictly impartial way dealing with the situations and conditions presented. Although it begins at the earliest period of this country's existence, it brings the recital down to the present day, many of the pulpit divines being personal acquaintances of ours. The work should be in every home and the price $2.00 is reasonable in view of the mass of valuable information contained in this remarkable volume. THE AFTERMATH OF THE WORLD WAR. Premier William Lloyd George announces that absolute independence has been granted to Egypt. In view of present day conditions, this admission is significant. It seems to us to mean that the dissolution of the great British Empire as a centralized power is at hand and in its stead has grown up a loose federation of States or Republics. The grilling experience through which this great nation has passed brings to mind what was said of Greece. 'Twas Greece, But living Greece no more. It is Great Britain, but living Great Britain no more. India is demanding freedom and will yet secure it. Conditions in Ireland are a menace to the home country and troops must be held there to be ready for any uprising. This is the logical result of the struggle with Germany and her Allies. All of them will ultimately be too weak to enforce the decrees of the Treaty of Versailles. The sympathy extended to Germany may well be now extended to the conquering countries. It was a famous British Admiral, who after the great victory of his fleet, in the English Channel exclaimed: "Another such victory and I am undone." $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Norfolk Va. July 28, 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 Caim of Brother W. B. Washington who was a member of Conaway Lodge No. 25 of Norfolk, Va. Signed: MARY WASHINGTON Witnesses: Beneficiliary. J. H. PORLOCTS, J. D. ARCHER, D. D. G. C. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 19, 1921. NORTON, Va., Rd. 10 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 J. F. Freeman, who was a member of Golden Seal Lodge No. 39 of Norfolk, Va. Signed: SARAH FREEMAN Witnesses: Beneficiary. WM. JONES. J. D. ARCHER, D. D. G. C. DR. ALEXANDER SCORES. Trenton, N. J.—The Eugenics Bill which provides that applicants for marriage shall have a certificate of health was passed by the New Jersey Assembly last week. This Bill was in produced by Dr. W. G. Alexander, Assemblyman from Orange, N. J. This measure had been before the Assembly on three other occasions, but each time it had been defeated. When the Bill was called up this time it occasioned more discussion than any measure that has been before the House for several years. Dr. Alexander made a strong argument on the merits of the Bill, and following this he was subjected for more than an hour to a "cross-fire" of questioning. He met all of the objections logically and adroitly. The vote was 33 to 19 in favor of the measure, and when Speaker Rowland announced the result there was a great outburst of applause from the large number of spectators who were present. Dean Moore Quits Lincoln Rescue Life Insurance Company. Dr. L. B. Moore, formerly Dean of Howard University, Washington. D. C., has resigned the position as National Field Executive of the Lincoln Reserve Life Insurance Company. Send your subscription for The Planet—$2.00 for twelve months. Roanoke News Roanoke News ROANOKE, YA., March 1—Mrs. Luther Traynham, of Ninth Avenue, N. W., who has been sick at her home the past two weeks is much improved at this writing. Mr. Gilbert Jones and Mr. Moore, of Salem, were in town today on business. Mr. James A. Coiston, of Park St. the popular railroad man, took a spin to the town of Bonsacks on February 28th. Should you feel the need of a line of spring treatments, remember you can find them with The Planet agent at 153 Wells Aley, N. W. They beat the best of them for many of the alliments of the human system. Try them and you will be convinced it is no fake or false statement. Rev. P. G. Gravley or 123 Seventh Avenue, N. W. is quite ill at this writing. He also received the sad news Tuesday morning that his brother, Thornton Graveley, died in Pittsburgh, Pa. He leaves a mother, Mrs. E. Gravley, of Danville, Va., one brother of Danville, one brother in Richmond, two in New York and one in Roanoke. Mrs. Emma Wright, 722 Gainsboro Avenue, has been quite indisposed for the past week. She is slightly improved at this writing. Mr. G. L. Pittman has been quite indisposed, but somewhat improved at his home, 212 Seventh Avenue, E. Mrs. S. H. Easley, 314 Tenth Avenue, E., who has been sick since January 1, is much improved. She wishes to use this method in thanking the neighbors and friends for their very generous help rendered during her illness. Mr. William Ferguson, of High Street, who has been in poor health is still indisposed. Mrs. Boone, of Fourth Avenue, is still suffering with Pneumonia. Mr. R. B. Bailey, who suffered a stroke of paralysis about two weeks ago is improving nicely. Mrs. Clara Stanfield, Mr. E. H. Stanfield and little Edgar William, their baby boy, all are recovering nicely. Rev. James S. Hatcher, B. D. spoke to his people from the subject, "Meditation on Heaven, the Home to Which We Are Journeying." He gave many Scriptural proofs of the ultimate abode of the believer. The night's discourse was a continuation of the message of the morning and all who listened to this wonderful discourse were greatly helped and better informed by this great prelate. There were four accessions. The collection amounted to $101.00. Mr. W. F. Dalton, 701 Commonwealth Avenue, N. E., who has opened a grocery business at the above address, is a fair dealer, strictly honest. He has a fine line of goods, fresh country butter and eggs from the country every week. He invites your patronage. Call and examine his stock and prices on goods. He will treat you fair. Rev. William M. Moore received the sad news by wire last week of the death of his brother, Mr. David Moore, of Richmond. Rev. Moore went down to look after the situation. His many friends regret to learn of Mr. Moore's death. Prof. M. Traynham, 226 Fifth-Avenue, N. W., was called to Durham, N. C. to the funeral of a relative, Sunday afternoon. Mr. James Wright, of Luck Avenue has moved to his beautiful new home on Seventh Avenue, N. W. Mrs. Martha Washington, of Rocky Mount, Va. was the guest of Miss Maggie Dehaven and attended service at Mt. Zion last Sabbath. She is the picture of health. She left for home Monday evening. Mrs. Lizzie Hairston of 214 Sixth Avenue, N. W. has a complete line of Madam C. J. Walker's wonderful hair grower and a full line of all of her articles on hand all the time. Give her a trial. Mr. Thomas A. Bolling of the Hampton Theatre (all the girls and boys call him Hicky) spent some time at his home in Farmville with his wife. The funeral of Mr. William Patterson, 305 Park Street took place at two o'clock Thursday, February 23, from St. Paul's Memorial M. E. Church, of which he was a member. He had been in declining health for about twelve months. He leaves to mourn, a loving wife, who cared for him untiringly, Mrs. Della Patterson, Rev. Clair officiated in the eulogy. C. C. Williams, the polite funeral director, had charge of the funeral, Interment in First Baptist-Cemetery. Major W. B. F. Crowell, one of the local representatives of the Michaux Film Corporation, of Chicago, wont to New York City Monday night, where he joined Mr. Oscar Michaux, president of the corporation. He will assist Mr. Michaux in the making of a new seven reel production to be called, "The Dungeon." Major Crowell is playing one of the leading roles and will assist in the direction. This picture is to be released by April 15th and will be one of Michaux's strongest plays. BASKET BALL Bluefield Collegiate Institute girls met the Harrison Avenue High School girls at the city auditorium on the 28th and the Bluefield girls romped away with the game by the score of 25 to 10. Miss Gladys Taylor and Miss Dickson and Miss Warren were the stars for the Bluefield girls. The shooting and foot work were good. Misses Wise, Whitten and Stanfield were the stars for Harrison High. 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For with these acquirements one holds the confidence of the people as well as great favor with God. With these two important blessings David, of old was raised from a herder of sheep to be king among his people and promised a perpetual throne in the sight of God! Therefore, honorable sir, may you count your efforts as complete at success, if you have only succeeded in inspiring the young men of your race and nation, with faith in a virtuous life and hope to enjoy the best social rewards of God and the fellow citizens by their meritorious work. And last, but not least, a favored position among the saints and martyrs in the world to come. Then permit me to say that you have done well; though not elected, since immediate evidence of your success is not always the best. Hence you may try it again. It at least must apuse the minds of doubtful young colored men that such a thing could be tolerated by their white countrymen and undoubtedly restore much lost love for their country among them. Hence to have been elected would be the least part of the achievement. You have certainly done your country a wonderful service in this respect, much greater, I fear than many are yet able to appreciate. No one dared to assult your character, is a compliment decidedly exceptional in politics and the crowning port of your victory. As a rule Negroes act so nasty with one another that white people are afraid to trust them in great matters, and this should teach them to not be so superficial. To the average one, the world over, it is enough to let him know that by doing a certain act there is a certain and easy fortune for some one and you will have alarmed the world. The very worst part of it is, they come unprepared and without the least experience or financial nor moral influence but they want to go to the top and enjoy all the best without struggle or personal sacrifice. When they get their foot upon the neck of some other rising soul, they are more cruel than the average white person. They cannot seem to realize that they are killing the vine for a single bunch of grapes. If they wish to be respected, they must not only respect those whom they fear, but to respect themselves and those who are even dendent upon them. They must strive not only to keep the domestic service of other races but to keep all the meaners of their race out. The domestics of the South and other parts of the world, has caused other races to look upon the Negro as a race of lackles, Booker T. Washington said or confessed as much in his works. So is a similar confession made by all who say that they do not want to see social equality between the races. The whole thing indicates that their leaders are little, if any good. The poor wangs a good chance to thrive from honest labor, protection from maliciousness etc. One can never get by begging, what one can earn or struggling. 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ARDUX—a new preparation of pure ingredients—is bringing thousands of men and women the great charm of straight, shining hair, free from dandruff. Try a few applications of ARDUX and watch the effect—simply rub in a tittle and brush before retiring. It will allow the envy of your friends. It will add greenery to your hair. It invigorate and preserve your hair. If your dealer does not now carry ARDUX, send us and we will mail you a jar. TALMAGE MANUFACTURING CO. 710 N. Wells St., Chicago, Ill. Send us 60c. and we will mail a jar. FARMVILLE NOTES. Mrs. Martha M. Harris of Prospect, is spending some time with Mrs. Nannie Harvay. Miss Anna Reid, has been confined to her home a short time on account of illness but is able to be out again. Miss Rachel Greene of Sulphur Springs spent Saturday with Mrs. Nannie Harvey. Mrs. Mary Coles is better at this writing. The Elks gave their annual banquet at the hall Fr day night. Music was furnished by Miss Marien Hankins. Rev. Leftwitch conducted a Mock Conference Friday night at the First Baptist church. The affair was quite a success. Miss Evangeline Ward of Main St. gave a party at her home Tuesday night. Mrs. Lucy Cousins has gone to Gary West Va., to visit her daughter, Mrs. Hattie Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt Y. Scott of Amelia are the proud parents of a baby daughter. Mrs. Scott was formerly Miss Eile Ward of this city. Mrs. Martha Wade is able to be out after a long illness. Mrs. Martha Griffin and daughter, Virginia of Petersburg are visiting the former's parents Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Blue Mr. Wollen Scott has returned from a trip to Hagerstown, Md. He brought with him the children of his brother, who died recently in this city Miss Edna Ward and Miss Womack, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Ward. They returned to their school in Appomatox, Sunday evening. When you think of plies "mother used to make" go to Quarles Restaurant, Main Street. The Officers and members of the Beulah A. M. E. Church will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Church beginning Sunday March 5th, and ending Friday night, March 10th. Sunday sermon by Rev. W. W. Roberts, A. B., at 11 A. M. Sunday night program by local talent of the church and community. Monday night program by First Baptist Church Tuesday night program by Rev. Dr. Randolph and members of Race St. Church. Wednesday night program by Fraternal Societies. Thursday night program by Council of Colored Women. Friday night: Literary program by teachers and students of Public School. After the program Friday night a splendid banquet will be spread in the basement of the church. Price of admission 50 cents. Banquet tickets are now on sale. An offering will be lifted each evening. All are cordially invited. Committee of Arrangements: Mésdames Mary Holmes, M. G. Augustus; Pearl Madden; Nannie Picklett, Clara Robbins, Addie Holmes; Annie K. Vaughn, Miss --- Emma Griggs and Messrs. Nathaniel Griggs, Tom Anderson; Frank Holmes Wm. White, Jr.; Joseph Madden, Frank Holmes, Jr.; Clarence Blantz; Alfred Farrar and George Miles, Caterer Mr. Sam Watson. Rev. J. R. Augustus, Pastor; Mr. Nathaniel Griggs, Secretary. CONVECTS CONTRIBUTE TO NEAR EAST RELIEF. Richmond, Va. The fruit of months of bittor toll at the pitiful wage of ten cents a day, and representing more than 9,146 hours of hard labor, the convicts at the State penitentiary, led by Sidna Allen, today forwarded to the Near East Relief in Richmond through Superintendent J. B. Wood, of the Penitentiary, a check for $11.46 as a control toward the relief of the thousands of children in Armenia and Syria slowly starving because of the lack of a few dollars. Murderers bandits, robbers, confidence men, forgers, one and all they dug down into their pockets when Sid alan Allen, the last of the Allen boys, whose depredations, trial and punishment after the last appeal had failed, drew nation-wide attention, told them of conditions in the stricken lands of the Near East. Anything, from a days pay to the fruit of their toils for a month, was cheerfully given when men who looked death in the face with a smile for a few dollars without the flickering of an eyelash, or who defied all the powers of the law for a whim, felt the appeal of little hands out stretched pleading for a crust of bread and another chance to live. No one but inmates of the penitentiary were allowed to give a cent to the fund and contributions offered by prison guards and others were turned over to the Near East Telfel in a separate check. All gifts were entirely voluntary and the idea of raising the fund spring from Allen's mind without suggestion, from outside. "If every Virginian could but give a days pay to the poor children of Armenia whose only fault has been that they are the children of martyrce Christians, "state chairman Oliver J Sands said today in commenting upon the contribution, "the fund of $300,000 which must be raised in Virginia this year as this State's quota in the national drive would be raised quickly and something could be done to save the lives of others who have never been reached but who are dying with out food or clothing, driven from their homes into the cold like beasts. The imagination cannot depict conditions which would sweep away a race and leave only its children, destitute, harassed and oppressed by a nation whose only hope is that these children will die and be no more bother. As Virginians we should do something for these people. The convict has suggested a door by an example of self sacrifice; a days pay. I hope that every man in Virginia can help, at least to this extend." "TILL FIGHT ANYBODY," SAY DEMPSEY WITH JOVAL GRIN @ Student Number 1 4 Minus His Celebrated Ring Scowl and Looking Fit to Battle on Short Notice, Champion Declares He Must Have Work, Even as Taxi Driver. (By W. O. McGeehan.) Jack Dempsey blew into town with the blizzard yesterday looking for work. The heavyweight champion was in a merry mood. The celebrated ring scowl worn for the last time in action last July was ceased from his face, and there was a jovial grin under the conventional black iron derby hat. Like Mr. Gilbert's burglar when he not engaged in his occupation his capacity for innocent enjoyment is just as great as any other man's. Outwardly the champion looked fit for the ring on twenty-four hours' notice. All he seemed to have new was the shifting of the grin for the professional scowl and the other "logical contender" would be kissing the canvas. It is quite evident that Dempsey has not been living the life of Riley or Hollywood. Cal The immediate future of the champion perhaps is just as doubtful today as it has been since he deposited his share of the proceeds of the bout with Carpentier. There is a bare possibility that he may be matched with Jess Wibard at Boyle's Thirty Acres this summer. Jack Kearns has picked the venerable Jess as the most logical contender. In the meantime the champion craves employment, preferably in the art made famous by the late Marquis of Queensberry. Elevating the drama with five shows a day is not to the champions taste. WILL FIGHT ANYBODY "I'll fight anybody," declared Dempsey. "Surely, I'll fight Wills if they want me to and if Doc says the price is right." Doc is the nickname of Jack Kearns, who handles the business end. Dempsey concerns himself only with the artistic side. "I'm here to get some work and I am ready to take the best offer. If there is nothing in sight here I guess we will have to go to Europe. I have to get work even if I drive a taxicab or some thing." "That's right," agreed Kearns. "It is a terrible thing having a champion around doing no work. Jack must have work. It looks as though he would be driven from the United States for a while because of the lack of employment. I got some nice offers to bring him to Europe. I want to take him there for another reason to show up some of the English sporting writers like this fellow, George Bernard Shaw. I understand that this Shaw is the bird that said Jack didn't have a Chinaman's chance with Carpenter. I want Jack to flop Carpenter right into his lap when he gets there I want to show this fellow Shaw what a mug he really is about sports. From what I read about him he ought to be writing plays or says or something instead of sports. It takes a smart fellow to write sports right. "I've been doing plenty of work in the show business." Dempsey volunteered. "I boxed about fifteen rounds a day. I got enough work to keep me in condition, but it is tiresome work for pretty poor money. I want to fight." THE OLD MONROE TRICK Dempsey grinned broadly when he told the story of an attempt to put something over on him at Butte, Mont., where Jack Monroe was maneuvered into the ring against Jeffries while the Old Grizzly was on the same sort of tour that Dempsey had been taking. The canny miners of Butte had a champion named Mike Swanson, a person about the same bulk as Willard. Dempsey was passing through inviting the world in general to step up and be knocked out. Swanson was trained for weeks in advance to "pull the Monroe" as the cognoscentil of Butte termed it. But both Dempsey and Kearns had been warned that Swanson was bent on homicide, so Dempsey was ready. When Swanson came too he only asked feebly, "Who touched off the blast?" A Vancouver policeman with pugilis ambitions also gave the champion some cause for innocent merriment. The cop was earnest, so earnest that he filled the ring so full of arms and legs that Dempsey thought it was the entire force. He hit one of the chins that flow by him and the police force took the count. It is quite evident that Dempsey and Kearns are banking on Willard for the next big killing. There are still a lot of people he got started rdlu fgqfqfsh: of people who believe that Willard was spilled before he got started at Toledo and that he might have had a chance if he had not underestimated Dempsey. It's a free country and anybody who believes that should not be sentenced without a fair trial. MAY BECOME REFEREE It may be that Dempsey may permit himself to be a candidate for referee of the bout between Grob and Gibbons, who will box at the Garden under the patronage of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst for the milk fund. Dempsey is not keen for the honor but would like to assist he says. "Certainly, I would fight the winner in a minute," said Dempsey, "if the winner wants to fight and if anybody will offer a purse worth while. I want to fight as early and as often as possible. Why a champion has to fight or retire and there don't seem to be any sense in retiring at my age, does there? Jeffries retired, once, and look what happened." In the meantime it is to be hoped that Dempsey will find some work that will prevent him carrying out his desperate threat of driving a taxi to eke out a living. The traffic problem of New York is complicated enough as it stands. (New York Herald.) DO YOU KNOW HER? Any one who knows of the whereabouts of George Taylor, will please notify her sister, Margaret Taylor, 404 St. Mark Street, Petersburg, Va., as she is needed to settle important business. WILLS-DEMPSKEY FIGHT AWAITS ON PROMOTER. Boston, Feb. 21.—Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, the heavy weight champion and Paddy Mullins manager of Harry Wills, held a definite conference last night on the Dempsey-Will match. They agreed to at least this much: If any promoter comes forward who can guarantee them enough money and a location where they have the necessary protection, the match is on. Mullins called on Kearns at the latter's room in the Hotel Tourrain. They were closed together for an hour, discussing various phases of the match Dempsey wants to meet Wills. Wills wants to meet Dempsey. The managers are agreeable. RICKARD CURBED It now remains for some promoter to "smoke up" the public interest that may overcome official prejudice against the affair. Tex Rickard has gone on record as saying that his experience with the Johnson-Jeffries bout cured him of any desire to stage another big nill in which a colored man is involved. He says he was chased out of California and almost stopped again in Nevada at the last minute. Kearns and Mullins think that perhaps ten years may have softened the old prejudice, especially as Wills' demeanor has been above reproach. After the conference Mullins returned to New York. Both he and Kearns seem to be proceeding cheerfully on the theory that Wills will easily overcome Kid Norfolk at Madison Square Garden on March 2. If Norfolk should make Wills look bad then the match is apt to be spilled. Dempsey frankly admits the desire for a match and as frankly explains the reason. "I need the money," he said. "I've put a lot into investments in California and I want more. That's why I'm in the show business." THE SENATE RECORD ON HAITI SHOWS ATROCITIES. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, today announced that the record of the hearings held in Haiti by Senator McCormick's Committee had been received from Washington. Following are extracts from the testimony given before the Senators: Mr. A. J. Boco of Port au Prince said that Marines entered his house and wrecked it with blows of an axe and that he knew no reason for their doing so. Abbe Louis Maris' le Sidan, priest, of Thomazeau, testified that in August of 1919 some 250 or 300 houses in the village of Crochus were burned without warning by a party of Marines and Gendarmes under command of a lieutenant Wedor; that the inhabitants who fled in terror to the woods said their furniture was stolen by gen demars. Polidor St. Pierre of St. Hare testified that he was put in irons both hand and foot and was hung thus for five days without food or water, and tortured with a hot iron by order of a Captain Brown. J. Jolibois, fils of Port au Prince, testified that having been committed to prison for attacking the American occupation of Haiti in his newspaper, he was brutally beaten in prison. Mr. Volny Faultre of St. Mare testified that he saw the application of torture by electric current to make persons testify in the prison of St Mare in March 1919 Mr Dilton Victor of Miragoane testified he was confined in the prison of Miragoane for 27 days in November, 1917, and was hung to an iron bar by his wrists because he refused to lend a LLeut. Jackson his horse. Madame Exile Onexille of the section La Guajon testified that captain Kelly hung her husband to the rafters of their house and then set fire to the house burning the man. Mr. Charles Bussy Zamor former senator of Haiti, testified that Marin esole two of his mules and a Burro under orders of Col. Hodder and that he was driven from his own house. Mr. Eria Emanuel of section La Gua jon testified that he saw a white soldier or officer shoot his crippled brother and a boy aged 15. Mr. Mezier Belloni of Savanna Grande, commune of Maissade, testified that he had seen white Americans kill his father and mother in June of 1920. Mr. Joseph Diendonne of Herbes Guine in Maissade testified that a white officer William and a dandarme tied his nephew against a tree and burned him, and that he himself had been shot and his pigs, chickens and beef stolen. It will be remembered that the first public charges of atrocities in Haiti were made by Herbert J. Soligman and by James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. and were at first called absurd by the military authorities, including Josephus Daniels, at that time Secretary of the U. S. Navy. $100 Death Claim Paid. Richmond, Va., Feb. 27, 1922 Mr. A. W. Holmes, Supreme Mascer of the National Ideal Benefit Society. Dear Sir: I—wish to thank you and Sunbeam Lodge No. 3 of Richmond and the Supreme Lodge for the amount of $100.00 for the death claim of Evelina Watkins, through the kindness of your committee Sarah F. Fenell, Fannie M. Taylor. Signed: NEATON SMITH. 308 E. Clay St. $75 Death Claim Paid. Newport News, Va., Feb. 3, 1922 Mr. A. W. Holmes, Supreme Master, National Idol Benefit, Society, Richmond, Va. Your check for $75.00, was received with thanks to you and the Order. We are very grateful to you for the many kindnesses shown us in our distress. We also thank Eastern Light Lodge of which she was a member. (Signed) Witnesses BRENE MALLORY. CORA L. JENKINS. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BATOULA. Book Chat by Mary White Owington, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. By Rena Maran, Published in Paris Received the Prix Goncourt 1921 The book is in French, Paper Cover and can be secured Through the Cris is, 70 Fifth Avenue for $8.00. Postage Ten Cents.) In his preface, describing the section in equestrian Africa in which his novel is laid, Maran says: "It was a region rich in rubber and with a large population. It had many plantations and its people raised large numbers of chickens and kids. Seven years of foreign rule have been enough to ruin it completely. The villages have been destroyed the plantations have disappeared, the kids and the chickens are dead. The natives, weakened by excess sive toll, have not had the time to sow their crops. They have seen disease brought to them, famine overtake them and their population grow less." This is the key-note of the remarkable novel by Rone Maran that has been awarded the Prix Goncourt, the most coveted literary prize in France. Maran is a Frenchman born at Bordeaux of colored parents. His mother comes from Guadeloupe; his father from Martinique. After finishing his studies he took up his residence in a remote part of French equatorial Africa, two days' journey from Lake Chad as a colonial official. His novel was published before he left, but he did not know that friend had presented it for the Prix Goncourt and he may not know yet, so remote is he from France. He has also published two volumes of verse. It is a tremendous honor that has come to this young colored Frenchman and one turns eagerly to the volume that has been accorded* such a prize, but we look at Batoula as propaganda for the Negro we shall be sadly disappointed. It deplores a grossly sensuous tribe held in subjection by a brutal government. But as a picture of the horrors of imperialism it has never been surpassed. Savo in a short preface the author keeps himself and his opinions entirely in, the background and yet he says so much, here is an important ceremonial dance, described with horrible detail, that takes place when the white commandment is away and in the midst of the excitement Batoula, the chief; cries against the French. In a few pages he gives the history of a peaceful agricultural people brought into the bondage of Europ an commercial greed. "We are nothing but flesh out of which taxes may be ground. We are nothing but beasts of burden, Beasts? Not even that! The white man will feed a we and care for a horse. But we We are less than these animals, we are lower than the lowest. The white men are slowly killing us." And to this his cynical old father, cries: "Let us whine less and drink more," and thanks the French for their zilt, of absinthe. Batouala in his dying dollrulum, tells of what he hates in fae whites, their lying, their cruelty, their unreasonableness; their hypocrisy. And he cries out against taking the Negro to far off lands to fight for a savage of the whites and if they protest they are imprisoned or hung. "There are no surge nor chiefs, whites or blacks, only men and all men are brothers." So he gives his philosophy. And in the meanwhile the French comment, who has been asked for medical aid to help save this chief's life, replies with charming cander that he should be glad to have Batouala die and all his people with him. The plot of Batouala is the eternal French triangle, a husband, a wife, and a lover. The husband the chief Batouala has a favorite wife, Yassigunja who becomes enamoured of his friend Bissibingul. The husband in his jealousy determines to kill Bliss Bissibingul and when they are together in the hut, "and such a'marvellous description of hut as this" throws his knife at his rival while appearing to throw it at a palter who is near Bissibingul. The knife misses its aim and the panther turns upon Batouala and with one stroke of his paw tears upon his body. The end of the great chief is magnificent. He is silent after the delirium in which he inveighs against the French. Only his little dog is with him a snarling little red dog, one of the most real figures in the story. It is night. (Yassigunjuja is in her hut and with her his rival. He sees them embracing one another. His fearless gives him strength and rising to his feet like an infant taking its first steps, he advances toward the pair who rush apart and stand against the wall, their teeth chattering with terror. But Batoula has no further strength and like a great tree in the forest, he falls to the ground. "At the sound the ducks quack, the hens cackle; the little red dog growls without opening his eyes the ants, at work in their houses in the brown earth make a grating sound And Yassigunjuja and Blissibingul flee into the night. Little by little the sounds die away and sleep falls upon all. Silence and solitude keep watch. Batoula, the majesty night is over you. Sleep! Sleep!" The book is great. Literature but it describes things sexual with a particularity that is untranslatable. One who has read much of Africa knows, however, that the great festival that under French rule has become merely an orgy, once had a deep religious significance. The story, pictures a primitive people corrupted by European influence, between two worlds, one dead and the other not yet born. And if the French ever do bring spiritual life to courantial Africa if Christ and not the devil of commercial exploitation ever rule in it, few natives, if we are to credit Maran, will profit by the change Every year they are dying at the hands of that modern civilization that white men are taught not-to question but to uphold and revive. $2.00 sent to this office will place The Planet in your house THE DOINGS OF THE Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. men be sure that you want to do things like Christ the founder of the work. Everybody who attended the class for the explanation of the Sunday School was helped last Saturday; the very purpose of the class—Information and not discussion. Watch the spirit of the hour. Last Sunday brought much joy to the boys and men of the Y. M. C. A. be cause of the service that they rendered to others. 930 A. M. workers held special prayer service and their strength was renewed for service. The committees were very active in the penitentiary, jail and city home -10 A. M. and the results were many. 4 P. M. at the building the boys gath er to hear Prof. J. H. Rhorer who gave them an address which is now burning upon their minds. Subject: The Boy A King, President Daniel test ed the boys before closing the meeting and they proved that, they had given the very best of attention to the speak er. Songs were right from the fire. Pianist, Master Joseph Hobson. The men found that they were more than paid for coming to the meeting for men 5:30 P. M. at the building to hear President A. W. Folmes who gave them an address from a full life of ser vice Subject: Battlefing for the Right at any Cost. The songs were sung with the spirit. President Eobert P. Daniel conducted the meeting. Our General Secretary was called to serve others in one of the churches. Be on time today 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building 3rd and Leigh Sts., to hear the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. Men come out Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. The workers are asked to be on time 9:30 A. M. at the building to get together meeting for service. Every boy is invited to the special meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the building. Now for the launching of the spring meetings 5:30 P. M. for men at the Y. M. C. A. Rev. W. S. Jackson, District Superintendent of the Washington Conference will address the men. Subject Lost in the Temple. Special music, Pianist Mr. George. W. Howell, Coord. and see that another man comes too. Do not fail to hear the speaker. Still the Y. M. C. A. is asking gfor prayer. The hour demands it. Please hear us. BLACKSTONE NEWS. There was good attendance at Shiloh Sunday, not withstand it was raining all day. The banquet in honor of Rev. R. W. Ashburne and his better half was a grand occasion. Rev. Ashburne is one preacher who has certainly gotten his flowers while he lives, not only by sister pastors, as Rev. A. H. Neal, Rev. G. W. King Rev. A. H. Wynn, Rev. Mc Neal; Rev. Wilson, Rev. Thomas, Rev. Harrison Bagley, Prof. Botts, and a large number of other friends were loaded down with good things that should make him feel good as he leaves his old home of eighteen years stay. God bless him in his new field. The doctors are still busy attending many who are still confined. Miss Bennett Greenhill is quite sick. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Greenhill is much better. Mr. Paul Greenhill has just returned from Richmond, attending the funeral of one of his friends. The farmers are beginning to stir in the way of another crop, if the old sign is true, concerning a cold winter and snows, for a good crop. It is encouraging. The oldest store in town is known as "Old Uncle Green Fitzgerald's Stand." It is still being run by his son, W. H $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Newport News, Va., Dec. 18 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 Ellis Jefferson who was a member of Star of the East Lodge No. 58 of Newport News, Va. Signed: BIDDIE A. JEFFERSON. Beneficiary. Witnesses: WILLIE FORD. E. REID. GEORGE JULIAN. E. S. KEEN D. D. G. C. Read The Planet and keep informed as to what our Race is doing in world and domestic affairs MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE APPLY TO Mechanics Savings Bank JOHN MITCHELL, JR., PRESIDENT Fitzgerald. He carries a nice line of groceries and especially that same line of good beef is always on hand. The pastor of Jone's Church, Rev. Wm. Thompson is still reported very ill at St. Mamoral Hospital. The Hub Pressing club is doing fie under the management of Mr. Wavely Cartwright. Also Mr. James Jack so1 who has been in the same business for years is still holding his trade. Mr. Munford Bagley's remains will reach here Wednesday. He will be buried in the Family Cemetery. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES. Newtown, Va., Feb. 28.—The services at Mt. Olive were very largely attended last Sunday notwithstanding the very inclement weather. Mrs. Wm. Robinson left for Philadelphi last Thursday. Mr. Wm. Baylor, while unloading wood a few days ago had his leg caught under a log and painfully injured. Mrs. Luther Pollard has been sick for the past few weeks. The many friends of Mrs. Peachie Carter are glad to see her out again. Mr. M. Vaughan slipped out of the door a few nights ago and injured his leg. Mrs. Lella Howard who has been sick for some time is a little improved. Mr. and Mrs. John Dabney are the proud parents of another son. Miss Lue Hill who has been in poor health for some time is still on our sick list. 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The office of the President of the United States is not only the highest position in the gift of the American people, but it is the highest as well as the most representative in the world; and the man who fills this exalted position is required both by the Constitution and the expectation of the people to be a man large enough in heart and soul to know no faction, race, creed or religion, but to be truly the representative of every element of people entering into our cosmopolitan population. The President is expected to stand true to form and to be able to issue justice and right to all men, to be a little above partisanship, to possess no hatred, malice or prejudice but to have an impartial mind, and be president of all the people. In short, to be the embodiment of Abraham Lincoln, breathing his soul in his everyday conduct of the administration of public affairs. The rule of fitness is to be the stand ard by which the president is expected to measure governmental officials and a steady, even-handed enforcement of the law so far as lies in his constitutional power, ought to be his policy. He is to administer the government that Lincoln lived and died for, for the people, of the people and by the people. The least thing the people can expect of the President is to be consistent, is to neither contradict, stultify nor double cross himself. Sunday morning, when the people awoke and read his address before the Lincoln Society Saturday night, in which he appealed for party harmony, party loyalty and the integrity of party organization, they were at a loss to reconcile the utterances of Politician Harding with the conduct of President Harding. In his campaign before the election, Candidate Harding made a strong appeal for party responsibility, party sponsorship, party loyalty, and uttered on more than one occasion that he believe in government by parties; but when he became President, he did not live up to the doctrine enunciated as candidate for President. Instead of trying to preserve party harmony and party organization, it has been his policy as President to disorganize, create confusion, discriminate and array race against race, class against class. He has done the unheard of and the unprecedented thing. The proceedings inaugurated in Georgia and wherever the colored man's politics interest was involved have been the most high-handed, dictorial and arbitrary in the political history of our country. In the state of Georgia, the Republicans, following a precedent of fifty years, in 1920 elected a Republican organized organization and seventeen delegates to the Chicago Convention. These delegates thereby making the organization that elected them regular and so stamped by the highest political authority in the party—the National Republican Convention, from whose de clusion there is no appeal. This same convention nominated Mr. Harding and the organization selected by said convention elected him president and the organization in Georgia, which was stamped as regular, but which was outlawed by Mr. Harding after his election, contributed in every way possible to his election. It gave money, time and means. But forgetting that he had said in his address of acceptance, "I believe in party sponsorship in government, I be lieve in party government as distinguished from personal government, individual, dictatorial, autocratic or what not," he proceeded to outlaw the organization in Georgia, because it was most largely constituted of colored men by setting up a pump organization; by coming into the state and selecting from Washington a group of white men who had never affiliated with or professed to be Republicans and designated them as a committee of one hundred This committee was presided over by a Mr. Miller from Minnesota, who was aided and abetted in the conspiracy to dethrone, disorganize and disrupt the party organization in the state by Joe Kealing of Indiana, Bill McGinnis of Ohio, and Charles Houson of Tennessee. The people, when they read of the President's conduct in Georgia and his policy of disruption by encouraging ill whites to exclude all Negroes from party council, will take with a grain of salt all of his sayings in Washington Saturday night about party government, party loyalty, and that he would rather see some of the old time party loyalty than to have the party policy that we have sometimes nowadays. Mr. Hardling will easily go down in history as a party wrecker, as a disorganizer, as a discriminator against American citizens because of their race or color. Mr. Hardling has made hold and has alienated ninety-eight percent of the Negroes in this country from the Republican party. His policy of discrimination, of prescription and his declaration that he would not appoint any Negroes to office because they were Negroes, and his failure to recognize Henry Lincoln Johnson—the only colored member of the National Committee, in dispensing patronage in this state—has taught the Negro that he must make new political alliances. Mr. Hardling has not hesitated to say he wanted white leadership in party affairs, and the Negro must take a back seat; he must not try to be a white man, but must make the very best black man of himself that he can; that it is not a question of votes with Mr. Hardling it is a question of color, if we are to believe his public utterances The President's Saturday night utterances are in keeping with his campaign utterances, but his policy as President is in direct contravention of both his Saturday night utterances and his campaign promises. In other words, President Harding double crosses Candidate Harding and Political Harding. As candidate, he was talking for office. As a politician, he is trying to mend broken fences. At any rate, his leadership is a failure and so far is nothing outstanding $I_n$ his administration. The Negroes of this country, 13,000,000 strong, will cast at least 4,000, votes for the next President of the United States and unless the Republican party checks the leadership of Mr. Harding a Waterloo will meet them in November, 1924 as great as the Waterloo which overtook Candidate Cox who ran on a dry platform with a wet plant on it. The Negro has settled every debt he owed to the Republican party, and will not stand for the party when it deserts the doctrine of Lincoln and forsakes the soul of the great emancipator. It is sacrilege for President Harding to refer to the party and policies of Lincoln. McKinley and Roosevelt, Mr. Lincoln stood upon the platform that all men were born equal and entitled to freedom, and that the nation could not endure long half slave and half free, and in support of that doctrine he emancipated b y proclamation 4,000,000 souls and backed up that proclamation with the entire army and navy of the United States. McKinley took the position and died for it, that any class of people woe were entitled to vote were entitled to be voted for, and in the distribution of federal patronage, his rule was fitness and not one of partisan and race hate in any community. Roosevelt perpetuated the policies of Lincoln and McKinley and preached the doctrine of up with all men rather than down with some men; that the door of hope should not be shut in the face of any man but the highest reward in the gift of the American people should be held out to the humblest citizen as an encouragement for the development of the most useful and helpful character. Living up to these principles established by Lincoln, enunciated by McKinley, he appointed men to office with out regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude. Mr. Harding is the only man who has ever been President, who took the position that he would not appoint a colored man to any position where he was objectionable to white men. If he were fair, he would take the position that he would not appoint any white man to a position where he is objectionable to colored men. Every UPresident, including the two Democratic Presidents, since 1876, has appointed, Negro men to statutory positions except Warren G. Harding, who promised the Negro more than all the Presidents since Lincoln's death Verily, the President not only double crossed himself, but stultifies his own public utterances by both his speech and his conduct as President. As a candidate, the Negro was everything—as President, he is nothing. As a politician, he enunciates before the Lincoln Society a compromise. He strikes at the primary and seeks to re-establish the old convention system. Verily, the President is without a policy or the element of political leadership. Verily, he double crosses himself. (Atlanta Georgia Independent.) FULTON NOTES. The Mt. Calvary Baptist Sunday School has on a Campaign for new members. Will you become one of them? Please answer this question, by your presence tomorrow at 9:30 A.M. Last Sabbath, very encouraging remarks were made by our pastor Rev. C. A. Cobbs, Brother W. J. Jackson, Descow Nuthantiel Yates, the President of the Teacher's Training Class, also spoke. Mrs. Laura Trimmell Best, the Superintendent of the cradle roll department, who reported 18 pupils or recruits to that department assisted by the Assistant Superintendent, Rev. Mrs. Alice Tuck. 11:30 A.M. we listened to a well profound sermon, from our pastor, who used as his theme: "The Valley of Dry Bones." All of our hearts seemed to be lifted by the expression on our faces. Our pastor emphasized the importance of Hearing the Word of God. We had present Mr. Sutherland, a white friend of our community. He seemed to enjoy the way and manner of our worship of the Lord. Many of our members and friends were absent on account of the funeral of Sister Selma Robinson which was held at our sister church, Rising Mt. Zion. Sister Robinson was a faithful member of the Rising Mt. Zion and one of the oldest citizen's of our community. Well thought of by Fulton as a whole. 8:30 P.M. our pastor used as his theme for discussion: "Miracles of Egypt." He had before him the members of the Training Class of the Sunday School, who was instructed by their teacher Miss Alma Logan, to take notes on the same. Our pastor seem to like such way, because of the interest manifested by our teacher, in trying to enlighten the minds of her students. Tomorrow at 11:30 A. M. Rev. Cobbs will use as the basis for his discourse "Whether you can be Holy and live here or not." Let us come out in large numbers 3:30 P. M., will be our Communion services. Everyone is invited. Sunday, March 12th, at 8:15 there will be a Sacred Concert at the Church, given by the Rosary Art Circle. I know you will not miss such a rare treat. We have a good number sick. Let us call to see them The Richmond Baptist Sunday School Union, will convene at the 5th Baptist Church tomorrow, at 3:30 P. M. Rev. A. D. Daly, pastor, Deacon J. L. Brown Superintendent of S. S. A unique program has been arranged for the occasion including the orchestra of the 6th Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday School. Sunday School Board meetings, 2nd Thursdays in each month. 8:30 P.M. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph.D., pastor; J. L. Ballard, president of the Sunday School Union, C. B. Jefferson, Corre pondent Secretary. RISING MT. ZION NOTES. Last Friday night marked the culmination of our evangelistic services. In reality they are ended but in fact they are still in progress for the saving of souls should be forever in the minds of the people. Last Sunday morning was the regular morning service. Quite a number were present altho we realized that His servant was a little warm after fighting valiantly for two weeks. The baptizing will be at an early date and the pastor requests that all candidates be in readiness. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria. State Grand Lodge, No. 6 of Virginia, ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT. Issued the First Policy October 29th, 1901. SIX MONTHS CAMPAIGN commencing Dec. 1, 1921 and ending May 31, 1922. 3000 New Members Wanted, Adults $100.00 in Gold to be given away in Prizes. Lodges and Classes regulate their joining fees. Sick Benefits, Adults $3.00 per week from the Lodge. Death Benefits, Adults $100.00 and Juveniles $40.00 from Grand Lodge. Policies One-fourth immediate benefits. Have written 24,634 adult policies and 2,513 Juvenile Certificates of Membership. Paid 2,181 Death claims to the amount of $162,353.00. Claims Paid promptly. Ask the Undertakers. What we have done for others we will do for you. Die and try. Join now and become one-fourth immediately benefited. C. F. HUBBARD. J. W. THOMPSON. 700 N. 17TH STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Thos. D. Rodgers, Pres.; W. A. Price, Treas.; Nathaniel Roy, Mgr. R. W. G. Chief, 1202--15th St. Lynchburg, Va. DAY PHONE, RAN. 4903 W. A. PRICE FUNERAL DIRECTORS Spacious Rooms for Meet OFFICE AND W 700 N. 17TH STREET, Thos. D. Rodgers, Pres.; W. A. Pr tended as usual. Nevertheless that did not waver the excellent spirit that for ever manifest itself in our Sunday School. With the oncoming of Spring it is the desire of the Superintendent that each class will increase. At 11:30 the last tribute of respect was paid to our co-worker and friend for many years, Mrs. Selma Robinson The church was packed to its utmost capacity, nor was this a surprise nor everyone who knew her regretted the death of so great a friend. The pastor preached a wonderful sermon, portraying in glowing and well chosen words the life and works of such a one, whose christian life was exemplified in her every act. With equal regret are the hearts of the people of this vicinity over the death of Mr. Ellis Fisher. Funeral service was held at the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Tuesday evening. UNION LEVEL NOTES We enjoyed a splendid treat in our Sunday School, Sunday morning. Our Superintendent, Brother Joyco was at his post on time. Our pastor's wife, Mrs. C. A. Bush, was able to be in Sun Day School for the first time and took charge of her class of girls. Our pastor took charge of the singing and every one seemed to be happy and lifted towards heaven. At 11:30 he preached from Rev., using for his subject: "The Word of God, a Sure Guide. His sermon was full of power and our hearts were indeed filled with joy. At 3:30 clock our Sunday School had a literary program and we all enjoyed a splendid treat from the children. We also enjoyed a splendid duet from Rev. Mrs. Alice Tuck and Mrs. Robinson our organist. A fine recitation from Rev. Mrs. Clarke. They are some of our best friends and we invite them to come again. At 8 o'clock our pastor preached from the 91st Psalm. His text was: He shall cover thee with his feathers." and under his wings shall thou trust. This sermon was full of spirit and power and our pastor preached and sang as never before and we all went home with our hearts on fire. We are proud to say without the least contradiction that Union Level Baptist Church has called a fire brand from the altar, a man that truly hates sin, and we are proud to say, that he is not afraid to strike it when he sees it. 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