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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library COL. ROBERT KERLIN STARTLES RICHMOND WITH GREAT SPEECH ADDRESSSES AN ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE AT MASS MEETING The subject of Dr. Kerlin's address was "Dreams and Dreamers." In the course of his lecture he showed that all great things through the ages had been dreams before their realization. He pictured himself a dreamer. Quoting Dr. Kerlin, "I have a vision that some day this great mistake of an equality will be swept away. I will save my people from a growing bitterness and estrangement. I dare to dream these things like the dreamers of old. I dare to aspire to be a friend of humanity and I am never ashamed of being a friend of the Negro or of championing his cause. I stand for the true America, the America that knows no interracial difference." Dr. Kerlin proved himself a real scholar of the American Negro. He quoted Fluenty from Fulton Lawrence Dunbar, Lacun B. Washburn, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Sojourner Truth, Jessie Faucer and numbers of other talented Negro authors. He quoted names, figures and facts about the Negro that astonished her well-pleased audience. Speaking of Booker T. Washington, Dr. Kerlin said: "We think him as a builder, but let me tell you that back of these 1,000 buildings, back of those 10,000 students, back of those 100,000 acres, back of it all is a dream and what a wonderful dream it was, and what a wonderful future yet to be realized. Two days ago I visited the monument in Washington, dedicated to Lincoln. As I stood there and gazed at those wonderful treasures of Abraham Lincoln, and I thought of the great heart and soul of that noble man, my thoughts wondered to another. I thought of another monument, that a few months ago was unvailed in Tuskegee, the monument of Booker T. Washington." Dr. Kerlin then pictured Lincoln as the true emancipator of the Negro, in that the spiritual and intellectual emancipation was greater than the physical. Dr. Kerlin is a polished speaker, a profound thinker, a student of history, literature and the Bible. He pities his white brothers, because he says they are totally unformed on the question of the Negro. This friend of Humanity has consented to come to us again and it is hoped by the members of the N. A. A. C. P, that a large and appreciative audience will hear him. On June 18th, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock the N. A. A. C. P will hold a meeting in interest of their membership drive, at the First Baptist Church, South Richmond, the pastor will speak at that time. DO WELL IN BIG MEETS. (Preston News Service) (President News Service) Washington, D. C. May 31.—Track and field athletics of Howard University and Dunbar. Armstrong and Shaw High Schools are accumulating quite a collection of medals and caps earned in competition with other prominent colored institutions. The latest additions to the lot were garnered in the Hampton Institute games at Hampton, Va., where Howard's team scored 46 points to finish second to Hampton in the collegiate class, and Dunbar made 19, Armstrong 11 and Shaw 5 for second, third and fourth positions on the scholastic division headed by Botdentown, (N. J.) Manual Training School. Howard's most impressive victory was in the mile inter-collegiate relay. The Washington team pointed the way to Hampton and Virginia Union University in good time. Raymond Conlee, of Howard, won the mile; Evans, a team mate, the two mile run and Anderson another Howard man, the javelin throw. In the scholastic events, Drew of Dunbar won the pole vault and high jump; while Levi of Armstrong took the half-mile run. ALLEN—A token of love to the memory of my dear friend, Annie Madison who departed this life two years ago. Just a thought of sweet remembrance. Just a memory fond and true; Just a token of affection. Add a heartache still for you. —IRENE POOLF COMMONWEALTH LODGE, A. T. A. M. ELECTS OFFICERS. The I. Gugular Communication of Commonwealth Lodge No. M, A. P. A. M., was tried on Friday night, June 12th in the Masonic Temple on Clay Street near Sixth. This being the occasion on the eleventh of officers of the n. ten, the following officers were elected: James A. Walker, W. M.; Nedley Henderson, S. W.; Ellis A. Drummond, J. W.; John W. Williams, S. D. Norman A. Wood, J. D.; John H. Meyery Secretary; J. H. Moore Secretary; W. F. Mason; Titer; Names Huss, and James C. Baker, Stewarts. After the election of officers the judge reported to the dining room of the couple where an elaborate stair was set up by Mr. E. R. Whitley, the cousin, caterer. In appreciation of the service of the retiring Master Mr. Currance T. Hill, who declined reelection because of his impending change at residence the judge presenten him with a beautiful Past Master's Jewel, The expressions by the associates of the new Past Master of Commonwealth Lodge on his faithful and efficient service while Master of the Lodge were very compi-mentary, and the opinion was received by the persons participation in the exercises that Mr. Hall had made Commonwealth Lodge one of the best Masters in its history. Short addresses were delivered by the following gentlemen: P. M. M. P. Tyler, M. M. C. E. Hull P. M. J. H. Moore, Grand High Priest Royal Arch Mason; Col. Geo. W. Richerson; W. J. Coleman, James H. Amons, and John H. Mabrey. Commonwealth Lodge enters into the new year with a splendid record of achievement and prosperity and under the new administration expects to maintain to the high standard set by the closing administration. Banking Committee; W. S. Cowan; C. M. Kemp and J. St. J. G54a. WALKER AGENTS TO MLET IN RICHMOND REGIONAL CONFERENCE 15TH AND 16TH A cell has been issued by the Madane C. J. Walker Mk. Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana, for its Agents of the Fifth Regional District comprising the States of Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia and Delaware to meet at the 5th Street M. E. Church, Richmond, Va. June 15th and 16th, for the purpose of discussing ways and means of how to better serve the public, their large number of patrons and to learn the latest modes of beauty culture. Scientific lectures and demonstrations will be given and officers will be elected for the conference, which is a part of the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker Agents—which will meet in Baltimore, Md., August 16, 17th and 18th. A large attendance at the Conference is expected and representatives from the General Offices of the company will be present. Every Walker Agent in the city and the above named state is urged to attend. All injuries will be answered at adressed to Mrs. Parselan Gaddy, 299 North 6th Street, Fitchburg, Va. --- Y. W. C. A. NOTES. On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Susie Williams will have charge of the program for the Vesper hour. No interesting program is being arranged and we invite you to come and enjoy it. Watch for the announcement for Vespers for the third and fourth Sundays. The Girl Reserves are planning the programs for these services. We regret that so many of those who were to take part on the program, our last Sunday did not come. We understand that they were prevented by unavoidable causes. The Instrumental solos by Master Davis and Miss Mira Harper were well rendered. To complete our hour of service a song, service was led by Dr. Dessie Tharpe. The Health Education class will give a demonstration on Monday afternoon June 12th, at 6:45 o'clock at Johnson's Auftorium. We are hoping that a large number of friends will be present to see the excellent work of this class. No admission. Those wishing to attend can secure tickets free from the members or from the "Y". Our Tennis Court is now ready. We invite those wishing to use our court to do so. Come and see us so we can arrange for your group. Opens Office Here. The National Benefit Life Insurance Company of Washington has opened a local office in the Mechanics Savings Bank building with Mr. L. C. Brown as local manager. The agents of this company have begun work and report substantial progress. This is one of the largest insurance concerns in the country. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1922 BORAH COMMITTEE TO DRAFT NEW BILL JR DICARY COMMITTEE WILD ASSUME DUTY OF THE U. S. SUPREME COURT (COLUMBIA NEWS SERVICE) Washington, D. C., June 2, 2012 Myer Ant-Lynching Bill may be referred back to subcommittee for ratification and may eventually be reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar according to speed from the capital. It is claimed that in view of the legislative join it the Senate however, there seem little prospect of the bill being enacted into law at the present session. A subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee leaded by Senator Bern contends that the bill is unconstitutional in its present form. Borah has been joined by Senators Overman in a demonstration of North Carolina and Shields in an oath of Tennessee. The other members, Senator Sterling, a re-published of South Dakota, Delaware, and a republished of Vermont, are not told not to be in complete agreement but to be the bill might well be posed and not subjected to a vote before the Supreme Court of the United States. Borah and his associate contend that it would be useless and a waste of time as a case in Alabama has already been denied by the tribunal. Alexander P. Moore, Editor of the Pittsburgh, (Pa.) Trader, plays the subcommittee for its "traiture and practice." Every Negro in the United States should send copy of editor Moore's editorial to 72 senators. The editorial follows: "FAILURE AND NEGUE T" "A study of the word 'Failure' ought to be interesting to garden variety citizens while grave and learned senators are anticipating the judgment of the supreme court of the United States on the validity of the Dyer Bill to penalize lynching. Even the schoolboy thinks he knows what failure means. He has had some experiences with failures of tenures to observe. Men in business have some conception of what failure means. In fact, everybody knows what an instance when the world is wicked. When we get into the field of nation al legislation, and the territory occupied by the constitution of the United States, we begin to get some delicately shared definitions of failure. When we discuss the enforcement of the con situation we find a wide gap separating failure and slobborn neglect. To the garden variety man they have identical efforts, whether there is a synonymity or not in the value of the words. If a state should fail to preserve the constitution and the laws based upon conditions, the Federal government would claim the right to gather such state and assume control and directive. The United States government in fact, has done that very thing. The legal defense for the action is that when an individual state's resources are insufficient to keep the constitution operating the federal government is bound by its obligations to assume the duty and simplify the necessary force. If the United States government found that the mails cannot pass through any state because the state's power is unequal to the job of protecting the mails, the federal government could send a force of the army into the state. The same course might be followed if the states made no attempt to keep the way open for the transportation of mail. That the movement of the mails is a government function is a mere legal quibble. The real issue is between the failure of a state to cooperate with the federal government in enforcing the privileges of all. Vet when the lives of citizens are left without protection within state borders we are told the federal government has neither legal nor moral right to interfere. It is all right to protect the mails, but protecting the lives of citizens must not be thought of. It is against the expressed provisions of the United States Constitution for the United States to make life safe for its citizens. Why, in that elder day it were greater to have been a Roman citizen than to have been king. We are told that if a state refuses to honor the privileges guaranteed to citizens by the constitution the United States cannot interfere. That is the judgment of senators learned in constitutional law. Put in another way, the every day style the concrete effect of this judgment is that the United States constitution is good only to those who voluntarily respect it. The United States cannot compel respect. Set out in the simplest terms, this judgment means that the United States constitution has no meaning. The constitutional lawyers may find distinctions without difficulty. The common (A Sonnet) Robert D. Crawley. The public right to guard the common weal From thief and ruffian, nought but maniac zeal Will deny, while every worthy cause Rests in the proper sanction of the laws. But when will men the Christian lesson learn, That 'tis not theirs to throttle and to burn Their brother sinner to his mortal hurt, Only because they doom it his desert? If no stern need with loud imperious call, Demand the torrent be it great or small. Let not your heart usurp the sacred throne. Of those who said that vengeance was his own! In meek submission drop the uplifted tool. And leave the sinner to the sinner's gaze. RICH DUKE only at the effects. And invariably why there is no law that can be forced to operate to protect the lives of citizens in the United States. The Trial Bill is pronounced unconstitutional, because it proposes to save Negro citizens from not murder." NOTICE TO CONTESTANTS A person who enters the correct for the free tree Picture Puzzle will get prizes as follows: If a person wins the first prize enters. the correct for the free live Picture Puzzle will get prizes as follows: If a person wins the first prize and does not send an any subscribers at all, the prize will be $3.60. If one year's subscription of $2.06 is sent in with the answer this same person would get has a first prize, $15.00. If this person, who had won the first prize, sent in two years' subscription (that is $4.00) with the answer, the first prize would be $25.00. If this person sent in three years' subscription, including one new subscriber, ($6.00) with the answer, the prize would be $35.00 instead of $3.00, and if the person had sent in four years' subscription, including two new subscribers, with the answer, instead of receiving $2 as the first prize the con estant would receive $50.00 at the first prize. This applies similarly to all of the other prizes. --- —Alfred C. Gibson, 12 Tank Street, Newark, N. J., wargs all 11kis in Virginia to correspond with him about arrangements for the great Elks Meeting there. —Mr. Samuel Richardson, Business Manager, Charleston, S. C. Messenger at present Advocate agent for the Jonks Orphanage Band and Jubilee Singers was in the city this week. —Dr. L. A. Jackson of Orange, Vn., was in the city this week. He is arranging to locate in the West End and engage in the practice of medicine here. Mr. Robert D. Crawley, of South Richmond, who has been indisposed is improving. Mrs. Alberta J. Stevenson who has been sick for the past three weeks, is out again and wishes to thank her many friends for the kindness shown her during her illness. --- THE WOMAN'S BAPTIST STATE EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION. The Wqman's Baptist State Educational Convention of Virginia will meet June 21st, 1922 at the Washington Street Baptist Church, of Bedford City, Va. Rev. Gray, pastor. Mrs. Ellis Davis, president of Alding Society, 555 South street. All persons expecting to attend, should send in their names at once. Board and lodging will be one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per day. Those coming over the Chesapeake or the Southern Railroads will change at Lynchburg, Va. Fare from there is Ninety (90) Cents. MRS. M. W. RICHARDSON. Corresponding Secretary. DYER ANTI-LYNCHING BILL IS SAVED AFTER CRISIS IN SENATE SECRETARY JOHNSON'S REPORT OF WEEK IN WASHINGTON. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, H, R, R, is saved. This was the statement of James Weldon Johnson Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 50 Fife Avenue, New York, who returned to New York from Washington on Friday May 26th, after spending a week fighting for the Dyer Bill through the met-critical stage of its exile. During that time an unfavorable report on the Dyer Bill by the Judicial Committee of the Senate on Monday, May 22nd, was narrowly averted, and the Republican leaders of the Senate were convinced that favorable action was absolutely essential. During this week in the national capital the N. A. C. P. Secretary was in constant conference with Senators Borah, Lodge Curtis, Capper, Calbler, Ernst, Shotridge, Sterling, M cornell, Dillingham and Watson, and with Representatives Dyer, Burton and Madden. As a result of the secretary's efforts not only has an unfavorable report been averted but the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, May 24th, met and decided to postpone action for two weeks during which time efforts would be devoted to making the Bill absolutely unassailable when it is brought upon the floor of the Senate. Senator Bob said to the Secretary before he left Washington that if there was anything he SSenator Borah) could do to save the life of a single N. gro from a mob, he would do it. During Mr. Johnson's week in Washington he presented to the members of the Committee on the Judiciary and leading Republican Senators briefs on holding the constitutionality of the Dyer Bill, prepared by Moorfield Story and by James A. Cobb, Chairman of the legal committee. Washington Branch N. A. A. C. P. A third brief was sent to the Senate by William L. Lewis, formerly assistant U. S. Attorney General who had been requested by Mr. Johnson to do so. A fourth brief was sent to the Senate by Butler S. Wilson, secretary of the Boston Branch N. A. A. C. P. In the course of the week at Washington, the N. A. A. C. P. Secretary made clear to Republican leaders that a failure to act favorably on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill would have three disastrous results: 1. It would constitute a confession on the part of the Federal Government of inability to deal with America's shame and would leave the Negro hopeless of that protection against the mob owed him by the government to which he gives his allegiance. 2. It would be interpreted as a he cause to mobs and might be followed by a reign of lynching terror too horrible to be described. 3. It would be a repudiation of the pledge made by the Republican Party in its national platform that action would be taken on lynching, and would more than anything else discredit Lat party among colored voters. Mr. Johnson pointed out to the Republican leaders in Washington that primary elections in several states had shown the strong sentiment for the Dyer Bill, a sentiment it would not be safe to ignore. In Indiana, Senator Riverside, who had indored the BILL had been elected governor over Senator New. In Pennsylvania, Gifford Pichot had been elected over Mr. Alter who had opposed the Dyer Bill. In conclusion Mr. Johnson issued the In conclusion Mr. Johnson issued the following statement: "Every colored man and woman in the United States ought to make if their primary business to see that the Dyer Anti-Jenny Billing Ch. R. 13 is passed by the Senate. Six human beings, all of them Negroes, were burned at the stake in the United States during the fifteen days in the month of May, 1922. If that is not enough to stir colored Americans to united action then nothing will or can. The Nation at Association for the Advancement of Colored People offers everyone an opportunity to work for the Dyer Bilt. Telegraph your Senator. Join the N. A. A. C. P. Write us for information if you want it at 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. Do it now or, in victory or defeat, remember you had opportunity to take part in a great fight and failed. Remember, this is the time to act." --- Will Discuss Capital Punishment. Dr. W. H. Stokes will discuss "Capital Punishment" at a special session of the Y. M. C. A. Saturday Evening Class, on the evening of Saturday, June 17, at six o'clock. The public is invited. TROTTER ANSWERS JOHNSON ON DYER BILL. William Monroe Trotter, national correspondent secretary of the National Equal Rights League, Rev. M. A. N. Shaw, president, was sent to J. W. Johnson, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., a denial of the truth of the charges made in the personal attack on him in the letter sent to the colored press by the Association last week and published in this paper. Secretary Trotter in his letter of reply sent from the League headquarters at 34 Cornhill, Boston, says, "Your letter sent out by the Press Department of the N. A. A. C. P. makes false accusations against me when it says that, in giving to the press a report of the interview with Senator Borch as to when he would report out the Dyer Bill after Senator Lodge had induced him to act, following the Equal Rights League audience with Senator Lodge either "You speak solely of that part of my report where mention is made that Senator Borah defended his sub-committee from blame for delay by saying it was not their fault for they had been waiting only to give certain lawyers time to file their briefs, which time they had requested, but he would immediately telegraph these lawyers that they have only 48 hours to get their briefs in. "Such was, in brief, what Mr. Borah said in self-defense, using the name of 'Mr. Johnson of New York, ete, as interesting these lawyers in the matter' referring thereby to the Association, and adding that he would hasten because our sub-committee is being hammered too hard for the delay for us to await their briefs longer." "You may not believe in reporting both sides of an official audience, but I do, in justice to the person interviewed. That is the whole story. We had no idea you would be sensitive over Borah's excuses. "However be assured, and this is the main point, that the League and myself are heartily with the N. A. A. C. P, in all its endeavors for the Colored Americans, and hope there will be no more mistaken charges and unkind words, etc. to disturb this friendly feeling. Let us in a spirit of both organization and individual fraternity. This is no time to quarrel among ourselves." "WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER." SEGREGATION AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL DEDICATION. Colored Americans were segregated in the seating of the audience during the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington at which President Harding spoke, it was learned today. This information was contained in a letter sent to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, by Shelby J. Davidson, executive secretary of the Washington Branch, N. A. A. C. P. Mr. Davidson's letter says in part: "I am herewith calling attention to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial here. The conditions which confronted us as a race were the most shameful and disgraceful in the annals of history. Platform Tickets were distributed to the most representative of our citizens, colored, and when they appeared they found segregation running root. Platform Tickets reserved for whites were in chairs and within distance of the speakers that might be called reasonable, considering the crowd, while back of those seats were those reserved for colored roped on from those occupied by the whites and placed about a block away from the Memorial in the grass and weeds with rough hewn benches without backs or supports. "Placed at the entrance to these seats were the Marinae who were, dis tasteful, discourteous and admissive even to swearing in the presence of our colored women who accompanied their husbands to the celebration. Some of our people, be it said to their credit, as soon as they saw the situation turned and left the dedication rather than submit to the abuse offered them. --- —Mrs. A. E. Cooper of Midlothian, Va., was in the city this week. Mrs. Cooper who has been teaching for the last thirty-five years is now retired and placed on the pension list. She taught last year at Bermuda Hundreds Va. --- WANTED—FIRST CLASS BARBER wanted at once. Good pay for good barber. Write JAMES HUTTON, 139 S. Queen St., Martinsburg, W. Va. 2t PRICE, FIVE CENTS WHITESKILLED IN RACE WAR IN TEXAS Mexico, Texas, June 2.—One white man was killed and at least three others seriously wounded this afternoon. In a battle between whites and colored on the farm of John King, two miles south of Kirwin. It was reported that over 400 colored people took part in the shooting and that they were parrying to march against the white, so that section. Within three hours after the shooting was reported automobile titled with armed white men were ablaze toward Kirwin. A crowd of 500 men, most of them in automobiles and all armed left Tearat at 7:25 a clock tonight. They were headed for the King farm, it was reported that Mr. King grandfather of Miss Eula Awsley, whose killing recently was followed by the burning of three colored men and the hounding of another was among the wounded. All the wounded are said to be relative of Miss Awsley. Feeling between the whites and colored people at Kirwin has been both for more than a month. One witness of the battle today said it was precipitated by the shooting of a colored man on the King farm. Varying accounts of the number of colored people involved have been received here, but all agree that there were "a great many" who they were armed. Four automobiles loaded with covert officers left here tonight for Kirwin. Posses are being formed and will follow not only from Mexia, but true Waco and other places near. Reports at Corcissane are that after 100 colored people, all heavily armed are lined up about three miles south east of Kirvin, near where the shooting took place. All citizens of St. Pierre, eight miles north of Kirvin, except a few who stayed behind to gunt their homes have left for Kirvin in response to calls for help. A hardware store (8) Corcissane received an order from Kirvin for all the arms and not munition that could be delivered at once. Many persons from Corcissane got their guns, climbed into their auto mobiles and hurried to Kirvin. It is impossible to get in touch with Kirvin. All the telephone wires have been cut leading to Kirvin from Dallas. Fort Worth and Waco. A line from Dallas through Worthham was open at a time, but communication with the officials of Freestone county has been indefinitely delayed because of heavy traffic. None of those who left town within a radius of thirty miles for Kirvin have seturned with a report. The lynching of the colored men after the death of Miss Awsley, who was 17 years old, was followed by six other lynchings within three weeks. There have been rumors of a race was around Kirvin ever since the men were burned, all of these reports adding that colored people were quietly buying guns and ammunition. --- HARTSBORN COMMENCEMENT The commencement exercises of Hartshorn Memorial College took place Wednesday morning, June 7, at eleven o'clock. There were three candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts and one for Bachelor of Science. The essays were well prepared and the delivery was of high calibre. The following program was rendered: Music, "I Arise from Dreams of Three," The Glee Club; prayer; music, "Zingarese Sorenade," Sextetty; essay, "The Summum Bum of Life," Marie Susanne Calhoun; essay, "A Chemical Interpretation of Life," Ethel Evans Jones; music, "Mour Rise," Sextetty; essay, "The Intellectual Factor in Moral Progress," Idelle McCreary; essay, "The Study of Mathematics, Cul Bono?" Martina Lee Smith; music, "Funnelin-Funnelu," The Glee Club; Conferring of Degrees, Award of Prizes; music, "Alma Mater," hemedietion. The Graduating Class: Bachelor of Arts, Marie Susanne Calhoun, Idelle McCreary, Martina Lee Smith, Bachelor of Science, Ethel Evans Jones. --- Cleveland, Ohio - The Rev. W. I. Skipwell, D. D., international preacher and singer, curate from Chicago to Buffalo, N. Y. stopped here for five nights and smoke for Des Bailey, Ailer, Wilson and Hawkins. He so stirred the city with his preaching and singing until a citywide campaign will be put on for him in the near future. He is a member of the great Holy Trinity Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa., Dr. W. F. Grasham, that fearless and uncompromising leader, is pastor. THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library WE SERVE- INFORM -ADVERTISE VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 31 COL. ROBERT KERLIN STARTLES RICHMOND WITH GREAT SPEECH ADDRESSES AN ENTHUSIASMIC AUDIENCE AT MASS MEETING. The subject of Dr. Kerlin's address was "Dreams and Dreamers." In the course of his lecture he showed that all great things throughput the ages had been dreams before their realization. He pictured himself as a dreamer. Quoting Dr. Kerlin, "I have a vision that some day this great mistake of an equality will be swept away. I will save my people from a growing bitterness and estrangement from the dreamers of old. I dare to aspire to be a friend of humanity and I am never ashamed of being a friend of the Negro or of championing his cause. I stand for the true America, the America that knows no inter-racial difference." Dr. Kerlin proved himself a real scholar of the American Negro. He quoted Fluently from Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Lucian B. Watkins, Georgia Douglas Johnson. So Jermer Truth, Jessie Fauct and numbers of other talent¹ of Negro authors. He quoted figures and stories of the Negro that astonished his well-pleased audiences. Speaking of Booker T. Washington, Dr. Kerlin said: "We think of him as a builder, but let me tell you that back of those 1,000 buildings, back of those 10,000 students, back of those 100,000 acres, back of it all as a dream that a man can achieve and what a wonderful future yet to be realized. Two days ago I visited the monument in Washington dedicated to Lincoln. As I stood there and gazed at those wonderful features of Abraham Lincoln, and I thought of the great heart and soul of that noble man, my thoughts wondered to another. I thought of another monument, the monument of Tuskegee, the monument of Booker T. Washington"; Dr. Kerlin then picted Lincoln as the true emancipator of the Negro, in that the spiritual and in intellectual emancipation was greater than the physical. Dr. Kerlin is a polished speaker, a profound thinker, a student of history, literature and the Bible. He likes to bring to bear because he says they are totally unformed on the question of the Negro. This friend of Humanity has consented to come to us again and it is hoped by the members of the N. A. A. G. P. that a large and appreciative audience will bear him. June 18th, Sunday N. A. afternoon at 3:00 p.m. N. A. will hold a meeting in interest of the Baptist ship drive, at the First Baptist Church, South Richmond, the pastor will speak at that time. DO WELL IN BIG MEETS (Preston News Service.) Washington, D. C., May 31—Track and field athletics of Howard University and Dunbar, Armstrong and Shaw High Schools are accumulating quite a collection of medals and cups earned in competition with other prominent colored institutions. The latest additions to the lot were garnered at the Hampton institute games at Hampton, Va., where Howard's team scored 46 points to finish second to Hampton in the collegiate class, and Dunbar made 19, Armstrong 11 and Shaw 5 for second, third and fourth positions on the scholastic division headed by Bordentown, (N. J.) Manual Training School. Howard's most impressive victory was the mid-player-collaborate relay. The Washington team polished the way to Hampton and Virginia Union University in good time. Raymond Contee, of Howard, won the mike; Evans, a team mate, the two mile run and Anderson, another Howard man, the javelin throw. In the scholastic events, Drew of Dunbar won the pole vault and high jump; while Levi of Armstrong took the half-mile run. ALLEN—A token of love to the memory of my dear friend, Annig Madison who departed this life two years ago. Just a thought of sweet remembrance Just a memory fond and true; Just a token of affection And a heartache still for you. —IRENE POOLLE COMMONWEALTH LODGE, A. 3 M. J. ELECTS OFFICER The Regular Communication of Commonwealth Lodge No. 51, A. F. A. M., was held on Friday night, June 2, 1922 in the Masonic Temple on Clay Street near Sixth. This being the occasion for the election of officers of the next team the following officers were elected: James A. Walker, W. M.; McHeffery Hamilton, S. W.; Elisis A. Demond, J. W.; John W. Williams, S. D.; Bernhard A. Wood, J. D.; John H. Marysecretary; J. H. Moore Treasurer; W. F. Mason; Tilier; Annos Hussa and James C. Baker, Stewarts. After the election of officers the lodge required to the dining room of the temple where an elaborate stairway was served by Mr. E. R. Whitley, the popular caterer. In appreciation of the services of the retiring Master Mr. Charneson P. Hirth, who declined re-election to the lodge, the impending change of residence, the lodge building, and him with a beautiful Past Master's Job. The expressions by the associates of the new Past Master of Commonwealth Lodge on its faithful and efficient service while Master of the Lodge were very complementary, and the opinion was voiced by the persons participating in the exercises that Mr. Hill had made Commonwealth Lodge one of the best Masters in its history; Smart addresses were delivered by the failure of Mr. P. M. Tylor; P. M. C. E. Hill, P. M. J. H. Moore; Grand, High Prest Royal Arch Muscles; Col. Geo. W. Rich ardson; W. J. Coleman, James H. Anmons, and John H. Mabrey. Commonwealth Lodge enters into the new year with a splendid record of achievement and prosperity and under the new administration expects to maintain the high standard set by the closing administration. Banking Committee: W. S. Cowan; C. M. Kemp and J. St. D. Gilgun WALKER AGENTS TO MEET IN RICHMOND. REGIONAL CONFERENCE, JUNE 15TH AND 16TH A cert has been issued by the Madam C. J. Walker M.G., Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana, for its Agents of the Fifth Regional District comprising the States of Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia Maryland, District of Columbia and Delaware to meet at the 5th Street, M.E. Church, Richmond, Va., June 15th and 16th, for the purpose of discussing ways and means of how to better serve the public, their large number of patrons and to learn the latest modes of beauty culture. Scientific lectures and demonstrations will be given and officers will be elected for the Conference. Which is a part of the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker Agents, which will meet in Baltimore, Md., August 16, 17th and 15th. A large attendance at the Conference is expected and representatives from the General Offices of the Company will be present. Every Walker Agent in the city and the above named states is used to attend. All inquiries will be answered if and when possible. Gadby, 749, North 6th Street, Fitchburg. --- Y. W. C. A. NOTES. On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Susie Williams will have charge of the program for the Vesper hour. An interesting program is being arranged and we invite you to come and enjoy it. Watch for the announcement for Vespers for the third and fourth Sundays. The Girl Reserve are planning the programs for these weeks. We regret that so many of those who were to take part on the program on last Sunday did not come. We understand that they were prevented by unavoidable causes. The Instrumental solos by Master Davis and Miss Mila Harper were well rendered. To complete our service a song serice was led by Dr. Bessie Tharps. The Health Education class will give a Demonstration on Monday afternoon June 12th, at 6:45 o'clock at Johnson's Auditorium. We are hoping that a large number of friends will be preside over the event work of this class. No admission. We wish to attend to can secure tickets free from the members or from the "T." OurTennis Court is now ready. We invite those wishing to use our court to do so. Come and see us so we can arrange for your group. Opens Office Here. The National Benefit Life Insurance Company of Washington has opened a local office in the Mechanics Savings Bank building with Mr. L. C. Brown as local manager. The agents of this company have begun work and report substantial progress. This is one of the largest insurance concerns in the country. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1922 BORAH COMMITTEE TO DRAFT NEW BILL JUDITH CAREY COMMITTEE WILD ASSOCIATE S. SMITH C. S. SMITH SECURITY DEVICES Washington, D. C., June 2,—The Dyer Anti-Lying Bill may be referred back to subcommittee or revidited and may eventually be reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar, according to word from the capital. It is claimed that in view of the legislative jun in the Senate, however, there seems little prospect of the bill being enacted into law at the present session. A subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee headed by Senator Moran announced in the national in 1981 present form, Borah has been joined by Senators Overman a demonstrator of North Carolina, and Shields a demonstrator of Tennessee. The other members, Senator Sterling, a republican of South Dakota, Dilgham a republican of Vermont, are said not to be in complete disagreement but to believe the bill might well be passed and the submitted to a test, before the Supreme Court of the United States,宾er word or useless and a waste of time as a case from Alabama has already been designed by that tribunal. Alexander P. Macro, Editor of the Pittsburgh/ (Pa.) Lander, plays the subcommittee for its "Failure and Anguished." Every Negro in the United States has copy and copy of Editor Macro's total to his sister. The editorial follows; "FAILURE AND NEGLECT" "A study of the word 'Failure' ought to be interesting to garden variety citizens while grave and learned senators are participating the judgment of the supreme court of the United States on the validity of the Dyer Bill to penalize tyranny. Even the schoolboy thinks he knows what failure means. He has had some experiences with failures or business to observe. Men in business have some conception of what failure means. In fact, everybody knows what transient the world is used. When we get into the field of nation at legislation and the territory, occupied by the United States, we begin to get some delicately shaded definitions of failure. When we discuss the enforcement of the con situation we find a wide gap separating failure and stabborn neglect. To the garden variety, nun they have identical efforts, whether there is a symmetry or not in the value of the words. If a state should fail to represent the constitution and the laws based upon conditions, the federal government would claim the right to enter such state and assume control and direction. The United States government, in fact, has done that very thing. The legal defense for the action is that the state is not insistent on being insufficient to keep the constitution operating the federal government is bound by its obligations to assume the duty and supply the necessary force. If the United States government found that the mails cannot pass through any state because the state's power is unequal to the job of protecting the mails, the federal government would send a force on the array into that state. The same course might be followed if the states made no attempt to keep the way open for the transportation of mail. That the movement of mail is not possible, the state a more legal bubble. The real issue is between the failure of a state to cooperate with the federal government in enforcing the privileges of all. Yet when the lives of citizens are left without protection within state borders we are told the federal government has neither legal nor moral right to interfere. It is all right to protect the mails, but protecting the lives of citizens must not be thought of. It is against the expressed provisions of the United States Constitution for the United States to make life safe for its citizens. Why, in that elder day it were great or to have been a Roman citizen than to have been king. We are told that if a state refuses to honor the privileges guaranteed to citizens by the constitution the United States cannot interfere. That is the judgment of senators learned in constitutional law. Put in another way, the every day style the concrete effect of this judgment is that the United States constitution is good only to those who voluntarily respect it. The United States cannot compel reason. Set out in the simplest terms, this judgment means that the United States constitution has no meaning. The constitutional lawyers may find distinctions without difficulty. The common AN APPEAL TO THE LYNCHERS (A Sonnet) Robert D. Crawley. The public right to guard the common weal. From thief and ruffian, mought but maniac zeal! Will d'or deny, while every worthy rests in the proper sanction of the laws. But when will men the Christian lesson learn. That 'it not theirs to throttle and to burn. Their brother sinner to his mortal hurt. Only because they deem 'it his dosert? If no steen need with loud impersonal call. Demand the forsoft, be it great or small. Let not your heart insurp the sacred Of the who said that vengeance was His own! In mesh submission drop the uplifted rod. And leave the sinner to the sinner's God! man looks only at the effects. And if members why there is no law that can be forced to operate to protect the liv eers in some in the United States. The Draft of the law unconstitutional because it proposed to be Negro cessions from white murder." NOTICE TO CONTESTANTS A quipson who enters at the comet for the Hive Ive Picture Puzzle will get prizes as follows: If a person wins the first prize onters, the contest, for the Tree Live Picture Puzzle will get prizes as follows: If a person wins the highest prize and does not send any subscribers at all, the prize will be $3.00. If one year's subscription of $2.00 is sent an with, the answer (this same person would get as a first prize, $15.00). If this person, who had won the first prize, sent in two years' subscription (that is $4.00) with the answer, the prize would be $25.00. If this person sent in two years' subscription, including one new subscriber, ($6.00) with the answer, the prize would be $35.00 instead of $3.00, and if the person sent in four years' subscription, including two new subscriber, with the answer, instead of receiving $3 as the first prize, the contestant would receive $60.00 as the first prize. This applies similarly to all of the other prizes. Alfred C. Gibson, 112 Bank Street, Newark, N.J. wants all folks in Virginia to correspond with him about arrangements for the great Bks Meeting there. Mr. Samuel Richardson, Business Manager, Charleston, S. C. Messenger at present Advance Agent for the Jenkins Orphanage Band and Jubilee Singers was in the city this week. Dr. I. A. Jackson of Orange, Va., was in the city this week. He is arranging to locate in the West End and engage in the practice of medicine here. Mr. Robert D. Crawley, of South Richmond, who has been indisposed as improving. Mrs. Aberta J. Stevenson who has been sick for the past three weeks, is out again, and wishes to thank her many friends for the kindness shown her during her illness. --- THE WOMAN'S BAPTIST STATE EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION. The Wognan's Baptist State Educational Convention of Virginia will meet June 21st, 1922 at the Washington Street Baptist Church, of Bedford City, Va. Rev. Gray, pastor. Mrs. Ellis Davis, president of Alding Society, 550 South street. All persons expecting to attend, should send in their names at once. Board and lodging will be one dollar and fifty cents per day. Come coming over the chapel or the Southern Railroads will change at Lynchburg, Va. Fare from there is Ninety (90) Conts. MRS. M. W. R. RICHARDSON, Corresponding Secretary. DYER ANTI-LYNCHING BILL IS SAVED AFTER CRISIS IN SENATE SECRETARY JOHNSON'S REPORT OF WEEK IN WASHINGTON. The Dyer Ant-Lynching Bill, H, R 13, is saved. This was the statement of James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, who returned to New York from Washington on Friday May 26th, after spending a week fighting for the Dyer Bill through the most vanguard stage of its existence. During that memorable report on the Dyer Bill by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate on Monday May 22nd, was narrowly averted, and the Republican leaders of the Senate were convinced that favorable action was absolutely essential. During this week in the national capital the N. A. A. C. P., Secretary was in constant conference with Senators Borah, Lodge Curtis, Capper, Calder, Eman, Short, Johnson, and Washington, and with Representative Dyer, Burton, and Maden. As a result of the secretary's efforts not only has an unfavorable report been averted but the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, May 24th, met and decided to postpone action for two weeks during which time efforts would be devoted to making the Bill absolutely unassailable when it is brought upon the floor of the Senate. Senator Borah said to the Secretary of State, William W. Borah that anything he SSenator Borah) could do to save the life of a single Ngro from a mob, he would do it. During Mr. Johnson's week in Washington he presented to the members of the Committee on the Judiciary and leading Republican Senators briefs up holding the constitutionality of the Dyer Bill, prepared by Moorfield Storey and by John A. Cohn, Chairman of the legal committee, Washington Branch N. A. A. C. P. A third brief was sent to the Senate by William H. Attorney General who assisted U. S. Attorney General who requested by Mr. Johnson to do so. A brief was sent to the Senate by Butler B. Wilson, secretary of the Boston Branch N. A. A. C. P. In the course of the week at Washington, the N. A. A. C. P. Secretary made clear to Republican leaders, that a failure to act favorably on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill would have three disastrous results: 1. It would constitute a confession on the part of the Federal Government of inability to deal with America's shame and would leave the Negro hopeless of protection against the mob owed him government to which he gives his assistance. 2. It would be interpreted as a lie sense to mob and might be followed by a reign of lynching terror too horrible to be described. 3. It would be a repudiation of the pledge made by the Republican Party in its national platform that action would be taken on lynching, and would more than anything else discredit that party among colored voters. Mr. Johnson pointed out to the Republican leaders in Washington that primary elections in several states had shown the strong sentiment for the candidate, a sentiment it would not be safe to ignore. The Governor, who had indorsed the Bill, had been elected governor over Senator New. In Pennsylvania, Gliffon Pinchot had been elected over Mr. Alter who had opposed the Dyer Bill. In conclusion Mr. Johnson issued the following statement: "Every colored man and woman in the United States ought to make it their primary business to see that the Dyer Ant-Lynching Bill, R. R. 13 is passed by the Senate. Six human beings, all of them Negroes, were burned at the stake in the United States during the fifteen days in the month of May, 1922. If that is not enough to stir colored Americans to united action then nothing will or can. The Nation at Association for the Advancement of Colored People offers everyone an opportunity to work for the Dyer Bill. The Senator, Join the N. A. A. C. P. Write for Information if you want it at 70 Fifth Avenue, York. Do it now or, in victory or defeat, remember you had opportunity to take part in a great fight and failed. Remember, this is the time to act." Will Discuss Capital Panishment. Dr. W. H. Stokes will discuss "Capital Punishment" at a special session of the Y. M. C. A. Saturday Evening Class, on the evening of Saturday, June 17, at six o'clock. The public is invited. TROTTER ANSWERS JOHNSON ON DYER BILL. William Monroe Trotter, national corresponding secretary of the National Equal Rights League, Rev. M. A. N. Shaw, president, has sent to J. W. Johnson, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., a denial of the truth of charges made in the personal attack against Senator Borah, the colored press by the Association last week and published in this paper. Secretary Trotter in his letter of reply sent from the League headquarters at 34 Cornhill, Boston, says, "Your letter sent out by the Press Department of the N. A. A. C. P. makes false accusations against no one." Senator Borah press a report of the interview with Senator Borah as to when he would report out the Dyer Hill after Senator Lodge had induced him to act, following the Equal Rights League's audience with Senator Lodge, either myself or the League 'bottled' the Association's efforts made or 'false implication against it.'" or "put the Senate into Senator Borah's mouth." None of these things were done by me. "You speak solely of that part of my report where mention is made that Senator Borah defended his sub-committee from blame for delay by saying it was not their fault for they had been waiting only to give certain lawyers time to file their briefs, which time they had requested, but he would immediately telegraph these lawyers that they would spend 48 hours to get their briefs in. "Such was, in brief, what Mr. Borah said in self-defense, using the name of 'Mr. Johnson of New York, etc., as interesting these lawyers in the matter,' referring thereby to the Association, and adding that he would hasten because 'our sub-committee is being hammered too hard for the delay for us to await their briefs longer." "You may not believe in reporting but I side of an official audience, but I side in justice to the person interviewed. The whole story. We had no idea you would be sensitive over Borah's excuse." "However be assured, and this is the main point, that the League and myself are heartily with the N. A. A. C. P. in all its endeavors for the Colorado Americans, and hope there will be no more mistaken charges and unkind words, etc. to disturb this friendly feeling. Let us in a spirit of both organization and individual fraternity. This is no time to quarrel among ourselves." "WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER." SEGREGATION AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL DEDICATION. Colored Americana were segregated in the seating of the audience during the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington at which President Harding spoke, it was learned today. This information was contained in a letter sent to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, by Sheoby J. Davidson, executive secretary of the Washington Branch, N. A. A. C. P, Mr. Davidson's letter says in part: "I am herewith calling attention to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial here.—The conditions which confronted us as a race were the most shameful and disgraceful in the animals of history. Platform tickets were distributed to the most representative animals, colored, and when they appeared they segregation running riot. Platform tickets were reserved for whites in chairs and attendance of the speakers that might be called reasonable, considering the crowd, while back of those seats were those reserved for colored roped off from those occupied by the whites and placed about a block away from the Memorial in the grass and weeds with rough hines benches without backs or supports. I placed at the entrance to those seats the Marines who were distasteful, discontentous and abusive even to swearing in the face of our colored women who accompanied their husbands to the celebration. Some of our people, be it said to their credit, as soon as they saw the situation turned and left the dedication rather than submit to the abuse offered them. —Mrs. A. E. Cooper of Midlothian, Va., was in the city this week. Mrs. Cooper who has been teaching for the last thirty-five years is now retired and placed on the pension list. She taught last year at Bermuda Hundreds Va. WANTED—FIRST CLASS BARBER wanted at once. Good pay for course. Write JAMES HUTTON, 139 S. Quoon St., Martinburg, W. Va. RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS PRICE, FIVE CENTS WHITES KILLED IN RACE WAR IN TEXAS Mexia, Texas, June 2.—One white man was killed and at least three others seriously wounded this afternoon in a battle between whites and colored on the farm of John King, two miles south of Kirvin. It was reported that over 100 colored people took part in the shooting and that they were preyed on against the whites in that section. White men in the shooting were reported automobiles filled with armed white men were driving toward Kirvin. A crowd of 500 men, most of them in automobiles and all armed left Tengtea at 725 o'clock tonight. They were headed for the King farm. It was reported that Mr. King grandfather of Miss Eula Awley, whose killing relied on followed by the burning of three corpses men and the hanging of another was among the wounded. All the wounded are said to be relatives of Miss Awley. Feeling between the whites and colored people at Kirvin has been high for more than a month. One witness of the battle today said it was precipitated by the shooting of a colored man on the Kirvin farm. Varying accounts of the number of colored people involved in the even received here, but all agree that there were "a great many" and they were not. Four automobile loaded with country officers left here tonight for Kirvin. Posses are being formed and will follow not only from Mexin, but from Waco and other places near. Reports at Corsicana are that about 100 colored people, all heavily armed, are lined up about three miles south east of Kirvin, near where the shooting took place. All citizens of St. Louis eight miles north of Kirvin, excep tion a boy who stayed behind to guard their home have left for Kirvin in response to calls for help. A hardware store at Corsicana received an order from Kirvin for all children and ammunition that could be delivered at once. Many persons from Corsicana got their guns, climbed into their auto mobiles and hurried to Kirvin. It is impossible to get in touch with Kirvin. All the telephone wires have been cut leading to Kirvin from Dallas. Fort Worth and Waco. A line from Dallas through Wortham was open for communication with the officials of Prestone county has been indefinitely closed because of heavy traffic. None of those men were towns within a radius of thirty miles for Kirvin have returned with a report. The lynching of the colored men or the death of Miss Awsley, who was 77 years old, was followed by six other lynchings within three weeks. The keen rumors of a race war around Kirvin ever since the men were burned, all of these reports adding that colored people were quietly buying guns and ammunition. --- HARTSHORN COMMENCEMENT The commencement exercises of Hartshorn Memorial College took place Wednesday morning, June 7, at eleven o'clock. There were three candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts and one for Bachelor of Science. The essays were well prepared and the delivery was of high quality. The following program was rendered: Music, "I Arise from Dreams of Thee," The Gloe Club; prayer; music, "Zingarese Sonenade"; Soxtote; essay: "The Summum Dionys of Life," Marie Susanne Calhoun; essay, "A Chemical Interpretation of Life," Ethel Evans Jones; music, "Morn Rise," Soxtote; essay: "The Intellectual Factor in Moral Progress," Idelle McCreary; essay: "The Study of Mathematics, Cui Bono?" Martha Lee Smith; music, "Funniell-Funincola," The Gloe Club; Conferring of Degrees, Award of Prizes; music, "Mater, Mater; benediction." The Graduation Class: Bachelor of Arts, Marie Susanne Calhoun, Idelle McCreary, Marlee Lee Smith, Bachelor of Science, Ethel Evans Jones. SKIPWITH IN CLEVELAND, OHIO Cleveland, Ohio.—The Roy, W. H. Skipwith, D. D., an international preacher and singer, curate from Chicago to five cities, and serve for Drs. Bailey, Alter, Wilson and Johnson, stirred the city with his preaching and singing until a citywide campaign will be put on for him in the near future. He is a member of the great Holy Trinity Baptist Church, Dr. P., Dr. W. F. Graham, that fearless and uncompromising leader, is pastor. SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE SAVES THE DYER BILL BY HIS INSISTENCE ON REPORT URGED BY NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE SECRETARY AND STEERING COMMITTEE, SENATE LEADER HAS BILL OUT IN STRONGER CONSTITUTIONAL FORM. --- TWO Washington, D. C., May 27.—The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill has not only been dug out of the pigeon-hole where it had been intended to let it lie peacefully asleep for this session at least if not for next session, but this H. R. 13 will be reported out and put on the Sonate Calendar in a form more impregnable from a constitutional stand point before this session adjourns. Such is the result of the report of the sub-committee made to the judiciary committee on Monday by Senator Borah in accord with his promise last week to Senator Lodge who had seen him at the request of the National Equal Rights League, and to the League delegation itself headed by Secretary Wm. Monroe Trotter as spokesman. This net result of meetings of the judiciary committee the first four days of the week was due chiefly to the insistence of Senator H. C. Lodge of Massachusetts as Republican Senate leader that a show-down be given the Colored people of the country on this bill and that it be put on the senate call on for debate and action on the senate floor at this session, after he found that Senator Borah and his committee had reported unfavorably on the ground of constitutionality. Senator Lodge, urged constantly by the National Equal Rights League from its headquarters in Boston and by its steering committee here, was insistent on a report and the other leaders feared to report adversely. Finally the Committee voted on Thursday to take two weeks to confer with the House judiciary committee and redraft the bill as to strengthen its constitutionality. In response to Representative Dyer's telegraphic request to wire Senator Lodge to prevent adverse report, secretary Trotter wired the senate leader to insist on favorable report or a public hearing. Monday noon N. W. Spencer, Jas. L. Neill and Judge E. M. Hewlett of the Equal Rights League had an audience with Senator Lodge and he plied his best efforts. This steering committee had an audience also with Senator Borah against blocking the bill and got his assurance he wanted only a more constitutional one. Wednesday, Secretary Trotter wired Lodge to call a Republican Senatorial conference and he replied this unnecessary as something would be done. On Friday Senator Lodge wired Secretary Trotter as follows: "Senator Berah has just telegraphered associated Negro Press that in the opinion of majority of judiciary committee the Dyor Bill is unconstitutional and that the committee is to continue the effort to frame a measure possible which will stand the test of the courts and with that end in view the committee is now working. I think I can say to you that the Committee is determined to exhaust every once of federal power in dealing with this situation. The subject has not been abandoned and there is no intention to do so if constitutional authority can be found to deal with it." The League beseeches Colored citizens to write senators at once, especially Borah, Nelson, the Chairman and Lodge. The 15th Annual Meeting of the League will be held in Boston, July 5th, when rates are reduced for the National Educational Association Convention, Races everywhere invited to come to the Home of Abolition and the seashore. GEORGIA CHIEF OF POLICE IN ORDERED TO LEAVE TOWN. Columbus, Ga., May 30.—Notice has been served on J. M. Huling, chief of the Muskogee County police in an anonymous letter written to J. B. Key, chairman of the County Board of Com missioners, that he must leave Columbus it was learned today. Chief Huling admitted today that he had received such a letter but did not desire to give the matter publicity. It is understood that while the letter was addressed to Mr. Key, the writer is not after the county official personally. The only thing held against the chairman is that he employed Huling, according to rumors omanating from an authoritative source. It is further allied that the missive warned the chief to leave Columbus or his home would be bombed. HAS NO IDEA OF LEAVING When Huling was interviewed so declared that he had nothing to say but that "he lived at 531 Twenty-eighth street," and that those wanting him would have no trouble in finding his residence. He further asserted that he had made all arrangements to live here and that he had no idea of leaving any time soon. Chief Huling came to Columbus from Harris County several months ago. He has been a big factor in the fight against violators of the prohibition laws and has been highly complimented on several occasions by the county officials. The reason for the sending of the letter is unknown. Chief Huling was sheriff of Harris County for several terms. IS ONE OF SERIES OF WARNINGS The warning to Chief Huling provides another chapter to the series of warnings and disorders revolving round Columbus city officials during the past month. First, City Manager Hinkle was attacked by a gang of men on a street near his home. He was warned to leave. Then a bomb was exploded at the home of Mayor Dimon soon after he had disregarded warnings that Hinkle should be removed. City officials at the time attributed the disorder to persons opposed to the city manager plan of government. Last week Hinkle left Columbus and the City Council declared the office vacant. Today the notice came to Chief Hulling. Rewards totaling several thousand dollars have been offered for the apprehension of persons who bombed the Mayor's home, but no clue has been developed. --- HAMPTON SENDS OUT EIGHTY GRADUATES. Hampton, Va., May 31.—Dr. James E. Gregg, principal of Hampton Institute, presented diplomas today to forty-one boys and thirty-nine girls, and announced that next year Hampton In institute expects to give degrees to graduate of the agricultural school and in the near future degrees to those who finish the collegiate normal course." Dr. Gregg stated that in 1870 General Armstrong saw that the time would come when Hampton Institute would need to give collegiate instruction. Dr. Gregg said: "We are not for-saking Hampton standards. Hampton ideals. Hampton principes in the least we are not for a moment belittling the great industrial foundation which should be in our education and in the life of our democracy." Rev. Dr. Henry Hugh Proctor, pastor of Nazarene Congregational Church Brooklyn, N. Y., delivered the principal address on "Birth Thores of a New Era." Dr. Proctor said: "I am glad to belong to a race for which Lincoln died and Armstrong pleaded, a race that produced Frederick Douglass and Booker Washington, a race that in fifty years has removed 75 per cent of its illiteracy, a race that has saved a billion dollars in the first half century of its emancipation." N. A. A. C. P. SECRETARY REC TIFIES MONROE TROTTER'S STATEMENT ON DVER BILL. --- James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue New York, today issued the following statement: "It is to be regretted that organizations having common aims cannot work together without attentions on the part of one to belittle the work of another. "The N. A. A. C. P. regrets to have to call the attention of colored readers to the false implication in William Monroe Tröter's statement, sent out broadcast from Washington, to the effect that delay in favorable action on the Dyer Anti-Lynch bill was in any way attributable to the N. A. A. C. P., or its lawyers. It makes no difference that the imputation is put into the mouth of Senator Borah, who himself had requested 'these briefs and stressed their importance. "It is needless to point out that briefs by eminent lawyers on the constitutionality of the Dyer Bill which the N. A. A. C. P. obtained were, and still are, essential to any favorable consideration whatever for the measure on the part of the Judiciary Committee and the Senate. The truth of this is demonstrated by the recent events in the progress of the Bill. "JAMES WELDON JOHNSON" Mrs. Maria Fallen Passes Away On last Friday, May 26th, the remains of Mrs. Maria Fallen who died in Philadelphia on the 22nd, reached Paces; accompanied by her husband Mr. Jeff Fallen and daughter, Mrs. Mary Oliver also her cousin, Miss Helen Whitlock all of Philadelphia. The body was met at Paces by undertaker A. B. Betts who had charge and was taken to the White Oak Grove Baptist Church where the funeral services were conducted by Rev. Wm. Ewell, pastor. Interment was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Fallen was the sister of Mrs. Isabella Betts, and was highly esteemed and loved by all who knew her. ODD FELLOWS HOLD ANNUAL EXERCISES AT A. AND T. COLLEGE. Pastor News Service Greensboro, N. C., May 30—The G. U. O. of O. F., an affidous of Ruth hold their annual exercises in the col lege auditorium on Sunday, May 14th. The principal address was delivered by Mrs. C. H. Brown, principal of the Sedalia School, Prof. C. Winslow prin cipal of Washington St. High' School delivered a splendid address. The annual sermon, was preached by Rev. R. W. Winchester, pastor of St. Matthews A. M. E. Church. Miss Kathryn M. Johnson of Chicago III, and one of the race women who saw service over seas during the world wist, visited the college last week. On Tuesday she delivered an interesting address to the students and faculty. President Dudley returned Wednesday from Wilkesboro where he deliver ed the address at the closing of the graded school there. * THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA LEUT. SYDNOR LOSES CONTROL OF PLANE NEAR RICHMOND. As his loved ones watched him perform stunts in the air, believing, but not positive, that it was he, and before their horrified gaze, Second Lieutenant William Austin Sydnor, Jr., aged 22, United States Army aviator, plunged 700 feet to earth in an aeroplane that had become unmanageable, with in sight of the home of his nucleus, Eugene B. Sydnor, president of the Richmond Dry Goods Company at Woss hampton, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and probably was instantly killed. In its descent the plane, which, according to eyewitnesses, was acting erratically, dove into two phe saplings, one of which it snapped off just above the center, and the other, the sturder of the two, it uprooted. Immediately after striking the second tree, the caeening plane was seen to enail a thin spiral of black or blue smoke and, a few seconds later, it struck the ground with a thud that was heard at the Country Club of Virginia and the University of Richmond grounds at Westhampton. FLAMES ENVELOP MACHINE Divining from the unusual antics of the plane that something was amiss and fearful that the aviator would no unable to right the machine before it reached the ground, scores who were witnessing the stunts of young Sydnor in midair, hastened to a field in which it was apparent the machine would land. Before the first of these spectators could reach the spot, the plane had struck the ground and almost immediately a burst of flame was seen. By the time aid had arrived, the machine was a mass of flames and the body of the youthful flyer, who was motionless and probably already dead, rapidly was being consumed in the fire that made short shrift of both the plane and, its human cargo. The body, burned beyond recognition, was tenderly lifted from the tangled mass of twisted steel and other wreckage left by the destruction of the plane, and as tenderly deposited a short distance from what was left of the plane. Then began a feverish search for some trinket or other means by which the body might be identified. First, the searchers uncovered from the ash es and bits of charred wood a metal watch, which however, did not aid in the identification. Next a pocket knife was brought to light. Neither did this throw any light on the identity of the victim. RECOVER ARTICLES Then, one by one the bits of leather from the shoes worn by young Sydner the end of a belt and unburned particles of clothing, outer and inner, were espied and eagerly raked from the debris. Up to this time nothing had been found that made identification positive although the fear that it was the body of young Sydnor was growing, particularly among relatives of the young aviator. Then a gold signet ring was brought to light by searchers who persisted after others had abandoned the quest. Interested ones surged forward, eager for a glimpse of possible markings on the trinket. They were rewarded. After the ashes and grime were wiped off, the intials of a monogram, "W., A. S.", were decliphered. The worst fears of the onlookers, an particularly of those most concerned were confirmed. The ring was all that remained to complete the tragedy. Of the many that still lingered after the body had been tenderly lifted into a long, narrow wicker basket and placed in the private ambulance dispatched from the undertaking parlors of Arthur C. Nelsen, none could, with certainty, say that the ring had belonged to young Sydnor, so a messenger was dispatched for E. B. Sydnor. A hush fell over those assembled at the scene of death while they awaited his arrival and the positive identification which all felt, was inevitable. SYDNOR IDENTIFIES RING With Mr. Sydnor's arrival, the ring was handed to him. "Is it your nephew's?" he was asked. Tears welled in his eyes and his voice choked. He was apparently too overcome for words. He nodded affirmatively. "Poor boy," fell almost inadvertibly from his lips. News of the accident was telephoned to Police Headquarters by some one at the Country Club. Sergeant R. W. Crafton and Automobile Traffic Officer G. J. Browning were dispatched to the scene. When they arrived the plane and the body were where they had fallen. With the aid of several onlookers they lifted the body from the cockpit of the plane, first discharging it from the twisted steel and iron, and placed it on the ground a few yards distant. A sheet was brought from a home near and the body was covered, shielding it from the gaze of the curiosity-seekers who quickly gathered. The plane was a Simplex 1875 and bore the numerals SE-5A. The machine had been repainted February 18 of this year, the numerals 2-18-22 having been stenciled on a portion of one of the wings that had escaped the ravages of the flames, the gasoline tank, apparent ly of about twenty-five gallon capacity, was some distance from the plane. AUNTS WITNESSED STUNTS Visiting at the home of E. B. Sydnor at the time of the accident, and watching the aerial antics of their nephew which proceeded the fatal crash, were Mrs. J. W. White and Mrs. J. E. Spain bour of North Wilkesboro, N. C. from which city young Sydnor hailed and where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sydnor, Sr., reside. The body will be shipped to the North Carolina town tonight at 11 o'clock for burial. Young Sydnor graduated yesterday morning from the Reserve Officers' Training School at Langley Field and it is understood had with him when he went to his death his graduation certificate, which he had expected proudly to exhibit to his relatives upon his arrival in Richmond yesterday. His uncle, E. B. Sydnur, wired him at Langley Field at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning, inviting him to come to Richmond to be his guest for the weekend. Mr. Sydnur does not believe his nephew received the wire; that he left the flying field at Langley Field some hours previously and that it was his intention to surprise his relatives in Richmond. He was in Richmond last Wednesday, flying to this city in the same plane that yesterday took him to his death and as had been his wont, performed stunts in the air with in sight of Mr. Sydnur's home for the benefit of his kin. FLEW TO NEW YORK MONDAY Young Sydnor, with First Lieutenant George C. McDonald who also was attached to Langley Field, flow to Mitchell Field, New York, Monday and returned Tuesday, Colonel McDonald, with Sergeant D. F. Kearns, also stationed at Langley Field, hastened to Richmond in an airplane yesterday upon receipt of news of young Sydnor's death, making the trip in thirty-one minutes. They immediately visited the scene of the accident, and later viewed the body at Nelson's undertaking establishment, at 425 North Boulevard. Young Sydnor left school, the Raleigh Institute of Technology, to enlist for overseas service when America entered the World War. He trained for the flying service at Langley Field, but did not go across. He was honorably discharged from the service last spring and entered the Reserve Officers' Corps about eight months ago, and was on active duty. His term of enlistment expired yesterday morning, Coroner J. Fuller Bright viewed the body at Nelsen's undertaking parlers and deemed an inquest unnecessary. He ordered that the body he turned over to relatives of the young man. Major Moose, who is attached to the United States Air Depot at Fulton, went to the scene of the accident yesterday afternoon and took charge of the propeller and other portions of the plane that had been salvaged from the wreck. (Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch, May 31, 1922.) WALDEN UNIVERSITY FINALS. Nashville, Teen., May 31. - Walden University this year held its final commencement exercises in the building where the institution was established more than fifty years ago. Next September the school will move to its new site, the City View Sanitarium property just off Murfreesboro pike, which was purchased recently at a cost of $155,000. The baccalaureate sermon was preached by Bishop Frank M. Bristol, Prof. W. E. Newsome of Cynthian, Ky., delivered the address to the Alumni. Rev. J. H. Sherrell of Chattanooga delivered the commencement address. It is confidently expected that the school will take on new life with the change into the new and more common quarters and that the enrollment will be greatly increased. The Board of Education for Negroes, with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, is backing the university and will make it possible for the school to have better facilities, added equipment, a stronger faculty and all that is required to do standard work in all departments. WHITE' MAN KILLS, CLAIMING SELF DEFENSE. (Preston News Service.) Madison, Fla., May 31.—Henry Roberson was shot five times and killed instantly on Sunday, May 21 at sun-up by H. C. Coody, white. It is said that Roberson had been working for Coody and is said to have asked him for money on Saturday, May 20, which was an annual celebration day here among Negroes. Coody refuse to give the money to him, claiming that Roberson was already overdrawn. On Sunday morning Roberson awakened Coody and renewed his request for money. Coody again refused. Coody says that Roberson began to bemean him and curse him and attempted to do him violence, whereupon he, Coody pulled his pistol and fired, hitting Roberson in the right collar bone, above the eye and in the forehead, killing him almost instantly. A coroner's jury was called by Justice Cowart and a verdict of justifiable homicide was returned. Brakeman Fatsally Hurt (Proston News Service) Washington, D. C., May 31.—Frank Cooper, aged 35 years of Ashley, Va., a brakeman on the Washington and Old Dominion railway, was fatally injured last Tuesday when a trailer car became uncoupled from its lead car and drifted into it just east of Blue mont Junction, Va., Cooper was taken to Georgetown on the car and removed to the Georgetown University hospital where he died in a few hours after reaching the hospital. HUNGARIAN GYPSIES MAKE WAR ON AMERICAN JAZZ BANDS (Preston News Service) Budapest, May 31.—War has been declared and broken out in earnest here between gypsy musicians of Hungary and America Negro Jazz-band artists. Mostly gypsy women. It is claimed the gypsies, who have entertained Hungarians for several thousand years assert that American Negroes are invading their precincts, and they have organized and determined to drive the jazz artists out. The leader, a native of Mississippi, of the American Jazz-band is reported to have declared that he accepts the challenge of the gypsies and will fight to the last ditch. AMERICANS SAIL FOR WEST AFRICA. (Preston Newa Service.) New York, June 2.—Chas, W. Chapelle, president of African Union company, Gold Coast West Africa, sailed Saturday, May 13th on the Battle for the Gold Coast with nine associates to continue operations of the extensive holdings of this company in the rich Gold Coast. Mr. Chappelle, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., made his first trip to Gold Coast in 1912 and spent four months in Africa during which time he saw wonderful business possibilities for the American Negro. He returned to this country and organized a company with such prominent American Negroes as: Mr. Pottifield, president of the Penny Savings Bank of Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary Treasurer, Howard University; Joseph L. Jones, founder of Central Regalia Company, Cinchinmati, Ohio; Major R. 'R Jackson, member of Illinois State Legislature, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Blunt, Cinchinmati, Ohio; George M. Robb, busi-nessman of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Dr. Henry Allen Boyd, of the Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville, Jenn. Mr. Chappelle returned to Africa in 1913 and began shipping molygoy and in seven months the company had done over $40,000 worth of business. He returned to this country in December 1913 to secure sufficient capital and or organize, and incorporate this company under the laws of the State of New York. After returning to Africa in 1914 the war soon broke out and made (im possible the development of export business during the war. In the meantime he began to strengthen the resources of the company throughout the Gold Coast. The company is now capitalized at $200,000 and has resources in Africa variously estimated from three to ten million dollars. Mr. Chappelle was compelled to remain in that country for nearly three years during this trip because of the business depression which made it difficult for him to secure sufficient finances with which to develop the company's operations in Africa. With the party sailing for Africa are Mr. Hicks and wife, graduates of Tuskegee Institute, going as machinist to work in the shops of the company; William Curtis, wife and baby, of Sewickley, Pa., Mr. Curtis is an electrician and accountant. He was a lieutenant in the late war. Willis Adams and Thomas Colo, well-known builders and cabinet makers of Pittsburgh, Pa. They will ply their trade for the company. They will have charge of some very extensive building as the company plans to build a number of factors to house the various industrial enterprises being carried on by it as well as build homes for the workmen, modeled after the American building plans. Already $45,000 of building contracts are to be completed within the next 18 months. Two white men accompanied the party. Mr. Fox, who resigned his position as head of the wholesale department of foreign imports with the Montgomery Ward and Company in Chicago and joined the African Union Company to become its American purchasing agent. He is going to Africa to study the needs of the company at that end. Mr. J. W. Crow, also of Chicago, is accompanying the party to go over the resources of the company and put the whole proposition in the form of a prospectus. A meeting of the Board of Directors of the African Union Company was held a few weeks ago in the H. C. Frick Building in Pittsburgh, Pa., at which a bond issue was ordered for $250,000. These bonds are in the denomination a of $500 and $1,000 each. They are 8 per cent, five year, convertible coupons and are in the hands of Dr. J. E. Banks member of the Society of Civil Engineers of America, 518 Wiley Avenue, Pittsburgh. 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There are plenty of sixty dollar puits on ten dollar bodies round here. It is as hard to get money out of some people as it is to draw hen-teeth Worry kills. It stalks right beside disease and as the more deadly of the two. Some people, who pay no attention to law are deeply interested in lawlessness. Colored people, who grumble are like white people, who do the same thing. People, who lead in this life's race are usually the tom-cat at which every body hurls a brick. The United States Supreme Court has found itself and is handling down decisions again. Some people write so poorly that it is necessary to use a type-writer to decipher their names. There is no fool, like an old fool. This is as true today as it was when it was-first spoken. Colored people are good-natured and those kind of colored folks live longer than the other kind. When people climb up they rarely look downward. To do so is liable to make them dizzy. People, who mean right will be liable to do right. People, who mean wrong will be liable to do wrong. Some mothers, who do not know how to raise children do not strive to learn how to raise them. Racial hatred is the worse kind of hatred. Colored folks should abbor it and white folks should shun it. The longer you live, the more you know and the more difficult it is to profit by what you have learned. Theorists often take the time to worry progressive working people to death with their fads and fancies. THE SUPREME COURT SPEAKS AGAIN. THE SUPREME COURT SPEAKS AGAIN. The Supreme Court of the United States handed down on last Monday another "doubled barreled" decision. In other words, it is a decision that looks both ways and affords a measure of comfort to both sides, while specifically satisfying neither. It was an opinion in the celebrated Coronado coal case and dealt with important questions affecting, the rights, privileges and liability of labor organizations. Specifically speaking the case was as follows: The case which presented the questions passed upon by the court was an appeal by the United Mine Workers of America, District No. 21 of that organization and its officers, twenty-seven local unions in that district, and their officers and sixty-five individuals some of the latter not members of any union from a decision by the United States District Court of Arkansas, ap proved by the Circuit Court of Appeals holding them guilty of violating the Sherman anti-trust act during coal mine strikes in Arkansas in 1914 and imposing damages of $200,000 which were trebled under the antitrust law. In plain words, it was a ruling aga nst the labor organizations without assessing damages and it puts these organizations on notice as to what they may expect in the future. In doing this, the Supreme Court overturned one of the fundamental principles of law. It has always ocn under good that a body secured a charter of incorporation in order that the combine or body might exercise the rights and privileges of the individual to sue and to be sued. By this decision, the resting of a suit upon the individual units in an unincorporated body has been nullified. Of course, good reasons for this are given, but it places the legal fraternity "at sea," so to speak. It used to be said that no one ever knew what a jury was going to do. It is now the rule that no knows just what the Supreme Court is going to rule. It renders a decision today, which decision is nullified tomorrow. If unincorporated bodies can be held responsible as partnerships and be sued without resting the suit upon the individual members of the partnership, then what is the need of so many corporate' bodies and why go to the expense of being incorporated? The mine-owners wanted money for their property that had been destroyed and their business that had been ruined. The United States District Court of Arkansas gave them damages in the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, which under the Sherman anti-trust became six hundred thousand dollars or three times the original amount. This view of the situation was concurred in by the Court of Appeals and nullified by the Supreme Court of the United States, while sustaining all other grounds of contention. This is the way the Supreme Court "wiggled" out of this embarrassing situation: The authority placed by members of District No. 21 in their officers to order a strike, it was held, made the district organization responsible for any unlawful injuries inflicted during the conduct of the strike and made the fund accumulated for strike purposes by the district subject to the payment of any judgment which is recovered. It was necessary, however in order to hold District No. 21 liable in this case under the anti-trust act, to establish that the conspiracy to attack the Bache-Demman mines and stop non union employment there was intent to restrain inter sit the commerce, to monopolize it and subject it to the control of the union; Chief Justice Taft stated adding that while coal mining is not interstate commerce, and obstruction of coal mining is not a direct obstruction to interstate commerce. In conl. Congress has the power to subject such acts to national supervision and restraint. It also has the power, the court held, to punish conspiracies in which such practices are part of the plan to hinder, restrain or monopolize interstate commerce. While unincorporated labor organizations could be sued under the Sherman anti-trust, for triple damages fo loses to property caused by them, there was nothing in the evidence in the present case, it was declared, to show that the acts complained of were aimed by the labor unions to restrain interstate trade. Questions relating to the charge to the jury were dismissed without ex Some folks cannot be trusted even when they are asleep. They may walk in their sleep. They are fighting again in Ireland and neither side seems to know just whether they have war or peace. People, in Africa, who live without work are just as unhappy as some of us over here who live by working. Some white folks want the colored people in the Southland and some others want them to go away from there. Hon. Marcus Garvey will address the people of Richmond on the subject of his wonderful projects June 30th, and the local Garveyites are enthusiastic over the prospect. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA amination by the court in view of the effect of this decision holding that restraint of interstate commerce had not been the object of the strike. This is specious argument of "now you see it; now you don't". The two lower courts did not see it in this light. The damages had been inflicted and the people, who inflicted the damages should be made to pay. As a plea in justification of the decision, Calef Justice Taft is quoted as saying in the opinion: At common law, it was pointed out an unincorporated association of persons was not recognized as having any other character than a partnership to be sued or to sue in the name of its members whose liabilities had to be enforced against each member. "But the growth and necessities of these great labor organizations have brought affirmative legal recognition of their existence and usefulness and provisions for their protection which their members have found necessary." The rights of labor unions to maintain strikes, he declared, their protection against embezzlement of their trade marks, their standing in statutory arbitration and before official labor boards and the adaptability of equitable procedure to modern needs requiring the representation by one person by many have all had their effect. "Out of the very necessities of the existing conditions," and the utter imposibility of doing justice otherwise, the stable character of such an organization as this has come to be recognized in some jurisdictions and many suits for and against labor unions are reported in which no question has been raised as to the right to treat them in the closely united action and functions as artificial persons, capable of suing and being sued." And again "It would be unfortunate," the court said, "if an organization with as great a power as this international union has in the raising of large funds and in directing the conduct of 400,000 members in carrying on in a wide territory in industrial controversies and strikes, out of which so much unlawful injury to private rights is possible, should assemble its assets to be used therein free from liability for injuries by torts committed in course of such strikes. To remind persons injured to a suit against each of the 400,000 members to recover damages and to levy on his share or the strike fund would be to leave them remedied." Although, the court said, "It is of primary importance in working out of justice and in protecting individuals and society from possibility from oppression and injury to their lawful rights from the existence of such powerful entities as trade unions, it is after all an essence and principle merely a procedural matter." "As a matter of substantive law," it was added, "all the members of the union engaged in a combination doing unlawful injury are liable to suit and recovery, and the only question is whether when they have voluntarily and for the purpose of acquiring concentrated strength and the faculty of quick unit action and elasticity created a self-acting body with great funds to accomplish their purpose they may not be made to satisfy claims for injuries unlawfully caused in carrying out their united purpose." The recognition of trade unions by the Clayton act and other Federal legislation also required, the court declared that labor unions should be held to be sable in the Federal Courts. To remand persons injured to a suit against each of the 400,000 members would be to leave them remedial says the Court and yet this is just what the Supreme Court by this final decision has done. The mine-owners as a result must be disgruntled and the miners angry. In fact this decision has pleased nobody. This is the logical result of side-stepping the fundamental principles of law, instead of meeting the issue squarely as the two lower courts seem to have done. The miners wanted a ruling upon the question of the legality of suing an unincorporated body, which under the law cannot as such sue or be sued and which would necessarily seek a charter of incorporation in order that it might exercise the rights and privileges of an incorporated body to sue and to be sued. But why discuss this judicial deliverance? It speaks for itself and it is in keeping and in strict alignment with the other decisions. in which this august tribunal has side stepped the major issues in order to render a compromising decision. There is a dead silence in the United States Senate on that five million dollar loan to the Republic of Liber'n. People are worrying themselves and each other. As a rule, only children without responsibility are happy. Some folks climb up a tree when trouble comes and leave their friends to fight trouble just below the tree. Health is wealth, but some people do not so regard it and mourn because they have health and but few things else. --- The true test of love is want. How many women can stand the test and how many mon want to try standing it? Some people use words mostly to deceive. If they can avoid you by giving deceptive answers they will gladly do Some of those modest, young girls who would not wear short skirts have a hard time securing anything to wear. People say automobiles are ruinous to finance, but they continue to either buy the cars or negotiate to purchase them. Telling ones troubles to other folks will do no good unless they are told to some one, who will sympathize and help you. Good people may be getting scarcer of this earth, but we feel assured that they are increasing in numbers in the heavenly region. Every rainy spell is followed by sunshine weather. Every period of trouble and pain is followed by happiness and pleasant elation. --- When you are in doubt about whether a person means what is said, watch the actions of the person and pay no attention to words spoken. Some white folks talk heavenly in private concerning the Negroes, but they are mountutly silent in public concerning this same class of people. You can live in this world, but you must pay for so doing either in trouble or in money and usually, you pay for living here in both trouble and money. Good white folks are steadily multiplying, but they do not seem to be prospering in Texas and in a few other southern States we might mention. Hon. Harry C. Smith announces that he will not be a candidate for Governor of Ohio outside of the regular Republican organization. This is interesting information. It begins to look as though the men who have been sitting down, doing nothing will have the opportunity to walk up and do something if the many threatened strikes materialize. Colored people, who are polite to white people are not always truckling to this class of people. They are simply showing their good manners. They are equally polite to the right kind of colored people. It is all in the raising. When the average citizen gets through with combatting one trouble, he sees another trouble coming around the corner to meet him. And so it will be to the end of the chapter. That is why some people want to go to heaven, where there is said to be no trouble for one to meet. The pay of the railroad employees, by a decision to the Railroad Labor Board will be reduced in order to meet the reduction in freight rates, which have been ordered made for the benefit of the public. The railroad interests did not refuse to make the reduction in rates, but the indications are that the men will refuse to accept the reduction in salaries. They are now trying to "run" Attorney General H. M. Daugherty out of President Hardings' cabinet. The Congress has just made an appropriation of half a million dollars to prosecute war fraud cases. Attorney General Daugherty has the naming of numerous assistants for this task in all parts of the country. They might have gotten rid of the Attorney General a few months ago, before there was any possibility of getting through that money legislation, but to talk about it now is to have him tell his critics to "Go w-a-y back and sit down." THAT GEORGIA CHAIRMAN John L. Phillips, chairman of the "Lily White" wing of the Republican State Committee of Georgia was arrested in Washington, D. C., June 5th upon a warrant sworn out upon information furnished by Marcus Borchardt, Special Assistant Attorney, General. The staging of the affair and the circulating of the information all over the country, intimating guilt, before the case comes to trial savors largely of a movement for political effect with John L. Phillips as the "goat". We have always deprecated this kind of business, whether it affects white citizens or colored ones. Irreparable injury is done the individual, his business and his family by these methods. A subsequent acquittal, in a measure repairs the damage done, but there are thousands of people, who read the charge, who will never notice the acquittal, for the very good reason that newspapers will give a column of space to the charge and about three lines of space to the acquittal. We make this statement as a matter of simple justice. Practically speaking John L. Phillips is branded as being guilty before he has been accorded an opportunity to say one word in his own defense. This has always been the methods pursued during the past five or ten years by the Department of Justice, better known to some people as the "Department of Injustice". We realize that Mr. Phillips has nothing in common for the Negroes of this or any other southern State. He is hend and shoulders of the whiteman's Republican Party. But he knows now the kind of injustice to which colored folks have been subjected. His toleration of the wrongs visited upon the Negroes of his own State has led him to the point where he is being practically choked and destroyed by ruthless public opinion. Before he has been given the opportunity to speak one word in his own behalf. "The mills of the Goda grind slowly, but exceeding fine." HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND RACE PREUDIENCE. The charge that the President of Harvard University and his supporters are backing up racial discrimination, not against Negroes, but against the Jews will be read with some amusement, but with more amazement. It is explained that the University has more applications for membership in the student body than it can accommodate and that some method must be found to reduce the number. The Jews constitute eighteen per cent. of the membership and this has produced an embarrassing situation. The management denies that there is any intention to discriminate on account of race, but an effort is being made to find a basis upon which to reduce the attendance. We have never understood why there should be any other basis than that of effacey. If the Jow out-strips the other students in intellectual attainments, let him have the right of way. Viewed from any stand-point, the increase of race prejudice against the Negro must necessarily increase race prejudice against other classes of people. The Ku Klux Klan began its campaign against the black man and the Ku Klux Klan soon began a campaign against the Roman Catholics. The only safe course of action is an observance of the divine commands, the practicing of the principles and precepts of the good and lowly Jesus. When the time comes that the chosen people of God cannot secure their rights and privileges in this country, then the time will have come for the destruction of the American Government as a Republic. Living in Russia will be preferable to suffering and dying in a land, the rulers of which have forsaken the principles and teachings of the Fathers. DR. KERLIN'S PLEA Dr. Robert T. Kerlin of Lexington, in his address in this city last Monday night took high ground in dealing with fundamental principles. Those, who seem to think that he is championing the cause of the Negroes as such already mistaken. He is championing the cause of the Negroes only because the oppression of this class of people comes in line with the principles, which he has advocated. He is a champion of the oppressed peoples everywhere and a believer in the exercise of freedom of speech and thought in keeping with the ideals of the founders of this Republic. Men of his type rise at intervals in a nation's history and they cannot be swayed from their course of action or howled down. Dr. Kerlin is a white man. He is a southerner, having been born in the State, where oppression and tyranny have never been able to find a lodging place as applied to the white man. It may be that during our life time, an awakening will take place and free thought and free action may be again enthroned in this country of ours. Dr. Kerlin paid a tribute to Hon. Eugene V. Debs. We have always believed in Debs' sincerity and we have always been of the opinion that in imprisoning him, this country made a martyr of one of the noblest and greatest characters in history. We say this too, while not subscribing to Eugene V. Debs tenets or his teachings. He has as much right to his opinions as we have to our opinions and he has the right to express those opinions. This agitation will go on until justice is triumphant and right will be accorded to all citizens in this republic. Little men have little minds and some little men have big minds and some big men have little minds. Dr. Robert T. Kerlin carries with him "the voice of one crying in the wilderness." ness" of hate and oppression. He will arouse latent thought among white men and active thought among colored ones. When men are fearless, they will do and die for the triumph of right principles. We are at the turning point of this country's existence and statesmen will yet come forward with the approval of the people and find seats in high places. BAD NEWS FROM TEXAS The following telegraphic report tells its own story: Moxia, Texas, June 2.—One white man was killed and at least three others seriously wounded this afternoon in a battle between whites and colored people on the farm of John King, two miles south of Kirkvin. It was reported that more than 100 colored people took part in the shooting and that they were preparing to march against the whites in that section. Within three hours after the shooting was reported automobiles filled with armed white men were driving toward Kirkvin. If a genuine, armed mob of colored people were preparing to kill white folks in Texas, the Governor would have every Ranger in that benighted State rushed to the scene of the disturbance. As a matter of fact, colored folks in Texas have not enough fight in them towards the white folks to kill a white child, much less the grown people of the white race. The men, who want a Negro butchery spread these hurdled stories in order to furnish an excuse for a race massacre. It may be that the Christian people in this State will organize in time to prevent another horrible display of flendishness in this Done Star State. --- THE KU KLUX KLANSMEN INDUCTED. The following information will be gratifying information to lovers of right and justice everywhere: Los Angeles, Cal., June 7.—Three high officials and thirty-four alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan were indicted by the Los Angeles County grand jury today on five counts of felony charges in connection with a raid at Inglewood, near here, April 22 last. The Klan officers were William S. Colburn, grand goblin of the Pacific domain, and supreme attorney for the order G. W. Price king kleagle for the State of California and N. A. Baker, kleagle or organizer for the County of Los Angeles. Baker is under arrest here, while Colburn and Price are understood to be in the East. The charges are false in imprisonment, two counts, kidnapping, two counts, and assault with intent to commit murder, one count. The national organization has already disclaimed responsibility for the action of these klansmen and the charter as we understand it has been revoked. But the injury has been done. No body of irresponsible masked men can be permitted to exist in a free country. If the Ku Klux Klan wishes to continue to function, let the hoods be discarded and let the members of that organization be ready and willing to look American citizens in the face at any and all times. The best way for the organization to be exposed in its most hideous light is for colored men throughout the country to organize a similar organization. In order to break up the colored organization, the white one will disappear with it. "VINDICATES THE BOARD." The Richmond, Va., News Leader in its issue of the 8th inst., says: When Colonel Robert T. Kerlin was dismissed on August 20, 1917 from the faculty of the Virginia Military Institute there were some who bitterly assailed the boards of the institute for what they considered an abridgment of academic freedom. All of that mind who read yesterday in The News Leader the report of Col. Kerlin's speech in Richmond on Monday night will agree that the board is vindicated of any criticism directed against it. That is the kindest thing that can be said of Mr. Kerlin's address. We do not see though, how Col. Kerlint's dismissal can be regarded in any other light than in the abridgement of academic freedom. After years of painstaking study, free from political conditions and abridging prejudicial prejudices he arrived at a fundamental conclusion, which he did not expound in his classes, but which he expressed outside as a personal conviction. This is the ideal spirit of a Republic and even in Europe, Tolstol, who was a virtual pariah amongst his fellow was permitted to come and without restraint allowed to express his conviction in a world diametrically opposed to his teachings. If this was permissible in Europe, where crowned heads reigned, what should be expected in the United States of America where the freedom of speech and the liberty of the press are constitutionally guaranteed? But then the News Leader is mould in its criticism and generous in its space given to this brilliant Kentuckian and so we shall be content. --- It is a job learning how not to worry. Read the Planet and pay for it and you will aid a good cause. In this life, we rush from one trouble right into another one. We are as much opposed to wronging white folks as we are to wronging colored ones. Hypocrites were here as thick as ants in Christ's time and they are here now as numerous as a swarm of mosquitoes. Some colored folks are so mean that it just stews out of them like grease out of fat meat. And would you believe it? There are white folks the same way. There are about five million people idle in this country and there are about a million and a half talking about going out on a strike, if their wages are reduced. When a white person is a friend to a colored person, the colored person has a friend that will stand by through "thick and thin." This applies to white folks who find a friend in colored ones. Senator James A. A. Reed is having the time of his life in his effort to be returned from the State of Missouri as United States Senator or within the regular Democratic organization. His only hope was to run as an independent. His illness is to be regretted. He is one of the most brilliant men in the country and he has the courage of his convictions. This is the only respect in which he resembles the Hon. Wowrow Wilson. BAYOULA BEING TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. (By Cleveland G. Allen ) New York, N. Y., June 5.—In a few weeks English people will have an opportunity to read Batouah, the novel written by Rehe-Maran, a Negro, and which was awarded the Goncourt prize that is the highest Literary honor given by France. The announcement of the winning of this coveted prize by a Negro attracted universal attention, especially in literary circles, and so popular has the book become that it is now being translated into several langues in order that the people through out the world may have an opportunity to read it. The book is now under going English translation, the contract having been given to Minor and Patterson of New York with offices at 232 W. 135th Street and who announces that it will be ready for distribution in a few weeks. They have been given sole rights for its distribution from America, and those who desire to have this unique book may write to them for information. Mr. Patterson who is doing most of the translation is a native of Haiti and speaks the French language fluently. He is giving the matter his careful attention, and when the work is finished it promises to bring out every detail of the literary qualities of the author. The novel "Batouali" is one of the most remarkable books that has ever been written and is said to be the most vivid description of African customs and traits that has ever come from the pen of an author. Besides portraying native customs it reveals the corrupt political conditions brought on as the result of the unscrubulous actions of the white race that has gone into Africa. The information the book brings out along this line has been startling, and has given the author a unique place as a narrator of conditions. Mr. Maran who is an employee of the French Colonial government has been making these observations for several years. The people of America will look for the English edition with much eagerness and all indications point that the sales here will do much to give the book added popularity. It is believed that at sometime in the future Mr. Maran will visit America. --- SOUTH IRELAND PREPARES FOR VOTE. Dublin, June 2.—The Coalition panel for the coming elections in Southern Ireland has been adopted and will be nominated Tuesday. The panel in cludes sixty-six pro-treaty candidates and fifty-nine Republicans. However, there are contests in about twenty con stituencies with twenty-five former candidates, twenty Laborites and a doz en professional and business men and three Independents. British troops have been dispatched to the scene of a fight between Ulster Specials and Free State troops on the Louth-Armach border. Most British troops are being sent to Ireland, it is understood here. Read The Planet for information concerning the world's "doings" and watch our advertisements. May lap you will see the very thing you have been looking for. New coteants are entering our B.word Puzzle every week. Fill out 7 e coupon on page 5 and send it in. Though Legal Avail. Cambridge, Mass., June 2.—One of the new phases in the controversy over whether Harvard will curtail the enrollment of Jewish students was the presentation to the Legislature today of two orders calling for an investigation of the reported plan of the university. These orders were presented by Representative Stephen C. Sullivan of East Boston and Representative George Webster of Boxford. In addition it was discovered that the laws of Massachusetts would have no legal restrictions over Harvard in case the university decided to go through with its reported plan or with any action it might take on any matter. Frederick L. Allen, secretary of the Harvard Corporation and who serves as dispenser of publicity, for the university stands by his guns. He sees no reason to add to his statement of early in the week, except to say that Jews were mentioned without any thought of discrimination, but that owing to the fact the percentage of Jews "was increasing mathematically, they will have no suffer along with other students, but with no thought of discrimination." Mr. Allen's original statement carried the full endorsement of the university authorities before it was issued. President Lowell was censured by Boston Jews, who said the policy of discrimination against their race was born when he succeeded Charles W. Elliot. Futhermore, Rudolfie College sister institution to Harvard and of which Dean Briggs is president, issued a statement that it had no intention of following in Harvard's footsteps in any attempt to limit its enrollment. GRADUATES TO DECIDE The fate of the orders will be in the hands of a legislature made up of more than 150 Harvard graduates of which Speaker B. Loring Young is one. The speaker is candidate for an overseer of the university. Representative Sullivan, speaking for his order said: "Let us not emulate the Czar of Russia in promulgating an autocracy here. This plan to discriminate along racial or religious lines against students wishing to enter Harvard is a slap at the Constitution of the United States. Under that great document of human liberty it is presumed that all men are born free and equal. We must not allow an autocracy to be set up at our very door. Democracy must rule; we must not have our State turned over to autocrats." The order as filed reads: Be it ordered that the great and general court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, anxious to safeguard the freedom and privileges of her citizens, takes cognizance of the reported program of Harvard University attempting to place restrictions upon the matriculation of those who profess the Jewish faith, deplores any act which may cause racial and religious animosity, an directs that a joint committee of the House and Senate be appointed to revise and amend the constitution of the commonwealth so that all reference to Harvard University its institution and its conduct may be eliminated; so that there may be nothing in the constitution approving or assenting to a plan which operates against any man because of his race or creed. And be it further ordered; that a special committee be appointed by the Legislature to investigate the necessity or desirability of permitting Harvard should its plans to become a private and restricted institution be summated, to enjoy exemption from taxation upon its reality and holdings. STATE CANNOT ACT Should the president and fellows of Harvard desire to take action prescribing anything—from the character of the clothes a student should wear to the nationality or the family of the man admitted—they can do so without fear of any legal interference. It would be impossible even for the Legislature to alter the college's immunity from taxation as a reprisal should a racial, religious or color line be drawn. Members of the Jewish community of Boston declare President Lowell has left no intelligent man in doubt as to his animus against the Israelites in college or out of it. He opposed confirmation of Louis Brandels as justice of the United States Supreme Court, according to Rabbi David H. Shohef of Roxbury. He refused to make allowance for Jewish boys compelled to take entrance examinations on their day of Atonement according to witnesses. He declined to recognize the sanctity of the Jewish New Year when it conflicted with the college schedule, according to Representative Coleman Silbert. President Lowell true to his tradition will not be interviewed. 400 JEWS IN HARVARD Today there are approximately four hundred Jews in Harvard about 18 percent of the enrollment. Each entering class shows an increase. Six Jews wear the coveted key of the Phi Beta Kappa. Six more are among those receiving John Harvard scholarships for "very high academic distinction." Six Jews are listed among Harvard instruction and professors, but there are no Jewish members of the corporation. Lonely Widow. WANTED—Boy, or Girl and Boy, between the ages of 12 and 15 years of age. I own a little farm of 40 acres, with two good dwelling houses, and a good pump well. There is no mortgage on my home. I have two good work mules, several head of cattle and plenty of meat hogs. A very good home with everything any one could wish for to make home happy. Would be glad to have some orphan children to take care of. MRS. MARY DARLING, Lonely Widow THEY FAILED TO APPEAR. (Preston News Service.) New York City, June 2.—The well-known gentleman dictating the destinies of prize fighters in this section and known as the New York State Boxing Commission, although heavily advertised to appear at a boxing benefit underlined for the Colored Branch of the Y. M. C. A. did not appear as the affair was called off. From Dr. Caffey, a widely known physician and conditioner of men and who supervised the training of Jack Johnson for his fight with Jeffries, it is learned that the commissioners demanded that the "Y" take out a license to stage the affair although it was no secret that the bouts were being staged for the benefit of this charitable institution, which, under the whites sails as a Christian association. Harlomites are of the opinion that the suggestion in The News to the effect that (Chairman Mulloon of the commission told the colored people in his proposed "talk" at the Y just why colored fighters are being barred from meeting white mitt pushers, played a great part in keeping the commission from visiting the section that has suffered most from its attitude. NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS. (Preston News Service.) New York City, June 2.—"The Creole Follies Revue" a much talked of production, made its initial bow to quite a large audience at the Lafayette on Monday night and while it did not come up to expectations, it showed by the lavish display of scenery, garrish costumes and the other necessary lab illuminations for an offering of its kind, that white men backing such productions these days are fully aware that the day has long since passed when they can get by without going the limit in it trying to arrest the attention of a public which craves something new all the time, even from the colored brother, now the rage in theatrical cir les here. Lack of appreciation for the worth of those they were successful in rounding up stood out at the premiere when we witnessed the show, but even the most pessimistic are of the opinion that after the necessary pruning and so forth which the experienced bring to play after an opening, the show will take its place as one of the best of the later day musical revues. --- U SHOULD GET BUSY WITH THE PLANETS B-WORD CONTEST AND GET SOME EASY MONEY. Read the rules of the contest on page 3. and get your penel and paper. CHICAGO NOTES. After a two weeks visit to the various councils throughout her jurisdiction, Mrs. Eliza Jackson, State Grand Queen of Illinois of Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa, has returned to the city speaking in high terms of the progress being made by the organization in that section. Mrs. J. C. Curry of Rochester, Minn. is in the city where she will spend a month visiting friends and is the house guest of Mrs. Esther Norwood, 420 E. 48th Place. Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet Avenue, D. G., M. N. G., and Mrs. Elia G. Berry, D. G., W. R., Eden Household of Ruth were in Aurora Saturday evening and Sunday morning looking after official matters. At the end of the school term of the public school at Colp, Ill., where she has taught during the entire term, Miss Alice Baxter will return to the city to spend the summer and may take a special course of study. The many friends of William Hall, 30 W. 47th Street and Miss Emma Robinson, formerly of Barkstown, Ky., were agreeably surprised a few days ago when they were married at the City Hall. Miss Robinson is the cousin of Mrs. Lucy Sheppard, 4436 Wabasn Avenue, Worthy Princess of Eastern Star Temple, S. M. T. Earl D. Alexander and James Turner, students at the Northwestern University of Evanston; Mr. and Mrs. James Frye and Mrs. A. Perry and little son, Tolph, spent Sunday in the city the guest of Mrs. Easher Norwood and Miss Laura Baxter, 420 E. 48th Place. The various lodges and temples of U. B. F. and S. M. T., held their annual sermon on last Sunday at Pilgrim Baptist Temple, 33rd Street and Indiana Avenue, at which time about two thousand members were present. The sermon was delivered by the pastor of the church, Rev. Watson. M. T. Bailey of the Bailey Realty Co., is in Virginia attending Alumni meetings of the V. N. and I. I., at Petersburg. RAN STILL 40 YEARS BELIEVING IT LAWFUL. Petersburg, W. Va., June 2.—"I've been making whisky nigh on forty years and this is the first time I knew there was any law again it," said Henry Hours, a veteran resident of the Smokehole district, located in Grant and Pendleton counties, when visited by State police and arrested today. A native of the district proffered a formation that "Old Man" Hours was running a still and had done so ever since he could remember. Corporal Briner, who led the State policemen said that the episode was the beginning of an educational campaign in the Smokehole region. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA --- CHILLY SAUCE BY DOUGHERTY (Preston News Service.) A REAL CABERET. Ready to flash forth the news that Harlem can at least boast a real cubedret stands an electric sign with the name "Happy" Rhone on the corner of Lenox Avenue and 143rd Street. New York's most popular entertainer plans to open this place on June 1st and great preparations are under way to make this resort one to vie with any on Broadway. Hardly a place worth while to take an out-of-town friend these days or nights for that matter in a community boasting a population of a hundred and fifty thousand and in a city where they tell you we are the wisest of the wise. "Happy" Rhone is filling a long felt want. FRED AND GORGE Alderman George W. Harris and the Hon. Fred R. Moore appeared on the same bill the other night and shared honors in advocating greater support so that those carrying on the fight for the Dyer bill will go to the front nerved with the knowledge that the race as a whole is behind them. Of course, none present dared hope that the miracle of the age would be performed on the auspicious occasion and that is that George and Fred would fall on each other's shoulders and weep for the joy of again meeting on the same plat form to advocate something for the common good of the race. CHANDLER OWEN, RADICAL Chandler Owen, one of the editors of the Messenger and brilliant advocate of equal rights for equal service, returned to New York about a week ago and is preparing a program for his followers which will keep him busy for the next few weeks Messrs. Owen and Randolph are getting primed for the campaign in the fall and their resonant voices will again make the "welkin ring." GARVEY THANKS PRESIDENT HARDING The Honorable Marcus Garvey has again showed his followers that rare accomplishment of being able to make your gang hold on in spite of everything. The papers using the Preston News Service scooped the country a few weeks ago on a news story telling of the troubles of Garvey in the courts but Garvey immediately issued a letter of thanks to President Harding for the loan to Liberla, making his followers believe that Uncle Sam is only helping to lay the foundation for his promised land when he returns to Africa on a Black Star Liner—that hasn't left the shipyards. But in spite of his many worries, Garvey continues to hold the spotlight Recently the Bee Hive Printing Company was purchased and became a part of the U. N. I. A. activities and we unstand that an attempt will be made to print the Negro World on its own press. DOES SYLVESTER JUSSELL REAL LY KNOW? Sylvester Russell, who for many years wrote lines which he called poetry, told his readers in the Chicago Star of last week that Mme. Lella Walker has really instituted divorce proceedings against her husband, Dr. Wilson. It is a wonder how Sylvester got this rare bit of news and again we would like to know when colored journals in New York City will begin to send out the real news of what is happening. Mme. Lella booked as happy and charming as ever at her "Gypsy Dance" at the New Star Casino last Wednesday night and apparently nary a thought of divorce proceedings were in her mind. She told the writer some weeks ago that she had no intention of instituting proceedings, at this time. Oh, when will we get a story of just what is in this case? --- WHAT HO! MR. 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Write your name in the coupon—if your hair is unsupplied and you it today. Send 60 cents in money order or stamps. Money back if unsatisfactory. Dealers—agents—write for proposition. TALMAGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 719 N. Wells St. Chicago, Ill. to let the world know how anxious he is to fight the big colored boy. True, some of the big white dallies have been running imaginary stories of the proposed bout, but nothing authentic has as yet come through and we refuse to throw up our hats and about until such time as the articles for a fight have been signed, and Paddy Mullin tells us that the deal is on. Mullins is Wills manager. Were we the manager of the "Bronze Panther" we would have jumped on Dempsey's trail to Europe and challenged him from every house top on the side of the pond, but Mullins, for some reason which the colored people will never know, seemed to be perfectly satisfied to play a waiting game. These he changed times and if the days of Jack Johnson called for drastic measures, such action is much more necessary now than at the time Johnson followed Tommy Burns and forced him to discard a title to which he had no claim. As we often times remarked the white brother will only give us a chance to fight when "democracy" is in danger. It must be remembered that Dempsey is looking for as big a purse as possible. He wants a half million. Mullins wants something for Wills and where will you find promoters and a place suitable to satisfy all from a monetary standpoint. Wills wants the title and will have to give away a whale of a sum of money to get a chance to win it from Dempsey. Yes, times have changed, they are not what they used to be. White champions want to get all the coin they can while geting is good. Dempsey knows that Wills will kick him to a frazzle and cut off his chance for numerous big purses in the next few years. 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All kind of Job Work done at this office. Our linotypes are busy, but we can still do job work. THE PLANET, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213. Richmond, Va. HARVARD UNIVERSITY DENIES THAT RACE DISCRIMINATION POLICY IS CONTEMPLATED STATEMENT IS PROMPTED BY NEWS OF IMPENDING LIMIT FOR JEWISH ENROLLMENT—NO CHANGE IN POLICY—PROBLEM OF LIMITING ENROLLMENT FACES ALL COLLEGES. Boston, June 1.—One clause in a statement issued last night by Frelderick Allen, secretary and public director of Harvard University, on the limitation of enrollment there has caused considerable stir. The clause reacts: "It is natural that with a wide spread discussion of this sort going on there should be talk about the proportion of Jews at the college." It is said that the attention of the university authorities was called to the fact that it was possible that such a statement might be interpreted as discrimination: Dean Chester Noyes Greenough of Harvard made the following statement tonight: "Harvard will be the same tomorrow as it is today. No one can say that for the next twenty-five years Harvard will bar certain men and admit others. No decision has been arrived at in the matter of who shall or who shall not be barred." FACES HARD PROBLEM "Harvard does not wish to bar any one, but the problem of too great numbers is before us and must be dealt with. The entering classes are becoming too large to handle. The entering classes will have to be cut down for this reason. How it will be done or who shall be eliminated no one knows. If anyone said that Harvard is planning to discriminate against races, he did not get that information from Harvard. The problem of increased numbers is facing Harvard just as it is facing the other colleges today. The colleges realize that something must be done. Some colleges are adopting one course others another. Some are taking students according to geographical location, some according to scholarship. Harvard is still struggling with the problem and no one knows how we shall meet it. We have arrived at noonclusion. The problem is still before us. I do not know what we shall do to reduce the numbers. The report that we might bar would-be students by means of a court of immigration law example is not true. Nor is the statement true regarding the barring of races." SITUATION IS EXPLAINED The full statement issued on the en- Read The Richmond Planet rollment question last night was as follows: "The great increase which has recently taken place in the number of students at Harvard College as at the other colleges, has brought up forcibly the problem of the limitation of enrollment. "We have not at present sufficient classrooms or dormitories—especially freshman dormitories—to take care of any further large increase. This problem is really a group of problems, all difficult, some exceedingly difficult and most of them needing for their settlement more facts than we now have. Before a general policy can be formulated on this great question it must engage the attention of the government board and the faculties and it is likely to be discussed by alumni and under graduates. "It is natural that with a widespread discussion of this going out there should be talk about the proportion of Jews at the college. "At present the whole problem of limitation of enrollment is in the stage of general discussion and it may remain in that stage for a considerable time." Within the last decade the number and proportion of Jewish students at Harvard University has greatly increased. They are now said to exceed 10 per cent of the entire number. KILLS WOMAN AFTER DANCE (Preston News Service.) Dunbar, Pa., June 2—In a quarrel upon their return from a dance Mrs. Levina Hill, aged 43, was shot and instantly killed by William Biddings. The shooting occurred at the Dunbar furnaces. Biddings succeeded in making his escape and all efforts to locate him have thus far proved futile. The Hill woman had been employed by Biddings as housekeeper. It is said sever al men heard the shooting but none ventured near the scene until several hours after it happened. "How doth the busy little B improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day From every pening flower." You may improve each shining your work on the Planet B-word Pizzle on page three. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA YOUNG ADAMS A LION IN GOTHAM white men. Sometimes there are white denounced (R. L. Dougherty for Preston News Service.) New York City, June 1—Alton A. Adams, the young Virgin Island band master, is being made a "lion of the hour" among the leading people of Greater New York and New Jersey. This young man is the only Negro band master in the United States Navy and has had at times under his personal direction sixty young musicians recognized as the Governor's band at the naval station at St. Thomas. He is not only an artist on the flute and piccolo, but an accomplished composer whose work has been halled with great acclaim all over the country. No less an organization honored him than the U.S. Marine Band at Washington when, in honor of his trip to the nation's capitol, Bandmaster Santelman had his great musical combination render the "Governor's March," the latest contribution to the music world by "the stranger within our gates." On Thursday night, May 25th, a private banquet was tendered Adams by about fourteen of our leading musicians. Among those paying tribute to Adams were: Lucien White of the New York Age; Harry T. Burleigh, Melville Charlton, "Bob" Slater, Lleut, Tim Brymm, Deacon Johnson, Frank Wiliams, Mr. and Mrs. Spiller of the "Musical Spillers"; Henry Cornelius, the writer and a few others. Those present all joined in welcoming the brilliant young bandmaster in behalf of the colored people of America, and in a most timely response the visitor won the plaudits of the guests when he assured all that he shared the responsibility of contributing his share towards the onward march of progress of the race in America. Seldom has it fallen to our good fortune to attend an affair where mea- high in the world of music and the other arts rose to such heights of sin- cretery and good fellowship in bidding one of their own welcome. To have crossed the bounding Carribean sea, breasting the uncertain weather of the Gulf Stream and arriving in the United States of America to find such men awaiting him with an eagerness that clearly showed their love, is a thing which the Virgin Island stated he will treasure for all time. In fact, Adams feels that he has received renewed inspiration an is eager to show his appreciation by joining with Ameri- fans of color in blazing the way that way that will leave on the very pinnacle of musical fame, writ in undying letters, the worth of musicians who have given to America the only music of which his great republic can boast. (Preston News Service.) Columbus, Ohio, June 2—Very often Negroes are inclined to think that the race really has no true friends among white men. Sometimes there are white men who are in sympathy with the struggles and hardships of the Americans Negro, but lack the moral courage to stand flat-footed and express their convictions. This sterling quality of true American manhood is to be found in Judge Edgar B. Kindead, a member of the Common Peas bench in Franklin County, Ohio. He has held this office for the past twelve years and on numerous occasions has clearly shown that he is fair minded and stands four square on the Negro question. He is the author of many law books, and for twenty years was associate professor of law at Ohio State University. From 1897 to 1899 he was special assistant to the Attorney General of State and had charge of considerable anti-trust litigation. He is the father-in-law of Dr. W. W. Alexander, director of the Inter-Racial Commission at Atlanta., Ga. Judge Kindead is interested, in interracial relations and has delivered many addresses to white audiences on the subject throughout the state. He has been unimously endorsed by both republicans and democrats of this county for a place on state's supreme court bench. The sterling qualities of the man makes him stand out as a figure which wins the respect and commendation of all with whom he comes in contact. POLICEMAN MURDERED (Preston News Service) Washington, Pa., June 2.—Policeman Richard Thomas, aged 40, was murdered early Friday morning while patrolling his beat. Lewis Catlin, aged 29, is being sought as the slayer of the officer. Catlin is said to have been seen near where Thomas was murdered a few minutes before two shots, which fatally wounded Thomas, were fired. No shots had been fired from the patrolman's revolver. A desire for revenge on the part of Catlin is being advanced as a motive for the crime. Catlin was recently arrested as a suspect in a robbery case by Thomas, and was discharged when he was found not to have been implicated in the robbery. Catlin was formely a member of the Ninth Calvary, U. S. A., previous to and during the World War. Officer Thomas was a member of the local police force for more than a year and had established a good record as an officer. He is survived by his widow and 10 children, his mother and seyer relatives. SOUTHERN WHITE BAPTISTS DE- NOUNCE MOB RULE. (Preston News Service.) Jacksonville, Fla., May 31—Mob rule and lawlessness were scathingly denounced at the closing session of the Southern Baptist Convention., (white.) here last Tuesday. The report of the Social Welfare Commission declared that every person charged with crime is entitled to a fair trial and that any other procedure is mob rule, and if adopted generally ultimately will undermine and overthrow every thing we hold dear." "We cannot too strongly urge upon our pastors and churches the importance of not becoming allied with or giving approval and support to any movement or organization that violates or tends to violate those sacred and fundamental principles," continued the report. Rev. Dr. J. J. Taylor, Leakesville, N.C., a vice president of the convention, delivered a strong address against "Mob Rule" and the recent burning of Negroes, Congressman Upshaw, of Georgia, and other speakers joined in deyring lawless outbreaks --- SMARTER SET COMPANY IS OUT AGAIN. (Preston News Service) Newark, N. J., May 31. The Smarter Set Company with J. Homer Tutt and Salem Tutt Witney, and Armon Davis and number of well-known stars of the foot. Lights, which also includes J. Francis Mores, after rehearsing for weeks opened at the Orpheum Theater here on Monday night. The show apparently did not meet with the anticipated success. They will go to Washington, D. C., after closing the engagement here. Something of the mysterious seems to have surrounded the Whitfield boys since they decided to cast their lot with Jack Goldberg, who fathered the ill-fated "Put and Take." When last seen we understood that "Up and Down" the vehicle on white" the Smarter Set Company closed the season in New York would be wripped into shape for either Broadway or Europe. Now information comes that the same show is returning to the road and nobody seems to know the objective. From personal observations we are of the opinion that the star of the Smarter Set Company is not yet in the ascendance. Although we hope to see the shadows of their light on the distant horizon, (very distant) of Broadway. OREGON NOMINATES KU KLUX (Preston News Service.) Portland , Ore., May 31.—Charles Hall, Ku Klux Klan candidate for governor, received 41,915 votes and Gov. Ollecott, anti-Ku Klux candidate for re-election received 41,654 at the primary election last week. Hall won the nomination by 261 votes. Prompt Service. Orders in or out of the city solicited. The Finest Caskets and the Cheapest furnished on short notice. Marriages and Social Functions Also a Specialty. DAY OR NIGHT SERVICE GRIFFTH ANSWER AT THE LAST MINUTE SAVES PARLEYS. Dublin, June 2.—Most Rev. John F. Gregg, Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, startled a diocesan meeting here with this statement: "If we are not already engaged in civil war in Ireland, it may be upon us this week or the next." LAST MINUTE ANSWER FROM GRIFFITH MORE HOPEFUL London, June 2.—With a touch of the dramatic, similar to that which featured the signing of the treaty creating the Irish Free State last December the negotiations between the British government and representatives of the Irish provisional regime, tonight were saved from a possible breakdown by Arthur Griffith president of the Dáil Eireann, making a last-minute answer to six questions put to him by the British Cabinet yesterday. With his characteristic optimism David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, announced this morning he was sure the trend of the Irish situation would permit of his departure for Criesth for the week-end. Then he gathered the members of the Cabinet around him and waited all day for the reply of the Irish leader to the questions that had been put to him. These were received at 8 o'clock this evening The Premier decided that the answers were satisfactory and immediately departed for Wales. He will return to London next Tuesday, when the conferences will be resumed. CONCERN FREE STATE CONSTITUTION The questions the British government asked have not been made public but it is understood they concerned the drafting of the Irish Free State constitution and its relation to the treaty. The extreme gravity of the state of affairs between the British, the Free State and the Ulster governments is reflected in the air-tight ban that has been placed on all news of what has transpired during the conferences here since Colonial Secretary Churchill's statement in the House of Commons that it might be necessary to reoccur Ireland. 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D. read for Scripture lesson, St. Luke 22:1-20. The subject was "Forget Me Not Divine." It being Holy Communion, the text used was very appropriate and befitting. The Rev. James S. Hatcher, D. D. left Sabbath afternoon for Selma and Birmingham, Alabama. Rev. Baker, pastor of Boone's Mill and Mt. Lebanon A. M. E. Church preached to the people of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church Sunday night. Rev. Baker filled the pulpit with credit to the occasion and gave some fundamental truths for the Church. Mrs. Josie Lewis, of 520 Norfolk Avenue, N. W., who had suffered a lingering illness for several months died Saturday morning, June 3, at 8:20. The funeral took place from the home Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. She was perfectly resigned to the will of the Almighty and said a short while before the end came she was not afraid to die. She leaves to mourn their loss a loving and devoted husband, a loving mother, one brother, one sister and a host of friends. Her remains were interred in Midway Cemetery. Mr. Samuel Martin died here May 29th, after a short illness of one week. The funeral was Wednesday, May 31st. Interment in Midway Cemetery. Mrs. Brack Penn, of Ninth Avenue died at the home of her daughter, Thursday morning, June 1, on Eighth Avenue, Mrs. Lena Tatums, She leaves to mourn their loss, two sons, William and John Penn, of Roanoke, one daughter in texas and a host of friends. Interment in Midway, Rev. D. R. Powell officiated in the eulogy. Mrs. Smith, of Lynchburg Avenue left last Thursday with her brother and sister-in-law and sister for South Carolina, and will spend some time. Miss Eva Taylor and Miss Hale spent a very pleasant time at the commencement exercises at Kittrell It was indeed a pleasure and inspiration to those who visited the Mt. Cavary Baptist church last Sabbath. The Superintendent Mr. John Foster and his assistant, Miss Alma Logan were at their post of duty in the Sunday School on time. We listened to some important notices by our pastor, Rev. C A. Cobbs and Rev. C. B. Jefferson, the Departmental Superintendent. 11:30 A. M. our Pastor came forth on the Rostrum; while the choir was singing the opening; after which the Invocation was offered to the Diaty by Rev. Jefferson. Others on the rostrum who took an active part in the services were, Revs. A. D. Clarke and G. W. Coleman. Two members were added to the church. Many friends were present including Mr. J. H. Hines the Sec. Treasurer of the Supreme I. O. St. Luke, Mr. Harvey Johnson, the great Architect of Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Laura Rundelof of Hopewell, Va., we are glad to have our friends to come and worship with us. Rev. Cobbs preached from the subject: "I have Put Off My Coat; How Shall I Put It On " Our hearts burned within, while he talked to us about the "Way." 3:30 P. M. as usual we had a great shout in the name of the Lord. Rev. Simma of the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church assisted our pastor in serving the Communion. Rev. Pollard who is pastoring in Goochland County, talking the while the bread was being passed around. Many good songsters were present including Mr. Solomon Simma of the Second Baptist church, who stirs up the church with his songs, wherever he goes. We are glad to have you all at any time. We are putting forth every effort to represent in the State B. Y. P. U., this year. We have a Junior Department in our church. Services from 7 to 8 P. M. every Sunday evening. Miss Alma Logan is Director, Mr. Nat Watkins, President; Miss Edna Clarke, Secretary. We are putting forth every effort to pay off the indebtedness on the building next month and we certainly need your co-operation. Beginning this afternoon, there will be a Lawn Party on the premises of the church until the termination of the Rally. Refreshments and other goodies on hand to purchase A Sacred Concert tomorrow at 3:30 P. M. A Friends Pow Rally at 8:00 P. M. Monday at 8:30 P. M. an entertainment, the Queen of May will be repeat ed on the second Tuesday evening at 8:30 P. M. Tomorrow being Father's Day our pastor will preach on the game, live singing by the choir of the church. Let us call to see the sick in our midst. A Great Biblical Debate. Subject: "Resolved that Peter could not have preached the sermon that Paul did on Mar's Hill." By the members of the Teachers Training Class of the Sunday School. Miss Alma Logan teacher, 2nd Sunday in July 1922, 8:30 P. M. Regular Prayer meetings Wednesday evenings, 8:30 P. M. Deacon Beverly Valentine leader. Mrs. Fannie Jenkins, Mistress of Ceremonies at the Anniversary Exercises of Fulton Court No. 244 was inadvertently omitted in last week's issue. Mrs. Jenkins was a charter member of the court. UNION LEVEL NOTES Sunday was a great day with us. Sunday School was well attended and school seemed to be impaired At Olven odeo there was a soul stirring sermon and ayerx.om EIGHT FUL/TON NOTES. College last week. The funeral of Mr. Dickerson, the father of Mrs. Robert Johnson, who died at the home of his daughter, took place from the Hill Street Baptist Church, Rev. D. R. Powell officiating. The Mite Missionary Society met Tuesday evening, June 6, at the Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, Mrs. Gertrude Hatcher, president. Rev. William Moore, the pastor of Fincastle, Va. has just returned from Wynoke, W. Va., where he had been engaged in a revival service for Rev. J. D. Evans. He had quite a success for the Master—20 conversions and 30 accessions to the Church. Pay the boy who delivers your paper and save the unnecessary expense of going over the same, ground twice. Thomas Howard is O. K, and will take special care of the money paid him, and besides all that encourages him on his route. We hope this will suffice. Don't forget that M. Stanfield and Thomas Howard will furnish you with The Planet each week. Just 5 cents pays for a week. The old line medicine, Indian Herbs, Ordway Plasters, the best made, Bukers Midney Pills that beat the best of them, and Salvasona, that has no equal for a run-down system can be had at 153 Wells Alley, N. W. In memory of Samuel J. Kates, who departed this life five years ago today, May 28, 1917: Oh, sad has been the gone-by years, How grieved mother's heart, When from your smiling face so dear In death; I had to part. But the smile that played upon your face Will live forever more And sweet will be that angel face, When we meet on Heaven's shore. Mother, Brothers and Sisters, By Mrs. Nancy Kates. seemed to be lifted heavenward. At S o'clock Rev. Coleman of Richmond preached a soul stirring sermon. At the end of the service a gold watch was presented to Sister Emma Porter, by the pastor for raising the largest sum of money in the rally. Sunday coming will be Fathers' Day and each member is asked to wear a pink carnation in honor of their fathers. The sermon will be preached in honor or of our fathers by Rev. Blind, R. T. H. of Richmond at eleven o'clock. Come and hear this man of God. All are welcome. Our Pastor was received in the Ministers' Conference Monday. RISING MT. ZION NOTES. The Rose of Sharon Club had an interesting spelling bout last Tuesday evening. Mr. Z. Henderson, a pupil of Armstrong High School was the lucky contestant. Little Vivian Johnson, a pupil of George Mason School was highly praised she being next to Mr. Henderson in the race. Among the contestants were even graduates and it was remarkable how this little girl of ten tended with them. The Pew Rally is now in progress. The one hundred captains are striving to reach their goal. Perchance there are some members who have not as yet availed themselves of the opportunity to unite with one of the captains please do so at once and make this rally a great success. Sunday 3:30 P. M. the Woman's Bible Day exercise was held at the above named church. It was interesting meeting and many prominent speakers were on the program. At our evening service the Rev. W. L. Tuck officiated. All present enjoyed hearing Rey. Tuck, a divine of our own vicinity. Sunday at 3:00 o'clock is our regular communion service. Members please note the importance of being on time, so that we may adjourn at a reasonable hour during the hot season. GOOD SAMARITANS CONVENTION State Grand Lodge No. 6, of Va., L. O. G. S. and D. of S. will hold its 50th Annual meeting in Danville, Va. June 13, 14, and 15. Delegates will secure convention certificates fro mthe ticket agent when purchasing your ticket and this will give you one half fare return ing. Get ticket early so that the agent will have time to fill certificates for you. J. W. THOMPSON, Grand See-Manager KNOXIT PROPHYLACTIC Affords protection against infectious diseases. All prudent persons should avail themselves of this dependable germicide. 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Some ten to twelve millions of American citizens, entitled everywhere in the country by the express provisions of the Constitution to every right that any citizen has., are in practice denied the primal rights of human beings, those rights which in the Declaration of Independence are called "inalienable." Since 1889 three thousand four hundred and forty-three (3443) persons, including sixty-four women, are known to have been lynched, and it cannot be doubted that many more were killed by mobs of which no record exists. In 1921, sixty-four persons were lynched of whom four were burned at the stake. They were charged sometimes with crime, sometimes with trifling misdemeanor sometimes with words or acts which are not punishable under any code of laws. No trial was had, no evidence of guilt was required, the accusation, no matter from what responsible source it came, was treated as proof, the killing was often accomplished by the most cruel tortures, and not infrequently persons were lynched by mistake. With what cruelty these murders were often committed may be judged by the following no eduents taken from Southern sources. and the residence of several ministers as well as the mayor of the town, while the people of Dyersburg surrounded the scene, watched all that occurred and approved, since no protest was made. A Neo-Geocentric a Negro was thus dealt with: "The Negro was seated on the ground and a buggy-axle driven into the ground between his legs. His feet were chained together, with logging chains, and he was tied with wire. A fire was built. Pokers and flat-irons were procured and heated in the fire. It was thirty minutes before they were red-hot. "His self-appointed executors burned his eyeballs with red-hot irons. When he opened his mouth to cry for mercy a red-hot poker was rammed down his gullet. Red-hot irons were placed on his feet, back and body, until a j髄ous stench of burning human flesh filled the, Sabbath air of Dyersburg. "Thousands of people witnessed this scene. They had to be pushed back from the stake to which the Negro was chained. Doof-tops, second-story windows and porch-tops were filled with spectators. Children were lifted to shoulders, that they might behold the agony of the victim. "A little distance away, in the public square, the best citizens of the county supported the burning and torturing with their near-by presence." The Memphis News-Ecimitar thus describes the scene: "Not a domino hid a face. Everyone was unmasked. Leaders were designated and assigned their parts. Long before the mob reached the city the public square was choked with humanity. All waited patiently. Women, with babies, made themselves comfortable. At last the irons were hot." "A red streak shot out; a poker in a brawny hand was boring out one of the Negro's eyes. The Negro bore the ordeal with courage, only low moans as capturing him. Another poker was working like an auger on the other orbit." "Swish. Once, twice, three time a red hot iron dug gaping places in Lation Scott's back and sides. "Fetch a hotter one, somebody said. The execution went on. "Now someone had another poker —jabbing its fiery point into the ribs of the doomed black. "Then rubbish was piled high about the agonized body, squirming beneath its load. More and more wood and rubbish were fed the fire, but at three o'clock Lation Scott was not dead. Life finally fled at four o'clock. We scarcely changed countenance as the Negro's back was ironed with the hot brands. Even the executioners maintained their poise in the face of bloody creases left by irons, —irons which some housewife had be —irons, which some housewife had been using. Three and a half hours were required to complete the execution." We cannot but wonder whether on that Sunday morning in the shadow of the churches, any of the respectable church-going citizens of Dyersburg who witnessed these horrors remember ed the immortal words, "nasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it un to me." At Estill. Springs in Tenn., a Negro charged with killing two white men was in like manner tortured and burn ed alive. The Chattanooga Times thus describes what occurred: (TO BE CONTINUED.) FINALS AT VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND COLLEGE Commencement week at Virginia Theological Seminary and College, from May 26th to May 30th, marked the close of the most successful session in the thirty-four years of the school's history. Seventy-three young men and young women, from four departments received their degrees and diplomas, three taking the Bachelor of Divinity degree, two the Bachelor of Arts, and seven the Bachelor of Taeology. Twenty-five were graduated from the Teacher Training Department, thirty-five from the Academy and one from the Course in Home Economics. Tao finals opened Friday afternoon, May 26th, with the class day exercises of the Teacher, Training and Academy Departments, held, as were all the exercises, in the spacious auditorium of the newly constructed Humbles Hall. The class day program was followed by the annual reception tendered by President R. C. Woods to the faculty and members of the graduating classes at his home. Saturday afternoon the Seniors defeated the Faculty and Alumni by a score of 7-5 in the annual Senior-Faculty-Alumni baseball game. Saturday night the Junior-Senior reception, in the form of an indoor picnic was held in the auditorium of Fox Memorial Hall. The Baccalaureate Sermon was preached on Sunday afternoon by Dr. E. Luther Cunningham, of Harrisburg, Pa., from the text found in Matthew 20:26-37. In an impassioned and scholarly sermon, he set before the great audience that had assembled: to hear him, the Christian ideal of humble service. On Monday was held the annual business session and reunion of the Alumni Association, with the alumni luncheon at mid-day. The institution was fortunate in its selection of commencement speakers for this year's closing. On Monday night, the closing exercises of the Teacher Training and Academy Departments were held. The honor graduates of these departments delivered orations. The address to the class was delivered by Dr. C. L. Alken, formerly Dean of Theology at Gadaulape College, and at present pastor of the First Baptist, Church, of Charlottesville, Va. He spoke of the necessity of building a strong foundation on which the superstructure of life might be reared, and urged upon those graduating, that they should pursue further study to fit themselves more suitably for their vocations. Diplomas were awarded to sixty-one graduates on this night by the President, Dr. R. C. Woods. On Tuesday night, the Commencement exercises of the School of Theology and of the College of Arts and Sciences were held, when two young women and ten young men were degreeed. Carter G. Woodson, Ph. D., Editor of the Journal of Negro History, delivered the Commencement Address, speaking on the signs of progress as evidenced in the history of the nations and races of the world. Dr. Woodson was at his best and held his vast audience spellbound during the entire length of his address. He delivered probably the most masterly address that has been delivered at the institution during the academic year. In summing up briefly the year's work, President Woods announced two small bequests toward the permanent endowment fund and divulged to the audience some plans of the institution for the coming academic year. Just before the close of the exercises, a purse of $225.00 was presented to President Woods, coming from the Baptists of Virginia, and a purse of $100 coming from the Trustee Board of the institution. Both gifts were made toward a vacation trip for the President, in recognition of the remarkable way in which he has conducted the affairs of the institution during the past years, and his successful financing of the erection of Humbles Hall as the latest addition to the .jmpus. WAR VETERANS ASKED FOR CITATIONS. To The Editor, Dear Sir!—On May 2nd and again on May 16th, this office sent a circular letter to all newspapers in the State, asking that they publish a notice to service men, requesting copies of citations received from this or foreign governments for conspicuous service in the World War. From the replies received at this office, we have concluded that most of the papers in the State printed these notices. We have received numbers of citations from men and women whose names were not on our list and of whom we may never have heard but for this timely help from the newspapers of the State. In view of this fact, we are again and for the last time, bespeaking your aid in this matter. You will find appended a short notice, which, if you will use in your next issue, giving at as conspicuous and large a space in your columns as you can, it can never be said that you failed in your duty to the men of Virginia who won honorable mention in the World War. On the other hand, it can and shall be said that you have done all in your power to aid the War History Commission in their efforts to do full justice to every Virginian entitled to inclusion in the Distinguished Service volume about to be published. Assuring you of our appreciation of the great service you have rendered in this matter, we are Very truly yours, ARTHUR KYLE DAVIS, Va. War History Com. Chairman The Star Hair Grower. 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