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THE RICHMOND PLANET BIRMINGHAM MAN TAKES GUN FROM ABDUCTORS AND USES IT ON THEM WHILE IN SPEEDING CAR VOL. XL. NO. 16 BIRMINGHAM MAN FROM ABDUCTOR ON THEM WHILE (Preston News Service) Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 22—Edward H. Daniel shot his way to liberty after being carried some distance from this city by a band of kidnappers. There were four masked men in the gang Daniels says. According to the police Daniels said that he fired upon his captors shortly before the man was brought to the local hospital with a bullet wound in his head. The white man told hospital authorities that he accidentally shot himself. In a statement made to the police Daniels said that he was kidnapped, blindfolded and hustled into an automobile. While traveling at high speed the machine struck a bad road. The lostling gave him an opportunity to wrest a pistol from one of his abductors. He told the police that he immediately leaped from the moving car and began firing at the four men. He said the other three returned the fire but all their shots went wild. He is confident he hit one of the men. Soon after wards a man was brought to the hospital, claiming to have accidentally shot himself the police say. Daniels stated that he knew no reason why he should have been kidnapped. He told the police that he believed the gang of men were bent on doing some bodily harm to him from their actions. The authorities refused to reveal the name of the white victim. Arkansans Ask the State Legislature for Hospital Little Rock, Ark. Feb. 15—It was learned here today that by a vote of 450 to 50 ct. a mass meeting held by Negroes in Booneville resolutions were adopted urging the Arkansas Legisla-ture to locate the proposed Negro Tuberculosis hospital in that city. Similar resolutions were also sent in by white citizens of Booneville it is same. It was argued by speakers that the Negro hospital could be operated at less expense to the state if located near the same kind of institution for whites. The tuberculosis hospital for whites in this state is located at Booneville. It is said that the white merchants and citizens are more anxious for the establishment of the Negro institution at Booneville, than are the Negro citizens. NEGROES AS PROHI AIDS HOLD MOB IN CHECK NEGROES AS PROHI AIDS HOLD MOB IN CHECK (Preston News Service ) Baltimore, Md., Feb. 13.—Negroes have been added to the prohibition forces in the capacity of guards according to recent activities in this city to enforce the dry measure. Negro assistants of prohibition enforcement agents armed with riot guns, held back a threatening crowd of more than a thou sand persons while the agents raided a North Fremont avenue saloon last Thursday and destroyed more than 300 cases of home brew beer. MER ROUGE MAYOR GETS A DEATH THREAT (Crusader Service) Mer Rouge, La.. Feb. 15.—Mayor Robert L. Dade, a brother-in-law of Watt Daniel, murdered by a hooded mob is said to be threatened with death unless he leaves town within ten days. The warning came today in an anonymous letter, bearing a Hot Springs, Ark., post mark. It was written by someone apparently familiar with Mayor Dade's history and his testimony at the open hearing at Bastrop into the hooded murder mystery. The Mayor, who opposed the withdrawal of troops from the parish, announced that he would ask the Attorney General and Department of Justice agents to try to locate the sender of the death threat. The Mayor once joined the ku klux klan and then renounced it as he opposed its policies. The letter, written on stationery of the National Park Hotel, at Hot Springs, follows: "Dear Sir:—You are hereby notified, to pack up and get out of town within ten days of receipt of this notice. You have never been any good as a man or as a citizen. Use your own judgment and either leave or become a corpse. 'Law Abiding.'" THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK. The Auditors at the Mechanics Savings Bank have completed their report. It is understood that it is now being type written or printed, after which it will be the subject of inspection by counsel for the officers and stockholders of the Mechanics Savings Bank. Then the American Audit Co., which has been retained for the purpose, will make an independent examination of the affairs of the bank. --- N. A. A. C. P. VS. U. N. I. A. (By Floyd J. Calvin, Author: "The Mirrors of Harlem.") The fight between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Universal Negro Improvement Association has reached such a stage that it might not be unwise to impartially review both groups and see what should be preserved and what destroyed in each organization for the best interests of the public at large. The names of both denote progress. One wishes to "advance," the other to "improve." One has for its objective building up the historic Motherland, Africa; the other, equality in America. If both carry out their programs, both will render a distinct service to the Negro race. But for either to forget its primary purpose for existing and devote its entire time to telling the other: "Your program is impossible." Is like the pot calling the kettle black. In the first place, neither program will be realized soon. The very foundations of each denote a continuous struggle in their respective fields. In the second place if the public fines that the cardinal principles are suddenly forgotten and the controversy drops to the level of personalities, then both sides should be set severely alone. If members of two organizations cannot go about their business carrying out their respective programs—which are basically not programs of destruction—without being disgraced by personal fights between their respective leaders, then both leaders should be repudiated. Now what about the charges flying to and fro? First, the followers have not anything to do with those charges—because they didn't make them. The followers joined with their respective leaders to carry out what they believed to be a good program. To be sure they have a right and ought to be loyal in a crisis. But they have no right to give their support until their cause denotes a public nuisance rather than a public service. They have no right to be worked into a frenzy until they hate every one who is not of their cult. They have no right to become suspicious of every one who is not as wild and excited as they. It is then that they become victims of personal grievances rather than followers of constructive leaders. So that, rather than become demoralized and undermining, it is better to dismiss the leaders, before the leaders destroy the unity of the people for the people can always produce new leaders, but the same leaders cannot regain the confidence of their former supporters. Who constitute the respective movements? What are the real differences between the two groups? The N. A. A. C. P. has typical "American" ideas—advancement." "political equality." The U. N. I. A. has "universal" ideas—improvement"—redeeming Africa." Now everybody wants to see the Negro "advance" to political equality if he can. Likewise everybody wants to see the Negro "improve"—if he had a Motherland he would not be any the worse off. The immediate program of the U. N. I. A., is businesses, self-respect, pride of race race-consciousness and general uplifting. Certainly this would be a blessing to all. The immediate program of the N. A. A. C. P. is civil rights. There is nothing wrong with this. What must be done? Simply "improve" and "advance"—the leaders to the contrary, notwithstanding. —Rev. Dr. R. G. Adams, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church of Portsmouth, Va., was in the city last week. —Rev. W. D. Scott, of Clifton Forge, Va., called on us last week and paid his subscription. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1923 PRIZE WINNERS The Successful Contestants in the Puzzle Contest. Examination by the judges will be commenced on the double puzzle. "A President's Name" and the result announced as soon as possible. In the meantime, next week, we shall present another puzzle for the benefit of our readers. CONFESSES ROBBERY; CLEARS AGED MAN CONFESSES ROBBERY; CLEARS AGED MAN Revival Convert Tells of Crime—Wil Not Be Prosecuted. Danville Va., Feb. 18.—That blood-hounds are not infallible has been revealed near here in the confession of a farmer, whose name has been withheld, clearing up a robbery which took place thirteen months ago at Dry Fork and completely exonerating an agent Negro suspected of the crime. Jones' store was burglarized January, a year ago. A large amount of goods was stolen. Bloodhounds from Danville were taken to Dry Fork, and without loss of time, followed a trail which led to the cabin of the Negro. Here they stopped. Search of the Negro's home failed to reveal any of the loot. He declared he was innocent. The case did not come to the attention of the grand jury be cause of insufficient evidence. Recently, a "Holiness" revival has been in progress at Dry Fork. Several persons have been converted. A few rights ago a resident of the community visited Jones and told him he was one of the two men guilty of entering the store. He refused to give the name of his alleged confederate, but asserted that since he had "joined the church" his conscience "plagued" him. He gave the owner a list of the goods stolen, offered to make good the loss, and to pay the cost of the bloodhounds. The confessor said he was a member of the prose that followed the dogs to the Negro's home and requested that Jones "lose no time" in telling the Negro the robbery has been cleared. This has been done and Jones has declined to prosecute the man that confessed. Jones stated he now hopes the second man said to have been tried. Jones stated he now hopes the second man said to have been involved in the crime will confess. Evangelist Skipwith Holds On. Washington. D. C., Zion Baptist Church, Rev. J. W. Howard, D. D. Pastor. The Rev. Dr. Skipwith, the greatest evangelist of the day, whom Virginia and especially Richmond should be proud of, is still with us and making good. The Vermont Avenue Baptist Church which he served before coming to us has fellow-shipped three hundred and fifteen (315) and we now have one hundred (100) awaiting the baptismal waters, which will take place Friday night next. No pastor or pastors will make any mistake in having this God-sent, Doctrinal. New Testament preacher and singer come to your fields. He reaches both old and young. He learned and unlearned. Hear ye him! O. P. (Preston News Service) Columbia. S. C. Feb. 20—Leading figures in the African Methodist Episcopal church from all parts of the world were present at the opening reason of the Bishops. Mid-Winter Council. Governor Thomas G. McLeod and Mayor W. A. Coleman of Columbia were among the chief speaker. Wednesday night. Bishop W. D. Chappelle presided. The annual session of colleged presidents was held on Tuesday night with an open meeting. Addresses were delivered by heads of a number of leading colleges throughout the country. The principal address was delivered by Dr. John A. Gregg, president of Wilberforce University. Among other things Dr. Gregg said, "African Methodist colleges in this country have 200 students, 417 teachers and an aggregate property valued at $2,000,000. Dr. C. W. Edwards president of Kittrell College, Kittrell, N. C., told the audience that the white man had endeavored to make "the best white man of himself in the building of civilization, and that the Negro should lay too much emphasis on straightening his hair and bleaching his skin, but should aim to make of himself the best black man possible." Dr. J. S. Green president of Shorter College Little Rock, Ark., and Prof. D. H. Sims, president of Allen University Columbia also spoke. GOV. PARKER DECLARES HELL RID LIQUISIANA OF KLAN. New Orleans, La., Feb. 21.—In an address before, the Louisiana Post. address before the Louisiana Post-Petersburg, Va., February 1, 1923. Employees' conference here last Wednesday night. Governor Parker retreated his answer to combat the ku klux klan in Louisiana. He said "As long as I am governor of this state I am going to do all in my power to wipe out of existence as an institution productive of religious and racial hatreds, conducive to crime and subversive to constituted government." this nefarious ku klux klan. KU KLUX KLAN SUSPECTED. (Preston News Service) Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 20. —News was received here a few days ago that Cave Springs, a village about 11 miles east of Rome, Ga., was thrown into a panic late last Thursday night by the explosion of a charge of dynamite in the Negro section. The home of Reno Stockes, was completely demolished, but none of the occupants of the house were injured it was reported. According to the police Stockes received a note a short time ago from the K. K., warning him to leave town, but he had been advised by the local authorities to pay no attention to it, as other Negroes had received similar warnings and nothing had happened. It is said that he was regarded as one of the most thrifty and industrious Negroes in the village. He is said to be a law abiding citizen and apparently well-liked by everybody, both white and colored. Cave Springs authorities have offered a reward for the miscreants and Gov. Hardwick has been urged to have the state supplement the amount of the reward. SANTOS ACQUITTED OF MURDER AT SECOND TRIAL. (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 23—Lawrence Santos East Indian, charged with the murder of Mrs. Katie Nadab and her five year old son, Frederick Nadab, in a small confectionery store in Center avenue, was acquitted last Friday in Criminal Court. Santos was tried and found guilty last year and was sentenced to not less than eight nor more than 10 years in the penitentiary but an appeal to the supreme court resulted in the retrial. Washington, D. C. Feb. 24.—Very impressive, though simple, exercises last Thursday morning marked the opening of the sixth annual convoction of the school of religion of Howard University in the Rankin Memorial hall. Large numbers of visitors from all parts of the country were present as guests when Dean D. Butler Pratt of the school of Religion, the presiding officer introduced President J. Stanley Durkee, D. D., who made the opening address. Dr. Garnett C. Wikinson, assistant superintendent of the District Schools followed Dr. Durkee speaking on "moral instruction." He pointed out the steps taken in the public schools of the District of Columbia to give children attending the schools fairly defined ideas as to those moral essentials fun damental to character building. Dr. Milton Fairchild, chairman of the character education institution elaborated on the theme of character education and religious education emphasizing the necessity of training the child in spiritual life as well as instilling materialistic booklearning into their minds. The concluding address of the morning session was delivered by Rev. Dr. Theodore Ainsworth Greene of New York City, who spoke on "Possibilities in the Use of the Bible Today." At noon the university chapel became the scene of a gathering which was addressed by Bishop William F. McDowell, of Washington D. C. He spoke on several present day issues in educational and religious lines. Among the distinguished clergymen from all parts of the country who took part in the exercises of the three day convocation were: Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, D. D., bishop of Washington; Rev. Walter A. Morgan, Dr. John J. Tigert Rev. Charles A. Stewart, Rev. William D. Battle, Rev. D. E. Wissman, Rev. O. E. Jones, and Rev. Charles F. Boss, Jr. of Baltimore. SOUTHERN LEADERS DISCUSS NEGRO MIGRATION. (Preston News Service) Jackson, Tenn., Feb. 21.—Negro farmers of West Tennessee will meet tomorrow at Lane College for a two-day session to discuss farm problems and endeavor to devise ways and means to halt the ever increasing migration of Negro farm labor to industrial centers. Prominent Negro farmers from every agricultural section of the state are expected to attend this meeting, several have arrived already. Agents from the State Agricultural department will attend the sessions and deliver addresses. MOTHER AND TWINS DIE IN FIRE (Preston News Service.) Waughtown N. C., Feb. 22.—In a fire last Thursday night here. Mrs. Mirala Grant and two of her children, twins, were burned to death. Mrs. Grant was severely burned while attempting to rescue her children. She died while being hurried to a hospital in Winston-Salem. It is said that the building caught fire from an over heated eld store, and being a light frame structure was completely enveloped in flames before help could summon! (Preston News Service) Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 12—Miss Annie Wise, of Jonesboro road, is in a serious condition at the Grady hospital as the result of her clothes catching on fire last Tuesday night from an open grate in her home. Hospital authorities say her chances for recovery are slim. Her brother James Wise, was also severely burned about the hands while attempt ing to extinguish the flames on his sister's dress. COLLIERS WEEKLY CALLS ALL MOB KILLINGS MURDER AND DEMANDS A FEDERAL ANTI-LYNCHING LAW Ohio Legislators Favor Striking "White Male" from State Constitution Columbus O., Feb. 12.—The House of Representatives of the State of Ohio passed a resolution last Thursday to submit a constitutional amendment striking out the words "white male" from the Ohio constitutional requirements for qualification to vote, making th estate constitution conform to the federal constitution which gives women and Negroes full suffrage. DR. MCKOEN REQUESTED NOT TO RE-ENTER JOHN'S HOPKINS Baltimore, Md. Feb. 13—Heads of the medical department of Johns Hopkins University, requested Dr. H. M. McKin, former Mer Rouge mayor and one of the principal figures in the ku klux klan disturbances, not to reenter the institution. They gave us their reason that it would bring on due publicity to the school. It is said that Dr. McKin told the officials that he would be glad to comply with their wishes in the matter. Mr. Eddie Vaden who has been sick for about five weeks at his residence 3803 Union street, is now able to be out again. He wishes to thank his many friends for their kindnesses to him during his illness. —Miss Alease Neal of Philadelphia Pa. is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neal, 605 N. Second St. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES RICHARD—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear mother, who departed this life one year ago, February 13th. We did not know the pain you bore, We did not see you die ; We only know you went away And did not say good-bye. Our home is sad and lonely, Without your smiling face; None can fill the vacant chair., No one can take your place. Her devoted Children. ESTER, DEWEY, CARTER. HAVING LOTS OF TROUBLE (Portland Oregon Advocate).—Banker John Mitchell of Richmond, Va., seems to be having lots of trouble and so are some white bankers, therefore colored folks should not lose heart, and say Mitchell failed because he was colored. In Memoriam. In sacred memory of our devoted daughter and sister, Mrs. Annis Goodman Overby, who departed this life two years ago, February 22, 1921 She has passed from the love of earth To a land of light and bliss. She has gone to a world where she feels no more. The sils she had in this. Rest peacefully, dear Annis, Upon the other side. While we are left heartbroken, May God wish us abide. In Memoriam. WINSTON—In sacred memory of our mother, Kate V. Winston, who died one year ago. February 22, 1922 No one knows the silent heartache. Only those who have lost can tell Of the grief that is borne in silence For our mother we loved so well. Loving thoughts will always linger Around the grave where you are —Her Boys, MOSES and DANIEL B. WINSTON PRICE, FIVE CENTS CALLS ALL MOB R AND DEMANDS TI-LYNCHING LAW Coilier's National Weekly (416 West 13 h street, New York) demands enactment of a federal law to prevent lynching, in the issue of February 17, according to a reprint sent out by the press service of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The editorial in full is as follows: When the miners tried for the murder at Herrin were acquitted the other day their lawyer commented that the mine guards had terrorized the community and the strikers rose in righteous wrath. He gave the blanket excuse that is given for every mob that kills. Murder under any name, done for any excuse, is the same. Murder is murder regardless of who the murderers are and of who their victims are. This means mobs as much as individuals. A mob in Harrison, Arkansas kills a railroad striker. That is murder, though the killers think themselves public spirited vigilantes. A mob in Louisiana tortures two men in a cotton press and kills them. That is murder though the murders wear silly regalia and call themselves high-spirited patriots and Heaven knows what else. Our commonest type of mob murder is called lynching. But Harrison, McRouge, Herrin, the burnings of Negroes at the stakes are all off the same piece. Call them murders and have done with it. It is almost a foregone conclusion that members of a murdering mob in a small community will be acquitted as were the Herrin miners. The defensants have much local sympathy. A jury that would convict can scarcely be had. A local prosecutor who will do his duty whole-heartedly must be one of singular courage and integrity. If we hope to stop mob murders and punish the murderers, we shall have to act as a nation. There will have to be a Federal law, so drawn as to cover mob murders of all types, and to provide that cases resulting shall be for Federal prosecution in Federal courts. EDITOR SMITH CORRECTS NEWS STATEMENT. Editor "The Planet," Richmond, Va. Feb. 15. Dear Friend:—There were one or two errors in your Cleveland Ohio letter of a recent date which ought to be corrected. First, "a delegation of our ministers and welfare workers" did not visit the Superintendent of public schools, recently. Four of our leading citizens, three ministers one welfare worker, and one of our leading women of this city were invited to meet the Superintendent of public schools and his assistants in his office to confer relative to the vice conitions affecting our school children, particularly. There were no "unwise" expressions at the conference and a tremendous amount of good has already been accomplished as the result of it. There is no question as to the "remedy." As a matter of fact it is being applied with excellent results. The effort of some Negroes, who were not invited to attend the conference, to bring about a "tempest in a tea-pot" because they were not invited to attend, is really silly. The first publication anent the conference was an even greater mistake than the foolish ones that have followed it. Very truly yours, HARRY C. SMITH WOMAN IS KILLED: HUSBAND SUSPECTED Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 13.—Mrs. Florence Crawford aged 21 years, died at the Homeopathic hospital here last Friday morning as a result of being shot, the police say, by her husband. William Crawford, in her home in Fifth avenue last Thursday. Crawford escaped before the arrival of the police. It is said that the fatal shootout followed after argument between the couple after their return from a party. The bullet entered the right side of Mrs. Crawford's head near the ear. Crawford is aged 50 and is said to have been extremely jealous of his young attractive wife. It is believed that the argument arose because of the attentions paid Mrs. Crawford at the party by young men. As yet the police have not been able to locate Crawford although a state-wide search has been instituted. BATTLING SIKI COMING TO U. S. A. IN APRIL TO FIGHT LEADING PUGS TWO ```markdown ``` M. STEEL MAGNATE TO EUROPE. Charles M. Schwab, the American steel magnate sailed on the Olympic recently to be gone several weeks on a trip which will include both business and pleasure. BATTLING SIKI CON IN APRIL TO FIG PARIS, February 13.—With the ban against him lifted by the International Boxing Federation, and hoping for an early restoration of his titles, Battling Ski, the great French champion, intends to go to America early in April in quest of bouts with Harry Greb and other leading light-heavyweights. M. Brouillet, manager of the Senegalese, declared today he would make application for the restoration of Ski's license to box and would have his battler begin training for his engagement with Mike McTigue in Dublin, March 17. SIKI HEARS BAN IS LIFTED. BERLIN, February 15.—(Crusader Service)—Battling Siki received here by telegraph word that the French Boxing Federation had lifted the ban against him. Siki is in Berlin to appear in a film to be produced by a Dutch concern. BATTLING LAWSON COMING TO FRONT. BATTLING LAWSON COMING TO FRONT. Battling Bob Lawson, of Nashville Tenn., is forging to the front rank of the light heavyweights. He is one of the best 195-pound boxers in the country and has won his last five bouts via the knockout route. He has beaten such men as Battling Nor- folk, of New Orleans, Billy Hooper of Atlanta, Pinkie Lewis, Battling Munroe, of Cincinnati and Battling Frazier of San Antonio. Battling Lawson is under the man- agement of Thomas T. Wilson, the Southern League baseball magnate. Letter Men at Union The following members of Union's 1922 football squad received their letters and were awarded gold footballs for fine records: I. N. Hammond, captain-elect of the 1922 eleven; W. A. Smith, A. C. Jackson, captain, 1922; W. C. Hucles, J. J. Wilson, H. H. Corrothers, W. H. Rooks, A. C. Fentress, W. H. Derritt, W. J. Smith, G. McDonald and J. E. Jones. Gold footballs were also given to two four-year letter men; B. C. (Pope) Gregory, Al' American left half-back, '17, '19 and '20 and C. E. Jackson, ex-captain. Baseball letters were awarded to the following members of last year's championship team: Capt. A. A. Branch, F. D. Johnson, E. H. Adams, B. C. Gregory, A. C. Jackson, W. C. Hucles, J. J. Wilson, M. A. Lee B. Merritt, E. W. Green C. E. Jackson, R. N. Brown and H. Boffman. The coveted "U" was awarded to only two men of the track squad, R. C. Lightfoot and W. E. Cook. Cook won the 100 and 220-yard dashes and set up a new record in the high jump at the C. I. A. A. meet at Hampton last spring with a leap of 5 feet 10 inches. Cook has jumped 6 feet on several occasions in practice and is considered the best track and field man in any of the colored universities. Honors were also given Capt. Corrothers and L. Philpotts, other members of Union's relay team. Union's athletics are under direc- PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WORLD THE FILM MAKER QUEEN OF THE RADIO WORLD. Miss Edith Bennett, the celebrated American concert star, who broadcast the first complete concert to Europe. Concert was sent Feb. 23 from Bamber Store in Newark. ATHLETIC MING TO U. S. A. GHT LEADING PUGS tion of Coach Martin, the panther mentor, who has made an enviable record here. The letters were presented at a banquet of the Athletic Association on the 16th inst. Basket Ball Results Southern Champs Humble Hampton. Hampton, Va., Feb. 20—For the third time in as many years the fast Morehouse College quintet administered Morehouse College quintet administered an over-whelming defeat to the Hampton Institute cagers. Never before was the defeat so overwhelming or so thoroughly administered as it was on February 17th. The Southernners took the lead from the beginning. Never were they in danger of losing it. They played a clean, fast, and hard-fought game. In some places it could be termed "flashy". Bailey, Gayles, and Sykes were brilliant players. Bailey collected eighteen points, ten of which were from the free-throw line; Gayles made ten and Sykes, eight. Hampton's team is largely made up of inexperience men. Hampton, after all put up a splendid fight. This was her first big game at home this season. Long passing, long shooting, and the need for someone to shoot fouls, added greatly to her downfall "Chet" Jones was Hampton's bright player. This youngster caged four from the floor before he was removed from the game. The final score was: Morehouse 45; Hampton 20. Lincoln University will play at Hampton Institute on Washington's Birthday. LINE-UP. MOREHOUSE—45 HAMPTON—20. Burrell R. F. Hope Jones L. F. Gayles Frazier C. Clark Gunn (C.) R. F. Bailey Langston L. G. Sykes (C.) Referee: Baldwin; Timers, Brown and Kelly; Scorers Jones and Harper. Substitutes: Hampton, Cornish for Jones, Cardozo for Langston, McNichols for Frazier Taylor for Cornish; Morehouse, Taylor for Clark. FAMOUS LOENDI BOWS TO THE XENIA LEGION FIVE. XENIA, O., Feb. 17—The Loendi Basket Ball Club of Pittsburgh, national basket ball champions, who for five years have successfully defended their title against all teams, went down to defeat at the hands of the John Roan Post, American Legion here by the score of 30-26. With Xenia's quintet was Sol Butler, national broad jump champion a few years ago; Thornton Withers and George Duff, both of Chicago and Noel and Ward, two crack players secured from Cincinnati. Morris Brown varsity quintet was beaten in a fast game by the Louisville Y. M. C. A. five in Louisville, on M. B.'s recent northern trip. The score was 36 to 26. --- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA M. T. DOME By J. M. Beer I KNOW A PLACE WHERE WE CAN GET A CHICKEN DINNER FOR 15¢! OH, IT'S A BIG FEED AND YOU'LL ENJOY IT! HERE'S THE PLACE NOW! WE'LL GO RIGHT IN! HOT DOG! FEED STORE CHICKEN FEED 15¢ PER LB. THE NATIONAL NEGRO BASEBALL LEAGUE PLANS FOR GREAT SEASON THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A STRIKING SPORT COSTUME. Gay golf sweaters (with pleated skirts make smart combination. This sweater is of silk and wool mohair with a jacquard design and skirt is M. T. DOME I KNOW A PLACE WHERE GET A CHICKEN DINNER HERE'S THE PLACE WE'LL GO RIGHT HOT DOG! THE NATIONAL N LEAGUE PLANS REAL COLORED "BIG LEAGUE" PLANS FOR BETTER BALL. The National Negro Baseball League, under guidance of President Andrew Rube Foster, plans for a big 1923 season, in fact the year is confidently looked forward to as the greatest year in baseball for our group. The meeting of the league magnates is scheduled for March 15th in Chicago and preliminary plans are about complete for the confab. A new lease has been signed for the park used by the Detroit Club and Toledo, Ohio will have a team in the league this year. Toledo is new to the league and players from other clubs of the league will be donated to make it the equal in playing strength to other clubs. A manager for the club will probably be selected from the following: Oscar Charleston, of the American Giants: James Taylor, of Cleveland; Ben Taylor, former manager of the A. B. C. and the veteran Pete Hill, of Detroit. CLEVELAND BUSINESS MEN WILI BACK A FRANCHISE. Some of the most prominent business men of Cleveland desire that the club remain there and to show their good faith, placed some financial backing to hold the league franchise in that city. President Foster has completed arrangements with officers of the Pittsburgh National League Club for use of their grounds for exhibition games during the 1923 season. At present Tate's Stars baseball club is in the hands of receivers, but developments now under way will pull the club out of its dilemma and place it upon a firm basis. BACHRACHS WILL BE MOVED TO CINCINNATI OR MILWAUKEE. Arrangements are being made to transfer the Bacharachs to either Cincinnati or Milwaukee, providing ar- --- Kaffee "Franzosen Belgier frodd nicht skand" KAFFEE Griechisch u Porto Delfer GERMAN DEALERS REFUSE FOOD TO FRENCH AND BELGIANS. Signs have been prominently displayed in shop windows, calling attention to the fact that food or drink will not be sold to any Frenchman or Belgian, as their part in the request by the Nationalists to show their protest for the invasion of the Ruhr. rangements can be made along these lines to reach a definite policy to be pursued by the National Negro Baseball League. Fine Baseball Prospects at Union University. (By C. L. Washington, Jr.) Richmond, Va. Feb. 21. At a recent meeting of last year's baseball letter men, E. H. Adams was selected to direct the destinies of this year's diamond aggregation. Adams, the diminutive stopshort who created a sensation in inter-collegiate circles by his bang-up cavorting around the infield position last season was chosen Captain by a unanimous vote. News that can be garnered from the Southern Stove League is to the effect that Union's squad, the inter-collegiate champions of last year, have the nucleus of a team that will again win top honors in the baseball arena. Most of last year's stars will again sport the steel and red uniforms and indications point to the fact that several new comers may give the oldtimers a speedy race for the bertbs on the Varsity nine. LOCAL SPORTS Unions 1923 Squad Union expects to put out a champion football squad next season, in fact she expects to develop the best team in its history. 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Lawson, Willmar, Minn. 1 Stars on flag too few. 2 Stripes on flag too few. 3 No point on lightning rod. 4 Weather vane points wrong (according to smoke.) 5 Direction letters on weather vane wrong, shewing sun in the north. 6 Lightning rod should follow hi pof roof. 7 Door to attic bangs inside out. 8 Hook on same side as hinges. 9 Shingles laid butt end upward. 10 Siding laid upside down. 11 Rope to lead rain water but no eaves gutter. 12 Feather for a weight. 13 No hoops on barrel. 14 Rabbit with long tail. 15 Skii tournament in June. 16 "Ski" spelled wrong. 17 No such date as June 31. 18 Question mark after "Come one, come all." 19 Oak leaves on morning glory vines. 20 Lower window sash outside of upper. 21 Hammer on wrong side of gun. 22 Trigger bent wrong way. 23 Leg missing on table. 24 Teaspoons in cream pitcher. 25 Handles on teacups upside down. 26 Bricks in chimney do not interlap. 27 Squirrel with pig's tail. 28 Clock shows time 8 minutes to twelve as the sun goes down. 29 No key holes on clock dial. 30 Numerals on clock read wrong direction 31 Number VIII left off. 32 Portrait on wall upside down. 33 Black keys on organ in threes instead of alternating three's and two's. 34 Not enough octaves. 35 Piano pedals on organ. 36 Thermometer showing below zero in July. 37 Hammer handle on wrong. 38 Cat has rat's tail. ```markdown ``` 39 Pupils in cat's eyes round. 40 Channels in bit wind wrong way. 41 July 1922 given as beginning on a Tues day should be a Saturday. 42 Date "22nd" left out on calendar. 43 Friday comes before Thursday. 44 July given only 30 days. 45 Christmas tree in July. 46 Lamp chimney on upside down. 47 "Allowed" spelled wrong. 48 Door upside down. 49 Knob en one side and latch on the other. 50 Keyhole upside down. 51 Jim has spectacle bows under ears in stead of over. 52 Jim's tie upside down. 53 Jim's thumb on wrong side of right hand. 54 Slipper on one foot, shoe on the other 55 Shoe haced from top down. 56 Jim holds book upside down. 57 Bulldog has bushy tail. 58 Five wires seen between chimney and tree. 59 Bird house openings too small for Martins. 60 Bird cage bars too far apart. 61 No feeding cups on cage. 62 Si's hat upside down. 63 Six fingers on Si's right hand. 64 Si's vest buttoned wrong. 65 One pants leg too short. 66 Smoke from pipe goes down. 67 "S" in "Summer" turned wrong way. 68 "Bearders" with an "'s." 69 "I" in "IN" dotted. 70 Apples on birch tree. 71 Turtle in tree. 72 Saw blade turned wrong edge to. 73 Axe handle on wrong. 74 Handle of pail fastened on inside. 75 Dave's ear upside down. 76 Dave's pipe upside down. 77 Dave's one leg shorter than the other. 78 Dave's shoes on wrong feet. 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VIRGINIA SOLUTION TO 79 No pocket on Dave's coat. 80 Head of "Daily Sun" on back page. 81 Blade of knife turned cutting edge out. 82 Treble clef under bass clef on music. 83 Only four lines to the staff in music. 84 Five strings on violin. 85 Sound holes on violin curve wrong way. 86 Bow on Dave's hat on wrong side. 87 Duck with chicken feet. 88 Telephone pole placed butt end up. 89 Corn growing in creek. 90 Rooster swimming. 91 Flatiron floating. 92 Cattails growing on hill. 93 John's cont on backside front. 94 John wears fur cap, muffler and mittens in summer. 95 John thawing out pump in summer. 96 John's right boot on left leg, and vice versa. 97 Only four toes on one foot. 98 Pump spout on wrong side in relation to handle. 99 Water spout lower at pump than at drinking trough. 100 Insulators on underside of crosspiece. 101 Flag on sail boat floating against wind. 102 Stable door too low for horse inside. 103 No door on stable. 104 Logs dovetailed wrong way. 105 Pitchfork handle on wrong. 106 Cow with horse's ta'l. 107 Cow with horse's hoefs. 108 Pig without eye. 109 Duck crowing. 110 Duck standing on post. 111 Squash growing on tree 112 Horse bitched wrong end to. 113 Horse with cow's tail. 114 Blinder on bridle too low down. 115 No throat latch on bridle. 116 Spider web between front legs. 117 Cloven hoofs on horse. 118 Shadows from front legs fall different from those from hind legs. 119 Front wheels on buggy larger than THREE ```markdown ``` hind wheels. 120 Whip socket on wrong side. 121 Fish line tied to butt end of pole. 122 Hen with five toes on each foot. 123 Goose with turkey head. 124 Wires nailed inside on fence posts. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. Found in various contestant's lists and which may be allowed if in the opinion of Judges they are acceptable. Others may be found. 1 Too long handle on pitchfork. 2 Not enough spokes in wheels. 3 No braces on corner fence post. 4 Corners too long on table cloth. 5 No nose piece for Dave's spectacles. 6 No braces for cross piece on second telephone post. 7 No gate in fence. 8 No swing in cage. 9 No door in cage. 10 No catch in door lock. 11 ... 12 ... Etc. Etc. ... FOUR Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr at 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. EDITOR - JOHN MITCHELL, JR All communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday. Entered and the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $ 2.50 Six Months 1.10 Three Months 90 Foreign Subscriptions 2.50 SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 24, 1923 Praying to God is all right, but do not stay down on your knees all the time. "What think ye of Christ" is being answered by Dr. Percy Stickney and those like him. Cowardice and cringing will never get an individual or a race of people anywhere. God is still all powerful in the affairs of men, although some folks do not seem to think so. Colored folks are no worse than white folks and the events of today continue to prove it. People, who try to get to Heaven by the short route usually land in the other place and remain there. Colored folks, make friends with the white folks. The time is coming when you will need their friendship. We are finding out our friends these days, both white and colored. Yes, we are finding out our friends. Continue to teach your children politeness, colored folks, whether you have decided to go to Africa or to stay here. You will need it in both places. If Jesus Christ was not the Son o. God and did not have divine power, there are millions of people, who have gone to their graves with false notions. Never sacrifice manhood rights to curry favors. Contend for fundamental rights, but do it in the proper manner, so as to win the respect of those, who oppose you. The communication, which we are publishing in these columns from the pen of Floyd J. Calvin relative to the fight between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Universal Negro Improvement Association is on the highest order and for judicial impartiality for seeing prophetic ability and diplomatic foresight exceeds any article of this kind and character, which have appeared in these columns. Personally, we endorse every word uttered by this able observer and hope that some way may be found to bring action along lines stated by him. He has written the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." He writes with the pen of inspiration. DUBOIS ON GARVEY. Blame where you must, be candid where you can. And be each critic the good-natured man. —GOLDSMITH. The caustic dissertation of Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, editor of the New York Crisis as published in the Century Magazine for February has attracted almost universal attention. That Hon. Marcus Garvey and his supporters realize the seriousness of this attack is evidenced by their attitude in dealing with the situation. The comment of Editor Wm. H. Ferris of the New York Negro World is on the highest order. In replying to Dr. Du Bois he at no time descends to some of the levels, from which that distinguished scholar levelled some of his bitterest shafts at the influential West Indian and the cause which he represents. Taken all in all Dr. Ferris' reply is a literary gem. He meets argument with argument and his minute discussion of the subject discloses the fact that he is a profound student. But what Dr. Ferris left unsaid in abuse and ridicule, his distinguished chieftain supplied, for Marcus Garvey in his reply fed the masses of his followers with just such literary food as they desired in his merciless castigation of the able lecturer and scholar, Dr. W. E B. Du Bois. But we desire to continue our review of the phillipic of Dr. Du Bois. He said: Thus the bubble of Garveyis burns but its significance, its meaning, remains. After c' one has to get within Garvey to know him, to understand him. He is not simply a liar and blat ant fool. Something of both to be sure is there; but that is not all. He is the type of dark man whom the white world is making daily, molding, marring, tossing to the air. All his life whites have laughed and sneered as him and torn his soul. All his life he has hatred the half-white who, rejecting their darker blood, have gloried in their pale shame. He has stormed and fought within, and then at last it all burst out. He had to guard himself before the powers and be careful of law and libel and hunger, but where he could be free, he snarled and cursed at the whites, insulted the mulattoes with unpardonable epitheta, and bitterly reviled the blacks for their cowardly At one fell swoop, he essays to arraign the white folks and the mulattoes against the black chieftain of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. But the language speaks for itself. It shows that Dr. Du Dois is angry with Hon. Marcus Garvey "clean through" and that he will not stop at anything to unmask, what he regards as one of the most dangerous enemies to the colored people and to our form of government. In dealing with the subject of the attack he is displaying the essence of radicalism in all of its vitriolic severity. He says: Suppose, now, for a moment that Garvey had been a man of first-rate ability, canny, shrewd, patient, dogged? He might have brought a world war of races a generation nearer, he might have deprived civilization of that precious generation of respite where we have yet time to sit and consider if difference of human color must necessarily mean blows and blood. As a matter of fact, Garvey did not know how to approach his self-appointed task; he had not the genius to wait and laboriously learn, yet he pompously seized the pose; he kept extremely busy, rushed hither and thither. He collected and squandered thousands, almost millions. He would, must, succeed. He appeared in the uniforms of his dream triumphs in 1921 with an academic cap and gown, weird in colors; in 1922 with cooked hat gold lace, and sword—the commander-in-chief of the African Legion! He did not quite dare call himself King Marcus I, but he sinned himself awhile in the address of "your Majesty." He held court and made knight lords, and dukes; and yet, as he feverishly worked, he knew he had falleth; he knew he had missed the key to some dark arcanum. He grew suspicious, morose, complaining furious at the "fools" and "soundrels" who were "plotting" his ruin and the overthrow of his cause. With all the provincial backwoods love of courts and judges, he rushed into and reveled in litigation, figuring in at least fifty suits suing for libel, breach of contract, slander, divorce, assault—everything and anything; while in turn his personal enemies sued him rioted against him, and one shot him so that today he dares not stir without a steady body-guard. Could a literary castigation be worse inflicted? All of this discussion is for the benefit of a white clientele. for Dr. Bois did not publish this literary production in the columns of his own magazine, the Crisis, but he went into the columns of that widely read and influential publication, the Century Magazine. Du Bois's words will go ten times to Garvey's once with the audience that the former is addressing. As for Garvey he has been abused, harm strung, lambasted and condemned, be fore an audience of white folks, be fore whom, he cannot get even a hearing. Dr. Du Bois continues: Beaten and overwhelmed with loss and disappointment he will not yet surrender, and seeks by surrounding himself with new officials and by announcing new enterprises—a daily paper, a new line of stemships, and the like—to reform his lines. So he sits today. He is a world figure in minute microcosm. On a larger field, with fairer opportunity, he might have been great. certainly notorious. He is today a little puppet, serio-comic funny, yet swept with a great veil of tragedy; meaning in himself little more than a passing agitation, moving darkly and uncertainly from a little island of the sea to the panting half submerged millions of the first world state. And yet he means something to the world. He is type of a mighty coming thing. He voles a vague forless, but growing, integrating human mind which some day will arrest the world The human side of Dr Du Bols seems to have expanded itself and the side of the historian, philosopher and prophet asserts itself in the few last lines of this remarkable dissertation We repeat it: And yet he means something to the world. The type of a mighty coming thing. He voices a vague formless but growing, integrating, human mind which some day will arrest the world. We feel disposed to let those ringing declarations stand at the head of our columns for many months. It shows that this distinguished author realizes that the Garvey movement in many respects is one that if properly managed will bring about revolutionary THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA conditions, which will benefit materially the black people of the world. It shows too that the Dr. Du Bois still entertains the opinion that Garvey's plans are feasible. He evidently is of the opinion that the egotism of the leader is sowing seeds for the destruction of the great organization, which he has launched and managed. He says: Just what it has cost the Negro race in money to support Garvey it is hard to say, but certainly not less than a million dollars. And yet with all this there are certain peculiar satisfactions. Here has come a test to the American Negro which he has not had before. A demagogue has appeared not the worst kind of demagogue, but, on the contrary, a man who nailed much which was attractive and under standable in his personality and his program; nevertheless, a man whose program anybody with common sense knew was impossible. With all the arts of the demagogue, Garvey appealed to crowds of people with persuasive enqueue with the ringing of all possible charges of race loyalty and the casualty of the mutatto and the persons ashamed of their race, and the impacable enmity of the whites. It was the sort of appeal that casly throw-ignorant and inexperienced people in to orgies of response and generosity. Yet with all this, coming at a critical time, when the Negro was hurt at his war experience and his post-war treatment, when lynching was still a national institution and mob-law a ready resort; when the rank and the file ignorant West-Indian Negroes were going wild over Garvey, the American Negroes sat cool and calm, and were neither betrayed into wild and unjust attacks upon Garvey nor into uncritical acceptance. And again: His following has ebbed and flowed. Its main and moving nucleus has seen a knot of black Jamaica peasants resident in America as laborers and servants, mostly unlettered, poor, and ignorant, who worship Garvey as their ideal incarnate. Garvey is boid, Garvey has leshes the white folk. Garvey downs the mulattoes. Garvey forever no matter what he does. Does he steal? Better let him steal than let white folks. Does he squander? It's our money; let him waste. Does he fail? Others have failed. It is this blind and dangerous nucleus that explains Garvey's success in holding his power. Around these are a mass of West-Indians, resident in the islands and in the United States, who have honestly supported Garvey in the hope that this new leader would direct them out of the West-Indian business of low wages, little educational opportunity, no industrial openings, and caste. Especially they seized upon the Black Star Line, as isolated islands would, as a plan of real practical hope. This group reached sixty or seventy thousand in number during Garvey's heyday, but with the failure of his enterprises it is rapidly falling away. With these grouses have always been a number of American Negroes; the ignorant drawn by eloquence and sound; the grafters who saw a chance of sharing spoils; and with these some honest, thinking folk who paused and inquired, "Who is Garvey, and what is his program? This American following though always small grew here and there, and in centers like Norfolk, Chicago, and Pittsburgh reached for a time into the thousands. But, on the whole American Negroes stood the test well. Dr. Du Bois continues: Garvey's proposal of such a new, tattoonous, and hostile black world in league with the brown and yellow peoples brought from American Negroes a simple Missouri "Show us." They asked: "What are you doing, and how? What are your concrete and practical proposals?" They did not follow the more impatient counsels of "Garvey must go." They did not slur, or silence or ignore him. The two hundred Negro weeklies treated him fairly, and audiences listened to his words and read his literature. And right here lay his undoing for the more his flimbovant promises were carefully compared with his results the sooner the utter futility of his program was revealed. And again: Here is a world that for a thousand years, from the First Crusade to the Great War, had been breaking down the barriers between nations and races in order to build a world-wide economic unity and cultural solidarity. The process has involved slavery peonage, rape, theft, and extermination, but it is slowly uniting humanity. It is now proposed to back and cut out of this world its black eighth or its colored two thirds. Not only is this virtually impossible, but its attempt today would certainly involve the white and colored worlds in a death-struggle whose issue none can surely foretell. The power of the yellow, black, and brown worlds today is the economic dependence of the white world on them, and the power of the white world is its economic technic and organization. The super-diplomacy of race politics tomorrow is to transmute this interdependence into cultural sympathy, spiritual tolerance, and human freedom. Not in segregation, but in lesser, larger unity lies internecidia peace. In the above utterances, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois uses the language of a stole and a philosopher. He is "delving into the future, far as human eye could see." But he overlooks the fact that the white race is turning back and cutting out of this world its white one third by proclaiming a doctrine of white supremacy, which is bringing about this very race agitation which will be attended by all of the evil results that this distinguished writer portrays It causes the impartial observer to exclaim, "A plague upon both houses." Dr. Du Bois' remedy for this condition is to our mind, the correct one. He continues: Not with entire clearness and yet with a certain fundamental and tremendously significant clarity the American Negro realizes this, and as yet no demagogue or pipe dreams have been able to divorce him from the facts. The present generation of Negroes has survived two grave temptations, the greatest one fathered by Booker T. Washington, which said "Let politics alone, keep in your place, work hard, and do not complain," and which meant perpetual color caste for colored folk by their own cooperative and consent, and the consequent in evitable debauchery of the white world; and the lesser fathered by Marc Garvey, which said: "Give up Surrender! The struggle is useless; back to Africa and fight the white world." This then constitutes the basic cause of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' opposition to the Booker T. Washington propaganda and the Marcus Garvey movement. In these few lines may be found the sum and substance of all that he essayed to say in this masterly dissertation of Garvey and all that he stands for and represents. It brings us to the position which Du Bois himself occupies and we regret that he did not announce the third temptation, did not comment upon his own dogmas and opinions, which we have from time to time stated marked the dividing line between Garveyism and Du Boisism. Let us see. The latter does not regard his views as constituting a problem. Of course in politics, he is a socialist; that is, he does not believe in the Constitution of the United States. Still, he regards himself as an American citizen pure and simple and as such he is entitled to all of the rights and privileges of citizens of the United States He does not believe primarily in the color-line. He deals with the color-line in an effort to eliminate and destroy it. Garvey champions the cause of the Negro. Dro Bois is not a Negro, he is a citizen of the United States. In this respect, he is backed by a large clientele of the well-to-do colored folks and many wealthy conscientious white folks. His views have been accepted by organizations as far South as Texas. These organizations are exclusively of a social and literary character with no provision for business. They devote their efforts to opposing oppression throughout the country and are endeavoring to secure a "square deal" for all men before the law. Dr. Dro Bois says: is a preliminary tribute to Ameri- can Negro poise and common sense, and ability to choose and reject leader- ship, that neither of these programs has been able to hold them. One of the most singular proofs of this is that the latest support of Garveyism is from the notorious Ku Klux Klan. When Garvey saw his Black Star Line disap- pear, his West-Indian membership fall- off, and his American listeners grow increasingly critical, he flew South to consult the Grand Cyclops of the Invi- ble Empire. Whether the initiative came from him or from the klan is not known, but probably the klan is vided blim. They were indeed birds of feather, believing in titles, flum- ery and mumbo-jumbo, and hand- ing much gullible money. Dr. Du Bois is "harping" upon this blunder of Hon. Marcus Garvey. There can be no race war in this country up on the basis of anything Garvey says. The Negro-haters are a unit in endorsing his movement, which has for its purpose the removal of the alleged disturbing factor in this country to and other clime. The industrious Negroes would be removed from competition with them And again; Garvey's motives were clear. The triumph of the klan would drive Negroes to his program in despair, while the klan's sympathy would enable him to enter the South, where he has not dared to work and exploit the ignorant black millions. The Klan's object was to encourage anything that would induce the Negroes to believe that their fight for freedom in America was vain. Garvey's secretary said that the klan would probably finance the Black Star Line and Garvey invited the Black Cyclops to speak at his convention. But Garvey reckoned without is host. A storm of criticism rose among Negroes and kept Garvey explaining contradicting and resuming the unholy alliance and finally prove it under cover, although Garvey openly advertised the klan's program as showing the impossibility of the Negro's remaining in America, and the klan sent out circulars defending Garvey and declaring that the opposition to him was from the Catholic Church! Here is his crowning description of Marcus Garvey's forum his tabernacle that is a wonder: Again it is High Harlem with its muscle and laughter, its conversations sautéed aloft its teeming, bantering, pushing crowds, its brown and black and cream-like faces its crisp and curling hair As the setting sun sends its last crimson light from the heights that hold the Hudson from the Harlem it floods 138th Street and lights three blocks. One is a block of homes built by the Equitable Life Assurance Society but, now sold to Negroes, some crowded, some carelessly kept, but most of them beautiful even luxurious, corbans as handsome a block as middle class American white or black affords. Next the sun softens the newness of a brick block on Seventh Avenue stretching low and beautiful from the Y. W. C. A, with a moving-picture house of the better class and a colored fift-and-ten cent store built and owed by black folk. Down beyond, on 138th street the sun burns the raising spire of Abyssinian church, a vast and striking structure built by Negroes who for a hundred years have supported one organization and are now moving to their newest and luxurious home of soft carpets stained windows, and swelling organ. Finally the dying rays hit a low, rambling basement of brick and rough stone. It was designed as the beginning of a church long ago, but abandoned. Marcus Garvey rooferes it ever, and out of this squat and dirty old "Liberty Hall" he screams his pro paganda. As compared with the homes the business, the church. Garvey's bereavement represents nothing in accoun plishment and only waste in attempt. He concludes as follows: Yet it has a right to be. It represents something spiritual, however poor and futile today. Deep in the black man's heart he knows that he needs more than homes and stores and churches, needs manhood—liberty, brotherhood, equality. The call of the spirit urges him restlessly to and fro with all men of the despised and forgotten, seeking, seeking. Misled they often are, and again and again they play in microcosm the same tragic drama that other worlds and other groups have played. Here is Garvey yelling to life from the black side, a race consciousness which leaps to meet Madison Grant and Lehrop Stoddard and other worshippers of the great white race, is symptomatic and portentous. It with a greater and more gifted and efficient Garvey it sometime blazes to real flame, it means world war and eternal hate and blood. It means the setting of the world clock back a thousand years. And yet the world's Couneys are not solely to blame, but rather every worshiper of race superiority and human inequality. On the other hand, back of all this lurks the quietest, more successful, more insistent, and hopeful fact. Races are living together. They are buying and selling marrying and rearing children, laughing and crying. They are fighting mobs and lynchers and those that enslave and despise and they have not yetelled in that fight. Their faith in their ultimate and complete triumph are these homes, this business block. this church, duplicated a hundred thousand times in a nation of twelve million. Here, then, are the two future maids outlined with a certain sul'en dimness in the world's blood-crimson twilight, and yet to be described easily by those with the seeing hearts. Which path will America choose? This appeal is wonderful. awe-inspiring and pathetic. Dr. Du Bois soars to a height in striking contrast to the lower levels of assertion and thought, from which he drove some of his most poignant shafts at Marcus Gervoy. He places man-hood, liberty, brotherhood and equality above the fireside commercialism and God as emblematized in the churches. Can he get the masses of his own people, of the American people to follow him along these lines? His remarkable production requires much study. Dr. Du Bois can talk, philosopize, persuade and threaten, but his vital weakness is in his inability to accomplish some concrete good by actual leadership. He wearies at once of persuading men and when he has in his literary productions shown the people the way his task is complete for his view-point. Marcus Garvey must not only plan, but he must execute. Perhaps as the distinguished author has sai' he is making mistakes but he has conditions, with which to contend of which Du Bois knows absolutely nothing. Both have their proper place. Du Bois to plan and leaders, like Garvey to execute. The chasm between these two schools of thought is two wide for them to work in the same territory. Certain it is that each should go his own way in peace. Selah. There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. -LOWELL- WYTHEVILLE NEWS. Rev. T. J. Johnson of Damaseus, was in town Sunday and preached two able sermons at the Baptist church Rev. W. W. Ward was at his best Sunday at Franklin Street M. E. church. Rev. G. O. Wing filled his pulpit Sunday at Bethel A. M. E. church. The Eureka Choral Club will give a musical at the Bethel A. M. E. church under the auspices of the Negro Educational Congress, March 1st. Mr. W. R. Gibson, Jr., entertained a few of his friends at St. Lukes Hall, February 19th. Mrs. Lizzle T. Johnson is on the sick list this week. Little Myrtle Chapman who has been visiting her uncle in Dublin, returned home Sunday. Misses Evelyn Chapman, Leon John son and Mrs. Maggie Chapman became members of the Eureka Choral unit last Tuesday night February 13th. Mr. Thad Hill is still in our city. Something must be holding him. How about it Hill. Mrs. Susie Reed of Prinston, W. Va. and Mrs. Annie Saunders of Raleigh, W. Va. were called home on account of the illness of Mrs. Ann Browning. While here they were the guest of their niece Mrs. Willie Howard Mr. George Sheffy after spending a few days with mother Mrs. Julia Sheffy, left for Peoria, Illinois Mr. Eugene King of Roanoke is here visiting his mother, Mrs. Hanna Myers Mr. Wayman Poole of McDonald W. Va. is visiting his father, Mr. Geo Poole who is quite ill. There is still much sickness in our little Burg. Mr. Wm. Sanford is in town this week. Mrs. Florence Johnson is on the sick list. The Joint Stock Co., of Wytheville completed its organization this week. Bewildered Mother Hurls Baby to Instant Death (Preston News Service) Philadelphia. Pa., Feb. 14—Mrs. Rheumatic twinges-ended! The basic cause of most rheumatic pain is congestion. Apply Sloan's. It stimu- lates circulation.breaks up congestion -pain is relieved! Sloan's Liniment -kills pain! 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Della Johnson, apparently bewildered and fearing that all exits had been cut off when she awoke early last Friday morning to find fire raging in her home, 1739 Alder street she grabbed her six months old baby boy, Luther from a crib and calling to a woman passing on the street below, dropped the infant from the third story window. The woman on the street failed to catch the child who struck the pavement and was killed almost instantly. Mr. A. W. Holmes, Supreme Master of the National Ideal Benefit Society, Dear Sir—I take this method of thanks you for the prompt payment on the death claim of my wife. I also thank the officers and members of Mt Lebanon Lodge No. 126 for the many acts of kindness shown her while a member of their Lodge and for the check of $100.00. Mrs. Johnson, the mother of the child, leaped from the window and was severely injured. Mrs. Johnson was taken to the Children's Homeopathic hospital. Another child, age 1 three years was rescued by firemen. February 16, 1923. Mr. A. W. Holmes. Supreme Maste of the National Ideal Benefit Society. Dear Sir: I take this method of thanking you for the prompt payment of the death claim of my husband Charlie Langhorn. I also thank the officers and members of Central Lodge No. 149 for the many acts of kindness shown him while a member of the Lodge. Texarkana, Ark. Feb. 13.—The body of George Hawkins was found in the McKinney bayou near the Summerhill road about eight miles from here. Last Sunday afternoon by searchers who had been lolling for him since Saturday noon. Hawkins' body, which was only partially submerged, bore no marks of violence. No reason can be assigned for Hawkins drowning himself. --- A. and thous for B also o Can b PRICE sent by MAN'S BODY IS FOUND (Preston News Service) its chest colds ```markdown ``` DEATH CLAIM PAID. Roxburg, Va. February 15 1923 (Signed:) JOSTH H. JARY Witnesses: M. E. OVERTON. GEO. A. BROWN. DEATH CLAIM PAID. February 16, 1923 (Signed:) JOE LANGHORN Witnesses: J. R. HICKS. CLARENCE ROSS. ROANOKE ITEMS. T. T. TRAYNHAM PASSES AWAY. Citizens of Virginia and Roanoke especially were shocked last Thursday, February 15th to hear of the sudden death of Thomas T. Traynham one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Roanoke, Va. Brother Traynham left his home last Thursday morning in the best of health and spirits for his work. At 9:20 A. M. he was stricken with apoplexy and passed away at 10:40 A. M., never regaining consciousness. He was a faithful and consistent member of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, being honored with every office the Church accords a lay member in addition to twice being sent as delegate to General Conferences. He was treasurer of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, treasurer of K. of P. Lodge, No. 51 and the only male member of the True Reformers in Roanoke. The esteem in which he was held was proven by the manner in which the citizens of Roanoke, both colored and white, turned out on such a cold Sunday to the funeral. He was born July 27, 1867, at Harmony, Haifail county, Va. and professed religion at age of 11 years. He has been living in Roanoke since September 6, 1888, being employed by N. & W. R. R. Company as shipping clerk for over 30 years. He married Miss Laura A. Owens, November 29, 1890, to which union eleven children were born; five of which now live, namey, James W., railway mail clerk, of Richmond, Va.; Helena V. and Charles A., at home and Willie H. and Christine, students at Hampton, Va. He leaves to mourn his demise, his widow, the above named children, two grand-sons, four brothers, three sisters and a host of relatives and friends. The family takes this mode of expressing their very deep appreciation to all those who extended words of sympathy, the use of the many cars and the many floral designs. The near relatives in attendance were his sister, Mrs. H. B. T. Benjamin, of Staunton, Vn., who was reared and educated by her brother T. T. Traynham; cousins, Richard and Joseph Traynham. Mr. and Mrs. Yancy Traynham, of Harmony, Va.; one brother, Mr. Robert Traynham, of Baltimore, Md. The Rev. James S. Hatcher, B. D. D. D. delivered the funeral eulogy, assisted by the clergy of the cty. Rev. W. E. Lee, of the High Street Baptist Church led in a very fervent prayer. The funeral services took place at 2:30 P. M. The pastor after the obituary and condolences were read, in a most sympathetic way eulogized the life of the deceased to his audience, showing that our salvation was the free gift of God through Christ, His Son, on our acceptance of Him and His Blood, as our Sawour. The remains were laid to rest with honor, under numerous tokens of flowers from all departments of the Church and societies, with whom he was identified, and the fellow-workers of the N. and W. storehouse, where he had labored for 35 years with young men of both races, who turned out to show the last tribute of respect to the memory of all that was mortal of Thomas T. Trawham Mrs. Laura Traynham wishes to use this method on thanking Mrs. Sadie Lash and sister, Mrs. C. J. Dickerson for their kindness in arranging supper for her family and the visiting relatives Saturday afternoon, as a surprise without request. Mrs. Bessie Curtu's, of 218 Seventh Avenue, N. W. wishes to use this method in thanking her many friends for their acts of kindness extended during her operation and stay at the Burrell Memorial Hospital; also she feels very grateful to Miss Ruth Turnquest and the corps of nurses of that institution for their kind and tender care and to Dr. John O. Boyd, who performed the operation. Miss Maggie Dehaven, of 308 Seventh Avenue, N. W. is indsposed at this writing with Lasgripe. Mrs. Berta Howard, 302 Seventh Avenue, is slightly improved. Mrs. Mary Penn. 128 Seventh Avenue is down with Lagripe. She is improving under care of Dr. George E. Moore. Mr. Robert Toliver. 227 Seventh Avenue. N. W. who has been lingering for sometime, is yet quite sick. Mrs. Nannie Harper. 222 Seventh Avenue. N. W. is sick. Dr. J. H. Pinkard, who spent three weeks in Florida, has returned having gained seven pounds. He had practically recuperated, but upon his return here he contracted Lagripe because of the changing climate. He is improving at his home in Rocky Mount, Va. Mr. J. P. Evans, 416 Gilmer Avenue. N. W. returned home from his daily occupation, was taken with indigestion and died at 3:00 A. M. Tuesday. He was an employee of the N. and W. for many years. He leaves a loving wife, and two sons to mourn their loss. Mrs. Zenobia Banister, is much improved. Andrew Murphy was shot and killed instantly here last Sunday on McDowall Avenue, near Lick Run. The shooting was done by a woman of white wool jersey. G. L. Pittman, of 212 Seventh Avenue, is much improved. A grand revival is in progress at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Rev. J. B. Boddie, of New York is assisting Rev. W. W. Hicks for ten days. The services at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church last Sabbath were very impressive. The offering for the day was $101.00. LITTLE WILLIE'S LETTER The Royal Order of Hogs, at Odd Fellows' Hall, Thursday, Feb. 13th. The occasion being the birthday of Daddy Hog, Ding-It Hughes. Yes d-ree, after a long and painful silence, we came back, good and strong, living up to all the past records and making some new ones, one of which was the number we had In attendance. It was the largest attended affair in the history of the order. There were 234 plates laid, and 204 places were filled. Everybody was delighted to be present at Ding-It's 21st?? birthday blow-out,—did I say 21st! Yes, that's just what I said,—his 21st, and this is the um-tenth time he has had a 21st birthday and everyone wishes him that many more, for Ding-It is a real log, a regular fellow and one of boonake's best citizens. Sweet Papa Barlow was the manager, as usual, of the eats department and how well that was carried out in a 100 per cent way can be judged by the menu, which was as follows: Punch a la Little Willie, okves, celery, radishes, assorted sandwiches a la Hogs, potato salad, Au Dabney, imported cheese, Bent's crackers, A. D. coffee, Bevo and Budwiser, the smokes and M. D. Some menu, sh! I say it was and take it from poor name me, the Hogs lived up to their names and I am sure all Pigs, tred their hand making Hogs of themselves and all succeeded. Did any one fa? No one one The banquet was held in the Old Fellows Hall. Galy colored decorations and pot flowers, bright lights, and music put the real spirit in the Hogs. At 9:30 P. M. the toast- master, Little Willie, called the Hogs to order, bidding them take their places and be ready and in order for the time was at hand when all Hogs must do their best and after Mr. Joseph Trent, one of the invited guest had said the grace, each Hog went to the eats in Hog style. Stories and jokes, punch and eats held sway for an hour, then the toast master again called order and after some very interesting and timely remarks, all of which were filled with wit, humor and eloquence, he introduced the program of the evening. Toastmaster Little Willie Crowell, presented as first speaker, Attorney English Reid, whose address was a masterpiece, timely and instructive in every detail'. Next came Slim Downing, M. D., who filled the house with laughter from start to finish, with jokes and funny sayings, closing with a serious word of sound advice to men. Mr. Charles Mattox, one of the visitors, was next called, and he told the most interesting story of the evening—"What Is A Man?" All who heard him will ever remember the story as told by Mr. Mattox. Mr. Blue, headwaiter at Hotel Roanoke, another visitor, was called and well did he respond—a neat speech, full of hope and thought. The Elks Quintette was present and sang many numbers between the speeches, all of which were received with cheers and come back calls. They took the house with their first selection. "Good Evening, Mr. Hughes." Floyd County Claytor M. D., was next speaker, who talked to the men, or I should have said, the Hogs, on the life to come, and was well received. Hon. A. F. Brooks made a wonderful address to the Hogs along business lines. Mr. George Wilson, the famous baso, rendered a solo, making what was voted by the Hogs, the lowest note heard in Roanoke for years. North Carolina Dudley, D. D. S., one of the old Hogs was the next called and as usual held the attention of all while he turned out wit, wisdom and eloquence pleasing to the ear and food for thought. After another selection by the Elks Quintette, the treat of the evening came, when the toastmaster introduced Attorney A. J. Oliver, Hooks Poindexter giving away to him on account of the late hour. The lawyer was at his best and kept the house in a roar with his original wit on the Hog and many other things, closing with a great story on the toastmaster and what he loved. Thus ended one of the greatest meetings the Hogs ever had. The closing prayer was offered by Mr. Floyd Williams and it was in the "we sana" hours alright, but every one was happy, with Ding-it on this his um-teenth 21st birthday. In memory of my mother, Mrs. Annie Sherman, who departed this life, February 16, 1920: "How had has been the gone by years How grieved my heart has been, When from your smiling face so dear In death you had to part. 'But the smiles upon your face Will live forever more, And sweet will be the angel face When we meet on Heaven's shore.' —Her Daughter and Sister, Mrs. Martha Redd and Mrs. Rosa B. Huckstep. In loving remembrance of my hus band, John Louise Jones, who passed away five years ago at Salem, Va., February 22, 1918: "A loving one from me is gone, 'A voice I love is stilled, A place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled. "I often st and think of you, dear husband." When I'm all alone. For memory 's the only thing. That grief can call its own." —Hs devoted wife, Mary E., Jones CHICAGO NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Fountain of Milwaukee, Wis., were the week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Payne 3802 Wabash avenue and spent a very pleasant stay in the city returning to their home much pleased with the trip. Mrs. Louise Killion, 3142 Calumet avenue is still confined to her bed but some what improved under the protec sional care of Dr. U. G. Dailley. There were many from the city visit ing in the suburbs of Morgan Park on last Sunday. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. John Schafer, Mesdames Ela M. Glanton and Mary Duncan; they were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Benton and Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Roberts respectively. The Virginia Society with M. T. Bailey as president and J. B. Street vice-president, will hold its monthly meeting on February 15th at which time it is hoped every Virginian will be present and bring a friend. Following the election of officers, a program will be rendered. Mr. George Burns who spent some time in the city at the bedside of his THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Yes, the owners of the Mechanics Savings Bank, representing approximately three hundred individuals, the depositors, representing about three thousand, not including the holders of Christmas Savings Club Cards, the white and colored people of this city, who are vitally interested in retaining the confidence of the colored people of this community and the good opinion of the white and colored people of the United States, are waiting. They all want to know the approximate amount of the assets to re-open the Mechanics Savings Bank. The amount is stated in the following extract from the decree signed by the able Judge of the Richmond Chancery Court- But how much more is needed? The Receivers assert that they cannot determine this amount until all the pass-books of the depositors have been turned in and balanced. To meet this condition the depositors, in meeting assembled, by unanimous vote, decided to share in any liability in excess of the amount already ascertained. This relieves the situation and enables the Receivers to strike a balance and submit the same to the Court with such a recommendation as may, in their judgment be fair to the people whom they represent This then will necessarily end the delay as the Receivers have been unofficially reported to be in favor of re-opening the Bank and willing to do all in their power to help the colored people of this community. The issue is plain. Personal feeling and animosities should not figure in this matter. Let us re-open the Mechanics Savings Bank in order that those depositors who are urgently in need of some of their money may be able to get it and those who wish to deposit their savings may be permitted so to do. The depositors stand pledged not to make any run on the Bank Other issues and conditions can be met as they are presented The primary purpose at this time is to do business again. Let us ascertain the approximate amount of liability, put up the assets necessary and with the aid and support of the good white people and the self-sacrificing colored ones, backed by an abiding faith in the Almighty God, let us re-open the Bank. --- sister, Mrs. Louise Killion, who has been dangerously ill, left for his home Topeka, Kans., during the week leaving his sister much improved. M. T. Bailey, well known real estate dealer spent much time during the week on the northshore where he went to look after matters of importance for the interest of clients. Mrs. Sarah R. Benton 1431 W. 109th Place, Morgan Park after fourteen weeks of sickness which has confined her to the hospital and her home will be able to be out as soon as the weath er is more favorable. Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet avenue may spend several weeks at Hot Springs, Ark., leaving the city in about two or three weeks. Mrs. Martha Henderson 10840 Glencroy avenue, Morgan Park, is sick and confined at St. Luke Hospital, where she is soon to undergo an important operation. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES Newtown, Va., Feb. 20.—On our sicks list are Mr. Attrall Pollard, Mrs. Leila Howard and Mrs. Richard Ruffin and Mrs. Dupont Berry. Since our last notes the Stork Limited has made happy the following homes: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Alsop, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. G. Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Sell Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Long, Mr. and Mrs James M. Pollard, Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Frazier, and Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Hill. Miss Susie Carter left for Philadelphia last Sunday. Mrs. Mollie Hill and daughter Miss Laura left for Baltimore a few days ago. The funeral of Mr. Walker Roane took place last Wednesday. Rev. A. P. Young conducted the services. Mrs. R. N. Lawson and little son Walter, left Saturday for Spotsylvania where she was called to the bed-side of her mother, who passed away last Saturday night. Don't forget the Sunday School and preaching services at Mt. Olive Sunday. PATIENTLY WAITING. "'And it being represented to the Court that the closing of said bank by the plaintiff was because of the presence in its assets of obligations of the Bonded Realty Company, Inc., amounting to the sum of $83,500.00, which are not secured to the satisfaction of the plaintiff and it being further represented to the Court that there is a reasonable prospect of the defendant being able, within a short time, of satisfying the plaintiff as to said obligations of the Bonded Realty Company, Inc., and as to the entire solvency of said bank, it is further ordered that said receivers be authorized and instructed to report to the Court, at the earliest possible date, together with a statement of the assets and liabilities of said bank, such offers and plans as may be submitted to them by the defendants, or others on its behalf, with a view of satisfying the requirements of the plaintiff and effecting a prompt discharge of said receivers, and the return of the assets of said Mechanics' Savings Bank, of Richmond, Va. to its proper authorities.' U. S. ARMY SHOES We have just bought a tremendous stock of Army Munson last shoes to be sold to the public direct. These shoes are 100 per cent, solid leather with heavy double soles sewed and nailed. The uppers are of heavy tan chrome leather with bellows tongue, thereby making them waterproof. These shoes are selling very fast and we advise you to order at once to insure your order being filled. The sizes are 6 to 11 all widths; PRICE $2.75. Post-Postman on receipt of goods or send money order. Money refunded if shoes are not satisfactory. THE U. S. STORES CO. 1441 Broadway, New York City. VIRGINIA:—In Hustings Court Part II. City of Richmond the 8th day of February 1923. LAURA BELLE COOK. Plaintiff. vs. EUGENE COOK. Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain for the plaintiff an absolute divorce from the defendant Eugene Cook upon the grounds of wilful and continuous desertion and abandonment for more than three years prior to the commencement of this suit. And an adddit having been made and filed that the defendant, Eugene Cook is not a resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that he do appear here within ten days after the publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy. Teste: W. E. DU VAL. Clerk By H. G. DU VAL D. C. C. Mimms, p. q. --- Please find enclosed ($2.00) Two Dollars for one year's subscription to The Planet, to be sent to M --- THE PLANET, 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. ```markdown ``` THE NEGRO'S ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. THE AFRICAN BLOOD BROTHERHOOD 2299 Seventh Avenue, N. Y. City. (National Headquarters) Intellectual Social and Protective Benefits, Inflation Fee, $1. Monthly Dues, 25 cents. Writers and Speakers Wanted. Good proposition for live wire Organizers. Organize a Post in your community. Sokols and Educational Groups. ```markdown ``` JOHN MITCHELL. JR. 192 Street NAME ADDRESS A. D. PRICE. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET A. D. PRICE. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by Telegraph or Telephone. Halls Bented for Meetings and Nice Entertain- ments. Plenty of Room with all Necessary Conveniences. Large Picnic or Band Wagons for Hire at Reasonable Rates and nothing but First-class Automobiles and Carriages, Etc. Keep Constantly on Hand Fine Fun- eral Supplies. Open All Day and Night. PHONE MADISON 577—Man On Duty All Night—RICHMOND, VA (RESIDENCE NEXT DOOR) WILLIAM H. FERRIS POINTS OUT TEN MISTAKES IN THE DUBOIS ARTICLE ON MARCUS GARVEY IN CENTURY MAGAZINE LITERARY EDITOR OF THE NEGRO WORLD SAYS THAT "BACK TO AFRICA" IS BRILLIANT BIT OF FICTION SIX (New York Negro World.) "Back To Africa," by Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, in the February issue of the Century Magazine, is one of the most brilliant bits of fiction and prose poetry that ever emanated from the facile pen of that gifted writer. Never did his genius as a short-story teller shine more resplendently. Prose and poetry, fact and fancy, fiction and history, and imagination and reality were so subtly blended and flowed so easily on the prose cadences of Dr. Du Bois' imitative style that the reader times it difficult to tell when Dr. Du Bois envisaging reality and when imagining. By getting some scraps of information here and there and by bringing his imagination into play, Dr. Du Bols has created an imaginary Marcus Garvey and an imaginary Universal Negro Improvement Association, which is both like and unlike the real person and the real organization. In his essay on Alexander Crumwell, Dr. Du Bols, by his poetic imagination and his magic style made a real man look like an imaginary portrait. In his "Back to Africa" he made an imaginary portrait and an imaginary organization look like a real man and a real organization. The same poetic description and philosophic musings which characterized "The Souls of Black Folk" and "Darkwater" may be observed in the article that we are now discussing. In his pen pictures of High Harlem at the beginning and ending of his article; in his philosophical reflections up on the Negro whirlpool and other smaller swirlings affecting the stream of American life, upon Garvey's movement representing something spiritual upon the Negro's craving for manhood and in his showing that Garvey is a type of man whom the white world is making daily—moulding, marring, tosing in the air"—Dr. Du Bois writes in the vein that gave "Souls of Black Folk" and "Darkwater" their deserved fame. DR. DU BOIS AN IMPRESSIONIST AND NOT A REALIST. And yet the reader somehow feels that with all the poetic descriptions, pensive musings and philosophical reflections there is yet something lacking, and that is a gripping hold upon reality. "Back to Africa," like "The Souls of Black Folk" represents more the subjective impression which the Garvey movement made upon the sensitive mind of Dr. Du Bois than an objective presentation of the movement as it really is. Dr. Du Bois is more of an impressionistic rather than realistic painter. He gets a general impression and a few general outlines, and then his imagination completes the picture. In the case of Marcus Garvey and the U. N. I. A., Garvey was thirty-three years old and the U. N. I. A. two and a half years old before Dr. Du Bois began to consider them seriously. He heard that a Jamaican harangued the crowds from a soap box in Harlem organized thirteen in a small room started a weekly paper and talked about building factories and operating a steamship line, but he paid no attention to what he regarded as a transient ebullition of emotion. Consequently, when in August 1920, Garvey three times congested the Streets of Harlem with a parade packed Madison Square Garden to the very doors and held an international convention for thirty-one days in a Liberty Hall with twice the seating capacity of any Negro churcan in the world—filling it in the daytime, overcrowding it at night, and with thousands turned away from the Sun day evening services—the white people began to ask, "What does it all mean?" Quite naturally they would ask Dr. Du Bois, a recognized Negro leader and writer, about it. He knew very little about it. For three months he wandered in the wilderness, picking up scraps of information from former officials, and friends of present officials, getting nearly all of his information second hand. The result was the sketchy article in the Crisis in January 1921. Then Dr. Du Bois began seriously to study Marcus Garvey and the movement he had launched. But the U. N. I. A., was too big and too complex and it had too many ramifications all over the world to be easily focussed. The late Prof. Josiah Royce, Harvard's famous meta-physician, once said that it was very difficult to convince a man or change his views by merely arguing with blm, for his point of view and his ideas are the resultant of his character, temperament, education environment and the experiences that he has passed through. That is quite true. It is very difficult to understand the psychic reactions of a man and his dominant motifs when you don't meet him or don't begin to study him until he is thirty-three. To really know him you must know his parents, his early teachers and associates and early environment. To really know him you must know him in his boyhood, his youth and early manhood; you must know the men who inspired him the forces that fashioned and shaped him, the influences that operated upon him and the pleasant or rough experiences the boots or hard knocks that colored his ways of thinking. You can't simply see him as a man and then imagine what his previous or experiences had been. So is it with a movement. When Dr. Du Bois first began really to study the U. N. L. A., it was like a mighty river rushing at high speed toward the ocean of destiny bearing upon its bosom the hopes strivings and aspirations of a struggling race. He did not know what tributaries fed the stream, what ideas went into the making and what men made their contributions to the movement. Consequently, with only scraps of information at his command, he had to draw considerably upon his imagination. Thus Dr. Du Bois intimates that the "Back to Africa" idea was the only dominant idea in the Garvey movement. But the two ideas—the colonization and empire idea—which formed the "Back to Africa" idea were only two of the eight ideas which went in to the formation of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The other six ideas were forming a counterternity of the black people of the world, protesting against caste prejudice and proscription which ignored the worth of a man and looked soely at his color, teaching black men to respect themselves and each other, building factories, launching a steamship line and developing Liberia industrially and commercially. DR. DU BOIS' TEN MISTAKES Dr. Du Bois' Century Magazine article is so brilliant and perfect a literary creation that we bate to dissect it. It is like analyzing the beauty and fragrance of a rose and telling what chemical elements entered into its composition. But as Dr. Du Bois is writing history, we must consider his article as history and not as a magnificent bit of prose poetry. These ten mistakes are not mistakes of interpretation, but of historical facts. Mistake No. I.—Dr. Du Bois, on page 539 of the Century Magazine, says of Garvey. "Beside him were 'potentates'!" Answer: In reality there was only one potentate, Gabriel M. Johnson of Monrovia. Mistake No. 2. Dr. Du Bois, on page 539, says: "Before him knelt a succession of several colored gentlemen. Among the lucky recipients of titles was the former private secretary of Booker T. Washington." Answer: In reality Dr. Emmet J. Scott was in Washington. D. C., and did not attend the convention. Mistake No. 3. On page 541 of the Century Magazine Dr. Du Bois says "Then came the new economic demand for Negro peasant labor on the Panama Canal." Answer: But Colonel Goethals in his book, "How I Built the Panama Canal," states that many West Indians were employed as engineers and mechanics, and many Italians as laborers. Mistake No. 4. Dr Du Bois, on page 541 of the Century Magazine says that W. Indians began to migrate in larger numbers to America during the World War." Answer: In reality West Indians began to migrate to America in 1896 when the Brussels conference barred and boycotted West Indians and imported sugar and when the German beet sugar began to thrive. See article on Sugar in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It would be advisable for the learned scholar to also read Crabb's "Guide to the British West Indies." Mistake No. 5. On page 543 of the Century Magazine Dr. Du Bois refers to Marcus Garvey as "This black peasant of Jamaica." Answer: Marcus Garvey never worked as a farmer or agricultural laborer. When he quit school at the age of sixteen he worked four years as a printer, four years as a foreman of printing. Since then he has traveled and studied conditions in Europe and other parts of the world, edited newspapers and formed organizations. Mistake No. 6. Dr. Du Bois says of the Yarmouth, the first steamship of the Black Star Line. "She made three trips to the West Indies in three years. Answer: In reality she made three trips in nine months. Mistake No. 7. On page 544 of the Century Magazine Dr. Du Bois says "Thus the bubble of Garveyism burst." Answer: There are still over 800 well organized divisions functioning as they did before the delegates went to the League of Nations from the August convention of 1922. Mistake No. 8. On page 545 of the Century Magazine Dr. Du Bois says 'He did not quite dare call himself King Marcus I, but he sunned himself a while in the address of 'your Majesty'. Answer: If Dr. Du Bois would attend the meetings in Liberty Hall or read The Negro World carefully he would learn that Marcus Garvey's official title is "Your Excellency." M'stake No. 9, on page 546 of the Century Magazine Dr. Du Buis says of the U. N. I. A., "It's main and moving nucleus has been a knot of black Jamaican peasants resident in America." Answer: If Dr. Du Buis had carefully observed the parades of 1920 he would have seen over a score of bright, resplendent banners with Barbados, Jamaica, Grenada, St. Kitts, Antigua, Cuba, Haiti Porto Rico, Santo Domingo, Trimidad, Demerara New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Washington, Virginia, North Carolina Georgia, Florida, etc. emblazoned up on them. These banners indicated that the groups of from ten to one hundred who marched behind them were born in the country, island or State designated on the banners and that the Universal Negro Improvement Association is recruited not from the island of Jamaica, but from the black peoples of the world. Two-thirds of the two-score divisions, whose membership runs into the four figures, are located in the United States of America. Mistake 30: 10 Dr Du Bois on page 548 of the Century Magazine says: "As compared with the homes, the business, the church. Garvey's basement represents nothing in accomplishment and only waste in attempt." Answer: On page 543 of the Century Magazine Dr. Du Bois states that the Mormouth made "three trips to the West Indies;" that "Garvey sent the Kanawa down to do a small carrying trade between the West Indian islands THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA and that with the Shadyside "he carried excursionists up and down the Hudson during one summer." On page 544 he states that Garvey "has established a number of local grocery stores in Harlan and one or two shops, in including a laundry and a printing press." We will state that the printing press includes a Goss supplement press a steam table, a stereotyping machine, four linotype machines and smaller presses for job printing. Does the learned doctor regard these as accomplishments? CONCLUSION. Dr. Du Bois' article is written from the standpoint of a disinterested white man who studied the U. N. I. A. from long range and not from the standpoint of a racial leader who has kept his finger on the pulse-beat of the race that he is supposed to represent. When he characterizes the Black Star Line and the U. N. I. A. "only waste in attempt," it indicates that he did not realize how Negrodom how the black world was thrilled and electrified when it learned that a Jamaican and a New York organization had got out of the traditional ruts of church, lodge, agitation and small business into big business trade and commerce, that the Negro's industrial and commercial horizon was about to be enlarged, that new avenues of employment were about to be opened up to black men and black women, and that the Negro was about to leave his circling edies and enter the stream of world commerce. It was the new spirit—the spirit of initiative and adventure—that Marcus Garvey and the U. N. I. A. represented—the Divine urge of progress—that was Garvey's contribution to the spiritual inheritance of the race. WILLIAM H. FERRIS. The August convention of 1920, with delegates from nearly every State in the Union, from Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Forto Hico, the West Indies, Central America South America, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and South Africa, assembled to put over an industrial program as well as to perfect a fraternal organization and voice the black man's grievance at the wrongs and injustices to which he was subjected, was something new in Negro history. The distinguished men of color who attended that convention, either as delegates, or visitors, that crowds conged Madison Squar Garden the opening night and Liberty Hall for thirty consecutive nights and the world publicity that that convention received, and the crowds and publicity given to the conventions of 1921 and 1922, indicates that the world recognized that the black man's soul was awakened and that a new dynamic force and impulse was operating in the black man's mind. The world somehow recognized that the spirit of progress, of adventure and achievement on a colossal scale was stirring in his mind. Unfortunately some of the representatives of the U. N. I. A., allowed the aspects that the white press emphasized to sidetrack them from the main line that brought the immense hosts together. A study of the psychology of religion and a comparative study of religion indicates that any religion which grips large masses of mankind gets its power not on account of its error out on account of the truth that it contains on account of its powerful appeal to what is basic and fundamental in human nature. So it was with the U. N. I. A. It taught the Negro to think in international terms and gave him a vision of world politics and world commerce. It enlarged his mental horizon and the boundaries of his mind. It illiterated his imagination and gave him new ideas. And this according to Dr. Coue is something worth while. It taught the Negro to think and feel that he was a man and could play a man's part in the affairs of men. For this reason it will live on as an uplifting psychic influence. Five years is a brief moment in the life of an organization or corporation. If Dr. Du Bois knows of any Negro corporation that at any time within the brief space of five years marshaled as many members as the U. N. I. A. has, invested as much money in industrial and commercial enterprises and gave as much employment to men and women of color, we would be grateful for the information. WILLIAM H. FERRIS PHILADELPHIANS ASK GOVERNOR TO CLOSE THE CHEYNEY SCHOOL (Preston News Service) Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 7—Negro citizens and representatives of Negro organizations in Philadelphia called on Governor Pinchot last Wednesday afternoon and requested that he abolish Cheyney Normal School at Cheney Chester county Pa. The delegation declared that the facilities and advantages at the school which is exclusively for Negroes, are so far beneath those of other Normal Schools that to require that Negro pupils shall attend Cheney only is to deny equal educational rights. A legal opinion was presented in which it was averred that only thirteen state normal schools have been authorized and that Cheney Normal School is therefore illegal since it is the fourteenth. The delegation included representatives of the Equal Rights School League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American Legion Post 292, National Federation of Colored Women, International Colored Women's Federation of the World, A. M. E. Ministerial Association Women's Christian Alliance, Philadelphia Academy of Medicine - Negro Associated Press, Professional Club Alpha Phi Alpha Club; Bishop Levi J. Coppin Rev, H. P. Anderson, Dr. William M. Slowe, Atty. G. E. Dickinson Dr. N. F. Mossell, Mrs. Addie W. Dickinson Rev. W. L. Imeg and S. B. Hart It is said Governor Pinchot told the delegation that he would take the master under advisement and give it consideration. THE SMITH-HUGHES AGRICULTURAL OR LAND GRANT COLLEGES HOLD MEET DR. J. M. GANDY ELECTED HEAD OF NEGRO LAND GRANT COLLEGES. President J. M. Gandy, Miss Esther A. Tate, Director of Home Economies, and Professor G. W. Owens, Director of Agriculture and Teacher Trainer for the Smith-Hughes Agricultural Schools have returned from the Southern Conference on Education in Colored Land Grant Colleges, held at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute on January 15th-16th. The Conference was called by the United States Bureau of Education in cooperation with the Federal Board of Vocational Education, and had for its purpose the study of problems of cooperation between the white and Negro Land Grant Colleges; the consideration of higher standards of training in different curricula; and the better adaptation of the Negro Land Grant College program to existing conditions. The following departments in the colleges and divisions of extension work were represented—Presidents of Negro Land Grant Colleges, the teacher trainers in Agriculture and Home Economics under the Smith-Hughew law, representatives of both men and women of the extension workers from each of the seventeen Southern states and Federal and State officials of the divisions represented. General Chairman of the meeting Dr. John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education; Dr. Walton C. John, U. S. Bureau of Education, executive secretary, Mr. H. O. Sargent, Federal Agency for Agricultural Education; Chairman of program committee; Dr. J. M. Gandy, president of the Va. Nor. and Ind. Inst., Secretary of Conference committee. President Gandy addressed the meeting in one of its open sessions on the subject "Points of Emphasis in the Work of Negro Land Grant Colleges The Conference elected Dr. Gandy to the presidency of the Negro Land Grant Colleges and as a delegate to meet with the Land Grant College Association to work out plans of cooperation between white Land Grant College Association and Negro Land Grant College Association. On the trip South President Gandy's party stopped over in Atlanta, Ga. and visited the Negro colleges located there. V. N. I. I. HAPPENINGS. On January 26th at 8:00 P. M. Presidents' Day was celebrated in the cha- el of the Va. Nor. and Ind. Inst. This day has been set apart by the Institute as a time to rehearse to the student body and the general public, the circumstances which led to the bound- ing of the Institute and the develop- ment under the different principals and presidents. This being the first celebration the program was not very extensive. Prof. Jas. E. Shields, Principal of Peabody High School gave a very information al account of the early beginnings of the Institute and traced its development through to the year 1888. He recounted facts known only to few people the incidents of growth under the first principal. Prof. James Storuna. Mr. Shields gave due honor to Lawyer A. W. Harris for the part he played in influencing legislation to make the idea of a Negro college supported by the State a reality. The administration of Hon. John Mercer Langston was reviewed and the wonderful ability of Mr. Langston as a leader and teacher pointed out. Miss Mary E. Branch of the Institute, and also a graduate during the administration of President James Hugo Johnston spok on the successful qualities of President Johnston's personality. At this point in the program the student body surprised President Gandy by presenting to him a beautiful silver fruit basket, filled with fruit and flowers. Before this surprise could wear off, the Training School sent up to the President a token of their high regard in the form of a beautiful flower basket. Master Wilbur Wartman, the six year old son of Mr. Wartman, the practical agriculturalist of the Institute presented the token of love and respect after a most enjoyable speech made by him. Immediately following the exercises, members of the faculty conducted the President and his wife to the Teacher's Dining hall where an elaborate banquet had been prepared by the faculty. The succession of surprises took the President off his feet. But there were still other surprises awaiting him. At the height of the enjoyment, Mrs. Cora Z. Jones, brought in a handsome suit-case and brief case. Prof. James Hugo Johnston presented the faculty gift after a very fitting speech. The evening closed leaving in the minds of all who were present only pleasant memories for those who have passed away in the work of the school and a high regard and love for its present leader. Dr. John M. Gandy has been appointed by Governor Trinkle as a member of the Board, of Directors of the Virginia Manual Labor School for Colored Boys for a term of six years. This appointment shows the special trust and confidence which the Governor reposes in the ability of Dr. Gandy for leadership. It is another chance to serve the commonwealth by being actually engaged in the formation of plans for the training of the unfortunate boys of the race to become respectable, useful citizens. EGYPTIAN HISTORIAN SPEAKS AT WILBERFORCE (Preston News Service) Wilberforce. O., Feb. 8.—Duse Mo- heret Ali, Egyptian Historian and Editor of the African and Oriental Res view, of London, gave an interesting lecture at Galloway Hall here last Wednesday evening. His explanation of the European situation and the relation of African colonies thereto was instructive. He told of the possibilities of the darker races for the future if a common understanding and a soulsarity of purpose were had. Dr. All, is a member of the American Negro So society and an officer of the Imperial; Or G. W. C. OF MISSOURI SUSPENDS ALL MEN FROM I. O. CALANTHE SHE IS ENJOINED FROM PUTTING RULING INTO EFFECT. Bertha T. Buckner, Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe of Missouri was enjoined by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, from putting into effect a proclamation issued by her on the 5th day of December, 1922, whereby she undertook to suspend all male members of the Court of San Antonio because the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Missouri, had been suspended by the Supreme Chancellor for failure to pay the Pythian Temple-Sanitarium Tax levied by the Supreme Lodge in 1915. William Stakely, a member of Queen Esther Court. No. 125 and also a member of Touissant Lodge. No. 28 and C. D. Whitcomb, a member of Triumph Lodge. No 52 and also a member of Triumph Court. No. 82 are the plaintiffs who brought the suit in behalf of themselves and all others situated and who have a common interest in the subject of the litigation of this suit. The Restraining Order granted by the Court directed to Bortha T. Bucker, Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe of Missouri, and all others who are acting under and by virtue of the Proclamation No. 2, issued and promulgated December 5, 1922, addressed to the Grand Court Officers, District Deputies, Worthy Counselors, Worthy Matrons, Officers and Members, Order of Calanthe of Missouri, be, and are here enjoined and restrained from executing and enforcing the said Proclamation No. 2, and from denying molesting or interfering with them, and each of them, in any manner whatsoever, the plaintiffs and all others similarly situated in the quiet and peaceable enjoyment of their respective rights of admission, visit, and participation in the business affairs of the session of the Grand Court and their respective subordinate courts throughout the State of Missouri until the further order of the Court. The effect of the restraining order is to permit all male members of the Court of Calanthe to visit their respecitive subordinate courts or any other court until the further order of the Court. The Sheriff served the papers on Mrs. Buckner personally late Wednesday afternoon at her residence, 4205 Cook avenue. Under the Order granted by the Court it becomes necessary and the duty of the Grand Worthy Counselor notify the jurisdiction by Proclamation of the injunction and to inform all subordinate courts to allow the male members to visit and to participate in the business of the courts until the Circuit Court orders otherwise. In the petition it was cited that the Grand Court of Calanthe is a "department" of the Grand Lodge of Missouri. Articles of incorporation creating the Grand Court among other things has the following: "No. 1. Resolve. That the purposes for which this association was organized and incorporated are hereby extended and enlarged so as to include the Grand Court of Independent Order of Calanthe as it now exists with in the jurisdiction of the State of Missouri. "No. 2. There is hereby established a department, in connection with this association, to be known as the Grand Court of Independent Order of Calanthe of Missouri. "No. 3. The Grand Court shall have power and authority to organize Subor-dinate Courts within this State and to grant charters to same to suspend or take away charters for violations of the laws of the Order, to receive and hear appeals and grievances and to en act such by-laws for its government as it may deem necessary, provided always, that said by-laws of the State of Missouri the Supreme Court, or the laws of the Grand Lodge of the State of Missouri. A copy of all such laws shall be filed with the Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge. "No. 4. The Grand Lodge shall exercise supervisory control over the affairs of the Grand Court, reserving the right to inspect its books, accounts and other papers when necessary for the adjustment of differences, and to investigate any matter of dispute o. controversy that threatens the peace and harmony or good standing of the Knights of Pythias in the State of Missouri and to pass on the same."—(The Argus.) Charles Saxchell Morris' Ringing Declaration in Montgomery. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 4.—(Special Correspondence e.) "All over this great country of ours. Negro leaders are fighting a bitter battle among themselves. Now this group claims that it is in the ascendancy and now that the time has certainly come when these gentlemen who elect to guide our destinies should have an "entente cordiale" and present to the public a united front. Nothing is to be gained by conflicts among ourselves. 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Boston or Chicago, but by men who are upon the ground with the sympathy and help of their northern brethren of course. I summon you today to this great task. By your deeds and by your example you are to prove to all the world that manhood is based not upon color, nor womanhood upon race. This was one of the eloquent declarations of Charles Satchell Morris, Jr. of Norfolk, Va., famous as a publicist, scholar and orator in an address in the Old Ship A. M. E. Zion church here today. More than three thousand persons came out to hear the orator in this capital of the old confederacy including a great crowd of the other race. Not more than two-thirds of the people could be admitted even to this great and spacious edifice so anxious were the citizens of Montgomery to hear the distinguished orator from Virginia. Dr. G. W. Tenholm, the president of the State Normal School here acted as the master of ceremonies for the meeting, while the speaker was presented by the Rev. Dr. J. P. Holmes. Mr. Morris selected for his subject: "The Hour Has Come." In the course of which address he peaded for the citizen soldier who remembers that "peace bath its victories no less renowned than war," for a larger economic and industrial opportunity for the Negro, to be made possible to a great extent as a result of his own efforts, for a practical Christianity a fundamental education and for a new virile and manly type of Negro leadership. Probably no more impassioned address has ever been heard from a Montgomery platform than that of Mr. Morris. The affair was arranged by a committee of prominent white and colored men here as an inter-racial mass meeting. The Montgomery Advertiser, leading southern daily spoke in the highest terms of the speech of the orator and the occasion. Mr. Morris is present is engaged in a two months "Good Will Speaking Tour" of the South, during the program of which it is estimated that more than three hundred thousand persons of both races have heard him in ten States. He had just concluded a visit to Georgia, Louis Ionna and Mississippi, when he reached here. He departed at midnight Sunday for Georgia and Florida. He was sched uled to speak on Monday night in the famous Tabernacle of the late Dr. C. T. Walker in Augusta. The purpose of the trip of the orator is to raise funds for the school of which his father is principal, Boyd- ton Institute at Boydton, Va., which according to him has registered a very generous response in all sections of the South. —THOMAS H. WRIGHT WILBERFORCIANS IN DALLAS ORGANIZE. --- (Preston News Service) Dallas, Texas, Feb. 15.—At a meeting held here last Sunday afternoon in response to a call issued by Prof. C. F. Carr, principal of the Washington High School. Wilberforcians of this city met and perfected an organization. The following were elected officers: Prof. C. F. Carr, president; Miss Rosa B. Paige, teacher of Domestic Science, vice president; Mrs. Norine Atkins*, stenographer for the United Order of Golden Chain, secretary; Miss Bridget M. Smith, assistant secretary; Miss Alma Douglass, stenographer for the Mississippi Life Insurance Company, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Mabel Sanders, treasurer; Hon. J. E. Smith Grand Keeper of Record and Seals of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Texas, chairman of the executive committee. It is the purpose of this organization to foster the spirit of Wilberforce throughout Texas and endeavor to aid Wilberforce University morally and financially in every possible way. It is said that there are a large number of Wilberforcians actively engaged in educational, business and professional life in this state. NEW ENGAND FIRM BUILDING LARGE FACTORY IN SOUTH --- (Preston News Service) Gastonia N. 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VIRGINIA --- NEWS AROUND RICHMOND EIGHT LAFAYETTE PLAYERS STAGE GREAT PLAY AT HOWARD THEATRE "OVER THE HILLS TO THE POOR HOUSE" — POPULAR AND DREWN BISHOP A LEADING STAR—A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION The Lafayette Players of New York have been entertaining large and appreciative audiences at the Howard Theatre, formerly the Rayo, this week with their dramas, "Over the Hills to the Poor House" and "Damaged Goods." They were up to their usual standard of excellence. The play is a dramatization of that famous poem by Will Carleton. The story tells of the financial embarrassments of Charles Saunders, brought about by an extravagant wife who is domiciled in the Saunders homestead. Mrs. Saunders signs away her property rights with out knowing what she was doing, being so advised by her son, Dick Saunders is falsely accused of being a horse thief through the double dealing of James Watson. Finally all break up and the widow goes to the poor-house to be ultimately reinstated to the old homestead by Dick Saunders, who is cleared of the charge against him and who is the recipient of a bountiful prosperity. Andrew Bishop as Dick Saunders was a popular favorite and he carried out the part assigned to him with a faithful reality. He is a "star" of the first magnitude. J. Lawrence Criner as Charles Saunders was a decided success. He knows just how to work in any part assigned to him. His disgust with his wife, his profession of love for her and finally the desertion of his own mother, done with a feeling of regret and repugnance that made him feel like a criminal was a fine piece of acting. Wm. (Babe) Townsend is always interesting and amusing. He played the part of the thug in the play with a faithful reality. He is best in making love to the fair sex and with driving shrewd bargains. A. B. DeComathere is Judge Joshua Billings, could not be improved upon. He is a peculiar character with a charming manner and with an ability to portray the parts assigned to him with a realism that commands admiration. Walter Robinson, as the retired well-to-do farmer was a success. Harry Plater as Eban Halt kept the audience convulsed with laughter, while Isabelle Jackson as Sadie March was a dream, so to speak. She is an actor of the most pronounced type and she has all of the wit, vivaciousness and "spunk" needed in the characters assigned to her. Intuitively, she grasps the strong points in the character assigned to her and brings them out. Edward Thompson as the Sheriff must have been on the job before. He was a success. Goldie Cisco as a lovestick girl seems to have been naturally born for the part. Kate Baker as Marie Saunders, dubbed by the widow as Maria was also a noted success. She knows the ways of the married woman and right well did she play the part. It is difficult to say a word about Cleo Desmond. In some respects she is a wonder. Her portrayal of mother-love and affection brought tears as the dispossession of the deserted widow and mother was taking place. It was difficult to separate her from the original character, so well did she perform her part. She ranks with the best actresses in this country and her display of her transcendent powers held the audience spell-bound and caused universal comment, long after the curtain had been rung down and well pleased patrons were enroute to their homes. Mr. "Babe" Townsend, who likes to talk, although appearing to be a bassetful young man appealed to those present for support. He called attention to the fact that Mr. Charles A. Somma had gone to great expense to have them come and present this high-priced drama, upon which a royalty was pait. He was not sure they would do more than "break even," but he urged all to tell their friends about the entertainment, in order that this high class type of entertainment might be continued in this city. THE DOINGS OF THE Y. M. C. A The Y. M. C. A. is over shadowed by the Holy Spirit every day thus Richmond is helped. Another Saturday evening with the Y. M. C. A. to hear the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson by one of her own men (Dr. W. H. Stokes) pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church 5 P. M. last Saturday as usual a rush was made for the building by women and men and everybody got full. Last Sunday was well used by the boys and men of the Y. M. C. A. Around the fireside 9:30 A. M. workers' meeting all warmed up for the day's work. The severe cold weather did not hinder the service in the penitentiary 10 A. M. with the women. An hour of life The committee for service 10 A.M. THE ODD FELLOWS' PETER OGDEN DAY PETER ODEN ANNIVERSARY All Lodges and Households of Ruth G. U. Order of Odd Fellows are requested to be present and take an active part in the celebration of "The Founder of Our Order in America, Peter Ogden." The anniversary will be held at Sharon Baptist Church, corner Leigh and First streets, Thursday, March 1, at 8 o'clock P. M. Members of the various lodges are asked to meet at Prices Hall at 7:30 P. M. and to escort the Partiarchie No. 6, and Past Grand Masters Council No. 14 to the church. All Households will assemble at the church. Regalia must be worn. was reminded about the meetings in the city fall and home. A happy bunch of boys gathered at the building 4 P.M. and a good one was shot into them by President R. P. Daniel. The Big Brother Spirit is growing with the larger boys of our work 5:30 P. M. the cornet and piano called to the men to meeting for men and they soon got warm. The speak-or Mr. W. M. Minor said many things which were directly to himself and others. A good address. Subject: Some Things Which We Need. Messrs. Preston Johnson and Wm. Spurlock directed the music. Stop! You and your friend are expected to be at the Y. M. C. A. today 5 P. M. to hear the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. On time and get a good seat. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. At the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. for a get together meeting—workers. Every man on to the First Baptist Church to a great Evangelistic meeting for men by the church, community and the Y. M. C. A. Hear this man. Rev. E. E. Smith, B. D. pastor of the Second Baptist Church South Rea-mond. Subject: Choose This Day Whom Ye Will Serve. A great time for men. Bring a man. On time and have a good time. Live songs. 4 P. M. at the building the boys are invited to join in the great meeting for boys. Watch for the date of the great Spring meetings. Never idle for there is always a plenty to be done for the boys and men. Every home is asked to have special prayers for the Y. M. C. A. On last Sunday afternoon the Religious Education Committee presented the Christian Endeavor Society of Hood Temple A. M. E. Zion church in a musical and literary program. Mrs. Susie B. Williams, chairman of the committee introduced the group and in well chosen words welcomed them. Mr. Calvin Knight, president of the Christian Endeavor responded and presented Mrs. Lillie Cannon who presided. Among the numbers on the program were recitations, vocal and instrumental solos duets and choruses some of which were rendered by little tots. All numbers were excellently rendered. Messrs Knight and McClellan made talks on their appreciation of the Y. W. C. A. and its work. After the completion of the program, light refreshments were served by the Hospitality Committee, Mrs. A. C. Miles, Miss Kate Bolling and Miss Mallie Manderville being the hostesses for the evening. A Membership Recognition service will be given under the direction of Mrs. James O. West at Vespers 6 Sun day afternoon at 5 o'clock. The subject for discussion "The Young Women's Christian Association" will be discussed by the following speakers: Miss Elsie Gaines, Mrs. Amanda Nixon; Miss Zetta Bolden. Special musical selections will be a feature in which all will be asked to join. Miss Marion Hayes will reopen her class in dressmaking on Tuesday evening March 6th at 7 o'clock. The Executive Council announces the following: Beginning Tuesday 27.6.30 to 7:15 P. M. A five weeks study on the life of Christ as a manifestation of the principles set forth in the Girl Reserves Code. For Girl Reserves especially Cabinet members and Club leaders and those interested in Girls instruction. It is interesting all through. You will enjoy it. (Try it.) The course will be given by Miss Viola L. F. Chaplain. For Reserve Clubs and Council Officers: beginning Wednesday Feb. 28th. 6:30 to 7:30 P. M. Course to include the Girl Reserves Organization. Constitution making, Parliamentary usages. By-Laws Duties of each department and committees. To be given by Miss Chaplain. "To face life squarely"—to find and give the best" were the subjects discussed by the members of the Almhcl club Thursday February 22nd. The Golden Rods were hostesses to THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA S. G. JONES HOSPITAL FUND BEING RAISED Received since last publication by the Treasurer of the above named Hospital the following contributions, others will be published with grateful and earnest thanks. Yours for services to suffering humanity, Sarah G. Jones Memorial Hospital, Medical College and Training School for Nurses, Inc. REV. WM. H. STOKES, Ph. D. President REV. W. T. JOHNSON, D. D. Secretary B. L. JORDAN, Treas. Captains of Clubs: Mrs. M. S. Payne $1; Mrs. John Jones $1; Mrs. Matilda Dickerson $1.20; Mrs. L. G. King $1.20 Mrs. Nannie Jefferson $1.90; Mrs. Wm. Settles $1; Mrs. Ella Harper $1.30; Mrs. Ellen Johnson $1.30; Mrs. Fannie Jones $1.10; Mrs. Vera Bolling $3; Mrs. Helen Gray $2; Mrs. Susan Terry $3.10; Miss Lula Watkins $1; Mrs. Maria Booker $1; Mrs. Hattle Lightfoot $1.60; Mrs. Eliza Washing ton $1; Mrs. Ellen Bolling $1; Mr. Lucius Payne $1; Mrs. Mary Kyles $1; Mrs. Annie Bowles $1; Mrs. Lizzle Quarles $1.50; Mrs. Mammie Mason $1 30. Total for Captains $29.60 Southside Auxiliary to Hospital Mrs. A. E. Blackwell, Treas. Mrs. H. V. Byrd, Sec. Mrs. Mary Binga, Press turned in the following: Mrs. Elizabeth beth Harris $2.95; Rev. A. Britton $1; Dr. Walter Nelson $1; Rev. W. L. Ransome $1; Mrs. Susie Robinson $1; Mrs. J. H. Blackwell $1; Mrs. Mary Threatt $4.20; Mr. Richard Smith $1; Mrs. Julia Peyton $1; Mr. Jas. Cogbill $1; Mrs. Angie M. Dean $1; Mr. Charlotte Berry $1; Mrs. Harriett Harris $6.60; Mr. H. F. Harris $1; Mrs. Amanda Randolph $1.55; Mrs. Mary Brown $3.70; Mrs. Mary Binga $1; Mrs. H. V. Byrd $1. Total $34.00. Hon. J. E. Byrd $1; Mr. Julian L. Lipscomb $1; Mrs. Bertha Hector $2. B. Y. P. U. 5th Baptist church. Rev. A. V. Daly, pastor $5; Brought forward from last publication $1.363.95; Dr. A. A. Tennant, $74.16; Second Baptist Church, Sunday School, Dr. M. B. Jone Supt. $18.58 to Thursday February 15. 1923. 1.529.29. twenty-five little boys and girls on last Friday. Games were the principal features. The Carnation club gave a hearty welcome to Miss Martha Smith, instructor Virginia Union University, who is to assist Miss Belle Boyd as Adviser or their club. Miss Donna Cousins of the Aimhit club who has been ill for two weeks is convalescing. Miss Belle Boyd, the Adviser of the Carnation club is improving. "The Mistakes I Hear Daily" is the subject to be discussed by the Triple I club at its next meeting. Miss Mary Wood is the president of this energetic group of young commercial girls. They will be formerly presented by the council on Easter Sunday, Mrs. M. M. Winston is the adviser. on the life of Christ as a manifesta- tion and Barretts Orchestra, March 27th in True Reformers Hall. The R. I. C. club of the Girl Reserves will entertain their fathers next Monday February 26th, 7:00 to 8:30 P. M. A very interesting program has been prepared by the Program Commit tee of which Miss Ice Hilton is chair team. It is hoped that the fathers will come and let the girls enjoy the hour with their dads. New Shorter Hall at Wilberforce Under Roof Wilberforce, O., Feb. 15.—The erection of the new James A. Shorter hall at Wilberforce University has progressed rapidly and members of the building committee announced that the roof has been placed on the entire building of five stories representing an expenditure thus far or more than $125,000. As far as the building has gone every thing has been paid for. There remains to be completed yet the installation of the windows doors flooring and furnishings which will cost approximately $155,000 more. When completed the structure will house 500 students; have a model dining room with a seating capacity of 800 and 27 class rooms. President Gregg has issued an appeal to graduates and friends of the University to lend their support to this vast effort by contributing as largely as possible on Founders' Day which will be observed February 24th. The occasion will be the observation of the sixtieth anniversary of the institute under Negro management. It is planned to dedicate Shorter hall complete and free of debt at next commencement in June 1923. To do this officials say it will require large support from graduates and friends of the university. The dedication of this structure is expected to be one of the epoch-making events in the history of the institution and it is hoped that persons from all sections will take part in this occasion by not only being present but by lending their moral and financial support now in order to make possible this achievement of the race for its own educational purposes. REV. E. E. SMITH AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Revival services are in progress at First Baptist Church corner 14th and Broad streets, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., pastor. The services are being conducted by Rev. E. E. Smith, pastor Second Baptist church South Richmond. Rev. Smith is one of the most powerful young men of the ministry and his influence is being felt in this community. Rev. Smith preached some soul stirring sermons during the present week to the delight of the large congregations who heard him. These meetings will continue through the coming week. Rev. Smith will preach each night. A splendid chorus of one hundred voices will sing at each service. Members and friends are urged to be present. A union mass meeting at which a thousand men of our city are expected will be held in this church Sunday. February 25th, at 3:30 P. M. This meeting is being planned under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., and the men of the First Baptist Church. Rev. Smith will address the men. The men of the city are cordially invited. SERVICES AT SHARON. Sunday February 25th. 1923. 10:00 A. M. Sunday School 11:30 A. M. Subject: "Abiding in Christ," by the pastor, Rev. R. H. Johnson Jr., B. D. 8:15 P. M. Subject: "Abiding Love." by the pastor, Rev. R. H. Johnson, Jr. B. D. 6:00 P. M. Young People's Meeting. Regular Prayer Service (weekly.) Wednesday at 8:00 P. M. At the evening service the pastor will preach a special sermon. A short program under the auspices of the Junior Choir will be rendered. The proceeds will be devoted to charity. This organization under the leadership of Mrs. Rosa B. Jenkins is performing useful and constructive service in the church. Interest in the regular Wednesday Prayer Service is growing. Friends, visitors and strangers in the city are welcome to all our services. A cordial greetings awaits each one. DR. AUSTIN AT FIFTH STREET. Dr. J. C. Austin, of Pittsburgh, Pa. preached last week at Fifth St. Baptist Church in their financial drive for a building fund. Large to hear this great d- vine each night. His series of sermons were forceful and full of logic. Over $4,000 was raised. TOPICS FOR SUNDAY. International Sunday School Lesson: "The Parable of the Pounds." Luke 19:11-48. Topic for Young People's Societies "What Are Some Temptations to Lie and How Can We Overcome Them?" Proverbs 12:17-22 and the Psalms 31:11-18. FULTON NOTES. RISING MT. ZION. Sunday at 11 o'clock the funeral of Mr. Leroy Winston was held at the above mentioned church. Rev. O. B. Simms officiated. At 8:00 P. M. the pastor preached a wonderful sermon having as his subject "Robbing the Dead." It was cleverly handled and all present enjoyed the discourse. Don't forget our prayer meeting. The sick this week are: Mrs. Elie Hudly who is quite sick; Mrs. Sara Spradley continues sick; Mr. Albert Johnson of 804 Denny street is in the St. Phillips Hospital resulting from slight stroke of paralysis on last Wednesday. The home of Miss Edith Johnson of 728 Denny street was the scene of a lively birthday party Thursday, February 22nd. It being her ninth birthday. Her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Johnson were in town to participate in her festivity. A large number of anxious and merry-hearted youngsters were present who alone would have served to make the occasion a joyous one, let alone the various amusements that were arranged for their special enjoyment. CALVARY NOTES The M. Calvary Baptist Sunday School invites you to be present tomorrow at 9:30 A. M. Special sermon at 11:30 A. M. by the pastor. "Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out." A duett by Rev. Cobbs and Mrs. Elizabeth Cobbs. Live singing by the choir. 3:30 P. M. Rev. L. C. Garland will preach in the interest of the Baracu Bible class. Monday, the 26th. a grand time will be in store for you. The occasion being the presence of the Metronomic Glee Club. Admission 15 cents. Begins at 3 P. M. Let us not forget the sick of the community. Call in to see them. The people of the New Vine Baptist church had a grand time last Sabbath. The Rev. Henry Carter passed a creditable examination for the ministry. The Rev. Wilson preached a soul stirring ordination sermon. Rev. W. S. "tuck" pastor. On the first Sunday in March the pastor, Rev. Tuck will preach for the Odd Fellows and the Ruth at the New Vine Baptist church at 12 Noon. Say Georgia Convicts Won't Work Without Lash Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 13.—"Convicts cannot be worked on the roads in Georgia without the lash as a means or forcing discipline" declared the spokesman for the state prison commission in a conference with Governor Hardwick last Thursday in regard to the abolition of whipping in the convict camps and at the state prison farm. A committee from the council of Christian churches of Atlanta presented the governor with a legal brief arguing that the constitution forbids whipping. Gov. Hardwick has often intimated his dislike of whipping convicts. He said that the convicts are handled under rules and regulations prescribed by the prison commission and approved by the governor. "Most of the convicts are Negroes and there is no way to enforce discipline and get a lazy Negro to work except by fear of the lash. The Negro is naturally lazy and will not work unless made to feel he is constantly in danger of severe bodily punishment." declared a member of the commission. It is said that after hearing the arguments of the prison commissioners against changing the prison rules about whipping, Governor Hardwick was not certain whether he would inti late a change. NEGRO IMMIGRATION IS BARREI IN MEXICO. Mexico City, Feb. 5. General Calleas, Secretary of the Interior, has issued an order to all officials of immigration prohibiting the entrance of Negroes in to Mexico. This may be taken as the Government's answer to reports that it is backing a Negro colonization scheme. It is reported here that adventurers in the United States are fleeing Negroes with wild schemes of land grants in all parts of the Mexican Republic. One hacienda had a permit to bring twenty families into the northern part of the republic, but this permit has been withdrawn by order of General Calleas. In the future only white immigrants are wanted in Mexico, as the Government is realizing that a mixture of other bloods will degenerate the race instead of bettering it. Immigrants from the northern part of Europe and from the United States especially are wanted on account of their reputation for hard work and morality, and the Government will make an effort to attract the same class of immigrants that America received in early da Colored Woman Leaves Estate Worth $100,000 Camden, N. J., Feb. 3.—Amanda Blackstone, colored, whose will was probed today, left $70,000 of her $100 estate to her brother, Howard Blackstone, in Howard County, Md. The remainder was left to other relatives and friends. The woman inherited the bulk of the money from Oliver R. Wood, a Camden business man, who employed her as housekeeper for many years. She died January 22nd. The only POSITIVE HAIR GROWER and DARKBUFF HOMOVER GLOVER'S IMPRE MANCE MEDICINE Sold for 35 Years. 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