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RICHMOND PLANET HON. MARCUS GARVEY FLAYS DR. W. E. B. DU BOIS GIVES HIM A "ROLAND FOR HIS OLIVER." Charges that He Dislikes Black Folks and Panders for the Companionship of White Ones...Deals Sparingly with Basic Principles...Unmercifully Attacks His Arch Tormentor VOL. XL, NO. 17 HON. FL GIVES Charges that panionsh Princip Fellow Men of the Negro Race Greet- ing:— W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, the Negro "misleader," who is editor of the "Crisis" the official organ of the National Association for the Advancement of "certain" Colored People, situated at 70 Fifth Avenue. New York City, has again appeared in print. This time he appears as author of an article in the February "Century" Magazine under the caption, "Back to Africa," in which he makes the effort to criticize Marcus Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Black Star Line. This "unfortunate mutatto" who bewaits every day the drop of Negro blood in his veins, being sorry that he is not Dutch or French has taken upon himself the responsibility of criticizing and condemning other people while holding himself up as the social "unapproachable" and the great "I AM" of the Negro race. But we will see who Mr. Du Bois, is in that he invites his own characterization. So we will, therefore let him see himself as others see him. "FAT, BLACK, UGLY MAN." In describing Marcus Garvey in the article before mentioned, he referred to him as a "little, fat, black man; ugly but with intelligent eyes and a big head." Now, what does Du Bois mean by ugly? This so-called professor of Harvard and Berlin ought to know by now that the standard of beauty within a race is not arrived at by comparison with another race; as for 'in stance. if we were to desire to find out the standard of beauty among the Japanese people we would not judge them from the Anglo-Saxon viewpoint,' but from the Japanese. How he arrives at his conclusion that Marcus Garvey is ugly, being a Negro, is impossible to determine, in that if there is any anglue in the Negro race it would be reflected more through Du Bois than Marcus Garvey, in that he himself tells us that he is a little Dutch, a little French, and a dozen other things. Why, in fact, the man is a monstrosity. So, if there is any anglue is on the part of Du Bois and not on the part of the "little fat, black man with the big head," because all this description is typical of the African. But this only goes to show how much hate Du Bois has for the black blood in his veins. Anything that is black, to him, is ugly, is hideous, is monstrous, and this, is why in 1917 he had but the lightest of colored people in his office, when one could hardly tell whether it was a white show or a colored vaudeville now was running at Fifth avenue. It was only after the Universal Negro Improvement Association started to pounce upon him and his National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that they admitted that colored element into the association that could be distinguished as Negro and it was during that period of time that Weldon Johnson and Pickens got a look-in. But even Pickens must have been "ugly" for Du Bois, for they made it so warm for him up to a few months ago that he had to go a hunting for another job, the time when Marcus Garvey was willing to welcome him into the Universal Negro Improvement Association. DU BOIS AND WHITE COMPANY. It is no wonder that Du Bois seeks the company of white people, because he hates blacks as being ugly. That is why he likes to dance with white people and dine with them and sometimes sleep with them, because from his way of seeing things all that is black is ugly and all that is white is beautiful. Yet this professor, who sees ugleness in being black, essays to be a leader of the Negro people and has been trying for over fourteen years to deceive them through his connection with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Now what does he mean by advancing colored people if he hates black so much? In what direction must we expect his advancement? We can conclude in no other way than that it is in the direction of losing our black identity and becoming, as nearly as possible, the lowest whites by assimilation and miscegenation. This probably is accountable for the bleaching process and the hair straight ening escapades of some of the people who are identified with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in their mad desire of approach to the white race, in which they see beauty as advocated by the professor from Harvard and Bergen. It is no wonder of these individuals use the lip-stick, and it is no won- (Continued on the Sixth Page. ) Mexican Embassy Lists 26 Mexicans Killed in U. S. According to a detailed list sent by the Mexican Embassy in Washington to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, 26 Mexicans were murdered in the United States during the year 1922. Of these 15 were murdered in the State of Texas. One of the victims, Senor Manuel Duarte is said by the Mexican Embassy to have been murdered at Hailengen Texas by Gus Allott, a member of the ku klux klan. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE SPINGARN MEDAL SHOULD BE SENT TO W. F. WHITE. Recommendations of names for the consideration of the Spinning Medal Award Committee, of persons of American citizenship and African descent who distinguished themselves during the year 1922, are to be sent to the Secretary of the Committee, Walter F White, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City, it was announced today through the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Spinning Medal will be awarded at the Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Kansas City the last week in August. The members of the Spinning Medal Award Committee are: Bishop John Hurst, Chairman Mr. John Hope; Dr. James H. Dillard; Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard; Hon. Theodore Roosevelt; Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher. No White Man's Curse Is Allowed By Native Chief. (Preston News Service) Cape Town, S. A., Feb. 26.—According to reports reaching here, King Khama of the Bamgwato South African tribe, regards intoxicating liquor as a white man's curse and will not allow any liquor to enter his territory. It is said that the king travels about his vast dominion in a big Packard motor car driven by a white chauffeur. Rev. H. P. Thompson. Noted Educator Dies in Chicago. Rev. P. H. Thompson, who for more than 30 years had been actively engaged in the instruction of the youth of our race, died at his home 4555 Forrestville avenue, Friday afternoon January 11, at 3:45. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. E. T. Martin of Bethesda Baptist church on Monday morning, January 15, at 11 o'clock. Dr. Thompson was born in Okalona, Miss., March 15. 1864. He was educated at Jackson College, Jackson, Miss. and the Virginia Union University Richmond, Va. For seven years he was dean of Jackson College and for five years president of Central Missisippi college at Kosciusko. For 12 years he was president of Kosciusko Industrial institute and for four years president of the Western Baptist College Kansas City, Mo. from which position he retired because of ill health on July 1. 1922. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. P. H. Thompson and four sons. Charles H. W. B. Milton K. and Herbert P. all of whom reside at 4555 Forrestville avenue, this city. Chicago Defender. Jan. 20. 1923. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1923 MINISTERS TELL WHY NEGROES QUIT SOUTH. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 28.—A committee of Negro ministers representing the International Ministers' Alliance here filed a lengthy memorandum with the chairman of the Welfare Department of the Chamber of Commerce of Memphis last Tuesday morning. Among the most important things cited as to why Negroes are leaving the South and Memphis in particular for other sections is police oppression. This is given as the principal cause of Negro migration which is seriously affecting labor supply. The officials of the Chamber of Commerce immediately took up the matter with the police department and city authorities. The ministers cited two recent killings of Negroes on Scott street as unwarranted. It is claimed that officers unlawfully searched Negro homes. Pointed out that on one occasion a Negro told the officers that they had no right to enter his home without a warrant. He is said to have told them that he would protect his home against invasion. The police paid no attention to his statement and forced their way into his house. One officer was killed and another wounded a riot call was sent in and this Negro was killed. Following this several homes were entered by the officer, evidently for the purpose of sarking terror into the hearts and minds of Negroes. Two other killings occurred that same night. These unfortunate outrages were followed by an exodus of several hundred Negro families. The ministers told the officers of the Chamber of Commerce that they were having a hard time in the face of such affairs to convince Negroes that they should remain in Memphis. One minister said, "I believe that I voice the sentiment of every all meaning Negro in the South when I say that Negroes naturally love the South, but they are human cannot and will not tolerate policies oppression ku kluxism and lynching. In businessmen, city and state officials, employers and white people of every walk in life will begin to treat the Negro according to the golden rule labor shortage, shiftlessness and rowdism will decrease considerably. Things will be better for all." One Hundred Dollars for a Name. (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 28—The chief of the Strait-Tex Chemical Company, 600 Fifth Avenue, has compounded an exceptional face powder that actually stays on the face, protecting it from the scorching sun rays, and ravaging winds. It has been decided by the company to ask the public to give this powder a name. They make the following offer: to the first colored woman who sends in the name that is finally selected by the judges, they will give $50.00 in cash; and will distribute ten other prizes of $50.00 each to young ladies submitting, names receiving favorable consideration. The management of the company will be glad to receive inquiries from persons desiring to enter the contest. ARKANSAS WILL TRY PEONS FOR RIOTS OF 1919. (Preston News Service) Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 27. —The State of Arkansas will file a response and bring to trial in the United States courts the Negro defendants involved in the Elaine riots, whose case was remanded last Tuesday afternoon in a decision of the United States Supreme court, according to a statement yesterday by State Attorney General uley. "The cases apparently have been remanded" Utley said, "on the question alone as to whether the Phillips county court 'allowed the law and the evidence or were actuated by passion and prejudice.'" TELLS WHY MISS H. Q. BROWN WAS REMOVED. (Cleveland, Ohio. Feb. 28.—"The effort of Miss Hallie Q. Brown, former Wilberforce teacher, to retard the onward march of Wilberforce University through the publication of unwarranted attacks, reminds one of herly of the 'Fly'—of Aesop fame that alighting upon the wheel of a moving charm exclaimed: 'see the dust I am raining' declared Omond A. Ford, secretary of the Combined Normal and Industrial Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University, last Friday afternoon. Continuing Mr. Forte said, "Miss Brown was recently removed from the faculty of the Combined Normal and Industrial Department of Wilberforce because of incompetence. The action was taken by the Board of Trustees of the Department after the State Inspector of Normal Schools had reported to the Board that Miss Brown had not the slightest conception of the subjects she was assigned to teach. "And now the veteran teacher, graduated fifty years ago from Wilberforce turns against her alma mater and seeks to see her disaffected. It would have been wise if the veteran teacher had not sought to prove herself a martyr to the cause of square-dealing, but on the contrary, she has sought to make the public believe that she was let out because of influence Bishop Joshua H. Jones is supposed to have in the affairs of the school. Miss Brown might have done this with some degree of success, if she had been removed from the College or Academy faculty, but it was no so. "The whole painful truth is that Miss Brown tried to fill a position in the Normal Department, for which she was entirely unfitted by training and experience. The man, who mhshe now attempts to discredit, was the individual who, by reason of his enquent and impassioned plea to the Board of Trustees, secured the position for Miss Brown. But he was powerless to save her scalp when it became imperative—for the sake of scholastic standing of the Normal Department—to remove Miss Brown. "Previous to 1921 Miss Brown taught English in the Academy, and so far as can be learned her work was satisfactory. But when the position of Teacher of the History of Education and Normal English became vacant, with a larger salary, she sought the position, unmindful of her lack of qualifications. It is needless to enter into a discussion as to why Miss Brown was unfitted for the post. Let it suffice to say that since her graduation from the College Department of Wilberforce fifty years ago, she has not taken any training preparatory to teaching in the Normal School and consequently could not be expected to understand 'Methods' such as are demanded of modern teachers. "It was felt by the Board of Trustees that Miss Brown would gracefully announce that she had resigned from the faculty, and consequently no announcement was made. Hence it was a comparatively easy matter to attempt to hasten the burden upon Bishop Jones, who of course, is one of the moving spirits at Wilberforce and no doubt better known as an official of the School. However, the Board of Trustees assumes the full responsibility of removing Miss Brown from the faculty and it regrets that unpleasant publicity should have been resorted to by the able Club leader. "The National Federation of Women's Clubs ought to get the facts and not permit itself to be used in the matter, unless sure of its ground." "The need for Wilberforce is far more compelling, than the unholding of the whims and fancies of a well-meaning but antiquated teacher, who has served her day and now refuses to be shelved to make room for the newer and more competent element. "Surely there is enough examples in the retirement: of such able salaried educators as Charles W. Elttott of Harvard; Henry C. King of Oberlin and Charles F. Thwing of Western Reserve to give Miss Halle Q. abiding comfort in her enforced loneness from a position for which she was entirely unfitted." WHITE MAN INSULTS A RACE GIRL; STABBED. (Preston News Service) Atlanta, Ga., Feb 27—Felix Alexander, white, alleged to have been under the influence of intoxicants, is in the Grady Hospital suffering from a stab wound said to have been inflicted by the male escort of a prominent society woman lost Monday night. According to the police Alexander walked up Piedmont Avenue and meeting the couple said to the woman "leave that nigger and come with me." A flight ensued resulting in Alexander being stabbed. The assailant escaped. The name of the young woman has not been learned by the police. EVANGELIST SKIPWITH NOW IN FREDERICKSBURG, VA. Fredericksburg, Va., Shriloh Baptist (Old Site) Rev. B. H. Hester, Pastor. Our Annual Revival now on, the noted evangelist of National and International fame. Rev. Dr. W. H. Skipwith is conducting the meeting. All of Fredericksburg and vicinity going to hear him. —H. T. ARNOLD HLL DEFEATED February 28 1923 Special from Chicago. Arnold Hill and George C. Adams go down in defeat for Alderman of the Second and Third Ward in todays Primary and Louis E. Anderson Second Ward Floor Leader for Mayor Thompson and Alderman Robert R. Jackson Third Ward was elected by big majority to the Council. —Batley Press Bureau. BIBLE CLASSES IN PETERSBURG HOLD MASS SERVICES. February 24.—A mass meeting of the citizens of Petersburg was held on Tuesday night at Gillfield Baptist church under the auspices of the Henry Williams and Stephene-Jordan Bible classes. The church was well filled with interested listeners, all or whom were desirous to help to bring about complete amicable relations between the races. Dr. J. M. Gandy President of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute was the principal speaker. Dr. Gandy spoke enthusiastically on the subject. His sane and thoughtful utterances were based on scientific facts concerning the inter racial conditions, past and present, which have and do exist in the south. A need for organized efforts in the city of Petersburg, to bring about better feeling between the races was based by the speaker upon the facts that such efforts are being made in other local communities; that the Southern Sociological Congress, the University Race Commission, and the Phelps-Stokes Fellowships, all of which take in the entire South, and are sponsored and carried on by the leading white citizens of the South and North, are studying scientifically the race question and working to bring about peaceful and sane method of dealing with the race relations. As second point Dr. Gandy showed what has been accomplished through the efforts of those organized bodies. He showed that the state of Georgia has taken a decided change in its method of dealing with those who lynch. From 1885 to 1922 there were 427 lynchings in that state and only one indictment; in 1922 there were eight lynchings, 22 indictments and four convictions. A third idea emphasized was the fact that the Negro must do his part in helping on this era of good will; and it is only by the exegesis of the Christian principles that any permanent good can be accomplished. An evolutionary rather than a revolutionary procedure is the most effective kind of action. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT SETS ASIDE THE CONVICTION OF ARKANSAS PEONS IN RIOT CASES N. A. A, C, P, VICTORIOUS ON BRIEF ARGUED BY THE HON MOORFIELD STOREY IN FAMOUS RIOT CASES, THE OUTGROWTH OF PEONAGE. The five Arkansas peons, condemned to death by Arkansas courts in connection with the riots of 1919 whose cases the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has fought through five courts including the Arkansas Supreme Court will not be executed, according to a decision rendered by the highest tribunal of the land on February 19, setting aside the conviction of these men. The Supreme Court's decision takes the cases of the condemned colored farmers out of the jurisdiction of the State of Arkansas and requires the United States District Court to examine into the attempt to railroad these men to death. The Arkansas cases constitute the center of a fight being made to bring the facts of peonage in the cotton rails sections of the U. S. to light and to bring federal pressure to abolish that evil. In the legal battle for defense of these men the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has raised $14 572.42 and already spent $14 115.74, besides thousands of dollars raised and spent by the colored people of Arkansas who were vitally interested in the fate of their comrades. The victory before the Supreme Court is due to the courageous and untiring labors of Scipio A. Jones, a colored attorney of Little Rock, and to Moorfield Storey President of the N. A. A. C. P., who appeared before the Supreme Court in Washington on January 9, 1923, to argue the cases. The Arkansas Case originated in the riot of 1919, when it was asserted that the colored farmers in and near Phillips County, Arkansas, had conspired to "massacre the whites." A personal investigation of the riot made by Walter F. White, who was sent to Arkansas by the N. A. A. C. P., disclosed that far from planning a "massacre" the colored farmers had been organized to employ a lawer to compel settlement from their landlords who were holding their tenants in a state of peonage or debt slavery. During the riots, some 250 innocent Negroes, men women and children, were hunted and shot down in the Arkansas cane brakes, posses of white men coming from Mississippi and Tennessee to join in the hunt. The colored men arrested were beaten and tortured to make them testify, 67 were sentenced to long prison terms and twelve were sentenced to death. The cases of all the men sentenced to death binge upon the cases of the five wooe convictions have been reversed by the United States Supreme Court. In the brief filed before the Supreme Court by Mr. Storey, it is charged that the courts of Arkansas, including the Arkansas Supreme Court, the newspapers, leading white citizens and clubs, conspired or connived at a conspiracy to railroad these colored farmers to death. The Supreme Court's decision says: "The ground for the petition for the writ is that the proceedings in the State Court, although a trial in form, were only the pressure of a mob with out any regard for their rights and without according to them due process of law." Concerning the trial accorded the colored men the United States Supreme Court's decision says: "According to the affidavits of two white men and the colored witnesses on whose testimony the petitioners were convicted, produced by the petitioners since the last decision of the Supreme Court hereafter mentioned, the Committee made good their promise by calling colored witnesses and having them whipped and tortured until they would say what they wanted, among them being the two relied on to prove the petitioners' guilt. However that may be, a grand jury of white men was organized on October 27th, with one of the Committee of Seven, and it is alleged, with many of those organized to fight the blacks, on its life, and on the morning of the 29th the indictment was returned. On November 3rd, the petitioners were brought into Court informed that a certain lawyer was appointed their counsel and were placed on trial before a white jury/ blacks being systematically excluded from both grand and petit juries. The Court was crowded with a throng that threatened the most dangerous consequences to anyone interfering with the desired result. The counsel did not venture to de PRICE, FIVE CENTS UPREME COURT CONVICTION OF NS IN RIOT CASES ON BRIEF ARGUED BY THE REY IN FAMOUS RIOT GROWTH OF PEONAGE. mand delay or a change of venue, to challenge a juryman or to ask for separate trials. He had had no preliminary consultation with the accused, called no witnesses for the defense although they could have been produced and did not put the defendants on the stand. The trial lasted about three quarters of an hour and in less than five minutes the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. According to the allegations acquired; no juryman could have voted for an acquittal and continued to live in Phillips County, and if any prisoner by any chance had been acquitted by the jury he could not have escaped the mob. "We shall not say more concerning the corrective process afforded to the petitioners than that it does not seem to us sufficient to allow a Judge of the United States to escape the duty of examining the facts for himself, when if true as alleged they make the trial absolutely void. We have confined the statement to the facts admitted by the demurrier. We will not say that they cannot be met, but it appears to us unavoidable that the District Judge should find whether the facts alleged are true and whether they can be explained so far as to leave the State proceedings undisturbed. Order reversed. The case to stand for hearing before the District Court." In Memoriam FISHER—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband and father, Ellis Fisher, who died twelve months ago, February 25, 1922. Gone from us dear Ellis, To live with the pure and true. God took my treasure to heaven. That my heart might journey there too. Twelve months of deepest sorrow, Twelve months of grief and pain, A wound that never will be healed. Until I see you again. I can see your face before me. And still feel your hand in mine. The last sweet look you gave me, Still lingers in my mind. From his loving wife and daughter, CLARA AND NAOMI FISHER. In Memoriam. ARCHER—In sacred memory of our mother. Martha J. Archer, who died three years ago. March 5. 1920. 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. You are gone, but not forgotten, Never will your memory fade. Loving thoughts will always linger Around the grave where you are laid.—Her Children. JOHN ROANE. HATTIE J. FOUNTAIN. SARAH A. DANDRIDGE. COLORED PROFESSIONALS WANTED Fifteen Doctors and One Hundred Registered Nurses. For service in the United States Veteran Hospital at Tuskegee, Ala. Registered nurses and physicians de siring to accept service in this new hospital at Tuskegee should write to. U. S. VETERANS BUREAU. Attention. MEDICAL ADVISOR. Washington, D. C. Woman Dies of Burns. --- Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 27. —Mr. Ethel Perkins, aged 19 years of Reed street Clairton, died in the McKeenport Hospital of burns received last Monday afternoon when her clotring ignited from a stove. PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WORLD EASTERN BASEBALL MAGNATES CHARGED WITH ENTICING STAR PLAYERS IN THE WESTERN LEAGUE TO JUMP CONTRACTS TWO ```markdown ``` RESIGNS TO DEVOTE LIFE TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Leon Bourgeois, President of the French Senate tendered his resignation in order that he might devote the rest of his life to Nations' League EASTERN BASEBALL M WITH ENTICING ST WESTERN LEAGUE The New York Age says: The fight between Edward Bolden of Philadelphia and Andrew "Rube" Foster of Chicago is no longer a personal affair. It has taken on a public aspect, and should be settled in a manner that will be to the best interest of the fans and baseball in general. The difference between these two baseball magnates seems to have arisen over the alleged "domination of Foster" and the National Negro Baseball League, a western organization, over the affairs of the Eastern clubs. THE MUTUAL BASEBALL ASS'N To change this situation Mr. Bolden and the eastern clubs organized what is now known as the Mutual Association of Eastern Clubs, a similar organization as the National Negro Baseball League, but one of the first acts of Mr. Bolden's after his organization is formed, is to immediately begin bidding for players and securing players from teams in the western association without the consent of those teams. The taking of John Henry Lloyd, Rojo and several other players from the New York Bachrach Giants have almost broken up a team that took years of effort and money on the part of John Connors and those associated with him to build up. WILL BREAK-UP GOOD TEAMS. Such disregard by Mr. Bolden for the rights of the other team and aiding of a spirit of revolt among the players is doing and will do no end of harm among the present baseball clubs. According to Foster, who is now in the East, this jumping of players will not only break up the Bacharachs, but will also cause two or more teams in the western association to be disbanded because their best players are leaving them, and unless an agreement is reached between the eastern and western organizations, the latter organization will be eventually wrecked. PLAYERS AND CONTRACTS This is the part of this question that should interest all colored base ball fans. In organized baseball, a player, when he contracts with a team, becomes an asset to that team and is recognized as such by all other teams. If another club desires this player's service that club should seek to have the club for which the player is working, release him, which in most cases means that they must pay an agreed sum for his release. In the past among colored clubs, however, this obligation of one club to the other clubs has never been fully recognized, and for that reason they have been continually warring among themselves. FOSTER WANTS PEACE Foster has sought to alleviate this evil in the West and in a large measure has succeeded with the clubs of the western association. His stand on this question of players jumping from one team to another should receive the commendation of the baseball public. Two organizations, representing the clubs of the East and West should seek to get together for the good of baseball, and not destroy what has already been accomplished. BALMY SUMMER AFTERNOONS A charming afternoon frock of silk crepe with accordean pleated waist. The skirt is draped softly to the top of shoulder; cross grain ribbon lends additional charm to the costume. ATHLETIC MAGNATES CHARGED AR PLAYERS IN THE TO JUMP CONTRACTS "FAIR PLAY" SAYS WILLS AND GEORGE GODFREY SHOULD BE MATCHED. "Fair Play" in commenting on the present heavyweight situation says that Luis Angel Firpo, the South American heavyweight invader will be the successor to Jack Dempsey as heavyweight champion of the world, but that it might take the Argentine giant a year or two to do it. Speaking of Harry Wills, he says: "If Wills wishes to prove to the fans just how good he is he will take on this colored gentleman. George Godfrey, who abides under the protection of Jimmy Dougherty, of Lieperville, Pa. Dougherty has been telling some one that his big black boy is good and the other night at the heavyweight clearing house held in the Madison Square Garden stowing away an inferior opponent in the first round. "He is a big man, is Godfrey, and he sure packs a wicked punch in either hand. He is crazy to meet Wilde, but the only trouble is no promoter will offer Harry enough money to make it worth his while to risk his prestige against this burley newcomer. Dougherty says he can get a $5,000 guarantee for Wills, but the stevedore apparently can't see that at all. "Dougherty has been keeping a lookout for Kid Norfolk, but every time he heaves in sight in tow of his big protege, the Kid leaves a big vacant place in the spot where he had last been seen." Basket Ball Results Basket Ball Results HAMPTON DEFEATS LINCOLN. (Rieuben F. Jones) HAMPTON, Va., Feb. 23.—Lincoln University, fresh from her victory over the mighty "Wandals" of Atlantic City and filled with confidence, invaded Hampton's region on Washington's birthday. Although Lincoln did not play the game she did when she defeated Hampton at Philadelphia in January, she put up a desperate and sterling fight. Captain Tompkins tried hard to get his boys together. Wood and Pollitt did the shooting for Lincoln, while Tompkins and McLean played a great game at guard. Hamer was in the thick of the game, although he could not find that mysterious black ring. Wood had five field goals and one foul to his credit, while Pollitt had four field goals and one foul. "Chet" Jones started the fireworks by caging the ball in the first minute of play. He soon followed this with another that set the vast crowd cheering. Captain Gunn played in "ye-de-tyme" form. The way he handled the "old pill," his dribbling, passing, shooting and playing in general kept the audience on edge. Burrell also played a great game at forward. He gathered three field goals. Jones gathered six goals and Gunn three goals and two fouls. This was Hampton's last game of the season and the only game in which she has shown what she really is capable of. Her passing was snappy, short and accurate. All of --- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA M. T. DOME By J. M. Baer EMPTY, I AM A FIRM BELIEVER IN THE DARWINIAN THEORY! YOU CLAIM, THEN PROFESSOR, THAT YOU ARE A SON OF AN APE! WHO SAID I WAS A SON OF AN APE? THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO PROVE, ISN'T IT? SAW EVERY EUROPEAN COUNTRY Mary Ann Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miller S. Baker, Y. M. C. A. workers has been in every state in Europe. They are now in Atlanta and will go to Warsaw. Poland soon. M. T. DOME EMPTY, I AM A FIRM IN THE DARWINIAN T WHO SAID I WAS A SON OF AN A her field goals were made within the 17-foot mark. Her team remains intact for next year and there is no reason why she should not get off to a flying start early in the season. The Line-up: Hampton—26 20—Lincoln Burrell R. F. Hamer Jones L. F. Pollitt McNichols C. Wood Gunn (C.) R. G. Tompkins (C.) Langston L. G. McLean Substitutes: Hampton—Frazier for Langston, Cardozo for Frazier; Lincoln—Trigg for McLean. Referee: Baldwin—Timers: Brown and Randolph—Scorers: Randolph and Jones. LOENDI DROPS SECOND GAME TO COFFEE CLUB. The Coffey Club of Pittsburgh won its second straight game from the famous Loendi Five in their race for the city championship by the score of 39-34. Up to within three and one-half minutes of the finish, Loendi led by 5 points, but slashing and dexterious play by the Coffey Club overcame the lead and coped the game. COLORED FIGHTERS TAKE NIGHT IN N. Y. NEW YORK. Feb. 23. —Colored fighters participating in mixed bouts came into their own at the Commonwealth Club on Saturday night when they won every bout with the exception of the openiny one, which saw Kid Alford going down to defeat at the hands of Joe Burke. This is the second time that Alford suffered defeat in a week, an unknown fighter at the Fifteenth Infantry, knocking him cold in the second round last week. PANAMA JOE GANS WINS The fight between Panama Joe Gans and Jimmie O'Gatty topped the bill and the colored fighter proceeded to give another splendid exhibition of the fistic art to the satisfaction of TO PAY FOR MURDER OF BELGIAN OFFICER WITH LIFE. One of the four German prisoners who have been convicted for the death of a Belgian army officer, Lieut. Graf, and who are to be executed at Alx La Chapelle fin the near future. Note the unconcerned look on the face of the prisoner. BATTLING SIKI AND GEORGES CARPENTIER TO SIGN FOR RETURN MATCH FOR TITLES Battling Ski and Georges Carpentier were to sign articles March 1st for a return match, to take place in Paris at an early date. The winner is to retain the world's light-heavyweight and European heavyweight titles which were won by Ski from Carpentier and declared forfeited by the French Boxing Commission when Ski was suspended. Latest reports indicate that a delay of 15 days will be caused by a previous contract signed by Ski. the big crowd. At no time during the mild did the white boy give any promise of wresting the honors from Panama Joe, although in the fifth round he staggered the colored fighter, who came back, and just for that hung a swift left from the floor on the chin of the willing G'atty, who went down and stayed down until revived a few minutes later by his seconds. JACK McVEY SCORES The fight between Jack McVey and Johnnie Wiltsis was brought to an abrupt end in the third round when the referee, to save the white boy from a knockout, pushed him into his corner and had the announcer state that McVey won by a mile. Wiltsis resorted to the Johnnie Curtain stuff of trying to claim a foul every few seconds, but the referee refused to allow him to get away with it and McVey slammed him every chance he got. ESTRIDGE WINS TOO. Apparently realizing that the colored boys had things their way for the night, as soon as Charlie Arthurs stepped out to face Larry Estridge he fouled the famous southpaw and showed that he meant it by resorting to the same stuff repeatedly. Estridge hung some of his hefty lefts on Arthur and this bout, too, was stopped in the third round when the referee saw that Estridge was biding his time to send over one of those lefts that might have severed Arthur's head from his body. SHAW IN FAST DRAW. Then they brought out Cowboy Williams to face Henry Shaw and this bout gave the fans full value for every cent spent. As soon as the bell sent them on their way these boys cut loose with everything they had. There was no clenching and the fans were on their feet throut. From the first round to the last round the boys fought hammer and tongs and at the conclusion of the four spasms, which seemed to end too soon for the fans and not too quick for the fighters, the judges announced it a draw. It was a big night for colored Harlem, especially as Panama Joe departed from his usual line and knocked his man out in good season. LLOYD WILL MANAGE HILLDALE According to reliable reports John Lloyd, famous shortstop, has signed to manage the Hildale team this season and expects to land the Dales on top. LOCAL SPORTS Basketball at Union. An outdoor basketball court has been erected on Union's campus and the weather is allowing frequent use of it. 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Our subscribers are appreciating conditions and helping us by sending in their subscriptions. Helping people in Europe is all right, but we suggest that we begin the good work by helping people in this country. They are arguing now that there is no hell, and logically speaking, there will be no heaven. Those, who are willing to take the chance are fooling nobody but themselves. Jacob's ladder had but three rounds in it, but some of these folks down here are so wicked that they could not reach heaven if there were a hundred rounds in it and all of them were reasonably close together too. The constant aim of some people is to take away from some other people their hard earnings by lawful means if they can and by unlawful practices, if they must. Still, there are thousands of honorable people in this world. President Harding admits he cannot control his own party in the interest of party legislation. He certainly cannot control it then in the interest of legislation for the benefit of our people. We must cultivate the friendship of white folks, where ever this is possible. To pursue any other course would be suicidal right through here. We do not believe in surrendering or compromising any of our fundamental rights in so doing and we shall not be required so to do in dealing with those of the better class. It seems to us that it is time for some of us to revise our opinion concerning the effort made by President Warren G. Harding to secure the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch Bill. It is plain that he exhausted all of the power at his command to secure the enactment of the Ship Subsidy Bill and failed. The under lying cause of it all is the composition of the so-called Republican Party in this country. In order to secure votes on certain measures, men are elected, who are inwardly opposed to the fundamental principles of the Republican Party and who refuse to be bound by party action. As a result, both the platform and the pledges are disregarded and when they do not dare to come out openly and oppose party measures they give aid and comfort to the otherside in the launching of obstructive measures which are intended to bring defeat. President Harding is the nominal head of the Republican Party of the nation, but his influence in securing the enactment of important legislation is pitiable and humiliating, both to the distinguished Ohioan and to those, who with him constitute the leadership of the Republican Party. GARVEY ON DUROIS The article of Hon. Marcus Garvey in the issue of the Negro World of February 17, 1923 is no reply to the "Back to Africa" communication that appeared in the Century Magazine for February with Dr. W. E. Burd hardt Du Bois as author. He deals primarily though with the abusive part of the Du Bois dissertation and handles him in a manner that will greatly please the rank andfile of his followers, who ardently adore him. He shrewdly left the task of dissecting Dr. Du Bois' communication to that masterly scholar, Dr. W. H. Ferris who performed the task with the diplomatic skill of a French ambassador. In no part of Dr. Ferris' communication --- are words used that would cause or produce offense according to the most modern rules of higher debate. The task of "ham-stringing" Dr. Du Bois, of calling "a spade a spade" or arousing the enthusiasm of the masses was left to this same Marcus Garvey, who went after the able scholar as a stump speaker and as a politician. Du Bois may have the white folks Dr. Du Bois may have the white folks and these of his own organization, but Hon. Marcus Garvey will have a unified following of his own people, who regard him as a Moses, a martyr to the cause of Negro independence. We are reproducing the communication in full in order that our readers may be able to judge conditions from both angles. NOW A GREAT LEGAL BATTLE. In rendering a decision, setting aside the conviction of the five Elaine Arkansas rioters of a capital crime and saving them from death, the Supreme Court of the United States has gone back to the bed-rock principles of our form of Government realizing that its primary and fundamental purpose is for the protection of human life first and all other guarantees are to come afterwards. The agitation in this country against illegal lynch-law has brought forth a mandate setting aside legal lynch-law within the boundaries of a sovereign State. This action on the part of this august tribunal shows that sentiment is shifting and that the solemn mandates of the law shall be applied. Attorney Scipio A. Jones, of Arkansas, the brilliant colored attorney,, who championed this case is deserving of highest praise. He lives in Arkansas and must continue to reside within the confines of that commonwealth. They based a part of their plea upon the peonage system in vogue in parts of the Southland, which system is direct violation of the laws of the United States. Attorney Jones was assisted by that able constitutional lawyer, Moorefield Storey, who is an authority upon constitutional subjects. In the meantime, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People raised the funds necessary to prosecute the appeal, aided by contributions from the State of Arkansas. If the Association had done naught else, this one great achievement would justify its existence. This case will constitute a precedent and the result will be the saving of many innocent lives in this Republic in the future. MISS BROWN'S DISMISSAL. We have read with much interest the statement made by Secretary Ormond A. Forte of the Combined Normal and Industrial Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University, relative to the causes for the removal of that brilliant and influential race leader, Miss Hallie Q. Brown, as instructor in that institution. While this communication seems to exonerate or rather relieve from responsibility Bishop Joshua H. Jones, as the cause of her removal, it fails to convince the average citizen as to the justice of the course pursued. They seem to have treated Miss Brown just as they would have treated a new-comer, so to speak and they seem to have overlooked her years of service in the institution, to say nothing of the great influence which she wields over the country at large, where she has many ardent admirers and enthusiastic supporters, who have known her during all these years. To say that a graduate of Wilberforce University is incompetent seems to us to be a reflection upon the institution itself. We all know these modern "fads and fancies" in the matter of educational instruction. Children are being taught by what is called the short route, but they spend just as many years in school as by the old method and in many cases come out from these schools knowing less than by the former old but thorough method. They are drilled in non-essentials and the business world is worried and embarrassed on account of this kind of education. But then we did not intend to read a lecture upon this subject. We only intended to express the opinion that a little diplomacy and common-sense would have done "a world of good," while this unfortunate affair is doing much harm. We cannot understand why Miss Brown could not have been retained as an instructor in English for which she is admittedly qualified, even though that retention carried with it an increase in salary. The reference to Dr. Charles W. Ellott of Howard University is unfortunate. Ample provisions were made for him and he was not forced out. There was no suspicion of incompetence on his part. It seems to us that this is another case of "Another king arse, who knew not Joseph." New office is have come upon the scene of action who knew not the accomplishments and self-sacrifices of this tone woman, who admittedly for fifty years has stood forth, in season and out of season as an advocate and defender of Wilberforce University. Dealing with the matter in a cold THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA unfooling, unsympathetic light, the Secretary and the Board of Trustees may be right, but there are thousands of graduates of this institution throughout the country, who will view with disfavor, this radical action which seems to be an injustice to one of the most painstaking and lovable women this country of ours has as yet produced. We advise that disinterested parties be permitted to take hold of the affair to the end that the breach may be healed and Miss Hallee Brown and her army of friends in the United States of America may be pacified. Let us have peace. Let us help Wilberforce University. SOCIAL CONDITIONS Marcus Garvey charges W. E. B. Du Bois as being in favor of "social equality" and cites a letter sent by him to E. M. Edwards of Waco, Texas to prove it. He declares himself to be in favor of Negro racial purity. This will in a measure solldify the white folks in favor of Garvey's position and cause practically all of them to be against Du Bois' position. It seems that Mr. Edwards "set a trap" for the learned doctor and he walked into it "with his eyes wide open;" politically speaking, even though the position he has taken is the correct one, Dr. Du Bois belongs to the upper class, who does not believe in any racial discrimination whatever and who does not as a matter of fact recognize racial illness. He was educated in this country and in Europe, where the caste system is not in vogue. By skillful maneuvering, the learned doctor has been made to appear as advocating that every black man in this country should entertain the same opinion. This suits Garvey and he is "hammering it" for all it is worth. By the way, it seems that the Jamaican is something of a politician after all. N. C. Legislature Strips the Masks Off Klanners. (Preston News Service) Raleigh N. C.. Feb. 21.—By a vote of 70 to 42 the North Carolina house of Representatives passed the Milliken bill which provides registration of members of secret orders with the secretary of State. Commenting on the passage of the measure the Greensboro News says: "After all, the legislature of North Carolina is not yet taking orders from any Imperial Whosiss or any Invisible Empire of Infeable Idiots. The Milliken bill, requiring the registration of membership of secret orders, passed the house by a vote of 70 to 42, in defiance of the direct commands of the mountebanks of the kn klux order. "This notion that any set of men by organizing in a gang, secretly or openly, can dictate to the government of North Carolina cannot be too emphatically repudiated. Most of the ku klux activities; like all of the ku klux propanda, consist of childish mummies that are entirely harmless; but there is a poisonous residuum in this doctrine that organized minorities may dictate to the majority; and that poison must be neutralized by the state before serious damage is done. "The Milliken biff, by stripping away the mask of secrecy, will make the ku klux more or less responsible for their acts; which is a pretty fair assurance that ku klux outrages will suddenly cease. The nightshirters are brave enough to beat up a woman, or an unarmed man, as long as they are pretty sure that nobody will ever find them out; but if their victims could find out who are members of the order there is danger that some little shrimp might walk into a ku klux gathering sometime and catch 40 or 50 of the knights without any protection what ever. There is danger that in such cir cumstances the villain might lose his head and beat them all to death; which is a risk that the ku klux will never, never run." Man Dies of Injury. (Preston News Service) New Orleans, La. Feb. 21—Miller Willis, 19 years old who with John Morgan, aged 19 years, was struck by an automobile last Tuesday night and thrown under the wheels of a passing street car, died in a hospital here Wednesday. His neck and back were broken and his spinal cord severed. Morgan is still alive, though both of his legs had to be amputated. He is also suffering from interna. injuries. Both boys were standing on a corner waiting for a street car when an automobile skidded, struck them and hurled them under the tracks of the moving car. Police have been unable to find any trace of the auto or any clue to the identity of its driver. Many Witness in Hinesville Lynching Case. (Preston News Service) Hinsville Ga. Feb. 28—It is said that more than fifty witnesses for the State and defense have been subpoenaed to attend the trial of I. W. Rhoden Jesup chief of police; J. T. Tyre, deputy sheriff and two Jesup citizens Dock Rhoden and B. L. Price, all charged with murder in connection with the lynching of Joseph Jorden and James Harvey who were lynched on June 30 last. It is claimed that it has been with considerable difficulty that the State has mustered its witnesses. Among the State's witnesses are; J. R. Thomas, Jr., of Jesup; Rev. Mr. Holloway, of Milten; E. C. Carter of Savannah; W. L. Way of Burroughs and J. W. Harris of Jesup. LEARING CAPACITY OF AFRICANS IS HIGH. Messrs. Hattzier and Miller, Discuss Congo Education Problems. The learning capacity of Negroes native to Central Africa is on a test with the average to be found among any other race including white, unless the same conditions. In fact, if there is any difference it is in favor of the Central African folk, who in many instances equal American Negroes and whites in natural capacity in spite of the wolfful lack of backyard. Faces are the conclusions of the Reverend Coleman C. Hartzier and Reverend W. A. Miller, missionaries under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal church to the Congo Belge, and colleagues at the mission station at Kabongo in the heart of the Luba cannibal country. "It is a mistaken idea to think that these people lack the capacity to learn or are inferior in this respect," said Mr. Hartzler, who sailed for Capetown for another five years service as missionary. "Considering the lack of back-ground, the almost blank environment of the black children in our schools, they are surprisingly apt. It must be remembered that these boys and girls have had absolutely no training, even of the crudest kind to train their minds or control their attention. No home training, no example of their elders would imitate in any intellectual way. "If any other race of people were placed in this same position for the same length of time it is very doubtful if their children would be an brighter than the pupils in our mission school in the heart of Darkest Africa. Our task with them is to begin at the very bottom and build up all the fundamentals of civilization in their minds which children in America get at home and from merely living in the community. The idea of exactness in construction has never appeared necessary in their living. With out some of the sophistication that is the heritage of civilized folk everywhere, these people lack comprehension of values which are commonly accepted by us because of the experience of others which comes to us by reading, observation and community practices. Our hardest task is building these foundations of knowledge. After that we will match them with pupils anywhere." "We are teaching them practical things as well as the elements of education." continued Mr. Hartzler. "The ivory carvers do work any American school-boy could well be proud of. Mat making, basket-weaving, pottery and scientific gardening are taught so that the young mori and women will be able to produce something of value and earn a better living than has been the lot of their people for generations Natives have been developed to teach classes in these subjects, save the gardening which Mr. Hartzler personally handles, Carpentry and other forms of manual training as classified in this country, are taught by Mr. Müller." "We find substantially the same situation confronting us as stated by Mr. Hartzler." said Mr. Miller. "The task of expressing the need of exactness in fitting things together is a difficult one. In the making of their axes, hoes musical instruments, the building of their simple buts of posts and moulds the native folk have felt the necessity of exactness. But in progressing beyond their present stage, it must be shown them as a fundamental. After this point is passed they seem to go much faster in their development in trades. "The big point which we are demonstrating there is," said Mr. Miller with enthusiastic emphasis, "is that these folk are undoubtedly capable of high grade work as craftsmen and of a high state of civilization, provided they have the opportunity. The native themselves still have the idea that, because they are not white men, they cannot attain the white man's standards. When we urge a young native to pay more attention and make greater efforts to accomplish a certain thing, he often replies "Why, I can't. I are only a black man. You are white." We are always quick to contradict this and are gradually uprooting the idea in the minds of the Negro folk there with whom we come in contact." Mr. Hartzler has been in this country for the past year. Among his activities here he has been studying scientific play as a means of further teaching his school boys and girls in the Congo. Both he and Mr. Miller declare they have devoted their lives to the education of the Negroes of the remote African interior and both are enthusiastic about their work and its rewards in the development of Negro intelligence. James Lewis Is Freed of Murder Charge. (Preston News Service) Norfolk, Va. Feb. 20—James Lewis, charged with the murder on November 18th, last year of Letha Buxton, aged 9 years, was freed in the Circuit Court of Norfolk County last Friday, when the prosecuting attorney note pressed the case against him. This action was taken following disagreement of the jury that heard the case. Lewis defended himself by asserting that the unfortunate occurrence was accidental. He stated that he had found an old rusty pistol, and was walking along, a road near Fentress, when he met the little girl. The pistol suddenly discharged he said and the child was shot in the back. The prosecution found no evidence against Lewis which would furnish a hint, as to a motive for the killing of the girl. The girl was the daughter of his wife's sister. Young Boy Runs Away. (Preston News Service) Jacksonville Fla. Feb. 28.—Because his grandmother quarrelled with him last Monday night Jesse Barber, aged 14 years ran away from his home in Rushing street and two hours later the lad was in the toils of the peltie. He will be turned over to the probation authorities it is said. Judge Orders Jury to Acquit Defendant. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 28.—Judge Reid directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty in the case of Joseph Walker who was tried on a charge of starting the fire that burned the Schenley Oval race track barns. The Judge held that the testimony produced by the state's attorney was insufficient to justify the case being submitted to the jury. Driver Warns White Woman and is Shot by Police. (Preston News Service) Memphis. Tenn. Feb. 27—When an unidentified Negro chauffeur remarked to a white woman who apparently became bewildered while crossing the street in front of the automobile he was driving, "you should watch when you are asking" he was forced to flee for his life. His remarks to this woman were overheard by a policeman who ordered the man to draw his machine to the curb. The driver did so. The officer asked him what business he had making insulting remarks to a white woman: "The boy repelled that he had not made insulting remarks. The officer said, "Don't get smart you dangier." The driver started to walk away from the officer who then fired at him. The policeman failing to halt the driver, then took the automobile to the police station. Carnegie Steel Company Wants 1,000 Men. (Preston News Service) Belfair, Ohio, Feb. 28.—The demand for laborers in the mills here is so great that it is difficult to secure half enough men to operate the mills at capacity. It is said that 1,200 more laborers are needed. Incidently a large number of Negro laborers were imported from the south. Some of these men are proving to be dependable workmen and thus the kind of workers the officials desire. An official of the Carnegie Steel Company said last Friday, "we can put 1,000 colored men to work in our mill immediately. But we don't want that shiftless class. We want men who want to work. Men who will quit as soon as they get one pay. The trouble with too many Negro workers is that they seem to have a growing spirit. There is a splendid opportunity here for men who will start in the company and remain on the job. Less will be advanced to better paying positions as rapidly as they become qualified." He said they can either come direct to the mill here or get in touch with John T. Clark, 5185 Wryne avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. "We will hire all we can get." Cone Used Bread Pills. Those He Dispensed as Irugist 18 Years Ago Famous For Their Cures. Namry, Feb. 15.—"I want some of those nine pills like the ones you make for me, Mr. Durand," was the request often made fifteen years ago to M. Couse now known all over the world for his belief in autosuggestion as a cure for illness, at that time a drugist in Troyes. "Those are fine pills, madame; they have cured thousands of women, and they have never been known to fall. The first you take will probably make you as fit as a fiddle," the jovial drugist would exclaim, as he rushed to the rear of his shop to get some rolled bread pills which he put up in the best style. In these graphic words Dr. Richard Waters of Dublin, who is now chief assistant to M. Couse, described to The Tribune the events that led up to the butter's discovery and use of autosug gestion as a treatment for disease. "After many years of mixing drums M. Cue discovered that it was not the medical virtues of drugs themselves that brought results," said Dr. Walter. 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Leaves the hair soft the Cottages, Ministers and Laymen of the Connectional Council of the great A. M. E. Church met in Cambia S. C. last week in Bethel A. M. E. Church. The church was designed and built under the supervision of Architect Lankford. They also visited Allen University of the same church and city and inspected the Chappelle Administration, School and Auditorium Building. All who saw them said: "The Church and University buildings are the last word when it comes to church and school architecture. We are glad to see that the Ministers, Professional men, Insurance Companies, Societies and Corporations are learning to patronize our Architects and Builders, for too many of them have been going out of their way to give to other groups the architectural and building work of our race. Mr. Lankford is making good here and all over the country. His office and drafting rooms at 1448 Que street N. W., Washington, D. C. are among the best equipped of the kind in the country. Read The Planet for information concerning the world's "doings" and watch our advertisements. May hape you will see the very thing you have been looking for. ROANOKE ITEMS. ROANOKE, VA., February 28.—Rev. James S. Hatcher, B. D. D. D. delivered a sermon at Mt. Zlon A. M. E. Church Sunday morning on "The Omnipresence of God," which was a wonderful explanation of His Divine presence. Three persons joined the Church. At night he used as his subject, "Jesus Being Crowded Out." Miss Maggie Dehaven is much improved at this writing. proved at this writing. Mrs. Berta Howard, 302 Seventh Avenue, N. W., who was taken seriously ill Saturday night, is up and about again. Mr. Robert Toliver, of Seventh Avenue, who has been in failing health for several years is quite feeble at this report. Mr. Green Penn, 119 Third Avenue N. W., has been in for several weeks suffering wilt a lame foot. The funeral of the late Elder Milton Belcher, who departed this life February 23rd, took place Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hill Street Baptist Church. He had been in falling health for several years. A large gathering was present to pay tribute to this honorable minister and man of God. Rev. Belcher was one of the oldest and most highly respected elders of the Primitive Baptist Church in this section of the State, having served his people for forty years. The esteem in which he was held was shown by the large audience. The clergy of the city were out in a body. The Elder Scales delivered the funeral eulogy. The remains were laid to rest in Midway Cemetery. He leaves a host of relatives to mourn their loss. Mrs. Mary C. Claiborne, of Martinsville, Va. spent two weeks as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charlotte Penn. She also waited the family of The Planet Agent while here. Madame Bruce, the evangelist, was invited by Dr. Hatcher to speak at the close of the morning service. She responded and sang some soul-stirring Gospel songs, to the edification Charles R. Mitchell, 210 Fourth Street, S. W., is a paper hanger, plasterer, kalsominer, and general repairer. Work guaranteed. Phone 4460. Leave orders at above address Miss Ella Saunders, 219 Eighth Avenue, N. W., who has been confined to her home for two months or more is improving. Mr. Charles Stultz is in Miami, Fla., with Mr. Stone and family. Mrs. Stultz received a wire stating he is in good health and would be home around March 10th. Services at High Street on Sunday were high spiritual. The Lord's Supper was served in the evening. The funeral services of Mr. J. P. Evans, 416 Gilmmer Avenue took place from the First Baptist Church, of which he was a very faithful member for many years, Thursday, at 2 P. M. Rev. A. L. James delivered the eulogy in a manner befitting the life of the deceased, who was steady and faithful. He was a member of I. O. St. Lukes. A loving wife, sister and many relatives and friends mourn their loss. Interment in the First Baptist Cemetery with Christian honors. Rev. James S. Hatcher left Tuesday morning for Martinsville, Va. to lecture to the high school students and on Thursday he will leave for Lawrenceville to preach the lenten sermon at St. Paul school. Don't forget Thomas Howard and Jesse Barbour will get your papers to pour homes. Encourage the boys. They collect for their delivery. You may help the Agent and save him the expense of going over their route, since he has a long route in the west end of the city. News of the death of Mr. Campbell of Salem wah a surprise to citizens here. He was the father of Mrs. Ward Hall, of Park Street and a very prosperous Iverman of Salem. Mr. James Powell, of Tenth Avenue is improving. Mr. B. T. Wade, of Eighth Avenue visited Youngtown, Ohio last week, where he met his brother and many old friends. Mr. Nathan Pointer, of Halifax County arriver here Tuesday on a shopping trip. He stopped over with his nephew, Mr. Thomas Pointer and will also see Dr. Pinkard. Mrs. Bertha Beverly of Ninth Avenue, is improved after a short illness. Mrs. Eliza Claytor of Wells Alley is very sick at this writing. Mrs. Lucy Taylor, of Wells Alley is also quite sick. In sad, but loving memory of my devoted husband. William Patterson who departed this life one year ago, Rest peacefully at 122. For peacefully near husband, Upon the other side. Upon the other side. While I am left heartbroken, May God with us abide. —Mrs. Della Patterson and Son. In sad and loving memory of our father, David Moore, who departed this life one year ago, February 24; 1922: Our home is sad and lonely Without your smiling face. None can fill your vacant chair. No one can fill your place. —His children, Lillie, Mary, Virginia and Mrs. Rosa Moore Brown, 518 Fifth Avenue, N. W. The agent, Madison Stanfield, will furnish you with Indian Herb Tablets, the best on sale anywhere for nearly all ailments of the system: Salvasena from The Millin Drug Co. of Memphis, Tenn., and Payneze Limiment, Coconut Oil, Shampoo, Pomade Royal for dressing and straightening without the use of hot iron, Corn cures, for warts, burfuns, and callouss will be found at 153 Wells Alley, N. W. CHICAGO NEWS Mrs. M. J. Hickman, sister of Mrs. Louise Killion and Mrs. Ellen Kinney 3142 Calumet Avenue left for her home in Centralia, Ill. after being in the city several weeks on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Killion Mrs. Killion is somewhat improved. Mrs. Ella Thompson-Harris, 1427 W. 109th Place, Morgan Park is somewhat improved after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Harris is a member of Egypt Council A. U. K. and D. of A. Mrs. Virginia Smith. 3636 Rhodes avenue is back from a five weeks visit to Kentucky where she spent a pleasant stay with relatives and friends. Mrs. Nora McKinzie. 6208 S. Ada street is able to be out again following several weeks of illness which has confined her to her bed and home. Hon. Wm. Herbert Fields of St. Louis Mo. visited the city during the week and spent a few days in conference on matters pertaining to the coming of the grand lodge session of A. U. K. and D. of A. of which he is National Grand Master. Many letters of inquiry as to the purchasing of homes in suburbs and the city proper are being received by the office of M.T. Bailey 3638 State street from people in the south who are planning to come north and west. The Chicago Association of Graduated Nurses held a big dance on February 8th at which time a large number of their friends were present. Benefits from this dance will be used in enter taining the National Association during their annual meeting in August. The spring will find many new buildings under construction in the suburbs of the city especially Morgan Park where members of the Race are during choice lots with the intention of building their homes. Mrs. Marjorie Beckwith of Ironton Ohio was called to the city on account of the severe illness of her sister, Mrs. Margaret Handerson of Morgan Park who is quite ill and confined to St. Luxe Hospital Rev. T. L. Scott pastor of Grant's A. M. E. Church. 46th and Evans Avenue has gone to Kansas City. Mo. where he will conduct revival services at the Eonezerer A. M. E. church. Scott attended the Bishops Council at Charleson, S. C. and had just return ed to the city last Saturday leaving again on Monday. Mrs. Sarah Britton of St. Louis Mo is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Mildre McCloyne 3356 S. State street and will spend a few weeks in the city. WYTHEVILLE NEWS. The Sunday services were well attenued and many comments were made commending the high standards set by our pastors. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Les are sick at the bedside of McCadam Road. Mr. Arno Cadam from Mr. Aaron Galloway was home from Roanoke visiting his family. Knoke visiting his family. Mr. C. R. Chapman is slightly ill this week. Cooperation of pastor and people of Rural Retreat has done much good for the community and a broader view of Christ. A consecrated heart and a determined effort, for Christ, will cure many ills, that stand as a bulwark in our pathway. Madames Bessie Renolds, Cora Harper, Caroline Johnson, Annie Harper, M. J. Steptheme, Ida Salter Carrie Goins and Belle Crockett are on the sick list. Mr. Matthew Gray after a short illness has returned to his place of business. We are hoping for him continued health. Mr. Jerry Sheffey still invites you to look over his wares. Mr. Sheffey keeps all kinds of groceries. Mr. Chas Allison wants the public to feel at home in his place. Mrs. Pocahontas Monroe runs a place where you can get the best to eat. It may be in accord with recent utterances of men who claim for themselves superior insight into things divine but we believe a more determined effort to instil Bible truths into the minds of our children will result in making them better citizens here and better and greater citizens in that land above. Mrs. Willie Grenlee is on the sick list. Mrs. Flora Nickelson left Tuesday morning for Abingdon, to visit relatives and friends. Mr. James (Zelk) Bowens and Miss Jane Thornton were quietly married February 24th at 10 A. M., at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lew is Bowen. Rev. L. B. Alston performed the ceremony. Mrs. Susan Taylor is quite ill at her home on Tazewell street. Mr. M. A. Hill is home for a few days from Pocahontas, where he has been building a bungalow for Mr. A. H. Froe. Mrs. Katie Sawyers was the Wednes day's guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sheffey. Mrs. John D. Ruffin of Columbus, O. was called home on account of the serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Caroline Carter. Mrs. Janie Crockett and her daughter Janie were taken ill last week. Mr. Henry Crockett of Ivanohe one of the most widely known citizens of the country died February 22nd and was laid to rest in Red Bluff cemetery February 24th. Rev. Lee Scott officiated. Jacksonville Banker on Bail in Embezzlement Charge (Preston News Service) Jacksonville Fla.. Feb 16—Charles H. Anderson, former cashier of Anderson and Co. Bankers who was arrested last Monday evening on a charge embezzling $55,000 of the funds of the bank was released on Tuesday on a $2,000 bond. It is said that immediately upon the closing of the bank, Anderson, 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. --- lawyer and a committee of three depositors went to Tallahassee and arranged with the Comptroller, and deeded over to three trustees enough of his personal holdings to cover any shortage that may arise while the bank was being liquidated. After making deeds to about $60 000 worth of real estate Anderson was served with papers to throw him in bankruptcy in the United States Court, where the case is now. In order to get the several petitioners to withdraw, Anderson has made another deed to cover everything he owns. According to certified public accountants and state officials it is believed that the affairs of the bank could be easily adjusted with the co-operation of the petitioners. Police Raid Ku Klux Meeting in Springfield, Ohio. (Preston News Service) Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 20.—A dictograph placed in the alleged headquarters of the ku klux klan here by a private detective led it is said, to a raid on the ku klux klan organization here last Thursday night by the police. Books, records, regalia, several uniforms and two pistols were taken by the police. Also a roster containing 681 names, many of them some of the leading citizens of the city. W. M. Cortner, kleagle and organizer was also arrested ed.Bond for Cortner was furnished by George E. McCord, superintendent of public schools here; Paul R. Yazell, a contractor; George Shank, a real estate dealer; and W. C. Trumbo, former county treasurer. State commander of the American Legion Gilbert Bettman has requested the local commander of the George Cultee post to ask the legion men, whose names are alleged to have appeared on the ku klux roster as members to either resign from the klan for forfeit their membership in the Legion. The local commander quoted a resolution adopted by the Ohio department of the American Legion, denouncing the ku klux klan as unAmerican. '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. 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 affidavit 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. 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. --- THE NEGRO'S ROCK OF GIBRALTAR THE AFRICAN BLOOD BROTHERHOOD 2299 Seventh Avenue, N. Y. City. (National Headquarters) (National Headquarters) Intellectual, Social and Protective Benefits, Initiation Fee, $1. Monthly Dues, 25 cents. Writers and Speakers Wanted. Good proposition for Iive wire Organizer. Organize a Post in your community. Sokols and Educational Groups. FIVE ```markdown ``` JOHN MITCHELL. JR. 192 NAME ADDRESS A. D. PRICE. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by Telegraph or Telephone. Halls Rented for Meetings and Nice Entertainment. 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 Funeral Supplies. Open All Day and Night. PHONE MADISON 577—Man On Duty All Night—RICHMOND, VA (RESIDENCE NEXT DOOR) MARCUS GARVEY FLAYS DR. DUBOIS AND BRANDS HIM AS A HATER OF DARK PEOPLE. IN SCORCHING REPLY TO CENTURY ARTICLE SIX (Continued from Page 1.) der that the crudite Doctor keeps a French beard. Surely that is not typical of Africa; it is typical of that blood which he loves so well and which he bewails in not having more in his veins—French. LAZY AND DEPENDENT. In referring to the effort of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association to establish a building in Harlem, he says in the article: "There was a long, low unfinished church basement rooofed over. It was designed as the beginning of a church long ago, but abandoned. Marcus Garvey roofed it over, and out of this squat and dirty old Liberty Hall he screams his propaganda. As compared with the homes, the business and church Garvey's basement represents nothing in accomplishment and only waste in attempt." Here we have this "lazy dependent mulatto" condemning the honest effort of his race to create out of nothing something which could be attributed to their ownership, in that the dirty old Liberty hall" he speaks of is the property of Negroes, while in another section of his article he praises the "beautiful and luxurious buildings" he claims to be occupied by other black folk making it appear that these buildings were really the property of these people referred to, such as according to his own description, "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 5 and 10 cent store built and owned by black folks." Du Bols knows he lies when he says that the premises herein referred to were built and are owned by black folks. They are the property of industrious Jews who have sought an outlet for their surplus cash in the colored district. The Y. W. C. A. is a donation from the good white people; but he continues by saying "down beyond on One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street the sun burns the rising spire of an Abyssinian church, a fine structure built by Negroes who for one hundred years have supported the organization and are now moving to their luxurious home of soft carpets, stained windows and swelling organ." He also knows that this building has been subscribed to by the Church Extension Society, which is white, and therefore the building is not entirely owned by the members of the Abyssinian Church. Finally, he says "the dying rays hit a low, rambling basement of brick and rough stone." This in reference to Liberty Hall. INDEPENDENT NEGRO EFFORT. Liberty Hall represents the only independent Negro structure referred to in the classification of Du Bois about buildings up in Harlem, but he calls this independent effort "dirty and old," but that which has been contributed by white people he refers to in the highest terms. This shows the character of the man—he has absolutely no respect and regard for independent Negro effort but that which is supported by white charity and philanthropy, and why so? Because he himself was educated by charity and kept by philanthropy. He got his education by charity, and now he is occupying a position in the National Association for the Adveancement of Colored People, and it is felt that his salary is also paid by the funds that are gathered in from the charity and philanthropy of white people. This "soft carpet" idea is going to be the undoing of W. E. B. Du Bois. He likes too much the luxurious home and soft carpets, and that is why he is naturally attracted to white folks, because they have a lot of this; but if he were in Georgia or Alabama he would now be stepping on the carpets of Paradise; but that is not all of the man, as far as that is concerned. He ridiculus the idea that the Universal Negro Improvement Association should hold a social function in Liberty Hall on the 10th of August, 1922 at which certain social honors were bestowed upon a number of colored gentlemen, such as Knighthood and the creation of the Peerage. SOCIAL HONORS FOR NEGROES In referring to the matter, he says in the article: "Many American Negroes and some others were scandalized by something which they could but regard as a simple child's play. It seemed to them sinister. This enthrancement of a demagogue, a blatant, boaster, who with monkey-bites was deluding the people and taking their hard-earned dollars; and in high Harlem there arose an insistent cry, 'Garvey must go!' Indeed Du Bois was scandalized by the creation of a Peerage and Knighthood by Negroes, and in truth the person who is responsible for the creation of such a thing should go, because Du Bois and those who think like him can see and regard honor conferred only by their white masters. If Du Bois was created a Knight Commander of the Bath by the British King, or awarded a similar honor by some white Potenate, he would have advertised it from cover to cover of the "Crisis," and he would have written a book and told us how he was recognized above his fellows by such a Potenate, but it was not done that way. This was an enthrancement of Negroes in which Du Bois could see nothing worth while. He was behind the "Garvey must go!" program started in Harlem immediately after the enthrancement, because he realized that Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association were usurp ing the right he had arrogated to him self as being the highest social dignitary not only in Harlem but through out the country. MARCUS GARVEY AND HIS BIRT!! AND DU BOIS. In the seventh paragraph of his artl cle Du Bois has the following to say: "Let us note the facts. Marcus Garvey was born on the northern coast of Jamaica in 1887. He was a poor black boy, his father dying in the almshouse. He received a little training in the church of England Grammar School, and then learned the trade of printing, working for years as foreman of a printing plant. Then he went to Europe and wandered about England and France working and observing until he finally returned to Jamaica. He found himself facing a stone wall. He was poor, he was black, he had no chance for a university education, he had no likely chance for preferment in any line, but could work as an artisan at a small wage for the rest of his life." Now let us consider Marcus Garvey in comparison with Du Bois. W. E. B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington Mass., in 1868. Some wealthy white people became interested in him and assisted in his education. They sent him to Fisk University from Fisk to Harvard, where he graduated as a commencement orator. He raised part of the money for his later education by giving recitals in white summer hotels. Where he was born—that is in Great Barrington Mass.—he had early association with white surroundings. He was brought up with white boys and girls of the better type and more aristocratic class as found in rural towns. He had no love for the poor, even poor white in his neighborhood, although he was but a poor, penniless and humble Negro. As proof of that he wrote the following on the tenth page of his book known as "Dark Water." "I greatly despised the poor Irish and South Germans who slaved in the mills (that is, the mills of the town in which he was born), and I annexed myself with the rich and well-to-do as my natural companions." Marcus Garvey's father, who was also named Marcus Garvey was one of the best known men in the parish in which he was born. St. Ann Jamaica. For a number of years he held prominent positions in the parish and was regarded as one of the most independent black men on the island, owning property that ran into thousands of pounds. Through his own recklessness he lost his property and became poor. His poverty did not in any way affect Marcus Garvey Jr. in that the mother of the latter assumed the responsibility that the father failed to assume, and he therefore got an early education, not through charity, as did Du Bois, but through the support of a loving mother. Marcus Garvey Jr. never knew the consideration of a father, because at the time he was born his father had already lost all he had, and had shifted his obligation to his children to the shoulders of their mother. With the assistance of Marcus Garvey got from his mother he educated himself, not only in Jamaica but traveled throughout South and Central America, the West Indies and Europe, where for several years he studied in completing the education that he had already laid the foundation for in his native home. All that was not done by the charity of any one, but by Marcus Garvey himself and the support he got from his mother. While, on the other hand, Du Bois starting even from the elementary stage of his education up to his graduation from Harvard and his passing through Berlin, got all that through the charity and philanthropy of good white people. Admitting that Marcus Garvey was born poor, he never encouraged a hatred for the people of his kind or class, but to the contrary devoted his life to the improvement and higher development of that class with in the race which has been struggling under the disadvantage that Du Bois himself portrays in his article. COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO MEN Marcus Garvey was born in 1887; Du Bois was born in 1868. That shows that Du Bois is old enough to be Marcus Garvey's father. But what has happened? With the fifty-five years of Du Bois' life we find him still living on the patronage of good white people, and with the thirty-six years of Marcus Garvey (who was born poor and whose father according to Du Bois died in the poor house) he is able to at least pass over the charity of white people and develop an independent program originally financed by himself to the extent of thousands of dollars, now taken up by the Negro peoples themselves. Now which of the two is poorer in character and in manhood? The older man who had all these opportunities and still elects to be a parasite, living off the good will of another race or the younger man who had sufficient self-respect to make to do for himself even though in his effort he constructs a "dirty brick building" from which he can send out his props ganda on race self-reliance and self-resect. MOTIVE OF DU BOIS To go back to the motive of Du Bois in the advocacy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to expose him for what he is. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People executives have not been honest enough to explain to the people of the Negro race their solution for the Negro problem because they are afraid that they would be turned down in their intention. They would make it appear as if they are interested in the advancement of the Negro people of America, when in truth, they are but interested in the subjugation of certain types of the Negro race and the establishment of as many of the race as possible into the white race. THE NEGRO PROBLEM As proof of the intention underlying the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, we will quote from Du Bois himself. He states in his article: "We think of our problem here as The Negro problem, but we know more THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Now Du Bois speaks of this settlement of the problem of the race in the West Indies and Jamaica with a great deal of satisfaction. What kind of a settlement is it? Du Bois knows well, but he is not honest enough to a mit it, because he himself visited Jamaica and saw the situation there, wherein an arrangement has been effected whereby the white man is eterically the highest social and economic height between him is socially and economically varied the mulatto type of Du Bois, but them both is the black man, who is crushed to the very bottom socially and economically. SETTLEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Du Bois regards this as a settlement of the problem in the West Indies and Jamaica. Now this is the kind of a settlement that he and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People want in America, and they have not been honest enough to come out and tell us so that we might act accordingly. This is why Du Bois bewaits the black blood in his veins. This is why he regards Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association as impossible. This is why he calls Marcus Garvey, "black and ugly." But while this settlement in Jamaica and the West Indies satisfies Du Bois and probably would satisfy him in America he must realize that the fifteen million colored people in the United States of America do not desire such a settlement: that outside of himself and a half-dozen men of his school of thought, who make up the Executive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People the majority of Negroes are not studying him and his solution of the problem, but all of us colored people of whatsoever hue are going to fight together for the general upbuilding of the Negro race, so that in the days to come we may be able to look back upon our effort with great pride, even as others worse positioned than ourselves have struggled upward to their present social, economic and political standing among races and nations. DECEPTION AND HYPOCRISY T) show the deception and hypocrisy of Du Bois he pretends, in the above-quoted paragraph from his article as if he were not thoroughly acquainted with the problem in the West Indies when, in another paragraph, he states the following: "This is the West Indian solution of the Negro problem: "The mulattoes are virtually regarded and treated as whites, with the assumption that they will, by continued white intermarriage, bleach out their color as soon as possible. There survive, therefore few white Colonials save newcomers, who are not of Negro descent in some more or less remote ancestor. Mulattoes intermarry, then, largely with the whites, and the so-called disappearance of the color line is the disappearance of the line between the whites and mulattoes and not between the whites and the blacks. "Thus the privileged and exploiting group in the West Indies is composed of whites and mulattoes, while the poorly paid and ignorant proletariat, are the blacks, forming a peasantry vastly in the majority, but socially, politically and economically helpless and nearly voiceless. This peasantry, moreover, has been systematically deprived of its natural leadership, because the black boy who showed initiative or who accidentally gained wealth or education soon gained the recognition of the mulatto group and might be incorporated with them, particularly if he married one of them. Thus his interest and efforts were idified with the mulatto white group. This is the kind of settlement that Du Bois speaks of; and this is the kind of settlement that he wants in the United States of America. Du Bois you shall not have it! GARVEY CHALLENGES DU BOIS Du Bois says that "Garvey had no thorough education and a very hazy idea of the technique of civilization." Du Bois forgets that Garvey has challenged him over a dozen times to intellectual combat, and he has for as many times failed to appear. Garvey will back his education against that of Du Bois at any time in the day from early morning to midnight and whether it be in the classroom or on the public platform will make him look like a dead duck on a frozen lake. IS DU BOIS EDUCATED? Du Bois seems to believe that the monopoly of education is acquired by being a graduate of Fisk, Harvard and Berlin. Education is not so much the school that one has passed through but the use one makes of that which he has learned. If Du Bois' education fits him for no better service than being a nockey for good white people, then it was better that Negroes were not educated. Du Bois forgets that the reason so much noise was made over him and his education was because he was among the first "experiments" made by white people on colored men along the lines of higher education No one experimented with Marcus Garvey, no one has to look upon him with surprise that he was able to master the classics and graduate from a university. Du Bois is a surprise and wonder to the good white people who experimented with him but to us moderns he is just an ordinary intelligent Negro one of those who does not know what he wants. THE MAN WHO LIES Du Bols is such a llar when it comes to anything relating to the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Black Star Line and Marc Garvey that we will not consider his attacks on the Black Star Line seriously. He lied before in reference to this corporation and had to swallow his vomit. He told him, and we think a statement is quite enough to dispose of him in this matter. This envious, narrow-minded man has tried in every way to surround the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Marcus Garvey with suspicion. He has been for a long time harping on the membership of the Universal Negro Improvement Association as to whether we have millions of members or thousands. He is interested because he wants to know whether these members are all paying dues or not in that he will become very interested in the financial end of it, as there would be a lot of money available. Du Bois does not know that whether the Universal Negro Improvement Association had money or not he wouldn't have the chance of laying his hands on it in that there are very few "leaders" that we can trust with a dollar and get the proper change. This is the kind of leadership that the Universal Negro Improvement Association is about to destroy for the building up of that which is self-sacrificing; the kind of leadership that will not hate poor people because they are poor, as Du Bois himself tells us he does, but a kind of leadership that will make itself poor and keep itself poor so as to be better able to interpret the poor in their desire for general uplift. He hates the poor. Now, what kind of a leader is he? Negroes are all poor black folk. They are not rich. They are not white; hence they are despised by the great professor. What do you think about this logic this reasoning, professor? You have been to Berlin Harvard and Fisk; you are educated and you have the "technique of civilization." THE FAILURE OF A CRITIC Du Bols hauls upon the failure of other Negroes, but he fails to inform the public of his own failures. In his fifty-five years Du Bols has made success of nothing personal. In all his journalistic, personal and other business efforts he has failed, and were it not for Mary White Ovington Moorfield Storey, Oswald Garrison Villard and Spingarn, Du Bols, no doubt would be eating his pork chops from the counter of the cheapest restaurant in Harlem like many another Negro graduates of Harvard and Fisk. TEST OF EDUCATION AND ABILITY When it comes to education and ability, Garvey would like to be fair to Du Bois in every respect. Suppose for the proof of the better education and ability Garvey and Du Bois were dismantle and put aside all they possess and were placed in the same environment to start life over a fresh for the test of the better man? What would you say about this doctor? Marcus Garvey is willing now he cause he is conceited enough to believe that in the space of two years he would make you look like a higher in the competitive rivalry for a higher place in the social, economic world. Let not our hearts be further troubled over Du Bois, but let fifteen million Negroes of the United States of America and the millions of the West Indies, South and Central America and Africa work toward the glorious end of an emancipated race and a redeemed motherland. IGNORING FREEDOM Du Bois cares not for an Empire for Negroes, but contents himself with being a secondary part of white civilization. We of the Universal Negro improvement Association feel that the greatest service the Negro can render to the world and himself at this time is to make his independent contribution to civilization. For this the millions of members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association are working and it is only a question of time when colored men and women everywhere will hearken to the voice in the wilderness even though a Du Bois impugns the idea of Negro liberation. SUPPORT FOR MOVEMENT Let all members, divisions and friends of the Universal Negro Improvement Association organize the more to support this great cause morally and financially. If this is done, and whole-heartedly, we need not fear the result even though a thousand Du Boises rave. With the very best wishes for your success I have the honor to be Your obedient servant —MARCUS GARVEY. Universal Negro Improvement Association. New York, February 13. 1923. --- RIVAL CARNIVAL COMPANIES HAVE TROUBLE (Preston News Service) New Orleans, La., Feb. 20—Mardi Gras was too much for two rival carrial organizations here last Thursday night when members of the two groups met on an up-town street and trouble started resulting in a shooting affray. Miss Irma Chenault aged 12 years was struck by a stray bullet and one of the combatants was shot by a police man. --- AFRICAN PRINCE ASTOUNDED AT MORAL LAXITY IN U. S. (Preston News Service) Chicago, Ill., Feb. 23. While spending a short visit in this city last week Prince Bulawa Cetewaye commented in part as follows on American ways and moral standards: "I think your American standards of moral are too loose. I have observed this in both races here. Maybe these women you call flappers are responsible. We do not have them in our country. My country is almost as thoroughly civilized as America. Most Zulus go to church on Sunday. And morally they are the finest people in the world. Commercialized vice is unknown. In parts of Afr ca where such conditions exist, they are the products of the Anglo-Saxon." NATIONWIDE NEGRO CONFERENCE CALLED APRIL 16. Beginning the Week of April 19th Ending April 29th—and 60th Anniversary of Ex-Slaves Convention and Street Parade. Editor Mitchell, Jr. Richmond Planet. Dear Friend:—You are hereby requested to elect or appoint five or ten members of your organization to repre sent you at the Nation-Wide Negro Conference to be held at the Cosmopolitan Institutional Baptist Church N. street between 9th and 10th, N. W. Washington, D. C. Beginning the week of April 16th, extending through the 29th day, making a total twelve day conference. The object of this conference is to devise ways and means of aiding the 3,000,000 Negroes who are planning to leave the South, the 20,000,000 of the United States and the 400,000,000 of darker races scattered throughout the earth. There is a nation wide unrest among the darker races of the earth and the coming together in this conference of our leading people and organizations is the only way to relieve the situation during this present and serious strain. Editors, appeals are made to all ministers bishops, lawyers, doctors, and public school teachers. Sunday School Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., Epworth Leagues, Editors, Christian Endeavor Societies, Urban Leagues; Such Organizations as the National Baptist Convention (Inc.) the National Baptist Convention Unincorporated, Membership 5,000,000; Bethel A. M. E. Connection, (600,000) Zion A. M. E. Connection (600,000); C. M. E. Connection (300,000) Presbyterians (100,000) Episcopalians (75,000) Lutherans (50,000); the Shriners; Masons, Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythians; Knights of Jerusalem; Elk;s Moses; Good Samaritans; St. Lukes; Chaldeans; Woodmen of the World; National Races Congress; National Asociation for the Advancement of Colored People; and National Equal Rights League of America. Negro Universal Improvement Association Lincoln Political League; Negro National Press Association; Boys Scouts; Big Brother and Big Sister Movement. This conference is called under the joint auspices of the National Ministers Evangistical Alliance of America, the National Henderson C iwl Right Leagues, the White Cross Free Labor Bureau of America and Ministers and Deacons Union. Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, president Rev. R. D. Botts, s.cretary. The Ministers and Deacons Union of the District of Columbia. Rev Bishop Isaiah P. Brooks, president. If you are a minister preach it in the pulpit. Sunday; if you are a lawyer or doctor tell your clients or patients or if you have a lodge tell it in your meeting; if you ar a merchant or laborer tell it on the job, spread the news from person to person. For further information write or phone Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangement; Rev Isaiah Brooks, of Transportation; Rev R. D. Botts, General Secretary; Rev John H. Stephenson Field Secretary; Main Office 921 N. Street, N. W., Branch 1317 Corcoran Street, N. W., Phone North 3608. Very truly yours, REV. SIMON P. W. DREW. 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