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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library. CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS REPORT ALLEGED SHORTAGE "OVER $200,000" Over $200,000 Worth of Assets Available to Meet the Alleged Deficit Bank Officers' Accountants Now Examining Institution----No Reason Why the Mechanics Bank Should Not Reopen and Function Again----Responsibility for Condition Not Stated in the Receivers' Report. VOL. XL, NO. 28 CERTIFIED Over $20 Bank Officers Bank NEGROES ARE DRIVEN OUT GEORGIA TOWNS BY KLAN. IS REPORT The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York today made public portions of a letter received from a person actively connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in which startling charges are made of the driving out of Negroes from Georgia towns, and confiscation of their property in cluding houses, automobiles, crops, and the death of numbers of the fugitives from exposure and hardships suffered on the flight. The name of the writer which is signed to the letter is withheld because it is feared the person's safety would be endangered were the name made public. The letter says in part: For the last month or two the white people have been putting the Negro to flight out of several towns in Georgia about the time their crops were ready for gathering they began—some were run away from home with their crops standing in the fields ready to gather—hence white people went to their houses and gave them notices to leave in so many days and on other instances notes were written and signed by, as indicated, K. K. K., and intimidated them so that lots of them left their homes furnished just as they were while they were at home. Some with their houses cleaned up, beds made up and everything done as though they were at home—they left their homes with nothing but what they were wearing and a suit case and sometimes not that. One family had to flee through the rain, snow and cold, wade and swim the streams and at last arrived here in Chattanooga for everyone of that crowd to die except one, in less than two months, from the exposure they received in making their escape from their pursurers. One man who had a nice automobile drove up to a filling station where he had always lived, to have his car filled, the man in charge asked him who the car belonged to and he replied that it belonged to him. The oil man ordered him out of his own car saying that it no longer belonged to him—telling him that he got no oil from that station to move a car that belonged to him, and told him to leave the country. For weeks it was a most pitiful sight to see people travelling over this city by droves almost—through the rain and cold—with little bundles; suit cases, early in morning and late at night, forlorn, hungry, cold and nowhere to go. They sleep anywhere they could get to sleep and eat anything they could get—an organization contributed towards their food for several weeks. Several hundred of these people set tied here in Chattanooga and its vicinity mostly in South Chattanooga. Athens Georgia almost all the colored people were run away and they were run out of Jesup, Ga., around in the neighborhood of northern Georgia near Summerville, and Lafayette, which is near the line of Chattanooga. THE PUZZLE CONTEST The names of the winners of the couple presidential puzzle will be published in our next issue. The "M" puzzle now running is attracting much attention. This will end our puzzle futures for some time to come. They we served we hope to encourage or readers. Double Brick Garage. $10.00 per apply. 500 A. E. Clay Street. CALVIN IS DISMISSED FROM MESSENGER STAFF FOR POLICY (By Floyd J. Calvin.) On February first, I was Assistant Editor of The Messenger Magazine. On March first, I am not. Why? I think it is because that between those two dates I gave utterance to the following words: "The fight between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the U. N. I. Association has reached such a stage that it might not be unwise to impartially review both groups and see what should be preserved and what destroyed in each organization for the best interests of the public at large." This was spoken not in the columns of The Messenger, but independently in the general Negro press. The Editors of The Messenger have the unquestioned right to dictate just what should be expressed into the pages of their magazine. They are also justified in eliminating any factor which tends to create an outside impression that all is not well within their ranks. Therefore, to drop me from their editorial staff—for whatever reason—both logical and correct. ANOTHER POINT RAISED. But the settling of this point gives rise to another equally as important. Why should I, after some months of association, wilfully provoke such unavoidable action? First, as Assistant Editor I was in no way responsible to the public for what appeared in the magazine. Even though I believed every word that was written, or not a single word it all remained my personal and private opinion. But if the time ever came when I felt disposed to object or disagree, that was also my personal right. So that the points involved are purely issues of public policy. MADE NO ATTACK From editorial reference to the position which I took it seems to be clear that I did not attack the ranks and file of either the N. A. A. C. P., or the U. N. I. A. Also no one could deduce that I approved of Marcus Garvey or apologized for W. E. B. Du Bos. Then where was my offense? Here: The very fact that I did not point an accusing finger at the entire membership of the U. N. I. A. was the straw that broke the camel's back. As I understand it, Messrs. A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen advocate that not only must Marcus Garvey be destroyed but the Universal Negro Improvement Association as well. To my mind this is unsound. Speaking particularly of racial uplift I cannot countenance annihilating a whole group merely because the leader of that group comes into disrepute. Surely, the best of leaders may sometimes err—perhaps for a multiplicity of reasons—but it is not logical to presuppose that a majority of their followers have likewise gone astray. But even so—granting that a certain group is on the wrong track—what would be the correct course for a would-be public servant? First, what is a public servant?—Concisely, he is either an elected or a self imposed spokesman for the people. Second, in speaking or acting for the people what rule must be his guide?—In order to remain a servant —hepful, constructive, prophetic—he must seek to advance the people's interest. Third, how can these interests be best advanced?—By lessening friction between groups; by calmly pointing out errors for the people to avoid; by presenting a practical program from which the majority may derive specific benefits. Thus after much observation and serious reflection, I found I could not advocate that the U. N. I. A., be smashed simply because Marcus Garvey is suspected of being a bad actor; and I thought it at least no harm to express my honest convictions. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1923 The certified public accountants, employed by the Receivers of the Mechanics Savings Bank, who have been in that institution since July 18, 1922, have filed their report. They completed their labors February 3, 1923. They report the shortage to be about or over ($200,000) Two Hundred Thousand Dollars. They go into considerable detail in this report without making references to responsibility for the alleged shortages. There are more than Two Hundred Thousand Dollars worth of assets available which can be placed to the credit of the institution and in the face of this report, there is no valid reason, with the co-operation of the Receivers, who now seem to be friendly, the State Corporation Commission, the officers and directors and the depositors, why the Mechanics Bank should not be re-opened and function again. The chief examiner of the auditors called up President John Mitchell, Jr. more than a month ago and enquired if he had paid the taxes for the Mechanics Bank last year. He told him that he had done so with his personal check. The examiner replied that the amount had never been charged against the Bank. This would have meant that amount of loss to the President of the Bank and showed that the expenses of the Bank had been charged to his personal account The certified public accountants employed by the officers and directors of the Mechanics Savings Bank will now proceed to examine the Bank and when their report is completed, it will be compared with the one made by the Receivers' accountants. In the meantime an effort will be made to reach an agreement with the Receivers in accordance with the original decree entered in this case and in this manner safeguard the deposits of from three thousand to ten thousand depositors, who have funds in this institution. (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., March 7.—"The appointment and confirmation of Walter L. Cohen. Negro Republican, to be customs comproller at New Orleans, is personally offensive" declared Senator Ransdell, democrat of Louisiana. The fight resulting temporarily in a draw over the confirmation of Mr. Cohen was staged in the closing of the last session of Congress leaving the matter for consideration at the next executive session. The Republican Senators have asked Senator Ransdell to state the particulars why Mr. Cohen's appointment and confirmation is "personally offensive" to him. SOLICTS FUND FOR AID; GETS FOUR MONTHS IN JAIL Ralph Morton who pleaded guilty to collecting funds under false pretenses, alleging himself to be an agent for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Lincoln Hospital of New York and other institutions, has been sentenced to jail for four months by Judge John P. Kellogg In the criminal session of the Superior Court in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Reports of Morton's activities in Connecticut, New York State and New England came to the Advancement Association, which sent a warning to its branches in that territory, obtaining evidence which was used to bring about the conviction. In connection with the conviction, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People issued a warning that only accredited officers of the organization were authorized to solicit funds for its work. ASSETS ARE AVAILABLE. two Hundred Thousand Dollars a credit of the institution and with the co-operation of the Corporation Commission, the Mechanics Bank should not PRESIDENT PAID TAXES FOR E the auditors called up Presi- quired if he had paid the taxa at he had done so with his at had never been charged amount of loss to the Presi- Bank had been charged to HER SIDE WILL HAVE INN countants employed by the will now proceed to exami- be compared with the one one an effort will be made to be with the original decree deposits of from three the in this institution. NEGRO LABOR LEAVING FARMS IN SOUTHLAND PRESIDENT PAID TAXES FOR BANK OTHER SIDE WILL HAVE INNING. (Preston News Service) New Orleans, La., March 8.—The labor situation in the building trades in the South is becoming acute and the shortage is not confined to skilled workers. There has been much delay in completing buildings now under construction, due to labor shortage. This has been especially acute in the case of plasterers. A noticeable exodus of Negro labor to the northern and eastern industrial centers is in progress. Reports show that vast farming areas are vacant as a result of this departure of Negroes. This movement is expected to be a very material factor in planting, cultivating and harvesting 1923 crops. NEWLY ARRIVED Wednesday, February 28th, at 8:30 P. M. the Stork visited Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Johnson, Jr., 609 5th street, and left Roger Horace, Jr., a bouncing ten and a half pound baby boy. Under the skillful and efficient treat- ment of Dr. J. R. Griffin mother and son are doing nicely. SMITH—JOHNSON. New York City March 8.—The marriage of Miss Marjorie Johnson of this city and Mr. Robert H. Smith, formerly of Richmond, Va., was solemnized Wednesday, February 28th, at 4 P. M. by the Rev. J. W. Brown, pastor of Mother Zlon A. M. E. church, in the pastor's study, 129 W. 136th Street in the presence of their respective families and a few friends. The young couple are now honey mooning in Boston Mass. On their return they will make their home at No 5 Atlantic Street, Jamaica, New York (Preston News Service) East St. Louis, Ill., March 6.—Three candidates out of the alleged state of five said to have had the support of the ku klux klan were nominated in the municipal primary election recently. B. O. Morrow, who admitted to the police that he had been employed as a precinct committeeman by the klan, is being guarded by the police, declared that klansmen have notified him that they intend to hang him for giving out the information that he had the support of the klan. Morrow was among the three candidates arrested prior to the election charged with circulating literature urging the defeat of 18 other candidates said to be Catholics or to have Catholic support. JAIL EGYPTIAN AGITATORS Zagliouliot Leaders Are Arrested in Cairo Following Bomb Outrage. Cairo, March 5—Excitement due to the bomb attacks on British soldiers last night was heightened this morning by the arrest of leading members of the Zagliouliot party and the suspicion of Zagliouliot and other extremist Nationalist newspapers tonight. British soldiers have been parading the city this evening carrying sticks and threatening to thrash natives in reprisal for the wounding of their comrades by the bomb throwing. A record number of American tourists arrived in Cairo today. They have been keenly interested in the excitement here and are perfectly safe, as there is no disposition among the Egyptians at this juncture to create disorders. Greensboro, N. C., March 5.—The educational progress of the Negro goes forward in North Carolina. The Legislature which has just closed, appropriated about a million and one half dollars for higher education among Negroes. The A. and T. College the chief Negro Institution in the State was given $601,000.00, the largest appropriation that this State has ever made to a Negro school. People from all over the State are congratulating President J. B. Dudley on his wonderful success before the Legislature. The A. and T. College is the only institution in the State whose chief spokesman before the Legislature was a Negro. President Dudley appeared before the Appropriation Committee and presented the needs of the institution so effectively that he was given practically everything which he asked for. On Friday evening, March 2, the Hampton Institute Quintet gave a recital in the College Auditorium before a large audience. The program consisted of Negro Spirituals which were unusually well rendered. The Hampton singers have toured the State and have sung in the leading white colleges in the State. During the intermission Prof. W. O. Graves of the Department of Music played a piano solo and Mr. Purvis of Hampton Institute and Prof. F. D. Bluford of the College Faculty spoke. There is a Reaper whose name is Death and with his sickle keen. He reaps the bearded grain at a breath. And the flowers that grow between. Lexington was greatly shocked when the news came that Miss Susan Turner had "Crossed the mystic River" and entered the "Great Beyond." A loyal member of the First Baptist Church of Lexington, Va., a faithful watch-care member of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., a consecrated christian and constant friend-gone to her reward. Lexington was Miss Turner's home by birth and years of association, but for the past twenty-two years she had made her home in Richmond, companion in the home of Dr. W. T. Johnson. A funeral service at 8 A. M. Sunday, February 25th was conducted at the home of Dr. W. T. Johnson—Rev. R. J. Bass Rev. J. A. Bowler and Rev. J. H. Fauntleroy officiating. At 10 A. M. the remains accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Johnson left Richmond for Lexington. There Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock funeral services were conducted by the Rev. N. J. Gonsalves, B. D. Resolutions were read from various organizations which testified to the sterling worth of the departed. A large concourse of friends were present to pay the last tribute of respect to one whom they held dear. Dr. and Mrs. Johnson ministered most kindly to each necessity and only left their friend when she lay In Memoriam. POOLE—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear sister, Mary E Poole, who departed this life three years ago March 7, 1920. In my heart you are always remembered. PRICE, FIVE CENTS 0,000" ed Deficit ne Mechanics ition BIRTHDAY OF COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG IS NATIONALLY HONORED Washington, D. C., March 8. -On March 11th and 12th, in the principal institutions of learning and in many cities throughout the country, local Chapters of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and Veteran and other organizations will hold memorial services in honor of the late Colonel Charles Young, U. S. A., who died at Lagos Nigeria, January 8, 1922. Col. Young was born at MaysHick Kentucky, March 12, 1864 but received his early education in Ripley, Ohio, where his parents moved when he was nine years old. After graduating from the Ripley High School at the age of sixteen Young taught school until he received his appointment to the Military Academy at West Point in 1884. From this time until his death Colonel Young was a public figure and was often spoken of as the embodiment of the military spirit of his race. After a period of frontier duty Young was detailed to Wilberforce University as Professor of Military Science and Tactics in 1894. From a very helpful tour of duty at this institution where he taught French, German and Mathematics in addition to his military subjects, he was sent to military camps along the Atlantic Coast. Again he went to the Western frontiers. Young was made Captain in 1901 and sent to the Philippines where he commanded a troop at Samar, Blanca, Aurora, Daraga, Toacca, Rosana, San Joaquin. Upon his return to the States his service included administration of Sequoia and General Grant Memorial Parks, California. The War Department commended Captain Young officially for his excellent work on this detail. In May 1904 Young was sent as Miltary tattoe to Haiti and remained four years. During this period he made an accurate map of the country. It is said that the American Marines would not have been able to find their way into Haiti so easily had not Captain Young done his work so well. In performing his duties as Attache he found time to write "Toussaint L'Ouverture," a drama of which only a few copies are in print. Rapidly from this point the scenes of Young's service shifted from this country to the Philippines to Africa and back to Mexico where he was when it became a probability that this country would become involved in the European holocaust. He was now Lieutenant Colonel and in command of the famous Tenth Cavalry. Lt. Col. Young's keen foresight and his eagerness to serve his people led him to establish a school for enlisted men at Fort Huachuachua in order to get black soldiers ready to enter any training camp which might be opened to colored officers. As this was done under opposition and great hindrances from higher command, it thought that that service to his people might have had something to do with subsequent events. The Colored race has not yet recovered from the shock received when the news flashed across the country that Lt. Col. Charles Young had been retired as Colonel on June 22, 1917. The hopes of 12,000,000 people that they would have a black Major General leading a black Division on the fields of France were shattered. It may be that this broke Young's heart but the greatest of the man is clearly shown by the fact that he never complained. Later when the war had passed and his country said it needed him to go back to Africa, he eagerly grasped the opportunity it is right to go with his disappointments to the land of forgetfulness. It was there that his eventful life came to an end. The War Department has re --- NEW MAMMOTH BASEBALL PARK BEING ERECTED AT HOVEY FIELD FOR HOME OF THE RICHMOND GIANTS BASEBALL CLUB TWO ```markdown ``` THE FIELD PREPARING KING TUT'S COUCH. Native Egyptians under the supervision of Howard Carter preparing the royal couch of King Tut-Anhk-Amen for removal from the tomb in the Valley of Kings. NEW MAMMOTH BASSE ERECTED AT HOVEY THE RICHMOND G The Richmond Giants will play in a new park this season, according to an official announcement. Work has begun on the erection of a modern balj park, in keeping with the latest designs and conveniences. The new park will be built on Hovey Field, Virginia Union University campus, and will seat between 3500 and 4000 fans. The grandstand will be safe and modern, with ample protection from all kinds of weather. Bleachers are to be erected, giving a full view of the playing field. An up-to-date club house, with showers and other essential features, will adorn this new playing field. This park will give impetus to the athletic activities in Richmond and place this city on the baseball map. Union's nine has several games scheduled here and when the Giants are away the amateurs and sand-lotters will cross bats. Football and athletics in general will be taken care of in this new park. Manager Frye is not quite ready to announce final plans for the Giants as yet. Captain Pettis is detained in New York because of sickness, but the season's plans are maturing nicely. Indications are that the Giants will put a team on the field, capable of coping with the best in the professional ranks. The big nines are scheduled to come this way and the Giants will be prepared to meet them in their new field. EASTERN BALL SEASON STARTS APRIL 28. EASTERN BALL SEASON STARTS APRIL 28. The Mutuaq Association of Eastern Baseball Club will open its season on April 28th, but the schedule for the season has not been made public yet, although it is understood that it has been prepared. It will be released to newspapers soon. Clubs represented in this league are: Hildale, of Philadelphia and Camden; Brooklyn Royal Giants, of Brooklyn; Black Sox, of Baltimore; Original Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City; Lincoln Giants, of New York City; and Cuban Giants, of Havana, Cuba. A profitable season is looked for and the fans will be given the best brand of ball possible. Most of these teams will be seen in action in Richmond against our Giants. New York Giants Engage Two Colored Trainers. New York Giants Engage Two Colored Trainers. The New York Giants (World's Baseball Champions) are to have two colored trainers this season. In addition to Emmett Parker of St. Augustine, Fla., they will have as second trainer, Walter Irwin, of Marlin, Texas. Both men have had years of experience as trainers, and the Giants will no doubt, be well taken care of in this particular. Parker was for three years trainer at Annapolis Naval Academy and for eight years assistant trainer at Prince University. Irwin is a comparatively young man, but is understood of have had considerable experience as an assistant in the winter camps of several big league baseball teams that have trained in Texas. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` J. J. H. LATEST IN SPRING MILLINERY. Cloche hat of hemp straw with coarse of vari colored gros gros ribbon, an ideal hat for the smartly dressed young lady. THLETI BALL PARK BEING FIELD FOR HOME OF ANTS BASEBALL CLUB SIKI NOW IN IRELAND READY FOR MCTIGUE DUBLIN, March 5.—Battling Ski, conqueror of Georges Carpentier, arrived here early this morning to complete training for his match against Mike McTigue, the American middleweight, which will be held in Dublin on March 17. A large delegation of boxing men already is here and there is much interest in the coming battle. Ski made the trip on the United States line's President Adams from Cherbourg to Queenstown. Ski said he was more than pleased to get a chance to prove that he fully deserved his victory over Carpentier. Ski was accompanied, by his manager, who made it known that Ski and Carpentier most likely would meet in a return bout in Paris in May. SIKI GUARDED CLOSELY SAILS FOR IRELAND TO MEET M'TIGUE. SIKI GUARDED CLOSELY SAILS FOR IRELAND TO MEET M'TIGUE. Paris March 2—Battling Siki, the Senegalese heavyweight, left today for Cherbourg on his way to Dublin, where he is to meet Mike McTighe, on March 7. As the boat touches at Southampton before proceeding to Queenstown Siki's manager recalled that an option the name of the vessel secret to prevent the British authorities from removing Siki at the former port and compelling his return to France. Early last November, when Siki was matched with Joe Beckett, the British home office refused to permit the contest in England on the ground that in bouts "between men of color and white men, the temperaments of the contestants, are not compatible, and moreover, all sorts of passions are aroused." Siki's departure for Cherbourg was not without difficulty, as some persons wishing to prevent him going had imbued him with the idea that once in Ireland, he could never get back to France and that the British authorities were sure to catch him. His manager's first attempt to get him on his way failed at the last moment yesterday morning, whereupon he was taken from the station to a hotel. During the night he escaped, but was found at home and taken back to the hotel with his wife. He again fled, at about 2 o'clock in the morning but was again corralled and a guard placed at his door. A strong corps of caretakers accompanied the fighter to Cherbourg. SIKI AND CARPENTIER STILL UNSIGNED. Paris Feb. 28.—Battling Siki and Georges Carpentier have delayed signing their contract for a return match. Siki's manager recalled that an option THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA M. T. DOME By J. M. Baer I MUST BUY A PRESENT FOR SARAH! 5 AND 10¢ STORE HOW MUCH IS THIS? 15 CENTS! I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FIVE AND TEN CENT STORE! WELL, HOW MUCH IS FIVE AND TEN? M. CONSPIRED WITH KU KLUg KLAN Earle B. Mayfield, Senator-elect, of Texas, charged in U. S. Senate with aiding Ku Klux, py George E. B. Peddy, defeated candidate. He may be unseated. CS M. T. DOME I MUST BUY A PRESENT FOR SARAH! I THOUGHT THIS FIVE AND TEN CE had been given to the newspaper Mutin in continuing until March 15, under which Siki and Carpentier were to fight without financial reward, all the receipts going to French scientific laboratories. As soon as this option has expired, or is cancelled, it was in indicated the man will sign. Referring to the reported arrangements for a bout the Echo des Sports, a sporting daily close to Francois Des camps, says that the winner will take 25 per cent. of the gate receipts and the loser 20 per cent. The Newspaper adds that the signatories of the contract are to reach an agreement fixing the percent tago to be donated to scientific laboratories, "as the Utopian scheme of devoting the entire receipts to science has been abandoned." Basket Ball Results N. Y. COMMONWEALTH 5 PLAYS WORLD CHAMP CELTICS CLOSE GAME NEW YORK, March 5.—(N. Y. Amsterdam News)—The unusual took place here in New York last Sunday evening, when thousands of colored people with a good sprinkling of whites packed the Commonwealth Casino to overflowing to witness the basketball game between the Commonwealth Big Five and that unbeatable combination of whites known as the Original Celtics. Manager Furey of the Celtics stopped the start of the game for a few moments while he insisted that the teams play A. A. U. rules in the first half and the accepted rules now being used by the majority of the professional teams in the second half. Captain Jenkins readily agreed to the conditions when the matter was placed before Jess McMahon and what would have been a hitch faded into nothingness and the game was not delayed. The wonderful work of the Celtics for the past few years made many believe that they would enjoy a walk away victory over the local team, but they reckoned not with the improvement of our boys since they entered the arena with the professionals and the score of 41-29 proves that our boys were in there fighting and had TOMMY HENRY HOLDS ONE OF TOUGHEST JOBS IN EUROPE. Commandant Flippé, Chief of the Ruhr customs established by the French, ready to take over authority and collect money from reluctant and obdurate creditors. THE BOXING FIGHT they copped the many fouls which were called against their opponents the tale now being told would have been somewhat different. Commonwealth drew first blood, when they battled at the start and got a foul on Celtics. From then on he was a game with our boys getting the taste of real basketball from the Giants against whom they shaped up like so many Gullivers. Although taking many fouls they kept our players from making more than two baskets in the first half. them to 23 with the Celtics nosing by 24. That experience which means much to any team came to the reeve of the big white players and they drew away from their colored opponents to a safe lead, which they maintained to the finish. The Celtics found themselves in one of their hardest games when they played the McMahon players and they so confessed after the final blew blew. The score of 41-29 does not tell the tale of the hard fight the white boys had to win. Slocum played a wonderful game against great odds, for the referee, who, by the way, was the Celtics' own man, without whom they would not even think of engaging in this game, had a trick of throwing up the ball which no opponent of the Celtics would be able to overcome. In the second half with the score 23-15 in favor of the Celtics, Capt. Jenkins and his men came from the rear with a rush and although within striking distance of the Celtics throut the game, this rally brought them to 23 with the Celtics nosing by 24. That experience which means much to any team came to the resue of the big white players and they drew away from their colored opponents to a safe lead, which they maintained to the finish. The Celtics found themselves in one of their hardest games when they played the McMahon players and they so confessed after the final whistle blew. The score of 41-29 does not tell the tale of the hard fight the white boys had to win. Finall, Jenkins, Hubbard, Moton and Slocum played the entire game for the Commonwealth and did not call "time out" once. Commonwealth Big 5 and Loendi Will Play Cum Posey's Loendi Quintet, of Pittsburgh, Pa. will meet the Commonwealth Big Five in a two-game series for the championship. 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All communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia as second class matter. A REMARKABLE EXPLANATION. I have no other but a woman's reason: In a recent address, delivered at Liberty Hall, New York and published in the Negro World of March 3, 1923, Hon. Marcus Garvey defines his position with reference to the Ku Klux Klan and other matters relating to him and his followers. My subject tonight is "The Doctrine of White Supremacy." Everybody in America knows of William Jennings Bryan. He was thrice the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the United States of America. Mr. Bryan, besides being a politician or a statesman, is also a Christian gentleman. He is regarded as a preacher, a social uplift worker, and a social reformer. A better Christian than Mr. Bryan I hardly believe you find in any part of the world. He has converted thousands of men to Christianity and for over 30 years he has been prominently before the people of America (black and white). During that period of time he impressed not only those of his race but those of the Negro race, that he was a liberal minded Christian and one who stood for the larger brotherhood—the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. I came in contact with Mr. William Jennings Bryan about seven or eight years ago, when he visited the Panama Canal and some of the West Indian islands. I heard him speak, and in one speech he made somewhere in Cristobal, Colon, he left an abiding impression on my mind; certain things he said I will never forget "I have reached." he said, "the stage of life when I must make every minute count for something done, something accomplished." I never forgot that. I always had a good liking for Mr. Bryan, but I always believed him to be just like all other white folks, and he has not surprised me. A couple of days ago this thrice candidate for the presidency of the United States of America came out in Washington and said that he stands absolutely for white supremacy. He was speaking of America and when he was questioned he said: "I am abolutely converted to it now, but I have been thinking that way for twenty years." Yet this is a man who could have been three times president of the United States of America. It seems to us that the transcendent question is "Was Hon William Jennings Bryan right? Does his language and thoughts square with the teachings of the blessed Master or is he bowing to the prejudices of this age and time?" Mr. Garvey continues: When I interviewed the Ku Klux Klan last July some people purposefully tried to form a wrong opinion, and got the wrong idea of my intentions. My statements on the ku klux klan were wickedly and maliciously misrepresented and misquoted by those who did not desire to speak the truth and see the truth as it is. Those of you who have paid careful attention to what I have said—those of you who have followed me carefully and minutely in all my expressions and in all my writings will recall my saying that the Ku Klux Klan was not only an organization, but the ku klux klan was the spirit of greater America. Some could not understand me in my expression, but this I hope will convince them that the ku klux klan is not an organization; the ku klux klan is a spirit that has its existence in the souls and in the hearts and the breasts of 99 per cent, of white America. William Jennings Bryan is not a member of the ku klux klan but we find him standing for the principles of the ku klux klan. He could have been the Imperial Wizard in the klan for that matter; he could have been the Imperial Giant or Cyclop or what-not in the klan, because the klan's program is not beyond the statement of Mr. Bryan, who could have been thrice president of the Unit ed States of America. This then is the most insidious and damaging attack ever made upon Mr. Bryan. It seems that Mr. Garvey is of the opinion, that all of the white people in this country, saving one percent, have "bowed the knee to Baal." He virtually accepts as a fact with the exception of this one per cent, that are "none righteous." Then he comes to a discussion of the position of his own organization. Here it is: Now the position of the Universal Negro Improvement Association is this: To correct interpret as far as possible the present and future relationship between the black and white peoples not only of any one country—not only of America, but of the world; and the Universal Negro improvement Association feels this: That every other race group believes in its own absolute existence and its absolute ascendancy and supremacy over others; and it is for that reason that we cannot see any possible relation ship between black and white politically, socially or economically that will make the black man the quea of the white man by the established standards of present-day civilization. This statement confirms Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' contention concerning this remarkable Jamaican, when he said in his recent phillipic in the Century Magazine: And the lesser fathered by Marcus Carvey, which said: "Give up! Surrender! The struggle is useless; back to Africa and fight the white world." We take it that Mr. Garvey believes in black supremacy in Africa even as Mr. Bryan believes in white supremacy in this country. He would give the white man "a Roland for His Oliver," when he becomes intrenched in his homeland. He would treat the white man in Africa, just as the white folks treat the black folks in the United States of America. How does this "square" with the Holy Writ? Has the Republic of Liberia ever thought of doing such a thing? How would Japan fare were it to exercise the absolute power in that country that this distinguished race leader proposes to put into operation in Africa with its teeming black millions? Hon. Marcus Garvey propounds another question. He says: Now what can the American Negro expect out of America for justice, for equality, for constitutional rights when even your candidates for President believe in white supremacy? Now this is not, Mr. Edward Young Clark, ku klux klah agent, speaking; it is not Colonel Simmons the Imperial Ward, speaking; this is one of the representative stat-men of the world. William Jennings Bryan—not an ordinary politician but a philosopher and a world recognized leader. Mr. Bryan is honest and I appreciate him for that and I love him more now than before because he has convinced me and Du Bois and Weldon Johnson and the National Association crowd that there is absolutely no hope of equality politically, socially and economically within the bounds of the United States of America so long as there is one white man alive. is not Mr. Garvey's argument follacious when he takes as a spokesman of the American people a statesman who has been three times rejected at the polls by them? Yet he accepts at its face value the personal statement of a private individual, who has never been elected upon a white supremacy platform and we do not know of any President of these United States, who has ever dared to "run the gauntlet" of public opinion upon any such plat form. They had the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States to guide them. Mr. Garvey continues: Now what can fifteen million people do in a commonwealth in a nation in a country surrounded by a majority of another race that stands (through its greatest statesman) for the supremacy of their race? What faces us but absolute chaos and absolute defeat in political, social and economic competition with the stronger and dominant race? Hence it is plain for even a child to see that the Negro's future in America is fraught with great difficulties—is fraught with disappointment between now and eternity. Our position in America will be relatively between black and white, the same be cause the highest statesmanship in the country is not going to admit this minority group to rise that is not a group of creators, that is not a group of producers to dominate the country or even to share the domination of the country with them equally. The able leader is preaching the gospel of despair. He says some things which are fundamentally true. He declares that the country will not permit a minority group to rise that is not a group of creators, that is not a group of producers to dominate the country or even to share the domination of the country with them equally. This statement is as true as Holy Writ. But this group has within its own power the ability to become creators to become producers and to share in the domination of this country equally with their white colleagues and neighbors. This is not a question of race and color, it is one of ability and power. This is why we have favored many of the movements of this distinguished Jamaican, when he launched his commercial enterprises and preached to the Negroes of this country and the world the doctrines of a sound business relationship with the commercial world. This is why we saw no room for comment and no justification for the attacks being made upon the Universal Negro Improvement Association in its effort to lead the American Negroes out of the Egypt of poverty and spend thriftism into the commercial land of promise with the steam ships paying between this country and Africa. But Hon. Marcus Garvey takes the statements of a thrice discredited statesman to set aside the pledges of the Constitution of the United States of America and the promises of every American, who has been elevated to the White House of the nation, not excepting Grover Cleveland of New York and Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey. Is it possible that Marcus Gar- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA vey has lost hope that he sees in the failure of some of his enterprises; the setting of the sun so to speak for the Negroes in this country? Let us hope not. Despite these disconcerting conditions, the Supreme Court of the United States for the first time in its history has blocked the execution of helpless Negroes in Arkansas. Southern Governments allegedly Democratic, backed by the loyal southern white women are now moving against lynching in this country. Under the leadership of Governor John M. Parker the Ku Kux Klan of Louisiana is being prosecuted by roughherners, nor northerners and the sunshine of liberality towards the Negro is appearing on every hand. Mr. Garvey says: We may talk religion; that sounds all right morally and ethically, but you cannot live religion in the twentieth century, otherwise you go less and shelterless. The man who attempts to live religion in this age of materialism is the fellow who won't take long to be hungry and shelterless. Let John D. Rockefeller with all his billions try to live religion, and in twenty-four hours he will be begging broad around New York. It is all well to preach and talk religion but you cannot live it. The only place you can live religion is in heaven, and the fifteen hundred million souls that now populate the world are a long way from heaven. (Laughter.) The distance is long and the time is long; it may take another million years to get there. So while we talk religion down here we cannot very well live religion because of the sinfulness of the age in which we live. The only thing you can live down here is power and strength. And that is the only thing that is going to solve this Negro problem, not only in America, but in all parts of the world. When the Negro develops not his spiritual muscles, but his physical muscles strong enough to exert them in his own defense, then not only William Jennings Bryan not only the ku klux klan, but the "red shirts" and the "gray shirts" of Italy and England will change their mind about white supremacy and the infertility of the darker peoples of the world. (Applause.) It would seem then that if religion is God, then Mr. Garvey has lost faith in God. He overlooks, the quaint expression, "God helps those, who help themselves." According to Mr. Garvey religion in this country is a failure so far as it applies to the people of this country. We admit that power is essentially necessary in order to command respect. That power must assert itself through organizations. Marcus Garvey has power. He is exercising it and we have been led to believe that he is pursuing the proper course to bring about the proper recognition of that power. Young man that he is, is it possible that he is losing hope? Gauged by his utterances, it would seem so. He should refresh his mind relative to the history of the Spartans and he should study in detail the achievements of the present day Turks. But Mr. Garvey recovers his equilibrium when he says: There is no white supremacy beyond the power and the strength of the white man to he'd himself against others. The supremacy of any race is not permanent; it is a thing only of the kind in which the race finds itself to be powerful. It is well for William Jennings Bryan to talk this way, because the thing gives inspiration and courage to men and women like those who make up the Universal Negro Improvement Association to fight stronger for the establishment of a government of our own on the continent of Africa. It may be then that Mr. Garvey did not accept at its face value all that he quoted Hon. William Jennings Bryan as saying. He is using his words in an effort to make the Negroes in this country dissatisfied with surrounding conditions to the end that they could be induced to contribute sufficient funds to bring into action his plans for the building up of a great kingdom or republic upon the continent of Africa. He concludes as follows: More and more we are coming to find in America that the colored man's position is insecure, and when I talk about the ku klux klan I do so not because I have any interest in the ku klux klan but because I admire the ku klux klan for its honesty of intention in expressing to the people what it means; and I have more regard for the ku klux klan, and I have more regard for Mr. Bryan than an the other white people in America, because they feel the same way but are not honest enough to tell us what they mean. The man who is going to give you a licking and who prepares you for that licking is a better friend of yours than the fellow who is going to give you a licking that you know nothing about until he gives it to you. I have the highest regard for Mr. Bryan and the ku klux klan for telling me openly and telling 15 000,000 of us openly: "Negroes, we stand for white supremacy. We are not going to give you a chance to be our social, political or economic equals. If you have sense you will go out and look out for ourselves." So, I have not fallen out with Mr. Bryan. I have nothing to do with the ku klux klan more than thanking them for the information that they have given to me because as they in their part of the world stand for white supremacy, so will 400 000 000 Negroes, under the leadership of the Red, the Black and the Green, stand in their part of the world for black supremacy. (Great applause.) Knowing the intention of the ku klux klan; knowing the intention of Will Ram Jennings Bryan, let me tell you this: All this noise about suppressing the ku klux klan and putting them out of business is all a farce; it is a lie; it is hypocrisy. They do not mean it at all. It is only a free advertisement that they are giving to the program of the ku klux klan, so that all other folks who never thought that way will get to thinking about it. But they are not manly enough to tell the people at large because they boast of a great democracy; they boast of liberalism in the country; they boast of humanity, and they could not very well go back on the program of Wilson—the program of democracy for all weaker peoples—by openly espousing the cause of the ku klux klan, so they make it appear that they oppose the ku klux klan. But at heart they are for the ku klux klan and for the doctrine of white supremacy not only in America, but throughout the world. They will fool everybody else except Marcus Garvey. I repeat, I admire, Mr. Bryan because of it's honesty, and if we live long enough not only will Mr. Bryan come out and say so but other men in higher positions and higher places than Mr. Bryan will later make the conclusion that they believe in white supremacy for the people in America. (Applause.) This then tells the whole story. Marcus Garvey is taking virus or poison of the rattlesnake to cure some other ailment. He is glad that the Negro-haters are active in their movement against the people of our race in this country. It drives recruits to him and his organization. The black man operating a restaurant is happy to see his white neighbor on the other corner bar black folks from his establishment. "They are all dressed up, with no where to eat," but at his establishment and he is happy. Concluding our comment we fear that Garvey's enemies are jockeying him into an unfensible position, which will finally result in the disintegration of his forces. If he will stick to Negro organizations and Negro enterprises with the advocacy of a great republic or kingdom for Negroes in Africa, he will live long and be the guiding star of a movement, which will exist centuries after he is dead. If he attempts to justify present day prejudicial action to the end that rights already secured by American Negroes shall be sacrificed and yielded in obedience to the command of the prejudiced, he will start in his rear a back fire which will take up all of his time and leave no part of the day for the advancement of his progressive ideals along racial lines. Marcus Garvey needs millions of dollars to bring about the full realization of his plans and policies. He may fail at first but his pioneer movement will be taken up by others, who may succeed. He may see the promised land and himself may never reach the place. This concludes our analysis of the most interesting statement as you made by this remarkable chieftain. Despite statements to the contrary, God still rules in the affairs of men and the student of the past knows and realizes that history repeats its self. Right is eternal; wrong flourishes only for a little while. O! Many a shaft, at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! PRESIDENT HARDING'S POSITION. It seems that Secretary of State William H. Hughes is being guided by that prince of diplomats and statesmen. Hon. Elihu Root of New York and in turn President Warren G. Harding is being influenced by both of them. We take this view of the situation after noting the presidential letter upon the subject of the representation of this country on the World Court, under the jurisdiction of the League of Nations. It seems to us that some of our Republican statesmen are shifting their positions in this matter of participating in European affairs. Conditions on the other side are of such a kind and character that no one nation could bring order out of confusion, although many representatives of the United States have been induced to believe that this country is all important in such a settlement. We settled the war but we have left in its wake a condition of affairs almost as bad as war itself and it is apparent that conditions are getting worse instead of better. It seems to us that we should study the question a long time before we move from our present entrenched position. We appreciate the kind words of our many friends. There are good white folks and bad white folks; just as there are good colored folks and bad ones of the same race. If prayers mean anything, we shall pull through all right and arrive in heaven at the time, it is intended for us to be there. People, who are well-bred are always in demand. The other kind are in de mand too but it is usually upon dump pile. This is no time to stir up ill-feeling between the white folks and the colored folks. You may talk as much as you please, but we all have to live here to gether for five hundred years longer at least and we should do what we can to foster friendship between the white folks now living and their children. President Warren G. Harding is to be congratulated upon his timely recognition of the colored people, not only of New York, but of the country in nominating Hon. Charles W. Anderson for the position of Collector of Revenue in that State. He is widely known among all classes of citizens and has served his country well. It is to be hoped that this nomination will be followed by others of a similar representative kind. AN EXPRESSION OF GOOD WILL. (Norfolk, Va., National Herald.) Exceedingly hopeful is this publication that the efforts of John Mitchell, Jr. and the depositors of the Mechanics Bank, may be attended with success in the redemption and reopening of that institution. Anlmosties and ill-will will not bring back any of the dollars that are now tied up by customary litigation, but the hearty and strong pull with a will that is born of the conqueror, by all concerned may return any mortal activity into being and former usefulness. KANSAS CRIME EXPERT SAYS NEGROES ARE LAW-ABIDING. Extracts from a statement made by C. C. Ellis, Bertillon Superintendent in the Wichita, Kansas, police department and published in the Wichita Beacon Sunday Magazine of February 18, were quoted today by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, as showing the expert's tabulation that fewer Negroes than white people were arrested for serious crime. Mr. Ellis' figures show that 560 persons were arrested during the year for serious crimes of, which only 38 were Negroes. He is quoted as saying: "Of course we arrest a much larger proportion of Negroes than that, but most of them are in for petty crimes which do not warrant making finger prints and 'mugging' them. You would be surprised, however, to find how law abiding the Negroes of the city really are. Many people think them a turbulent element. As a matter of fact, we do not have as much trouble with them as with certain classes of whites." Only 56 of the prisoners were women of whom only 2 were colored women. SOUTHERN PRESS TRYING 10 KEEP NEGROES IN SOUTH. N. A. A. C. P. Sends Out Sample of Propaganda From South Carolina Newspaper. A sample of the matter published in white newspapers of the South to keep Negro labor from going North, was sent out today by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue New York, in the form of extracts from an article published in the Index-Journal of Greenwood. South Carolina Febuary 18. The headline over the article is as follows: FIND NOTHING GOOD IN NORTH NEGROES RETURNING STATE Bring Mother's Corpse Back to Greenwood and Tell of Hardships. There follows an interview with one of the Negroes alleged to have returned, with the following paragraph introducing it: Undertakers here say that many of the dead are being brought back from the North particularly from Philadelphia and other cities of the North. All of these are the corpses of Greenwood Negroes who have been lured to their death in the North by stories of high wages and easy living conditions. Not a week passes that the trains from the North don't bring back the long seated boxes, bearing the bodies of Greenwood Negroes who have succumbed to the hardships of the North. The final paragraph of this newspaper article is as follows: In spite of the hardships which they have to undergo in the North Negroes from this section are still flocking Northward. A number went last night and a large number went on the Saturday before Many of them go to Philadelphia, which is even colder than Washington, where Robert White's mother died of pneumonia and some go West. Undertakers say that a certain per cent may be expected to come back for burial before the winter is over. NORFOLK LYCEUM ASSOCIATION (Journal and Guide News Service.) Norfolk, Va. March 3.—A number of the most prominent Colored business and professional men of Norfolk, headed by J. T. Tanner, local real estate operator and P. B. 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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. aim of the group is to present the most distinguished speakers, educators, musicians and men of affairs, particularly for the benefit of the Negro race although the members of all races will be encouraged to attend the meetings. The events will be staged bi-monthly in order to permit the committee to obtain the best possible results. The series will be inaugurated at the Armory here which has a seating capacity of five thousand persons. On Sunday afternoon March 11th, at four o'clock. The principal address of the occasion will be delivered by Charles Satchel Morris, Jr., nationally known orator and publicist of this city. He is now engaged on a tour of the far Southern States where great crowds of both races have greeted him, but he will return to Norfolk next Saturday afternoon in order to appear at this meeting. He will talk on his experiences during his trio speaking on "The Bright Side of a Dark Subject." While in Alken S. C., recently he was invited by a group of white ladies to return to that city and deliver an address under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, in the Opera House. Governor E. Lee Trinkle, has also been invited to be present and is expected here while the City Manager, the Hon. Charles E Ashburner, has accepted an invitation to speak. Music for the occasion will be furnished by Madam Maldonia Wright Jackson's great tributes chorus of 100 voices, consisting of old nautical mollies, spirituals and classics. The speaker will be introduced by W. W. Forman while the Reverend Doctor C. M. Long will preside. The Lyceum will be closely modelled after that of the Grace Lyceum in Chicago. OKLAHOMA LAWMAKES ROW ON COLORED SCHOOL AT TULSA. Oklahoma City, Okla., March 7- During the discussion in the assembly here last Wednesday morning relative to the proposal of Charles Page to donate 160 acres in Tulsa county for the erection of a Negro school, Representative, J. W. Simpson, of Tulsa A. B. and thou for I also Can PRICE sent br Sloan's Whether you have suffered for years or are experiencing rheumatic pain for the first time—Sloan's Liniment will bring you quick, sure relief. Apply Sloan's to those stiff, sore joints. Its tingling, penetrating warmth brings comfort immediately. Before you realize it the pain has disappeared. Sloan's Liniment will make you realize how unnecessary it is to suffer from rheumatic pain today. The most stubborn and chronic cases yield to Sloan's. Sloan's Liniment-kills pain! For rheumatism, bruises, strains, chest colds county, declared "You can put all the colonels you want to on the committee but I'll tell you 95 per cent of the people of Tulsa county will not wel come a Negro School." In spite of Mr. Simpson's vigorous expression, on motion of Representative Warren Ferrela also of Tulsa county the house decided to investigate the offer. Representative F. M. 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He preached for Rev. Lee on Wednesday night. Miss Narrie Stanfield of Pittsburg Maggie Dehaven and Mr. Martin of 322 Sixth Avenue, N. W. are reported convalescent. Mrs. Eliza Claytor, of Wells Alley, N. W. is quite sick. Mrs. Lucy Taylor, of Wells Alley is improving. Mrs. Bessie Curtis is steadily improving from an operation. Miss Nannie Stanveld, of Pittsburg who spent about two months with her parents here, left for home via Columbus. Mrs. Berta Beverly, of Ninth Avenue, who has been ill for three weeks is improving nicely. Mrs. S. Kates, of Ninth Avenue, is improving, after several weeks illness. It is learned here that Rev. J. J. Benjamin, of Stzunton, Va., pastor of the A. M. E. Church keeps very sick, also that Mrs. Halle Belle Benjamin has been indisposed since returning from the funeral of her brother, Thomas T. Traynham. Mrs. Mattie Staples, 715 Park St. is getting on nicely. Mrs. Monroe Hale, of Sixth Avenue is steadily improving. Mrs. Lizzie Harris, 501 Fifth Avenue, who has been sick for a long while, is out again, looking fine. Sir R. A. Leah, of Tenth Avenue, N. E. is sick this week. Mr. Fannie Mince, 525 Tenth Avenue, N. E. who has been confined to her home with throat trouble, is out again, under the treatment of Dr. Guerrant. Services at Mt. Zion A. M. E. were good all day. Mr. Hurt and John Elliott were converted. Rev. James S. Hatcher preached morning and night. Mrs. Josephine McGimpyse, of 334 Harrison Avenue is much improved. Mr. James Thomas, an aged citizen was taken till several days ago and continued to grow worse until the end came Monday night. March 5th, between 7:30 and 8:00 o'clock. He was sexton of Midway Cemetery. Mr. Junius Wilson, 341 Ninth Avenue, N. W., a brother of Mr. Richard Burks, has been sick about ten days. He is improving under care of Dr. J. B. Claytor. Mr. Green Smith, of Ninth Avenue is quite sick at the home of his mother. He has four small children to be cared for. His wife was taken to Eastern State Hospital last week. 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 STOP THAT PAIN! To the Women of Roanoke, who suffer with Cramps, Headaches and Bile on the Liver: The best medical authorities now agree that relief should be the first step in treating any disease or disorder in which pain is present. This includes practically every ailment which afflicts the human race. Pain is a symptom of bodily disorder. If neglected, it may become a cause of still further disorder₃. Continued pain never did any one any good in a physical way. It unbalances the entire nervous system, lessens resistance and endangers every organ and function of the body. Back in the days when opiates and habit forming drugs were the only means of relief, there was some excuse for suffering. Today most of the pain we endure could be avoided by using Sal-vasena-a, a tonic that has been worth its weight in gold to me. —Mrs. Josephine McJimpey, 334 Sixth Avenue, N. W. (Sold by M. Stanfield.) CHICAGO NEWS. Rev. A. R. Dobbins, pastor of one of the largest A. M. E. churches in St. Louis, Mo., is to visit the city in time to assist in the dedication of new Bethel. During his stay in the city, he will be the guest of his cousins Mrs. Fanny Henry and Mme. Annette White. 4427 Prairie Avenue. Mme. E. M. Scott, proprietor of the La Provident Beauty Shope, 4955 State street is slowly improving at home following two weeks of serious illness. Mme. Scott will go to Mr. Claire Sanitarium the latter part of the week to seek better health. Daniel S. Britton returned to Sparta, Ill., his home after finishing course at the Reese Automobile School. Mrs. Fannie L. Ellis is out again on duty as bookkeeper in the office of the Reese Automobile School and Garage, following two weeks illness. Mme. Annette White is preparing to tour the State of Missouri where she will appear in song recitals. She will leave the city in a few days. Arthur Hazley of Bessmer, Ala., was in the city during the week looking after important business and left for Cleveland Ohio. Mr. Hazley stopped with Mrs. Ella White. 55 E. 36th St. while in the city. Homer L. Wheelis of New York city spent a very pleasant visit in the city as the guest of his brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Small 221 E. 35th street and has returned east. Benuregard C. Laster of Greenbsorow, Ga., is in the city where he expects to remain indefinitely. He is stopping with his brother-in-law and sister, M.; and Mrs. Frank J. Benjamin. 742 48th street. Rev. H. W. Jamison was in charge of services on last Sunday during the day at Grant's A. M. E. church. 4600 Evans Avenue. The services were well attended during the day. Rev. Jamison is National Grand Master of U. B. F. and S. M. T. of the U. S. and jurisdiction and remained in the city several days of the week. Mr. and Mrs. E. Lee Hughes are back in the city after spending the past year at Madison, Wis. William Jones popular grocer at 3636 State street, is out again following illness of several days which confined him to his bed. M. T. Bailey of the Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State street is giving every assistance possible to assist those who are planning to erect future homes in the suburbs of the city away from the congested city thus helping to reduce high rents. Mr. Bailey has been boosting and doing much to increase the population of the suburbs during the past two years. WYTHEVILLE NEWS Sunday services at the churches of our town were extremely enjoyable. Largely attended and financially successful. The Mock Annual Conference at Bethel A. M. e. church is the long looked for event to break the menotony of ordinary entertainments. The Eureka Choral club gave an excellent musical last week. The Eureka Choral club gave a musical entertainment at Bethel A. M. E. church March 1st, for the delegate expense to the National Negro Educational Congress, which was a decided success. The numbers were rendered in that characteristic style, intimately known only to the Negro of America. The audience was the most representative of our citizens that we have known. Spontaneous applause was genuously given and every number was encored. The club was striving to be a credit to the Negro of Wytheville and in this attempt it has been conceded that times cannot efface the pleasure given the audience. Ump was an outstanding feature while all features soared high above the ordinary. Mr. James A. Harper left Sunday night for Washington, D. C., to attend the National Negro Congress. Mr. Richard Holliday, Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Hebron were Sunday visitors in Ivanhoe, Va. The best monument, that could be erected to the Ante Bellum Mammy would be equal opportunity before the law, a right conception of the 14th and 15th amendments to the National constitution, an impartial administration of law and a faithful following of the divine rule laid down by our Saviour viz: "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." It will not do you any good to throw stones at the Choral club and run; they will get you some day. Let us have your subscription to the Planet. Mr. Garland Chapman was in Dublin, Sunday visiting his little daughter, Myrtle. Miss Mara Lee Mill of Pulaski, was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Odeley Beroers. Miss Dicia Thompson left Sunday for Russell. Ky. to spend a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Crockett spent Monday in town the guest of Mrs. Flora Nickelson. Mr. Crockett left Tuesday for Detroit, Michigan. Mr. R. B. Clark is a business visitor in our town. Mrs. M. J. Stepteau. Miss Virginia Stepteau, Master R. A. Hebron and T. Walter Hebron, Jr., motored to Ivanhoe, Monday. Messrs. D. B. Carter, Homer Hairston, Willie Harper, and Madame Cordelia Bowers, Poly Redman, Nannie Sheffey, Florene Allison, Annie Harper, Miss Evelyne Chapman and Mr Harvey Reynolds are on the sick list this week. Mrs. Dicie Hill who spent the winter on Cripper Creek has returned to the home of her son Mr. M. A. Hill. HISTORY COMMISSION MEETS IN BALTIMORE On the 5th and 6th of April there will be held in Baltimore the Spring Conference of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History directed by Dr. C. G. Woodson. Members of the administrative staff including Prof. John R. Hawkins, the Chairman Mr. S. W. Rutherford, Secretary-Treasurer and others of the Executive Council are making extensive preparation for this Conference. The aim will be to bring together instructors in schools and public spirited citizens with an appreciation of the value of the written record and of research as a factor in correcting error and promoting the truth. The heads of all accredited institutions of learning have been invited to take an active part in this convoitation. As it is to be held in Baltimore, near which are located so many of our colleges and universities it is believed that this Conference will prove to be one of the most successful in the history of the Association. The program will cover two days and will offer an opportunity for the discussion of every phase of Negro life and history. On Thursday there will be a morning session at 10:30 and in the afternoon a session at 3:30 P.M. 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. --- On the following day the morning session will be held at 10:30 and the afternoon session at 3:30 P. M. The two evening sessions will go to one of the largest churches in the city of Baltimore. In addition to these, special groups of persons cooperating with the Association will hold conferences and round table discussions in the interest of matters peculiar to their needs. Among the speakers will be Prof. Kelly Miller, Mr. William Pickens Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Dr. James H. Dillard, Bishop R. A. Carter Mr. Leslie Pinckney Hill, Dr. George Johnson, Dr. Pezavia O'Connell, and Dr. J. O. Spencer. Dr. W. E. B. Bois and Dr. R. Moton have also been invited to address this conference. An effort will be made to arouse interest and to arrange for conducting throughout the country a campaign for collecting facts bearing on the Negro prior to the Civil War and during the Reconstruction period. The field is now being exploited by a staff of investigators of the Association. It is earnestly desired that all persons having documentary knowledge of these phases of Negro History, will not only give the Association the advantage of such information, but will attend this Conference to devise plans for a more successful prosecution of this particular work. Another concern of the Conference will be to stimulate interest in the collection of Negro folklore for which there is offered a prize of $200 for the best collection of tales, riddles, proverbs, sayings and songs which have been heard in Negro homes. The aim is to study the Negro mind in relation to its environment at various periods in the history of the race and in different parts of the country. The students of a number of institutions of learning are already preparing theiring are already at work preparing their collections to compete for this prize, and it is hoped that a still larger number will do likewise. This special work is under the supervision of a committee composed of Dr. Elsie Clews Parsons, Assistant Editor of the Journal of American Folklore Dr Franz Boas Professor Anthropology PATIENTLY WAITING. "And it being represented to the Court that the closing of said bank by the plaintiff was because of the presence in its assets of obligations of the Bonded Realty Company, Inc., amounting to the sum of $83,500.00, which are not secured to the satisfaction of the plaintiff and it being further represented to the Court that there is a reasonable prospect of the defendant being able, within a short time, of satisfying the plaintiff as to said obligations of the Bonded Realty Company, Inc., and as to the entire solvency of said bank, it is further ordered that said receivers be authorized and instructed to report to the Court, at the earliest possible date, together with a statement of the assets and liabilities of said bank, such offers and plans as may be submitted to them by the defendants, or others on its behalf, with a view of satisfying the requirements of the plaintiff and effecting a prompt discharge of said receivers, and the return of the assets of said Mechanics' Savings Bank, of Richmond, Va. to its proper authorities." in Columbia University and a member of the Executive Council of the Association and Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Editor of the Journal of Negro History. At this Conference, moreover, special attention will be given to the problem of preparing for serious scientific work in the study of Negro life and history a number of young men by the grant of fellowships in the accredited graduate schools of the country. The Association has established three such fellowships of $500 a year. The power of appointment has been assigned to a committee consisting of Professor Carl Russell Fish, of the University of Wl. consin Professor William E. Dodd of the University of Chicago and Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Director of the Association. This committee is anxious to select these young men from the largest number possible so as to offer opportunity for the development of the best talent in the race. 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 ap- pear here within ten days after the publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy. Teste: W. E. DU VAL, Clerk. By H. G. DU VAL D. C. C. Mimms, p. q. Please find enclosed ($2.00) Two Dollars for one year’s subscription to The Planet, to be sent to M____ --- ```markdown ``` THE NEGRO'S ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. THE AFRICAN BLOOD BROTHERHOOD 2299 Seventh Avenue, N. Y. City. (National Headquarters) Intellectual, Social and Protective Benefits, Initiation Fee, $1. Monthly Dues, 25 cents. Writers and Speakers Wanted. Good proposition for live wire Organizers. Organize a Post in your community. Sokols and Educational Groups. 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 on 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) FLORIDA SHERIFF IDENTIFIES TWELVE MEN IN MOB THAT ATTACKED JAIL IN SEARCH OF MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING ROAD WORKER 8IX Gainesville, Fla., March 2.—Twelve of the thirteen men in jail here in connection with an attempt early today of a mob to break into the jail at Palatka, where Arthur Johnson, colored alleged slayer of H. C. Cross, of Albany, Ga., was believed to be confined, tonight had been identified by Sheriff P. M. Hagan, of Palatka. All but three of those held in jail under $15 000 bonds are employees of the State Road Department's maintenance camp here. NINETEEN MEN ARRESTED Nineteen men were arrested near here early today by sheriff forces following a telephone message from Sheriff Hagan, telling of the attempt to take the prisoner from jail. Seven subsequently were released when Sheriff Hagan failed to identify them. Lately another man was arrested on circumstantial evidence, but Sheriff Hagan has not yet seen him. Those whom the sheriff identified gave these names: Chesley Fowler, Bob Turner, John Baumgartner, B. A Covan, E. C. Smith, C. T. Asactoa; W. T. Gore, La J. Bryan; G. V. O'Neal M. A. Reaves; R. White and A. H. Davis. They as yet have made no statement. FIND 150 FOOT ROPE. A rope about 150 feet long was found in an automobile in which some of the men were riding when arrested. Cross an employee of the State Road Department here was shot to death in a store last Saturday night by a Negro, believed to have been the one he brushed against on the street a short time before. Johnson later was arrested and held for the killing. He was spirited away from the Gainesville jail Sunday after officers had expressed tear of mob violence. Advices from Palatka were that war rants would be issued for the men hold on charges of attempt to commit a felony, assault with intent to murder and shooting into a dwelling. The bonds were fixed late today by Judge Calhoun, county judge of Putnam County, in which Palatka is situated who telephoned A. S. Crews, prosecuting attorney here, telling him of his action. SHERIFF SHOT IN HAND Sheriff P. M. Hagan was shot through the left hand and his wife and daughter barely escaped being wounded when a mob of unmasked white men early today riddled the jail with bullets after an unsuccessful attempt to gain entrance in what was believed to have been an attempt to lynch Arthur Johnson, colored, held for the murder Saturday night of H. C. Cross, of Albany, Ga., at Gainesville. The white men came to the jail at about 1:15 o'clock this morning and knocked on the door. Sheriff Hagan came downstairs and when he opened the door, several of the men poked pistols in his face. The sheriff struck the nearest one to him over the head with his pistol jumped inside and slammed the door. SHOOTING IS STARTED Immediately the shooting started, eighteen shots being fired into the building. One of them struck the sheriff and another bit within six inches of Mrs. Hagan, who had come downstairs. Miss Gertrude Hagan the sheriff's daughter looked out of an up stairs window and a bullet struck within a foot of her. None of the members of the mob spoke. After firing into the jail, the men ran to their waiting automobiles and escaped. Sheriff Hagan ran into the street and fired three times at them with a shotgun. He then telephoned authorities at Gainesville. A rope seventy feet long was found at the jail. Officers here tonight declined to say whether Johnson was confined in the Palatka jail, but admitted he "came through here Sunday night." WARRANTS ARE SWORN OUT Warrants are sworn out here late today for twelve men, charging them with assault with intent to murder, firing into an occupied dwelling and conspiracy to commit a felony in connection with an attempt early today of a mob to break into the county jail here. DR. MOTON POINTS WAY TO AID RACE PROBLEM DR. MOTON POINTS WAY TO AID RACE PROBLEM (Preston News Service) Cleveland, Ohio, March 6—In an address at the Chamber of Commerce here last Wednesday Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute said, "The race problem can be solved only by full and frank discussion of their relationships." He declared that many of the Negroes of the South are coming North because of crop failures; the boil weevil and labor shortage in the industrial centers and that northerners should interest themselves in the progress the South is making toward the solution of the race problem, as the problem promises to grow more acute in the North than it has been hitherto. "It would be wise to talk the problem over frankly with our people to get at the facts in the Negroes' condition economically, socially and indus-trially and avoid the possibility of misunderstanding and friction," he continued. "We cannot have peace and good-will in this world unless we are willing to talk over things together; to talk over our difficulties and misunderstandings and our prejudices." International Exposition of Race Newspaper Men. Nashville, Tenn. (Special). An Exposition of newspaper publishers, authors, printers and members of the Printing Trade will be held in Nashville February 18th to the 23rd 1924. This announcement was made here this week by the corresponding secretary of the National Negro Press Association, who says that such an action was taken at the last annual convention of the newspaper men which closed its sessions here on Friday night February 9th. The plans are, according to the corresponding secretary, that every newspaper in the United States will be invited to send at least one bound volume covering one year of their publication to be placed on exhibition here in Nashville. The volume is to be labelled and worded giving the name of the newspaper, the name of the editor and manager, and naming the year that the papers were published. In addition to this, the authors of all Negro publications and the publishers of the race will be asked to put on exhibition their books, magazines, pamphlets and specimens of their high-class printing. This is not only to include the secular publications but the religious publishers with their literature, song books and church helps. The plan is according to some of the leading members of the National Negro Press Association, to make this the biggest affair ever held by members of the craft of the allied printers' trade. President J. Finley Wilson, of the Washington Eagle, Mr. Jos. L. Jones, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. J. E. Mitchell, editor of the St. Louis Argus a member of the Executive Committee Mr. I. Willis Cole, of The Louisian Leader, and Mr. Wm. Warley of the Louisville News, Louisville. Ky., Mr. Harry D. Evans of the Woman's Voice Indianapolis, Ind., with the other members of the Executive Committee of the Press Association, are to constitute a Committee of the whole perfecting plans and making final arrangements for the complete exhibit. Reduced rates are to be secured on all rail roads, thus making this effort next February the biggest International Exposition ever held in the United States for the Negro Printer. PRESIDENT WILLIAMS CALLS THE BAPTISTS To Ohr Baptist Brotherhood— Mey Dear Bretren: It appears at this time that our work will require for its success this year, some close and wise planning. We were able to do very much at our Board meeting in Nashville last month, but what we did made another Conference a vital necessity. I think we should call this Conference for Memphis, early in April, either the third or the tenth. It should be attended. I think, by all of the District and State Missionary workers, all State, National and general denominational workers, all of our pastors who are able to be present, all of the officers of State Conventions and of our National Baptist Convention as well as interested and useful laymen and sisters of the denominational. I would be glad to hear from any of the brethren concerning this matter. Within the next few days, I shall make a definite statement in regard to the Conference, its purpose, time, and the place in Memphis where it will be held. I am asking of all the officers, Boards of the National Baptist Convention and other general denominational workers, their sympathy and support in this matter. Remember, our Conventional year is reduced this year to practically eight or nine months. What we do, we must do quickly or the work will lag. Hoping to hear from you, one and all who are interested in the progress of our work, I am. Yours most sincerely, L. K. WILLIAMS. Pres. National Baptist Convention N. C. SCHOOL IS OPENED WITH FORMAL PROGRAM. (Preston News Service) Dunn, N. C., March 8—The Harnett county training school building for Negroes recently completed in Dunn at a cost of $47,500 was formally opened with an address by Prof. N. C. Newbold, head of Negro and Indian education in the State and several other addresses by local white and colored citizens. The program was supplemented by a number of musical selections. The new building is a modern brick structure, containing 14 class rooms, a home economics room and an auditorium that will seat 500 people. The auditorium is fitted with opera chairs. The building is steam heated through cut, it has running water with drinking fountains, and is equipped with electric lights. Vocational agriculture and manual training is also taught in connection with the school. The school site contains 10 acres of land a total of 1,350 bushels of sweet potatoes were grown on five acres of the land last year. The potatoes were cured in a potato house built by students of the manual training class and will be sold in car load lots. Pupils are admitted from all parts of Harnett county without tuition and the enrollment for the spring term has reached 576. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA FRANCE BLOCKS NEW WAR, SAYS LIEBERT Ruhr Invasion Revealed Secret Preparations for Another Conflict. He Declares CHARGES GERMAN DECEIT Consul General Officially Denies Use of Black Troops—Calls It Berlin Propaganda. France's invasion of the Ruhr will postpone war rather than precipitate another conflict, declared Gaston Liebert, the French Consul General, yesterday in an address on the European situation before the Lions Club at a luncheon at the Hotel Martinique. Germany he contended was zealous by manufacturing arms and ammunition in the industrial plants of the Ruhr when the army of France marched in and put a stop to her plans, and would have been ready in two or three years to recommence hostilities. "The Hearst press is largely responsible for the particularly vicious attacks upon the present French policy." the Consul General declared. "Every day it displays big headlines, Black Troops in the Ruhr, just as these papers said two years ago that black troops were on the Rhine. That black troops are in the Ruhr is the biggest lie that ever was invented by German propaganda. There are no black soldiers in the Ruhr and there never have been any. I can state that officially. "As far as the Rhine is concerned, we had sent a few Senegalese troops at the beginning of the occupation. They are known to be the best disciplined and best behaved troops in the French Army. The white soldiers were tired, and while they were resting France used the Senegalese, but for only a short time." M. Liebert asserted that at the presen t time there are troops from North ern Africa on the Rhine, Germany, he said, calls them "black" for propaganda purposes, but they are white, and are only tanned by a very strong sun, he said. The Germans, he explained are attempting to stir American public opinion against the French by claiming there are black soldiers in the recently invaded territory. CALLS ARMISTICE A MISTAKE "But if there were," he continued, "weren't there black regiments in the American Army? This is the nation whose high ideals freed the blacks in the South and those who have been educated are considered the equals of the whites. Colonel Hayward who led the colored regiment in the World War can tell you how well they behaved." After reading extracts from an address delivered by Prime Minister Polcainc of France at a dinner of French journalists on February 4th, M. Liebert declared that the Prime Minister's policy in the Ruhr will be carried out and that there will be no flinching from it. "Since the armistice, which certainly was the greatest mistake, the great est blunder of the war." M. Liebert de clared, "Germany has done but one thing—tried to escape the just punishment of her crimes. Since that time the German industrial magnates have exported their capital. But not only that, she has sent abroad manufactured goods, and instead of receiving the money in Germany, she has left it in foreign banks to serve as credit. France is going to remain in the Ruhr as long as these big industrial magnates do not find some way of bringing back that capital and then pay her reparations debt. This is our policy. "We have been deceived so many times since the armistice and we are not going to be deceived any more. The people of this country have such a sense of justice that they understand and appreciate our position. France would be on the verge of bankruptcy if she did not receive the money that was provided in the form of reparations in the Treaty of Versailles. Since 1918 France has advanced over one hundred billion francs for reparations and pensions. That is the limit of French possibilities. All this money, moreover, came from the savings of the peasants and workingmen; not one cent was borrowed abroad. "The money from German reparations must come in because France does not want to be bankrupt. This is the main reason. The time had come. We had to connel those people to pay." The Consul General compared the attitude of Germany in 1871, when, after crushing the French armies she exacted a penalty of 5 000 000,000 francs in the Treaty of Frankfort with that of France today. France although vanquished, promised to pay the indemnity in two years and kept her promise said M. Liebert. INSURANCE AGAINST WAR He accused Germany of "deliberately" decreasing the value of the mark and said that she "made money all the time through that abominable gamble." On one side, he said, was a faithful honest people, and on the other a dishonest people "who are trying to escape from the obligations they willingly accepted. "But there is something more than that" he continued. "When the French officers and men arrived at Essen and other industrial centres in the Ruhr they found in the big plants of Krups Thyssen, Stinnes and the others, absolute evidence that since the armistice these big plants have been secretly working over preparations for a new war. They were manufacturing parts of guns and ammunition for a war which was to be waged in two or three years. The Germans figured it would be cheaper to fight than to pay indemnities. That was something we did not foresee. "There is a prevailing opinion that the French will cause another war by invading the Ruhr. Instead, I am sure we have postponed the war for a half century or more. We are still paying for the mistake of 1918. You came in and helped with the high ideal of crushing German militarism forever. Unfortunately we did not do it, nor did you succeed. The German militarists are the same now as in 1914. Their army still exist, and its officers and men are ready to jump at our throats. She has not lost her warlike spirit. "I think we should be most thankful that the French have occupied the Ruhr, not only because as a consequence she will probably get some money from the German magnate, but also because she has postponed an other war by preventing the industrialists from manufacturing war material. As long as her machinations are being prevented, it is good for the rest of the world." TOMB OF PHARAOH CLOSED UNTIL FALL Strong Wooden Barrier Put in the Entrance and Sand and Rock Heaped Up. All Work Suspended for a Week While Carnarvon and His Staff Go Away for a Rest. (The Times London World Copyright, by Arrangement with the Earl of Carnarvon.) Luxor, Feb. 27—The royal sarcophagus enclosure in the Valley of the Kings presented the strangest sight today when the work of closing in the tomb of King Tut-ankh-Amen was continued amid dense clouds of dust and sand which a strong south wind blew all over the valley, making everything most unpleasant to the visitors there. The whole operation of closing in the tomb will take about twenty-four working hours, truly a noteworthy achievement considering all that is to be filled in. The first essential was the blocking of the doorway, and to this Howard Carter personally attended. With his own hands he removed the wooden frame-work and the grilles with which the mouth of the tomb has been closed since it was first found and put in their place the balks with which it had to be blocked. About a score of these balks were used, some 63 inches long and 10 inches wide. They are of Turkish oak, the hardest week that could be found in the country and in between these were placed planks of plane wood. These planks were inserted owing to the vital necessity of protecting the tomb from any possible risk of inundation, the idea being that in the event of water getting through the rubble the plane wood would tend to strengthen the barrier. It was a most fascinating sight to watch Carter fitting these balks and planks, wedging each with little plank wood wedges, buttressing the whole with huge batons of similar wood, firmly lodged against the rock steps and finally secured with extra wedges. By the time he had finished—it was a three-hour job—Carter had completely covered up the actual entrance door and practically the whole mouth to within a foot of the rock above, with a barrier resembling an old fashioned sluice agte which, thanks to wonderful precision with which he had fitted in the pieces, should afford all possible resistance of attack, by elements or by human hands. Yesterday I briefly described the process of filling in the entrance to the mouth and well. It has been calculated that over seventeen hundred tons of sand, rock and rubble were used for this purpose. The rapidity and industry with which the four score of boys and men worked were remarkable. While about twenty diligently in the refuse beams on the other side of the roadway filling baskets as quickly as they were emptied, the remainder kept running in a continuous chain for several hours on end, to the peculiar sing-song chant without which Eastern laborers seem unable to work, dumping the contents of their ten-pound baskets into the well in a manner which made the small heaps increase to high mounds with almost magical speed in some such manner, though, of course, with a greater number, the Fellahin of those times must have toiled at the excavation and subsequent covering up of this very tomb thirty centuries ago. MARKS OF THE TOMB By tomorrow at noon the well of the outside shaft will have been competely filled up to the level of the connecting wall. The only outward and visible indications of the position of the sepulchral chamber where the King lies immured and surrounded by all his funerary paraphernalia will be the stonewall forming the parapet, and the klosk which has served as a temporary office in the well. This will be put back on top of the rubble. The tomb, which it will take at least three days to clear, will remain covered up until Autumn, when it will be possible to handle the mass of objects which still repose in the sepulchral chamber and the annex to this antichamber. "It is unfortunate that owing to the attention attracted by the discovery so much time has been taken up in showing round notable visitors who have applied in their hundreds to see the objects. Not only has this serious delayed the work but it has also en tailed such a great strain on the staff that now that the tomb has been closed it has become imperative for the safe of future work that they should all take a complete rest. It has therefore been decided to suspend all work for a week. Mr. Lucas leaves tonight for Cairo, Callender goes to Armant and Mace to Assuan Lord Carnarvon may possibly also go to Assuan to be joined there by Mr. Carter. Until to day week therefore there will be no activity at the tomb of King Tut-anka Amen and Seti II. The other day I mentioned that among the visitors to the tomb was Essayed Abdul Malakel the Diplomat Representative of the Hejez Government. He was most enthusiastic and declared to me that "the treasures for exceeded in beauty anything I had ever imagined." SOUTHERN WHITE MEN WILL TELL BUSINESS BEFORE THEY GET IN NEGRO HOMES NOW Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 27.—On account of the numerous outrages of the ku klux klan in southern States, Negroes are not taking any chances at night by opening the doors of their homes whenever anybody knocks with out first demanding who is there, what they want and why. Joe Loughridge, a southern white man, went to the home of Arnold Davis and sought entrance into the cabin. It is said that Loughridge went into that section to bring his wife back to Memphis. He is said to navy-become confused as to the address and knocked on the door of Davis' home. Davis demanded to know his name and what he wanted. Loughridge refused to give his name and demanded entrance. Several words followed. Davis opened the door and fired with a shotgun. Loughridge shouted for help. Later when police officials arrived at the Davis home they found Loughridge lying on the doorstep. The police say that the Negroes were afraid to open the door. Loughridge was taken to the hospital and after breaking down the door Davis was captured and brought to police headquarters. No charge has been placed against him. French Deny That Black Troops are in the Ruhr. (Preston News Service) Paris, France, Feb. 27.—Following a widely circulated report alleged to have eminated from Americans in France that Negro troops were sent in to the Rhr district official denial was made last Thursday night that any black troops of the Seventh French Colonial regiment lately have been sent to the Rhr district. Man is Killed Instantly When Caught in Flywheel (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 27.—Henry Anderson aged 45 years of Crawford St., was caught in a large revolving fly wheel while repairing a pipe in the Iron City Laundry last Wednesday afternoon being thrown against the wall and instantly killed. Screams of the hundreds of women workers in the laundry warned the engineer, who shut off the power but too late. Anderson's head was crushed, back and legs broken. Court Upholds Right to Raid the Ku Klux Klan. (Preston News Service) Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 28.—The validity of the police warrant to raid the klan headquarters was upheld by Judge G. C. Davis here last Monday in the hearing of W. M. Cortner, grand kleagle of the K. K. K. of Spring field charged with riotous conspiracy. Feeling is running high in this section and considerable interest is attracted by the case, for it is said that a large number of Springfield's most prominent citizens are on the roster of klan members. "Poison Pen" Mystery is Said to be Solved. "Poison Pen" Mystery is Said to be Solved. (Preston News Service) Centerville, Md., Feb. 27—Kent Island's "poison pen" mystery, which for four years has incited suspicion and hatred of many families in this district and at one time nearly resulted in a libel suit between two well-known Negro families here, was believed solved last Thursday when officials took Rev. Cyrus W. H. Briddell, pastor of the A. M. E. church at Kent Island, into custody. According to the police Briddell, aged 36 years, is alleged to have sent obscene letters into the homes of Kent Island's most highly respected young women and matrons. Kent is said to have made a complete confession when given a hearing in Baltimore before the federal authorities. It is said that four years ago Brilldell started the first of this series of letters. They were mailed from Baltimore and signed by different fictitious names. Pictures, both suggestive and obscene accompanied the writings. Some letters suggested meeting places and it was one of these that caused a family feud and nearly resulted in a legal suit. Lord Burnham Scoffs Idea of Selling Islands to U. S. Lord Burnham Scoffs Idea of Selling Islands to U. S. (Proston News Service) Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 28.—"Tuere are certain subjects that should be tabooed in the governing bodies of the English speaking states, and the sale and barter of organized communities of our fellow citizens, entitled to the same rights and privileges of the British commonwealth. Is one of them" declared Lord Burnham speaking at a public banquet given in honor of leading residents of Jamaica. "Just before I reached America I learned that Senator Reed, of Missouri and a few others advocated the purchase of the British West Indies by the government of the United States, or rather their appropriation as a part payment of the war debt. However, and happily there is not great paper nor responsible society in the United States that takes this matter seriously." he said. GO EASY! INCREASED TAXES WAR DEBT COST OF GOVERNMENT TAXPAYER The taxpayer has about all he can handle without adding any new stunts to the already difficult trick. Down South Hair Preparation I AM CALLING FOR 1,000 EXPERIENCED HAIR DRESSERS AND SELLING AGENTS WANTED. Prompt Attention Given to Customers Orders. Pressing Oil and Grower at Your Request. Price 500 Each MME. J. F. McDONALD or J. W. McDONALD Excelsior Springs, Missouri You Can Always Get the Goods. Speed, Do Not Hestate. Add Postage. ```markdown ``` Ku Klux Klan Denounced by Bishop Gailor. (Preston News Service) Chattanooga, Tenn. Feb. 27.—Bishop Gallor, head of the Episcopal church in America, in an address here last Tuesday denounced the kru kux kuan, declaring that he believed that groups of people who were obsessed with an antipathy for any certain social or religious class are doing more to spread discontent and disorder than any other thing in the United States today." The Bishop said that he is opposed to all groups of people who attempt by force to thrust their views upon other citizens of the country. " Klux Worse Than Boll Weevil" --Gov. Parker. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27—"To my mind the menace of the ku klux klan is even more dangerous to prosperity of our farmers that boll weevil. I am in the fight to the finish and believe it advisable to appoint some strong man in Louisiana who has more time than I have. I will gladly do all I can to help him." declared Governor John Parker in a message to Governor Hardwick regarding the latter's invitation to attend a conference of southern governors. Friendship Bapt. Church Gives Fine Radio Concert (Preston News Service) Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 26.—The Friendship Baptist church gave a splendid concert last Monday night over the radio. A musical critic commenting on the entertainment said, "The choir was at its best in 'Deep River' and its closing spirituals, 'Down By The Riverside' and Great Day.' Individual numbers included a splendid version of the folk song, 'My Lindy Lou,' by Miss Myrtle King Brown who arrived the program; 'Smilin Through' by Albert W. Dent, of Morehouse College, 'Martha' a violin solo by George Maddox, aged 14 of Atlanta University, with Miss Agnes Maddox, aged 12 at the piano; and other numbers by Miss Jessie L. Skinner, and Mrs. Jessie B. Hooper. Another effective number was 'The Rosary' sung by a quartet, including Mrs. Myrtle King Brown, Miss Jessie L. Homes, Johnnie Ford and Miss Susie Skinner." Ohio Lawmakers to Again Express Opinions of Klan (Preston News Service) Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 27.—The house of representatives will vote again on legislation aimed at the ku klux klan. This bill by Representative Harding, would make it illegal for members of a secret society to appear in public with masks hiding the face. His first bill, requiring secret societies to file a list of members with the secretary of State, was defeated in the House. Rev. P. A. Scott is Now Pastoring in Washington Washington, D. C., Feb. 28.—Rev. P. A. Scott, D. D. for a number of years a member of the Pittsburgh Conference of the A. M. E. church connection, has been transferred by Bishop J. Albert Johnson, from the Virginia conference to the Washington conference where he is pastoring St. James A. M. E. church. For a number of years he was the successful pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, Wylie Avenue Pittsburgh. 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The king in all of his royal splendor, arrayed in rich purple, was in charge, accompanied by his guards and attendants. The Senators in their togas made a fine appearance. Pythonas was there as also was the official headman and executioner, who insisted on bringing along his axe for emergencies. In all a most dazzling scene was presented for the cynosure of public eyes. Sir W. H. Willis, Grand Master-at-Arms, was master of ceremonies and the following program was rendered: UChurch Hills, wrythytrel, tshruldh Opening ode, the lodge; Scripture reading, Sir P. Christian; prayer by Sr Thomas Winston; welcome address, Deacon J. Montague; response, K. of R. and S., of North Star Lodge; biographical; sketch of the Order, Sir Euro E. Booker; solo, Sir Lee Jackson; select reading, Sir H. H. Flemming; solo, Sir Charles Burke; Remarks by Sisters Pauline W. Willis and Lucy Cross, local Deputy of the Courts of Calanthe; selection by the Sons and Daughters of Peace Quartette; offertory, Sirs D. L. Mayo and Thomas Jones; sermon, Dr. E. Payne; solo, Sir Samuel Dennis; remarks by Sir Shac. Flemming, the Chancellor Commander. Sr John H. Scott recited the story of Damon and Pythias graphically. Sir Charles E. Steward made remarks. The sermon by Dr. Payne was concise and logical, brimming with advice and common sense. Sisters Lucy Pollard, Letitia Stevens, Louise Franklin, Sarah Frayser Susie Jeter and Maude Price served as ushers. Committee in charge, Sirs Floyd, Jackson, Alex Franklin, D. B. Scott, David Lewis and James Williams. THE DOINGS OF THE Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. —boys and men for Christ. The hour for the class last Saturday at the building was very helpful and all were well paid for coming. Last Sunday was a day which was crowded with much service by the boys and men. 9:30 A. M. the hour for the get to gether meeting by the workers. 10 A. M. the meeting for the women in the penitentiary was a good one. The Armstrong High School Glee club directed by Prof. J. L. Nixon sang special songs and the women were much inspired. Glad to know that this club has such Christ-like Spirit. We thank you. The committees for the jail and city home were busy as usual 10 A.M. 4 P.M. a large crowd of boys gathered at the building and were given an address which was in keeping with the hour. Being Ready. Mr. R. J. Kenney delivered a very timely address to the men 5:30 P.M. Subject: Drifting. He gave many valuable thoughts which will produce much good fruit. The songs were sung from the soul. Today 5 P.M. at the building the class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. The workers to the building 9:30 A.M. for service. A special meeting for boys 4 P.M. at the Y. M. C. A. An open meeting for men 5:30 P. M. at the building. Led by Committeeman Leroy Frayser. Subject: Glorifying God. Come and help to make the hour a happy one. Remember that the Y. M. C. A. asks every home to remember the request for prayer. Debate The Principal Feature of the Vesper Program on Sunday Afternoon, March 11th at 5 O'Clock. The Religious Education Committee under the direction of Mrs. Susie Bowman Williams, will present the following debate at the Vesper Hour on Sunday afternoon. Resolved: "That Woman's Influence has been a Greater Factor in the Progress of Civilization than Man's." The very excellent speakers who will debate this question are: Affirmative: Mrs. Kate Gilpin Colson and Miss Sydney Mayo; Negative: Messrs. Wallace Jackson and Henry Peters. The judges are Miss Lillian Richmond and its Community Needs will be discussed at the Ebenezer Baptist church Sunday, March 11th at 3:30 P.M. Wanted! 2,000 Negro women and men to hear Richmond's Community needs discussed by some of the foremost citizens of Richmond. Music will be rendered by the Sabbath Glee club, Madame Briggs and others. The follow ing topics will be discussed. Better Hospital Facilities; The Deplorable Conditions in the Police Court; The Unjust Discrimination between the White and Colored Women Prisoners in the Police Stations; The Dark and Insanity Waiting Room for Colored People in the Juvenile Court Building; The Need of a Fulfillment, Paid Colored Probation Officer in the Juvenile Court, and other problems. If you are interested come. This meeting is being held under the Central Committee of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; Maggie L. Walker, Ora Brown Stokes, Ellie O. Waller Anna E. Blackwell, Marga rett R. Johnson, Lizzie E. Davis, Sylvia M. Scott, Ida E. Charity, Bettie G. Cousins; Lucille Barco. Bettie Muse; Susie Johnson. —Cogbill, Mary E. Carter; Edith L. Bradford and others. Watch the papers for the program. Frayser and Messrs. Bernard Allen and Lincoln Best. Among the musical numbers on the program are a solo by Mrs. Olivia Smith and spirituals led by Misses Louise and Mildred Johnson. The class in Sociology will begin its term on Monday. March 12th at 7 P. M. About fifteen members have enrolled in this class, the organization meeting having been heed on last Wednesday evening. Any one who wishes to enroll in this class may enroll before March 14th as registration closes on that date. Tuition Free. The program rendered by the Delver Literary Society at the Vesper service was one of the very best presented this year. It is needless to state that the large audience was especially delighted with the rendition of same. Among the numbers were a reading by Miss Louise Jackson; a short talk by Miss Maudestine Dangerfield; a vocal solo by Miss Ruth Evans and an instrumental solo by Miss Ruth Hucules. The Girl Reserves will present the Choral club and Barrett's Orchestra in "The New Minister" at the True Reformers Hall on Tuesday, March 27th at 8:15 P. M. Mrs. Marie E. Johnson. Director and Miss Louise Johnson. Manager, General Admission 25 cents. Reserved seats 35 cents. New members can register in the Dressmaking class conducted by Miss Marion Hayes anytime during the month of March. Miss Hayes is planning to open a class in advanced dress making which will include designing and draping combination of materials etc. if a sufficient number of members can be secured. If you are interested in this class let us know. The fee will be very reasonable and will be rated monthly. Among the guests at the "Y" this week were: Mrs. P. G. Shephard of Oxford, N. C., and Mrs. Marie Wilson of Chicago, Ill. ATTENTION! To the United Order of the Four and Twenty Elders and Friends. There will be a Great Get Together Meeting of the United Order of the Four and Twenty Elders, Sunday, March 25, 1923 at Price's Hall at 3 P. M. Every subordinate lodge of Richmond and South Richmond is urged to be present. A rare treat in store for all who attend. MAJOR JOHNSON, Chairman. M. C. TONEY, G. S. A. H. HUNTER, G. C. PORTERS BENEFICIAL CLUB HOLDS ANNUAL The Porters Beneficial Club held his 22nd anniversary last Sunday night at Sharon Baptist Church. The edifice was crowded. Rev. R. H. Johnson, pastor, delivered the sermon to the club using as his subject, "What Lacketh Thou?" The exercises were enjoyable. This club is one of the oldest and strongest in the city, with a membership around 150 and more than two thousand dollars in the treasury. The annual installation and banquet took place at St. Luke Hall Monday night. The following are the officers: Preston Johnson, president; William Goodman, vice; Percy Smith, financial secretary; W. W. Carter, recording secretary; Henry Taylor, Serget- arms; Oliver Thompson, treasurer. Banking committee, Harvey Payne Thomas Ewell, John J. Adams. --- —Contractor D. J. Farrar has suffered a relapse and his condition has been critical, but he is improving under the skillful treatment of Dr. William H. Hughes. —Mr. Le Roy E. Brown, Sr., has returned from Florida, much improved after his recent indisposition. —Mr. John M. Carter of Natural Bridge, Va., called on us this week. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Rev. J. E. Fountain Called to First Union Baptist. The First Union Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., has recently called to its pastorate, Rev. Jno. E. Fountain. B. Th. Sunday March 11th, pastor will preach at 11:30 A. M. Subject: The Invcible Power of the United Church. Members and friends are invited to hear this convincing speaker and gospel preacher. Committee: J. A. BOLLING. B. STITH. W. M. FLEMING. COMING TO FIFTH STREET. Dr. Charles S. Morris will conduct a week of preaching services at the Fifth Street Baptist church beginning March 19th thru the 23rd. Monday Night Subject: Did Man Come by Evolution from the Monkey? Tuesday—Is the Negro a Beast or Man; and What Does the Bible Say About It? Wednesday—What Think Ye of Christ? Whose Son is He, or is Jesus Christ Man or God? Thursday—The Devil's Closing Attack on the Christian Religion. Friday—The Bible and Its Enemies, or is It the Inspiring and Unerring Word of God? Can We Trust It from the first word in Gen. to the last word in Rev? The public is invited to hear him Benefit of the Building Fund. Rev. T. J. King, Pastor. * * * SERVICES AT SHARON. Sunday, March 11, 1923. Location: Corner Leigh and First Streets. 10:00 A. M. Sunday School Lesson: "Jesus in Gethsemane." 11:30 A. M. Preaching by the pastor Rev. R. H. Johnson, Jr., B. D., "The Divine Teacher." 3:30 P. M. Sacred Program, Mrs. H. E. Booker's Club. 6:00 P. M. Young People's Meeting. Evening Subject: "The Divinity of Christ." Regular Prayer service, (weekly Wednesday, 8:00 P. M. Pastor and Congregation desire to thank the Porters' Union Beneficial Club, its Auxiliary, and their friends, who filled every available seat last Sunday night on the occasion of the Club's twenty-second anniversary. Remarks of Chairman John Mabrey, President Horace Slater, and Founder R. A. Preston will linger in our memory and awaken us to our opportunity for service. Your words of commendation and concrete expressions of sympathy and support mean much in the upward struggle of this church. You are welcome to our services Sunday. The pastor will deliver two interesting messages on the much discussed subject of the Divinity of Christ. At a time when the doctrines of the Christian church are being asailed in every quarter, it is imperative that we have a restatement of the fundamentals of the religion of Jesus Christ. Let all doubts be removed by uncompromising Gospel sermons. Hear our pastor at these services. REVIVAL AT CATHOLIC CHURCH. There will be revival services at St. Joseph's Catholic Church all of next week, beginning Sunday. Each night special sermons will be delivered by noted priests. ```markdown ``` TOPICS FOR SUNDAY. Lesson Subject: "Jesus in Gethsemane" Luke 22:39-48, 54. Lesson Outline: 1. Jesus in the Garden, vs. 39-42. 2. Appearance of the Angel and Jesus' Agony, vs. 43-44. 3. The Sleeping Disciples, vs. 45-46. 4. Jesus Betrayed and Arrested, vs. 47, 48, 54. Young Peoples Topic: "The Stewardship of Self, Substance and Service," Matt. 25:14-30, I Pet. 4:10 FULTON NOTES. We were graced with the privilege of Mr. C. L. Drew of the Brook Road Baptist Sunday School last Sabbath. He was present in the interest of the Richmond Baptist Sunday School Union. The classes responded well to the usual program rendered every first Sunday morning. 11:30 A. M. Rev. Cobbs preached an excellent sermon. Subject: Render unto Caesar the things (that are Caesar's and vice versa to God. Two members were added to the church. Stirring songs were rendered by Reva. Fuller and Coleman. 3:30 P. M. we had a joyful communion service. Many visitors were present. Monday. March 5th, at 8 P. M. Rev. Cobbs delivered a soul stirring sermon. The occasion being a week of prayer preceding the revival services which will begin tomorrow night. Mon day night we had one convert. To-morrow services. Sunday School 9:30 A. M. Preaching. 11:30 A. M. and 9:30 P. M. B. Y. P. U. 6:30 P. M. The Easter rehearsal will be Friday evening at 7:00. P. M. All Sunday School scholars desiring to participate in this performance will be present at this time. The prayer meetings are increasing in attentance, yet there is an earnest appeal for a larger attendance. A special invitation is extended the young people to attend these meetings. Be on time next Friday at 8:00 P. M. the pastor will catechise the Sunday School lesson. Come early and get the full benefit of the lesson. Last Sunday at 3:00 P. M. the pastor preached at St. James. Mrs. Ella Hendly continues quite sick; others: Mrs. Gardener Ellis Mrs. Rosa Hill is improving; Mrs. Susie White and Mrs. Annie White. What's the Matter With Skipwith? He's Alright! Dear Editor:— Please permit me a small space in your well-read Journal to express to the public my thoughts of a very worthy character. I have been attending a revival here conducted by the Rev. W. H. Skipwith, B. D., noted in international Evangelist preacher and singer, and I must confess he exceeded my expectation. In the first place he doesn't know me personally, but a friend of mine from my home State (Alabama) heard the distinguished Evangelist some years ago and spoke so highly of him until I said, if perchance he comes my way I would go and look him over. So when he started a campaign here at the Vermont Avenue Baptist church December 31st I was among the first to hear his opening sermon and from that time until now I haven't missed over three or four sermons. After making some inquiry as to his birth place, etc., I found that he is a Virginian by birth, a Richmonder and a good old Baptist. As a Methodist, don't you know beloved, if the Rev. Dr Skipwith was of our church and connection a greater talk and noise would be made over him. To my mind there is not a greater evangelist preacher in this country, and as a singer he is in a class by him self. My impressions of him for these two months are very distinct; they are my honest convictions. He has a marvelous gift of making the way of salvation very plain; he preaches to the conscience with great power; he has greater power over men, grown men than any man I ever saw. He displays little fear of men, whether as dignitaries expounders of theological opinions etc., or not. He is a master of human nature, his earnestness is red hot. His hold on the people is phenom enal; if oratory consists in convincing and persuading people, making them remember his words and think his thoughts, then Evangelist Skipwitt is an orator of the highest order. I notice by the Norfolk Journal and Guide that when ever the young orator in the person of Mr. C. S. Morris Jr., comes to town a great meeting is put on for him; but here is a greater man than Morris, a preacher, a singer and evangelist of Christ. What kind of an ovation are you ministers and people giving him? Wake up Richmond, you Baptists also hear your own. "There is none like him." Come to Washington again brother Skipwith, stay three months next time and we will see to it that thousands will hear you. WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE? Read the book called "The Life of the Hebrews," and don't mind the heathen exalting themselves, because there be no original Jews but black people Even Jesus Christ Himself, was like a bottle in the smoke, and the only way that any other people can be Jews, that is they will have to be baptized into Jesus Christ. There are not but two nations, the Chosen people of God is one, and all the rest of the world is fulfilled in one word namely this (heathen). This book proves by the Bible that the Jews are black people, and they have got to go back to their own land again. And it also shows that the Bible is being destroyed by the heathen. This book is delivered by mail throughout the United States, price Fifteen Cents. Send one and two cent stamps, not money. Write your name and address plainly and mail to FLEMING AYTES, 1006-A Bacon St. Richmond, Va. I will send you a book free, containing a sermon, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which I wrote myself and I do firmly believe that I can beat any man on earth preaching the Gospel, and in the name of Jesus, I will heal the sick and raise the dead in a few days. No agents. Mall orders only. DO YOU KNOW THEM? 923 Quarrier Street', Charleston, W. Va. March 2, 1921. Chief of Richmond Police. Dear Sir—I am writing you to ask if you will kindly try and find my brother, who when last heard from was in your city. I cannot give any exact description of him as he was only a small boy when he left home. His name is Burnett Ransom, brown skin, 23 years old; born in Sewell, W. Va. We were all living at Sherwood, W. Va. when he left home about 1907 or 1908, with a colored man named Mason Briscoe. If you can get any information please notify me, or tell him to write either to his sister: MRS. JAMES COSBY, Box 74. Page W. Va. or his brother: THEO. R. Ransom, 923 Quarrier Street, Charleston W. Va. Thanking you kindly for any information or help you can give. THEO. RANSOM V. N. L. L. HAPPENINGS. Etricks, Va., March 2—The General Education Board at its meeting on February 23rd, contributed the surge of $36,000 to the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute for the purpose of repairing and equipping the recently acquired mall property for the use of a trade school. Lack of funds has greatly handicapped the Institution in its efforts to make its trade department measure up to the ideal set for it. This gift comes as a blessing and will serve to put the Institution in a position to offer the men of the race first class in construction in carpentry, sheeaking, tailoring, auto-mechanics house wiring, plumbing, etc. The address of Dr. Gandy on occasion of the memorial of Dr. Jones of Virginia Union University was very inspiring to the students of the University, Hartshorn Memorial College, and to the people of Richmond who attend el the services. This week has been known as Better Speech week at the Institute. It was impossible to give over the week of the 19th-23rd to this cause as it was music week. The conflict threw Better English Week late but it was observed with enthusiasm and profit. Each chapel period was given over to the English Department to put on a demonstration. Monday the third and fourth years of the High School gave a demonstration on letter writing and discussed the general subject of written English. On Tuesday this First and Second years of the High School demonstrated incorrect and correct oral speech and discussed the essentials of good oral English. On Wednesday the Normal School gave a demonstration of how to teach correct language habits to children through games. On Thursday the students of the High School and Normal School gave a program to emphasize the different types of speeches found in the best literature of England and America. The Training School held forth on Friday in a most enjoyable literary pageant. M. E. BRANCH, Institute Reporter EVANGELIST SKIPWITH HERE. Fredericksburg, Va., Shiloh Baptist Church, Rev. B. H. Hester, A. B., Pastor. The great and noted Evangelist preacher and singer is here. Already people are coming from distants of thirty and forty miles to hear this great man of God. Long before the regular hour of services we can see dust covered carriages and automobiles parking round and about our church. Sinners are being converted, christians revived, backsliders reclaim ed. Thus far sixty persons have united with the church, most of them for baptism. God only knows what the results will be by the time our brother closes. People are coming from Washington and Richmond to enjoy this spiritual feast. You are welcome. Come again. B. D. COL. CHAS. YOUNG'S (Continued from Page 1.) announced the early return of Colonel Young's body to this country for permanent interment in the Arlington National Cemetry. Preparations are being made by the Omega Psi Phi Fraetury of which Colonel Young was an active member, to participate in the burial ceremonies with the large number of other representative organizations that will do honor to this great American. 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