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This may be our last battle. We believe that it is the beginning of our final triumph. MAY 17, 1923 JOHN MITCHELL, JR THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XLI. NO.7 NEW YEAR FINDS N. A. A. C. P. BUSY ON THREE BIG CASES Three important cases have been sought lately by branches of the National Association, for the Advancement of Colored People. One of them is an extradition case, one a protest against the showing of the "Birth of a Nation" film, both in New Jersey; and the third is a civil rights case won for a co-credit in Des Moines, Iowa. EXTRADITION. The extradition case was fought in Trenton, for Siias Parmore for whom Governor Walker of Georgia had sent an extradition application to Governor Silizer of New Jersey. Although the Georgia Governor had given assurance that the colored man would be given a fair trial in Georgia and although Governor Silizer had said he would permit the man to be extradited to Georgia, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stopped the extradition by a writ of habeas corpus, Klemmer Kaitseleen and William D. Danbury attorneys appeared before Governor Silizer. Vice-Chancellor Backes as a result of the N. A. A. C. P. action has allowed a writ of habeas corpus on which argument will be held in Newark, New Jersey on December 26. "BIRTH OF NATION." Prompt and energetic action of the N. A. A. C. P. branch in Camden, New Jersey has resulted in the barring on "The Birth of a Nation" which had been scheduled for showing there. The picture has never been shown in Camden, owing to the N. A. A. C. P. efforts, though it has been exhibited in neighbouring towns. Irving T. Nutt of the Camden Branch N.A.A. C. P. seeing the announcement of the picture promptly communicated with the Director of Public Safety and with A. E. Flournoy Secretary of the Branch Executive Committee appeared before the Board of Censors to oppose showing of the picture. The Board then voted unanimously that the picture be not shown when the exhibitors claimed that noticeable features of the film have been removed, and claimed that the picture could be shown in every city and state in the Union. Mr. Nutt公文icated with the N.A.A. C. P. National Office in New York and obtained information of the barring of the film in various states and cities. As a consequence the film was detinately and finally barred in Camden. Mr. Nutt writes: "It is another victory for systematic and efficient organization." CIVIL RIGHTS IN DES MOINES. The Des Moines, Iowa Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reports that a court verdict has been rendered in favor of Miss Dottie Blagburn, a colored girl thrown out of a local theatre on November 11, 1923 because she was occupying a section that had been set apart for white people. The N. A. A. C. P. through its Legal Redress Committee co-operated with Mrs. Blagburn's attorneys. Messrs. Howard and Taylor and helped prosecute the case in the Municipal Court, on an indictment charging the theatre owner with violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Statute. On December 11, just one month after the violation, a jury composed exclusively of white persons returned a verdict of guilty against the theatre owner. The case was reported to the National Office by William E. Taylor, Secretary of the Des Moines Branch, N. A. A. C. P. PETITION COMPANY FOR COL ORED TELEPHONE OPERATORS (Preston News Service) Washington Dec.—Asserting that more telephones are used by Negroes in Washington than any other city in America, the Negro National Educational Congress has petitioned the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company for the employment of Negro girls as telephone operators and workers. The telegraph companies and their transit lines have received siml- requests from the Congress, of which Prof. Silas Harris is President. NEEDED EXTRA XMAS MONEY; WHERE HAS TO PAY HIS FINE. (Preston News Service) Kansas City, Mo. Dec.—A burning desire to have some extra Christmas money led Lloyd Mason to appropriate three baby buggies and four dolls from the stock room of his employer, sell them and forget to turn the proceeds over to the firm. As a result of which Mason was arrested and fined $50 on a vagrancy charge. Mrs. Mason paid the fine for her husband. MAN KILLS 5 BEFORE CAPTURE (Preston News Service) Greenville, Miss. Dec.—Josph Pul- len, alleged to have run a mock in Friday, killed five white men and wounded seven others before being rid- ed with bullets from a machine gun near Drew. It is said that the wounded men are in a serious condition. It is said that Pullen was employed by W. T. Sanders a wealthy plantar. An argument arose between them. Sanders is said to have told Pullen that he would kill him. Pullen went to his room secured a pistol. Sanders summoned aid and the battle began. --- MEANS NEXT TO NOTHING. (Charlotte, N. C. Star of Zion). We regret that the situation made Mr. Coolidge feel it necessary to make special reference to the Negro. It means next to nothing. The Negro's enemies will get more busy to hedge the President and Congress off from his resolve. An urgent mention of the anti-lynching bill would have been sufficient. MR. TERRY'S GOOD WISHES. December 27. 1923 Brockton, Mass. Richmond Planet. Richmond, Virginia. Attention of Mr. John Mitchell. Dear Mr. Mitchell: I regret very much that I did not see you while... Richmond recently I would have looked you up, but was given to understand that you were coming over to the University that evening however. I can readily see how but you must be these days. I am hoping that you will succeed with your present plans to re-open the Mechanics Savings Bank. I believe you have the sympathy of the majority of our people in this country, and that they still have confidence in you and in this great bank. I said in an address a little while ago that we, as a race have suffered a tew set backs here and there but let us n't be discouraged; let us keep faith in our leaders and promoters. We are not any different than any other race; the white men's banks and other businesses are falling every day somewhere, but many of them come back and are stronger than ever because of the faith men have in them. Trusting you are well, and wishing you a very happy and prosperous New Year. I remain. ```markdown ``` ELAM—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear mother, Francis Langhorne Elam, who departed this life two years ago, December 30, 1921 "She was one with soul divine, Whose heart was constant and true—One who was the same at all times, Dear Mother, that was you." Devoted daughter. JULIE, DANCE. MACON FARMER SHOOTS DOWN COLORED BOY: THEN FIRES BULLET IN OWN BRAIN. (Preston News Service) Macon, Ga., Jan. 2—Roy M. Aultman thirty-six, prominent Houston county farmer, shot himself in the head at his home near Dunbur, Ga. Tuesday after he discovered that he had killed a Negro boy Aultman died on the way to a hospital in the city. Aultman according to witnesses, had been drinking and became angry when Negroes to whom he had beer loaning money rode past his home in an automobile. He opened fire with a revolver upon the car and a small boy was killed. The farmer went to the automobile, viewed the body returned to the house and fired a bullet into his own brain RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1924 In Local Churches. DR W. T. JOHNSON PREACHES ON THE STAR IN THE EAST" A CHRISTMAS CANTATA. A large congregation was present at the First Baptist Church last Sunday morning. The massive white columns, the bright brass railing separating the rostrum from the choir gallery and the myriads of electric light never appeared to better advantage Church Clerk B. P. Vandervall read the notices, after which Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson, the pastor, announced that it had been decided to give 45 minutes of the service to the rendition of the choir. He was of the opinion that the congregation would prefer singing to preaching, so he would confine his sermon to from five to eight minutes and give the balance of the time to a rendition of a Christmas cantata, known as "The Eternal City." THE STAR IN THE EAST He took his text from Matthew 20 chapter, 1st and 2nd verses. His subject was, "The Star in the East." "This," said he, "has been a remarkable story throughout all time. When a boy six years old, I began to read this second chapter of Matthew. I was called to go over that story day by day, until it became fixed in my mind. We had a large family Bible at home with large letters and I read again and again this story. Without going over that story again, it would be well to spend a few moments calling your attention to the fact that the visit of the wise men shows us a lesson. THOSE MANY WAYS. "It shows the many ways God uses to call us out of the darkness into the marvelous light. The star was seen, but it spoke the language of God. The language was used to the wese men so that they could understand. These men had been studying astronomy, the stars, so God spoke to them in the language that they could understand. So today God speaks to men and women in a language that they can understand. The movement of the star was clearly miraculous. The men were led by it to the infant Christ, the Saviour of man, the Son of the Living God. THAT INFINITE POWER "We cannot understand the infinite power of this great God. He descended to send down His Son to save us. There was no way that we could help Him. He did it to help us. He came down to us, so that we could walk with Him and talk with Him. It is not for us to prescribe as to how God should bring souls to Christ. God will have a word and at the fitting time to open our eyes. God will have a star for us. When the time came, the star appeared and is led to Jesus Christ. If we will follow the opportunity, the star will lead us to Jesus Christ MISSED THE OPPORTUNITY "There are men walking around amongst us today, who had an opportunity to lift themselves above want, but they did not accept the opportunity. The star appeared, but they did not follow the star. The wise men had to go for hours, for days, for weeks, following the star and seeking Jesus Christ. We can) find the truth without earnestly seeking for the truth. These men had truth to start with, but they followed the truth and at the manger, they found the embodiment of truth. You and I must study from the beginning of our lives to the end of our days. There are so many things to be studied in connection with His ways They persevered until they found the new born King. MUST PERSEVERE. "So must we persevere until we find the new-born King. God gives to us all the necessary light, and if we will follow it, it will lead us to higher and better things. God gives to us all the necessary light, which if followed will lead us to higher, nobler and better things. Some word, some example, some passing inspiration of thought may be the means for you to work on, hope on until the end comes. Some passing example set by some Christian individual may be your star to guide you on to better things which you failed to follow. The text teaches us the real object of religious enquiry. FOLLOWING THE STAR. As these men went on, they were making an enquiry and they were following the star to find out, where Christ was born, so that, they could come and worship Him. Worship is the result of thought, affect on an awful. The man, who worships God truly is the man or woman who realizes his or her weakness. They recognize their unbound condition. Worship is much more than religious thought. It is the soul seeking the centre of the Universe. Who is the centre? [God. We are getting men so recognize the fact that God is the centre, around which, we must all revive. Our own hearts should be it rred and our souls should go out to God and our thoughts should be pure. WANTED HIM TO CONTINUE. Rev Dr. Johnson had concluded his sermon of five or eight minutes in about, twenty minutes and it was evident, that in his impressive manner of delivery, he could not stop and the congregation, that at times chimed in with his utterances, did not want him to stop. He vacated the pulpit and took a seat among the congregation, while the First Baptist Church Choir, the members of which were attired in white, proceeded to render the Christmas Cantata. Those participating in with Mrs. Nannie O. Cobb, as organist, were Mrs. Margaret R. Johnson, Mrs. Mildred A. Cross, Mrs. Lizzle G. Brown, Miss Antoinette Bowler, Miss Eva Coleman; Miss Gladys Lucas, Mrs. Cora E Hill, Mrs. Carrie C. Hawkins, Mss Messie Evans, Mrs. Amanda Smik M. Messrs. George Wilkerson, Stanley Davis, Samuel Gatewood, Robert Wilder, Jeremiah Scott and George Clay. CONGREGATION DELIGHTED. The congregation was delighted, some of the singers being evident f- avorites among those who heard them. A collection was lifted. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., was invited to say a word, after which the throne passed to the outside, still voicing their approval of the rare treat given to them during these morning's exercises. JOHN SHAW FOUND GUILTY; IS SENTENCED TO DEATH; (Porton News Service) Indianapolis, Jan. 4. — John Thomas Shaw was found guilty of first degree murder and his sentence fixed to death in the electric chair for the slaying of Helen Hager Wheelel, a white woman, by a jury in criminal court late Monday. The jury was out one hour 48 minutes. Date for carrying out the death penalty was not set. ROBERS FELL NEGRO; TAKE OVERCOAT AND CASH. (Preston News Service) Washington. Jan. 4—Charen Moore, 1713 4th street, Northwest, total Moore, 1713 4th street, Northwest, total of the third precinct he was struck on the head and dragged into an alley leading on Pennsylvania avenue near Washington Circle last night where he was robbed of $9.80 and overcoat. —Wise Ellis, who has been employed at Charles G. Jurgens's Sons establishment for more than a decade dressed Wednesday morning 2nd inst., to go to work at 8 o'clock when he was stricken with apoplexy dying that same day at 4:30. —Jesse Williams of 100 E. Leigh St. died Wednesday January 2nd after an indisposition of many months. —Rev. Edward Ellis Jr. who is rector of Trinity P. E. Church at Charlotteville and the St. Paul's P. E. Church at Gordonsville was in the city this week accompanying his Madame. He has charge of parochial schools in both places. —Rev. Thomas H. Briggs is still indisposed. —Mr. Lony Walker, of Everett Mass, formerly of this city, was a visitor here during the holidays and will remain here three or four weeks. He is the guest of relatives and friends. —Mrs. Gertrude Barrett Taylor, returned this week from an extended trip. —Rev. M. E. Davis, that able pil divine was in the city last Monday. He expressed his abiding faith in us and contributed $5.00 to the Mitchell Defense Fund. God bless him. —Mr. John D. Jones of Readville, Mass., sent us $2.00 as a Christmas gift for the Mitchell Defense Fund. He has our best wishes. ATTORNEY NEWSOME IN EMANCIPATION DAY ADDRESS Franklin Va. January 1.-Greeted by an immense crowd at Cool Spring Baptist Church Lawyer J. Thomas Newsome, of Newport News, Virginia, brought a cheering message on Emancipation Day to those who were fortunate enough to hear him. Among other things, the speaker said that on the First of January for the last twenty-five years he had been privileged to speak somewhere in the South on occasions similar to the one that brought him to Franklin and that during all of that time, he had never spoken under more favorable prospects for the future of the Negro people than this year of grace, 1924. The speaker reviewed at some length the progress of the Negro people, causing particular attention to the great reduction in the percentage of illiteracy among them, and cited figures showing what tremendous progress they have made in the acquisition of property since Emancipation. He spoke of the great men that the race has produced, but did not fail to point out many of the short-comings that still affect a large mass of the Negro people. Among the many things for which the Negro should rejoice on this Emancipation Day he declared was the fact that there is a steady decrease in mob violence and lynch law throughout the country, showing not only that the Negro himself is giving less occasion to provoke this assault upon the majesty of the law, but that there is also a growing public opinion against all forms of lawlessness, whether committed by the individual or the mob. He spoke particularly of the courts of justice, saying that while there were instances of prejudice manifested in the operation of some of the courts here and there, that it must be confessed that the higher courts of the various Southern States have demonstrated beyond question their determination to see to it that the Negro is dealt with fairly and justly in most matters coming before them for review. At this point, the speaker called attention to several cases coming before the Supreme Court of the State of Virginia in which Negro men had been given decisions where the interests of white men were involved, and he declared that it was really encouraging to the young Negro of character and worth to know that his rights will be protected whenever he is properly before our higher tribunals. Continuing his comment in the government of Virginia he said that the Old Dominion has been known throughout its history, with rare exceptions, for the broad mindedness and big-heartedness of the governors and that the present Governor of the State is as fine an example of a God-fearing executive as is to be found anywhere in the country. He spoke of one case in particular that had come under his observation where a Negro had been condemned to death for an assault upon a woman. The governor went into this case with great care, and although the time had passed for a review of it by the Supreme Court, he nevertheless, submitted the matter to members of the Supreme Court, and finally commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment. These evidences, he said, of Good Will as shown by those in authority in the State, should lead us to hope that race relationship should grow better and better until the Negro shall come into all the rights and privileges to which he is entitled as a citizen. Touching upon the exodus of the Negros from the South, he said that he did not concur, altogether in the opinion expressed by many that the Negro was leaving the South solely because of unjust treatment and lack of educational facilities for his children, for although those were factors which made him willing and anxious to go to a place where he might better those conditions his idea was that the main reason for his going was the opening up of fields of labor hitherto closed to him at better wages than the farmers of the South are able to pay. And the speaker here declared that every authorized law abiding Negro man or woman went to the markets of labor and used his brown and brain intelligently and faithfully as a missionary, making it possible for better times for his people everywhere. It is one of the means, said the speaker, in his belief, which God has used to impress the whole country with the value of the brother in black. For before a restriction was put upon him graft on which once made it possible for capital of the North. East and West to employ foreign labor at rather small wages it was the belief of a great many people that the Negro was stiffness, unreliable and unsteady as a laborer; but new that there is a restriction upon immigration, the Negro has gone into fields that had been closed to him, and is now demonstrating by his labor, that he is not only a good worker, but is a good American citizen loyal to his country in the time of peace, and ready to die for her when the trumpet calls to arms. The speaker reviewed at some length the great work that is being done by the inter racial movement which is spreading throughout the South. He said that this movement was bringing the foremost white men and the foremost Negro men together in conferences upon matters vital to both races, and each race is learning more respect for the other, is advancing along lines making for the good of both. He spoke of the general attitude of the Press of the South in their treatment of subjects pertaining to the Negro people, and said that he must be a blind or prejudiced man, be he white or black who could not see that there is a more determined effort being made to treat the Negro with fairness, encouraging him to respect himself and to feel that he is a man among man with the right to be respected by his neighbors. At this point, Lawyer Newsome paid a big tribute to the Editors of the Negro Press, calling them the pioneers who were blazing a way for the race by recording week after week its achievements in those things that are deemed by men signs of enduring progress. He urged the leaders of the Negro people to see to it that race papers and books are read by the Negroes, and pictures painted by them be placed in the homes of all our people, and order that the waits of our home be enamored with portraits of great characters as Frederick Douglas, John Mercer Langston and Booker T. Washington and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and others who have wrought mightily that the Negro may have a safe place in this world among the sons of men. JESSE BELL DIES OF BURNS. (Preston News Service) Harnett, N. C., Dec.—Jessie Bell, aged 7 years, died Monday night from burns received Sunday when his clothing caught fire fro man open fire-placed at the Boll home near Goodwin. The unfortunate child was in a room alone when his clothing, ignited and he was horribly burned before the flames could be extinguished by his older sister. This is the second child to have been burned to death in the same family about Christmas time. A six-year old girl was burned to death just before Christmas in 1907. The grief stricken parents declare that a curse must have been placed upon them. But the authorities have advised, them to put fenders around the open grates or abandon them and use modern stoves. DR. CHENAULT ON STATUS OF NEGRO IN THE SOUTH (Preston News Service) Lexington, Ky., Dec. —During these times when so much is being said and done regarding the condition of Negroes in this country and especially the South Dr. D. B. Chenault has the following to say in part regarding the status of the Negro in the South: "For many years my promiscuous outdoor work has brought me in contact with every phase and condition of southern life and customs and two prominent features are increasingly present: (1) The indifference and aloofness of the Negro toward the whites who have not achieved his material success and (2) the laudable but for many reasons impossible effort to emulate the financial status and ways of the best or most prominent white people. And these latter, by the way, constitute the most representative type of true American citizenship. And let it be known, no true southern Negro desires or insist upon 'social equality' or intermingling of the races notwithstanding the meddling and sinister designs of his brethren elsewhere. Conforming to the laws of his land and country, he is as free as air to make a living and provide a competency for his family, and congratulations, rather than envy and censure, reward his efforts." PRICE, FIVE CENTS POLICEMAN OFF DUTY KILLS A COLORED TRUCKMAN (Preston News Service) Washington D. C. Jan. 2.—Police man W. N. Settle of the Eighth precinct, after reprimanding a colored truckman who, the officer alleged was blocking the path of his automobile at Fifth and P streets Northwest, in the struggle which followed shot the colored truckman with a revolver which fell from the officer's pocket. In explanation Policeman Settle says that he was driving with a Mrs. Collins when the colored man refused to permit him to pass. The officer who was off duty at the time, got out of his machine and reprimanded the truckman for violating a traffic regulation. Officer Settle states that he considered the incident closed, but the truckman made an attack upon him and after a violent struggle on the slippery street Settle's gun dropped from his holster. In the struggle for its possession the officer reached the coveted weapon first and thereupon shot the colored man. This is officer Settle's explanation as given to the daily press. Inasmuch as Mrs. Collins who was riding with the officer, fainted during the combat there is apparently no other witness than Officer Settle, who sustained some minor injuries. The dead truckman was taken to the Morgue. SPECIAL FEATURES AT RAYO. New Management Books Two Famous Pictures For Opening Week. If the two feature Pictures booked at the Rayo Theatre, the peoples popular play-house on N. 2nd St. week of January the 7th are a criterion of what is to follow then the theatre goers of the race are surely going to get the cream of picture at the Rayo. For Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, January 7th 8th and 9th, the Feature Picture is a Hodkinson Super Six Reel production of Zane Grey's "Desert Gold," a thrilling romance of the eWess full of heart interest and thrills. On the same program will be the late a Fox News Pictures and a Snappy Two-Reel Comedy, entitled, "A Dog Gone Mixup." On the same bill will be Four Star Vaudeville Acts two from New York City, one from Philadelphia and one from Cincinnati. For the last half of the week Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the Feature Picture will be Harold Lloyd in his greatest Comedy Picture, "Dr. Jack which is undoubtedly one of the fastest, snappiest, most thrilling comedies made by this famous star. The Four Star Acts in Vaudeville will offer a complete change of acts on the last three rays of the week, and "Movie Chats" an interesting picture of the leading events of the world will also be on the program. Taking it all in, all it looks like a whale of a show at the Rayo, and the new management surely deserves success if they continue to give us shows like this. Monday night, January 7th, is the Regular Grand Opening night and 'ou Monday night everyone attending the Rayo will be presented free with a handsome couvenir, also there will be special speakers of prominence on hand to add to the occasion and Prof. Henry Watterson and his Deluxe Orchestra will be a permanent attraction at the Rayo. The management also announces that there will be three Big Special Nights every week. Tuesday night of each week will be Old Fashion Country Store Night, free greicles, cannot goods, hardware etc. Every Wednesday night will be Free Souvenir Night. Every one will be presented free with a souvenir each Wednesday night. Friday night of each week will be Contest Night Waltz Contests. Clog Contests Ple Eating Contests Opportunity Contests etc. Prizes to the winners. It certainly looks as if Mr. Droste the Lesser and Manager of the Rayo knows what kind of a show and entertainment to offer, because never before has such a varied combination of entertainment been offered on Second Street at the low prices charged at the Rayo. The Rayo is "Everybody's Theatre" so come on let's all go! EMPOBIA LUNCH ROOM. QUICK SERVICE. GOOD THINGS TO EAT. MAD.-5250-504 N. FIRST ST. Tragedy-unconscionable tragedy- found its victim in the Washington streets last Saturday, when an off- duty policeman shot and Killed a Negro truciman, whom the former had reprimanded for an alleged vio- lation of a traffic regulation. Hearsay evidence, reduced to its lowest analysis, by the white dailies of Wests shows that the po- liceman alighted from his automo- bile and reprimanded the Negro truck driver, who thereupon twe suppose the “felonious intent” is im- plied, inasmuch as the white press omitted reference to it -- oversight perhaps) sat upon the gallant officer who was not on duty, by the way, and COLORFUL NEWS “MOVIES” By “THE CAMERAMAN.” 1. YES, WE ARE NOT COLORED. 2. FARMERS AND FANCIES. 3. BETWEEN REELS. (Pres:on News Service) AGAIN the pemicious theory of “Yes, We Are Not Col- ored” is awakened from its slumber by an ambitious Washing- ton correspondent, who has written to the Cleveland Gazette about the Leslie Pinkney Hill-W. E. B. DuBois defense of the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Cheyney, for which a financial appeal was made along racial lines. ‘The informing correspondent says: “Many people are wondering how much the segregation of our children (in the great State of the Quak- er) in the public schools has influenced this generous donor to deny our boys admission to the proposed school. They see that Leslie Pinkney Hill’s movement (which Prof. W. E. B. DuBois defended) in the Pennsylvania State Normal Schools is not only influencing school appropriations from the public treasury, but that it is also coloring the minds of private philan- thropy as well.” Quite true, to be sure, and the tragedy has not yet reached its climax in the state of the great Thaddeus Stevens or in other Northern States where, for jobs and financial emoluments color- ful pioneers carried into a free atmosphere the traditions of segregation. ‘As President Coolidge ably said, in substance, local condi- tions largely govern the solution of local interracial problems. However, so zealous are some of the explorers of racial senti- ments to supplant a fact with a theory that local customs do not have an opportunity to assert themselves. Our ideals say that all men are equal, and, yet, the truth is that they are not always treated upon the basis of equality. There are com- munities, though, where such is the case, and where it is thus, “tis a tragedy that reformers bring to such free soil the customs and traditions of subordination and inequality. Let local customs govern the practices of leaders in these territories, and let not free soil become the fertile ground for the sewing of seeds of racial differences, lest they grow so large that we cannot remove them. What comparison can there be between a few jobs and a few dollars and positive freedom from customs which we criticise in the Southland. Thaddeus Stevens, abolitionist of Pennsylvania, said that he believed “in the equality of all men before God, their Creator.” SO DO WE. & AR SOME one has asked if Negro Farmers are deserting the soil for the soot. Sure, they are. They are beginning to fancy the whistle’s blow for lunch rather than the ring of Mother’s dinner bell. Having faced small profits and mortgaged crops for so long a time they have imbibed the adventuresome spirit of industry. They are willing to take a chance on congested housing, for the sake of a change. They know that eggs and pork chops are way up in the sky, financially speaking, but they are willing to pay the top prices of the consumers rather than to face the low profits of the producers. Urban life has ap- pealed to them, and neither rural nor suburban charms seem to be able to hold them. ‘Yecline in Mob Murders Laid to Agita tion for Federal Law and Mi- gfation, M‘rsissipp! and Wlorida Lead With 5 Hach. New York. December—Sharp decline tm the number of lynchings in the United States dvring the year 1923 the figure being 26 as against 61 fu Two “SHUFFLE ALONG” SPEEDS IT ALONG. Plenty of Good Material and Plenty of Talent at Academy Some three sessons ago “Shuttle Along” had ‘em all talking in New York; then it hit Chicago In the rig place; then Boston, and so on unt last season it was presented by a Toat company in Richmond. And here it is ugain for thee more performances £0: lowing that of last Thursday night al the Academy of Music. There at many changes in the cast but it's the same fast-stepping, intensely and in: tensively syncopated, ragged and geu eraily Jazzed “Shuffle Along.” who. east and chorus range from the high- es. yellow to the blackest black that ‘wurnt cork ean produce. In some re. speets, it’s a better show than last sea- son's, in that the chorus number is m creased by several and the orchestri is enlarged to ten including a genius with drums and traps and the same zble director, T. L. Corwell who helD ed to keep them all racing last season Maybe almost certainly. the bis house last night had something to do with it. Whether it bad or not, Géorge Cohan himself never worked a show vith any more speed, zest and appar- ent enthusiaym than these colored anen and women displayed last night. Strat ther stuff? Why. they didn’t do vnything different, and they strutted twenty times while the saxopton® moaned once. There is also an actor of sor’s_m the cast. His name is Al F. Watts; REASONABLE FORCE. what his real coler is this column ha’ no means of determining; but in his character he is not a eOlored man not a Negro, but just 4 big gangling, black “nigger” whose comedy appeals as resistibly to the balcony and gallery is it does to the orshestra. Last night's uidience was ls. much amused: Dy he big man’s little partner. Edg?t Connors. who has the same role he had Inst season. When prineipats and chorus get Cown to the serious task of singing and dancing jazz as it should be sung and Ganeed the whole yf Tin Pan a+ tey can’t write music fas: eoomgh for them. There’s plenty of good material and there’s plenty of talent; ‘Sout fle Along” the two are combined and everybody steps on the gas. (Times Dispatch, Richmond, Va., December 28. 1923.) DOUGLAS GORDON. 26 LYNOHINGS IN 1923, AGAINST 61 DURING 1922. a THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINL in self defense the protectorate of lew and order, particularly of the hishways--for that’s where a police- man spends most of his time, except- ing when the weather is very cold-- shot the lowly but exasperor ne truck driver. {By the way, truck drivers are usually the most expert automo- bile drivers of all.) The only wit- ness whom the Ne might have had was himself, and he is dead. The lady companion of the officer fainted before the tragedy occurred. The law allows to every man the usage of a reasonable degree of force when repelling an invader of his person or property. In this case, we suppose we are to take cognizance of In Raleigh, N. C., we met one. He had sold his life estate in some shoats, which he had been buying at fifty cents down and fifty cents per month, per capita, for a chance to go to “D't:cit” and lea how to make carbureters, In Boswell, Va. we met half a dozen race farmers who were toxsaking the plow “permanently”, they said, for the factory. The fairest picture that can be painted of the Negro farm situation must display a minature tragedy. Where are their profits? Where is their capital? Can their equipment be re- plenished? Can they be financed pending this era of readjust- ment between Capital and Labor? Racial wealth cannot give them succor. It is not strong enough, Racial investments are principally in house rent, food and clothing, and not along promotional lines, unless it be the “Back- To-Africa” plan of Mr. Garvey. We may as well admit that race farmers are discouraged. National organization is the only thing that may save them. They fancy the “‘movies” and other urban excitement. Their milk is almost creamless, now. It’s skimmed, in fact, by the fellows who have failed to give them a square deal. & RR Schools of Hopkinsville, Ky., closed for:half day on the day of the funeral of the late Phil H. Brown, U. S. Commissioner of Conciliation. The Pennsylvania State Board of Welfare is taking a long step forward in announcing a conference upon the social needs of its citizens. “Tt can be done!” Roland Hayes, accompanied by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has sung away fifty years of pre- judices, musically speaking. Garbed in steel spikes, Stanley Carlson (white) of St. Paul, has announced his intention of departing for Ontario to fight wolves. Ku Klux Klan, please take notice. Charles West, Negro football star of Washington and Jef- ferson College, Pennsylvania, graduates next year, whereby Washington aud Lee University, of Virginia, may breathe more easily, traditionally speaking. ; With Cleveland as the place of the coming Republican Na- tional Convention, the colored Democratic clique of Chicago will be minus much of its gusty platitudious ponderosities. fl Colored railroad workers on southem lines, encouraged by the wage reimbursements recently awarded by the Railroad Labor Board to shopmen of the Pennsylvania Railroad, are hoping that some similar grant may be made to them in the near future. 1922 was laid to the agitation for a Federai anti-lynching law, and to the northward migration of Negroes. in 2 statement today by James Weldon Johnson Secretary of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Col ored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, New York. Mississippi and Florida lead the | list of lynching states with 5 mob mar ders czek. Georgia is second with 4. Oklaboma is third with 3. Arkaneas. | Alabama and Texas have 2 each. Other states in which one lyncbing occurred are: Louisiana. Missouri and Virgin. in Only 7 out of the 26 persons were charged with assault upon women, and in the case of one of the seven the janitor of the University of Missourl. Brave doubt was subsequently cast ap ‘on the guilt of the mob’s victim. utt- er offenses for which lynchings occur ed include: m’steken identity aiding in escape, associating with white we men, being in an automobile accident. remaining in a town where Negroes were not wanted and frightenine white children by walking harmlessly along a country road. Two of the vie- tims of lynching mobs were white mon One colored woman was lynched in Pickens Missiesippl. “Two main causes brought about ti decline in lynching in 1923.” «hic Mr. Johnson. “First was the agitation on thie floor of Congress. and throughout the country for « federal ant{-lynch- Ing bill, the measure introduced by Mr. Dyer passing the last House of Representatives by a vote of 230 319. ‘Hhe eevond main cause was the the ever rebuttable presumption that the officer’s Colt was an instrument- ality of a reasonable degree of force in repelling the invasion of the truck driver toward whom, however, the gallant policeman took the first an- gry step--that is, according to the hearsay evidence exhibited to the white daily papers. (If you don't Know how strong, or rather, how WEAK HEARSAY EVIDENCE IS, go look into an American oe) Reasonable force is the child of a mind which is the source of reason- able intent. Unreasonable force can never flow from a mind which har- bors only reasonable inteat. Impos- sible. Just as impossible as it is to northward migration of Negroes by the bundreds of thousands. This has borne in on the South that lynching will have to be stopped if the best la bor the South can get for its planta- tions and industries is to he retained Prospects for the enactment of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in the pres- unt Congress are excellent, in the light Uf President Coolidge’s anti-lynching pronouncement in his message to Con gress. It 1 to he hoped that in a very few years the crime of lynching will nave been completely wiped out in America.” WOMAN AGED 102 DYING FROM GRIEF, (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C—Mrs. Carrie ‘Thomas aged 102 years was taken to Rmergency hospital Friday suffering from old age. But the nurtes declare that she is suffering from grief. On Thursday ber son, Millege Thomas. aged 85 years was buried, having died cn Wednesday morning. When they \ook his body away Mrs. Thomas sat rocking in 2 chair and crying. Later in the day neighbors went to her home and found her +tili sitting in the chair but she was unconscious, She fs clatm ed to be the oldest person in the Dis trict of Columbia, The nurses at the hospital say that she is simply grief- ‘rteken . ATP TA CAIN PPEENAM BOP THE BOTSTON MARTYR: PETITION To the President of the United States: WE, the undersigned citizens of the United States, do respectfully petition that by exercise of the power of Executive Clemency you pardon and restore to citizenship the members of the 24th U. S. Infantry now tecving life and long-term sentences in the Federal Prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, convicted in connection ‘with the riots at Houston, Texas, in August, 1917. ‘We 00 petition because of erent prime in, tidy tt of ny ee as Sra nap Ft et a et es wens ie slot of he Died State Any and waa to be sent.to France to fight ate oe eee chy lta pep pnt ee ery Gat st“ fares ere reer See City and State nnn AR ‘ADDRESS | NAME ADDRESS ieee eae Lee ee (Sue es ee es so ue cee ee ee SSS | oneaverions ae cece lab, civie or other club which wishes to aid in gathering sig- ‘natures to the petition has full permission to print copies of SEI deems ne este se ach Sohal ma teemr ae coleases Da rate ieta eis Sire ces oan ee tee eonnartnsion tetra oath ie perce Se eater oe serrate eet sata ‘This should be done promplly. Remember, every signature See years have been unjastiy imprisoned. Do your part towards eater Individoals may help by clipping the above form, signing it See a Ss Ter === NOTE—Whes necessary use Hine underneath signature for address: GIRL MOTHER FREED OF MUR- DER CHARGE THANKS JURY WITH BABE IN ARMS, peer tear Cran eens aerate Pitisburgh, Pa. Dec—A verdict ot seouittal was returned by a jury J criminal court Thursday afternoon in ‘n> case of Mrs, Laressa Hall, aged 20 ycars on trial before Judge Quigley on the charge of having shot and killet xobert Houlingswerth, June 9th, last. ‘he body of Hollingsworth was found the morning of June 9th beside the (eneks of the Pennsylvania Hatlrow: Company in the Brilliant cut-off Wh?n the verdict was announced Mrs, Hatt “aeped her siX-Veeks-old baby in het <P57} ani wept bitterly and in broxe® oes she thanked the jury. while Der mother Mrs. Lillian White, became ayeterieal with jcy and was unable to contro! her emotion until after she was remoyed to an ante-room. The rounsel for defense was Attornes George H. White, Jr. son of forme. Congre'smin George H. White an¢ later 2 banker in Philadelphia. DUEL FOUGHT OVER $2 DEBT IN TOLEDO, ‘(Pecakcas Maws Gavclea’: Teledo, Ohfo, Dec.—Both _partici- nants in a duel over a debt of $2 are Jead as the result of wounds received ‘luring the un-seconded contest. The dead men ere: John Anderson. aged 39 us ATP TA CAIN FY hat tascramble cps. nt- The remediless tragedy has passed rce on. A black man was carried to the ich morgue, dead. His body had been the made the playground of a bullet from an- a gun held by a hand which was the guided by the brain of a dispenser of the law and order. So anxious was the n't dispenser of law and order to do his ow “stuff” that he climbed from his car go and took steps toward the humble truck driver. So hearsay says--we fa don’t Know. We can only think, and on- we do Know that hearsay is always an amenable to searching inquiries. ar- Hence, we wonder why off-duty 0S- policemen carzy guns. to (Cone'uded on Page 8.) yeare, who died ina ete ae “Scnny” sd 35 Pearce casesidiiinavetlaecuntot ions SHILISE Acts at once (f blood. Cook died two days later in —- the St. Vineent hospital. ‘The shoot- Stops Colds in 24 Hours ing affray took place Sunday after-| p's Cascara Bromide Quinine gives noon. quicker relief than any other cold or ia grippe remedy. Tablets disintegrate ia _ 10 seconds. Effectiveness proved in ‘millions of cases. Demand red box bear- NOT WHAT WAS HOPED ing Mr. } Hill's Portrait. All druggists— (Louisville, Ky., Lender.) In delivering his message to Con- gress, President Coolidge broke his st- leace bt not to thé extent of the Ne- gro population having better undcr- standing of him with the exeeption per Laps of those of Massachusetts. His gpeech in a meesure courageous ant comparing favorably with thove deliv: ered by any of his predecessors, was nevertheless not what the Negro leat ers had hoped for and expected. And the President has come up for more comment and spe.ulation on the part of Negroes, since delivering bis mes- sage than ever before. ——-2- VIRGIL PICKEL SENTENCED TO PENITENTIARY FOR LIFE. fOractan Nawe Sary'ce ) Toledo Ohio Dec—Virgil Picke? convicted of second degree murder by « jury in common pleas court recen*ly was sentenced to life imprisonment jin the Ohio State penitentiary late a PENAM BOP THE P THILISCActs at once us Stops Colds in 24 Hours Pe ees Auicker relief than any other cold or ia gripe remedy. Tablets disintegrate ia eulbpsoceses Teceattelnee ears ing Me His porte. All druggists— | illig om CASCARA 5, QUININE HL Pugin OT AGENTS: 86 Fis"? ° ARB OP meester igaNn al fore Ader ‘Sle overs [nce Eee Biedemad Bigtesar pe PMO CS} wteeen, gee wea ee eS . pean Ore. <a ‘Tuesday by Judge Lloyd. Pickel wat convicted of killing Welcome Comstocit in an Erfe stree* soft drink palace au. ing a brawl Will The Republican Party Commit Suicide? JOHN E. MILHOLLAND ANALYZES PRESENT DAY POLITICAL CONDITIONS AFFECTING COLORED PEOPLE IN OPEN LETTER TO CHAIRMAN ADAMS OF REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE. The Republican National Committee met in Washington, D.C. last month. One of the strongest arguments in behalf of the Colored Citizens of the United States brought to the attention of the Committee was the open letter of that outstanding Republican, Hon. John E. Milholland, who was at one time Eastern Secretary of the Republican National Committee. This letter had a most potent effect in reinforcing the argument of Senator George Wharton Pepper in the reconsideration of the report of the sub-committee concerning the reduction of Southern representation in the Republican National Convention. It is the keenest analysis yet made of present day political conditions affecting the Negro. The letter as drafted by Mr. Milholland and sent to each member of the Executive Committee and forwarded to all of the press bureaus was as follows: Washington, D. C. Hotel Lafayette December 10, 1923. Hon. John T. Adams, Chairman. Republican National Committee. Munsey Building. Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Chairman: The Republican Party should be continued in the power of administering this Government. It is in the best interests of the country that this should be so, because the Republican Party is the most fit agency to protect and develop the United States and to rehabilitate a wrecked civilization such as now confronts the world, with no end in sight of the unparalleled demoralization. I want to see Republicans win in the coming election. Their success is a transcendent importance, and because it is and because the outlook is far from satisfactory. I venture to address you and your able colleagues in this way, at the threshold of your observations recognizing you as the responsible managers of the Republican Party. In the forty years that I have been a participant in Republican actives never have I seen the prospects more uncertain or more unsatisfactory. The situation has been made even more pecious by the announced intention of the Republican Nat. Committee to cut down the representation of Southern states in the National Convention, thereby offending and alienating ban credits of thousands of loyal Negro voters in the pivotal states of the North and West who rightly regard such action as not only a flagrant departure from truly Republican principles and traditions but as a cowardly surrender to race prejudice and "Lily-WMteism."—thus actually placing a premium upon the distranchising laws of the Southern states which are in shameful defiance of the Constitution—are a fraudulent restraint upon liberty—render representative government ridiculous and were so intended by their authors. This is said without the slightest desire to induce in any unwarranted criticism or conventional misfiring or to sound any unnecessary note of alarm. As fellow-workers eager for harmony and party success—with all of our intense partisanship we must recognize that after all, good government,—l.e., the widest possible dispen CHICAGO NOTES. Mrs. M. Emery. 1253 N. Wells street has returned to the city from a visit of seven weeks, with her brothers John and Collex Ford at Brunswick Mo. her old home town, where she spent a pleasant stay. Attorney Walter M. Farmer. 184 W. Washington street who has been ill and confined to his home for the past week is able to be out again and back at his desk feeling much improved. New Light Missionary Baptist church of which Rev. G. W. Jones formerly of Arkansas is pastor holds services at Bailie's Hall. 3638 State St. every Sunay at 11:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. at which time the public is cordially invited to be present. The various councils of A. U. K. and D. of A., of Illinois and jurisdiction over which Mrs. Eliza Jackson presides as state grand queen held a successful six days indoor carnival at Entertainer's Hall and the officers are pleased with early reports. Mrs. Ora Williamson and sister Mrs. Nicy Lucas 11425 S. Throop Morgan Park are preparing to go to St. Louis Mo. where they will spend the Christmas holidays with their mother, Mrs. Sallie McCamey and other relatives. North Star Lodge No. 57 U. B. F. mec in its final meeting of the year on December 12th and after regular routines of business held election of officers for the ensuing year. Principal officers elected were: J. B. Street, worthy master; Andrew Keeling deputy master; M. T. Bailey secretary; Solomon Thomas, treasurer. These officers with others will be installed in a public meeting January 2nd. Dt. Lucy Hollins founded Maple sation of Justice and Liberty, is the object worthy of our best efforts. Three years ago Warren G. Harding was elected President of the United States by 7 000 000 majority. The very next year New York City was lost to Mayor New York City was lost to Mayor Hylan by nearly a quarter of a million votes. As the national administration had been foolishly drawn into the local fight by identification with the most unpopular traction issue, it suffered as cordially and Warren Harding's administration sustained its first humming defeat. A year later the same local issue came up again in the state election and again the Republican National Party was dragged into it with an even more disastrous result—the majority of Governor Smith being half a million! The result is that we have to face the grim, tormenting fact that the great pivotal commonwealth of New York which was carried by such an overwhelming tidal wave in 1920, is to day in the Democratic column, with all the significance attached to the fairly well established slogan, that rests on more than mere tradition: "As New York goes, so goes the Nation." Is that not, Mr. Chairman, cause for a certain amount of healthy anxiety on the part of every clear-visioned Republican? Is such management not a matter of grave concern? Doesn't it make you think twice? You may say that the man who carried New York against us, Governor Smith, of that Commonwealth, will not be nominated by his party, because of his religious faith and his position on the liquor question but, while that may be true, it is too shallow an argument to put forward because "Al" Smith on the Democratic ticket as anti-prohibition President or Vice-President, is a very important factor, and every one of you know it. I can well remember when the question of electing a Catholic, even as Mayor of New York, was considered extremely hazardous. I have seen Catholic after Catholic in that position as I have seen them in the United States Senate in the Capitol and on the Supreme Court, until I was not surprised to hear Governor Smith himself say the other day: "Nice one is troubled about my church affiliations, except the Catholics themselves." THE NEGRO VOTE. But there is another factor in the New York situation which Republican Seaf Council A. U. K. and D. of A. which was organized and set to work member 8th with a large membership by Dt. Elliza Jackson state grand queen, assisted by others, was made most excellent queen of the Council. Mrs. Eliza Jackson. 3739 Elmwood, avenue state grand queen of Illinois and most excellent queen of Egypt Council A. U. K. and D. of A. has returned to the city from an extended trip of six weeks with relatives and friends in Richmond Peterburg and other cities in Virginia, as well as spending some time in Washington. D. C. While in Virginia Mrs. Jackson helped in creating more interest cowerning the work of A. U. K. and D. of A. in that section. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Young 4114 Calum met avenue entertained several friends at dinner on last Sunday. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Robinson. Mrs. Florence Masterson. Mrs. Corie Day and Ambrose H. Robinson of Milwaukee Wis. Attorney A. Morris Williams Imperial Regent of the Knights and Daughters of Honor with headquarters at Springfield, Illinois made a flying trip to the city during the past week on official business. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kinney 3142 Calum met avenue are home from a trip to southern Illinois where they spent three weeks with their parents other relatives and friends. They also visited St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Ella G. B. Gerry D. G. W. R. of Households of Ruth of Illinois and jurisdiction organized a new household of Ruth at University of Musc 33th and Michigan Avenue, on November 30th. Households of Ruth are grown in this jurisdiction. Among the many visitors in Morgan Park on last Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan Wallard. David L. Jace THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA leaders seem to have overlooked entirely. I refer to the Negro vote. Formerly this was reckoned from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five thousand and votes, but with five hundred thousand and colored people who have come from the South in the last few years. this vote has been swelled to nearly double that number—it is approximately two hundred thousand. This is supposedly a Republican asset, but clever Democratic leadership is rapidly converting it into a Republican liability, and an asset of Democracy. You may scott at this, but look at the facts. Tammany Hall elected a Negro to the Board of Aldermen in the last local election. Another was sent to the Legislature, and both were chosen out of Republican strongholds, which went all to pieces last year. The appointing and electing colored men get startling results. In the Harlem Black Belt go Republican mass meetings worth men tioning were hgld. "AI" Smith sweep everything before him. It looks as though he might do so again. At all events Republican leadership is giving him every encouragement in the campaign, which he is steadily carrying over all the state and city for Black votes. Many years ago out of my experience as the Eastern Secretary of the Republican National Committee I wrote, or rather compiled a pamphlet, for it was a matter of official facts and indisputable tabulated statements from record. In that publication I showed what the United States owed to the Negro vote since the war, inasmuch as it had given the Republican Party every victory it had won on the political battlefields since 1868, when Grant and Coxaf shattered the hopes of the Democratic Party, who, under the leadership of Seymour and Blair were declaring a failure and all that sort of rebel charter. From that campaign down to the present hour, except in two instances, it's has held true. The two instances were: Roosevelt's overwhelming victory, the other that of the landlords which swept Harding into office by a majority unprecedented in American history. Since Harding's election, however, the situation has changed materially. With a scorn of consequences unparalleled unsurpassed by any people of color, since little Japan stood up in reckless defiance of the colossal Russian Empire, the Negro has stood up in self-assertion unequal in his history as the faithful ally of the Republican Party. This remark needs no illustration particularly to you, for you know all son and Mrs. Gaskins. Egypt Council 112. A. U. K. and D. of A. held its sixth anniversary exercises on November 27th at Harmony Hall at which time a large audience was present and listened to a splendid program. Mrs. Eliza Jackson, most excellent queen returned to the city in time to address the meeting. Many local national, state and grand offices were present. Beautiful presents were given the officers for their splendid work. Mrs. Elizabeth Rochon, most excellent queen of Thebes Council. A. U. K. and D. of A. prominent fraternal worker in this city is home from Washington D. C. where she spent four weeks with a sick relative. M. T. Bailey, president the Bailie Realty Co., and manager the Milton Meruantile Agency. 3638 State St. be- been elected delegate to Baltimore Md. to the national grand council of Knights and Daughters of Honor from the state grand council of Illinois in 1924 and placed at the head of the transportation department. JOYRIDERS DRIVE INTO CRIPPLE (Preston News Service) Washington, D.C., Dec.—Without *pursuing to see if their victim was in injured, joy riders "stepped on the gas" and drove on after running down a crippled colored man. The injured man Joseph Wilson, was taken to Freedmen's hospital and treated for a broken arm an addition to his already crippled body. --- HOMESTEAD PASTOR PRESENTED PURSE BY CONGREGATION. (Preston News Service) Homestead, Fau., Dec.-Rev. M. A. Talley pastor of Clark Memorial Baptist Church here, was presented with a purse of $1,000 last Thursday night by members of the congregation at a banquet celebrating the successful administration of Rev. Talley during the building of new church edifice said to be one of the finest in Western Pennsylvania. More than a thousand members and friends attended the affair. The principal speaker of the evening was Rev. C. E. A-kew, pastor of Good Hope Baptist Church of Pittsburgh. CHILD DIES FROM BURNS. Pittsburgh Pa. Dec.-Little Mary L. Newman, aged 3-years, died Friday night as a result of burns suffered when her clothing ignited at an open grate in her home Thursday morning. She died in the West Penn hospital. WOMEN BEAT EACHER AFTER A BOX IS PUNISHED. Pittsburgh Pa. .. Dec.-Mrs. Myrtle McGee and Mrs. Anna Grant were held for court under $1,000 ball in morate court last Friday on the charge of having attacked Miss Bertha E. Elliott, principal of Luckey School No. 1. The women testified that Miss Elliott disminated against their brother a pupil. It is said that the boy was indudent and when the teacher attempted to admonish him he is a lied to have become abusive whereupon the principal administered punishment to him. His sisters heard of it that night and the next day they went to the school building and began their tirade upon the principal. Miss Elliott ordered the women to leave the school building on account of the language they were using. At this time the women attacked Miss Elliott striking her in the face and fled from the building. about the defeat of Senator Frelinghuysen over in New Jersey, because he failed to take a satisfactory stand on the Dyer Bill and you know what happened over in Delaware to Congressman Leyton and United States Senator Du Pont, although the latter had been looked-upon as one of the strongest friends of the colored people. But I remind you of what happened a little further away, yet still more impressive in character. I refer to one overthrow of the Republican Party in Chicago this last spring, and the very important part in that overthrow play by the Negro. one hundred of whose ministers banded themselves together to support the Democratic candidates for Mayor, not because they and their congregations had suddenly become Democrats but because they had determined to rebuke the Republican Party for the way it had treated them. Coming back East, we find another revolution to which I have alluded in New York City. The Democrats are after the Negro vote. Recognizing the colored vote as an important factor, the wideawake leaders of Tammany Hall catered to it as they did to the East Side Jews years ago, to the liquor saloons, to the Slav and Polak and to any other element of the population that could be depended on at the polls, in return for favors extended. What is going on here under Murphy is being repeated in Indiana where Tom Taggart has always looked after the colored voters most carefully, and out in Illinois where between 250,000 and 300,000 colored voters are located and have a way of asserting themselves that must be appalling for such a clear, hard-headed leader as you to contemplate. You surely remember that even Martin Madden's own constitutency (eight seven per cent black) heretofore always solid, which with the aid of those valiant pillars of democracy. "Hinky Dink" and "Bath House John," he has for years carried in his vest pocket broke away from the leaders, and had he been on the ticket, he would have been swept down in an awful landslide which he escaped because it was his off Congressional year in politics. Connecticut and every other close state controlled by the black vote is being lined up by the Democratic leaders regardless of any color line and utterly indifferent to the prejudice of their Southern brethren who are given to understand that Northern Democrats are concerned very little about the feelings of Dixie. If you say that you are more concerned abut other delegates to the coming Nat. Republics Con theny my an- (Preston News Service) RAYO OPENS MONDAY. A Gala Program Promised By New Management. While the preliminary opening of the Iayo Theatre with the Super Photo Play "Restitution" occurred on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 3 and 5 the formal grand opening will take place on Monday night January the 7th at 7 o'clock. "Manager Droste when seen at the Rey stated: 'I'm too busy getting the Theatre in shape to tell you much about the opening show, anyway it's a surprise, all I can say to you is be here Monday night and try to get! Come any night next week or any night any other week and I'll guarantee you the best show you ever saw for the money." Things are humming down at the Rayo cleaners are busy all over the place cleaning, dusting scrubbing and polishing. New draperies are being hung new lighting arrangements installed a comfortable Rest Room for ladies and children has been tastefully arranged the heating system thoroughly renovated assuring a comfortable warmth all over the house, the projection department has been entirely over housed so as to present the pictures to the very best possible advantage painter are busy redecorating interior and by next Monday the Rayo Theatre will be a place of amusement to be proud of. Several speakers of prominence have been invited to be the guests of the Management on next Monday evening for the formal opening, and appropriate speeches of welcome and good wishes will be made. There will be no Matinee on Monday January 7th in order to allow all the time possible to put the theatre in readiness for the Grand Opening Monday night. The door will be open at 6:30 Monday evening 7th and the Formal Opening Program will start at 7 o'clock. swer is this situation must concern you very much. Especially you who have announced yourselves for President Coolidge. President Coolidge knows that the great states for delegates are Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois, and each of these and all of these are in the last analysis, controlled by the colored vote, of which these are now two hundred thousand in New York state with 100,000 or more in Pennsylvania. Do I need to remind you of what can be accomplished by such a constituency in the Presidential primaries? The Republican machine in Philadelphia has had to depend on the Negro vote for more than forty years. It is itsally to keep it so but can they do it? They could not in Chicago. They could not in New York, nor Baltimore Indiana or even Ohio, nor in any of the other big states and how can you expect them to do so when the most hated element of the Republican Party the Lily Whites of the South, are represented not merely in the Southern states, but through their recognized leader in the White House for ex-Congressman Bascom Slep, of Virginia, is not merely the Private Secretary of the President, but his confidential potent adviser, so powerful that could override Calinet officers and veteran Republican leaders. There is no use beating about the bush. The Lily White Republican is a Democrat though he may not be one in form, but he is in fact and if the White Republicans do not understand it, the Black Republicans do, and d because they do, you might just as well attempt to row up Niagara in a wash tub as to cram down the throats of the intelligent Negro voters, a candidate sponsored by Lily Whites who pretend to hold Republican meetings and conversations in hotels and other places where Nergoes are absolutely barred. I know you will disent and attempt to whistle it down, but you can't do it, and you know for your own sake, you had better not try. The Negro voters of this country cannot be corraled as formerly, by their old-time leaders. Their old-time leaders who fought valiantly through the long years, have utterly tailed to be properly backed up by the Republicans to the end I remind you of such men as the stalwart Henry Lincoln Johnson, who was denied recognition by such an office as Recorder of Deeds which even Democratic President Coni which even Democratic President Grower Cleveland insisted being held by a Negro though he had enough strength at one time to decide a presidential FILES SENSATIONAL SUIT FOR DIVORCE. (Preston News Service) Los Angeles, Calif., Dec.—Mrs. Helen La Male wife of Elsier LaMale, a motion picture and theatrical man alleges in her complaint in a suit for divorce that her husband tried to sell her to Lou Harris Baker, a wealthy Negro of Juarez, Mexico. It is stated that Mrs. LaMale and Baker were friendly and that her husband was also friendly with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Mary Ella Howe Holder, of Dallas Texas and noting the apparent friendship existing between Mrs. LaMale and Baker, it is claimed that LaMale proposed to his wife that since Baker was mildly in love with her $500 000 could be secured from Baker to her. It is claimed that at the time the proposal was made the woman raised no strenuous objections, but when she became suspicious that her husband was endeavored to get rid of her so he could marry the wealthy Texas woman Mrs. LaMale filed suit for divorce. Hearing on the case will be held at the next term of court it is said. HAMPTON OFFERS COURSE FOR BUILDERS Hampton, Va. Dec.—The Hampton Institute department of building construction, which is in charge of H Whitmoremore Brown who is also secretary-treasurer of the National Builders' Association an organization of employers and instructors in the building industry will start on January 2 seven courses covering a 6-week period, and will conduct its second annual builders' conference on February 11, 12, and 13. The courses follow: Plan Reading THREE nomination, and now he is before you to plead for what? that you will now make yourselves a party to the Democratic effort; to that Democratic crime by which the Negro outrage is destroyed throughout the South and the Constitution of the United States becomes a hollow mockery of the supreme law. The Republican Party for forty years has pledged itself to right this monstrous wrong but it hasn't even cut down the Democratic representation in Congress and in the Electoral College as commended by the Constitution and now you are actually debating today whether you will still further outrage the rights of the Colored voters; rights to which they are as President Coolidge said the other day in his message, entitled as any member of the Republican National Committee? They will not follow the Republican Party in blind faith as their fathers have done and if they are going to get anything out of the South they realize that they must do it through their own efforts. Their own efforts lead them to take the obvious way, that is, to cross the border line to the North where there is plenty of work, their wages paid in good cash and very little lynching or bad treatment to worry about. The case is so simple that every sane man, Republican or Democrat is still wondering what under Heaven caused the Republican leadership to place itself in the bands of the Lily White Republican gang of the South and trust its future to such an insurance agency of overwhelming defeat in the convention, and political annihilation at the pools. I repeat does the Republican Party intend to commit suicide? Sincerely yours. —JOHN E. MILHOLLAND. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Cost-keeping and Estimating; Accounting for Builders; Business English; Business Arithmetic; Strength of Materials for Carpenters; and Strength of Materials for Bricklayers. Recently the president of the Association Charles T. Russell of Richmond, Va., and the secretary-treasurer completed a long trip through the South, including such cities as Richmond Raigle, Durham Greensboro Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Spartansburg Columbia Charlesson, Savannah Macon Atlanta Montgomery, Birmingham Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis Nashville, Louisville and Lexington Ky., to stimulate interest in the problems of the builders and to assist in the organization of local sections of the Association. CHURCH DAMAGED $4,000 BY A FIRE AT NEWBERNE. (Preston News Service) New Bern, N. C. Dec—Fire of unde- termined origin literally gutted Mount Calvary Baptist Church here early Wes- tuesday afternoon with a damage esti- mated at more than $4,000. The blaze occurred within a short distance of the spot where the big fire started a year ago. Adjoining buildings were sav- ed by the prompt work of the fire crews. Rev. Mike Sprulp pastor of the church said he was in the building ten minutes before the flames were dis- covered, but saw no sign of fire. A funeral was to have been conduc- ed from the church on Wednesday af- ternoon. It is said that insurance of $3,000 was carried on the structure which had not been completed. Read The Planet for information concerning the world's "doings" and watch our advertisements. Mav hap you will see the very thing you have been looking for. FOUR Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. All communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Rfchmond, Virginia as second class matter. e m Foreign Advertising Representative, W. B. Ziff Company, 608 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago 8321 Victoria Building, St. Louis, Mo.; 420 Long acre building, New York. SATURDAY.....JANUARY 5, 1924 SECRETARY DAVIS AND THE MODERNISTS. Formerly, all persons who rejected or sought to invalidate the statements of our Sacred Writers used to profess themselves opponents of Christianity; but in these days, the same arguments—such as they are—are brought forward by persons professing themselves Christians, and proclaiming their high veneration for the Gospel. It is as if assailants of some fortress should assume the garb of its defenders and thus obtain admission within its walls, that they might batter them more easily than from without.—Abp. Whately. Hon. James J. Davis. Secretary of Labor may not be a minister of the gospel, but he d'11 some "mighty good preaching in the little Welsh Baptist Church at Sharon Pa. Sunday December 19, 1909. He said: "I hold a deep and abiding faith in the firmness of the foundation of true religion and I can see our little in the future for those who seek to tear down that foundation," said Mr. Davis. "To my mind true science and true religion can march forward hand in hand and science need not seek to destroy that for which Christmas stands. In these days of many strange and weird beliefs we must hold faith to our faith in God, else neither individual nation can endure. I will take my religion in the old-fashioned way. We are becoming so modern in every thing that some of us are even trying to modernize God. This is a plain straight-forward statement of the situation and it awakens a reverberation, an echo in the hearts of all true believers. He is quoted further: "I hold no sympathy with the individual whether he be clergy or layman, who because his limited vision will not permit him to believe, seeks to destroy the beliefs of others. To my mind the man who finds himself at odds with the religious faith he has embraced has but one course before him, if he cannot by legitimate means change the principles of that faith. That is to abandon that creed and to set up a creed of his own. There can be no excuse for the schismatic who seeks to pull down a whole religious structure because he finds fault with one of the timbers which has gone in to its building Let him follow the example of the great Roger Williams, who brought the principle of religious freedom to this country the religion which this church represents. When he disagreed with a majority of its creed, he got out. What we need today is more of the spirit of religious freedom, more real tolerance for the beliefs and opinions of our fellow-men. It seems to us that this is a conclusion, a logical deduction, to which both sides can subscribe. There is no objection to the Modernists exercising and practicing their beliefs, but they should not do so within the confines of a denomination, which denomination's fundamental principles are being attacked by men, pledged and obligated in a most solemn manner to support the same. The attack coming from the larty cone is summarily dealt with, but being fostered in the pulp, it becomes an evil of the gravest importance and steps should be taken to cause the anointed leaders to seek other or strums from which to deliver their scientific thunderbolts. Mr. Davis concludes. "I like the old fashioned preacher whose sermon comes from his heart and soul as well as from his mind. His is no coldly statistical religion, charted by mental engineers and analyzed by theological chemists. He rests his faith in the Bible, the greatest book the world has ever known, and he does not read his Bible hypertactically. The world never needed the Bible more than it does now. "The faith that lives today will never die. The old-fashioned newborn Christ wrapped Him in stronger now, despite all attack than it has been at any time in the 2000 years since the mother of the newborn Christ wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger. The spirit that came from the little stable in Bethhem has enveloped the whole world. The one who opposes it may well be fearful, in the words of Paul. Be not deceived; God is not mocked.' No where have we read a more telling rebuke than the one delivered by this distinguished statesman. Rev. Dr. Percy Stuckney Grant proposes that the Modernists go out and organize Modern Church. The suggestion was and timely as for the most of us the "Old Time religion is good enough for me." MR. POSTON AND WHITE CIVILIZATION. We received some time ago from Robert L. Poston, Secretary-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association an article, entitled, "Why I refuse to be 'Civilized.' It had been published in the N. Y. Negro World and as a argumentative literary production, permeated with irony and satire, it may be well styled a master-piece. We did not feel like disturbing its pessimistic position but some things said have caused us to revert, not only to the dictionary, but to history profan and divine. Conditions which he describes as existing among the white-man's christianity and civilization have existed in all ages, even during the time of Christ as the 23rd chapter of Matthew, New Testament abundantly verifies. The brilliant Mr. Poston is severe and coarse in his criticisms, but he is no more so than was Jesus Christ himself. Here is a quotation from the Scriptures: But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in, yourselves neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Mr. Poston says: They say I am a descendant of the savage African. This must be so for 300 years of Western civilization have left me "uncivilized." What is perhaps, even more startling, it has left me not desirous of being "civilized." Civilization to me is not something to seek but something to shun. Even now as I write I am in the midst of it—sky scrapers, subways hurrying youth, hailing old men sweat laughter, tears, precuse emptiness—all! I do not love it. I hate it. I have no wish to preserve it. My one consuming desire is to see it over. It may seem precumptions that I who do not boast of a civilization of skyscrapers subways and large businesses, should criticise one so great as this; but this I do—perhaps another savage indication of my ancestral connections. But why shouldn't I? Are large buildings which do not breed large hearts, and large promises which fall short of fulfilment the end of life? I have faith to keep with my conscience. I would rather run the risk of being dubbed a fool than to have the consciousness that I live a lie. I will not longer keep silent. The most cruel and heartless civilization in the world today is that of the Western world whose highest exponent is the white man. I do not pick my standard to measure it by. Measured by any stand or it is least desirable. Whether we compare it with that of the Orient or even with the vagaries of savage Africa it presents the greatest void. It is men's most pungent enemy. Laughter here is at a premium. Only the simple hearted laugh. Others are occupied in things of greater moment—things steelingly material. The sad old men with their milious tell the saddest story of Western failure. These soft themselves at the market only to learn that the swallow's shrill or the dove's bloom cannot be purchased with anything on earth. But their revolting plight does not serve to stay the ninety and nine out of a hundred youth who are headed in the same direction so fast as their blind ambitions will carry them. This is true, but it deals with the Western World and its civilization. Jesus Christ was dealing with the Eastern World and its civilization. He said: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay title the mint and anise and cumin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment mercy and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides "hae strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." Mr. Robert L. Poston asks: Will it be said that the curse of this Western world is Christianity? There may be great miracles for this religion to perform but it must be admitted that so far it has failed in practice. When war wants an ally, who is more ready to respond? When oppression needs expiation whose kind office is volunteered? Africa today is awaiting delivery from Christianity and India, too, has long been an object of the World. The world has a perfect right to ask whether the thing parading around as Christianity has any connection with the man who was supposed to have given it birth. The god of the heathen whether he is represented in stone or a crikat is consistent. But the God of the Westerner is his convenience—good and ennobling when all is well but crooked, and deformed when all is not as when they wanted to get the Hun. There is something about Christianity which can make men cool and systematically cruel. Just recently at the League of Nations after that August body had opened its session with prayer France prepared to ask this venerable body for the right to kill a group of citizens in Africa whose civilization according to French standards is so low as to endanger that of France—France who has just emerged from the incomplete task of exterminating the Germans "in the interest of humanity." We used to shudder at the reports of cruelty and barbarism in Africa THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA but a little investigation will prove that more people can be slain in a week with modern equipped war marshinery in the hands of a single civilized nation, than the African would be able to kill in a year if they did nothing else but engage in the killing business. We no longer go into hysteria at their reported cruelty, we could understand the cruelty of the white man, even if we could not justify it, if it made him happy, to be both cruel and sad is the curse of the race Our surprisingly brilliant pessimistic friend seems to have overlooked the descriptions of the very class of people that he is mercilessly attacking for Jesus Christ said: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchre, which indeed appear pear beautiful outward, but are with in full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. And again: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at. Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of fase prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly, they are ravening wolves. This is a graphic description of the Eastern World and its civilization during Christ's time and it is a vivid description of conditions existing there to day. A duplication of man's sordid motives and actions is found on this Continent. It is a practical demonstration of the axiom: Let him take who has the power; let him keep who can. Jesus Christ in a few words, in strik ing contrast to the lengthy comment of our distinguished descendant of Hami says, forcibly, but simply: Even so ye also outwardly appear: righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and inloquity. Mr. Poston sav; further; We are at a loss to find the end of the white man's civilization the purpose, if there is any. If the white man's aim is to better the world, we cannot harmonize the aim with the practice. If his object is to destroy the world, he is equally at fault on principle, for it takes a just man even to destroy. If it is right that the Japanese should live in California and that the Negro should vote in Mississippi, any effort on the part of anybody to block it would but hasten the realization of the thing. It would appear that his history would teach him that. But here again we have a strange fact to deal with when we consider the white man. His history and his philosophy have little to do with directing his conduct. While it is true that he will ravenously devour Emerson, it must be remembered that Brann's "iconoclast" is to him just as dear. If he takes into his system a good and humanizing thought he is almost sure to expell it presently with one most cruel and diabolical. Mr. Poston's declaration that he has refused to be civilized brings forward the question as to what constitutes civilization. We take it that he must either be a civilized citizen or a barbarian. He is not a savage and right here, we propose to give the definition of both and lead our readers to judge as to the brilliant writer's status. Webster defines civilization as follows. A state of social culture characterized by relative progress in the arts science, and statecraft; variously, the culture characteristic of modern Europe; as contact with civilization often proves fatal to savages; a distinctive national culture; as French civilization; relative advancement of a primitive or ancient people. Civilization is ordinarily distinguished from barbarism as manifesting greater enlightenment and humanity. Both are distingished from savagery, the culture of the least advanced peoples. Barbarian.—A foreigner, especially in speech and manners. A man in a trade unicivilized state. A person devoid of culture. Foreign as non-Hellenic. non-Roman, non Christian, non Chinese. We take it then that Mr. Poston may be a barbarian, but not savage that he may have a accepted and profited by civilization, but he refuses to accept the civilization of the white man. From the definitions given, he may elect to accept the Asiatic civilization, the Aztec civilization, the Esquimau civilization or the Christian civilization of the genuine sort. Certain there are in this country good white people, who have not accepted the kind of civilization that Mr. Poston so mercilessly condemns. He has given food for much thought, which when digested in the light of the divine word only tends to emphasize the heavenly origin of the Scriptures. 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A revival is in progress at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. The offering last Sabbath was $96.00. Miss Maggie Dehaven spent the week end at the home of her early childhood, Rocky Mount, Va. Mrs. Hester Wade, of Philadelphia was called to the city this week, accompanying the remains of her brother, Mr. Fletcher Gilbert, who died in Philadelphia, December 25. The funeral took place Saturday from the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of which he was a faithful member. Call and see M. Stanfield when in need of Indian Herb Tablets or Salvasena or Sexual Tablets that the majority of men, need for better health. M. Stanfield for best remedies on the list at 153 Walls Alley, Call and see me. Mrs. Ada White and Mrs. Lena Jones, of Dry Fork, Va. were guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Cundiff, 523 Seventh Avenue, N. W. during the Christmas holidays. They left for home Sunday, the 30th. Mr. Grover Childress died at Burrell Memorial Hospital. Before the end came he professed faith in the Lord Jesus as his personal Saviour. Rev James S. Hatcher and Rev A. L. James having prevailed with him in prayer, he found faith and was saved. The funeral took place from the High Street Baptist Church, of which he became a member during his declining days. Rev W. E. Lee, the pastor, officiated in the eulogy, assisted by Rev. James S. Hatcher, by request of the family. He leaves to mourn their loss a loving mother five sisters and five brothers, all of whom were present. C. C. Williams funeral director of Fourth Avenue, had charge. Mrs. Bessie Mason, 316 Tenth Avenue spent a short while with her sister in Welch, W. Va. accompanied by her daughter, Georgie and her nephew, Master Langhorn Mason. Mrs. Mason has been indisposed since her return, having contracted La gripe. Mrs. Elizabeth Hale of Galax, Va. is the guest of Mrs. C. J. Dickerson, 241 Madison Avenue during Christmas has spent a very pleasant time left for home Wednesday A. M. Rev. James S. Hatcher delivered a most helpful and instructive sermon at Mt. Zion Sunday morning and night. The Lord honored and blessed the services by four accessions. Rev. Thompson, the evangelist is with Rev. D. R. Powell at the Hill Street Baptist Church for two weeks beginning January 1. May great good be accomplished for the Master's Vineyard. Mrs. J. H. Wooten, of Columbus, Ohio is the holiday guest of Mrs. Thomas Curtis, in N. W. Seventh Avenue. WYTHEVILLE NEWS Services at Bethel A. M. E. church all day Sunday. Rev. G. W. Wing preached at 11 o'clock and Rev. J. H. Monroe at 8 o'clock. Services were well attended. Rev. W. W. Ward preached at Frank STAG SEMI-PASTE PAINT SINCE 1880 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. In St. M. E. church morning and evening to enthusiastic congregations. Rev. L. B. Aston preached two able sermons at the Baptist church. Rev. T. W. Hebron arrived Sunday on No. 11 from Northfork. W. Va., to visit his family. Miss Eva Stone of Columbus, Ohio is visiting her sisters the Misses Stone, of South Wytheville. Mrs. Elnora Clark of Excelsior. W. Va. is visiting her sister Mrs. Janie Crockett. Prof. and Mrs. C. F. Broady of Marion Va. who spent the Xmas in Pulaski, with Mrs. Broady's parents stopped over in Wytheville the guest of her grand-mother, Mrs. Caroline Carter. Mr. Lene Hoard of Dayton Ohio is visiting her brother Mr. Rob. Cook. Mr. George Sheffey of Indianapolis tund., who spent a few days in the city left Friday, taking his mother, Mrs. J. John Sheffey who will spend the winder with him. Mr. Hanna Moyers left for Rich- mond, Va., for a months visit to her husband Mr. Matthew Moyers, the Gov- error's caterer. Mr. Kate Simons of Bristol, Va., is visiting her sister Mrs. Lucie Gibson. Mrs. Gertrude Johnson last left Thursday for Speedwell, Va., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Hill. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Spices and little Lillian Anderson of Pulusk, were the Sunday guest of Mrs. Spicers mother Mrs. Caroline Carter. Miss Ida Clark left for a weeks visit in Marion, Va. Missie Eula Seedi and Clara Turner gave a delightful entertainment to their many friends. The guests were so well pleased they wished for a con- tinuation of the festivities, thus ended Misses Hattie, Tillie and Maco Johnson of Dublin were the Saturday and Sunday guest of Messrs. Greene, Charles, R. Chepman and wife. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Chapman upending the holidays in Pulsaski, the guest of the latters father. Mr. James Wilson. Mrs. Flora Nickelson left for an ex- ended visit to Bluefield. W. Va., and Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Chas, Davis of Columbus, Ohio brought the remains of his daughter, Miss Stella Saturday and were taken to the home of M. Jerry Sheffey and she was buried from Franklin St. M. E. church Sunday. Mrs. Harriet Buford left for Florida just Thursday to spend the winter. Mrs. Mary Traversa of Pulaski and Mrs. Emma and little grand-son. James of Roanoke were the week-end guests of their mother Mrs. Barbara Green. Messrs. Walter and Robt. Jenkins of Max Meadows, were the week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. Gibson. Mr. Richard Holliday of Max Meadows was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Hill entertained a number of their friends at a 4 o'clock dinner Sunday. Missrs. R. J. Thompson. John O. Steptoe and Masters R. J. Thompson Jr. and W. Harrison Steptoe, Jr. motored to Cove Springs, to see Mr. Reese Monroe who is quite ill. Let the Planet come to your door every Saturday during 1924 and pay for it. FIRST MT OLIVE NOTES Newtown Va. Jan. 1.—The remains of Mr. Harvey Braxton were brought from Philadelphia last Tuesday. The funeral was conducted by Rev. G. F. Holmes and pastor. Many friends from the North spent the holidays in this section. A few days ago the following persons were married at the home of the pastor. Mr. Leonard Braxton and Miss Adlee Taylor; Mr. Joseph Fortune and Miss Sally Randolph; Mr. Griffin Howard and Mrs. Lucy Harvey. The Christmas exercises of Mt. Olive under the auspices of the Ladies Missionary Circle were well attended and much enjoyed. The Invincible club of Chapel Hill and Biocoe gave a splendid concert last Friday night for the benefit of the new school building. The Mtapont District Sunday School Union held its services with the First Mt. Olive Sunday School last Sunday. One feature of the occasions was a splendid sermon delivered by Rev. A. P. Young. Mr. R. D. Berry has treated himself to a hand one Dodge car. BRAXTON—BUFFIN. While the Magi of 1923 were still hunting for the promised gifts, a very pretty and unique affair took place in Mt. Olive Baptist Church Newtown, Va. December 25 1923 at 3 P. M. where Miss Odessa Lee Braxton of Indian Neck Va. became the bride of Pew Henry Moton Ruffin A. B. of Richmond, Va. At 2:50 P. M. as the bridal party entered the grounds, Miss Susie Jones THE LINEDER L.P. THE LINEDER L.P. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Mme. J. F. McDONALD or J. W. McDONALD, Excelsior Springs, Mo. Agents Wanted. Also Hair Dressers YES, WE HAVE COMBS. RAYO omasville ferfolk, Va. with whom our com- l Jenkins ows: Sun sing 11:30 at 3:30 T. worship the Jefferson h and the the Rich- col Union iE rendered a solo entitled, "Belle Me." On the stroke of Three the wedding march "The Bride! Chorus," from "L'engrin," was played by Miss Mary Jones. The ceremony was performed by Rev. R. N. Lawson, A. B., B. D., pastor of the church. The bridal party consisted of the following: The groom, with his best man Mr John Jones entered the church from the back entrance as the two usheres Messrs. Richard D. Braxton and George B. Ruffin brothers of the bride and groom, preceded the bride and her attendants at the front entrance. The two brides maids Miss Nane Hill of Petersburg, Va. and Nancy Harvey of Owenton, Va., were gowns of light pink taffeta. The little Misses Carleau Braxton and Maril Harvey, (sister and of the bride) acted as flower girls. The bride came in with her maid of honor, Hose Melen G. Webster of Boston Mass. who wore a gown of light blue silk crepe de chine with pearl trimmings and a picture hat to match. The bride's gown was of white silk crepe de chine, with Spanish lace trimmings and bridal veil caught up with a wreath of orange blossoms. The bride and her maids carried beautiful bouquets. A great many valuable and beautiful gifts were received. Mrs. Ruffin is a graduate of the King and Queen Industrial High School and also of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute of Petersburg, Va. Reva Ruffin is a graduate of the same High School and of Va. Union University of Richmond, Va. Shortly after Vesper had closed the gate of evening and the "Queen of Night" was calling a conference with her myriads of the heavenly host the bride and groom left the home of the bride for a trip south, amidst showers, of rice so copious that it was necessary for headlights, and signals to avoid collisions. Not yet was it all over, for on Saturday P. M. about 4 o'clock the yard of the home of the bride became studded with automobiles, carriages and buggies with anxious friends to cast their costly gifts before the bride and groom, while they were gorgeously entertained at a reception. FULTON NOTES. Excellent services were had the day through at Mt. Calvary Baptist church last Sabbath. At 11:30 A. M. everything was in readiness for the morning services. Rev. C. H. Duvall, D. D., of Boston, Mass, preached a soul-stirring sermon His message was so inspiring and helpful that he was requested to deliver an address on mission during the Sun Day School Xmas Tree exercises and also to preach thus before we began our watch-night services. Both of these requests he fulfilled to the letter. The grandest thing about all of the services, after the Dr. had finished and we entered into the watch-night services and while brother Ishan, Barnes was engaged in prayer a young lady cell converted to the power of the Holy Spirit and confessed Christ to the church. Another young man also said to the church, that he had found Lord. The Last Sunday night at 8:30 P. M. our pastor preached a sermon, that caused our hearts to burn within us, while we talked about the "Way." We were very glad to have so many visitors with us last Sunday and watch night. Dr. C. H. Duval and wife, Dr. G. W. Kern and wife of Thomasville, N. C. brother Hanks of Norfolk, Va. brother Tucker and wife, with whom Dr. Kern stopped while in our community; Revs. Spratley and Jenkins and wife. Services tomorrow as follows: Sun day School 9:30 A M. Preaching 11:30 A. M. Communion, services at 3:30 P. M. "Let us come and worship the Lord." Tomorrow night: Rev. C. B. Jefferson of Mt. Calvary Baptist church and the corresponding secretary, of the Richmond Baptist Sunday School Union will preach at the Rising Mt. Zlon Baptist church. The installation of officers of the Richmond Baptist, Sunday School Union will take place at the First Baptist church. A unique program has been arranged for the occasion. Dr. W. T. Johnson will make the installation address. Our pastor Rev C. A. Cobbs spent the Xmas week in visiting his Aunt in Cleveland Ohio. He visited other places including Toronto Canada. He had a pleasant trip. Mrs. Morris, the mother of Mrs. Hat Jones died January 1, about 1 A.M. at her daughters residence. Her funeral was held in Toano, Va. Thursday January 3rd her home place. She leaves several daughters and sons to mourn their loss. RISING MT. ZION NOTES As Rising Mt. Zion looks back over the 12 months it just passed, it cannot help but give praises to the Almighty or his goodness. Severe handicaps and uneven hardships have been confronted and overcame and it now stands though another scar is seen on its shield still standing for that noble cause for which it was founded, name: "The Upholding of God's Kingdom in the World." Taking a bird's eye-view of its achievements, first of the Sunday School under the splendid supervision of its Superintendent, Mr. A. White; we see more classes organized the attendance of the Sunday School increased about 25 per cent; new teachers have been added to meet this demand. The church during the summer months PRINCE AND PRINCESS MYSTERIA ORIENTAL MYSTICS SUPREME THOUGHT READER MYSTRESS OF THE OCCULT Also AL YOUNG, "Southland's Sweet Singer" and "RESTITUTION," The Supreme Photo Play, with Rev. Robt. Downing in Person 3 SHOWS DAILY—AT 3—7—9 P. M. SATURDAYS CONTINUOUS FROM 3 TO 11 P. M. Don't Miss Our Special Grand Opening--Monday Night, Jan. 7--Handsome Souvenirs Free to All installed an entirely new system, which, since the winter has come makes it far more agreeable than years heretofore. The membership of the church has been increased by approximately one hundred persons. Zion finds its financial condition better than years previous. These are outstanding developments but there are many other things that are worthy but may not be mentioned here. Thus Rising Mt. Zion stands facing a new year with hope anew and faith undaunted, hoping this year to pass the record of all previous years. Rev. O. B. Simms, left Richmond last Monday enroute to Pittsburgh. Pa. where he will engage in evangelistic services there We were glad to welcome many of our old friends and acquaintances who Y M C A AT FIFTH STREET SUNDAY Rev. T. J. King D. D., pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church will preach to-morrow, 3:30 P. M. at the above named church. His subject will be: "What to Do When You Cannot Sleep at Night. Come early and get a good seat. A WORD FROM BOYKINS, VA. Boykins, Va., June 4, 1923. Mr. John Michelk Jr. Sir:—I am just saying a few words of consolation to you in this hour of trial. We are in one world of trouble and we are having it so. The Lord is not dead. He lives and reigns yet so. The wrong cannot overcome you and sad to me to think you put yourself upon the altar and not be accepted. We the Boykins Court is praying for you to put all your trust in the God of heaven and be a man once more time and if any good, we can do we will be more than glad to help. We cannot believe the report to be true nor can I think the ones that are trying to convict you yuthink so, it is just the black heart in them so don't be discouraged for God is not dead. or asleep, pray on. I hope you can win the race at last. Please Sir accept these few remarks in the greatest sympathy. I am one that is praying for you. FROM PUEBLO, COLORADO. Pueblo, Colorado, May 26, 1922 Sir John Mitchell, Jr., 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Virginia. My Dear Mr. Mitchell:—The sad news of the Court ruling in your case came to me as a great shock. I was startled. It is nothing but prejudice malice, and envy. If I had the means I would come to your rescue at once. Be brave. Let us hope and look for the best. Mrs. James and I will pray to the God of heaven, our God for you. He is a loving God. He will bless you and support you from all harm. We are your sincere and true friends. MR. and MRS. L. L. JAMES EVERYTHING COSTS LESS AT WEISBERGER'S RICHMOND'S GREAT STORE Profit Sharing Sale Two-Pant Suits and Overcoats NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATION $1750 SUITS AND OVERCOATS Worth to $35.00. Profit Sharing Price $22.50 SUITS AND OVERCOATS Worth to $45.00. Profit Sharing Price $27.50 THE TWO PANTS SUITS WARM BURLEY OVERCOATS THE SUITS Snappy models for men and young men and more conservative styles for the older men, shown in an immense variety of styles, colors, patterns and sizes to insure every man a satisfactory selection THE OVERCOATS Shown in every new and wanted fabric, in light, dark and medium shades of tan, brown, grey and oxford all beautiful plaid back materials. Made up in all the smartest styles. Sizes for men and young men. FIVE A ```markdown ``` 2nd St. Between Marshall & Clay W" ry 3rd, 4th, 5th CTION RIA MYSTRESS OF THE OCCULT ES. "Singer" and with Rev. Robt. Downing in Person PRICES—NIGHTS—25-35-45 AFTERNOONS—15-25 Welcome Souvenirs Free to All ALL-AMERICAN LINE-UP CHOSEN FROM LARGE COLLEGIATE FIELD BY TWO FAMED WRITERS SIX ```markdown ``` (Preston News Service.) The selection of an All-Star eleven is based purely upon the opinion in general of well known coaches the role of public opinion, and the individual record of the players. The writers make this selection from 18 of our leading colleges who play the bran or All-American football. Such a selection requires keenness of insight sound judgement and skill. Some good men will always be left off, so far as public opinion decrees. It is a delicate job and one full of responsibility. It is for this reason that some of our foremost sportswriters fail to make a selection. But despite these facts and the addition of the great influx of material, A. Leon Richardson, writer of the Tribune for two years and publicity manager at present of the American Federation of Students assisted by L. (Chick) Israel a close follower and authority in this field take the responsibility under the auspices of the Student Federation to select the mythical eleven. A DIGEST OF THE MATERIAL. Scottie Brown of Wil伯里奥 takes one end on the first team for his consistent playing thru out the season. He possesses all of the qualities of an end: He is alert fast going down on punts, and a certain tackler. He is a jewel on breaking thru the interference of the opponent. Jones of Hampton takes the other end. The fact has already been solved that Jones is the best end in the C. I. A. A. He is consistent a hard tackler and a wonderful pass receiver. He is a dangerous end to work a play around on account of his ability to block the most perfect interference. The writers feel quite safe in giving him a berth on the Mythical eleven. Luneford of Fisk and Ross of V. N. and I. I. hold down the wings on the second team. These men selected mostly for their ability to receive the pisskin on pass; their superior speed in going down on punts and their tackling efforts. Byrd of St. Paul and Land of Greenshore easily captures the third team. Byrd played a stellar game against Lincoln in the 13-23; while St. Paul starred in the Howard game. These men are not flashe but have played a consistent game all thru the season. We come to the tackles; and the reader has already decreed Dakoes of Howard and Coston of Lincoln for number one. Dakoes the big husky Indian is a hard charger, a sterling offensive and defensive player. He can easily break thru the line on opposing plays spill his interference and open the hole for his team. Coston the Lincoln flash is a bulwark in the defense. He seldom misses, his man. He is a sure and a hard tackler; but few plays are tried off his wing of line. Coleman of Hampton has played a brilliant game this season; his work stumps him as one of the best tacklers in the country but shaded by Dakoes and Coston slightly. He rightfully merits a place on the mythical eleven. The other tackles go to Turman of Morehouse. Turman was the best defensive player in the Howard game, and it has been thru him that Morehouse has been able to advance the oval with any regularity. He can open the hole and break thru. Hodges of West Virginia and LaMar of Atlanta carry the third team positions. The sensational and cee tain tackling of Hodges is always noticeable in whatever game he is in. He plays sturdy, and is conspicuous and consistent. LaMar coming out of gold concealment demands a place in this selection because of his wonderful defensive playing. It was he who played the great defensive game against Union at Atlanta. The two sturdy guards are Miller of Union and Butler of Hampton. Any guard who has played against Butler this season will tell the story: "He is the best that I have met." He is a sticker a stonewall in Hampton's line and can crush in on his opponents line at will. Miller is a keen player; a heavy husky fellow, but fast. It was his line work the stopped Hampton from running to victory. He is a hard man to move. Leake of Atlanta, and Doxindex of Lincoln get second choices. Leake the great center for Atlanta whom little is heard of if playing in the society of football as Priestley would give Priestley a hard tilt for that position; and if the writers were to select an All-Southern Leake would be the indisputable center. Nevertheless, he deserves a place in the All-American line. He is good on the offense and defense. Doxindex has played a well rounded game this season. He Lincoln's stonewall always moves him yet he is a hard man to tilt M. T. Alexander of Toldee is one of the outstanding guards in the game and he is one of the few guards who has enabled his team to netward off that position. Standifer the Living oat play the other guard. He坚韧 a fair digress of the play and entertains his part on the offence. Priestley the Howard hub gets the center position. Priestley was a very dependable man and a stable linesman. He is a clever clever plaster a good man on the defense and offense. He has an consistent player which marks his edge over Pindle. Tadlock and pushes out Morgen. He plays an off line center, he can tackle sure, and can break up and diagnose plays. The writers prize him as the country's best line dog. The good offensive and defensive playing of Pindle the Hump lad and his superior type of playing mark him the second center for the season being slightly shaded on tight and experience by Priestley. Tadlock of Tuskegee winted third role in the mythical eleven. He has played consistent and sturdy game. He is a noted blocker of punts and on more than one occasion his blocks have caused victory to come to his team. He is a splendid passer. I would mention Morgan of Lincoln. Morgan is well known. "The coast to coast gridroner." He is known from West Virginia to Lincoln from Lincoln to Wilberforce he would have been known had the cues fallen O. K. then he is known from Wilberforce back to Lincoln. He has played in only three games this season, and a part of one of these games. He has not been consistent and too his costly error in the Lincoln-Hampton game at Baltimore robbed him of some of the honors that might have been. A REVIEW OF THE BACKS. The back-field, berths number one comprises one man from Petersburg one from Howard. one from Lincoln and one from Union. Jack Coles fills quarter. Doneghy a half Byrd a half and Fentress in full. Jack is a clever general; Howard knows it. he is a heavy plunger. a good end-skirt. a kicker and always sure for a gain when he is oval carrier. Byrd is a splendid broken field runner and a fast one at that. He is the colored Klippe from Lincoln. He has a forward passing ability and is a good receptor. He possesses the qualities of a sterling halfback and is not for quarter. Thus the writers select him. Donnie of How ard merits the other half. He is the Howard triple threat and main stake and is heralded as the country's greatest halfback. He can punt, drop-kick pass and can run with the oval and a hard man to stop. Fentress of Union could not be left out. He is a terrific bucker a star on the defense and always sure for a gain in carrying the oval. De spite his injuries sustained in the Atlanta game, he has played it usual game. A great football player is dead. He was wrapped up in the game and played it for his full worth. Only death separated him from generating the 2nd selection. Pushing Drewery. Willet of Wilberforce steps up for the second berth. 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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. --- FIRST TEAM Brown (Wilberforce) Jones (Hampton) Coston (Lincoln) Doakes (Howard) Miller (Union) Butler (Hampton) Priestley (Howard) Jack Coles (V. N. I. I.) Doneghy (Howard) Byrd (Lincoln) Fentress (Union) and sturdy. He punts long and plenty high and can plunge the line. Cardwell of West Virginia selected as running mate for Hurd is a heavy line charger and is hard to stop around end or running broken field. He can stave his passes sure and securely and is an all-around back Sammie Peyton former Northwestern star and Howard's fullback gets fullback. Peyton is always good for a gain when he carries the oval; he is consistent; but due to the fact that his attention was centered on medicine and away from the sport this year shattered his style of ball. However on the whole Sam has played a wonderful game and merits his position. Lawyer Williams of St. Paul general's the third army. He is sturdy after a good kicker and a splendid dasher. ALL-AMERICAN SELECTION '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.' (Special to Preston News Service) SECOND TEAM Lunceford (Fisk) Ross (V. N. I. I.) Coleman (Hampton) Turman (Morehouse) Leake (Atlanta) Poindexter (Lincoln) Pindle (Hampton) Willet (Wilberforce) Hurd (Wilberforce) Cardwell (W. Virginia) Peyton (Howard) Contee of Howard, and Boffman of union gobbles up the backs on the three go round. Contee is a fast and keen player; he is good for short gains and one of the best defensive backs in the country. Boffman has played a consistent game this season both on the offense and defense. He is a hard line charger and consistent off-tackle gainer. Parker of St. Paul gets fullback. Parker is a very troublesome man; he is hard to tackle and to hold. He is a swift line bucker, and a forward passer. It was his work that troubled Lincoln. Nearly all of the big elevens have been seen in action by Mr. Israel Richardson and other representatives of the Federation and thru careful scrutiny the teams have been selected. It is the intention of the Student Fell- THIRD TEAM Lane (A. and T.) Ends Byrd (St. Paul) Hodges (W. Va.) Tackles LaMar (Atlanta) Alexander (Talla.) Guards Standifer (Livings.) Centers Tadlock (Tusk.) Q. B. Lawyer Williams St. P.) Contee (Howard) Halfbacks Boffman (Union) Fullbacks Parker (St. Paul) eration to assist our leading sportswriters who have had a good bit of experience in this type of work. IOWA STATE COLLEGE HONORS NOTED PLAYER. (Preston News Service) Ames Iowa, Dec.—A bronze plate on which is inscribed his last letter has been placed in the gymnasium at Iowa State College by athletic letter-men in honor of Jack Trice star tackle on last year's football team, who died of injuries received in the Minnesota game last fall. An honor 'A' was sent to his mother. Mrs. Trice in Ravenna, Ohio. WILLS TO GO ON BIG WINTER CAMPAIGN. SEEKS DEMPSEY BOUT. New York Jan. 2. —Ambition to be come the next one in the ring wipe Jack Dempsey, present heavyweight champion, has stirred the field of contenders into unexpected activity. And foremost among these is Harry Wills, the "Brown Panther of New Orleans," everywhere recognized as the foremost contender for the studded crown now being by the Utah mauler. Paddy Mullins, the gray-hairman of the giant challenger says that he and Wille have been fed on promises, that they can't get action, and must now force it. WILLS TO BE BUSY Wills has been scheduled to meet Jack Taylor in Hartford Conn., some time in January and this bout according to Mullins is the starter for a stiff winter schedule. Taylor an Omaha heavyweight, is the same pugilist who clapped Battling Ski all over the ring in Philadelphia Christmas afternoon. Mullins declares that he has enough prospects to keep Wills going all win ter outside of New York and that by the time the outdoor season comes Wills will have established such a claim that Dempsey can't fight anyone else. Mullins, however still insists that he and Wills will not work for TTx Rickard, although he has gone in close consultation with Rickard several times lately. NO WILLS-FIRPO FIGHT. Firpo, according to the way things REITING. Presenting approximately one thousand, not including the value of this city, who are this community and the living. The assets to re-open the fact from the decree signified that the closing of the presence in its Company, Inc., are not secured to being further repre-able prospect of the of satisfying the United Realty Company. And bank, it is furnished and instructed possible date, together-lities of saidmitted to them by the view of satisfying acting a prompt dis-For the assets of said to its proper art that they cannot be turned in and bail animous vote, decided us relieves the situation Court with such a reco-present. Vers have been unofficial their power to help the and animosities should order that those deposit and those who wish ledged not to make any presented. The primary mate amount of liabili- white people and the God, let us re-open the FIG. approximately three hundred not including the holders of this city, who are vitally intimately and the good opinion of us to re-open the Mechanic's to re-open the decree signed by the a closing of finance in its Inc., secured to other repre-pect of the fying the City Company, it is fur-instructed to together said them by the satisfying prompt dis-ets of said copper they cannot determine the need in and balanced. To my vote, decided to share in a the situation and enables with such a recommendation been unofficially reported over to help the colored people should not figure in the those depositors who are those who wish to deposit the not to make any run on the Bank. The primary purpose at the amount of liability, put up people and the self-sacrifice us re-open the Bank. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. --- ```markdown ``` shaped up from this end has one more big fight coming—and that is with Dempsey. It must be with the champion, because the project is one of those form-fitting made-to-your-measure bad yloho affairs. Allowing the South American to froil, with Wilts would be nothing less than suicidal. Those close to the iside in the fight game have at ready conceded this point. In fact, they claim that Kipo would stand litte or no chance with Tommy Gibbons who went the entire distance with Dempsey at the Shelby. Mont., fight SARATOGA'S S WINS. (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa. Jan. 3.—In the preliminary to the Coffey-Loendi game at Labor Templeast Thur day night, the fast stepping Saratoga team, claimants for the light-weight championship of the tri-state district defeated the Y. M. C. A. team 49-36. SELL HALLS ALL-STAR TEAM SEEKS HONORS. Pittsburgh, Pa. Jan. 3.—Playing before a small but interesting and enthusiastic crowd, Sell Hall's all-star floor five launched into their campaign to win the lightweight floor title of the country here last week, when they defeated the Saratoga five 33-22 in a played game. The Saratogas were leading the lightweight division prior to their game of last week by reason of their victory over the Y. M. C. A., who had defeated the N. S. Scholars' who in turn had triumphed over the fast Beaver Falls club. For Other Sports See Page 8. very three hundred the holders of are vitally inter- good opinion of the Mechanics signed by the able determine this anced. To meet to share in any and enables the commendation as ally reported to the colored people not figure in this ors who are ur- to deposit their run on the Bank purpose at this ty, put up the self-sacrificing Bank. --- ```markdown ``` THE RICHMOND PLANET, RIGHMOND, VIRGINIA A STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC: S : We stake forty-five years’ reputation for honesty, integrity and honorable action against ten months’ asper- sions of our enemies and those who desire to profit by the failure of the greatest financial institution of the colored peoale, Our primary object and desire is to reimburse any of our people who have invested in any enterprise fos- teed by ws SUE We solemnly swear now, as we swore upon the witness stand, that not one dollar of our forty-five years’ accum- lation has been the result of dishonorable actions or sharp practices. We insist that the money alleged to be miss- ing cannot be traced to us either directly or indirectly and that of all the people involved we are the greatest sufferer, even as our honesty has been our greatest asset. ; ; The money belonging to us and to the organizations with which we are affiliated was taken by others or was ac- credited te other accounts, so that when checks were drawn upon the account there was nu money to meet them. There was no other course for us to pursue, othe: than to assume complete responsibility Our ledger sheets at the Bank had been stolen, removed in order to cover up these peculations and to make us the victim. We had not transferred our property. It was all i. our owa name and while the liability chargeable to us from this source was approximately ($64,000) Sixty-four Thousand Dollars, we surrendered assets (real estate) which conservatively handled, will bring over ($100,000) One Hundred Thousand Dollars, whichis ($36,000) Thirty six Thousand Dollars more than the alleged liability. i We have never had charge of a record in the Mechanics Savings Bank in twenty years’ service. We could not have made a false entry upon the books of that concern. We had no reason so to do when we had surrendered pro- nerty with a gross rental of ($11,000) Eleven Thousand Dollars. fie, We have defended colored people, secured their release from jails, penitentiaries and stopped executions upon the gallows. We are now called upon to defend ourselves, Certain it is, that the people whom we have defended will stand by us. As for the better class of Southerners, their testimony in our behalf is an outstanding feature of this crucial period of our existence. We are trusting in God. ye | In the language of Shakespeare, we are saying to our traducers and slanderers— There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats For I am armed so strong in honesty that they pass me by Like the idle wind, that I respect not. © A full, free and square vindication is demanded by us and we believe we shall obtain it. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Richmond, Va. May 9, 1923. EIGHT ADDITIONAL SPORTS (Concluded from Page 6) SIKI JEERED AS TAYLOR WINS IN PHILLY RING. (Freston News Service) Philadelphia. Pa. Jan. 2—Joeerod and housed by a crowd of more than a 400 eight tans who packed the Adelaia Arena here Christmas afternoon. Battling Siki fel. from grace in the estimation of many of his admirers when he deliberately 'dogged it', and ost. toack Taylor, third-rate heavy weight from Omata in a spectacle that weight resembled a right. very little interest. Ski who made a reputation by his sensational knock out of Georges Carpenter in France raised even to show that courage which had made him a real attraction in New York, even though he was decisively outpotted by Kid Norfolk. In that bout Ski feeling that his reputation in this country was at stake, fought Norfolk from pillar to post, figuratively speaking He was always atop the rugged New Yorker and even in defeat, he was a popular loser. In that fight, Norfolk showed almost super-human courage. But in his bost with Taylor, Siki really earned the jeers and hoots of the crowd. He used questionable tactics and his utter lack of skill or bravery ruined whatever other requisites for popularity he might have shown. The judges' decision giving the bout to Taylor, was a popular one. TWO-CITY BALL CLUB MAY BE FORMED IN PENNSYLVANIA. (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa. Jan. 3.—An effort to merge the forces of Cleveland and Pittsburgh into the forming of a strong semi-pro baseball club is being planned in this city, according to a rumor gaining in force these days. The deal is being engineered by a well-known sport enthusiast, and if it goes through it is planned that week day games will be played around Pittsburgh, while Sunday attractions will be taken over to the Ohio town. It is also planned to have a working agreement with the big leagues where by league teams can be secured for big attractions. --- ORIGIN OF THE NAME INDIANAP OLIS' A B. C.S. (Proston News Service) Pittsburgh. Pa., Jan. 3.—William Dismukes, manager of the Indianapolis A. B. C's writing in the Pittsburgh Courier, gives a bit of baseball history which is well worth reprinting. The article has to do with the origin of the name A. B. C's. Dismukes writes as follows: "I as well as other players on the Indianapolis Club, am often confronted with the question as to why the Indianapolis club is called 'A. B. C.'" "In the late nineties, a brewing company opened business at Indianapolis. To advertise their beer, the owners organized a colored baseball club, which in those days was supposed to be able to play ball, and at the same time amuse the crowd by some funny sayings or antics. "This club was sent throughout the state of Indiana, and wherever sent to play, kegs of beer were sent and served to the people during the progress of the game, free of charge. The name of the company was American Brewing Company." "Taking the initials we have A. B. C., which was their trade mark. "After the beer was well advertised the club was turned over to a colored saloon keeper, he retaining the name as a drawing card, as the club besides advertising the beer had made a great record as to games won and lost. "Very few players who have been members of the club know the true origin of the name." FRENCH WRESTLER WINS. (Preston News Service) Chicago II. Jan. 3—Wrestling Ski won his first Western match here MOn day night, when he first threw Andre Anderson at the Coliseum. A reverse body hold brought the big fellows shoulders to the mat. "WHIRLWIND" JOHNSON LED HIS TEAM IN SCORING. (Preston News Service) Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa. Jan. 3—A resume of the individual scoring honors during the past football season, shows that Captain 'Whirlwind' Johnson is leading with 82 points. Johnson one of collegiate athletic most unique figures played a major role in his teams success during the season. Always minus his headgear and with the "lucky" 13 pinnon on the back of his jersey. he was an outstanding and oftimes marked player, but when it came to carrying the ball over the last chalk line, 'Whirlwind' specialized. NORTHEASTWARD MOVEMENT OP CENTER OF THE COLORED POPULATION (Preston News Service) Washington, Jan. 3.—It has been given out by the Bureau of the Census U. S. Department of Commerce, that the new center of Negro population is near Pising Fawn Ga. For the first time in its history, it is said, this center has moved to the northeast, its former movements having been in a southeasternly direction. Says the Bureau: "The present northeasterly movement was due prin eically to the grest increase in the Negro population of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio; Indiana and Michigan. The total increase in the Negro population of the United States was 635 388 and the increase in the Northern States noted was 55 percent of the total increase. This begins North of the Negro population was mainly to the expansion of cotton industries during the World War. It is probable true that this movement has been continued due to the reduction of the cotton crop and the demand for common labor at higher wages in the North." --- PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ASKS FOR LARGER AID FOR HOWARD UNIVERSITY. (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C. Jan. 3.—Howard University goes before the Appropriation Committees of the Congress of the United States this year with requests amounting in the aggregate to $15,000. This amount has been recommended by Honorable Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior under the Department of the government. The University government appropriations are expended and by the Bureau of the Budget of the United States. The appropriation of $15,000 recommended for Howard University for the coming fiscal year is greatly in excess of the $222,500 provided for the current year. New items proposed for Howard University include $127,500 toward the construction of a building for an Assembly Hall, Gymnasium Armory and Administrative Headquarters for a department of Health and Hygiene—an increase of $78,500 over the current act; $370,000 for additions to the Medical School Building, and $130,000 for equipment for these additions to the Medical School Building. President Coolidge in his first message to Congress in speaking of the 12,000,000 Colored Citizens of the United States called attention to the fact that there is need for some 500 colored physicians each year, and that a half million ($500,000) dollars should be appropriated for increased facilities for medical courses at Howard University. A RINGING TRIBUTE FROM ALABAMA. 325 Lake Street Montgomery Ala. December 31, 1925 Hon. John Mitchell Jr. Editor and Publisher of "Richmond Planet," Richmond Va. I have known you for the past forty-one years; and you have carefully guided your fellows to see manned from the higher viewpoints. I have seen in your everyday life, your great ambition—to help the men and women to be a worthy honest hearted people. You managed "the Colored Pres. Associat." as its President for several years and I had the pleasure of being in the conventions of the Press in Cincinnati, Ohio Washington, D. C. and Richmond, Va. You have saved many a man from further trouble, and have helped many to success. You are the acknowledged best banker of the race. Your bank has never failed. The person or persons who desired to see the people a failure, were of that unfortunate class, as those who stumbed by the failure of the Freedman's Bank of 1865—and referred to by Dr. Monroe N. Worl. of Tuskegee, Aia., in "The Messenger," of New York for November (1923.) "The Planet" is of great importance to our people, and it has been published for 41 years, with the owner, the editor who has lived for the people, and has given more than they have been able (under circumstance) to give him. Your Banking establishment has never failed, and it seems, at its best days are in the near future. I have written an article to run in the next issue of the Caret and Plum Lane, as I see you. The copies of The Planet, which were made to my desk were carefully read and placed in the hands of some of our leading people here who spoke in high terms of the publication. Within a few days the smoke of the enemy will be entirely removed from the field of progress, and the public will be able to see how God has delivered the people by their leader. Hope you and the entire force as your office are well and happy. While visiting that city during spring (1924) I shall make it my first efforts to see your office equipment. G bless you brother Mitchell. I am as ever, well in body and spirit, wit- good will to making. kindness for God's creation CORNELIUS D. COOLEY. December 31, 1923. ALABAMA CONFICT LEASE SYSTEM TO BE ABOLISHED (Preston News Service) Albany, N. Y., Jan.—2.Following receipt of numerous complaints from various organizations that rent proftering was alarming in Greater New York city Governor Smith ordered an investigation of conditions of housing and the report of the commission showed that housing conditions are worse than ever in the history of the city. A comparison with the report of 1920 was made and brought out the following facts: Rents have increased forty to ninety three per cent; factory wages show a decrease; there is a greater demand for homes and vacancies are fewer; rooms regarded as unfit for habitation are occupied; little repairing has been done; sanitary conditions are worse; ventilation is bad; there is unbelievable congestion in virtually every block; high rents are taking money from food and education; standards of living are being lowered; emergency rent laws are being evaded. Negroes appear to be worse sufferers as indicated from the report, although an exhaustive study of conditions in Harlem was not made. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA You know, of course, how marvelously good PORO Hair Preparations have always been,—how because of superior excellence, PORO has attained heights of public approval such as attained by no other Hair Preparations. Now the new Toilet Preparations among which are Skin and Scalp Soap, Face Powder, Talcum Powder, Vanishing Cream, Cold Cream, and Deodorant are of that same high quality—that same standard of excellence and superiority. Only the purest ingredients of demonstrated worth, scientifically compounded, enter into PORO Products. JUST TRY THEM. YOU'LL WANT NO OTHER! ```markdown ``` Over three million pleased patrons endorse Poro Products Another The New As You k arations have always attained heights of Preparations. Now t Scalp Soap, Face Cream, and Deodor of excellence and su worth, scientifically JUST TR If you 4300 S NEWPORT NEWS VA. NOTES. The following are the names of some of the pupils from the various Institutions and Colleges that are here for the holidays, with parents and friends. Miss Frances Jones of Howard University is here as the guest of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Jones, 1901 Marshall Avenue. She will leave Tuesday January 1st, to resume her studies. Mr. Ollie Dabney from the same College from which he will finish his course in Denstry very soon. Miss Vie Johnson Va. Theological Seminary and College, Lyncl burg. Va. We are very glad to have the Misses Beulah Willis, Alease and Marina Briggs, the Misses Briggs from Atlantic City, N. J., and Miss Willis from New York also Miss Rosa Nelson. We hope they will remain with us for a while. Miss Edna Barney who has been away teaching this term spent the Xmas holidays here as the guest of her parents on 16th street. We wish her much success in her work. Mr. W. E. Hill who has been working in West, W. Va., for the past year spent the holidays with his family on 23rd St. Mrs. Carrie Little who has been away for the past eight months is here as the guest of her mother Mrs. Lula Bunn and sister, Mrs. Nellie Hill 015-23rd street. We wish her a please ant stay in our city. Messrs. A. P. Johnakins, Edward Sayles from V. N. and I. I. Etrickes Va., Wm. Cooke, St Paul I. I. Lawrenceville, Va., Joseph Howze attending school in New York; Horace Laster, Milliston Academy, E. Hampton Mass; The Webster, Howard; Oliver Haskins, Union University, Richmond Va. and Misses Harenton Baltimore; Viola Hatney, V. N. and I. I. Etrickes Emma Robinson, V. N. and I. I. Ruth Pinkett Dunbar; Alma Wilson, V. N. and I. I. and Miss Grandison, Dunson are all spending their vacation here as the guest of parents. Mr. S. V. Thomson is here visiting his family. He is instructor in the Electrical Department of V. N. and I. I. Petersburg, Va. Mr. Lemuel Pugh who is studying in New York City College is here as the guest of his mother, Mrs. J. P. Haywood. Miss Maurice E. Newsome of Fisk Unversity, Nashville, Tenn., was al of a visitor here. SIX WHITE MANAGERS FOR COLORED BANK. A commission of six prominent bankers of Reichmond is to be formed to supervise the management of the Mechanics' Savings' Bank which is soon to be relieved from the receivership according to a statement made yester day by John Mitchell. Jr., colored president of the bank. It is said that a sufficient number of depositors have signed waivers of 50 per cent of their deposits, to cover the shortage which resulted in the bank going into a receivership and there are very few depositors who have not signed. The commission will reorganize the bank until it is on a substantive basis and then turn it over to the management of colored people. (Times Dispatch December 28.) If your PORO AGENT cannot supply you, write us her name. 4300 St. Ferdinand Avenue, ST. LOUISE, MO., U.S.A. DEPT. Pub. Are You Reaching for the Truth? Under which Zodiac Sign were you born? 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It must be for the protection, we gue It's good that gu being made more we hope, policemen permitted to carry drivers, who cannot them now, won't be men who are off men who are off armed civilians, eve least so far as gun-t (Preston New It must be for their own personal protection, we guess. It's good that gun-toting laws are being made more rigid. Some day, we hope, policemen off duty won't be permitted to carry them. Then truck drivers, who cannot lawfully carry them now, won't be shot by policemen who are off duty. And policemen who are off duty will be unarmed civilians, even as you and I, at least so far as gun-toting is concerned ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF PARKER BAKERY 409 N. FIRST STREET. Richmond's Latest Colored Bakery. Our Superior Bread, Pies and Cakes are baked under the watchful eyes of Skilled Bakers, backed by Twenty Years Experience in Richmond's Leading Bakery. Products of guaranteed satisfaction, delivered by courteous agents, enjoyed by the most select. 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Unnatural and mucous discharges can be avoided by destroying the germs of infectious diseases. $ \mathbf{g}. \mathbf{1} \mathbf{0} $ at all druggists BODY OF DROWNED MAN RECOVERED FROM CANAL (Preston News Service) Indianapolis Ind., Jan. 3.—The body of Tony Facen, 50 years old 451 1-2 West Fifteenth street who was drowned in the canal Saturday was recovered Wednesday morning between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Parker Anderson, colored 420 Darnell street told the police Saturday night that he saw a man fall into the canal near Twelfth Street. Squads of police dragged for the body Saturday night and Sunday. Yesterday some water was drained from the canal and the dragging was resumed. CLAIMS DEFENSE OF WOMAN IN SHOOTING AT ELKHART. (Freston News Service) Elkhart, Ind., Jan. 2.—John Gatewood 30 years old, is in a serious condition as the result of being shot three times early Friday and Jesse Sutton is in the city jail charged with the shooting Sutton admitted, police say, that he did the shooting. He said that Gatewood came to his home last Thursday day night and attempted to assault Mrs. Blanche Robinson, who lives with the Sutton Sutton said he shot to defend the woman. Gatewood's home is in Port Clinton Ohio. SPANISH WAR HERO DEAD. (Preston News Service) Philadelphia, Fe. Jan. 2—John C. Jordan former chiefigner, gunmaster of Admiral Dewey's fagship, the Olympia, and famous for gallant service at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American war passed away peacefully in this city after a brief illness. His death marked the closing of a unique career which began with his assistant in the Navy in June, 1887. During the battle of Manila Bay, Mr. Jordan took charge of the guns on the Olympia and his excellent service during that period he was later assigned to important duties at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. He leaves relatives in Washington D. C. where his body was brought for burial. BOY CHARGED WITH SHOOTING FRIEND, OVER MARBLES. (Preston News Service) Atlanta, Jan. 3.—Fred Seals and Philip Coughley boys, played marbles Tuesday afternoon. They did not play Wednesday for Coughley was at Grady hospital with a serious bullet wound in the side while Seals was being belo without bond as the assailant. "It happened over the game of marbles; Coughley was the better shot with the marbles but Seals was better with a gun" the police said. The shooting took place in front of Coughley's home at 120 Martin street. Coughley had collected all the marbles and Seals had admitted he was 'busted." "Well if you don't shoot I'll be going." Coughley was quoted as saying. 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