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This may be our last battle. We believe that it is the beginning of our final triumph. MAY 17, 1923 VIRGINIA AUG 14 1920 STATE LIBRARY THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library. GERTIE DAVENPORT BURNED TO DEATH. The Tragic End of a Well-known Girl in Richmond. DR. KING OFFICIALLY TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION. Will Terminate His Pastorate at Fifth Street Baptist Church August 29th. VOLUME XLIII, NO. 40 GERTI The Tr DR. KIN Will Termi FUMES O CAREER- THROUG On a "cooling board" in the morgue of Funeral Director C. P. Hayes at 727 N. Second Street, the charred remains of Mrs. Gertrude V. Davenport, nee Randolph, rested after the terrific explosion at the Highland Park Cleaning Company's establishment, 907 Wilton Street, of which her husband, W. W. Davenport was proprietor. The accident took place, Tuesday, 10th inst. at about 1:30 P. M. and it created great excitement in the neighborhood. She was said to have been cleaning clothes in the rear room, and had opened the grying room door to put in more clothes when the explosion took place. BLOWN THROUGH DOORWAY. Davenport was blown through the doorway, while his wife, who is said to have been 23 years of age, was afterwards found by Embalmer Lawrence Henry, of the C. P. Hayes concern, with her head near the rear doorway, through which she had evidently attempted to escape. The contents of the cleaning and pressing establishment were destroyed by the fire. The body was burned beyond recognition. Mrs. Davenport was a fine looking woman, with regular features and would have attracted attention anywhere. FINE SEAMSTRESS She was a fine seamstress and was employed in an establishment in the Mechanics Savings Bank Building for many years. Her brother, James W. Randolph was in the tailoring business for many years. Her father, William Randolph resides at Westwood. Her mother died recently. It is strange that her husband who was in the room with her was blown through the doorway and uninjured as a result of the happening. The funeral took place Wednesday afternoon from the Providence Baptist Church in Providence Park. MONEY FOUND. "Gertie," as she was called, was a general favorite with those who knew her and all were shocked over the untimely end. A roll of bank notes was found in the till in the ashes near her. The watch she wore had been partly melted by the heat, the works dropping out when it was picked up. The front was blown out and the steam piping in the drying room knocked over by the explosion. Five rings were found. The amount of money in the shop was said to have $150.00 with checks. CORONER WHITFIELD'S OPINION In talking to Coroner James M. Whitfield about the case of Mrs. Gertrude V. Davenport, he said that there was a drying room partitioned off inside of the back room. Clothes that had been washed in gasoline were put in there to dry out and to get rid of the odor from the gasoline. The gasoline tanks were outdoors and a steam boiler inside of the room furnished steam to dry out the clothes in the drying room. When the unfortunate girl opened the door the gasoline fumes came out and reached the fire under the boiler, causing the explosion. TOO LATE. W. W. Davenport was blown thru one of the doors and he thought his wife had been blown through the other door. He let the place burn and when he could not find her, he realized that she was burning up inside of the structure. It was then too late. The happening created a sensation in the neighborhood. WHITE MAN INDICTED AS THE DICTATOR IN MURDER OF COUPLE (Preston News Service.) MACON, GA. August 13—Bars Davis, held in connection with the slaying of Miss Hilda Smith and E. W. Wilson on July 10 last, was indicted Tuesday by a special grand jury on charges, of accessory before the fact and of principal in the second degree. Each indictment contained three counts. The first, having employed Ed Glover, colored, to commit the slayings, having been present when the crime was committed and having committed the slaying himself and without assistance from any one Glover, confessed slayer, has been convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair September 9. Davis will be placed on trial this month. Solicitor General Charles H. Garrett said. Wilson and Miss Smith were shot to death with a shotgun and their bodies thrown into a swamp a few miles from the city. They went riding on Saturday night, July 10 and were not seen again until their bodies were discovered the following Monday afternoon. COMMITTEE REFUSES DEMPSEY LICENSE The New York License Committee last Tuesday granted a license to Gene Tunney, who is scheduled to fight Jack Dempsey September 16, 1926 and denied a license for the time being to Jack Dempsey until he had complied with the rules of the Committee. Tex Rickard, the promoter, states that steps will be taken to do this at once and thus make conditions so that the pugilists can go into training for the contest. The two contracts that Dempsey signed to fight Harry Willis, the colored heavyweight pugilist were demanded by the Committee and were produced. NO CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT. It developed that Dempsey had (Continued on page 4) YOUTH DROWSN WHILE BATH ING IN PART SET FOR NEGROES 1 (Preston News Service.) CLEVELAND, OHIO. Aug. 13.—Race discrimination at the Chippewa Lake picnic arranged by the American Wire and Steel Company caused Thurman Jackson, 20, to lose his life. Thurman Jackson in company with his brother-in-law, Joe Holmes, 15, were refused admission by authorities of Chippeawa Lake to bathe on the same side of the lake with the other employees. They were told that if they wanted to bathe that skiffs and suits would be rented them but that they would have to go on the RICHMOND VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1926 Where Mrs. Davenport Met Her Tragic Death A Wreckage left by the gasoline explosion and fire at the cleaning plant at 902 Welton St., Highland Park Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Gertrude Davenport failed to escape and was burned to death. The plant was owned by W. W. Davenport, husband of the victim. (Courtesy News Leader, photo by Farts and Dementi) opposite side of the lake and bathe by themselves. Both youths went by themselves to the opposite side of the lake. Thurman lost his life by drowning. There was no life guard on the side of the lake where they were bathing. A committee of leading Negro residents is carrying on a probe of this case of race discrimination. In Memoriam. In loving remembrance of my daughter and wife, Mrs. Alice V Edwards Moore, who died August 14, 1920 six years ago. Her Father, Mother and Husband. Her Father, Mother and Husband. My Mother, Georgia Robinson, who died December 22, 1922, three years and eight months ago. When days are dark and friends are few, Daughter and Mother how we long Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Proctor, formerly of this city, but now of New York City, are spending their vacation here. Mrs. Proctor was formerly Miss Zelma Hall. While here they will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hall, of 2300 Old Dominion Street. Where Mrs. D NEW YORK, August 13 — Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills met Thursday night in Madison Square Garden. Sounds like the start of the long-awaited fight for the heavyweight title, but it isn't. Dempsey and Wills met, all right. And their meeting was in the glare of the powerful incandescents above a roped square. But there were no gloves and no flying fists involved. Just merely a handshake, an exchange of greetings. A comparison of broad smiles and —they departed. Some 8,000 fight fans attracted to the Garden by four exciting 10-round bouts and two ring stars, whose names arouse arguments and endless discussion and whose activities fast are assuming the proportion of an international menace. WILLS GETS OVATION. Dempsey was the guest of Promoter Tex Rickard in a front row ringside seat and was a conspicuous figure. Wills moved into the arena after Dempsey had arrived and leading him through the ringside aisles was Lew Raymond. The crowd had cheered Dempsey generously when he arrived, but at the spectacle of Wills' advancing on the ringside, the gathering was wild. The demon stration for Wills almost raised the roof off the Garden and quite plainly exceeded that accorded Dempsey. It seemed at first Wills would not greet Dempsey, but after saying a word over the radio, the big content el turned to meet the champion coming toward him from his ring-side seat. Rev. Thomas H. White, D. D., of Jersey City, N. J. was in the city this week. He was enroute to Staunton, Va. Prof. J. R. Gibson, Principal, Central High School, Galveston, Texas, called on us. He is on his vacation. His parents went from this State in 1865 and resided in Ohio. He is a graduate of Wilberforce University. He went to Texas forty years ago. He will return home about September 1.. Prof. Gibson has a mother and a son in Columbus, Ohio. MR. R. C. SCOTT'S CHAUFFEUR EXONERATED. The investigation by the coroner at Hampton and the trial court took place last week at Hampton and Funeral Director Robert C. Scott's chauf fear was exonerated. The injured man died at Dixie Hospital, Mr. Scott shipped a fine casket there, in which the unfortunate man was buried. DR. T. J. KING RESIGNS Rev. T. J. King, D. D., pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, of this city broke his long silence Friday night, August 6, 1926, when he tendered his resignation, at a special meeting of the members of the Church, which resignation was to become effective August 29, 1926. He appointed a committee of 15 to supply the pulpit until a pastor was called to take his place. WILL TAKE CHARGE He will take charge of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, of Pittsburgh, Pa. on the first Sunday in September. Something of a sensation was caused by his admission that he had pledged himself to Ebenezer Baptist Church two months previous. He had declined to state to the Deacon Board of the Fifth Street Baptist Church whether he would go or stay and he had Rev. Dr. C. S. Morris announce from the pulpit on Sunday August 1. 1926, that a special meeting of the church would be held Friday, 6th inst., at which time, he would announce whether he would go or stay. SPECIAL COMMITTEE In the meantime a special committee named by him and consisting of 15 members, had been at work on resolutions, some of which were so drastic that two members of the committee walked out. It was an effort to conform to the ideas of the pastor and to make offers, which would have a tendency to have him change his plans and to remain as pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church. At the church meeting, however, they had been revised. A HEAVY DEBT. The heavy debt entailed by the erection of the new church edifice had caused the contractors to take a hand in the affair and they were vitally interested in promoting har- (Continued on page 4.) RICHMOND GIRL KILLED IN WASHINGTON. On Friday, August 6, 1926, the family of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Booker 722 N. Fifth Street received the sad intelligence of the death of their little niece, Lucile Virginia Coleman who was killed by an automobile in Washington, D. C. Lucile lives with her grandmother Mrs. Lucy Booker, and her uncle, Dan, here. She had gone to visit her mother, Mrs. Rosa Coleman, who has been living in Washington for the past year or more. Mr. Dan Booker left immediately to be with his sister. The remains were brought to Richmond and the funeral was held from the Clay St. Baptist Church, of which the deceased was a member Monday, August 9, at 3 P. M. Rev. Godsey officiating. He portrayed the life of the deceased in a very impressive manner and commended the bereaved family to Him who doeth all things well. "In That City" was sung very sweetly by Mrs. Wood. The active and honorary pall-bearers were Sunday Schoolmates of little Lucile. Mr. C. P. Hayes had charge and the remains were laid to rest in Evergreen. A bud on earth, a rose in heaven. PRICE, FIVE CENTS EATH. hmond. NATION. august 29th. E GRAND OF VA. Llard's Name STAUNTON, VA., August 6.—One of the members of the Pythian Order asked here if Jos. R. Pollard, Grand Master of Exchequer (treasurer) was under bond and if so, if he was responsible for the Twenty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety-nine Dollars and Forty six Cent's check, and if his bondman or the bonding company could be held responsible for the said check or any part thereof. Mr. John Mitchell Jr. explained that Jos. R. Pollard, G. M. of Ex. (treasurer) could be held responsible only for the money that came into his hands as treasurer. A DISTINCTION WITH & DIFFERENCE. As he, Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney, had passed over to Jos. R. Pollard, G. M. of Ex. (treasurer) Two Thousand and Dollars of the $20,799.46 received from the receivers of the Mechanics Savings Bank, he could be held and his bondsm could be held only for this amount. The other $18,799.46 was held by Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney and Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney had not given any bond for this amount. He could legally take out ten per cent, as a fee, for which W. H. C. Brown, Grand Attorney, who cannot legally practice law in Virginia, was being paid one thousand dollars per year for so doing. THREE SIGNATURES At the Grand Lodge session, Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney had unofficially made the statement that he had paid the Supreme Lodge the $13,000.00 that S. W. Green, Supreme Chancellor borrowed from somewhere or from some one to loan to the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia. This left $5,000.00 less interest on the S. W. Green loan, in the hands of Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney and not in the hands of Jos. R. Pollard G. M. of Ex. (treasurer). It requires the signature of the Grand Chancellor, Grand Master of Exchequer and Grand Keeper of Records and Seal to draw money from the Grand Lodge treasury. THAT $1000 SALARY It only requires the signature of Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney to draw money that is in the hands of Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney. It will be seen then that there was or is enough money in the hands of Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney for Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney to write a check for his legal fee of ten per cent, on the $20.799.46, which amount would be $2 079.94. Which fee should not be paid for the reason that Grand Attorney W. H. C. Brown, as attorney for the Grand Lodge receives a sal CHARITY LODGE ELECTS OFFICERS. On July 30th, Charity Lodge, A. F. and A. Masons held a called communication for the election of officers. The following officers were elected: Alfred Hardy, W. Master; William Young, S. W.; Albert McGee, J. W.; Nathaniel Roy, Secretary; Hezekiah Curtis, Treasurer. The following officers were appointed: Israel Stroud, Senior Deacon; Eddie Epps Junior Deacon; Walter Povthress and Jas. Dixon; Stewardes; Thomas Liggon, Chaplain; Isaac Ballard, Tiler. This lodge is one of the oldest lodges of Masons in the city and is in a fine and prosperous condition. The Purdys by Paul Robinson PUBLISHERS AUTOCASTER SERVICE REG. U.S. PAC. OFFICE LOOK OUT PER RED-HE'S IT! OOH-HOO RED! HELLO BOYS CAN LITTLE ROLLO PLAY WITH YOU? 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Terence is pictured above seated at the throttle of a miniature locomotive of the Canadian Pacific Railway's "Trans-Canada Limited," a fascinating feature of Treasure Island, one of the most popular attractions at Philadelphia's Sesou-Centennial. The other picture shows the real Trans-Canada. Terence inherited from his grand- "HENRY, DON'T YOU DROP ANY ASHES ON MY CLEAN RUG!" "KEEP STILL! I'M TALKING!" "INSTEAD OF SITTING AROUND, YOU MIGHT BE WATERING TH' LAWN!" "LET ME CATCH YOU SNEAKING OUT TO PLAY POKER T'NIGHT!" GOSH, AN' I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA BE LONE SOME WHILE TH' WIFE'S ON HER VACATION! WHEN A PARROT IS APPRECIATED Small father. Sir John Holder, of Broome House, near Birmingham, England, the family hobby—a great liking for miniature locomotives, carshops, and all the paraphernalia connected with such a pastime. Somewhat to the dismay of his parents, who had pictured their offspring as a polished Oxonian, the lad, tired of the humdum existence of modern everyday life in England, seized the opportunity which was forthcoming when the Wembley Exhibition opened. He was employed to pilot the miniature Canadian Pacific trains over the Lillipution railway at Wembley. Before the Philadelphia Ex- position opened, Terence was invited to the United States by Canadian Pacific officials to pilot their miniature train at Treasure Island through a replica of the Canadian Pacific jockeys as well as across a miniature, Canadian train from the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, to the Canadian West. Sir John Holder, Terence's grandfather, was the first Englishman to construct a miniature railway system on his estate. 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Jack Dempsey is having the time of his life running away from Harry Wills or any other heavyweight fighter, who would be liable to detain him. Some white folks are all right and so are some colored folks. On the other hand some white folks are all wrong and so are some colored folks. God alone can deal with these classes of people. The New York Elks are reported to have gotten together in about the only way that they could be brought together and that is on the bringing of the next Grand, Lodge session to New, York City. Governor Harry Flood Byrd has made a rule that he will not grant a pardon to any person rightfully convicted of driving a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor. The question naturally would arise in Turkey as to how a person could be found guilty in a "dry" country, when even the constitution forbids the manufacture and sale of liquor. COMMITTEE REFUSES (Continued from Page 1.) never agreed to a championship fight but specifically insisted that the fight be one without a decision. This would mean that Harry Wills would be required to knock him out in order to win the championship. Even Dempsey's trainers are third raters. The public demand, however, is something of a roar that he be made to fight Harry Wills, Ona of Wills' contracts called for the posting of $300,000.00. This is now in bank and it may be that should Dempsey be able to fight Tunney in New York, the fight will be stopped by a court injunction. DAVID BELASCO PLEASED WITH NEGRO ACTORS. (Preston News Service.) Writing on "Tomorrow's Stage and The Negro" in Liberty, David Belasco, the leading producer in this country says in part: "Fate has decreed that I should know the Negro of our modern days; that I should know him and his psychology intimately. And the contact has brought me to this finding: 'The theatre of tomorrow must reckon with a new force—the race of Ham'" "I say this in all sincerity, out of my fifty years of labor for the American stage: The Negro from today onward, will compel recognition thru the sheer power of his instinctive mime power." "I will go further and declare that no race, even the sorrow swept Jew, can surpass the Negro for instinctive stage ability. The same receptivity that drove the African ancestors to battle frenzy at the sound of war drums, has been translated by generations of contact with civilization into terms of emotion-expression, delicate and sensitive in the extreme. "And as a climax to my prediction, I believe that another decade will see a Negro Theatre in which we of the Caucasian race will witness a surprising development of this hitherto dormant nature gift. The Negro with his submerged, instinctive voice, is a natural actor." FREE HAIR POMADE. 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Crowell handled the money when Dr. E. R. J. Jefferson was Grand Master of Exchequer (treasurer) and noted the difference, when W. H. C. Brown and Jos. R. Pollard had charge On page 20, 12th line of the Grand Lodge K. of P. minutes, 1925, Grand Chancellor Crowell said over his own signature: "The ladies of the Grand Court and our Grand Officers met at our temporary headquarters, Hotel Biltmore, where we turned over to the G. M. of Exchequer (treasurer) the check coming from the receiver, amounting to eleven thousand, five hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventy cents." NOT RE-ELECTED Grand Master of Exchequer E. R. Jefferson was not re-elected. Jos. R. Pollard was named for the position. Another set of receivers paid to the Grand Lodge, $20,799.46. Mr. Mitchell proceeded to show the difference in handling this sum. The other money was turned over at once to the Grand Master of Exchequer (treasurer), who placed it in bank to the credit of the Grand Lodge, but in this last instance it was turned over to a lawyer, outside of the treasurer. He signed himself, "Jos. R. Pollard, Attorney" and not "Jos. R. Pollard, Grand Master of Exchequer," in the way and manner that Dr. E. R. Jefferson had done. THE FEMALE DEPARTMENT. If no change has been made, Mr. Mitchell stated that the entire sum, outside of the $2,000.00 reported at the session here is still outside of the Grand Lodge treasury. The money paid by the receivers to the Female Department of the Order, Mrs. Kate S. Thomas, G. W. Receiver of Deposits and who was succeeded by Mrs. Adeliae G. Thompson Taylor, was paid direct into the Grand Court treasury. On page 23, of this same Minute, Mr. Mitchell said that Grand Chancellor W. B. F. Crowell furnished more evidence against W. H. C. Brown, who is practicing law and receiving compensation therefor with out having obtained a license from the Board of Bar Examiners of this State. A WHITE LAWYER'S OPINION. "Giving legal advice," said a leading white attorney of Richmond, "constitutes the practice of law." W. B. F. Crowell used the following words: "The Grand Attorney as my legal adviser, has ever been ready with information." Still this W. H. C. Brown and Jos. R. Pollard. Attorney had drawn a sum aggregating $4,500.00 within two years, if the money held out of the treasury has been paid over to them for their own use and $2,500.00 has been received by them outside of the amount cited. The cost of a Grand Lodge session with the expenses of more than 50 persons included, was estimated to be $1,200.00 for Jos. R. Pollard brought a check for this amount to Staunton. WAITING FOR HIM When Supreme Chancellor Green arrives here, he will have many an anxious Pythian, who would like to talk the situation over with him. 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RATH New Serial ning on F Mr. Mitchell stated that on page 39, commencing at the 10th line, Sir Eugene West of Norfolk, Va. is reported in the 1925 Minutes of the Grand Lodge, K. of P. as saying: "When the Receivers turned the Order over to the proper officers our task was made more difficult as we were given eleven thousand dollars ($11,000.00) without a book, pencil or any records whatever and told to launch out on a sea of service." RECORDS SHIPPED TO WEST. Mr. Mitchell said that in conference with Attorney C. J. Churchman of Richmond, who had direct charge of the affairs for Hon. Joseph Button, Receiver, he stated that the books, supplies and other property of the Grand Lodge were shipped to Sir Eugene West at Norfolk for the Grand Lodge and those for the Grand Court to Mrs. Fannie Ash, of Portsmouth. If he did not receive them, it is a question as to how he could tell what lodge is benefited or unbenefited and it would be interesting to know how the Grand Lodge, K. of Pr. could function. SOME QUESTIONS. Attorney Churchman seems to have no reason to doubt that he did receive them and this statement will call for some explanation. As Mr. Churchman knows what he sent and G. K. of R. and S. Eugene West knows what he received, the members of the Grand Lodge would like to hear an explanation of this remarkable statement. Did Col. Button or his agent turn the Grand Lodge over to the proper officers of the Grand Lodge without a book, pencil or any records and if he did, where was the Grand Attorney, who Sir Crowell lauds to the skies for his super-legal ability although he has not passed the Board of Bar Examiners of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia? THIRD ST. A. M. E. NOTES Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rev. Jas. S. Hatcher D. D. Pastor. Monday night, August 2, our second quarterly Conference convened Dr. A. J. Nottingham, presiding. The officers reported fine work and good fellowship. August 1, at 3:30 P. M. our joint communion with Hood Temple A. M. m. Zilon Church was a spiritual feast. Offering for the day being $72,57. Sunday, August 8, Dr. Hatcher spoke on "Three Pictures." The members and visitors acclaim this one of the deepest and most helpful messages ever heard. Dr. Hatcher dealt with our dual personality and the place of the Holy Spirit in giving victory to the Divine Nature. At night Dr. Hatcher spoke on "The Secret of Peace," taking a text from a "Kingdom Promise," Ezekiel 11.25. He told us that when Jesus came again the lower animals would all be regenerated as would all nature, then leaving this wonderful truth he gave us the secret of having peace in the days of pleasure, and real happiness in the days of distress. Monday night our Baby Contest was a great success. After a short program on which John Robert Valentine, Clarence Barber, Palmer Burges, Master Young and Ella Campbell and Frances Woolfolk appeared the reports were as follows: The Thomas Baby, $L50; Pearl Webster, $1.00; Herbert Woolfolk, $2.00; L. Tilman, $6.50; Richard D. Davenport, $16.75; James Young, $17.25; Pathea Marshall, $25.65; and Earl Valentine, $30. Total $101.65. The total offering for the week, $175.60. Three babies have not been heard from yet. Thank all who contributed. Dr. Hatcher will fill his purplish all --- Whitener Prepa- e clerk hand you have been deceived Palmer's. The preparations have you know you Palmer's Skin NO SUBSTI: Palmer's PARATIONS "Efficiency" i Story. Page 6. day Sunday, August 15. At 6 P. M. a musical program by the young people under the direction of Mrs. Branch. DEATHS REPORTED --- The following is a list of deaths reported to the Richmond City Bureau of Health from August 4, to August 11, 1926, with date of death August 1—William M. Monroe. 67; 204 E. Leigh Street. August 1—Rosa Gray. 51; 3826 Sixth Street, Fulton. August 2—Charles W. Clay, 4 mos.; 619 Judah Street. August 1—Joseph E. Cole, 55; 130 Wood Street. August 2—Hubbard Randall, 65; Clayville, Va. August 3—Robert Brown, 50; 1905 Chaffin Street. August 1—Willie Richard, 2 months. 1208 W. Moore St. August 4—Maggie Delapp, 25, 513 N. 18th Street. August 3—Royal Chaffin, 28; 604 N. 13th Street. August 3—Fannie Smith, 60; 1428 W. Clay Street. August 3—Mildred C. Johnson, 58; 309 N. Madison Street. August 4—Lula Whitby, 28; 526 N. 2nd Street. August 5—Lizzie Tucker, 2 days; 12 N. 24th Street. August 5—Christiana Lewis, 3 mos. 512a N. 4th Street. August 6—Helen Lockett, 4 mos.; 52 W. 22d Street. August 5—James Brown, 4 months; 1218 Moore Street. August 6—William Green, 50; 2704 E. Main Street. August 6—Pattie Johnson, 32; 2715 M Street. August 6—Mary Gertrude Brown, 8 days; 106 E. 18th Street. August 4—Carrie E. Taylor, 34; 1006 N. 4th Street. August 6—Charles Stokes, 1 year; 917 William Street. August 8—Rosebud Brown, 1 year; 312 W. Baker Street. August 9—Nazarine Clark, 25; 710 32nd Street. August 7—Annie Binford, 38; 917 E. Leigh Street. August 7—Sarah E. Carter, 35; 316 W. Duval Street. August 9—Eliza Lewia, 71; 1003 St. James Street. August 10—Gertrude V. Davenport, 23; 1003 W. Marshall Street. --- Address INSIDE INFORMATION. BY GOLLY! SOMETHING TELLS ME NE HAD ENOUGH $LUSH FUND $UGAR BARREL DR. T. J. KING RESIGNS mony in the congregation. Rev. Dr. King announced that he did not desire a banquet. He would only ask that envelopes be distributed in which his friends could make such donations as they saw fit to give him. The fact that he had announced in Pittsburgh that he would take charge there September 5th had spread here and the announcement of his intentions were accordingly anticipated. WILL NAME PASTOR He had given the congregation in Pittsburgh three months notice and his congregation here one month, despite the fact that his salary here had been steadily increased to a point, where he receives a higher compensation. It is reported, than any other pastor in this city. Fifth Street Baptist Church will at once proceed to fill the pastorate and a call will soon be issued. Many prominent divines are on the list of eligibles. Mr. Melvin Anderson. 409 W. Marshall Street died Tuesday morning 'o clock at the Retreat for the Sick after a major operation. His funeral takes place from First Baptist Church Friday. He was the husband of Mrs. Eleanor Lindsey Anderson, and both of them had just returned to the city from a vacation. (Preston News Service.) Washington. Aug. 5.-Howard Theatre is strike-bound, pending settlement of its management with the American Federation of Musicians. Ticket holders for the week had their money refunded. This house was nonunion, but when a union orchestra from New York arrived with a revue from that city the visiting musicians refused to play. Sylvester Thomas, local representative of the Negro musicians' union, under instructions from President Weber, of the A. F. of M. called out all local musicians who had been hired to replace the New Yorkers. The management tried to run the show with a few nonunion players, but failed and turned down the lights for the week. TEILS A FANTASTIC TALE OF ATTACK TO EXCITE FRIEND. (Preston News Service.) GREENSBORO, N. C. August 12. That she circulated the report that a young Negro man had choked her, made her take a pill and threatened her life early last Wednesday morning "just to excite my neighbor girl friend," is an admission made by Miss Virginia Holladay, 16 year old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Holladay, of Pomona in a letter received by the Daily News Thursday with a request that it be printed. She says: "I want to express my deepest regret for the report that I caused to come out last Thursday in the Daily News. It was only a dream greatly enlarged. The reason I told them was just to excite my neighbor girl friend, not thinking that it would ever go any farther, which it did by some one calling the police. Then I had to make my story fit in as it all happened. I am sorry that I caused the family, friends and also the officers the trouble that I did." ager. SOMETHING NEW A Pew Rally to benefit the melon feast at City Home, on August 29, 9th Sunday, from 2 to 5:30 P. M. There will be a special program for service. The Pilgrim Travelers will render special music. Sermon on Home Missions and a paper from or three of our secretaries, or Pew mounts. We invite our friends to come over into Macedonia and help us. Committee: George Johnson, J. I. Lovings, Mrs. Mary Robinson, Mrs. Lottie Thornton, Roy, W. H. Liggons, new F. W. Charles Mar. LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN FUNERAL EQUIPMENT. 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SCOTT, Funeral Director 2223 EAST MAIN STREET RICHMOND, VA. NOTHING AS INVIGORATING AS A BRISK HIKE IN THE COUNTRY=EH TOBEY? JUST TAKE A GOOD SNiff OF THE OZONE=DOESN'T IT GIVE YA AN APETITE? I'LL SAY IT DOES! FAR BE IT FROM ME TO ENCOURAGE APPLE PILFERING, BUT IN AS MUCH AS YOU SAY, THE APPLE IN QUESTION IS HANGING OUTSIDE OF THE FARMER'S DOMAIN, AND PROVIDING YOUR CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR, YOU MAY TAKE ONE POT SHOT AT IT!=I'LL NOT SEE YOU DO IT! REMEMBER=JUST ONE SHOT AT IT! PLUM Fat Fatal to Beauty, Says Edna; If You Can't Be Slim, Look Slim Mary Edna Wallace Honper. CHICAGO—"Fair, fat and forty" is an ancient and alliterative myth that has been exploded. No fat woman is beautiful. This is the dictum of Edna Wallace Hopper in a letter from Paris. "You see few stylish stouts in Paris," writes Miss Hopper. "French women are charmingly tender. But the fat woman in America has assumed the important national problem. American woman has ten times too much. Starvation is the only eufée and not one woman in a thousand has enough will-power to starve." "Some people love a fat man but nobody loves a fat woman. The fat matrons waddling serenely through life, one may be sure, were slender when they won their husbands. There is only one greater tragedy in the world than that of a man Head of New Indian Company Predic WHERE SKYSCRAPERS GROW THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW HAMMETT HOME Twelve million cubic feet of building stone will be shipped from the Bedford-Bloomington district during the present year, according to A. E. Dickinson, whose estimate was based on shipments during the first seven months, and orders now on the books. "The spectre of a serious building depression," he said, "seems to have faded like other dark omens of hard times. If building construction is the barometer of general conditions, the present year should give a splendid account of itself." Mr. Dickinson was recently elected President of the Indiana Limestone company, the forty million dollar corporation that acquired properties of a score of companies in the great Indiana quarrying district. The new company, of which Lawrence H. Whiting, Chicago banker, is chairman of the board, was organized along lines Steel Corporation and effect sharp reductions in production and distribution costs. Forty years ago Mr. Dickinson, then a lad in short trousers, earned his first dollar in the quarries by carrying TOBEY AND TYKE NOTHING AS INVIGORATING IS A BRISK HIKE IN THE COUNTRY=EH TOBEY? JUST TAKE A GOOD SNIFF OF THE OZONE=# DOESN'T IT GIVE YA AN APETITE? ALL SAY who innocently marries a girl of sylph-like loveliness and then watches the houri of his dreams grow fatter day by day, and that is the tragedy of the woman, once a fairy of grace, who has ballooned out until she is compelled to regard herself as no longer a beauty but a joke. “There is hope for fat women in the rouge pot and the lip stick. A face made youthful and beautiful but skillfully applied toilet preparations serves the psychological suggestion of youthful slenderness. The magical power of illusion causes the tragically fat body to fade out of the conscious body of the beholder. Rosy cheeks and red lips center attention and in the sparkle and fascination of deftly penciled and shadowed eyes embonion is forgetten.” na Limestone acts Huge Shipments 1930 President A.E.DICKINSON water to the stone cutters during school vacations. Later he mast- ered every phase of the business, and rose step by step until his own the Consolidated Stone Company, become one of the largest in the world. It now purchased by the new corporation. "Two thousand cars of stone a month is the average shipped during the first seven months of the year," Mr. Dickinson said, "and it is probable that thirty thousand car-loads, or twelve million cubic feet will be the total for the year." FAR BE IT FROM N PILFERING, BUT IN APPLE IN QUESTION THE FARMER'S DON CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR POT SHOT AT IT!!! THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA CHURCH DIRECTORY CHURCH DIRECTORY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. (Broad and College Streets) Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., Pastor Residence, 621 N. 8th St. Services Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, (Leigh and Judah Streets.) Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., Pastor Residence, 1607 Brook Road. Services: Sundays, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9 A. M. The public is invited. MT. OLIVET BAPSTIST CHURCH, (25th and S Streets) Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, Pastor Residence, 112 E. Leigh Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and & P. M. Sunday School 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH. (1300 North First Street). Rev, Berryman H. Johnson, Pastor, Sunday 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome CLAY STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. (Formerly New Baptist Church, Clay Street, opposite, St. James St.) Rev. J. A. Brinley. A. B., B. D. Paasche School. 12:30 M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH (South Richmond) Rev. E. C. Smith, A. B., Pastor, residence, 1704 Stockton St. Services Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8:00 P. M.; Sunday School, 9:30 A. M.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 P. M. All are welcome. RIVERVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH. (Jacquel n and Lombardy Streets) Rev. E. D. Lewis, Pastor, Residence 316 S. Lombardy Street. Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. VERNON BAPTIST CHURCH (1902 Wallace Street) Rev. M. H. Payne, Pastor, Residence, 1900 Wallace Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. FOURTH BAPTIST CHURCH. (28th and P. Streets.) Rev. Evans Payne, D. D., Pastor, Residence, 1209 N, 24th St. Services; Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. FIFTH ST. BAPSTIST CHURCH. (Fifth and Jackson Streets) Rev. T. J. King, D. D., Pastor, Residence, 1005 N, 4th St. Services; Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. B. Y. P. U. 6 P. M. Public invited. ST. MARK BAPTIST CHURCH, (Glen Allen, Va) MT, SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, (Penola, Va.) Rev. M. C. Ruffin, Pastor, Residence, 611 St. Peter St. Services at Glen Allen, 2nd and 4th Sundays at 1 P. M. At Penola, services on the 3rd Sunday at 12:30 P. M. Sunday School every Sunday at both places at 11:20 A. M. MT. GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH. (Chesterfield County) Rev. W. H. Liggins. Pastor, Residence, 1835 Taylor St. Services, 1st and 3rd Sundays at 12:30 P. M. Sunday School every Sunday at 10:30 A. M. MOORE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. (1408 West Leigh Street) Rev. Gordon B. Hancock, A. M. Pastor, Residence Virginia Union University. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. SHARON BAPTIST CHURCH. (Corner First and Leigh Sts) Rev. R. H. Johnson, B.D. M.A. pastor. Residence. 11 E. Clay St. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8:15 P. M. Sunday School, 10 A. M. All are invited. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. (Byrd St. between 1st and 2nd Sts). Rev. Z. D. Lewis. D. D. Pastor. Residence. 202 E. Leigh St. Services: Sundays, 11:30 A. M and 8 P. M. Sunday School. 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. RISING MT. ZION BAPT. CHURCH. (800. Denny Street. Fulton.) (800) Depeny Street, Fulton Rev. O. B. Simms, B. Th.. Pastor. Reslden 728 Denny St. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. 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JOHNSONS' SONS FuneralDirectors & Morticians DAY OR NIGHT SERVICE WHEN O W I. JOHNSON'S SONS, EXPERIENCE Funerals Flawlessly. Our Many W Conduct All Funerals in a Most B More However by L.corporating pathetic Understending SERVICE, WITHIN 1000 MILES WHEN ORDERED. IS, EXPERIENCED MORTICIANS CONDUCT Our Many Years of Experience Enables us to in a Most Efficient Manner. We Try to Give corporating in Our Service a Spirit of Sym- 1. JOHNSON'S SONS, EXPERIENCED MORTICIANS CONDUCT Funerals Flawlessly. Our Many Years of Experience Enables us to Conduct All Funerals in a Most Efficient Manner. We Try to Give More However by Lcorporating in Our Service a Spirit of Sympathetic Understanding Rev. R. M. Williams, Pastor, residence, 616 North 5th Street. Services: Sundays, Sunday School 9:30 A. M. Morning service, 11 o'clock; Evening service, 8 o'clock. The public is invited Rev. J. J. Woodson, Pastor, Residence. 1116 St. John Street. Services: Sunday. 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School. 9:30 A. M. All are invited. Rev. R, J Eats, Pastor, Resilience 15 E. Duval Street, Services, Sunday 11:30 A. M and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH. (117 Orleans Street, Fulton) Rev. C. A. Cobbs, Pastor, Residence, 819 Nicholson St. Services: 11:30 A. M and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. The public is invited. Rev. A. D. Daly, Pastor, Residence 1412 W. Cary St. Services: 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 10:00 A. M. All are welcome. 1ST BAPT. CHURCH S. RICHMOND (Corner 15th and Decatur Sts.) Rev. W. L. Ransome, D. D., Pastor; Parsonage 1507 Decatur Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. REMEMBER=JUST ONE SHOT AT IT! 10 W. LEIGH STREET LEIGH STREET M. E. CHURCH (N. E. Corner Fifth and Leigh Sts. PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH, (518 Lady Mile Road) MT, TABOR BAPTIST CHURCH. (North 22nd Street, Woodville) FIFTH BAPTIST CHURCH (1400 West Cary Street). Richmond, Va. 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But the Indians are now devout Christians, often more earnest in their faith than people of European extraction. The price of cotton goes up—good news for cotton GAMBLERS, not such good news for cotton GROWERS. The price goes up because much rain means harm to the growers' crop. The cotton gambler makes his money whether it rains or scorches. Why men GROW cotton, when they might GAMBLE in cotton, would be hard to understand, but for the fact that men enjoy producing something, apart from profit. Agassiz was "too busy to make money." The Rev. Laura B. Gaylor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, tells the Universalist Sunday School Association that some Bible tales are out of date and horrible. That story about Elijah calling she bears to eat the children that had made fun of his baldness she could not bear. Many things in the Bible shock you, but that is the fault of peo- ple whom the Bible describes truthfully. That story about the angels that came down with important news, and the manner in which some of the natives would have received them, shocks any normal mind. But the duty of the Bible, like that of a newspaper, is to tell what happens. H. G. Fokker, brilliant flying man from Holland, manufacturing planes here, has insured his life for $2,000,000 and pays a high premium because of the risk. This particular flier is worth many times $2,000,000. He built the machine in which Commander Byrd, fine young American naval officer, flew over the North Pole, with the financial help of Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Mr. Fokker ought to be working for the United States Government, and it ought to insure his life for $20,000,000—if money made any difference. The President's statement on prosperity was confirmed by great corporations. The big steel company in the last six months earned more than $92,000,000. General Motors more than $98,000,000. Thus in net profits one single automobile concern eclipses the great steel company, biggest industrial unit in the world. Lord Beaverbrook doubts the gold standard's value, calls it a financial medicine often fatal to the patient. Europe turns against the gold standard, for the reason that this country HAS the gold. They forget that we also have THE GOODS for which gold is spent. All the gold in creation wouldn't help us or keep us where we are if we didn't have mills, factories, farms, mines, oil wells, and especially inventive and industrial genius. Mrs. Clemmington Carson, of New York, swam from Dover to Ramsgate, in the rough Channel water, twenty-two miles in 6 hours and 20 minutes. It was a fine performance, but a $75.00 put-put boat would do better. Nancy Hanks a powerful woman, might have beaten Mrs. Carson's swimming record. Instead, she contributed Abraham Lincoln to write the Proclamation, and that was more useful than it would have been for her to swim from Paris down the Seine, past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal and on to Chine. Magazine Page by John Joseph Gaines, M. D. YOUR KNEES. 'A perfect knee is a wonderfully constructed hinge, with its shock absorbers, its firm connecting bands, and its smooth, gliding "bearings." And, the knee-joint is a mighty ugly proposition when it is injured or diseased. Knee injuries are very common, and even slight injury may result in serious damage. Over-use in heavy patients may result in diseased cartilages and roughened friction-surfaces which will take months or years to cure, even if cure be possible. The cartilages are often crowded out of place by pressure or strain, requiring surgical removal before relief may be had. Even the knee-cap may be involved in inflammations about the joint; the "Synovial Membrane" lines the joint, and, when infamed, becomes "synovitis", a most painful condition, and one always hard to cure. It is a serious matter when the synovial fluid escapes from its natural situation, and accumulates in a bag-like cavity, requiring tapping sometimes for relief of the severe pain. Volumes could be written on the knee-joint and its diseases. I would like my readers to remember these points: (1) That all knee affections are serious, or capable of becoming so. (2) That rest and heat are among the first things thought of in successful treatment. (3) That massage in any form may be positively injurious. (4) That a skilled physician and surgeon should be consulted on the appearance of knee-symptoms. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Too Much Efficiency By E.J. W.J. Walt and Co. Rath Lo! Behold the Royal Indian Chieff THE CITY OF NEW YORK IS DESTROYING THE WESTERN CITY OF NEW YORK. THE CITY OF NEW YORK IS DESTROYING THE WESTERN CITY OF NEW YORK. Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, visiting America now has been made a blood brother and chieftain by a band of Arapahoe Indians here. Chief Standing Bear has presented Chief Gustavus with a leather chapau. BEGIN HERE TODAY JOHN W. BROOKES, hardware manufacturer and window arranged with Economy and Efficiency Corporation, Limited, and management of his household. He town without informing his home to go green, Constance, William and Alice, H. HEDGE, efficiency engineer, assigned to the job, arranges the house mansion and breaks the need to priced trio. His credentials in genuine GHDie Joins the family to make it clear that he takes as their father's representative the stresses the hope that they interested in the experiment. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY EXPERIMENT! The Brookes looked interested. What sort of an experiment? But if Mr. Hedge was aware of the interest he did not at that time gratify curiosity. Instead, he branched off into things that were quite irrelevant, things that ordinary folks talk about. He was a rather good talker; yet he did not do the bulking. He managed to lead the Brookes into it, and presetly they found themselves conversing with this strange person as though he were actually a familiar member of the household. Dinner was proceeding with astonishing ease. Billy had thawed to the point where he took up his favorite amusement of teasing his sisters. "By the way, Connie," he asked, "have you dad's letter there?" She produced the letter, and her She produced the letter, and her brother read it with solemn face. "Down here it says, 'Treat him as you would me,'" quoted Billy. you would me," quoted Billy. There was a look of quiet amusement on Hedge's face. "Well, why don't you, Connie?" demanded her brother. "I—I don't quite understand," she stemmered. These was a flush on her cheeks, partly anger, partly confusion. Something was coming, she knew; she could have annihilated her brother. "Don't understand?" echoed the demand. "You know, how you always treated father when he sat down at the table." Constance was blushing furiously. Of course she knew! It was her invariable custodian kiss John. Brooks on top of his burgundy bald head. She blushed at the memory of this, and she blushed anew at the memory of her salutation to Hedge back in the library, when, before she had glanced up from her magazine she thought he was her father. For an instant she contemplated flight. She dared not look across the table, where sat the person who was to be treated according to the impression of her father. Alice suppressed giggle; Billy was grinning. If Hedge was laughing, she would die. But Hedge was not laughing. He did not appear to be conscious of the dire confusion of Constance. Instead, he was regarding the butler with a cold glare. "Come here!" he commanded. raising an imperative finger. The butler approached. "Your name's Horace, isn't it?" "Why—yes, sir." "Then listen, Horace. I've been watching you. Do you realize that you waste from thirty-five to forty per cent of energy every time you walk from that door to the table?" The voice of Hedge was rasping Horace's lower jaw sagged slowly. "In the first place" continued Hedge, emphasizing his remarks with inclusive gestures, "you take a longer route than is necessary. Take a direct route—so—and you save three steps. Lengthen your stride and you save two additional steps. Let me see you step out. There! You see it can be done. There are two equally short routes by which the table may be approached. Alternate them. It saves the rugs. Walk faster. It saves time. And turn down those lights along the wall. They're unnecessary and it will save electricity. After this evening, put only one log on the fire. It saves wood. That will do." If the butter was frozen into an image of blank amazement, the same was equally true of the Brookes. They sat rigid in their chairs, staring at the hedge. Vanished was the agonizing burden of Constances vanished the diabolical glee of her brother and sister. No emotion touched them save that of superlative astonishment. It remained for Billy to recover speech. "What—what the blazes do you call that?" he demanded. "That." said Hedge, quietly, "is a kindergarten lesson in efficiency." "You mean that you are going to try—" "Young man, you are beginning to get the framework of an idea." R. J. Seau "Horace, do you realize that you waste too much energy?" "There was an instant of silence in the dining-room, while Hedge placed stirred his coffee. His amazing outbreak over the inefficiency of Horace subsided as rapidly as I arose. He had relied into a satisfied calm. "Are we to understand," began Constance, coldly, "that our father told you—" "Your father told me nothing. I have never seen him." "Never saw him! Yet you mean to say that he sent you here?" "He made full arrangements with the company of which I am a representative," replied Mr. Hedge. "The Economy and Efficiency Corporation, Limited. We have recently effected a reorganization of his business. We have, in his absence, now been placed in charge of his household." "And you actually propose to live here?" "I am living here," responded Mr. Hedge, slipping his coffee. "You must learn to separate a fact from a mere intention. My immediate personal effects I brought to me. My trunk will be here in the morning. By the way. Horace, did you take my grip to Mr. Brooke's room?" The butter shook his head; speech had not yet returned to him. So do at an occasion or it to be done. I shall occupy Mr Brooke's suite." Horace glanced at Constance and --- hesitated. He received no sign that would serve as a gide to action, and presently disappeared from the room, his head wagging pitifully. Constance bit her lips. "May I venture to ask your plans?" she inquired. "Certainly. They are simple. To make it brief, my plans are to put your father's household on an economic basis that will correspond to that on which his hardware establishment is now operated. I may say that these plans are also his, but the accomplishment of them has been turned over entirely to me. I shall of courses expect your co-operation. "And if we should decline to co- "And if we should decline to/co-operate?" "That is an impossible contingency." Constance and her brother exchanged glances, and both of them looked at Alice. Here was a fool who had rushed in where an angel feared to tread: where even John W. Brooke, hardware magnate, often walked with circumspection. "When I say that I expect your co-operation," continued Mr. Hedge in a less formal tone. "I may say that I can easily show you why we should co-operate. The science of eliminating waste and installing efficiency is a fascinating one. It possesses strong elements of romance." Alice's eyes wore a hypnotic stare: "Your father, although an unbeliever, recently became interested in it. I may now say that he is a strong advocate. His business has been completely reformed." "Was that anything the matter with it?" demanded Billy. "Over two hundred thousand dollars' worth of annual waste," said Mr. Hedge promptly. "We do not know, unfortunately, the annual waste of his household, but I understand that no accounting has been kept. However, that will be remedied. I should judge, from a very casual inspection, that anything up to a fifty per cent saving may be achieved. In any event, the work will be one of great interest." The son of the household had an angry exclamation on his lips, but Constance checked him with a sign. She was thinking rapidly. Instinctively she felt that the time was one for caution. She was as to be a battle, it would be necessary to make the customary reconnaissances. She had conceived with her the tiny bit of pastboard which the visitor handed her in the library; now she picked it up from the table and glanced at it idly. It was morely a play for time, but the successor of John W Brooke was prompt in turning the trifling incident to account. "If you will note my card," he said, "you will see that it is about one-half the area of the customary business card. That saves paper. You will note that there is no superfluous "Mr" and that the Christian was presented by an initial. That saves paper by two. That saving is represented by the letters E. E., which serve adequately to designate the nature of my business. The entire card is supplied at a forty-two-per-cent reduction over the cost of the average business card. The matter may seem trifling: in reality, it is important. It is a primary step in scientific management." "But what does E. E. mean?" asked Constance, studying the penurious scrap of pasteboard. "Efficiency Engineer." "It would seem," she observed critically, "that your card requires a verbal explanation." Possibly to the uninformed," replied Mr. Hedge. "Even so, conversation is cheaper than paper and ink. You now understand what E. E. means; it will never be necessary for you to inquire again during the period of your natural life. But in the same period, if it were necessary to print 'Efficiency Engineer' in full on all similar cards, the expense in paper and ink would doubtless run into thousands of dollars, to say nothing of the time and cost of composition. It would be an economic fallacy." There was an unmistakable note of enthusiasm in the voice of Mr. Hedge. PEN POINTERS Prince Henry third son of King George, must be an aspirant to the British throne. Anyway, he was thrown from his horse recently, which would indicate that he is understudying his oldest brother They read the Bible aloud again this year at Yucatina, Calif., and beat last year's record by four minutes. 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"WITHIN PRISON WALLS." (Editor's Note: "Within Prison Wall's in this issue was written by a young colored man, of good family and training, who for obvious reasons is withholding his real identity and who due to his ability, served (during a course of ten years) in his positions (as an inmate) one of which has never been filled by any other inmate of any race. During this series he will dwell intimately on certain phases of prison life that are rarely, if ever, disclosed to the public.) (Continued from last week.) It all seemed so remarkable that not having anything else to do I borrowed stationery and wrote a letter to a girl friend back in Jackson describing in a jocularly way about the various hucksters and peddlers offering their wares for sale as at a county fair. Not knowing just what procedure to take to mail the letter. I hollered at my next door neighbor for information. He told me and I followed his instructions. At that time little did I realize that men of my own race around me were listening to my every word, waiting and willing to get something compromising to run to the officials with. How observant they were is indicated in the fact that before noon the next day the Warden had me down in the deputy's office accusing me of attempting to smuggle a letter out, depicting sarcastic happenings in the prison. HAD NO DEFENSE. I had no defense. I did not know what he was talking about and did not realize that he was referring to the letter I had written my girlfriend until he asked me if I hadn't asked some one "how to get a letter out." Then it dawned on me what the white friend had told me and I challenged the Warden to recall from the front office the letter I had written the night before and to, determine whether anything was being attempted to smuggle out. He got the letter. Everything was in regular order and I was excused with a warning but no further warning was necessary for I realised I was up against a different proposition than I ever had been before. A DISTINCT TYPE. To think that a fellow-inmate and of the same color would desire to cause so much trouble set me to thinking and I was not long in correctly reasoning that it was not the man but the system that caused such espionage. Perhaps it would be well to explain my surprise. Warden Russell was a distinct type of man. He domineered. He was law. Many were the times when the State Legislature attempted to curb his powers through investigations but he weathered them all. He ran his prison the way he wished and he told the world so. In Marquette were men who were mostly repeaters or men who had been in trouble before and most of them had long terms. Warden Russell may have had a real rehabilitation plan in mind but my belief was that he wanted to run his prison with as little trouble with these apparently hard-boiled men as possible and consequently he allowed them a wide latitude in the matter of privileges. He had instructed his men and oft remarked on same within the writer's hearing that he could run his prison with fewer officers than any institution in the State and his policy proved it. At night he had but one officer (the old man, previously referred to) in the two wings and in one wing an inmate carried the keys at night. NO GUARDS ON POST DUTY He had no guards on post duty at night and needed none. He openly told the men that they not only had themselves to watch but also their neighbors and by granting the slightest privilege or concession he had no difficulty in getting plenty of inmate watchers. In fact such watchers actually felt that it was their duty to hold every other inmate in check or they would lose their own petty privileges. At any rate, from my arrival till the sudden demise of Warden Russell he carried his policy through in a most unique manner. Instead of having a few unformed guards to watch you didn't know who to watch for any inmate might be a guard. I I correctly reasoned the circumstances and pledged to myself that my row there would be a hard one if I had to use such tactics for I was not. never have and never will be a believer in spying on my neighbor. However I resolved not to say or do anything that would antagonize his system for the privileges were really beyond all fancy. LUXURIES PURCHASED Outside of the intermingling of sex there was positively no luxury that money could buy that you couldn't enjoy. A morning paper (incident) ally owned by the Warden and his associates) would be delivered to your cell before you arose. You could have an oil stove with all cooking utensils or as in my case, could have some one that do your cooking and there was nothing that you couldn't have to eat if you had the wherewith to buy it. OTHER PRIVILEGES You could, b paying a few dollars have a tailor-made suit, made from prison regulation cloth, cut in any style desired. Silk shirts, socks and underwear could be worn if you could get them. Even some men with special jobs could have one or more outside suits hanging up in their cells. On a holiday you could have your wife, mother or sweet-heart visit you and with them mingle in the prison yard as at a county fair. NO CLERICAL WORK. In due course I was told that I wouldn't be permitted to work at any clerical work there and was put to work in the glove factory on a sewing machine which job lasted only a few days as I had a legitimate excuse to have the doctor take me off because of my eyes. Then I was placed to work in the box factory. They intended to put me through the mill and started off by pressing me the hardest job in the entire factory, which I accepted for about twenty minutes when I landed in the bullpen for refusing to work. I was put to work tailing a re-saw. It was my duty to catch the split boards, eighteen and twenty feet long, as they came through the saw and pile them on a truck simultaneously. This I tried to do. I had never previously did any such hard work but I tried. A TOUGH JOB. A fellow came over to show me the knack so it wouldn't be so hard but the officer chased him away and when the operator of the saw observed his actions he thought he would be smart by putting the boards through two at a time making four boards for me to catch and pile evenly on the truck. I couldn't see the joke and made no attempt to catch any of them with the result that they telescoped and went through the window at the other end of the shop. The only thing I regretted, however, was that in flying through space one of the boards barely missed another inmates head by about six inches. I regretted very much to have placed him in such danger. As it happened, however, the only casualties were a couple of broken windows and my privation of freedom for three days while I cooled my temper in the bull-pen, chained to the door during working hours and lying immovable on an iron cot the remainder. TRIED SUICIDE. The first night I thought of ending it all and casting about for a means to an end I thought of my belt and taking it off I stood on the cot while I fastened it through the ventilator at the top, made a noose, put my head through with the intention of jumping off the cot but I guess inadvertently I jerked my head too tight and the ensuing pain took all the inclination out of jumping from the cot so I cancelled my plans and decided that life, even chained to the door was better than no life at all. (To be continued). 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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified on the estate of Louis H Crump, deceased, all persons indebted to the estate will please settle with me, and all persons having claims against the estate will present same to me for settlement. Residence 915 St. James Street. BESSIE MONTAGUE. Administratrix. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA IF I SHOULD FAIL. (Preston News Service.) If I should fall, When I have done my best, And striven hard To meet each given test, I will not bow my head, But lift it up, instead, And pray to Heaven, then, For strength to try again. If I should fail In battling for the right, My struggle prove To be a losing fight, The driven from the field, E'en then I will not yield, But wait for season due The struggle to renew. If I should fall— Should faint, and fall, and die, In closing hour Triumphant, I would cry, My heart is not affr'd! My soul is undismayed! I've given the world my best, And leave to God the rest! —R. A. Adams. FROM ROANOKE ROANOKE, VA., August 10—The Piedmont Sunday School Convention convened at Bluefield, W. Va. from August 4 to 8. Miss Alpha Penn, of Seventh Avenue, Mrs. Emma Penn of Tenth Avenue and Mr. S. W. Hylton were in attendance from Ninth Avenue Christian Church as delegates. They report one of the grand est conventions of past years. Mrs. Nicy J. Gravely and son, 23 Seventh Avenue, N. W. left Wednesday, August 11 for Danville, Va. to visit her mother-in-law, Mrs. Gravely, of that city. Miss Ethel Howerton, of 115 Seventh Avenue, N. W. is much improved, to the delight of the entire community. Messrs. H. L. Drew and Willie David left Tuesday night for Washington, D. C. to spend their vacation-Mr. Jeremiah Holland is vacating there also. Mrs. Hattle Perdew of Northeast Walker Avenue, who has been sick several weeks is yet indisenessed Mrs. Catherine Stanfield 153 Madison Avenue, N. W. is slightly improved. She is suffering with high blood pressure. Miss Maiors, of Northwest Seventh Avenue is suffering with a rheumatic hand. She is improving. Mrs. Woods, of Northeast Walker Avenue was taken seriously ill Sunday. Mrs. Frank McCoy and Mrs. Lucy Lindsey were royally entertained on Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Fannie Minnis, 22. Tenth Avenue. Ice cream, cakes, soft drinks and lemonade and other delicacies of the season were served. All enjoyed the repast. Mrs. L. V. Fultz and Mrs. Hattie C. Cooper called to see Mrs. Catherine Stanfield Tuesday evening. Prof. M. Traynham left for Columbus, Ohio Monday, August 9. The Richmond Planet Agent at Roanoke solicits your patronage and your news. This is Virginia's oldest and best journal. Rev. J. W. Sanders, of Farmville was in Roanoke Sunday. He lectured to the Sunday School at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church and attended morning service there. He preached to a full house at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church at night. His sermon was a gem. Dr. Sanders has the distinction of being one among the greatest preachers of our times, in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a scholar of wonderful ability who has the power to produce his own matter unaided by anyone save the Divine Head. He is among the teachers of the age. Rev. Sanders is here taking a survey of Roanoke and the Southwestern section of Virginia and West Virginia. He is looking fine and quite active as in years gone by when he pastored Mt. Zion. Mr. Broadnax of Norfolk Avenue died here this afternoon. He was a member of St. Paul's Memorial Mothodist Church. Mr. Puffin Sowers, of Louden Avenue who has been an invalid for a number of years, is yet very feeble, but cheerful. In memory of our beloved Elton Brown, who died eight years ago, July 28: Eight years have passed since that sad day The one we loved was called away; God took him home with him to stay it was His will, But in our hearts he is living still. — Mother, Brother and Sisters, by Mrs. Pavtry Crews. FULTON NOTES Our pastor, Rev. C. A. Cobb and Deacon Nathaniel Yates spent last week in Charlottesville, Va. Our pastor conducted the revival services for Rev. Valentine. Rev. W. L. Luck has constructed an addition to the Gravel Hill Baptist Church. There is a spacious choir stand at the rear of the rostrum, pastor's study on one side and choir room on the other side. The rostrum is beautifully arranged with an arch overhead at the rear end. They are also planning to put in electric lights. Rev. James Davis, who conducted a successful revival at St. James Baptist Church last week will begin revival services at the Seven Pines Baptist Church beginning the fourth Sunday in this month. 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