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THE FORUM Historical Society , Stakeholder VQL. 12 - NO. 26 Rev. W. F. Walker Pastor Grace M. E. Church which begins a church Carnival Tuesday at 18th and Stuart St. A number of graduates and former students of Tuskegee Institute have recently been employed by the Rockford Malleable Iron works of Rockford, Illinois, and their work has proven so satisfactory that the manager of this large corporation has wired Mr. R. R. Taylor, Director of Mechanical Industries for three more workers. Mr. F. C. Rutz, the manager, writes as follow: "we also wish to take this opportunity to advise that all the men you have sent have proven to be perfectly satisfactory in every way." Tuskegee student. INCOME OF A NEGRO BOY Now and then, at short intervals, news reaches us from Oklahoma of some Negro boy or girl falling heir to a property whose income amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Adam Manuel, a Negro citizen of the Creek nation, recently died and left five children living, one of them, Luther Manuel, a minor son, is believed to be the richest Negro boy in the world. when the allotments were made, that assigned to Luther, was worthless for farming purposes. The father complained that the land was valueless but he was unable to have any change made. It turned out that Luther's allotments lay in the heart of the Cushing oil field, and now this Negro boy, Luther Manuel, draws an income of $50,000 a month or $600,000 a year from the oil yield of his allotment. Sarah Rector, a Negro girl, has been considered the most fortunate of the Negro Indian citizens who took allotments in that country, but her fortune is far less than Luther Manuel's. For a time when the Cushing oil field first began to pour its wealth, his income was $1,000 a day. Now, at times it is more than $2,000 a day. This Luther Manuel is the Croesus whose blackness casts an almost impenetrable shade upon the old Indian King and opens up possibilities for wealth that makes truth stranger than fiction. The mamoth fortunes of this nation have been built on the spontaneous yieldings of the forest, the mines, the soil, unearned increment and unpaid labor. Now and then, should Goddess Fortune smile upon some black face and fill our baskets with her bounty, we should also erect temples to her honor, as was done in the good old days of Roman glory. Fred McGregory, of Decatur, was in the city Monday. Miss Alicia Smith is in Atty. Gibbs' office, during the absence of Miss Alice Williams. Presiding Elder, Sydes, was in the city this week. Mrs. P. F. Duncan Manager of Pekin Theater. A n astute business young woman. BASE BALL In a series of 6 games between the Bohemian Giants, a crack colored team, managed by Mr. Chas. Freeman, of Peoria, and the Nationals, the best white team in the county, the Nationals won the pennant. It was a series of the best games we have had here since the Springfield team went out of the Three I League. The teams were to have played 6 games, but on Sept. 24th, they played tie games of ten innings. The first two games were won by Peoria, Keys, of St. Louis was on the mound and Kobb received. The second two games were won by the Nationals, and the 5th game was a tie. Sunday, Oct. 1, was the spectacular game and a large host of fans were out. Poston was on the mound and did excellent work, but was found in the 7th inning, when the Nationals won the contest. It was one of the finest games of the year and looked as though the colored boys had the locals shut out up to the 6th inning. Up to this time the game was proffessional-like. Harris and Rabbitt made some of the finest plays ever made semi-pros. MORTUARY The funeral of Mrs Cora Gains Watts who died Sept. 30th, at the residence of Mr and Mrs Herman Wilson, 1045 W. Elliott Ave., was held at 2 oclock Tuesday afternoon at the home, Elder Hansen officiating. Mrs Watts was survived by her husband, Henry Watts, 2 child-ren. a brother, two sisters, and a host of friends- The body of Mrs Lizzie Shelpy of 165 S. 8th St., was discovered lying face downward on the bed by a newspaper vendor, Thursday afternoon. The boy called in passbyb- s, and they found she had been a corpse for an hour or more. Owing to the absence of the Coroner, an inquest was deferred until Friday and the body removed to Wallace's undertaking parlour. 119 N. 8th st Death was apparently due to heart trouble, she had been receiving treatment from Dr. Ford for same. she had no relatives in this city and stews were immediately token to inform her relatives from Pittsfield, Ill., which was done, the relatives arrived yesterday. The body was shipped to Clarksville., Mo., 6 A. M. today, where burial will take place. Miss Alice Williams, stenographer for Atty. C.S.Gibbs, is taking her annual vacation. Miss Bonnie Goin has returned to her home in Hulls, Illinois. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., SATURDAY OCTOBER 7, 1916 "Be Ye Doers and not Sayers only." JOHN HARRIS E. H. Wallace Probably the youngest Licensed Embalmer in the state Mr. Horace Slatter, a leader in the journalistic world and one of our most versatile writers; a man who has won a wide reputation as a writer and contributor to the leading dailies of the South, a brother of Mrs. G. A. Barksdale of this city, writing of bishop Cottrel, that venerable prelate, of Holly Springs, Mis., pays a high tribute to the bishop, a man ye editor has the pleasure of knowing and having heard when a boy. As a prelude to his article on the bishop, Mr. Slatter uses the following quotations from Emmerson, a truism worthy of remembrance: "I count him a great man who inhabits a higher world of thought in which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error. It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image in our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit. It cost no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men." BROWN GETS LIFE SENTENCE. Arthur Brown, the colored soldier, who shot policeman Crowley here last July, during the encampment of the 8th regiment, got a life sentence. Brown had little evidence in his favor and his sentence by Judge Creighton is considered fair. He plead guilty and threw himself upon the mercies of the court. His lawyers were C. S. Gibbs, and Hon. F. L. Barnett. COLORED WOMAN LYNCHED. The latest from hell-infested Georgia is the lynching of a colored woman this week. Mr. John sanders, formerly of Engine house No 5, is now employed at the state house, in the Board of Labor. Rev. E. J. Jones is now employed by the City. WORLD'S SERIES OPEN TODAY. The World's championship base ball game begins today at Boston and at the court house yard and the Jorunal and Regsster offices in this city—large crowd here will attend daily. This is the greatest sport in the world. The two rival teams this year are: Red sox, Boston; Robins, Brooklyn. Rev. Mr. Riley, of Lincoln, was in the city sunday, enroute to Petersburg, Ill., where he held religious services. Mr. A.B. Orendorff, of Lincoln, spent sunday in the city and took in the game. S. A. Ware, M. D., Recently re-elected Grand Medical Examiner U. B. F. & S. M. T. ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT SPARTA. FORTY-FIFTH SESSION CLOSES SUCCESSFULLY. One of the most successful conferences in the history of the meetings passed with the 45th session held at Sparta, Illinois, the last week in September. Bishop Coppin preached, and the meetings were held in the church pastored by Rev. J. J. Sherman. The following appointments were made: Springfield District. Rev. H. W. Jamison, P. E. Springfield, W. H. Bazie. Decatur, A. T. Jackson. Peoria, S. B. Jones. Champaign, E. J. Jackson. Danville, T. Price. Mattoon, L. E. Christie. Paris, A. N. Webb. Danville Mission, Giles Hughes. Streator, P. E. Green. Pontiac, D. Basfield. Tuscola, Shelbyville, H. Gumm. Bloomington, Henry Simons. Normal, L. J. Prettyman. QUINCY DISTRICT Geo. W. Jones, P. E. Springfi'd(St. John)Rev. Graham Quincy, G. T. Shaw. Quincy Mission, Huff. Jacksonville, J. Fisher. Alton, Geo. Brown. North Alton, G. W. Brewer. Upper Alton, J. H. Higgins. E. St. Louis, J. H. Smith. Shiloh, J. W. Tiff. Madison, J. H. Hassell. Belleville, B. F. Moses. Lebannon ct. Rev. Tinsley. Centralia, to be supplied. CAIRO DISTRICT J. H. Sydes, P. E. Cairo, Frederick Douglas. Mound City, D. M. Cole. Mounds, J. W. WileJ. Metropolis, I. S. Stone. Brookport, J. E. Redlick. Golconda, To be supplied. Harrisburg, D. A. Harshaw. Showneetown, J. A. McFall. Carmi. J. W. Edmonson. Pinkstaff, I. M. D. Washington. Sparta, J. A. Sherman. Chester, W. H. Speese. Murphysboro, E. H. McDoyle. Carbondale, W. H. Cole. Hodges Park, H. C. Benton. Villa Ridge, M. R. Cottrell. Edith Chapel, C. M. Smith. Elksville, C. W. Smith Marion, R. H. Hackley. Carrier Mills, T. H. Stoner Levins, Jos. Kelly. LOWDEN TO BE HERE. The Republican special train, which is touring the state, headed by Lowden and Medill McCormick, will be here Oct. 13. [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. SUPERINTENDENT of PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Hon. F. G. Blair, who will welcome home the Eighth. Mrs. M. E. Warrick A business woman making good LINCOLN. NOTES. The new Baptist clich is now receiving its finishing touches. Rev. S. A. Hadison, formerly pastor at St. John church here, has been assigned to Lincoln, Rev. Brewer going to Alton. Mr. Lynn R. Parker, candidate for circuit clerk and present incumbeut, has the very best endorsement from the colored people and from such men as Edw. Johnson. His opponent, Oscar Wolecott, is a prominent young man. 1920 Clerk in The Post Office here Now with 8th on the Border. PRICE: FIVE CENTS Local Brevities Miss Georgia Osby, who has spent most of her vacation in Decatur, has returned to this city, prior to entering her third year in the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois. The dissolution of the firm of Jones & Stone, and the departure of Lloyd Jones and Horace Stone, members thereof, from the city, was quite a surprise to the owner of the barbershop, they occupied, Mrs Della Moss, formerly Mrs. J. W. Grady, as they did not inform her of their contemplated departure. Mrs B.F.Savage, of E. Jackson St., attended the Veiled Prophet extravaganza in St. Louis this week. Other attendants were Messrs. G. H.L. and Frank Nelson, and Rob t Brown. Hon. F.L. Barnett, of Chicago, was in the city Sept. 30th, on legal business. Mrs Geo. Wallace, of Monmouth' is the guest of her son, E.H.Wallace, 119 N.8th St. Wonder what the "iodestone" of Peoria is? It certainly has the power of drawing the Springfield men over there at frequent intervals. The Home Culture Section, of the Woman's Club, will meet with the chairman, Mrs M. F. Clark, 111 S. Eleventh St., Monday, October 8, 1916. All members are urged to be present. Price Smith and Chas.J. Eills were Decatur visitors Sunday. Miss Evelyn Bridges entered her second year in the Terre Haute Nor- mal Uni. Monday. As a tribute to her popularity, she was accompanied to various junctions in her journey by some of the young men of he city. Frank Bass, of St Louis, spent Saturday and Sunday of last week, as the guest of his mother, Mrs Bass Brown, 1928 E. Kansas Street. Everett Smith, democratic candidate for state's attorney, is a very popular young man and the colored people speak of him as the biggest type of a gentleman. Bishop Osborne will resign his position as head of the Episcopal church in this district, Oct. 11, on account of ill health. He is well known and a great friend and coworker among all classes and races of peoples. Weekly paper devoted to the interest of the whole people Entered as second-class mail matter Feb. 24, 1804, at the post office at Springfield, Ill., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. DUNNE vs SHERIFF WHITE Governor Dunne has shown beyond a doubt, that he does not intend to be run over by the peanut sheriff of Jackson County, who has shown himself to be a first class-fool. All Gov. Dunne desired or desires, is assurance from White, that Scott will have a private hanging, as is by law required. White only replies that he will comply with the law. The Governor wants to know what White calls a compliance with the law; he wants White to state how many persons will be aa the hanging and he stubbornly refuses, therefore the Governor refuses to let Scott hang—he has reprieved Scott again, the 8th time. A interesting to note the different attitudes token by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hughes on the suffrage question as it relates to women: Mr. Hughes advocates a national amendment to the constitution, while Mr. Wilson thinks that it is an affair for the states to settle. Wilson is a southerner by birth, training and sentiment, and in practice, is a "state's right" advocate. Mr. Hughes on the other hand, stands for a united nation into which the concurrent of all the states merge in the formation of a strong centralized government. The war of half century ago was fought to determine an argument over this question, the result of which is very well known, and it is interesting, to say the least, to have two nominees for President of opposite convictions. Up to the present time, states' rights as it concerns the colored race in America, has meant "jim crow" cars, separate and inferior schools, a discriminatory ballot, mob law and a host of other impediments designed to hamper his progress. All the rights that the Negro has written into the law in this country, were placed there by amendments to the constitution, and not by the enactment of any state law in any single instance. Hence it behooves the colored voters to support men who stand for a strong centralized government, rather than men who believe in the heterogeneous laws of a half hundred states taking caring of issues that affect the whole country. There is a great deal of comment made by southern press concerning the migration of colored laborers to the north because of the wages offered. The north does not offer any other inducement to these men or her inducement to a substantial increase in wages and fair treatment as long as he behaves himself. If he is willing to leave the south on such ordinary inducements, the condition of colored people in that section must be deplorable. It is because America offers more inducements to the foreigner than does his native land, that he comes to these shores. There is no comment made the heavy immigration of whites to this country, and if the Negro is an undesirable as southern people would have us believe, why in the name of common sense does the south complain because they are leaving. Last week witnessed a revival of the lynching business again. A colored man was murdered for nothing in Georgia and two more killed, free of charge, in Tennessee, "sunny Tenuessee." STATESMANSHIP DEMANDED. There is developing in New York a situation as menacing of disaster and suffering on a smaller scale as threatened the whole country when Congress averted it by hastily passing legislation of a decidedly revolutionary character. That legislation prevented, or postponed indefinitely, a great national strike, with all the loss, misery and death that would have attended it, but it did not determine anything in the matter of settlement of industrial disputes by other means than by force. On the contrary, it gave impetus to the force method, because force achieved a triumph greater than if it had actually been exerted in the form of a strike. We are not one step nearer a method of settlement of industrial disputes than we were are nearer a state of unyielding hostility between workers and employers, as is shown by the attitude of President Shonts of the Interough, in refusing to arbitrate or having anything whatever to do with the unions. The Gulf is wider than before. Greater New York is threatened with loss, suffering and known disaster, which will in in a measure extend to the rest of the country in its results. It may take something of this sort, perhaps repeated incidents of it, to convince the American people that there must be established a system of composition of all disputes whose results would effect the general public. Compulsory arbitration has been declared an impossibility in this country, something contrary to our free institutions, something restricting the freedom of the individual. But this cannot be said of compulsory submission to arbitration of disputes affecting the general welfare or compulsory cessation from acts injurious to the general welfare. Compulsory submission of disputes to a tribunal possessing the power to decide what ought to be done and restraining conduct injurious to the public until that decision was made, would be such an assertion of the rights of the many as superior to those of the few, as is necessary in a true democracy. Compulsory acceptance of the decision of the tribunal, insofar as it might restrict the freedom of the individual to labor or not at will, might not be so considered, but with such a decision the power of public opinion would be exerted to make it effective. There absolutely must be some system created for settling industrial disputes other than by the superior force of one of the parties, with constantly increasing bitterness of class hostility that must result from victories gained by force or the menace of force. This question is looming larger in our national security from war: It challenges our broadest statesmanship and our most intelligent legislation, both state and federal. And it will not wait long for solution before bringing upon us evils too great to be borne.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. We advise our young people to be more refined; conduct yourselvesci rcumspectly on the streets; be more polite and less brazen, and not so boisterous. Persons are junged by their conduct, regardless of how many diplomas you possess. There is nothing more contemptible or more degrading, than boisterous young men and young women, who have good school training. Your parents are anxious for you to be SOMETHING. THE VITAL NEED OF RURAL ORGANIZATION. Man by nature is a social being and makes his greatest progress in proportion as he comes in contact with his neighbor. That life that is selfish, narrow and isolated is not in keeping with the laws of human development and hence must fail. There is no business or pro BUSINESS MEN COMMEND GOOD WORK OF STUDENTS National Urban League Told Colored Boys Give Satisfaction. The following communication from the Connecticut Leaf Tobacco association, which is composed of practically all the tobacco growers in the Hartford valley, has been received at the office of the National Urban league: The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 2303 Seventh Avenue, New York. Gentlemen—I am glad to be able to write that upon every plantation where the colored students are now employed they are giving satisfaction, and plans are being made for their return to Connecticut at the end of the school term in 1917. These boys have proved to be efficient and conscientious workers, and they have won the approval of both the planters they have been working for and the members of the different communities in which they have lived. belle it to be the duty of the association to some letter of appreciation to the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes for their efforts in this movement and at the same time to mention the efficient and able manner in which they have handled this proposition. Very truly yours, CONNECTICUT LEAF TOBACCO ASSOCIATION This letter is in commendation of the work of the 500 students who were recruited from the southern schools and colleges as an experiment to fill the places of foreign laborers who had found more remunerative employment in the various munition factories of the north. IN FIGHT FOR WILSON. National Colored Democratic League Working For President's Re-election. The National Colored Democratic league opened campaign headquarters in Chicago and New York city Sept. 11 and began an active and vigorous fight for the re-election of Wilson and Marshall. Eastern headquarters are located at the Mario, 110 West One Hundred and Thirty-first street, New York, and the western branch at 3100 and 3102 South State street, Chicago. Fifty employees are kept busy throughout the day and late into the night at these head quarters. ly directed would work miracles has been spent to controvert the truth and make plausible the attitude of the hopeless and forlorn, but all the scholarly attainments of ancient Greece and the modern eloquence of the Cleeros cannot alter or change the fact, which stands out like a signpost to guide the traveler, that 504 votes were cast to 310 not to sustain the chair. "No man in these United States whether be black or white, rich or poor, saint or sinner, can defy such an expressed authority of the people and expect to retain the respect and obedience of the Baptist ministry. Ours is a church of liberty and doctrine. All though our triumphs have been many although we have grown in fifty years and stand out as a marvel in our accomplishments, there is not gathered here today, I hope, a single individual of the ministry or the jisty who would consent to make a sacrifice of the principles for which our fathers died in the hoary past. God Given Rights Are Sacred Trusts. "May that day never come in the history of this nation's life when the privilege to think and act as God gives and imparts light shall be denied the humblest citizen. Better defy an army of enemies of a million men bent on conquest than a hundred determined Baptist preachers whose lives are dedicated in maintaining one Lord, one faith and one baptism. To adjourn a convention of Baptists, a majority to the contrary notwithstanding, is a fi- drant usupation of power that in the fession where organization is more essential to the highest success and happiness of its members than that of farming. Upon the farm as in other avocations, we are "Our brother's keeper," and that community is happiest and most prosperous whose inhabitants realize that life is a bundle of relationships and that the substantial progress we make is directly proportional to the service we render to those by whom we are surrounded. The farmer is not soely confronted by the important question of how to provide bread for the hungry and drink for the thirsty, but how to keep, on a farm, a strong, intelligent, contented and vigorous population that will contribute its share to the well-being of society. What can effect this noble purpose better than systematic organization—not necessarily secret organization—but organizations that will cure, as it were, the many rural ills and complaints so very prevalent in many communities? The Negro Farmer. The Republican County Central Committee held quite a love feast at the Leland hotel tast Saturday. Able speeches were made by Ex-Licut. Gov. Northcott and other prominent Republicans. Renick Vires was in Peoria last and this week, on business. ILLEGAL LEGISLATION AT WASHINGTON IS ASSAILED J. C. Manning of Alabama Says War Amendments Are Ignored. The Hon. Joseph C. Manning, known the country over as one of the bravest of southern white men, believes in equal rights and opportunities for all citizens of the United States, regardless of race, color or creed. Mr. Manning was a member of the Alabama legislature in 1894-5, and as such he endeavored to bring about such legislation as would benefit the people of the state generally instead of a favored few. He has long been known as a fearless fighter for the legal and civic rights of the colored people. That Mr. Manning has the qualities or statesmanship and knowledge of the meaning of the federal constitution may be seen from the following article by Mr. Manning which appeared in the New York Globe Sept. 14, in which he says: Legislation has been put upon the country, such as the eight hour law and the like, by a house of representatives of the congress dominated by a membership without legal right or title to the seats they have and hold. The war amendments are self acting. "The right to vote shall not be denied or abridged," reduce'on in representation to follow automatically in event of said denial or abridgment. These states, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, have disfranchising laws, denying and abridging the right of both whites' and blacks to vote. Not one delegation from any one of these states is in the house by constitutional right or title for, while denying and abridging the right to vote, representation has not been reduced. Since it is not possible to distinguish as to who of the illegal delegation in excess of the constitutional number should be admitted, it follows that the duty of the house was to exclude the entire delegation from each of the disfranchising states. These illegal delegations dominate the committees, control legislation, and it must follow that the legislation is subject to legal attack. That Mississippi, with 40,000 votes, and other southern states like Mississippi should elect an entire delegation to congress on such a vote is absurd. It is ridiculous that a state of the south should elect a delegation on a vote that is on an average with a single district of the states north and west. This is the first congress since this southern disfranchising political system in which the south is in the saddle, and it is the first time, therefore, that this question is before the country. That this constitutional phase will get to the supreme court of the United States there can be no doubt. ASKS FUNDS FOR SLATTER. Penn Heads Movement to Aid Well Known Newspaper Man. Cincinnati—In order to secure substantial financial support for Horace D. Slatter, well known newspaper correspondent, who is now in the mountains of North Carolina trying to regain his health, Dr. I. Garland Penn of this city, corresponding secretary of the Freedman Aid society, is fathering a movement to get a number of men to pledge $1 a month during the winter months. Mr. Slatter is stricken with tuberculosis in June of last year while his wife was suffering with the same disease. Mrs. Slatter died October of last year. He has spent the greater portion of this year in Asheville with fairly satisfactory results, and besides what his friends have sent him from time to time he has supported himself by writing a series of articles on "Men I Have Known." During the fourteen or fifteen years he has been in active work Mr. Slatter has done a great amount of publicity work for the race in northern and southern papers and magazines and has helped materially in creating favorable sentiment for the race. Those persons desiring to participate in the movement may write either Mr. Slatter, 28 Beech Hill street, Asheville, N. C., or Dr. I. Garland Penn, 220 West Fourth street, Cincinnati. DIRECTING YOUNG LIVES. Important Work of J. H. Hubert at Important Work of J. H. Hubert at Urban League's Brooklyn Office. The National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People, with headquarters at 2303 Seventh avenue, New York, has branches in several of the large cities south and west. The league is doing a much needed service and is especially interested in opening new industrial opportunities for members of our race. Mr. James H. Hubert, who has charge of the Brooklyn office of the league, says: "In our Brooklyn work we come in touch with a large number of boys and girls from time to time who are seeking jobs. For instance, within the first two weeks in September last we had thirty-one applications for work. These consist of those who are seeking employment as well as some who are seeking to improve their present employment. It is therefore along such lines as indicated above that we are bending our most earnest efforts." Toast of Colored American Congress. The historical and astronomical toast used at the national congress of colored Americans held in Washington Oct. 4-5 is, "The stars in their course side with a race fighting for its rights."—Trotter. Illinois D F. E. Shus Pure Pasteurized for Family Us 330 NORTH FO EDMA Hardwa 330 NORTH FOURTH STREET EDMAND'S Hardware Store 725 E. Adams Street The oldest and one ble in the city. E line. Stoves, Rang Estimates given on etc. Pumps repaired stalled. Paints and We treat all with t F. E. EDMAN 725 E. ADAM best and one of the most the city. Everything moves, Ranges, Cooking less given on guttering, t amps repaired and new Paints and Varnishes. at all with the best coun E. EDMANDS, Propriet E. ADAMS STR The oldest and one of the most Reliable in the city. Everything in that line. Stoves, Ranges, Cooking utensils Estimates given on guttering, tin work etc. Pumps repaired and new ones installed. Paints and Varnishes. E. 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