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THE FORUM Historical Society State Notice VOL. 13 - NO. 2 Brief Bits of News and Comments On Men and Measures. SPECIAL TO THE FORUM West Point, Miss. At a mass meeting of West Point and Clay county citizens, the labor situation, resulting from the departure of thousands of Negroes for the North, was discussed. A resolution was passed providing for the appointment of a committee of 20 to inform each labor agent in the county that his business is ruinous to the county and also to request him to desist from recruiting Negro labor for other parts of the country. The labor situation in many parts of Mississippi is approaching a crisis. In fact, the whole of the South is aroused by the daily exodus of laborers, and action, similar to that taken at the West Point meeting, is being urged in other places. Some of the more conservative employers advise less drastic action. It is pointed out that the labor agents have the protection of the law and that complications will inevitably result if the citizens proceed with the single idea that the only way, in which they can hold their labor, is literally ejecting the agents from their districts. Making conditions in the South more attractive to the Negro laborer will, it is said, be a more peaceful means of forcing the labor agent to close his doors. MRS. SARAH TAYLOR PASS- ES AWAY. Mrs. Sarah Taylor, mother of Mr. Robert Taylor of this city, passed away at her late home in Booneville, Indiana last Saturday and was buried Tuesday of this week. Both Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were at the bedside of their mother at the time of her death. The many friends of Mr. Taylor of this city deeply sympathize with him in his great loss. QUARTERLY MEETING AT GRACE M.E.MAY 19-20. Quarterly meeting will be held at the Grace M. E. church May 19-20, at which time District Superintendent, Rev. Rivere will be present. A special invitation to all church congregations of the city, is extended to be present. CONSERVATION OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL FORCE It appears from the welfare memoranda that industrial efficiency depends largely upon consideration of the health of munition workers through proper attention to such questions as housing, transit, canteen provision and individual welfare of the employee, which have become of vital concern to manufacturers who appreciate the necessity of conserving their labor force in order to attain a maximum of production in the shortest space of time. Managers generally testify to the value of the services rendered by welfare supervisors. The committee recommends as particularly important the appointment of a competent woman welfare supervisor of experience and sympathy who shall devote her attention exclusively to problems affecting the health of PLEASANT GROVE EDITORIAL NOTES, BY JAS. HUNT The Sunday School attendance Sunday was very large. Offering was $5.00. The Junior department is doing extraordinary under the supervision of Mrs. Nancie Hawkins and the staff of teachers, such as Mrs. Martha and Susie Johnson, Misses Margarett Holman, Lillian Bondman, Maggie Coe, Mr. Elijah Douglas and others who are well worthy of praise for their zealous toil in the Master's harvest. A flower on the bosom of the living will increase their energy, dispel their fears against invading opposition and illuminate their efforts. It will help them to "Clear the Darkened window open wide the door and let a little sunshine in." Mrs. R. E. Patterson of Peoria, was visiting her sister, Mrs. Nancie Hawkins, last week. Our $100 effort was very good. Following are the Names of those who gave $1.00: Jessie Hill, Martha Johnson, Leonora Avington, Hattie T. Edwards, Anna Johnson, Emma Ellis, Nancy Hawkins, Amanda Tucker, Nola Stephens, Belle Burns, Dora Bowman, Ella McLeavell, Alice Floyd, Ella Johnson, Mildred Hughes, Julia Beard, Virginia Henderson, Hattie Nelson, Maggie Lefreidge, Minerva Wright, Emma Kirby, M. E. Warrick, Cora Epps, Ida Watkins, Susye Johnson, Mollie Berry, Anna Page, Martha Gaines, Louisa Rowe, Della Jones, Amanda McDaniel, Minerva, Robinson, Ethel Patterson, Lottie Poston, Rebecca McClain, Minnie Brinker, Lillian Bondman, Lizzie Crummel, Bertha Douglas, Bettie Bellamy, Fannie Hart, Edna Leavell, Flora Walker and Elizabeth Mayes. Geo. Robinson, Thos. Jackman, Robt. Johnson, Chas. Beard, Armenius Avington, Pleasant Taylor, Wayd Johnson, Wm. Reddick, A. Birdsong, Wm. Day, S. H. Boykins, T. W. Warrick, Albert Atkins, G. W. Leavell, Harty Williams, S. R. Robinson, Louis Floyd, Richard Berry, Elijah, Douglas, E. J. Jones, H. B. Hughes, Woodie Brinker, C. S. Lefreidge, Albert McDaniel, George Dalton, Samuel Rowe, Silas, Edwards, Walker Hill, Wm. Johnson, B. G. Clanton and Henry Page. Total received in the special effort was $80.00. women and girls, to the character and behavior of fellow women workers, to the maintenance of suitable and sufficient sanitary accommodations, to the capacity of workers to withstand the physical strain and stress of work, and to their power to endure long hours, overtime and nightwork. What is true of the importance of conserving the health and physical forces of munition workers is doubly true in the matter of our race in this and other cities. The Negro's "Stock in trade" is his health and physical ability to perform properly such labor as is allotted to him. The Annual Sermon of the K. of P's was held at the Union Baptist Church last Sunday, Rev. S. C. Manuel preaching the sermon. Mrs. Emma Goin and daughter Inez, left this week for Chicago. Mr. Richard Cook, of Ekhart, Ill., was in the city recently, and reports the condition of crops very favorable. Mr. Cook and Mr. Bruner, two of Logan County's most industrious farmers, expect to make good crops this year. Mr. F. R. Wilkins spent the past week in Bloomington on business for the State. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., SATURDAY MAY 12, 1917 "Be Ye Doers and not Sayers only." BLOOMINGTON, ILL. COLORED POPULATION INCREASING. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Mrs. Henry Harris of Farmer City, passed through the city enroute to Fairbury, Ill., last week. Mr. Wm. Tutt and Miss Summerville, both of Fairbury were married April 28. Mr. Willie Rush and Pitman Claiborn left for Peoria Thursday, where they will meet Clarence Rankins, and from there the three will go to Quincy where Mr. Rankins has charge of the bellboys in a new hotel that has just opened. Miss Glendora Barton visited friends in Springfield. 1ll., Sunday. Mr. Graves, of Downs, passed through the city Monday, enroute to Chicago on business. Mr. Sol. Williams, of Peoria, was over Sunday looking up the boys and shaking hands with friends. Mrs. M. Thomas, 903 West Market St. died Friday afternoon at her late residence. Mr. Frank Harber and mother and two daughters, were here to attend the funeral which was held at the Third Christ church Monday. Mrs. Thomas was well known to all old citizens of Bloomington. Mr. Frank Osborne, grand son of Mrs. Thomas was unable to get here on account of sickness. Mr. Jesse Coats spent Saturday and Sunday in St. Louis and East St. Louis. Mr. Raymond Samuels, better known as Trixie, who has been living in Kansas City for the past 4 years, is home now at 318 S. East St. Trixie returned home Sunday morning and surprised his many friends. He is somewhat isdisposed but was able to be out awhile Sunday evening shaking hands with his many friends who were much pleased to see him. Miss Izean Crowder, now of Peoria, spent a few hours at home last week. Mr. Chester Daniels, of Gibson City, was a caller Sunday. Mr. Edward Steward of Minunk, was in the city last week on business. The Bloomington young men were mighty glad to shake hands with William D. Malnoe Tuesday morning when he returned from Carbondale, where he has been all winter. Mr. Malone is a Chauffeur for Dr. Gardner and will go back to work the first of the week. The Vaudeville Team of Winfred Rucker is playing here at the Majestic Theatre and is receiving a large amount of applause. Mrs. Clara Grigsby, who has been on the sick list for some time is up again and about. Mrs. E. Wilson, of 313 S. East St., who has been keeping boarders, has given up the boarders on account of ill health. The K. of Ps from Lincoln came over Sunday and turnd out with the Bloomington Lodge. Mr. W. M. Reaves, of 1402 S East Street, entertained a friend from New Orleans. Mrs. Richard Cook was the guest of Mrs. W. H. Beck. ROF RENT—Five room house, 118 So. 11th St. Also the So. side, 120 So. 11th Street. Inquire of Mrs. N. H. Jenkins, 209 1-2 So. 14 St. Assistant Attorney General Col. F. A. Dennison was in the city this week on business. STATE LEGISLATURE FORCED TO RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF A COLOR- ED MAN. When our genial Race representative, Hon. B. H. Lucas left the Assembly hall Tuesday afternoon he broke the quorum of the house which was considering the Civil Service Bill and forced an adjournment until the next day: R. A. Blackwood, representing the Illinois Civil Service Reform League, wished to be heard on the bill, Lucas objected, chairman Lyle announced that all persons should be given an opportunity to be heard. Lucas insisted on an executive session, and afterwards raised the point of a quorum. When he found that his presence would make a quorum, he stepped out of the room, and the meeting was postponed. If the Buck bill, which has passed the senate, is reported out this morning, the house may devote its time to consideration of civil service measures. ANNUAL SERMON. Of Grand United Order of Oldfellows. Lincoln Monument Lodge No. — Cherry Lodge No. 8084, House Hold Ruth No. 190 House Hold Ruth No. Juvenile No. 307, will hold this joint annual sermon Sunday May 13th 1917 at Pleasant Grove Bap- tist church, a 3 P. M. o'clock. Bro. H, Dillon, marshal of day; Bro. E. Jones, master of ceremonies; Bro. A. Johnson, chaplain. Sermon, Bro. S. C. Manuel, Voice, Bro. Robert Johnson; Paper, Bro. Robert Jones; Recitation, Master Hurtis Hall; Voice, Inmate Alberta Moore; Voice, T. Holman. AN ACTIVE CHRISTIAN LIFE. In all professions there are men who count their moments as jewels of time to be used each hour in some useful endeavor, seeking always to put as much into life as possible and allowing results to take care of themseves. It is needless to say that such men always find their time called for and are everywhere in demand. It is always the man who is trying to get as much out of life as possible, without any thought of trying to put something in t, that finds himself half engaged and always seeking something to do. A striking example of this truth is found in the life of and efforts of Dr. S. C. Manuel of this city, pastor of the Union Baptist church. On the 23rd of this month this busy man will have been in the ministry thirty years during which time he has pastored but five churches and from the day he began his chosen profession up to the present time he has not been without a charge one hour. Almost thirty years of active Christian life for him have passed in almost one continuous unbroken effort. He was ordained in Paris Illinois where he accepted the pastorate of the Second Baptist church of that city where for four years he labored assiduously. From there he received a Call to the pastorate of the Second Baptist church of Franklin, Indiana, where he remained two years, when he was called to the pastorate of the Baptist church of New Albany, where he remained fifteen years. From there he came to the Union Baptist church of this city where he remained one year and three months, and was called back to New Albany and remained there three years more, being at that time Called to the Fifth Street Baptist church of Richmond Virginia, where he remained SPLENDID MUSICAL EVENT MOTHER'S-DAY EXERCISES GIVEN AT UNION BAPTIST CHURCH UNDER AUSPICES OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDESS TEMPLE, S.M.T One of the most enjoyable musical events of the year was the Glass Concert given at the Union Baptist Church Thursday evening under the auspices of the Good Shepherdess Temple, S. M. T. by a competent committee of ladies consisting of Mesdames Elizabeth Wilkins, Marie Bender, Annie Taylor, Clara B. Williams, J. F. Johnson and Margaret Byrd. The program rendereP was of unusual quality such as would reflect credit upon any group of citizens of the country. The artist of the occasion, Mr. Clyde L. Glass, of Boston, sustained in every way his splendid reputation of being one of the finest pianists of America. The program rendered was as follows: Sonata E Minor (first movement) Clyde L. Glass; Reading, Mr. Edward McCoo; Rhapsody Op. 79, No. 2, Consolation No. 6, Erkling, Clyde Glass; Trumbone Duet, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Pettit; Tarantelle, Novelette, Barcarolle, Clyde L. Glass; Violin Solo, Fred V. Moore Polonaise Op. 40, No. 2, Scherzo B Flat Minor, Clyde L. Glass. After the program a social hour was spent in the lecture room below, where refreshments were served and a good time enjoyed. The committee has earned the appreciation and thanks of the community for bringing such talent to Springfield. FRANK MALLORY OF JACKSONVILLE DEAD. Mr. Frank Mallory, one of the most prominent citizens of the race in Jacksonville, Illinois, was called by death last Wednesday and will be buried Sunday afternoon in his home city. Mr. Mallory was once one of the leading stage-men and made for himself an international reputation. The Mallory brothers made long and successful tours throut Europe. For some time the deceased had been a successful merchant of Jacksonville where he stood high as a leading member of the K. of P. Lodge which bore his name. It is expected that quite a number of friends of this city will attend the funeral. two years and five months and was then Called again to his present charge where he has served with great success for about three years. He has baptized and added to the church over four thousand souls. It is but fitting that this thirty years of active christian service should be a matter to be celebrated. Such service should bring inspiration to our youth, and encouragement to our entire race. The citizens of Springfield, without regard to denomination or class distinction, should consider it a privilege to assist in the celebration of such and active Christian life. JOE CAMPBELL REPRIEVED AGAIN Joe Campbell has been again reprieved for 60 days in order that his lawyers might have time to bring his case before the Supreme Court. Get in your city news notes not later than Thursday afternoons. PRICE: FIVE CENTS Special services in honor of Mother's Day will be held in the different churches of the city toorrow. To many, the name "Mother" will bring sad recollections and poignant grief, because of her recent passing from our associations here, to another home, a land beyond this vale. To others, it will bring fond memories of by-gone days when "mother" was the center of home and the morning star of their lives. To others it will mean a present consciousness of a guiding hand which the halo of a final passing into the great beyond has not made sacred and mellowed their lives by its pall. But to all, it is the most cherished of all names applied to human beings. How sacred then is "Mother's Day." DOINGS OF OUR WOMEN BY MRS. L. E. BARKSDALE The Springfield Womans Club will continue their business meeting next Monday with the "Home Culture Section." The "Fred Douglas" rally will also be continued on that day. Special demonstrations in cooking by Mrs. Mattie Tucker, Mrs. Elizabeth Williams and Mrs. Carrie McCullough. Quite a large class were present last Thursday at the Red Cross meeting, in their headquarters at the Palmer School. The ladies spent the afternoon in making bandages and surgical shirts. They will take a lesson in "First Aid Work" next Thursday, Dr. Santos, Instructor. Mrs. Guy Washington of Decatur, was the guest of Mrs. Lizzie Wilkins this week, and attended the Piana Recital of Mr. Glass. Mr. Glass was a special guest of Mrs. Wilkins also and left Friday morning for Quincy, Ill. He entertained the people of that city Friday night. The Missionary Society of Zion Baptist Church were entertained by Mrs. Georgia Holman last Thursday. After holding their business session the afternoon topic was discussed by all. Rev. Madison, District Missionary was a special guest. Mrs. J. I. Miles and Mrs. L. E. Barksdale were guests of Mrs. Santos last Tuesday. Telephone your news to Capitol 314. COMING SOON! Harry Ellis and Fredd Moore will appear in a Piano and Violin Recital, before the citizens of this city, soon. The Date and Place will be announced later in this Paper. Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Perkins, 805 N. 3rd St., an 8 pound boy, Saturday, May 5th. Mother and son are doing excellently. Mr. Perkins has christened his Mr. Perkins has christened his son Frank O. Lowden Perkins. The Forum's campaign for five thousand new subscribers is on earnest. We are out for a first-class paper and are desirous of your assistance. Correspondents will please get their matter in this office not later than Thursday mornings. For this office call Bell Telephone, Main, 6334. READ "THE FORUM!" Entered as second-class mail matter Feb. 24, 1904, at the post office at Spring field, Ill., under the act of Congress on March 3, 1879. CO-OPERATING GROUPS The world today is made up of groups of people dealing with each other, not as individuals, but as group units. Some people are foolish enough to still cling to the idea of "Man to man" dealing and hope as individuals to be assimilated and to become a recognized part of the great whole. Suppose this nation would have to deal with its population as individuals, instead of Company and Regimental units, as is the case today, in a crisis in which every citizen is vitally interested. The Negro must make up his mind that before he is recognized at all, he is going to be recognized as a distinct group. We are facing the morning of a New Era, a period when the recognition of groups and group leadership will everywhere prevail. The flocking of the Colored people from the South into the North, means the breaking down of the last hope of the Race in this section to be recognized and dealt with as individual citizens with race and color lost sight of. It means that groups among us must be developed along all lines worthy of recognition. The Fraternal Clarion of St. Louis, Mo., has the following to say along this line in a sane editorial: The colored people throughout the country have become so supersensitive on the subject of segregation that they are easily thrown into hysterics and blinded to their own best interest, by the slightest suggestion of race distinction in any public measure proposed for their benefit. The term "Jim Crow" an invention of the enemies of our race, has been so greatly overworked by Negro newspapers, and used so indiscriminately as a cry of alarm, that it has become a perfect "scare crow" to our people, causing a general feeling of discontent and suspicion that has a discouraging and disorganizing effect upon every race movement and enterprise that is promoted for the welfare of the race. American life is made up of groups of people from every race on earth. Each group has some traditions, ideals and characteristics that distinguishes it from other groups, and which serves both to identify its members and to bind them to each other for their common welfare and for their common good. The Negro race composes one of these groups, comprising about one tenth of the entire population, which for more than 300 hundred years has been regarded as a backward race and regarded by the great bulk of caucasian races as an undesirable ingredient of the political and social commonwealth. Half a century ago however, as the result of the Civil War, caused by social and political revolution, our social and political status was raised to that of a citizen of the republic, with equal rights with every other group of citizens, and we have astonished the world by the tremendous strides we have made upward in the arts of civilization in the fifty years that have intervened. But it is much easier to make laws than it is to enforce them. In theory we are full-fledged citizens, with equal rights with all other citizens but this is not true in practice, because we are unable to enforce the laws for our own benefit. Both the making and the enforcement of the laws are in the hands of the dominant classes, who comprise nine-tenths of the population, and we cannot compel them to do our bidding." Our only hope for success in attaining the boon of perfect equality of rights, privileged and opportunities with the dominant classes, is to adopt a course of conduct that will win for us their respect and esteem, and prove to them our fitness to use and not abuse those rights, privileges and opportunities which we so ardently crave. DEPENDS ON WHOSE OX IS GORED When it serves our purpose, we segregate ourselves. We have segregated ourselves in our churches, in our societies, clubs and associations and in our colleges, academies, seminaries, and schools and in many other organizations and we are now trying to segregate ourselves in business. Whenever we desire to segregate ourselves for any reason, we can bring to bear the most eloquent and logical arguments in support of our actions on a plea of race pride and race consciousness. But when the proposition to segregate us comes from out side the race, we condemn it as "Jimcrowism." FIVE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. A special drive for Five Thousand subscribers to The Forum will be made in the near future. A campaign is being arranged for a careful canvas of every Colored reader in this city with a view to putting upon a business basis a newspaper that will properly represent the entire community and Central Illinois. Springfield is the logical place for a Race Enterprise of this kind and the highest and best interests of the entire race calls for a substantial, well edited and influential newspaper here. The only way to have it, is to have. A newspaper is as essential to a community and a people as a church. It should be supported by all of the people, at least the intelligent ones, and should be made an influence for good and value to each one supporting it. An organ to interpret the will, the wish the ambitions and the rights of a group of people in a community like this becomes of the most vital importance to every member of that group. An advertising poster or a semi-occasional periodical will not suffice. A newspaper is called for, and to publish a newspaper calls for the support of everyone intelligent enough to read a newspaper in a city like Springfield where the Colored population is so small. Will you help to build up a Race paper by subscribing and paying for a year's subscription? Friends of our genial townsman Dr. S. A. Ware, will be pleased to know of his steady improvement in health and look forward to the time when he will be at their service again as the health guardian of their families. Last week we neglected to chronicle the death of our old reliable friend, Chas. Grant, who contracted pneumonia and died after a brief illness. Mr. Edward J. McCoo of this city was notified by telegram last Wednesday morning of the death of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth McCoo of Chicago. The death was a great shock although the mother had been very ill for some months and it was only a few weeks ago that Mr. McCoo visited at her bedside at the home of her son, Rev. F. A. McCoo. The sympathies of friends go out for the bereaved son and family in their loss. The Elks' annual May ball last Thursday night was a very creditable affair, although the attendance was not as large as previous occasions. Nix's Orchestra music was fine. Reisch Brewery Co. SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 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Of Interest to Women The patriotic spirit of flag bedecked New York begins to make itself felt in many of the small accessories that make a woman's costume, and often in the costume itself. With flags to the right and flags to the left, it is not to be wondered at that the spirit of the times is being reflected in our clothes. The red, white and blue colors are in evidence everywhere. New vests and collars of white silk or satin are edged with narrow red, white and blue ribbon, or rows of red, white and blue ribbon are stitched around the edges of white collars. The vests are the very latest addition to coats and are so popular that even blouses are being made in vest effects now. McCall Pattern No. 7787, Many other attractive designs for June McCALL A Coat Dress of Heavy Linen OPEN LETTER TO ALL GRADUATES Hampton Begins Campaign For National Defense. HAS FAITH IN OUR PEOPLE Principal of Virginia's Leading Agricultural Institution Asks Hamptonians Everywhere to Teach Loyalty In Country's Present Crisis—Courage Shown In Notable Message. Hampton, Va.—Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, principal of the Hampton institute, in this town, has dictated and sent out under the direction of William Anthony Aery the following communication to all Hampton graduates, calling on them to mobilize all their forces in this national crisis. Dr. Frissell says: "We are now at war with the German government because the German government first made war on us, sinking our ships without warning and in defiance of all laws of humanity leaving women and children and other noncombatants to perish of exposure in open boats at sea. © MCCALL A Bolero Dress in Dotted Foulard is exceedingly Smart "Germany has plotted against the peace and safety of our land, endeavor P. ing to stir up Mexico against us, and now the newspapers charge that she has sent agents through the south for the purpose of inciting the colored people to disloyalty. It may be that in some districts a few in their bitterness may have listened to evil counselors. "It is for you who have seen the light to do all in your power to inspire your people with patriotism and to arouse that deep sense of loyalty to our country which has always been one of the noblest characteristics of the Negro people. "As Dr. Washington and Dr. Moton Be Your Own Judge and Try Your Own Cases!! you will see for yourself, and by doing that, you will find that we mean just what we say. LAINO BROS. 815 E. Washington St. F. W. ERXLEBEN UNDERTAKER FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND LICENSED EMBALMER Professional Embalmer, Prompt Service Day and Night. Bodies prepared for shipment to all parts of the United States or any foreign country. Moderate Prices. Both Telephones Main 1962. 1119-21 So. Adams St. Peoria, Ill. ? you will see for you ing that, you will just what we say. LAINO 815 E. Wa have proved by their lives of quiet, unpretentious service, the colored man is going to secure recognition not by demanding his rights, but by deserving them. Bitterness, fear, hatred, narrow jealousies and selfish interests can have no place in our life at such a time as this when our government is calling for the best help that each man, woman and child can give. We must each put aside all thought of self and give this help generously wherever there is opportunity, whether it is for a white neighbor or a black neighbor, whether it is through some great sacrifice for the good of our country or by a cup of cold water to some one in want. "Let us show our colors and hang up the flag in the place of honor over the doors of our dwellings. Let us teach the children to love and respect that flag. The country needs all that you can do; it needs a larger food supply. If you have any land, no matter how small a piece, raise and can vegetables, increase your crops and teach others how to do the same. "If you hear threats of danger or see signs of dissatisfaction see that the matter is brought to the attention of the proper authorities and stamped out at once. Do not allow yourself to be disturbed by a few mischief makers. The great mass of your countrymen, north and south, believe in you and trust your loyalty absolutely. "We are all Americans together and must stand shoulder to shoulder in this crisis. Not only is it our duty and privilege to help our own country, but let us remember those war stricken countries across the sea-England, France, Belgium and the others which have been so bravely fighting and suffering these many months for the cause of right we have now championed. Let us try to help them also in every way in our power, by word and deed and prayer." Mrs. Haley Concludes Speaking Tour. Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, national organizer for the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, has returned to her home at 200 North Jefferson avenue. St. Louis, after a three month' successful speaking tour Mrs. Haley is one of the most talented women of our race. She has been actively engaged in educational, civic and organization work for the past twenty years. Her efforts as leader in the work of the Order of Eastern Star are nationally known. Mrs. Haley delivered addresses on her tour to great throngs in Cuba, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and other states. She is arranging to begin her eastern tour the early part of May. F. W. ER UNDER FUNERAL DIRECT EMBA Professional Embalmer. Prompt prepared for shipment to all par foreign country. Moderate Price Why should you pay more for Men's ready--towear goods elsewhere, when at our store, located in low rent district, you can buy strictly first class goods at second class prices. If you will compare our prices with others, BROS. shington St. THE CRISIS MAGAZINE. Historic Illustrations and Timely Stories Featured on May Numbers ries Featured in May Number. The May Crisis is a notable and interesting number. It contains the concluding part of Jessie Fauset's striking novellette, "There Was One Time," and an article on a southern colored farmer, Taylor Henson, written by a southern white man, "The Looking Glass" has some interesting comments of the war from the point of view of colored people and a largely unknown story of the colored sailors on the Merrimac. Among the pictures is a page picture of the French African troops after the battle of Douaumont and also pictures of the new Douglass square, Boston, and the Agassiz school, Cambridge, of which Miss Maria L. Baldwin, a colored woman, is head. In "The Men of the Month" section are featured the late Drs. M. W, GRbert and A. S. Gray, Mr. Battey, the photographer; Miss Knox, a schoolteacher; two constructing architects connected with the United States treasury and Dr. Waring, the new head of the Howard Orphan asylum. "The Horizon" has a picture of Blanche Deas and of several recent high school graduates, together with an unusual amount of news. Perhaps the most striking thing in the whole magazine is a new poem by Mrs. Johnson, "To the Mantled," which, picturing the future freedom of the Negro, ends with these lines: Like joyful exiles, swift returning home. The rhythmic chanson of their eager While voices, strange to ecstasy, long dumb. Break forth in major cadences, full sweet. Into the very star shine, to they come. Wearing the hays of victory complete! into the very scar sinne, in, they come. Wearing the bays of victory complete! On the cover Miss Anita Thompson of Los Angeles, Cal., is dancing. The Crisis is published at 70 Fifth avenue. New York, and is edited by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, head of the research department of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Sunday Schools to Meet In Boston. The board of managers of the New England Baptist Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. convention held a meeting in New York on Saturday, April 21, to arrange the program for the twenty-fourth annual meeting to be held at the Ebenezer Baptist church, Boston, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 12-13. The Boston meeting will have many patriotic features, according to the plans of the board. N. B. Dodson of Brooklyn is president, and Mrs. C. Goode Harris of Stamford, Conn., is the recording secretary. RXLEBEN TAKER OR AND LICENSED ALMER Service Day and Night. Bodies of the United States or any Both Telephones Main 1962. YOU CAN MAKE $6.00 A DAY. olive oil Pomade is an oil oil, sage and sulphur preparation, better than all others in producing beautiful hair; you can make in producing beautiful hair $8.00 a day selling it, become independent and no longer be bossed around by strangers, make big money; general agents can make over $100.00 a week; very little taking required; our advertisers taking and selling; sample by mail, 50 cents. We want an agent in your town. 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Guy, who is a member of the Afro-American Historical association in Washington and also a public schoolteacher, has written the following open letter to Julian Street anent Mr. Street's article entitled "The Negro,' which recently appeared in Collier's Weekly: "Dear Mr. Street—I have read with great interest and more than once your article 'The Negro,' appearing in Collier's for Jan. 27. That you meant to be sincere is plain. That you believe you have been impartial is evident. You have succeeded in being the former. You have failed utterly as to the latter. "To explain, in your 'Facts About Lynching' you say, 'It was in this brief but terrible period (reconstruction), that the Negro's dream of political equality, which seemed to him to have been realized, surpassed itself in his poor, confused mind and became an utterly impossible dream of social equality, including the ultimate blending of the two races by intermarriage." Further, "To such a dream in the Negro mind may, you believe, be traced many of the atrocious Negro crimes against white women." Not a word, Mr. Street, of the 'atrocious crimes' of white men against black women. "If intermarriage was and is the Negro's dream, then in places where he may marry white, if he pleases, he has not sought in any numbers to make the dream real. Here, in Washington, with a population of nearly 100,000 colored people, and in other cities north, east and west, the proportion of mixed marriages is negligible. Theoretical Discussion of Lynching. Theoretical Discussion of Lynching. "You pass lightly over the number of innocent men and women brutally shot, hanged and burned. You discuss the reasons for lynching theoretically and with palliation. You speak of the Atlanta riots of some years ago, of the indiscriminate killing of colored people on the streets of that city as being a 'ghastly but effective remedy for a series of attacks of Negroes upon white women.' Mr. Street, you err. When has the wanton killing of innocent men, women and children ever deterred any rapist? Has lynching, the soul sickening, horrible burnings of the southern black men by southern white men, stopped any brute, be he black or white? "But there is another side to the Atlanta massacre, a side that the white southern press suppressed, a side that white Atlanta guards and keeps quiet, a side that colored Atlanta knows, and that is the fact that investigation disclosed that not one woman could be found who had been 'attacked,' that the 'series of attacks' were chimeras of prejudice mad brains. Surely you did not know, Mr. Street; you were not told, you did not investigate the court records to find out that for this savagery the black men took a 'tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye.' Have you noticed that no colored man has been lynched in Atlanta since that time? Well, if you haven't it would interest you greatly to get on the inside of that question. I assure you it will more than repay you for your palms. "You quote the Encyclopaedia Britannica as saying that 'colored people nearly always shield criminals of their own race against whites.' In God's name, who would not, when colored people of some parts of the south know that for the slightest misdemeanor one of their number may be taken out to furnish souvenirs in the form of charred human flesh, bones and teeth to an exulting, yelling mob of barbarous whites? If the 'gabbling, cackling, shrill laughter of the Negro as he squats on the curb with others of his kind'—if 'these strange sounds emphasize peculiarly the affinity that exists between a Negro and a mule,' so the swoop of a southern mob with torch and rope 'emphasizes peculiarly the affinity that exists' between a southern white man and a vulture, a vulture that tears out and rends the heart of its victim and feasts upon its mutilated carcass in ghoulish glee. Cause of Nonconviction of Lynchers. "Besides, you admit that southern juries cannot and will not convict their lynchers, because 'every one in a county knows every one else, many of the families are related, they therefore stand together and protect one another, and the county authorities whose duty it is to apprehend lynchers usually fall to perform their duty, not always because they are unable to, but frequently, it is presumed, because the lynchers are their neighbors, if not their friends and relatives.' This, you say, is an explanation by a judge of the Georgia supreme court. Thus out of Georgia's own legal mouth does she stand before the world convicted and confessed a wanton oppressor and murderer of the weak, a derelict to her duty. Thus for the black man to shield a fellow human from torture is a helen crime, meeting too frequently with death, while for the white man to protect another from the too lenient law is a human and commendable thing. "Southerners have told you that 'in civil cases, especially in cases having to do with property rights, the Negro can and does get justice.' Does he? Nothing whatever, Mr. Street, of the families that are driven off their land or made to sell for a mere pittance. That, of course (?), cannot be said to be within the province of the law. Why was the wealthy Anthony Crawford lynched? 'Impudence and striking a white man' furnished the excuse; the accumulated $20,000 worth of property was the real reason. "You do not agree with Viscount Bryce that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' should be generally read, because it seems to you that this tried friend of the United States has not advised us altogether well, because the primary purpose for which it was written has long since been served. Its value as a picture of average conditions under slavery is somewhat dubious, and the reading of it by those who do not fully understand this tends, you believe, to keep alive the thing which, now that slavery is gone, needs most of all to be abolished—namely, sectional feeling. Questioned About Southern Peonage. Questioned About Southern Peonage. "So, Mr. Sweet, slavery is gone! How about the infamous peonage systems in the south? How is it that some of the people in the 'black belt' do not know to this day that they are free! Keeping alive a dead issue! How about the 'Birth of a Nation', a picture that keeps alive the hatreds and fosters prejudice against an oppressed people that vilifies and maligns them? Have you read unbiased reconstruction literature thoroughly enough to know that the 'Birth of a Nation' is not history, but a lie? If so, have you ever in print said that to produce it would be unwise and certainly unkind? Had you listened, as I have from childhood, to tales of horror, borne out by ineradicable scars of the brutality of slavery, you would know that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is in its letter and its spirit a true picture of what was. "The trouble, Mr. Street, is that the south has been the Rip Van Winkle of this country. It drank deep its draft of power and its peculiar ideas of superiority. It is just now being aroused by the new Negro, the Negro who through striving and sacrifice and education is coming into his soul's heritage. The south would keep alive, if I could, the 'Possum Dick' and 'Aunt Sophie' types of Negro. But, like all things else on this old planet of ours, they have had their day, have served as subjects for picture, song and story. The new Negro is no less worthy of artistic immortality. He is upright, with the straight in the eye look. He is ambitious. He is animated by a 'divine discontent.' He does his own thinking. He does not recognize and will not occupy any 'place' assigned him by another whose only claim to dictation is the color of his skin. "In your conclusion you say, 'Let the Negro firebrand learn the common Negro virtue of great patience; let him cease to worry about rights and think always of duty and destiny.' Has it never occurred to you that there is a place and a time when patience ceases to be a virtue and becomes a most ignoble crime? That time for the Negro is now; that place is here. Must Contend For Equal Justice. "Your advice to the Negro to think always of duty and destiny is good. But the new Negro has been thinking about that for some time now. He knows that his duty is to contend for every right accorded every other man of every other color. His duty is to give his children, no matter how great the sacrifice, every possible advantage for betterment and for growth. His duty is to protect with even greater zealousness the property, lives and honor of his own family than did his misguided forefathers protect those of an absent master. Instead of waiting supinely for a belated respect and justice from white men, he will work out and meet half way his own destiny. And that destiny! It is to stand on an equal footing with every other man of every other race, asking neither charity nor favor, but demanding and getting even handed justice. "You read the 'Negro Year Book.' Do you read the Crisis? The 'burning Dubois' through its pages sounds the clarion call of the new Negro to a new and changing day. You speak of winning the 'respect and friendship of the intelligent white south.' The intelligent white south has a duty (again duty) to perform, a most stupendous task. It has to send well equipped and consecrated missionaries to educate and Christianize its ignorant and heathen whites, in order that the entire south may at least claim justly to be civilized and may on its own behalf win the 'respect' of the world and all the people thereof. "You know, Mr. Street, the psychology of pictures. As you never fail to put the extinguish 'but' beside every inhuman act of the south, in the name of all that's fair, why did you not show beside the sketches emphasizing Negro sloth and vice others representing Negro progress and virtual I feel that you have written according to your light. How poor that light only one on the inside and not an 'outsider can know." Elks to Hold Convention in Cleveland The annual meeting of the grand lodge Independent Benevolent Order of Elks of the World will be held in Cleveland in August. Local lodges of the order in all sections of the country are beginning preparations to send large delegations to the Cleveland convention. Attorney Armond W. Scott of Washington is the grand exalted ruler of the order. TEAMWORK AT NASHVILLE. Citizens of Tennessee Metropolis Raise $20,140.88 For Y. M. C. A. Nashville, Tenn.-By raising in a seven day campaign $20,140.88 the colored people of this city took up the offer whereby the white citizens were to supplement it with their $100,000, which, it is expected, will secure from Julius Rosenwald the $25,000 which was promised some time ago. They have already purchased the magnificent Duncan hotel property, which passed into their hands on Dec. 31, 1916, and which consists of a four story building of eighty rooms and the entire furnishings. The campaign was notable for the amount of ginger put into it. More than $10,000 was reported on the last day of the campaign. Money was solicited through letters, by personal subscriptions and by telegraph. Friends, ex-residents and sympathizers of Nashville people from all sections of the United States were brought into the campaign. The building, which will be remodeled from the funds of the present campaign, will be worth more than $200,000. It is said by the leading Y. M. C. A. experts to be one of the best locations and will be one of the most modern equipped buildings of any Y. M. C. A. among our people in the United States. Contributions are still coming in, and it is expected that the grand total from our folks alone will reach the sum of $22,000. While this marks the third campaign in Nashville since 1914 in the interest of the Y. M. C. A., the daily papers say that the race has done well. In 1914 $33,000 was subscribed. Early in January, 1917, $6,000 more was subscribed, and in this campaign an additional total of $20,140 was subscribed. But it was understood that the campaign just closed is to conform with the campaign of the whites to protect the shrinkage and to revive new interest. Henry Allen Boyd is chairman of the committee of management, and W. N. Sanders is the secretary. J. C. Napher served as chairman of the present campaign; W. D. Hawkins, general of Division A; Preston Taylor, general of Division B, with Bishop I. B. Scott as vice chairman. There were fourteen teams at work, all schools and colleges helping. J. B. Watson, the international secretary, spent the entire time here helping to direct the effort. STAND FIRM FOR COUNTRY. New York World Extols Patriotism of Colored Americans. Under the caption "Negro Patriotism" the New York World says edutally: the New York World says elaborately. Negro leaders and educators are prompt to disavow the possibility of Negro disaffection due to German intrigue. At Tuskegee William G. Willcox, as chairman of the board of trustees, said that "in this great crisis the Negroes will not be found wanting." At Montgomery, Ala., 500 Negro teachers in convention cheered Principal Moton of Tuskegee when he "pledged the loyalty of the race to President Wilson." At Hampton, Va., Dr. Frissell of Hampton institute said: "The Negro has always been loyal. Certainly no other race coming from a foreign soil can be compared with Negroes in their loyalty to this country. What is true of the past is certainly true of the present." These pledges have a timely interest, but what occasion was there to take seriously the vague charges which have prompted them? There has never been the slightest ground for doubting the loyalty of American Negroes to the government that freed them. They fought for it long before that time, in 1917 Direct IS NOW Especial that it business applica 1917-18 Negro Business Directory, Central Illinois IS NOW being compiled and will be issued about June 1. Especial care is being taken in arranging the Directory so that it will be accurate in information and an efficient business guide. You can't afford to miss it. Prices on application. 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By April 2, 1864, the number of Negro enlistments reached 71,972, and, according to Nicolay and Hay, "within half a year after Lincoln's order of enlistment the black regiments had furnished such examples of bravery on many fields that commanders gave them unstinted praise and white officers and soldiers heartily accepted them as worthy and trusted companions in arms." OUR WATCHWORD IS LOYALTY Richmond (Va.) Planet Assures Country of Our Patriotic Support. Colored troops are now guarding the capital of the nation, and we have been informed that they are on duty around the White House, says the Richmond (Va.) Planet editorially. "Faithful unto death" has always been their motto, and the president of the United States can repose absolute confidence in the black contingent that has been mustered into service. There can be no question as to the patriotism of colored citizens. They have never known anything else. Loyalty has always been their watchword, whether the president of the United States was a Democrat or a Republican. And we add, there are no spies, plotters nor anarchists among the members of our race. This is our native home, the Stars and Stripes our national emblem. We will stand by the flag, protecting against any foreign foe. 18 Negro Factory, Cent W being compiled and will be l care is being taken in array will be accurate in informati s guide. You can't afford t ion. REGAL PRINT --- A MASS MEETING TO BOOST RACE ENTERPRISES WILL BE HELD AT THE ST. JOHN A. M. E. CHURCH NEXT FRIDAY EVENING The Community Forum will take up the question of Boosting Race Enterprises in this city at its meeting next Friday evening at the St. John Church. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Enterprise and Industrial Board of the Loyal Legion Co-operative Educational System. All persons interested in race advancement are urged to be present. Men's Warm Weather Muslin Night Shirts, cool light weights with short sleeve; while our present stock lasts they will be sold at $1.00 each Men's Muslin Pajamas, white and fancy trimmed, the proper thing for a good night's repose, $1.50 each $1.25 and Boy's Muslin Pajamas, like daddys, fancy trimmed and 75c Men's summer weight Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, good quality, each 25c Men's B. V. D. Shirts and Drawers, the shirts are made coat style 50c the drawers are knee length Time to put away the winter things heavy coats and the like. Buy a Wayne Cedered Paper Wardrobe, air tight, moisture and moth proof and feel secure. Prices from 75c according to size. MEETING TO BOOST RACE ENTERPRISE WILL BE HELD AT THE ST. JOHN CHURCH NEXT FRIDAY EVENING Community Forum will take place of Boosting Race Enterprise at its meeting next Friday at the St. John Church. The will be held under the auspices enterprise and Industrial Board of Legion Co-operative Education. 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