The Appeal

Strong Editorial Utterances of the late John Q. Adams, Militant Editor of THE APPEAL Reflecting the Policies Which Made THE APPEAL a Powerful Moulder of Public Opinion GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY ONCE, DURING THE DAY APPEAL OPPOSES ARMY COLOR LINE. THE APPEAL wrote the Secretary of War for information relative to the segregation of colored Americans in the army. The following is the reply. WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON. Mr. J. Eddie "THE APPEAL," St. Paul, Minnesota. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of May 14th, in which you take exception to the idea of organizing colored troop into a separate division for National Guard service. In reply I may say that although the separate mission of the division has not been ordered by the War Department for peace time National Guard service, it is strictly in accordance with the policy of this Department that colored units shall be organized into complete and separate divisions whenever the necessity arises for formation, such units in time of war. This policy is upon the experience gained by the War Department throughout our country's military history. It was carried out during the World War in the organization of the 92d and 93d Divisions which saw overseas service, which am surprised that this plan which with such through approval at the time should now be objected. I think that you must have been incorrectly informed as to the War Department's attitude on this question, for years is the first criticism of this policy which we have received. On the other hand this office has received numerous letters from colored citizens endorsing the organization of colored community members of colored membership and objecting to the fact that the War Department has found it necessary (in view of limited appropriations and the difficulty of training units scattered over wide areas) to restrict for the present the organization of colored troops in the National Guard to those units that operate directly under orders of the Corps or Army Commanders and which enter into the composition of a division. Very truly yours, (Signed) JOHN W. WEEKS, Secretary of War. This is the reply of THE APPEAL St. Paul, Minn., June 28, 1921. To secretary Weeks: Hon. John W. Weeks, I have received your letter without date written in reply to my letter of May 14, asking information relative to the formation of a separate colorate division of the National Guard. While this organization has not such organization has been ordered for peace time, I regret to hear that it is the policy of the War Department to organize separate divisions at any time, either in peace or war. The matter of organizing colored soldiers into separate units is fundamental, strong, and believe unconstitutional, and we have continued since the organization of colored troops, but the continuation of a wrong does not make it right. It is a wrong which the World War, fought as it was claimed "to make the world safe for democracy," should not be wrong. It is wrong because it is undemocratic. It is wrong because it takes the colored soldiers out of their proper places in the states in which they live and makes them a segregated part of the Federalized National Court. It denies their rights as citizens in the states and forces them into a special segregated status which is not applied to other groups of Americans, such as Germans, Irish, Russians, French Poles, Spanish, Portuguese, Danes, Swedes, British, Austrians, Hungarians, Serbians, Bulgarians, Belgians, Jews, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Javanese, East Indians, Burmese, and other colored ones. If the colored man is a citizen, he is entitled to ALL the rights of citi-zenship and this includes the right to vote in all of all other citizens. It is unjust for the government to single him out from the various elements which compose American citizenship and place upon him the badge of a parish caste. I am sorry to learn that I am the first to protest against this wrong, but trust that from now on protests may come in by the thousands, to the end that you may be induced to change this policy of your predeces- Very truly yours, J. Q. ADAMS. Editor THE APPEAL WILL BE DISAPPOINTED The imperialistic Harding administration is absolutely opposed to giving immediate independence to the Philippines and the Filipino independence commission due to arrive in this country soon to plead its cause problematically. The failure of the President and the Secretary of War, Weeks are opposed to independence. Of course the United States solemnly promised to give the Filipinos freedom, but what is a promise to a great country well supplied with warships and money and the people to whom it is given are weak and defenseless? A letter of instructions issued by independence commission of the Philippines to the second Filipino mission says at the outset: can people of granting us our independence as soon as stable government can be established in our country should be, without delay, combining before the President and congress of the United States this just demand of the Filipino people. The sacred promise made by the Ameri- SOUTHERN "FORWARD" BUNK. Recently there was a layman's conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, held at Lake Junkasland, N. C., and one Rev. W. W. Alexander of Atlanta, Ga., took the stage and said: "The next big forward step in the inter-racial adjustment is to come from the South, and the reason for it is perfectly apparent. The South can have a social prestige to do this. The social question figures largely in the race question. So the South can, when it will take the leadership in inter-racial co-operation. I believe that the South will assume the leadership with the same sort of pride and determination as it led the nation. It has been the universal opinion of those who have come in close touch with the South. They do not desire or seek social equality. They have asked for police protection, better housing and living conditions and a chance to develop into useful American citizens with every determination to maintain their own social life and the purity of the two racial stocks." It is true that some of the jim-crow "leaders" of the South have said that they do not want anything but police protection and do not care to maintain the status of the colored people of the North will be forced the last ditch against any scheme of the South to impose its plan of settlement upon the country. They know that the South has, in all its "forward" movements proceeded like the crab-backward. They know that the colored citizens of the South have been criminated against, segregated, degraded in every way, denied education, lynched, burned at the stake. There have been riots and lynchings in the South, burning, and for every lynching in the North there have been 50 in the South. Nowhere in the South have the colored people any part in the local government, and first of all they wish the right to vote and participate in the governments under which they live. The colored people know that the so-called Christian church has remained dumb for 60 years in spite of it being a religion when it speaks it comes with a jimcoon pain. And as usual the South talks of "social equality." The real intelligent colored people all over the country do not wish to be segregated from other American citizens in the enjoyment of CIVIL RIGHTS. They do not wish to be designated as pariads, but has nothing to do with intermarriage. They do not say that it means intermarriage for white and colored people to ride in the same car or to go to the same library. In the North, where there are no jimcrow laws, colored and white people go together in public places without intermarriage. Marriages between white and colored people are so severe that when they are long story in the papers above the event. In the South, where there are all of the UNLAWFUL mixing goes on as it is prohoted by the difference in the social status of the white and colored people. The surest way to "maintain racial purity" would be to repeal all of the Southern jimcoon long as the colored people are a voterate and on a lower social and civil plane, or illegal racial mixing will continue That is history. In his enumeration of what the colored people desire, Rev. Alexander omitted two of the most important things—the right to vote and the abolition of public segregation. There was hope of a settlement of the race question, but American lines if the South is to have the leadership, especially if that leadership is to eb vested in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which has ever been the foe of the colored people from the time of the split over slavery in the forties up to the pre-1960s. The Episcopal refuses to merge with the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, because the latter church elected colored bishops WOULD "CONVERT" THE JEWS. Some members of the Episcopal board of missions favor the raising of a fund of $1,000,000 for the purpose of converting the Jews, "because they are losing faith in Judaism and becoming atheistic. This move brought a quick retort from many of the rabbis, three of whom we quote: "Attempts to 'convert' the Jew has never been successful," said Rabbi Stolz, "and the thonged synagogues refute the charge that the American Jew is straying from his faith." Rabbi Stolz said that reports that the Episcopal Church might be induced to appropriate large sums for Christianizing the Jew were too ridiculous to discuss. Amman Shamirberg of Temple Sholom was stronger than it had ever been and that the American Jew was one of its greatest factors. In Europe they have had for fun THE APPEAL. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1922 verting" the Jews by surrounding the dreds of years, a great way of "conghetto and murdering men, women and children. In Hungary, recently, hundreds of Jews have professed Christianity to save the lives of themselves and families, but all of the certificates of baptism were overprinted in red, "Not good in case of pogroms (massacres)." The Jews of the United States will not rush Christianity because they know that American Christians would then segregate them and compel them to ride in jim-crow cars and lynch them just as they have their colored brethren. A BLACK YEAR FOR COLORED PEOPLE. The first year of the Harding administration has been a distinct appointment to right-minded, clear-inking, far-sighted Christian Americans, especially the colored people who far-sighted by fate under the rule of the U. S. A. The Filipinos, a colored race, have been denied the freedom which was solemnly promised them more than twenty years ago. In 1921 there was a farcical "investigation" of conditions, by the man who had been picked to lead the revolution, and had evidently been decided upon before the results of the "investigation" had been received in the U. S. A. A man with bitter racial prejudices has been sent to govern the Porto Ricans, the majority of whom are colorless, who are anxious to go to Sandu Domingo wishes to be free from jimcrow rule but the present American regime hangs on without rhyme or reason. The man is to "investigate" and rule it, is the very man who was the rule, is to take place. The Haitians are nearly all black people and Catholics in religion. Not satisfied with the "pacification" outrages, the oppressors have added insult to injury, by forcing jimcrowism into the Catholic and separate masses are now celebrated by people. That is one of the sacrileges of the rule in Haiti of the U. S. A. The Harding administration has failed to recognize Mexico, although the conditions are now stable and there is not as much lawlessness in the country as in the city of Chicago in the U. S. A. The population of Mexico is approximately 70 per cent Indian; 25 per cent mixed white Indian and Negro and not more than 5 per cent pure Caucasian. The President was a candidate he addressed a large delegation of colored people and said, "Fellow Americans, fear not, America will not fail you." Coolidge, the candidate, handed out some very touching phrases couched in the palest Boss's tongue to the code a plan for more rights for the colored Elder Will H. Hays and his assistants, including the "jimcrow" campaign bureau under Lincoln Johnson and Perry Howard assured the people that the election of the Republican ticket would make this country practice the rule of the many new wrinkles have been added. The speeches of President Harding in the South last fall, in which he practically read the colored people out of the Republican party and in which he to an inferior status in the order were a veritable curse upon a group of loyal citizens. The administration has invaded the states in which the colored had an actual part in the party organizations and practically decreed that they must "fall in behind the white man," or get out. The administration started a K. K. K. investigation which was suddenly called off without any reason for the action being given. A few jimcrow offices have been there like dogs to a horde of hungry dogs and a few jimcrow colored men have been base enough to accept them. Mates, it has been a dark year for the dark peoples. The writer has been an active Republican for more than fifty years and still believes in the principles laid down by Lincoln, Grant, McKinley and Roosevelt, and it is with regard to note that the present national administration has strayed from the G. O. P. landmarks. CRINGING AWAKENS CONTEMPT We cannot win by blinking at facts or by ignoring fundamental principles. Editor J. Q. Adams of the ST. PAUL APPEAL is sound to the core we shall all have to accept his kind and help us to appreciate to tain our full stature and status under the American Constitution. Cringing may be comfortable for the time being put it is mighty humiliating for all the time thereafter and it awakens contempt for us as it should do in minds and hearts of our adversaries. Editor Adams points the way, whether we accept his advice or not and sooner or later he will blaze the way to our financial, industrial and political enfranchisement in this country where none will dare molest leaders. Wise colored leaders will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. The foregoing from the Planet of Richmond, Va., edited by Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., who recently polled 20,000 votes as candidate for governor of the state, is pleasing to the governor to accuse him of the cause to the cause for which THE APPEAL has fought for nearly forty years rather than a personal compliment. THE "NIGGER" IN THE SEGREATION WOODPILE "Prof. Neval H. Thomas, a school teacher in Washington and an active member of its N. A. A. C. P., includes a vigorous news article published in the Cleveland Gazette with a report of those who get money for institutions and houses for Colored people that keep the races apart. Says Prof. Thomas: "I have heard many silly Negro advocates of segregation boast of how much money they can raise for a race, but I see that most any white man will see liberally to any movement that will keep Colored people away from him and make them acknowledge their inferiority. In fact, the most dangerous enemy of democracy with which we deal is the land and the most serviceable capitalism (oil) charity. The large donors to these Negro "charities" are making profitable investments when, through some well-paid Negro, they can establish a separate Y. M. C. A. Y. W. C. A. these institutions aid in keeping the masses apart, so that, on the principle of "divide and conquer," these wealthy "donors" can exploit. So, the collection of large "contributions" by these Negr- segregationists is no challenge, but another barrier to the progress of the Negro community, one of these international "secrearies" boasted of getting the money to build a Negro Y. M. C. A. in the great city of Chicago. If that institution remains there long the great civil law of Illinois will be null and void, and there has popularized a movement for schools and segregation as to homes for our people. "No, our solution is not surrender, but FIGHT! Let the churches and welfare clubs of Cleveland exert extra activity for the moral betterment of Cleveland's youth, and your press, pulvinar, ballot, and every other power within your city into the associations which bear the name of Jesus who was "no respector of persons," until they acquire a sense of shame." THE APPEAL agrees with every word that Mr. Thomas has written. The Y. M. C. A., social settlements, "Community service," and all similar schemes are efforts at segregation, Their purpose is to bar the colorful people from great public institutions, to which all other people are admitted without question. When the "colored" Y. M. C. A. was opened in Chicago, THE APPEAL predicted editorially that it would prove a curse, by reason of creating greater prejudice and the prediction has been more than verified. It will take a thousand years to undo the wrong it has done, and ten thousand years may not right the wrong it has established of jimrow Christian (?) associations in the United States. The man who has given so much money to divide American Christians along the color line is a Jew. How could it be possible for a Jew to be in charge of the Jewish community? The idea is ridiculous. The shrewd Jew knew that by catering to the blind prejudice of the so-called white Christians would bring in dollars. He also knew that jimrow "negroes" would laud him for his "philanthropy" and would offer him a very small dollars rolling his way. It was a plain Jewish business proposition. Cupidity not humanity caused him to spend his money for his pet charity." And it has paid. For every dollar he has put in he has taken out two. He has taken out two in a finish attempt to harm him from any public or semi-national institution. THE COLORED DIVISION (APPEAL Editorial Sept. 3, 1921.) The APPEAL is sorry to note that the color line has been drawn in the new Veterans' Bureau by the organization of a "Colored Division" and the appointment of Dr. J. R. A. Crossland as its head. Crossland, a son who fell "fighting for democracy" in France, and it is a poor reward for the father to be given a segregated bureau. It is also said that he was an effective speaker in the last campaign, in which it was given out that the Republican party would abstain segregation in the United States. If these things are true Crossland deserves better treatment at the hands of the victors, and he also should have refused the appointment as undemocratic and demanded the same treatment as is given to other groups of American citizens, and he should have made head of the U. S. Shipping Boards representatives of other racial groups have been given places, but not in segregated bureaus. No President of the United States would dare offer a Jew a place as the head of a segregated Jewish bureau. There is no such place, and will be Only colored people are segregated by this alleged democracy. Some people may think that the "special" appointments which have been handed out by the present Republican administration are movement, but they are really nails in the coffin of democracy and are not being used in political status of the colored people. The Administration ought to ent out these "special" jobs, eliminate segregation which was promised in the campaign, and if colored men are to have appointments let them be on a level with those given to other groups of American citizens. Better no places at all than those which lower the status of the race and automatically make their holders defenders of segregation. STEPPING OVER THE LINE. The recent revelation of the census that the increase of 6.5 per cent in the "negro" population of the country during the last decade was the lowest on record has been accounted on records, but there is still another explanation. There are a lot of inaccuracies in all United States Census reports. The enumeration of the "negro" population is based on a false premise, and it follows that the figures are untrustworthy. The mixing of the races has been going on for 300 years and still continues in spite of law and public cases. Many cases it is impossible to decide who is "colored" in the U. S. and who is "colored" in the U. S. and why it is necessary. There are millions of so-called "white" people in whose veins runs Afric's warm blood, and yet they are unaware of its presence. The editor is personally acquainted with hundreds who are known as "white" blood in their percentage of Negro blood in their population. Negro children have not the remotest idea that they are "colored." And if the editor knows so many there must be many known to others, but unknown to the writer. During the last decade, because of the increase in race prejudice, thousands of people who would really have preferred "colored" if they could have enjoyed the rights of American citizenship and economic opportunity have simply stepped over the color line and become "white." This is not so difficult. Every "colored" person is white, the face and if any "white" reader doubts it, just ask any "colored" person if the statement is true. Recently the editor met a man once "colored" who is now "white," and in conversation, he said: "I realized that there was no hope of a boy or my children in Alabama, not only the white people but because Negroes were preaching that we ought not to try to vote or do anything else that the white people objected to. So I withdrew the money I had in the bank, disposed of my interests and not only jim-crow crowd who were willing to attend tions in Alabama without protest; and I am now living in Iowa as a man, in that word implies. Eight other members of my family and twenty other families from my hometown have done and have settled the so far as they themselves are concerned, and we have not forgotten our brethren we left behind as we all give about a tenth of our incomes to aid them in various ways." The "white" people who imagine they have succeeded in barring all persons from the greatly mistaken. There are few communities in the United States in which there are not people of mixed blood taking part in all industrial, professional, civic and social activities. The census plan of designating all persons with even the highest percentage of Negro blood as "insecure" is basically wrong and is done in no other country. Really segregation is just as much out of place in the census as is in anything else in a democracy. All persons born in the states, no matter what their race or color, should be classed as Americans. AMERICANS—THAT'S ALL. For many years it has been the custom to treat colored-people as aliens, although they are more than ninety-nine per cent of American birth; and there is a growing ten dency among the colored people to regard themselves as aliens. This is because by class of leaders who call themselves "Negro" and yell about "Negro Kultur", although they have not more than half and often less than one-eighth of Negro blood. Such men ought to stop the "Negro" propaganda and be Americans and demand justice because they are Americans and not by their assertion that they are "Negroes." They should not have any rights as "Negroes" but every right of American citizen should be and will be accorded them, if they fight for their rights as American citizens by right of birth. ALL HAIL. "THE HAMMER!" For many years we have heard a lot about throwing the "hammer" into the discard and giving time to "constructive work." Many have said: Build up; never tear down. But knocking and tearing down are just as necessary in the economy of things, as building up. Battering down Wrong is a useful process and normally precede the building up of Right. "Foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the fouler presence of John. That was the terrible wretched of the temporaries of King John of England. In his person were combined inollect, selfishness, unbridled just cruel AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED WHEN YOU'RE CALLED TO PAY ty, shamelessness and tyranny. The barons rose against him and demanded a change A. D. 1215, they invited the King to a little meeting at Runnymede and they informed the absolute monarch that there must be some major power of the King John, in the autocratic the demand but he realized that he stood alone and that the barons had their little "hammers" up their sleeves and were ready to use them, so he granted the Magna Charta. The Great Charter was discussed, agreed to, and the single day. Thus modern democracy had their origin in "hammer" work. In the sixteenth century the Catholic Church was grown corrupt. The priests were guilty of immorality, extortion and all the other crimes in the decalogue. The Inquisition was working overtime. When conditions were at their worst, Martin Luther appeared and the scene armed with a "hammer," and braced Christianity and this in the strongly entrenched in the church. Thus began the Reformation which separated the Protestant church from the Romish See, and conferred investible benefits on mankind. For many years the American colonies had been oppressed by England, this the country. The colonies protested against the representation, mother England refused to heed the crises of her children, so in 1775, the colonists revolted, the first blood being that of Crispus Attucks, a mulatto, of whose valor the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has commemorated in enduring granite monuments. The colonists continued "hammering" of the colonists finally brought the liberty which was proclaimed, July 4, 1776. In the seventeenth century, African slavery was inaugurated in America. William Wil伯force and others "hummered" at the vile wrong in England. The agitation was continued until the abolition of slavery in all British colonies. Bond-service had a strong hold in the United States, but the abolitionists had already unheated their "hammers." William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Sumner and hundreds of others "hammered" the great evil until the slave hold was came when "hammers" were exchanged for game, and with the assistance of nearly 200,000 former slaves, who fought nobly, the great blot was wiped from the escutcheon. The work of the hammer is not yet complete. Thousands of social wrongs still exist which must be hammered until they disappear. Thousands of men, such as women slavers, jimcrowslers and their ilk, men who would barter their birthrights, must be hammered until they beg for money and reform or are knocked into hell. Great is the hammer! Long may it exist to knock down the Wrong; to build up Right. PROTEST AGAINST INJUSTICE. We trust that our editorial friends will print strong editorials and write letters to the Secretary of War protesting against the color line in the army, and advise the writing of letters of protest to every cabinet member portesting the color line in the various departments. And ask the President to abish segregation where possible. Ask the executive order. Let us stand together for the unite abolition of the color line in American citizenship. DEATH OF ABDUL BAHA. A cable from Haifa Syria, announced the death in that city of Abdul Baha Abbas, one of the greatest men of the day and the leader of the Bahai movement. Abdul Baha, "servant of God," trumpeted the United States in 1912 and visited St. Paul among other places. He was the guest of the large congregation of Bahaists in Chicago the latter part of April and early in May in 1912 and on May 1, he dedicated the site at the Sheridan road bridge in Wilmette, a suburb of Chicago where the temple was building a temple costing several millions of dollars, to be the world center of Bahaim. Abdul Baha was born in Teheran, Persia. He was the successor of the Bab, "gateway of knowledge," who began about 1844 proclaiming throughout Islam he coming of a higher headway than God until executed at the age of 31. The noble father of Abdul Baha was Mirza Hossein Ali of Nour, a disciple of the Bab. Father and son were banished in 1868 to Akka, a prison city in Syria. Forty years later the Young Turks overthrew the despotic regime in Constantinople, and Abdul Baha was framed. The death of Abdul Baha will be mourned by millions of his co-religionists all over the world and it is now claimed that there is at least 50,000,000 of them, who practice as well as preach that "of one blood God made all nations." There are many thousands of colored people in the United States who have become Bahaist Christians and have become Bahaiist Christians of hypocrisy of the so-called Christians on the color question. Bahaim is a social reform. It aims at the freeing of mankind from religious, social and political yokes. Among the things for which it stands out are the use of a language, a parliament of men with representatives from all countries for $2.40 PER YEAR the settlement of international disputes, universal education, a perfect civilization founded on simplicity and co-operation, and emphasis on the human spirit. In this world movement which found adherents of almost every religion—Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Judaism and Christianity. Almost every globe contributes adherents to the organization for international brotherhood. People came to the city of Acea from all parts of the world to see and talk with Abdul Bah Abbas. His group was a regular Babel. Within it gathered peoples of all races and creeds. A CURSE, NOT A BENEFACTION. THE recent offer of Julius Rosenwald, a wealthy Jew of Chicago, to give the organization of segregated Young Men (?) Associations will not in the end be a benefit to the colored people. If he had confined his offer to the Southern States the harm would not have been so great, but to include the young men who did a great wrong, from which it is dredges of years for the country to recover. He wrongs not only the colored people but he wrongs the whole people by catering to an unChristian prejudice. It is surprising that a man of Jewish ancestry whose people have been for thousands of years and are even now the victims of race hatred would do anything to increase the race hatred between white and colored Christians, and there is no questioning the fact that establishments have served to increase the prejudice of the white people against their colored brothers, as the establishment of any kind of segregation would have been. If Mr. Rosenwald had told the Central Y. M. C. a's in the North that he would give money only on condition that these quasi-public institutions be open to colored men as freely as they are to those of other races, even if they would have the would be a true benefactor. "GENTLEMEN OF THE MINIMUM." In 1917 during the world war, a number of colored men were called to meet at Washington, at the suggestion of Secretary of War Baker, and they were asked what they wanted. They stated that they really wanted nothing, that what they said amounted to. THE APEAL, the Boston Guardian and a few other papers, under the head of "Gentlemen of the Minimum" criticised their action and stated that they were not willing to abolish the jimcrowism in the army and if it was not done at that time, the future would show that a great mistake had been made. Time has proved the truth of the conspiracy, and it is not in other papers. Jimcrow lines were rigidly drawn even on the battlefields, the American colored soldiers were shamefully treated, but they fought on and many thousands gave their preconditions to make the world safe for democracy." Now by a strained interpretation of the new army bill Secretary Baker practically excludes colored men from entering the federalized national guard. As tokens of free men they are to assemble in "pioneer" segregated regiments. "The gentlemen of the minimum" ought to hang their heads in shame. IT MUST NOT BE The proposition to establish a playground for COLORED children in St. Paul is un-American and THE AP-PEAL is opposed to it. It is the nineteenth of the plans to degrade the colored people into a parish class are conceived in the brains of people who call themselves Christians. In the majority of cases when the colony is kicked down it is done "for his own self" and "in the name of the Lord." No doubt some of the promoters believe that they are doing a great thing for the colored people of Saint Paul but they are mistaken. To a greater evil could come to Saint Paul that he would be well as the colored people, than the attempt to segregate one group of citizens. It is a thing which will serve to inflame the fires of race prejudice. It is inconceivable that any colored people could so brittle them in the eyes of the innocentous a scheme and it is infamous whether it is so intended or not. We are glad to know that the superintendent of playgrounds opposes the plan. The decent self-respecting people of Saint Paul must fight the nefarious scheme and you are a good American you should oppose it. IT MUST NOT BE! BEAUTIFUL BLUE BUNK Beautiful blue posters all over the country say: "JOIN THE NAVY For honorable service, travel, sure per the instruction, excellent promotion" "One-seighth of the citizens of the United States are barred from general service in the Navy. When a citizen of dark complexion tries to enlist he is told that he can only enter as a servant. Thus the United States government listens to insults a group of its patriotic citizens. Isn't it enough to give one the blues?" J. Q. ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ST. PAUL OFFICE No. 301-2 Court Block, 24 E. 4th st. J. Q. ADAMS, Manager. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE No. 2012 Tenth Avenue South J. N. SELLERS, Manager. Entered at the Postoffice in St. Paul Minnesota, as second-class mail matter, June 6, 1885, under A. W. C. Cormier, March 5, 1886. TERMS. 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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1922 Bible Thought for Today Reward of Humility: "Whoseover exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Luke 14:11. But in lowiness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Least not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others." Philippians 2:3, 4. THE APPEAL'S PLATFORM 1. THE APPEAL resents the claim so persistently made by many Caucasians that this is a "white man's country". The colored people are citizens by right and birth and the Federal Constitution specifically places all citizens on equality before the law. 2. THE APPEAL believes that the idea advanced by certain persons that the Caucasian race has been especially commissioned by God to rule all of the colored races is blasphemy. 3. THE APPEAL firmly believes that in a republic there can be but one kind of citizen, hence challenges the right of the government—federal, state or local—to discriminate in any way between citizens by the enactment of any law which specifies that the colored people must be separated from or treated differently from the great body of citizens. THE APPEAL is opposed to class legislation of every kind. 4. THE APPEAL believes in manhood suffrage without any educational or property qualifications whatever, and contend that the law-bawling man of good character, who does his duty as a citizen and risks his life in defense of the flag, should not be deprived of the ballot because he is poor and cannot read and write. Disfranchisement works irresistibly for the denial or abridement of all the related rights of citizenship, because a voteless man has no right which any one is bound to respect. 5. THE APPEAL believes that the schools supported by public taxation should be open to all regardless of race, color or creed and that every parent should determine the kind of education he wishes his children to receive. 6. THE APPEAL believes that the statement that the Southern Caucasians pay the taxes necessary to educate the Southern colored people is an economic absurdity. That each man in his place pays as much tax as any other man in the community is an economic truism which has never been disputed by any reputable sociologist or political economist from Adam Smith down to the present time. 7. THE APPEAL knows that the colored people have been misrepresented in the matter of crime. Enemies have endeavored to prove that colored people are a criminal people, but their statements have been disproved by statistics. Caucasian-Americans commit more and baser crimes than colored people. 8. THE APPEAL is opposed to mob law and believes that mob license is more dangerous to the wellbeing and perpetuity of society than the isolated infractions of the law by individuals. 9. THE APPEAL does not believe that the Southern Caucasians are the best friends of the race. The Southern Caucasian idea of friendship is the relation of superior and inferior. In many cases the colored person who gains the "friendship" of a Southern Caucasian does so at the expense of his manhood. THE APPEAL is not willing for the settlement of the race question to be left to the unjust, un-American, unchristian South for settlement. 10. THE APPEAL refuses to consider any proposition that the colored man relinquish any of the political or civil rights now possessed by the race. Every effort should be made to retain those which exist and to regain those which have been lost. THE APPEAL reaffirms its unalterable determination to continue to battle for the right to the end and come what may. THE APPEAL will never give up the contention for justice and the absolute equality of all citizens under the law. "FOR NEGRO PRESS EXCLUSIVELY." THE APPEAL during the war, patriotically published many pages of free advertising of Liberty Loans, Thrift Stamps, War Savings Stamps, Food Administration notices, etc., and at a great expense to the publisher. It was a duty which every American owed to his native land. We are now receiving a lot of copy headed (For the Negro Press exclusively) which will NOT appear in THE APPEAL. It is ridiculous to send out such stuff and really an insult to the colored soldiers, who fought for democracy. Thrift is a very important matter for ALL Americans, but it is not limited by color or race or creed and the identical matter should be sent to every group of Americans, unless it be translated into some foreign language for the benefit of foreigners who can not read English. The colored people speak the language of their native country—English. In the future as in the past THE APPEAL will continue to print a portion of the official matter it receives, but ho jimcrow matter. The APPEAL is not a "negro" paper. For years it has had at its business heading THE APPEAL An American Newspaper and that is what it is. THE APPEAL believes in, Americanism for every American of every race, color or creed. To send out copy sheets prepared "exclusively for the Negro press" is an insult to the intelligence, patriotism and Americanism of 12,000,000 English speaking AMERICANS, who wish no special privileges. THE REASON WHY. A distinguished foreigner who is touring the United States had this to say relative to his impressions of the race question in this country: "I have always been interested in what is called the race question in the United States and since my arrival I have endeavored to study it from every viewpoint and if possible find some reasons for its existence. "After I had met so large a number of intelligent, well educated, refined and cultured colored people I was at a loss to understand the reasons for the bitter race prejudice and the attempts in various parts of the country to segregate people of color. "That a body so-called Christians should find it necessary to even discuss the question of segregating any class of people was so contrary to the spirit of Christianity that I was greatly surprised; but after a Southern delegate had in a vigorous speech opposed segregation, I was dumb-founded to see a bishop of a colored Methodist church arise and make a speech favoring the separation of his branch from the proposed union of Methodism. He referred to his members as "white folks" Negroes" and said they wished to be set apart. It was a disgusting revelation. "The whole thing is now clear. Some ignorant, short sighted self-seeking leaders are seeking segregation in the church for some personal reasons. Evidently they are not versed in history or they would know that they are playing with fire. If they are segregated in the House of the Lord, segregation civilly and socially follows as a natural sequence. Old colored men who were reared in slavery are apt to have slavish ideas and the only hope of the colored people is that the young men, the clear-headed thinking young men, will take charge of the situation and push to the rear the truckling leaders who are willing to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage." The headlines say: "Texans Lynch a Colored Man. Cause Unknown." O, yes, the cause IS known. HE WAS COLORED. That's enough in Texas. Strong Editorial Utturances of the Late John Q. Adams, Militant Editor, Reflecting the Policies Which Made THE APPEAL a Powerful Moulder of Public Opinion ACCURSED BE THEY IF THEY YIELD (Reprinted from The Appeal of October 25, 1913.) For more than a quarter of the century the editor of THE APPEAL has struggled to give the Afro-American people of the West a newspaper which would defend their rights. A complete file has been preserved and the single note which it not a single note has been sounded. THE APPEAL has always advised its readers never to relinquish a civil right and to aid their Southern which have soap away because of the activities of jim crow propagandists. THE APPEAL has never been a profitable business proposition in itself; the editor has made his living by selling other sources of income, but he feels that he has done, something to aid the colored people and the consciousness of having fought for the right compensates him for the years of expenditure of thousands of dollars. The editor of THE APPEAL is a father and the one thing he has endeavored to impress upon the minds of his readers with respect, especially as it relates to his rights of American citizenship. He is a poor man and has little of this world's goods to bequeath them, but if they have learned their lesson in the sufferings hardships and privations and suffer hardships rather than degrade their souls by willingly accepting any treatment which is in any way inferior to that accorded to other Americans, the hardships they will witness in the beyond happy in the thought that has left his offspring a priceless heritage. The editor of THE APPEAL would rather see all of his children in their grown-up years, but even in their minds consider the proposition of becoming jim crowst and if they are ever willing to give up liberty and become servile sycophants, may God's most awful curse be overcome, and may their children's children be accursed through all time and eternity. IF HARDING'S RIGHT, GOD'S WRONG President Harding recently made two speeches in the South, one at Birmingham, Ala., the other at Atlanta, Ga., on the race question, in which he displayed a remarkable lack of information on the subject even due to the fact that he had studied it. He asked the question. Of course Mr. Harding, when he says that the colored man should have political, educational and economic rights, but he is wrong when he says that he is not entitled to every right to which every other group of Americans is entitled. The man has no right to say that one-eighth of the United States must be differentiated in any way from the other seven-eighths. In his special message to the Congress which met March 4, Mr. Harding said that he looked with favor on the appointment of inter-racial commissioners to race conditions in the United States. There was no need for hasin in announcing his view on a question which could not have been studied properly in the past. In 1921, announced his intention to do owing to his many and pressing official duties, and it seems that the President has taken advantage of an opportunity to present the public ear, for the purpose of creating a sentiment in favor of his ideas on the subject, which were evidently obtained from individuals and books favorable to the South but imical to the real interests of the colored people. The President erroneously confounds "social equality" with amalgamation. He says that amalgamation cannot be said it exists, it has always been done, but it has combined efforts of the law and public opinion have failed to prevent the mixing of the races. Throughout the ages there has been so much racial mixing that today the scientists and the public have been such thing as a pure race. In no other country on the globe has there been more racial mixing than in the United States which is the melting pot of the world. The majority of people in the United States are mixtures of various races and the greater part of this majority is composed of people with more or less Negro blood. The racial mixing in the South is almost wholly illegitimate and the marriage between the races a crime. Now as to social equality, that exists in some part of the United States and it is only in those parts of the country which have more or less of social equality that the colored people of white people respect. The very words, "social equality" imply that all rights are secure. In the South there is neither equality nor respect for rights, the contempt for the colored man is less than in the North, status, which extends through all human relationships in that benighted section of the country. Even at the speech of the President the colored people were segregated and the disenfranchised were the most hostile imitation of the white man. This is why please a few of the whites who evidently visioned a "good Negro" of slavery days, who in hard bow low when "ole massa" approached. The South has a queer idea of social equality, who in North social equality" in its narrow social mingling in private house parties, dances, pink teas, etc. In the South the idea is distorted so that it includes civic rights, hence the jimcrow car, the jimcrow school, the jimcrow church, the jimcrow park, the jimcrow telephone booth and on an ad nauseam. When Harding was a candidate for President, THE APPEAL doubled his appeal to people who square deal and was not disappointed to support him but we were reassured REPRINTED FROM VARIOS ISSUES by letters signed by Chairman Hays and Secretary Miller and many leading incrow campaign bureau. We as the jim-crow campaign bureau should be just to his allies. Also Editor William Monroe Trotter said that he had had a personal interview with the president and he had promised to aid in elimination of the aggravation. He came a speech to a number of colored delegations from the Harding front porch, which began with, "Fellow Americans and end with, 'Colored men, America, not all'." These assurances caused THE AP-PEAL to give candidate Harding enthusiastic support. Our support, probably, had little to do with the paper but is mentioned to show that this paper was not prejudiced against him. many colored people are verted. It is not stricter religion of the gentle CIO should appeal to the business of mankind, but teachings. Orthodox the U. S. teaches in and oppresses, disfragrant and burns colored CIO of it. He asked of it: "nigger' in his place," Klansmen, who, harrin Catholics, kneel before Cross" and supramacry." NAUSEAT It is nauseating to him. Soon after the President assumed his duties it was noticed that he seemed to forget his promises. Segregation in the departments at Washington was continued, three or four colored men were appointed to jim Crow institutions. Colored youth were segregated in the army training camps and colored men were not allowed to enlist in the navy. In every way the Harding administration has stood for the colors of colored citizens and it is sad to know that some Jim Crow men accept this Jim Crow settlement of matters. THE APPEAL does not believe, as Mr. Harding puts it, that there is a "fundamental, eternal and unescapable difference between the races." He would be to challenge God and Christianity in the fight for parture from the ideals of the founders of the Republic who declared that "all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain rightful rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." After his hearing, he distinct place for the black and colored people, Mr. Harding tells us that "the one thing we must most seduously avoid is the development of group and class organizations in this country." He argued against the very thing which he argued for. There are just as many differences between the individuals of any one race as are between the people of any number of races. The difference in any differentiation in any form in the race is the difference in the government, and in public association is contrary to a just concept of a democracy in which all men are presumed to be equal, and is repugnant to the highest ideals of the race. He would have made of one blood all nations of men. If Mr. Harding is right, God is wrong. If Mr. Harding had had the time to study the question and he had studied it with an open mind he would have found that in France, Spain and Portugal, there have never been any bounded on the color of the skin and the color of the hands and Central America. In these countries, unhamped by class and color distinctions colored men have risen to the highest places in every branch of human endeavor. There are more full-blooded Negroes in Brazil than white-colored States; and, counting the mixed-blooded Indians and white, and the pure whites, the population totals over 30,000,000 who live together in perfect harmony, without any public differentiation of race. There are no social barriers whatever in Brazil and it is a common idea that there must be social bars between the men and women who are citizens of a country. Color differentiation means the ascendency of one caste and the degradation of the other. Social equality does not necessarily mean amalgamation, but it does mean that individuals to determine. During the comish disarmament parley, the Japanese will be treated with the greatest social consideration. They will be wined and dined and received at every social function, meeting people who in their own way are not part of and in spite of all the social mingling it is safe to say that not a single marriage will result. In a 'demyocracy like ours, all men, whether they are black or white, red, yellow or brown, should meet in all relationships without racial differentitions—simply as AMEI-CANS. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE "The jincwm negroes" who are continually repeating "the North is no better than the South" know they are in danger. The oppression of the colored people is ten thousandfold greater in the South than in the North. Ninety per cent of the lynching occurs in the North, and disfranchisement and jincwm laws. A little instance which is illuminating. A colored man was arrested in Chicago last week charged with having assaulted a white woman with a weapon that he pulled a precox and he was committed to the psychopathic hospital for treatment. What would have happened in Georgia? Well this is what did happen once summer even when no white woman was in the hospital. A colored man shot a white man and in turn was shot by a white mob. He was taken to a hospital where he died shortly after. About midnight the hospital got to the wounded colored, and lvchm him. Exasperated at finding that he was dead, the mob broke into the dead room, got the corpse, carried it to the outskirts of the city and a city, the charred remains were returned to the capital. This happened in the city of Augusta, Ga., in the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-one. THE "MENACE" OF BUDDHISM. A woman who has been a Christian missionary in Japan for 18 years called the attention to the Disciples of Christ, at a recent general conference, to the growing menace of the religion. He said that Buddhist priests and teachers are in increasing numbers and are urging the Japanese in the U. S. to have nothing to do with the Christian religion on the ground that its followers call Buddhism. He also stated that Buddhism is also gaining among Americans and that many colored people were being converted. It is not strange that the religion of the gentle Gautama Buddha should appeal to the colored people, because it not only teaches the equalities of man and woman, but its teachings. Orthodox Christianity the u. S. teaches inequality of race and oppresses, disfranchises, lynches and burns colored Christians at the stake. It is aided in "keeping the nigger in his place" by the Klu Klux Klan, the Jew and Catholics, knee before the "Flaming Cross" and swear to uphold "white supremacy." NAUSEATING It is masexting to read the rotten given by R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee, as he travels through now in jimcarw cars, stopping his oppressors to make speeches landing his oppressors only one to suffer it would matter little, but his words are promptly telegraphed all over the country, and every time he opens his mouth the mouth of the entire country sink lower in the read. Many of his statements are wholly without foundation in fact. For instance in a recent lecture before the students of the University of Carolina, the wires say he said: "The oppressors has advanced further than any single colored people anywhere on the globe because it has had the privilege of coming in contact with the white people of the South." Could any one with smaller truth or a greater truth be compressed into one sentence? The census of Brazil shows that there are about 22,000,000 people with more or less Negro blood in that country, or nearly twice as many as there are in the United States, according to census figures. And the people of Brazil, although they were haveloved and were not encamped until 1888, quarter of a century after Lincoln's accession, have advanced further than the colored people in this country because they have reached the point where color does not count. They are absolutely free from any civil or social discriminations. The color line in Brazil, and the blackest Brazilians is in every way the peer of the whitest of his countrymen. Principal Moton deems it a wonderful thing that his race "has had the privilege of coming into contact with the white people of the South." Here and there are benefits of the contact: Two hundred years of slavery; enactment of the famous Black Codes to retain slavery, in fact, after its abolition; segregation; denial of living wages; denial of living facilities; disfranchisement; jimmyrow's arrest; even Tuskegee Institute which furnishes Principal Moton his bread and butter is the gift of the North. Northern people have given 95 per cent of their endowment fund, and the greater portion of the running expenses is begged in the North. The state of Alabama gives the measly sum of about $3,000. Here is another gem from Principal Moton: "To the Southern white people we our language and our religion and we have learned and all that we have a civilization." Think of a man who would say such things being the head of an institution which trains the south. It is strange that many of the people come out imbued with distorted ideas of their proper place in the world? Then Principal Moton came out in his persecution in which he said that "no Southern colored man wanted social equality." In that statement he showed his ignorance of the English language? He probably meant to say that the colored people were not seeking matrimonial alliances with white people. Principal Moton may not be the social equality, but there are millions of people who do desire it. Social equality means, "equality in the collective body composing a community, especially when considered as subjects of civil government." Here are some of the definitions of "equal": of the same degree with another or each uniform in condition or action; of the same importance or relation; equitable just, impartial; the same importance and concern; not distinguished by any ground or preference. Social equality means the right to vote, the right to equal and identical accommodations on common carriers, the right to public places of refreshment and public amenities, the right to residence anywhere one is able to buy or rent a home, the right to attend the nearest public school, the right to a legal trial when right to marriage in a republic charged with crime, and every other carries with it. Principal Moton's dear friends of the South have denied all of these rights to the colored people, every effort for a advancement has been made. The South has even if conducted on jimrow lines, in purpose of the South always has been and is now, to segregate the colored people from other citizens and make them a parish class, despised by all who are in the whims and caprices of the master, Carolina, where Principal Moton made his speech, colored people are treated as a group apart from the white citizenship and subject to different treatment. They have suffered from segregation. They have made progress not because of segregation, but in spite of it. If the Southern white people had not placed hindrances, including murder, in their path, they would have been in the plane which has been attained by the colored people of Brazil. Some of Principal Moton's activities in the past should not be forgotten. Shortly after he succeeded B. Washington as the head of Tuskegee, his wife was ejected from a Pullman sleeper because she was colored. According to the associated press Moton made no attempt to defend her, but stated that he had added a not attendant to ride a Pullman. Just after the question in the world war Principal Moton was sent to France as the special representative of President Wilson, the arch enemy of the colored race. The Crisis and other periodicals and many colored soldiers asserted that instead of investigating and endeavoring to correct the outrageous treatment to which the colored troops were subjected, he rushed around, and a few speeches telling the colored soldier to take the first boat for the U.S. "in order to attend a conference at Tuskegee." For a colored man to laud the brutal South, which has heaped unspeakable wrongs upon his people for hundreds of years, is a disgusting exercise. If imagine if you can, an Irishman apprehends the ful murders by the British soldiery conceive if you can, a Jew condoning the pogroms in Russia, Poland and the Balkan states; think of an East Indian lauding the English who blew many of his countrymen from the cannon. If you can visualize these things, you can get a true picture of what it means for a colored man to laud the South. JIM CROW LEADERS. We had in a recent issue a symposium of views of colored editors in various parts of the country on the speeches of President Harding in Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. The speeches of these of (these) is an editorial from the Rise of America (Planet), by that fearless journalist, John Mitchell, Jr. Referring to the desire of President Harding to have more "negro" leaders developed, the Planet says: "THE PATH IS FULL OF THIS KIND OF LEADERSHIP. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON DID HIS PART IN DEVELOPING THIS KIND OF LEADERSHIP. IN LATER YEARS HE REALIZED THAT HE HAD GONE TOO FAR, TO THE PRINCIPLE OF ELIMINATING THE PRINCIPLE OF MAN HOOD, WITHOUT WHICH CAN RISE TO THE FULL HEIGHT OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. This is a strong statement yet it is absolutely true. No single thing in the history of the colored people in the United States has done so much to invent the full attainment of citizenship, that speech of Booker Washington delivered in Atlanta, Ga., in 1895. Since then the descent to hell has been swift and sure and the depths were sounded when the other day, Warren G. Harding, President of the U.S. States, stood by the side of the Great moment in Atlanta, pronounced a moment in Army, Grady, the most bitter, dangerous and insidious enemy of the colored people that the country has produced, declared that the race question must be settled by the segregation of American citizens. It was by the enthusiastic reception by the South of the B. Washington speech and the white man's "good negro" pat on the shoulder, the cimjrower leaders' tribe has increased so enormously that it is now a menace to be reckoned with in every com- munity, which there are a hundred colored men. Before he died Booker Washington repented in bitterness what he had done and longed for life to wash out his unwise course but it was too late. Although it may be news many, it is a fact that after his death an artifact by him, was printed in a leading magazine, in which he repudiated segregation which he had so long championed. No greater calamity could befell the colored people than the harvesting of a new crop of "jimcrow negro leaders." MOTON'S LOST OPPORTUNITY Moton had the great opportunity of his life to strike a blow for freedom when he was on the platform as the alleged representative of the colored people. Had he been a brave and courageous man, he would have segregated the segregation of the colored people at the exercises he would have turned to President Harding and said: "Mr. President of the United States, Mr. Franklin D. Rodgers and Gentlemen: I must make a protest against the segregation and humiliation of the colored people at these exercises dedicating a monument to the memory of the Great Emancipator, and as a representative of the United States I say that unless the barriers are torn down and every vestige of discrimination removed my prepared address will remain unspoken and the only words I have just voiced. Let that go into the records as my speech." Such a statement would have created a sensation. It would have brought the attention of the audience the infamous state of affairs of the nation has drifted. It would have made Mofon a real leader and his words would have gone thunderning down the ages. Mofon had not the courage to say it. EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES President Harding and Secretary Hughes "have been moved" by complaints from Americans in the near east and have demanded equal opportunities for Americans in Persia and Mesopotamia. It seems that those who kick get at least some of the injuries they complain about. And the President gets up and take notice if the colored people kicked hard enough and in unjust While the administration is 'quick to come to the aid of "Americans abroad," it does not hesitate to curse "Americans at home." Colored Americans have been jimcrowed in every way right here in America. President's speeches in Alabama and Georgia upon patriotic Americans and double because some lickspitte "leaders" attempted to condone them. IT PAYS TO KICK The American Legion city committee of Wilmington, Del., objected seriously to the plan of the general committee to having the Norman D. Scott Post to march in a separate committee of march instead of with the regular division, because of the American Legion on Memorial Day. The Legionaires insisted that the Scott Post be in line with the three posts, and intimated that it would be moved from the parade unless the discriminatory ban would be lifted. It always pays to kick. Inspired by His Scholarly Attainments (Dr. C. F. Maxwell in the Searchlight, Seattle, Wash.) The death of John Q. Adams was a great shock to all. Mr. Adams was a pioneer citizen and the oldest publisher. He was the most prominent colored man in the state of Minnesota and respected by persons, in every walk of life. He was at one time a teacher in the public schools of Kentucky. As a later period the two brothers cast their lots in Chicago and St. Paul. To the writer then a very small boy, these young men were an inscription on account of their gentlemanly bearer, scholarly attainments and lastly by their extraordinary handsomeness. Mr. Adams served one or more terms as deputy sheriff for the county, addition to his editorial duties. In every sense of the term, Mr. Adams was both a man and a gentleman. "None but the deserts of the jost, Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust." Death Claims Veteran Editor. From the Indianapolis World. The sad news comes from St. Paul, Minn., of the death of the renowned adventurer editor of the St. Paul APPEA magazine. He was born in armed from the accident of an auto- mobile on the opening of Sunday, September 8, by being knocked down by its driver. Mr. Adams was brother of C. F. Adams who was for many years assistant register of the treasury. He was a member of the business families and was one of the best known business men in the Northwest. He will be greatly missed by all classes of citizens throughout the country, for he was a real human- itarian and fought for what he con- ceived to be right and just for the human race. The entire news throughout the country extends to his family and many friends their heartfelt sym- pathy. Had Transcendent Power as a Leader Had Transcendent (Va). Planet. When John Quincy Adams, editor of the St. John Appeal died, the race suffered the loss of a leader, who was as "true as steel." He had high ideals and did not fear to express them. Time will demonstrate the power of his ideals. I will tell the tensions, he occupied a position that was unassailable. For more than ten years, we have watched his utterances and at no time has he fettered in his devotion to duty and his fealty to the race with which he was identified. It is unfortunate that he should have passed away at this time. We do believe that his own people really excelled all his transcendent power as a leader. We fear that we shall never gaze upon his like again. Editor John Q. Adams (From the Minneapolis Messenger). The death of Editor J. Q. Adams closes the career of an admirable citizen. He was an uncompromising champion for equality and justice, revered by many. He was the recipient of his passing has caused the community in which he lived to praise him for his many virtues. He had lived to a ripe old age and fell on the firing line—in active service. The publishers of the Messenger had a true friend. We extend to his family the warmest congratulations, wishing the continuum. The Appeal as a fitting memorial and that it will receive loyal support in recognition of his services to his race—to perpetuate the policies of his country, to principles to which he dedicated his life. Regarded as the Douglass Type the news of the death of John Quincy Adams, editor of THE AP-PEAL, St. Paul, Minn., comes as a shock as well as a surprise to his many friends. According to reports, Mr. Adams came to his death on account of being a die-hard automobile as he was returning from a vacation afternoon. After the accident, he never regained consciousness, having suffered a fracture of the skull, broken arm and internal injuries. Mr. Adams was a veteran newspaper reporter and courageous, and regarded as the Douglass type. The profession loses a valuable man in his death. Should Commemorate Editor Adams (From the Michigan Journal) the Minneapolis messenger). The colored people especially in this section should be September 3, of each year as a memorial Editor John Q. Adams of the THE AP-EAL. It is regrettable that we so soon forget our benefactors and those who have done their part toward our advancement. The colored people of Minnesota should have gratitude to remember one who has a gratitude to much and no one deserve that honor more than the late John Q. Adams. One of the Most Forceful Writers Miner, Cadiz, Ky. The death of a John, Adams, editor, publisher of THE APALSAL, removes one of the ablest and most forceful writers of this country. He always stood for justice and right. Asked for no more nor anything less. We fear that we shall not soon find one so able and sacrificing for his sake. The publishers tender their heartfelt sympathy to his family in its great loss. A Fearless Champion (H. C. Smith Cleveland Gazette) John Q. Adams was one of our two or three loyal, fearless and real editorial champions. MINNEAPOLIS THE DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT “FLOUR CITY.” Matters Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and Are to Happen Among the People of the City. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1922 Mr. Stephen Springer is going to Kansas City to go in business. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Noble will reside at 3849 4th avenue south. The Choral Society plans giving several recitals during the winter. Mr. Raymond Cannon has returned froma business and pleasure trip East. Mrs. L. J. Green, 1907 5th avenue south, plans to depart. soon for Cal- ifornia to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McNair have returned to the city after having spent the summer in Chicago. Dr. Albert Faeman, formerly a medical student at, the’ University of Minnesota, stopped off en route to his duties’ in the West. Mrs. A. H. Lee and daughter, 3012 4th avenue south, have returned to the city after spending the summer in Asbury Park, N. J. ‘The meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. Monday consisted of the reviewing of ‘the work of the past year before the departure of the president to Chi. cago. Mr, W. S. Neal has bought the 0 A. Lawrence undertaking business and is conducting it from 502 twen- ty-fourth street, first floor of the Ma- sonic building. Mr. Harry Kimbrew has gone_ to Chicago to reside. He will be fol- lowed later by his wife who for many years was the matron at the Chicago Milwaukee station. Mrs. Charles Foree has returned home ‘after spending several days with her_ sister-in-law, Mrs. George Duncan of Chicago. Mrs, Marion Lewis Bailey of Nash- ville, Tenn. and Mr. Lilborn Bailey of Minneapolis, who were recently married are on their way here and will make Minneapolis their home. Mr. Oscar Lee, for some years as- sociated with the Overland Automo- bile company and a prominent mem- ber of Bethesda Baptist church, after a severe illness is on the road to re- covery. The Social Inn is the name of the new club, 718 Sixth Ave. N. Messrs. Andrew 'J. Claughton and Lee R. Wheeler are the managers. It is on the second floor of a brand new build- ing and is very roomy and nice. Watch and wait for the big Hallo- we'en Ball to be given on October 3¢ under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias at which time they will give away a five-passenger Ford touring car. Further particular: later. Rev. Jordan of Border M. E. church is inaugurating several features of interest in connection with the insti tutional program carried on by his church; the latest addition being work carried on by the Americaniza- tion committee. Has Grand Opening The latest addition in the Sixth avenue north district is the Pow Beauty Parlor, 633 Sixth avenue, which had its grand opening Wednes- day. ‘The proprietors of. the new estab- lishment are Mesdames G. W. Hall and J. D. Smith who have succeeded in filling a long-felt want in Minne- apolis. ‘The grand opening Wednesday was from 2 until 8 in the evening and a large crowd of ladies as well as sev- eral gentlemen visited the parlors during the afternoon and evening, ‘The parlor is consisted of six booths and the ladies are well equipped with Pow Products and other devices to give the ladies the best of service. The ladies are re- spectfully requested to call and give them a trial, CITATION FOR HEARING ON PETITION FOR ADMINISTRATION. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Ramsey~ss. In. Probate’ Court. In the Matter of the Estate of Philip H. An- ‘derson, ‘Decedent, The State of Minnesota to All Whom It Mas ‘The petition of Lola Anderson having been filed “in” this “court, representing, that "Philip H, Anderson, ‘then’ a fesident of the County of Ramsey, “State of ‘Minnesota, died Intes- tate on the 4th day of September, 1922," and praying that letters of administration of said estate be ‘granted. to Lola Anderson, It'ls ‘Ordered, That. said petition be. heard and that all persons interested in’ sald mat ter be and hereby are cited and "required. to appear Before this court’ on. Monday, the 17th day of October, 1922, at ten ovclock in. the Yorenoon or as’ soon ‘thereafter ag said. mat ter can be heard, at the Probte Court. room. in the Court House in the City of St. Paul, im said county, and show cause, if any they have, why said petition should not be granted and ‘that this. cltation “be served by. the ‘DUb- Tication thereof in the “Appeal. according to law, ‘and by mailing « copy. of this, citation at cast 14” days before said day. of hearing {fo cach of the heirs of said decedent whose ‘names ‘and addresses are Known and. appeas from the files of this court, Witness the Judge of sald court, this 15th day of October, "A.D. 1922, (Seal of Probate Court.) ‘ALE, DoE, ‘Judge of Probate. (Of Washington County, ‘Minn., acting’ as and for Judge'of Probate of Ramsey County ‘Minn. ‘Attest: F. W. Gosewisch, ‘Clerk of Probate. CHRISTOFFERSON, WALSH, CHRISTOF. FERSON & JACKSON, Attorneys. *(0-22'22) CITATION FOR HEARING WILL. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Ramsey—ss. In Probate ‘Court, In the Matter of Proving the Alleged Last Wil and “Testament “of John Qu" Adams, ‘The State of Minnesota to All Whom Tt May Whereas, Ella B. Adams of the Cily of St. Paul ind, State’ of Minnesota, has deliv- ged to the Probate Court of the, County of msey, an instrument in ‘writing purport. ing to” be" the last’ will and testament. of John Q.”" Adams, late of "Ramsey County, Minnesota, decedent, and filed therewith her Petition to: said Probate Court, praying. that the ‘said instrument may be proved and ad- mitted to probate and that letters’ tectamen- tary be granted thereon to Ella B. Adams. Tt Is Ordered, That said petition ‘be heard ‘and that all persons interested in sald mat- fer be ‘cited and required to appear before this court on Tuesday, the 10th day of Oc- tober, 1922, at 10 o'clock “A. M., oF as soon thereafter. as said matter can, be heard, at the Probate Court rooms, in the Court House in the City of St. Paul, in said county, and show cause, if any they have, ‘why seid petition should’ not (be granted and ‘citation’ be: served bythe’ publication theres? in The Appeal according to law, and by mailing a copy of thie ‘citation ai least 14 days before said day of hearing, to each of the ‘heirs, devisees, legatees ‘of “said decedent whose names. and’ addresses ‘are known and Appear from the files of this court. ‘Witness the Judge of said Court, this 14th day of September ‘A.D. 1922. ACE. DOE, Fudge of Probate. (Of Washington Count, Minn., acting as gna tor Judge of Probate of Ramsey County, (Seal of, Probate Court.) Attest: °F. W. “Gosewiseh, Clenk of "Probate. W. T. FRANCIS, Attorney. (ore22) HAS PORCH AUTOS CAN’T HIT Postmaster Whose Home Is on Sharp Curve of Road Tires of Being Bumped by Speeders. { Newton, N, J.—Postmaster Lester 'T. Smith’ of Layton has a big front porch on his house, which is on Bing- man’s road at a point where there {s a sharp curve, and for many years he has sat there in the evenings and smoked his . pipe without anything happening to him. But the other day he was having a smoke when an auto- mobile came around the bend and skidded, smashing into the porch and wrecking one end of it. ‘The automobilist paid for the dam age and went on his way and the post- master sent for a carpenter, who worked all night and-all morning put- ting a new end on the porch, Late in the afternoon the postmaster went out to have another smoke, but he had hardly tilted his chair back and Ughted his pipe when another auto- mobile came whizziag around the curve and skidded. Once more the machine crashed into the porch and wrecked an end of ft, and, since it was the end on which he was sitting, he went down with the wreckage. But he was not hurt, and he got out of the debris in time to col- lect from the automobilist, who paid and drove on. Then the postmaster called for the carpenter and gave or ders, but not for a new front porch, He told the carpenter to tear down the front porch and build one on the rear of the house. “Maybe TM have peace there,” he said. “Soon as I get my new porch done they can skid all they want to, but to get me they'll have to jump over the house.” BUILDING AT HIGH MARK Reports From 141 Cities in the Unl ted States Show Greatest Ac tivity in Years. New York—Bullding records for June, showing a total construction val ue of $218,674,499 In 141 citles, set a new high record for 1922, Bradstreet’ reports, ‘The previous high mark for the year was $206,804015 in May. The June figure compares with $127,671,278 in Tune, 1921, ‘The total for the second quarter of 1922, $688,508,381, maks a gain of 82 per cent over the high-record first quar. ter of this year and of 63.7 per cent above that recorded in the same quar ‘ter of 1921, This second quarter's to tal, {t might be noted, 1s slightly in excess of the total for the combined first and second quarters of 1921. This total for the half-year, with 23 citles yet to be heard from as to June, is $1, 200,998,472, a gain of 75.9 per cent over the like period last year. GERMANY EXPELS COUNTESS Hetta Trauberg, Pacifist, Driven ‘from Native Land for Her Peace Propananda. ‘Vienna,—Countess Hetta Trauberg, the German pacifist, who was interned by the Germans during the laté war because she condemned submarine warfare, the deportation of Belgian and French women and children and the treatment of allied prisoners, has been expelled from Germany because she still persists in her peace propa- ganda, She is at present in Vienna, where ‘she fs compiling a book, deriving much of her material from the archives of Vienna. She is said to have secured war letters exchanged between the em- Peror of Russia, Emperor William of Germany and the Austrian emperor, Francis Joseph, GREATER NAVY FOR SWEDEN Parliamentary Commission Urges the Building of Fast Cruisers and Deneve Stockholm, Sweden.—A parliamen tary commission, supported by navy experts, has propesed for the Swedist navy a building program for the next ten years of four fast armored cruls- ers, twelve destroyers,” six torpedo Doats, three mine layers, twenty-two submarine chasers and 4 number of smaller craft. The armored cruisers are to be 6,500 tons each, with a speed of thirty knots, with elght 21- centimeter and six 12-centimeter guns. ‘As the proposal is based on parlia- mentary consideration, there is a prob ability of its being passed at the com- ing session, Board Bill Too Heavy, Prisoner Is Released Arthur States of Lima, O., lit- erally ate his way out of prison, where he was serving a term be- cause of his inability to pay a fine of $1,000 on a liquor charge. He served only a few weeks when the county commissioners began figuring out results of the incarceration of States at & fixed amount a day to apply ‘on his fine. i ‘The board ordered him par- oled with the understanding that he pay $7 a month on the fine. leven years will be re-' quired to liquidate it. His board had already cost the county $100. 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