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Sell Your Goods by telling the buying public all about them in the most popular column in the paper—the classified ad section In The Appeal VOL.39 NO.46 COLORADO WOMEN TO SUPPROT DYER ANTI-LYNCH BILL Republican White Women Demand Enactment of Bill in Next Congress FIVE MEASURES CITED Women Against Ku Klux Klan Challenge Republican Party New York, Nov. 15.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth avenue, has received word from Colorado that white women belonging to the Republican party intend to demand enactment of the Dyer anti-lynching bill in the next Congress. At the recent first annual Roosevelt dinner, the Republican party will club in Denver, Mrs. Florence M. State of Colorado Springs, outlined the women's demands for legislation. Mrs. State cited five principal measures which women in politics will support and which they will look to the Republican party to enact. One of these is the Dyer anti-lynching bill, to give justice to the colored people in the South. She said, totaled 4,000 in the last 35 years, twenty of the lynchings having taken place in Colorado. Mrs. State also declared the Republican women of Colorado were up in arms against the Ku Klux Klan, and challenged the Republican party on this issue. She said: "Our opinion (the women's) of the Ku Klux Klan is that it is an American creed and un-Christian, that it breeds racial prejudice and sets creed against creed in violation of the fundamentals of our Constitution." Dyer Bill Seen as National Measure New York, Nov. 9.—The Dyer antilynching bill is reported to be one of the eleven chief items on the administration's program for Congress, accusing the governor of Times. It is pointed out that Congress is divided into small blocks, and that small voting groups will exercise great power in the next Presidential election. In this connection, the House Association for the Advancement of Colored People, that senators and representatives in every Northern states, should be unmistakably advised that the fate of the Dyer bill may only influence Northern colored votes in the Presidential election of 1924. Dyer Gives $50 To Work of N. A. A. C. P. New York, Nov. 9—Representative Leonidas C. Dyer has sent a contribution of $50 toward the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Women in connection with this donation the N. A. A. C. P. further stated that Mr. Dyer in addition to sponsoring and fighting for the anti-lynching bill in Congress, has toured the far north and eastern states speaking for the measure. For his campaign in behalf of the Dyer anti-lynching bill, Mr. Dyer received reimbursement for the expenses he incurred, but he has not accepted or received one cent for his beyond his actu a1 traveling expenses. Mr. Dyer has for several years been a member of the N. A. A. C. P. and has publicly commended it and asserted that the rapid progress the anti-lynching bill was due to the Advancement Association's efforts. Dyer Continues Speech Campaign Representatives Dyer of Missouri, sponsor of the anti-lynch bill which will be fought for in the next Congress, is continuing the speaking tour he has conducted intermittently during the past year, under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Recently Representative Dyer spoke before the N. A. A. C. P. branch in Charleston, W. Va., among the guests at the meeting being Governor Morgan who introduced Mr. Dyer. Other dates in the tour arranged by N. A. A. C. P. branches include Pittburgh Pa., on November 5; Boston on November 11, and N. wHaven on November 12. At Boston Mr. Dyer is to speak in the Tremont Temple, the largest auditorium in the city. WOMAN CANDIDATE ON SOCIALIST TICKET New York, Nov. 8. "Cleaner streets, more schools, better housing conditions and a fair show for all races" in America, sums up the platform on which Mrs. A. Phillip Randolph is running for alderman on the Socialist ticket in the 21st Assembly District and woman to be nominated for office on liberal tickets.—Socialist and Farmer-Labor. PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING BARBER New York, Nov. 15—(K. N. F. Service) Julius Redriguz, a Porto Rican who killed a barber several days ago who refused to shave him because he was guilty to manlaughter in the first degree. He will be sentenced later. Colored Parachute JumperLandsAtop Jail; Gets Summons Was Advertising Mass Meeting to be Held in City in the Evening New York, Nov. 15.—Herbert Julian, colored dare-devil parachute jumper, jumped from an aerospace 4,000 feet up in the air, a day last week, and when he came down he landed on one edge of the police station, was pulled in the window by policemen and handed a summons to answer a charge for violating laws regulating aeronautics over the city. Julien had planned to land in a nearby park but unfavorable air currents carried him several blasts of fire, mass massing to be held in Liberty hall in the evening. Twenty-five thousand people saw him come down. Julian was hailed into court on a similar charge about six months ago but was given a suspended sentence. REVOLT THREATENS A. M. E. CHURCH REVOLT THREATENS A. M. E. CHURCH Ira T. Bryant Looked Upon as Militant Leader of the Reform Forces Chicago, Ill., Nov. 8.—The approaching general conference of the A. M. E. church will witness the greatest gathering of church reformers and revolutionists ever assembled in a colored religious body in America. There is a strong undercurrent of reform spirit active in the African Methodist church from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Lakes to the Gulf. Chicago is in its grip now. Bishop A. J. Carey is the man at whom the reform element here is pointing an accusing finger. "The Young Allenite," October issue, sizes up the situation in Chicago affecting Bishop Carey in red letter flash lines reminding African Methodists that "A. J. Carey's dirty life" forced Rev. W. D. Cook with 1,500 member out of the church in Chicago. Now the same thing is conceded to be the cause of an additional exodus of 500 members with Rev. J. R. Harvey. "Careyism" is charged with killing the A. M. E. church in Chicago. Behind these charges stand events connecting with the election of Rev. A. J. Carey to the bishopric at the last general conference of the A. M. E. church when Dr. Leroy Bundy, who later attempted suicide in Cleveland, was accused of handling the A. J. Carey "Slush Fund" at Philadelphia. Rev. J. R. Harvey is beingooked upon as a Christian martyler shattered by barbarous behavior because he refused to open his church for political meetings. Sweeping Charges Openly Made The rule of some bishops of the A. M. E. church is being attacked from all quarters by both ministers and laymen. They are charged with trying to prostitute the church for their political profit; with advising the preachers in the imposition and favoring them with high positions instead of clean, moral ministers; with tyranny, graft, greed and high-handed corruption; with selling the best appointment to the highest bidders. It appears that the entire African Methodist Church has been soundly told that while there are some bishops who measure up, there are others who are undoubtedly guilty of misusing and abusing their authority and opportunity in a dangerous and disgraceful manner. Secretary Ira T. Bryant of the A. M. E. Sunday School Union, is looked up to by the illiterate and militant reform forces working earnestly for change in the denomination. Back of Bryant stands the bishops conceded to be just, good and righteous and a veritable host of ministers and laymen confident of their ability to prove beyond all doubt every charge the church has against the guilty at the next general conference of the A. M. E. church to be held in Louisville next year. As in other healthy institutions there is a reactionary element in the A. M. E. church. It is inadvisable to assail a bishop who is elected for life. The institution is torn down not the bishop. The way to get a higher grade leadership is by teaching the laymen higher ideals. PORTER KILLS MANIAC ON SANTE FE TRAIN Albuquerque, N. M., Nov. 8—Through the quick-wittedness and calmness of Otto G. Palmer, railroad porter, the lives of many passengers on the Santa Fe train No. 7 (were on a train from New York to Wednesday night, when he overpowered and killed a white man who ran amuck and had stabbed three women passengers and the conductor. It is said that the white man boarded the train and was momenta after the train left the station the man drew a large dark knife, stabbing three women, whose screams attracted the conductor, who received a severe stab wound in the shoulder. At this moment Palmer arrived on the train, the conductor, skull of the manneau, causing death instantly. THE APPEAL. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1923 JAMAICA ISLE OF PHANTOM SHIPS Buccaneers Planned Raids in Port Royal, Which Was Wickedest Spot on Earth. Washington.—"The island of Jamaica in the West Indies which, according to newspapers, is having its tariff disputes with the mother country over the duties imposed on its articles of export, was in the latter half of the Seventeenth century the strengthhold of the English businessmen," says a bulletin based on a communication to Nell Ray Clarke to the National Geographic society. "Morgan, the greatest and most sagacious of the pirates, planned most of his expeditions in Port Royal, which had the reputation of being the rich and wickedest man on earth. And indeed, the war of the notoriety, Defiant, flamboyant, and unabashed, it greeted the chiefs who lent riotous to its life, emptied gold into its coffers, and tinged its nights with drunkenness and revelry. Tumbled Rendezvous into Sea. "In those days Port Royal had a high wall about it and wide quails, whereon its habitues emptied their pieces-of-eight. Then, as if providence were outraged by its utter disregard of moral laws, an earthquake on June 7, 1682, shook Jamaica to its foundations and tumbled this den of iniquity, with scores of the pirates, into the sea. When the water is calm the coral reefs are visible, but be seen beneath the water, even today, and the natives still regale the visitor with stories of phantom ships that are trying to make the port. "One interesting relic remains, however, in Fort Charles, a still old veteran of sun-faded bricks. Some of the officers' quarters and a paved court, so white that it dazzles, are still standing. Flower gardens now enclose its walls; its gun embraiders are hidden by bushes; the birds haunt its craneries and the lizards crawl lazily over its parapets. Horatio Nelson was stalwart in the war, and was twenty-one years of age, and the paved platform which was known affectionately as his 'quarter-deck' may still be seen. Town Is Disconsolate. "The town now standing on the old site is respectable, faded and disconsolate. On the fences and bushes, in melancholy uglyness, the commonplace inhabitants dry the fishing nets by means of which they eke out their existence. "The pirates, with the two bases, Tortuga and Port Royal, for operations, took toll of all the islands and lands along the Caribbean. "Across the magnificent harbor from Port Royal lies Kingston, the capital of Jamaica and one of the most important ports in the West Indies. Its foundations were laid by Port Royal survivors. "Though only 2 per cent of Kingston's 50,000 people are white, no small body of citizens of any city has shown more courage, energy and determination during the hurricanes and earthquakes which have time and again literally destroyed its very foundations. Hardy had its charred ruins cooled in recent earthquake and fire in 1907 before the hurricanes built, between the palm-fringed shore and the blue hills beyond, a clean, regularly laid-out town to take the place of the one which Nature had just destroyed." Bride, Forced to Sleep Alone, Obtains Divorce Lynn, Mass.—Judge Alden P. White of the Salem Probate court recently granted a divorce to Mrs. Frank L. Struthers, from her husband, a wealthy broker, because the latter's mother refused to allow her son to sleep with his bride on their honey-bee farm. The light she was married the plaintiff testified her mother-in-law stopped them on their way. "Frank has always slept on this floor near me since he was a child," she cried, "and he mustn't sleep near you." During the eighteen days she remained at the Struthers home, the bride testified, she passed a honey-moon alone in a dismal attic room. Purloin U. S. Letters Carrying Dollar Bills Bucharest—Complaints of the handling of foreign mall, particularly that coming from the United States, have resulted in action being taken by the International Postal union. Unless there is improvement, the union says, Rumania may have to withdraw. One cause of trouble has been the habit of Americans, when writing to friends in Rumania, of enclosing currency. Mall sorters know this, and many an American letter has been purloined. Stump Blighted for Years Bears Chestnut Newton, N. J.-L. T. Brown, head of the Farm bureau of Sussex county, announced that he will investigate a report that a chestnut tree, apparently destroyed by the blight which swept the state more than twenty years ago, has come to life again. A tree on the grounds of the home of Dr. Carroll F. Maher, at 41 Woodside avenue, Newton, which was reduced to stump after the blight, this year bore several clusters of chestnut from new saplings which grew from the stump. A. E. Nelson May Seek Re-election Mayor Arthur E. Nelson is in Washington to attend and address the sessions of the National Municipal League Before leaving St. Paul he did much to clear the atmosphere in state politics by announcing definitely that he would not be a candidate in 1924 for governor. The many potential aspirants for that office have been hearing a great deal of "Nelson talk" among the state, and as a consequence he may be doing own plans until they learned whether the St. Paul mayor was going to "listen." His declaration removes a dangerous opponent from the state list, and probably does much to assure a Farmer-Labor victory. Mayor Nelson, however, did not entirely ease the minds of those who would like to succeed him as head of the state list, and he pressed a strong desire to return to the practice of law, and intimated that he probably would do it. Many organizations and individuals however, are opposed to his retirement, first, because they believe the entire administration has been a success and should be returned as it stands to complete the important work they started and second, because they Mayor Nelson has monstered himself to be the one to pilot the city through the next two years which promise development that will play a conspicuous part in its ultimate position. Mayor Nelson admitted that he is being urged to seek re-election, but he would not say he was taking it seriously. Mayor Nelson can be convinced that I owe more time to the city. I shall resume my own work where I left it when I entered public life," said the Mayor. City Comptroller Shows Cash Basis Plan Result Erman M. Skipton, city coproller, has announced that he hopes to have between $150,000 and $200,000 reserve in the city's general fund by January 1st. Many plans miscarry, this amount will be made available to tide the city over during the lean periods between tax collections and hereafter make it unnecessary for us to draw on bond funds," said Mr. Skipton this week. He noted to note in this prospect a concrete working out of the cash basis plan, upon which Mr. Skipton so efficiently collaborated with the late Jesse Foote in inaugurating. Comparative records show that at the end of 1921 immediately before the city entered upon the cash basis plan, the amount was $60,000. At the end of 1922, the first year in which the city paid as it went, the reserve had been increased to $96,000 or exactly double the amount available the previous year. It now appears that the 1923 reserve will again increase to meet current expenses promptly without disturbing other accounts. GOOD LITERATURE DAY AT CAMPHOR CHURCH The subject of the sermon Sunday morning to be delivered by Rev. D. M. Jordan of Camphor M. E. church, will be "Books and Life." The evening service will be under the auspices of the Sunday Evening Club, and will consist of addresses and musical numbers given by the three colored newspapers of St. Paul. The program will be as follows: The Helper, represented by Mr. Tom Morgan, will tell of the community work it is doing, and Mr. Morgan will also render a cornet solo. The Northwestern Bulletin will have as its subject "How the Newspaper Should Serve," and it will be presented in the form of a talk by Mrs. S. Q. Herdion, associate managing editor. The Appeal will be represented by Mrs. Adina Gibbs, who will read a paper on "Advertising." A social and tea will follow this evening meeting. HARRY WILLS KNOCKS OUT JACK THOMPSON New York, Nov. 15—(K. N. F. Service) Harry Wills knocked out Jack Thompson in the fourth round of their bout at the Fourth Regiment Array, Newark, N.J. Last Saturday, A hook to the jaw did the work. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY RULING BENEFITS MEN OF "O.T.C." Those Who Attended Officers Training Camps in 1917 Entitled to $100 a Month. Washington—Hundreds, of enlisted men of the regular army and National Guard who attended the officers' training camp during 1917 and 1918 and later became commissioned officers in the American army will be benefited by a ruling announced recently by Comptroller General McCarl by which their monthly salary is placed at $100 instead of $33. In the ruling the comptroller general refers to legislation enacted by congress which specifically authorized the payment of $100 as the monthly rute to all students in training camps regardless of whether they were civilians or men from the non-comissioned or enlisted ranks of the army. How to Apply for Money. How to Apply for Money. Persons coming under the ruling, it was disclosed at the War department, should make application to the chief of finance, War department, for the difference in their enlisted pay and the rate allowed under Comptroller General McCarl's ruling. The application should show when the individual was ordered into the service, where and when he attended an officers' training camp and what his status and pay were in attendance. Comptroller General McCarl's ruling was given in response to a review requested in the settlement of army pay received by Hyatt F. Newell, a private first class, with the headquarters detachment of the Sixty-seventh brigade of the National Guard. After etching the paragraph in the army appropriation act of June 15, 1917, which sets aside $282,882 "for pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, and pay at $100 a month for enlisted men in training for officers of the reserve corps," the comptroller general's ruling said: "It is evident that the purpose of the legislation authorizing pay not exceeding $100 a month" for civilians in the act of May 12, 1917, and "pay at $100 a month" for enlisted men in the act of June 15, 1917, was to provide pay for the training period and provide trained officers for the army, and not for the purpose of building up the Officers' Reserve corps. "It is apparent that the designation of enlisted men of the line for training under the revised regulation of January 5, 1918, was for the purpose of training them as 'officers in the army' and that they were accordingly entitled to the pay fixed by the act of June 15, 1917. The adjutant general, United States army, reported January 30, 1923, that claimant's status was that of an enlisted man on detached service in training for a period from January 10 to April 18, 1918, and he is accordingly entitled to the difference in pay between $38 and $100 a month for such period, or $221.10. Upon review of the settlement $221.10 is certified as due claim." Washington.—Cost of running the United States government during the month of September, 1923, increased approximately $19,000,000 to $286,072,504, as compared with the previous month, when ordinary expenditures totaled but $185,600,775, the Treasury department announced recently. The huge increase, a survey of the statistical report shows, is wholly due to a big jump in interest on the public debt, this item amounting to $122,802,911 in the latter period, in contrast with only $10,893,481 in August of this year. Public debt retirements chargeable against ordinary receipts made during September amounted to $28,748,200; as against $38,988,850 the previous month, while other public debt retirements made during the period aggregated $399,450,780 and $41,063,164 respectively. Horse Ignores Operator; Police Reserves Called Bridgeport, Conn.—Choking sounds and thumps as of blows heard over the telephone here brought out the police reserves recently. An exchange operator frantically called "Number, please," while police raced in motorcars to the scene. Breaking into the Walter Stapleton building, the police found that a mourning horse, making a lot of gasps in chewing hay, reached his nose through a hole in his stall wall and knocked the telephone off a shelf close by. The thumps were made by his stabilizes kicking the sides of their stalls. Man Kills Lynx as Syracuse.—A 50-pound Canadian lynx, the first killed on the American side of the Canadian border in 30 years, was shot at Harrisville, near Watertown, by Berney Ellis of Antwerp. Ellis was hunting deer, and when he came upon the lynx it sprang at him from a tree. He shot and killed the animal as it was flying through space. Cost of Running U. S. Tammany Hall, Democratic Order, Elects Candidates Colored Assemblyman and Alderman are Re-elected by Republicans (K. N. F. Service) New York, Nov. 15.—Tammany Hall, the local Democratic organization, retained its grip on New York city in the general state election held last Tuesday, but lost several seats in the state assembly. The Democratic judiciary ticket was elected by a majority of nearly two to one. In the Twenty-first assembly and aldermanic districts, voters re-elected Henri M. Shields to the assembly and John W. Smith to the board of aldermen. Both are colored. Dr. Henry O. Harding, colored, and John T. McNeill, white, candidates for aldermen and assemblymen, respectively, were defeated by small party forces, by received more votes in the colored section than the two Democratic candidates. NEW POLITICAL LEAGUE STARTED IN SAINT PAUL NEW POLITICAL LEAGUE STARTED IN SAINT PAUL Atty. O. J. Smith Says That Organization Knows no Favoritism In response to the invitations sent out to all the professional and business men and to women heads of organizations throughout the city, the new political league got under way November 8, when they meet at the residence of George C. Shannon, 1021 Colne street. This meeting was held for the purpose of organizing a political party that will best serve the interest of the colored voters in this city, county and state. After discussion of the meeting and the purpose of the organization George C. Shannon was elected temporary chairman, and Atty, O. J. Smith, temporary secretary. All officers are to be elected at the mass meeting when the organization is to be made permanent. The officers will be: Chairman, vice chairman, secretary and assistant secretary, and treasurer. In giving this report of the meeting, Mr. Smith said: "There has never been an organization here that served the interests of all the people so well as this one advocated by Mr. Shannon, an organization that knows no favoritism, and is entirely devoid of partiality, an organization concerned first and last in demanding and maintaining the constitutional rights of our people and of all people. It will be an organization of every race, man and woman, one which they may depend upon for fair, just and equitable political representation, and it will merit their interest and approval. It will be independent in its activities, and principles, and not allied with the other groups, in group or party, reserving unto itself the right to act, as its principles dictate. No other political principle can or will be successful, and every race, man and woman should be present at this meeting in the discharge of their duties as citizens of this great commonwealth, the United States of America." JUDGE J. W. WILLIS ADDRESSES FORUM Houston Martyrs Day Observed by St. Paul Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. met on Sunday, November 11, at Pilgrim Baptist church, Grotto street and the museum in the city. Willis was the principle speaker. His subject was, "The Houston Martyrs," which was quite aly handled and showed that the speaker had given the subject much thought, he also paid quite a tribute to the American colored soldier, whom he said, had brought great credit to the Race and mentioned that, and particularly so in the World War, he also stated he was personally acquainted with one particular lieutenant who was in command of a colored regiment, and that this man said he would rather command a colored regiment in preference to a white one as the colored soldier always obeyed the orders. Petitions were presented and the audience was asked to sign their names and addresses to same, after which they will be sent to the President of the United States requesting pardon for the imprisoned members of the 24th United States infantry, now serving life and long term sentences in the federal prison at Leavenworth, where they were convicted in connection with the riots at Houston, Tex. in 1917. The chairman of the board, Dr. Valdo Turner, stated that, the president, Judge W. Willis, had given $50 to the branch to assist in making up the apportionment of $300. He also asked that, according to make up this amount, and allow the made and $101.35 in cash was collected toward this amount. The Finest---For You Quality Merchandise from the leading downtown merchants and neighborhood tradesmen may be obtained quickly and easily if you Shop In The Appeal $2.00 PER YEAR ELECT CANDIDATES OF KU KLUX; MANY OHIO CITIES SWEPT Neighboring States Falling in Line; Colored Pittsburg Votes Democratic K. K. K. DOMINATE INIDIANA Klan Holds Balance of Power in Ohio; Declare Klan Control (Crusader Service) Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15—Political observers in Ohio were taking stock today of the influence of the Ku Klux Klan in Ohio and infested in this week's municipal elections. Klan endorsed candidates were generally successful. There were only a few exceptions. In Steubenville, where rioting occurred a few months ago when Klansmen invaded that city and where an anti-Klan organization has since been formed the anti-Klan candidate, Frank Hawkins, was successful. Politicians profess to see in the Klan victories in Ohio a continuation of Klan activities and growth and nomination of the next state and presidential campaign a year from Klan Backs Republicans Klan victories in most cases were Republican victories, although many of the municipal officers elected with Klan support classify themselves as independents. Probably the outstanding Klan victories in youngstown, where Charles F. Scheibler held the 3 to 1 winner over his nearest competitor, James Watkins, Democrat. In Portsmouth, where an 11th-hour Klan fight developed because Mayor Gableman, the present executive of the city, prohibited a Klan parade, Gableman was defeated for re-election by Kalp Calvert, Republican, with the support of the Klan, Akron elected D. C. Rylott, Republican, with Klan support, by more than 8,000 majority over Isaac Meyers. Democrat. All Klan-endorsed candidates for school board were likewise elected. Mayor B. F. Brough, Rebublican, re-elected mayor of Toledo, was supported by the Klan. The issue was sharply drawn in the New York City, where Stevens, Republican and a Klan candidate, defeated E. D. Leach, Democrat and anti-Klan candidate. In Middletown the complete slate of Klan candidates for city commissioners and board of education was elected, and in Hamilton, Ohio, in the same county, Howard Kelly, Republican, with Klan support, was the city's first two opponents, giving the city its first Republican mayor in a decade. The Klan is in politics in Ohio. All the evidence is that today it holds the balance of power, and the day is not far distant, if the present rate of progress is maintained, and hooded hordes will be in control in Ohio just as they are in Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon and Arkansas. Indiana Swayed Entirely by Klan (Crusader Service) Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 15.—In no state in the Union, not even in mobridden Texas, is the domination of the Ku Klux Klan as absolute as it is in Indiana. It would be difficult to exaggerate the menace to the colored man of the Indiana situation, with a membership that even conservative anti-Klansmen admit approximates half a million men. The forces of the Klan are threatening to sweep things before them in the 1924 election, and Ku Klux Klan membership of the Union or of an individual state spells disaster for the legitimate aspirations of the colored man. Klan Behind Republicans Edward Jackson is expected to be a candidate for governor on the Republican ticket next year. He is not fighting the Klan, and the signs are many that the Klan will swing its attention to him in the primary next spring. Arthur Robinson, another Republican, and, according to the Klan officials, not a member of the hooded gang, is said to be very popular with the Moron rank and file of the Klan. He is not much concerned with the Democrats, so far as state and local issues are concerned. It is to the Republican party that they are giving their support. It is with the feverish activities of Klan headquarters, the Republican headquarters is like a tomb. Clyde Webb, who was until recently chairman, retired when it became known that he was a member of the Klan. In the interest of Republican camouflage he resigned and Lyons was elected state chairman. Republicans Evade Issue There was no anti-Klan news to be had in the Republican headquarters was said that the organization did not want to attend at upon this time to do any talking. In no state in the Klan belt has the campaign of hate and bigotry assumed such proportions as here in Illinois. Ohio is a close second and that the contagion is assuming alarming proportions in Illinois and Michigan. Just now the backbone of the Klan appears to be Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma. J. Q. Adams .....Editor-in-Chief Roy Wilkins .....Associate Editor Odell D. Smith .....Business Manager Urlin L. Clark .....Advertising Manager Advertising Rates on Application WHO IS BOSS OF AMERICA? (From the Cleveland Gazette) Whether the United States is to determine its own immigration policy or have that policy dictated by European people who want to come here, is the question presented by the excess numbers of immigrants now coming to America. Recently there arrived in American ports 4,000 would-be immigrants in excess of the number that can be admitted under the law. Thus is presented for determination the question whether the law shall be set aside and nullified because 4,000 people want to come in. Of course, the plea is that these people have incurred the expense of coming here, and have severed their home ties. They have spent all they had in payment of cost of transportation. To send them back would be inhuman. That is the argument to be made in behalf of their admission, and the same argument can and will be made in behalf of thousands more if these 4,000 be admitted. Four thousand immigrants more or less may be of some consequence, but it is of relatively little consequence beside the greater and fundamental question whether our immigration policies are to be determined by ourselves or by Europeans. If the United States government is to surrender its right to say who shall come and when and how, then we might as well throw down the bars entirely, repeal the immigration laws and permit everybody to come who wants to come. Every American naturally feels sympathy for people who have landed here with the expectation of being permitted to stay. But we have ourselves to think of as well as them. We have been receiving an immigrant which we have been unable to assimilate. We are menaced by a horde of aliens who are antagonistic to American ideals and American institutions. The immigration restriction law was enacted for the express and sole purpose of checking the flood of immigration so that we can Americanize those we have already admitted before we add tremendously to our burden. As President Coolidge recently remarked, we cannot expect people who come here in violation of our laws to be law-abiding after they get here. They are a constant menace to our institutions. Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but it is generally true. Men who are able to circumvent the law of the land in order to get in, will have no respect for that law of the nation after they get here. Having evaded the law in one respect, they will not hesitate to attempt evading it in other respects. The only safe procedure is to deport those who came in illegally. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1,900 years of universal discrimination, and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Colored people are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and have no 'grit.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt.—Boston Guardian. The constitutional amendment, providing for the elimination of the words "white male" from the qualifications of Ohio voters, was approved at the recent election with the result that the obsolete twinword relics of "the days before the war" (of the rebellion) have at last been wiped from the state constitution. It is something to feel thankful for, anyhow.—Cleveland Gazette. The FLORSHEIM SHOE for the man who cares Florsheim Shoe Stores 16 West Seventh Street 421 Robert Street The Florsheim SHOE 24TH INFANTRY SEES HOPE FOR FREEDOM 24TH INFANTRY SEES HOPE FOR FREEDOM Applications for Petitions Come in From all Sections of Country New York, Nov. 16.—The movement being organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth avenue, to have 100,000 signatures to a petition asking complete pardon for the 24th infantrymen imprisoned in Leavenworth prison for their share in the Houston riot is gaining tremendous headway and applications for petition blanks are coming in to the N. A. A. C. P. from all parts of the country. Campaign Is Strong Early returns showed that the state of New Jersey campaign was especially strong. The Newark branch, N. A. A. C. P., reports that 5,000 signatures have been obtained thus far, with prospect of obtaining between 12,000 and 15,000 in all. The New Jersey Federation of Colored Women's clubs has already reported about 600 signatures and is vigorously continuing its efforts. In the Harlem section of New York city more than 6,000 signatures have been secured. Blank petitions with space for 50,000 signatures have been distributed and it is expected that at least 25,000 signers will be secured. In announcing the overwhelming interest shown in the imprisoned soldiers the association issued a statement asking that petitions when filled out be sent in immediately. To Issue Bulletins "It now looks," said one of the officials, "as if we were going to run considerably ahead of the 100,000 goal we had set ourselves. Anyone can easily realize that handling, classifying and tabulating 100,000 signatures is an immense job. It will keep our clerical force very busy. To lighten their labor and to enable us to get the petitions in shape early for presentation to President Coolidge I am asking those interested to try to send the filled out petitions to us as soon as possible. As these reports come in we shall issue bulletins to let our friends know of the progress of the campaign." CONDUCTOR, MOTORMAN HELD ON ASSAULT CHARGE New York, Nov. 15—(K. N. F. Service) Jerome Mayer, 23, 167 East 99th street, and Morris Seldow, conductor and motorman, respectively, of a Third Avenue street car, both white, were held in $500 bail for the Grand Jury, charged with assaulting Marcellus Hawkins, a colored artist living at 113 East 100th St. Hawkins, according to witnesses, attempted to board the car and the conductor objected to the size of the package he was carrying. An argument followed and Seldon struck Hawkins on the head with the controlled. All three were arrested but Hawkins was freed. ENTIRE RACE URGED TO SIGN PETITION ASKING PRESIDENT TO PARDON IMPRISONED MEMBERS OF THE 24TH INFANTRY A movement, fostered by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and receiving the united support of the press, church, secret organizations, women's clubs, civic clubs and other race organizations, is on foot to have President Coolidge pardon and restore to citizenship the members of the Twenty-fourth U. S. Infantry, who are serving life terms at the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. The man were convicted following the Houston arrest in 1975. The men were convicted following the Houston race riot in 1917. The petition follows: United States: citizens of the United States, do respectfully petition the department and restore to citizenship the members of the sentence in the Federal Prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, in August, 1917. of previous record for discipline, service and soldierly conduct of the 24th of local animosity against these men because of their race and color, to enforce against these colored soldiers wearing the uniform of a chance to do仕. shment mated out to members of the 24th Infantry, of whom nine without right of appeal to the Secretary of War or to the President, main in prison, having already served nearly six years. To the President of the United States: WE, the undersigned citizens of the United States, do respectfully petition that by exercise of the power of Executive Clemency you pardon and restore to citizenship the members of the 24th U.S. Infantry now serving life and long-term sentences in the Federal Prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, convicted in connection with the riots at Houston, Texas, in August, 1917. We so petition because of 1. The excellent previous record 2. The provocation of local animal threats and acts of violence a to be sent to France to fight 3. The heavy punishment meted summarily and without right four of them remain in prison. 1. The excellent previous record for discipline, serve 2. The provocation of an animosity against these threats and acts of violence against these color to be sent to France to fight 3. The heavy punishment meted out to members summarily and without right of appeal to the So four of them remain in prison, having already so 1. The excellent previous record for discipline, service and soldierly conduct of the 24th Infanty. 2. The provocation of local animosity against these men because of their race and color which was manifested in insults, threats and acts of violence against these colored soldiers wearing the uniform of the United States Army and waiting to be sent to France to fight. 3. The heavy punishment meted out to members of the 24th Infanty, of whom nineteen were hanged, thirteen of them summarily and without right of appeal to the Secretary of War or to the President, their Commander-in-Chief. Fifty-four of them remain in prison, having already served nearly six years. 4. The exemplary conduct of the men as prisoners. Any church club, civic or natures to the form heir. That all petitions to your print 8½ by 14 in. When filled A. C. P., 69 arranged by clerical work impressive set. This should will be one year have restoring the individual with nineteen. City and ADDRESS INSTRU City and State ADDRESS NAME INSTRUCTIONS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS Any church, lodge or other fraternal organization, woman's club, civic or other club which wishes to add in gathering signatures to the petition has full permission to print copies of the form here given and have them signed by their members. That all petitions may be uniform we urge you take this form to your printer as a model and have them printed on sheets 8½ by 14 inches in size, leaving out, of course, these instructions. When filled by bison dide signatures mail to the N. A. A. C. P., 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, where they will be arranged by states and in uniform lots, and all other necessary clerical work done that the pleas for pardon may make the most impressive showing when presented to President Coolidge. This should be done promptly. Remember, every signature will be one more aid towards freeing these men who for six years have been unjustly imprisoned. Do your part towards restoring them to their loved ones and to freedom. Individuals may help by clipping the above form, signing it with nineteen others and mailing it to the N. A. A. C. P. --- | | | | :--- | :--- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NOTE—When necessary use line underneath signature for address. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF TIME OF REDEMPTION Office of County Auditor, County of Ramesey, State of Minnesota, ss. To Marrett & Shepard. (1) You are hereby notified that the following piece or parcel of land situated in the county of Ramesey, known and described as follows, to-wit: Lot Thirteen (13) Block Seven (17) Oskill Park, is now assessed in your name. (2) That on the 11th day of May, 1909, at 11:00 a.m., the tax judgment duly given and made in and by the District Court in said County of Ramesey on the 20th day of April, 1909, in proceedings to enforce the payment of taxes 1909, for the County of Ramesey, 1907, for said County of Ramesey, the above described piece or parcel of land was duly offered for sale, and no one bidding upon the sale was accepted for the State of Minnesota for the sum of (7.48) Seven Dollars and forty-eight Cents. (3) That thereafter, and on t he 13th day of August, 1923, the said piece or parcel not then having been redeemed from said sale, was sold and conveyed at public sale by the County Auditor of said County, and pur- The F The FLOR PETITION sunt to the statute, to an actual purchaser for the sum of Fifteen Dollars and twenty-two Cents. The amount required to redeem the piece or parcel of land from sale, exclusive of the costs to accrue upon this notice is the sum of (15.52) Fifteen Dollars and twenty-two Cents, from said 15th day, 1923, to the dua such redemption is made Witness my hand and official seal this 4th day of September, 1923. (Official Seal) GEO. J. RIES. Auditor Ramsey Count.; Minnesota. IN PROBATE COURT. State of Minnesota, County of Ramsey. In the matter of the Estate of Arthur Botta, Decedent. The State of Minnesota to All Whom The petition of Mrs. Hattie Ball having been filed in this Court, representing that Arthur Botts then a resident of Minnesota, died intestate on the 27th day of August 1923, and praying that his estate be granted to George W. Brooks. INSTRUCTIONS IT IS ORDERED. That said petition be heard and that all persons interested in said matter be and hereby are cited and required to appear before this Court on Tuesday, the 9th day of October noon or as soon thereafter as said matter can be heard, at the Probate Court Room, in the Court House in the city where the show cause, if any they have, why said petition should not be granted and that this citation be served by the publication to law, and by mailing a copy of this citation at least 14 days before said petition is made, said decedent whose names and addresses are known and appear from the files of this Court. Witness the Judge of sald Court, this 10th day of September A. D. 1923. Attest. D. W. Hamilton. Glerk of Probate Geo. W. Hamilton, Jr., M.D. Bed Time Stories on a Pullman Smoker It was a clear night, with mellow moonlight streaming in the car, and the smoking compartment was well filled with travelers, many of whom before retiring, were awaiting their first view of the famous Horseshoe Curve of western Pennsylvania. The announcement of the porter that "The Horseshoe's three minutes west, gentlemen," was a signal for an exodus of smokers to the car platform, where they could partake of the panoramic treat for which they had denied themselves an earlier retiring hour. "Seen the curse, sir?" inquired the efficient porter, as I continued to puff away, "pipe, all unmindful of the Horseshoe and its incidental scenic effects. "Many times—and I suppose you see it every day, don't you?" I asked, as I watched the porter's face break into a half smile. "I've seen it every other day for the past two weeks, but today's my last trip this way until next year, I guess," he replied. "How's that? Are you quitting?" "No, not until the end of October," he answered. "I've got a two-weeks' run out of Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River; then, back home to the kids, been a great season, too; he ex-emplomatically, before I had time to question him further. I had become more interested in the clean-cut fellow, of splendid poise and refined personality). "You see, I've been up this way the entire season. Had a run from New York to Canada for a whole month. Then, from New York to Washington. Next, I was a chair-car man through eastern Pennsylvania; and after this next run down the Ohio River, I shall have covered the principal cities in the East. I was glad to have the opportunity, because the kids don't know a whole lot about the geography and many other things up this way, and it's going to be a lot of fun to be able to tell them of my personal observations all through the East. Then, too, I've made quite a few notes about the kind of work the colored people are doing up North, and the fine wages they're getting. To tell the truth, I wouldn't go back again if it were not for the kids, because of the something, and I guess I'm duty bound to go back them," he concluded, to the life smile gave way to a momentary expression of sadness. "When you say you're back home, what do you mean," I asked, pointedly. "Florida," he answered in a clear tone. "And it's going to be a pretty full year for the kids and me. We work hard right through to the first of May; and this year's going to be a 'hummer' because I've got so many new things to tell them about. Thought I'd have an assistant this year, but from all I hear from home, I guess I won't need one." "Assistant," I fired at him in astonishment. "How many children have you? Isn't your wife all the assistant you need?" "Wife! he stuttered in surprise. 'I don't know,' I'm a school teacher in one of the county districts of Florida. Had forty-five kids last year, but I guess there'll be fewer this year. Have some great geography to teach them this year and they're just bubbling over with interest about the north. I'll be able to—" Just then the platform door slam'd indicating the return of the travelers from the car platform, and before the first gentleman could push a bell or say a word our porter-pedagogue had caught a glimpse of his face, and as he sprang to his feet he said: "Yes, sir; number nine is all ready, sir." And I climbed into upper 13 with the same feeling I have when I've found a four-leaf clover or a horse-shoe. RICHMOND SAVINGS BANK TO OPEN Richmond, Va., Nov. 8.—Receivers for the Mechanics' Savings bank yesterday voiced their approval of the plan now under way to reopen the bank, and advised members of the advisory committee that they would consider the proposals as soon as the proper papers have been made out, and the signatures of all depositors agreeing to waive 50 per cent of the deposits had been secured. The matter was presented by a subcommittee consisting of Colonel C. R. Kelley, James D. Leckey and Rev. T. J. J. Moseby and John Mitchell, Jr. Saturday. November 17, 1923 BUFFALO AGAIN TO LIVE WHERE FIRST DISCOVERED White Men First Viewed Animals in Mexico 400 Years Ago. Washington—The recent gift of three buffalo to the government of Mexico recalls the discovery and early history of these big game animals. The gift will be sent from the herd maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture on the Wichita game preserve, Oklahoma, to the zoological park in the City of Mexico, almost on the very spot where the buffalo was first discovered by Europeans. The biological survey points out that 400 years ago, when Cortez entered Montezuma's capital, on the present site of the City of Mexico, white men had their first view of buffalo, a herd of which was maintained in the menagerie of the emperor. This was in 1521, when buffalo roamed in millions over the tablelands of northern Mexico and the great plains of the present western United States. An early writer, Antonio de Solis, who first described Montezuna's menagerie, declared that the greatest rarity in the collection was the "Mexican bull," which had crooked shoulders, a bunch on its back like the camel, and its neck covered with hair like the lion. It was in these terms that he characterized the American buffalo or bison. As a manifestation of good-will toward our southern neighbor, a gift of three buffalo was tendered the Mexican government by the United States Department of Agriculture and the New York Zoological society. King Caught "on Job" in Act of "Kinging" Underwood & Underwood How does a king king? Here's the answer—a new photograph of King Ferdinand of Rumania, just received from Bucharest, showing his majesty at his desk, engaged in his daily, kingly task of going over state papers. He is wearing the uniform of a Rumanian admiral. Gets Chairs Made of Tree Planted by Queen Hingham, Mass—Wood from an oak tree planted by Queen Elizabeth went into the making of three chairs which have been shipped from Hingham, Norfolk, England, to this town. They are the gift of Harry C. Tofts, a builder in the English Hingham, to the Bay state township which was founded by men from the Norfolk town in the Seventeenth century. Sixteen years ago the top of the tree planted by the great queen in Kimberly park died and it became necessary to tell it. Mr. Tofts bought the timber and made the chairs, which were designed by Hugh Mottram after a model of a chair in the period when the Hingham men emigrated to America. Mr. Tofts stipulated that one of them should be used by the chairman of the board of selectmen, one placed in the first parish meeting house, erected in 1681, and the third to go to the minister of the First Parish church in perpetuity. Wonderful Feat of Paris.—Two cases of what has been considered hitherto an incurable disease were presented lately to the Society of Neurology of Paris. Tumors pressing on the spinal marrow have always proved fatal owing to the difficulty of diagnosing them and of locating them. Professor Steard has introduced a method of injecting lodized oil into the bony canal formed by the vertebrae of the spine which enables an X-ray to be taken, showing where the lodine has been deposited, and where the deposit has been interrupted by the tumor. The exact spot for operating is thus seen. The application of this method is described as delicate but not extremely difficult, nor beyond the power of any good surgeon. Farmer Has Watch That Whites Up Autumnally Chattanooga, Tenn.-Sam Bird, a farmer living near here, owns what is thought to be the only watch in the world which does not have to be wound. The timepiece, made by the farmer-jeweler during his leisure hours, is provided with a small pendulum, which swings back and forth when he walks. This movement winds the springs of the watch. SEE NEED OF LOAN COMPANY. Reports from Cleveland, Ohio, say that city is a splendid field for a aving and loan company properly conducted by our people. There are more than 40,000 colored people there and all are working. Many have bought homes and other are buying them. The demand for homes is greater than in almost any other Northern city, with the possible exception of Detroit, Mich. ST. PAUL J. Q. Adams is serving this week on the petit jury. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson have moved to 225 St. Anthony Ave. The T. N. T. 500 Club were the guests of Mr. A. V. Hall, 996 Iglehart, last Monday evening. Mrs. T. R. Hickman, St. Albans St., has gone to Canada to spend a few months visiting with relatives. The Wilson Bakery, 560 Rondo St., will open its doors to the public Saturday morning, November 17th. PRINCE HALL LODGE NO. 105 meets first and third Monday in each month at Union Temple Hall, 400 Franklin street visiting brother and good standing are welcome. S. W. Williams, W. M.; Daniel Rose, Sec. Mrs. Ira Scott (nee Maymie Goins) and daughter will leave for their home for their home in Cleveland, Ohio, week after next. Mrs. Clara Hardy, 518 St. Anthony Ave., has gone to Kalispell, Mont., to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. Emma Burnett, for the winter. Miss Henrietta Neal, daughter of Mr. William Squire Neal, is a patient at the University hospital, suffering from a nervous breakdown. Mrs. J. S. Sparks, 633 West Central Ave., has returned to the city, after having spent several weeks in the South and in Chicago, Ill. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH NO. 553, G. U. Q. O. F., meets the third Monday in each month at Union Hall, corner of Aurora and Kent streets, at 8:00 P. M. Mrs. Jeanneette Burnett, at 8:00 P. M. Mrs. E Lindsay, W. R. 426 Rondo Street. Mrs. Girlie Howard Bakeman, who came to St. Paul last week to bury her father, the late Robert C. Howard, has returned to her home in Winnipeg. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wilson have moved from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Goins, and are now residing in their flat over the Wilson Bakery, 560 Rondo St. The Neighborhood Club met at the home of Mrs. James A. Harris, Dale street, on last Monday evening. Delicious refreshments were served, and every one had a good time. On the sick list this week is Mr. Samuel Brown, Rondo St., Mr. C. D. Jones of Charles St., and Mr. L. Wilkerson, 130 W. Arch St. All are at the Northern Pacific hospital. A Chapter of Sorrow for deceased members of Chapter 29, Order of Eastern Star, will be held Monday evening, November 26, at 8 o'clock. The public is invited to be present. A bazaar and social will be held on the nights of November 27, 28 and 29, at Camphor M. E. church, corner of 13th and Canada streets, ending on the last night with a Thanksgiving dinner. The Ladies' Aid of Pilgrim Baptist church gave a calendar social last night at Pilgrim-on-the-Hill. A delightful program was the feature of the evening, and dainty refreshments were served. Mrs. James A. Lee, 646 W. Central Ave., was hostess Tuesday afternoon to the Adelphi Club, with a large number attending. Arrangements were made for the Club's Thanksgiving philanthropic work. St. Philips Episcopal Church Young Women's Club and the Auxiliary will host their annual Christmas Sale and Bazaar in the basement of the church, Thursday afternoon, November 22nd, starting at 3 o'clock. Fancy articles and aprons will be on sale, and light refreshments will be served. Reverend Joseph T. Hill, D. D., pastor of Roanoke Baptist church, Hot Springs, KY, will conduct three services at a Pilgrim Baptist church, November 18th—one at 11 A. M., one at 3 P. M., and another at 7:30 P. M. Rev. Hill has been occupying the pulpits of some of the leading churches in Canada for the past three or four summers. He is a forceful speaker and a gospel singer. It will be interesting to go and hear him. Monday afternoon, November 19th, an announcement will be made of the names and members of the committee of management for the Branch association of the Y. W. C. A., at the Club Center, 598 West Central Ave. Mrs. C. A. Winn, one of the nine field secretaries of the National Board is here on her annual tour, to set up the new organization. Mrs. Winn conducted a meeting Wednesday afternoon, November 14th, for women only, at which meeting Mrs. Mitchell, president of the Board of the Central Y. W. C. A., presided; Thursday evening a meeting for men and women, and Friday afternoon a meeting for young girls only. The Minnesota Federation of Colored Women's clubs is to be included in the publication, "Who's Who Among Minnesota Women," soon to be off the press. The history of the organization was written by a committee of four prominent club women, viz., Mrs. Ruth M. Hopkins of Duluth, Mrs. Ida M. Sellers, honorary president, Minneapolis; Mrs. Ethel H. Maxwell, honorary president, St. Paul, and Mrs. Alice Gooden, state chairman of civics and president of the Harriet Tubman League, St. Paul. Other Race clubs to be included are the Minneapolis colored Women's Republican club and the Everywomen's Progressive Council, St. Paul. DO SOMETHING Deposit regularly on your Savings Account THE STATE SAVINGS BANK 93 E. FOURTH ST. 4% Interest 4% Compounded Quarterly CLEARANCE SALE USED CARS---ALL MODELS $50 AND UP HALL HERSCHBACK MOTOR COMPANY 117 UNIVERSITY AVE. FORD BLDG WHY EXPERIMENT? TRADE PORO MARK BRINGS BEAUTY Its Rare Goodness Never Varies PORO Hair Preparations are amazingly effective in promoting a luxuriant growth of beautiful hair. PORO Toilet Preparations produce a lovely complexion—a smooth, velvety skin. PORO COLLEGE, universally recognized as one of the Race's outstanding commercial institutions, with its vast facilities for training and serving PORO patrons, reflects the genuine worth and superior merit of PORO Products and PORO Treatments dispensed by PORO AGENTS everywhere. Measured by results, PORO IS SUPREME! Try PORO and know its downright satisfaction. PORO IS SOLD BY PORO AGENTS ONLY. If you do not know the PORO AGENT write us and she will call. ADDRESS PORO COLLEGE 4300 St. Ferdinand Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO., U.S.A. DEPT. F ELECT CANDIDATES OF KU KLUX KLAN (Continued from first page) noma, Arkansas, Indiana, Oregon and Ohio. There seems to be no question that Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky are in danger. These states, according to all the evidence, are today the strongholds of Klandom. Colored Pittsburgh Votes Democratic Pittsburgh, Nov. 15.—The Ku Klux Klan thrust its hooded head openly into politics for the first time in overwhelmingly Republican and Protestant Allegheyn county (Pittsburgh) in Tuesday's election. As a result, there was a time today, when the returns were coming in, that a Democratic candidate experienced the sensation of seeing himself leading the field of candidates, including the Klan-supported Republicans, for the three places as county commissioners. The county commissioners administer the affairs of this rich "pickings" of 1,000,000 population. County Commissioner James Houlahan, Democratic candidate for reelection as the third, or minority, commissioner, drew the fire of the Klan because a Catholic. Party lines went to smash in the union of forces behind Houlahan Tuesday. Houlahan was re-elected. Catholics, without regard for party, supported him, with the population of foreign extraction, plus those of the Jewish faith, and—probably for the first time in an intensely Republican Northern state—colored people by the htousands voted for a Democrat and vindicated their intelligence. STUDENT FOOTBALL GAME ENDS IN TIE In a grimly fought tussel on last Monday, November 12, at Dunning field, the colored High School students played the colored University boys to a 7 to 7 tie. All the boys are deserving of social mention. The line-up for the two teams is as follows: High School University Foster . . . LE . . . W. Minor Casium . . . LT . . . Inge C. Minor . . LG . . F. Johnson Powell . . . C . . . D. Brown Few . . . RG . . Lawrence Howard . . RT . P. Johnson Walker . . RE . E. Neal Raymond Brown DB . Stevens H. Vassar . LH . Butler Woodard . RH . Yates Hoges . . FB . Shenault The University substitutes were: W. Minor, Grissom, Cochran and Ruffner from the alumni. Raymond Brown starred for the High School boys, and Butler saved the day for his team when he made a touchdown in the last 30 seconds of playing. Mr. S m Ransom and Mr. Eugene Jackson were the referees. Short Cuts (Lincoln Service) If you are a book lover, get yourself a bank book. Bethel A. M. E. Church, at Buffalo, N. Y., has a basketball team. Statistics indicate that more whites than colored die of sleeping sickness. The League of Colored Republican Clubs of Illinois is to be reorganized, revivified and recapitalized. A number of progressive New York City colored business men have organized a soft drinks bottling corporation. The Eagle Coal Company of Montgomery, W. Va., has been successfully mining and shipping coal in carload quantities for several years. A Washington audience composed of colored people recently hissed an orchestral rendition of that old familiar ballad, "I wish I was in Dixie." Colored men in St. Paul in an effort to finance the home-buying activities of their local group, have organized a building and loan association. The firm of C. H. James and Son, located at Charleston, W. Va., does the largest provision and produce business of any colored company in the United States. The Empress Zaoditon, the beautiful brownskin daughter of the famous Emperor Menelik, bears on her breast the cross that must be worn by every Abyssinian ruler, as a sign of fidelity to the Lord Christ. Colored females outnumber the males in Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Kansas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Richmond, San Antonio and Washington. In Birmingham and Nashville there are 184 colored illiterates to each group of 1,000 colored persons 10 years of age and over. On the same basis, Atlanta has 178, New Orleans and Wilmington, Del., 157, Memphis, 156, Louisville and Richmond, 149 each, and Norfolk, 139. There are 88 colored farmers per 1,00 of their racial population as compared with 58 white farmers per L-1 white inhabitants. These colored farmers operate land in farms equal to 2.2 per cent of the total land area of the United States, and if the land occupied by them was placed acre to acre it would form a belt about two and a half miles wide that would encircle the earth at its widest circum- BLOW WIPES OUT FIVE YEARS OF "VET'S" LIFE Prohibition Agent Finds He Has Two Wives After Accident. St. Cloud, Minn.—The blow on the head that knocked Arthur E. Whitney, federal prohibition agent of Minneapolis, under the wheels of a beer truck at New Munich, Minn., recently, fracturing his skull, also turned the pages of his life back five years, it was revealed here. Whitney was overseas 27 months during the World war, was gassed three times and a victim of aphasia. His life after the last gas attack was a blank. After the war he landed in New York and obtained a job as a federal prohibition agent. There he met a young woman known as Mrs. Ann Whitney, who has lived in St. Paul with him for the last two years. When Whitney, at a local hospital, regained consciousness for the first time since the blow, standing beside the bed was Mrs. Luella Whitney, who married him in Grafton, N. D., in 1912, and who bore him two sons. He said he knew nothing of Ann Whitney, nothing of the baby soon to arrive, nothing of the almost complete divorce proceedings between himself and Luella and nothing of how he was hurt. Whitney had a faint idea that he had been a government dry agent, however. He asked his wife how the boys were and apparently did not realize the passage of time. Physicians say Whitney will recover. Mannequins Desert Paris Dressmakers Paris.—The threatened passing of the mannequin has become one of the tragedies of Paris. The gorgeous creatures who trail majestically across the dressmaker's showroom and demonstrate to madame how wonderful she thinks she is going to look in that high-priced gown are becoming alarmingly scarce. The shortage is so great that the directors of several of the leading fashion houses in Paris have decided to start a school to provide recruits for their sorely depleted ranks. The reason for the mannequin's disappearance? "South Americans come to Paris and marry them. North Americans come to Paris and put them in the movies. Scandinavians come to Paris and go crazy about them. No wonder we haven't any mannequins," explained one of the dressmakers. "And what's the answer?" echoes one of the few mannequins still in the game. "It's very simple. To be a good mannequin, you cannot be more than twenty or weigh more than 115 pounds. You must not be too short nor too tall. "Also, we live an unreal life. We spend our days in an atmosphere of elegance and luxury. We get accustomed to that, and our wages are not enough to live up to it. Therefore, we stay in the bushesh just long enough to get out of it." OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, *COUNTY of Ramsay, State of Minnesota*—ss. To Mary B. Bartran: notify that the following piece or parcel of land situated in the County of Ramsay, State of Minnesota, and known and desirous to purchase it (§3) (block Thirty-third, $3), the West St. Paul Real Estate and Improvement Syndicate Addition No. 2, is now assessed in your name. On the 12th day of May, 1919, at a sale of land puruant to the real estate tax judgment duly given and made in and on the 12th day of May, 1919, by Ramsay on the 21st day of April, 1919, in proceedings to enforce the payment of taxes delinquent upon real estate for the year 1917, and to enforce the payment of taxes described piece or parcel of land was duly billed for the state for the sum of One Dollar and Seventy-three Cents. and all the rights of the State of Minnesota, upon and against said land by virtue of said sale was duly assigned, conveyed and sold to the purchaser under Section 2126, G. S. 1913, on the 19th day of October, 1928, for the sum of Eleven Dollars and Forty-six Cents. And interest at the rate of 12 per cent per annum on $11.46 thereof from the 19th day of October, 1928, to the day such reduction (5). That the tax certificate of sale is issued to said purchaser has been presented to me by the holder thereof and this notice remains. (6) That the time for the redemption of said piece or parcel of land from said tax service is due on the day of the service of this notice, and the filing of proof of such service in my office. Witness my hand and official seal this 20th day of October, 1923. (4) And that the amount required to redeem a piece of cash is the same as the fareable cost of the costs to accrue upon this notice is the sum of Sixty-six Dollars and an additional interest at the rate of 12 per cent per annum on $6.02 thereof from the 29th day, October 1928, to the day such remission is made. (5) That the tax certificate of sale issued to said purchaser has been presented to me by the holder thereof and this notice request. (6) That the time for the redemption of said piece or parcel of land from said tax sale will expire sixty (60) days after the payment and filing of proof of such service in my office. Witness my hand and official seal this 30th NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF TIME OF REDEMPTION. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, COUNTY of Ramsey, State of Minnesota--ss. To Adole Beifeld: (1) You are hereby notified that the following land stituted in the County of Ramsey, State of Minnesota, and known and described as follows, to-wit: Except 3ft thirty-four (34), Block 9 (9), A. Vance Brown's Subdivision of Stinson Brown's Addition, is now assessed in your name. And interest at the rate of 12 per cent per annum on $7.98 therefrom from the 29th day of October, 1923, to the day such redemption is made. (5) That the tax certificate of sale issued to said purchaser has been presented to me by the holder thereof and this notice requested. (6) That the time for the redemption of said piece or parcel of land from said tax sale will pay it (60) days after the service of this notice, and the filing of proof of such service in my office. Witness my hand and official seal this 30th day of October, 1928. GEO. J. RIES, Auditor Ramsey County, Minnesota. (Official Seal) By Silas E. Foreman, Deputy. Vander Bies ICE CREAM IS THE BEST For Sale Everywhere J. C. VANDER BIE CO. Partridge and Brunson Sts. ST. PAUL, MINN. TEL. CEDAR 7098 O. H. AROSIN CO. JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS ADJUSTING OF FINE WATCHES A SPECIALTY 414 ROBERT ST. ST. PAUL, MINN. M. W. Goins N. W. Goins Tel. Dale 3341 UNIDALE TRANSFER CO. GENERAL HAULING — FURNITURE, TRUNKS AND PIANOS A SPECIALTY "SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 390 N. St. Albans St. Paul If a dollar saved me dollar earned, KOPPERS TWIN CITY COKE is a mighty good fu vestment because aves many dollars in eating cost. is a mighty good fuel investment because it saves many dollars in heating cost. Besides fewer ashes No Smoke—No Soot All Fuel Dealers Elmer Morrison is now open in his new le Rondo Street of Mack Mr Morris, Drug new open for business is new location, at Do Street, corner of Mackubin St. 17954 ESTABLISHED W. SQUIRE NEAL FUNERAL DIRECTOR SUCCESSOR TO O. A. LAWRENCE TH ST. MINN Elmer Morris, Druggist Elmer Morris, Druggist is now open for business in his new location, 499 Rondo Street, corner of Mackubin St. W. SQUIRRE FUNERAL SUCCES O. A. LAW W. SQUIRE NEAL FUNERAL DIRECTOR SUCCESSOR TO O. A. LAWRENCE CLASSIFIED FOR RENT:—Front room for single men only. Apply at 320 St. Louis St. FOR RENT—Two rooms, gentlemen only; 527 St. Anthony avenue; Tel. Dale 2055. FOR RENT—Seven rooms furnished. Apply to I. A. Gross, 412 Carroll avenue. Tel. Dale 3316. FOR RENT—Seven rooms furnished. Apply to I. A. Gross, 412 Carroll Ave., Tel. Dale 3316. FOR RENT—Five-room flat, newly decorated, at 565 St. Anthony avenue. $27.50. Call George W. James, 707 St. Anthony avenue. Tel. Dale 1865. WANTED—Colored men to qualify for sleeping car and train porters. Experience unnecessary. Transportation furnished. Write T. McCaffrey, Supt., St. Louis, Mo. Seven rooms furnish- A. Gross, 412 Car- Dale 3316. OFFICE TEL. CEDAR 4044 Five-room flat, new- 565 St. Anthony ave- ll George W. James, avenue. Tel. Dale DR. JOHN R. SURGEON DE OFFICE GAR. 6097 HOURS 10 A.M TO 1 P.M. RES. DALE 1866 AND 2 TO 8 P.M. DR. J. WALTON CRUMP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 303 COURT BLOCK SAINT PAU OFFICE TEL. RES. TEL CEDAR 5104 DALE 145 HOURS: 8:30 A.M. TO 1 P.M. AND 2 TO 6 P.M. SUNDAYS BY APPOINTMENT DR. EARL S. WEBER DENTAL SURGEON SAINT PAUL RES. TEL. DALE 1454 TO A. M. TO 1 P. M. 2 TO 6 P. M. BY APPOINTMENT L. S. WEBER --- TEL. SOUTH 7954 502 EAST 24TH ST Saturday, November 17, 1923 our saved is earned, HAPPERS TWIN CITY OKE very good fuel it because it very dollars in est. is, Druggist for business location, 499 feet, corner ubin St. ESTABLISHED 1905 RE NEAL DIRECTOR SOR TO VRENCE MINNEAPOLIS Exide BATTERIES BARRETT BATTERY CO. 164 W. 6th St. OFFICE TEL. CEDAR 4044 RES. TEL. DALE 7816 HOURS: 9 A. M. TO 1 P. M. AND 2 TO 6 P. M. DR. JOHN R. FRENCR SURGEON DENTIST FIRST CLASS GUARANTEED WORK IN ALL BRANCHES OF DENTISTRY SUITE 2 DETROIT BLDG. COR. 4TH & WABASHA SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA O. E. ZANDELL PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST Kodaks, Films and Supplies 879 Rice St., Corner Milford The Ormand Exclusive Models of Comfort and Elegance Distinctive of THE Edwin Clapp SHOE Sole St. Paul Agenoy The Stanley Reem 400 Robert Shoe Co of South --- Stanley Reem Outbreaks of Pest Coincident With Presence of Rodents. Washington.-Bites from a mite, a known parasite of rats, have proved an annoyance to a great many people in the South. The trouble has been particularly prevalent in certain localities in Texas and Mississippi. In some instances it has been acute, causing the expenditure of much time and money in efforts to combat it, and, in certain cases compelling the abandonment of parts of buildings. Outbreaks of this pest, it has been observed, are coincident with the presence of many rats, and the repression of the mite appears to be essentially a problem in rat control. Department Circular 294, "The Rat Mite Attacking Man," by F. C. Bishopp, entomologist, recently issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, deals with the life history and habits of the mite and the character of its attack on man. It has not yet been shown that the mites carry disease, but their bites are distinctly painful and annoying. Both nymphs and adults attack man freely, crawling and running about over the body, and biting here and there, especially on the upper arms, legs, and around the belt or in other places where there is some constriction of clothing. In addition to a continuous and energetic warfare against rats, the bulletin recommends the cleaning out of all debris and nests and a thorough spraying with kerosene. On floors a mixture of 1 part anthracene oil with 2 parts kerosene has been used with success to destroy and repel mites for several days. A fine mist spray of gasoline on cabinets, desks and shelves gives temporary relief. Fumigation with hydrocyanic gas is also recommended if done by an expert. Fresno Has Smallest National Park in World The smallest national park in the world is located at Fresno, Cal. It is just 36 square feet in area, and one tree that covers the entire roadway is there. Eels Clog Up Water Pipes in New London New London, Conn.—Superintendent Watters and his water department employees went eeling at one o'clock in the morning recently and they got enough to supply a regiment. From various places in Main, Bank and State streets eels were found packed together in water pipes and traps. "No water!" was the cry heard on all sides. At each place, instead of water, eels were found in abundance. Fire plugs about the city were flushed and hundreds of eels were ejected into the streets. Superintendent Watters said that it is strange how they suddenly decided to stop up the water mains. Instead of an eel parking here and there they seemed to march onward in a phalanx and to descend in thousands all about the same time. Neither does he know of any way to prevent it. A quarter-inch mesh at the reservoir is designed to keep eels and other fish from the mains. Eels get through the mesh when they are small, and when once inside they thrive and grow so large that they cannot get back. When the faucet is opened and the pressure starts the eels are thrust up against the water meters. WHY THEY JOIN— Pop that Question to any member of the Brotherhood and he (or she) will promptly point out to you the Benefits derived from the Brotherhood's Co-Operative Enterprises; Sick & Death Benefit Dept.; Educational Classes and Forums; Calisthenic Clubs or Sokols; Industrial Units; Negro Workers Protective Work; Civil Rights Activities. The Brotherhood is the only fraternal organization exerting its power in behalf of the civil rights of Negro Americans; and the only civil rights organization fostering business enterprises and developing the economic and labor power of the race; and the only benevolent organization investing its funds in purely Negro business and specializing in the cooperative form of business enterprise whereb all of the investors are benefitted rather than just the few big share holders and the officers as is the case in capitalist corporation concerns which merely use the masses as stepping stones for self-seeking career GENERAL MEMBERSHIP $1.00 Monthly Dues ..... 25 cents. Only members are eligible to Protection of Sikh and Death Benefit Department Send for information today; or send your dollar initiation fee and get your card and button. Address: SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, A. R. R. Elise L. Trower, Plaintiff, vs. Conrad Trower, Defendant. The State of Minnesota to the Above Named Judge You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above entitled action, which complaint has been filed against you, and of said court at his office in the Court House of said County of Ramsey in the City of St. Paul, and to serve a copy of your complaint to the Court House of said county, vaintifit's attorney, at his office, 514 Court Block, in the City of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., within thirty (30) days of the filing of the complaint, you exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the said complaint within the time aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will be served a court for the relief demanded in said complaint. Dated October 29, 1923. T. A. ALEXANDER, Plaintiff, vs. Conrad Trower, 514 Court Block, St. Paul, Minn. "Standard" PLUMBING FIXTURES Bathroom in a Space Only Five Feet Square Res. Tel. Dale 7030 Shop Elk. 2328 My Motto: "What I Do, I Do Well" PAUL F. MANTEUFFEL PLUMBING Jobbing Promptly Attended to Estimates Furnished Display Room and Shop 436 N. Dale St. near University Ave. St. Paul WHY BANKS? LESS By J. H. PUELI Committee on Public Education Why banks? To facilitate the exchange of goods and services, says the economist. FACILITATE = make easy. GOODS = food, clothing, necessities, comforts, luxuries. SERVICES = the work that goes into manufacturing, into crop-raising, into selling, buying, bookkeeping, financing—into all man's wants. J. H. Puelicher The FARMER s The WORKMAN The MANUFACTURER sells his s is used to buy what the oth in the exchange of goods and The MANUFACTURER sells his product for money, and the money is used to buy what the others have grown or produced—used in the exchange of goods and services which the banks facilitate. FARMER-BANKER MEETING NOTES A recent farmer-banker conference, held at Fargo, North Dakota, as one of a series being held under the auspices of the Agricultural Commission, American Bankers Association, to aid in developing permanently better agricultural conditions, was productive of a number of valuable and definite measures for a program of action. Reduction of wheat acreage: It was recommended that the farmers reduce acreage 80 per cent from that of 1928. Diversified farming: The conference declared that the ultimate success of agriculture depends upon proper diversification. Orderly marketing: Financial support was approved to assist the orderly marketing of farm products. Encourage Homeseekers: Support was pledged to all movements designed to encourage home seekers. Recommendations for immediate relief: Bankers and business men were urged to assist in providing storage facilities at once to meet the needs of their home communities. The bankers were urged to accept storage certificates for loans on the stored grain and if their reserves prevented them from carrying the storage certificate it was urged that the Intermediate Credit Banks be asked to discount these certificates for the banks. Resolutions looking toward legislative relief were adopted, and a special committee appointed to follow them up. The resolutions were as follows. Calling for the establishment of THE STANDARD FROM THE STANDARD FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN TOWLE'S LOG CABIN SYRUP MAKES HOME SWEET HOME THE LOG CABIN PRODUCTS SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA PETER H. BURGESS BASIC I. MICHER, Chairman, American Bankers Association. to facilitate the exchange of goods vs the economist. = make easy. clothing, necessities, comforts, lux- the work that goes into manufactur- ing, into crop-raising, into selling, buying, bookkeeping, financing— into all man's wants. sells his crop for money. sells his labor for money. product for money, and the money ers have grown or produced—used services which the banks facilitate. some governmental agency as an emergency measure for orderly marketing and selling separately the exportable wheat surplus; Protesting against the drawback provision in the Fordney-McCumber law and urging the enactment of that in the Dingley law, the Paine law and the Underwood law; Opposing the reduction of the tariff on flax seed of flax products or feeder cattle. MERCHANT CREDIT EXPENSIVE Investigations indicate that farmers may be materially benefited by demonstrating to them the losses they incur through the use of merchant credit instead of bank credit. In conferences arranged by the Agricultural Commission, American Bankers Association, it has frequently developed that farmers in many instances are thoughtlessly carrying heavy burdens of mercantile credit. The cost to farmers of merchant credit often runs as high as 50 per cent annually. The United States Department of Agriculture has made surveys of credit and insurance conditions in North Carolina, in which eight hundred farmers were interviewed, and which showed that 483 were relying on merchant credit. The average cost was 26.6 per cent, figured annually. The average rate paid by white farmers was 21.8 per cent, while that for the colored was 22.2 per cent. 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