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Republicans and Jim Crow Cars Disgrace A Fearles Exponent of. Right and justice. An Uncompromising Defender of the Colored . Race. We fear only to do wrong. VOLUME IX. Republic Messenger of New Responsibility on It Belo ARKANSAS LYNCHES OUT- LAWED NEGROES BY LAW. Desperate Straits of Colored People Depicted by Outspoken Messenger. The Messenger, (N. Y.) for Febru- ary editorially says: "In Helena, Ark., a legalized lynching took place. Over a half hundred Negroes have been indicted and convicted and twelve sentenced to be hanged in from four to seven minutes for their participation in a Negro "uprising" against the whites. What an infamous miscarriage of justice, The alleged "uprising" consisted in the Negro tenant farmers' demand for a fair share of what they produced. They employed a white lawyer legally to enforce their demands, for which the above mentioned legalized lynching was executed. And the Government, which is hunting down Bolshevism, is silent. The Government which is screaming hysterically about lawlessness and disorder in Mexico, is indifferent, while lawlessness runs riot in Arkansas. "Our current history continues to confirm the Messenger's opinion. That the race question has an economic foundation. In order to settle it, the Negro must organize his economic and political power. Negroes in the North, East and West should vote for no one who is not committed to an anti-lynching, anti Jim Crow and anti-disfranchisement program. And an eleventh hour profession is not enough. Negroes should examine the records of the parties, and they should repudiate any party which has been silent on these abuses. Meanwhile, nationwide protest meetings should be held. Tens of thousands of dollars should be collected and publicity given for saving these men." COLORED WOMEN ORGANIZE DEMOCRATIC CLUB The "Mule Kicks up His Heels in Erstacy and Brays a Welcome. Tulsa Star News. St. Louis, Jan. 30.—Not to be outdone by her white sisters, who have been taking rather a leading part in the opening political drama of 1920, the "Colored Sister" has made her presence known in a manner not at al to be misunderdstood. About fifty Colored women met in St. Louis last Sunday and organized an auxiliary to the Associated Colored Democratic Ward Club. The following were elected: Mrs. Lucile Wilborn, president; Mrs. Genevieve Mills, vice president; Mrs. Parsette Callaway, secretary; Mrs. Irene Whetstone, recording secretary; Mrs. Annie Branch, treasurer and Mrs. Essie Lawry, chairman of the executive committee. It is stated that more than a hundred have signed membership blanks. NEGRO EXPRESS AGENT AT BROOKSVILLE, OKLAHOMA Prof, L. S. Simmons, well known educator and staunch friend of the Tuisa Star, has recently, accepted the important post of Sante Fe and express agent at Brooksville, Okla. Elwood Mead noted settlement worker, declares after investigation that one-half of Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma farmers are renters. The Messenger, published in New York City, in its February issue has under the caption: "Republicans and the Jim Crow Car," the following to say: Twelve Republicans opposed the Jim Crow Car, 225 stood by Vardaman and John Sharpe Williams. Congressman Madden's resolution to abolish the Jim Crow Car tabled. Despite the approach of the 1920 elections, the Republican party ignored the interest of the Negro. The Messenger is glad to see it. It will teach the GULLIBLE, CREDULOUS, IGNORANT Negroes a lesson. It demonstrates clearly that there is no DIFFERENCE between the Republican and Democratic parties. The Negro is LYNCHED, DISFRANCHISED, and JIM-CROWED in both the Republican and Democratic administrations. This has gone on for more than a half century. The Republicans have bribed a few SYCOPHANT, SERVILE Negroes with some petty political patronage. They (the Republicans) have recognized this as sufficient reward for the Negroes' loyalty. And why should they give them more? Negroes are known as sure things. You don't have to put bait on the line for fish which you have already caught." PRINCIPALS' ASSOCIATION TO MEET NEXT MONTH The Colored Principals' Association is hereby called to meet in Oklahoma City, Saturday, February 14th in the auditorium of Dunbar school at 10 o'clock, to take under consideration matters of importance relative to the separate schools of the State of Oklahoma. All friends of the cause of education are cordially invited to be present and to take part in the deliberations of the above meeting. Several leaders in educational thought have been invited to address us and an interesting meeting is anticipated. W.H.FORT CENSUS MAN FINDS FREAKS. Muskogee Colored Woman 106 Years Old and Boy Has Blue Eyes and White Hair. Star News Service. Muskogee, Okla., Jan. 30.—Out on North Third street lives a negro woman 106 years old, who is growing her third set of teeth, according to Jack Autry, one of the census enuemrators. Sh declared that she was a slave somewhere down south before the Civil War. In the same neighborhood is a freak negro child. "The baby's skin is brown, its eyes are blue, and its hair is white as cotton. It is long and kinky and looks like sheep's wool," said Autry. Discuss Color Problem at Tuskegee In Joint Session. Tuskegee Ala., Jan. 30.—One of the most notable groups ever gathered at Tuskegee Institute was the THE TULSA STAR, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, SATURD AY, JANUARY, 31, 1920. WHITE HOUSE The above picture is emblematic of the kind of Democracy the Tulsa Star stands for and espouses. In fact, it is a true representation of the the true principles of Democracy. Upon the principles here represented we are willing to chance the destiny of our race, because we believe in these as much as we believe God. The above picture is emblematic of the kind of Democracy the Tulsa Star stands for and espouses. In fact, it is a true representation of the the true principles of Democracy. Upon the principles here represented we are willing to chance the destiny of our race, because we believe in these as much as we believe God. joint session of the Phelps Stokes Fellows and the University Races Commission which met here January 5th, 6th and 7th. The Phelps Stokes Fellows are young men and women students attending the Universities of Georgia and Virginia whose expenses are being paid by the Phelps Stokes fund. They are carefully selected students who are making a special study of some phase of the so-called color problem as a part of their work in sociology. They are required to prepare a monograph on the subject which they pursue. This work was made possible through the generosity of Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, who has been for many years a warm supporter of Tuskegee Institute. IN OLD DOMINION STATE. Over Fifty Per Cent of Negro School Children in First Grades. The current Southern Workman, discussing Negro education in the State of Virginia, points out that: "Twelve years ago six or seven supervising Colored teachers were employed as a very doubtful experiment in Virginia. Today there are sixty-three counties in the state with supervising teachers. It is significant that the counties themselves now contribute one-third of the expense of this work. Seven years ago there were no public county schools for Negro children doing work above the seventh grade. Practically no thought was given to secondary training for Negroes in the country schools. This year the state has sixteen rural junior high schools; in the past two years $100,000 from the Rosenwald fund and the white and Colored people of the state has gone into the building of rural Negro schools; and within the last eighteen months four cities have done splendid things for their Colored school population by the construction of new and handsome buildings to the amount of several hundred thousand dollars. Let us not forget however the in Virginia at present less than two-thirds of the Negro children of school age are in the schools; that the majority of rural Negro schools are still in one-room buildings; that in fifty-five counties of the state six months or less has been the average of school terms; and that fifty-seven per cent of Negro children at school are in the first or second grades." HOWARD UNIVERSITY ASKS FINANCIAL AID Classed as Capstone of Negro Education of World by Dr. Dillard. Washington, Jan. 30.—Dr. James H. Dillard, executive head of the boards administering the John F. Slater and the Anna T. Jeanes Annual School Fund is stated: "Howard University is the capstone of Negro education in America—and when we say American we mean the world!" The late Booker T. Washington, who was himself a trustee of Howard University, be fore his death, said: "It is very important that the white people thruout this country should realize the value of the work that Howard is doing." Fail to "Look Daggers" at Colored Men With White Women, So Writes Dean Pickens to His Southern Brother, Senator Vardaman. A N. P. Service. Chicago, Jan. 30.—Dean William Pickens, of Morgan College, Baltimore, Maryland, during his recent visit to Chicago made a tour of certain sections of the city to see what he could learn further in helping to promote the cause of Race adjustment. He was accompanied by a minister. Following his tour he wrote an open letter to Jas. K. Vardaman and John Sharpe Williams, entitled, "A Little Journey Along the Color Line." Do you like to read letters? If so, here is a top notcher by a close observer and acknowl- edged student of conditions: "Dear Sirs: "Last night in Chicago, Illinois, I saw white and Colored men and women eating, drinking and dancing together, and I want to discuss the matter with you, for I am a Southern like you. It is most likely that I come from an older Southern line than do either of you; for you will notice that my name is more traditionally Southern than is yours. "I took a respectable preacher with me and went where black and brown and yellow and pale and pink have made an untraceable zig-zag out of our familiar "color line." Because I am a Southerner and have had Southern "raising" I have very much of a distaste for such a thing, and so I naturally expected to see horrors. I must confess that I saw many of my illusions vanish as I stood face to face with this gathering; but I am not yet sure that it is a good thing. It may be a very dangerous thing, this "Babylon" of colors and races; Anglo-Saxons, Negroes, Jews and others. "But contrary to your previsions and mine, everything went on with the most perfect normality. They were "good times" not bad people—not all of them. The preacher with me discovered a few of his stock there. As a general thing the couples were of the same race, but there were a few colored men with white women and a few white men with colored women—and contrary to you and my previous notions, the white men seemed more desirous to get into the company of colored women black men seemed to get into the company of white women. This is one thing that impressed me, that although I have always heard it said that all negroes wanted was a CHANCE to associate with white women, these colored men seemed to pay no extra attention whatever to the white women present. And it may be that the only reason why the white men showed a little more forwardness for the company of colored women, was the very natural result of the extra-attractiveness of these women, due to their wonderful variety of colors. And then, too, they were all there for a "good time" and especially to dance and the colored women could out "shimmy" the white women and the shimmy seemed to be the biggest thing on the program and the object of all ambition. "And they were all equally well dressed and equally well behaved You know, from what I have been taught all my life, I expected to see the white men "look daggers" when a colored man appeared with a white girl, but bless your soul, all the white men were so busy talking and smiling upon the colored women that they seemed not to see the reversely mixed colors. "I was an observer, a student of the matter. I also noticed that some professors from Chicago University and foreign sociologists come there to be enlightened. "I cannot say that I like what I saw You see, I am so much of a Southerner that I cannot dismiss all my doubts—but I must confess that when you see with your eyes it teaches you that your imagination has been full of bunk on the matter. And I want to say to you what I said to this preacher: 'Let us go and see, know and then we can fight the thing better and more intelligently, if we want to fight it.' I noticed one thing: that these cabaret white and Colored Americans are much mor- democratic and more like men among men together than the "better class" of white and colored people are together. (Signd) Wm. PICKENS. 1012 Arlington Ave., Govans, Baltimore, Maryland. Larger Circulation than all the combined Colored Weeklies in Oklahoma. Read THE STAR and keep informed on all current issues. NUMBER THREE Disgrace CONGRESSMAN BYRNES CLASSES SIMS AS TRAITOR. Byrnes is an Authority on Subject. Look Where He's From—South Carolina. Washington Jan. 30.—Dishonorable discharge for Rear Admiral W. S. Sims, because of his recent testimony before the senate naval committee was recommended by Representative Byrnes, South Carolina, a democrat, in a speech in the house today. Byrnes declared that if a superior officer did admonish Sims, on leaving for England before the United States entered the war "not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes," the admiral, by repeating this to the senate committee, is "violating confidential instructions and deserves the condemnation of every American and a dishonorable discharge from the navy." ST. LOUIS MAN SUCCEEDS SECRETARY-TREASURER GLASS Washington, Jan. 30.—David S. Houston, secretary of agriculture, is to be appointed secretary of the treasury by President Wilson it was learned Tuesday at the white house. Houston will be succeeded by Edwin T. Meredith of Iowa, editor of the paper, "Successful Farmer." The new secretary of the treasury claims St. Louis, Mo., as his home and he has been in the cabinet since President Wilson's first inauguration. Before that he was chancellor of Washington University at St. Louis and has been president of the University of Texas and of the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Texas.Houston is a keen student of political science, which he taught at Texas University. Meredith is president of the Associated Advertising clubs of America and is regarded as one of the country's foremost farm journal writes A TULSA SUBSCRIBER MAKES BIG LAND DEAL. Prominent eNgro Citizen of Beggs Figures at Receiving End. Mr. A. Copeland, a subscriber of the Star and one of its staunchest friends in and around the community of Beggs, where he resides, made a very fortunate land sale last week in which he traded 80 acres for the sum of $156,000. This large sum sets a new and high price on land of Oklahoma. Just a short while before Mr. Copeland received the handsome sum of $40,000 for a tract of land. Mr. Copeland is one of the fore-sighted and shrewd business men of Beggs, and with a continuance of his good fortune it is expected he will soon rank with the millionaires of America. Ten Financial Commandments. 1—Work and Earn. 2—Make a Budget. 3—Keep a Record of Expenditures. 4—Have a Bank Account. 5—Carry Life Insurance. 7—Own Your Own Home. 8—Pay Your Bills Promptly. 9—Invest in Government Securities. 10—Share With Others.—Bartlesville Examiner. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Smith, of 119 1-2 N. Greenwood street, wish to announce the marriage of Miss Omar Porter to Dr. E. L. Dickens. They left for Youngstown, Ohio. THE PROGRESSIVE TAILORING COMPANY Makers of Ladies and Gents Clothes Fifteen years of experience prepares us to give you the best in quality and service. We clean and press and guarantee absolute satisfaction. F. E, Dickson, Proprietor Phone 8924 14.N, Cincinnat! 6t. e Tulsa, Oklahoma WILBERFORCE LAUNCHES cternal torture. And if that is th CAMPAIGN FOR $100,000 ruc the devil would get mar anes victims as a result of the many imi Noted University Seeks to Raise Jionaires that have been made du Wund by Founder's Day, Feb. 20 ing the past few years. Many cle (ALN. P. Service) XENIA, OHIO, Jan, 30-4 cam paign for $100,000 in support of Wilberforce University, of Wilber force near Xenia, Ohio, 4 schoo! founded in 1863 by the late Bishop Daniel A, Payne for the education of Negro youths, has been launched in the Ohio, Pennsylvonia, West Virginia, Indiana and Hlinois eon ferences of the A, M, E. ehurel, whith conferences comprise — the chureh district. supporting Wilber force University. ‘The — campaign for this fund is to terminate at Founder's Day celebration, Februa ty 20. Wilberforce University, during the fifty-seven years of ils history, has graduated thousands of Negro youths who have since become the respected leaders of their people in all sections of the country. It has an enrollment this year of 527 stadents in all departments and ty greatly in need of larger equipment and facilities for continuing her re demptive mission among the black people of America. THE RICH MAN IN HELL; THE THIEF IN PARADISE ‘The mass of the people, disgusted with doctrines, have almost lost any hope of finding anything reasonable or iogical about religion, They have been taught by the clergy that the rich man went to hell, a place of ROR ook ea SF Sea ee OE (a Ra As a) Paki NE) aaa Bray erat Fem Ra Md ee ol GROWTHOF_LONG,, FLUFFY HAIR GROWING OIL (2557, 50c PRESSING.OIL oS.) 500 aaa 18 2°) | See a Poreniaren artsy tara. OPAC OM mt 2761 Glenarm Sts Denver, Colo. 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TEMPLE, CHECOTAT, OKLAHOMA, PAGE TWO. By J. F. Rutherford. eternal torture, And if that is the race the devil would get) many victims as a result of the many iil Hionaires that have been made dur- ing the past few years, Many cler- xymen would also be victims, be- cause they have plenty to eat and fave well, j Auain, Laarus was a beggar. He laid down at the rich man’s gate, full of sores; the dogs licked his sores; he fed on the erumnbs from the rich man’s table; he died and went to heaven, a place of bliss, ac- cording to the clergy, and for no other reason than because he was a hegger, Mark you that the record does not disclose that the rich man did any evil thing, nor that Lazarus really did anything good. Further interpreting this Serip: ture literally, we would have to find that after the man was dead he litt ed up his eyes. Dead men don't lift up their eyes. Hell is represented 1s a place of liquid fire and brim. tone, and the rich man that was in that condition when he prayed thal God would send poor Lazarus with 4 drop of water on his finger to pul it en his tongue, Looking abou! Pittsburgh we see many sme’ > furnaces, Imagine a lake on fire many times hotter than these furn wes, and some poor fellow out it it, If you put a drop of water o1 \our finger and attempted to get uy to the firey furnaces it would dry up before you got near it; and i the rich man was in the midst o | hell fire, roasting, the poor mai contd not have gotten within a hun dred yards of him with a bucket o water before it was dried up, Fur ‘thermore, if this it literally ster P preted we must finr that Abrahaay’ hosom is heaven, and if that is so i must be a very small place. We se that a literal interpretation: make ‘his Serintural account appear per fectly ridiculous. A Parable. Jesus alwayg) spake in parable when teaching a great lesson, In ; parable the thing said is never th reul thing meant, but the statemen is used to illustrate some othe truth, For instance, when Jesus use wheet and tares with reference t the kingdom, he meant the childre: of the kingdom and the children 9 the wicked one; the sheep and th xoals, the sheep representing th Tord’s people and the goats peop! of different disposition, Explanation. God dealt with the Jewish peopl exclusively for more than eightee: , centuries, He said to them: “Yor only have 1 known( recognized) o | all the families of the earth.” (Amo + 3:2) St. Paul tells us that the Jew ish nation was a typical people an that God used them to make picture , and examples for the benefit * those who should live in the end o the age, particularly the Gospel age (| (Hebrews 10:1; 1Corinthians 10:11, ; During all that time the Gentile na "tions were outeast from God's fa vor, We, therefore, suggest that th | rich man here was a symbol repre senting the Jewish nation; that th | beggar, Lazarus, picture the Gentil + vations, { peagar, Laparus, pictures the Gentii ) man symbolically represented roy THE TULSA STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920. _ jrty, God had promised the Jewish nation that if they would keep His covenant they should be a peculiar people to Him a royal line, (Exodus 1-5-7.) “David sat on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord.” “Sol ‘omon sat on the throne of the King dom of the Lord in the room of his father, David.” (I Chronicles 29:23.) Because of the unfaithfulness Zede kiah, the last king of Israel, was de throned, | ‘The fine linen sybolically repre- sented righteousness, the righteous- ness which by divine arrangement, was counted to the Jewish nation cach year by virtue of the Atone- nent sacrifice, | ‘The sumptuous fare represents the gracious promises of God through tze Law and the Prophets, and His covenant with the houe of Israel. Lararus full of sores, symbolicall represented those Gentiles who were outside of the Jewish coven ant—“aliens and strangers from the commonwealth of Israel.” ‘Their soves and rags represented the alien- ation from divine favor. . Eating crambs from the rich man’s table pictured that every blessing — the Gentiles received came through the Jewish nation, Examples are giver of this when Jesus healed the centu rion’s servant and the Syro-Phenici- an woman's daughter, To the latter Jesus said, before healing her daugh- ler: “It is not meet to take the chil- dren's bread and give it to the dogs.’ The woman accepted the answer without offense, and then replied: “Yca, Lord, yet the dogs eat of the erumbs which fall from the chil- dren's table. Here she applied the word dogs to herself and other Gen- tiles. ‘The rich man’s death and going to heil pictures the decided change that Jcame to Israel, the Jewish nation. ‘|The dying process began at the | Lord’s crucifixion, Just before that | Jesus said: “Behold, your house is ‘}left unto you desolate.” (Matthew "| 28:38.) Forty years later the Jew- |] ish nation was completely destroyed and went to oblivion—sheol—hades '|_-hell, ‘The people, however, scat -| tered through other nations, surviv- ) ed, and in this condition they have -lbecu persecuted particularly in Rus- -|sia and Galatia for many — years, ‘| while thus persecuted they have (cried unto God and asked the Gen *| tile peoples to help them. ‘| Abraham pictured God as is true “Jin many instances in the Bible. His bosom representes a position of (a's favor, ‘The death of the beg: ‘| gar occurred three and one-half '] years after the cross, when the con- ‘I dition with reference to the Gentile ‘)nations ceased and a new order '! opened to the people of the Gentiles. ') When Cornelius received the Gospel ').t marked the Gentiles coming into 1! God's favor, which was pictured by ‘Tiaarus, the beggar, being taken to ‘| Auraham’s bosom. All Gentiles now ‘Jacceptink Christ are Abrahams chit ‘Idren, according to the promise (Gal- ations 3:27-29). Hence in God's fa var. See also Galatians 4:28. ‘| ‘The rich man being tormented in '/ flames pictured the fiery trials and '/ experiences through which the Jew- ‘lish people have pissed for nearly ‘Joihteen hundred years. So severe dil these trials become that only in I recent years the Jews petitioned the ‘| president of the United States to vo: }cperate with other Gentile nation: (J uid to intercede on behalf of the ‘|incmbers of their race in Europe | particularly in Russia, that they tor: ments might cease and they might | have some cool, refreshing blessing *| sopresented by the drop of water But the Jews were not relieved 04 ‘| this persecution, and still suffer >| and this was shown in the words o! the parable which remined the Jew" that at one time they had God's fa vor; that time had expired; now the Gentiles must have God’s favor for a certain period, and that time alse has expired. ‘The nation of Israel was divided into twelve tribes. ll, in a genera’ way, represented Israel in our ihe Glas ia abel les: “aan ter, was to show how the Jewish na- tion, once rich and much favored, would lose it all, At the same time, the Gentile nations being poor, would untimately come into God's favor as an outworking of Jehovah's plan. The facts prove that this was so. This interpretation of the para- ble is entirely in harmony with all other Sevriptures and in harmony with reason, and with the history of the Jewish nation and other na- tions, Instead of teaching eternal torment, which doctrine is a defam- ation of God's character, it is a pan- oramic view of the Lord's dealing with the nation of Israel and with the Gentile nations. FEDERAL OFFICERS ARREST HUNTERS USING AIRPLANES. ‘The first arrest under the Migra- tory Bird Treaty Act for hunting wild fowl from an airplane was made in Missouri recently when the long arm of the law reached into the air and seized two men for hunting and killing wild geese from an air craft, The arrest was made by a warden of the Biological Sur- vey, United States Department of Agriculture, which administers. the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Follow: ing their arrest the hunters made the trip to the office of United Slates Commissioner at Caruthers: ville, Mo., in their plane, They had previously boasted of their ability. while flying to herd the geese more effectively than sportsmen on the ground can possibly do. Hunting of the sort in which they engaged i: specifically forbidden by the federa! law and the regulations thereunder. Several states have passed laws for: bidding hunting from airplanes, among them being California, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina ana South Carolina. ‘These is con siderable sentiment in sporting cir cles against the practice on the grounds that it is unsportsmanlike. CARDS OF THANKS { wish to thank my many friends for their gratefulness and kind. benevolent consideration toward me in my sad bereavement and loss of my beloved husband, Ed John. son. Sincerely yours, DAISY JOHNSON, NEGRO DEMOCRATS HAVE PERMANENT ORGANIZATION, With 2,369 Members it is Regarded As Strong Political Body (Prom The Kansas City Post) Time was when Republican poli- ticians in Kansas City looked upon the Negro vote in the city as ‘theirs” ‘That time is past, however, for, dur- ing the past several years the Repub- Ircans have been losing the Negro vote, and now the vote belongs, or at least a large share of it, to the Democrats. One of the strongest Democratic organizations in Kansas City, and possibly in the state of Misouri, is the Negro Central Democratic or- ganization of Kanas City, The organization is incorporated anc its roster now shows a total membership of 2,369, among them Negro business and professional men who will be a dominating force on the Democratic side when election time rolls around. And in the organization of the Ne- gro club many of the white politica’ Jeaders could learn things. The Ne- gro organization has been built up through the efforts of Dr. W. J ‘Thompkins, Negro physician and su- permtendent of ihe old city hospital for Negroes, Associated with him have been other Negro professional and business men who are leaders of their race in Kansas City. The Democratic Negroes have shaped their organization with a view of standing aloof from faction- al fights within the Democratic party. “We can't afford to take part in the factional differences of the Dem- ocratic party,” declared Dr. Thom. kins. “The true purpose of the or- ganization is to solidify the Negro Democratic vote, and that is what we believe we have accomplished.” Dr. Thompkins started to build up a Democratic Negro organization in Kansas City two years ago, and with other Democratic Negro leaders kept plugging along until the organization is recognized as one if the political factors in the party in this city. It has workers and organization machinery established in every ward and precinct in the city where Ne- groes reside, Several times during the past year white Democratic factional leaders have attempted to inject fac tionalism into the organization of the Negro Democrats, but without suceess. Now the organization is an Oe 2 oe SY VEPPrP RPP P HEP Preyer rer yer eORReRe, y Ye WAR! y rT . HURT { the representatives of the } COMPANY OF CHICAGO, ILL., high-priced clothing. See him; it 1 money-saving to you on Suits and fit the richest to the poorest, in fact ill and see him. N. Greenwood Street CARRERA RAR ARLE ————— <li thei hi ESSE | 7 y — WAR! WAR! G W. HURT Who is one of the representatives of the : RUBY TAILORING COMPANY OF CHICAGO, ILL, Has declared war on high-priced clothing. See him; it will pay you, and mean money-saving to you on Suits and Overcoats, Prices to fit the richest to the poorest, in fact prices to suit you, Call and see him. : 122 N, Greenwood Street receiving the support of every Dem ocratic leader in the city. HOUSTON POST CRITICIZES Vederal Military Officer for Not De fering to Texas Jim Crow Laws and Unchristian Racial } Sentiments ‘terings and evidences cropping out in the South which clearly demon strate that section has made no ma- terial progress from the opinion ‘and sentiment which actuated the brave fellow who dared to fire on It. Sumpter. The only difference discernable is that the south has not had the courage to take such steps as could be interpreted in no other way than as an attempt te over- throw the authority of the govern- ment. Their courage does prompt camouflage throngh Jim Crow laws, lyachings, burning at stakes and de- iuals of justice to Negroes, which ave nothing more and nothing less than yeiled attacks on the govera- ‘nent. ‘The Negro race holds no brief for the “Reds” who haye been transported to Soviet Russia, yet on account of the continued mistreat- ment oppressing him, he is forced to believe there are men of the South who are equally as inimical and dangerous to this governmeat as the “Reds” were, The “Reds” un- doubtedly talked unwisely and too much: but at least’ the American “Hteds” did not haye the blood of innocent and defenseless human beings on their hands, “Thou shalt not kill", so speaks God's law, The fact is the South has never beer since Appomatox sufficiently con- templative of two facts: One thot personal liberty is one of the fun- damental principles without: which world Democracy and Ameriean Democracy can not exist; and. see- ond, that the United States Con- stitution is supreme in all respects as to its authority, especially as to certain amendments pertaining to Negro citizenship. ‘The Houston Post affords recent evidence of the widely spread Southern “huism,” and unreas- oning unreasonableness, ‘Tiiis_pa- per caustically arraigns a Federal military officer because he sent a white prisoner under guard of two Xegro soldiers to Leavensworth, The Post charges the officer with intentionally creating a *¥tuafion which would stir up racial strife The Post thus would have it under: stood that any Federal military of ficer while preparing his orders at headquarters in an Army Post in ‘Vexus, should permit his brain to become so belittled as to. think in picayune Teas, rather than masto don United States, The Post's inouhgtless and inconiderate ef fusion follows.: “Every now and then something cecurs to show that there are of- fivers in the army of high standing who appear to have no conception gro club, many of white political of the race problem, and who go Hlundering along creating situations which stir up racial clashes, The latest instance was the send- ing of a white prisoner under guard of two Negro soldiers from a South- western camp to Jefferson Bar- racks. The trio got as far as Fort Worth, where a mob formed and a riot was narrowly averted when it was found a white man was in charge of Negroes. The Negroes were relieved of their cherge and Le was sent on under white guard. According to news dispatches, the Negro guards were in no way to blame. They were carrying out crders from higher-up faithfully end honestly. But inasmuch as ‘he segregation laws of Texas pro scribe separate coaches for Negroes. it was necessary for the Negro. guards to take their white prisoner into the Negro coach, To say that Southern sentiment | Would not tolerate such a situation | as this, is putting it mildly, and an, ermy — officer with intelligence | enough to hold a commission should haye known it. Such occurrences as these rat the suspicion that it is not so much ignorance on the part of white of-| ficers who are responsible for such orders, as that there are individuals smong the officers class who take oveasion to deliberately flaunt the South, and to use their authority to show their contempt for South- ern feeling on the race question.” DROPS DEAD IN CHURCH LAST SUNDAY. Mr. C. A, Mason, President of the B. Y. P.U. of Mt. Zion Baptist Church Expired at Close of Services Just at the close of the B. Y. P. U. exercises at Mt. Zion Baptist Bap- list church on last Sunday evening at about 7:15, Mr, C. A. Mason, the president of the Union, died sud- denly of heart troubles. His death caused a great deal of excitement ind sorrow, as deceased was appa- yently in good health up to the time death claimed him, He was active member of Mt. Zion, and a good cit- izen. The funeral will be conduct- ed by the Wise Men, of which he was Vice Ruler. Hon, W. T. Hodges will be present and assist in the obsequies. DUNBAR GRADE SCHOOL NEWS Ou account of this being pro- motion week the regular meeting of Parent-Teachers’ Association will be postponed until Friday week at p.m. - Prof. Braxton’s manual training class is making toys, is planning for a toy sale for benefit of Day Nursery Fund, The Girl Reserves will have a social meeting on Thursday after- cont Da ~The Dunbar Cafeteria made the lorgest number of sales in its his- tory the past week. — Mrs. Johnson and Miss Walton ‘will leave Dunbar faculty to be with the school in the Addition, We regret to lose the two ladies We wonder the cause of gloom on Prof, Braxton’s countenance t ‘Tulsa-Muskogee game solves the i ROP, J. W. HUGHES, Prin M. E. BOOTHE, Reporter ary Ist, 1920, WANTED—First-class Colored Beker. Apply with letters of ree- ommendation at once to The Valley Mercantile Co., Haskell, Oklahoma. The Booker Washington High [School Orchestra received quite a nice sum of money from the Mid- “ight Ramble held at the Dream- ‘land Theatre Saturday night, Jan- wary 24, The proceeds were do- rated by Mrs. Williams, the pro- prietress of the Dreamland, to help the boys pay for their instruments ‘This excellent Race woman is con- tinnally doing something for the Nace to show our people that she ‘is grateful to them for the liberal ‘support accorded her, age eee | Mr, Silas Jackson, one of the Hace’s successful farmers at New- by, Okla., sent us his renewal for The Siar this week by Mr. Sloan, a ‘young man who assists him with Lis farm work. Mr, Jackson belongs to that class who help to make Col- cred newspapers a suecess, ‘The Star office printed some very classy ball programs for the Wai- ters’ Association, which had its an- nual ball at the Stradford Hotel on ‘Tuesday night. Tt was indeed a swell affair, there being many Leoutifully gownet ladies and chiv- alious young men present who en- joycd the occasion immensely. Mr, Jack Douglass, proprietor of the Cozy Barber shop on Archer street, left Saturday night for Hot Springs, Ark. to have his eyes 'reated by a specialist, For several days this gentleman has had con- siderable trouble with sore eyes and they finally gave him so much trouble that his physician recom- mended that he go to the above named place. Mr, Douglass, be- sides conducting a nice place of business, owns one of the best resi- dences in this city, The Misses Davis, Corneal and Mrs, Boothe were guests at dinner Mrs, M. Jordan on last Sunday, The Red Wing Hotel The Red Wing Hotel Under the personal management of Julius T. Presley 206½ North Greenwood St. Telephone 7874 ONE OF THE MAIN FEATURES at the Red Wing Hotel is the attention to the transient public You will at all times find plenty of comfortable and luxuriously furnished rooms and besides our very low rates you will have a safe feeling and will be uncombarrassed to bring your wife, mother or louther. Hove a room reserved for your friend and make their visit to Tulsa a pleasant one. Shoe Shining Parlor 316 E. Archer Street FIRST-CLASS SERVICE FOR LA- DIES AND GENTLEMEN W. B. BUNNS "The Cripple Man" Clark Tailoring Company CLEANING & PRESSING Neatly Done at Reasonable Prices BY... SUITS MADE TO ORDER—CALL AND SEE US Clothes called for and delivered in one day. 314 1.2 E. Archer St Phone Osage 5110 Quality Shoe Shop Good Shoe Repairing N o.7 North Main Telephone 3150 Panama Hats a Specialty 205 N.Main St. Phone 1557 Guarantee Clothing Store The store that handles Men and Boys', Clothes. We want your patronage. We will give you honest, courteous treatment and low prices in return. THE TULSA STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920. Tulsa. Oklahoma A RESIDENCE HOTEL —a place where you and your family will be sure to enjoy living, because of its homelike comforts, and because of the friendly and sociable associates which introduces one large, cheerful family. You will like it because of the respect and courtesy that is shown to each of our tenants. You will find plenty if nice, large cool, clean rioms and they are all nicely furnished. They can be had either single or in suite. Our rates are as low as $3.00 per week. MCIAL FURNISHED TRANSIENT ROO ent of esley ONE OF THE SPECIAL FURNISHED TRANSIENT ROO THE BEDROOM Real Estate Bought and Sold; Money to Loan SADDLER & CORBETT Attorneys at Law Practice in all Courts of the State of Oklahoma, both State and Federal Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Phone 6918; Office, Smith Building, 122½ N. Greenwood TULSA, OKLAHOMA. MRS. MABEL LITTLE. THE TAILOR SYSTEM OF HAIR GROWING. Guaranteed to grow hair long and Beautiful. 103 1-2 N. Greenwood Street. HOTEL GIVENS Quit as a Mouse Safe as a Bank Real Estate Money to Loan Bring Your Families Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Giving The Jewelers Phone 2137 226 Elgin Muskogee, Okla McALESTER PASS TIME GEORGE McCARTHY, Prop. Dealer in Soft Drinks, Tobacco, Cigars and Confectioneries Hamburger and Newspapen Stand in Connection. Office Phone 688; Res. 1434. 341 E. Choctaw Av. McALESTER, OKLA. S. A. WEAVER BAGGAGE AND TRANSFER LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING —Quick Service.— Phone Osage 1946.R, or Osage 4293. Below we are giving the names of those who were entertained: Mr. Green, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Scott. Mr. Smart, Mr. Rather Rose, Mr. Talbert, Mrs. Ruffitt, Mr. and Mrs. Rutling, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Durkey, Mr. and Mrs. Hensley Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Swinger, Mrs. Hardon, Mrs. Verguess, Miss West, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, and Miss Willie Morris. —Menu— Turkey, Celery, Olives .and_ Cranberries Mr. A. G. W. Sango, the well known Muskogean, was in the city Thursday on legal business. THE PORO BEAUTY PARLOR THE WOMEN'S HERITAGE MRS. DE ETTA SMITH, Prop. For improving the appearance and the Growth of the Hair it will Pay You to See one who is Experienced in Scientific Treatment of the Scalp and Hair My Treatment Never Fails to Prot The Best and Most Satisfactory Results in a Short Time Mrs. De Etta Smith 528 S. 2nd. St., Chickasha, Okla P. S. THOMPSON DRUGS 23 N. Cincinnati St. Telephone 4393 TULSA, OKLAHOMA. When in Haskell Visit —STAFFORD'S CAFE— East Mani Street. Best Home Cooking Up-to-Date Meals in any Style. Cold Drinks, Tobaccos and Cigars.' C. STAFFORD. Postoffice Box 281. Colored Bakery, Located at 302 N. Frankfort St. KING BEE BAKERY, Experienced Colored Bakers Whose BREAD, PIES, CAKES, ETC., are as good as made. The very best of Everything Free Delivery to all Parts of the City The patronage of all solicited MITCHELL & OWENS, Props. Telephone 2124. N. W. SIMMONS. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Prepared to furnish Plans and Spe- ficifications, and do all kinds of BUILDING, Years' of Experience as a Mechanic Best of Reference. Phone 3852 112½ N. Grenwood St MADAM C. J. WALKER'S —BEAUTY PARLOR— We do all the Beauty Work. Hair Dressing, Scientific Scalp Treatment, Manicuring, Shampooing, Massaging, Marcel Waving and Hair Weaving for Women and Men. Our Work Guaranteed. 210 N. Grenwood St. MRS. CHAS. D. HARRIS MISS BEULAO SANDER, Proprietresses. Hearing on Federal Anti-Lynching Action. NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, today announced that a hearing was held in Washington on Thursday, January 29, on the Dyer resolution and bill, one calling for a federal investigation of race riots and lynching, the other making lynching a crime subject to the jurisdiction of the federal government The Advancement Association announced as its representatives at the hearing, James Weldon Johnson, ex-United States consul to Nicaragua and Field Secretary of the Association; John R. Shillady, Secretary of the Association; Captain Arthur Spingarn of New York. The Society of Friends will be represented by Miss Esther Morton Smith of Germantown, Pa. LODGE DIRECTORY Sand Springs Lodge No. 192, A. F. & A. M., meets every first and third Wednesday nights at Myers' Hall, East Archer Street. J. H. SMITHERMAN, W. M. W. L. GAMBLE, Secretay. Mrs. R. J. Clark of 314 E. Archer has been ill during the past week. Mrs. Cathcart of 414 E. Archer St., has been on the sick list for some time but is now improving much to the happiness of her friends. Mr. E. D. Smith, 1100 N. Elgin, has been sick this week, but is improving. ```markdown ``` THE EXCHANGE INSURANCE COMPANY Unrestricted; All Industrial Claims Paid Writes: Life, Health and Accident Policies. Directly from this Office. Agents Wanted. Liberal Commission. Headquarters at Muskogee. Branch office119 1-2 N. Greenwood. Annual Report Authorized capital stock___$ 5,000.00 Capital stock paid in_____ 5,000.00 Accounts payable _____ 200.00 Accounts Receivable _____ 435.57 Cash in bank _____ 1,600.60 Dividends paid Jan. 10, '19 2,065.00 Dividends paid April 3, '19 1,770.00 Dividends paid May 19, '19 1,770.00 Dividends paid July 1, '19 1,770.00 Dividends paid Nov. 3, '19 2,360.00 Net profits during 1919____ 3,866.00 GEO. C. PROBST, Director, JAS. B. MORRISON, Director. I swear that this annual report of the Doris Oil & Gas Company to the best of my knowledge and belief is a true report. GEO. C. PROBST, President. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of January, 1920. O. P. HYDE, Nortary Public. In and for Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma. My commission expires July 8, PROFITEER! PROFITEER!! "There Be no Such Thing," So Declares an Erudite Boston Man. After all this dreadfully mean fell low, we have been laying out to the dogs, the profiteer, is a ghost, a creature of imagination. That is the way a distinguished Harvard scholar expresses it, after spending a considerable length of time thoroughly investigating all phases of profiteering. His knowledge of this subject enables him to illustrate his contention that there is no such thing as a profiteer, as follows: He says, in 1913 there was about $2.50 worth of raw wool in a suit of clothes which was sold for $25.00. We cheerfully paid the $25.00 and strutted off feeling that we had beaten the tailor out of ten or twelve dollars. But today on account of the increase in the cost of raw wool, there is about $7.50 worth of raw wool in the suit for which the tailor asks $75.00. At this price we cry out "Ouch!" and accuse the tailor of profiteering. However the ratio is the same in both cases as $25.00 is ten times $2.50 and $75.00 is ten times $7.50. Take also for instance lard. Several years ago we paid 25c for two pounds, or 15c straight per pound without murmur or grumble. The grocer made a profit of 7 or 8 cents a pound in the transaction. Today we pay 25 to 28 cents per pound and while the grocer is making his old profit of 7 or 8 cents, he is compelled to invest three times as much money as he did before. Mrs. Holmes, 912 Exter, will return on 1st of February from a visit to her relatives at Little Rock, Ark., and other cities in Arkansas. Mrs. Jennie Wheat, of 320 N. Frankfort, mother of Mr. Theo, Baughman of The Star staff, has been quite ill the past week, but is better much to the happiness of her many friends. Rev. A. C. Chinn, pastor of St. John's Baptist Church, Sapulpa, was in the city Thursday and returned Friday. Women have lost their fight for equal rights with the men to speak and pray before the general congregations in one of the conferences of the Church of England. This conference is the Oxford, and it decided adversely because there was no precedent for women to enjoy the right. ENTERTAINED IN HONOR OF THEIR 8TH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs Harmon, and and Miss Leana Lavan entertained a host of friends with a three course luncheon in honor the 8th anniversary of Mr. asd Mrs. Harmon's marriage at 1730 South Cheyenne Ave. A sumptuous time was enjoyed by those present. Mrs. Julia A. Jackson, one of our city's efficient teachers, called this week and had us do printing for the Roland Hayes' Concert at Convention Hall, Monday night, February 9. Mr. Hayes is one of the Race's greatest singers and no doubt he will be greeted by an immense crowd. Miss Ethel Taylor of 815 E. Easton entertained the members of the Worth While Club composed of little boy and girls. All present had an enjoyable time and were grateful therefor to Miss Taylor, the hostess. PAGE THREE MYSTERY SURROUNDS THE MURDER OF WOMAN Beulah Gwinn Shot and Instantly Killed by a Highwayman Tulsa Cdolored people were talking early Wednesday morning about a serious killing affray which it had been rumored had occurred out in the Addition late Tuesday night. The Tulsa Star reporter charging this information down has learned that only one case of killing had taken place. The unfortunate victim of this shooting affair is Mrs. Beulah Gwinn, a_.young.married woman, 25 years old, formerly of St. Louis, Mo., but recently living in Tulsa Addition with her husband, who at present is out of the city. A very great mystery clouds the killing of this young woman, and it is generally supposed that robbery prompted the attack on her resulting in her death. Her slayer is not positively known She was waylaid at eleven o'clock Tuesday night and there seems to have been no witnesses on account of the lateness of the hour. Her parents reside at 913 E. Fairview surrounded by evidences of respectability. Her body is Jackson's Undertaking establishment. Burial time no known. Mrs. Mamie Williams has been sick for the past two weeks but is some better. Miss Sallie Dillard of 514 Green wood has been sick during the past week. Mrs. Alice Johnson of North Madison has been on the sick list the past wek. Mrs. Venable of 512 N. Greenwood has been ill ever since Christmas but is up and improving rapidly. Mr. R. Bruner of 714 North Greenwood is on the sick list this week. The Jackson Undertakers have been busy the past week with burials of Tulsans who have passed on to their future reward. Among the best known people whose burial has been placed in their efficient care are: Bro. C, C. Mason, the well known member of Wisemen and Second Baptist Church, who suddenly dropped dead at church last Sunday and was buried from there Thursday. Also, the body of Mrs. Artie Grigsby, a well known member of the Baptist Church at Okmugee, who was severely burned ten days ago and died from her wounds last Sunday night. COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CONVEN TION TO MEET TODAY The Democrcatic County Convention will meet in the court house at ten o'clock this morning to elect delegates to the state convention which meets in Muskogee Thursday February 5th. Two Colored men will be seated as delegates in the convention today in the personnel of E. I. Saddler, a prominent lawyer of this city, and J. H. Smitherman, plainsclothesman on the Tulsa police force, delegate and alternate respectfully. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the Superior Court of Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma. Eunice Lee, Plaintiff. vs. Lissie Lee. Defendast. To the above named Defesdant: have been sued in the above named Court by the above plaintiff, for a divorce on the grounds of abandonment and that unless you answer the petition filed by this plaintiff is said Couprt by the 15th day of March, 1920, said petition will be takes as true asd judgment granting to the plaintiff a divorce, cancellis, setisig aside and holding for naught the marriage contract with you, rendered according to the prayer thereof. Witness my hand asd seal of said court this 29th day of January, 1920. JOHN PORTER, Court Clerk. JOHN EWELLS, Deputy. By H. A. GUESS, Attorney for the Plaintiff. Entered as Second Class mail matter at Tulsa, Oklahoma. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... $1.50 Three Months ..... $1.00 All Subscriptions must be paid in Advance. THE STAR has space to sell; the individual who satisfies us by paying our price, gets it. IT IS SAID that politics and religion don't mix well, but there are preachers in Tulsa who evidently think differently. LET EVERY true Race man lend his assistance in toning up the citizenship of our people. The world must be made better, and it's the duty of everyone to do his bit along this line. FRIENDSHIP that comes only from the lips is scarcely worth claiming; there are a great many in our lace who grin, pat you on the back and talk about their friendship—that's all. THAT PROGRESSIVE, "get-up-and-get-it fellow, who goes after things succeeds. The dreamer, who expects some one to pour his lap full of "goodies" awakes only to discover that he had only been dreaming. SINCE IT IS impossible to keep our schools and other public institutions out of politics, the Star is in favor of adhering to the rules of the ganc and crowning the victors with the spoils. WE WANT the world to know that we put the interest of the Colored Race ahead of everything else in the world, and we will be found at the old stand, defending our people whenever the occasion arrives for us to do so. ABOUT the biggest job that some people tackle is, "killing off" a member of the Race who is striving to do something; the fellow who is able to deliver the goods is a hard "bird" to wing. See? THE MEANEST, lowest, and most contemptible man on earth is the fellow who plays the part of Judas with his friends. He is worse than ungrateful viper which blits the hand that feeds him. THE STAR has always stood for a square deal for the black man and as long as its present editor and publisher is responsible for its being it will always fight without fear or favor for these principles. ALL NEGROES should belong to the Baptist Church," (or we might say the Methodist Church) would be a foolish doctrine to preach to the Race: it is even more foolish to preach the doctrine that all Negroes should vote the Republican ticket. COLORED MEN must learn to differ on issues and still treat each other fair; "mud slinging" has never helped any one and never will. The Star concedes everyone the right to follow the dictates of his mind and trusts everyone will be as fair with us. THE STAR has always been honest in its opinion about the Race being members of the various parties, and we are going to stand by what we believe is for the Race's best interests, and we are confident that more thinking men and women are going to vote the Democratic ticket than ever before in the history of the country. THE ORGANIZATION of a Colored Republican Club in Tulsa last Sunday and the announced intention of starting a newspaper, was the beginning of a concerted effort to counteract the influence of the Stax among our people in this city and state, to which we offer no objection since our policy is based upon the greatest of all political principles. There has never been a time in the history of the world when all men agreed on any issue. This very fact accounts for the rapid increase of Negro Democrats in the United States. Thank God, we have learned to think and act for ourselves. NO ONE need ever doubt the political policy of this paper. The Star believes in and espouses the cause of Democracy—the true Jeffersonian Democracy—which holds that "all men are born equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Upon these principles we are perfectly willing to risk the political destinies of the Race. No one can deny the fact that the Race has mary strong friends in all political parties and we are rightfully proud of the reputation our Race has made in that we have never been branded as ingrates or traitors to our friends. The Negro has learned he valuable lesson of thinking and acting with good common sense and will be no longer found the chattel slave of any political party. The Black man who pretends to believe that all of his Race should trail behind the banners of the Republican party is a fool, though, perhaps he may be unaware of the fact. TULSA PROUD OF NEGRO MERCANTILE HOUSES. Remarkable Showing Made by Elliott & Hooker Since 1917. The Star office door was open and she wafted in, the talkingest piece of furniture that has graced our sanctum sanctorum in many a long day. This lady had business too with us and got to it at once. "Say, how is it you Star people haven't said anything about our great stock of goods across the street over there at Elliott & Heokers?" Before she rushed on we managed to interpolate, the Star had had just that very thing and for others on its mind for some time, but every time we stepped in the store, the store was full of customers and every one too busy to take the matter up. At this the bright eyes of our visitor or sparkled and a dimpling smile mounted her dark cheeks—just such a smile as Cleopatra caused Caesar to forget his wife and Antony his country. "You have a wife and family?" asked she. We butted in long enough to plead guilty to wife but suggested a period best indicated a full stop in family line. "Well, then, bring your wife over We have the daintiest, niffiest and most stunning ready to wear suits and dresses to be found anywhere They are Hoveland make and just what you see on 1 fifth avenue, N Y., and State street, Chicago, Mrs S D. Hooker has charge of this department and it's a real pleasure for her to show our great variety and array of charming waists, suits and coats, artfully trimmed with braid beads, fur, satin, etc., the choiceest products of eastern manufacturers, Mrs. Hooker, a most expert milliner, has a fine-assortment of Gage hats the highest standard quality hats in America, but there are many who prefer her taste, skill and handicraft, and she has a numerous clientele. The young high school Misses, Thelma Johnson and Irene Hooker, and Miss Carie Davis are the capable and efficient aides in this department." Our visitor rippled on with the cudence of a babbling brook; "You ought to see our line of splendid shoes for ladies and gentlemen, and our display of Sophomore suits for men, hats, shirts, collars and notions, complete in detail and best on the market." When she said "shoes" we glanced up. Noting it, she said: "That's all right. I got you. You are like the rest, you are thinking of the high prices." "Well, yes," we said, "it is like this, we saw in a window a hat marked $10 and shoes $10 a piece, and we felt sorry that we didn't have one foot just like we had one head." She smiled disclosing a double row of pearls for which an East Indian would dive for a year to obtain. "Here's the big idea," she said. "Shoes are higher than before, but wages and salaries are also higher, there's more money going around. Then, the Elliott & Hooker firm pay $6,000 today for the same stock of shoes they paid $3,000 for several years ago. Thus, they must invest double the original amount of capital invested to make about the same, or perhaps less profit, than before. But our stock of Stetson hats and shoes, and Strong-Garfield and Crossett shoes, Arrow shirts and collars are standard and by the time our affable Mr. A. J. Wililams gets through showing the goods, the prices will be forgotten. "This firm started in 1917, the Messrs. Elliott & Hooker, then both of Muskogee, putting in a $7000 stock. Today that stock has increased to $30,000, covering in every detail the line: of goods carried by ladies and gents' furnishers. During the THE TULSA STAR, SATURDA Y, JANUARY 31, 1920 past year our sales approximated 800,000, a volume of business more than creditable to Mr. Hooker, manager of our store, which is one of the chain of Elliott stores entered on at Muskogee, Tulsa and Okmuglee, and Messrs Elliott & Hooker and Mrs. Hutton are proprietors. Come over and see us." Then the telephone rang and when we turned back she was gone. She had not given us her name, and out we rushed over to the Hooker-Elliott store. Mr. Hooker met us. No one had passed in and he had sent no young lady over to the Star office. As we turned away, our eyes fell upon her hiding shyly in the large show window of the store. "There she is," we said. "No," Mr. Hooker said, "that is a dummy. She speaks volumes for our business, but I have never heard her speak a word!" "HO, EVERYONE THAT THIRSTH EIGH COME YE TO THE WATERS." (Isaiah 55:1.) In all of God's dealings with His creatures, one principle is marked and prominent, and that is the dignity with which He maintains His own prerogative while granting freedom to His creatures, in the exercise of their God-given powers. Thus having made man in His own likeness—with reason, will judgment, etc—He does not afterward deface or ignore that image, but on the contrary He honors it. God never demands of man a course of action out of harmony with His reason, or at the sacrifice of His judgment or in opposition to (man's) will, but in every case God satisfies reason, appeal to judgment, and leaves the decision subject to a free will, enlightened by an understanding of the inevitable final result in either case. He sets before us inducements or rewards for righteousness—punishment for unrighteousness but does not compel either course. With dignity and patience He waits a sufficient time for our enlightened decision, and then carries out His own purpose with reference thereto, in the event of that decision. In accordance with this principle is the above invitation through the Prophet Isaiah: "Ho, everyone that thirsteth come ye to the waters" (truth). Water is unwelcome except to the thirsty, and food produces loathing if forced upon one who is not hungry; so truth is obnoxious to those who prefer error. Therefore, God only gives His good things where they are desired and never compels the acceptance of His favors. But blessed is the man that hungereth and thirsteth after truth, for his soul shall be satisfied thru the Divine bounty. "Ah," says some anxious Christian, "but there are so many who have no thirst whatever for the truth, and if we don't compel them to hear and accept it we fear they will never get it." And so they at tempt to force the truth upon them and the result is always the same—more harm than good. It relieves the earnest hearted Bible student of all anxiety concerning the world's blindness when they note that God's plan is so broad and generous that its gracious provisions cover all the interest of every creature. None are so small or so degraded, or so mean as to be left out. If at present they are so filled with the husk of human traditions, and the muddy waters of human philosophy, there is little use in trying to fill them with anything else. But in the near future (in the great time of trouble just ahead of us) God is going to give them such an emetic and rid them of so much of their filth that they will be prepared and glad to receive the truth in its purity. While we may thus rest in faith in the sure premises of God with reference to the unbelieving world it is our privilege to herald the blessed invitation, "Ho, every one that 'firsteth, come ye to the waters." In due time they will be thirsty enough to gladly receive the water of life. God does not now, neither will He in the future, during the Millennial Age, compel any to accept His favor of life everlasting, but if when it is offered, they will have it O, how freely they may have it—"Ife that hath no money; come ye buy and eat—without money and without price." God does not address Himself to any one who will not stop, think and reason, and it matters not how religious one may think he is if he is not able to give a clear reason in harmony with the attributes of God—justire, wisdom, love, power) for the position He takes is not an der the influence and instructions of the Lord but (though invorantly) is under the hypnotic influence of the devil and the fallen angels. Beware of all forms of actions sailing under the name of religion that is fitted with inexorable emotions. There is nothing in the religion of Jesus Christ which is out of harmony with the oundest reason and the most refined judgment. Its methods, according to the scripture and tinkling cymballs; with extravagant words and actions that bring the children of God down to the level of those they seek to reach; no, its methods are as dignified and elevating as are the precious truths it bear. And both the truth and the truth-bearer who follows in the Master's footsteps, will command the reverence, even though they incur the persecution of men. Of Jesus it was said; "He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause Hi voice to be heard in the treet." (Isaiah 12.2). We are not heard, either by God or men, for our much speaking. Matt. 67); therefore we shall endeavor to present God's truth in all its native simplicity and beauty, and trust its inherent power to win it way in due time to every honest heart. RICHARD J. HILL. NOMINATIONS FOR SPINGARY MEDAL ARE NOW IN ORDER The Committee of Award of the Spingarn Medal which every year is awarded to the man or woman of African descent and of American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor, announces through its chairman Bishop John Hurst, of Baltimore that it invites recommendations for the award of the Spingarn Medal for 1919. These recommendations the committee requests, should contain a statement as to the qualifications of the person nominated for the medal with a specific account of the achievement or achievement, which in the opinion of the person who nominates him would entitle the nominee to the award. The medal is the gift of Mr. J. J. Spingarn, for several years the chairman, now treasurer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Committee of Award is as follows. Bishop John Hurst, chairman; Hon William Howard Taft, Mr. John Hope, Dr. James H. Dilfer and Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard. Recommendations are to be sent by February 10th to Bishop Hurst, Chairman of Committee of Award of the Spingarn Medal, Room 621, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. h. C. L., and Low Salaries Drive h. C. L., and More Lucrative Fields. Tulsa Star News. Oklahoma City, Jan. 30.—A pamphlet issued by the National Association sums up in a forcible fashion the facts concerning the shortage of teachers in the United States. According to this report, more than 100,000 teaching positions in the public schools are either vacant or filled by teachers below standard, and the enrollment in teachers' training and normal schools has fallen off about 20 per cent. Seventeen hundred superintendents sending in their information from every state in the union, report a shagage of 14,675 teachers and more starling still 23,000 teachers admittedly below standard. The actual shortage, then, is 6 per cent, and 10 per cent of those now employed are more or less unfit for the positions they hold. From the same source it is learned to 52,000 teachers dropped out during the past year. This is 22 per cent. The most unstable occupations are supposed to hold men and women longer than thi. It is evident that teaching has ceased to be a profession and well-nigh ceased to be a stepping stone. In regard to the training of new teachers to fill the places vacated by this 22 per cent the situation is even more discouraging. In seventy-eight normal schools of thirty-five different states were 33,000 students in 1916. In the same schools in 1919 the attendance had fallen to 26,000. The total of graduates fell from 10,00 to 8,000. In 1920 it will be 7,000 Of the many remedies proposed for this state of affairs—such as higher standard and a more general recognition of the importance of teaching—there is probably none that will be effective unless accomplished by higher salaries. In so far as the school system of New York or Los Angeles are superior to those of other sections of the country it is mainly due to the higher average of economic return. To the Many Friends OF THE Ardmore Lubricating Oil And Refining Company OF TATUM, OKLAHOMA, WILL IN ITS OWN BUILDING AT 319 East 2nd Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A Big Four Days' Feast and Public Entertainment — Prominent Men and Women of the State will speak on this occasion. — Good Music — All Stockholders and Their Friends are urged to attend this gala Opening. The general public is cordially invited to come and see Kerosene, Automobile Oil and Iethyol made from our crude oil. The Laboratory Chemists who will have charge of Company are A. P. Bethel, owner Bethel Drug Store, Oklahoma City and Dr. E. L. Dickens, who has recently sold his drug store at Tulsa, and will be with this Company all the time. Mrs. Dr. E. C. McCoy of Sapulpa, and Charles D. Harris. If you are behind on the payments for stock in this Company, PAY UP. 319 E. 2nd Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A. C. CLAY, President, Tulsa, Okla. Mrs. A D. Thomas, Seamstress Call and see me. My work is guaranteed. To do all kinds of NEAT AND FANCY SEWING FOR LADIES, CHILDREN FAMILIES. Also Hair Work, such as making MAKING AND TRANSFERRING WIGS. 615 South Archer. Madam Johns See me, I have a MAKE THAT RHEU A sure cure for Asthma. CARE A FACE BLEACH THAT —Years of HAVE PREPARATION FOR RELEASE ELSE HAIR WORK C Residence 516 Exeter Street. G. W. 841 N. B A GROCERY STORE THAT We handle all kinds of Fancy try to please our customers. Buffalo Clean All work Guar m Call Osage 2440 See me. I have a remedy that will MAKE THAT RHEUMATISM DISAPPEAR future for Asthma, Corns and Female Co- llege BLEACH THAT GIVES SATISFY —Years of Experience. ATION FOR RELEEF OF PERSPIRAT ELSEWHERE. HAIR WORK OF ALL KINDS. Exeter Street. G. W. NEAL 841 N. Boulder Street. GOCERY STORE TH AT WILL PLEASE all kinds of Fancy Groceries. Give our customers. Buffalo Cleaners and Hair work Guaranteed. W now usage 2440 111 N. See me. I have a remedy that will MAKE THAT RHEUMATISM DISAPPEAR. A sure cure for Asthma, Corns and Female Complaint. A FACE BLEACH THAT GIVES SATISFACTION. —Years of Experience. HAVE PREPARATION FOR RELIEF OF PERSPIRATION, FEET OR ELSEWHERE. HAIR WORK OF ALL KINDS. Residence 516 Exeter Street. Phone Dsage 7280. G. W. NEAL 841 N. Boulder Street. A GROCERY STORE TH AT WILL PLEASE YOU. We handle all kinds of Fancy Groceries. Give me a trial. We try to please our customers. anywhere not even in the large centers where the play is best. But standards must be raised and the occupation must be made attractive to the best talent we have. We shall have to raise wages or accept an insufficient supply of inefficient instructors. It is only a question of time—a question of how long it fakes us to adjust ourselves to the necessity. WANTED—Three or four large families to work share crop with me on my farm 8 miles south of Depew, Okla., in Creek county. Call or see T. H. Haynes at Boley, Okla. LOST—Ladie's shoe, mouse colored, heel broken. Finder please return to 312 N. Frankfort st. and receive reward. FOit RENT—Two rom house in the Fairview addition No. 2. See J. J. Lewis, 720 N. Lansing. a remedy that will MATTSM DISAPPEAR. Forms and Female Complaint. F GIVES SATISFACTION. Experience. F OF PERSPIRATION, FEET OR WHERE. F ALL KINDS. Phone Dsage 7280. NEAL Boulder Street. AT WILL PLEASE YOU. Groceries. Give me a trial. We ers and Hatters unteed. We do it now 111 N. Main St Sixty colored families were rendered homeless in Harlem, N. Y., through a big fire at 59th street, apartment house last Monday. One mother with her six months' old baby, was rescued with difficulty. Mr. Charles H. Anderson, the well known Negro bank promoter, of Jacksonville, Fla. has recently purchased a site for a bank in Harlem district, New York City at a cost of $75000. In its annual message to the Colored people of the nation Tuskegee (Ala.) Sociological Class points out that the year 1919 has been filled with anxieties unrest, disturbances and strife: It urges better railroad facilities, discontinuance of lynching and the improvement of school opportunities for Negro youth. Printers Ink has Helped Others And It Will Help You We put out over $14,000.00 worth of printing last year. Paid to our employees more than $6,000 and over $2000,00 for advertising. Indeed It Pays to Advertise Advertise Your Business and Watch It Grow Don't Be A Back Number If your business is not worth advertising it is not worth keeping-Advertise it for Sale Good Stationery will help your standing in the Commercial world. we handle the best on the market in office and correspondence stationery. We buy in quantity lots and save a good discount which we give our patrons. e pay the highest price for experienced workmen and demand in return the highest character of workmanship. This we put into every job of printing and give it to you at the lowest possible prices. Let us count YOU among our thousands of Satis- Adverti Don You must B Let U If your business is not Good Statione we give our patrons. return the highest char give it to you at the low Our Stationery Department We carry a complete line of Stationery Supplies, such as Box Stationery, Pencils, Pens, Ink, Rubber Erasers, Compasses, Fancy Cards, Ink and Pencil Tablets, Rubber Bands, Ink Wells, Pen Staffs, Carbon Paper, Typewriter Paper, Typewriter Ribbon, Oil and Gas Leases, Mortgages, Warranty and Quit Claim Deeds, Rubber Stamps, Ink Pads, "For Rent," "Rooms For Rent," "Tax" Signs, etc. We Make to Order Notary, Lodge Seals, Rubber Stamp Daters, Metal Badges, etc., Zinc and Copper Half Tone Cuts for book or newspaper print. Our Composing Department We have a large assortment of Job Type—of many fonts, new faces and all sizes—in series from 6 point to 72 point, and larger in Wood Type up to a 6-inch letter. In addition to this we have a late model two-magazine Linotype machine which casts metallic slugs of type of any measure in eighteen distinct faces from matrices running from 5 1.2 to 12 point, inclusive. With this machine we cast our own border in twelve different styles, do all of our book composition, tabulation work of a particular nature for large corporations, lodges, etc., in fact any kind of machine composition may be, and is, accurately done, on this machine. We have more than three tons of Liotype metal on hand which enables us to do any quantity of Book work without delay or handicap to any department. --- We Invite You To Come in and inspect our exclusive line of Ladies' (Mrs. and Misses) and Gentlemen's linen, kid and vellum finish, plain and panel plate Visitig Cards, Birth Announcement Cabinets, Program, Folders, etc., all the best that money can buy. Let us count YOU a fie We Can Do "Chea THE T Printing and Ph TULSA --- 1 HAMMERMILL BOND and Our Good PRINTING Will Save You Money Agriculture Farming Is a Business And like every business, it requires forms, records and blanks that give you the facts about your farm, just as a business man has them about his business. We print forms and letterheads (every business farmer should have his own letterhead) on Hammermill Bond, the Utility Business Paper. Let Us Show You What We Can Do for You THE TULSA STAR, SATURDA Y. JANUARY 31. 1920 Ink has Helped O and It Will Help You over $14,000.00 worth of pr our employees more th $2000,00 for advertising. It Pays to Advertise Your Business and W Be A Back Nun ner Go Forward or Go Help Push you to the L with advertising it is not w it for Sale We will help your standing in the Comme the best on the market in office and o very. We buy in quantity lots and save the highest price for experienced w or of workmanship. This we put into e possible prices. We Can Help You Make Money The right kind of printed forms will help your business prosper by saving your time and keeping your records in proper shape. Our service as printers is not limited to taking your order and putting some ink on paper according to your directions. We are able to make suggestions for business printing that may save considerable money for you. Our plant is completely equipped and we carry a stock of HAMMERMILL BOND The Utility Business Paper in order to give you the quickest service possible. YOU among our thousand fied Customers to "Cheap" Printing but Prefer N helped Others help You worth of printing last more than $6,000 advertising. Indeed advertise and Watch It Grow x Number rd or Go Backward to the Front is not worth keeping- in the Commercial world. we have in office and correspondence sta- lots and save a good discount w experienced workmen and demand we put into every job of printing Our Customers Include some of the largest corporations in Tulsa, Muskogee and Oklahoma City. The reason is simple. WE SATISFY in both workmanship and in prices. Small jobs receive the same careful attention that we give the larger ones. WE DO NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE OVER-RUSHED WITH PAR- TICULAR AND INTRICATE WORK It must be done RIGHT if it is done in this office. thousands of Satis- ers but Prefer NOT TO A STAR atch It Grow umber Backwards Front arth keeping-Advertise special world, we handle correspondence station- a good discount which orkmen and demand in every job of printing and Our Bindery Department In this Department we have a late model Boston Wire Stitcher, a Rosback Perforator and other equipment necessary to do any kind of ordinary book and loose sheet work. We are prepared to print and bind any kind or style of Receipt Books, Vouchers, Blank Checks, Report Blanks of all kinds for Lodges, Churches or Corporations, etc. on Blank, Regular or Special Ruled Paper, Perforated or Punched to order. Our Press Department Ours is the only printing establishment in the entire Southwest owned by members of the Race, equipped to print anything from a visting card to a sheet as large as two pages of a seven column newspaper. We are especially prepared to do high class half-tone work in any number of colors with perfect registration—something that few printing plants can boast of—and at the lowest possible cost. We have two Platen Job Presses in addition to our New Two Revolution Cylinder Press and a Folding Machine, which enables us to measure strength with our strongest competitors. For the last two or three years we have printed the Minutes for all of the leading Fraternal Orders in Oklahoma and they say we have done it very SATISFAC-TORILY. --- PAGE FIVE We Do STATIONERY PRINTING on HAMMERMILL BOND ```markdown ``` HAMMERMILL BOND Letterheads Envelopes Bill Heads Give Us Your Orders for Printing PAGE SIX Church Directory M1. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner Easton and Elgin. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.; Preaching: 11:30 a.m., and 8 p.m.; MidWeek Service, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; B. Y. P. U. Sunday, 5:30 p.m. Come and worship with us. You are welcome. R. A. WHITTAKER, Pastor. Phone: Osage 4363. FOREST BAPTIST CHURCH. North Lansing Street. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.; Preaching, 11:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.; Home Mission Thursdays. REV. E. N. BRYANT, Pastor. Phone: Osage 4562; Residence, 841 North Bullit Street VERNON A M. E. CHURCH Myer's Hall, 614 E. Archer St. Sabbath School 9:00 a.m.; Preaching 11:00 a.m.; Allen Endeavor Lague, 5:00 p.m.; Preaching, 7:00 p.m.; Choir Practice, Wednesday evening, 8:00 p.m.; Class Meeting, Thursday, 8:00 p.m. REV. C. R. TUCKER, Pastor. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Cor. Jackson and East Archer Sts. Sunday School: 9:30 a. m.; Preaching 11 a.m.; B. Y. P. U. 5:30 p.m. Night Services, 8:00 p. m.; Mid- Week Services, Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. REV. J. H. ABERNATHY, Pastor. PARADISE BAPTIST CHURCH Corner Ruth and Bryan St Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.; preach ing at 11:00 a. m., and 7:30 p. m.; Home Mission, 2:30 p. m.; B. Y. P. U.; 4:30 p. m.: Mid week service, 7:30 p. m. ? REV. C. H. WHITTINGTON, Pastor NOTES. In Chicago "adda room" clubs are the latest. The idea is in order to improve and increase housing facilities to use all wasted space by adding a room. Salt Lake City, Utah, has been selected as the meeting place of the National Education Association and the date July 4-10, 1920. Ten thousand delegates are expected. Colored People Subscribed Liberally to Humane Fusd. The Colored people of Tulsa were called upon Thursday by Agent A. M. Welch of the Tulsa Humane Society in the campaign for the year's budget of $20,000.00. C. C. Clifton, assistant to Mr. Welch spent one hour among the Colored business men Thursday and in that time secured $406.00. Editor Smitherman gave up the business of his office to accompany Mr. Clifton and introduce him. The hour's drive resulted as follows: A. ' Smitherman $100 J. H. Goodwin $100 R. G. Whitney $25 O. W. Gurley $25 B. J. Green $40 Welcome Grocery Co $60 T. LaLue $12 H. O. Earl $24 H. C. Pack k $10 Ed G. Howard $10 NEGRO PRESS MINUTES Secretay Boyd is Sending Out Book to Negro Editors The proceedings of the National Negro Press Association during the post four years have been neatly printed by the National Baptist Publishing Co., Nashville, and Secretary Boyd is sending copies to members the poor quality of paper used prevents the cutout those old journalistic war horses, Rev. R. H. Boyd and Chris J. Perry, from doing them full justice. The directory of journals published by the race shows following by States: Texas, 13; Tennessee, 12; Alabama, 10; Arkansas, 9; Pennsylvania and Kentucky, 8; South Carolina and Missocri, 7; Ohio, 5; Virginia and New York, 4; Wisconsin, 1; Kansas, 1; Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, California and Marfland, 3; Indiana, Florida and District of Columbia, 2; Illinois; Iowa, Oregon, Macsachuetts, Rhode Island, Washington, Michigan, Arizona, Nebraska and West Virginia 1 each. This includes papers whose editors are members of the Association and is not a true list of all Negro publications, as New York stats shows up with four and there are more than four in New York City alone. Dr. H. J. Watson has been ill for several days, but he is convalescing at this writing. THE STRADFORD, THE LEADING COLORED HOTEL OF THE SOUTHWEST. 68 Strictly Modern Rooms Dining Room and Cafe. 301 North Greenwood. Telephone Osage 4238 J. B. STRADIORD, Owner. BAKER'S GROCERY STORE 304 1-2 North Frankfort Phone: Osage 2124. We Deliver Anywhere in the City. The BLUE GOSE TAILORING CO., —THE— 24 1.2 North Boston. THE PLACE THAT SATISFIES EVERYBODY. BURTON SCARBROUGH TAILORING CO. 615 North Greenwood. Come and Try Me. WORK GUARANTEED. CLARK TAILORING CO., 314 1-2 East Archer. Phone: Osage 5110. ST. PAUL POOL HALL. 21 Nor th Cincinnati. Phone: 2345. THE SATISFACTORY TAILORING COMPANY, 418 East Archer. Phone: Osage 2345. THE WEST ARCHER LUNCH ROOM 328 Corner Elgin and Archer PURE MEXICAN CHILLI Short Orders a Specialty. Good Things to Eat. Call in and see us. JOE NEIRO, Proprietor. S. Y. WOODWARD —THE SHOE DOCTOR— 1026 North Greenwood WORK GUARANTEED Bring Your Shoes to Me. THE NEWS MAN, E. WILLIAMS, THE COLORED NEWSPAPER DIS TRIBUTOR, 216 East Archer Street Stop by, I handle all the Colored Newspapers. G. W. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 20 North Elgin. Phone: Cedar 1775. Says I to He, Says He to I, THE TULSA STAR IS THE PAPER TO BUY. THE PULLMAN TAILORING CO., 19 North Cincinnati Phone, Cedar 173. GIVE US A TRIAL, We will Surprise You. 'Nuf Sed. Says I to He, Says He to I, THE TULSA STAR IS THE PAPER TO BUY. J. W. DILLARD, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 714 North Greenwood. HYDER & GWYN, BLACKSMITH & HORSESHOING Corner Cameron and Greenwood FOR GOOD HOME COOKING COME TO 321 N. GREENWOOD --THE PEOPLES' CAFE-- We Serve in Family Style. Mrs. M. Newman & W. Howard, Proprietors. JACK'S PLACE, THE COSY BARBER SHOP. Nuf Sed. No. 210 East Archer St. D. WALKER, BAGGAGE MAN, I HAUL WOOD, COAL, BAGGAGE OR ANYTHING TO BE HAULED 1337 No. Lansing Street. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, EDWARD SMITH, ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON REQUEST. 1015 South Third Street. MUSKOGEE, OKLA. TULSA WAFFLE HOUSE 104 North Greenwood Street. Open at 6:00 a. m. GOOD HOT COFFEE AND DELICIOUSLY COOKED FOODS. Our aim is to please our customers. NORTH ELGIN CAFETERIA. FRUITS, NUTS, CANDIES, CIGARS AND TOBACCOS. SANITARY SODA FOUNTAIN Pure Fruit Syrups, Swellest Cafeteria in the City. F. ROGER WILLIAMS, Prop. 122 N. Elgin. Tel. Cedar 1683. THE TULSA STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920 Have the COLORED INSURANCE ASS'N. WRITE YOUR INSURANCE. Phone: Osage 3566, 119-12 North Greenwood S. G. SMITH, Superintendent. THE EAST END FEED STORE, BEST PRICE TO ALL. 318 East Archer. Phone: Osage ?250 FOR QUICK SERVICE CALL O, 4675 HARRISON DICKSON'S TAX Stand: Lone Star Cafe. NIGHT AND DAY SERVICE. Try the HOME BAKERY SHOP. Wholesale and Retail PIES, CAK S AND J LLY ROLLS. 119 North Greenwood. Phone 6675. The TIP TOP GROCERY STORE 908 North Greenwood. ALL KINDS OF FRESH MEATS.. And Other Nice dhings. Come to See Me. C. C. CURRY, Proprietor. Just as you have read these ads, so other people read yours, when it is in the STAR. If your ad is not in this Directory IT OUGHT TO BE. FERGUSON'S DRUG STORE 301 North Greenwood HOTEL STRATFORD BUILDING Phone Osage 9312. MRS. A. R. COX, Grocery and Confectionery, We Handle Fine Candies, Cigars and Tobacco. Also GROCERIES AND FRESH MILK. Phone Osage 7280. 510 Eeter St. L. S. NEAL, D.C. CHIROPRACTOR. SPINAL SPECIALIST. Graduate Chicago University Office Hoors: 9 a. m. to 12 and 1:00 p. m., to 5 p. m. At Office Evenings and Sundays by Appointment. 617 East Archer. SAM SMITH, THE BAGGAGE MAN I GO WHILE OTHERS STAND. Res. No. 435 N. Booker St. The KEYSTONE BARBER SHOP. 24 North Boston. Phone: Osage 4012 W. A. BELL, Proprietor THE KING "B" BAKERY, 302 North Frankfort. Phone: Osage 1449, Party R. M. J. LATHAN 1024 North Greenwood —TAXI LINE— Take You Aanywhere Any Time Phone 2309. O. H. LACEY, CONFECTIONERY AND LUNCH 516 East Archer. The LITTLE PULLMAN CAFE 129 North Greenwood, A real nice, neat, clean place for god things to eat. Stop by. AYERS & SCARBROUGH. JOHNSON'S LUNCH ROOM No.15 N. Cincinnati. Phone: Osage 788. All kinds of nice things to eat, CHILE, BARBECUE AND HOME COOKING. PEOPLE'S TAILORING CO.. 400 North Elgin. LADIES' AND GENTS' CLOTHING HAND TAILORED. —All Work Guaranteed— EXPERT CLEANING DYEING AND RIBPAIRING. T. J. WISEMAN, Proprietor. Phone: Osage 5844. TO DODGE H. C. L. come and give us a trial. We handle a full line of GROCERIES AND FRESH MEATS. —Have just opened a New Store.— CADY & HILL, Proprietors, 120 North Elgin. INDEPENDENCE GROCERY STORE. NEW LINE OF GROCERIES —JUST OPENED— All kinds of Fancy and Staple Goods. Fresh Meats, Milk, Country Butter. 625 E. Independence. IDEAL CAFE, First door north of Dreamland Theater. HOME COOKING-GOOD THINGS TO EAT. 201 North Greenwood. W, WOODS, Proprietor. DR. J. J. McKEEVER, —DENTIST— Phone 4843. Corner Greenwood and Archer. NORTH GREENWOOD GROCERY STORE. 709 North Greenwood. FINE STAPLE GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS. Dodge the H. C. L. by dealing with us R. O'NEAL, TOBACCOS, BARBECUE AND NICE THINGS TO EAT. 120 North Elgin. FOR QUICK SERVICE Call Phone Osage 4916 WE GO WHILE OTHER STAND-- ANYWHERE, ANY TIME. H. NAILS & E. PEARCE. Stand: Red Wing Drug Store. C. H. PERKINS, Corner Greenwood and Williams (Greenwood Addition) —REAL MEXICAN CHILLI— A Nice, Clean Place, Good Things To Eat. GENERAL BLACKSMITH AND HORSESHOING. —A Specialty— Corner Lansing and Haskell. JOHN HANKINS, THE BAGGAGE MAN —I Do All Kinds of Hauling— Corner Bullitt and Vernon Streets. BRYANT & ANDERSON. —THE TAILORS.— We Are Prepared to Give You Good Service. Phone 3043 103 N. Greenwood PIG BOND TAXI LINE FOR QUICK SERVICE CALL OSAGE 4675 AUTO TAXI LINE —Night and Day Service.— Stand: Lone Star Cafe. THE PULLMAN TAILORING CO. 19 North Cincinnati Phone: Cedar 173. RED WING TAILORING CO., CLEANING, DYEING AND PRESSING. 206 North Greenwood. Phones: Osage 4816.7874. W. H. PHILLIPS, LIVY AND BAGGAGE 101 1-2 North Greenwood. Phone: 8397. RUFUS ALLEN, EXPERIENCED CARPENTER Residence 220 North Frankfort ROLAND & FLLIS, THE WAFFLE HOUSE. 104 North Greenwood. W. W. SHOLE, BRUNSWICK'S CONFECTIONS AND SMOKE HOUSE. 112 North Greenwood. 626 N. Lansing Street. OPEN NIGHT AND DAY. We Try to Please Our Customers. WILLIAMS' CONFECTIONERY HEADQUARTERS FOR SWEETS, CANDIES, NUTS, FRUITS IN SEASON, ICE CREAM, COLD DRINKS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, —Fresh Buttermilk Every Day— LEON N. WILLIAMS, Prop. 126 North Elgin. RIGHT OF WAY TRANSFER LINE. QUICK AND PROMPT SERVICE Call Cedar 1532; Residence No. 517 North Greenwood. J. E. THOMAS, Manager. CAP. JACKSON'S BARBER SHOP, No. 6 North Cincinnati. SANITARY SHOP AND COUR- TEOUS TREATMENT. L. J. KINLOW, —TAXI— 649 E. Illinois Street. STAND AT FRISCO STATION. —Go Anywhere, Any Time.— J. S. FARMER, Taxi and Baggage Line. Residence 640 E. Hill Street I do any kind of hauling. Ready to answer your calls.—Phone O. 4298 FOR RENT FOR RENT—A store 14x36, counter horse shoe style. Also furnished rooms. See W. M. Brown, 631 East Hill Street. SUNRISE GROCERY STORE A nice line _of .Groceries and Fresh Meats...Come and give us a _call...Our _Motto _is: To treat our customers right, West Vernon Street. J. COTTON, Proprietor REPUBLICANS The first opportunity Tulsa has ever had to hear the greatest interpreter of Negro Folk Song, also excels in French and Italian Under the Auspices of For neat sewing and Hair Goods such as Braids and Transforma tions, call and see Mrs. A. D. Thomas 615 E. Archer St. TULSA - OKLAHOMA The Gusner looks back about four years ago to the struggle between J. J. McGraw and Jim Harris, of Wagoner and its memory of things that happened in those days are keen. One of the keenest memories was of our own personal financial condition. We were not broke, but badly bent. A hundred dollars was a mighty big item. One day we, I say we, because Mac Wildman was a party to the transaction, were called to Sapulpa by the late Vic Decker, county Judge. We met there Henry McGraw of Gypsy Oil Co., a brother of J. J., and in the caucus that followed, McGraw simply had to have the Oilton delegation and Mac and the Gusher were instructed to carry it for McGraw, regardless of expense. That expense item was to be paid by Mr. McGraw. Mac and the Gusher went to work, it was a hard battle, for we had the stalwarts of Oilton and the vicinity opposed to us, and we used all the money we had, could borrow and beg, and finally in the precinct won over the Harris faction by one vote. At the expense of the Gusher and Mac Wildman the Oilton delegation was taken to Sapulpa, and by a very close margin Creek county went for McGraw. He needed the Oilton delegation to do the work. After the convention at Oklahoma City, Mr. McGraw was approached for settlement of the account, which by that time had grown close to $300.00. We were told that the matter would be taken care of, and to go back home. Later, we called at the office of Henry McGraw, and after waiting for an hour or more for an audience we were informed by the office boy that the Honorable Mr. McGraw would not be able to see us that day. J. J. McGraw had been chosen No Go to your Republican meeting vote for delegates to the County Hamon. Mr. Hamon will assist the carry the county next Fall. (Political Advertisement.) ROLAND TEN Monday, In joint program Washington Convent The first opportunity ever had to hear the pretor of Negro excels in French Under the A Booker Washing For neat sewing such as Braids and tions, call Mrs. A. D. 615 E. A TULSA WANTED—Agent everywhere in state for Exchange Insurance, Write S. G. Smith, superintendent, 119 1-2 North Greenwood, Tulsa, Okla. WANTED—A clothes solicitor, 311 1-2 East Archer st. Phone Osage 5110. WANTED—Rooms; nice rooms and accommodations. Mrs. Whitlock, 17 North Boston. AN EXAMPLE WORTHY Ada Negroes Take Bold Stand Defending Virtue of Their Daughters Tulsa Star News. ADA, OKLA., Jan. 27.—I. P. McCutcheon, principal of a Negro school in the northern suburbs of the tional Committeeman. He had no further immediate use for the Gusher or for Mr. Wildman. A letter to the National Committeeman asking him to reimburse us for the money we had expended in his behalf, resulted in a flat refusal and so we had to work a little harder at that time to deny ourselves and our families, because we had been so foolish. A few weeks ago the Gusher began to receive pretty stories pertaining to the Honorable J. J. McGraw, telling of his wonderful acts, and what a wonderful man he was, and incidentally mentioning the fact that he was to be a candidate for re-election at National Committeeman. The press agent at Ponca City was informed that they were wasting stamps, and to please not clog the mails with the McGraw dope. We, you will imagine, are against Mr. McGraw for National Republican Committeeman. Well, you imagined just about right, and we are perfectly willing to let the gentleman understand the reason therefor, or partly therefor. Our precinct caucus is to be held on February 8th, and we expect to go into the caucus with our slogan: "REMEMBER THE $300.00," and we expect to go to the county convention at Sapulpa with the same slogan and then on to Oklahoma City to the State Convention. Fortune has rather favored both Mac Wildman and the Gusher in the last four years, and the debt of McGraw's has long been cancelled by us. If J. J. McGraw is so small that he would not pay his own campaign expenses, isn't he too damn small to be National Committeeman? The fight this year is between Jake Hamon and McGraw and we believe that Mr. Hamon will win in a walk, at least we hope so. THE GUSHER.. By ELI L. ADMIRE. at your regular polling place and Convention who will be for Jake e Republicans of Creek County to O HAYES NOR Feb. 9th from with Booker High School Union Hall Community Tulsa has the greatest in- tro Folk Song, also and Italian Auspices of Bington High School and Hair Goods and Transforma- ll and see D. Thomas archer St. OKLAHOMA city, has left the city and his school as the result of an assault upon him a few nights ago by a Negro mob who snot the building full of holes, and the principal narrowly escaped being injured. The demonstration against McCutcheon is said to have taken place on account of his alleged accusations relative to the moral chastity of his pupils. A paper was taken to his door advising him to leave the city. Messrs. J. J. Jones of Taft and Jake Simmons of Haskell and Muskogee, were in Tulsa Thursday on business. Mr. J. W. Williams looked after business matters in Muskogee this week. THE TULSA STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920 In Should I And Women of this Caucuses and C ing the Coming we Man by Jake Hamon Should be Rebuked By the Clean Men and Women of this City, County and District in the Republican Caucuses and Conventions to be held During the Coming week. Money Offered to McGraw Man by Hamon; $5,000 Deposit in Delegate's Bank Promised. Faced With Charges, Hamon Sits in Silence or Either Cowardice or Guilt; Is He Your Man? Alva McDonald, Hamon lieutenant, went to a McGraw delegate in Elk City, W. C. Thomas, a banker, and promised him a deposit of $5,000 from Jake L. Hamon's ample coffers. Jake L. Hamon has been publicly branded, by his own confession, a traducer of good women. Sunday, January 18, the day before the primaries in the Seventh District., Jake L. Hamon wired this McGraw man from Lawton, where he spent the day, as follows: On May 29th of last year he told J. J. McGraw that the women of Oklahoma would vote for him because of his immoral character—that women like an immoral man. Mr. McGraw made the statement public recently before a huge audience in Kiowa County, and all papers published it. WILL DEPOSIT FIVE THOUSAND YOUR BANK AS AGREED BY McDONALD. (Signed) JAKE L. HAMON." Hamon, the traducer, had a chance to deny it. He didn't. Then, again, Judge Wagoner of Cordell, in the Seventh District Convention, at Hobart, last week, repeated the charge and Hamon sat within a few feet of him and failed to deny it. The telegram was read on the floor of the Seventh District Convention by Judge Leedy of Ellis County. Jake Homan DID NOT DENY THAT HE HAD OFFERED THIS MONEY TO A McGRAW DELEGATE. --- --- HAMON FAILS TO DENY That he is a traducer of Women; fails to deny that he is a citizen of Chicago; that the Congressional Record shows he swore that he had frequently supported Democrats and would do so again; that he worked against John Fields, Republican candidate for Governor in 1914; that he sought to have the campaign headquarters of Horace G. McKeever, Republican candidate for Governor, closed in 1918 to insure the election of Robertson Hamon's Handpicked Delegates HAMON'S handpicked delegates will go to this County Convention and elect their handpicked delegates to State and District Conventions. WHAT CAN YOU DO? You can control. Your vote is the final arbiter. Take the time to go to the Precinct meeting, to find out when and where it is, to see that men who are absolutely honest and clean and uninflueced in politics are sent to represent you. Be one of those delegates yourself, if you will. 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DuBose & Read the well known wealthy and enterprising colored _ phy- sigian and real estate men of that hustling city. Mr. Smith left Tuesday evening via the Frisco for Okmulgee where he is in charge of the erection of a building. He says it is his opinion ‘that the year 1920 will be marked by more buildings erected by Colored men than ever before in the history of the country, There appears to be many Negroes with plenty of ‘money who are disposed to invest ii in a way that will redound tc the credit of the Race. The Messenger,-the widely known and ably edited radical monthly “magazine, 2035 7th ave., New York, 'N. Y., for the current month con- tains leading articles on: “The “American Legion, Our National Ku Klux Klan,” “Prohibition,” and “Confederate Americanism.” All Race loving Negroes should read this journal as regularly as their family Bible, emt ee ret a PAG! Ag ay We Social Newstp | \ ocaland Social News| g@ = 2 ERSSS SIA. COCO 25 SE ar al | Mr. L. D. Johnson, the popular |} ASE BALL FANS: taxt man, who conducts a success- PLEASE TAKE NOTICE ‘ful business here, has been indis- — pused for about two weeks, but we] ‘The base ball season opens Apr ‘are glad to state that he is conva-|24 and indications are to the effec SEE that the games are to be more spec Junius, the little son of Mr. and [ticularly cocntested than last year. Mrs, Gist, has been quite sick for ————_ several days, but) we are indeed Pr. R. E. Mitchell, of Douglas: glad to state that he has about re-| Arizona, was in the city a fev covered. hours Sunday and called on his ol Seal aan ime friend, Dr, Sneed. Mr. “Jock” Davis, live wire from —— Muskogee, and a staunch friend to] TULSA COLORED REPUBLICAN The Tulsa Star, spent Sunday in] MCUET AND ORGANIZE A CLUI the city, wearing his usual smile. — —_— Movement is Started to Elect G. ¢ The funeral of Mr. Johnson, who P. Ticket in Spring Election. died in the Addition, was solemn ees ized last’ Sunday. Grand Mastece With theusual enthusiasm whic Jefferson and Secretary of Endow-| ba: always characterized the aver ment E. N. Guillory were over from | aye Colored man in his politics Muskogee and helped the Odd Fel-|1ianeuvering in the interest of th lows conduct the obsequies. Gr:nd Ol Party, a few of the faitt The Rev. L. E. Nelson, pastor of Rethel A. M. E, church, Claremore, ‘Okla., passed through the city Tues- day enroute to Tullahassee to al- tend ceremonies celebrating Found- ‘ers’ Day. | Mrs. Cora Balden of 112 North Hartford street, left Saturday for birmingham, Ala. SAYS HAMON WEAKEST RICH 1 MAN IN STATE IN WAR AID | (Tulsa World, January 25, 1920.) |Special to the World | Oklahoma City, Jan, 24—Jake Hamon was “about the weakest rich man in Oklahoma when it came to giving up his money to our soldier boys,” is a charge made yesterday by E. W. Marland, Ponca City oil magnate, in a letter to J. J. McGraw, whose place as National Committee: man Hamon is seeking. Marland’s letter was written from Mexico City where he is on a busi- ness trip, and the letter reveals for the first time some inside history of jthe manner in which Oklahoma [raised $2,000,000 for the United |War Hor kdrive. The letter fol- lows: “When I arrived at Mexico City jand got the first Oklahoma papers I [have seen in two months I read that \Jake Hamon was still running [aginst you, |. “I never thought Jake would stay in the race so long; surely someone is kidding Jake. Isn't it a shame |what some men will do for money? | “But TH bet that Jake fools the kidder in the end. I remember how he fooled me once and at a time when there was no kidding going jon. It was when I was chairman of the United War Work drive, | “At the big meeting at San Antonio of all the southwest states to ar- \range ways and means to raise money for the welfare work in France the question arose as to a division of the quotas among the several states. Part of the Texas (delegation thought that Texas was being asked to raise more than her share and they objected, At this point in the proceedings, Jake Ha- man, who was wearing the loudest crimson silk shirt I ever saw on a white human, arose and strode down the center aisle of the audi- torium in his shirt sleves and ia stentorian tones announced that any part of this money that Texas does not want to raise, Oklahoma will of course, That statement was all right and the State of Oklahoma aft- erwards made good by giving $2,- 000,000, But that is where Jake fooled me. I thought he would help me raise that money, but when the time came he was the hardest man to find I was ever after, and when found finally contributed such a spall amount that the finding was not worth the time taken, Jake was the biggest noise at San An- tinio jmqeting and was about the weakest rich man n Oklahoma whes it came to giving up his money for our soldier boys, “You will remember something about this because you were on the job all during the campaign, I took him seriously once and you must expect that others will be fooled by his noise for a while, but I am real- ly surprised that he has lasted so Jeng in the race against you.” (Political Advertisement) | Thomas H. Evans, election dis- trict captain, New York City, has been rewarded for services render ed by being appointed to a clerk- ship in the New York assembly al the capital. PAGE EIGHT JASE BALL FANS: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. ‘The base ball season opens April 24 ond indications are to the effect that the games are to be more spec- ticularly cocntested than last year. Dr. R. E. Mitchell, of Douglass, Arizona, was in the city a few hours Sunday and called on his old ‘ime friend, Dr, Sneed. TULSA COLORED REPUBLICANS MLET AND ORGANIZE A CLUB. Movement is Started to Elect G. 0. P. Ticket in Spring Election, With theusual enthusiasm which Las always characterized the aver- aye Colored man in his political maneuvering in the interest of the Grind Ol Party, a few of the faith- ful met in the office of the Earle Real Estate Co., last Sunday after neon for the purpose of organizing the big end of the Republican par- ty in Tulsa with the hope of elect- ing a ticket yet to be named in the city election next spring. A call for the meeting was print- ed and circulated last week bear- ing the names of H. A. Guess, Bar- ney Cleaver, C. F. Gabe, Dr. R. T. Pridgewater, Johnnie Jones, J. W. Hughes, Dr. H. J. Watson, G. W. Wilson, T. D. Jackson, O. W. Gur- ley, James Cherry, Sam Kelley, Dv, B. A, Waynes and S. G. Smith, All of these however, were not present, in fact only a few were tiene to respond to roll call, But what they lacked in numerical strength they made up in enthusi- asm. Several partisan speeches were made calculated to revive the party, henchmen from the Jethargic stupor cast over them the lethargic stupor tie Simmons gang went out of of- fice. May Launch Republican Paper, To further propagate the cause of the G. 0. P. the club plans to Jaunch a red hot Republican news- ‘paper in Tulsa. | Steps have already been taken it is said, to get the necessary funds to publish the paper which will be the official organ of the Re- publican party in Tulsa, so far as the Colored people are concerned. | The Star welcomes its prospect- ‘ive competitor, whoever and what: ever he may be, and hopes for the ‘new journal all that it may merit from a purely Racial and journal- iste standpoint. ‘The Star also hopes its new con- temporary-to-be will find favor with those of the Race in Tulsa ‘who have never} found anything but fault with the Tulsa Star. ‘Those present at the meeting were HH. A. Guess, C. 1. Gabe, A. L. Phil- lips, O. W. Gurley, Dr. A. J, Whitley, John Vaughns, H. 0, Abbott, J. 1: Greer, Theodore Baughman, M. Rus- sell, Professor Burr, B. L. Cox, Mr. Stoith, C. F, Gabe Jr., Barney Cleav- er, Jim Cherry, Lee MeGregory, Mr, Douglas, Ed Younger and others. The next meeting will be held on Friday night, January 30, at Wesley Chapel, M. E. church, corner of Ea8- ton and Frankfort. CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend thanks to our many friends and acquaintances for the lovely floral offerings and symn- pathy extended to us in our late he- reavement in the death of my hus- band, Ed. Johnson. MRS. DAISEY JOHscon, UAWD! LAWD! AM THIS THE WHALE JONAH TOLD ABOur? Whalers Find Female Whale With Two Legs in Depths of Pacific, Tulsa Star News. San Francisco, Jan, 30—A whale with two legs is the most recent discovery in the mysterious depths of the Pacific ocean. It was caught at th Kyuquot whaling station. The creature was a female humphack and her limbs were two in number, each fifty inches long, with strong bones, well covered with blubber. Ancient whalers have never seen a whale similar to the latest cap- ture, It is said that whales have atrophied legs with their bodies, but they are useless, They are thought to be hangovers from the day when whales, like dinosaurs shoved themselves through the lush ‘ungles or fought the saber-tooth- ed tiger and the great cave bear,