Tulsa Star

WOMAN MISUSED BY POLICE Educator Gives Plain Talk to Voters The Wichita in the G. A Fearies Exponent of. Right and justice. An Uncompromising Defender of the Colored Race. We fear only to do wrong. VOLUME X WOM BRUTAL TREATMENT OF MRS. SETTIEE PARTEE Prominent Race Woman Put in Jail And Denied Bond By Republican Administration Because of Auto Accident. Mrs. Settie E. Partee is a colored woman and a school teacher, one of the best woman of our race, among the best known and one of the wealthiest colored women of this city. While driving her car upon one of the streets of this city, had an accident in which her car struck an people were riding upon the same people were riding upon the same street. it happened that one of the inmats of the car in which the whites were riding got hurt and quite seriously, it also happened that Mrs. Partee was not so seriously injured in her person and suffered litte injury except the damage done to her car. The accident was one of the kind that so frequently happens upon our thoroughfares, purly accidental, but for that accident to a white child, Mrs. Partee was put into the city jail and forced to remain there until the city authorities could find out how badly the child was hurt. The child had not been, killed, but it made no difference with this Republican administrator, Mrs. Partee was a Negro woman and had to be punished for having a car and driving it upon the streets of Tulsa and meeting with purely an accident that injured a white child, deprived of her constitutional rights, refused bail, under the pretext that she was held for investigation. If that was murder she should have been turned over to the county, the only court which had jurisdiction of the crime, the police court had no authority to deal with such matters. Had the city authorities turned this matter over to the county attorney he would have given Mrs. Partee the proper treatment and allowed her to go to her home or had her furnish a suitable bond for her appearance, had he conluded that a crime had been committed. He would have made investigation at once and not arbitrarily deprived this woman of her constitutional rights. I find that this so-called investigation by the Administration is directed almost wholly at the Negroes on the slightest suspicion, and they are thrown in jail and held it matters not what their standing is, they have no rights that this Republican administration is bound to respect. Every leading Race man in Tulsa went to the rescue of Mrs. Partee and plead with the city authorities, offering to make any sort if bond for her release until morning and these men were our best men such as A.L. Phillips, Dr: Bridgewater and Rev: Netherland.: These men all good Republicans, who helped to elect the Republican ticket in Tulsa and will be called upon by this same outfit to do the same thing at this election. Now this is what these men got for an answer to their plea: "We will not release her until we have investigated this matter and see how badly the white child is hurt; we do not care who she is if she was a millionair". I called the police department and repested that Mrs. Partee be allowed ball and for an answer I got a harsh insulting reply and a flat refusal and when I informed them of this woman's standard in the city they said, "we dont acre if she is a millionair, we are not going to let her go", and absolutely refused to turn her over to the county so that we could get a bond for her. They knew that Mrs. Partee had committed ni crime whatever, but the deep seated prejudice that bunch has against the race to which this woman belongs and the fact that she had an automobile, Packard and driving upon the streets of Tulsa and had an accident in which a white child was hurt she must suffer. Dr. Bridgewater and Rev. Netherland called up Mayor Evans and repested him to have Mrs. Partee released. Dr. Bridgewater informed the Mayor that commissioner Atkins and detective Patten had refused to release Mrs. Partee and explained to him Mrs. Partee was and assured him that she --- THE TULSA STAR would be present to answer all demands upin her by reason, of the occurrence and the answer that the Dr. got from the Mayor was well if Atkins and Patten have passed upon it I will not interfre." He was the one that could have given release to this woman. He has the veto power upon the acts of the police department. The mayor did not even investigate it. Had Mrs. Partee been a white woman the mayor would have at least investigated the matter or given the men a promise to do so, but she was a Negro woman and belonging to a race that had not the rights that he was bound to respect—The Republican party has always received the Negro vote and to that party our men have been and are slaves and have never dared to use their franchise to protect themselves or their women, now that our women have franchise will they be slaves? And will they dare to use the franchise to protect themselves and their race? Or will they cower, cringe and grin in the face of their political masters, or will they use the franchise in a way and manner that will demand and receive the respect and admiration of the citizenship of the world. The Colored women of this city and this county have the one great opportunity now to protect themselves from such insults in the future from any political party that is in power. The treatment received by Mrs. Partee was an outrage against the race and especially against our women and our women who are now to have their first experience at the ballot box, should show to the world that they are capable of using the ballot for their own protection and show their courage. Officials who will commit such are unfit to serve the public and should be out of office. My judgment is that the Colored women should demand the resignation of Mayor Evans-Atkins and Patten and absolutely refuse to vote the Republican ticket until these men are out of office. You should be no better to the party than its representatives are to you. Demand the same respect from official that all other people and races receive and fight for it—out if you listen to some of our men you will swallow this insult and loose an opportunity to administer a just rebuke to these Republican officials. To apply this remedy you have all to gain and nothing to lose. To apply a remedy for such a wrong shows independence and courage Do not kiss the hand that unjustly smites you. Use your franchise in a way to make certain your rightful place in this Republic as a citizen, equal rights under the laws of your country—Demand from officials just treatment alike to all for all. E. l. SADDLER Langston University Highly Commended Government Inspector of Land Grant Schools Praises the Work of President Marquess (Star News Service) 'Langston, Okla., Oct. 22.—The following letter which was recently received by Gov. J. B. A. Robertson from P. P. Claxton, National Commissioner of Education, is self explanatory. It will be noted, however, by the many friends of President Marquess, that his work as the head of this great Oklahoma institution comes in for especial commendation at the hands of a government expert and examiner of land grant schools. As this is entirely unexpected and came unawares to President Marquess, it stands to reason Weekly Mail Edition THE TULSA STAR, Saturday, October 23. 1920. COUNTY DEMOCRATIC HEAD- QUARTERS IN RED WING HOTEL that his efficient and capable labors at this institution merit for him the commendation given him in the letter reproduced below: RTMENT of the INTERIOR Bureau of Education The Commissioner of Education Gov. J. B. A. Robertson, Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Okla. My Dear Governor Robertson:— I am now having made an investigation of the seventeen Negro Land Grant Colleges in the South. My representative, Dr. Walton C. John, Specialist in Land Grant College Statistics of this Bureau, in reporting to me regarding the conditions of the Colored Agricultural and Normal University at Langston, has made the followin g statements which I believe Race Warms Up in Final Stage of The Big Campaigs. THREE HEADQUARTERS OPEN Women Vote Will Be Big Factor in Deciding Results of Election. The county Colored Democratic headquarters has opened in the Red Wing Hotel on the corner of Greenwood and Brady streets, while one half a block north of the Red Wing on Greenwood in the Congressional Colored Democratic headquarters, and half a block south on the same street is the Colored Republican headquarters. Thus in a radius of one block in the Colored business section of Tulsa is to be found the three political centers, all playing their respective parts in determining the results of the campaign ow drawing to a close. A deal of interest is being manifested on both sides of the political controversy and there is no little speculation as to the fiscal results. Registration records of the recent city campaign showed that the Colored people of Tulsa about eventy divided although the vote is the general election was nerly 60 per cent democratic. But in spite of this fact the republicans won with one single exception. Many of those who did vote the G. O. P. ticket in the spring election, however, have expressed regret of their action and have since pledged themselves to support the county democratic ticket in the approaching election. Whether they vote for the republican presidential candidate, or not. Early in the campaign the republicans put out workers who have been constantly on the job and they have bees working overtime to build up sentiment for the G. O. P. The democrats on the other hand have put forth no concerted efforts until this week, but since they got in the field there has been a decided change of sentiment and unless something unforeseen happens to change this sentiment it is almost certain that a majority of the Colored vote in Tulsa will go to the democrats from U. S. Senator down to constable, with one exception—that of the Justice of the Peace race between A. L. Phillips and J. W. Dillard, this being already conceded to Phillips. The Senatorial and Congressional victories are now conceded to Scott Ferris and E. B. Howard respectively, so far as the Colored vote is concerned. Particularly is this true in the case of Congressman Howard. While Chandler will doubtless get soseonehss bgkka(r LSTAOMR many of the republican votes it is generally admitted that because of the fact that Cosgressman is a home man he will get the majority of the Colored vote. The Congressmas has many friends among Colored people throughout the district, but especi- will be of great interest to you at this time. The last time the institution was visited by my representative, the University was in a serious state of disorder. Dr. John informs me, however, that under the new administrative board and under President Marquess and his faculty, the institution has been put on a thoroughly sound basis both financially and educationally, and that the outlook for the University is very hopeful if properly supported by the State. I am glad that I can give you this report and I hope that it will be possible for the State of Oklahoma to continue the good work of maintaining this institution in a state of such efficiency as will make it of the greatest value to the Negro citizens of the State in developing its wealth and prosperity. (Signed) P. P. CLAXTON, Commissioner. ally so in Tulsa where he is better known. Judge W. B. Williams, candidate on the democratic ticket for re-election as county Judge, will probably lead his ticket among Colored voters irrespective of party lines. The leading republicans have already conceded this and they also make other cessions to the county democratic ticket. Regarding the race for sheriff the wisest are inclined to express some doubt as to the outcome. Both Sheriff Wooley and his opponent, William McCullough, have strong opposition among Colored voters. Some are fighting Wooley chiefly because of certain appointments he made in violation of his campaign promises and still a greater number are opposing McCullough because of his well known attitude to the Race, as demonstrated when as sheriff of the county he objected to his Colored deputy serving a warrant on a white man who had assuaded a Colored woman and tried to keep a Colored Justice of the Peace who issued the warrant from trying the case purely out of racial prejudice. Because of these circumstances neither man is expected to get any big majority of the Colored vote, but Sheriff Wooley will pribably be accepted as the "least of two evils" as some are already saying. That the county democratic ticket will win however there seems to be little doubt. DEMOCRATIC TICKET For President JAMES M. COX For Vice-President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For United States Senator SCOTT FERRIS For Corporation Commissioner R. E. ECHOLS For Congressman E. B. HOWARD For Judge Appellate Court JAS. S. DAVENPORT For Representative E. BEE GUTHEREY NEWT GRAHAM For County Judge W. B. WILLIAMS For County Attorney TOM I. MUNROE For County Clerk O. S. WEAVER For County Treasurer W. W. STUCKEY For Court Clerk J. D. PORTER For County Assessor W. S. HOOKER For Sheriff JAMES WOOLLEY For Superintendent of Schools MINNETTE HEDGES For County Surveyor H. A. COLLINS For County Commissioners First District F. M. WOODEN W. R. RITCHIE Second District Third District W. L. NORTH Principal of Hennessey School Assails Duplicity of Republican Party and Weakness of the Race in Blind Partisanship Prof. E. H. Hall, principal of the Colored School at Hennessey, Okla., and well known in educational circles in this State, has published a pamphlet entitled "A Plain Talk to the Negro Voters of Oklahoma," in which he discusses at length, and with marked ability, the political situation as affecting the Race. He points out in this pamphlet the political mistakes of the reconstruction period induced by unscrupulous politicians, and shows how the black man unthoughtfully became the tool and slave of the Republican party. The following is taken from Prof Hall's Pamphlet: TODAY What are the plain, unvarnished facts concerning the relation of the Republican party to the Negro voter of today? The answer is that in state or national politics we are tolerated but not welcomed. The casting of our vote on election day is the only act the party desires us to perform. Our participation in the party councils is frowned upon and in some cases we are excluded entirely. We are regarded as a nightmare, a millstone about the neck of the party. Our bare, naked unappreciated vote is all that is wanted. In many section of the south "Lily White" Republica norganizations brusquely shut their doors in our faces. They hold their caucuses and meetings in exclusive hotels and other places where we are not admitted. The big guns of the party may induce us to attend national conventions as delegates, but when we arrive we are in many cases reduced to the status of janitors. PROF. E. H. HALL The Republican party is profuse in promises to us; yea, it may insert some sort of a vote catching plan in its platform, but in most cases these things are but rattling brass or tinkling cymbals in the period following election. The party is usually lavish in the distribution of campaign funds among the various racial and national elements that constitute the rank and file. It spends fat amounts among Bohemians, Irish, Italians, Swedes, etc, but when it comes to our group it stays its largest on the ground that it will get our vote without party effort. In the meanwhile we fawningly obsequiously and plaintively follow the Republican party; through evil report as well as good. We lick the hand that smites us. When we are battered on one cheek, we turn the other. "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him," seems to be our motto. We swallow their bland promises, and when we attempt to enter the inner councils of the party we suffer the rebuff, given, in humility and silence. We accept their cash pittance in full of all claim for our political service and support. We repel the possibility of overtures from other parties by our blind and bootless adherence to the Republican party. We trust the party, hoping against hope. We try to make ourselves believe that conditions will be better by the next campaign; that better political times for us are just Larger Circulation than all the combined Colored Weeklies in Oklahoma. Read THE STAR and keep informed on all current issues. POLICE Voters over the hill; we cajole ourselves into the belief that the party will some day deliver the goods; "at any rate," we say, "the Republican party is the only party that has ever done any good thing for us." And all the white the Republican party rides us into the paradise of office, but we are invariably hitched at the gate, there to remain hitched until the party is ready for the next ride. THE PROSPECT Under the Federal Constitution we are citizens of the United States. Our economic and political destiny is impressed and controlled by the same conditions that impress and control the destinies of other sections of our citizens. It is just as reasonable to assume that our interests invariably lie in our support of the Republican party as it would be t oexpect that a legislator would vote yes on all measures that come up for passage. Every citizen in obedience to the impulse of self-preservation stands committed to the principle of promotin g his own economic interest. Politics is but a conventional name given to the social machinery with which men seek to promote their economic interests. It is our duty to acquaint ourselves with the issues before the country, and form an intelligent judgment as to their respective merit. At the same time we should examine the conditions and circumstances most gravely touching our group interests, and determine intelligently the best and wisest course to pursue to ameliorate those conditions. Then the next step would be to ascertain what political party would most nearly bring about the desired result. And there is not a sane man in America who would allege that this would in all cases be the Republican party. The sun has set on our blind adherence to any political party. Parties and party machinery are necessary to the most effective functioning of government in a free and progressive democracy, but it is a well established fact that the healthiest political conditions obtain in the presence of a large and assertive independent vote. We must tear loose from our old political moorings. We must show that we are susceptible to appeal from any party. We must destroy the fetish we created fifty years ago. We must indulge in a spell of political iconoclasm. We must break up the images that for so long a time have monopolized our political temple. We must erect a pantheon and provide a niche for more than one good party god. In the category of practical politics the proposition of "how good the Republican party was to us yesterday," or "how bad the Democratic party was to us yesterday," is equally immaterial. The real, vital, material question is: "What will either party do for us tomorrow? Upon the answer to this question should hang and depend the political course of every Negro voter in Oklahoma, for tomorrow and all time to come. The Negroes of Oklahoma since Territorial days have given 90 percent of their support to the Republican party, and in return for this incessant support we have been fed on the accustomed promises. During the past thirteen years the state has been under the control of the Democratic party. We have never given that party any support of consequence, and they have promised us nothing. Yet our State School at Langston has enjoyed the most liberal appropriations, and today its buildings, grounds and equipment are second to no institution of its class in the south or southwest. Our school for the deaf, blind and orphans of the race, at Taft, under the fostering provisions of liberal legislative appropriations, stands alone as an establishment of its kind. The school for incorrigibles at McAlester, and the Tuberculosis Sanitarium just located at Boley all stand as mute mementoes of that Democratic munificence that we have done so little to earn. Should we stand up like men and not the slaves of any party; should we shake off that political allegiance that has held us in durance vile for the past fifty years; should we show to the world that we are in good faith, susceptible to political appeal, what further benefits might we derive from the Democratic party of Oklahoma? --- White and Colored Citizens of Ok mulgee Work Together to improve Civic Conditions (From Tulsa World—Oct. 17) Okmulglee, Oct. 16—Okmulglee has found a new antidote for the terror of mob law and race rioting which hover threateningly over scores of communities in the south west, whose populatios includes both black asd white races. The new antidote to this scourge of the southwest and the south is civic pride and the golden rule. When criminal assaults upon five young women, presumably committed by negroe, fansed the flames of race prejudice and antipathy to a white heat which threatened to tear Okmulglee with horror of a race war a demonstration of civic pride and an application of the Golden Rule hanging a negro who was later proved to be entirely innocent, and turned the energies and activities of the would-be lynchers into a city "clean-up" campaign, which if carried out along the lines now proposed will remove from Okmulglee the dens of vice and crime which breed race riots and other evils that destroy the soul of cities and men. Five young women criminally attacked on the streets of Okulmgee within a period of three weeks ending October 8, when a particularly bold and terrorious assault was made on a young woman at the door of her home. Bloodhounds brought from another city followed a trail from the scene of the assault to the home of Judy Atchison, a negro barber, and other clues gathered in the case pointed rather conclusively to the guilt of Atchison, who was arrested as a suspect. Atchison, arrest was followed immediately by the gathering of a mob with the avowed intention of lynching thengro, although he had not yet been taken before any of the assault victims for possible identification.The gathering of the mob aroused the negro residents of the city, who began to arm themselves and the situation became extremely threaten- Determined to save Okmuguee from the bold of a lynching bee and a possible race war, a self appointed group of citizens co-operated with the sheriff in spiriting the Negro suspect out of the city and then turned their attention to preventing a battle between the whites and Colored, which threatened to break out at any moment. The mob when it found its plans to lynch the Negro thwarted by the removal of the prisoner from the city, vented its rage by setting fire to and destroying the suspected Negro's home and threatening to do the same to every Negro home in the city. After many hours of tense excitement a mass meeting of citizens of the city was held, at which direct appeals to the civic pride of the men of Okmulgze was made and speakers pointed out that lax enforcement of the law and the careless attitude of citizens toward civic matters was in part the cause of recent events. The men who were seeking to take the law into their own hands in a spirit of vengeance and race hatred were urged to take Red V Red Wing Hotel 206 $ _{1/2} $ North Greenwood St. THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM THE HOTEL 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 Under the pe Julius part in enforcing the law in a spirit of justice and civic duty. This mass meeting was held on Sunday afternoon, October 10, and before it adjourned a committee of three of the leading citizens of the city was unanimously appointed with full power to act in devising ways and means of bringing about better law enforcement in the city, and seeing to it that justice was done to all under the law and not meted out by a mob. This committee was instructed to draw up a plan for carrying out its program and to report to another mass meeting of citizens on Tuesday, October 12th. Before the second mass meeting was laid it was quaintly determined that the Negro suspect, who had narrowly escaped lynching and whose home was burned, was entirely innocent of the charge against him. The first act of the second mass meeting was to raise a cash fund of $500 to reimburse the Negro for the household goods destroyed in the fire, the contribution to this fund being made in amounts ranging from $10 to 25 cents. The report of the committee and then read and unanimously adopted it calls for reorganization of the Okmulgjee police force, greater cooperation between the police and the sheriffs' force; the appointment of 25 special deputy sheriffs, selected from the business men of the city and whose identity will not be known to the police; an immediate improvement in street lighting throughout the city; a strenuous and continued campaign to rid the city of illegal liquor selling and gambling joints; the purchase of bloodhonds to be used by the officers in trailing criminals, and pitiless publicity for all men and women arrested as vagrants, gamblers and hangers-on around questionable resorts. The reort of the committee and its plans for the future were unanimously approved by the meeting, and the committee was continued in power with practically every resident of the city, both white and black, pledged assistance in every way possible in maintaining law and order. According to the members of the special committee there is every prospect that the perpetrators of the recent assailants will be apprehended and punished. Thanks to its citizenship, Okmulgue today is directing its efforts and energies toward making the city a cleaner and a better place, in which men of all races may dwell in peace instead of forcing the horror, odium and civic decline that invariably are the fruits of mob law and race rioting. The members of the special law enforcement committee are Fred M. Carter, an attorney; John H. Rebold an oil operator and newspaper owner and former fair price commissioner of Oklahoma; and O. K. Peck, former mayor of Okmulgee and a life insurance solicitor. Rev. 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Have a room reserved for your friend and make their visit to Tulsa a pleasant one. management of Presley Telephone 7874 THE TULSA STAR. Saturday. October 23. 1920. Muscogee Mutterings Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Banks are selling out preparatory to their removal the city of Chicago, where they propose to live in the future. Muskogee can ill afford to lose two such useful citizens a the two. No one has done so much for charity for the colored people of this community as Mrs. Banks. The night has never been too cold nor the person too low for her to help. As a church worker she has bees sur passed by none. With it all there has been a modesty in her service for the welfare of others, which others have done much less than she could well imitate. Our loss will indeed be Chicago's gain. They will not be strangers n the "wndy city" as it was the Doctor's former home. Rev. T. M. Green, he energetic as eloquist pastor of Ward's Chapel A. M. E. church, is around collecting Dollar money and getting ready to attend general cosference which is to convene October 4th. Mrs. J. R. Stewart has her sister and family from Memphis as her guest. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson and mother, Mrs. Granville, have returned to the city after a pleasant sojourn at Deriot, Mich. The Douglass School won first prizes for the graded schools. This is the third time in three years taht this school has won the prize. The Manul Training High School won a number of first and second prizes. The exhibits of the Colored schools of the city ought to be highly commessed as they attracted wide attention. The Flipper-Key-Davis University place herself in the forefront of fame by winning a number of first and second prizes at the fair. One of the interesting events of the recit Stat Fair was the fact that three booths were conducted by a number of our club women. Many of our people made a fine showing at the Fair with their hand-auto cars. Miss O. E. White of Boley and Mr. King of Kingfisher were among the out of town visitors at the Fair. Attorney C. J. Jones on account of his increased business interests has moved to Washington, D. C., where it is said he has bought a lovely home and opened up offices in an eleven story building. Mr. Richard Barrett, the widely known baritone singer of St. Louis, Mo., is making a tour of Oklahoma and is meeting with success everywhere. He has made a number of tours over the North with concert companies and just now is working in the interest of a Race enterprise which contemplates building a $100,000 vaudley house in St. Louis. WANTED Financial assistance in our effort to establish a Kindergarten for the many children who are idling up on the streets. Mrs. W. H. LILLY of 307½ North Elgin has charge of the work at the 2nd Baptist Church. LILLIE & WELLS Photo Studio—Furniture Repairing — Upholstering, Gas Stoves Connectel Tulsa, Oklahoma Watch This Space 220 1/2 N. Second Street, PUBLICATION NOTICE First Published in the Tulsa Star October 16, 1920. State of Oklahoma, County of Tulsa, SS— In the District Court of Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma, Rena Clark Shaw Plaintiff E. 1. Saddler, being duly sworn deposes and says: that on the 15th day of October, 1920, he enclosed in an envelope a true, full and complete copy of the petition in the above entitled cause, with all endorsements thereon, together with a copy of the publication notice thereto attached and addressed the same to Drew A. Shaw at Nacasomes, Texas, the same being his last known place of residence and placed thereon [full paid postage and sealed] envelope, and deposited the same in the United States Post Office at Tulsa, Oklahoma, the same being the nearest post office to the District Court of Tulsa County, Okla. Further affiant saith not. E. 1. SADDLER Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 15th day of October, 1920. JOHN D. PORTER Clerk of Court W. ROUSE, Deputy. 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For Phone Osage-3566 a. PAGE THREE CONVENTION HALL DEBATE PAGE FOUR (Continued from last week) MR. HILL: (Continuing) The names of the members are not written upon some Church Registry or Inter-Church World Movement record, but are written in Heaven. (Heebrows 14:23) The members constitute a peculiar people, called out from the world, and developed into likeness of Christ Jesus (1st Peter 2:4-10) No one is considered a member of the Church that is recognized by Jehovah unless he is baptized into Christ. Neither has any one a prospective chance to live with the Lord in Heaven on the Divine Plan unless he has been baptized into Shrist's death. In other words, one must be dead with Christ so far as the things of the world are concerned. (Romans 6:3, 6:8.) To be baptized into Christ's death means to be fully consecrated to lo the will of God even unto death. When one comes to the point where he is glad to tell the Lord that he surrenders all to Him, including his life and is willing to follow Him through thick and thin even unto death, that is the time one takes his first step of baptism into Christ's death and then is when his name is entered upon the roll in Heaven as probationary members of the Church of the first born. You may judge yourselves by this standard and if you can conscientiously say that I have turned over all to the Lord and am doing all in my power to live up to my covenant, and if you are faithful unto death, you may rest assured that when the roll is called, you will be there; but, if you have not taken this step of full consecration to the Lord, I feel safe in advising you to seek the Lord with a knowledge of his plan at once and get ready to live right here upon this earth throughout eternity. These man-made organizations are not churches regardless of the names by which they are called. The Church Denominations teach that these man-made organization that are over busy collecting money and claiming to be trying to save souls, are churches, that the Gospel Age is the day of salvation for the world of mankind and all who die outside of these Denominations will spend their eternity in torment that death, during this Gospel Age, ends all so far as being saved or lost is concerned; that the resurrection of the dead is for the purpose of heaping further damnation upon the condemned. The Scripture plainly states that the resurrection of the dead is for the purpose of rewarding the just with life everlasting and judging the unjust and giving them a chance to gain life everlasting (John 5:28-29). And that the judgment of the unjust will begin at the second coming of our Lord which is at the end of the Gospel Age. (Acts 3:19-21.) In all these most important points, the Church Denominations teach directly in opposition to the plain statements of the Bible. The Bible represents God's own word to his human creatures. God's/es words are true and any teaching which disputes the plain statements of the Scriptures is saying in so many words the same thing that the devil said to Mother Eve, "That God did not tell the truth." Therefore, God's plan like His character, has been and is now being woefully misrepresented and the humble people left in gross darkness concerning God's plan of Salvation. God's Promises to Man God has promised that all that are in their graves shall hear His voice and come forth. They that have done unto a resurrection of life, and they that have done ill unto the resurrection of judgment (Revised version.) He has also told us that life, liberty, happiness and times of refreshing shall come to the world of mankind from the presence of the Lord; (Acts 3:19' that the wilderness and solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall blossom as the rose (Isaiah 35:1:) that the eyes of the blind, both physically and mentally, shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped (physically and mentally). Then shall the lame man leap as a hart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing—Isaiah 29:18; that in the wilderness waters shall break out, and streams in the desert; and parched grounds become pooled and the thirsty land springs of water—Isaiah 35:6:7; that then the earth shall yield her increase—Psalms 67:6; and the inhabitants shall not say I am sick—Isaiah 33:24 that in that day they shall build houses and inhabit them, which is not true today, because generally the ones who build the fine houses do not live in them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof. In that day it will not be as it is so often the case now that one poor fellow labors hard to produce while another sits back in an easy chair and profiteers on the product of his labor. Every man will have to live by the fruit of his own labor in that day. They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth trouble. Isaiah 65:21-25. The Church Denominations tell the common people about these blessed promises but instead they tell the poor people that the world is to be burned up and that the bad people roast and torture through- out all eternity and the few good ones, taken to a Heaven of eternal bliss. The Denominations are loud mouthed in claiming that the literal earth is to be burned up in the very face of God's plain statement in Ecclesiastes 1:4, "that the earth abideth forever; that He formed it to be inhabited—Isaiah 45:18, and that He gave the earth to the children of men—Psalms 115:16. The Church Denominations call God a liar concerning His promises to man When Are God's Promises To Man To Be Fulfilled The Church Denominations claim th atne man knows or can know the time for the ending of the world or the fulfillment of God's promises to man. They generally base their claim upon Christ's statement in the 24th Chapter of Matthew, 36th verse, which states that of that day and hour knoweth no man. The word "knoweth" carries the thought of present tense and is the same as saying, no one knows now at this time. Christ's statement was not intended to impress His disciples that no one ever would know. We must remember that at the time these words were spoken. Christ himself was still on trial to test His loyalty unto Jehovah God even unto death. Listen what he tells his disciples immediately after he is raised from the dead—"All power is given unto Me in Heaven and in earth," Matthew 28:18. Now, if all power was given unto the Lord, both in Heaven and on earth, is it reasonable to suppose that He would not know anything about the "important event." Such a thought is contrary to the plain statements of the Scriptures. Listen! Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you—Acts 1:18, and that Spirit of Truth will guide you into all truth and will show you things to come—John 16:13. God tells us that the words are cosed and sealed until the time of the end when the wise will understand the teachable ones but none of the wicked!—those who are wise in their own way shall understand. (Daniel 1: 12:10.) Ye brethren are not in darkness. Hebrews 3:1 that day should overtake you as a thief, 1st Thessalonians 5:4 (And, the speaker at this time having concluded his statement, the negative discussion of this question is begin and the following proceedings are hgd to wilt: MR. SMITHERMAN: I will now introduce to you Rev. H. T. S. Johnson who will discuss the negative side of the question. (Applause REV. H. T. S. JOHNSON: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I count this a very important moment because the question—the subject we are to discuss is extraordinary. We are asked to substitute the doctrines of Orthodox Christianity for the teachings of the International Bible Students Association. That makes it necessary to call attention to the fact that you are asked to accept the teachings of an association of laymen for the doctrines of the Christian Church that has a call and Divinely appointed ministry. The opposition has as you noticed nothing good to say of the Church; all kinds of good things about the poor sinner, the man who is doing Gally 8 all the devilment of the world—all kinds of good thing about him, but nothing good about the Church and nothing good about the ministers of the Church. Of course he is true to his training—the father of the International Bible Students' Association, Mr. Russell, has this to say with reference to the Church. "Suppose that the salaries and living of all Ministers, Bishops, Priests and so forth were cut off, all churches chapels and cathedrals destroyed, all theological seminaries broken up and their professors turned to other pursuits, all religions, guilds and societies disbanded including all sectarian organizations, what would be the effect? Who can doubt it would be a real blessing under the disguise of a great and terrible catastrophe? This appears in Bible Students' Monthly, Volume 6, Number 9. Now, I could sort of understand howa Infidel or an Atheist might utter such words as that but I declare, I don't understand how a man who claims to be God's agent and who makes for himself the place of teacher of all people and Jesus' denouncer of the Church. I don't see how he can say that about the Church and all institutions fostered through the Church in view of the good things that grew therefrom. Now, that is the idea of Russellism or International Bible Students' Association with reference to the Church. What is the Bible idea of the Church? When Peter, in answer to the question of the Master, "Who do ye say I am," uttered these words, "Thon art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus said to him, "Thon art Peter—upon this rock will I build this Church," and the gods of Russellism with all its insidious attacks, shall not prevail against it. (Applause). And then, he did not stop there—he most said—Russellism says, there is no Church on earth—the Church is in Heaven and your names will appear up there, not down here, but Jesus said, "And verily I say unto thee, "whosoever, or whatsoever things ye bind on TULSA STAR. Saturday, October 23, 1920. ION HA earth, shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever things, ye loose on earth shall be lost in Heaven;" If that does not give us proof for a Church down here I don't know what does. Now, it is impossible for the Church down here to bind Russellism. (Applause from followers of Russellism) and therefore my honored opponent and all of his crowd are loose so far as the Church is concerned on earth and if the Bible be true they are loose in Heaven. (Laughter) Now, friends, if you are going to substitute the teachings of that kind for the Doctrine of the Church, there is something wrong with your thinking machine. You are asked to accept the teachings of a society that has no Divinely called and inspired ministry but a self-appointed set of lay teachers and preachers in the vocabulary of a Student, International Bible Student Association, is a comic ward, he gets tickled at the word "preacher." In the language of the International Bible Student he is the figure of a clown, a fool, a disbeliever who does not know the Bible so that—I don't need to cite but one passage of Scripture; you will find it in the tenth Chapter of Romans and the question is ask, how shall they believe on Him whom they do not know—but let me get the words right. How then (I need to get my glasses), "How then shall they call on him in whom they have it believed. THE NEW YORK TIMES ARWAL RICHARD J. HILL And how shall they believe in Him ow whom they have not heard. And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? the Bible stood his experience he gets in the Bible (A VOICE FROM THE ADDIENCE: That's it, that's it, Applause) REV. JOHNSON: (Continuing) Now, the International Bible Students Association has nothing but words of ridicule to say with reference to the preacher; they make him anything but a good man and of course, they are true to their training because Mr. Russell, before though and I want to say this: I promised my opponent, he pledged me before he started, that I would not say anything defamatory of the dead. He meant Mr. Russell. I never thought of getting him to say anything defamatory of John Wesley because I know he could not, and I promised him I would not say anything so it is alright. These are Mr. Russel's words in print for anybody to read (quoting from paper) "Of the two hundred thousand professed ministers of Christ, probably one hundred and eighty thousand declare privately, if not publicly, that they have no faith in the Bible as God's inspired message to His people. The other twenty thousand are sadly confused while still clinging to the Bible as the Divine word. The truth with all these ministers is that they have been giving heed to the creeds and traditions of men formulated in the dark ages and have been neglecting their study of the Bible. Those who have rejected the Bible, ready fallen most abjectly, while the ready fallen most abjectly, while the one-tenth still standing, are so shaken, confused and unreliable as to be able to do little for themselves or their clock." This from the Bible Students' Monthly, volume six, number seven. Now, what does that say? It says that whoever said it, has spoken from an assumption. How did Mr. Russell know that one hundred and eighty thousand preachers had no faith in God's word, in --- HALL the Bible, as the message of God to His people? Did he know that many preachers? No. How did he know the other twenty thousand were confused and bewildered and therefore not able to do any good? ask you the question and I want you to answer it for yourselves. If I would make such an assumption as that to you or anybody else, you would not believe it. If a man would say that nine tenths of the lawyers in the country had fallen, he would be arrested; if a man would get up and slander nineteenth of the physiciansof the country in that way, he would be sent to an asylum—he would be called crazy and when a man gets up and says that about the preachers of the country, I will let you decide where he goes. (Applause) You are asked to substitute for the Bible, the studies of the Scripture because that is what the father of this whole thing suggests and would recommend. Furthermore, not only do we findl that the Bible cannot show the Divine plan in studying the Bible by itself but we also find that if anyone lays the Scripture studies aside—that is those six books of the International Bible Students almost beg you to take those six books—now anybody that lays them aside, even after he has used them, after he has become familiar with them, after he has read them for ten years, if he then lays them aside and ignores them and goes to D J. HILL the Bible alone, after he has understood his Bible for ten years, our experience is that within two years he gets into the darkness; reading the Bible, he gets into darkness; on the other hand, if he has merely read the Scripture Studies with read the Scripture Studies with their references and had not read a page of the Bible as such, he would be in the light at the end of the two years, because he would have the light of the Scriptures. Watch Tower, page 298, issue of September 15, 1910. Is not that putting the books that Mr. Hassoll wrote before the Bible that we study? Is it not saying that if you read the Bible, read it every day without these companion vowes of International Bible Students' Association, you are going into darkness in two years? How many of you believe that? You are asked to substitute the teachings of an institution which serves God with the teachings of an institution which serves the devil. That is pretty strong, is it not? A voice from the Audience:Pretty strong. REV. MR. JOHNSON: I stand ready to defend what I said. The International Bible Student' Association serves the Devil because it teaches that man is not mortal—mean that man is not immortal. My opponent, who has just left the floor, told you a great deal about what became of man when he died and said a good many things. He is running true to form because that is the teachings of his chief. The word "immortality" is rarely used in its strict academic sense as signifying deathlessness, or that which if proof against death—inherency of life, requiring no sustenance, immortality in this sense of the word is of course a quality which belongs to God alone. Where then is human immortality? We answer that there is no human immortality in the sense that there is Divine immortality, in the sense that man is death proof. God alone has immortality in that sense—Bible Student --- Monthly, volume three, number four Those are the words of Mr. Russell. I am not saying, "Pastor Russell"— the reason I say Mr. Russell is because he is not—he was not a member of any Church. Not being a member of any Church, he could not be a preacher; a man cannot b a pastor unless he is a preacher. VOICE FROM OUTSIDE: That's right. REV. MR. JOHNSON: Now, if there is no deathless soul but that of Divinity, what did Christ mean, pray tell me, when He said, "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul? What was He talking about 1 wonder? Well, I guess Jesus didn't know; He didn't have the International Bible Students to give Him lessons. (Applause. Now, when an institution tells you that man is not mortal when all—when all men universally believe it without any teacher—anything men universally believe is true. it has something behind it—it has a basis upon which to stand. Men have tried to dispute the flood, but you will find that people everywhere have a tradition of the flood, and that substantiates what the Bible said about it and what men believe everywhere—universally believe Men universally believe that when they leave here they will live elsewhere—for that reason men who believe that have religion. I don't care how much heathen he is, he has religion of some kind and if he does not know the true God, he had something that represents that God, a fetish made with his own hands; he bows to that, not because he believes that is the true God, but that is the thing through which he would serve the God he does not know and when an institution tells you or an individual tells you that man is not immortal, he is flying in the face of an accepted fact by intelligent men everywhere. We have abundance of truth in the Scriptures that man lives on but I will get to that when I discuss the punishment side of it. I am going to say something with reference to the hell that my opponent says does not exist—the hell the preachers make—the churches make. The idle that man is not immortal takes from him the incentive to live his best. You let a man get the idle that this is all there is to him—there is no more to him than there is to the horse and that man will not conform to the principle of right living as he does with the belief; we somehow feel we are citizens of two worlds; we are citizens here and citizens when we leave here in another world and because we are going to live somewhere else, we rerogize this as the place where we prepare for that other life somewhere else and therefore the necessity of putting on the brakes and best. You let a man get the ideifications which lead to sin and curbing these passions and appetites of ourselves, that we may be able to get a better condition when we get to that other place. Now, when an institution tells you you are not immortal, it is serving the devil because it is taking away the incentive to higher and better living; that is the very thing God wants you to have. it is serving the devil because it attaches no hell and future punishment. You have heard what the speaker who just left the floor said and in that, he is true to form—he is following his teacher who said, "The world will receive Divine mercy extended thru Jesus by the Father's arrangement to Adam and every member of his race, no matter how degraded, no matter how fallen no matter how been shed, the just for the unjust for the sins of the whole world and still more stupendous is the resurrection work which God proposes for the world of mankind, thousands of millions to be awakened and restored to the same condition formerly enjoyed—conditions of imperfections from which they will gradually carried forward during the one thousand years, will all be accomplished by the Father's power through the Messiah the Mediator of the New Covenant. It will be a continuous miracle of awakening and uplifting the race." Bible Students' Monthly, Volume Four Num-Three. Now the Scriptures say in the second chapter of James, 13th verse, "For he shall have judgment without mercy who hath showed no mercy," but Mr. Russell says it makes no difference how degraded, how fallen—it matters not how mean, he is going to have a chance. James says he is not—which are you going to believe? Which are you going to believe? VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: James! REV. JOHNSON: Mary, 16th chapter, 16th verse, says "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." (Applause). But the international Bible Students' Association says, "No no, that is not so—that is not so." Well, it is in the Bible and they are the works of Jesus; what are you going to do with them? Well, that is not so tute and give you something; if they and they will go ahead and substitute and give you something, if they give you anything at all, it will be a substitute and parson, 'pastor' Russell or Mr. Russell's explanation of things (interrupted with applause). and of course you will be in the light if you take that but you will be in the dark if you study the Bible without that. Now, when you tell a man there is no hell—maybe I had better wait a little before I get to that, but I want to say this: The International Bible Students' Association teaches that hell and the grave mean the same thing, nothing more and that is true there are many passages is this blessed Book that bear, out that claim. The Hebrews believed that very thing and taught it but they began to believe something else and they taught that something else$^3$ that this grave translated, "Sheol" from the Hebrew and Hades" from the Greek meant just the grave, that's all, but you will find in studying the Scritures that there is another meaning attached to it also and there are two departments to it and one constituted the place where the good people went, "in the grave" and the other was down beneath that where the bad people went and there was a little difference in that and that word has been translated, "Gehenna" and you will find plenty of that your iNew Testament. Now, we are told that there is no punishment but I have just cited your Scripture which shows that they who do not believe shall be damned and the New Testament is just full of references to prove there is something doing after you leave here if you don't reconcile with God. "But whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire." Now, of course I don't debate my opponent that there is a literal fire that is going to burn because I don't believe with him that the resurrected body is going to be just like this body—going to be physical and if it is not going to be physical, then physical fire could not torment, but we cannot think of punishment worse than burning and these words are used in the Scriptures to convey an idea of a much worse punishment than burning, so, if you prove that it is not a lake of fire and brimstone, you have not done anything—you have not relieved yourself because that is the language used to explain something very much worse. (I confess these lights re not good enough for me) (Referring to poor tighting while trying to read from paper.) "And the kingdom"—no I don't see that, but here is something I do see—"But the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." That is the eighth chapter of Matthew and Fourteenth verse, I have already read to you, "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." And "whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him, but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world not in the world to come." It shows continued existence and it shows that punishment for sin must be done. Now, I want to talk to you a little about the idea of futre punishment. My opponent grew eloquent when he talked about God being so bad—so mean—worse than the mob. In fact, he said that the mob who lynched people would be God's servants—they would be just like him if he would do all this that the churches and the preachers say He does. Well, now, you cannot think of God unless you think of Him as just. Now, you cannot think aboot Him, His mercy just as much as you please, but you will have to think about Him as justice too and you must think of Him as impartial. He is the Ruler of this great universe and His Rulership must be impartial and sin must be accounted for. If it is not atoned for in this life then where is it going to be atoned for if there is no future life? There are three ways by which one may suffer punishment; in body; in mind and in estate. Now, you will find that the idea of punishment for every sin is not carried out with reference to the body because some of the worst people in the world have the best health and some of the best people in the world are constast chronic invalids. A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE That's it. REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continuing) Well, now, there is proof that according to the bodily mode, there is no equitable punishment for sin in life and if it is not in this life and s00000000000 usplaymEcl sjT and sin must be punished or forgiven, one of the two, there must be a future life in which this punishment will be administered. A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE Yes. REV. JOHNSON: (Continuing) Then, the mental mode; the bigger the criminal, the less he is bothered about sin. A good man will suffer more pangs of conscience for having let the conductor pass him on the street car and not collect his fare and not calling his attention to it, han a bad man will suffer for having robbed a bank. A good man will suffer greater pangs of conscience for having wounded one's feelings than another man will who has committed murder. A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE That's it. That's it. REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continuing)—The bigger the criminal, the less he is bothered, the less he is punished mentally for his deed and neither do we find it in estate. Why some of the biggest liberties, some of the greatest debauches in the world are millionaires while some of the best people in all the world live in penny and want. Now, if you can think of a government whose God is just, whose rule is just, and you dare not say God is anything but just, then, if there is no way of administering punishment equitably in this life and it must be equitable or God would be unjust, then there is the argument for future punishment from the standpoint of common sense and the Bible to justify the idea of future punishment—the idea of hell. I said that Russellism was serving the devil and not God for the very reason that it is saying to man, there is no hell—yiu are not immortal—you die as the horse dies and the Scriptures have been cited showing that there is no difference in man and beast; that man has no preeminence over the beast and my worthy opponent thought he said so much blt it is true that it relates to this life when one dies. He is like the beast so far as life is concerned but we have too much Bible and too much common sense it admit there is no difference between man and beast with reference to future life. (Applause). Now, you let the average man believe that there is no place of punishment for him—no punishment for him despite what he does and you talk about Tulsa being "Hell's Half Acre" and it will become "Hell's Whole Acre;" you talk about murders and killing and everything else that goes on in Tulsa and confess to you that if you can get the people of Tulsa to substitute the teachings of the International Bible Students' Association, that there is no hell and no punishment and you will make Tulsa at once a place unfit to live in it is a fact that the idea of hell, the idea of punishment is the greatest restraint on mas. We have not yet got to the place where we are willing to do right just because it is right. Lots of us are doing right though, but we are doing it because we recognize there is to be a reckoning. Every man must give an account to God for the deeds done in the body and because we look forward to that reckoning, because we look forward to the time when we must meet a Judge that cannot be bribed—we shall meet a Judge who will be absolutely fair—when we meet a Judge who administers justice impartially, because we look forward to that time we are careful about what we are doing now. I guess I had better save this until I come back, but I will start on it now. The trouble with Russellism is they left out three agencies—the forgot man is free. They seem to have overlooked it and because he is free, he is responsible. If he is responsible, he must give an account to somebody somewhere but they don't take into consideration his account and his freedom and therefore they look over the responsibility and they say, no matter how degrading, no matter how fallen, no matter how mean, he is going to have another chance and he is going to get that in the resurrection. He is resurrected. The word itself means that the thing that goes down must come up but they say that thing that goes down, stays and something else come wp. (Applause) (And now, at this time the Rev Johsson having concluded his remarks for the time, the following proceedings are had.) MR. SMITHERMAN; Mr. Hill will now take twenty minutes for rebuttal. (Applause) MR. HILL: I don't need twenty minutes—about five minutes will do me. I am all out of fix—I have noth ing to answer and don't want to go into my conclusion. I want to say with all carnestness that there is no wonder the poor people are in such gross darkness concerning God's plan, when our best educated college ministers have so little of the light of God's great plan. (Applause) Now, I say this in all candor and as a big broad minded friend, Rev. Johnson is in earnest but he is very unfortunate I wish to say before God and you people as not having a single idea of God's great knowledge and the plas of salvation. Why do I say that? I used to be the same way, but by the grace of God, I am permitted to see His plan and tell His truth. Now, I don't want to say anything more than—if we had time, just a weekend to argue on this matter, it would be very beautiful; there are a whole lots of things I would like to talk to him about but we are discussing the great plan of Salvation In the first place, he called your attention to a Scripture in Mary 16, I believe, about the 16th verse, about "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth sot shall be damsed." I want to say that I am very much surprised that an intelligent educated minister does not know from the nith verse in this Chapter, it is not the Bible and is recognized by all the scholars as interpolation. (Applause) It is acknowledged by every person that knows the Bible and all Greek scholars—he does not have to dispute with me, that the ninth verse, from the first verse to the ninth verse only is recognized as genuine from the manuscript, so I wave back (Laughter). Now, he quoted Matthew 10:25 to prove that or to give you the impression the soul could not be destroyed and I was going to spit him good but he came around and read the other but read it first and did not give you the thought he read only a part of that. Fear not them that can destroy the body but—cannot destroy the soul. I am not quoting the exact words but the substance—but rear him that can destroy both soul and body in Gennaia. What is the thought? Showing that the soul can be destroyed and that is what the Lord wanted them to understand that, according to God's plan, through the sacrifice of Jesus, man was going to have a resurrection and a trial for life. Man could destroy this present feeble body but he could not destroy that chance—man has to live again man could not do that, destroy one's chance, but God Himself (interrupted with applauses)—could destroy this life, feeble as it is and His chance for a resurrection if he was one of those whose eyes had become opened to the plan of salvation and then willingly and intelligently denied the Lord—he would be of that class—the Lord warned them. Now, I am just going to say right here and stop—I will leave the rest of my statement because I don't feel like talking to-night on account of a little physical inability. The subject is accept the teachings of the international Bible Students in the place of the teachings of the Church Denominations. And you talk about freedom—there is no freedom except among the International Bible Students. They are bound to God alone and all they do is upon the utter of sacrifice and I want to say here that those two hundred thousand and ministers did not feed at the international Bible Students' table. The International Bible Students do not have a horde of preachers to support; neither have they got the world strewn from end to end with half-finished and bob-tailed churches; they have no such responsibility as that. This remark is not calculated to cast any reflection but it is the solemns ruth. If thee is no objection, I will stop right here. I will close it. (Applause.) (Now at this time, the applause having subsided, the following proceedings are bad:) MR. SMITHERMAN; Rev. Johnson will close his side of the question in a thirty minutes' talk. (Applause.) REV. JOHNSON: I want to give my opponent credit for having some conscience. He started to say a bigger one than he started and he stopped. Now, he attempted to disprove what I said and what I said was simply what the Scriptures say: "that we should fear Him who can destroy the soul as well as the body but "destroy" simply means that God has the power to cast to cast in hell because it says, destroy both soul and body in hell, body in the grave and the soul in the other place He said that the International Bible Students' Association has no long string of bob-tailed churches and got a lot of applausie for the statement, but I want to say that is to the credit of the Church Denominations. The reason the International Bible Students' Association has so much money to give my worthy opponent to publish long articles in the newspaper every week and to rent the hall and pay the Stenographer and all that is because they not spreading that money so far; they are just centering it in certain places and he has plenty of it. (Applause) Now, I want to ask the question, brothers and sisters, what is the International Bible Students' Association doisg for the good of the world? How many orphanages has the International Bible Students' Association established? —(interrupted by voices from the audience) ENCE: None. REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continuing) How many Hospitals with free wards for those who are unable to pay are maintained by the International Bible Students' Association? How many rescue Missions in the large cities to save the green country girl and the green farm girl as they enter these cities, from designing men to get them out of the things into which they have fallen and been entrapped and giving them a chance for life and respectability—(Interrupted by a voice from the audience) A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: Tha's true. REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continuing—How many schools with scholarships for those who cannot pay are being maintained by the International Bible Students' Association? What is the the international Bible Students' Association doing with its money and doing with its brain? The one thing I do say they are doing—that the international Bible Students' Association is doing is to cripple the influence of the church.(interrupted by voice from audience) A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE; That's true. (Applause.) REV. JOHNSON: The churches have built all the schools, all the Christian schools; the churches have built them. All the hospitals with freewards in them have been built by the church; the international Bible Students' Association is not furnishing them. The churches are furnishing missionaries to do this big rescue work in the big cities. The churches are the instituting that are preaching patriotism to the American youth while the International Bible Students are saying, this is God's plan no use in doing anything. If every body had believed what the International Bible Students' Association teaches ther would not have been a man to go to war. (Aplause) I make no mistake about that. (continued applause) The big men in the institution got put in jail (continued applause) and the reason my worthy opponent did not get put in jail was he was not big enough. (Applause and laughter.) page two hundred thirty, he "His human existence ended a cross." Volume Five, page hundred fifty-four says, "It was essary, not only that the man Jesus should die, but just one that the man Christ Jesus a stay dead." Volume Five, page hundred sixty-six says, "The Christ Jesus suffered for us in the most absolute sense word everlasting destruction serve, Russellism say know not what became of His angel knew not and said. The International Bible Students would close all the churches and in doing that, it would call from the foreign field every minister who has gone to carry the gospel of Christ to those who know it not. The Lord Jesus Christ said, "go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. (Applause) The International Bible Students' Association says there is no use in going—there is no use n gong, because God is working out. His "Great Plan." A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: Yes. (Applause) REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continuing) And your preaching will not do any good and I am surprised that educated ministers know so little about "God's great plan." A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE; Yes, "great plan." REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continuing) Listen—there is no need of persuading men from sin—God is going to give them a chance after they leave here and because of that there is no need of talking to them now. The International Bible Students woud destroy the influence of the Christian Church in the world ad I don't know anything that institution would do that would please the devil more. A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: That is the truth. (Appause) REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continping) The thing that has given the devil concern is the Church with a Divinely called and appointed ministry, that is willing to make sacrifice and build "hob-tailed" churches, if you please, that the poor may have the gospel preached to them. A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: Yes. REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continuing) The International Bible Students' Association is serving the devil because it wants to cripple every good thing that is being done against the devil. Who are the peo people that would be bad if the international Bible Students' Association could prove there is no hell? Who are the people that would be glad: The good people? Would the people who are practicing the Golden Rule feel the greatest relief or would it be the people who are practicing anything but the Golden Rule that would feel relieved? Who are the people that would be anxious for my opponent to prove his contention tonight that there is no hell? They are the people that believe if the churches are right that there is no chance for them and for that reason they want the doctrine of the international Bible Students' Association proved so that they may not have to live under the consciousness that there is a wrath to come. The International Bible Students' Association dethrones Christ and puts an angel in His place. You know I have been reading a little on the doctrine of Russellism and you don't know how surprised I was when I ran across this and these words of Mr. Russell: "Our Redeemer existed as a spirit being before he was made flesh and dwell among men. At that time, as well as subsequently, he was properly known as God, a mighty one, as chief of angels and next to the Father, He was known as the Archangel (highest angel or messenger) whose name was Michael and whose name signifies 'who as God' or God's representative." You will find this in the Bible Studies, Volume Five, Page Eighty-four. What saith the Scriptures now on the same subject? (Quoting) "His name shall be called Wonderful," Mighty 'God', Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace Does that sound like he was an Archangel? Justa big man in the Kingdom, something separate from God? "In the beginning was the word, and th word was with God, word, and the word was with God opponent will tell you that "Word" means Christ, so he was in the beginning—He was with God and He was God, yet Russellism says He was an angel. "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the God-head bodily." Those other references were Isaiah 9:6 and John, 1st Chapter, 1st Verse. "They shall call His, name Emanuel, which being interpreted is, 'God' with us." Matthew 1:23. Now, don't you know it is libelling Christ, it is dishonoring the Christ to dethrone Him and put an angel in His place, to make He and Michael one, but this is the doctrine of Russellism. This International Bible Students' Association would have you substitute that for the Church, Orthodox Christianity. Then, you must admit that Christ was not of the God-head but that He was subordinate. He was Michael. In substituting the doctrines of the International Bible Students' Association, you will have to swallow this too, Christ's body was not resurrected—that is what it teaches. Studies in the Scriptures, Volume Two, page one hundred fifty-five, says, "We know nothing about what became of it (His body) whether it was dissolved into gases—no one knows." Again, in Volume One, page two hundred thirty, he says "His human existence ended on the cross." Volume Five, page four hundred fifty-four says, "It was necessary, not only that the man Christ Jesus should die, but just necessary that the man Christ Jesus should stay dead." Volume Five, page four hundred sixty-six says, "The man Christ Jesus suffered for us death in the most absolute sense of the word everlasting destruction." Observe, please, Russellism says we know not what became of His body the angel knew not and said, "He is not here—He is risen as He said." (Applause) Are you going to believe Mr. Russell and the international Bible Students' Association or the angel? Interrupted by voice from the audience. A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: REV. MR. JOHNSON: (Continuing) The Disciples knew for they said, "The Lord is risen indeed and hath appeared to Simon." Luke 21:34. Paul knew and he said, "He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve. After that he was seen of about five hundred brethren at once after that he was seen of James and of the Apostles and, last of all, He was seen of me also, as one born out of due time." (Interrupted by voice from the abdience) A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: Um huh. REV. MR. JOHNSON; (Continuing) But Mr. Russell says, "We do not know what became of the body." Well now, in the face of these Scriptures, Mr. Russell had to get up some kind of explanation and what did he he get up? He says that body that was buried did not rise—did not resurrect—his humanity stopped at the Cross and in all His appearances He created a new body and clothes for the occasion. Now, that means He did a lot of creating of bodies; He had a "Corporal Guard"—created new bodies for all of His appearances when He appeared the first time at the grave and on the way and in the upper room and when He appeared and dispelled the doubts of Thomas and when He ascended and all were looking at Him go up; all of that manso also—that Jesus was bluffing that Jesus was fooing the folks; making them believe that when He went to Thomas and showed him His hasds and Thomas said, "My Lord and God" that that was not body that was pierced on the cross that was not the Christ nailed to the Cross—that was just one Jesus made for the occasion. Then, he fooled Thomas and Thomas should have continued doubting. According to Russellism He fooled Thomas and played a base hypocrite Are you going to believe that? Are you ugoing to substitute these teachings for the doctrines of Orthodox Christianity? I am sure you will not. Russellism teaches that the gospei is not for the whole world, here is what Mr. Russell says on this subject, just to prove it—"The object and purpose of the gospel everywhere, not to the Jews only, but to every people can easily be demonstrated to all who have faith in God. To claim that God intended the gospel to convert the world and to know that it has done so, is to destroy faith in God and to destroy hope in any glorious outcome to the Divine plan of salvation; for those who claim that God intended the preachings of the gospel to accomplish the world's conversion must admit that it has accomplished no such purpose, and if God's plan has been a failure for eighteen centuries, what hope "could any one have that it would be a success." Bible Students' Monthly, Volume Six, Number Sir. Following that same reasoning he would say to the Black man in the dark ages of slavery, for two hundred and forty four years; Let's say two hundred years when he was about forty-four years from freedement, he would say now you have been a slave for two hundred years and you are still a slave and you are not free—it that not proof you never will be free? That argument would be just as sound as Mr. Russell has stid with reference to the salvation of the world, because men have not been saved universally then, the whole thing is false and must be explained in some way, but the Bible says "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation and he that believeth shall be saved and he that believeth not shall be damned." Why say go and preach to everybody if only a few can be saved? Why do that? Why did Jesus make such an unreasonable proposition and put such a big job on his followers when it was not necessary—when God did not intend to do it? We are told that the Bible does not mean what it says with reference to the judgment. If you read the Tulsa Star and the Oklahoma Sun each week for some time now you will see over the signature of my worthy opponent under the caption, "Then End of the World Has Come"—(Laughter) and Men Now Living Will Never Die and wants his to believe it. Now, this old Millenium Dawn has been popping up every once in a while since the first century. Somebody has come up with it every century and there has been a group of people who have been preaching it and Mr. Russell, the father of the international Bible Students' Association, said the end of the world was coming in 1874, but didn't. (Laughter) And so he studied some more and he figured again—went back guessing at what Daniel meant by his times and so on, and he figured and figured and brought it down to October, 1914—that is certainly the time. After 1914 came and while there was no end, Mr. Russell had to make an explanation and so he said that the world has ended, you just don't know it—(Applause) and he goes on to explain what is meant by the end of the world and his explanation does anything but coincide with Holy Writ. John 14:2:3. "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come and receive you I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." Now, those are the words of Jesus—I am going, He said and I am going for the purpose of preparing a place for you and if I go and prepare that place I will come back and get you. That is what Jesus said. The International Bible Students' Association says that is not so—it is not that way at all—Jesus don't know. Instead of going off and preparing a place for us and getting us and taking us to it, He is coming back here where we are and make this place Heaven and He is going to stay here one hundred years and who don't try to do right are going to be resurrected and given another chance and they are going to be resurrected just as slowly as Mam was when he made and he was created and if they don't make good, if they sin, He will not punish them for it—He is too good to punish anybody; He will not punish them, but he will cut them off, annihilate them and therefore they will be punished for what they have done because they will have no existence but, we are told in the Scripture Jesus is coming like he left,—Aets 1:11—"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into Heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall come in like manner as ye have sees Him go up into Heaven." Now, if He is coming back in like manner as He went away and is coming—the coming of Jesus is coincident with the end of the world, then why has not somebody seen Him if the end of the world is here, where is He hiding? We are told by the angel who consoled us when he left that He was coming back and He was going to come just like He went. Now, friends, I want to just say this concluding word—I am told I have only two or three minutes and I want to say this: That if you adopt the teachings of Russellism you give man license to do as he pleases; you give every man license to kill if he wants to and debauch if he wants to—not only himself but then he en influence you—turn this world loose—passion upon passion, man without any regard for the welfare of his brother man. You turn the world loose in that condition of sinfulness as we can hardly imagine it because of the fact that we have the restraint that goes with the consciousness that we shall be somewhere in the next world in this body. We are here to ask as my last word, what about the International Bible Students' Association? What about my good friend who has opposed me in this debate? I imagine as soon as you have heard the argument on both sides that the best you can say for it will be what the man said about the gobbler but he has lost his strut. (Appluse) (And now at this time Rev. Johnson having concluded his part of the debate, the audience starts up and sings the song entitled "All Hail the power of Jesus' Name," afterwards the following proveedings are had:) MR. SMITHERMAN: Mr. Hill now will lose the debate. (Applause) MR. HILL: The more I hear from the college men about the Bible, the more I am inclined to the belief that these seminaries should be wiped out of existence. (Applause) I mean that and no more; they mean alright but Oh! what mess and muddle they have gotten the world into. (Applause) I have no time to take up all the points that my opponent attempted to make about his statement with reference to the man Christ Jesus shows that he has no knowledge whatever of philosophy of the ransom. The perfect body of the man Christ Jesus was given for the perfect man Adam. My opponent does not know the difference between the humanity of Jesus Christ and Him as a Spirit Being (Applause) My opponent knows nothing of the characteristic qualities of an angel and a Spirit Being. The Lord Jesus appeared to Abraham. One of the qualities of a Spirit Being is to take the human body when it is necessary and dematerialize. That was the condition of the Lord Jesus Christ after the resurrection; that perfect human body had to go; it does not go for one thousand days and it is not Jesus any more. (Applause). That sacrifice could not have been made if the man Christ Jesus was not given up absolutely. Now I want to say here, the Lord had in mind these blind teachers at the very time. (Applause) and I will use the Lord's word. My opponent used Brother Russell's words but I will use the Lord's word—how the Lord speaks of them (Applause) these who claim to be His Watchman—listen what he Lord says; "His watchmen are blind"—I want to say this is Isaiah 50th chapter, 10th and 12th verse—"His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs they cannot bark (Applause) "Sleeping, lying down, living to slumber." Ye are greedy dogs (Applause) which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand. (Applause) "They all look PAGE FIVE to their own way (Their domination) everyone for his gain from his quarter." (Apptause) "Come ye say they, I will fetch wine and we will fill ourselves with strong drink (strong doctrine) and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." I think you will agree with me when I say that all of this horde of two hundred thousand and better preachers claim to represent the Lord and get the people in confusion, are all pretty good feeders. You don't have that "horle" on your hands if you are an International Bible Student but without going into these things I want to say in conclusion—there are many things I would like to say but will be a waste of time (Interrupted by Mr. Smitherman) MR. SMITHERMAN: (To Mr. Hill) You have thirty minutes. You have thirty minutes. MR. HILL: Just at this time I wish to make what might he termed by some an awful statement. I charge the Church Denominations are in league with the Devil blind and misrepresent God's character and plan. This charge is made against the Denominations and not against the individuals. We will now listen to both sides for a moment: God and the international Bible Studets on the one side and the devil and the Denominations on the other side. (Applause) God tells us that the wages of sin is death; Romans 6:23; that disobedience to his law brings death Genesis 2:17; that the soul that sinneth it shall die Edekelie 18:4; that when a person dies he is unconscious has no memory cannot speak, breathe, think cannot work, has no feelings and knows nothing. Ecclesiastes 9:5; 6:10 Psalms 6:5; 115:17; 104:29; 146:4; the international Bible Students are teaching the same thing. But on the other hand, <i>ye devil says, ye shall not surely die, and that when man appears to die, he is then more alive than ever. The Church Denominations are teaching the same old lie. God tells us that the literal earth abideth forever—Ecclesiastes 4:4 that he formed it to be inhabited—Isaiah 45:18; that he gave the earth to the children of men—Psalms 115:16. The International Bible are telling the people the same thing The devil, through his cunning and blinding influence, is telling the people that the earth is to be burned up. The Denominations are teaching the same old thing, that the earth is to b burned up. God tells us that He will establish a Kingdom here upon this earth; that His Kingdom shall break in pieces and consume all the beastly kingdoms of the earth; that his Kingdom will stand forever—Daniel2:44; that when His Kingdom is n operation, all the dead, both of the just and unjust, will be resurrected, for the purpose of giving life everlasting to the just and giving the unjust an opportunity, through obedience, to gain life—John 5:28-29. The International Bible Students are teaching the same thing to those who will hear. (Applause) The devil, through his tact and cunning, is teaching the people of the world that God's Kingdom has long been established in the world and that it is the duty of every race or nation to protect with shot and shell their selfish inerest against all other races or nations even to the sacrificing of millions of innocent lives; he further impresses the poor people that the resurrection of the dead is only for the purpose of heaping further damnation upon the condemned. The Denominations teach the same thing—that God's Kingdom has long been established and that the resurrection of the dead is only for the purpose of issuing to them their damnation. In conclusion, I beg to say that I know many of you consecrated to the Lord and are willing to give even life for what you believe to be right. But, you have been kept in ignorance of God's great plan of salvation because of false teachings, I trust that you may, from to-night, be able to decide what teachings you will listen to. My opponent called attention to the fact that the world has not ended. I want to say Pastor Russell told the world thirty some odd years before the great war, that the world would begin to end in 1914, at that time and the world ended; the only trouble with my opponent is that it is just likely it was when the Lord went away; He says in like manner when I go away, the same will I come back. There was not but a few saw Him when He went away and there is only a few that know He is back. He does of know what the "world" means from a Bible point of view, it mans age or dispensation. I want to tell you the world has ended. When Peter said in ll. Peter 3:6, "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished." He did not mean the burning of the same earth as here but meant that order of things which existed sixteen hundred and fifty-six years from the creation of man to the end of the present world, but my opponent does not know it, now. I make this testimony before God and the angels—it is the truth. Pastor Russell told the truth when he said the world would end in 1914—can you not hear and see the rumming on all sides? In that connection this is all 1 will say. I am glad to say, dear ones, that God's promise of establishing a Kingdom here upon earth is now in process of fulfillment. The old order is passing away preparatory to the establishing of he new. Whent his (Continued on Page Eight) TULSA'S COLORED BUSINESS DIRECTORY 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.; Mid-Week 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. VERNON A M. E. CHURCH Myer's Hall, 614 E. 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S. Supt. REV. D. C. COOKSIE, Pastor. SHOES FOR SALE—Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes. All are real bargains. Call at 18 North Elgin, GEORGIA SHOE SHOP. WANTED—Three Colored girls to sell Ladies' Sanitary Belts. A good seller. Splendid commission paid. Apply 1032 South Rockford, B. L. Bailey. VISIT THE BELL BARBER SHOP POOL & BILLIARD HALL Cigars & Tobacco 126 N. Greenwoodl Tulsa, Okla. MONEY TO LOAN ON ANYTHING Valuable, Come to the corner of Washington and North Lansing st., in the Booker T. Washington Addition. CLASSIFIED WANT AD COL. WANTED—Roomers and boarders —We serve family style, 206 E. Arch. er Street. Mrs. A. B. Huff, proprietor. COLORED HELP WANTED Help wanted at all times. Call at 107 East Second street. WANTED TO BUY—We buy and sell all kinds of second hand Furniture. Call the Blue Front Furniture Co. No. 4 North Main St. Phone O. 2330. IF YOU do not Advertise YOUR business, don't expect other people to do it for you. Try The Star Want Ads. They bring results. WANTED ROOMERS—Good, nice large rooms, good accommodations. 619 East Archer. Phone Osage 1737. WANTED—That job of Printing also your Advertising. Let the Star do your Advertising, you'll be surprised at the quick and good results. Call Osage 931. ROOMERS WANTED—Men only. Nice, Clean, large rooms. Good accommodations. Phone Osage 3267. 503 East Archer, Mrs. E. D. Durham. FOR RENT—14 foot by 24 foot, two room house, corner lot. Well. Bookert T. Washington Addition, One Block west Peoria street. EDGAR M. LEE. Phone O-1155. THE TULSA STAR will buy your OLD RAGS—if they are Clean. Phone Osage 031. FOR SALE—Good beds with springs, $12.00 each; Mattresses, $5 Rubber sheets, cheap; Feather Pillows, 75 cents each, not over two to a family, full size; Sheets, $1.25; 1 Gents Suit; 1 Ladies Suit $20.00; 1 Velvet Jacket, $15.00. Miss Rose, Call at 529 N. Boulder, Side door entrance. FOR SALE—One six room frame house and lot 25x140 located at 632 East Williams street, Greenwood Addition. See M. Smith at above address. JACKSON'S UNDERTAKING CO. We Are at Your Service Day & Night 622 E. Archer Phone O-4719 107 EAST SECOND ST. GUARANTEE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU We Solicit All Kinds of Help and Labor. Satisfaction Guaranteed. HOTELS and CAFES JOHNSON'S LUNCH ROOM No. 15 N. Cincinnati. Phone: Osage 788. All kinds of nice things to eat, CHILE, BARBECUE AND HOME COOKING. BUSTER MAYHUGHS' Waffle House. 603 East Cameron Street In Hotel Stradford Building. Hot Waffles and Plenty of other Good Things to Suit the Most Fastidious. When in Haskell Visit —STAFFORD'S CAFE— East Main Street Best Home Cooking Up-to-Date Meals in any Style. Cold Drinks, Tobaccos and Cigars. C. STAFFORD. LITTLE PULLMAN CAFE 129 North Greenwood, A real nice, neat, clean place for god things to eat. Stop by. AYERS & SCARBROUGH. Green & Wilson GROCERY STORE. 634 E. Williams Street. We handle Fresh Milk, Meats and Confectioneries and a line of —GROCERIES— Give as a trial. GREEN & WILSON, Proprietors. HOTEL GIVENS 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. Postoffice Box 281. TULSA STAR. Saturday. Saturday, October 23, 1920. GOOD HOME COOKED DINNERS served each Sunday at 3:30 P. M. by Mrs. Josie Daniels, 516 N. Green- wood. 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. BIG LUTTLE PULLMAN CAFE Just Opened 20½ North Cincinnati First Class Service. Every- thing Sanitary. Good Home Cooking. Open Day and Night. TULSA WAFFLE HOUSE BUSTER MAYHUE, Prop. 603 East Cameron St. In Hotel Stradford Building Hot Waffles and Plenty of Other Good Things to Suit the Most TAXI and BAGGAGE RIGHT OF WAY TRANSFER LINE QUICK AND PROMPT SERVICE Call Cedar 1532; Residence No. 517 North Greenwood. J. E. THOMAS, Manager. CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS RUFUS ALLEN, EXPERIENCED CARPENTER Residence 220 North Frankfort TONSORIAL ARTISTS JACK'S PLACE, THE COSY BARBER SHOP. Nuf Sed. No. 210 East Archer St. PROFESSIONAL DR. J. J. McKEEVER, —DENTIST— Phone 4843. Corner Greenwood and Archer. BLACKSMITHS GENERAL BLACKSMITH AND HORSESHOING. —A Specialty— Corner Lansing and Haskell. W. M. ABERCROMBIE. TAILORS & CLEANERS PULLMAN TAILORING CO., 19 North Cincinnati Phone, Cedar 173. GIVE US A TRIAL, We will Surprise You. 'Nuf Sed. THE PULLMAN TAILORING CO. 19 North Cincinnati St. Phone: Cedar 173 BROWN SLAUGHTER, Prop. GIVE THE N. O. S. A TRIAL And Grow Long Beautiful Hair NANNIE O. SMITH 618 E. Archer St. C—1105 WILSON & NICHOLSON Cor. Ruth and Williams Streets. We have just opened a new store, we are extending an invitation to all We have fresh milk, eggs and butter, meats and hardware. Courteous treatment in return. ROY WILSON, Prop. PEOPLE'S TAILORING CO. 400 North Eagin. LADIES' AND GENTS' CLOTHING HAND TAILORED. All Work Guaranteed— EXPERT CLEANING DYEING AND REPAIRING. T J. WISEMAN, Proprietor. Phone: Osage 5844. EXCELSIOR TEMPLE No. 88 KNIGHTS & DAUGHTERS OF TABOR International Order of Twelve. Meets First and Third Monday Night. Sir S. G. Smith, C. M. Sir Wm. Curry, C. S. THE EAST ARCHER CAFE Will serve you night or day with the best cooked foodl in the city. MRS. GRACE B. JOHNSON, Prop. 421 E. Archer Tulsa, Okla. BYARS & ANDERSON. —THE TAILORS.— We Are Prepared to Give You Good Service. Phone 3043 103 N. Greenwood BURTON'S TAILORING CO. 615 North Greenwood. Come and Try Me. WORK GUARANTEED. SCARBOROUGH'S TAILORING CO. 515 North Greenwood Come and Try Me WORK GUARANTEED LIBERTY PLUMBING SHOP Steam & Gas Fitting GENERAL PLUMBING E. A. LOUPE, Prop. 126 N. Greenwood. Phone O-2966 DRUG STORES P. 8. THOMPSON DEUGS 23 N. Cincinnati St. Telephone 4393 TULSA, OKLAHOMA MISCELLANEOUS W. J. TATE Electrician. Contracting, Wiring of All Kinds—Over hauling Motors and Repairing Fans. Shop 110 N. Greenwood In Rear Phone Osage 810. Res. 314 N. Greenwooood. WHITE STUDIO For High-Class Portraits, Kodak Finishing; Films developed Free. 218 1-2 N. Main LILLY & WELLS PHOTO STUDIO & GENERAL REPAIR Shop. Builder and Repairer of Ice Boxes and Refrigerators, Screen Doors and Windows. Furniture Repairing. WE SELL FOR CASH AND SELL FOR LESS. Bargains in Second Hand Furniture And Rugs. BOWERS FURNITURE CO. 8 South Cincinnati, Phone Osage 3006 THE GEORGIA ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP For Good Service. We have a good many uncalled for shoes on hand. Work Guaranteed. J. L. MOSELY, Prop. 18 North Elgin. Tulsa, Okla. ELLIOTT & HOOKER Tulsa, Okmulgee & Muskogee 3 Big Stores Clothing, Shoes, Ladies-Ready-To- Wear, Millinery, Notions, and House Hold Goods. Mail Order Department Recently Added. Write for Catalogue. 124 N. Greenwood St., Tulsa, Okla. Phone Osage 7682 THE GARLAND GROCERY CO. 1202 South Lansng St. We have a real nice line of Gro- ceries, fresh meats, milk, vegetables Eggs and Country Butter. Cigars and Tobaccos. To Dodge The High Cost of Living Come and Trade With Us ..A Square Deal is What You Get... Here MASONIC TEMPLARS Progressive Lodge No. 1425 meets every first and third Thursday night in each month at Lathon's Hall, 1024 North Greenwood. Priesthood meets every second Tuesday night in each month at Heggins Hall, 305 North Hartfort. All members invited. M. J. LATHON, M. M. & M. H. P. PORO BEAUTY PARLOR M. 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 Pro- The Best and Most Satisfactory Results in a Short Time Mrs. De Etta Smith 528 S. 2nd. St., Chickasha, Okla. LODGE DIRECTORY Sand Springs Lodge No. 192, A. F. & A. M., meets every first and third Thursday nights at Myers' Hall, East Archer Street. J. H. SMITHERMAN, W. M. F. T. SMITH, Secretary. COUNCIL No. 27 I. I. O. of W. M. Meets second and fourth Thursday nights in each month, at the Masoni Hall: Visitors invited. FLOWER OF TULSA LODGE No. 9864 G. U. O. of O. F. Meets second and fourth Monday nights in each month at Curry Hall. Visitors invited. John Clark, N. G. J. E. Hardy, P. S. COSMOPOLITAN LODGE No. 247 I. B. P. O. E. of W., meets on first and third Tuesday nights in each month at Masonic Hall. Visiting Brothers welcome. C. E. Corbett, E. R. J. E. Hardy, Scey. 115½ N. Greenwood, Tulsa, Okla. The Exchange Insurance Ass Of Boley, Oklahoma is the ONLY and Controlled by Colored Men, W Insurance. We Solicit your busi Policy Holders. District Office W Greenwood Insurance Association Of Boley, Oklahoma is the ONLY Insurance Company Owned and Controlled by Colored Men, Writing Health and Accident Insurance. We Solicit your business. A Square Deal to all Policy Holders. District Office Wood's Building 101½ North Greenwood avenue. J. R. GARRETT, Supt. M. D. RUSSELL, Asst, Supt. Agents Wanted in every City in the State. Home Office Sugrand Building, Rooms No. 1 & 2 Second Floor, Boley, Okla. E. L. LUGRAND, President. A. W. WARD, Vice President. W. A. KENNEDY, See'y and General Manager. Agents Wanted in every City in the State. Home Office Ugrand Building, Rooms No.1 & 2 Second Floor, Boley, Okla E. L. LUGRAND, President. A. W. WARD, Vice President. W. A. KENNEDY, Sec'y and General Manager. ATTENTION Ladies! Here is the opportunity of a life, the hair and scalp that will bring your Hair Grower is the results of study analysis assures one of success. If your hair is harsh and bristly want it to really grow, give Excelsior It is a 3 in 1 preparation, with the oils combined all in one for 50 cents. Easy to use and pleasing to the woman. An ideal dressing for men's hair. Keep the hair straight longer than on the market. Let Excelsior furnish your Beauty many more customers, for Excelsior n Here is the opportunity of a life time to get a preparation for the hair and scalp that will bring you the desired results. Excelsior Hair Grower is the results of study and research, and its close analysis assures one of success. If your hair is harsh and bristly, if it is at a stand-still, if you want it to really grow, give Excelsior a trial. It is a 3 in 1 preparation, with the tonic, growing and pressing oils combined all in one for 50 cents. Easy to use and pleasing to the most refined and particular woman. An ideal dressing for men's hair making the desired wave. Keep the hair straight longer than any other preparation now on the market. Let Excelsior furnish your Beauty Parlors and you will have many more customers, for Excelsior proves its merit quickly. Learn Beauty Culture at or from the Excelsior Beauty Emporium. NEW FALL WOOLENS SPECIAL OFFER This Month HYLAND TAILORING CO. 16 West Third Street P. A. CHAPPELLE Attorney at Law Phone Osage 5043 23½ North Cincinnati St., Tulsa, Okla. 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. LISTEN One Piece Bifocal Spec tacles, Far and Near Vision, Ground In the Same Lenses. You Can See to Thread the Finest Needle and See a Mile Away Through the SAME Lenses—We Also Have a Complete Line of Single Vision, Any Size, Shape or Style Frames. $2 to $10.00 Headquarters For the Simmons Watch Chains, Absolutely Guaranteed for 20 Years, at $3.50 to $8. JOHN THE RING MAN 111 So. Boston Ave. 11½ Blocks So. of Frisco Station. Colored Insurance Agents If you are reliable and can prove it, we can show you how to make $50 to $100 a month, without interfering with your present occupation. Apply $200—GOLD PRIZE—$200 FOR A NAME To the man or woman, boy or girl who selects the most suitable or acceptable name for its extensive line of Toilet Preparations the Beckwith Manufacturing Co. (formerly the Ambrosia Toilet Co.) will award a prize of $200 GOLD. For particulars send two-cent stamp. 2134 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. Furniture Business. Want to sell Outright, or Will sell Half interest in Well Established Second Hand Furniture and Hardware Business. Widow, can't Handle Alons. See or Write MRS JOSEPHINE HOPKUSS 2224 Vine St., Kansas City, Mo. Range Association LLY Insurance Company Owner, Writing Health and Accident business. A Square Deal to all the Wood's Building 101½ Northwood avenue. City in the State. Home Office & 2 Second Floor, Boley, Okla. BRAND, President. RD, Vice President. and General Manager. life time to get a preparation for you the desired results. Excelsior study and research, and its close mostly, if it is at a stand-still, if you Excelsior a trial. with the tonic, growing and pressing ents. the most refined and particular hair making the desired wave. or than any other preparation now Beauty Parlors and you will have proves its merit quickly. FOR SALE To the Colored Ladies of Tulsa Please read the STAR, and grasp the opportunity that awaits you, learn to make your own hats. Now is your chance, for your individuality to asert itself. Mrs. J. H. Jeffery, at 1315 Pocahuntas street, has decided for the benefit of the young Colored Women of Tulsa, to teach a thorough and complete course of instructions in Millinery, consisting of designing, making, shaping and trimming hats. This offer not only qualifies you for making your own hats, or for your friends, but enables you to secure a good position in a shop or else go in business for yourself. At the simple price of $15.00. $5.00 down and next payment as early as your advance requires. Come out and let's talk the matter over. Take a Lansing Jitney, get off at end of line, walk 2 blocks west, and one-half block north. Ride with Berry No. 1 or No. 2. Only 10 cents. Cut this Ad out and think it over. 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. All kinds of Typewriting neatly done. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Prices Reasonable. Out of Town Work given Prompt Attention. THE MARY JONES PARRISH SCHOOL 102 K. N Greenwood Street GROCERIES AND FRESH MEATS OF ALL KINDS. Also All Kinds of Feed. Nice Treatment and the Right Prices. The Tulsa Star, a good Colored Paper, For Sale Here. PRESSING Phone X W RAINS IN FARM LANDS & CITY PROPERTY Surburban Homes, Chicken Ranges. ROBINSON REALTY COMPANY Large or small bodies of land and.city property, A Rooming Houses, Cafe, Barber Shops, Pool Ha Pressing Shops. BARGAINS IN FARM LANDS & CITY PROPERTY Surburban Homes, Chicken Ranges. ROBINSON REALTY COMPANY We sell in large or small bodies of land and.city property, Also merchandise, Rooming Houses, Cafe, Barber Shops, Pool Halls, Cleaning and Pressing Shops. OR THE SALE IS NO GOOD YOU ALWAYS GET THE BEST AT RADERS NO. 4 Helius Henke, Prop. AGE 6970 105 EAST FIRST NOTICE ENTS OF ALL THE COLORED ADDITIONS Want a Telephone in Your House or Store, See THE HILLCREST TELEPHONE CO. RESIDENTS OF ALL THE COLORED ADDITIONS If You Want a Telephone in Your House or Store, See 1125 N. Bullett Ave. Phones X. W.—15 or Cedar 1553 C. J. JEFFERSON GROCERY STORE 525 Corner Fairview & Lansing Streets. Now ready to give you real service. Our Motto is to the fair. We have a fine line of Fancy and Staple Grocer fats, Butter, Eggs, Vegetables and anything in the Grocer us and you will go away pleased and satisfied. We are now ready to give you real service. Our Motto is to treat you right and fair. We have a fine line of Fancy and Staple Groceries, Fresh Milk, Meats, Butter, Eggs, Vegetables and anything in the Grocery line. Deal with us and you will go away pleased and satisfied. C. J. JEFFERSON, Proprietor. בעלי 1301 North Lansing BARGAINS IN Surburb ROBIN We sell in large or small merchandise, Rooming, Cleaning and Pressing, 615 N. Main Street, TRAN Julius PHONE OSAGE 6970 A. RESIDENTS OF If You Want a T THE HILL 11 Phone We are now ready to you right and fair. We Fresh Milk, Meats, Butter line. Deal with us and C. Tulsa, Okla. ALL KINDS. ices. for Sale Here. Phone X W. 51 PROPERTY anges. NY city property, Also Shops, Pool Halls, Wichita, Kansas DS AT NO. 4 Prop. 105 EAST FIRST --- The Frisco Shining Parlor 18 North Cincinnatti FOR LADIES AND GENTS We respectfully solicit your patronage VANDYKE & WHITTAKER, Props. ADDITIONS or Store, See ONE CO. 1553 sreets. Our Motto is to treat and Staple Groceries anything in the Grocery and satisfied. A nice line of MRS. J. H. LEWIS. THE GOODS MUST BE NOTICE C. J. JEFFERSON, Proprietor. THE TULSA STAR Saturday, October 28, 1920 OKMULGEE OCCURENCES Since the freeing of Judy Atkinson who had been accused unjustly of attacking a white woman Friday night, October 8th, when a race riot was narrowly averted, conditions have returned to normal. There seems to be the MOST CORDIAL relations between the races. The Colored people are taking an active interest in the election, Mrs. J. B. Key and Mrs. J. M. White, two of the wealthiest nd most cultured women of the city are making a house to house cavass to the end that every man and woman shall be registered. Our women are eager for the ballot. Attorney D. J. Wallace and Nelson Z. Hays have succeeded in organizing the county into Harding and Coolidge Clubs. The democrat registers in many predicts have resortd to the same old game of hiding out to keep from registering qualified voters. The rally at the Mt. Olive Presbyterian Church Sunday, Oct. 2nd last was quite a success. About $500.00 was raised. The members of Shorter Chapel are very jubilant over their achievement of raising nearly $1,000.00 in the recent rally conducted by their pastor, Dr. Kidd. Dr. Anderson and the members of his congregation are planning to build a $40,000.00 church edifice on East Third St. The Missionary rally of the C. M. E. Church will take place on October 24th. The members of all Okmulgee Churches are invited to be present. The services at this church are always interesting. The Epworth League continues to increase in membership. Rev. Amos the talented Muskogee pastor, delivered a most eloquent sermon recently. Miss Perry D. Bolling of Jacksonville, Texas, has accepted a position in the law office of Attorney A. W. Whitfield. Bishop P. A. Wallace of Brooklyn, N. Y., recently preached an admirable sermon before an appreciative audience at Holiday Chapel A. M. E. Zion Church. D. F. Wilson, the hustling agent of the Tulsa Star has enlarged his field of operations in handling Race Papers and besides his news stand at 515 E. 5th St., he has made arrangements for sale at the popular and well known drugs stores. The Owl and the City Drug on East 6th and East 5th streets respectively. All Race men and women who desire to take the Tulsa Star, or any other Race paper should indicate their wants to Mr. Wilson who will take pleasure in complying with the same. D. F. W NOISELESS TYPEWRITER LATEST INVENTION Thlsa Man Has State Agency For New Machine "The Noiseless Typewriter" has made its advent in America and it is naaiieiaoeo aanao ooee nso mdfwfm evidently here to stay. It has come to replace the Oliver, Woodstock, Remington, Royal and other good machines which must be consigned to the scrap pile to give way to their muffled competitor. With the "Noiseless" installed in your office it will be no longer necessary to scold at your stenographer when you are trying to talk over the phone. In fact any number of these new machines may be silently performing while you are holding a telephone conversation and you can never know of their presence because of of the usual nerve-racking latter of the keys. M. F. Burton, Manager of the "Office Machine Exchange" of this city has the exclusive state agency for the "Noiseless Typewriter" and in a short while he expects to introduce the machine in all the principal towns in the State. Mr. Burton believes in the "Noiseless" like he believes in Tulsa, "both are indispensable." he says. LOCAL BUSINESS LEAGUE HOLD MEETING Wednesday night at 8:00 o'clock, the Local Business League of Tulsa made its initial step into the Commercial world. The Public Library was well arranged by the committee for the meeting. A short program was rendered on which the following made addresses; Lawyer P. A. Chappelle, M. J. B. Stradford and Rev. H. T. S. Johnson. Twenty-seven of the business men and women were present and took membership certificates. Prof. H. S. Hughes, chairman of the membership committee made an interesting report. He stated that he was encouraged over the interest shown by the leading business men and women of Tulsa, who pledged their entire support to the League. Remarks were also made by Prof. G. A. Gregg, Executive Secretary of the Hunton Branch Y. M. C. A. of Tulsa, Mr. Theo Baughman, Editor of the Oklahoma Sun, Dr. P. S. Thompson, Corresponding Secretary of the League and Mrs. J. R. Garrett Secretary of the Modern Priscilla Art Club of Tulsa. The Executive Committee of which Dr. R. R. Robinsin is chairman will meet on the 27th at 7:00 o'clock p. m. The next meeting of League will be here on Wednesday Coming Off Our Shelves Immediately! Worth 2 and 3 Times That! Novelties, Oxfords, Pumps, Etc. All Leathers and Fabrics, Military and High Heels Successors to Pickering's November 17th. The public is invited to be present. J. R. GARRETT, President, J. E. HARDY, Secretary. DESERVING HELEN FICHTL Re-Election For County Superintendent of Schools Democratic Ticket—Tried and Proven Sapulpa (Creek County) Okla PUBLICATION NOTICE First Published in the Tulsa Star, October 16, 1920. No. 12613 State of Oklahoma, County of Tulsa, SS— in the District Court of Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma. M. Cotton Plaintiff vs. Sannie Cotton Defendant State of Oklahoma to Sannie Cotton State of Oklahoma to Sannie Cotton Take notice, that you have been sued in the above named court by plaintiff, on the grounds of ab- andonment, praying for an absolute separation, and you the said def- endant must answer the petition of the plaintiff filed herein on or be- fore the 27th day of November 1920 or said petition will be taken as true and judgment for plaintiff will be rendered accordingly—Dated this the 15th day of October 1920 JNO. D. PORTER, Court Clerk, E. I. SADDLER, Atty., for Plaintiff, GERALD T. O'BRIEN, Dep. Court Clerk. YORK MARKET & GROCERY We Carry a full line of pure and wholesome Groceries and fresh meats. We appreciate your Business 18 N. Cincinnati Tulsa, Okla. --- DR. L. S. NEAL Graduate Chicago University 617 E. Archer St. Tulsa, Okla. C. J. JENNINGS Real Estate Man Real Estate of all Kindls For Sale Call 704 N. Lansing Radium Water We use the pure unadulterated Radium Water just from Mother Earth for external and internal baths. Don't get despondent because medicine has failed to use. There is yet hope for you in RADIUM WATER. Washington Bat House Radium Water Radium Water We use the pure unadulterated Radium Water just as it comes from Mother Earth for external and internal baths. Don't get despondent because medicine has failed to reach your case. There is yet hope for you in RADIUM WATER. --- M. Steiner, Mgr. Stores Everywhere. Are You Sick? If so, your greatest ambition should be to GET WELL. The primary cause of every disease is pressure on the nervous system and most such cases cannot be successfully reached with drugs. The only sure and safe way of getting permanent relief is to have the cause removed. This can only be done successfully by an experi- ment will convince you. See. NOTICE TO NEWCOMERS TO TULSA WANTED -Oil Leases to Goodl Acreage MRS. MARY HARRISON, Prop. Claremore, Okla. 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