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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Congressional Library. Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE RAGE SEGEREGATION In Government Departments—Report of an Investigation. New York, Nov. 1, 1913. To the Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. My Dear Sir: In compliance with your request, I submit herewith a report of my investigation of the segregation of colored employees in government departments. Segregation is no new thing in Washington and the present administration cannot be said to have inaugurated it. The past few months of Democratic party control, however, have given segregation impetus and have been marked by more than a beginning of systematic enforcement. It is becoming known as a policy of the present government. The effect is startling. Those segregated are regarded as a people set apart, almost as lepers. Instead of allaying race prejudice, as some of the advocates of segregation would have us believe, recognition has emphasized it. In fact, government approval in some cases has aroused it where it did not exist. In saying they favor segregation, many white employees seem not to be expressing their own convictions so much as to be reflecting what they regard as the spirit of the new administration. Those who have been appointed in previous administrations apparently think that if they do not put themselves on record as approving this policy, the danger of losing their positions will be thereby increased. How far this attitude is the result of official suggestion cannot be ascertained. A well-known person who is in touch with several government officials told the investigator of a personal call upon the chief of one of the departments, an appointee under a previous administration, to urge him to segregate his colored employees for the reason that if he did not he might expect to be succeeded by some one who would. Immediate results bear witness that he acted promptly upon this suggestion. The same person further stated that the white people really do not object to the colored people particularly as a race, but are using this worn out prejudice as an excuse to get their positions. If the colored people protest against segregation, it probably would be only a question of time before the present Civil Service Act was annulled and another passed making it possible to deprive all colored people in the service of the government of their positions. Competition has been eliminated. In time the few colored people who are now so expert as to prevent their being segregated will leave the government service and their positions will be filled by white people. Colored clerks, in other words, will be limited to positions in a few offices which have been designated for colored help only. Those who advance the argument that assigning a given division to colored clerks will give the latter a chance to test the efficiency of the race ignore the fact that efficiency can be developed only by competition which is the bases of all economic opportunity. The investigator visited the following departments. Segregation may be more or less in force in other departments, such as the Bureau of the Census, but only those departments were visited where it was said to have increased considerably under the present administration: Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Here colored clerks are segregated in work by being placed at separate tables and in separate sections of rooms whenever possible. White guides told the investigator that it was to be the future policy of the Bureau to segregate all its colored employees, but that this could not be strictly enforced until the Bureau moved into its new building. In both the Miscellaneous Division and Examining Division segregation has been increased. In the former division, the employees operate perforating machines, one on either side, perforating the blocks of stamps. Here the workers have been paired according to race. In the same room the counters of these stamps have also been segregated according to color. In the Examining Division where tissue separating is carried on, the employees have been grouped according to color. Colored girls no longer use the lunch rooms which for nine years they have been using in common with white girls. (See articles in La Follettes Magazine. August 23. August 30.) Though no official order was issued in regard to this, since Director Ralph told the three colored girls who had been eating in these lunch rooms that they must use a separate table, they have left and gone to the rooms assigned to them. These are most unpleasant, the wash rooms, lavatories and lunch rooms being all in one. One girl who objected has since been discharged. "BUSINESS LEAGUE NIGHT" AT BETHEL. Monster Rally of the Commercial Forces of the Race at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Next Tuesday Night—Plain Business Talks by People Who Know What They are Talking About—How to Open the Door of Business Hope. The principal address will be delivered by Prof. Kelly Miller, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University. His theme will be "What Commercial Development Means to the Negro Race." Do you believe in building up business enterprise among colored people? Do you believe the Negro should win a permanent place in the commercial world? Do you wish to open a "door of hope" to your son or daughter, that their education and God-given talents may find a profitable market? If so, you are urged to attend the monster public rally and monster mass meeting in the interest of the commercial awakening of the colored people of Washington next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock sharp. It will be "Business League Night." The meeting will be held at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. M Street, between Fifteen. h and Sixteenth Streets Northwest, under the auspices of the local branch of the National Negro Business League, in conjunction with the Bethel Literary and Historical Association. A score of other speakers, who stand for the highest ideals in the commercial and professional life of the community will tell the people in the plainest kind of language the value of business enlargement in the solution of the race problem and what each must do to strengthen the influence of the Negro in the financial world—in the fundamentals of progress. They will emphasize "unity" and "get-up-and-get" as the keynotes of success. Every phase of business activity among Washington's 100,000 population will be ably represented. Among the speakers will be Daniel Freeman, president of the local league, who will preside and outline the objects of the organization; Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman, Judge Robert H. Terrell, Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, Dr. C. W. Childs, Dr. S. S. Thompson, John W. Lewis, R. W. Thompson, Dr. W. H. Davis, Richard T. Ware, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, S. W. Ruthierford, Dr. Amanda V. Grav R. L. Pendleton, Mrs. Sarah F. Lewis, B. T. Montgomery, E. R. James, T. H. Watts, Henry Lassiter, Prof. Geo. W. Cook, Robert D. Harlan, J. Louis Taylor and others who have made conspicuous successes along business and professional lines. Commissioners O. P. Newman and F. L. Siddons, Capt. J. F. Oyster and Hon. Cuno H. Rudolph, president of the Board of Trade, have been asked to be present. A rich musical program will be presented by the choir of the Plymouth Congregational Church, arranged by Miss Edna T. Gordon, who will also render a piano solo. There will also be a solo by Mrs. M. M. Duieguid, of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church choir. A special invitation is extended to every one engaged in business, large or small, to all the churches, the schools, fraternities, and to every individual who has a stake in the commercial uplift of the Negro. Everybody will be a business man or woman on "Business League Night"—next Tuesday evening at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. There should be a tremendous outpouring of the friends of race progress, and the church should be packed. Greatest Honor Bestowed on Any Colored Man in the World Colored Man in the World. Dr. D. H. Williams, of Chicago, was among the 1,200 American Surgeons to receive the degree of "Fellow" bestowed by Sir Rickman J. Godlee, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The 13th of November was Fellow D. H. Williams' lucky day and to every colored man in America. In the annals of surgical medical history the first man to be admitted to a charter member will be our own Dan Williams. What we in the narrowness of our sphere may have denied him, the world's best has recognized. THE MU-SO-LIT INSULTS Prominent Men Rejected by a Kitchen Organization. At a meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Social Club, held a few weeks ago, a lively discussion took place as to the admission of certain men to membership. It is claimed that certain 1914 names were presented by a so-called newspaper correspondent who has no influence in this city, and less in the Mu-So-Lit club. This club is composed of a class of colored messengers and laborers, a few doctors and lawyers, who practice law and medicine after office hours. Among the persons who were rejected was one well known attorney, no doubt the best known attorney at the local bar, and who is respected and esteemed by the judges of the court and other prominent lawyers. is income is, no doubt, about six to eight thousand dollars per year, and his residence is among the most commanding in this city. Just why he allowed his name to be presented to this kitchen organization no one knows. Another rejected applicant is the president of the best known literary society in this city, a highly educated gentleman, who knows more in five minutes than any member of this kitchen and wood-house organization. Another is a well known physician who has more sense in two minutes than the entire kitchen Mu-So-Lit. As a speaker this physician has no equal. The next one is a well known musical director who sings before kings and princes. Just why intelligent men would permit their names to be presented to this sang-bag organization. The Bee is unable to state. The Bee will give the pedigree of the entire personnel of this night social sand-bag organization, and allow the people to compare the records of those who voted to reject the names mentioned. If one half of the membership of this brown paper organization were thrown out on their own resources they would go back to their old diet, corn bread and hash and smoked fish. Not one of them could make a living outside of the government. DR. JOHN R. FRANCIS Memorial Meeting Held Monday Night. The whole of Washington is looking forward to the great memorial meeting to the late Dr. John R Francis, which is to be held Monday next at the Metropolitan Church at 8 o'clock. In fact, the management has left no detail undone in its efforts to make this one of the finest meetings of its kind ever in Washington. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Colored Social Settlement, and with Assistant Superintendent Bruce as president of the Settlement directing, the prospects of a large and representative audience are bright. The presence of Honorable William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, on the program, is interesting at this time, especially. Secretary Bryan's oratory cannot be equalled, and his knowledge of social conditions all over the country will make his address one of the best ever presented from a platform. Dr. William M. Davidson, superintendent of Schools, will also speak. Dr. Davidson will deliver his farewell address to Washingtonians on this oc- casion. Major R. R. Moten, commandant of cadets at the Hampton Institute is also scheduled to make an address. Professor G. W. Cook, of Howard University: Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, of the Bureau of Education, and Mr. William L. Washington, head worker, at the Settlement House. A rare musical program has been arranged by the committee having the memorial in [Image of a man with a bald head and a white shirt with a dark tie. The background is black with a white border. There is no text or additional details in the image.] hand. A cordial invitation has been extended to the whole of Washington. Thanksgiving Union Service. Fifteenth St. Presbyterian Church, Rev. F. J. Grimke, pastor; Lincoln Temple, Rev. S. N. Brown; People's Congregational Church, Rev. Arthur Randall; Plymouth Church, Rev. A. C. Garner, pastor, will hold a union service at Plymouth Church, corner Seventeenth and P Streets, Thursday, November 27, at 11 A. M. Rev. Mr. Randall will give the Thanksgiving oration. THOMAS' TESTIMONIAL. Every indication shows that the testimonial to Mr. Andrew J. Thomas will be the greatest event in the history of the people in this city. The Elks and Pythians will come in a body and with their own band. Friday night has been selected for those organizations. "Seest thou a man diligent in his business: he shall stand, before kings." This will be "preached" by leading business men and women next Tuesday, night at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. E YOU GOING giving Aft of course, at the LINCOLN GREAT CONFERENCE The Fifteenth Annual Celebration of the National Benefit- Association for the Benefit of the People. for the Benefit of the People. The biggest event of Thanksgiving week promises to be the fifteenth annual celebration of the National Benefit Association, starting Sunday night. November 23, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Dr. I. N. Ross will preach a special sermon. Wednesday, November 26 at 1 o'clock, a great conference of ministers, business and professional men of the race will be held at the Home Office Building. Some of the scheduled distinguished speakers are: Judge R. H. Terrell, Rev. M. W. D. Norman, Rev. J. M. Waldron, Dr. C. W. Childs, Prof. R. C. Bruce, Prof. Kelly Miller, Prof. Nelson E. Weatherless, Hon. H. P. Slaughter, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, Messrs. Addison Scurlock and M. F. Murray and Rev. A. Randall. Some of the subjects to be treated are: "The Relation of the Church to the Business Activities of the Race," "Self-help Through Intelligent Co-operation," "The Power and Necessity of Race Organization." Rev. W. H. Jernagin, master of ceremonies. As a fitting climax, Wednesday night at the Metropolitan Church Dr. W. J. Howard. Calvin Chase, Esq., and Mr. Lewjs E. Johnson will speak on the subject of "The Relation of the Church to the Business Activities of the Race," while the secretary-manager, Mr. S. W. Rutherford, will give a most interesting stereopticon lecture. And during the entire week the building and the work will be open for inspection. DR. COLEMAN. Dr. J. P. H. Coleman, no doubt one of the most widely known hair culturists and manufacturers in the United States, after an extensive trip South, visiting and demonstrating at the great Raleigh. N. C. Fair, making extensive sales of her goods, and carrying away the laurels, has returned to the city. Dr. Coleman visited Durham, Greensboro, Mt. Airy, Winston-Salem, Concord and Charlotthe, N. C. while in the South. Wherever she went, she was royally received. Be at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on "Business League Night" next Tuesday night. MURDERED RACE, MURDERER TO DIE The Greatest Criminal of All History Soon to Meet His Fate. A REIGN OF SIN AND DEATH Jesus Charged Satan With Murder. Adam and His Race the Victims. The Murderer at Large Six Thousand Years—He Has Added Insult to Injury—He Has Made Us Believe That Our Best Friend Caused the Race Eternal Ruin—The Hidden Things of Darkness Now Coming to Light—The Deceiver to Be Bound For a Thousand Years While His Nefarious Work Is Undone—Then He Is to Be Utterly Destroyed. Steubenville, On November 16.—Pastor Russell is here and has given two addresses. We report one of these from the text, "He [Satnn] was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth. * * * When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: PASTOR RUSSELL PASTOR RUSSELL eth a lle, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it." (John S:44.) Pastor Russell said: We all know that the holy angels of Heaven are free from the blights which cause sorrow on earth. In Heaven there is no sighing, no crying, no dying, no sickness, no heart-aches, no headaches, no nisfares asylums, no funerals, no doctors. On earth these things are so familiar that many assume that they always have been and always will be. And yet without a question we all acknowledge that the same God who made such a splendid provision for the angels is the God of humanity, our Maker. Why should He have done so differently with two creations of His own family—His own creatures, His own children? The Bible explains that the reason for the difference between God's treatment of mankind and His treatment of the angels is that the human family became sinners, depraved, alienated, through the disobedience of Father Adam; that the entire race of Adam is mentally, morally and physically impaired; and that these impairments are all incidental to the curse, or penalty of sin; namely, "Dying, thou shalt die."—Genesis 2:17—margin. Satan the Murderer. Jesus' declares that Satan is wholly responsible for the death of our race. He was the murderer of our first parents, and by the laws of heredity we all lost our lives through his terrible deception. Satan persuaded Mother Eve that God, who cannot lie, had lied to her; that the declaration, "Dying, thou shalt die," is an untruth; that man could not die; that he had some inherent life that even God Himself could not interfere with. He persuaded her that God had a selfish motive in making the death threat, in telling the lie; that God wished to keep herself and Adam in ignorance; but that, by obeying himself, they would become like God. Man's sentence was carried out. Our first parents were driven from Eden, that they might no longer have access to its life-sustaining fruits, that they might come under the penalty, "Dying, thou shalt die." There never was a sentence. Thou shalt live in eternal torment and be tortured by devils. All such misrepresentations are slanders of the Divine character, purpose and plan, intended to dishonor God and turn mankind away from Him. Jezus the Life-Giver. Before considering the murderer and his fate, let us glance at the murdered race, which now has numbered approximately twenty thousand millions of souls. They are all dead or dying. There is no hope for them except in God. Has God a gracious provision, and if so, what is it? The Bible assures us that God is very compassionate, and that He so loved the world as not to wish them to perish like the natural brute beast. He therefore gave His Son, that all exercising obedient faith in Him might be saved from perishing and might attain everlasting life. We must not overlook the fact that, as we were not sentenced to eternal torment, neither did God provide a redemption from eternal torment. The death penalty on humanity would have reduced our race to the same condition as the brute; for a dead man would have had no superiority over a dead beast. But here God interposed. He provided a Savior and a great One, who could save to the uttermost. He proposes to save us from perishing—from destruction—not from eternal torment, of which the Bible knows nothing. The word Savior signifies Life-giver. Father Adam, having fallen into sin, failed to give his race life-perfection. We were all born a dying race. The thing we need is the thing which we lost-life, everlasting life. And this is what God has provided for the race. He purposes that "all who are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth." The salvation which God has promised is a resurrection—a raising up from death to Life—to give beauty for ashes—perfection for imperfection. Thus it is written, "As by a man came death, by a man also comes the resurrection of the dead. For as all in Adam die, even so all in Christ shall be made alive. But every man in his own order [or company]: Christ [Head and Body], the First-fruits; afterwards those who shall become Christ's at [during the time of] His presence"—the thousand years of His glorious Reign for human uplift—1 Corinthians 15:20-23 The iplifting, the resurrection, the Restitution, will not be merely an awakening from the tomb to the conditions which prevailed before death; much more is implied. Father Adam's dying began when he was perfect. It included all the processes which finally led him to the tomb. His resurrection, or raising again, will not signify merely his coming from the tomb, but will include all the steps of progress up, up, back to all that he was at first—to all that he lost through sin—to all that was redeemed for him at Calvary. And the same principle will hold with all his children, his race. In him they all fell from perfection, and through Christ they may all reattain the perfection which they lost. Only Two Exceptions. This blessing of Restitution will include the whole race, with two exceptions. The first exception will be those who will reject the gift of God, eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, by refusing to co-operate with God in the love and service of righteousness and in the hatred of injustice. The second exception will be the Church of this Gospel Age—not the nominal Church, but the Church whose names are written in Heaven—allaints, out of all nations and denominations. These will not be returned to the perfection of Adam, because according to the call of this Gospel Age they are invited to a change of nature, and in the present life experience a begetting of the Holy Spirit. If faithful, they will share the First, or superior, Resurrection, and will be made perfect on the Heavenly plane, that they may be associated with the Master in the great work of blessing and uplifting humanity in general. Satan the Incorrigible. For all these six thousand years Satan has maintained his attitude of empathy toward God and antagonism toward all the Divine arrangements, laws and regulations. God, all-powerful, could have restrained Satan at any moment if He chose. The fact that He has allowed him to remain and to practise to some extent his evil work assures us that the results will fully justify the course pursued by the Almighty. In the sight of the holy angels, the vicious, scheming, plotting, deceiving, lying, murderous spirit of Satan has been fully manifest; and by and by the whole world of mankind, now su- to his deceptions, will be fully ared and fully informed respo- them. God undoubtedly sees the permitting of sin to take its will eventually bring to the world, angels, and to the Church, a wider knowledge of good and evil, of right and wrong, than could have been communicated to them in any other way. Satan, evidently always hopeful that he might outwit the Almighty and accomplish his purpose, has especially labored during the past nineteen centuries. When he could not seduce the great Redeemer to disloyalty to God, he sought to put Him to ignomious death, only to find that in this he had fulfilled the Scriptures. Later, in persecuting the Church and in bringing in damnable heresies, through seducing spirits inculcating doctrines of demons, Satan has sought to turn the hearts of all against the Heavenly Father, and to mislead them in respect to the Divine character and Plan. The Kingdom and Its Work. God's great Plan will soon have matured. Soon the Church will be completed. Then Christ will receive her to Himself as His Bride and Joint-heir in His Kingdom. Then the work of that Kingdom, the rescue of the world, will begin. Mankild must first be rescued from error, superstition, darkness, ignorance of God, brought on them by Satan. He shall see the wreck of all his deep-lap schemes, but he will be powerless to any further deceive humanity and misrepresent the Creator. One of the first acts of Messiah in His Kingdom will be to "lay hold on that old Serpent, the Devil, and bind him a thousand years, that he may deceive the nations no more."—Revelation 20:1:3. Sin's Wage Is Death. Our great Creator has one Law for His Empire: "The wages of sin is death; the gift of God is eternal life." Satan was given this gift; but it was conditional—dependent upon his obedience. From the moment of his rebellion he was worthy of the sentence of death. But it was not decreed. Time was given him to see the folly of his course. Century after century increased Satan's spirit of opposition to God and to righteousness. Even the terrible disaster of sickness, sorrow and death which he has brought upon mankind swerved him not from his evil course. Even the death of the Savior for the redemption of the race moved him not to sympathy and pity. His heart seems to have become the more hardened in proportion as he has seen manifestations of Divine love and pity. This is an illustration of the general trend of sin—to hardness of heart. A certain time has been fixed in the Divine Program for the execution of this great murderer. He must first witness the undoing of all his work. He must behold how the light of the knowledge of the glory of God will sweep away all the delusions which he has fostered, and will emancipate hu manity, and lead to the anthem, "Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." The Scriptures do not inform us of where Satan will be during the period of his bondage, during the period of his restraint from doing evil—during the thousand years of Messiah's Reign. It merely informs us that at the conclusion of that period he will be loosed again, that he may bring a trial and a test upon the human family, then perfect in the flesh. Their number, we are told, will be as the sand of the seashore—a world full. They all will have enjoyed the full benefit of Messiah's Reign—Restitution to all that was lost—to full human perfection. The earth, brought to perfection, will be as the Garden of Eden—the Garden of the Lord, Paradise restored. Why Will Satan Be Loosed? The Bible answer is that God desires to prove, to test, all of the human family. They will have had a knowledge of sin, a knowledge of God's goodness, a knowledge of human recovery from sin and death. But the question which God would decide with them is, Have they so learned the lesson of the sinfulness of sin and the bitterness of its results that they would hate sin and love righteousness—that they would be obedient to God, trusting Him where they could trace Him and where they could not? Any who after all the experiences they will have passed through would not be absolutely loyal to the Lord to the very core in word, in deed and in thought, would not be dependable—would not be worthy of eternal life, which God purposes only for those who have demonstrated fully established characters in harmony with the Creator's. All Will Be Tested As to the nature of the test we are not informed. We are merely told that Satan will be loosed that he may tempt all mankind. We may be sure that the temptations will be along the lines of full submission to the Divine will. The Scriptures imply that when Messiah shall deliver up the Kingdom at the close of the Millennium the government of the world will become a Republic, in which each person is a king, and one of these kings chosen by vote to be the Administrator of the affairs of the Government. Let us suppose as an illustration that mankind would be expecting such a change of government at a particular time. Let us suppose that God had allowed them to misunderstand some feature of His Plan and thus to expect the change of government at the wrong time. Here would be an opportunity for a test upon all. A question would arise which, would tend to cause a division amongst all mankind. Some might be inclined to say. The time for the change has come, and it should be made; and those who are retaining the government are in error. So be Others of mankind might say, Nay; we are debtors to God for all that we have. We may have misunderstood the time or some feature of the Divine purpose in respect to the time of the change in the government of the world, but we are very happy, very thankful to God, very appreciative of the blessings we are enjoying. If God wishes to make a change in the government, well and good. If God wishes that the present government shall hold over indefinitely, all well and good. We refuse to join with those who are proposing a demand for the transfer of the government. Something of this kind would seem to be implied in the figurative expressions of Revelation 20:9. "The camp of the saints and the Beloved City" would seem to represent the earthly phase of the Kingdom, and the encompassing of the camp would seem to imply a protest. Such a division of sentiment would show clearly how many had fully learned to commit everything to God and to trust absolutely in the Divine supervision of their affairs, and how many, after all the great lessons of seven thousand years, would still be inclined to take matters into their own hands—world-wide. Destruction of Satan and All God's Enemies. The denouement here and elsewhere pictured is that there came down fire from Heaven and devoured them—Satan and all those who took the side of self-will and who indicated a measure of disloyalty and unfaithfulness. Many are the Scriptures which seem to tell us of the final destruction of Satan; as, for instance, Romans 16:20, which declares that God will ultimately bruise Satan under the feet of the Church, thus associating the Church, the Body of Christ, with the Lord, the Head. This corresponds with the Divine statement in Eden that ultimately the Seed of the woman would crush the Serpent's head—ultimately destroy the Serpent and all that he stands for; namely, sin and rebellion against God Thus eventually the wages of sin and death must be met out to any willful, persistent rebel against the Divine Law, whether he be an outward rebel or one secretly disloyal. The lesson is one for all of God's people and for the whole world. If we know the Spirit of the Lord in respect to sin, happy are we if we conform our lives thereto. Let us mark well the course that will ultimately lead to Satan's destruction. Let us mark well also the course of Jesus, which led to the highest glory. Which example shall we follow? Shall we in humility walk in the footsteps of our Redeemer, and become His joint-heels, or shall we take the other course of pride, and thus become disciples of the Adversary, and reach his doom? ISRAEL UNDER A NEW LEADER. Joshua 1:1-9—Nov. 23. "Be strong and of a good courage."—Verse 9. ISRAEL spent thirty days in mourning for their great leader Moses, yet with one accord accepted Joshua as their new leader by Divine appointment through Moses. Like other Bible heroes, Joshua was renowned for his faith and his loyalty to God. At the time of taking Moses' place he was in his eighty-third year, yet full of vigor and evidently the best qualified for the position. The fact that Moses was vigorous at one hundred and twenty, and Joshua one hundred and eighty-three, speaks loudly to us in confirmation of the Bible teaching that Adam was created perfect; and that the entire race has since fallen into sin and death- sharing Adam a penalty, "Dying, thou shalt die." The intelligence of these men as well at eighty-three, speaks loudly to us in confirmation of the Bible teaching that Adam was created perfect; and that the entire race has since fallen into sin and death—sharing Adam's penalty, "Dying. thou shalt die." The intelligence of these men, as well as their vigor, quite contradict the Evolution theory; for this very Joshua had been one of the slaves in Egypt. Israel's Real Leader—God. Not for a moment are we to lose sight of the fact that God had adopted the nation of Israel and had entered into a special Covenant with them; and that, therefore, He was their real Leader, Moses, Joshua and others being merely His representatives. We have already referred to the reasons for the adoption of Israel by the Almighty. The New Leader's Name. Joshua's name was originally Hoshea, the same as that of the Prophet Hosea, signifying salvation. To this was prefixed (Numbers 13:16) Je, an abbreviation representing the word Jehovah. This the name became Jehoshua, signifying Jehovah's salvation. This was shortened to Joshua. The Greek form of this word is *Jesous*-Jesus. For twenty-seven years Joshua was the leader of Israel, faithful to God and to the people. He not only led the people through Jordan and directed in the conquest of Canaan, but divided the land amongst the tribes and governed the people with great acceptance, dying at the age of one hundred and ten years. Moses and Joshua were men of totally different types. Any one contrasted with Moses would be disadvantaged, so high did that great statesman tower above the average of humanity, then or since. But while Moses, yet he was or Moses, as one Olive Law, and fluence were helpi- He was just what be, and whoever is testimone is truly worthy of such a testimony is truly great. The Land of Promise. That Joshua and Israel should take forcible possession of Canaan is called in question by some. They ask, By what right might one branch of the human family destroy another and seize their land? Where is the justice of such a course? There is but one answer to this query; and, rightly seen, it is satisfactory. The Lord declares that the earth is Ili, that He gave it to the children of men, as represented by Adam. (Psalm 115:16.) But the gift was conditioned upon obedience and loyalty—disobedience, disloyalty, being punishable by death. Adam incurred this penalty; and his children, under the laws of heredity, shared it with him, because "born in sin and shaken in iniquity." Thus all human right in the earth was abrogated by the death sentence upon the sinner. God purposed in Himself the recovery of Adam and his family from the curse of death—through Messiah, through His death and by the power of His Messianic Kingdom, not yet established. In preparation for these blessings to come, God laid hold upon Israel and made a Covenant with them. Although they could not fulfill the terms of the Covenant and obtain God's choicest blessing, nevertheless they were greatly blessed by their Law Covenant, and many of them were prepared by it for cooperation with Messiah in His Kingdom in due False Theories of the time. False Theories of the Dark Age. In carrying out this arrangement, God gave Israel Palestine, but explained that this gift was because of His favor toward them in pursuit of His own great plans, previously outlined to Abraham. He further explained that the Canaanites were not making progress, and that their continuance would be neither for their good nor for His glory—as it was with the Sodomites—Ezekiel 16:49, 50. We should remember that the Bible hell, to which the slaughtered Canaanites went, is not the hell of torment pictured in the creeds. Their destruction by Israel sent them to Shoal, Hades, the tomb. There they sleep with their forefathers, waiting for the glorious resurrection Morning, when Messiah's Kingdom will eventually bring back every man in his own order. From this viewpoint, the giving of Palestine to Israel was not injustice, but wisdom. LITTLE GIRLS RUN SOUTHERN FARMS One In Arkansas Takes Horse's Place In the Harrow. STORIES OF THEIR INTEREST Department of Agriculture Successful In Arousing Enthusiasm of Young People In Scientific and Practical Methods of Farming—One Drags Rails Down Mountain For Fence. Washington—Many human interest stories of girls and boys in the south are being sent to the department of agriculture by its field agents engaged in demonstration work among juvenile clubs. From Alabama came this story: "One girl who lives on top of a mountain cleared and fenced her own plot, dragging rails, one at a time, down the mountainside. As she lives alone with her grandmother, she had no one to plow for her, so she and her grandmother dug the plot up with a grubbing hoe. She split her ankle with the ax when chopping stakes for her plot." This story came from an agent in Arkansas: "Etta, Ealy and Ora Red have moved on their own farm too late for early tomatoes. They have planted bunch beans, after which they will raise late tomatoes. Their father died in February, leaving their mother with eight children. These girls, with a fourteen-year-old brother, will run the farm. It seemed as if the father could have been the least spared of any man in the country. "One little Arkansas girl, with the aid of her sister, used a small harrow such as is used for cotton beds to harrow the space between the rows of tomatoes in their canning club plot. One girl took the place of the horse in the harrow while the other occupied the place of the driver." A report from Georgia says: "A little girl of Upatore deserves special mention. Her parents are poor but good people of fine sense. She went to school, stood at the head of her class; did all the work of her patch except plowing, working morning and evening; borrowed money for canner and cans and has put up 500 cans of tomatoes and 200 cans of blackberries, besides a variety of sauces, plickles, jellies and preserves for home and market purposes." "Three-fourths of the members of the Girl's Tomato clubs visited this week and regular 'hands' on their father-farms," writes an agent of South Carolina. "One girl is twelve years old and weighs 108 pounds. She told me she learned to plow two years ago, when her father was a cripple. She prepared her one-tenth acre with a two horse plow, hauled her fertilizer, scattered, bedded, irransplanted, hoed and plowed it without any help at all. When I went to her tomato garden, about a half mile from her home, I found it to be in a very productive state." 77, SHE WALKS 100 MILES. Woman Makes Journey to Old Home In Four Days. Philadelphia.—Mrs. Fannie McGlynn, seventy-seven years old, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. John Quinn, left her home to visit relatives in South Philadelphia and was found later 100 miles away in Palo Alto, a small town just outside of Pottsville. She had made the distance in four days. Mrs. McGlynn recently had talked a great deal about going back to a little house in Palo Alto in which the family lived thirty years ago. When the woman reached the house she said that she had come to collect the rent due. Report of the 100 mile trip of the woman aroused the interest of the authorities, who found that the McGlynn property was sold by the county commissioners in 1884 for non- payment of taxes. DEER FIGHT TWO HOURS. Bucks Lock Horns Finally and Are Shot to End Sufferings. South Orange. N. J.-After fighting for two hours the male deer belonging to the Essex county park commission locked horns on the hillside paddock at the South mountain reservation and had to be shot to end their sufferings. It is just a year ago since a dozen malmed bucks and does were found on the reservation. Monzo Church, secretary to the park commission, summoned Dr. Hormaday of the Bronx zoological garden to solve the mystery. He found that it was the season when the larger bucks become vicious, and a number of them were shot. Then two other bucks which had shown murderous dispositions were also shot to insure the safety of those that remained. Petrified Baseball Norfolk, Neb.—A baseball batted into a cornfield thirty-eight years ago by E. K. Ballantyne, later sergeant-atarms in the United States south, was found when excavations were being made for a new building. The ball had become petrified. This was the first league baseball ever bought for North Nebraska, and the game had to be stopped because the ball was lost. MAIL COURTSHIP WINS. Postal Cards Unite Couple Whose Ages Are Seventy-six and Seventy-one. Wilkesburre. Pa.—After courting five months through the mails and meeting his bride only five weeks ago, Joseph W. Oliver, seventy-one years old, of Sweet Valley. Pa. and Mrs. Mary Van Ault, seventy-six years old, of this city, were united in marriage here by Alderman John P. Pollock. Frank Lewis, a truck farmer, was the matchmaker. After the death of Mrs. Van Ault's husband five months ago Lewis learned that she was heartbroken. One day he suggested that she marry again, declaring that he knew an aged man out in the country who would make her a good husband. Then Lewis saw Oliver and suggested marriage to him. Oliver became interested at once and asked for the woman's name and address. The next day he mailed a colored postal to her, giving his name and rural address. In a short time he received a colored postal from Mrs. Van Ault, and then he ventured to write a letter. The correspondence led to a meeting and the marriage followed. ON A GOOSEBERRY JAG. New Fruity Intoxicant Produces a Great Walloping Power. Fort Collins, Colo.—The weird dreams of the absinthe drinker have nothing on the peculiar effects of a new kind of jag inducer which has been discovered by some Russians who live near Loveland. This new booze is a fermented gooseberry juice and while under its influence Henry Moser, a small Russian, whipped Peter Krelg and George Addison, both of them six feet tall. The battle took place at the home of Henry Schaffer, and in police court Moser gave a vivid description of the power he felt and told the court he was only sorry his legs were too short to make it possible for him to overtake Addison, who ran away before he was entirely knocked out. PELICAN SWALLOWS TWO PET PIGEONS Birds Rescued Alive by Central Park Zoo Keeper. New York.—A highly excited young woman ran into the office of Bill Snyder, head animal keeper at Central park. He saw the look of terror on her face and wondered if a lion had broken loose. He demanded, "What's the trouble?" "The pollican!" also shricked. "The pelican!" "What's the matter with the pelican?" Snyder asked. "What's it done?" The pelican! It's swallowed two pigeons! I just saw it swallow them. Come quickly. It might swallow some more of them." Snyder laughed. "That happens about twice a month," said he. "But the poor birds! What will become of them?" The girl was almost sobbing. "Come with me," Bill said soothingly, "and I'll show you what becomes of the poor birds." He led the way to the cage where the pelicans and other great billed birds are kept. Snyder was joined by other keepers, and the cage was surrounded. Sure enough a pelican's immense bill was bulging out as though the bird had swallowed a football. "Are you ready?" called Snyder. "All ready," replied the other keepers. "El Capitan, El Capitan!" shouted the keepers until the park echoed with their cries. El Capitan, who was the pelican, opened his bill and a pigeon flew out. "Good," said the girl. Goodbye, goodbye. Seated me again. Again the keepers shouted, "El Capitan, El Capitan!" Again the pelican glanced around and opened his bill. A second pigeon fluttered out and flew away. The girl clapped her hands with joy and asked: "Aren't they hurt? Why aren't they hurt?" "That's easy," answered Snyder. "You see the feathers are dry, and a bird cannot swallow a dry, feathery substance. That pelican tries to gulp those pigeons so often they're getting used to it. All we have to do when he tries it is to frighten him by shouting his name as loud as we can. That makes him open his mouth." The amazed girl left the park. "It's true as gospel," said Snyder afterward. 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E Open All Night. Where you change the cars for ChesapeakesJunction and Kenilworth. Open from 6:30 a. ni, to 8 p.m Open Sundays 7 a. m. to 6:15 p.m LEE’'S LUNCH ROOM Geo. H. Lee, Prop. 1231-E Street N. W. Meals 15¢ and 25¢, Washington, D. C. » 54 HOURS WORK A WEEK. Limit For Women and Girls Under New + Pennsylvania Law. Harrisburg, Pa.—Pennsylvania’s new ‘woman's employment law is now in ef- fect. The lmlt of hours of labor for women and girls is fifty-four a week, except in the home ak on the farm. The new law probiis the employ- ment of women or girls for more than six consecutive days and not more than ten hours in any one day. 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Mistresses Provide a Place For Them to Receive Their “Steadies.” Los Angeles, Cal.—The hired girl problem approached one step nearer solution in the announcement that the Friday Morning club, the largest wom an’s organization In‘ Los Angeles, would establish a home club for do- mestics. ~ ‘This home club, which is to be estab- Ushed in one of the most fashionable reaidence districts, {s to be a little like @ woman's club, but more like a man’s, There will be opportunities for culture, of contse,, but.there will be.alxe_places f eat and, mofe*Muporfant still, ‘par- lors to entertain in. Hired girls, therefore, when they join the club, need not be compelled to en- = their “steadies” in the kitchen. BOY SEVEN FEET TALL CAN'T FIND WORK Abnormal Height Gauses Lad Many Inconvaniences, New Orleans.—Only a “kid” and seven feet one and a ‘quarter Inches tall is J. Willis Kenelly. And be's still growing. . ‘Mr. Kenelly, who is barely twenty years old, comes from Columbia, Marion county, Miss. When he went to Mississipp! A, and M. college at the beginning of the year’s term they bar- red him from football practice because the team quit the fleld in a body when he cante out for “scrimmage work.” | “Why, if a man tackles him he will fall halfway to the goal,” argued the team. The coach, not wishing to take any undue advantage of opponents like that. decided that Kenelly could not play. So when he left to go home again because they barred him from playing he took a day coach und sat up all night. “What's the use of paying for a sleeper when they don’t make the berths long euough for me to get Into?” he sald. He I» having trouble obtaining work too. “My belght against me,” he said. Whenever Kenelly goes Into a tailor sno in Columbia they get down the Jongest piece of cloth and start un. winding it. . “Yes, I was about the average size uatil I was seventeen years old, and then I got a good start and kept on growing.” we | Barney Leivis, who, it ts alleged, robbed a Northeastern train about a year ago, came from the same county as Kenelly. “He isn’t a small man either,” sald the giant. “'l tell you they don’t grow small in tbat county.” WRITES UPSIDE DOWN. Boy, Normal Otherwise, Sings and Fig ‘ures Backward. Huntington, W. Va.—Russell Baker, eight, has been attending school for two years and makes all bis letters and figures upside down. He writes from left to right and sings bis low notes high and his bigh notes low. Dr. C. M. Hawes, accompanied by Dr, Lindsey Vinson, specialist in chil- dren's diseases, spent hours with the child endeavoring to find exactly what was wrong, but they confess them- selves mystified. The only explana- tion they attempt Is that the boy's mind and sight are as a camera’s eye In which everything looks upside down. The boy fs perfectly normal and bas no other defects. MR. HARRY A. WILLIAMS Director of the Vocal Depart- | ment of the Washington Conser- vatory of Music the past two seasons, has opened a Studio at 1944 oth Street N. W. Voice Culture. French and Italian Terms for lessons on application ne NAVY NEGLECTS RELIGION. Daniels Wants Number of Chaplaine Increased. Newport News, Va.—Neglect of rel!- glon by the United States’ in its navy is a reproach to the republic, Secretary Daniels declared here in an address be- fore the United Brotherhood of Men's Bible Classes. The secretary announc- ed that he would ask congress imme- diately to provide chaplains and wey fare secretaries proportionate to th navy’s personnel. : Twenty-four chaplains, he sald, aro all that the government now provides to look after the: religious welfare of the uavy’s 67,000 men, the number of chaplains not having been increased ‘since 1842, when the personnel of the navy numbered only 12,000 men. ‘The secretary added that more than seventy-five Important ships tn the navy have no religious leader attached, while the marine corps, with an enllst- ment of 10,226 men,"has not a single chaplain to look after the spiritual de- velopment of its personnel. ° CHILDREN WORK IN MILLS. 104 Per Cent of Employees tn Cotton Mills Under Sixteen Years Old. Washington.—Of the 387,771 pe:sons employed in the cotton goods industry in 1909 In the United States, 29,206, or 10.4 per cent, were children under s!z- teen years of age and half of them girls, according to a final report of the census bureau. Alabama, North and South Carolina employ 19 per cent of children and Massachusetts 5.7 per cent. These children worked on an average of from fifty-four to sixty hours a week. The 1,324 establishments In the in- dustry produced $628,391,S13 worth of goods. The cost of materials tdtaled $371,000,470, and the total paid in sal- arfes and wares was $147,270.03. There was an Increase of the previ- ous censns of 25.5 per cent in the number of plunts, and the total capl- tal invested In the Industry in 1909 was $822,937.529, an increase of 7G per cent over 1899. : MODERN RIP AWAKES FROM 9 YEARS? SLEEP Like the Van Winkle of Irving, He Finds Many Changes, Tarrytown, N. Y.-A living Rip Van ‘Winkle, awakening from nine years of oblivign to find old friends dead and his children grown to manhood, walks, be- wildered, in the streets of his home town, In that very Sleepy Hollow coun- try of which Irving, author of Rip, wrote many tales. : ' He is Hyman Levy, long a leading merchant in Tarrytown before the “sleep” of yeurs began. It was: a mental cloud that shrouded him and made bim almost as one dead to his friends, : Now, with tottering step, but clear seeing eyes, he has come slowly back from the mysterious wilderness of lost ‘memory. | He sees new faces that are somehow old—the faces of the children who are men and women now. He seeks the haunts of former friends to find them held by strangers. Many that he knew are now but names upon the grave- stones in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. \ But Levs's fs not a mournful awak- ening. There are scores of bis old cronies alive nnd rejoicing In his re- covery. He remembers them all. He Temembers eversthing that happened up.to nine years ago. These nine years are an utter blank. At the helzbt of his business career he worrled so much over a scratch on his leg whieh was infected that he be- came fll. He recovered physically, but made himself a hermit fn his home. When he went out, at long intervals, he passed hia friends without recogni- ‘ei. PRISONERS TO KEEP NAMES. Number System and Lettered Uni- forms Abolished at Atlanta. . Atlanta, Ga.—As a result of the ef- forts of Warden Moyer. which have met with the approval of the depart- ment of Justice, prisoners at the At- lanta penitentiary hereafter will be known by names Instead of numbers, and thelr uniforms no longer will bear the letters “U. 8. P.,” branding them as United States prisoners. Announcement .of this radical de parture from prison tustom was made by Good Words, the paper which 1s edited and published in the peniten- tlary. While each prisoner's clothing will bear his registration number, it will be for Identification only and wilt be concealed from sight. REVEALS SECRET “MARRIAGE. ._ ded Last December. Wilmington, Del—Mrs. Edith Slos- son Phillips of 102 West Forty-first street. New York, called the Rer. George L. Wolfe by telephone and aak- ed him to announce her marriage on Dec. 18 last to Wallace B, Phillips. The couple were wedded here by Mr. Wolfe. “Wasn't your marriage published at ‘the time?” the preacher asked. “No,” was the answer. The woman jrould not give her rea- son for desiring the belated annoance- ment She said her hustand was from. Greensboro, N. C. THE BEE Published at 1109 Eye St. N. W., Washington. D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. · TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months .....1.00 Three months .....50 Subscription monthly .....20 BLACK BALLED The recent rejection or black-balled applicants for admission to a club known as the Mu-So-Lit is not a surprise to The Bee, when you consider the character of the men who voted to reject these recent applicants. Just why the men referred to should have given permission to have their names presented for membership to this club is a surprise to The Bee. The Bee will ask a few questions: First. Why should men who earn their living by their ability allow their names to be presented to a sundown kitchen organization? Second. Why should successful professional men of ability associate or want to associate with a lot of broken-down social fops who would starve to death outside of a kitchen? When men become so narrow and prejudiced to allow petty jealousies to control their better judgment, it is about time to abolish the organization. There were four reputable and intellectual men whose names had been presented to this kitchen organization for membership and because a few individuals had a bad feeling against them, they embrace this opportunity to black-ball them. The objects and aims of all weak and unpopular organizations are to add men to them who have some social and financial standing, and if the four men who were black-balled had been admitted it would have given this peanut organization some little intellectual standing if nothing more. This recalls to the mind of The Bee, some few years ago, when its Editor's name was proposed to the Monacans' inaugural ball. Some little drunken bloat arose and asked who would vouch for the Editor; that he could not. This same individual was the companion and associate of prostitutes. A gentleman whose reputation and character were above suspicion and reproach arose and said that he would not only vouch for the Editor, but would be responsible for him. Another individual, who was a driver for one of the District officials, became very indignant and thought the Editor should not be invited. This same individual, who lost his forty (40) dollars per month job, was legislated out of office, and today he is walking the public streets dressed up in patch clothing. Social functions never disturb the Editor of The Bee, because if many of these individuals who crave for social recognition knew as much about these flankies as the Editor of The Bee, they would lose no sleep and neither would they bother their time to become a member of these peanut organizations, whose membership consists of ex-hash slingers, face "scrapers", ex-bellmen, promoted porters, and quasi chamber men. The Bee extends its sympathy to the gentlemen who permitted themselves to be black-balled by these gentlemen (?) with an empty title, sundowns and other "nincompoops." This last word is advisedly used. DR. JOHN R. FRANCIS The big memorial meeting for the late Dr. John R. Francis, news item of which appears elsewhere in The Bee for this week, is very significant in several respects. In the first place, the colored people of Washington are going to have the privilege and the honor of listening to Honorable William Jennings Bryan speak. It is said that the Secretary of State is the only person in high official circles to whom the colored man may look WHAT, THEN? The question, "What are the colored people to do when (or rather, if) the 'Southern Idea' prevails in this country?" has not been confined to the former alone. Thousands of white men and women have asked the question and, in the glaring light of history, have found the answer. Of course, the answer has not been actualized, for the simple reason that the event has not happened; but the beacon lights of history, which dispel all illusions and illumine the awful catastrophes as well as the glorious victories of social evolution, point out only too clearly the right course and the inevitable result of the violation of the decrees of justice and humanity. And what is the "Southern Idea?" It is the arrogant, preposterous assertion of the natural superiority, intellectual, moral and spiritual, of those of ruddy complexion over those of darker hues, based upon the mere fact of color. Upon this flimsy pretext it postulates that races characterized by other than a ruddy complexion have no right to live in this country, except in the capacity of serf, on the ground that races differing in hue differ correspondingly in compatibility, social, civil and political. Hence, the colored people are incapable of social or political equality and should be treated as not only aliens but as undesirables, and therefore segregated, decitizenized and ostracized. Moreover, the "Southern Idea" presupposed that the white and colored people are of different man species—the former perfection incarnate, the latter barely "elemental." And, going still further, it maintains that even where the so-called "white blood" has for any reason or under any impulse by affection, interest or devilish lecherism—been mingled with so-called "colored blood," that fact in itself renders even the so-called "white blood" abominable and utterly disqualified. In brief, the "Southern Idea" is folly, madness, ingratitude, ignorance, self-abasement and Belialism personified. It will be readily observed that this is not the "American Idea," as defined by the illustrious founders of this Republic. Franklin and Hamilton and Jefferson, Webster and Clay, and Jackson and Lincoln announced and defended the "American Idea"—"Liberty, under Law." This "idea" has been the guiding star, the egis of the Republic, which has given strength and dignity and honor to the nation. In what horrible contrast does the "Southern Idea," patronized by such as Calloum and Vardaman and their gibbering mobocats stand in relation to "Liberty, under Law!!" The spirit of the former once covered the land with misery and tears and blood by the latter; that composite curse was made to give way to the emancipation of body and mind, yea, of soul. are the colored people revivals in this county thousands of white men marrying light of history has not been actually opened; but the beacon sumine the awful of social evolution, point suitable result of the and what is the "assertion of the nature pose of ruddy complex fact of color. The characterized of other this country, except offering in hue differ- ent political. Hence, social equality and shi- sion, and therefore seve- the "Southern Idea," different man spe- cially "elemental." All are the so-called "poulse—whether inside being mingled with even the so-called In brief, the "Souce- self, self-abasement ed that this is not founders of this Webster and Clay the "American Idea" guiding star, the "griety and honor to southern Idea," pat- tigibbering mobocracy spirit of the force blood by the latter remancipation of boo- ea" prevail? The main have had the regitation—the poverty statistical, though w will generations, sequences of—segreg- proposed! Surely y higher civilization has a half century upon the enjoyment with the whites of the surely in a position There is no pla- nished people have me and there is no de- to which the colo- in. Conscious of of "white super- riousness to par- justice so far prevail of equality, as enu- nage easy enough. It is the moral militant add- righteousness to par- justice so far prevail of equality, as enu- nage. The "Amer- a temporary setback prejudice and hate; life, in moral, intelle- ture of national pro- God still reigns as the wind. In the touch of the torch, the diss of brutes-force at the best endeavor o will move on in the tit "Certainly in tak- t in passing it over for relief from the race prejudice and oppressions of segregation which are now so prevalent and which, as one speaker has said, have stirred up the colored man more than anything else has done since the great Civil War. Certainly, no better evidence of his great, big heart and his friendliness for us could be given than his acceptance of the invitation to speak to our people in spite of his many official duties and the other important engagements demanding his valuable time and attention. These things combined make his appearance at the Metropolitan Church on next Monday, a very auspicious occasion. Another significant phase of the meeting is the fact that Dr. William Mehard Davidson, Superintendent of Schools, will appear on the platform to deliver what will, without a doubt, be his last speech to a gathering of our people in this city. Dr. Davidson relinquishes his duties as Superintendent here to accept a like position in the city of Pittsburgh beginning on December 1. The Doctor has always, during his two years' sojourn here, been a delight wherever he has appeared to make a speech, for he is an orator. And on Monday night he appears on the platform not alone with one of the greatest orators the country has known, but with one who, it is understood, is his personal friend—Honorable William Jennings Bryan. Major R. R. Moton, Commandant of Cadets at Hampton Institute, is also slated to speak. Major Moton has not appeared before a Washington audience for some time, and the address which he is to deliver is sure to be filled with inspiration: But the most significant aspect of the meeting is the fact that it is a memorial for the late Dr. John R. Francis. Dr. Francis devoted his entire life to the uplift of humanity. When he was elected to the presidency of the Social Settlement he worked zealously to help the struggling masses to which the Settlement appeals. And, after his death, what greater impetus could be given the work which he nobly and faithfully carried on; what greater appreciation of that work can be shown, than by this memorial meeting? THOMAS' TESTIMONIAL THOMAS' TESTIMONIAL. The testimonial to Mr. Andrew J. Thomas by the citizens of Washington will begin Monday evening, November 24, and continue to Saturday evening, November 29. Monday evening, December 1, Mr. Thomas will be presented with a loving cup as a token of the esteem in which he is held by the patrons of his theater and the citizens of Washington. Mr. Thomas has given to the people of this city a first-class, up-to-date theater, where all classes of people have visited. His efforts have been to please and cater to citizens who have for years hoped to have a theater of their own. That hope has been realized. Now, as an evidence of their appreciation and esteem, an opportunity will be given to show it by purchasing a testimonial ticket at a price that will meet the pockets of the most humble. The testimonial ticket is only twenty-five (25) cents, which will allow three admissions any of the six nights of the testimonial or three persons for any one night. The program for each evening will be first-class. An invitation is extended to every citizen, social, benevolent, charitable and secret organization to attend one or every evening during the week. Tickets are now on sale at the box office for this great event. Secure your tickets now. SEGREGATION IN FORCE. When a government becomes so small and so weak as mate against a certain citizens who have been loyal, true and patriotic, it is about time to change that government. Never before in the history of this country, not even during the days of slavery, has such diabolical acts been committed against a class of people as those that are being committed today against the colored citizens. The animus of the Southern oligarchy is too apparent. Important legislation is being neglected for a policy that will tend to degrade the colored Americans of this country. Now, if this country should see fit to have a scrap with Mexico, The Bee wonders if such distinguished (?) and brave men (?) as Ben Tillman, James E. Vardaman, Hoke Smith, Josephus Daniels and other Southern humanitarians will take up arms and go forth and defend themselves? Will these great statesmen (?) have time enough to be silent on the Negro question to advise the country how to defend itself against Mexico? Time can only tell what these great (?) and brave (?) men will do. If this government has a right to land troops in Mexico, it should exercise its constitutional authority to send troops in the South to protect the black man against Southern brutality. Is not the Constitution being violated? Let the colored citizen think and act at once for himself. OUTSCORED. At the World's Purity Congress, assembled at Minneapolis last week, that entire body "was swept off its feet by a lecture on eugenics by Mrs. Mary E. Teats, of Chicago" in which she said that one-third of the present generation was made up of "incarnate accidents." We are astounded at the acknowledgment and somewhat surprised at the figures, and sincerely hope that the heroic efforts now being made by the good white women in this country and the world over may reduce this alarming proportion of white "incarnate accidents." We cannot but muse upon the herculean task and the urgent necessity of purifying their own households instead of diverting effort and making matters worse by pointing the finger of scorn at the more dusky and less culpable sister. In all reforms, social, religious and political, the best results are to be brought about by co-operative Christian love and energy. THE LIMIT Another, bit of Southern diplomacy is seen in the coup to be effected by having a Northern woman at the head of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Gettysburg love-feast did not quite complete the job. Now, with the tactics of Richelieu, it is proposed to present a front with a "lion's skin eked out with the fox's." Alas! What expedients are being used to destroy the glorious results of the Civil War and to canonize traitors! . DR. DANIEL'H. WILLIAMS The World's Most Famous Afro-American Surgeon Elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons—First Surgeon in all the World to Operate Successfully on Heart—Only Colored Man in the United States Honored with Membership—Due Wholly to Merit. (Special to The Bee.) Chicago Ill. Nov. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, of Chicago, formerly surgeon-in-chief of the Freedman Hospital, Washington, D. C., founder of Provident Hospital, Chicago, and now the only Afro-American on the staff of the new $1,000,000 St. Luke's Hospital, has been made a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. The action was taken at the convocation held in the gold room of the Congress Hotel. Dr. Williams has gained great renown as the result of the many successful operations he has performed. His great fame rests on the fact that he was the first surgeon in all the world to operate successfully on the human heart. Dr. Williams has a large practice in Chicago, and is often called to distant parts of the country to perform difficult operations. His practice has brought him an immense fortune running into six figures. The colored people of Chicago are justly proud of the great honor which has come to the most noted surgeon of the race. The Ricks Foundation. The advisory committee of the Elizabeth Ricks Foundation Incorporated, for the redemption of the unfortunate colored girls, met at the residence of Dr. M. O. Dumas, on Monday night, Nov. 10, 1913, and elected their officers. The committee now stands as follows: Dr. M. O. Dumas, president; Dr. J. R. Wilder, vice-president; Mrs. B. K. Bruce, treasurer; Mrs. J. F. Alston, secretary. Advisory Committee Reverend Oscar Mitchell, Rt. Rev. Levi J. Coppin, Rev. Garnet Walker, Thomas, Walker, Esq., W. L. Houston, Esq., Mr. W. W. Hall, clerk. "Plain talk by people, who know what they are talking about" will be the order of the hour next Tuesday evening—Business League Night—at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Hear them for their cause! re your tickets now for 'the is testimonial. Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac) They tell me when R. Wordy Thompson, the puffed-up messenger, read Manager Thomas' letter of acceptance of a testimonial in The Bee, he simply threw a few fits. R. Wordy has been writing a lot of junk every week for The Freeman, knocking the testimonial, and The Freeman not knowing that R. Wordy is mighty "small potatoes and few in the hill" around Washington, has been publishing W. Wordy's knocks. Just because Wm. Calvin had the temerity to push this testimonial proposition to the front, the puff of wind what draws $10 a year over in the Treasury Department to open and close doors, began sending out knocks weekly. But nobody takes R. Wordy serious around Washington, but himself, and as the Freeman has no circulation here, his knocks would have cut no thin ice even if people had took him serious. If I did not stand for, any more than R. Wordy, I just naturally would let out the wind in me and go off to Bennings, and fertilize the land out there. But speaking about that testimonial for little Andy Thomas, it's going to be a corker. Wm. Calvin hit a popular chord when he conceived the idea, and everybody fell in. Even J. C. Napier signed the paper, and there's class to Napier. No small thing like R. Wordy can stop it. He just ought to continue going to the Howard on a pass and stop knocking. Every knock he makes on Andy Thomas and Wm. Calvin is a boost. Andy Thomas has sure made Howard Theater a playhouse. He's got more hustle in that 145 pound frame of his than a Baldwin locomotive has steam when it's running 60 miles an hour. Yes, sir, everybody I hear favors that testimonial but R. Wordy, and talking about windjammers, well, every time I hear him or see him I think about a blacksmith's bellows. \*\*\* Woody Wilson has made about as much of a mess out of this Mexican affair as he made out of the segregation propaganda. But Oswald Villard sure did explode a bum under him, and made McAdoo look like a seesucker coat in the arctic region—too thin to stand the weather. I have been dropping into The Bee office for the past three weeks looking over the exchanges to see what R. Wordy said about the meeting of Villard's in his correspondence, butn't seen a frazzling thing. He's so busy knocking Andy Thomas' testimonial that he can't find time to knock segregation. And talking about segregation, let me tell you George W. Cook don't hesitate to pronounce against it. I heard George just hit it a blow that sounded up to the Capitol. George is the o-the-when it comes to speaking out against segregation and discrimination, even if he is the big show up at Howard. George just naturally likes the rights of an American citizen, and I like the little sawed-off and hammered down bunch of energy for it. ATTORNEY SCOTT. He Will Speak in Baltimore. Lawyer Armond W. Scott has been invited by Monumental Lodge No. 3, I. B. P. O. Elks of the World, of Baltimore, Md., to deliver the address of the evening upon the occasion of their annual Memorial Exercises which will take place in that city Sunday night, December 7. He will also leave for New York City on the 24th of November, to be present at a conference which is to take place in that city between the officers of the Grand Lodge of the colored Elks of the World, and the officers of the Grand Lodge of white Elks of the World. The object of the conference, which has already been arranged for the 25th day of November, is to have a heart to heart talk with the grand officers of the white Elks, in order to bring about, if possible, a cessation of the litigations by them against the colored Elks. Lawyer Scott, who is the Grand Legal Adviser of the colored order of Elks of the World, feels very hopeful as to the results to be obtained from the coming conference, and is very enthusiastic as to the future of the order in general. DARKTOWN FOLLIES AT THE HOWARD. Washington Enjoys a Rare Terpsichorean Treat—Clever Songs, Fetching Costumes and Pretty Girls Abound in J. Leubrie Hill's New Show. Washington's unanimous verdict regarding*J. Leubrie Hill's Darktown Follies that it is by far and away the best show of its kind seen in Washington for many a day. The packed houses at each performance eloquently testify to our recognition of a good thing and appreciation of efforts to provide a classy, well-staged and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. True, the theme of the musical comedy, "My Friend from Kentucky" is painfully familiar to the frequenters of colored shows—the hackneyed story of the simple-minded darky of the Southern plantation exploited by his sophisticated but unscrupulous friend from the North, whose introduction into the brilliant but exceedingly credulous society of the Northern metropolis—in this instance Washington furnishes an unlimited opportunity for ludicrous situations, complicated by the arrival of the abandoned Mammy with her preoccuous pickaninies in pursuit of her recalcitrant spouse. However, on this meager skeleton of a plot, Hill has draped a gorgeous fabric of amusing situations, clever dialogue, refreshingly free from vulgar or suggestive lines, catchy, tuneful songs and a number of artistic dances unsurpassed in previous productions of the kind of originality, skilful execution and pleasing ensemble. With a With such an immense cast of such uniform merit it is difficult to single out individuals for especial mention. Sam Gaines as Jasper Green, the rich colored plantation, owner, was a life-like reproduction of the old-time Negro, hospitable, shrewd, with an unlimited fund of homespun humor, Julius Glenn as Jim Jackson Lee, Jasper's son-in-law, gave a mirth-provoking impersonation of the bucolic innocent victimized by the wiles of his city friends, and living in abject terror of his, pondous wife, Mandy, played by J. Leubrie Hill, whose inimitable, characterization of the old Southern Mammy, harassed by the care of a trifling husband and a brood of idle, pert pickaninies, suspicious of city folks, yet defiantly jealous of her rights, literally "brought down the house." Jennie Scheper made a fascinating widow and would certainly have no trouble in "having a good time," in this burg, believe me. The Suffragettes and the representative of the "Busy Bee" to whom we take off our hat, cleverly burlesqued the popular ideal of a type, of woman now much in evidence, being portrayed by Misses Williams, Wayn and Hollman. We are delighted to commend Miss Anna Pankey's singing in the role of Clementine, particarly of the song "Waiting All Day Long," in which she displayed a coloratura soprano of unusual beauty, range and control; and who was not touched by the charming rendition by Theo. Pankey of the tender love song, "You, easily the musical gem of the play." No one who attended the show, and was there anyone in Washington who was so unfortunate as not to attend? would forgive us for omitting special and emphatic commendation of Johnny Peters and his Three Dancing Girls. This performance was truly a remarkable terpsichorean triumph, and only to be surpassed by the acknowledged stars of this entrancing art. For grace, daring, glertexity, and sheer endurance, combined with an imaginative conception of the artistic possibilities of his art, Johnny deserves to be ranked as one. Edna Morton, the graceful, bewitching little sprite who danced the Argentine Tango, and danced into the hearts of her audience, charming by her artlessness as well as by her art, is a Washington girl whose family is well known here, but who now resides in New York. Her advent into stagedom is but recent, having appeared here for the first time with the "Frogs" on their annual tour, but her friends predict for her a bright future in her chosen art. Daisy Williams, the clever dancer of the Bunny Hug, deserves especial credit for going on with her part, though suffering from a severe indisposition, which caused her to faint Tuesday night during her dance. Under the care of Dr. Beckley she was much improved before the close of the engagement. Ethel Williams, the whirling mad-cap of the Texas Tommy, mystifies and dazles her audience by the marvelous rapidity and complex convolutions of her dizzy dance. She might well earn the sobriquet of the Human Top. Altogether, the performance of Mr. Peters and the three young ladies was emphatically of the highest artistic merit. The graceful dancing and charming manners of Evan Robinson, the peculiarly characteristic singing of Alice Ramsey and the smooth performance of Will Brown as Bill Simmons deserves longer mention. An extremely clever and original scene was the interview between the newspaper men and Lucinda Langtree (Evan Robinson), in which the latter tunefully depicts "The Kind of Man I Want." Indeed, though much of the music was reminiscent of recent popular hits and the jokes not remarkably new, the vim and sparkle of the performance, the whole-souled support of the entire company and the generous spirit of the producers in sparing no expense in matters of costume and scenery combined in giving play-goers one of the rarest treats we have had since the days of Williams and Walker. THOMAS' TESTIMONIAL Speakers Who Will Represent Something. Monday night, Judge Robert H. Tecrell, Mrs. Harriet Gibbs Marshall, of the Conservatory of Music; Mrs. A. M. Curtis. Organization Night. Tuesday night, Rev. A. C. Garner, St. Lukes; Prof. L. M. Hershaw, who will speak for the Crispus Attuck, Prof. N. E. Weatherless, who will speak for the Masons, Attorney P. W. Frisby, and Attorney J. H. Stewart. Business Men's Night Mr. Daniel Freeman, president of the Negro Business League, J. W. Lewis, president of the Laborers' and Mechanics' Bank. Educational Night. Thursday night colored public schools, teachers and pupils, assistant superintendent of schools Mr. Roscoe C. Bruce, Prof. Kelly Miller, Dr. C. W. Childs, Mr. Sanders, vocational school. Elks and Pythian Night. On Friday night these organizations will move to the theater in a body in full uniform. Attorney Armond W. Scott, Grand Legal Advisor of the Elks, Brigadier General H. Clay Smith, Attorney John E. Collins. Lawyer's Night Saturday night—Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorded of Deeds, Assistant U. S. District Attorney Jas. A. Cobb, Attorney W. C. Martin, Attorney Thomas L. Jones Dinner to Mr. Hill There is in course of preparation by Manager Thomas a complimentary dinner to Mrs Hill and his entire company. It will be a great affair as it will be given upon the stage of the theater. If you are sending your children to school and wish to open a door for their employment when they start out in life, lend a hand to the Negro business "boomers" at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church next Tuesday night. The Week in Society Seasons may come and seasons may go, but each one brings a crowd of discriminating customers to Board's Pharmacy at 1912½ Fourteenth Street Northwest, for the best drugs, remedies, candies and toilet articles at moderate prices, and the finest service in Ice Cream Sodas and delicious drinks the year round. Miss Maggie Wilson, of Eleventh Street Northwest, has returned to the city after having spent several weeks visiting in New York. Mrs. Mary Williamson, of this city, spent a few days in Philadelphia, Pa., last week. Messrs. Joseph M. Cooper and G. A. Reed, both of the War Department, of this city, spent a part of their vacation in Columbia and Orangeburg, S. C. Miss Cassie Davidge and Miss Hershaw, of this city, will appear in a musical at the Board of Trade Hall Friday evening, November 28, for the benefit of the Capital Street Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. William Lee, of this city, is visiting his cousin, Mrs. E. W. Jackson, in Williamsburg, Va. Attorney Thomas L. Jones, who has been quite ill for a few days, and who was confined to his bed, is now able to be out again, greatly to the gratification of his friends and admirers. Mrs. Georgia Ceratti, who arrived in this city from Atlantic City last month, and who was compelled to leave on account of sickness, is in Wilmington, N. C., quite ill. She has been ill ever since she left this city. Miss Viola Webster, her faithful companion, so informs The Bee. Dr. James E. Shepard is still in the West making his way East and South. Miss Cornelia Bobbitt, of 2023 Vermont Avenue Northwest, who for the past two years has been bookkeeping for R. E. Hammond, has gone to Cambridge, Md., where she has been selected to teach in one of the schools there. Miss Bobbitt is a graduate of Armstrong, Class of 1911. Buy drugs and medicines at Board's, 1024 14th St. N.W. Miss Knight was a teacher in the M. E. Church Sunday School, Epworth League and church. She was a member of the class of 1914 of the M Street Hight School, Washington, D.C. She was also a member of the original class of the said Sunday school. She was also a full member of the church. At the funeral service there were reserved seats for all the different organizations and clubs to which Miss Knight belonged. The pall-bearers, also the honorary pall-bearers were members of the class of 1914. M Street High School. The class attended the funeral in a body. A mention of the floral offerings and the names of those participating will be given in the next issue of The Bee. Dr. Frank J. Cardoza has been reinstated to his former position as principal of the Wilson School, Washington, D.C. He occupies the same building, the same room, the desk, and he receives the same salary as he did before his disconnection. Mr. Charlies Anderson, who has the distinction of accompanying the President of the United States in all his travels, has the further distinction of being the father of a bouncing young man, who saw the light a few days ago. Claude Woodrow Wilson Anderson is long, but it sounds good. All the services of the M. E. Church are excellent. The membership of the church are now realizing the real worth of their pastor, Rev. Owen C. Sprague. They are putting their heads together to prevent him from being transferred to a larger field. The work of the church is growing day by day, and it would be a serious error to remove Rev. Sprague. Night school opened at the public school Monday, Nov. 17. Mrs. Emma Campbell and the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. Church, gave an oyster supper November 17. The citizens here are holding a fair this week in the interest of the fire department here. There was a propaganda meeting under the auspices of the D. C. Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored people held at the First Presbyterian Church November 16. Profs. Cook, Hershall and Thomas made addresses. "High Brown" Face Powder and toilet articles are now all the rage. Buy the genuine at Board's Pharmacy, 1912$ \frac{1}{2} $ 14th St. N. W. Mrs. Dollie Baldwin, who is confined to her bed with a severe cold, has greatly improved. Attorney Thomas L. Jones, who is suffering with a cold, is fast recovering. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell was a delegate to Purity Congress, which met in Minneapolis, Minn., last week. She was introduced as the greatest woman platform speaker in America. Mrs. Nelson Mason, of La Jolla, Cal., is here visiting her brother and friends, and will remain until after Easter. She is the wife of Lawyer Mason, a graduate of the Howard University Law Class of '98, and is one of the most prosperous lawyers in that part of the country. WEST WASHINGTON. ```markdown ``` The Ladies' Heliotrope Circle had a very pleasant meeting on Tuesday evening at the residence of Mrs. Anna Boyd, 2020 P Street, the reports of the year's work showing good results. After a very interesting musical program the guests were invited to partake of light refreshments, Among those present were Mrs. Maggie Thomas, Mrs. L. Palmer, Mrs. Sarah Smith, Mrs. Martha Howard, Mrs. Alice Carroll, Miss Maria Morgan, Mrs. L. G. Williams, Mrs. R. Foster, Mrs. H. Morgan, Alice Harris, Mr. Dennis Carroll and Jas. L. Turner. A large number of the members and friends of Syracuse Lodge No. 3. Knights of Pythias, were in attendance at the annual smoker on Monday evening at True Reformers' Hall, Twelfth and You Streets Northwest, and enjoyed a very pleasant evening. Addresses were delivered by Lawyer L. M. King, John S. Johnson, Grand Chancellor J. Clay Smith, Brig-Gen., and C. T. Coles. The Harmonic quartette, composed of Messrs. Fred Sabhs, Drew, DeLong and W. H. Cooper, rendered several choice selections. Armond Scott, attorney at violin solo, which was greeted with applause. Refreshments were served. The committee in charge are to be commended for the excellent program of the evening, and are as follows: E. T. Janifer, chairman; Philip Thomas, secretary; E. Gales, J. C. Smith, L. Addison, R. DeLaney, W. Ford, H. Howell, Chas. Ross and S. Wilcox. A special sermon will be preached on Sunday morning at the II o'clock services to recent converts of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, at the close of which there will be twenty or more christened by the pastor, Rev. W. C. Thompson. Mr. Ottoway N. Butler, who had an attack of vertigo a few days ago while at work in the District Building, is now, convalescent. Mrs. Daisy Magruder, of 2732 P Street Northwest, who has been ill, has improved, much to the gratification of her many friends. Death of Mr. J. Louis Palmer—A Class Leader of Ashbury Church. Mr. J. L. Palmer, a highly respected citizen who had been ill for some time, left his home on Saturday morning to get shaved, and while seated in the barber's chair became unconscious and died at the Emergency Hospital Sunday, Nov. 18. His funeral took place Thursday afternoon from Asbury Church, Eleventh and K Streets Northwest. The Young Men's Protective League and the Benevolent Aid, of which he was a member, attended the services. W. Stephen Fuller, Jas. L. Turner, Nathaniel Ruffin, Arthur F. B. Boston, Wm. Spillard, Walter E. Todd and Wm. H. Johnson represented the organizations. Rev. M. W. Clair officiated, assisted by Rev. M. Dean and Rev. Wm. J. Howard. Interment in Harmony Cemetery. Rev. W. C. Thompson, with his choir and members of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, were in attendance at the services of Asbury M. E. Church on Friday evening, Nov. 14, in the interest of the new church fund, who preached a very, excellent sermon. The singing of the choir was highly commendable. The congregations of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church and Mt. Zion M. E. Church are to hold joint Thanksgiving services next Thursday morning at Mt. Zion Church, Twenty-ninth Street Northwest. Rev. Wm. M. Naylor will conduct the devotional exercises. The sermon will be delivered by Rev. W. C. Thompson. The choirs of each church will furnish special music for the occasion. The exercises will conclude in the evening at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O Street, Northwest. The choir of Mt. Zion M. E. Church are to render one of their usual interesting song services on Sunday evening, November 30. The choir, under the leadership of Mr. Emmanuel Jones, with Mrs. Mary Barnes, are arranging a very novel program for the occasion. Misses Ruth Strathers and Madaline Thomas who have sweet soprano voices, are recent additions to the choir. All who attend will enjoy the singing of a most excellent vested choir. Encourage our letter carrier and purchase The Bee. --- In the midst of life we are in death. Last Friday morning, November 14. at 3:21, the grim hand of death came into the home of Mr. C. H. Fonville and Mrs. Pearl Knight Fonville, and took away Miss Lillian Gertrude Knight, the beloved daughter of Mrs. Pearl K. Fonville and the late Edward Knight. On finding that they were all there, she asked them all to gather about the bed. They did so. Then she asked her unsaved brother to kneel and say the Lord's prayer. He did so. She asked them to kiss her good-bye. They did so. She then told all to sit down. They obeyed. She told them that this was the last call, and that she wanted them to remember the "valley of death." She loved the Lord and was full of the holy spirit, and was going to live with Jesus. In a moment she was gone. The funeral services of Miss Lillian Gertrude Knight were held at the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church Monday, Nov. 17, at 1 P. M. Rev. Owen C. Sprague, assisted by Rev. W. W. McCarty, Rev. R. A. Hart and Rev. W. H. Adamson, preached the funeral sermon. The choirs of the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Jones M. Churches sang for the occasion. This was the most impressive and effective funeral service ever held here. Miss Knight being known and loved by all? I. LEUBRIE HILL In My Friend from Kentucky—The Prince of Fun Makers and One of the Greatest Musical Geniuses Upon the American Stage—White Society Witness the Tango*Dance by the Master and Mistress of the Art—Theo. L. Panky and Julius Green and Will Brown Make a Hit. Perhaps the greatest ovation that has ever been accorded a play-writer and actor was given to Mr. J. Leubrie Hill at the Howard·Theater this week. Mr. Hill presented his new constructed musical comedy entitled "My Friend from Kentucky." Every actor and actress were faultlessly costumed. The choruses were faultless and the dancing superb. During the entire week hundreds of whites occupied seats in orchestra and in boxes. The great tango dance was witnessed by them with admiration. This dance was introduced by Mr. Jerome Peters and his three dancing girls, Misses Ethel Williams, Daisy Brown and Edna Morton. They are the best upon the American stage. Their dancing of this most difficult number on the program electrified the audience. These four dancers alone was the admiration of the great crowds that honored Mr. Hill. Miss Edna Morton is a Washington girl, and she bids fair to be a famous star. Also is Miss Avon Robinson. She plays leading lady in this troup. Her gowns are up-to-date, and her acting is fascinating. Miss Jennie Schepac as Madame Langtree, surpasses all previous efforts in this character. She is refined and catchey. Will Brown, as Bill Simmons has surpassed himself. He improves with age. Not only has he improved in his acting, but his singing, and his associate, Mr. Glenn, improves this feature of the play. The newspaper representatives of the New York Age. Indianapolis Freeman, Philadelphia Tribune. Amsterdam News, etc., made a hit. Miss Effie Hollman, as Kate Krew, represented the Washington Bee. The three children of Amanda Lee, Edna Morton, Addele Johnson, Daisy Brown, were most natural in their impersonation of children who failed to obey their mother's command. The entire show is the best upon the stage today, and Mr. Hill wrote, staged and produced it. Everything is a genius, and the honors should be given him. Cast of Characters. (In the order in which they appear.) Jasper Green, rich colored plantation owner, of Leesburg, Va.—Sam Gaines. Juliette Lee—Edna Morton. Susie Lee—Adele Johnson. Sophinier Lee—Flossie Brown. Emmaliner Lee—Daisy Brown. Clemantiner, his oldest granddaughter—Anna Pankey. Jimmy Moon, country lad, very fly—Tiny Ray. Jim Jackson Lee, Jasper's son-in-law—Julius Glenn. Mandy Lee, Jasper's eldest daughter—J. Leubrie Hill. Bill Simmons, a representative of the Colored Men's Business League, with big ideas—Will Brown. Madam Langtree, a jolly grass widow of Washington, D. C.-Jennie Schepar. Miss Lucinda Langtree, her youngest daughter—Evon Robinson. Miss Lillian Langtree, oldest daughter—Alice Ramsey. Katie Krew, society reporter of the Washington "Busy Bee"—Effie Hollmän. Old Man Brown—Hamilton Brown. Carrie Nation Brown, president and treasurer of the Colored Women's Suffragettes, also a friend of the Langtrees—Ethel Williams. Hannah Belmont Jackson, vicepresident and secretary of the Colored Women's Suffragettes, also a friend of the Langtrees—Katie Wayn Chaufeur—Johnnie Peters. Mose Lewis, a prominent lawyer of Leesburg, Va.—Eugene L. Perkins. Dr. Moore—Theo. L. Pankey. Officer Jones—Billy Moore. Spikic, the newsboy—Grace Johnson. Shine, the bootblack—Ray Webster. Red Cap Sam—Eddie Stafford. Second Waiter—Johnnie Peters. Country Lads and Lassies—Wm. Kelley, Ed. Rector, Eddie Stafford, George Hatch, Arthur Ames, Ed. Cozzens, Daisy Brown, Lillian Hunter, Jennie Day, Edna Morton, Evelyn Moore, Erma Baptist and Hilaria Friend. Old Men's Quartette—Hamilton White, Wm. Smith, Ed. Scott and William Thomas. Newsboys' Quintette—Grace Johnson, Tiny Ray, Eddie Rector, Arthur Ames, William Kelley and Eddie Cozzens. man, Jessie Ovington, Hilaria Friend, Julia Marcel, Helen Brown, Hester Glascow, Lulu Pease, Alice Wright, G. Robinson, George W. Walker, Jr., J. W. Brown, J. C. Thomas, Edw. Miller, Billy Moore and H. Lowry. Synopsis. Place—Leesburg, Va. Time—Midday. Act I—Scene 1. Front of Jasper Green's Home. Act II—Scene 1. Front of Union Depot, Washington, D. C. Three weeks later. Scene 2. Front of Lucinda's home, Washington; D. C. Afternoon same day. Act III—Scene 1. Street in Washington, D. C. One week later. Musical Numbers—Act I. 1. Opening Chorus, "No Place Like Dixieland." 2. "Night Time"—Country Lads and Lassies. 3. "Dear Old Dixie"—Jasper Green and Chorus. 4. "Waiting All Day Long"—Clematiner and Chorus. 5. "Happytime"—Qld Men's Quartette. 6. "Good-Bye, Dixieland"—Mandy, Jasper, Clematiner, Mose Lewis and Chorus. Act II—Scene 1. 1. Opening Chorus, "Waiting at the Depot." Depart. 2. "Lou. My Lou"—Spikey and Quintette. 3. Buck Dance. 4. "Has Anybody Seen Jim Jackson Lee?"—Mandy. Scene 2. 1. Opening Chorus, "Gay Manhatt- tau Bay"—By Company. 4. My Friend from Kentucky"—Bill Simmons, Jim Jackson Lee and Chorus. 5. "Rock Me in the Cradle of Love" —Lillian Langtree and Chorus. 6. "That's the Kind of Man I Want"—Lucinda and Boys. 7. "Good Time While I Can"— Madam Langtree. 8. "Take Me Away to Jail"—Big Chorus. Act III—Scene 1. 1. Few Minutes with Jim Jackson Lee. Scene 2. 1. "What's the Matter with Jasper Green?" 2. "The Man of the Hour"—Bill Simmons and Chorus. 3. Three Styles of Dancing—Johnnie Peters and his three dancing girls—Ethel Williams, Daisy Brown and Edna Morton. 4. "At the Ball, That's All." 5. Grand Finale. Costumes by Orange. N. Y. Shoes by Cammeyer. N. Y. Tights and stockings by Sigmund & Weyl. Men's hats by Young Bros. Wigs by Hepnew. Photosh by Unity, N. Y. Staff for Lafayette Producing Co. Mr. Benjamin Nibur, general manager. Mr. Joseph Loevi. manager. Mr. Clarence W. Logan, business manager. Mr. Jas. J. Vaughn, musical director. Mr. Babe Townsend, stage manager. Mr. Tiny Ray, assistant stage manager. Mr. Wm. Emerson, stage carpenter. Mr. Fred Tollman, property man. Mr. Lou Brown, Drummer. Mr. Joseph Brown, master of transportation. Mrs. Mabel Brown, wardrobe mistress. Next Week-All-Star Vaudeville bill. Prices 10 and 20 cents. MERRIFIELD NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. William Bundy, who have been spending a few weeks with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. Luckett, have returned to Washington, where they expect to spend the winter. Mr. Joshua Ball has returned home after visiting friends near Alexandria. Mr. Lafayette Bradley spent the week end in Washington visiting his brother. Mrs. Lucy Coats has moved to Washington for the winter. Mr. J. T. Harper was the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Marshall Patterson, of Vienna, last Sunday. The people of Merrifield have been quite busy for the past week butchering. Quite a number of fine hogs were killed. Divine services under the direction of Rev. A. D. Askew, of Washington, are scheduled for 3 o'clock P. M. Sunday, at First Baptist Church. ALLEN C. E. NOTES. At Metropolitan A. M. E. Church a very interesting session of the Allen C. E. Society was held last Sunday evening. Nov. 9, at 6:00 P. M. There was a good attendance present and nearly all participated in the exercises in one form or another. The meeting was opened with devotional exercises which were conducted by the chairman of the prayer meeting committee, Mr. A. Williams. After which it was turned over to the leader for the evening. Mr. Shaed, the chairman of the social committee, and it was quite appropraite and fitting that he should be the leader for this occasion, inasmuch as the topic was "Christian Home Life," found in I. Timothy, 1:1-5. A delightful solo was rendered by Miss Elizabeth Cooper, of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. The president, Miss A. Payne, introduced Mrs. Lindsey, of Springfield, Ill., a delegate to the world's convention of W. C. T. U., held at New York, an authoress and poetess, a mission worker, and benefactor of her race, gave a short talk to the society on her life and the work she was doing in Springfield. Mrs. Lindsey told of how she came from a family of twelve, with poor parents, and how with earnest determination and perseverance she worked herself up until today she is recognized as an important factor in the development of Christain problems in her home town. She has founded a rescue home for girls called the "Golden Rule Home," and by this means she has obtained employment for numbers of worthy girls. Her inspiration to do this work came through the fact that she HOWARD THEATRE Tst.near7th,N.W. The Theatre for the People TESTIMONIAL TO ANDREW J. THOMAS by the CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON Beginning Monday, November 24, and to continue to Saturday, November 29. Beginning Monday, November 29. November 29. The greatest Dramatic and M all Washington. HIGH CLASS MUSIC AND DR SPECIAL PROGRAM This testimonial is a special gift on, and organizations to whom M many liberal and charitable acts. H of citizens and organizations an up unity to give colored American arti their talent. CITIZENS OF W MONDAY NIGHT PROLOG Judge Robert H. Terrell, Mrs. H. A. M. Curtis. Introducing Miss Nannie H. Bu National Training School for Women. "We Fight Everybody's Battles B class program specially prepared by TUESDAY NIGHT, N ORGANIZATION Tuesday evening, November 25th external and Beneficial organizations. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOO ris Grand Chief. The Young Men's Protective League REV. A. C. C. Will Represent the St. Lukes, W PROLOG Prof: Nelson E. Weatherlecs, P. C. and Jabez Lee. SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE PRO THE BUSINESS P WEDNESDAY EVENING PROLOG Mr. Daniel Freeman and J. W. L. SPECIAL HIGH CL EDUCATION THURSDAY EVENING, T Colored Public School Children. Presentation by Assistant Superint W. Childs, and Dr. Charles H. M. Special High-class Vaudeville, ete FRIDAY NIGHT, N ELKS AND PYT PROLOG AMOND W Grand Legal Advisor ATTORNEY JOHN E. C. Brigadier General J. Clay Smith, of the Pythias. SATURDAY NIGHT, The Lawyers and Prof PROLOG Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Atti Asst. U. S. Attorney James A. Co high class vaudeville, and to concl Richard the Third. Full program The greatest Dramatic and Musical Feast in the History of all Washington. HIGH CLASS MUSIC AND DRAMATIC PRESENTATIONS SPECIAL PROGRAM EACH NIGHT. This testimonial is a special gift from the citizens of Washington, and organizations to whom Manager Thomas has tendered many liberal and charitable acts. His willingness to give all classes of citizens and organizations an up-to-date theatre and an opportunity to give colored American artists of all classes to demonstrate their talent. Judge Robert H. Terrell, Mrs. Harriet Gibbs Marshal and Mrs. A. M. Curtis. Introducing Miss Nannie H. Burroughs and 50 voices of her National Training School for Women and Girls. "We Fight Everybody's Battles But Our Own," followed by high class program specially prepared by Manager Andrew J. Thomas. TUESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 25th ORGANIZATION NIGHT Tuesday evening, November 25th-All Benevolent, Secret, Fraternal and Beneficial organizations. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD SEMARITAN INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD SAMARITAN-Oscar D. Morris Grand Chief. Mr. Phillips and Arthur Boston. The Young Men's Protective League REV. A. C. GARNER Will Represent the St. Lukes, Who Will Come in a Body. PROLOGUE Prof: Nelson E. Weatherless, P. W. Frisby, Joseph H. Stewart and Jabez Lee. THURSDAY EVENING, THANKSGIVING NIGHT Colored Public School Children and Teachers of Washington Presentation by Assistant Superintendent Roscoe C. Bruce, Dr. C. W. Childs, and Dr. Charles H. Marshall, Prof. Kelly Miller. Special High-class Vaudeville, etc. ATTORNEY JOHN E. COLLINS, of the Elks. Brigadier General J. Clay Smith, of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Ruthies. Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Attorneys T. L. Jones, A. W. Gray, Asst. U. S. Attorney James A. Cobb, and W. C. Martin. Special high class vaudeville, and to conclude with Act I and II of King Richard the Third. Full program next week. SUBSCRIBERS. Wm. Calvin Chase, Thos. L. Jones, Emanuel M. Hewlitt, Armond W. Scott, W. C. Martin, J. M. Rice, Chas. S. Williams, Royal A. Hughes, James A. Cobb, Augustus W. Gray, J. Louis Taylor, Benjamin L. Gaskins, Zept. P. Moore, J. C. Napier, Harriet Gibbs Marshall, James F. Armstrong, F. H. M. Murray, Wellington A. Adams, James F. Bundy, Joseph H. Stewart, Jabez Lee, W. D. Johnson, F. W. Cheek, Samuel M. Pierre, M. D., Chas. L. Barnes, Dr. A. M. Curtis and wife, Mr. Daniel Freeman, J. T. C. Newsome, Chas. A. Thomas, Roscoe Bruce, Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson, Dr. Charles H. Marshall, Dr. C. W. Childs, Prof. Kelly Miller Wm. Calvin Chase, Thos. L. Jones W. Scott, W. C. Martin, J. M. Ri Hughes, James A. Cobb, Augustus min L. Gaskins, Zept. P. Moore, J shall, James F. Armstrong, F. H. M. James F. Bundy, Joseph H. Johnson, F. W. Cheek, Samuel M. Dr. A. M. Curtis and wife, Mr. Dane Chas. A. Thomas, Roscoe Bruce, R. Dr. Charles H. Marshall, Dr. C. W. Prices will be announced in the r theater daily. THE TWO BROOKS ND BROOKS AND DARE DEVI In the Cage of Death Ride...cmfw In the Cage ABYSSINI Chase, Thos. L. Jones, Emanuel M. Hewlitt, C. Martin, J. M. Rice, Chas. S. Williams, A. Cobb, Augustus W. Gray, J. Louis Taylor, Zept. P. Moore, J. C. Napier, Harriet G. Armstrong, F. H. M. Murray, Wellington A. undy, Joseph H. Stewart, Jabez Lee, C. Cheek, Samuel M. Pierre, M. D., Chas. I. His and wife, Mr. Daniel Freeman, J. T. C. I. Has, Roscoe Bruce, Recorder Henry Lincoln Marshall, Dr. C. W. Childs, Prof. Kelly Mi e announced in the next issue of The Bee, s THE TWO SWEETS BROOKS ND ROBINSON BROOKS AND ROBINSON DARE DEVIL GERBEA of Death Ride...cmfwypetaoi rtheO etaoin si In the Cage of Death Ride ABYSSINIAN TRIO Prices will be announced in the next issue of The Bee, and in the theater daily. THE TWO SWEETS BROOKS ND ROBINSON BROOKS AND ROBINSON DARE DEVIL GERBEA In the Cage of Death Ride...cmfwypetaoi rtheO etaoin shrdlushrdlu In the Cage of Death Ride ABYSSINIAN TRIO was once a servant girl, and after seeing her employer ride out in his carriages she decided that one day she too, would do so, and truly she has fulfilled her plans. chusetts. Presents have begun to arrive from all over the country. RACIAL RESPECT. Meeting of Leading Citizens Miss Ollie Maye Wells then rendered a very beautiful vocal solo, which brought forth the "chautauqua salute." After a few announcements by the president, the meeting closed with the Mizpah. The topic for next Sunday is a temperance one and a good program has been arranged for the occasion; one and all are cordially invited to attend. MISS SHEPARD'S MARRIAGE. Sister of Drs., James and C. H. Sheppard to be Married November 26 A Brilliant Affair. Durham, N. C., Nov. 18, 1913. Mrs. Hattie E. Shepard, mother of Drs. James E. and Charles H. Shepard, has issued invitations for the marriage of her daughter, Miss Talula Mae to Dr. Theodore Edward Alexis McCurday, Thursday afternoon, November 27th, Thanksgiving, at 4 o'clock at the White Rock Baptist Church, Durham, N. C. A reception will be held at the handsome residence of her brother, Dr. Charles H. Shepard, Wednesday, preceding the marriage, November 26, from 8 to 10 o'clock. Dr. and Mrs. McCurday will be at home December 17th at 798 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. This will be one of the most brilliant affairs in the history of Durham. Miss Shepard is a most accomplished young lady, and socially popular in the society of the State. No young lady is any more the right of or esteemed than Miss Shepard. Dr. McCurday stands among the heads of his profession in Massa- 24, and to continue to Saturday, Musical Feast in the History of **DAMATIC PRESENTATIONS** **FROM EACH NIGHT.** It from the citizens of Washing- Manager Thomas has tendered his willingness to give all classes to-date theatre and an oppo- rists of all classes to demonstrate **WASHINGTON** **NIGHT, NOV. 24.** **GUEE** Harriet Gibbs Marshal and Mrs. Curroughs and 50 voices of her men and Girls. But Our Own," followed by high ly Manager Andrew J. Thomas. **NOVEMBER 25th** **NIGHT** —All Benqvolent, Secret, Fra- **D SAMARITAN—Oscar D. Mor- Mr. Phillips and Arthur Boston. **SARNER** Who Will Come in a Body. **GUEE** W. Frisby, Joseph H. Stewart **PROGRAM—HIGH CLASS** **MEN'S NIGHT.** G, NOVEMBER 26th **GUEE** Ewis. **CLASS PROGRAM** **NAL NIGHT** **THANKSGIVING NIGHT** and Teachers of Washington. Dependent Roscoe C. Bruce, Dr. C. Marshall, Prof. Kelly Miller. **NOVEMBER 28th.** **CHIAN NIGHT** **GUEE** W. SCOTT or of the Elks. **COLLINS, of the Elks.** The Uniform Rank of the Knights of **NOVEMBER 29th.** **Professional Men's Night.** **GUEE** Corneys T. L. Jones, A. W. Gray, Ibb, and W. C. Martin. Special idee with Act I and II of King next week. **BERS.** Emanuel M. Hewlitt, Armond Rice, Chas. S. Williams, Royal A. W. Gray, J. Louis Taylor, Benja- C. Napier, Harriet Gibbs Mar- Murray, Wellington A. Adams, Stewart, Jabez Lee, W. D. Pierre, M. D., Chas. L. Barnes, Jamel Freeman, J. T. C. Newsome, Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson, C Childs, Prof. Kelly Miller. next issue of The Bee, and in the **SWEETS** **ROBINSON** **ROBINSON** **GERBEA** vypetaoi rtheO etaoin shrdlushrdlu e of Death Ride **IAN TRIO** chusetts. Presents have begun to arrive from all over the country. RACIAL RESPECT. Meeting of Leading Citizens. At an informal meeting November 12, called by Dr. J. H. N. Waring, the original "scoutmaster" of the District of Columbia for colored boys a number of public-spirited persons gathered at the Y. M. C. A. building in Twelfth street to discuss immediate steps to be taken to maintain our racial, self-respect and yet secure for our boys the wonderful physical stamina and moral character which must follow participation in the training received by the Boy Scouts of America. A temporary organization resulted in the election of Dr. J. H. N. Waring, president, Miss E. A. Chase, vice president, and A. P. Brent secretary. After a full and free discussion of the situation of the local Boy Scout movement among colored boys, a committee consisting of Rev. Arthur Randall, Miss E. A. Chase, Prof. Walter Dyson, was appointed to prepare a declaration of the expressions and desires of representative colored citizens of the District of Columbia concerning our affiliation with the Boy Scout movement. Each of the following persons present was requested to secure the endorsement and support of ten other persons, and their pledge to meet November 25th to take further action toward the formation of a definitely planned scheme to give our boys an honorable connection with the Boy Scout movement: Dr. J. H. N. Waring, Mr. W. S. Duffield, Miss E. A. Chase, Dr. C. W. Childs, Rev. Arthur Randall, Mrs. J. H. N. Waring, Mr. Lewis, Johnson, Prof. Walter Dyson, Mr. W, H. J. Beckett, Mr. A. B. Brent SEEKING TO SAVE DOOMED WOMAN Mrs. Wakefield Sentenced to Be Hanged. MAY ESCAPE THE GALLOWS. Various Organizations and Prominent Women In Connecticut Protest Against Extreme Penalty—She, With Aid of a Man, Brought About the Death of Her Husband. Hartford, Conn.-Aroused as they never have been before, Connecticut women of every walk in life are shouldering the burden of preventing the state from inflicting the death punishment upon Mrs. Bessie J. Wakefield, convicted as an accomplice in the murder of her husband. From every conceivable vantage point wives and daughters of prominent men, suffragists and women opposed to their sex exercising the right of franchise are attacking as disgrace M. Photo by American Press Association. MRS. BESSIR WAKEFIELD. ful and unwarranted the carrying out of the court edict that Mrs. Wakefield shall be hanged. From every corner of the state the protests of the women are being voiced in the form of publicly circulated petitions to which many thousands of names are being signed daily, in publicity campaigns and in personal demands being made upon members of the state board of pardons, legislators and jurists. Although Mrs. Wakefield still is in a cell in the prison death house, no word yet has been received by her indicating what will be the result of the unique crusade. If Mrs. Wakefield dies for the murder of her husband, in the actual commission of which she was not accused of having taken a hand, she will be the first woman put to death in the state since 1756. Connecticut's lenency toward women who have been convicted of murder is explained in part by its efforts to atone for its unsavory record in Colonial days, when six women were burned or ranged as witches. In 1745 Elizabeth Shaw, a feeble minded girl, was hang- ed on her father's testimony that she had killed her infant child. She was executed after she had ridden a mile to the scaffold seated on her coffin and crying aloud to be saved. But since Connecticut became a state only one woman has been legally put to death within its limits. Mrs. Wakefield is twenty-four years old and is one of six children of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Webster of Middlebury, an uncultured, but honest, couple, who for years have eked a bare living out of a rocky farm. The daughter received practically no education, and she was only seventeen when she was married to Wakefield, a Bristol farm hand. She became housekeeper for James Plew, a Middlebury farmer. Plew and Wakefield soon quarreled about her. Wakefield was found slain last June. Plew confessed the deed, but he and Mrs. Wakefield blamed each other for plotting the murder so that they could be married. Plew, who has a wife and child, and Mrs. Wakefield, who has two children, have been sentenced to be hanged on March 4, 1914. It has been stated in the Connecticut press that the vote of the board must be unanimous to commute a sentence, but the law was changed four years ago to make a favorable vote of five members effective. Mrs. Wakefield's children are with her parents. The boy, who is six years old, and the girl, who is four, know nothing of their parents' fate, and they daily say their grandmother, "Mamma will be home today." The fact that many women have been convicted of single handed and premeditated murder in Connecticut in the last half century, and that all have escaped the death penalty, and that Mrs. Wakefield is not even charged with a part in the actual killing of her husband, has incited a widespread revolt against the decree of the extreme penalty in her case. TOO MANY POOR BOOKS HURT U. S. Butler Says Slovenly Reading Matter Floods Country IN THE WAY OF EDUCATION. Annual Report of President of Columbia University Laments Fact That Nation Is Flooded With Poor Reading Matter-Asserts That Fewer and Better Books Are Sadly Needed. New York.-"Too much slovenly reading matter stands in the way of education and enlightenment," says Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler in his yearly report as president of Columbia university. "In no field of human interest," says Dr. Butler, speaking of the harm of worthless books, "is the substitution of quantity for quality more fraught with damage and disorder than in that of reading. The builders of the constitution and the great lawyers of the colonial period knew but few books, but the books they knew were first rate books, and they knew them well. "Such a task as that which Gibbon set himself over a century ago would be impossible today, even for a syndicate of Gibbons. There are too many books now to enable another history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire to be composed. "Productivity of the highest type is checked by the excess of facilities. This is true both of books and of physical apparatus. We could get along well with far fewer books and far less apparatus, and we should be likely to get more ideas and a higher type of human being. The universities of the world search restlessly for truth, but A. B. Photo by American Press Association. too often they overlook the indubitable which lies at their feet." Gifts to Columbia during the year aggregated $1,605,935. The university showed a deficit of $63,821 for the year. One striking feature brought out by the report is what President Butler calls "the literally stupendous change in the relations between the university and the public which has been brought about since the reorganization of 1890 and the prosecution of the policies of expansion and new activity then formulated." This change is amply demonstrated by the fact that the gifts received by Columbia from 1754 to 1890, a period of 136 years, did not exceed in value $200,000. During the administration of President Low (1890-1901) the sum of $5,460,000 was received by the institutions that make up Columbia university, and during the administration of President Butler $20,800,000 has been added by gift from several hundred different persons. CITY CHRISTMAS TREE Chicago to Have One With Glistening Ice and Presents. Chicago.—Children of the street here are to have a municipal Christmas tree for the first time this year. The tree is to stand in Grant park, facing the lake front, and is to be placed in position long enough before the holidays so that it can be sprayed with water and make a spire of glistening ice. According to plans of the Municipal Christmas Tree association, the lake front is to be a blaze of light during the entire week. DISMEMBER LIVING MAN. Sona-in-Lay Suspected of Atrocious Crime in Spain. Badajoz, Spain.—The police have discovered in a vacant lot the dismembered body of Senor Higuera Real, who disappeared and for whom a general alarm had been issued. The theory that he was killed by his sons-in-law, some money affair being the motive for the crime, is held by the police. The physicians assert that the dismembering of the body had begun when the man was yet alive. National Religious Training Schoo ```markdown ``` Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation. 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Missionaries. 2. Department of Theology. 3. Commercial Department. 4. Literary Department. 5. Department of Music. A NEW MOVEMENT Among the White and Colored People of the South. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 6. For the first time in history, two religious organizations in the South, the one white and the other colored, are to unite in an educational project for the Negroes. It is an event that marks the beginning of a new era in the attitude of the two races toward each other. Sutton E. Griggs, Educational Secretary of the National Baptist Convention, his issued the following statement concerning the movement to daily papers of cities directly concerned: To the Public: The Southern Baptist Convention, white, through a resolution -unani mously adopted at its recent session held at St. Louis, Mo., in May, 1913, has tendered its aid, moral and, financial, to the National Baptist Convention, colored, for the purpose of insuring the successful launching of a National Theological Seminary to engage in the work of furnishing a better prepared ministry to lead the Negro people. The representatives chosen by the Southern Baptist Convention to confer with representatives of the National Baptist Convention have recommended that the Southern Baptist Convention donate fifty thousand dollars as the initial contribution of the white Baptists of the South toward the founding and equipment of the school. It is the purpose of those authorized to act in the matter to locate the school in one of the following five cities: Memphis, Teen.; Birmingham, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., or Louisville, Ky. It is hoped that the philanthropic citizens of the cities named will make offers for a site for the school, and tender such other help as their generosity may dictate. The character of the offers made will have a bearing on the final decision as to the location of the school. There are strong reasons justifying activity on the part of citizens to secure the selection of their city as the home of the proposed school. 1. Beginning with the business side of the matter, attention is called to the fact that the construction and equipment of buildings, calling for material and labor, and later the feeding and clothing of teachers and students, the business transactions of the thousands who shall have occasion to visit the city because of the presence of the school, will mean ultimately the increase of business done in the city to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars. 2. The experience of other cities having Negro institutions of a high order is that such schools help to raise the standard of living, improve the general tone of the life the race, and greatly reduce the need of police activity in the regions affected. 3. A vital need where there is a mixed population is sympathy and understanding between the races. The cooperation of the two races in the operation of the school will furnish a point of contact that will be a standing influence for peace and good will. 4. The foregoing are incidental benefits. The cause itself for which the school is founded* is great. Only through high moral purpose can the Negro race hold its own in American civilization. It is to be the mission of this school to furnish to the Negro race a ministry and a leadership rooted and grounded in the principles of righteousness, able, by life and word, to lead their people upward. At the present time the Negro minister seems to be the largest hope of the world for the effective leadership of his people. There has been but little room left for the Negro to acquire distinction in the political field, and as a consequence leadership for the race will hardly come in large measure from that quarter. In the business world competition is so keen and the white race has so much the start that considerable time must elapse before the business life of the Negroes will furnish a sufficient amount of material for race leadership. With civic and business avenues furnishing leadership only here and there, the Negro minister is left to occupy the throne almost alone. All of the needs of the race press down upon his shoulders. He should be one of the wisest and most enlightened men of his times. The THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL DURHAM, N. C. and women 6. 7. 8. artment is W. C. A. women Home and F se & 7th and IN DOUBT ABOUT nold F tion, House and is no other house or people can be satisfi se hat will satisf House & Herrmann 7th and Eye Sts., N. W of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house hat will satisfy you. bility of the Negro race to fit into \american civilization without affecting it for ill largely depends upon the kind of ministry it has. No work ever undertaken for the Negro race goes more nearly to the core of the whole question of Negro advancement than that of the proper training of the ministry. This hour of the practically exclusive leadership of the Negro ministry is the time of all times to grapple with the question of making true religion the basis of Negro life. 5. American civilization can ill afford, for its own sake, to have enfolded within itself a laggard or dying element, dying morally and spiritually. Vicious crimes, which are but noxious odors arising from moral death, will serve to call forth counter crimes of a vicious order; thus complicating a situation already bad. Enlightened self-interest, freedom from the danger of a life infected by the dead soul of a race, dictates that the American people help the saved element among the Negroes—those saved to lives of genuine usefulness, to go forth and save their fellows. It is hoped that this city will make a substantial offer for the school. It is requested that offers assume definite and tangible form, and be placed in the hands of the corresponding secretary of the National Baptist Educational Board on or before March 12, 1914, as shortly thereafter a final decision as to location will be made. Persons desiring further information will be cheerfully furnished the same. Very respectfully, SUTTON E. GRIGGS. Cor. Sec. National Baptist Education Board, 658 So. Lauderdale St., Memphis, Tenn. Protested Against—Illinois Commission Half Century of Freedom Calls Race Segregation a Grievous Wrong—Appeals to President Wilson to Prevent the Public Degradation and Humiliation of Afro-American Employes. Chicago, III. November.—At the November meeting of the Executive Committee of the Illinois Commission Half Century of Freedom, the following resolution, offered by Rev. A. J. Carey, was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, that we, the Executive Committee of the Illinois Commission Half Century of Freedom, most earnestly protest against the segregation of employes of the Federal Government by race or color. We regard this as a grievous wrong, an insult to loyal and law-abiding citizens, and one which no other group of Americans is asked to endure. "This commission earnestly appeals to President Wilson to use his authority to prevent this public degradation and humiliation of Afro-American employees of the National Government." Go To HOLMES' HOTEL 333 Virginia Ave. S. W. Finest Afro-American Accommodations in the District. European and American Plan. Good Rooms and Lodging. 50c. 75c. and $1.00. Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give Us a Call. James Ottoway Holmes, Prop., Washington, D. C. Phone, Main 2315. JIMCROWISM There are special scholarships for deserving young men women, in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. 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He was unable, however, to give a satisfactory explanation of how it happened that all the clerks behind these lockers were colored. The reason could not have been lack of efficiency, because the colored men here were doing a fairly high grade of work, that is, sorting letters and delegating them to the proper division. In another room where the purely mechanical process of opening letters was carried on, all the clerks were white. the clerks work. Later the investigator learned on credible authority that up to May 29, of the thousands of clerks employed in the Post Office Department, seven only were colored, three being in the Dead Letter Division, three in the Bureau of Supplies and one in the office of the Chief Post Office Inspector. "On the day following, Decoration Day, these men were assembled back of the lockers mentioned above. Contrasted with this "Jim Crowing" of colored clerks is the apparent lack of opposition to the employment of colored messengers or laborers in this Department and even of colored drawing clerical pay, provided they do the work of messengers or laborers. There are now six colored men on the clerical roll who do messenger service. The authority quoted stated further that the seven colored clerks now in the Post Office Department six have been included in a recent order transferring sixty clerks from the United States Post Office Department to the City Post Office, leaving one colored clerk in the United States Post Office Department. No lunch room is provided for the colored employees in the Post Office Department. The white employees have a very attractive room. The guide advanced as a convincing argument in explanation of this condition that as no restaurants in Washington were open to colored people, the government could not be expected tournish one. He further stated that only one colored man had "ever given them trouble" by trying to get his inch in this room and that had happened but once. Treasury Department In the Treasury Department there are about 270 colored employees. In the Treasury Building the colored erkes are scattered throughout the offices and have not yet been segregated, though it seems to be understood that an attempt will be made to assemble as many as possible in the Registry Division. The investigator visited twelve offices in this department finding in each colored erkes working with white clerks; in one offices working with white amen. In the Office of the Auditor for e Post Office which is a part of the treasury Department but situated in e Post Office Building, segregation seems to have been carefully worked out. Mr. Kram, the chief, a old-over from the Taft administration, took pains to emphasize the int that he had been segregating lored employees for five years and at as far as his office was concern, it was no new departure. He either stated that he would not lose opportunity to perfect it. He added he had been able to segregate thou interference with the work his office because in the last few ars he had been introducing a new stem known as the tabulating system, which reduces many of the processes of the work to an absolutely mechanical level. If, for instance, he is one hundred clerks working on: "key punch," it is very easy to segregate the colored clerks and see them in a separate room or alice. This has been done. In one om colored men operate what is own as the "gang punch" and in other room, the force working at "sorting machines" is entirely oared. White operatives doing the ne work occupy separate rooms. visited there were nine colored men working on the "key punch," e light and ventilation were poor, ese women had been moved sevel times but originally had been in ims with white clerks where they l good light and air. While the v tabulating system was being inducted, Mr. Kram's office had been excused by Congress from making all of the audit of a certain year. As the omission of this audit has been brought as a criticism against this office, he has since, decided to have it made. This, apparently, afforded the excuse for moving these ored women, since the rooms they upied (with the white clerks) re necessary for the corps of bookers who were to rush through arrears in work. All the clerks, h white and colored, were moved . The white clerks, however, were ttered in rooms where they have od light and ventilation, while the ored women were segregated in alceve mentioned above. As al, those segregated were placed he poorest quarters. n some of the rooms of this office te and colored employees still k together. For example, in the I and files room there were six white and four colored employees. In two rooms which had been set aside for fourth grade bookkeepers colored and white employees were working together. There were no women in this room. The obvious intention is to segregate ultimately the colored bookkeepers in one of these rooms and the white in the other. As an indication of the feeling of the colored people in regard to this segregation may be cited the case of an old colored bookkeeper who has recently been reduced from first grade to fourth grade bookkeeper with no change in salary. The reason assigned was that he could not do first grade work. This may be true. He resented the change bitterly and his chief told the investigator that he had cried like a baby when he was moved, not so much because of the reduction, in work, but because he felt that taking him out of the room where he had sat for ten or more years with white people, including women, was a reflection upon him personally. The investigator overheard the chief of the division, Mr. Kram, ask several of these women if they did not miss the-old bookkeeper. They all replied they'did and spoke of him in the kindiest manner. One of the most interesting rooms in this department is where international coupons are audited. Mr. Kram explained that this was as difficult work as was done in his office and that he had found colored men more expert in it than white men. The investigator understood that the four men employed there, all colored, in charge of a fifth, also colored, had gradually been collected from other parts of the office. Those who advance the argument in favor of segregation that it will give the colored people a chance to demonstrate their efficiency as a race had better avoid this room, for the colored men placed here had first proved their ability, not by competing with members of their own race, but by competition with white men whom they have beaten in a fair contest. Another illustration of how economic efficiency refuses to follow the color line is the case of a young colored man who has become an expert operator on the adding machine. He is the only colored clerk employed in a room of white clerks doing the same work. Mr. Kram, when asked why he left him there, said he could not spare him as he was his most expert operator. Here again the colored man won in competition not with his own race but with the white man. That the basis of the whole segregation idea is caste and not race was indicated by the fact that both the Superintendent of the Post Office Building and the clerk acted as guide in the Treasury Department repeatedly called attention to the absence of segregation in the cleaning forces, emphasizing the fairness with which the colored help is treated. When pressed for an explanation of this apparent inconsistency in policy, they stated that they had had no complaint from the "white scrub ladies." In answer to the question as to what would be the procedure should difficulty arise, they said it would be impossible to segregate without interfering with the efficiency of the work. Another difficulty in carrying out segregation by color consistently unexpectedly arose, to the great embarrassment of the clerk who was acting as guide in the Treasury Department. As he was taking the investigator into one of the rooms of the department, he remarked, "There are two in here, that man in the far corner of the room"—turning to a white man at the door—"You are the other colored clerk in here, aren't you?" The reply was too eloquent for publication. It is significant that the man making it was considerably darker than some of the colored clerks who will have to be segregated if the present policy is perfected. A Southerner in charge of one of the offices in the Treasury Building, mistaking the investigator for a sympathizer, remarked that they wanted to inaugurate segregation everywhere in the Treasury Department but were handicapped because they did not know how to go about it, it being most difficult to determine upon the best method. Before he could give more information he was warned by the guide. In Washington, history repeats itself in relegating to those segregated what no one else wants or in failing entirely to meet their needs. For example, as has already been indicated, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing the lunch room assigned to the colored women is unsanitary. In the Post Office Department there is no lunch room at all for colored help. In the office of the Auditor for the Post Office, the colored women were taken from light and airy rooms and placed in an unpleasant alcove. In the Dead Letter Office where the colored workers have been grouped back of a row of lockers, the part of the room chosen is the least desirable. The way in which segregation has been effected so far without official orders is worthy of study. No orders have been issued segregating colored people in their work, yet the practice goes on. Generally the excuse is a readjustment in the work to increase efficiency. In this reorganization clerks are moved from one room to another and when the process is completed the colored clerks always find themselves in some mysterious way together. The only official order issued in regard to segregation related to lavatories, and this is still in force in the Post Office Division, the Treasury Department, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The signs originally posted in the Treasury Department have been taken down. The investigator learned on good authority that they are still posted on the inside and outside of the doors of dressing rooms in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Officials in Washington repeatedly call attention to the fact that the colored people have protested against this order but have made no objection to segregation in their work. The reason is, of course, that the colored people are sensitive and resent what they feel to be a personal affront; but more important is the fact that they cannot protest against segregation in their work when no official orders have been issued in regard to this. Should they make such complaint they would be asked to cite a discriminating order and failing that would probably be told that the changes made had been necessitated by exigencies in work, color having had nothing to do with it. They would be unable to prove their case and might jeopardize their positions because of "insubordination." Even the white man is not fond of juggling with his bread and butter. As far as could be ascertained, only one official has given the colored people an opportunity to express their opinion of the policy of segregation. Arrangements for segregation had been made in one of the di- visions of the Pension Bureau, but when the chief of the division learned that the colored employees were opposed to separation, he gave them an opportunity to vote on the matter. They were unanimous in their opposition. This man is reported to have said that segregation should not be introduced while, he was the chief of this division. That the matter is likely to receive future attention seems probable from statements like the following made by a high official in Washington: "We cannot have colored men working in the same room with white women or colored men in charge of departments employing white women." What perhaps might be regarded as the equivalent of this statement a reliable authority quotes another official as saying—"We are determined to reduce these people to menial and subordinate positions." How long it will be before further steps are taken to perfect the policy of segregation can only be conjectured. There is persistent, rumor in Washington that as soon as fall elections are over in New York and other important cities, a bill already prepared will be forced through Congress introducing "Jim Crow" cars into the District of Columbia. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 26 Vesey Street, New York Mary Dunlap Maclean Memorial Fund Publication No.1. Till the Smoke Rose. In the third century there was an emperor of Japan who, mounting to the summit of a hill during a period of hard times and poor crops, observed that no smoke was rising from the clusted cottages in the valleys below him. The villagers could not afford dies; besides, most of them had no food to cook. He surveyed the some thoughtfully and, descending, gave orders to remit all taxes for a period of three years. Before the time was over his palace fell into decay and parts of it into ruin; the rain came through the roof, and more than once he was drenched as he slept. But he made no complaint. At the end of three years he climbed the hill once more. Everywhere, from more numerous cottages, blue spirals drifted upward to the sky. He smiled as he descended, and the taxes were restored. But it was not with tax money that the palace was repaired, since the grateful people raised the needed sum as a thank offering—Youth's Companion. The Supercritic. Provest Hawkins of Oriel college, Oxford, declares the Right Hon. W. G. M. Russell in "Edward King, Sixteenth Bishop of Lincoln," was never happy unless he could find some fault to criticise the undergraduates who came before him. Among other things, the record of chapel attendance was always on his table and referred to for praise or blame. One day when King, who was an Oriel man and who seemed to have been a happy combination of George Herbert and Saint Francis de Sales, was before him the provost consulted the record. "I observe, Mr. King," said he, "that you have never missed a single chapel, morning or evening, during the whole term." He paused, but instead of a word of praise, which might reasonably have been expected, he continued severely: "I must warn you, Mr. King, that even too regular attendance at chapel may degenerate into formalism." BAN TEMPERANCE BOYS. Abstainers Expelled From an Old University In Germany. Grelfswald, Germany.-The expulsion of some students from Grelfswald university because of their total abstinence principles has caused a sensation here: The university is one of the oldest in Germany, having been founded in 1456. The students, numbering about 1,000, were called together in June to attend a typical "beer evening" in celebration of the emperor's jubilee. Several abstainers protested and were reprimanded by the officials, who said the protest was an "inhibition to action against academic customs." One of the abstainers criticised the reprimand and was sentenced to three days' confinement in the university dungeon. Further protests led to even more drastic steps, and two of the students were expelled. Protests Against Reduction of Southern Representation. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 11. The Legal Committee of the Republican National Committee met at Washington today to consider questions of changes in the rules for future Republican National Conventions. One of the most important and far-reaching matters is the proposed reduction of Southern representation. 'Rev. A. J. Carey, pastor of the Institutional Church, sent the following protest: "As a life-long Republican, I protest against the proposed action of the Republican National Committee in reducing the representation of the Southern States in future Republican national conventions. "It would work a great injustice to hundreds of thousands of loyal Republicans who have remained steadfast in spite of the greatest odds, and such a change would probably mean the defeat of the party in the next national campaign. "If so revolutionary a program is to be carried out it should be done by the entire party in convention assembled and not by the Republican National Committee. "I trust that the Legal Committee will not recommend any such action to the Republican National Committee." HUMAN SENSES DULLED. Sir Gilbert Parker Says Modern Rush is Devitalizing Faculties. London. Is life being made so mechanically easy that some of our senses are losing their vitality and usefulness? was the question suggested by Sir Gilbert Parker in an address at the post graduate college of the West London hospital. A great many accidents, he said, were due to limited and inadequate observation. He knew a chauffeur who could see very well ahead of him, but if he wanted to see right or left he had to turn his head to the right or left. Every one knew that the trained and educated eye could see right or left without turning the head. It seemed to him that the very nervous excitement of the age was due not to the many stirring noises of the great city life, but to the fact that to the senses was given too little responsibility, or, rather, less responsibility than in the olden days. Something ought to be done, if he were right. He believed that the boy scout movement was a step in the right direction. He should like to add to the boy scout training blindfold observation. Boys and girls should be let loose in fields and streets, under guidance, to feel and hear their way and memorize what they heard or felt. FINDS A MITHRAIC MARBLE. Professor Lanciani Uncover Treasure Beneath Caracalla's Baths. Rome. Senator Rudolfo Lanciani is having much success with the work which he is carrying on in and under the great baths of Caracalla. The baths are always yielding new things, and excavations are now proceeding in subterranean passages, which are found to be over three miles long and are expected to yield much treasure. The latest and perhaps the most interesting marble is a group of bacrifice to Mithras. A Mithrale temple came to light some time ago. The fragments show the group representing the god Mithras killing a bull, which was being licked by a sacred dog and a serpent, while a scorpion stung him. CONTINUE TO USE TYPHOID VACCINE U. S. Army Finds That It Does Not Increase Tuberculosis. Washington. - Announcement has been made that the inoculation of enlisted men in the United States army with typhoid vaccine would continue in spite of the fact that recent reports from the armies of France and England showed that men so inoculated were more susceptible to tuberculosis than those who have not been inoculated. This report from abroad aroused the war department officials, and an investigation based on official records from army posts was begun. This has convinced the United States authorities that, whatever the experience with the vaccine has been in France and England, it has proved most efficacious in this country. Colonel L. M Maus, chief of the medical corps of the department of the east, stationed at Governors island, said: "The inoculation of enlisted men in the United States army, with the typhoid fever vaccine will continue to be compulsory, because it has been shown to be of great benefit to the health of the army. "Investigations of the reports that the inoculation of vaccine caused an increase in tuberculosis showed that there had been a decrease in tuberculosis in the United States army since the inoculation of typhoid fever vaccine began. The records of the army in the report made in 1012 of the conditions during the previous year showed a marked falling off in tuberculosis." BRIDEGROOM OF 80 TIRES. Baying Bride of Fifty-one Was "Too Old to Love," He Seksa Divorce. Huntington, W. Va.-The romance of John W. Stroud, aged eighty years, and Jennie Stroud; fifty-one, his wife, has ended in the divorce court here after eight months of matrimonial misadventure. According to Mr. Stroud, there came a rift in the marital sunshine when his wife threw her clothes on the floor and declared that she was going to Cincinnati to live. He then sued for a divorce and declared that he made a mistake in not marrying a "younger woman," who was not too old to love. HIS STOMACH SENTENCED. 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D. 1913, that James Cox, Nancy Brown, alias Nancy Bailey, William Cox, Rebecca Harden, Lizzie Cargile, Alma Williams, alias Eleanor Williams, Josephine Johnson, — Robertson, Robertson, — Robertson and Joseph Wickliffe, and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Monday, the 29th day of December, A. D. 1913, at 10 o'clock a. m., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and The Washington Bee once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less, than thirty days before said return day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD, Justice. Attest: JAMES TANNER JAMES TANNER Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Fronate Court L. MELENDEZ KING and WM. I. LEE. Attorneys. WHITE WASHED. Howard University has splendid practice with the team from Shaw University, rolling up a score of 76 to 0. Gilmore, the basket ball adept, received long forward passes hurled by quarterback Brice for long gains and runs for touchdowns. "Bullet" Slaughter contributed a spectacular run of eighty yards and several other performances of note took place at the expense of the team from North Carolina. Howard minus Gray, Nixon and Oliver, is virtually the same strong aggregation of other years, but Shaw is lamentably weak. Shaw, 0, Howard. 76. Referee, Robinson; umpire, Savoy; lineman, Donglass. It will be a great day for our colleges when we can begin things in athletics on time. Here, half of the football-season is over and none of the big teams have played more than one other game than the games of last Saturday. A result is that championship games are entered and weaknesses crop up that could have been seen in any but scrub team practice. An effort should be made this fall before the facts are forgotten to increase the schedule. In this vicinity, Morgan College in Baltimore; Storer College in Harper's Ferry; Virginia Union; Petersburg Normal, and a few other schools might be given early season places on the big team schedules and beneficial results would ac- crue to all parties. The smaller colleges would be given an incentive to better work and if arrangements could be made some financial returns could go their way to help struggles in this city. Perhaps some "Colgate" in our ranks would develop to the sorrow of our big boys. To many the high school teams would be a match for Shaw of last week's play. M Street, High School football team defeated Manassas Institute team at Manassas by the score of 15 to 0. The stars in the game were: Brown, Diggs, Samuels, O. Randall, Nichols, and Dent. Touchdowns were made by O. Randall and Bell. Lincoln University went down to defeat at the hands of the eleven from Hampton Institute by the score of 13 to 0 on the church school's gridiron in Pennsylvania. The day was too warm to call for very strenuous efforts on the part of either team after the first part of the game. Lincoln's team put up a very stubborn contest after the first touchdown had been registered, but at no time did it prove the match for the formidable southern opponent. In line charging and blocking, no better drilled set of forwards have been seen in recent years among colored colleges than on Hampton's team. The line from end to end did magnificent work, while Bender shone above his team-mates in the back field. His punting was superb. Wheaton, of Lincoln, played an excellent game, but could not keep his feet at times when the opportunity for good gains presented itself. The first touchdown was made after a few, passes, and Bender's toe had put the ball near Lincoln's goal. Gayle caught the sphere in the end zone for the first score of the game and Bender kicked goal. Lincoln had a splendid chance to even matters in the third period when after receiving a poor kick and several penalties, the ball was Lincoln's on Hampton's five-yard line, but on the third down the Lincoln back banked against the goal post and lost the ball, which was recovered by Bender, who immediately kicked out of danger. In the second period Hampton again scored via the touchdown route, but failed to add the additional point. Lincoln's team is strong in the backfield where Coach Pollard has evidently put most of his effort, while Hampton players are strongest in the rudiments of the game. Their tackling and charging is especially vicious and accurate. Summary: Hampton Institute. 13 Lincoln University, o. Reference, E. Wenderson; umpire, C. C. Wilkinson; linesman, I. L. Jamison. TEMPERANCE Evening in the A. C. E. L., of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church—Miss Anna S. Payne, President. The chairman, Mrs. M. Lucas, presented an excellent program. "The Drunkard's Wife," stereotypicon views, with a lecture by that great pulpit orator, Dr. W. H. Brooks, made a deep impression. "Father, dear father, come home with me now," was illustrated as Miss Christina Carter read with feeling, the poem. Miss Belle-Smith, our elocutionist, recited an Ode to the Drunkard. Mr. De-Witte Wilson rendered two solos, one, "Where is My Boy Tonight," as only Mr. Wilson can render sacred music. The evening was profitably and pleasantly spent. The Saturday evening Bible Class of S. S. workers held an institute Monday night at the Y. M. C. A. The meeting was presided over by the class teacher, Rev. Arthur Randall, with Mr. Benjamin Washington, superintendent of Nineteenth Street Baptist Sunday School and president of the Bible Class lead the music, Mr. Richard Turner, organist. A profitable program had been arranged. Kindergarten work by Mrs. A. E. Waddleton. Intermediate department, Mrs. Carrie Pierce, superintendent of Berean Baptist Sunday school. Young Men's Bible Class, Rev. Wm. Walker, deacon of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Special lecture by Rev. Pratt. of the Theological Department, Howard University. Rev. Pratt's talk on the Bible and its helpfulness inspired the teachers to do their work for the Master with renewed zeal. The Bible class committee of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Moten, chairman, Mr. Lewis E. Johnson, general secretary, made it possible for teachers of the various schools to thus meet and hold the institute. OUR OWN BATTLES. An Appeal to the People—Committee of One Hundred Points the Way. Washington, D. C., November 10, 1913 You yourself ought to be a member of the Committee of Fifty and More. Are not your civil rights worth infinitely more than any amount of money? Do you want to ride in a Jim Crow car? Do you want to receive less pay for the same work than a white man or woman? Do you want the Federal Government to herd its colored employees together and apart from the rest like lepers? Are you willing to sit still with folded hands and a complacent smile while the civil and the political rights for which black as well as white soldiers shed their blood and sacrificed not mere money but their very lives on the battlefields of the Civil War—are you willing to sit ineffectually still while these rights are one by one taken away from you and your families and their children? Do you really want a Negro ghetto established here in the Capital of the Nation? a ghetto like that already established a few miles away in Baltimore? a ghetto where the law and the courts of "justice" compel you and your families to live herded together and apart from the rest of humanity as though your color were the plague? It is against these things that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People under the inspiration of OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, is fighting. It is to give the National Association the sinews of war, to replenish its treasury, that the Committee of Fifty is conducting its campaign here in Washington. To be a member of the committee it is necessary for you to pay to the treasurer, Mr. Garnett C. Wilkinson, the sum of only twenty-five dollars. You cannot discharge your duty to this great and holy cause by a perfunctory fifty-cent contribution; twenty-five dollars is a sum small enough. Do you know that nearly all the cases that have been brought into the courts under the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution have been brought not by the colored people for whose defense these amendments were enacted, but by other peoples?—by Chinese and Japanese who have come to America to make money and then to return to the land of their fathers, rather than by us who were born here and know no other Fatherland, who have toiled here for nearly three centuries, who have fought honorably for the Nation in every war the Nation has waged? Now, why can the Chinese and the Japanese promptly and effectively defend their rights in American courts when we (American citizens though we are) let ours go by default? It is primarily because they place in the treasuries of these societies great defense funds. Only one such organization have the colored people of America; it is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Dare we cripple that splendid association by denying its treasury the money it needs? Do we love liberty less than do the immigrant coolies of China? You and I must love pleasure much less and liberty-a great deal more. Let us economize or our pleasures in order that we may contribute honorably to the maintenance of our liberties. If you yourself care anything whatever for your civil and political rights, send twenty-five dollars to the treasurer of the Committee of Fifty. Do not wait another day to do your duty; DO IT NOW. The crisis is already upon us. There is no time to wait. To delay is to surrender. Sincerely yours. (Signed) NEVAL H. THOMAS. 1940 Eleventh St. N.W. P.S.-When you have read this letter carefully yourself, hand it to someone else. When that person reads it, let him pass it on and on. SEGREGATION LAW VOID. Virginia Judge Declares the Law Unconstitutional — Some People Just. Norfolk, Va. Police Justice Jas, S. Barron rendered his decision Friday morning as regards to the Norfolk segregation law, declaring that it was unreasonable, void and invalid. In rendering his decision he said: "The ordinance provides that the question as to whether a block or section should be white or colored is to be determined by the ownership of the property is unreasonable, and that it should be determined by the number of residents in the district." He said that the legislature of 1912 passed an act authorizing cities of the commonwealth to pass segregation ordinances and prescribing certain things that the city must do in order to enact such ordinances. Few, if any of those provisions prescribed are contained in the present ordinance. "The provision that the city at its own expense should provide a plat open to the inspection of all citizens has not been carried out." To the city attorney he suggested that in preparing a new ordinance, attention should be given to providing for the future growth of the colored population, or within a few years they would be found to be hemmed in and this would again prove grounds for unreasonableness, in that the colored people would be cut off from expansion and development. The decision was rendered as the result of the presentation of the ordinance before Justice Barron in his private chamber on October 17, by Captain Tazewell Taylor, Attorneys W. H. C. Brown, J. E. Diggs and Jas. G. Martin, Capt. Taylor and Attorney Brown appearing for the colored citizens' committee, which was appointed to arrange for the contest of the law. The committee retained W. H. C. Brown, Esq., and instructed him to retain the most distinguished counsel possible, and Captain Taylor was selected to take general charge of the case. This selection was based upon the fact, not alone of Captain Taylor's great legal ability, but because of the added fact that he is sufficiency large, mentally and morally, to take, a stand in the face of color prejudice and do full and complete justice to the same, the conclusion of the case justifying the selection. Attorneys Diggs and Martin appeared for individuals who had been arrested for violation of the ordinance, and City Attorney George Filcher appeared for the city. It was no doubt largely through the efforts of Captain Taylor, who made the principle argument for the citizens, which was a masterly one, that Justice Barron made his decision. Capt. Taylor's argument lasted two hours and thirty minutes, and it is conceded by those who heard it, to have been the most thorough and explanatory legal presentation ever heard in this city. Captain Taylor was not willing to concede a single thing as to the validity of the ordinance, but insisted that every phase of it was wrong and unjust, declaring that there could be no question as to such should the case reach the Supreme Court. Justice Barron had the moral courage to do what no other Southern jurist has done, to render such a decision in the face of color prejudice and what not. His decision was a great victory for the colored citizens of this community who had determined from the very day the ordinance was made that they would resist its enforcement to the last ditch. While Captain Taylor is entitled to the gratitude of the colored citizens of the entire State and country, the fact should not be overlooked that Justice Barron has also measured up to a high state of judicial fairness. NORVEL JOHNSON DEAD. Father-in-Law of Attorney King. Norvel Johnson, father of Preston Johnson and Mrs. L. Melendez King, died at the residence of his daughter, 1907 Thirteenth Street Northwest Monday, November 10, 1913, and was buried the following Wednesday. Funeral services were had from the house. Rev. I. N. Ross, pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, preached a very able and instructive sermon. Rev. Wm. J. Howard was also present and participated in the services. Mr. and Mrs. Tolson, of Ivy City, where Mr. Johnson had resided during the last five or six years of his life, read appropriate resolutions as coming from their church and Christian Endeavor. Miss Williams sang a solo, after which the body was interred at Harmony Cemetery in the family plot. The floral designs were very beautiful and the bereaved desire to express their very hearty appreciation for the manner in which their friends in general responded. Mr. Johnson had been a consistent Christian during many years, and he lived an exemplary life in the community. His soul now rests in peace with God. THE WHIPPING POST. Two Colored Men Tied to a Post and Severely Thrashed: — Civilization Needed in America—Days of Barbarism Returned. To the Editor of The Bee: Thinking perhaps some of the readers of your paper have not heard of the brutal beating that was given two colored men in that savage little God-forsaken State, known on the imap as Delaware, I beg space here to say a few words about the sad picture. "Pinioned to a whipping post" (the news were flashed over the wire on the 15th instant) "two colored men, with backs barred to freezing winds, were publicly flogged here today." These, pogon men were stripped naked to the waist, and a white rusian satisfied the law of savage Delaware by laying twenty lashes on their backs. The whip had nine leather thongs. Multiply twenty by nine, and we get the answer that one hundred and eighty livid marks were made on the which were covered from neck to bare backs of these human souls' waist. It is said that the first stroke hit over one of the men's kidneys. The second lapped his neck. Thus brutal Delaware's treatment of the colored citizens of this Christian(?) country stands second only to Russia's treatment of her much persecuted Jews. And in the face of all this hellish torturing of the colored men and women of this country the white pulpit and press find time enough to shed tears and spend much money to send missionaries to foreign lands to spread the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, whose command is: "Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you." They seem to wink at the facts thundered from the peaks of Mount Sinai: "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." Or, "Whatsoever ye mete unto your fellowman the same shall be measured unto you again." Again if there be a God He is just the same today as when His divine declaration was given. And the unjust punishment of the much persecuted colored race of this country calls to high Heaven for revenge. And we are reminded here of the language of the poet: "That awful day will surely come, The appointed hour makes haste, When I must stand before my Judge And pass the solemn test." Imagine what popular influence would be brought to bear if white men were bound in stocks by the savage officials of Delaware and their flesh lashed and cut to pieces as were these poor colored men. The white pulpit and public sentiment would cease not day or night to assemble in righteous indignation meetings and stand up and be counted against the savage laws of Delaware in such a way as to make her fall upon her knees and confess her unworthiness to be known on the map of a civilized Christian country. But, ah, the wrong ox hasn't yet been gored. Torturing "niggers" is a very small thing in the eyes of "white Christians." There is now something known as Humane Society in this city. Suppose a man were to tie a horse, or a dog or a cat to something so it would be impossible for the dumb animal to move save to write under the lash of the whip. When do you suppose he would finish the job to which he would be appointed by any one of the District judges? Why he would still be at Oocquan every item you heard from him. The federal government should take it as a part of her motto to stamp out everything which has the slightest resemblance of slavery. And true Christianity, civilization and justice to all alike, demands such steps to be taken despite the often repeated howling for State's rights. No State should be allowed special privileges to lag behind the progressive spirit of this age and time. And savage Delaware should be made to fall in line and forward, march! The colored citizens of this country are striving to do all in their power to be good citizens; and we earnestly beg the white pulpit and press (that believe in fair play) to use their influences in their belafall. And may God help them to think on these things. Delaware, wicked Delaware, thou hast a dreadful account to render at the judgment day; and no race or nation of people—not even 'excepting Russia and Turkey—need dread a heavier doom. To the Race-loving Women and Men of the United States. The Constitutional League of Oklahoma, with Lawyer William Harrison, of Oklahoma City, as its leading attorney, is contesting with vigor the "Jim Crow Laws" of Oklahoma. He will, the last of November or the first of December, bring before the United States Supreme Court the case of McCabe et al. vs. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Re Railway Co. et al. We are informed that jurists say that the Oklahoma case is the best prepared of its kind of any case yet put before the United States Supreme Court, and that it will now have to meet the issue squarely. There is one feature of this case that will be settled which will affect all of the Negroes in the United States, and that is the Interstate Passenger Law. If he succeeds it will put an end to all "Jim Crowism," so far as interstate passengers are concerned. They will not then be subject to the intra-state laws of the South. Hence, we hereby appeal to every liberty-loving woman, man and friend of the Negro race in this country to make a contribution to the expense of fighting this case. We think it is high time, if Negroes want liberty, they should be willing to pay something towards it. A few race-loving men and women in the Oklahoma League, led by the Rev. W. H. Jernagin, D. D., who is now pastor of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Washington, D. 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