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Ex-President Roose- EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND HIS ATTITUDE TOWARDS COLORED AMERICANS Caustic Answer to an Apologist—Does Education Help the Colored Leader?—Colored Americans in Washington Unable to See Beyond the Potomac River—Harmful Effect of the Roosevelt Admirer's Administration. Disfranchisement Makes Lynching Possible—Colonel Roosevelt's Appointment of Colored Men to Office—Less Discrimination in the Way of Promotion Under the Present Administration—Words Are no Criterion of Policy—How Can Any Colored American Look With Approbation Upon Roosevelt? VOL. XXXIX. NO. 29 EX-PRESIDENT ROOT AND HIS ATTITUDE COLORE Caustic Answer to an Apologist—Do Leader?—Colored Americans in Beyond the Potomac River—H Admirer’s Administration. Disfranchisement Makes Lynching Appointment of Colored Men in the Way of Promotion Under Words Are no Criterion of P American Look With Approbat Editor The Bee: I read with mingled amusement and disgust a letter to Colonel Roosevelt, published in a recent issue of The Eagle over the signature of Prof. Neval H. Thomas. The letter states that twelve million colored people in America are praying for the Colonel's recovery from an indisposition from which he was at that time suffering. I desire to modify to some extent the impression which that letter is calculated to create. I am sure that there is at least one Negro who is not praying for Roosevelt's recovery. If I ever had any influence at the throne of Jehovah, I suppose I lost that influence as a result of some of the incidents, of the Roosevelt administration, for even to the present day I cannot think of Mr. Roosevelt without committing a sin. The above-mentioned letter clearly indicates that Prof. Thomas, is one of those 33rd degree Roosevelt admirers, but with all due respect to him, I differ very radically from him in his estimate of that distinguished statesman, particularly on the race question, and I trust you will pardon me if I should have the temerity to arrogate to myself the belief that while Prof. Thomas' letter reflects the views of thousands of educated Negroes, yet his endorsement of Mr. Roosevelt is only sentimental, but my objections to him are logical. Nor does the numerical preponderance on the opposite side of the question which I am now about to present, tend to weaken the morale of that school of opinion to which I belong, but is inclined to have just the opposite effect, for the endorsement of any man by the great majority of educated Negroes is within itself the strongest proof that there is something radically wrong with the man; and in view of that fact it has become a serious question in the minds of some of our best friends whether higher education is not a liability rather than an asset with the average Negro. Observation corroborates the fact that he can master the intricacies of Greek, Prose or Analytical Geometry with ease, but the more you crowd his cranium with the Classics and Science of Ancient Greece and Rome, the less room is left for the analysis and digest of practical questions. Prof. Thomas considers Roosevelt the greatest man in all the world; well perhaps he is in many respects; so was Jesse James in at least one respect. But as I previously stated, I have the highest personal regard for Prof. Thomas; I respect him for his learning, his pugnacious disposition and willingness to stand up for his race, regardless of personal risk or sacrifice, but from a purely racial standpoint he is wrong in his high opinion of Mr. Roosevelt, and I take this occasion to remind the readers of this fearless paper that there is at least one Negro, in Washington whose breadth of view enables him to estimate Mr. Roosevelt according to his real value according to what he is rather than what he appears to be. In attempting to do this I proceed under the conscientious handicap that it is impossible to convince the average Negro that Roosevelt is anything else than the incarnation of Divinity, yet I am charitable enough to assume that the entire controversy resolves itself to a question of viewpoint which, perhaps, is largely influenced by locality of observation. But there is where the trouble lies. No astronomer can calculate the distance of a planet by a single observation: there must be at least two observations from as many different localities, and the apparent variation in the position of the planet as seen from two different observations forms the angle of paralax which together with the base line as represented by the distance between the two observations produces a concrete object upon which correct results may be obtained by applying a simple formula of triangulation. Negro Deserves Pity. When this phase of the question is considered, the Negro deserves more pity than censure. The average Negro cannot think nationally, he only thinks locally. The Negro in Washington cannot see beyond the Potomac River. However highly you may elevate his mental viewpoint, his intellectual horizon does not transcend the geometrical confines of the District of Columbia; hence, Prof. Thomas only sees Roosevelt from an intellectual observatory erected in Ledroit Park, and naturally has never seen him as he is. And, again, the vision presented by the outside view of a distant object raises the question as to what is hidden beyond, and as the inaccessibility of the object renders the answer a matter of deduction, the person who is incapable of reasoning never attempts to answer that question. Thus the ignoramus viewing the biplane sailing through the air, jumps at the conclusion that the principle of aeronautics disputes the law of gravitation. The reason for such conclusion is that he hasn't sense enough to go behind the curtain of onward appearance and analyse the scientific facts and natural circumstances, involved. If he knew enough to consider the buoyancy of the atmosphere in connection with the third law of motive, he could readily understand that the machine, though heavier than air, might easily remain afloat and that after all Newton was correct in his calculations as to the attractive force exerted between any two given objects in the physical universe. So the political ignoramus hearing Mr. Roosevelt's dazzling declarations from the forum, jumps at the conclusion that he is the greatest man in the world, without stopping to look behind the scene and examine his official behavior in the White House. Perhaps if I had been born in the North or West, I could see something in Roosevelt to admire but, fortunately or unfortunately, as you like, I was born, reared and educated in South Carolina, and the ac cident of such birth placed me in a position to observe the harmful effect the Roosevelt administration has had upon relations between the two races! His Objection to Roosevelt. My objections to Mr. Roosevelt are based upon three circumstances. First, recognition and development of the lily-white faction of the Republican party. Second, preference shown to Democrats over Negroes in the matter of Federal patronage. Third, the Brownsville affair. While I would not be understood to impeach a man's wisdom because he disagrees with me on a political question, it seems to me that any one of the above-mentioned circumstances is sufficient to alienate any intelligent Negro from Roosevelt forever and ever. As to the first circumstance, I desire to state that, in the first place, there is no difference between lily-whiteism and Tillmanism. For the basic principle of lily-whiteism is that the white man is supreme and the Negro must stay out of office. This occasion neither warrants nor permits an enlargement upon the history of that infamous faction, but it would be necessary to note just here that all of our Republican presidehs, except General Grant, were lily-whitees in principle, but Roosevelt was the first to be so highly favored by circumstances as to be permitted to put the principle into practical operation. Hays withdrew the army to please the South; Garfield was shot before he got a chance to make a fool of himself; Harrison was inclined toward the lily-whitees, but a desire for a second term prompted the introduction of the Lodge Force Bill; naturally Mr. Harrison supported the measure with all his might, but such support was not actuated by oath of office or purity of principles, but he was simply driven to act "exnecessitate rei." McKinley was also inclined to the lily-whitees, but he was restrained by the dominating personality of Mark Hanna, who was old-fashioned enough to consider every man as the equal of every other man, but with Roosevelt there was nothing to hamper his natural inclination to those astute rascals, and wirepullers from the South, and the result was the regular Republicans were steam-rolled in favor of the lily-whitees. As I have previously said lily-whiteism means white supremacy and the passing of the Negro officeholder. However, it was only a few years prior to the McKinley administration that the evolution of lily-whiteism developed to the dignity and proportions of a political organization, and I had the honor or dishonor of being an eye-witness, to the first lily-white State Convention that met in South Carolina. I recall very readily that as a little barefoot boy I sat in the gallery of the Assembly Hall of the State Capitol in Columbia and heard the Hon. Sampson Pope of Newberry, S. C., in the course of his address as permanent chairman of the convention, make the following statement: "We stand for the supremacy of the white man in law and politics, but we are willing to tolerate the better class of Negroes, those who by their industry and intelligence show themselves to be worthy of consideration." That statement was the keynote of the convention. Now, it must be remembered that at least 70 per cent of the membership of the convention were Negroes, among whom were such men as Congressman George W. Murray; the famous Dr. Crum, and Prof. J. W. Morris, president of Allen University, who made the speech nominating Mr. Pope, for the permanent chairmanship. The intellectual and social status of these men were relatively the same as that of Prof. Thomas in this community, yet they stood under the sound of Mr. Pope's voice and not only swallowed, but cheered what he said. How intelligent Negroes could voluntarily stoop to so disgraceful a sacrifice of honorable manhood as to stomach such excrementitious evacuation is a riddle which I have never been able to guess. As aforesaid, the lily-whites are opposed to the Negro in office, and the only way to keep the Negro out of office is to keep the ballot out of his hands; and since, in the last analysis, disfranchisement makes lynching possible, then it follows that the only constructive remedy for lynching is the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment. The Negroes may pray and preach and prophesy until hell freezes, but the lynching post will never disappear until the Southern Negro gets the ballot in his hands. In view of this fact, it is plain that the principle of lily-whitism is at war with antilynching propaganda, or, conversely, lily-whitism is a medium through which and comfort are indirectly furnished to the advocates and proponents of mob law. Prof. Thomas considers Mr. Roosevelt's denunciations, of lynching, as having done more to crystallize public opinion than any other force in America, although Mr. Roosevelt's record proves him to be a past master in the disgraceful art of prevarication and duplicity. I am liberal enough to assume from his utterings on the subject that he is morally opposed to lynching, but moral opposition in the abstract, when not supported by a definite concrete policy, never remedies an evil. Pontius Pilate was morally opposed to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, yet he permitted the Roman soldiers to nail the Saviour to the cross. Chief Justice Taney was morally opposed to slavery, yet he handed down the Dred Scott decision. So Mr. Roosevelt, while morally opposed to lynching, permits his Southern henchmen to withhold from the Negro the only weapon by which he can ever defend himself against lynching. Prof. Thomas, according to his letter, hopes, for an opportunity to vote Mr. Roosevelt into the Presidency, and since Mr. Roosevelt's utterings against lynching are so potent the learned professor leaves one free to infer that he would consider Mr. Roosevelt's elevation to the executive chair as placing him in a position to wield still greater influence in the same direction. Thus in attempting to remedy a great evil Prof. Thomas would try to baffle the effect through the very agency that encourages the cause. Such inconsistency on the part of intelligent men is actually disgusting to God Almighty. Roosevelt's Appointments. Roosevelt's Appointments. Prof. Thomas refers to Mr. Roosevelt's appointment of Negroes to high places, and said that without such appointments there can be no democracy. Let us examine Mr. Roosevelt's administration on this point. That brings us down to the second circumstance supporting my objections to Mr. Roosevelt, namely, the preference shown to Democrats over Negroes in the matter of federal patronage. In law a negative allegation sometimes operates to reverse the rule of presumption and shift the burden of proof. As Mr. Roosevelt found the Negro in office when he came to the White House, and inasmuch as there were not as many Negroes in office when he departed as when he arrived, then the proposition is negative, and hence the presumption is against him. It is not a question of how many Negroes he put in office, but rather how many did he put out of office? Compare his appointments with his removals; credit the one and debit the other; and the ledger will balance in such a direction as to undermine some of the popular conclusions on the subject. Perhaps Prof. Thomas would give Mr. Roosevelt credit for putting more Negroes in office than any other President, but the cold fact of history is that he actually put more Negroes out of office than any other President the country has ever had, except Cleveland, and I would be willing to risk a wager with Prof. Thomas or any other of the thousands of Roosevelt's blind disciples who love him and keep his commandments, that I could prove that assertion by documentary evidence. Perhaps Prof. Thomas, true to his religious principles, and in defense of his immaculate idol, would offer the rejoinder that the removals above mentioned were in a large measure from minor places that paid insignificant salaries, but I retort in advance that the harm done by removing a Negro from a $600 job in Mississippi outweighs the good done by appointing a Negro to a $6,000 job in New York. Prof. Thomas also refers to the evil of discrimination and segregation in the departmental service in Washington. As to the former, I can prove by the testimony of Negroes themselves, who are in the service, that there has been less real discrimination in the matter of promotion during the present administration than there was under either Taft or Roosevelt. As to the latter, I submit that Roosevelt is the author of segregation, and in proof of the general charge, I cite the particular specification of J. C. Dancy's transfer from the collectorship in Wilmington to the recordship in Washington. Leaving out the question of Dancy's individual promotion, which I commend rather than criticize, ask yourself the question. Why was this transfer made? The fact that Dancy was succeeded by a white man answers the question—that it was made to please the lily-whites of North Carolina. When you consider the transaction in toto, what does it amount to but segregation? If Roosevelt will remove a Negro from an office in a town in North Carolina because white people object, what can we expect from Woodrow Wilson, when objection is raised to a Negro's sitting at a desk in Washington? The two situations are parallel in principle, and it seems to me that Negroes who hold college degrees ought at least to be able to perceive that things equaling the same thing are equal to each other. Nor was his majesty. Theodore I, content to simply segregate and relegate the Negro to an obscure corner of the pie counter, but his policy was to smother the voice of his helpless victim by robbing him of the last vestige of a representative voice at court, and if this charge is false I challenge Prof. Thomas to refute it by answering the following questions: 1. What did Roosevelt mean by dismissing Judge Lyons from the Republican National Committee? Was Lyons an escaped convict or an alien enemy? I answer that he was neither, but, unfortunately, he was a Negro, and as such he was "persona non grata" to the Georgia-branch of the United Brotherhood of Lynchers, and Mr. Roosevelt, who is an honorary member of the same order, promptly removed Lyons to please the dignitaries and past masters of that distinguished fraternity. 2. What did Mr. Roosevelt mean by slamming the door of the Bull A NATION'S STRENGTH IS IN ITS FOOD SUPPLY Ext Less - Waste nothing Create a Reserve AMERICA MUST FEED 120,000,000 ALLIES Way Moose Convention in the faces of those few Negroes who were silly enough to go to Chicago and try to force their way into the feast of Belshazza? Of course, such idiots deserved no better treatment. They should not only have been rejected, but should all have been arrested and sent to a lunatic asylum for observation. But that view does not alter Mr. Roosevelt's motive in refusing admittance to the men, not because they were fools, but because they were Negroes. 3. What did Mr. Roosevelt mean when he said to a prominent Texas lily-white that the Negro should stay out of politics and the Southern white man should rule?—which was a verbatim reiteration of the very law handed to Ben Tillman by the God of white supremacy upon the summit of Mt. Sinai and promulgated to the American people by that great political "Moses"—the very gospel which is now being preached along the hedges and highways by such eminent divines as the Rev. Dr. Hoke Smith and Deacon James K. Vardaman. And yet, in spite of these questions, which no man can answer without exposing the anti-Negro side of Roosevelt's personality, there are thousands of ignorant dupes in our race who are willing to forgive him before he repents, simply because he appointed two or three Negroes to "high places." I submit that any Republican President whose public policy is to ignore the fundamental right of the elective franchise among the masses of Negroes, and thus to undermine the privilege of a representative voice at the council of state, is a deadly enemy to the race, it matters not how many Crums he may appoint or how many Booker Washington he may entertain or how many Indianola post offices he may abolish. But before passing from federal patronage, let us discuss another phase of Prof. Thomas' childish argument—that the only way to maintain democracy is simply to appoint a few Negroes to "high places." I refer to the appointment of Negroes in the North and West. In the first place, no one has ever accused Roosevelt of being a fool. He knows that the popular vote of the country is normally Democratic—that is with the Negro eliminated from the political equation; and, in order to perpetuate his own fortunes, it is necessary to gain the favor of the Negroes in the voting states. He also knows that the Negro in office in the North would be objectionable to Northern Republicans, but objections rom that source would only be nominal, since the North, in view of the close vote in the pivotal states, would not dare to press such objections to the point of partisan revolt; consequently he gains the reputation of being a fearless champion of political rights because he appoints Negroes in the face of objection. Thus, in order to please the lynchers of the South, he kicks all the Negroes out of political offices and party councils in the South, and to allay the possible discontent on the part of the Negroes, he appoints one or two of them to office in the North, and the great mass of presumably intelligent Negroes, instead of calling Roosevelt to account for the harm he has done in the South, unite in praising his holy name for the good which they think he has done in the North. In discussing the soldiers connected with that ill-starred affair in the manner in which he did, Mr. Roosevelt not only reversed a fundamental principle of criminal procedure, but Continued on 7th pg. YOU CAN HAVE A FAIR, SMOOTH COMPLEXION If your skin is dark or ashy, or if you are troubled with bumps, pimples, black-heads or freckles—do not be discouraged. Pimples, black-heads and freckles can be made to disappear, and your skin will become shades lighter and as fair and as soft as velvet after a few applications of Above are reproductions of the packages. Be sure that the name "Dr. Fred Palmer" appears on each. DO NOT ACCEPT IMITATIONS. Before retiring at night bathe the face, neck and hands in warm water and Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener Soap. Dry thoroughly and then apply Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener ointment. Massage gently until the skin absorbs it. SATURDAYS SERMONS BY UNUS And he played on a harp of a thousand strings." Some time ago I made several preachments on Waste, Trash, Thrift and Saving. I did not preach solely to the colored people, but to all our people. I am interested in the welfare of all the people. However, I think the colored people need most to be reminded of the fundamental truths on these subjects. The reason is that relatively to their hopes and ambitions they have a smaller margin on which to trifle and play. I tried to point out how waste is the robber not only of a man's ordinary necessities, but what we usually consider his wealth. I note that since I wrote about our ruinous national waste a national society has been organized to check the tendency. There is a local branch in Washington. It is not easy to draw a line between necessaries and wealth. A savage is deemed wealthy if he have a good hut, a good steed, a few domestic cattle, a flock of fowls, and a goodly supply of utensils and weapons. In our country a farmer so equipped is not accounted wealthy. Nor is a city man wealthy who can barely make ends meet. Of each we say that he is living from hand to mouth. The vast majority of our inhabitants are in this situation, although we are accounted a wealthy nation. Most nations also live from hand to mouth. A man's wealth has a near relation to his personal standards of comfort and culture and to the average standards of his neighbors, his social set and his country. To be wealthy he must in this country have more of the things that contribute to comfort and culture than the wealthy savage possesses. Our civilization is the European civilization, and by the standards of that civilization most Americans are not wealthy, but poor. By the same standard our colored people are notoriously poor. The masses of the American whites are themselves mainly responsible for their condition of relative poverty. The colored Americans are less responsible for their poverty, because of adverse political, social and economic conditions. However, a large minority of them are culpably responsible for their lack of relative wealth. In a previous talk I attempted to give a sort of definition of wealth, to wit: Wealth consists of all that we can produce (and save) over and above the primary necessaries of life. The most of it is produced in the time which we may call our "extra time." The most of it is conserved, or saved, by the avoidance of imitating of our neighbors in the indulgence of needless comforts and the justification of false fancies. Our unit of measure of wealth is the dollar. It is not a thousand dollars, nor any fabulous sum. There is no secret about the theory of getting wealth. It consists essentially in compounding the gents to make dollars, and then multiplying the dollars. The man who honestly and successfully accumulates wealth is a species of "tightwad," often spoken of with contempt and levity. "Let a man dare to be a tightwad, especially a colored man. For people who enjoy limited opportunities and get poor pay the sine quo non of personal wealth is to be a tightwad—not to refuse reasonable charity, but to resist unreasonable frivolity and graft. It takes a brave man to be a tightwad and glory in it. It takes a brave man to give a small Christmas present or none at all. It takes a brave man to refuse to buy a ticket for every bogus "benefit." It is an independent and courageous man who will hold on to a good suit of clothes for eighteen years, as a certain friend of mine has done. What's the use? Why be stingy? We often hear these questions. It is as if to ask, Why should a colored man desire wealth? Might as well ask, Why should he prefer the civilized standard to the savage? No answer is required. But on reflection it must be seen that the term "civilization" is almost convertible with the term "wealth." The two go hand in hand, rise and fall together. By personal wealth I do not refer to the swollen fortunes of the millionaires, but to a surplus of products, an. adequacy of improvements, utensils and conveniences and a surplus of capital possessed by the average individual. These are a common barometer of comfort, education and refinement. It is a reasonable and commendable ambition of the colored American to wish a fair share of wealth; because it will afford him comfort, education and refinement. These are the main earthly ends of man. By reason of restricted opportunity and poor pay, our colored people enjoy a relatively limited opportunity to build up wealth, but not a few enjoy that opportunity in a measure equal to the proletariat of many civilized European countries. Do they make equal use of that opportunity? I think not. I contend that one main reason is that they are wasteful. They waste about as much as they produce or earn, or about one-half what they must necessarily consume. 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The only way the matter can be adjusted legally is for the House and Senate to repeal the original bill and pass a new bill making the District of Columbia bone-dry. One of the strong candidates for President under a Reformed Republican party is Senator Johnson of California. *** Ill. W: C. Dennis, 33rd, prominent secret order brother, of 315 G Street S. W., has been ill, but is out and back with the Pennsylvania Railroad, with whom he has been employed for a number of years. The American Negro will be represented at the Peace Conference by lobbyists, Leading colored men of the United States will ask the Peace Conference to turn back to native control the German colonies in Africa for national organization by those now there and by others who may wish to live under their own government in African land. * * * Recently in highly civilized Chicago the homes of two colored families were dynamited for moving in a white neighborhood. The Second Separate Battalion, District of Columbia National Guard, is rapidly being recruited up to its full strength of four companies. Candidate officers who have graduated in their course of instruction have been given the option of immediate discharge, or being commissioned in the officers' reserve and placed in the status of inactive duty. * * * The Jew after being freed from the Egyptians has done well in every part of the world, with some exceptions. The Negro has done well considering the many disadvantages which he labors under, but in due time all things will be rectified. Last week we ran across our old friend, Dr. Peyton, the popular Southwest dentist. Doc is looking well and doing well. * * * For light upon dark subjects, read The Bee. The 372nd Infantry, formerly the First Separate Battalion, D. C. N. G., played an important part in the victory at the Argonne Forest. Among those on the casualty list are Private Frank Garher, of 1334 Fifth Street N. W.; Sergt. Carl J. 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Agent for All H Pomade., Face Powder, Bozal and A H STREET N. Springtex UNDERWEAR G COMPANY, Makers way New York, N. Y. e. for all classes, ladies and gentlemen to appease the appetite. Hot s. GAME IN SEASON Mrs. Special Breakfast, Lunch, L can bring your family and get a. Home cooking. Polite and and Eggs, Porterhouse Steak, Sausage, Corn Beef Hash, Ham, fried to order week days. DAY DINNER Day Dinner. Roast Lamb, Roast Chicken, Boiled Dinner, Oyster line of Vegetables, and strictly paid for the traveling public. Union Station and one-half block office. G. WOOD, Proprietor E. K. JONES REPRESENTS AMERICA AT "LEAGUE OF NATIONS" CONFERENCE. At the League of Nations dinner, held under the auspices of the Association of Neighborhood Workers, Mrs. V. C. Simkhovich president, at the Cafe Boulevard, Broadway and 41st Street, New York city, on Monday night, Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary of the Urban League, the only Negro present among 400 guests, spoke on America's participation in the proposed league of nations, which is to be discussed at the peace conference at Versailles. Representatives from England, Japan, China, Armenia, America, Ukrania, Germany, Italy, Russia, Costa Rica, Palestine, and many other countries were present and spoke of their countries' participation in the proposed league. Among the guests also were prominent army and naval officers. The discussion was opened by Prof. Stephen Pierce Duggan of the College of the City of New York, who was followed by Philip Wilson, assistant editor of the London (England) Times, who outlined the plan for administering the legislative, executive and police affairs of the proposed league, which is to guarantee freedom and self-determination to all nations, weak and strong, protect the smaller nations from encroachments of their more powerful neighbors and guarantee to them opportunity to develop national spirit and unity. Mr. Jones when called upon to represent America and to speak as well in behalf of the ten millions of black Americans, asked that America, while acting as spokesman for the new democracy, save herself from an embarrassing situation by instituting reform measures at home that would guarantee to all its citizens—black as well as white—such a portion of justice as would make them a free people indeed. He said, in part: "Negroes in America are heartily in favor of a league of nations. They hope that the Negroes of Africa as well that those in America will be benefited thereby. They have left 800,000 men on European battlefields as their sacrifice for true freedom; 200,000 American Negroes have risked all in France. One whole American Negro regiment has been cited for bravery and has been awarded the French Croix. de Guerre—that is, those that were left to receive it. Two hundred thousand more Negro men were mobilized in America ready to go over, and the whole Negro civilian population, men and women, stood back of the army with their labor in munition factories and with their volunteer service, loans and gifts to all war activities. This was in fact a part of their contribution to and endorsement of the formation of the League of Nations which is now to be discussed at the peace table. Now Negroes want to reap some immediate benefits in the form of greater industrial freedom—jobs with a future; better homes at fairer rentals, personal safety and justice before the law, the abolition of the "Jim Crow" cars, a voice in the selection of governing officials, national and local, and a more general participation in the affairs of government. These provisions, it seems to me, are essential if we are to face the world with a proposal for a League of Nations, and expect other nations to take us seriously, to trust us and to co-operate heartily and confidentially in its formation." The guests apparently were in accord with Mr. Jones' position. BAPTIST CONFERENCE. At a meeting of the Baptist Ministers' Union last Monday, the president, Dr. Norman, ruled, after the Willbanks case, had been settled by the Conference by a vote of 25 to 12, that by a two-thirds vote in executive session, he could be excluded. One hundred or more members of the Baptist Ministerial Alliance have persuaded Dr. Willbanks to withdraw from the Baptist Ministerial Conference. The Baptist Ministers' Alliance is twice as strong as the Baptist Ministers' Union, and those members of the Alliance who are connected with the Baptist Ministers' Conference will withdraw. The Alliance will change the date of meeting, so it is reported, to Mondays. There are many strong men in the Baptist Ministerial Alliance, of which Rev. Willbanks is president. There will be some startling developments in a few weeks. Those who have been slandering Rev. Willbanks will be defending themselves. HER ONE HUNDREDTH ANNI- VERSARY. Mrs. Eliza C. Bruce will be pleased to greet her friends on her one hundredth, birthday anniversary, Christmas, 1918, from 5 to 7 p.m., at her residence, 935 S Street N. W. Born Aug. 23, 1900.—You were just born on the cusp between the constellation Leo and Virgo; that makes you a mixed and mysterious person. You are born to do great things in a good way, and you should educate yourself properly and read the best books and associate with the best people, so as to absorb the best there is. You are going to be of great benefit to others, as you are good natured, and once a friend you are a real friend. You are very mediumistic and your intuitions will always lead you aright. You are not having the best of luck now, but the years ahead of you are better, and you should look on the better and lighter side of life. I see some unpleasantness or trouble in your family, but it will pass away. You have good ability in any direction you turn and you can make good. You are a little too sensitive, and your feelings are too easily hurt, so overcome that quality, as it may cause you a lot of trouble. Mental anxiety will cause you sickness. You are to travel a great deal, love much, live long and well later on in life, though the first part of your life brings you the most hardships. Look forward to the good coming to you. Born July 24.—You are a very popular individual and have a nature that can adapt itself to most any condition in life. You are a lover of the good and the beautiful. You want good things to eat and a pleasant place to receive your friends and be good to them. You are proud of your friends and your surroundings as well as your family and your good standing in life. You have a charmed life. You had many escapes from death, and there is still great danger ahead of you, but the power of God it with you and all may run well. Safeguard your health, as there is danger you are overtaxing yourself, hence hold back, go slow; there is another day. Your past was very troublesome, but in spite of all the troubles you have never neglected your duties toward others. You are a little too dreamy; be more practical and more positive, and not so soft and dreamy. There is some sadness ahead of you; troubles of others are laid to your door. Death, sorrow, losses are laid in your path; so be brave; start the new year with courage to endure what you cannot overcome. Heart troubles, nervousness and swellings are your lot, but better health is indicated later on. You will outlive many of your own family. Born Nov. 13.—You have a real mean nature and are quarrelsome and it is very hard to get along with you. Try to overcome that terrible disposition. Don't tell me you cannot do it. Because you can. You are partly born that way, that is true; but you have humored yourself along a good deal, too. You think the people are bad and the world is made wrong; no, that is not so. You are simply thinking wrong and you are brooding too much on the wrong things and harping on the slight injustice done you by someone2 years ago. Forget it and forget your uglyness of nature. Think of the better things in you and bring them out to the surface. Ask God to enlighten you and give you power to improve yourself and make your life better, and, lo! the change in a little while—your friends will not know you. There is a happy marriage for you. You will make a good wife, a loyal business associate and a good, true friend. I see a present that will gladden your heart. I also see a changed home condition for the better. A brief reading of your life by the famous reader Osman. Send yours in before we are too much rushed. Now is the right time; do not delay. CAN YOU "COMB IT"? New guaranteed liquid that wi straighten curly, stubborn hair. Sample and harmless. Apply with t bare hand and obtain magic result. Sent M. O. postpaid 750 Wellington Laboratory. (Department B) 3½ Forrest Street, Taunton, Mas. MADAME SOBER. "Your hair looks beautiful." I am using Madame Sober's Scalp Preparation THE WASHINGTON BEE intered at the Post-Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. SHAM LEADERSHIP. was a sham leadership among men may start out with good they are subsidized with a petty leadership is a sham with but a few atty at the expense of their people petty consideration. Have you present-day leadership is? If options, that this present-day lea- teaches The Bee that the new man Committee has selected and destroyed the effects of the Nation- al Republican Committee and politicians. This same colo- re standing among the masses has to a wagon. If Chairman colored Republicans in the next individual at once. The last Ad- d with it who claimed citizenship and were resident of Maryland of the sham leaders. The Repu- sue manfully and unequivocally and and no hand-picked individ- ed on the last Advisory Comm- this community than a grasshoo a school of wild chickens. will begin to rise next year. laboratory to entering the conten- worth with barrels of money, on city from their real homes, standing. They try to make a people. The next contest will be they can win they will be mistake than any other city in the Un- enough to have their hair cut by people. They tie to a man wher- ter the contest has ended they If there ever was a sham leadership among colored Americans it exists today. Men may start outwith good intentions, but it is not long before they are subsidized with a petty official favor. The present-day leadership is a sham with but a few exceptions. Some are looking for glory at the expense of their people, while some others are after monetary consideration. Have you ever stopped to consider what this present-day leadership is? Do you know, with but very few exceptions, that this present-day leadership is a fake? Information reaches The Bee that the new chairman of the National Republican Committee has selected a Southern colored politician who destroyed the effects of the National Advisory Committee to the last National Republican Committee as his advisor concerning colored politicians. This same colored Southern politician has no more standing among the masses of colored voters than a fifth wheel has to a wagon. If Chairman Hayes wants harmony among the colored Republicans in the next campaign he had better drop this individual at once. The last Advisory Committee had men connected with it who claimed citizenship in Washington, voted in Chicago, and were resident of Maryland. The colored voters are tified of the sham leaders. The Republican party must face the coming issue manfully and unequivocally. There are to be no shams in the land and no hand-picked individuals. Another individual was selected on the last Advisory Committee who had no more standing in this community than a grasshopper has a chance for existing among a school of wild chickens. The shams will begin to rise next year. They are being groomed now preparatory to entering the contest. In this city shams have come forth with barrels of money, only to be defeated. They come to this city from their real homes, in which they are outcasts, to get a standing. They try to make the people believe they are the real people. The next contest will be a hot one, and if the shams think they can win they will be mistaken. This city contains more shams than any other city in the United States. They are not here long enough to have their hair cut before they present themselves to the people. They tie to a man who has more money than brains, and after the contest has ended they become wiser than they were before. KNOCKERS VS. MERIT. able in this community known as a boy by their good work deserve generally a liar, and if the person human nature; an innocent person generally jealous of the successful individual to society. He is a curious to the population. He impound will often do and say a thing always two sides to every another one is told. Female to a woman who is jealous of and name of her competitor by fall. A sensible man or woman will. An informant ought to be informed should be careful in decisions that are not authenticated know his place. There are people in this community known as knockers. Then there are people who by their good work deserve to be given credit. The knocker is generally a liar, and if the person to whom he lies is not a reader of human nature; an innocent person is often injured. The knocker is generally jealous of the successful person. A knocker is a dangerous individual to society. He is a cancer in any community and dangerous to the population. He impedes the progress of the successful and will often do and say a thing against the innocent. There are always two sides to every question, and one story is good until another one is told. Female tattlers are knockers in disguise. A woman who is jealous of another will attempt to injure the good name of her competitor by false representations to her superiors. A sensible man or woman will not listen to one-sided statements. An informant ought to be made to give his author and the informed should be careful in deciding questions or believing statements that are not authenticated. The knocker should be made to know his place. MISLED. men from different parts of the the Independent League, of which last fifty went to Mt. Carmel B. Rev. Jernagin, thinking that the Colonel Young of Nashville stated that he had been misle meeting when it assembled last ents in the call, but he was ruf er paid no attention to his ap refund his money. He stated tha d a league meeting. The pre press was under the auspices of the original Race Congress, whi the District of Columbia, is un in, and any other organization Many colored men from different parts of the country were misled by the call of the Independent League, of which Editor Trotter is secretary. At least fifty went to Mt. Carmel Baptist Church and to the residence of Rev. Jernagin, thinking that they were attending the Race Congress. Colonel Young of Nashville, Tenn., called at The Bee office and stated that he had been misled. He called the attention of the meeting when it assembled last Tuesday to the misleading statements in the call, but he was runover roughshod. The presiding officer paid no attention to his appeal, and neither would the league refund his money. He stated that he didn't leave Tennessee to attend a league meeting. The presiding officer said that the Race Congress was under the auspices of the league, which was a falshood. The original Race Congress, which is incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, is under the auspices of Rev. W. H. Jernagin, and any other organization using the name is a fraud. AGE VS. FLAT FEET. ed citizen takes the examination and returned down for one of the tests too tall, quick heart, blotches. A white woman may be appo without an examination; a white Will someone inform The Ease? Several colored men have rins, and yet they are not appo woman or man, but flat feet is a d on the police force, but no b country is invaded by a foreign t the philosophers call American When a colored citizen takes the examination for the Police Department he is turned down for one of the following causes: Flat feet, too short, too tall, quick heart, blotches on his legs and a few other defects. A white woman may be appointed who is over sixty years of age without an examination; a white soldier may be appointed likewise. Will someone inform The Bee why such discrimination is made? Several colored men have met every requirement of the surgeons, and yet they are not appointed. Age is no bar for a white woman or man, but flat feet is a bar for a colored man to be appointed on the police force, but no bar to him being a soldier when the country is invaded by a foreign foe. This is what the philosophers call American democracy! REV. L. S. HOLLOMAN Speaks—Interesting Services at Asbury M. E. Church—Many Songs and a Number of Addresses By Prominent Church Workers—Mr. A. W. Dangerfield, Master of Ceremonies. Monday evening, December 9th, the lecture room of the Asbury M. E. Church was a scene of a large and enthusiastic meeting, with a reception following. The weather was inclement, but despite that fact, many braved the weather and came to uphold the reputation of the club, which is noted for its charms of music and its splendid oratory. The master of ceremonies, A. W. Dangerfield, set forth the object of the meeting in a straightforward, logical and strong introduction. The first address of the evening was delivered by Rev. Holloman, pastor of the Second Baptist Church. The address was resplendent with thought and encouragement; it was indeed a masterpiece. After a selection by the chorister, we were next favored with an address by Mr. J. W. Smith, who was filled with oratory. Mr. Clarence Lewis, clerk of the Third Baptist Church, and Superintendent of the Sunday School, was next on the program, with an original patriotic poem, and he lived up to his reputation. He was followed by Mr. S. Wesley Waters, who rendered a solo, of the kind which always wins applause. A set of resolutions and condolences, which was beautifully prepared by the master of ceremonies dedicated to the deceased members, was next presented and read by Mr. Rembert. They were carefully and slowly read, showing sympathy for the departed. The editor of the Eagle, J. Pinley Wilson, spoke on the subject, "The Colored Soldiers." Attorney Charles P. Ford was present, and made a few remarks. He was at his best. That the entire program was a success was attested to by the fact that there was continuous applause from an appreciative audience from beginning to conclusion of the program. It was indeed a success. The different speakers electrified the audience with their splendid addresses. The object of the meeting was in honor of the committee appointed to raise money for charitable purposes. Rev. M. W. Clair, Ph. D., D. D., announced the benediction. REV. WILLBANKS' RETURN. Evangelist Alexander Willbanks returned to the city last Sunday in time to preach at his church Sunday evening, before one of the largest assembly of people that has ever visited his church. IN MEMORIAM. In sad but loving remembrance of our dear husband and father, Lawyer James F. Bundy, who departed this life four years ago, December 14, 1914. His busy hands are folded, His work on earth is done. His trials are all ended, His heavenly crown is won. If I could see behind the stars That which is hid from me. I know I'd see my husband, there, Tenderly watching for me. —By his devoted wife, Delilia Bundy. Nobly at his post he stood, Our father, fond and true; Beloved by all his friends so well, And kind to all he knew. —Della and Zenobia. THE LANGSTON ANNIVERSARY. The student body of Frelinghuysen University held appropriate exercises at the New Bethel Baptist Church on Saturday evening, last, in commemoration of the eighty-ninth anniversary of the birth of John Mercer Langston. Notwithstanding the inclementy of the weather a large audience was in attendance to participate in the exercises. Mr. A. L. Taylor, representing the School of Theology, discussed John M. Langston as a man, maintaining that the real manhood of the race was more largely portrayed, in the life of Mr. Langston than in any other man. Miss Pearl S. Matthews, representing the College of Liberal Arts, spoke of Professor Langston as an educator, showing that he was the foremost man of his race in initiating the movement for higher education among the colored people. Mr. L. C. G. Bunton, a member of the John M. Langston School of Law of the Freelinghuysen University, spoke of Professor Langston as a diplomat and public service man showing how he excelled in every walk of life in which he was engaged. Rev. G. W. M. Lucas, Benjamin Franklin Harris, J. A. Lankford and Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson participated in the general discussion, and Miss Leanna F. Johnson, Miss Francis and Miss Beatrice Johnson furnished an interesting musical program. Professor Jesse Lawson, president of the university, presided. EVANGELIST WILLBANKS An Ovation—Philadelphia, Pa., Enthusiastic. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 12. There was a twenty-five thousand dollar mortgage burning here today. The meeting was postponed last week to await the arrival of Evangelist Willbanks of Washington, D. C. Just before the services, began the Evangelist walked up the aisle of the church with Mrs. Willbanks by his side, and when their presence was recognized there was an outburst of applause which lasted five minutes, and long after the Evangelist had been seated in the pulpit. Ebenezer Baptist Church is pastored by Rev. A. W. Childs, secretary of the Baptist State Convention of Pennsylvania. The exercises were very interesting, and the mortgage burning prayer, and sermon, delivered by Rev. Willbanks, were most impressive and forceful. Rev. Willbanks returned to the city Sunday and occupied his pulpit Sunday evening. There were fully fifteen hundred people present to greet him. Every seat in his church was occupied, and crowds on the outside were unable to gain admittance. Tomorrow evening the great Evangelist will preach by request on "The Burning of the Titanic." This sermon is the most talked-of sermon in the United States. Come early if you want to get a seat. RACE DISCRIMINATION Existing Evil of the South—Caustic Arraignment of Southern Olea Mr. Geikie Mason Smith has just issued a caustic pamphlet, entitled "The Existing Evils of the South." In clean-cut English Mr. Smith holds the South up and lays bear the many iniquities and atrocities against the colored Americans. The discrimination and segregation in the Government departments and the malicious manner in which the colored people have been and are being treated while many of their sons, brothers, fathers and sweethearts are upon the soil of France fighting to blot out autocracy and establish democracy for the world, are forcefully and truthfully portrayed. He cites many incidents of brutal treatment against the colored people and fearlessly and eloquently defends his position. This pamphlet should be in the hands of all well-thinking people. It can be obtained by applying to the author, whose address is 525 You Street N. W., Washington, D. C. 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SWITH, Digestor JUSTH'S OLD STAND Workingmen, Christmas means roller skates, and sleighs, dolls and presents generally for the "kids," and mamma must not be neglected, and dad gets "goose pimples" because he has no overcoat, and here's where we help—we sell 'em, slightly used, $5 up. JUSTH'S OLD STAND 610 D Street. EXALTED RULER BUNDY. Defeats His Opposers—Orators, Politicians and Lawyers Fall Down. Dougel Mongel Hewald Too December 2nd there was a line up of the strongest men in Columbia Lodge, No. 85, Order of Elks, against Exalted Ruler E. W. Bundy. The opposition line-up were the silver-tongued orator and lawyer Charles S. Williams, Dr. Jackson, Silas Washington, Attorney John Collins, the interpred Wilson, who made the loudest and most persistent fight against Exalted Ruler Bundy; S. M. Maxwell, John Ryan and others. The opposition forces walked into Pythian Temple with smiles and confident of victory. Attorney Wilson strutted like a peacock, and declared that intelligence would defeat ignorance. Presiding Officer Ryan held the gavel. He started out by not recognizing the Bundy supporters. Deputy Marshal James H. Howard, who is master of parliamentary law and political tactics, said nothing, but waited until after the oratorical opposition had subsided. Mr. Harris quietly presented the name of E. W. Bundy. Mr. Howard then spoke for three minutes in seconding the nomination of Exalted Ruler Bundy, and when the votes were counted the opposition found themselves in the balances and found wanting. Legal Advisor Harry Tignore was on the winning side. Bundy was declared elected, while the opposition dwindled away like mist before the sun. Exalted Ruler Bundy put his judgment and numbers against the brain, intelligence and tactics of the opposition. They were jubilant before Howard spoke, but after he concluded the opposition knew the battle was lost. JUST RETURNED. Rev. Dr. J. A. Smith has just returned from the Oak Grove Baptist Church, Stafford County, Widewater, Va., where he is pastor. Last Sunday he held his last communion service for the year. He has a large and loyal congregation, full of spirit and liberal in its contributions to the church. It has been decided to make the pastor a Christmas gift, so the church and deacon board got busy. Deacons Taylor, Johnston, Vaughn, Harris, Powell, Allen and Johnson presented the pastor with a very liberal purse and other valuable and useful gifts were given by members of the congregation and friends. Rev. Smith is doing good work at Oak Grove, Va. COLORED PRIEST·HONORED. Father Dorsey Received an Ovation at St. Augustine's. Hundreds of people had to stand on the outside of St. Augustine's Catholic Church Just Tue day evening. Father John H. Dorsey, of Baltimore, Md., the leading colored priest in the United States, lectured on "The Christian Home." There were as many white Catholics as there were colored. Those who had reserved seats could not reach them. It is a pity that some large hall had not been secured. J. T. C. NEWSON DEAD. Mr. John T. C. Newson, for a number of years engaged in the employment business, died at his home last Sunday evening. He was a member of Lincoln Congregational Church. He leaves a wife, daughter, two sons and a granddaughter. PJBLIC MEETING To Suggest Plans for the Betterment of the Colored Man—Good Speaking With Fine Music. The committee for the consolidation of colored people will call a mass meeting on Monday evening, December 23, at the Y. M. C. A. Building, 1816, 12th Street N. W., at 8 o'clock. Mr. E. H. Armstrong, chairman, and other members have spared no pains to properly lay this invitation before the public, knowing that the existence, and the progress of the race labors under many contrary opinions. Hence the object of this meeting will be for the special purpose of setting forth propositions and plans that can be readily applied, while others who believe that the "anchor of faith" can never be safely moved except through thought without actions or words without deeds. Consolidation is a noble lesson, which should be taught every colored person in America. Our enfranchisement lies only in co-operation and brotherly love. On this occasion there will be good On this occasion there will be good WILLIAM O. DAVIS, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.—Holding Probate Court.—No. 25,235, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Charles C. Diggs, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 3rd day of December, A. D. 1919; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 3rd day of December, 1918. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. William O. Davis, Attorney. THOMAS BECKETT, Attorney. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—No. 35,743, Equity Docket 77—Martha Shell, plaintiff, vs. John Shell, defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the defendant, John Shell, upon the ground of adultery. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 9th day of December, 1918, ordered that the defendant, John Shell, cause his appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default: Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee before said day. William Hitz, Justice. A true copy—attest: J. R. Young, Clerk. By F. E. Cunningham, Assistant Clerk. CAYWOOD & WALKER, Attys. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court—No. 24,969, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscribers, of the District of Columbia, have obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Chas. T. Dickinson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 20th day of November, A.D. 1919; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Maud P. Dickinson, Care of C. Chester Caywood, Woodward Bldg., Wash., D. C. Alice R. Dickinson, Care Thomas Walker, 506 Fifth Street. N. W. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. C. Chester Caywood. JOHN H. WILSON, Attorney. In the Supreme Coirt of the District of Columbia—George Andrew Lucas ws. Emma E. Lucas et al.-No. 35,721. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce by the plaintiff, George Andrew Lucas, from the defendant, Emma E. Lucas, on the ground of adultery. On motion of the phaintiff, it is this 9th day of December, 1918, ordered that the defendants, Emma E. Lucas and Robert Ward, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee before said day. William Hitz, Justice. A true copy-Attest: J. R. Young, Clerk. By F. E. Cunningham, Asst. Clerk. music and speaking. The speakers of the evening will be Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Mr. Charles Cuney and others Music will be furnished. by the Columbia Concert Band, J. E. Miller director. --- The Week in Society The price is important, but what you, get for the price is more important. Get the best for your money by buying reliable products from a reliable store. Board's Drug Store, at 1012½ Fourteenth Street N.W., is the place where everybody meets everybody else for quality, service and satisfaction, from ice cream soda to the highest grade drugs and chemicals. Prescriptions filled just as your doctor ordered here.—Advt. Mrs. J. W. Morse, who had a nervous breakdown, is improving. Attorney L. M. King, who spent some time in Virginia, has returned to the city. Chaplain Napoleon Marshall, who was wounded in France, has been brought to his home. He is in a fearful condition. He went over the top. Mrs. Sara Addison, of Swain, N. J., is visiting Mrs. Lucy Scott, of 142f S. Street N. W. Mrs. Addison is being highly entertained while here. Mrs. Lucinda Shorter Walker, of S. Street, is being the honor guest at many social functions while in Chicago, Ill. Mr. Armistead J. Gray, of Jersey City, N. J., was in the city during the past week. Dr. and Mrs. Spirey are making their home with Mrs. Enos Smith, of Sherman Avenue N. W. Mrs. Lucy Scott entertained Mrs. Sara Addison, of New Jersey, Wednesday night. Miss Fannie Lynch, of Deanwood, D. C., is employed at the War Risk Building. Mrs. Pauline E. Mullen, of 1502 Kingman Place, after a very delightful trip visiting relatives and friends in New York City, has returned to the city. Miss Mullen was highly entertained while in Gotham. The many friends of Mrs. Selena Johnson. Newman are delighted to see her continually regaining her usual self. Mrs. Newman has been sick for several weeks. Mr. J. Tilghman, of S Street, after several weeks in camp at the A. & T. College, Greensboro, N. C., has returned to the city. His many friends are glad to welcome him once more. Mr. James Anderson was home from camp visiting his mother and relatives. The Paramonits will be with us the night after Christmas. A fair reminder. Wedding bells will soon be ringing around in the neighborhood of S Street N. W. Soon? Very soon: FALLS CHURCH GLEANINGS "Now again the bells are pealing. Tidings of His holy birth. And we whisper lowly kneeling. The Falls Church correspondent takes this public way to wish "A Merry Xmas" to all of her subscribers. * * * * Among the boys who have returned to their homes from the cantonments are Everett Tinner, Newton Dixon, Dave Weaver and Ray Tyler. * * * * The Mothers' Council met at Betsey Marshall's Tuesday of last week. * * * * Mrs. Lena Dixon is among those who are not quite "up to the mark" for this week. Mrs. Lucy Duncan Williams, who has been visiting her mother and sister, has returned to her home in Lewisburg, Va. * * * Mr. Robert Ford is quite sick at his home. * * * Lieut. Fred Clinton of Philadelphia was the guest of Miss Annie Henderson three days of last week. ers' Council, which was postponed in October on account of the "flu," will take place on Thursday, December 26th. * * * Upon the resignation of Mr. Granderson as organist of the Second Baptist Church, Miss Ethel Powell has assumed this responsibility with the hearty co-operation of the entire church. Mrs. E. B. Henderson is her most willing assistant whenever such assistance is necessary. Rehearsals are going on at both churches for the Christmas exercises, and it will be with great pride that we go to hear our little folks show the results of faithful Sunday School teaching. * * * Mr. Talbert Thomas has resigned his position in the War Department to become a partner in his father's shoe business. Judge Robert Terrell spoke before the largest meeting the Falls Church Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. has yet had, on Thursday night of last week. The Judge was back in the Old Dominion, his birthplace, and the people assembled to greet their former countryman. In a small space of time he developed the striking points in the history of our race, and pointed out the hopeful signs. Dr. M. E. Church, one of the leading citizens of the community and state, was present, and highly praised the colored people of the town for their conduct, thrift and industry. Refreshments were served, and a special table prepared, at which sat Judge Terrell, Messrs. Compton, Henderson, Powell, Dean and Tinner. The ladies who prepared and served the refreshments were Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Strother, Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Powell and Mrs. Taylor. Among those gathered were Mr. West and Mr. Dean of Vienna, Mr. Harrison Tinner of Merrifield and Mr. Dean of Barcroft. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Dr. Du Bois was repudiated at the meeting of the National Political League. A commission of five was elected to go to France. * * * Dr. W. A. Warfield, surgeon in chief of the Freedmen's Hospital, has made his report to the Secretary of the Interior. * * * Among the guests at Mrs. S. J. Taylor, 128 F Street N. W., are Rev. L. A. Thorn of Illinois and Dr. J. T. Braw of Georgia. * * * Mr. Charles E. Williams went to Baltimore Tuesday. He is the only lawyer retained to defend Snowden. Miss Beatrice L. Chase surprised her aunt. Mrs. L. S. Goldsberry of Tye River. Va., by rendering a selection of her own composition last Wednesday evening. Mrs. Goldsberry is the guest of her sisters, Misses Eva A., Fannie C. and Ida R. Chase, of 1109 Eye Street N. W. HALLS HILL, VA. Mt. Salvation Baptist and Calloway M. E. Church have succeeded through a joint committee, composed of members from the Christian Endeavor and the Epworth League, to combine and organize what shall be known as "The Young People's Christian Association". Mr. D. B. _____, president; Mr. O. E. Felder, vice president; Mr. Thornton, secretary; Mrs. Carrie Carrington, assistant Secretary; Mr. T. W. Hyson, treasurer, and Mr. Fred Ewell, chaplain. A patriotic exercise will be held on New Year's night in Calloway M. E. Church, which will be addressed by prominent speakers. The Methodist. Sunday School will have its tree Christmas night. The Soldiers' Relief Association will entertain during the holidays. Mrs. E. V. Ferguson, president, Mr. Robert Branch, vice president; Mrs. Anita Snowden, secretary, Mrs. Eleanora Branch, treasurer. We are being made to rejoice in receiving letters from our loved ones now in France. It is true we want them home, but rejoice that we have contributed so much to win victory for democracy, and while our generation may not reap the full benefits of the victory that has already been done by our boys over there, and the faithful ones at home, it will be made known to the world, and we will reap its benefits by those who follow after. Mrs. E. V. Ferguson has received a very interesting letter from her son, who now wears the gold cheron on his left arm, and whose company has been decorated by the French general for valor in action. He is proud to know he could serve his country, and we are proud of him. Judge Robert H.: Terrell of the Municipal Court will speak in this county January 1st. There will be one of the largest turnouts that the county has ever witnessed. Judge Terrell is a scholar and a brilliant orator. MRS. WEBSTER RETURNS. Mrs. Ralph A. Webster has returned, fully recovered, after a stay of three months in South Orange, N. J., and Altoona, Pa. FOURTEEN-POUND BOY. Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Dixon were presented with a 14-pound boy Thursday. Mother and baby are doing well. JUDGE HEWLETT BETTER. Ex-Judge E. M. Hewlett, who has been confined to his home for ten days with a severe cold, is able to be up and out again: A MINIATURE DRIVE. The Baptists of the District have planned a great missionary mass meeting for Sunday, December 29th (fifth Sunday), at 3 p.m., in the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Dr. N. Norman, pastor. "Founders' Day of Organized Work Among Negro Baptists," "What Has Been Accomplished in Thirty-eight Years." "How Is Miss De Laney to Get Home? Other Workers Sent Out and Maintained," and "Look to Your Marching Orders" will be among the things discussed. Two girls from Africa will sing. Rev. L. G. Jordan, secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, will be the principal speaker. All are invited to attend. A collection by roll, call of churches, Sunday schools, missionary societies will be taken at the close. FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY. The Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary in remodeled studios and active progressive management of a special committee under the directorship of Mr. Henry Lee Grant. Mr. Grant is one of the first graduates of this institution, and a young man of ability, ambition, vision and high standing in the community. The Washington Conservatory holds an unique position in the hearts and pride of the Washington people. It has always maintained the highest standard of work, and has inspired many of the large and artistic undertakings of the city. Though hampered somewhat, from full realization of its racial ideals by lack of a supporting fund, endowment or organization behind it, yet it has done to date a praiseworthy, most effective and far-reaching work. Only a glance at the list of graduates in music and vocal expression in the city and the reputation attained by others in distant parts of the country shows what the school has really done, and with enlarged facilities and intelligent following and co-operation of its patrons what a future is before it. In this rebirth of the world comes larger opportunities, more recognition of worth, and, with it the talent of music which the colored American possesses will find its budding and bloom. NEW YEAR RECEPTIONS. Persons who are to receive New Year's Day are requested to send in their notices not later than Wednesday of next week. All notices not to exceed five lines free of cost. All over five lines, two cents per word. Address all notices to the Society Editor of The Bee, 1109 Eye Street Northwest. PEOPLE'S FUNERAL CORPORATION. There has been a meeting of the stockholders called for next week for .Howard Theatre. The Fatal Wedding The Fatal Wedding By Theodore Kramer. A Comedy Drama in a Prologue. Three Acts and Six Scenes. Unique and Special Electrical effects. Hear and see a real choir sing. All Star Cast Incluees Cleo Desmond, Lillian Gilliam, Elizabeth Williams, Carletta Freequan, Baby Fay Morris, Andrew Bishop, Clarence Muse, H. L. Pryor Arthur Pay, Chas. Moore, Arthur Simmons. Night Prices: 25c, 35c & 50 Matinee, All seats at 25c each Next Week—The Show of Shows—The Christian MADAME A. E. SOBERS SCALP SPECIALIST The Specialist That Gives Satisfaction and Causes New Growth of Hair. FORAKER THEATRE Twentieth Street Between L and M Streets Northwest RAYMOND H. MURRAY, Manager. HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE WEEKLY Madame A. E. Sobers, scalp specialist, is from New York, where she mastered the art of treating the scalp. She is the mistress of her profession, as the numerous testimonials which she has in her possession will show. The same are now being compiled for distribution. B. A. Her testimonials are from many of the leading citizens in the United States, whose hair and scalp she has treated, and which will appear in The Bee shortly. Madame Sobers is a most affable and pleasing lady, whose business qualities readily convince her patrons that she is mistress of her profession. If your hair or scalp is in need of treatment, Madame Sobers should be consulted at once. She has been in the city about three years, and since she has been a resident of the city of magnificent distances has treated numerous scalps, and every patron has been so highly pleased that they have voluntarily sent her letters expressing entire satisfaction with her work. To be convinced is to give Madame Sobers a trial. Good hair is a woman's pride. When your scalp is in a healthy condition your hair is obliged to grow. Madame Sobers treats the scalp and put it in a healthy condition to enable the hair to grow. Soberine is the special preparation for the scalp. Try it and be convinced Her parlors are located at 1844 7th Street N. W. Phone, North 5003-J. Appointment by engagement. the purpose of taking action against the People's Funeral Corporation. Mrs. Mary Richardson has sworn out a warrant against her husband, Rev. Richardson, for assault growing out of the affairs of this corporation. On account of the seriousness of the assault the case has been postponed until she is able to appear, in court. MRS. CANNON IMPROVING. Mrs. Mary Cannon, Good Hope Road, D. C., who has been ill, for some time, is greatly improved, to the gratification of her many friends and the citizens of this section. DEATH OF MR. EVANS. David H. Evans, who for twenty-five years was employed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, died suddenly Tuesday morning of this week on the street car on his way to work. Mr. Evans was employed in the wetting division, where he was highly esteemed. He lost one of his daughters just two months ago, and RAYMOND H. MUKRAY, Manager. HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE WEEKLY and NEW MOTION PICTURES DAILY HIAWATHA THEATRE 2004 Eleventh Street Northwest. Raymond H. This Theatre is close to two lines. if you want an evening of pleasure-- Leaders NEW EBBITT WAIT CHRISTMAS BALL Pythian Temple, Twelf THURSDAY EVENING Strictly Admission, 50 cents. DUDLEY'S A S. H. Dud Raymond H. Murray, Mgr. There is close to two lines of cars. The best picture on evening of pleasure—come to the Hiawatha. Leaders Since 1910. NEW EBBITT WAITERS' ASSOCIATION CHRISTMAS BALL AND RECEPTION Ethian Temple, Twelfth and U Streets N. SURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, Strictly. Formal 20 cents. Informal. Dance, DLEY'S AMUSEMENT H. Dudley Theatre Raymond H. Murray, Mgr. This Theatre is close to two lines of cars. The best pictures shown daily. If you want an evening of pleasure—come to the Hiawatha. Leaders Since 1910. NEW EBBITT WAITERS' ASSOCIATION CHRISTMAS BALL AND RECEPTION Pythian Temple, Twelfth and U Streets N. W. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1918 Strictly Formal 1216 You Street, Northwest The Cozy Little Playhouse Playing: Vaudeville and Pictures of merit Continuous from 7:30 to 11 P. M. S. H. DUDLEY'S MID-CITY THEATRE 1223 7th Street, Northwest The only VAUDEVILLE Theatre on the popular thorog Best of Photo Plays and the only theatre en 7th Street caterin people that does not DISCRIMINATE Continuous from 5 to 11 P. M. S. H. DUDLEY'S MID-CITY THEATRE 1223 7th Street, Northwest ly VAUDEVILLE Theatre on the popular thorog to Plays and the only theatre en 7th Street caterin people that does not DISCRIMINATE Continuous from 5 to 11 P. M. MID-CITY THEATRE 1223 7th Street, Northwest The only VAUDEVILLE Theatre on the popular thoroughfare Best of Photo Plays and the only theatre on 7th Street catering to colored people that does not DISCRIMINATE Continuous from 5 to 11 P.M. YOUR SHOPPING LIST Will not be completed until you will SEVENTH AND P STREETS N. prettiest Toilet Effects in the market. Boxes of Writing Paper—just the Perfumes and Hair Preparations. BRONAUGH'S, Seventh completgd until you visit BRONAUGH'S DRIVE AND P STREETS N. W., where you will find Effects in the market. This is the place to going Paper—just the thing for a Christmas P Hair Preparations. BRONAUGH'S, Seventh and P Streets N. W. THE MUSEUM Will not be completed until you visit BRONAUGH'S DRUG STORE, SEVENTH AND P STREETS N. W., where you will find some of the prettiest Toilet Effects in the market. This is the place to get your Fancy Boxes of Writing Paper—just the thing for a Christmas Present—Fancy Perfumes and Hair Preparations. BRONAUGH'S, Seventh and P Streets N. W. it is thought the strain affected his heart. He is survived by several children, all of whom are grown. He was a member of the Bureau Relief Association and of the Knights of Pythias and other organizations. For eight years he had been assigned to the wetting division at the Bureau, where he gave perfect satisfaction. He was generous and kind. He was a lover of his home and his --- Murray, Mgr. of cars. The best pictures shown daily come to the Hiawatha. Since 1910. TTERS' ASSOCIATION L AND RECEPTION th and U Streets N. W. G, DECEMBER 26, 1918 Formal Informal. Dance, Dec. 27, 1918 MUSEMENTS ey Theatre UDLEY'S THEATRE Street, Northwest theatre on the popular thoroughfare theatre en 7th Street catering to colored not DISCRIMINATE on 5 to 11 P. M. visit BRONAUGH'S DRUG STORE, W., where you will find some of the This is the place to get your Fancy ning for a Christmas Present—Fancy n and P Streets N. W. children. Mr. Evans was educated at Hampton Institute and taught school for a number of years in his home, Rockbridge, Va. WANTED Wanted to Purchase—Liberty Bonds. All issues. Room 350, Munsey Building. I never saw so many mushroom statesmen spring up in all my life. I never saw so many weak so-called to leadership. These colored educators are always waiting for an opportunity to be picked to represent the masses of colored Americans, and the white man knows just the kind of colored man to select to obey orders. It is about time for the intelligent colored people to repudiate all hand-picked individuals who may be invented to represent the colored people. If it were left to the colored Americans, they never would pick such men as Dr. Moton, DuBois and other colored apologists to represent them in any capacity. Some colored men who are leading in movements to select men to go to Paris don't know any more than the men they select. It is a shame on American civilization. Now, when Ralph W. Tyler was named as the official war correspondent a would-be editor of an Eastern paper came all the way to Washington to oppose him. Tyler has more sense and backbone in two second than this individual ever will have. Manly colored men are never sequested to represent the people. If they exercised any independence before they are selected they generally turn turtle after they have been selected. *** Some people have faith in the Editor of the Guardian. He is an extremist and a very dangerous agitator. The race is not in need of extremists, agitators who are dangerous, apologists or trimmers. If a colored novice in politics is given much publicity it is not long before he loses his senses and reasoning faculties. The office-holder is the most dangerous individual. He must do his master's bidding. He dares not do otherwise if he wants to retain his job. I have often said that an office-holder cannot hold his job and lead or give the proper advice to others who are oppressed. Speaking about segregation, what administration was any more guilty of that than the Taft and Roosevelt administrations? It was a Republican who inaugurated it in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The Democratic administration is only following in the tracks of its predecessors. There are thousands of hypocrites in the Republican party. It is amusing to me to see how Evangelist Willbanks is pursued. I heard a Baptist minister ask a sister a few days ago if Evangelist Willbanks had as many people to attend his church as he used to have. "Oh, yes," remarked the Baptist sister, "he has more. The sisters think more of him than they do of the men who are pursuing him. You ought to just visit his church on Sunday nights. You can't get in. Hundreds are turned away." Speaking about the right hand of fellowship, Dr. Willbanks doesn't need their right nor left hand. He looks—just looks—like St. Paul when he is addressing the sinners, and like the Saviour when He asked the multitude who was to cast the first stone against Mary Magdalene. They all fled. I bet you a glass of wine at Communion service that Evangelist Willbanks is as pure as any of his accusers. If you doubt the Sage, compare the records of some of them and be convinced. President John W. Lewis saw the storm coming against the funeral corporation and he hastened to the dugout. He did just escape. He had a close call. The females say that the books may be doctored, but that will not prevent their asking for a receiver. I was in George W. Taylor's gold and metal store a few evenings ago, when a fair damsel entered and asked the black mahogany to show her a pin with a diamond in it that she would not be ashamed to purchase. You know, George is one of those smooth guys. It was not long before he convinced her that she had purchased a pin on which she could borrow fifty bucks any time. That is the kind of pin I want, she politely remarked to the teaser. George then went to his safe and pulled a wrist watch. He keeps his selects in the safe. I mean his high-priced ones. It always pays to purchase a first-class article and, believe me, he has the goods—if you have the coin to purchase. I read several exchanges on the Poro College opening. But, believe me, W. Calvin Chase outclassed them all. I got more real pleasure and satisfaction out of The Bee's report than I got out of any of my contemporaries. If you have read the exchanges and what the editors said many of them saw fit to publish, you Uncle Sam Needs Our Men. Let the "PORO SYSTEM" take care of you FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY PORO SYSTEM BY. LOUIS, M.D. "PORO" COLLEGE COMPANY St. Louis, Mo. will notice the cut containing their photo first, and the one containing Mr. and Mrs. Malone last. Mr. and Mrs. Malone were the principals. I was in the drug store of Dr John W. Morse a few days ago and had a talk with him on current events. The Doctor is an unselfish individual. He tries to treat all alike. He is a matter-of-fact man who knows his business. While standing discussing the war, I witnessed at least six of the "big bugs" of the west end come in with prescriptions. I mean people in the vicinity of the Blaine mansion. That is some drug store. He doesn't have to send out for what you want. He has it there. My friend, R. R. Horner, is liable to step off again. I won't give her name, but I understand she has the coin. Brother Horner is all smiles now. Just look at him and wink your right eye. He will understand. I bet you a pineapple to a dozen Florida oranges that it will take place if he doesn't change his mind. A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER. I am writing you just a line to let you hear from me and to let you know that I am well and enjoying the best of health. I sincerely hope that when this letter reaches you it will find you the same, and enjoying life as only God's children can. You know what I mean when I say God's children—those who are not afraid to own Him, no matter where they may be. I have had some new thoughts on the question since being in France. Mother, you cannot realize how beautiful this country is, and often when I am wandering over these beautiful hills and through these dales of invincible beauty, my heart cannot help but think of the great Maker of such beauty. I cannot express in words what one is made to think about and cannot help but think God is wonderful and that one would not be doing justice to himself or anyone else if he did not live a life of such pure moral standard. My heart often wanders to God in prayer alone as I walk in these beautiful valleys of wonder. I will not try to tell you what our talks are about, but being a child of God, you know, as every true child of our Heavenly Father knows, the thoughts of the other. Mother, I cannot write you a very long letter today, as my time is limited, but my thoughts are with you. As you know, I have come over here to help win a war that will. I hope, change the prejudice of our so-called white brothers into an undying love—the kind of love that I am made to think of over here. I have made this enormous sacrifice for the good of humanity and the betterment of our race. Though I may not live to see the result of my work, I am in hopes the generations to follow will benefit by it. I shall not write any more today, as my time is limited, and I shall try to write more often in the future. Hoping that you and the rest of the family are well, and sending my best regards to the rest of the family, I am closing, begging you to write often to Your most dutiful son, Sergt. Edward S. Foreman. DIDN'T KNOW. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through its secretary, John R. Shillady of New York, makes public a telegram from Director General of Railroads McAdoo, in reply to the association's protest to him against Regional Director of Northwestern Railroads R. H. Aishton's recent order, in which the director instructed railroad managements of his district not to extend the employment of Negroes as firemen, hostlers, switchmen and brakemen beyond the practice heretofore existing, and cautioned them against employing Negroes for this class of service not heretofore open to them, nor to take the places of white men. Mr. McAdoo said: "Your telegram of the 29th was received while I was on an inspection trip of the railroads. I was not aware of the order to which you refer, but I am looking into the matter and will advise you later." SUBSCRIBE NEARLY FIFTY THOUSAND TO WAR FUND Colored Students of the United States Make Excellent Showing in United War Work Fund. The latest reports from all parts of the nation indicate that the colored students of the United States have subscribed to the United War Work Fund nearly $50,000. Out of approximately 130 secondary and collegiate schools, only about 100 have reported. The quota for colored schools was $30,000. Mr. C. H. Tobias, secretary of the International Committee, Y. M. C. A. vas national director. Miss Catherine LeAlted represented the women students. Mr. L. E. Graves, Atlanta, directed the work of the Southeastern Department, and Mr. W. C. Craver, Washington, D. C., conducted the campaign among the colored schools and colleges of the Central and Southern Departments. BETTER TREATMENT WANTED. We members of the Nineteenth Regiment, colored, of Camp Jackson, are asking you if possible to speak to Secretary Baker in regards to moving us out of the South. We were sent here as mechanics from Hampton Institute to join the artillery. We are now held here and are sent all over the camp to do laboring work in other regimental districts. The commander of our regiment said he is going to hold us here, because he could not get men to volunteer to stay. There are about three hundred men in the regiment from Washington, drafted in August, and we want the people at home to know that we are not getting a square deal. Hoping that you will help us now, we remain, OVATION TO HAMPTON INSTITUTE QUARTETTE. The recent visit of the Hampton Singers, under the auspices of the Hampton Alumni Association, was welcomed by the hearty cooperation of the people, as was evidenced by the large attendance at Howard University Chapel, Sunday afternoon, and at the First Congregational Church, Tenth and G. Streets, Sunday evening. Dr. Stanley Durkee, president of Howard University, and Rev. Dr. J. L. Gordon, pastor of the First Congregational Church, paid a high tribute to the worth and service of Hampton and to the soul-stirring message of song delivered by its faithful singers. A very liberal contribution was given toward the Alumni Scholarship Fund: The concert at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church-Monday even- Phone Main 8273 Joseph Undertak For 227 Chapel Service Fre ing, was also a success. The singers were at their best, assisted by Madame Anna Lee Slade, a noted elocutionist. Her selections were exceedingly pleasing to the audience. Rev. H. J. Callis, pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church, who is also a graduate of Hampton Institute and of the University of Chicago, made a fine address. He spoke of the splendid work that is being done by Hampton students in Boston and Chicago, where he had pastorate charge for several years, and the untiring efforts of the association in this city, of which Mr. F. D. Lee is president, in keeping the spirit of Hampton alive. The association has already purchased two $100 Liberty Bonds for the Scholarship Fund, which is to be presented to the school at its fiftieth anniversary, to be held next April. Although an alumnus of Howard, yet Mr. Lee retains his interest in his old Alma Mater, and is regarded as one of her faithful representatives in the city of Washington. COLORED TROOPS IN FRANCE. 372nd Regiment Cited for Bravery by French Army. Headquarters-372 R. I. U. S. S. P. 179, France, Nov. 11, 1918. To the Editor of The Bee: The black troops acquitted themselves very creditably in the last big drive. The troops referred to are those that were in our sector. Three colored American regiments, including my men and one Moroccan division. We are in a French division, and the French general complimented us very highly. He addressed us as friends from the bottom of his heart. He expresses his gratitude for the glory which my regiment helped to contribute to his division. General Gaybet had full confidence in us, but we surpassed his hopes. Our division fought hard for nine days. During that time we advanced five miles in the face of powerfully organized defenses. We took nearly 600 prisoners, captured 15 guns of different calibers, 20 mine sweepers and nearly 150 machine guns. We secured an enormous amount of engineering material and important supplies of artillery ammunition. The Red Hand is the insignia of our division. The Red Hand division took the Boche by the throat and made him cry for mercy. General Gaybet adds: "You have well avenged our glorious dead." General Gamier Duplessis commanded our army corps. He, too, addressed to us his most sincere thanks, and warmest congratulations for the glorious successes achieved by their admirable ardour and indomitable tenacity. He salutes the brave American regiments who have rivalled in intrepidity their French comrades. He adds: "I cannot recount here the feats which have been performed for every one of the days of that victorious journey; they are inscribed in the conquered ground, materialized by the trophies taken from the enemy and engraved in the heart of the chief who bows before the troops and salutes them profoundly." The colonel—Quillet by name—commanding the I. D. (Infantry Division) has recommended the 372nd for a citation in the orders of the French Army, worded as follows: "Gave proof during its first engagement of the finest quality of bravery and daring, which are the virtues of assaulting troops." 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The problems that will follow in the wake of the returning victorious American Army, in which colored men have played well their part, will create a demand for persons who fully measure up to the situation brought about my new conditions. Mechanic Art and Building Trades will be given new impetus. Applied Mathematics, Mechanical and Architectural Drafting, and the great questions of Law and International Law will necessarily forge to the front. The people who are not prepared to handle these problems will find themselves without standing in the onward march of civilization and the progress of the world. The Frelinghuysen University is the place to fit yourself for future activities. TERMS ARE REASONABLE. ENTER NOW. Degrees are conferred upon those completing successfully the degree courses. Office: 2011 VERMONT. AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. FACULTY: Jesse Lawson, A. M., LL. B., President L. Melendez King, LL.M., Dean, Law Rev. William Wallace McCary, D. D., Dean, Theology Emma S. Rose, A. B., in Ed, Dean, Col. L. A. W. H. Jackson, Phar. D., Dean, Pharmacy Robert Queen, LL. B., Dean. Commercial College H. D. Woodson, C. E., Dean, College Applied Science John A. Lankford, B. S., M. M. S., LL. B., Principal, Dept. of Mechanics B. B. Jackson, Pd. B., Principal, School of Useful Arts Robert G. McGuire, D. S. S., Dean, School of Embalming Wilfrid W. Lawson, B. S. A., Dean, College of Agriculture * Daniel Freeman; Dean, School of Photography A. J. Gwathney, D. D. S., Dean; School of Dentistry L. D. Wilde, M. D., Dean, College of Medicine Joseph H. Stewart, LL. B.; Sylvester L. McLaurin, B. S., LL. B.; Rev. Wm. D. Jarvis, D. D.; Rev. Logan John, A. M., D. D.; Rev. James L. Pinn, B. D.; Zeph P. Moore, LL. B.; Edmund Hill, Jr., A. B., LL. B.; Mrs. M. C. Terrell, A. M.; Karl F. Phillips, LL. B.; M. M. Wilson, Phar. D.; P. Toodle, Phar. D.; Laura Killingsworth, M. D.; Fred K. D. Anderson, A. B.; Thomas H. R. Clarke, LL. B.; Mrs. R. E. Lawson, Mrs. E. Dorsey, Mrs. Carrie B. Ford, Miss Rosa M. Johnson, Miss Pearl S. Matthews, and a corps of special lecturers. James A. Davis, LL. B., Treasurer. and since he is the only President who ever dared to usurp and use such autocratic power against our race, I hold that he is the greatest enemy we ever had in the executive chair. Other Presidents have sat quietly and supinely by, through the sin of acquescence, and permitted our enemies to infringe on our rights, but Roosevelt is the only President who ever committed an overt act of injustice against our race. How Can Any Negro Look With Approbation? How any Negro can look with approbation upon Roosevelt after that unpardonable outrage is one of the deepest mysteries of racial characteristic. "The claim has often been made that Hannibal was a Negro, and while I have always doubted the validity of that claim, from the fact that it is somewhat wanting in historical support, yet I am a victim to natural instincts of sentimentality which have hitherto enjoined me from resolving that doubt in the negative. But in view of some Negroes' love for Roosevelt, in spite of Brownsville, I have been able to form a definite opinion that while the genealogical history of the Barcine family proves that Hannibal was not an Aryan, the simple fact that he had sense enough to hate the Romans is to my mind conclusive evidence that the mighty Carthagenian was certainly not a Negro. Turning from the sentimental to the logical side of the Brownsville affair, we are called upon to consider two questions—the question of fact and the question of law. Of course, the fact that this letter is intended for home consumption renders a technical argument in this connection somewhat useless, for the average educated Negro, while flattering himself in the glory of what he calls intellectual attainments, doesn't know any more about the practical operation of our constitutional system than a bullfrog knows about the aurora borealis. At this stage of the discussion, it would be unfair to the subject to neglect its legal side. Without extensive comment, it is sufficient to say that the direct evidence adduced from the unreliable, testimony of eye-witnesses in the case was not sufficiently convincing to overcome the testimony of the soldiers in their own behalf, which was corroborated by their officers. The circumstancial evidence in the case was so inconsistent with guilt as to have a decided tendency in favor of acquittal instead of conviction. As to the question of law, that question involved two distinct phases—first, the authority of the President to dismiss a soldier as a general proposition, and, second, the "modus procedandi" in this particular case. The first phase involves the contract of enlistment, which raises the point that while a civil contract is binding alike on both parties, yet the nature of a contract is to be determined by the capacity in which the government acts on the negotiation of that contract. If in a business transaction then it is a civil contract, if in the performance of a governmental function the nature of the contract is altered. Now, as the maintenance of the United States Army is not a business transaction but rather a governmental function it follows that the contract of enlistment is not a civil contract. Hence Mr. Roosevelt was technically within his constitutional prerogative when he dissolved that contract, and since the Supreme Court has upheld him, his action under the first phase of the question of laws stands "readjucata." But in order that the general prerogatives of the Chief Executive might not be abused at the expense of the soldier in particular cases, Congress enacted statutes of the subject known as Articles of War. That brings us down to the second phase of the question of law. In the first place, a man charges with crime is entitled to the benefit of prima facie presumption of innocence until the fact of his guilt has been adjudicated according to the rules of evidence. Thus Mr. Roosevelt reversed that principle when he presumed the men to be guilty, and acted upon that presumption, and at the same time failed to try the men by court-martial, as directed by the Articles of War. Violated the Statute. Not only did he violate the statute, but he violated Article I, Section IX, of the Constitution, since his act was in effect a bill of attainder which is prohibited by the above mentioned section. So much for the legal side of the question. In attempting to say a word relative to the sociological aspect of the case, I venture the conviction that it is entirely impossible to exaggerate the harm that act has done our people. The pro-Roosevelt Negro always invariably advances the argument that Mr. Roosevelt would have followed the same course had the soldiers involved been white instead of colored, but the historical fact that a company of white soldiers during the same administration committed a similar offense, and that none of them was discharged, obviates the necessity of comment on that point. But, granting for the sake of argument that he would have treated white soldiers just as he did the colored soldiers, the fact does not minimize the element of injustice involved. The same school of Roosevelt worshipers also argue that Mr. Taft made the recommendation in the case and official precedence demanded its enforcement. In the first place, the above statement is a lie, as Taft was not in Washington when the matter was brought before the President. Before proceeding further, I must pause long enough to pay my respects to his fatness, Sir William Taft. I consider Mr. Taft as one of the most remarkable men of the age. I admire him to the point of worship. I have said on many occasions that I would not harm a hair of his head, not alone because there is not a hair in the extreme top of his head, but for two other and more important reasons—first, as a result of the war we are now passing through an area of scarcity, and we have nothing to throw away, and to shoot Taft would entail an unwarranted waste of material, since he is not worth the bullet it would take to kill him. Second, I have no grudge against the worms that nature would force to consume his carcass. In view of the foregoing circumstances, I would permit him to live indefinitely. Coming back to the subject, if we grant for the sake of argument that Taft did recommend the discharge of the soldiers, then the argument places Mr. Roosevelt in a still more difficult position. If Roosevelt was under such hypnotic compulsion to follow Taft's recommendation in the matter of discharge, why was he not under compulsion to obey when Taft offered to re-open the case and hear the evidence? The answer is obvious to all except Roosevelt's crowd. Some say that Mr. Roosevelt thought, and still thinks; that the men were guilty. But Mr. Roosevelt's action, in discharging those men simply because he thought they were guilty, is the most aggravating feature of the case. When a mob lynches a Negro, they do so because they think he is guilty, and Mr. Roosevelt's action in discharging those men because he thought they were guilty, is parallel to that of the very mob to which Prof. Thomas refers in his letter of sympathy. In other words, any act which inflicts punishment where guilt has not been established is lynch law, pure and simple. I have always thought that the Georgia crackers were advancing well enough in that particular brand of jurisprudence without receiving special instructions from Roosevelt, and yet Prof. Thomas thinks Mr. Roosevelt's denunciations have done more to crystallize public opinion than any other force in America. I would add in reply that his act in the Brownsville affair did more to encourage lynching than any other force in America. In this connection I say of the two military riots, as I have said of the two civil riots, that they bear the exact relation of cause and effect. Had the Brownsville affair been properly settled there never would have been a Houston affair. But, in spite of lily-whiteism, in spite of segregation at the federal pie counter, in spite of the Bull Moose insult, in spite of the Brownsville outrage, there are still those among us whose positions and station give them a just claim to the prestige of leadership and the dignity of superior intellectuality, who persist in offering extenuating arguments in defense of Col. Roosevelt. There is no analogy known to the realm of metaphysics that could explain the psychic phenomena that prompt such devotion to a false prophet. Scan the pages of secret, profane or mythological history and you will fail to find a parallel to that weird system of pedagogy that teaches a civilized race to lick the hand that smites it. The nearest possible approach to such love is recorded in the 13th Chapter of the Book of Job, 15th verse, "Though he slay me yet will I trust him." The Dunbar High School is to be congratulated upon its good fortune in appropriating the services of such a shining exponent of faith in an idol God. I submit that the philosophical genius of Plato or Socrates is totally eclipsed by that of the brilliant professor whose unique process of deduction enables him to evolve the superstitious belief that such a mortal as Theodore Roosevelt is a friend to the Negro race. fp-Zax, edt ‘ Sea vg ‘LIBERAL CREDIT | vo | i fi 7 at a ~ Ft E z 4 : <A : X\ Uy P ah . ! ee igre) ~ A Ney Sf - om 1 x SF : y ; Lak” : E \ —~Ar— Scat ys, | a/ & f Ie. Bisa | ae (Gia Ss | i LABS A ey ee | Hl CONN, é t _. There aré’ many advaitages--in. dealing at Ose ie | 4 dp lofJ =Dodek’s. We bought our merchandise early—and Soa My, z | : Ny Hf 1 [we are selling it at last year’s prices.. The great es Bint i 4 i ey Kh difference between this year's prices and last year’s ia) 4 af i { ‘ d we are giving-to you so that you may save money. page ee MA soci f f on your clothes. 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G Street Northwest For Furniture Buyers or Furniture buyers. . tr . £ a és | We are ready to give every'possible bit of . “ help to those who are endeavoring to show. their patriotism by sensible and economical buying. “ The class of goods in our tremendous stocks will show true economy through the. genuine value that gives long years of service, and our linés are selected and priced to come within the means of.all. Credit will help you—we’ll MAKE it help - you, whether for the purpose of giving or for the fur- nishing of your own home, Extra privileges are offered young married’ couples and those who have just comé’to Washington to enter the Govérnment service. . “All your purchases will be charged on an - open account, without notes ‘or interest, and small weekly or monthly payments will be arranged to suit the, ‘circumstances of each individual customer. We have a huge assortment of practical, service- able toys and’ hundreds of useful articles for the children. Buy their gifts here and have them charged on your account. : eS | i | Péter Grogan & Sons Co., 817 to 823 Seventh Street . | : . ’ e Sayers : oe Fe — Leads To Great’ Success And The Realization of _ Your Wishes In Everything © | To-improve your. health, be great, better your condition, and become enact you must possess the “Power of Concentration.” The men ‘and women’ who have accomplished ‘great things’ Héye .used ‘the great “Power of Concentration.” You may have great difficulties, but follow the easy lessons and overcome your lind- rances and achieve great ‘results. You can overcome weakness and failures by using the master power of con- centration. Not one lesson, but twenty lessons. You follow the ideas ae overcome hurry, worry and fail- ure. Thousands have been¢benefited, why-not you? You can change your life for thé better. You can use this wonder power ‘of concentration for any legitifnate. helpful ‘purpose to gain or attain’ anything you want. You can also use.your. concentration power for the benefit of your dear ohe at a distance, to do great deeds to help our gréat cause. ‘ People have become great, successful and happy through the secret. application. of concentration. So can you. It gives you a sure method of attaining mind, power, personal raagnetism, the pow- er.to win’ an’, nold. and, overcome troublesome ur.ditions and environ- ment. You .an become more effi- cient in wo.k, more popular in busi- ness by following the power of con- centration. Here is your chance to make your life as you want it to be. ‘Those v ao cannot come in person can re eive the 20 lessons by mail in he .dy ‘book form and three pack- age of Temple. Incense all for $2. W ite to REV. LEO S. OSMAN, wes Pennsylvania“ Avenue, " Balti- more Md., or 1728 7th Street N. W., ; Washington;*D. 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Hundreds of such gifts can. be found = = here, and we'll gladly charge them on an open account, = 2 with small weekly oramonthly payments. ft =. : Credit Prices in Plain Figures — - | z , : =, 5 : Peter Grogan & Sons Co. = - 5 od -y ef a = i 817 te 623 Seventh Street. = Faeeaiion oe qesmienmpneteiamee twig apes oan stistonsseubinhneniniiessoteebconobitasesnnsceiseee os HMAIM GD oalasttioniabisteescsec. senseee es cssceadtbbnnee | oo a , ; d pga vag 2 JEWELRY 3 gf er \ E : « ‘ | “fam . 4) ‘TheSupreme Gift. t ec ei | It gives tokens of freindship: | “Ye = ~~. and dearest. memories. of . ‘ igs pp, long after the gifts are for- een it ae a gotten. . | ee )=6 SHOP EA®.LY © Gaewel i; FOR Xi. AS ‘Octagon Elgin Bracelet - . a ‘Watches $25.00 9. = * Se Ladies, Dia. Ring $13.00 are : ji ents! Dia.\Ring 25.00 5 - & BEY centieman’s Hunting Case e—> Watehes $13.50, my’ big’spe- Ss SS cial. Ps a wy i al Lavaliers, Silverware, Cut-Glass, in fact, ey Jewelry of every descriptiou Bes Very attractive Ivory Sets, $10.00 up Ee - Articles will be laid aside ona” Berd i small depostt-. + Pee ; ‘ Same goods, less money’ ; . eae : . 1. Low Rent ? ae | Reasons— 2. Less Light Therefore the customer gets the ‘betiefit. * . 3. Less clerk hire 4 . Be oe ueo. W. Taylor ~ —%®, 1024 yoU STREET N, W. “WASHINGTON, Dig 2