Washington Bee

Tyler Exposes URGES DEPUTY COMMISSIONER TO GIVE COLORED TROOPS A SQUARE DEAL VOL. XXXIX. NO. 30 URGES DEPUTY CO TO GIVE COLORE TYLER OF THE BEE EXPOSES AMERICAN DUPLICITY AND TREACHERY Deputy Commissioner in Charge of of Colored Troops in France Urged to Give Colored Troops Same Treatment They Receive in America—Colored American Soldiers Discriminated Against By White Americans. With the American Army in France, Monsieur Blaise Diagne, is the deputy Commissioner General of France in charge of the effects, or lighted colored troops of France's colonies, and is a close friend of Premier Clemenceau. Monsieur Diagne is a black man, but color does not count in France—France has no color problem, though she has millions of colored subjects. The deputy commissioner is an intimate knowledge of the conditions surrounding the colored man in America. His sympathizes with him, as do all of France's colored subjects. When in Nancy last week, he stated he had requested Premier Clemenceau to make some helpful reference to the colored troops from Amérique at the peace table; that colored Frenchmen had requested that an audience at the peace gathering be given to a delegation of France's colored subjects that they might give voice to sentiments that might be helpful to their kinsmen in America who had come over here to fight for world democracy. The discriminations to which colored officers and soldiers have been subjected to at the hands of many American white officers and soldiers has been noticeable to colored Frenchmen; and they have felt it keenly. It has been observed, even by white French officers, to all of whom color prejudice is unknown, and they have been at a loss to understand why such brave, enduring fighting men of the race the United States sent to help win world democracy should be subjected to embarrassing and retarding discriminations and segregation. Monsieur Diagne also told of certain American white officers writing to French high officials urging that the treatment accorded colored men from America in France by French officers, be the same treatment accorded our race in America by certain white people; that colored Americans were an inferior race and should not be accorded the equality of treatment French officers and civilians had been in the habit of according to colored soldiers. This request for discrimination against colored soldiers and officers on the part of Frenchmen was referred to Monsieur Diagne, a colored man—genuinely black in complexion, who is "Depute Commissaire General, charge due. Control des effectifs Coloniaux," with the request that he tear it up, such destruction, of the paper to constitute the French officials' only reply to the important and unreasonable request from certain American white army officers. Commissaire General Diagne is keeping the torn bits of that request as a convenient There have been some American white officers over here—not a few, but many, who have, ever since being here, prosecuted a propaganda against the colored soldiers; who have done their utmost, but without avail, to taint French with America's prejudice against America's loyal fighting colored soldiers. There have been a few American white officers-not many, over here, who have treated the colored soldiers as American soldiers, notable among them being Brigadier General M. H. Barnum and Brigadier General Sherburne In spite of the unjustifiable discrimination and handicaps at the hands of certain American white officers over here, colored soldiers—officers and men, have given the best in them for their country; have patiently endured discriminations because of their color, as they have heroically endured the expected hardships of soldier life, and as heroically fought against the Hun. Had it only been the Boche colored soldiers had to fight against they would return to the States without a single complaint, but in not a few instances, I regret to admit, they have had to fight the Hun while at the same time they were enduring an infilading attack from those whom they had supposed were here to fight for the same thing they came overseas to fight for—world democracy. However, with it all, the colored soldier is proud that he had an opportunity to again prove that which the country had never had an occasion to doubt—his loyalty to his country. Thousands of our colored soldiers are now busily preparing for the overseas return. They are impatiently counting the days—even the moments, that must intervene before they can again see the face of the Statue of Liberty in New York's harbor—before they can again greet relatives and friends. Many of them who came hence on American troopships, in the fullness of manhood and patriotism, will not return, for they are lying, where they will forever lie, in a soldier's grave, rudely marked, up around Verdun, Chateau-Phierry, Soissons, Champagne, in the Argonne Wood and in the Mousson Valley. France has been magnanimous toward the American colored soldier; she—her men and women—has voiced her praise of their fighting qualities; of the soldiery bearing, and of their faultless behavior. France would welcome them as permanent residents of France, but they—those who have survived this awfully deceminating, frightful war—are going to return to the States, firm in the resolve to help secure, through peaceful means, for themselves and their people, that which their arms, their blood, and their lives helped to achieve on the battlefields for the alien countries over here—"democracy." The 92nd Division has orders to prepare to move for a port of embarkation. I hope to move with it. The real "first page" story of the colored soldier in this war—his fighting and his enduring, will be written on my return. COLORED CITIZENS URGED TO CONSOLIDATE EFFORTS E. H. Armstrong Makes Some Valuable Suggestions at a Large Gathering—A Talk That Should Be Heeded—Editor W. Calvin Chase Indorses the Movement. There was a representative meeting of colored citizens held in the main hall of the Colored Y. M. C. A. last Monday, evening, with Dr. O. E. Odem presiding, who made a short opening address, setting forth the object of the meeting, and concluded by introducing Mr. E. H. Armstrong, the promoter. Mr. Armstrong is a young man who has traveled very extensively in five continents, whose interest has been in the uplift of the colored race. Mr. Armstrong told in a very concise and entertaining manner the many trials of the colored man and what he has failed to gain and how he should act to accomplish something. He showed what could be gained by the consolidation of the thirteen millions of colored Americans in the country. "Just suppose," he said, "thirteen million colored citizens contributed one penny a day, or thirty cents a month. What would be their wealth in a year? The race would be independent. We could build our ships, establish industries that employ millions of workmen, thus making the race independent. This can only be done by consolidating our forces." He suggested the immediate formation of organizations throughout the country and have delegates elected to one central body. We then would be organized under one head, which would, indeed, be the deputized representative of the people and not hand-picked. He gave many sensible illustrations and comparisons as evidences of the force of his argument. His talk was very convincing. At the conclusion of his address Editor W. Calvin Chase of The Bee was introduced and indorsed the address, and suggested the immediate organization of such a movement. Mr. Chase said the only way to succeed was to consolidate. He pointed out the many enterprises that have been organized and failed in this city under the direction of the best educators of the race, and the only institution that has been successful was the Industrial Savings Bank, organized and managed by a hodcarrier and a barber who have more common sense than any of those so-called superior men who have ignominiously failed in this city. The hodcarrier has become an expert financier, and the barber a successful manipulator of finances and bookkeeping. The hodcarrier did not stop with the erection of a bank. A thought struck him to erect a hundred thousand dollar hotel, which is the largest monument to be erected to the credit and industry of the real people in this city. These two great enterprises show what one man can do. If one man or two men can accomplish so much in so short a time, just see what thirteen million colored people could do if they were t consolidate. At the conclusion of Mr. Chase's remarks he was greeted with enthusiastic applause. The meeting was attended by a large number of ladies, who seemed to be deeply interested in the enterprise, and immediately Mr. E. H. Armstrong was elected national organizer of the new organization, which was launched last Monday evening. The national organizer will visit every State in the Union and organize clubs for the purpose of uniting the colored people into one grand body. Let every colored American join. It will cost you nothing. Miss Pearl Matthews, a very efficient young lady, acted as secretary. This new organization bids fair to do much good in this country if it is properly launched. There are one hundred thousand colored people in this city and there are only a few real business houses that are doing anything. The Industrial Savings Bank and Ware's Shoe Store are doing splendidly. There are many drug stores that are up-to-date. The Howard Theatre, managed by Andrew J. Thomas; the Midcity Theatre, the Dudley You Street Theatre managed by S. H. Dudley; the Hiawatha Theatre and the Foraker Theatre, managed by Raymond Murray are all well patronized. The only up to-date shoe store we have in this city is deserving of better patronage. It is not the fault of Mr. Ware. He has spent thousands of dollars to meet the demand of the people. Today this shoe store should have a hundred clerks waiting on the people. it goes to show the necessity of getting together and consolidation. COLORED GIRLS ASSAULTED BY WHITE SOLDIERS The Southern white crackers who are in the city by virtue of having been drafted will find they cannot do as they please. Last Tuesday morning about 2:30 o'clock two colored girls employed in the War Risk Bureau went to a nearby cafe for lunch. While attending to their own business a white Virginia "cracker," without cause or provocation, deliberately struck the girls in the face. One of the young women retaliated by knocking her assailant down. The colored fireman at the War Risk Bureau placed the soldier under arrest and called for help. An officer came from No. 1 Precinct and arrested the gallant (?) soldier, who came to fight for world democracy. He deposited $25 at the station. It was a very small collateral for such a grave offense. William Harned, chief of the War Risk section, in the rear, of 911½ D Street N. W., declared to a Bee representative Tuesday morning that he would see that the colored girls under his supervision are protected and that they may go out as often as they pleased for lunch. The result of the trial was too late for this week, on account of having to go to press early. GEORGE E. HAMILTON TO HEAD EDUCATION BOARD George E. Hamilton, attorney and president of the Capital Traction Co., was unanimously elected president of the Board of Education at its meeting held last Monday. He succeeds the Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr., whose resignation, sent from Belgium, where he is serving as deputy commissioner for the American Red Cross, was accepted a week ago. Dr. Van Schaick was in France as a major in the Red Cross when he was re-elected president of the Board, after some friendly inside politics among the members. He wrote a letter promising to resign if he was not back in Washington by October 1st last, and as he was detained in the service abroad he sent letters resigning not only as president, but as a member of the Board. The District Supreme Court has not accepted the resignation of Dr. Van Schaick, although it was considered. A letter addressed through Commissioner Brownlow was presented to the Board a week ago. Mr. Hamilton was not present at the meeting last Monday. At the last monthly class recital, second semester, of the Columbia Conservatory of Music, 1911 9th Street Northwest, Wellington A. Adams, Director, the honors of the evening for technical points in piano playing were won by little Miss Norrine Yolanda Walters, first-year pupil of Dunbar High School, over pupils older and more advanced. Miss Charlotte Allen of Le Droit Park held the honor record of forty-two hours' piano practice during the month of November. These monthly class recitals 'stimulate interest and study among music students of the Secretary Baker Points Out That Problems of Future Are as Numerous and Perplexing as Those of Actual Warfare. Urges Continuation of Service. of His Able and Efficient Special Assistant—Glowing Tribute of Helpfulness Paid By George Creel, Chairman of Committee on Public In- The success that has attended the labors of Emmett J. Scott as special assistant to the Secretary of War, is one of the outstanding features of the participation of the colored American in the war, which is now approaching a triumphant close, with democracy well assured for many of the oppressed peoples of the world. Mr. Scott has just finished the first year of his very satisfactory administration of the great trust reposed in him as the official representative of the 12,000,000 colored citizens of the Republic. It is conceded upon all sides, and by both races, that the practical results achieved by Mr. Scott in his particular and trying field, and the intricate problems he has met and so intelligently mastered amply justify the Secretary of War's decision to create the office. Mr. Scott Urged to Remain at. Post. All questions as to the tenure of Mr. Scott in his office as special assistant in the War Department are effectively set at rest by a recent letter, written to Mr. Scott by the Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, who makes plain his appreciation of the fine services rendered by Mr. Scott during the months that he has been by his side as a helper in the solution of some of the knottiest problems that the War Department has been called upon to face. In the communication referred to Secretary Baker expressed the hope that it will be possible for Mr. Scott to continue his work in the War Department through the period of the demobilization of the troops. The Secretary of War took the view that the problems ahead of us are just as numerous and perplexing as those that have been dealt with during the past year, and indicated that it would be most helpful to all concerned if he could have Mr. Scott's continued counsel and advice in connection with the important questions that are bound to arise in the adjustment of the issues of the future. Glowing Tribute Paid By Director of Committee on Public Information. A further testimonial to the worth and far-reaching effect of the work that has been carried on by the Special Assistant comes from Mr. George Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public Information, in conjunction with whom Mr. Scott has kept the school, and are greatly enjoyed by both pupils and teachers. Mrs. Walters made encouraging remarks. Next class exercise will be held the third Friday evening in January. CELEBRATE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. The fifty-sixth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation will be celebrated Wednesday evening, January 1, 1919, at 8 o'clock, at John Wesley Church, corner Fourteenth and Corcoran Streets N. W. Prominent speakers, including Miss Nannie Bur- A NATION'S STRENGTH IS IN ITS FOOD SUPPLY Eat Less — Waste nothing Create a Reserve AMERICA MUST FEED 120,000,000 ALIES licity country fully informed as to the activities of the colored people in the countless agencies that have been engaged in the winning of the war. Mr. Creel's letter, which explains itself, is here given: The Committee on Public Information, Washington, D. C., November 11, 1918. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant to Sec. of War. My Dear Mr. Scott:—Before completing the work of the Committee on Public Information, I wish to write you a very sincere letter of thanks for your very real contribution to the cause of national unity. As Special Assistant to the Secretary of War, with specific duty to maintain the morale of the colored population of the United States, you have discharged a delicate task with discretion, the very highest intelligence, and the very greatest devotion to your people and to your country. I can truthfully say that the Committee on Public Information, in its light for unity, has been helped immeasurably by you. It has been a pleasure to work with you, and I want to say a very sincere personal word of my deep appreciation. It must be a matter of pride to you to know that no portion of the population has been more loyal than the people of your race. Not the least of the strength of the war purpose of America has proceeded from the courage and devotion of the colored people. Believe me, very sincerely, Steady Growth of Bureau the Highest Proof of Usefulness; An. untnistakable and convincing proof of the increasing usefulness of the office of the special assistant to the Secretary of War is found in the steady growth of the bureau in scope of responsibility, in volume of business transacted, and in the enlargement of its quarters and personnel. From a nucleus of one, the number of persons attached to the office has increased to eight, and the bureau occupies two commodious chambers in the choicest northwest corner of the first floor of the State, War and Navy Building (Rooms 144-146), overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, formerly the administrative section of the office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army. Because of the fact that the bureau's manifold activities touch every conceivable branch of the military establishment and deal so vitally with every phase of the welfare of the twelve million colored Americans throughout the country, the office of the special assistant has become a veritable "mecca" at the nation's capital, and it is visited daily by scores of the most representative men and women from every State in the Union. roughs and Dr. W. C. Brown, will deliver addresses. A splendid musical program has been arranged. Everybody welcome. Seats free. GUEST OF MISS BURROUGHS. Mrs. J. W. Morse, who had a nervous breakdown, is the guest of that well-known race champion, Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, at Lincoln, D.C. Under the tender care of Miss Burroughs she will be nursed back to health again. Mrs. Morse is fast improving, greatly to the gratification of her many friends. PUBLIC MEN AND,7H * * By the ‘Sage of the Potozi: Paying WO. MH CASH ONS. board of directors cited the pret to meet it last week at a certain in the evening, and at that hou si. president claimed he had a funeral i: attend. He might, as, well comet «to the marshal's office, because the hoard intends to. see that the people shall not lose a penny they havé in- vested. é : eee About ike time the Peace Commis- sion “‘mects in France there ‘will be fully one hundred ‘putative delegatés “upon the ground.» Just “what* these seli-constituted,. self-clected, quasi- delegates expect to do les tiraaee, the Sage would like to know. 1 under- stand that they will call a confercivee _ and confer: among themselves, and: decide to ‘send-a committee to confer | with members of the. Japanese Comi-| mission, and lay the claims and griev- cances of colored Americans before | that commission, and have hat: com: | mission submit their brief to the gen- eral commission. “If it becomes nec- essary to write their cominission. in French, Editor DuBois, who’ is a}! French scholar, will perform ‘the du- | ties of the office. .Of course, Editor]! Monroe Trotter will have ‘something |! to say: if no more than object to the i‘ phraseology of DuBois’ vernacular. 7! ‘There will be some hot time in Frafce } when all of these self-elected’ dele- gates meet. . ee t Now. when the history of this cele- jr brated Peace Conference is written, I {n wonder if the history of ‘the. Amer- |’! ican colored commission will be writ- | ten? If the real. commission could jn have scen the delegates that met. in {tl this city,.and heard’ them. when they ‘hi were electing their delegates, it would have conclidéd that Brother Garai- [fe ner's Limekili: .Club. didn’t have a!o peep-in. Brother Fortune sized up sé the situation. in his editdtial ” last [fe week, It is quite’ evident’ that igno- |b ance rufes intelligence sometimes. | hi The more- education some people sossess the. less serise they. develop. This is-the opinion of some’ philoso- (th hers.” ” in ‘ eRe | pe ‘There is more whiskey sold in|ha Washington. by the. bootleggers than | pl here was when:the Government gave | di he dispensers the authority. to, sell. | n¢ | was standitg at the. corner ef |fo North Capitol atid H: Streets a fewlou lays ayo ‘when a Baltimore limited | ve ame along, westbound, and_a femalg|th cot off the, car who had. the appear-|th ince of a robust and healthy individ [ri wil. ‘Taking a scrutinizing look, I]w: liscovered’ that she ‘was decofated {th vith, hali-pint bottles from head to }do oot: They were-hanging bell-shaped |an rom, her waist down, which gave her|T) he appearance of a stuffed frog. Her}he ast: was an’-unnatural Shape, and it of, vas.as minch as she could do to walk, [so she ran the gauntlet and passed No.{ha and No. G and struck a bee-line in]Sa he direction ‘of North Capitol Street }(o orth. There was nof a cop to bere: ound. She took chances to have her|to ‘hristmas. She turned into Defrees |i treet. but in which housé ‘she went }cat don't ‘know. If Major Pullman |otl hinks that .his sauad of bluecoats|vo re able to stop the bootleggers,, he fis s‘mistaken.. ‘The last move of the|ski ootleggers was a flight from: Balti-}yoi tore in’ an. airship. I understand |be: hat forty quart’ arrjved in the city }am ight over “No. 9 and No. 6 ‘stations {Th nd linded beyond Lawtown, rear or |it. elow Freedman’s Hospital. ~The | for ootleggers were well supplied. “You ha un never defeat a man’s thirst when] - e eraves, for old harleycorn. DE 7 aaa “Waiting for Vincent.” was the re-|De lark on Avenue De Nig last Satur-|° ay evening, while a fair damset was] ” ending her way to-the Supper Show. ‘incent is his mother’s baby. and] 1 antie’s pride, and when Vincent re-}Ad irns to the arms of his, mother and {thr re bosoni of his brotliers, he will get |lad own fo hard tacks. Vincent is an- tel ther. man now. He is looking to the | Ho reat heyond on the fields of ee li . = ET es . ; os i he — bi ech bs . ‘ Bh Ma . — ss fi fs Ke x aie = NB 777 CREATAS aoa TREN - red 5 ee aN ae Pe area | HE | Be pen 1 | \\ Bae hs AN ere aq ON LS ee iS a5 | AY 7 2 vices cola Wi . es sit oss “AS BORD SYSTEM “BORO” COLLEGE COMPANY. St.Loris, Mo. ‘ ; Dept, Columbia: Lodge of Elks,, with © WV. Bundy at its head, will do somi yweeding out.. Bundy thinks that th alleged intelligence is an impedimen| to the success .of ignorance, ant [therefore intelligence must. make ‘ar jout. It‘ is a true aphorigm that toc niuch intelligence is harmful to al- Teged ignorance at’ times. 3 ae % I have Wad great’ admiration for the pulpit, but, Jet me tell you, the ‘recent” conduct .of certain Baptist [ministers has given me’ a’ shock. ‘There was a poet once who used to attack everything that was done.;.No man was honest in his estimation and things, to his sight were evil. When he was asked why he attacked every- body, -his-answer was:, “To keep the foe off me." He was as guilty as the ones he attacked. Séme people don’t see themselves as Sthers see them.” I feel confident that Evangelist .Will- hanks posssses a -bettér heart than his would-be traducers. , eek There is to be a weeding out at the Bureau’ of Engraving and Print- ing. Only the pure in heart are ex- pected to remain. Director Wilmeth” has been very considerate of the em- ployees, regardless Of color’or con- dition. “The Sage had a taJk with the new Director a few days ago, and he: found him to be & man. who is anxi- ous’ to be fair and “just to all. He very much regrets ‘the recent incident that cumpelled him to dispense with the services of a score of colored jen.” ‘They may be innocent ‘of] wrongdoing: but, to: punish the guilty, he. innocent: received -a_ shock,” nel foubt. THe great trouble has been | wong many of the new, appointees. The conduct of many has been repre- hensible, He mearis to get rid of all vf, those trim females who ‘came in some months ‘ago. Many of them mave- been warned frequently. - ‘The Sage makes this friendly suggestion 0 the colored females in the Bu- ‘eau: Don't dress like you are going attend ‘a marriage reception or a natinée dance. Don’t. imagine be- |. ‘ause your skin: is brighter,than some | thers that preference: is to: be: giver | rou. “Tn the weeding out merit alone | s to count and-not the color of your |’ kin. Don’t allow, your color to fool |: ou. Some of the most refined and} est workers, I am informed, are] mong: the high browns and -ebony. | The records of the. Bureau will show.|- t. The Chief has the highest.respect |’ or those who respect themselves and |! ave made a good record.’ ~ ‘ DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES. Democracy After the War—Colored *,Men and Women Forced to Abandon Their Property. The ‘National Association -for the Advancement , of Colored People, through its ‘setretary, John R: Shil- lady of’ New York, makes public a telegram. sent to Governor Frank L. Houx of Wyoming, protesting against the ‘lynching of Edward Woodson, a Negro, at Green River, Wyoming, on December r2th, and the driving from their homes of the colored residénts ‘of the town, who, men, women, and children, were foréed-to abandon all their property and fles for their lives. ‘The association: asks the Governor not only to-see: that the lynchers are brought to justice, but that the lives and property-of thé Negroes who for- merly lived-in Green River ‘be pro- tected. The. association’s telegram is as follows: December 13, 1918. Hon. Frank L. Houx,, Governor, Cheyenne, Wyo. | Press’ dispatches “in New York papers December 12th, tell of the lynching of Edward’ Woodson, a Ne- gro, charged. with killing a railroad switchman and: wounding another. in Green River, Wyo. and of all the “eds Our Me.” ST EM" take c. “Negroes in that town being forced to lave, in their haste abandoning. all their possessions, The Naticnal As- sociation for the. Advancerient . of Colored* People, in the name of its one hundred and fifty-four branches and forty-two thousand members, protests against this. .outraye and urges that you take immediate steps to protect the lives and’ property of the colored, citizens of Greet River and to ‘yee. that the lynchers.oj Id- ward .Woodson are brought to jus- tice aid. punished. .for the use of, our press service, which gocs to the | leading newspapers’ of .the entire country, we wotild ask a Statement from’ your excellency’ af to. the action to be taken by Wyoming authorities. ~. John R. Shitlaly, Secretary, ‘National Association’ for the Advancement of Colored People, e vavancement of Lorored reopic, through its: secretary, John R. Shil- lady “of New York, makes public a telegram sent to Governor William F, Hobby of Texas, requesting an‘in- vestigation into the circumstances surrounding -the alleged lynching of Charles: Shipmen, a Negro, on No- ‘vember 34th last in Fort. Bend Coun- ty, Texas. The association told -the Governor that it is in possession of a statement from its San “Antonio (Lexas) branch which gives "the names of live men who deliberately Iynched the Negro following a dis- agreement between the. Negro and a white man on whose plantation the Negro had been living, The associa tion calls the Goyernor's%ittention to the. fact that this is the tenth lyneh- ing which has occtfred in ‘Texas this year, a record exceeded only by ‘that of the State of Georgia. The asso- ciation’s telegram follows: ; é December 13, 1918. Hon. William P. Hobby,, | Governor, ‘Austin, Texas. i The National Association for the Advancement’ “of Colored People, with one- hundred and fifty-four branches, seven of them in Texas, and forty-two thousand members, ~re- quests information concerning. legal action taken -or contemplated’ by Texas authorities: in the alleged lynching of Charles Shipman, a Neé- gro, in Fort Bend County, Texas, on November 14th last.. The San An- tonio branch‘ of this, association has placed i” your hands a statement concerning this matter-and names of five men who are said to have been responsible for the lynching. From January 1st of this. year ten Negroes ave. been lynched in ‘Texas, and so * as we are informed no one’ has been brought to trial in any court of aw on this account... Now that President, Wilson will. soon appear sa spokesmati of American democ- racy in the arena of the. world, the American people are more than ever sensitive to the orderly: conduct of lemocratic government in their own country.. - 2 ot : John R. Shillady, - Secretary, National Association for “the “Advancement .of Colored People.’ ( DR..OSMAN A TRUE PROPHET. He Foretold the Great World War and. Also’ Revealed the “Exact . Date’ of the Kaisei’s Abdi- cation and Peace. (From the Afro-American.) - Some fourteen years ago, while at a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, the Rev. Dr. Leo S. Os- man,* foretold in detail the world wat, and’on August 5, 1914, he re- ceived the following telegram at’ Bal- timore, Md.: “Some years, ago you predict- ed the greatest war.would take Joseph Bailey and Co. . Undertaker and Embalmer i ios _ Formerly with J. H. Dabney ~ ‘ : “297 KSTREET N.w.. )/ ‘Corner 3rd and K Streets, pee . : " oat Joseph I, Bailey, Manager ° Chapel Service Free , Carriages For H're Phone Main 8273 ~ Joseph i\Underta. ‘ . *: . a2 Fo: 6 gor Co ‘ ce Jos Chapel Service Fr. ‘wewed by a reporter of the Baltimor News and questioned as to-how h .jcame. to know about the world-wai {so many years ‘ahead, and how he jcould -state the accurate date. Kev |] Osman told the reportér that he go |his wisdom from the. Bible, and addec ‘that he saw ‘almost. the whole world Jablaze with war. He could sce-noth- Jing but war, war, war.” When asked if our country would be involved,’ he replied: “We have a’ very wise and powerful rian at the head of our country and-he will keep it“back for ja while.” ‘The reporter, aniazed, said: “What! You mean that. our country will ‘also enter the -great conflict?” ‘The reverend said, “Yes, I saw our country in war, too.” He begged the reporter not to make the statement public, ‘as his life would be endan- gered if this news were published. When the war was one year old many people said it would soon be over, but the reverend said, “No, it will pot be over soon; it will be a war of four or five years.” When Amer- ica entered the. war,-and he -realized that what he saw was true, lie began to ponder over the great problem and isolated himéelf to study over the grave situation, When we saw him again, he said, “Our country will win this. war.” About’ six months ago he told us that he saw.our victory. and the Kai- ser's defeat and ‘death, ‘Last month he same into our newspaper office and! said: “It is all over; the war is} won.” When ‘we remarked “another year,” he said: “It wiih positively be over within a month.” Now, you can judge for yourself if this wonderful man ‘is not the greatest prophet of the day. . Lal 1 “Now, how and. wherefrom does the reverend doctor obtain his startling information? "To learn the souree of. his knowledge was the object of our! reporter's call, aside ftom congratu-; ating him for ‘his true prophecies. ! Calling on him at his ‘Temple when| peace was declared and we «were posi- ‘ive the war was ended, as he had -orrectly foretold, we found him -very pusy. Many, many people called’ on him to thank him for his great effort n helping to win the war through his; sowerful prayers, burning’ of Blessed:| incense, ‘sacred candles, etc. They Iso congratulated him on the ac- curacy of. his stafements concerning he ending of the ‘war. When my turn came, I asked him bout his secret source of informa- ion, on which he -had built his pro- »hecies.. He took up a; large Bible, vhich looked so worn that it might vell have been at the war front, and aid: “As you see, I have many hun- {red books here which I consult; but he book I consult the most’ and .in he greatest of times is the BOOK of Books, the Bible, that is God’s blessed Book. Now, let me open it at ran- lom, and here you read, “The grass vithereth, the flower fadeth, but the Vord of our God’ shall ‘stand for- ver.’ \Vhat a. glorious sentence from hie;inspited Isaiah! “ This Book is of (reat service to anyone who honors t: The Lord and Hfs wisdom be- ong to ‘all ages, races and countries, nd will reveal God's fullest inten- ions toward man. You ask me how} find all secrets in this Book. I will] , ay that God reveals them to me. I}, ake my “Bibl¢ and go out into the}, pen and Idok'through the stars, right | ( nto Heaven. Then I. open God's} Sook. I look up the subject in ques-| jon ‘and find’the answer. It did not ome.to me: in amonth, nor in a ear; it took many, many: years of| tudy, prayer, sacrifice and contem- lation. : | “The. mysteries in Revelation are learly the strong and loving desire f.God to help ‘man, through His jonderfyl work;. the Bible. . God)P raws-aside the ‘veil for a good pur-|P ose: You, will find an ‘answer to|T very question. 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The tones that angels bow ‘to hear Breathe thru these lines divine, And come with love's own melody From the King’s heart to mine,’ “The Bible will reward the most patient study: of anyone; it is su- préme; it‘is the Light of. Light. God reveals His will through His work— the Bible. I ponder over it and ben- efit himanity. So can you. Study the Bible and you, too, will be wise.” And thus in an abrupt way I was dismissed. As IT walked away, amazed at this man who revealed his secret of divining the unknown from the Bible,.I could not, help admiring this great ‘man of inspiration, who disclaims the gift of fortune: tellifig or prophecy, but tells you-plainly-that he digs ‘all ,his’ wisdom’ out of’ the Bible, as.you and I can do. It takes one back to the olden-time prophets,’ thé me who were selected by God," and put His messages into” their hearts, and made them predictorgof events, of the future, and also prédch- ers of the. Gospel. : Rev. 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Ford, Miss Rosa M. Johnson, Miss Pearl S. Matthews, and a corps of special lecturers. James A. Davis, LL. B., Treasurer. *With the colors in France. FACULTY: A. M., LL. B., President King, LL.M., Dean, Law Me McCary, D. D., Dean, The A. B., in Ed, Dean, Col. L. , Phar, D., Dean, Pharmacy B., Dean, Commercial Col. E., Dean, College Applied S. M. S., LL. B., Principal, Depe- r, Principal, School of Useful S. S., Dean, School of Em- S. A., Dean, College of Agri- Dean, School of Photograph D. S., Dean, School of Den- M. D., Dean, College of Medi- ylvester L. McLaurin, B. B. John, A. M., D. D.; Rev Edmund Hill, Jr., A. B., LL. LL. B.; M. M. Wilson, Pha- M. D.; Fred K. D. Anderson E. Lawson, Mrs. E. R. Dov- n, Miss Pearl S. Matthews' is, LL. B., Treasurer. --- STORIES OI BY F They will. It can be : records of two famous Irish-American regiments in France. It is a record that makes men of Irish blood hold their heads high. It is a record that betters the brightest page of America's most glorious military annals. These two regiments (one used to be the old Ninth Massachusetts and the other the Fighting Sixty-ninth of New York) were in every bad scrap the American army has been in. The tales of their prowess are just now filtering back to Paris. They may be told because the censor at headquarters has now ruled that regiments may be named for their part in such fighting as preceded that on the River Vesle. The Ninth and the Sixty-ninth were in almost all of it. The story does not come from official reports. It comes from the lips of two men, one a doctor in the Ninth and the other a chaplain in the Sixty-ninth, who saw what they relate. These two have seen many soldiers die. They know what bravery and courage and cheerfulness are. Lieut. Simon Kelleher of the Ninth was in Paris the other day. He tells the story of his boys. And most of the time he is either laughing, or tears involuntarily creep out the corners of his eyes and drop unashamed down his browned cheeks. Lieutenant Kelleher's stories show that the Irish boys of his regiment, the boys of Boston, South Boston, Roxbury, Cambridge and Charlestown, fought with the cool courage that held the fire on Bunker Hill until those Americans of an earlier day "saw the whites of their eyes." They show that these boys—and most of them were mere boys—died face to the front, a grim smile on their lips, fighting, doing their soldiers' duty to the last breath of ebbing life. Each heartbeat of the all-too-few left throbbed but to one purpose—to fight. No man of the Ninth died, says Lieutenant Kelleher, without taking toll and more of enemy lives with him. One for Each Shot. "Just now the names of these heroes may not be mentioned. But "Kelly and Burke and Shea" are there, all of them, and many more. Lieutenant Kelleher says nothing of his own gallantry. But his stories show that he, too, served. He was not called on for the supreme sacrifice. But he offered his life a thousand times on first aid dressing expeditions to the farthest outposts and beyond. "I'd been told there was a wounded man in an advanced traverse," he says. "I crawled slowly up to get him. I heard his labored breathing in the lulls of the gunfire. And then I rounded the corner of the trench. There he sat, propped against the wall. His breath came in tearing gasps and with each one the blood gushed from his chest; for he had been shot through the lungs. He was a boy I had known all my life. "They got you bad, Pack,' I said, as I tried to help him. "They sure did, Sime,' he replied. 'But looka there.' "I followed the wave of the empty pistol he still held in his hand, and there stretched across the opposite parapet were six dead Germans, one for every shot in his gun. They had got him only when the gun had emptied. I stopped the bleeding as best I could and we got him back to an ambulance. But he died four hours later. I guess his life was well paid for." "It was this same sharp raid of the Germans that produced one of the coolest bits of desperate courage I ever saw. One of our boys had been captured by three Germans and he was being led off as they retreated, one on either side of him and one behind. Suddenly one of our shells lit within a few yards of the party. The three Germans ducked. I thought at first our boy had. But, no, he had reached into his hip pocket. He dropped a hand grenade directly at his own feet and those of his captors—and the three Germans were killed. "God! boy,' I said, horrified, 'why did you do that?' "Saw me get 'em, did you, Doc? he answered. "Yes, but—' I didn't know what to say as I tried to dress that frightful wound. "Well, doctor," he said, gravely, I'd been to con uncle this morning and I guess I was ready to die. But I wasn't ready to go to Germany. They searched me for grenades when they got me, the three of them, and they took those out of my bag and out of my side pocket. But I always carry one tucked into my pants when I go out here, just in case of—well, anything like this. And when those three Germans ducked it came through my mind a lot quicker than I can tell it that three dead Germans and one dead American was a lot more on our side of the score than three live Ger- mans and an American as good as dead in Berlin. So I let her go.' dead in Berlin. So I let her go. "He tried to raise his head and look around. "Never mind, boy, you got them all," I assured him. "Any—any chance for me, doc?" he said. "I didn't answer and he knew. His remaining hand crept beneath his blood-soaked tunic, gripped something tight and strayed there. After a moment he spoke again. "Doc," he said, "you know all the boys around our square. I wish they could know I was game. "And, doc," his voice was 'weaker, will you—will you tell my mother I had—I had this when—I went.' "Slowly his hand came out; slowly it opened; that boy's hand strangely old and worn with the bloodstains and grime. Slowly it opened and there in the blackened palm glistened a tiny, bright silver crucifix. He was dead." It's Chaplain Hanley who tells the story of the Sixty-ninth. They refer to the chaplain as holding the clerical record for mileage in No Man's land. They can't keep him off patrols. Chaplain Hanley knows the story of most of the casualties of the Sixty-ninth. He substantiates the statement that not a man has been killed or wounded by a German bayonet, notwithstanding the regiment has encountered in pitched and open battle, three of the five divisions of the Prussian Guard at one time and another of its career. Needless to say, the Prussiau Guard division can make no such boast. Father Hanley says the hardest time they have with casualties in the Sixty-ninth is to make them stop fighting when they're hit. He is himself just recovering from a wounded leg. "The officers are as bad as the men," he declares. "The day I got this wound I was working up with Captain Hurley's company. They'd been driven back a little by a vicious German barrage and they were on a little ridge. They'd got orders to hold it, and they did, for four days. When they left it they went ahead. "Well, I was up there this day and I heard of a wounded man ahead and a little to one side, just over the edge of the hill toward the German lines. I told the captain I'd better go to him and he wanted to detail a couple of men to help me. I declined and started off by myself, crawling on my stomach underneath a stream of machine-gun bullets that would have clipped me had I raised on my elbow. "I'd gone perhaps 50 yards when I heard a rustle in the grass behind me, and there were two of Hurley's boys. They said the captain had sent them to carry me back if anything happened. Now listen to the rest of it. I sent them chasing back to their company and crawled ahead. Just as I got to this ridge the bullet got me. My wounded man was across an open space and I knew I couldn't get to him. I was afraid if I waited till dark I'd bleed to death, and I put a tourniquet on my leg and started back. Forgot About Wound. "Now all of this is just preliminary. They got me back to a hospital a day later and I'd hardly got settled in my cot when who should they put down in the cot next to me but Captain Hurley himself. He was badly smashed up in the leg, too. The leg had been dressed at the dressing station and when they got him settled they started to take off his clothes. As they pulled at his shirt he let out a howl. "The shirt was stuck to his chest with blood. He had a wound there that the doctors at the dressing station had never discovered. "Why, captain,' said the doctor, looking puzzled at the casualty tag, it doesn't say anything about the chest. When did you get this one?" "What day is this?' asked the captain. "Wednesday,' said a nurse. "Now, let's see,' said the captain. 'Chaplain, you were up there yesterday. I must have got this on Monday." "All the time he'd been sending men out to take care of me he'd had that hole in his own chest and the shirt frozen over his big heart with his own blood. "You're a captain,' I said to him. 'You're always cautioning the boys to report wounds and get them cared for. You stayed up there two days and you never even told me about it." "Honest, chaplain,' he replied, 'I forgot all about it. You know we had orders, to hang onto that dinky hill. And we were awful busy." St. Louis.—More than 1,000 St. Louisans have undergone surgical operations in order to qualify for military and naval service since the United States entered the war, according to statistics compiled in hospitals here. Is it not incumbent on the prosecution to prove a person guilty of an offense? Is it not the law, when a person is charged with crime, for the prosecution to prove him guilty? Is the Police Department higher than the lower courts and is the decision of the lower courts higher than the decision of the District Supreme Court? If the prosecution is not satisfied with the decision of the Supreme Court, it should go to the Court of Appeals. Shall the decision of the Chief of Police stand? If so, then our courts have lost all of their judicial functions. WORK. Last week, commenting on Mr. Arthur Brisbane's articles on Work, we took occasion to protest against the idea that a man ought to work like a trip-hammer and keep eternally at it. It was probably coincident with the dawn of "civilization," when men ceased to be exclusively shepherds, hunters and fishers, and it became the practice to till the soil and to erect artificial improvements, that the theory of the necessity for very hard work gained a footing. Then it was that the exclusive ownership or control of land began to be a factor. The land owners became the leisure class, or non-workers. The institution of slavery was a natural consequence. A large number of non-workers added to the burdens of the workers. The restraint and force necessary to command unwilling extra-labor constituted slavery. That notion made possible kings and counts, great landlords and capitalists, and a great army of other parasites and non-producers. The systems of body slavery have nearly all disappeared, but these parasites still exist and flourish. They toil not, neither do they spin. They are enabled to live, by reason of the over-work of those who do work, and by various systems of peonage, even child labor. The normal man requires about eight hours for sleep, about five hours for labor, about two hours for the care of his body, including bathing, and the remaining hours of the twenty-four for study, reflection and social intercourse—call it pleasure. The two great defects in our present system is that not enough persons work as much as five hours a day, and that too much non-essential work is done. There are too many idlers; there is too much wasted energy. This pernicious system is doomed. If not, we badly mistake the signs of the times. THE BETRAYAL OF A RACE. In every generation and among all races of people, high and low, rich and poor, you will find traitors and conspirators. Caesar had his Brutus and Charles I his Cromwell. Hamlet had his uncle and Macbeth his wife. But who are the traitors and conspirators among colored Americans? The moment a colored man is picked out by a white man, and in some instances by his own people, it is not long before he begins to conspire against his people and join or lead an army of conspirators. The time has come for the black man to choose his own leaders and deputize them to lead him in deed and in fact. The present war should be a lesson to the colored Americans. They should stop and think and decide whether it is wise for men who have been picked by white men to lead or to represent them. Is the race being betrayed by conspirators? Germany Wants Indemnities.—It is said that Germany is preparing a bill of indemnities against her foes. By all means let her present the bill. It might form a convenient basis or standard of calculation, help to establish a just principle. We can then reach the sum due us by the simple process of subtraction. Doped Up on Data.—We are lately informed that for a year past our Government has had a commission of experts at work preparing historical, geographical, political, financial and other data for use at the approaching Peace Conference. This is a surprise. If true, it is one of the most creditable acts of our political administration during the present war. But why does it surprise us? Campaign to Save Waste. Some months ago The Bee inaugurated a vigorous campaign against all forms of waste. It is gratifying to note that a national movement has been recently started to institute some of the measures we then advocated. In this city the work is under the auspices of the Washington Waste Reclamation SERGEANT LOSES HIS LAST FIGHT Soldier Wins Admiration of Comrades Through Cheerfulness in Hospital. HE WAS GAME TO THE END Four Operations Were Too Much for Strength of Non-Com. Who Was Wounded in Action at Chateau-Thierry. An American Hospital in France.—"No, they're not going to bring the sergeant back to the ward, boys." These were exactly the words the nurse used. But the tone of her voice and the look in her eyes said more. The little group in the ward which had been playing cards on one of the beds to forget the tension they felt while the sergeant's operation was taking place, stopped suddenly, all attention, all hungering for good news. "You don't mean the sergeant's gone, do you?" exclaimed one. "Yes, boys, the sergeant's gone. Four operations were just too much for his strength. He never regained consciousness." The little group of patients and the nurse were silent. The chap with one leg gone had half a deck of cards in his hands, Dazed, he relaxed, and the cards fell to the floor, scattering over half the ward. The chap with one leg gone never noticed them. He Was a Game Boy. "Gee, the sergeant gone," he said huskily, "he sure was a game boy." "He was the best fellow I ever knew," said another, "and the cheerfulest, too. I've seen them dressing his leg time and again, and gush! but it hurt. But did the sergeant ever say anything? Not the sergeant—he never batted an eye." "Just to think," mused a third, "it wasn't half an hour ago when we saw him go out. I shouted. 'Good luck, Sarge,' when the stretcher was carried through the door, and he smiled and said: 'Thanks, I'll be back in a few minutes with you.'" The sergeant was Frank Carbaugh of Greencastle, Pa., a member of the Seventh Machine-Gun Sanitary detachment. No mother ever reared a braver son. The sergeant, who was a mathematicians teacher before the war, was wounded when his outfit was rushed into action near Chateau Thierry. None of his bunkfles knew just how, because, as one of them explained, "the sergeant wasn't the kind of a fellow who'd talk of himself. You can bet he was wounded doing something for somebody, though." They did know that the sergeant lay out in the open a long time after he was wounded. Medical records show that. His left leg was badly smashed, and they operated at the first hospital he reached. But gangrene had set in, and four operations had followed in an effort to save him. They have had lots of brave patients that doctors and nurses and patients admired allike in that hospital, but never one just like the sergeant, who said little, was always joking and cheerful, and never had a complaint. The rest of the boys in the ward would do anything in the world for "the sarge." The little group sitting on the cots, with the nurse, had been falking of the sergeant for a long time, when one of the boys said: "You ought to write to his mother, Miss Cutter. The sarge thought the world of his mother." "I'm going to," replied the nurse, "You boys write out what you think of the sergeant, and I'll send that, too." What the Boys Wrote. The boys did, and here are a few lines from them: Private Elmer Hyland wrote: "I was with him as soon as he came from the operation, and I cried when he went. He was a great boy—a clean fellow through and through. I wish my foot was so I could walk with him to the cemetery." Wagoner John Trask wrote: "Our sergeant is gone. Why, I loved that fellow like my own brothers. I've seen other fellows go, but I never felt like this." Sergeant Vincent Sauer wrote: "I never felt worse since I came in the fight. He was game to the last; always cheerful, and when I called 'Good luck to you,' he answered: Thanks. I'll be O. K. soon.' We always had fun around his bed; he was so cheerful. He was one of the finest fellows I ever knew." Arthur Stain, who knew the sergeant better than the rest, the boys say, because 'he and the sarge liked to dabble in poetry', wrote a poem to send the sergeant's mother. They buried the sergeant in the little American graveyard in a pretty Lorraine valley, with an American flag over the coffin, as 18 soldiers fired three shots over the grave and the bugler gave "taps." Then some of the boys whose injuries permitted their attending the funeral, gathered flowers in the valley and the nurses placed them on the grave with red, white and blue ribbons around them. Ameriens, Ga.→W. T. Calhoun has just paid $2,000 for a fine Duroc-Jersey boar. This establishes, it is believed, a high record for the price of a hog in the South. (From Baltimore Daily Herald. Among the various race groups whose interests, many and varied, are destined to be affected by the deliberations at the peace table, the Negro must take his stand and insist upon a righteous adjustment of his case before the bar. The part black men have played in this tragic struggle for world democracy has unquestionably earned for them a consideration which this great court of justice cannot and must not ignore. Democracy, to be genuine, can be neither black nor white, but always must be just plain democracy. Nothing else will do. Nothing less will suffice to make it a lasting good to the world. This is no time to side-step the issue. The cards must all be laid upon the table and the character of the game must be above suspicion. Without justice there can be no lasting peace. Without justice to all men growing out of the approaching peace conference, all the great rivers of blood have flowed in vain. God forbid that man shall err in this most crucial moment in world affairs. Japan and China are preparing to take a determined stand against racial discrimination. The black Republic of Liberia, as one of the Allies, will unquestionably be represented at the Peace Conference. The one question which should be on the lips of every American Negro today is: "Who shall their representative be?" This is a vital matter and cannot be trusted to chance, if we are to have a real, true representative of and for all our claims at the shrine of democracy. It is not enough that we should let the destiny of our race rest in a general representative, which, forsooth, may, in the crush of affairs, overlook some little matter which may very vitally affect our future. In a most forceful speech very recently delivered in New York, the Hon. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the Secretary of War, proclaimed against the restoration of the African colonies to Germany. This was a master stroke, and set men, both white and black, to thinking and talking. Here is the one Negro who had the foresight and courage to strike at a wrong which has made bitter the lives of millions of African blacks, with the result that this utterance, falling from the lips of art American Negro, has arrested the attention of world diplomacy. All during this period of war stress, in which all too often black men have been made to feel the sting and cut of the color line, Dr. Emmett J. Scott has, with a fine diplomacy, seasoned with the majesty of calmness, courageously stood for race rights, bringing about order where chaos might have reigned and reduced wrong into right. It is particularly fortunate for our race in America that we have as our representative, such a man who has his finger upon the pulse of world diplomacy and is in touch with men and affairs which are shaping the destinies of races and peoples. Upon the broad and capable shoulders of Emmett J. Scott, we, with a sigh of satisfaction, place the mantle of responsibility, burdened though it may be with the woes and trials of a race, and urge that he be selected to go to the peace table to plead the cause for all black men. For just once, for the sake of a cause, let us all lay aside our intra-racial differences, both imaginary and real, in order to make one long, hard, strong pull together and place Scott in a seat around the peace table. GUEST OF HER BROTHER. Mrs. Alice Bundy Daniels, of Cleveland, Ohio, is the guest of her brother, Frank T. Bundy, 2814 Dumbarton Avenue N. W. TO SUBSCRIBERS If you desire The Bee continued to your address, send before the next publication the amount you owe. There are one hundred deadheads on the black list of The Bee in this of SIGK. NAME. Persons who fail to sign their name to articles will receive no consideration whatever. COSMOPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH WILL REOPEN Watch-Night Services to Be Held December 31—Baptist Ministers' Conference and Others The Cosmopolitan Baptist Church will reopen Wednesday, December 31, holding watch-night services. Owing to the great epidemic of influenza the church was closed just at the time the trustees had planned a great queens' rally to raise $3,000. Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor of LEGAL NOTICES. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. Estate of Lavinia Warner, Deceased—No. 25.266; Administration Docket'58. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate by David Warner, it is ordered this 19th day of December, A. D. 1918, that Lena Morton, Mary C. Lee and Estelle Poplowsky, and all others concerned, appear in said court on Monday, the 27th day of January, A. D. 1919, at to o'clock a.m., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. This remedy will relieve and cure all forms of indigestion, catarrh of the stomach, heartburn, sour stomach, flatulency, pain in the stomach, water brash, acid fermentation, gaseous accumulations and mal-assimilations. When taken into the stomach is thoroughly digests the albuminous food, and cures the indigestion by resting, and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. Try a bottle of our Mustard Liniment for rheumatism. Price, 50c. Try a bottle of our Hair Grower: It will make your hair grow beautiful. Price, 50c. Try a box of our Creole Face Powder. Price, 50c. Try a bottle of our Blood Spring Bitters. Good for your blood. Price, $1.00. Agents Wanted: Liberal Commission DR. W. L. SMITH, Druggist, Sor Florida Avenue N. W. Washington, D. C. Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, who is also president of the National Evangelistic Ministers' Alliance of America and president of the White Cross Free Labor Bureau of America, and Archbishop Joseph J. Higg of the Church of Christ, addressed the Colored Baptist Ministers' Conference at Baltimore last Monday, December 23. Dr. P. C. Neal is president and Dr. J. H. Taylor is secretary of the Conference. At the conclusion of the addresses of these great churchmen Dr. W. J. Winston, pastor of the Wayland Baptist Church and president of Lee and Hayes University, made a motion that the Conference go on record to aid Dr. Drrew's church to raise $10,000. It was seconded by Dr. William Alexander, pastor of the Sharon Baptist Church, who is also editor of the Voice and corresponding secretary of the Lott, Carey Missionary Baptist Convention, and the motion was carried unanimously. The Conference will hold a mass meeting Sunday, December 20th at 3:30 p.m., at Shiloh Baptist Church, corner of Clinton Avenue and George Street, Baltimore, of which Dr. W. W. Allen is pastor. No one has done more for the poor of this city, particularly the old folks, than has Dr. Drew. The church fed fully five thousand old folks in 1916, sending carriages and automobiles to Blue Plains. D. C., and throughout the city and bringing the old, decrepit, lame and blind to the church and returning them to their homes. Let everybody help him. Contributions may be sent to Capt. J. Walter Mitchell, secretary of the Civic Betterment Association (white), 1110 F Street N. W., phone Franklin 7492, or. Dr. Drew, 1317 Corcoran Street N. W., phone North 3608. Among the Washington churches and ministers who have aided Dr. Drew are Right Rev. C. F. Thomas, rector of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church; Rev. Dr. A. Willbanks, pastor of the Tenth Street Baptist Church; Rev. Dr. J. A. Jackson, pastor of the Delaware Avenue Baptist Church; Rev. Dr. W. H. Jernagin, pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church and president National Race Con- Indigestion Cure 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. Mary Diggs 2702 O Street N. W. Attest: James Tanner, 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 Doeket 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. A true copy—attest: J. R. Young. Clerk. By F. E. Cunningham. Assistant Clerk. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court—No. 24,000. 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 29th 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. Alia B. Dickinson Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. C. Chester Caywood, Thomas Walker, JOHN H. WILSON, Attorney. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—George Andrew Lucas vs. Emma F. 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 F. Lucas, on the ground of adultery. On motion of the plaintiff, 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. gress; Rev. Dr. W. H. Manokoo, pastor of Brown Memorial A. M. E. Church, and Rev. Dr. S. L. J. Hollowon, pastor of the Second Baptist Church. 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 1912½ 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. J. Porter of 918 Euclid Street N. W., who has been at Freedman's Hospital for the past two weeks after undergoing an operation performed by that capable surgeon, Dr. S. L. Carson, is home again and is very grateful to her many friends for courtesies shown her during her illness. The Inter-Se Club, which suspended activities on account of the war, is expected to resume its meetings after the holidays. Mr. J. D. Redmon, one of the members of the school class of Howard Law School, joined the benedict class last summer. He is living with his bride, formerly Miss Alma Tate of Marvel, Arkansas, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Caver, 400 T Street N. W. A personal tribute to Prof. Wellington A. Adams was bestowed upon him by the director, Mr. Archie Narrod, and choir of St. Paul A. M. F. Church, Sth and E Streets S. W., in their assembling in a body and rendering the sacred cantata, "The Prince of Peace," in his presence, and for his benefit alone, last Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. This is a fine tribute to this man, and seldom done in Washington. Prof. Adams was surprised in their rendition by memory and the splendid control exhibited by the director over his choir. He complimented them highly in a short talk. Mr. W. A. Adams made a flying business trip to South Carolina for a day only, last week. He returned to the city in company with Hon. R. W. Westberry, State Food Commissioner, of Sumter County, and Rev. I. L. Hardy, of Charleston, South Carolina. Prof. Wellington A. Adams rendered a touching solo entitled "Over the Top With Jesus" last Sunday evening at Second Baptist Church. He is invited by request of the pastor, Dr. W. A. Taylor, to sing "When the Boys Come Home" in a patriotic exercise to be held at Florida Avenue Baptist Church on Sunday evening. December 29th, 1918. He is also invited to sing at Rock Creek Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, December 29th, 1918, at 3 o'clock. FALLS CHURCH GLEANINGS. New Year greetings to all, with every glad wish for your happiness. * * * Rev. and Mrs. Julius Johnson left Wednesday of last week to take up Rev. Johnson's new charge in Alexandria. * * * Mrs. Jenny Robinson visited her family here on Sunday last. * * * Miss Annie Henderson entertained the Handicrafters on Thursday of last week. Mrs. Carrie Robinson's grandfather died on Sunday, December 22d, in Atlantic City. His body was brought to Washington to his daughter's home and was buried from there. * * * Mrs. Katie Summers Thompkins is improving nicely after a brief illness. * * * Mr. Abie Chew visited his grandmother, Mrs. Thomas, last Sunday. * * * The Baptist Sunday School Christmas exercises were held on Thursday night, December 26th. Recita- tions and choruses were rendered which reflected much credit upon the instructors, after which candy and presents were distributed to the children. * * * Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Dixon on Christmas day. * * * Rev. and Mrs. George W. Powell and Miss Powell spent Christmas day in Washington as guests of the latter's parents. The Galloway Methodist Church declared also that she too would like to have her pulpit filled by capable men and so refused to accept a minister that was sent them because another church would not accept him. It has been arranged that the District Superintendent, Rev. Ruddock, preach there on Sunday until they shall be sent a new minister from the Conference in March. * * * An interesting program was rendered at the Methodist Church on Friday night, when the Christmas exercises were held. Mrs. Francis Tinner Coates was in charge and, as usual, her program was very entertaining. Have The Bee in your homes. It is the people's paper. * * * Send your news to the Falls Church correspondent. GIFT TO MRS. RHODES. The colored teachers of the Municipal Playgrounds presented Mrs. Susie R. Rhodes a beautiful Christmas present Monday morning. HOLIDAY GUESTS. Miss Gertrude A. Curtis and Miss Clarissa M. Scott have returned the city to spend the holidays. Miss Scott will be the guest of Miss Curtis. Miss Curtis is attending the Sargeant School of Physical Expression, of Boston, Mass., and Miss Scott is attending the Bradford School, Bradford, Miss. Mrs. Leia Walker Robinson, daughter of Madame C. J. Walker, of New York City, is the holiday guest of Mrs. Hortense W. Turner and daughter at the new Turner homestead in the 1700 block of You Street N. W. Mr. Emmett J. Scott is spending the holidays at Tuskegee with his family. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Jackson, formerly of 2102 Seventeenth Street N. W., will be pleased to have their friends call to see them at their new residence, 1763 T Street N. W. ON SAD MISSION. Mrs. Jennie Washington of Pittsburgh. Pa., passed through the city Saturday en route for Orange, Va., with the corpse of her daughter, who died at Pittsburgh, Pa., and was buried at Orange, Va. Mrs. Washington is the sister of Mrs. Rosa Ailer and Mrs. Maud Hawkins. SPECIAL OFFER The Fountain of Youth Beauty Culture School is offering an inducement within thirty days to introduce its fine facial preparations. With every two dollar purchase of Toilet Goods a free facial massage will be given, and with every three dollars or more a "Violet Ray" Treatment will be given free. We also have a special line of human hair on sale. MADAME A. J. SMITH, 935 R Street N. W. Phone N. 4017. TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. If you want first-class printing done, call at 1109 Eye Street N.W. Triangle Printing Company. New Year reopening Thursday, January 2, 1919, at Phelps School, Vermont Avenue between T and U Streets, at 8 p.m. Lawyer Fountain Peyton, member of the Board of Education, will address the Center. There will also be a musical program. The public is invited. Object of the Center is education, practical cooperation and uplift. Officers of the Center for 1919:— Daniel Freeman, president, 1833 14th Street X. W.; Miss Emma Johnson, first vice-president; Mrs. S. Beverly, second vice-president; Miss Tucker, recording secretary; Mrs. Wheeler, treasurer; Mrs. Anna G. Green, community secretary. Advisory board: Dr. W. A. Warfield, R. E. Tucker, J. E. Williamson, Miss Jennie Jones and John W. Lewis. NEW PLANE IS SPEEDSTER Machine Being Built at Cleveland Shows Up Well In the Tests. Cleveland, O.—A new type of battleplane is now being turned out here at the new plant of the Glenn L. Martin company, and the first of the planes, now being put through its acceptance tests, has shown exceptional maneuvering ability for its size, as well as speed in climbing and straightaway flying. The new Martin plane is much larger than the battleplanes now in use by the allies in Europe. It has a wing spread of 75 feet and is powered with two 400-horsepower motors. In addition to regular equipment it has a carrying capacity of 2,400 pounds, and is said to be so constructed that there is no "blind" spot, or line of approach which its guns do not cover. The machine, equipped with machine guns, showed on first test flights that it could be handled as readily as the smaller battleplanes and answered to all requirements. Other machines of the same type are in process of manufacture and will be turned out in a steady stream from now on. OFFICER DEFINES TAIL SPIN Explains Aviation Term Which Is Not Generally Understood by Public. St. Louis.—What is a tail spin? Of all questions asked aviators this is the most frequent, according to Lieut. Charles H. Platt, flying officer at Scott field, Belleville, Ill. "A tail spin," said Lieutenant Platt, "is the natural action of an airplane when it is falling earthward out of control, the spinning being because more weight is concentrated in the nose than in the tail, the latter thus turning in a wider circle. Special Matinee Howard Theatre COOK GETS FORTUNE BUT STILL ON DUTY Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. —H. H. Miles, cook at the patients' kitchen base hospital here, received notification recently that a distant relative died and left him $150,000. Miles is still cook at the hospital and does not wish to change his career even if he could. Miles' home is at Tarboro, N. C. He has spent several years in the army and navy. "A tail spin results from reduction of the forward speed so that the attraction of gravity overcomes the buoyant properties of the wings when sufficient air is passing through them." ONION SEED FOR RED CROSS Laredo, Tex.-Federico V. Varela, an extensive onion seed grower of Tenerife, Canary Islands, has written a letter to the chairman of the local chapter of the Red Cross, T. A. Austin, advising him that he had instructed Thomas G. Casey of 99 Warren street, New York city, to send 95% pounds net of Varela's true yellow Bermuda onion seed and one case containing 74% pounds of Varela's white crystal wax onion seed of the present crop to the Laredo chapter of the Red Cross to be sold by them at auction and the proceeds to be applied to the Red Cross fund. The donor says the auction should realize $2,000. 1919:— 1333 14th Johnson, Beverly. 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Corp. of New York City Robert Levy, General Manager presents Christian BY HALL CAINE 30—PEOPLE—30 In Mob Scene Big ALL STAR CAST 5c & 50 Matinee edy—40 People—Staged by Jess Big Spectacular Production STAR CAST Matinee, All seats at 2 ple—Staged by Jessie Sharp Seats N FORAKER THEATRE RAYMOND H. MURRAY, Manager. HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE WEEKLY and NEW MOTION PICTURES DAILY First Class in Every Particular. HIAWATHA THEATRE 2004 Eleventh Raymond H. This Theatre is close to two lines if you want an evening of pleasure— "To See Well (Copyright, 1918.) BEFORE YOUR EYE DR. BERMAN AT 813 SEVER GOOD GLASSES BERMAN DUDLEY'S A S. H. Dud 2004 Eleventh Street Northwest. Raymond H. Murray, Mgr. There is close to two lines of cars. The best picture is evening of pleasure—come to the Hiawatha. "To See Well See Berman" (Copyright, 1918, Berman Optical Co.) BEFORE YOUR EYES FAIL, CONSULT R. BERMAN, Optometrist AT 813 SEVENTH ST. N. W. GOOD GLASSES AS LOW AS $2.00 DLEY'S AMUSEMENT H. 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DUDLEY'S MID-CITY THEATRE 1223 7th Street, Northwest The only VAUDEVILLE Theatre on the popular thoroughfare Best of Photo Plays and the only theatre en 7th Street catering to colored people that does not DISCRIMINATE Continuous from 5 to 11 P. M. YOUR SHOPPING LIST CENTRO DE INFORMACIÓN INFORMACIÓN INFORMACIÓN CINEMA DE LA MADRID CINEMA DE LA MADRID Will not be coniued until you visit BRGNAUGH'S DRUG STORE, SEVENTH AND P STREETS N. W., where you will find some of the prettiest Toilet Fects 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. BRGNAUGH'S, Seventh and P Streets N. W. SATURDAY SERMONS BY UNUS And he played on a harp of a thousand strings." GETTING RICH. Last week I talked about wealth and tried, to give some whys and wherefores and some ways and means. By a strange coincidence the New York Independent printed at the same time an editorial entitled "Getting Rich," in which is explained clearly and admirably one aspect of wealth-getting by the very few that accounts in part for the relative poverty of the very many. The Independent calls attention to the Marxian theory of "exploitation of labor," and the single-tax theory of rent" to account for "all inequalities of condition among men," and very acutely observes that "rent and labor are not the only things that can be exploited with profit. Many men are wealthy who did not produce the wealth, did not steal it, did not get it by fraud. And yet, they have been assiduous huntmen, and have captured it. How? What is the process? Answer: "It dies through the exploitation not of the economic virtues (including the productive industry) of one's fellow men, but, instead, through an exploitation of their economic frailties; in particular, their self-indulgence and their cupidity." Here is a scientific description of a habit that I have been preaching against, for some time—which I called extravagance and waste. I characterized the wares indulged as trash. The Independent continues: "Here is one of the vast hunting grounds of the capturers of wealth. The war for the time being has shut off parts of it. Before the war a quarter to a third of the income of the producers of wealth was captured from them, the venders of worthless indulgences." I regard the Independent's article the most notable and valuable social warning that I have seen for many a day—warning against the "buying of worthless truck of every description merely because everybody does." The article concludes: "These are things for the social reconstructors and readjusters to ponder. In an ideally just society there would be neither exploitation of labor nor monopolization of natural advantage. Let us get rid of these ancient wrongs if we can. But by what device or program, until all men become truly good and equally wise; shall we prevent the exploitation of economic so-headness by economic hard-headedness?" My answer is: We must enact and enforce more sumptuary laws. We must make and sell and buy less trash. In cablegrams from various European sources come the suggestion that the German ships of war, now captive in British harbors, should be sunk at sea—utterly destroyed. The proposition is either one of monumental stupidity or monumental rascality. As it is hard to conceive a person so stupid, I suspect that the true motive is rascality. I will not dignify the proposition by a discussion of it. Du Bois and Moton. I see some insinuations that Dr. Du Bois and Principal Môton, who recently sailed for Paris, have gone there to betray their race. I have not seen an iota of proof of such an intention. I do not believe the charge; I strong disbelieve it. Let us suspend judgment until a more seasonable day. (Written exclusively for The Washington Bee by Joseph C. Manning, Candidate for Republican Party Nomination for President in 1920.) . The people of the United States are tired of sectional national administration of their Government. Republican party leaders need claim no particular credit for the defeat of the Southern sectional democracy at the last election. It defeated itself, just as did Northern sectional Republican control bring about its own defeat in 1912. The hour has struck when the American people demand 100 per cent American administration and one standing for 100 per cent Amer- --- ican rights for all Ainereicans everywhere, at home as well as abroad. The only way to stop sectionalism, and end sectional propaganda, is to enforce the liberty guarantees of the American Constitution in every section alike. Ballot rights protected to the masses of the people of the Southern States would relegate the so-called "Solid South" to past history and open the way for a real American administration at Washington. This has not been possible because of the recreacy, of Republican party leaders of the North, who have been content on a "gambler's chance" of Northern sectional domination. The administration of McKinley in full control of the National Government, acquiesced in the rule of the South by open frauds committed by the then ballot-box stuffing Southern Democracy. No legislation was proposed or enacted to overcome this system of domination of the politically expressed Southern masses. The counting-out methods of the Southern oligarchy enabled it to then maintain minority rule of the Southern States. There was not, at that time, a Republican leader in the North who did not know that Government in the South was a brazen fraud. I was heard at the leading Republican clubs in the North at that time, and, besides, put this condition before the entire Nation through the great press of the country. Then came Roosevelt with his, "my policies" and the "big stick," and it was under this Republican administration that the disfranchisement conspiracy—to fasten the rule of a political autocracy on the Southern States—was set up. Roosevelt, then all-powerful, not only failed to stand against this aggression upon the constitutional rights of American citizens, but he seized his "big stick," with which to club into silence those who undertook to forestall this lynching of ballot rights. The administration of Taft was only a repetition of that of Roosevelt on the Southern autocracy rule. Republican party leaders of the North went further in their recreancy. They not only left the politically outlawed South to the cunning of the autocracy, but they have looked upon the cause of the opposition in the South to this condition, particularly since the advent of Rooseveltism, as worthy of no consideration. Southern Republicanism, to them, was only a field for delegate-getting for national Republican conventions, and those delegates desired were gotten, one way or another, and seated by the influences dominating the National Committee, entirely on the grounds that they favored the nomination of the candidate who had the backing of a majority of the Republican National Committee. This worked havoc to local candidates in the South, for it resulted in having earnest organizations, supporting candidates for reelection to county, offices, stamped as irregular, while so-called leaders, whose only wish was appointment to a postoffice, were put up as regular and given recognized political machinery that was a farce and insincere. This procedure of nominating candidates for President by the Republican National Committee, that has been in effect, since the nomination of Harrison, has debased the Republican party in the South and disrupted the Republican party in the North. I have fought this thing with all the power I possess, and it must end. Operating upon the same standard that the Southern oligarchy operates, with the object in view of shutting out the masses from the electorate, so has come to operate the so-called Republican organizations in several Southern States. These so-called Republican organizations, through questionable methods and back-door county conventions, and by arbitrary State Committee action, together with card admittance to hotel conferences, have narrowed down. Republican participation in Republican party affairs to the number of men who are to fill the Federal offices, with a few relatives of the political jugglers included as "bench warmers." I call upon the masses of the people of the South thus politically outlawed, both by the Democratic disfranchisement oligarchy and by the so-called Republican organizations in the South, to assemble and effect organization. The crushed peoples of the world are rising today to overthrow autocracy. They are asserting their right to voice in government. Send your delegates, representing the repressed South, to the next Republican National Convention. If the Republican National Convention shall dare to again "steam roller" its Southern pawns into the next National Convention as delegates, putting its feet upon a just struggle for world democracy at home, it will mean the end of every trickster who would again so prostitute the party of Lincoln and the deserved defeat of any candidate so nominated. Such a course will not be daringly undertaken! An end to this must come. I pledge my supporters to lead the so-called oppressed South to liberty. This cause in the South is not one of so-called "Negro disfranchisement." It is a condition of the shooting to pieces of constitutional government by the Southern political autocracy. All opposition to minority rule is helpless. It is as much the duty and the task of the Nation to uphold democracy at home as it is to uphold democracy abroad. I favor using whatever power that is necessary to employ that this Nation may enforce the Constitution of the United States. Any State that fails to protect the right of the United States citizen to vote, and in the longest return of that vote, ought to have the immediate intervention of the Federal Government. That which smacks of Hunt autocracy has no place in any part of this country of ours, and the hour is now when it must be overthrown. Joseph C. Nanning. 204 West 14th Street. New York City, December 10, 1918. The report of the Secretary of Labor to Congress is of great interest to Negroes. It shows that the United States Government through the Department of Labor is really solving some of the great problems seriously affecting the economic condition of the Negro wage earner. In referring to the establishment of the Division of Negro Economics the Secretary of Labor says: "In the previous fiscal year the attention of the Department of Labor had been repeatedly called to specific problems involving race relations. During 1916 and 1918 perplexing questions had arisen and investigations had been made with regard to Negroes. With the greater industrial efficiency demanded by the war it became apparent that a more harmonious adjustment of the labor relations between whites and Negroes was imperative, especially in view of the fact that the latter race makes up over one-tenth of our total population and includes about one-sixth of the working population. It has long been the policy of the department to avail itself of the best expert knowledge obtainable in the administration of such problems as have arisen." Staff Appointment Urged by Both Races. The appointment of a Negro as adviser to the Secretary on matters relating to the Negro race was urged by many white persons as well as Negroes and was favorably recommended by the Advisory Council of the Department of Labor. After consultation, with many persons of both races, the Secretary appointed Dr. George E. Haynts as his adviser, with the title-Director of Negro Economics. According to the Secretary's report, this step was taken not only because the advice of an expert was necessary, but because it was generally felt that a race which makes up such a large share of our industrial army and has contributed so generously to our military and naval forces is certainly entitled to a seat at the Secretary's council table when matters affecting its interests are being considered. Duties Defined. "The function of the Director of Negro Economies," says the Secretary, "is to advise the Secretary on matters affecting the Negro wage earners and to outline and direct plans toward greater productions in agriculture and other industries. The work of this division since its establishment has amply justified its creation and my policy has been to refer it for advice concerning administration of all problems peculiar to Negroes as wage earners." The Work of Field Organization. Congress is informed that State conferences with local organizations have been held in North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Florida, Mississippi and Illinois, and have received the strong support of the governors and state councils of defense as well as many fraternal, religious and educational associations; that cooperative committees of whites and Negroes have been organized in seven States; namely: Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky; that the appointment of such committees is now in progress in five additional States—Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; and that county and city committees have been appointed in seven of these States. This work is carried on under the su- BARBER THE INSTANTANEOUS VIOLET RAY TREATMENT. Scientific instruction of a method to remove blemishes. Guarantees to bleach your face two shades lighter. The first and only one in this city to operate and give this treatment. Perfectly harmless. 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COME IN AND REGISTER DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES. pervision of the Director of Negro economics and by a staff of State supervisors of Negro economics, with the view of promoting good feeling between the races, whereby Negro labor can be used to its greatest productive efficiency under the most favorable conditions: These committees have worked in close cooperation with the Federal State Directors of the United States Employment Service. Negro Migration. Congress is also informed that a very extensive report on the migration of the Negro has been made by the Department of Labor under the supervision of Dr. James H. Dillard, president of the Jeanes and Slater funds for Negro education in the South. The investigation was begun prior to the appointment of a director of Negro economics. However, the report was submitted to the director of Negro economics for final preparation and revision. This report is now in press and will be available for distribution in the near future. Lynching: "Anoise the circumstances disclosed by Dr. Dillard's investigation," says the Secretary, "was the fact that the exodus of Negro workers had been the largest where lynchings and other forms of race friction had been the greatest." Later reports from the field indicate that such evils are retarding the efforts of the Department of Labor to allay labor unrest and to distribute properly the labor supply throughout the South. "While the functions of the department do not extend to recommendation of specific means for dealing with this menace, and while its correction lies wholly with the several States, it seems proper to point out that it is a constant cause of unrest and that it is making harder the work of the Department of Labor to increase the efficiency of Negro wage earners by improving their conditions. It is a duty to point out the effects of such evils and to state that only its total abolition will serve to replace unrest with contentment. 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Percy Stickney Grant, Mr. M Guggenheim,- Bronson Winthror Commander Van Orden and ex-Post master Voorheis of Brooklyn. NORFOLK NEWS. Howiardites in Social Work in Ner- folk; Virginia: Booker T. Washington High Schoo! is very fortunate’ in having in its corps-of teachers not only the Misses Ruth V. Smallwood and M. Talita Barnside, but also the Mis¥es Maude E, Swinson and Ethel L. Plummer. The latter two served as clerks in tke offigg during the epidemic of in- fluenza, until Miss Plummer was called home on account of the death of her-sister. ‘ We shall. he glad at all times to have in our city such social workers as these four young ladies. The ‘Colored Red: Circle of Nor- folk is crowded each night with en- listen. men, which proves that an or- ganization of ‘this kind should have heen effected a’long time ago. All the private and public schools of Norfolk, Va. are closed until De- cember goth, on account of the “in- uenza epidemig. , ‘The Executive Board of the State, ‘Teachers’ Association. of Virginia will meet at Virginia Normal and In- dustrial Institute, Petersburg, Va. December 27th, to discuss after-war problems affecting the schools of Vir- Laie and the country. COLORED FOOD OFFICIALS CONFER. : Kk. W. Westherry, who is a promi- nent farm: and real estate factor in Sumter, South Carolina, and who is the colored director of the United States Food Administration for that state, in company with two other col- cored state representatives of the Food Administration, the Rev. I, L’ Hardy of Charleston’and Prof. T. H. Pinck- ney of St. George, were visitors ir the city this week, and galled upor the national director of colored ac: tivities (Food Administration), Mr Ernest T. Attwell. 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