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RepublicansProtest ed American voters in the North. Our Race is fast coming together and becoming united industrially and politically, and we intend to make a nation-wide appeal direct to Colored American voters everywhere. The Pollard faction has called a State convention to be held in Richmond on Labor Day, September 5th, and will put a full State ticket in the field. This convention will be open to all Republicans, white and colored, and the place and date for the National Colored American conference will soon be announced in the public press. Unfair Treatment ONE-BEE-FRONT PAGE ARTICLE COLORED-AMERICAN REPUBLICANS AROUSED! Planning National Protest Against Treatment Accorded Them—Lily Whites Control Virginia State Convention—Bodily Ejecting Accredited Colored-American Delegates. Chairman Adams Nominates Virginia to Lead Party in "The New South." (Special to The Bee.) A storm of resentment has arisen, that is likely to become nation-wide in its scope, over the seeming policy of the present administration to permit "Lily White" Republicans to dominate party affairs in the South, and especially because of the disgraceful treatment accorded duly accredited Colored-American delegates at the Virginia State Republican convention, held at Norfolk, July 14th, when, for the first time in the history of a Republican convention, not a single Colored-American delegate was seated, the police being ordered to keep out all Colored-Americans who applied for admission, and when three regularly elected Colored-American delegates with no contests pending against them were forcibly ordered to leave the floor of the convention, dominated as it was by Congressman C. Bascom Slemp, chief priest of the "Lily Whites," member of the Republican National Committee, and the leading adviser and spokesman of the present administration in the South. Not only in Virginia, but Colored-American leaders everywhere are astounded at the treatment that has been, and is being accorded faithful Colored-American Republicans whose patriotism and party service have been so soon forgotten. Patience has ceased to be a virtue and intelligent, organized resentment on the part of Colored-American voters North and South seems the only manly alternative and the only motive power that will tend to bring the Republican ship back to its traditional moorings of justice and fair play to all Americans without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude. A nation-wide movement in this direction is already in progress, headed by Hon. J. R. Pollard, prominent Colored-American attorney of Richmond, Va., and State chairman of a large Republican faction in Virginia which polled thousands of votes last November, and Hon. H. H. Price, also of Richmond, Va., the recent Colored-American nominee for Congress in the Third Virginia district, who polled 2,882 votes against the 646 votes cast for John L. Grubbs, the "Lily White" Republican nominee. These two gentlemen are here in Washington making arrangements to call a national conference of Colored-American Republican leaders and voters throughout the country to discuss the Colored-American's present political status and to formulate the best plan of combatting the "Lily White" movement which seems destined to envelop and control the entire Republican Party. Questioned concerning their plans, Messrs. Pollard and Price, of Richmond, Va., said: Our action in calling a national conference of Colored-American Republican leaders and voters is caused not only by the outrageous treatment accorded Colored-American delegates at the so-called Virginia Republican State convention held in Norfolk, July 14th, where police were ordered to remove all Colored-Americans from the floor of the convention, and where one Colored-American delegate, by the name of Edward T. Morton, regularly elected from Arlington County, Va., who refused to leave the floor, was forcibly ejected, but we are moved to take this step because we know that the "Lily White" movement, while now largely confined to the South, unless vigorously opposed and checked, will gradually eat its way into mid-central and northern states where Colored-American voters now constitute the balance of power, and then it will be only a short time before the party of "Lincoln and Grant and McKinley" will have become the party of "Tillman, Vardaman, Bascom Slemp and the Devil." This Lily-White movement, while southern born, is fast getting a strong grip on the present administration and northern party leaders, as can be seen (1) by the definitely announced policy of President Harding not to appoint a single colored Republican to federal office in the South that requires confirmation by the United States Senate now largely Republican; (2) by the recent action of the Republican National Committee in radically cutting down Colored-American delegates in national conventions, over the protests of such sterling Colored-American Republican leaders like Henry Lincoln Johnson, Georgia National Committeeman, and Robert R. Church of Tennessee, etc., and at the same time refusing to act in the direction of cutting down southern white representation in Congress, even in the face of clearly defined constitutional provisions and the large Republican-majority now in Congress; (3) by action of the administration forces in covertly and openly encouraging C. Bascom Slemp of Virginia, in spreading his slimy, "lily-white" propaganda all over the Southland and in actively meddling with, and "balling up" the political affairs of Georgia, Mississippi, and other southern states where Colored Americans have any voice in party affairs, and even rewarding him for his underhanded deviltry by permitting him to dictate patronage all over Virginia, including numerous jobs in the departmental service at Washington; (4) by the action of the present administration in silently acquiescing in, if not encouraging flagrant violation of the civil service law, in the matter of demoting, dismissing, segregating, denying appointment to, and mlstreating colored clerks and other colored employees in the Government departments at Washington and elsewhere throughout the country; (5) by the seeming intention of the present administration to let the protests of several hundred "Lily-White" women employees of the Treasury Department, flying the red flag of race-prejudice, defeat the claims of justice, outweigh the will and wishes of twelve million loyal Colored Americans, and upset a commendable precedent, by preventing the appointment of a Colored American as registrar of the United States Treasury, a position creditably filled by members of our Race from time immemorial under various Republican administrations; (6) by Hon. Will H. Hays, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, gracing, by his presence, the "Lily White" convention at Roanoke, Va., last year over the protest of many Republicans of the State both white and colored, and openly encouraging the cutting down of Colored-American delegates this year at the recent meeting of the National Committee; and (7) by Chairman John T. Adams, of the Republican National Committee, falling in the same trap, by writing a special letter to Congressman C. Bascom Slemp at the recent "Lily White" State convention in Virginia, which excluded Colored-American delegates in flagrant violation of the resolution and mandates of the last Republican National Convention, and in which encouraging letter, Mr. Adams wrote the following astounding paragraphs: "On the fundamental issues Virginia in sentiment is so strongly Republican as Iowa. This State should assume its rightful place in the councils of the Nation. A country forever united calls on old Virginia to help in restoring its institutions. * * * So we Republicans of the nation come to you of Virginia, with your patriotic traditions and genius for leadership. We want your help. We want your skilled hand on the rudder as we near the end of the voyage to bring the new South into the harbor of Republicanism. We are ready to take a pilot aboard and we ask Virginia to take the pilot's commission." The delegation from Shiloh Christian Endeavor Society, which attended the International Christian Endeavor Convention in New York City recently, returned home last week. All of them reported an enjoyable and profitable time, and seem greatly encouraged, and have set out with renewed vigor for better work along all lines. *** Rev. Dr. Edwards and his family of Baltimore spent the day in this city last Sunday. Dr. Edwards preached for Shiloh Church last Sunday morning. His sermon was helpful and greatly enjoyed by all who heard him. This able and eloquent divine will occupy the pulpit on the third Sunday in August while the pastor, Rev. Dr. Waldron is away on his vacation. *** The Men's Club of Shiloh Baptist Church met on Wednesday night last and elected officers for the ensuing year, the names of which will appear next week. This club will have charge of the advertising of the church services during the pastor's vacation, and will make every effort to have large congregations. Ye Gods! Think of Bascom Slemp and Virginia piloting the Republican party! A man who carries the Ninth Virginian district for himself, but didn't carry it for Harding in the last election; a State where the "Lily White" Colored American exclusion policy has been tried out time and time again without any semblance of success in building up a strong white Republican party! The Republican party, by nominating Virginia to take the leadership in Southern Republican affairs and by covertly and openly aiding and abetting Congressman and National Committeeman C. Bascom Slemp in his "Lily White" propaganda, is virtually digging a grave for itself and inviting a defeat in 1922 as ignominious as its national victory in 1920 was overwhelming. Mr. William H. Scott, chairman of the Trustee Board, and the clerk of the church, is confined to his bed, 1615 Church Street Northwest, by a severe illness. The officers and members of the church are praying for Mr. Scott and are hoping for his speedy recovery. *** The Christian Endeavor Society is planning to open gospel services in one or more of the courts each Sunday during the month of August. Republican candidates in states and districts where Colored Americans largely vote may well beware the ascendancy of "Lily White-ism" and the triumph of Bascom Slemp, for unless the Republican national leadership radically alters its present program Colored American retaliation is certain to follow, and, in normal campaigns, when no super-normal issue like the League of Nations figures, the loss of Colored-American votes in Northern States will give the G. O. P. a rude awakening. The Men's Quartette of the church rendered some splendid selections at the Tulsa Mass. Meeting at the John Wesley A. M. E. Z. Church on last Tuesday night. The pastor and church are especially proud of the choir and its chorister, Mr. T. H. Ward, and the Men's Quartette, composed of Messrs, T. H. Ward, Gustavus Harkum, William Guy and William H. Green. In commenting on the Chairman John T. Adams' letter, the Richmond (Va.) News Leader of July 15th, in its editorial column said: "It is well enough for the National Republican Chairman to invoke the white Republicans of Virginia to rescue the South from the hands of Democrats; it is well enough for the delegates at Norfolk to reason that the only way of fulfilling the mandate of the national organization is to make the Republican party a white man's party in the South. But when the pinch comes in the general elections, the Colored American vote in the doubtful States will be of sufficient strength to compel the Republican National organization to choose between Colored American support in the North and white support in the South. The national committee may temporize and employ the usual device of deferring the whole matter to a distant date; but sooner or later it must exercise its influence in behalf of Colored American representation in the Republican councils of Virginia." Perhaps fully one-third of the members are away in the country, at the seashore or in the mountains, but these members and those in the city will not forget the pastor's vacation fund, which the deacons are asking the members to turn in on before the second Sunday in August. The pastor and officers are planning a big day for the Church on Sunday, July 24. There will be two special sermons by the pastor and extra music by the choir. H. H. Price, of Richmond, further stated; 'The Pollard faction refused to present its credentials to the 'Lily White' convention at Norfolk, July 14, because said convention was illegally constituted in that the mass convention which elected delegates thereto were held in places where Colored Americans could not attend and hence were excluded from participation in election of delegates, in direct violation of the resolution and mandates of the last Republican National Convention; those that were held in places where Colored American could attend engaged and ordered police to bar Colored American delegates. Bascom Slemp's action in Virginia imperils the success of the whole Republican program not only in Virginia, but elsewhere—especially where Colored American voters are the balance of power; the time is past when they can outrage Colored American voters in the South without suffering retaliation on the part of Color- HOWARD THEATRE. Hailed as one of the best Cosmopolitan productions turned out this season, "The Woman God Changed" will be shown at this theater for three days, starting Sunday, July 24. This is the story of the beautiful dancing girl's life tragedy, but who after many harrowing experiences glides into the heaven of happiness on the bark of love. Seena Owen and E. K. Lincoln play the leading roles, and every scene is dramatic and thrilling. Beginning Wednesday July 27th "The Witching Hour" will be presented for three days. This is a delightful story, filled with dramatic situations of the greatest interest and thrills aplenty. From every other standpoint, the production is one of the most remarkable shown at this theater this season. On Saturday one of the most fascinating photoplayls will be presented. It is William Fox's production "Hearts of Youth," and is based on the novel "Ishmeal," by the celebrated Mrs. D. E. N. Southworth, an American author whose intensely dramatic work has been translated into French; German and Spanish. In this photoplay the youthful Fox star, Harold Goodwin, will appear. The third episode of "The Yellow Arm" will be the added attraction. TULSA RELIEF COMMITTEE VISITS WASHINGTON. G. A. Gregg, H. S. Hughes and S. D. Hooker, representing the Tulsa relief committee, is visiting Washington, D. C., this week in the interest of the relief and defense fund for the victims of the late Tulsa disaster. Thousands of colored people in Tulsa whose homes were burned are living in tents with dirt floors, little or no bed clothing and few cooking utensils. With winter approaching, there is grave danger of great suffering. No efforts are being made by the authorities of Tulsa for restitution for the property burned so the colored citizens are preparing to enter suit against county and city for damages for the $3,000,000 worth of property destroyed. It will cost about $10,000 court cost to enter these suits, as there are more than 1,000 individual cases to be filed. The committee is asking Washington people to help out in this crisis as they have only 15 days longer to enter these suits. A mass meeting was held Tuesday night at John Wesley chapel under the auspices of the committee of seven. Three hundred dollars was raised for the work. Sunday at 3:30 another mass meeting will be held at the 12th Street Y. M. C. A., under the auspices of the business men to aid the work. The committee is asking all churches of the District to take an offering Sunday, July 24, for Tulsa relief. Persons desiring to help may reach the committee at Room 408, 12th Street Y. M. C. A. NEWS ITEM The National Association for the Adyancement of Colored People has selected Mr. E. B. Henderson of Falls Church as a district organizer in Virginia. The Fairfax County branch of which Mr. Henderson is secretary and drive colonel exceeded the allotted quota of 400 members by more than 100. New branches will be organized in Loudoun County, Arlington County, and Leesburg this summer. COLORED MUSIC STORE Deserving Your Trade. Choirs, Churches, Teachers and Students. Tell Others, But Let's. Make Friends First. ADAMS MUSIC HOUSE 1911 9th Street N. W. "VENGEANCE OF THE GODS" Blood or Opportunity? CHAPTER FOUR. The Power of Circumstance. No. Environment is not omnipotent, but it is so almost all-powerful that it deserves the major consideration in the making of a man on earth. Here are two babies. Three-fourths of the blood of one is from the same sources as three-fourths of the blood of the other. And, that other fourth of blood is just—human blood. In physical feature they are like duplicates. But the divergence of their ways on earth will carry them to differing destinies. And which is which? Why did Aunt Katy hug little William so passionately when alone with him? And when alone with little Jimmie, why did she croon so wierly and almost compassionately over him, and treat him with all the indulgent pity of her race? William's aunt remarked the strange fascination with which Jimmie seemed to hold his grandmother. And why had Aunt Katy done this thing which "Miss Ollie" feared would be done, and which the reader of this history must by this time suspect to have been done? Partly for fear and partly for revenge. For fear: Because she had often heard John Elliot tell, with approval, of the terrible vengeance wreaked by one of his brothers on "a little n——r gal." It seemed that the little colored girl was not much older than his brother's child whom she was supposed to nurse and take care of; and that by carelessness or childish neglect she had allowed the little white child to come near a boiling pot in which soap was being made.. This child stumbled, overturned the pot and scalded itself to death. The angry and brutal father then seized the little nurse and "cut both ears off that little n——r." All the other colored people had fled at the sight, so that "nobody ever knew what became of the rest of the little n——r gal," for not even the parents of the colored child had dared to address any inquiries to the infuriated demon who was responsible for her unrevealed fate. Aunt Katy recalled this oft-repeated story and remembered that as John Elliot was leaving on the previous day, he had said something to her concerning William. "Take good care of him!" Elliot remarked. "for hell will be too good for any n—r if he gets hurt." So when the stove lid fell on little William's leg, what was Aunt Katy to do when there was another pair of little legs just like them, close at hand and perfectly sound? For revenge: Because in the innermost recesses of her soul she had always resented with deepest human hate the outrage which John Elliot had committee upon the innocence of her little Essie. Every slight and every act of neglect or contempt which Essie and Essie's child had suffered from the Elliots and their kin, had deepened this hate and fed this desire for revenge. Whenever John Elliot was the offender, the inspiration to this deed had spoken in her car like a tempting devil. So—well—when the Elliots returned from Europe. William had become quite fond of his New Orleans aunt, but looked strangely upon his parents, which was "perfectly natural." He had to be won over by his mother and father, but that was soon done with a multitude of playthings and goodies. What did the babies care? What do the babies care? We next see these two children when they are seven years old. How swift is the passage of childhood to the eye of the observer. But to the child it seems longer, the longest period of life—like great oceans of time. In outward appearance these two little boys had become less alike, so that now there was no mistaking the one for the other. But if one disregarded the illusions and veneer of this world's fortunes and saw only their essential features, they were still enough alike to be twins. Clothing and the care of their bodies clearly distinguished them. Besides, each had now a personality which could never be confounded with the other. William was generally well-dressed, well-shod, pampered and autocratic. Essie's "little nigger Jim" was clad in homemade things or cast-offs, and had a temper to fight and a disposition to carry away the playthings of the little autocrat. The last named trait was "proof of his sect," as the colloquialism used by Mrg. Elliot would have it. She often pointed to: the difference between these two little spirits, especially in the presence of John Elliot, in support of her theories about "blood," as if indeed that were the only difference—as if they were otherwise circumstanced alike—when as a matter of fact they were more equally endowed with "blood" than with any other thing. While William was an autocrat, Jimmie was a revolutionist; a radical, versions of his elders, and to underforced to call loudly for aid from the greater powers against this unsubduable revolutionist. Aunt Katy, Essie, and others of the servants had often to succor the titled possessor of the throne. Some of these encounters were naturally provoked by the arrogance of the little autocrat; who was beginning to overhear the conversations of his elders, and to understand that between him and Jimmie these were some sort of fixed gulf, a gulf which he himself might cross and recross at will, but which forever shut Jimmie out. The Russo-Japanese war was going on, and when a great naval battle was imminent, John Elliot had remarked to guests at table that the Japanese could never win because they were "too much like n—rs." This unpremised conclusion about n—rs went unchallenged, as usual. William had listened closely to this table talk. And so in the afternoon, when he carried his bean-shooting cannon and his uniformed cardboard soldiers into the kitchen, to play war with Jimmie, he insisted that his side must be the "Rushins" and that Jimmie's side must be the "n—r Japs." This was finally, agreed to by Jimmie, because after all nationalities were not so important to him at his age. Jimmie's army consisted of soldiers of different sizes and shapes and colors, which with the help of Aunt Katy he had recruited with a pair of scissors from old paper boxes, and a few faded, battered and crippled, limbless or headless "Rushins" which the opposing general magnanimously loaned him on the eve of battle. While Jimmie was setting his motley army in battle array, it seems that the "Rushin" general had the nerve to fire a shot at them before the "n——r Jap" general "wuz ready to give orders to shoot." In the heated parley which followed from these oddly conflicting notions of the laws of war, the commanders came to blows. The turmoil and noise of the battle became so great that John Elliot rushed from the house with reinforcements for the distressed and vociferous "Rushin." The opposing general had discarded the conventional weapons of warfare and winding, his left fingers in the curls of his antagonist, was pounding him with his right fist with the regularity of drum fire. At sight of this savage attack, John Elliot, one of the great powers, rushed forward, seized the barbarian in the back, gave him two hard spanks, then dropped him and turned to console the rescued party. But instead of yielding tamely, the little Afro-Asiatic, catching the great power for a moment off guard, kicked him violently on the shin and retreated at top speed. "The little devil! That n—r will die with his boots on!" Jimmie was completely outlawed; all diplomatic and commercial intercourse was forbidden and never again was he to tolerated on the premises of the Big House, the stronghold of the powerful land baron, John Elliot. (Continued Next Week.) (Released Exclusively by the Kelley ANACOSTIA NEWS. A well attended meeting of the Barry Farm Citizens' Association was held Friday night in the Methodist Church on Stanton Road. Communications from the Columbia Heights Citizens' Association in reference to recreation and amusements and parks, and that of the Mqunt Pleasaat Citizens' Association in reference to nature study in the public schools received consideration on a motion by Mr. J. Howard. * * * Miss Louise H. Craig, a graduate of Kansas University, was designated by President E. S. Hoffman to represent the association at the meeting to be held at the Public Library. * * * A letter from Major Harry L. Gessword was read thanking the association for its indorsement of the one-day leave in every fifty-six days for the members of his department. Now that we have an incorporated "Negro Grand Opera Company" of our own, let each and every member of our race aid to make this company a success. The company has a capital stock of $50,000, with Mr. Laurence Freeman, the noted colored composer, as founder and director. With eight original grand operas, the product of Mr. Freeman's genius, as a working basis, the new organization is forthwith launched upon its artistic career. The roster of artists to be employed in the leading roles to be produced from time to time is of great magnitude, embracing as it does practically all the leading singers of the race, both male and female. The first opera scheduled for production during the season 1921-22 is the "Martyr." This play will be in two acts. The scene is laid in Egypt. There will be one hundred and fifty people employed in this production; also a grand orchestra of fifty selected musicians. The executive staff comprises fifteen members. The incorporators are: H. Laurence Freeman, president and director; Carlotta Freeman, vice president; Valdo L. Freeman, general manager and treasurer. The new company formed by Mr. Will Marion Cook, known as "Cotton Blossoms," which is now playing in London, is meeting with the great-ets success. **** Much credit and the race is very proud to have one like Abbie Mitchell, a once leading lady of the Lafayette Players, who is now starring and having great success overseas. She is playing in the London halls in an act called "Full Harmonee." She is supported by a male quartette, singing stories of Negro music from primitive spirituelles to grand opera. A quartette, known in this country, as the "Exposition Jubilee Four," is in London under the name of the "Royal Southern Singers." and are staging the show at the Coliseum and other big halls. Payne, Rosamond, Denny and Williams are members of the act. *** Strains of American syncopated music filled Buckingham Palace last week, where the first state ball since 1913 was given by the King and Queen of England.' Over two thousand guests were present, including Captain James F. Oyster in a letter stated that only the public utility hearing prevented him from accepting the invitation of the association to address them. *** Letters from Dr. Frank W. Ballou and Secretary Harry O. Hine were read, and indicated that the matters concerning the schools in which the association was interested had been favorably considered. *** A petition asking for minor repairs on various roads in the suburbs caused by recent wash-outs was ordered sent to the District Commissioners. *** Chief Engineer George W. Watson of the Fire Department replied to a request of the association for one additional alarm box for Stanton Road, stating that the matter was under consideration by the electrical engineer, of the District of Columbia. *** A committee composed of Messrs. John H. Wilson, John E. Howard and Dr. R. H. Hshipley appeared as representatives from their association. They spoke of the desire of their body to merge with the Barry Farm Citizens' Association. President Hoffman named the following members of the Barry Farm Citizens' Association to arrange to meet the visiting committee and make a full report at the August meeting of the association: Samuel J. Jones, Matthew W. Taylor, Frederick Dyson, L. Richardson, John Howard, Mrs. L. C. G. Craig, Mrs. Mary Taylor and Rev. J. E. Scott. On account of the findings on the land condemnation case recently affecting Barry Farm citizens not yet having been reported by the jurors, the association will not take its usual summer recess. The association adjourned to meet Friday, August 19th. The Million Dollar Wedding held Friday night at the Birney School was a brilliant success. Mrs. A. Ambassador and Mrs. Harvey, other members of the diplomatic corps and a host of British notables. Dukes and duchesses, glittering in satin and diamonds, danced as the orchestra played the well known American popular music. *** The choir of the Centennial M. E. Church of Baltimore, with Rev. W. H. Jackson, rendered to the large gathering at Asbury Church at the evening services many beautiful selections. The Centennial Choir was the guest of the choir of Asbury Church. *** The Wooding Jazz Orchestra, with Mr. Wooding as leader, is rendering to the public the best of music at the new amusement park known as the Suburban Garden, located at 50th Street Northeast. Mr. Clarence C. White, formerly of this city, but now residing in Boston, has proven a success with his talent as violinist. He was among the artists who took a wonderful musical part in the concert given at the Summer School of A. and M. College of Greensboro, N. C. Besides the success he has made, he is still climbing for a step-higher to the top. Listed on the Vocalion catalogue for July is his record, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," which is played by Marie Morrell, well known concert violinist. Mr. Roscoe Lee, a musician with piano talent, is having the greatest of success with the work he is undertaking, and it is the hope of every one that greatest opportunity will follow him. Mr. Louis N. Brown, the famous and well known piano player of this city, is having much success with the Junior Choir of Plymouth Church. *** Miss Josephine, Wormley of the District of Columbia public schools is pursuing a course of music at the Columbia University. *** One of the most successful teachers of music in the District of Columbia schools is Mrs. L. H. Johnson. Her record during the past year is noteworthy. Wherever she taught she was extremely helpful, giving entire satisfaction in every school in which she was placed. Mrs. Johnson is well trained and efficient. Payne and Mrs. Mamie Dorsey won the first and second prizes, respectively. The entire proceeds, amounting to over $600.00, will go to the building fund of Campbell A. M. E. Church. *** The recent cutting down of the workers at Uncle Sam's government departments, and also the Steel Plant at Giesboro, has caused many efficient workers for years to lose their positions. Fortunately the wise ones have their own homes and have good bank accounts. *** Harry C. Phillips of Howard Road is enjoying a fifteen days' leave of absence from the Government Printing Office, where he is employed. Mrs. N. Tossit has leased her beautiful home on Howard Road and gone to live with Mr. and Mrs. John W. Moss. Jr., on Nichols Avenue. Policeman William E. Stewart is another one of our popular officers who has aided greatly in suppressing the crowd of gamblers who operate on the county corners. Miss Emma V. Smith has just returned from Dover, N. H., where she attended to the closing up of the business affairs of her late uncle. Dover, N. H., papers paid a great tribute to the deceased in their columns. GEORGIA WOMEN FIGHT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION Demand that Legislature Pass. Act Which Will Enable All to Vote. Atlanta, Ga., July 15.—The women of Georgia are protesting over the denial of the right of suffrage to them in the 1920 elections. The Georgia Woman's Suffrage Association, of which Mrs. Mary McClendon is president, has sent a strong message to every member of the present assembly demanding that the women of the State be no longer disfranchised unless the legislators have the temerity to put into effect such discrimination by making a law rather than through the acts of ballot officials. The letter sent by the association calls attention to the fact that Georgia and Mississippi are the only two states in the Union which disfranchise women and demands that the legislature pass an act which will enable the Georgia women to vote. Issue Is Squarely Defined. Placing the question squarely before the general assembly, the letter concludes: "In a few of the 15 states when women were enfranchised by state enactment men who wanted the lucrative offices held by women have declared it was illegal for women to hold office. The supreme courts decided otherwise and the women held on to the offices. In the city of Atlanta, the first city in Georgia to grant municipal suffrage in 1919 and 1920, a question has been raised as to the legality of women's vote on the bond issue of $8,500,000. This will perhaps be settled by the newly elected legislature, of which you are a part. "Furthermore, if the women of Georgia are again refused their undoubted right to vote, there is a great danger that the number of United States Congressmen and Senators will be cut down by the federal government. Women do not want that done, for we aspire, like men, to fill the offices of honor and trust. "We only know that women did not vote in Georgia in 1920. We want to know why they did not vote. There are now many women lawyers in Georgia who will bring such matters to the attention of the Supreme Court and compel the state to declare upon what grounds women citizens were deprived of their natural right to self-government. Suffrage is the exercise of self-government through the ballot. The Nineteenth Federal Amendment gave women in 1920 the legal right to vote. The state of Georgia through its officials refused to let women vote in 1920 and Mississippi's officials did the same thing. Wants a Clear Cut Law. "If the state of Georgia, through its governor and its legislature, desires to deprive the women citizens of their natural right of self-government through the ballot, the state must do so by a clear cut, positive law. Is the lawmaking body of Georgia prepared to do this unjust thing? "Will the new governor disfranchise the Colored American women, as he boasts he did disfranchise the Colored American men? Will the legislature follow the governor in his attempt to disfranchise the Colored American women? When he does this unjust thing he must also disfranchise the white women, who were also enfranchised by the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Federal Amedment. The new President of the United States, Mr. Harding, in his inaugural address, delivered at Washington, D. C., March 4, 1921, said: "Our fundamental law recognizes no class, no group, no section. There must be none in legislation or administration." Will you follow the governor or the President? Will you help the women of Georgia by voting for our bills?" WHITES NARROWLY ESCAPE LYNCHING BY NEGROES. (Special to The Bee.) Richmond, Va.-Colored Americans of Richmond, taking cue from activities of the Ku Klux Klan in the South, organized a mob in Richmond a few days ago and set out to lynch two white men, assailants of young colored girls. One-third of the entire police force of the city had to be called out to quell the colored rioters, while the rest of the force was held in reserve for what ever might happen. Two white men, Henry Conway and C. H. Brown, are held in jail without bond, charged with attack on Miss Emma Byrd and Miss Abbie Niell. It is stated that the attack took place as these two ladies were returning from a lodge meeting. Several hundred colored men and boys made open threats of lynching: the whites when they were identified by the girls. The brother of Miss Neill was arrested and charged with carrying a pistol in the street. Evidence formulated by his friends, however, shows that he was at home in bed when the shot was supposed to haye been fired. INFAMOUS KU KLUX KLAN WORKING FOR FOOTHOLD IN ST. LOUIS. St. Louis, Mo., July 18—The Ku Klux Klan, which is claimed by its adherents as "a rejuvenation of the old Southern organization which followed the Civil War," and which had for its chief purpose intimidation of the Colored American, held its first meeting of its semi-secret membership Drive Friday night at Strassberger's Musical Conservatory, Grand and Shenandoah Avenues, and bitterly denounced the Catholic Church by calling on the hundred men present to preserve the best traditions of 100 per cent Americanism and to maintain the supremacy of the white race. Five of these hoodlums wore the robes of the Klan. The aims of the order as outlined by "Brother Endicott," who further identified himself, by relating a story which occurred while he was "yardmaster for the Missouri Pacific Railroad," is something along the following lines: 1. Absolute curtailment of the alleged attempt of the Catholic Church to politically dominate the Congress and diplomatic service of the United States. 2. A closer co-operation between capital and labor. 3. Restriction of immigration. 4. Devotion and adherence to the Constitution of the United States. 5. Perpetuation of Christian ideals and a sound belief in Christ. It was explained this plank in their platform eliminated Jews from the order. 6. Opposition to lynching and complete approval of the doctrine of law and order. Numerous other aims were outlined by the speaker, who admonished his hearers to pay no attention to attacks on the order in the papers. A perusal of their platform gives no excuse for the existence of such an order. 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Leaders Hold Four-Day Conference at Hampton Institute—Christian Communities the Conference Hampton, Va., July 13.—Ministers, farmers and teachers are co-operating heartily to improve community life as well as to develop the success qualities of individual men, women, and children. The recent joint meetings at Hampton Institute of colored American leaders showed clearly the growing interest in community program making. The Interdenominational Ministers' Conference of Hampton Institute (Rev. M. E. Davis, Norfolk, president, and Rev. Laurence Fenninger, Hampton Institute, executive secretary) brought together 255, colored leaders from eleven states—168 from Virginia; 72 from North Carolina; 4 from Maryland; 2 each from South Carolina, Arkansas and New Jersey; and one each from Ohio, New York, Delaware, District of Columbia and Texas—who represented 16 denominations, including Baptist, 154; African Methodist Episcopal, 39; Protestant Episcopal, 19; Presbyterian, 10, and Metlodian Episcopal, 6. Educational Exhibit. For the benefit of 255 colored ministers from Virginia, North Carolina and neighboring states, and for 115 visiting farmers, an educational exhibit of posters, containing slogans and pictures, new and helpful books on church work, especially church work in rural parishes, and stereomotograph views of rural churches and rural health, was placed on display in the main room of the Y. M. C. A. Building at Hampton Institute. This exhibit was thrown open to the public and was visited by a large number of men and women in search of knowledge and inspiration. A few of the slogans will indicate the live-wire method which was used to call attention to some serious rural life problems: "The peril of the country today is not the uprising of the 'sinners,' but the downsitting of the 'saints.'" "You can live anywhere and be a 'preacher,' but to be a 'pastor' you must live with your people." "There is an old saying to the effect that 'God made the country.' In view of the present religious conditions there, it is time to win it back to its maker." Church Leaders Co-operate. The following officers of the Ministers' Conference were elected: M. E. Davis, Norfolk, president; G. D. Jimmerson, Newport News; L. L. Downing, Roanoke; S. S. Morris, Norfolk; D. J. Lee, Norfolk, J. T. Johnson, Hampton; A. A. Hector, Richmond; E. E. Ricks, Newark, N. J.; C. C. Sommerville, Portsmouth; J. S. Brown, Rocky Mount, N. C.; W. C. Cleland, Durham, N. C.; Rev. C. Ransom, Oceanport, N. J.; E. L. Baskerville, Charleston, S. C., vice presidents; Laurence Fenninger, Hampton Institute, executive secretary; Thomas J. Bolling, Hampton Institute, assistant executive secretary, and J. W. Lemon, Ark, Va., recording secretary. The conference also elected about forty of its members to serve on the executive board, which represents a dozen or more denominations. Rev. L. L. Downing of Roanoke, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, expressed the thanks of the Conference to the authorities of Hampton Institute for courteous treatment, to the speakers for their inspiring talks, and to the executive secretary, the Rev. Laurence Fenninger, who is the chaplain of Hampton Institute and founder of the Ministers' Conference, for his untiring activity and keenness of vision, and the sympathy of the Conference to Dr. James Hardy Dillard of Charottesville, Va., who has done to much to help develop colored American education throughout the South and win new friends for colored Americans. Teaching and Inspiring People. "Hampton Institute would be derelict in its duty," said Dr. James E. Gregg at the closing session of the Ministers' Conference, "if it did not keep in mind the fact that teaching and preaching are professions which are closely allied." (The teacher should be the shepherd of souls; the preacher must think of his hearers as those whom he is to instruct as well as inspire.) Dr. Gregg referred to /Viscount, Bryce's stafement in "Modern Democracies" that there was only one workable democratic government one hundred years ago, namely, the United States. Today China, Russia, Germany, Austria and other countries are embarking on the experiment of democracy. "Democracy is going on," said Dr. Gregg. "There will be more democracy in the world rather than less democ- gacy. In a Christian democracy no man need expect any sort of caste system to persist. (Christianity and democracy can be trusted to abolish racial prejudice, enmity, strife and hatred.) Archdeacon James S. Russell, founder and principal of St. Paul School at Lawrenceville, Va., delivered four addresses—"Work of the Christian Ministry," "Family Life and the Church," "The Keeping of the Church," and "The Open Door to Service." Rev. Levi G. Bateman, pastor of the First Christian Church, Youngstown, Ohio, gave four lectures on "The Church and Its Organization." Rev. Dr. William P. Hayes, pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church, New York, spoke on "The Case Against the Church," "The Church and Its Young People," "The Institutional Church," and "Financing the Church." Rev. Hermann N. Morse of New York, author of "Fear God in Your Own Village," who is the director of publicity of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, spoke on "The Opportunity and Task of the Country Church," "The Country Church and Community Welfare" and "Program of the Country Church; Content and Method." Rev. Dr. Reverdy, C. Ransom of Oceanport, N. J., editor of the "A. M. E. Church Review," spoke on "Essentials of Effective Preaching," "What to Preach," "The Preacher in His Study" and "The Preacher in His Pulpit." The conference sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. J. H. Asiby, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, Norfolk. Victory Through Co-operation. That ministers and teachers should co-operate in helping people fight the battle of life with equal weapons and with Christian education was the opinion expressed by Dr. Ransom in his address on "The Teacher as Priest," delivered in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, before a union meeting of farmers, teachers and ministers. Dr. Ransom referred to the need of equipping all children for American citizenship by the adequate financial support of public and private schools and the response which people from the cotton fields and mines are making to the call for money which will be used for education. He stated that America cannot go forward as it should while any group is handicapped by ignorance. "The colored teacher everywhere should equip herself so as to supplement the teaching of history. Each teacher should specialize on the teaching of colored American history so that the coming generation of colored Americans may hold up its head in the United States. Somebody must look out for exceptional boy or girl and get behind exceptional ability. The preacher and teacher must clasp hands anew in answering the high calling of God." 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But—alas! it seems otherwise, as in:the case of Tulsa and Monroe, La. -In the former place the Colored Ameri- caris were outraged because they were progresbive and developing the highest type of American civilization. In the latter place the planters who have accumulated, property by tHe sweat of their brows are being killed ‘because they are wealthy: * Suppose these atrocities, were practiced upon the group who are committing: these depreda-| tions and for the same reason? ay . i : What would be.the result?. Action! In our country the trouble ‘is that the worries, perplexities, and daily problems of certairi groups of our best citizenery, for such ‘they are, do not influence.or touch the small group that manages the affairs of the Federal government: If any group practiced any of these atrocities. on the perpetrators, there would be no speech making—it would be outraged, mobbed. or jailed. (?) Until this group is touched or made to feel these svrongs by expérience, there is no real action which leads to a successful adjustmént. “The troubles of the numberless groups not reaching by actual experience nor being “acted upon by the:few who control. them is the threatening danger of the country. What is true of in- dividuals and groups of the whole is: equally, true of-the whole. This high-handed procedure is ‘no more right that it would be for another. nation’ to shoot up or mob the United States because it is| prosperous.and rich. : se tS GEORGIA WOMEN FIGHT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION. The women of Georgia are’ demanding the state legislature to give them the right of self-government through the ballot. A:com- mendable act! _ What will it mean to the.Colored American women? Will it enfranchise them? By. heritage ant law they. are entitled to their. freedom! “All men were created freé and equal.” Our fore- fathers fought for their freedom from British rule. Qur sisters of the other race fought’ and are fighting for political and sex freedom. Does the possession of either by them help or hinder the sister of Ethiopia? As long ds the iron the heel of oppression is stamped.upon the freedom of any one group the stamper himself is not free." The’ stamped-and ‘the stamping-are both held in bondage. ce: + Bas “Men whose boast is that ye , 2 Come of father’s‘bold and free, : . ., If there breath on earth a slave, ~~ Are ye truly free and brave?" wee oy . LET’S CLOSE THE BOOK. -° 3 ; In the last issue of this paper there was. an affidavit from the Chapin & Sacks Corporation ‘relative’ to the serving of cream on the Ellipse to the children of Washington,.on April 9, 1921, which was subscribed and sworn to by Dr. E. F. Harris. Somebody may have erred but the company in an honest and open statement disclaims all responsibility. Who has not erred in some manner! 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I was greatly impressed: with the: possibilities, but disappointed in my discoveries; I had. previously visited the Wonderland Park in Bal- timore, Md., and expected to ‘find something ‘similar, but did not... First of all, I was compelled to dig down and pay an admission price, then on entering, 1: found only. two amuse- ments, ‘namely, the flying horses and the dacing pavilion, ‘The former drew all the crowd of about fifty per- sons. There were no‘ persons at “all on the dance floor to elijoy the music, under the direction of my good friend Russell Wooding. ‘There is. a great future in “this park if only the neces- sary attractions aré added. The Wonderland Park in Baltimore is a imecca for ‘colored Americans. ‘This park is partly under the management Bf my good, college chumy Joseph J. Broadus Mason, and,has all the latest attractions, tncluding the shooting star, ocean wave, aeroplane, flying horses, dancing pavilion and others. And.‘some. of. these attractions and! the attendance will increase. ; eee _ Alexandria, Va. may be called a sleepy city, but.there are some very wide-awake citizens inhabiting it: The latest innovation in that city is! the Brooks’ Bus Line, organized by’ Mr. Richard H, Brooks, and capital- ized at $10,000.00. ‘This company has. now one large motor ‘bus. running,! and has on the road "two large buses, | which will.soon be in operation, The: motor bus business "promises to be a‘ paying proposition, and Mr.. Brooks < s losing no:tiie in grasping this op-« ortiinity, e a nae : ‘The Elks’ Convention, which’ meets: in’ Boston the coming, August, prom- ises to be a big affair. Both Colum- bia Lodge: and Morning Star Lodge are making preparations. to send large delegations to’ this meeting. | Exalted Ruler Dixon is leaving no stone unturned. : eae | Now that the question’ of who shall be Recorder of ‘Deeds seems to have been settled, the next office to be sought is that of Register of the ‘Treasury. Quite a few are pressing the appointment of Charles A. Cot- trill of Ohio. Mr. Cottrill, it will be recalled, was collector’ of United States Internal, Revenue at Hoboken under, President, Taft. ; \- eee Jack Jolingon, is now’ on the’ trail of Jack Denipsey.. He claims to-be able to win back the heavyweight championship, but: there is great doubt in. my mind whether he would be. able to do this. Johnson would still bea big drawing card, were he to re-enter the ring. This “was. proved by the great throng which. greeted him én his return to Chicago. A crowd of over five thousand per- song greeted him, and paraded down State Street, preceded by a brass band. The trowd which greeted him was composed of members of both races, : eee Rev. Walter S. Jackson,. formerly. pastor of Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, was a welconit visitor to our city. on last Saturday, -having come over from Baltimore, where he: is. pastoring Centennial’ M. E. Church. | Rev, Jackson: delivered an inspiring sermon in the evening at Asbury | Church. The popular pastor was ac-{) companied by his choir, which ren- dered sonic very excellent music. I am sorry that the Rev: Jackson was not invited to ‘the morning service, 3s he would have been greeted by a A VOICE FROM : 5 FLANDERS FIELDS. . . In- Flanders fields where poppies blow Beneath the crosses, row by row, | | We blacks an endless vigil keep— : Yea, we, the dead, can never sleep— ‘ PO Ingratitade has made it so. ‘ Why are we here? Why did we go . From loving homes, that need us 60? : ‘Was it for naught we gave our lives; : ‘On Flanders fields? ae Ye blacks who live, to you, we throw * , The torch; be yours to face the foe e ‘At home; and ever hold it high, : Fight for the things for which we die, ‘That we may sleep where poppies 7 grow, - . In Flanders fields, *- : ‘ ‘This Beautiful Tribute to’Our’ Hero Déad Has Been Made Into a Hand-Painted Picture, Suitable: for Framing, Price, 50 Cents.’ Framed Ready to Hang-on Your Walls, $1.50, Postpaid. ‘ Sy ——ABDRESS= i; r WILLIAM M. KELLEY © -- : 3 Quiney: Place, - ; Brooklyn, i New York: -: much larger congregation. Our peo: ple are not churchgoers at night. SPECIAL NOTICE, To’ the Members of the National Negro. Bar “Association of the * United States. = Gentlemen? The next annual. meeting of the National Negro Bar Association will be held ‘in’ the city-of Atlanta, Ga, August 17, 18, 19, 1921, at the “same time the Business League Press As- sociation, National Negro’ Bankers’ Association, Funeral Directors’ As- sociation, and other auxiliary organ- izations will hold their sessions in ‘that city. : We want to urge upon ‘every, mem- ber of the Bar Association-thirough- out the country in good standing to be present either in-person or by a representative from their local: bar. There was never a time when ‘the ripe experience and combined wisdom of the members of our fraternity are more needed, especially when we are reminded. that our country is being Feconstructed afong international and national lines. . Membership’ in’ some local bar and admission to practice in the highest courts of your state are the only Prerequisites to membership in the National Negro Bar Association ind Negro Lawyers all over the country are urged-to be present and to join, All attorneys who intend to. be pres- ent should ‘communicate with the president or secretary on or. before August 12, 1921, : Let us get together, stand together and work together. = __ . (Signed), : PERRY B, HOWARD, | President, Department of Justice; Washington, D.C. (Signed), * . S. D. McGILE, Secretary, 510 W. Adams §t., Jacksonville, Fla.” + | BEAUTY AIDS FOR DARK COMPLEXIONS. How Art Improves: Upon Nature. All self-respecting people naturally, wish to look their best. 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Efforts to wipe out the "color line" in organized labor organizations also failed. The convention took the stand that national and international unions could not be compelled to recognize Negro workers and that this was a matter to be adjusted by conferences between the colored American wage earners and the various organizations. Both questions were the subjects of long and stormy debates in which discrimination by certain unions against the colored race and woman wage earners was bitterly denounced. Race Question Arises. The colored American question arose on the.report of the committee on laws, which disapproved a resolution calling for the suspension of unions that discriminated against colored American workers. The committee, however, was upheld by overwhelming vote. "The Velvet Kind" REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. Replying to a question from the floor as to whether it was possible to force any affiliated union to wipe out the "color line," President Gompers said: "Cream of Ice Creams" "The American Federation of Labor has previously declared that it is the duty of all workers to organize regardless of sex, nationality, race, political belief, or color. Made without the use of gelatine, gums, starch or fillers "The federation, however, cannot force this view upon individual or affiliated unions without their consent." Made with pure cream, pure milk, pure cane sugar and natural flavors. THERE IS NONE "JUST AS GOOD" Jordan W. Chambers, colored delegate of the Railway Coach Cleaners of St. Louis, declared that conferences between members of his race and the unions had been ordered at previous conventions, but never had been held, and urged drastic action to compel recognition of the Negro workers. Chapin-Sacks Corporation Franklin 4800 JEWISH RIOT IN CHICAGO. (By the Associated Negro Press.) Chicago, Ill., June 30.—Five hundred bathers took part in a Jewish riot at Clarendon Beach last Sunday afternoon, in which women were beaten, children trampled and four persons arrested. Because fences were being torn down and playgrounds apparatus was broken, Superintendent G. J. Custer had ordered life guards to keep close watch. Life Guard Ted Ritner was standing near a group when a woman made a derogatory remark. "I understand," she is reported to have said, "that one of these life guards married a black girl." As he moved off he is seized to have made a remark concerning Jews—and the fight was on. Mrs. Mary Murner, 1147 South St. Louis Avenue, is alleged to have seized a hammer and struck at him, Alexander Ratier, 1117 South Richmond Avenue, attacked him from the side. Ritner shouted for help. Bathers and life guards came from all directions, and in a moment the fighting had become general. Women attacked each other, pulled hair, kicked and scratched. The bathers fought with fists, oars, pop bottles and anything that came handy. This is a placeholder image. It should be a clean, well-defined rectangle with a black background and white text. WHITE PRESS MISLED PUBLIC ON CAUSE OF OUTBREAK. Tulsa, Oklahoma.—Despite the camouflaged reports sent out by the white news-gathering agencies the truth of the recent race outbreak here is gradually finding its way to the entire outside world. A SCHOOL FOR THE TRAINING OF COLORED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN FOR SERVICE That the colored Americans of this town fought desperately to protect their lives and property against overwhelming odds; that the United States airplanes; by dropping bombs fired the colored American business section; that the riot was not precipitated by the African Blood Brotherhood, of which Cyril V. Briggs of New York is president; that the total number of whites slain was covered up by the white reports; and that the original cause of the riot can be traced to peonage and economic rivalry—were the facts revealed by reliable reports emanating from colored American sources here. Though it is young in history, the Institution feels a just pride in the work thus far accomplished, for its graduates are already filling many responsible positions, thus demonstrating the aim of the school to train men and women for useful citizenship. The Teacher Training Department The Grammar School The Divinity School The Academy The Commercial Department The School of Arts and Sciences The Department of Home Economics The Department of Music The Department of Social Service Thirty Whites Arrested. Thirty white men have been arrested and are being held for an investigation in connection with the plundering of the devastated colored American district. About seventy-five men, all white, have been taken into custody in the last few days on PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA various charges, but many of them were released. Another angle of what led up to the shooting of last Tuesday night developed when Tolly J. Elliott, proprietor of the largest colored American store in Tuifa, declared at a meeting of the Ministerial Alliance that he telephoned Mayor Evans at 9 o'clock that that an excited crowd was gathering in the colored American section. He asserted that he was in touch with the situation through the police department and that the police had the situation well in hand. Mayor Evans later said he had no recollection of a telephone call. Orders had been issued by the police department that all colored Americans on the streets without identification cards would be arrested and placed in detention camp. THE FORUM (Lynn Haines in Your Congress.) (From' the Richmond Voice.) Big politics, more than big business, is the immediate and common problem which we have to face. Politics is the gateway to everything government has to offer or to withhold from the people. At present no real advancement in industrial conditions, no vital change in government, can come excepting through the instrumentality of politics. And that is only legitimate function that politics has—to serve as the agency for the application of economics and moral principles to the life of the people. Politics should be only the means to that end; but modern political organization has become an end in itself. This end is office and the ever-increasing spoils and perquisites of office. Politics, the servant, the incidental thing, has grown so great as to overshadow and subordinate all else in government. The problem is to demote politics from principal to agent in government. TULSA NEW BUILDING LAW UNFAIR. (From American Baptist.) One of the most unkind and most unreasonable things which has followed the Tulsa riot is the new building law which has just been adopted in that city. The homes and buildings which the colored people occupied and which were burned during that terrible calamity, were erected under the building regulations then in force, and it would be reasonable to allow those unfortunate people to rebuild these homes and buildings with as little delay and as little inconvenience and expense as possible. But instead of that the city has enacted a new building law requiring the buildings erected in the burned district to be at least two stories high and to be fireproof. This simply means that many of these distressed people will not be able to rebuild at all, and even the land which they could not burn will be lost either by sale or at a sacrifice or sold perhaps partially to satisfy a mortgage which may have been on the property. This is not the spirit in which the city authorities should meet these distressed people, and we doubt whether the law will sanction this taking of property without due process of law. This new building law should be legally contested, and if they have not the money to do it the people who are in sympathy with them should provide a fund and see that they are not denied the opportunity of rebuilding their humble homes. DES MOINES AVERTS LYNCHING—POLICE ACT QUICKLY. Des Moines. Iowa.—The people here were much aroused when Samuel Lee fatally stabbed his wife at the entrance of an amusement park. Lee gave no reason for the attack, which was seen by several hundred persons. The people became very angry and made efforts to lynch Lee, who made an attempt to escape down a side street. Before he had gotten very far he was struck by a passing truck. A rope was secured by the mob, but was quickly dispersed when the police arrived. RACE CONSCIOUSNESS OF COLORED AMERICANS COLORED AMERICANS. ...(From the National Defender.) ... The Board of Movie Censors in Boston, consisting of Mayor Peters, Police Commissioner Curtis and Chief Justice Bolster, have stopped the exhibition of Griffith's film, "The Birth of a Nation," because of the strong representation made by Boston colored Americans that it was a libel on their race, glorified lynching, and tended to create race hatred. There were 1,000 signers of the col- ored American protest, and 100 colored men in the delegation that waited upon the Board of Censors. This shows that the colored American race is developing race consciousness. There are not as many of them as there are of some other peoples, but in Massachusetts they are strong enough to amount to something politically, and, besides, in that state there is a tradition in favor of the colored American from oppression or insult. COLORED AMERICANS IN CHI- CAGO HAVE MILLIONS IN BANKS. Average Decrease Only $2, U. S. Report Shows-Chicago Bank Government surveys of the effect of individual depression upon the colored wage earners of the country, conducted by Phil Brown, Commissioner of Conciliation of the Department of Labor, in charge of such investigations, has shown that deposits of colored wage earners in savings banks decreased only $2 per capita in the period between January 1 and April 30 of this year. Incidentally, Mr. Brown discovered that a Chicago savings bank, with average deposits of $1,146,000, carries more savings of that race than any other bank in the country. Mr. Brown, who served for sixteen years as assistant director of publicity of the Republican National Committee in Chicago, has completed these surveys since his appointment, on April 1, and has been commended by the department for his work. CHICAGO SCENTS ANOTHER RACE RIOT. 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The action was taken following a recerimenda- tion by the inspector-general’s depart- ment. # \The colored American was shot in the abdomen, and it .was at first thaught his wounds would prove fatal, but he is believed to be recovering. The shooting followed an altercation between Col. Shelley and the colored American at St. ‘Aaph's, Va, when, the colonel says he reprimanded the hos- tler for. abusing. army- horses: whicli he was exercising. According to the colonel the colored American threat- ened: to “get him" when they got back into the District of Columbia. On the’ following day the colonel says he encountered the colored American at the quartermaster. stables near Potomac. Parks in’ Washington. He says the colored Atmerican cursed him, demanding an. explanation of why the colonel had reprimanded him the day before. After .a somewhat heated exchange of words, the/colonel says the colored American snatched a riding crop out of his hati and struck the colonel in the face, whereupon the latter drew a pistol, yhich he. had taken the precaution, throvise, him- self with following:.the colored’ Amer- ican's threats, and shot -his assailant. ; The’ colored American, it is under- stood, ‘asserts that the attack was un- provoked. . WHITE MAN SLAPS NEGRO. STABBED TO DEATH. Knoxville, Tenn., July 8—J. W Taylor, white man of Pineville, Ky. walked into the restaurant of Carl Wilson, 412 South Central Street; and approaching Gates Jett, who was Seated on a stool playing a piang,’de- liberately slapped the young, negro from.the stool and remarked, “I’m the baddest man in twenty-six states; now, nigger, g— d— you, get up and_play another piece.” Jett arose, opening’ a knife,. and plunged it into the heart of Taylor, ‘inflicting a wound that caused his death before’he reached the hospital. Witnesses’ state that ‘the assault on the ‘regro ‘was wholly: unprovoked. The restdurant was operated ‘strictly for negroes. and the white man was Without his grounds in visiting: there. Ttis stated th4t' he had ‘given a young tiegro-gisksthese dollars, just a-short time Before ‘at a house adjoining the restaurant, where he had been in bed with her. ate + oe City and county. officers have scour- ed the entire county for Jett, but he has not been arrested as yet. “BLACK AND TANS” FIGHT LILY WHITE REPUBLICANS IN FLORIDA... ° Tampa, Fla—A ‘bitter patronage row is on between the Florida “lily whites” or irrégulars and the “black and tans”, or regular Republican or- ganization. The “Jily whites” are fighting the appointment of Matthew B, Macfarlane of this city to be col- lector of customs for the Florida ports, ajd have -so far succeeded in blocking” his confirmation by the Senate. Macfarlane, was nominated by President Harding ten days ago to succeed John F. C. Griggs of Tampa. It ig expected the objection will be inavbiling and that: Macfar- lane's nomination will-shortly be con~ firmed. THREE-MAN RIOT STIRS TOWN. : FATHERS’ IRE. Capitol Heights Citizens‘‘to File Charges Against Darneille. Today: Deny Two Cleaned Up Place. Able-Bodied Homie Folks Had Gone Home to Bed When Onslaught Was Made, They Say. | Headed by Edward L. Payne, pres: ident. of the town council, a delega: tion of Capitol Heights, Md.; citizeiis will call on Commissioner Oyster to- day to bring. charges against Police- man Henry Darneille in connection with the riot at Capitol Heights Mon- day night. . * Decision* to take this action was reached at a special meeting of the town council last night. ~ “We intend to‘ask Senator? Weller and Representative Mudd’ to accom- pany .us.”" said Mr. Payne. | Inqury Is Ordered. 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Send money cr stamps, and we will ship by parce! post. ‘GARFIELD, D.C. ° -) A double wedding took place in the village on Monday, July 18, 1921, Mr. Raymond P.’ Harrison and - Miss Leona Johnson and Mr. Richard Sut- ton and Miss Agnes Brooks were united in holy matrimony, The cere- mony was’ performed by Drv J. A. Taylor, pastor of the Emmanuel Bap- tist Church.” : Mr. ‘Harrison is an ex-service man and an employee of the government. Mr. Sutton is a passenger agent. Both couples have a bright future before them. LEGAL NOTICE. . . John -F. W. Smith, Attorney. Supreme Court ofthe District ‘of Columbia—Holding Probate Court. No. 28183, Administration. . This is to give notice that the, sub- scriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the- Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration. of the estate of “Nellie Williams, 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 subscrib- er, on or before the 20th day, of June, A. D., 1922; otherwise they may: be excluded from all benefit. of said estate. . s - Given under -my hand this:20th day of June, 1921. : . James R.- Wilder, 218.1 Street N.W. Attest: W. Clark Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Co- lumbia, .Clerk “of. the Probate Court. © John W. F. Smith, Attorney. LEGAL NOTICE. ‘W. C. Martin, Attorney. Supremé Court of the District of Co: : lumbia—Holding Probate Court . No, 28,308, Administration,” This is to give notice that. the sub- scriber, of the State of North Caro. lina, has obtained from ‘the Probate Court of the District of Columbia lettérs of administration c. t. a., of the estate of Andrew Sears, late-o: the District of .Columbia,} deceased All persons having claims agains the deceased are hereby. warned :t: exhibit the same, with the voucher: thereof, legally authenticated, to th subscriber, on or before the 13th das ‘of July, A. D, 1922; otherwise the} miay by law-be exluded from’ al benefit of said estate. "oe Given under my hand this 13th da; of July, 1921: . ‘ _ Lizzie Ray, 508 .Colfax Street, a Durham, N.C. * Attest: . > W. Clark Taylor, Deputy’ Registe of, Wills ‘for the District of Co lumbia, Clerk -of the Probate “Court. W. C. Martin, Attdrney. LEGAL NOTICE, W. C. Martin, Attorney, Supreme Court of the Di8trict of Co lumbia—Holding Probate Court No, 28,295, Administration. This is to give notice that the sub- scriber, of the District. of ‘Columbia, has obtained from. the Probate Court Of the District of Columbia,’ letters testatnentary. on’ the estate of Frank Brown, late of the District of Colum- bia, ‘deceased. - All persons. having claims against the deceased are here- by warned to exhibit.the same, with the’ vouchers thereof, legally authenti- éated, to the subscriber, on or before the Ith day of July, A: “D. 1922; otherwise they may by law be. ex- ‘cluded ‘from all benefits’ of ‘said es- state. Su . - .Given urider my hand this, 11th day of July, 1921, : Ella Brown; : 22 Bowen ‘Avenue S.*E. Attest: “ : W. Clark Taylor, Deputy Register - - of Wills for the District of Co- lumbia, Clerk of the’ Probate. Court. . W. C.-Martin, Attorney. = ROOM ‘FOR RENT. ° FOR RENT—Large front room for rent; no children; homelike. Call after 6 p. mi, 1301 V Street N. W. Pee 5 aioe Sou: WEAK MOMENT EE Feats RSUbLER wh ve Oveee ATTENTION fies. Sate de Polos. 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