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Action Cool and Deliberate—Displeasing Clauses in Constitution Cause—Still Eligible to Affiliate with General N. E. A. Merely as a precautionary measure and to secure for themselves greater educational advantages, a large number of seriously disposed members of the teaching corps, representing the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth divisions, assembled at the Dunbar High School Friday afternoon of last week and after hearing an adverse report from the local N. E. A., comprising the first nine divisions, decided without a single dissension, to withdraw in a body and to organize an independent one. Last May many of the these same teachers met in this school and accepted an invitation to form a joint local N. E. A; with the first nine divisions. A constitution was drafted and submitted to teachers of the last four divisions for ratification. Going over each by-law closely, it was noted that certain words and phrases did not meet with popular sanctioning. A mild protest swept the hall. Some felt that unless these embarrassing obstacles were removed a state of inferiority would exist between the two branches. VOL. XLII NO. 29. Sev With The Local Action Cool and Deliberate—Disp Cause—Still Eligible to Affili Merely as a precautionary measure greater educational advantages, a posed members of the teaching eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth divi High School Friday afternoon of last verse report from the local N. E. A. sions, decided without a single dis and to organize an independent one. Last May many of the these s and accepted an invitation to form first nine divisions. A constitution teachers of the last four divisions f. Going over each by-law closely and phrases did not meet with popu swept the hall. Some felt that unless these e moved a state of inferiority would e The executive committee at that time was instructed to return the constitution with amended parts to the other side and request a concurrence. The committee did as ordered and it was this unfavorable reply due to the blank refusal of the opposing section to agree, that led to the present meeting and the action taken. Dean Miller of Howard University, the president, presided, and stated briefly the purpose. Mr. M. Grant Lucas, principal of the Bruce School, secretary, then arose and reported what the committee accomplished, getting the concessions granted, requested of the other side. The committee recommended only one course—unconditional withdrawal. When the last communication was read. President Miller arose and asked for consideration of the report. A few moment elapsed. Dr. Penfro, principal of the Lovejoy School, then got the floor and moved for its DAY NURSERY NOTES. The Board of Trustees of the Alley Improvement Association held its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, the 6th instant, at 1135 New Jersey Avenue, Day Nursery, at 5 p. m., at which time the executive secretary of the Day Nursery presented her report for the month of November. Many new annual members were reported. We hope soon to number our membership by the thousands. Please join. Send one dollar, your name and address, to 1135 New Jersey Avenue, Day Nursery. Mrs. Lincoln Brown was elected superintendent of the Day Nursery, to succeed Mrs. Milton J. Waldron, who tendered her resignation after many years of faithful, gratuitous service. Her interest, however, will continue in this good work. Dear friends, these children deserve the best. The best because they are God's little ones. They cannot have it unless you say so. Let your answer be yes, backed by the great dollar. With the consent of the board of trustees, we have placed little boxes in our business houses, accompanied with a placard bearing the following inscription: Day Nursery, 1135 New Jersey Avenue, Northwest. Christmas—Please Help the Babies Financially Who Are Brought Daily to This Institution. Friends, this is your opportunity to lay gifts at the Master's feet. Names of members having paid membership fees continued: Rev. Dr. Howard, Rev. C. J. Leek, The Washington Bee approval. No serious objection was raised and it was adopted. Supterintendent of Schools Wilkinson, who was on the rostrum, stepped to the edge and in a clear race like fashion suggested that an independent one be formed so that the professional interests of the teachers could not suffer. Acting upon suggestion of Superintendent Wilkinson, Miss E. F. G. Merritt, directress of primary instruction in the public schools, made a move to carry out the necessary plans in this new organization. Lucas, a teacher of unanimous consent that the officers and commitee just legislated out of office be appointed temporarily to formulate these plans. This was done. It was also pointed out that the withdrawal was purely local and did not effect the status of the newly proposed organization should there be a desire at any time to affiliate with the general N. E. A. Rev. Dr. Bullock, Rev. William Hill, Rev. Sayles, Bishop Ross, Mrs. Katje Holland. Mrs. Martha Williams. Mr. James Lee, Mr. William Young, Mrs. Aegean Daily, Mrs. Daisy, Stephens. Mrs. Fannie Taylor, Mrs. Annie Taylor, Mrs. Mary L. Johnson, Mr. James Garland, and Mr. Robert Hurry. COMMITTEE OF SEVEN HOLD SESSION. The Committee of Senev, composed of Rev. E. D. W. Jones, Rev. J. M. Tanner, Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Mr. Robinson, Rev. Mr. Henderson and Rev. Mr. Pine, held a national meeting two days last week at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. There were delegates from twenty states and one from South Africa. A petition was sent to the Disarmament Conference, laying before that body the grievances of the colored races throughout the world. There were many great speeches, among them our own Dr. Callis, and Superintendent of Schools Garnett Wilkinson, who were particularly interested in these addresses, because they spoke of the disabilities in the educational system. Prof. Wilkinson stressed the importance of making our school system the best in the country, by having better buildings and high grade teachers. There is an awakening on the part of the colored people everywhere, as was voiced by the speakers. We want only our constitutional rights, and there was an expressed determination to have them. A very fine reception was tendered the delegates and their friends by the ladies of the church. Our own Mr. J. M. Layton repre- Connections sented the Washington women in a very able address before the convention Friday afternoon. J. W. JOHNSON IN CAPITAL AT CRISIS ON DYER BILL. James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, left New York for Washington Monday, December 12, to remain there until a vote had been taken on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, H. R. 13, which was to be debated and voted on in the House of Representatives on December 15-16. Just before his departure, Mr. Johnson, at the national office, received the following letter from Representative Leonidas C. Dyer, who introduced the bill in Congress: "My Dear Mr. Johnson: As per my talk with you over the telephone this morning, the Committee on Rules yesterday voted a Special Rule for the consideration of the Anti-Lynching Bill, H. R. 13. It is planned to take this bill up in the House on December 15th, and to continue its consideration the 16th. It is very important that all members of Congress who are interested in this legislation be here at this time. I suggest you make it generally known among those who are in favor of this legislation that a hard fight will be made against its enactment into law, and that we will need every friend of it present here in the House at the time mentioned to speak, work and vote for the bill. We need them present in person and on the floor of the House during those days. With best wishes, I am. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced in connection with the above letter that before its arrival telegrams had been sent throughout the country informing the public of the impending vote on the Dyer Bill, and urging them to telegraph their representatives to be on hand and vote for it. CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY OF WM. LLOYD GARRISON. The District Branch of the H. A. C. P. celebrated the birthday of Wm. Lloyd Garrison Monday night, December 12th, at John Wesley Church. Mrs. Emma Williams rendered very beautifully two poems, namely, Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Battle Hymn of the Republic, accompanied with music. Addresses were made by Dean Kelley Miller, in which he reviewed the Harding Alabama speech. Mr. Russell, a time-honored friend of the colored people, spoke of the splendid achievements of the colored people. Hon. Mr. Villard, grandson of Mr. Luoyd Garrison, reviewed the life of that distinguished abolitionist, who did so much for the people in antislavery days. High school cadets acted as ushers and took up the collection. It made one feel good to see these splendid boys participating in the exercises of such great moment. JOINT. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE SURVEY SCHOOLS. The Joint Congressional Committee surveying the public schools of the District of Columbia were shocked at conditions found in a tour of investigation to several of the Washington schools on last Tuesday. The committee consisted of Senator Capper of Kansas, who was its chairman; Senator King of Utah, Representative Wood of Virginia, Representative Caesar Kelly of Minnesota, Representative Waters of Pennsylvania and Representative Millspaugh of Missouri. Accompanying them were the following school officials: Supt. F. W. Ballou, Assistant Supts. S. B. Kramer and G. C. Wilkinson. Insanitary Condition. In the John F. Cook School, condemned in 1908, insanitary laboratories were found, and crowding has become an intense that many pupils are forced outside of the district into other institutions. Crowded conditions were discovered in the Abbot School, also condemned in 1908, and at the Armstrong School there was no playground. Provisions were found unsatisfactory for proper school work in practically every building visited. King's Protest. When additional athletic grounds were suggested at the McKinley Manual School, Senator King of Utah, another member, of the committee, replied "that the students should study, not play." He criticised "gingerbread" work on the buildings, complaining that it cost too much. Schools visited were Webster, Abbott, John F. Cook, Armstrong, Dunbar, McKinley Manual, Garrison, Garner Patterson and Force. School Board opinion on desired salary provisions for school employees is expected to crystallize at a conference of teachers' council and board members. Better salary levels for personnel of the system will be sought by the board, it is understood, after the demands of teachers and other employees have been made known. Teachers wish to remain without the lines of the reclassification bill, preferring to have the school system remain as a local institution. ANACOSTIA NEWS. It was an interesting meeting on Friday night of the Barry Farm Citizens' Association. Reports from the various committees were received and approved by the association. Matthew M. Taylor reported the particulars of the Civic Alliance meeting held recently. Mrs. L. C. G. Craig told of the splendid meeting held at the Frankling School on Thursday night, in which Dr. Frank W. Ballou outlined the school needs, and urged the support of the citizens' associations to the original budget as submitted to Congress by the school authorities. The association again indorsed the J. C. Wright proposition for lower fares for school children. A letter to the District Commissioners urged the selection of a local man from the present ranks for the new Major of Police of the District of Columbia. A communication from Health Officer William C. Fowler, in regard to a lecture by the deputy health officer received favorable action. The lecture will be given at the January meeting, with Mrs. Mary Taylor and Etta Weaver Hawkins in charge. Attorney J. W. Banks was appointed delegate to the Civic Alliance meeting to be held at the Scottish Hall on 11th Street Northwest. The C. E. Society of Shiloh Baptist Church of Washington visited the Old Folks' Home at Blue Plains, just a short distance below Anacostia, and with the society was thirteen gallons of ice cream and plenty of cake for the inmates of that institution, with the hope of spreading a little sunshine to those unfortunates about us. After everybody had been served, the committee sang and spoke words of encouragement, in one of the wards, and it was a beautiful day in every respect, especially the appreciation expressed by the inmates while they were being servd. The party made the trip in automobiles, and was composed of Mesdames Reid, Donohue, Dove, Jackson, Thomas, Harris, Grady, Hart, Robinson, and Messrs. Ward, Robinson, Brannon and Fisher. Several of the property owners have taken exceptions to the findings of the jurors in the land condemnation case, through their attorneys, and Justice Wendell Stafford will hear their exceptions on Friday. THE ARMAMENT CONFERENCE VI. By Herbert J. Seligmann. (This is the sixth of a series of a Negro Faces America," who is now National Association for the Advance. Collapse in Europe, famine, death, up as a vast and menacing accompanience in Washington. In Vienna, that city of death when papers and people die in hospitals or wrecked hotels and shops, and the po derpaid workingman, have not interfer (This is the sixth of a series of articles by the author of "The Negro Faces America," who is now director of publicity for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.) Collapse in Europe, famine, death, hideous suffering; these loom up as a vast and menacing accompaniment to the armament conference in Washington. In Vienna, that city of death where babies are wrapped in newspapers and people die in hospitals on bare mattresses, mobs have wrecked hotels and shops, and the police, who are themselves underpaid workingman, have not interfered. There is chaos in the Near East. In Berlin there has been panic. The mark has risen and fallen suddenly and business houses have failed. A former director of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, Mr. Paul M. Warburg, has issued a warning that chaos may spread to Germany. In Berlin there has been panic, suddenly and business houses have fat Federal Reserve Bank of the United has issued a warning that chaos may it is easy to call this situation of people call it Bolshevism. But Bols used, merely means disorder. The di to lack of food and hunger, to diseases on the part of the working populations the power of any. "Bolshevist" to crea It is easy to call this situation of Central Europe names. Some people call it Bolshevism. But Bolshevism, when the world is so used, merely means disorder. The disorder in Europe today is due to lack of food and hunger, to disease, loss of vitality and of faith on the part of the working populations. These conditions are beyond the power of any "Bolshevist" to create or to check. Against this terrible background the men assembled in Washington go on with their conversations as though nothing were wrong. By and by, that bold initial utterance of our Secretary of State, Mr. Hughes proposing a ten-year naval holiday, is whittled down. The Japanese insist their ratio of warships shall be 7 to 10 instead of 6 to 10. A deadlock is avoided on this issue by persuading the Chinise to discuss with the Japanese what should be discussed at all; whether Japanese troops, ought to be withdrawn from regions they have no right to occupy. Meanwhile English statesmen, having doubtless thought about France's large army and her proposal to build submarines, decide it would be best to "modify" the ten-year naval holiday. In the first days of December, news comes from Washington that the naval holiday, during which no battleships were to be built, is to be amended; instead we are to have "restricted building" of war vessels. So the people's hopes are roused, and so, as the conference proceeds, are the people betrayed. Exactly what is going on in secret meetings and what bargains are being made, no one can say. But it is plain evident that hope in the armament conference in Washington is fading. Every good suggestion is adopted "in principle"—and nothing is done about it. Meanwhile, the French, having thrown their hammer into the machine, propose that Germany be treated as a bankrupt like Turkey, and be dismembered to the French bankers may have their money. Against the criminally stupid haggling among statesmen while Europe disintegrates—not at all unlike Nero's fiddling while Rome burned—the masses of the people have little or nothing to oppose. The people know in a vague sort of way they want peace. Their statesmen endorse peace "in principle" but defraud the people of the actuality. That is because the business of stetesmen and of existing governments is not to make peace. The business of those governments is to make war. As one of the most brilliant of America's young writers, Randolph Bourne, now unfortunately dead, pointed out, the governments of today, even of Republics, are instruments of a power just as despotic as was ever any king's. That power is the power of an imaginary unit called State. The State is neither land, nor is it people. It is something that claims jurisdiction over the land and demands the allegiance of the people. It is in war time that its powers are most absolute. In war time to be a critic is to be a traitor. It is in wartime that patriotees and profiteers are supreme, military men and bankers are in control. These are the servants of the State, whose ons CONFERENCE VI. of articles by the author of "The show director of publicity for the enancement of Colored People." ath, hideous suffering; these loom animent to the armament confer- where babies are wrapped in newsa on bare mattresses, mobs have the police, who are themselves un-fered. ast. c. The mark has risen and fallen failed. A former director of the United States, Mr. Paul M. Warburg, may spread to Germany. of Central Europe names. Someolshevism, when the world is so the disorder in Europe today is due disease, loss of vitality and of faithions. These conditions are beyond create or to check. power they wield, blind to the utterance of painters, musicians, poets, writers, except as these can be made to chant the glories of the devouring monster. In Europe, a number of these monster States have fallen of their own weight. They have fulfilled the destiny for which, apparently, they had grown up, namely, to make war. That was, which was to serve the interests of the most powerful classes in the State, not only destroyed the State, but those classes as well. In the two countries where Czar or Emperor and the hangers-on of kingdom were most powerful, Russia and Austria, they are gone, probably for a long time, if not forever. It remains to be seen now whether the remaining States of Europe will topple, whether the destruction will extend, as some writers have predicted, even to the United States. Possibly, after the horrors of Central Europe, there will be little left that can be called civilization. Not inconceivably, a new Dark Age, more terrible even than the Dark Ages of mediaeval times in Europe, may be ahead, out of which will come new social forms, new ways of living, thinking and feeling. At any rate, the artificial setting of people against people by States, seems doomed. The monstrous absurity of making the common people of different nations, who have no grievance against one another, hate and kill one another, was made evident again by the world war, more clearly than ever before. That the men assembled in Washington still talk and act in terms of that absurdity, still serve the State instead of the dim and vague desire of the people, augurs ill for the conference, for peace, for our civilization. Perhaps our civilization will have to disappear pretty completely to make room for something better, at any rate for something very different. In that time which is to come, it seems evident that whatever the handful of men say or do in Washington, the darker races of the world will have a role of vastly greater significance than ever before. At best, a cadly diminished mankind will recognize a community of human beings irrespective of the distinctions that now divide rich from poor, and race from race. (A seventh article by Mr. Seligmann will appear next week.) HISTORY CLUB GIVE RECITAL. The recital under the auspices of the History Club presented Mrs. Eva D. Sims, the elocutionist, at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, supported by Miss Ada E. Williams, one of Washington's young rising stars, interspersed with music. Congressional Library, City, "THE VAMP AND THE VIRGIN" A Serial Love Story of Negro Life (Protected by the Kelley Newspaper Feature Service.) Snyopsis—Christopher Bowling, an unsophisticated Harvard student known to his classmates as Virgin, meets Beatrix Marley, a beautiful colored girl in Boston. **SECOND CHAPTER. The Virgin stood gaping in Beatrix Marley like a traveler in the woods at a rattlesnake. "Why—Why," he said, after an oppressive silence, "I'm pleased to meet you. Miss Marley." "No, you are not!" she said, fushing resentfully. "You don't like me; everything in your face and voice shows it. You almost shrank back when you heard my name. No, you don't like me, Mr. Virgin." "Virgin!" he said, startled. "How did you know my nickname?" "Don't you suppose the boys have told me all about you? I think it is a splendid thing for a, boy to have such a nickname, and now that I've met you I'm sure you deserve it." "The nickname is one of derision, not of praise," he said frowning. "Ah, no," said Beatrix tenderly. "The name Christian was once applied in derision, but see what it is today. Oh, look; Mr. Virgin, the fight is over and the trolleys are running again. Suppose we go home now." The two went out to take a trolley. The Virgin gripped the girl's arm to help her aboard the car, and was surprised. Never had he known that a human arm could be so soft. His rough fingers seemed to press it down almost to nothing. But it was the livest, warmest nothing he had ever known. It made every fibre of his hand and arm tingle with strange pleasure. In a moment they were seated side by side in the car. It was full of people who had been delayed by the Bloody Monday, and they barely found room to squeeze into their seats. "You'll have to cuddle," she said misbievously. "Yes," said the Virgin, whose chest was trembling as he breathed. This warm, vital, palpitating woman close beside him, her round, flushed cheeks and liquid black eyes so near that he all but touched them, the curls that fell over her forehead, live and sparkling, the full-bowed red lips now moving rapidly, now pursued in penisiveness, and the rich, half-singing voice—the Virgin was not used to all this. His heart began to beat too fast and his head was a little unsteady. "Do you like me any better than you did at first?" she asked pleadingly. "Because if you don't, I'll feel awfully disappointed." "Of course, I like you," he said, quietly and none too calmly. quickly and none more. "You don't say it right," she said. "You say it like a busy iran at the telephone. That's very hard on a girl who has waited until your sophomore year to meet you." "I came here to study," said the Virgin, stiffly, "and to let the girls alone." "And so far you've done it," she said with a slow smile. "But you can't keep us out of your life entirely, no matter how well you lay your plans. Tonight's chance meeting proved that. Why, any girl would be glad to know a fine, straight, manly fellow, like you. I know I'd be." The Virgin was not prepared for such a direct attack. His innocent idea of girls was that they hid themselves, in a corner until some man found them and then let themselves be dragged reluctantly out. It was the first time a girl had told him nice things about himself, and no young man, or old one either, is proof against the flattery of a pretty girl. The Virgin actually began to think Beatrix Marley was right; he was living too much like a hermit. "The next street is mine," she said, looking out of the window. They got off, and as her home was near the corner, they soon reached it. It was a nice, comfortable, Boston-looking brick house in a good part of the city. The girl showed the Virgin into the parlor. "It is still early," she said, "you might stay a while. For all I know you might go back into your shell and not let me see you again." The Virgin sat down and Beatrix Marley went upstairs to take off her hat and coat. The Virgin looked curiously around him. Three hours before, he had had no thought of anything but going over his books and then going to bed, and here he was, in a Boston home for the first time in his college career. The thing was an adventure. Almost before the Virgin had time to take in his surroundings, Beatrix rushed downstairs and stood poised on the threshold like a vision. She had looked, pretty before; now she was beautiful. She had slipped on a dress of pink silk, her face and hair reflected the color, and her eyes shone like stars on a clear summer day. "I didn't mean to keep you waiting so long," she said, going to the piano. "Do you wish me to sing?" The Virgin did; and she took up the piece which had made innumerable lovers weep in self-pity—"Vous Avez Beau." She seemed to have difficulty turning the leaves, so the Virgin went over to turn them for her and look down upon her waving mass of fine black hair. It is all in vain to implore me Not to let her imagine beguile For her face is ever before me— And her smile. Beatrix Marley put herself into the song, her voice moaning and sobbing, then blazing out in high, wild notes of passion. At the end of the verse she looked up sidewise at the Virgin. His eyes were devouring her, his heart was shaking his body as a powerful engine shakes the ship it is driving through the sea. Their eyes half met; she took hers away and began the second verse. And all through it ran the undercurrent plea: "Like mel Like mel Like me!" At the end of it she did not raise her eyes; she shut them, as if in an effort at self-mastery. Virgin fought with himself to keep his hand from hers, for she had changed, perhaps unwittingly, two words in the stanza, and made it apply directly to their talk on the trolley car. It is all in vain, to implore me, Memories of him away to keep, For if he willeth to ignore me I am weep - I can weep. I can weep The change from "her" to "him" and from "she" to "he" went through the Virgin's whole being. And now Beatrix set with her eyes shut and her head thrown back, her face upturned. There was a tense silence, the breath rose and fell together. Then far down in her breast she began the third; it gradually rose in volume and intensity; the room thrilled with the sound: The Virgin's head swam, the keys shimmered before the mist in his eyes; Beatrix sang and sang as if she were drowning a sob, and in those last wild words of the song—"I can die! I can die!"— the sob burst and cut them short. She flung her folded arms on the keys and dropped. her glorious head upon them, her round shoulders shaking silently. For an instant she lay thus then she lifted her flushed face and wet eyes to the Virgin. wer eyes "Beatrix!" he said in delirium, his arms flung madly round her, his burning lips to hers, "Beatrix!" (To be continued next week.) WHAT HAS CREATED THE BIG AILMENTS OF A WARRRING WORLD? (From the Southern Workman.) The causes direct and indirect are many and intricate. They have also been quite natural. An over simple analysis does not tally with the facts. To establish a wartless world we must face the facts and all the facts. It is not enough to say to the nations—"be good." We must find out what it is to be good in this modern world and we must establish suitable international agencies, so that we can be good. We must do much hard-headed, cool-hearted, clear-minded and creative thinking. First of all we must not indulge in indiscriminate condemnation. We must indeed condemn the whole war system as eternally wrong, but we cannot condemn every man or even every nation that has fought. Many noble heroes have fallen in warfare. Nations have been forced to fight for the overthrow of vast international crimes. The principal direct and indirect causes of big armaments are the following: 1. Science, steam and electric power and standardized production by machinery, have given the advanced nations extraordinary powers of expansion and aggression. 2. Creation of wealth and massing of capital, control of disease and increase of population, with demand for more food and for abundant raw material, have caused the progressive nations to reach out long arms into all the world. 3. The existence of many absolutely independent sovereign governments, each responsible only to its own people for their welfare, has led to conscious and scheming rivalry and the adoption by several governments of the policy of economic imperialism. By diplomacy, intimidation and intrigue they have sought for expansion RHEUMATISM? If you are a Sufferer, Heed This Advice Neabose, Va. — "I had been troubled with rheumatism for more than ten years and had tried lots of different remedies, but none of them did me any good. Then I sent and got a sample package of Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets, that gave me so much relief that I sent and got a large size bottle, and before I had taken two bottles I had no sign of rheumatism. I would advise any sufferer of rheumatism to give Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets a fair trial."—Raymond Osmyn Curtis. You can quickly put yourself in A-1 condition by going to your druggist and obtaining Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets (anti-uric-acid) or write Dr. Pierce, president Invalid's Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y., for free medical advice or send 10c for trial pkg. of commerce and for the political control of those backward geographical areas on which they were, or expected to be, dependent for food and raw material. 4. Suspicion and fear of neighbors have led each government to build up its own defensive system. This practice antedates, indeed, human history. But it has reached modern proportions because the discoveries of science have been effectively utilized. 5. The 'massing and mobilizing for war of the untire power of each nation has become possible by popular education, growing nationalism, increasing political centralization, and growing inter-relation and co-operation of commerce, industry and politics. 6. Acts of one people or government with no thought or intention of ill-will, have often brought harm to neighbor nations, arousing feelings and acts of retaliation growing into settled mutual hostility. 7. The modern system of finance has enabled governments through loans and credits not only to utilize to the full, existing wealth, but to discount and mortgage their future and thus to create big armaments other wise impossible. 8. The modern system of treaties, open and secret, have produced groups of "powers" committed to assist each other, under certain contingencies, thus, increasing fears and suspicions and making swollen war budgets inevitable in every land. 9. Vast private manufacturing enterprises, producing munitions and other materials needed by armies and navies have deliberately cultivated international suspicions and fears for purposes of private gains. 10. A materialistic unchristian philosophy, justifying the right of strong peoples to take and to nominate the earth, has stimulated selfish nationalistic ambitions and rivalries. The dictries that mere might gives right; that moral laws do not bind nations; that the weak must go to the wall; that victors, may ignore the needs of the vanquished and may exploit them and their resources—these inhuman doctrines of materialism have led to vast national crimes, and to deep-seated hatreds and plans for revenge. 11 The will to avert the fate of the vanquished, if not possibly to win the prize of the victor, has been a mighty modern cause of super-armaments. 12. The people of every land and age hate war. If so, why have wars come? because they have usually been misinformed by the ruling cliques. The real and full casts in the case are seldom told them. The issues are more or less falsified in order to arouse the power of enthusiastic patriotism. Even where they partly know the facts they have no adequate machinery for the control of ambitious or scheming political leaders. And they are today ominously exposed to the schemes of a sensational press. PRESENT DAY NEGRO THOUGHT. Abstracts from address of Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary-Treasurer, Howard University, Washington, D.C., at the National Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit, Michigan, November 15th, 1921. "Eager and willing 400,000 American black men responded to the call of the colors. Nearly 200,000 of them went overseas to fight for a democracy which they but imperfectly understood, but which had been pictured to them as an idealism as holy as ever Crusader went forth to battle for. The colored American's loyalty remained untainted. He resisted the temptation to nurse his grievances. Patriotically and heroically he met every human test. "And now the war is over. The disappointments of a fabled democracy have set him thinking anew. Disappointments make men philosophers. Now as never before, colored Americans are thinking not as individuals, but as a group. We share a common grief, a common disappointment that a great nation which in ```markdown ``` A SCHOOL FOR THE TRAINING OF COLORED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN FOR SERVICE 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. JOHN T. STEWART war promised, should in peace deny to them 'The New Freedom.' The colored American was called to the colors like other men. He fought like other men. He died like other men. He feels that if his country in its hour of trial and peril compels him to fight its battles, it should, in time of peace, secure to him complete protection of life and liberty. He feels the urge of manhood like other men. He feels that he should enjoy the same civil and political rights without distinction that other men of the republic enjoy. Above any beyond Constitutional guarantees, he feels that the enlightened conscience of the country should help him to perfect himself in the perfect realization of an untrammeled citizenship. He knows, and he wants all men to know that he knows that in far too many instances justice to him has been prostituted by unfair and unwarranted discrimination. National misdeeds have set him wondering if that warm love he has borne for State and Nation has gone for naught. He loves to love; but no human is he that he dares expect in return not merely cold, forbidding justice, but justice with a heart in it, justice with a sou in it. "The colored American is not vindicative. He is not embittered. He stoll has faith in his God, in his Church, in himself, in effort to overcome the wrongs of unthinking men. He looks to the future confident and unafraid. Petty prejudices annoy and inconvenience but do not discourage a virile people." Upon the subject of social equality, Dr. Scott said, "Let me say right here, my friends, that in all my acquaintance with the leaders, thinkers and masses of my race $ have not found even one who did not regard the discussion of the subject of so-called social equality as a psychological makeshift adopted by some men to choke off the economic, educational and political advancement of a race which is forging ahead in spite of this paranoic phantasy of delusion. It is 'Social Justice' the colored American seeks. A great and powerful country cannot afford to assure him 'less. "I am not despondent over the outlook. Our situation is serious but not desperate. A healthy sentiment in favor of fair-play is growing up on many sides. Wise and courageous leaders of both races are now contending that the first and biggest task of Democracy is to keep her house in order. It is vain to talk ideals unless we practice justice. And, in the final triumph of justice I never lose faith. "What the colored American wants with all his heart, and what America will proudly concede him, I do believe, can be stated very easily: The Grammar School The Academy The School of Arts and Sciences The Department of Music OPENS SEPTEMBER 21, 1920 her information and Catalog, address E. SHEPARD, DURHAM, NORT The M They could Sr JOHN RUSKIN Write for our Premium Catalog No. 4 I. Lewis Cigar Mfg. Co. NEWARK, N. J. 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He wants better educational facilities, abolition of the Jim Crow car and of discrimination and segregation in the Government service; the same military training and chance for promotion in the United States army that other men enjoy; destruction of the peonage system, an equal wage, better housing, better sanitary conditions and reforms in those penal institutions where men and women of his race have suffered grevious wrongs. That is the colored American problem; that is America's problem. Does it impose too much upon the greatest democracy in the world? I cannot believe that it does. "As the great Methodist Episcopal Church took the leadership, in bringing about a solution of the problems of Reconstruction and Readjustment following the Civil War, I am sure it will meet the challenge of the present hour with the Spiritual Leadership which has never faltered in the presence of a great moral crisis. 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Ask your druggist The CIRCLET Nemo STANDARD OF QUALITY NO 1500 PRICE $150 The Circletis Self-Adjusting, and has neither hooks nor eyes. It simply ellips over the head, claps at the waist and smooths out ugly lines. If your dealer can't get it send actual bust measure, name, address & $1.50. We'll send the Circlet prepaid. Sizes 34 to 48. Nemo Hygienic-Fashion Institute 120 E. 16 St. New York., Dep't M. WORLD IN PRELUDE TO HISTORY'S BIGGEST WAR. This limitation of armaments does not exclude the elimination of war. That is with Japan. If Japan insists on a 1Q-10-7 ratio instead of 5-5-3, it is for the sole purpose of maintaining a slight margin of "advantage." If this advantage on the sea is refused, denied her, then she will request the dismantling of American fortification of the Far East (if such there are in progress of building). Japan will make a stout fight for Shantung, notwithstanding the promise of the other powers to evacuate their Chinese bases. Japan has a card against England in Tibet. None against America. But then America must insist on England relinquishing her claims on Tibet and the Southwestern zone of influence there. If England does so, what compensation will she seek on the part of America, since no other power can offer any compensation to England. America seeks FREE opportunities for trade in China, China seeks complete freedom to which America is agreed. Will Japan and England cancel their secret treaties, passed behind the back of all the other powers on earth, and above the head of the Chinese? Will they call off the renewal of their alliance? My intimation is that: THEY CANNOT. England in Gig Game. If they DO, then the PATH IS FREE for Long Life and HAPPINESS. Japan left by herself, denied the support of England, will strengthen her position immediately with intensive intriguing in the Far East and inIndia with all the native populations. England knows what Japan will do there. They have had a tatse of it already several years ago. It was well known. I am afraid England is playing a too big a game ABROAD to be able to cope satisfactorily with her own PORO COLLEGE which stands as a monument to 20 years of fair, square dealing with all from the humblest to the greatest. humblest to the greatest. The PORO System of Scientific Scalp and Hair Culture is known from Canada to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific by its WORKS! One can enroll for a moderate amount and receive instructions by coming to PORO College, from a PORO Agent and thru Correspondence. Further information will be cheerfully given. WRITE PORO COLLEGE ST. LOUIS, MO. PORO CORNER problems. She must seek America's help in some way. She does. She is never discouraged. And for the purpose of repeatedly knocking at the door," she has no less than H. G. Wells, G. B. Shaw, Wickam Steed, Lord Riddell, articles from Northcliffe (whose Chinese stories are pure propaganda) who present to the American reading public with all the necessary Foreign Office tactics and fencings. First pitching the Italians against the French according to Il Tempo, it was Colonel Repington's wire which informed the Italian press of Briand's insult to Italy, and, second, we shall We are but in the prelude of a Titanic struggle which promises to far outstrip the former 1914-18 of its laurels. England's GOLD Power, which before the war made London the gold market of the world, must seek rehabilitation. Where is that gold? In the U. S. A. and in Japan. Nothing worth while can be done without GOLD. England's humble position of "debtor" nation instead of "creditor" demands—through her pride—that by fair means and otherwise that gold must find its way back home. Her, Privileged, Position. Five hundred years of sea domination has placed England in a privileged position on the waves. Freedom of the seas has been her conquest. Her unquestioned command of the seas has placed her in the position of water control. But "Freedom of the seas" is more than an ordinary meaningless phrase. It forms a most important all-potent diplomatic formult whereby in time of war England takes onto her the RIGHT to CONTROL the seas. At Versailles during 1919 her agents worked overtime and succeeded in having this point blanketed. It disappeared from the agenda of Peace Councils. At what price to America, et al.? Hence the thought: What part will British shipping play in the Pacific in the case—not to de desired—of a war between this country and Japan? Japan, who needs oil, coal, iron and manganese, as well as hundreds of ither raw materials which her volcanic rocks do not yield, will need British shipping to carry it to her, besides her own. Will, then, America be able to dictate to England's shipping which areas in the Pacific it may ply? Will America be able to say to England: We stopped out traffic, as a neutral, with your enemies in 1914-15-16, are you going to stop shipping oil, coal and other stuff to our protagonists on the Pacific seas? Were such a war with Japan to loom as an inevitable certainty, England would be, I think, for the first time in her history, in the position of having her "Freedom of the Sea" position challenged. But why wait until there is war? Why not challenge the freedom of ST. LOUIS, MO. the seas NOW? While there is yet time? While the doves of peace are uttering their wings to our ears? Unearth this freedom of the seas question which was so hastily—and silently—buried at Versailles. Thrash it in the open. It is the unseen, microscopic bacillus which poisons the whole system of "Peace on the Seas" and the good will toward men. Remove it while you can if there is time. ENGLAND MAKES PEACE WITH IRELAND. (From the National Defender.) It is with an inexpressible amount of pleasure to know that England has at last made peace with Ireland. at last made peace This agreement will indeed be a source of pleasure to every civilized nation. The Irish free state takes the status of Canada and Australia with its own parliament, army and navy; costs, regulations and responsibility for the maintenance of order. At last, the thing for which the Irish have lived, suffered and died has been achieved. To this cause the late-Lord Mayor McSwinney was a noble example. He gave his like a noble sacrifice on the altar of freedom, believing as he tasted death so freely, that some day his beloved Ireland would be free, and at last it has come; come as a recompense for the many years of blood and tears to prove to England that the determination of Ireland to rule itself could not be broken. What a strange civilization that cannot recognize that other men are entitled to every right that we ourselves possess, and to which God and nature made us heir. That nation or nations whose government rest upon any other foundation than that which guarantees the rights of the governed, is a myth, and, like all others of the past, will only abide its time and pass into history as a thing to be remembered with scorn in the mind of nations which have reached a real civilization. Every law of nature scientifically understood points to the fact that the inevitable law of nature seeks to equalize all things and men or nations who do not recognize this fact must pay dearly for it. Emperor Nicholas of Russia is an example of what selfishness and conspiracy against the rights of the governed will do. URGE CARE OF THE TEETH. Bad condition of the teeth of Washington school children is very alarming to the school authorities. Statistics recently compiled and made public show that of 18,123 pupils examined during the last scholastic year by dental inspectors, only 1,888, or 10.4 per cent, had no defective teeth. School authorities pointed out that if children take better care of their teeth their health will be better, and there will be less illness and absence from school. PORO CORNER A SWANOLA and BLACK SWAN Records will bring joy on Xmas and every day throughout the New Year BLACK SWAN RECORDS SPECIAL CHRISTMAS RECORDS 2028 10. in. 85c { O Come All Ye Faithful I Need Thee Every Hour! } 2029 10 in. 85o { Silent Night, Holy Night! Christmas Chimes } 2030 10 in. 85c { Flee as a Bird Lead Kindly Light } 2031 10 in. 85c { Jesus I Come The Holy City } 2033 10 in. 85c { Christians Awake My Task } 2027 10 in. 85c { Oh Promise Me. Sunrise and You 2019 10 in. 85o { Some Day, Sweet-heart He's a Darn Good Man 2032 10 in. 85o { Arkansas Blues Jazz Me. 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Subscription monthly --.~--------------~-- nn tenncennwenenenceaneenenee 20 je a “God's Ginger touched him anh he slept.” LET US HAVE PEACE. | ye EE Lord God of Love, let us have peace; fe rom war's vain sacrifice give: us Li ae teleases . es Be = (—_ Srant peace the victories war-cannot ee as | know, .-. . fics 2 P God of the ages, Thy mercy, show. omer gen Vi | God of the fatheriess, we pray to + fe on. oe || Father of all of us, hear Thou our po: ee | plea. lee Bi} Peace and good will, ‘Thine own word ae ‘increase, eo be Lord God of Love, let us have a : Peace, ; a eee) _ | Shakespeare Inspire to Peace. | 4 i We oe Lord God of Races, teach us the way ise To love ore another; Thy will to NI “ obey; <3 Pa take up the chorus, sung from above, i : Of Thy peace upon earth and in- : . fini : : THE LATE W, CALVIN CHASE ane: Ios nad Attorney at Law ne Founder and Proprietor and Editor of the Washington Bee June.6, 1879 — . January 3 1921. Oratot, Politician : and Leoder. : : ; . | The Fesrless! The Courageous! » The : Invincible, = vais Be a 3 | Like the late Editor—We are truly democratic! This is a journal for the Jenefit of the people, whet her they are in high or low places! May God bless and keep these lovily people. May they evre find friends like our late editor Who will help them in the ir struggles toward ‘the: light” a - WASHINGTON, D.-C., DECEMBER 17, 1921 os WHY THEY, ADVERTISE IN THE BEE. ~ 1, It is the oldest colored American newspaper in the United States. 2 . 2. It is a progressive journal. ; 3. It is a most reliable journal: “4, It has the largest circulation‘of any colored American journal ‘in the District ‘of Columbia. ~ : 5. It is read by the people of every State’in the union, by the people of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the islands of the sea: 6. It is a newspaper of high ideals. Nae eR ee aE a i a a a AE The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, today announced that Representa- tive Leonidas C. Dyer had telephoned from Washington to New York to say that a special rule-had been made by the House Com- “mittee on'Rules designating December 15 as the day for a vote to be taken on the Dyer Atni-Lynching Bill (H. R..13). ~ Through the work which has been done there is sufficient fa- vorable sentiment in Congress to pass the bill, the’ great danger being that the bill might fail‘on account of absence of members. ‘Colored people throughout the Unitéd States are urgently re- quested to telegraph their representatives in Congress to be present on December 15 and vote for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, H. R. 13, and to get as many people and organizations as possible to do: like- wise. vas : .-FOR CIVIC. BETTERMENT. The people of the District of Columbia seemed to have welded themselves together with a solidarity which is unprecedented in the ‘annals of the wast, for the civic betterment. They feel keenly the ‘neglect which has been meted out to them in the past. Therefore, they have come together with a determination never before known for the purpose of putting Washington on the map along. with the great cities of the world and as a city which is worthy of the one whose-name it bears. - ‘ : * The people of thé District of Columbia seemed to have welded themselves together with a solidarity which is unprecedented in the Sannals of the wast, for the civic betterment. They feel keenly the ‘neglect which has been meted out to them in the past: Therefore, they have come together with a determination never before known for the purpose of putting Washington on the map along. with the great cities of the world and as a city which is worthy of the one whose.hame it bears. ‘ x ° RUFUS BYARS—THE THEATRE WIZARD. - . ., -Rufus Byars, the theatre wizard, is again on the scene. The opening of the-New Broadway Theatre on Seventh. Street was one of the noteworthy events of the week.. A record-breaking crowd, as usual, gréeted him:. The vast audiences assembled were electri- fied once more by his magnetism and cheer. . ., -Rufus Byars, the theatre wizard, is again on the scene. The opening of the-New Broadway Theatre on Seventh. Street was one of the noteworthy events of the week.. A record-breaking crowd, as usual, gréeted him.. The vast audiences assembled were electri- fied once more by his magnetism and cheer. _ . AN INDEPENDENT STATE. ‘ Ireland has gone up one step in the scale of civilization—it is now an independent state—the Irish people have their freedom. In the parade on Armistice Day three- years ago\these people had a float on which was inscribed, “There will be rio peace in the world until’ Ireland is free!” Well, Ireland is free. Is there.any. more peace in the world? No! nor can there be until something, material is done to release the darker’ races from their political-and économic slavery and to stop the under dog from snarling. Ireland is only one little comer of the world ‘as compared with suffering humanity ‘everywhere: 3 VALUABLE EVENTS BEING ADDED TO THE WORLD'S | HISTORY. ; President Warren G. Harding is day by day adding valuable events to the history of the world. The outstanding event is. the unusual assembly of.the world’s representatives in confererice at the Nation’s Capital. What they will accomplish is still problematical. ‘One ‘of the most serious questions ‘for its solution.is an equitably adjustment of the.color question as raised. by the Japanese; another, is a. world-wide open door with no restrictions for the Japanese; still another of much concern is the ration to be decided on in’ the scrapping of vessels. _. § ‘ What the world needs is a'cessation of war. This can only be obtained by removing all cause. for-war. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS. i rast all of Whe ele eeeser- ¥ == tens for’ the children, On the tree By the Sage of the Potomac. | gifts are placed’ made by the children Tam -back on the job. Where? At Minor Normal. Why? Because to thoroughly comprehend the splen- did work which is. being done there by its faculty, more than one visit is an absolute necessity. At present ‘I am being entertained in the prac- tice schools of this institution, where the tots are taught. In these classes I am impressed with three things: +1. The bright and attractive sur- roundings which are reflected in the radiant faces of the. children. - 2. The pleasure ‘with which the children enter, into the life and ac- tivity of the school, 3. The ‘kind and loving guidance and helpfulness of the teacher : to ‘them, and the many useful articles seen among the equipment of the ‘school for the instruction of the classes which had been made by these two articles. / Having met so many members’ of ‘the faculty, I-had almost forgotten the names of these two instructors until I heard the children call them ‘Miss Hand and Miss Bowie. You know my love for the kinder- garten.. I could not pass this by. My happiness became supreme when I visited this department.” The central thought there for this month, De- cember jis. the Christmas thavoht. ‘The occupation work of the children is the making of tokens fu , sie \hristmas tree. On,-yest iney will havé trees in all of the city kinder- tens for’ the children, On the tree gifts are. placed’ made by the children for their parents: and friends. The songs and games of the children, too, refer to the advent -season. As I sit in this maze of childish happiness, which was being directed by- their seacher, Mrs, Cox, the thought flitted through my’ mind, “Do I wake or am [ dreaming?” A’more sober thought caused my thoughts to drift to- the great education! value of this branch of the school work, ' This is a busy day for Principal clarke.” He doein't let the clerical work pale nor stale upon his’ desk. cle and his efficient clerk,, Mrs. Als- on, had been making the typewriter alk, ‘This I had learned when: I en- ered ‘the school.’ Gut as busy'as he as, at. times. he turned from this shase of the work to give his atten- jon elsewhere or wherever needed most. : In continuation of the interesting nd instructive exercises at the.morn- ng’ devotions, section’ H: presented a eries of playlets to. prove the close ‘elationship of food -health and effi- siency. Through play, song and dance the students cleverly showed “he importance of, various kinds. of ‘ood, their bearing -upon heait and shir use as a means of accompl'-hin kings. vorth ‘while. ~ ‘The classes in xeag-aphy were 1 rot d inthe we eds used © cath 7 rf yirea’ conzen’ in se ease 2 LMP end dantecn s-des ore ‘sed constantly as a means of teach- ing imaginary trips to the countries whose ‘delegates have come to the conference for the limitation of. arma- ment. In this way many of the prob- lems of the various nations have been ‘brought to the attention of the stu- dents, with the restilt that: they gained a broader knowledge of these coun- tries and a-deeper sympathy for their peoples. : ‘As an exemplification of a method Of vitalizing history, a student-teacher in section D, took the second-grade children on a trip to an Indian vil- lage. They journeyed to an adjoin- ing room, where they saw-a sand table, in which was portrayed the life ofa typical Indian reservation, The children’ were visitors indeed, for they enthusiastically questioned the teach- er about what they saw. This prob- lem was then thrown out to the chil- dren: “What would you’ do if you wwere compelled to live on a reserva- tion?” The answers. were ‘indicative of logical thought. One of the Nor- mal School students of Indian extrac- tion gave .an interesting account of the life on ‘the Shinnecock reserva- tion, Long Island, where her grand- lather. was a trustee and where her } cole now reside. + I did not remain until school closed vecause I. wanted to do.some Christ-. “as shopping. I am aiming to avoid _ MARKET PHARMACY =. Cor, 7th and P Sts, N. W. : Washington, D.C. ALL METAL UNBREAKABLE DOLLS AT LOW PRICES PERFUMES TOILET WATER = FINE SOAPS. i POWDERS SENGLE PACKAGES OR IN HANDSOME SETS MAKING SUITABLE GIFTS OUR PRICES AS LOW AS AT ANY OTHER TIME Wf. Lewigson, Phar. 1» >. Gerber B.S. in Chem., Proprietors, Two Registered Pharmcists Aways on Duty-- 3 Purest Drugs at Lowest Prices. : Agents for Nyals Medicines and Madam. Walker’s and Other loret Articles. aI. cm Ei Saas ‘the Christmas rush. I am going. to purchase a few pieces of jewelry for presents this year for my sister and ‘two friends. “These I shall buy at ‘Castleberg’s, because you know they are genuine, On the opening night of ‘the Broadway Theatre, when the-audi- ence was attired in their best, and at. ‘Howard Theatre on Friday night, theré was quite.a display of jewels— the greatest that-I Have seen since the war ended. I observed the qual- ity stamp of Castleberg's on, much of the jewelry worn. ‘ . Many wonderful plays are’ booked. for. both Broadway. and Howard’ dur- ing the coming week. Desiring to ‘see these high-class plays, I shall at- tend these theatres alternately. I. made my exit fromthe Normal through the Sixth,’ Street entrance, which ushered me into a group of boys who were. disputing over the merits and demerits of Washington's playhouses. 2 _ Aside from their points of differ- ence, they all agreed on two things: 1,-That Thomas and Rufus Byars are the theatre magnates of thé Dis- trict of Columbia. 2. That they have always carried a line of the best obtainable plays, which are instructive and educational. How did they know? By experi- ence, and their “ad” is in the Wash- ington Bee, which carries only first- Class advertisements. - . The Week in Society DR. BOARD. "The best is none too good for the sick or well, and in the end is less costly," is a business slogan of Board's Drug Store, 1912% Fourteenth street northwest. This policy, strictly lived up to, has made Board's Drug Store the mecca for men, women and children who seek the best in drugs, medicines, toilet articles and prescription compounding. Go to Board's for the best. Mrs. Leonard R. Harris of this city is spending this winter as the guest of her parents in Virginia. The many friends of Mrs. Julia Taylor of 1714 15th Street Northwest are more than glad to have her among them, after being under the care of the doctor for several weeks. Mr. Phil Green will present his dance, followed by a free evening of pleasure, Monday, December 19th; as a Christmas gift for the year 1921. This affair will be a supper matinee with Doc Perry's Jazzers. Mr. Arthur Boston of 116 Seaton Place Northwest, paid The Bee office force a very pleasant visit. READ THE BEE. Mrs. Estella Johnson of this city, was the Sunday guest of friends and relatives in Philadelphia. *** Rev. N. H. Nash has returned to his home in this city, after being the honored guest of Mrs. Sylvia Archer of Lawnside, Pa. *** Begin the New Year right by subscribing to The Bee. A real Race paper. Miss Ethel Sewell, grand-daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Sewell, had as her house guest during her vacation from school Miss Billy Geter of Jacksonville, Fla. Misses Sewell and Geter were the recipients of many social affairs while in the city. *** A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. *** The Sunday School of St. Augustine Church will be entertained with a Christmas concert. *** All clubs are planning to give the public many social affairs during the holidays. GLENDALE, LINCOLN HEIGHTS AND BURRVILLE NEWS. Many pleasant things are being said about The Bee these days. It is extremely gratifying to know this, and that the esteem manifested by its numerous admirers is so outspoken as to reflect back their different opinions. To serve all is the aim, and to help those who are down. You must not pass by without stopping when your eye catches The Bee, for some friend you hold dear may be in distress and need you. The Bee may bring the message. Progressive Deanwood is the latest news caption to appear in these columns. The articles are readily readable, and tell with absorbing interest what the people of that section are doing. Mrs. Christina Moody Briggs is the correspondent, and has all the qualifications of an able writer. No news letter is better edited. *** Mr. and Mrs. Albert Battle were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bostic, 48th and Hayes Streets Northeast, last Sunday evening. The Community Center at Bur- ville, under the direction of Mrs. Carrie Knox, the secretary, is planning great things for Christmas week. Some very strong features are going to be offered. Ricks' Shoe Repairing Parlor, 48th and Dean Avenue Northeast. is just the place to get first-class work done. Mr. Ricks says that expansion in business may compel him to make some extensive improvements soon. Watch for the "Ad" in The Bee. *** Those in the convalescing list in Glendale are Mesdames Ellen Bostic, Adele Dorsey, Eliza Harris and Miss Ethel Morgan. *** Miss Marion Clark, a student in the Dunbar High School, is sick at her residence, 512 47th Street North-east. Mr. L. G. Koger, a prosperous young business man of Baltimore, Md., was the guest of his sister, Mrs. H. E. Wilson, 608 48th Street Northeast, Friday evening. Mr. Koger's stay was quite short, as he had to catch an early train for the Monumental City. * * * Messrs. Haskin and Jenkins have opened a coal and wood yard at 48th Street and Dean Avenue Northeast. Retail and wholesale trade solicited. Prompt attention paid to all orders. Those who desire fuel for winter can be supplied here at prevailing prices. * * * So near is Christmas that Santa Claus is already stalking about in his magic regalia, inquiring just how the kiddies have been the past year, and whether they have toed the mark exactly as they should. Don't be too hard, indulgent mother, on little Tommie or Mary, but when old Santa drops around to leave the greetings of the season, cut out the "hasn'ts," shake him lustily by the hand and wish the best possible Merry Christmas. *** The main feature in the program at the B. Y. P. U. of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Burrville, D. C., Sunday evening, was the election of officers for the coming year. After a few short musical numbers were rendered, the rest of the time was spent in the selection of the following officers: President, Mrs. Gertrude Norris; Vice President, Mrs. Adele Dorsey; Secretary, Miss Ernestine Lewis; Assistant Secretary, Miss Francis Willis; Pianist, Miss Beatrice Sudan; Assistant Pianist, Mr. Marion Harris; and Librarian, Mr. Landon Lewis. High compliment should be paid the retiring officers for their splendid work and faithful service. year's work and in Madam Shaw of Baltimore, who was present, made a few timely and encouraging remarks to the young people. Everything most in the stage of life has its entrance and exit. So it was with the recent Community Center Breezes of Deanwood. After being a nine-day wonder, they have blown away, and Deanwood is itself again.. In a recent communication from Miss. Cecil B. Norton on the Community Center at Deanwood, Miss Norton deplores the fact that the information which she received was faulty. Dr. Price, on Sheriff Road and 48th Street is carrying a full supply of drugs, toilet articles, etc. This convenient drug store is largely patronized by Deanwood citizens, his prices are reasonable, and confrm with those of up-town drug stores. Give Dr. Price a trial on your next prescription. It is our duty to promote local trade. The Deanwood citizens were highly entertained by Miss Nannie Burroughs and her wonderful group of singers, Thursday night, December 8, 1921, in the Deanwood School. The affair was conducted by the Deanwood Citizens' Association. A large number of persons attended. The Deanwood Citizens' Association postponed their election of officers until the first Tuesday of January. The installation will take place on the same evening. Nervous of These You would do well to Heed This Advice. Williamsburg, W. Va.—"I had been bothered for about two years with facial neuralgia, and sometimes I could hardly stand it at all. I took Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and also the 'Golden Medical Discovery' and I can truly say they helper me in many different ways. I feel much better since. I can recommend these medicines highly to anyone. I think Dr. Pierce's remedies are the best any one can take for a rundown system."—Mrs. Amanda Wyatt. You can quickly put yourself in A-1 condition by going to your druggist and obtaining Dr. Pierce's Family. Remedies in tablets or liquid; or write Dr. Pierce, Pres. Invalids' Hotel, in Buffalo, N. Y. for free medical advice. Mr. Arthur Jessup announces that his daughter, Theresa Jessup, is improving in health. * * * Mrs. Lillian Lee, director of First Baptist Church Choir, is giving efficient services. Mrs. Lee is one of the most talented young women in this district. She is widely known for her musical ability. Her achievements in the Deanwood Center last year were noteworthy. The Community Girls unanimously elected her president of their group. Quite a number of Deanwood citizens are making use of the Burville Center. They have high regards for Mrs. Carrie Knox, the Burville Community Secretary. *** Mrs. Woodland of Lane Place died Friday, December 9, 1921. Funeral services were held at 3 p. m. Sunday at Randall's Memorial A. M. E. Church. *** Rev. T. A. Henderson of Westford Place is on leave from the Post Office Department until after the Xmas holidays. SOCIAL SERVICE. The Social Service Committee of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A..held a mass meeting Sunday, November 27, at Union Wesley Church, Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor, in behalf of the Young Women's Christian Association. Among the speakers were Mrs. Owens, president of the Home and Forengn Missionary Society; Mrs. Wormley, president Women's Christian Temperance Union, and Miss Mason, president Christian Endeavor Society, Union Wesley Church. A very happy response was given by Mrs. Amos of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. The other speakers were Miss E. F. G. Merritt and Rev E. W. Williams D. D. Solos were rendered by Mrs. Florence Brooks and Miss Virginia L. Williams presided at the organ, and the addresses were interspersed with music by Union Wesley Choir. Mrs. E. V. C. Williams, the chairman, presided. *** Mrs. Alma J. Scott, in behalf of the Frances E. W. Harper District W. C. T. U., of which she is president, has launched a Child Mother in S. W. Center. It is endorsed by the National W. C. T. U. It is a new and much needed work, and will enable our W. C. T. U. workers to go among and get in touch with young, neglected women who need maternal advice and sympathy. This center will be a Beacon Light for every mother and child in the vicinity. This is social service. Mrs. Scott is not only president of the District W. C. T. U., but she is a member of the Y. W. C. A. Social Service Committee. This center is another spoke in the hub of the Social Service wheel. PERSONAL. Mr. William Patterson, who has been confined to his bed for several weeks, is improving. We hope to see him out soon. His many friends visited him regularly to cheer his lonely hours. ORGAN RECITAL. The Organ Recital by Mrs. Theresa B. Dickson, organist of the Asbury M. E. Church, assisted by Prof. William G. Braxton, organist of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, and Mr. Ferrol Gibbs, tenor, at Asbury M. E. Church, 11th and K Streets Northwest, on Monday, December 5. 1921, was an overwhelming success, both musically and financially. The annual program, covering nine months' operation, has just been issued by the School Club, an organization whose membership is selected from men connected with the Washington public school system, and who desire deeper research into the field ASTHMA CURED BY SIMPLE REMEDY Famous Drugglist. Discovers Simple. Remedy for Asthma and Makes Generous. FREE TRIAL; Offer to Readers. Thirty years ago Mr. C. Leavengood, also known Kansas druggist, discovered a simple, easy to take prescription for Asthma—the gave it to the people who had suffered for years and to their amazement, then say they were easily cared for. People told their friends and in this way thousands have found the sure way to cure Asthma. Mr. Leavengood feels so confident that his prescription will cure all cases of Asthma, he generously offers to send a big bottle on 10 days' Free Trial to any reader of this paper who will write for it. If it cures you $1.25, otherwise just write your VENGOUD, 1867 S. Koseedal, Koseedal, Kansas, and the big bottle will be mailed immediately.—Advertisement. VIGOR OF YOUTH IN A NEW DISCOVERY VIGOR OF YOUTH IN A NEW DISCOVERY Science Produces a Vitalizer Superior to Famous Gland Treatment—Magic Power of a Bark From Africa. Have you lost your youth, vigor and "pep?" Does life seem dull and work a grind? Don't worry. Science has discovered a new vitalizer superior even to the much discussed "gout gland" and "mon- key glauca. The principal ingredient is an extract from the bark of an African tree. It is good to be the most amazing invigorator ever discovered. Combined with it are other tonic and vitalizing elements proved meritful. In most cases, the compound produces marked improvement in day or two, and a short time the vitality is raised, the circulation improved and the glow of health is felt in every part. The new vitalizer contains expensive chemicals, but manufacturing in enormous quantities has brought, the cost within the reach of all. Furthermore, the laboratories producing this new vitalizer, which is called Ice-Nu-Tabs, are so confluent of its power that they offer it on the basis of "no results, no pay." the basis. Any sender of this paper may test the paper's discovery without risk. Send no money, but just your name and address to the Ke-Nu Laboratories, 275 L Gateway Station, Kansas City, Mo., and treatment of Ke-Nu-Tabs will be mailed. Deposit $2 and postage with the postman on delivery and be eligited by the results at the end of a week, notify the laboratories and your money will be relied on in full. Do not hesitate about accepting this test offer, as it is fully guaranteed. of the work they pursue. The officers are: G. D. Houston, President; A. C. Newman, Vice President, and E. B. Henderson, Secretary-Treasurer. Those serving on the executive committee are: R. N. Mattingly, chairman; C. O. Lewis and E. E. Parks. The club was founded in 1907, and has been active ever since. Sixteen regulate the number, and these are selected with the unanimous approval of the club. approval The schedule for 1921-22 is as follows: October—"Policies of the School Administration for 1921-22," Superintendent G. C. Wilkinson, public schools. Host, A. C. Newman, 504 T Street Northwest. T Street Northwest November—"Intelligence Tests" C. O. Lewis. Host, G. D. Houston, 1758 T Street Northwest December—"Moving Pictures and Our Children," J. C. Bruce. Host, P. B. Williams, 915 S Street Northwest. January—"Where Negro Education Breaks Down," C. M. Thomas. Host, H. G. Douglass, 1732 15th Street Northwest. Northwest February—"Social Hygiene," E. B. Henderson. Host, H. L. Bailey, 1633 19th Street Northwest March-"Common Sense Art Teaching in the Public Schools," G. L. Sadgwar. Host, F. E. Parks, 1935 15th Street Northwest. April-"Ability Grouping, a report on an attempt to provide more adequately in class room instruction for individual difference in capacity." R. N. Mattingly. Host, H. L. Grant, 324 T Street Northwest. May-"Training for Engineering Profession," R. I. Vaughn. Host, F. J. Cardoza, Fairmount Heights, D.C. June—Annual Outing, Braddock Heights, Md. The members are: J. C. Bruce, H. L. Bailey, F. J. Cardoza, H. L. Grant, H. G. Douglass, E. B. Henderson, G. D. Houston, C. O. Lewis, R. N. Mattingly, A. C. Newman, F. E. Parks, G. L. Sadgwar, C. M. Thomas, R. I. Vaughn, G. C. Wilkinson and P. B. Williams. The many friends of Rev. J. Luther Martin regret his continued illness at his home, 1641 4th Street. We wish for him a speedy recovery to health again. IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC. All is in readiness for the singing of the Christmas Carols by the pupils of the public schools, under the direction of Miss Josephine Wormley, the assistant directress of music. This is an annual feature of Washington's musical season. Miss Wormley is doing splendid work in featuring the Xmas carols. Miss Marie James, who recently was run down by an automobile, is still confined at Dr. Carson's private hospital. The many friends of this talented singer and teach are encouraged by the hopeful news of her improved condition. WOOD AND COAL FEED HARDWARE AND LUMBER PAINTS GLASS AND OILS GENERAL MERCHANDISE F. L. WATKINS DISTRICT LINE SEAT PLEASANT, MARYLAND PHONE LINCOLN 1706 THE OLD EAST-INDIAN HAIR POMADE IS YOUR FRIEND Do you know your hair would have been in better condition if you had a good Pomade? Use a Pomade that has stood the test for 22 years and assailed and infringed upon by other pomades that grow for awhile and soon dye away. Use the old East Hair Pomade, be it the old East Indian, not Jones or Jones East Indian Hair Pomade, but the old East Indian Hair Pomade, formerly of Elizabeth, N. J. Elizabeth, N.J. Do you use an old East Indian HairPomade? They are guaranteed to grow the hair or money back. They are the best and oldest Pomade on the market. You will see several East Indian Hair Pomades on the market. Tone's East Indian, Jones East Indian Hair Pomades and etc., but don't you take it for the old East Indian Hair Pomades. Be careful and safeguard your hair by using a Pomade that has the proper ingredients for the scalp. CHIROPRA The Columbian He Spinal adjustments for m 1914 7th St. N. W. Dr. Gilbert P. Brown Hours 9:30 to 5:30 and CHIROPRACTIC The Columbian Health Institute Spinal adjustments for nervous diseases 1914 7th St. N. W. Phone North 8369 Dr. Gilbert P. Brown Dr. Ethel G. Wood Hours 9:30 to 5:30 and by appointment DR. T. THEO, PARKER, Osteopathic Physician Osteopathic Physician and Oculist, ```markdown ``` 1826 Ninth St. N. W., Washington, D. C. (THE ONLY COLORED OSTEOPATH IN THE CITY) Uses this Osteopathic traction and treatment table in his office. It is a complexly constructed machine, and gives very gratifying results in the treatment of spinal troubles, neuritis and rheumatic pains. Dr. Parker's osteopathic treatment has also been giving surprisingly good results in cases of female troubles of all types and in troubles of the eye. ear, nose and throat, and in hay fever and chronic headaches. (THE ONLY COLORED OSTE Uses this Osteopathic traction and is a complexly constructed machine results in the treatment of spinal tr pains. Dr. Parker's osteopathic treat prisingly good results in cases of f in troubles of the eye. ear, nose and chronic headaches. Phone North Woodson, Va Archi Phone N. 7798 1 ONLY COLORED OSTEOPATH IN THE Osteopathic traction and treatment table in only constructed machine, and gives very treatment of spinal troubles, neuritis and Parker's osteopathic treatment has also be- od results in cases of female troubles of of the eye. ear, nose and throat, and in laches. Phone North 1266-W. Woodson, Vaughn & Architects N. 7798 1 53 You St MRS. CARRIE MASON Hairdressing and Massage 49th and Dean Avenue N. E. Pollard System Used. Resident Work by Appointment. At the head of the Asbury M. E. Church Choir is Prof. R. Wordy Johnson, a splendid leader, who has been identified as its chorister for more than fifteen years. Prof. Johnson is a tenor soloist, possessing a rich tone voice of a high register. Just now a cantata by the famous Asbury Choir is being rehearsed for the Christmas service. * * * Sunday was another big musical --- --- 1727 7th Street; Northwest ISM—COLDS ed MADDEN ELECTRO-THERAPIST Washington, D.. C. RACTIC Health Institute nervous diseases Phone North 8369 Dr. Ethel G. Wood by appointment PARKER, n and Oculist, treatment table in his office. It and gives very gratifying re- doubles, neuritis and rheumatic treatment has also been giving sur- female troubles of all types and throat, and in hay fever and 1266-W. Baughn & Co tects 53 You St. N. W day at the Republic Theatre. Manager Walter S. Pinchback presented Russel Wooding's Jubilee Singers and Branson and Lee's Arcade Orchestra. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. Broadway Theatre opens 1-o'clock Thursday, December 15, with Charles Ray in "Scrap Iron" Electrical Treatments THE ARMAMENT CONFERENCE ARTICLE V. By Herbert J. Seligman. (This is the fifth article of a series by the author of "The Negro Faces America," who is now director of publicity of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.) Predictions are freely made in American and English newspapers that Germany will have suffered a "financial collapse" with six months. What that might mean to millions of people the terrible conditions in Russia and in Southeastern Europe indicate. Those conditions, with accompanying hunger, decay of railways and communications, and the wreck and desertion of large cities, are summarized by the word barbarism. In the face of these predictions France's representative, Premier Aristide Briand, dared to talk about the German "menace," as though the German people could possibly raise an army even if they were not thoroughly sick of fighting; and France's spokesmen dare to offer this German menace as an excuse for wanting huge French armies, when the chief maritime powers of the world are ready to reduce their navies. France, through her Premier Briand, came to the Washington conference in a mood of distrust. Some even said that France wanted to wreck the Washington conference. The immediate result of Premier Briand's speech was a flaming up of hates and distrusts in Washington. Some people even believed France had given a death blow to humanity's hopes for freedom from war. It is too early yet to say whether or not this is so. In any case, France's course has made clear that there is a great conflict going on in Washington and throughout the world. This conflict is between the wishes of the individual and the good of the community by which and through which he lives. It is the conflict of France, which still thinks in terms of indemnities and punishments, against the sentiment growing in England and the United States that regardless of who is to blame for the past war, mankind had better forget that and work to shore up the dikes, all working together against the tide of hunger and destruction which has already overflowed southeastern Europe and now threatens Germany. In the course of this conflict France is opposing the suggestion that Germany and Russia ought to be invited to Washington. England and the United States are beginning to realize, largely through the situation created by France, that a world peace cannot be made when two of the chief nations are denied a voice and are to be treated as slaves. For that is what France would like to make of Germany and Russia. She would like to make peons of Germany and Russia, and have their people work solely to pay debts owed to France. She is even ready to recruit vast numbers of black soldiers in Africa for this purpose—a strange case, that of a white government using black men to enslave other white men. Here is what an Englishman, J. L. Garvin, writing in the Observer of London, says about it (my quotation is from the New York Times of November 27): "A very distinguished French writer argued a few days ago that France for her very existence required a large navy and unlimited submarines to ensure the Mediterranean route and the free flow of colored fighting masses from Africa. This is the French case for military security, but what sane man can believe that these conditions can be permanent in Europe, that any white race can in reality preserve itself for long by these means or that any other white race can be held down by these means?" France has really succeeded in showing, what some people believed from the very beginning, that it is impossible to get rid of those terrible burdens, armies and navies, unless you first get rid of the disposition to use armies and navies. In the Washington conference it has become more and more evident that on the European continent no power is so eager to use armies and navies as France. An answer to this situation has come out of Washington. President Harding has proposed a loose sort of association of nations. In any such association, obviously, there could be no peon nations. Germany and Russia would have to be heard and would have to be represented on something like equal, terms whether France liked it or not. If France is actually ready to fight, as some of the utterances of her spokesmen indicate, she must stand the consequences—which may be calamitous not only for France, but for the rest of the world. However, when it comes to the point, France may be persuaded to be reasonable. France has made it more evident even than it was before that European bankruptcy threatens to interfere with any settlement of Far Eastern questions; and that that bankruptcy can be dealt with not by more fighting about it, but by such an aggressive determination for peace as the world has never yet seen. Meanwhile, the English have had definite warning of the danger of France's policy. They are reported to have many dealings with one of the greatest, German industrialists, Hugo Stinnes. But if Germany is forced into ruin, English investments in Germany and in the enterprises German mark, which used to be worth much. The danger is pressing. The German mark, which user to be worth about twenty-four cents of American money is now worth only threetenths of a cent. In other words, the American dollar which used to be exchanged for about four German marks now is exchanged for three hundred. With their money practically worthless no people on earth can go on working long. The time must come when other nations will no longer accept that money and the people will be unable to obtain necessary supplies. That is where the wishes of the individual, France, conflict with the welfare of the community, Europe, upon which France's welfare ultimately depends. France wants to ruin both Germany and Russia by collecting damages for what was done during the last war. The rest of the world is beginning to realize that damages had better be forgotten and Germany and Russia helped by any any every means if a similar ruin is not to spread everywhere. Meanwhile, France has her answer. President Harding's proposal for an association of nations has been welcomed everywhere. That proposal means other conferences after the Washington conference adjourns. Those conferences must discuss the question of money, of establishing such security that nations like Germany and Russia will have a currency with which they can buy what the people need. If those conferences come to be it will mean the end of the sabre rattling which France is indulging in, a sabre rattling which Germany learned from France, after France's armies had laid Europe waste under Louis the Fourteenth, and again under, Napoleon, whose power was finally shattered by Russian winter. The United States may enter those future European conferences with a mighty power. For all of the European nations owe us money. It has been suggested that the United States "forgive" them part of their indebtedness. If the United States, in addition to diminishing its own navy, were to offer to "forgive" those debts or part of them, on condition that the nations so benefited also disarm, on land as well as on the sea, an enormous step might be made toward understanding among the peoples of the world and toward the banishment of fear. For it is a mixture of greed and fear that is halting the necessary work of salvaging civilization, and is making people wonder whether the peoples of the world can get to work together before it is too late, before European civilization is doomed finally and irreparably. (A sixth article by Mr. Seligmann will appear next week.) In the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses there appeared the Hon. George H. White, Congressman from North Carolina. Previous to his appointment there appeared in the Congress the following colored Senators and Representatives, namely: Senate, the Hon. Hiram H. Revels and B. K. Crue. The, House was graced with the following noted colored Congressmen: The Hon. Richard H. Cain, H. P. Cheatham, Robert C. Delarge, Robert B. Elliot, Jeremiah Harladson, John Hyman, John M. Langston, Jefferson Long, John R. Lynch, J. H. Menard, Thomas H. Miller, George W. Murray, Charles E. Nash, James E. O'Hara, Joseph H. Rainey, A. J. Ransier, James H. Raireir, Robert Smalls, Benjamin S. Turner, Josiah T. Walls, and Benjamin S. Turner, Josiah this list is quoted to you, "Lest You Forget," that in the Halls of Congress has been heard the matchless oratory of "The Brother in Black." Mr. White, "The Last of the Mohicans," when leaving, said that he would return. Though he has gone to the "Great Beyond," we shall make his word good. We are coming back. The Constitution of the United States of America, vouchsafes unto this right, and as God lives, we intend to exercise it. The slogan of "Taxation Without Representation Is Tyranny" was heralded across the Atlantic and knocked King George off his throne. This is called to your attention that you may recall to mind that it was the blood of a colored man which was the first shed for American Independ- ence, his name being Christus Attucks. There were over 3,000 colored soldiers in the American army under Gen. Washington. In the war of 1812, 2,000 colored soldiers from New York alone entered the service. Five hundred of them, at the battle of New Orleans under Gen. Andrew Jackson, distinguished themselves. In the Civil War there were 178,975 colored soldiers in the Union Army and the Confederate Army. In the Spanish-American war in 1898 four colored regiments were the first to be ordered to the front. 'At the battle of Las Quasimas the Tenth Cavalry came to the needed support of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. If it had not been for the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-Fourth Infantry at the battle of San Juan Hill, Mr. Roosevelt and his Roughriders would not have come home to tell the tale. Where has there been greater devotion to America than the "Sacrifice of Carrizal?" In the World War 458,838 colored soldiers were accepted in the service. Over two million registered for service. I need not relate to you the story of the heroism of the colored soldier, for it is so near to us that all of us remember. I simply call your attention to the fact that though we bleed and die and buy liberty Bonds and war savings stamps, yet when there comes a time when we desire our own to represent us, there are means employed to keep us from enjoying all the political rights, emoluments, privileges and the American spirit of justice, vouchsafed to us by the Constitution of the United States. "The right to vote shall not be denied," so reads the Constitution, but is denied by the "grandfather clause," "property qualification," "educational qualification," when the applicant is black. Suppose that the Union would make a "grandfather clause," and that it would read "no person whose father or grandfather or any of his male relatives fought to destroy the Union in 1861-1865, shall ever hold an office of honor or trust under the Union Government of the United States?" Has the colored man ever rebelled? Has he ever turned traitor, even when Germany begged him to rise in the South and pay back the debt owed us by 250 years of forced servitude? Did we rise? Nay, not so. When it was called for "only Americans to be on guard," the colored soldiers were called, and it was they who guarded the President, the White House and all public buildings. They died at Argonne Forest, and more than once "stayed the Hun." They were the first to tread German soil, and at the close of the war were standing in front of Metz to charge that impregnable German stronghold, which meant absolute annihilation. Did they turn traitor? Nay, not sol. They stood ready to offer the very last drop of their blood in defense of "Liberty." Gentlemen of Congress, what has been their reward? East St. Louis, Washington, Chicago, Omaha, and scores of other places, among them the most heinous, unspeakable, and, like unto the "Hunish ruthlessness," the destruction of Tulsa, so as to get the oil wells and land of the wealthy colored people. And why are these things so? Because we are called to support the government, pay the same car fare, pay the same for the necessities of life, suffer the deprivations of the reconstruction, and then have no one to represent us in Congress. When Mr. White left he said that we are coming back. So we are! There was a time when we could give our cause into the hands of our solons, and our cause would be taken care of. But that time is no more. The Vardamans, Tilighmans, Hoke Smiths, John Temple Graves, Tom Dixon and men of that type have taken possession of the committees where all questions affecting the colored man would have to come before them. What has been the result? They have taught the humane Northern men that they are "white." It is a fact that every place such men set their feet they take the prejudices and colorphobia of their home town there. They are turning the country toward lynching and burning the "Brother in Black." They are teaching the North to deny him the privilege "to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." To some of these black haters the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and all the organic laws of the land in which justice is intended for the black man, that they are what Germany said a treaty was—"a scrap of paper." The black man has been true to America. He has never done anything to the white race in proportion to the crimes that have been committed against him since he was ruthlessly stolen from his haunts in Africa, in 1619, to the present. We have no representatives in the Congress of the United States of America. We cannot get a decent job for our educated men when the Southern Senators or Congressmen can get on a committee to stop it. This week the Hon. H. L. Johnson was turned down --- 2. Instantly the tablet begins disintegrating or "breaking up." 3. In 10 seconds the medical properties are thoroughly mixed with water. Thus, Hill's C. B. Q. Tables act immediately, give relief without delay and begin checking Colds and La Grape long before ordinary tablets; by actual test, are absorbed by the stomach juices. To prove this, subject other than C. B. Q. Tables to the test, and observe that in most instances an hour or more is required for complete disintegration. Demand C. B. Q. Tablets in red box bearing Mr. Hill's portrait and signature. by the Senate for the appointment of Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia. A secret executive session was held, and Senator Watson of Georgia dominated it. It will be recalled that the Senator said that he would underwrite every word uttered by the man Simmons—head of that organization which hides its face whenever it is in active operation. This costume was taken from "The Angels", of the early Mormons. It answered its purpose then, and it is such a beautiful organization that Congress refuses to investigate. Watson said: "The race issue was not raised, though personally I object to the principal of a colored man being in charge of a department where thirty or forty whites girls are employed under him." I repeat what I said before, that wherever a man of the type of Watson can carry his home town prejudices to the place where he is residing he does so. I challenge Mr. Watson to come to the United States Veterans' Bureau, the War Department and other bureaus and see if there is the prejudice existing there as there is in the Senatorial and Congressional representatives of states like Georgia Georgia—guilty of peonage, where a white man to cover his crime, gets his Samboes to throw into the river fourteen colored men to keep them from telling. I understand that the "Georgia Justice" for the white man is that he can have fourteen colored men killed or he and his sons or his Samboes can do the same at his bidding, and when he is arrested and found guilty that he can plead "guilty" or "for mercy," I forget which, and he will be sentenced to prison. If a black man is simply accused of killing a white man, or even insulting, much less accused of assaulting, a white woman, if the Ku Kluxers don't get him before the so-called law does, he in either case will "hang by the neck until dead, dead, dead." In an issue of a local white paper of recent date there was a statement that the Kluxers, when they wanted "justice" about a black man or something else, that they would write the judge two or three thousand letters. Result: If he had ever set foot in Georgia, and after that had gone North, say to Rochester, New York, and, was sent from there to Washington to get a position of honor and trust, and it came before a Georgian to pass me I would not pass, or be confirmed, when there are rules that "the mere word of mouth that the appointees are personally abnoxious's suffices." Is the Senate of the United States ruled by the justice of the claim of an appointee, or on the personal objection of a Senator? There is not a colored man in the United States under such conditions: who would ever get an appointment, for Watson said: "Personally I object to the principal of a colored man being in charge of a department where thirty or forty white girls are employed under him." 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HARTMAN'S PE-RU-NA Tablets or Liquid Sold Everywhere Officials of the United States Veterans Bureau have been surprised by the number of cases of advanced tuberculosis resulting from service during the war that have recently been discovered. It is not believed that the disease rate generally has risen, - --- WRITE FOR AGENTS' ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITION States can simply object to an appointee and he will fail to get the job. So far as equal justice, politically, equal justice economically before the law, the "black man haters" lay the fundamental principals of God, and Christianity, the organic principals of the Declaration of Independence and the "Instrument of Liberty," the Constitution aside. But God still lives, and as He gave Germany, Belgium, France and other countries their "meat in due season" for taking un-Christian advantages of the black peoples who could not defend themselves, so He will in due time repay those who debase and destroy His own people here in America. Believe me? Did not the slave masters from 61-65 give their lives for holding their slaves? History repeats itself TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA: Space will not permit further discussion at this time, but I call to you one and all, individually and collectively, to stand up as true Americans. What you need is men in Congress and men in the State Legislatures of our own race who will dare stand for us. The ballot is ours. Fight for it. Anything that is worth having is worth fighting for. You will never be what the new."call" desires you to be until you have men to represent you at all times and protect your interests. "The ballot, though it falls as still as a snowflake upon the hill, yet it executes the Freeman's will," and if you will think of this you will gird yourself for the political fight. And again I say, back up under the American flag and demand your rights. So says The Washington Bee motto, "The Voice of the People." U. S. VETERANS' BUREAU TO CHECK TUBERCULOSIS. but it is apparent from figures had by various districts of the Veterans' Bureau, and particularly this district, that a greater number of such cases are now applying for disability compensation thn for a number of months past. This marked increase of applicants has shown up since the beginning of the "Clean-up" drive that started about the middle of September. The most surprising thing is that many of the claimants now showing up are either well advanced or in the last stages of tuberculosis. Prior to the "Clean-up" drive the average number of such claimants each week in the Fourth Distrit wa between fifty and fifty-five. For some weeks back it has risen to a weekly average of between seventy and seventy-five. During the first year or two following the war the weekly average of such claims ran as high, and sometimes higher than at present. Now, however, the presumption of the disease having been contracted in service has turned against the ex-service man, and he is required to produce affidavits showing that he has been suffering from or treated from tuberculosis for such time as would indicate it had been contracted in service. For a long time some of these men have been neglecting to file claims for compensation, with the result that many of those now coming in have reached a point where there is little hope for the government to aid them through hospitalization, and the only thing that can be done for them is to pay them such compensation as they are entitled to. The only improvement that can be made in this particular situation is that the men developing tuberculosis, apparently coming from all walks of life, get in touch with the Veterans' Bureau early, and present their claims, if they have such, so that proper treatment can be offered them. 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It finally worked its way to the universities of America, and at the present time there is a copy of it in Harvard College that may not be taken out. Boston University is one of the institutions that are seeking to use Dr. Jones' book, as well as to translate SEVEN-BE it. In writing to Dr. Jones, the university expressed its appreciation of the depth any scope of the work, and also expressed the hope that Dr. Jones may soon take his proper place beside other great American scholars. The book is a monogram of 140 pages, written by Dr. Jones as his graduation thesis. It is a treatise on the work of Lotze and Bowne, two great philosophers, and is now the recognized authority on those two masters. Dr. Jones is one of the few Americans, and the only American of the colored American race, to receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from a foreign university. He is the author of several other text books, and is one of the greatest students of philosophy in America today. KRAMER, THE WELL KNOWN FLORIST. In preparing the many gifts to give your friends and the arrangement of your home for the holidays, don't forget that a nice bouquet of flowers sent from Kramer, the Florist, would not only be a surprise and gift to your friends, but would make their home more cheerful. TRY IT. In buying wreaths and flowers for your own home, don't forget to go to the place that will give you real service and courtesy-Kramer, the Florist, 916 F Street Northwest. AN OPEN LETTER To the Editor of The Bee: To the Editor of The Bee. We should never lose sight of the fact that "He is my friend who tells me of my faults." Yet there are many people who are too narrow-minded to see it in that light. They seem to think that only their enemies would dare to point out their faults to them. Hence they walk blindly on and go down to their death in any business in which they may have launched. And the above is a prelude to what I wish to say to the colored men and women who have launched out into business here in Washington. Let me say to you, men and women of the race, there never was a time when the race should be more thoroughly united than now. But some of you have started off wrong to succeed along racial lines. Those of you, or some of you, who have launched out into business are trying to go too fast; you seem to be too blind, or too ignorant, of the fact that the last rung in the ladder of fame or success cannot be reached in a day. Then go slowly if you would surely reach the top. Let me say to you that it is not infrequent that one may hear poor men and women of the race complaining about the seemingly advantage that's being taken of them by men and women of the race who have been fortunate enough to make a little start in life. And these complaints are mostly heard against colored real estate agents, and women who happen to own a few houses and want the whole earth for them when they happen to rent or sell to members of their own race. Little do these so-called business men and women think that they are driving their people away from them instead of drawing them together. They are saying "The colored people talk about their race not patronizing their own color. How can they ever expect them to patronize men and women of their own race when these same people seek to gouge them out of every cent they can make?" I'm your friend, and am telling you of your faults which you must heed if you ever expect to succeed and become a united race. Quit so much of your damnable gouging! DISASTROUS FIRE AT WILBER-FORCE. Shorter Hall, at Wilberforce University, around which center the beginnings of the Negro race in its strivings for educational advantages, and hopes of the race for better things, and out from whose walls have gone so many of the men and women who have done and are doing so much in a worth-while way for the establishment of the Negro as a very vital force in the affairs of the nation, was completely destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. December 7th. From an investigation on the part of the authorities at the University, and also on the part of the State Fire Marshal's office, it appears that the fire must have started from defective wiring in the attic of the north wing of the building. The fire was discovered by students who were returning to the building from the weekly prayer service, which was conducted at Galloway Hall, at the other side of the campus. President J. A. Gregg, who conducted the prayer meeting, and Secretary Jenkins, who lives directly across from the building, were the first officials in the building after the alarm was sounded. They directed the few boys who were already striving to put out the fire. They were soon joined by Supt. Berry, Bishop J. K. Jones, Dean Jones, W. A. Anderson and other members of the faculty and friends from the neighborhood. Had there been adequate fire fighting apparatus at hand the building might have been saved. Appeals for help were sent to nearby towns, but none would respond, and the authorities at Xenia, the nearest town, when called upon, refused to come. Everything possible was done to save the building, and when it finally became certain that it was doomed, the boys were directed to save whatever they could. Very little was salvaged, however, which left a total loss of several thousand dollars, and two hundred boys without homes, and many of them without clothing. Supt. Berry and Dean Woodson very generously threw open the doors of their departments, and a committee called by President Gregg, including Bishop Jones and the heads of departments, was able to plan on the housing of students and the care of the college department, whose class rooms were on the first oor of Shorter. or Shorter Mr. H. E. Schmidt of Xenia was instrumental in getting Governor Davis to send one hundred cots and two hundred blankets to President Gregg. to be distributed to the young men whose bedding was lost in the conagration. The local Red Cross unit, under Miss Schaeffer, has offered aid, and the people generally are doing all possible to care for the wants of the young men. The Randall School Dramatic Club will present "East Lynn" at the Dunbar High School December 22. MAKE YOURSELF MORE ATTRACTIVE MAKE YOURSELF MORE ATTRACTIVE No other single factor contributes so much to personal charm and attractiveness as beautiful hair. 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Send money or stamps, and we will ship by parcel post. LEGAL NOTICE. supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court. No. 28 513 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 testamentary on the estate of Charlotte A. Jones, 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 subscribers, on or before the 28th day of October, A. D., 1922; otherwise they may be law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. said estate. Given under our hands this 28th day of October, 1921. Helen J. Richards, 2509 P Street N. W. Charles H. Marshall, 2710 P Street N. W. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. C. Martin, Attorney. W. C. Martin, Attorney. Suprême Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court. No. 28,325, 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 testamentary on the estate of John Brooks, 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 31st day of October, A. D., 1922; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefits of acid estate. Given under my hand this 31st day of October, 1921. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of. Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. C. Martin, Attorney. LEGAL NOTICE. Sylvester L. McLaurin, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court. No. 23619 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 testamentary on the estate of Robert Powell, 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 6th day of December A. D., 1922; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefits or said estate. Given under my hand this 6th day of December. 1921. Sylvester L. McLaurin 2017 13th St. N. W. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia Clerk of the Probate Court. Sylvester L. McLaurin, Attorney. WATKINS STORE AT SEAT PLEASANT, MD. In this issue of The Bee will be found the advertisement of Mr. W. L. Watkins, at Seat Pleasant, Md., who runs a general merchandise store. Thousands of dollars are saved by the people of Seat Pleasant, Fairmont Heights and suburbs, and the surrounding country, by having a store of this kind near them, where they can buy what they want cheaper than it can be had in the city. Wood and coal, all kinds of lumber, paints and oils. Lumber and coal is delivered everywhere. People who contemplate building will find everything in that line at this store, especially the people in the suburbs. Mr. Watkins is quite a friend of the colored people, of whom he has a large trade. IN MEMORIAM. DANCY-In loving remembrance of my dear husband, John C. Dancy, who entered into life, eternal one year ago, December 5, 1920. Servant of God, well done; Thy glorious warfare's past; The battle's fought, the victory's won, And thou art crowned at last. His wife, Florence V. Dancy. FALLS CHURCH GLEANINGS. By Nellie Merriwether Henderson. Mrs. John Phillips, mother of Mrs. Nellie Nickens died at her residence at West Falls Church Monday morning, December 12th. Miss Rena Byrd was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Josabel Peyton, Sunday last. Mrs. Eliza Byrd had as her guests Sunday of last week her daughter, Miss Edna Byrd, and Mrs. W. Law of Washington, D. C. Mr. Eldridge Davis and Mr. William Henderson were the guests of Miss Alberta Fitzhugh last week. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Montgomery, the "newlyweds," visited relatives and friends here Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. Emory B. Smith visited a former member of their church, Mrs. Roy, who for some months has been at the home of Mrs. Henry Williams. Mrs. Roy moved to Falls Church on account of ill health. Miss Minta Parker visited her relatives Friday of last week. Mrs. Annie Allen is visiting friends in Martinsburg, W. Va. *** Miss Ethel Jones spent Sunday as the guest of Misses Bertha and Bertiese Lee. *** Mrs. Mary Carpenter is reported as being on the sick list again. *** The local N. A. A. C. P. held an executive meeting at the home of the secretary Sunday afternoon. The Public School League held its monthly meeting at the school house Thursday evening of last week. The weather being threatening, the number present was small, but the meeting proved interesting, and many things were accomplished. Parents and friends attending these meetings will find them very interesting and instructive, and will wonder why they did not attend before. The Junior League of the M. E. Church gave an interesting program Sunday evening in the main auditorium Those who took part in the program were Misses Rebecca Dixon and Ethel Jones, duet; Miss Bertiese Lee, solo; hymn, led by Master Thomas Dixon; prayer, led by Master Richard Williams. *** From all indications the Xmas exercises at both churches will be of the finest order. No pains are being spared in the preparations for them. Don's forget the school Xmas entertainment Thursday, December 22, at one of the churches. The cause is a worthy one, and your presence is encouraging to the teachers. *** All subscribers who are in arrears for The Bee are earnestly requested to pay for their papers before January 1. The papers cost something, and must be paid for by the agent each month. She is very anxious to start the New Year with a clean page. *** As the next issue of The Bee will not come into our town until after, Merry and Joyous Xmas to All. CITY BRIEFS. 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