Washington Tribune
Saturday, June 25, 1921
Washington, D.C.
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Pollyannas Sued For Charity Fund
CARRIE JOHNSON GIVEN FREEDOM IN MURDER CASE
Attorneys Gaskins and Watson Waged Hot Fight Throughout the Case. Late Justice Gould Worried on Death Bed About His Decision. Justice Siddons Acts
Bond of $5,000 secured January 14th.
Second trial before Justice Siddons, ended in nolle pros and Miss Johnson was set free Monday, June 20, 1921.
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VOL. I. NO. 7
Pollya
CARRIE JOHNSON
FREEDOM IN
Attorneys Gaskins and
Fight Throughout the
Gould Worried on
His Decision. Ju
HISTORY OF JO
Carrie Johnson, 17 years old, live
Arrested night of July 21, 1919.
Charged with killing Detective W
Examined before Coroner's Jury,
Returned to jail, where she spent
First Trial began January 3rd, 1919.
Jury rendered verdict of Mansla
appealed.
Bond of $5,000 secured January
Second trial before Justice Siddo
Johnson was set free Monday, June
Case Nolle Prossed as the Breaks Go Against the Prosecution
The mills of the gods grind slow but sure, and so it is in the case Miss Carrie Johnson, who was convicted on a charge of manslaughter, before Justice Gould last January, in connection with the killing of Detective Sergt. Harry Wilson during the race riot of July 1919 and was released Monday afternoon, when United States Attorney, John E. Laskey, nolle pressed the case before Justice Siddons.
The case has been a long drawn one and has been bitterly fought by the attorneys on both sides. Miss Johnson was arrested on the night of July 21, 1919, when the riot was at its height, on the charge of killing Detective Wilson, who entered the Johnson home at 220 G Street, N. W. Her father, Richard Johnson was also arrested at this time. They were confined in jail until the trial in January, 1921, after 18 months of incarceration. At this trial her father was given his freedom and Miss Johnson was released under a five thousand dollar bond.
A verdict was brought against Miss Johnson charging her with manslaughter. A motion for a new trial was immediately asked by her attorneys, Gaskins and Watson; on a plea of self defense, which was denied by the late Justice Gould. However, during Justice Gould's illness he called Justice Siddons to his bedside and there told him that he could not die in peace with this girl's case unsettled and that it was clear in his mind that she should have a new trial for there was doubt in his mind as to her being guilty.
When her attorneys went before Justice Siddons with the motion for a new trial, Justice Siddons said; "In sustaining the motion for a new trial on the points of law presented by the defendant's counsel, I have reviewed the condition leading up to the riot and deplored the fact such a stain could be put upon the fair name of Washington City. Often it has been said from platform and press that this is a government of laws and not of men, but the time has come when we must either make this true or, stand condemned before the nations of the world.
"I can easily understand the state of the defendant's mind, when she, a girl of only seventeen, was going thru this trying experience and in keeping with my conversator with the late Justice Gould, I grant the motion for a new trial."
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1 Watson Waged Hot
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Death Bed About
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JOHNSON CASE
d at 220 G Street, N. W.
Wilson.
July 23.
18 months awaiting trial.
21, before Justice Gould and Jury.
Fighter, January 12, 1921, and case
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ns; ended in nolle pros and Miss
20, 1921.
The case was called last week, and on Monday the case was noelle pressed by the United States Attorney and Justice Siddons pronounced her free. When seen by a representative of the Tribune, Miss Johnson was elated over the opportunity of her freedom which the decision brought her and expressed her gratefulness to the attorneys and Justice Siddons.
Attorneys B. L. Gaskins and T. M. Watson were proud of the decision, for it meant the third riot case for them to result in freedom of their defendant. The first, was that of Dr. Theodore Walker, charged with murdering a man on the corner of 15th and New York Avenue. For lack of evidence, this case was ignored by the grand jury and Dr. Walker was set free. The next was that of Richard Johnson, the father of Carrie. His case was noelle pressed in January at the trial before Justice Gould.
The National Race Congress agreed to pay the expenses of the case and during the course of the trial, turned over $450 to the Attorneys; $250 for the Bond and $200 for records. Rev. Jernagin is President of the Congress and Prof John R. Hawkins is treasurer.
A, local club of young ladies known as "The Pollyannas" stated some time ago as a result of their benefit dance, they had one thousand and five dollars ($1,005) to turn over to Miss Johnson to assist her in the legal fight for her life. As yet, this amount has not been turned over, but it is expected to be at an early date, so as to assist her in cleaning up bills yet unpaid. The photographs contributed by Mr. Daniel Freeman, on U Street, aided materially in helping the attorneys for the defendant, prove their case. His work was done free of charge and the pictures produced by him were the official exhibits in the case.
Since her release on bond in January, Miss Johnson has been working at her former employment and is proud of the fact that she is a free girl again. She was only seventeen at the time of her arrest in July, 1919.
PRESIDENT HARDING REFUSES TO SAVE TURNER
President Harding declined Tuesday to commute the death sentence of William Turner, held in the state penitentiary at Richmond, Va. on conviction of murdering Morgan Moore, ir. near Alexandria, Va. Turner is sentenced to be hanged next Friday. In refusing to exercise clemency, the President is understood to have followed the recommendations of Attorney General Daugherty.
WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY JUNE 25, 1921
PRINCIPALS IN FAMOUS JOHNSON CASE
SOUTHERN AID'S DEDICATORY EXERCISES NEXT WEDNESDAY
DR. BALLOU GIVES FEEBLE CITIZENS TO SEEK AUDIENCE NEXT WEEK EXCUSE
ATTY. B. L. GASKINS
SOUTHERN AID'S
EXERCISES
Dedicatorial Exercises of the Southern Aid Building at the corner of 7th and T Streets, will be held Wednesday, June 29th, at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, with Prof. John R. Hawkins as the principal speaker. The program will begin at 8:00 o'clock.
All of the officials of this great institution will appear on the program, interspersed with music by the Wooding Quintet, assisted by a choir.
Mr. B. L. Jordan, Secretary of the Southern Aid Society, will be Master of Ceremonies.
The Society will hold open house at the building all day Wednesday and to every person passing thru the doors, will be given a useful souvenir.
The Southern Aid opened its local office here on the 6th of June, on the third floor of their building, with Mr. J. L. Doss as City Superintendent. They began with seven agents. They have been industrially working the city for their company with results beyond their expectations.
The rendering of this program will be an inspiration to every one attending. Information will be given showing the progress, purposes and effi-
DR. BALLOU GIVES FEEBLE EXCUSE
Along with The Tribune's protest, the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. wrote a letter to the Board of Education protesting the order from Miss Cecil B. Norton's office, during Music Week, to the janitors of the Central and Dunbar High Schools; "Not to admit persons of opposite race to the entertainment of June the 4th." This letter was turned over to Superintendent Ballou for investigation and report on the same.
Dr. Ballou has made his report to the board. The report in part, says: "The Superintendent's official connection with the events of Music Week was limited to one announcement to officers and teachers in the form of a circular, and one official meeting of high school principals and supervising principals." After reviewing the incidents leading up to the entertainment for Saturday night, the report reads:
"Following the serenade of the President on the Ellipse, the Superintendent was invited to a conference with Mrs. Pelham, Mr. Washington, Miss Norton, and Mr. Lawrence. Protests were made by Mrs. Pelham and Mr. Washington against the directions given the janitors of Dunbar and Central High Schools. The Superintendent was requested to cancel those di-
Miss CARRIE JOHNSON
DEDICATORY
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Mr. J. LACEY DOSS,
District Supt. for the Southern Aid So
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An attractive feature will be a violin solo by Miss Julia Grant, eight
years old, of the Columbia Conservatory of Music.
CITIZENS TO SEEK AUDIENCE NEXT WEEK The committee of citizens who were to call on Col. Sherrill this week in regard to the proposed bathing beach, will not seek audience with him until next Tuesday.
rections. Since the Superintendent of Schools had not been responsible for the arrangements for the two programs he felt that any directions which had been given for the carrying out of the program by the officers connected therewith could not be modified by him without being misunderstood or interpreted as undue interference. It appeared to the Superintendent then and still appears to him that the responsibility for these programs and the arrangements for carrying them out rested with the Executive Committee for Music Week, and that that Committee was responsible for modifying the conditions under which the programs were to be presented, or for concealing the programs, whichever in their judgment seemed better.
"The incident is particularly unfortunate because differences have been engendered throughout both divisions of the Community as the result of an enterprise which was intended to advance and promote better feelings among all people of the District."
(Signed) FRANK W. BALLOU
harity INSON CASE
ATTY. THOS. M. WATSON
MANY FEATURES MARK CLOSING OF SCHOOLS
In awarding 171 diplomas, Dunbar High School of which Prof. Garnet C. Wilkerson is Principal, graduated the largest class in its history, Tuesday night, June 21.
Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, a member of the school board, presided, and Mrs. Coralie F. Cook, also a member of the school board, delivered the oration. In speaking of prejudice, Mrs. Cook said: "White people suffer from their race prejudice for it blunts their conscience and defiles their religion. How can one say that he loves God, whom he has not seen and hates his brother whom he has seen?" At one point she advised the students to be thinkers. "There is no color in the realm of thought," she declared. She spoke clearly and logically. Her address was well received. At the close of her adress, Mortimer G. Weaver, vice president of the class, presented her with a beautiful bouquet of flowers, in choice words.
Dr. F.W. Ballon, superintendent of the city schools, presented the diplomas. In his brief remarks he said that a school's success was dependent upon its graduates and that his department wanted to keep in touch with each of the young men and women that were leaving Dunbar tonight.
Prof. Roscoe C. Bruce awarded the prizes. One of the longest and most fervent bursts of applause ever given anyone, greeted Mr. Bruce as he rose to make the awards. He announced his gratification for the record that Dunbar graduates were making—especially the young ladies. The only three Ph.D. degrees conferred upon colored women in this country, were conferred upon graduates of this school.
At the close of the exercises, Miss Mary Dorothea Cook, president of the class, surprised Prof. Wilkerson, by presenting him with two small packages, containing a diamond sock pin and a pair of platinum cuff buttons.
A notable feature of this class is that 75 per cent have rated their intention of persuading higher courses—72 have expressed a desire to enter Miner Normal; 48 expressed the desire to enter College and 40 are to specialize in various subjects.
HONOR* STUDENTS AT DUNBAR
First place in class honors went to William Henry Hastie. Second place was won by Mary Dorothea Cook.
Scholarship Prizes
The following scholarship awards were announced by Mr. Bruce:
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PROCEEDS OF CHARITY BALL AT COLISEUM IS DEMANDED
One of the most sensational occurrences that has happened in the social circles of the Capital City, culminated yesterday when Miss Carrie Minor Johnson, thru her attorneys, Gaskins and Watson, filed a suit for $973.00, with interest, against "The Pollyanna Social Club" with the following persons named as defendants: Ruth Servoy, Annie Burwell, Adele Parks, Ethel McKinney, Mae Hurst, Daisy Glenn, Helen Curtis, Marie Wilson, Sarah Clarke, Jessie Parks, Mamie Lewis, Marion Wormley, Ethel Murray, Mrs. Emory Smith and Mrs. Edward Rattley.
The particulars of the demand are set forth as follows: "To net proceeds of Fashion Show held at Coliseum Hall, Washington, D. C., Feb. 25, 1921. By defendants for benefit of plaintiff, $1005.00. Less amount paid or secured to Architect, $28.00, balance due. $973.00."
Miss Johnson states in her suit: "The said defenders requested me to allow them to use my name in connection with a certain charity ball to be conducted by them on or about Feb. 25th, 1921, at the Coliseum Hall, and promised that they would turn over to me, for my own use, all moneys realized and collected by them as profits thereof, that I agreed therto; the defendants and each of them in pursuance of said agreement conducted a public function at which they charged admission fees, and which they advertised to the public as being given for my aid and benefit."
Miss Johnson claims that she, with her attorney, B. L. Gaskins, met the club in an official meeting on March 23, and was informed that the net proceeds of the ball on February 25th, was $1005.00. That she has asked the Pollyannas for the money to pay off her obligations incurred by her case in court and they have refused so to do. The request was made again on Monday, June 20th without result; therefore, the suit was filed.
TO HOLD BIG MASS MEETING ON TULSA
TO HOLD BIG MASS MEETING ON TULSA
A mass meeting to consider and discuss "The Tulsa Outrage" will be held Monday night, June 27th at the Meropolitan A. M. E. church on M, street between 15th and 16th, N.W. The Program says: "All justice loving people without regard to race, religion or occupation are invited to this meeting to hear the truth about the latest and greatest outrage in the history of this country."
Rev. E. W. D. Jones, will preside as the chairman of the meeting and all persons appearing on the program are strong speakers who know what to say, when to say it, and how to say it.
The meeting is held under the auspices of the Committee of Seven and promises to be one of the strongest, the most far reaching, sentiment making meetings that have been held in this city for many a day.
Tulsa was outraged by not only the lawless element of the white race, but her sworn officers as well. Not only were colored people brutally murdered but their property was plundered, stolen and what could not be carried off was burned to ashes.
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INVESTIGATION REVEALS DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS IN BUREAU OF ENGRAVING
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These articles are not mere allegations. They are facts backed up by letters, verbal and documentary evidence. Let Congress grant immunity to the employees and hear first hand the real truth about the unwarranted conditions in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Dont miss them.
NEXT WEEK DISMISSALS
THE BOSSES
There are more petty bosses in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing than in any other government institution. Taken collectively, they form a system as rotten as it is old—the system of oppression.
Most of the bosses are woefully ignorant of wilfully unjust, as is attested by the methods they employ. But ignorance and injustice always go hand in hand—that is the only way ignorance can sustain itself. It is a hard task master because it can't be consistent and its inconsistency ultimately proves its own undoing. Thus wicked institutions fall of their own weight. But while they are in power they do an irreparable harm.
In so far as the system affected the bosses—it kept them in power. In so far as the bosses affected the employees, they destroyed efficiency thro' favoritism. They encouraged spying. They discouraged industry. They kept down the salary schedule by dismissals, forced resignations and a system of transfers that prevented any one from sustaining a claim of seniority.
They changed the personnel of the various divisions by gradually elevating the favored and keeping down the less fortunate. They transferred deserving men and women out of divisions where they were senior and the transfers robbed them of years of faithful service. On the other hand they transferred less deserving employees to exclusive divisions where there was every chance of promotion. Such practices are sanctioned because they are justified by the system. To this policy they brook no interference. Like a troublesome peon—any one who opposes the system must be gotten rid of. Thus by keeping a vague uneasiness in the breast of every employee, they gain in security—knowing as they do that fear, whether from physical or, from economic causes, makes cowards of men.
Nearly all of the resignations and most of the dismissals are traceable to one of two causes: "bosses, too numerous and arbitrary," and "salary, too low."
The most efficient workers only use the positions as stepping stones while the incompetent hang on and drift into debt. Thus the morale of the institution is at its lowest ebb. There is no future for those who remain. They are irrevocably chained to the daily grind of unremitting toil, ever in constant fear of the probable spell of sickness and the spectre of old age.
Collectively the bosses form the system but let us examine them individually. Every person vested with the least bit of authority is technically your boss. A mere foreman of laborers is sustained when he promulgates an order prohibiting the use of certain dressing rooms to a particular set of employees, while at the same time, placing no restrictions upon another. The peculiar part is that the order affects men over whom he has not the least jurisdiction.
The captain of the watch is a man so Irish in his brogue that one is incapable of understanding him. His speech alone bars him from any claim to the higher Americanism and yet, he—the head of an important branch of this large department—is inapproachable and insulting. Whether visitor or employee, no one gets a.civil answer but his superiors; and he cringes so before them that they hardly believe one half the things said of him. He never loses an opportunity to humiliate or degrade any one to show his authority. Petty officers—self styled detectives—search the lockers of employees during the absence of the workers and there is no one present at the time to represent the employees and see that there is no frame up.
Director Wilmeth is not a boss in the strict sense of the word because he lacks the executive ability. He secured his position because he was "ill" is a Democrat. But had he
could have to overdapcap. He is at system he helped min. Not being a letter, he has to dejm. McKinney for printing; not being r, he has to rely A. Beall for his ning; not being a he has to defer to mechanical ideas:
clear of all entangling alliances until they have cleared the place of all irresponsible bosses.
That is the employees only salvation. At present, there is no board of personnel—nothing or no one to safeguard the rights of employees. The plate printers are accorded some show of recognition because of the Plate Printers' Union. Without this their lot would be the common fate of all.
justly with men.
Mr. George Carte Public Printer, has teen changes in his by consolidations, nations, intends to He, too, knows the in time worn, boss Because he has marked efficiency in we have discontinuities in the printi
It matters not how just your grievance, and appeal gets you nothing but the ill will of the boss whose decision you appealed. There after the employee is subjected to petty nagging, if not actual discourtesy. In other words he is slated to go. That he does not go is no fault of the boss, for he becomes the victim of a rigid spy system and secret reports—often falsified.
Secret service men .employed to protect the various notes and currency printings are so busy tabulating data on how long it took an employee to go and return from a dressing room or drink a cup of coffee after 8 a.m., that thieves find ample time to ply their trade with more confidence and security. The bosses found them (the detectives) willing tools and they use them to persecute those in ill favor. In this manner nearly all the potential good of the institution is turned into stagnant pools of personal greed or emolument, rather than into the channels of public prosperity.
To this mismanagement is due the wholesale clamor for reclassification. Who is to blame—the bosses? They have built up a one sided salary schedule for the benefit of the favored. They have abused their powers and privileges to benefit the few. They have done an irreparable harm to the majority.
At this moment Congress is seeking to right these wrongs. But unless Congress wants to nullify its action and intent, it will do well to create a supervisory board or leave it to the Civil Service Commission to administer affairs during the reconstruction. Surely it will not entrust the welfare of those it entends to help in the hands of the very one who heretofore have cheated them out of their just due.
Congress is composed of thinking men. Let them think now. It is significant to note in this connection that Post-master General, Will Hayes, is personally reorganizing his department. He knows he cannot trust the old line bosses to deal
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the ability, he would have to overcome a serious handicap. He is at the mercy of the system he helped to create and sustain. Not being a practical plate printer, he has to depend chiefly on Wm. McKinney for his knowledge of printing; not being an expert examiner, he has to rely upon chief Miss A. Beall for his opinions on examining; not being a master machinist, he has to defer to chief Chappell for mechanical ideas; and not being expert in any of the trades—nor knowing conditions anywhere—he is at the mercy of the bosses. There's the rub. Most of his depences are superannuates, of the old school—of fixed ideas and opinions—pschycologically unfit to meet the ever changing conditions that arise.
There trouble with the employees begins and ends in discontent. But so long as discontent is unorganized they are able to combat it by posting spies all over the building—by arbitrary action, and summary dismissals. Few, indeed, are the employees who have not a just grievance.
The director cannot disclaim responsibility. He makes his office inaccessible, except to the few while the rights of the majority are trampled in the dust. There is no appeal from the prejudiced opinions of the bosses except to the assistant director, a Mr. Fisher, and a man of the old school of oppressors, who believes that sixty dollars a month is enough for any employee—except his personal friends and the like.
His mind has scarcely moved from where it was twenty years ago and he thinks the minds of others have been as inactive. On strict merit there would be other men ahead of him but he is a beneficiary of the system.
Still, there are a number of good foremen and foreladies who would like to see the just thing done but their hands are tied. They are part of the system. They accepted their positions for service with the bosses and with the bosses they must serve the system.
If a union man is made a foreman, he is supposed to turn in his union card and sever the conencting link with everything but the system.
Occasionally there is a change in the various division chiefs but it does not profit employees—nothing does. To this end there is but one solution—the Secretary must appoint a director and assistant director who have the executive ability and the independence to assume immediate control and stay
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Mr. George Carter, newly appointed Public Printer, has already made fifteen changes in his department and by consolidations, and forced resignations, intends to make many more. He, too, knows the value of new blood in time worn, boss ridden institutions. Because he has demonstrated such marked efficiency in righting wrongs, we have discontinued our investigations in the printing Office.
GEORGETOWN NOTES
Rev. Chas. H. Wesley has returned to his church, Ebenezer, A. M. E. after studying at Harvard University. He was successful in passing. The Annual meeting of the P. O. of G. Smaritan grand council was held on the 16th at Brice Hall, 26th street, N.W. A large number were present. The following were elected officers: David Hawkins, G. Chief; Sister Saunders, Asst. Chief; Frank Brown, Deputy Chief; Jana Young, Treasurer; Eliza Randell, Finan. Secretary and Daniel Washington, Chaplain.
Y. M. C. A.
"Field of Social Work" was the topic for discussion at the June meeting of the Council for Social Workers, held in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday evening. Dean Kelly Miller, of Howard University addressed the meeting stressing the necessity of the application of the science of social service work. He said that this kind of work is not considered a philanthropy or charity, but it is a civic duty. This was the last meeting of the social workers for the summer, which ended with a general good-fellowship around the festal board. The next meeting will be in September.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Brown, 223 R Street, N. W., entertained Mr. and Mrs. Garret M. Lewis, with an "at home" party, Friday evening from 8:00 to 10:00 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will be at home, in Brooklyn, N. Y., after the 25th.
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E. B. Letcher, the favorite private car porter is suffering from his first serious illness during the thirty years of service.
Mr. John Hammond left Monday for a visit to the greenfields of Virginia.
The employees on the Shriner's special to White Sulphur, Va., gave perfect satisfaction.
V. A. Bunch has moved to the country on account of Mrs. Bunch's failing health.
J. W. Pratt is recovering from pneumonia and expects to be on his run soon.
The Knight Templars Special got out in good shape and the boys all wore smiles.
Mr. Nanscowen just returned from the wilds of Wisconsin reports much success at fishing.
Jas. A. Johnson the red cap expects to leave shortly for Chicago. C. H. Savoy is off suffering with ilchis; his line, 2506, is being filled by L. D. Dillard. E. Thurman, red cap, has just returned from Denver where he suffered quite a loss on account of the recent flood.
C. Johnson is on the Federal Express to New Haven.
Coming Events
Saturday, June 25
Pre-Vacation Picnic—Suburban Gardens, 50th and H Sts., N. E.
Talladega Club—403 O St., N. W., 8 o'clock.
Schlag Ball—Y. W. C. A., 4 o'clock.
Exhibition Dance—Auditorium, Miner Normal.
Sunday, June 26
First American Troops landed in France on this day, 1917.
Oldest Inhabitants, Y. M. C. A.
Mass Meeting, Tulsa Outrage, Metropolitan A. M. E. Church.
Tuesday June 28
Mi-Dears Organdie Frock Dance—Murray Casino.
American Legion—Y. M. C. A.
Annual Recital of Pupils of Miss E. V. Johnson—John Wesley A. M. E. Z. Church.
Wednesday, June 29
Dedicatorial Exercises of The Southern Building, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M St., near 15th.
Thursday, June 30
Indoor Picnic of St. Luke's at Pythian Temple.
Epicureans Dancing Class—Murray Casino.
United Friends—Y. M. C. A.
Friday, July 1
Miller's Community Band—Lincoln Park. 7:30 to 9:00.
Saturday, July 2
Alamac's Dancing Class—Murray Casino.
Lodge Directory
MASONIC TEMPLE
Fourth Monday
St. John's Lodge No. 12.
Fourth Tuesday
Corinthian Lodge No. 18.
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar, K. of P.
Hod Carriers Union.
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Golden Hill Tabernacle, Love Charity.
Marion Lodge, K. of P.
Minute Men K. of P.
Helena Court O. of C.
Virginia Tab. Fishermen.
Oriental Court of Sphinx.
Geo. W. Lee S. O. H.
Queen Victoria Court, O. of C.
Hermione Court O. of C.
Fourth Thursday
Forest Temple D. C.
Rohomah Court, O. of C.
Garnett Co. U. R. K. P.
Temple House Moses.
Zenith Lodge K. of P.
Hannibal Lodge, K. of P.
Fourth Friday
Syracuse Co. U. R. K. P.
Waiters Union 726.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar U. R. K. P.
Heroines Temple Crusader.
S. W. Starks Co. U. R. K. P.
Howard Tab. O. of M.
Mt. Calvary Lodge K. of P.
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INCREASE OF COLORED
FARMERS $1,365,565, 780
In a release on June the 15th, from
the agricultural department of the bu-
reau of census, the colored farmers of
the 16 southern states are shown to
haye increased their valuation on land
and buildings in the ten-year period
from 1910 to 1920, by $1,365,569,780.00
‘This report covers the entire num-
ber of farms owned, managed and
rented by colored farmers. The total
number is given as 920,976. Farms
operated by colored tenants number
702,215, leaving 218,761 as owned.
In an interview with Mr. Chas. E.
Hall, who has charge of the section
from which this release emanated, he
said that he found the value of owned
farms, by colored people, to be about
one-fourth of the total. Using these
figures then, we have the increased
valuation of actual property owned in
the 16 southern states, about $559,-
765,697.50 or nearly 200 per cent in
the ten-year period. _
From 1900 to 1910 there was an
increase in number of farms of 31,669.
During 1910 to 1920 there was an in-
crease of only 6/484 farms owned.
‘This was caused by and is one of the
lessons of, the great migration from
the south during the war period for
seven of the 16 states actually lost
0,222 farms operated by colore¢
farmers. Alabama was the heaviest
loser with 15,187 less than in 1910.
Mississippi was second and Florida
third, The total number owned and
rented, increased 40,152. The total
acreage increased by 62,567 acres; the
improved land ‘increased by 535,963
acres.
While Georgia ranks first in acre-
age, Mississippi ranks first in number
of farms and in valuation, and Vir-
gina takes first place in number
owned by colored farmers. The total
number operated by colored ‘farmer:
‘endl thiste ermlnatiom aun ea Calinge:
Mississippi 161,001 $402,438,836
Georgia 130,176 322,755,409
S. Carolina 109,105 292,708,775
‘Texas 78,664 227,757,850
N. Carolina 74,849 (228,666,166
Arkgnsas + (72,275 195,837,739
Alabama 95,200 116,894,016
Louisiana 62,036 107,615,718
Virginia 47,690 101,218,768
‘Tennessee 38,181 90,427,645
Oklahoma 18,737 77,853,160
Kentucky 12,624 36,067,878
Maryland 6,208 21,651,121
Florida 12,954 17,561,878
Delaware 872 2,885,445
West Virginia 504 «1,727,800
Total 920,976 $2,289,062,790
‘The ‘total acreage operated is 41,-
346,943 acres,
This is a rmarkable showing in num-
ber of farms operated, in acres con-
trolled and in vaulation of property
actually under colored farmer's con-
trol, as owners and tenants. This
shows that the production of the south
is practically in the hands of colored
peopl.
DOINGS AT LINCOLN, MD.
Mrs. Laura Riddick, a teacher in the
Sunday Schools of Norfolk, Va., for
more than fifteen years, led the Sun-
day Schoo! lesson at Seaton Memorial
Church. ‘Lhe morning church services
were attended by a number of vsitors
from out of town. The snecial attrac-
tion of the day was the Ailen C. E.
League service of which Mrs. Susie
Holland, is president. The topic was
opened with a paper by Mr. H. P.
Socks.
Several solos, and recitations were
rendered by local talent. A. special
treat in music was given in tne form
of a solo, entitled “Somebody's Moth-
er” rendered by Miss Charity Riddick
of Norfolk, Va. e
Mrs..Geo. W. Anderson of Lincoln
Park, Md. and davghter Miss Louise
were called to Tcronto Canada on ac-
count of the serious illness of Mrs.
Anderson’s sister.
‘Mrs. Laura Riddick and her daugh-
ter, Miss Charity, have returned to
their home in Norfolk, Va., atter 2
two weeks’ visit at the home of Rev.
und Mrs. P. A. Scott of Lincoln, Park.
Avery interesting meeting of the
Comunity School Club, which was or-
ganized by the late Isaiah T. Hatton,
was held at the home of Mrs. Berths
Hatton, Buena Vista, at which time
plans were proposed and adopted
which ore intended to give the colored
school children of Prince George Coun-
ty better conditions in their schools
All of the members and parents ir
the community should place them-
selves in touch with this organization
for that is the only means we have to
fight for and demand our rights.
‘The Talledega College Club ot
Washington, D. C. will meet Sat-
urday, June 25th at 8 o'clock p.m
at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
J. Franklin Wilson, 403 O St., N. W.
All graduates and ex-students of Tal-
ladega College are urged to attend.
THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, SATURDAY JUNE 25, 1921
DOWN ON THE FARM
_ “IT love the Cows and Chickens,”
‘some years ago, the title of a popu-
Jar song, but nowadays, it’s a song
that S. H. Dudley one of Americas’
foremost race comedians can be heard
singing any day as he rambles about
on his fifteen acre farm down in Oxen
Hill, Maryland, a distance of about ten
miles from the bright lights of Wash-
ington,
It is-there, after encountering the
many complex problems that are in-
volved in the operation of his ‘several
businesses, that he relaxes and enjoys
the sweet companionship of his moth-
er, who is mistress of the estate.
It was the distinguished honor of
the writer to have been the guest of
Mr. Dudley one day this week and 3
only regret that I cannot relate or
picture to you how extremely adequate
are the accommodations of this mod-
ern farm.
In the center of a-fifteen acre tract
of fertile Maryland Soil, stands a
handsomely furnished house of twelve
‘rooms, that is equipped with electric
| lights, furnished from a private plant
and many other modern conveniences.
The stables house several head of
horses, including two racing mares.
There are also modem dairy, poltry
ond truck farms, the produce of which
a niea 18 offered in local markets.
___ Ibis indeed a wonderfu! demonstra-
‘tion of what can be accomplished by
‘perseverance and should serve as an
inspiration to the performer of today,
many of whom are frittering away
valuable time and money in being
“good fellows.”
NOTED INVESTIGATOR TO
JOIN URBAN LEAGUE
New York City—Charles S. Johnson
who completes this month his services
as Associate Executive Secretary of
the Chicago Race Relations Commis-
sion, appointed by Governor Lowden
of Illinois following the race riots in
1919, has been appointed Director of
the Department of Research and In-
vestigation of the National Urban
League. He will begin his duties at
the headquarters of the League, 127
East 23rd Street, New York City, on
July first. This Department under his
guidance will accumulate data on Ne-
gro progress and achievements which
will be placed at the disposal of writ-
ers, lecturers and students who desire
reliable information on the Negro.
Under Mr. Johnson's direction inves-
tigation of social conditions in the
cities where League Branches are
being established will be made so that
the programs of improvement may be
inaugurated on the basis of a
thorough knowledge of the social
needs of the community. Mr. John-
son will record statistics on the social
condition in the group showing the
improvement secured as a result of
these social service activities—this to
be worked out thru the Branches of
the League throuout the country.
Mr. Johnson is a native of Bristol,
Virginia, a graduate of Virginia Union
University and the University of Chi-
cago, He wa8’Director of the Depart-
ment of Research and Investigation
of the Chicago Urban League for three
years, having organized this Depart-
ment. He conducted a special in-
vestigation of the Negro migration
from the South for the Carnegie Foun-
dation and while Associate Executive
Secretary of the Chicago Race Rela-
tions Commission directed investiga-
tions and supervised a large staff of
white and colored investigators, com-
piled material and wrote sections of
the Report: The most notable fea-
ture of this work is the study of public
opinion on the Negro prepared by Mr.
Johnson for the Commission.
Lincoln Hawkins Wins First Prize
Master Lincoln Hawkins, the indus-
trious “newsie” of 7 ‘Tribune, won
the first prize offered the news boys
last week. The prize was a baseball
glove, which was offered for the most
subscribers secured for The Tribune
for the 18th. Master Hawkins was the
successful contestant and was a proud
little fellow, Saturday evening, when
he was informed that he had won.
He seats Caraet school and is in
‘the fifth grade.
‘SPECIAL MOVIES FOR CHILDREN
The Pollyanna Girls, a ¢lub of young
ladies of the city, have arranged for
a special movie program at the How-
ard Theatre, each Saturday from 11:00
to 12:30, noon, for children, with an
admisison price of 10 cents. The pic-
ture this Saturday, will be the great
“Pollyanna.” The proceeds from these
entertainments will go to help support
the summer camp at Blue Plains.
The Washington Tribune is enjoying
the largest circulation of any Race
paper in the District of Columbia, Ad-
vertisers will take note of this fact
for Tribune Ads are pulling. They are
result getters
Many Feature Pictures Booked For night revels by thoughts of his bride.
Popular Playhouses Leslie, to whom he remains loyal.
pease Never before has such a fascinating
Ray Drops “Rube” Role to be Fashion| scene as the dance of the butterfly
Plate in New Film | girl on the dinner table been depicted
Charles Ray is a regular fashion
plate in his latest First National star-
ring vehicle, “Nineteen and Phyllis,”
which will open an engagement of
two days at the Hiawatha Theatre
on’ Wednesday and Thursday.
In htis production Mr, Ray departs
from his usual rube role, appearing in
up-to-the-minute ‘mail order house
garb as a dapper nineteen-year-old
city youth, whose two obsessions in
life are Phyllis Laurin and a desire
to be regarded as a Southern gentle-
man,
When his rival appears at a party
attired in the only dress suit worn
in the community, he at once gets
busy and plans a new style campaign
to win the favor of the fair Phyllis,
but a burglar nearly spoils it all.
Mr. Ray’s supporting cast includes
Clara Horton i= the leading feminine
‘role. Lincoln ».edman, George Nich-
‘ols, Cora Drew, Frank Norcross and
‘DeWitte C. Jennings.
Joseph De Grasse directed the pro-
duction, which was three months in
the making and nearly two months
‘more in the cutting room. It is based
on an original story written by Fred-
erick Stowers, and was adapted for
the screen by Isabel Johnston and
Bernard McConville.
BOTH MARRIED AND UNMAR-
RIED WILL LAUGE
_ A departure from Mack Sennett
‘comedy tradition is promised in the
Comedy King’s latest five-reel super-
production, ‘Love, Honor and Behave,
‘the First National attraction at the
‘Dunbar Theatre on Wednesday and
Thursday.
Charlie Murray, hero of a million
episodes, will be introduced in a role
‘of legitimate appeal. He will imper-
‘sonate a “grave and reverend” Judge
‘of the Supreme Court, playing the
part with dignity and power. ‘This re-
volutionary role will be revealed in the
‘opening scenes of the story when Jus-
tice and Romance will come in con-
tact.
Marie Prevost, a bride, and George
O’Hara, her young husband, appear
before “Judge” Murphy, carrying to
the halls of justice the fragrance of a
‘romance about to die. Here, it is
pointed out, is a sincere and authentic
picture of dramatic material, treated
in a sympathetic and dignified manner
with ever so slight a wink of the eye
on the part of the learned jurist. Not
long, however, does the plot remain in
the atmosphere of said drama, for
the jurist, in order to convince the
jealous bride of the innocence of her
bridgegroom, tells a story of his own
experience when he too was a bride-
groom; the said story's purport being
to discredit circumstantial evidence.
It is this story that forms the bulk
of the episodes depicted in “Love, Hon-
or and Behave.”
TRUTH ABOUT HUSBANDS
| Next week’s feature attraction at
the Dunbar Theatre is “The Truth
About Husbands,” adapted from Sir
Arthur Wing Pinero’s brilliant stage
play, “The Profligate.” It is a Whit-
man Bennett ‘production released thru
First National and has an exception-
ally well balanced cast headed by May
McAvoy.
It deals in a startlingly interesting
‘way with the age-old problem of how
a man before marriagé cannot have his
fling without the danger of his esca-
pades confronting him after marriage.
‘The denouement of the play is per-
haps as thrilling a climax as ever
screened in a society drama. H. E.
Herbert plays Dunstan Renshaw, a
wealthy bachelor who is supposedly
typical of his class, He is not vicious,
merely worldly. .
tGininsnin
Under an assumed name he meets
Janet Preece, played by Anna Lehr,
who is a librarian living in a suburb,
and makes love to her. Later he mar-
ries Leslie Brownell, portrayed by
May McAvoy, a young society girl,
and takes her abroad.
But it so happens that Leslie’
brother, Wilfred Brownell, enacted by
Arthur Rankin, is acquainted with
Janet Preece, the librarian, but is not
cognizant of the fact that Dunstan,
his sister’s husband, has ever met
her. Janet is engaged as secretary to
Mrs. Stonehay, played by Elizabeth
Garrison, whose daughter Irene is a
friend of Leslie's. Janet is taken
abroad with the Stonebays. Irene
Stonehay, a role euacted by Lorraine
Frost, is engaged to Lord Dexter
Randolph—Ivo Dawson, the latter an
‘old acquaintance of Dunstan's.
While Dunstan and Lord Randolph
are away from home they visit a no-
torious cafe in Rome, but Dunstan is
deterred from participating in the mic
night revels by thoughts of his bride.
Leslie, to whom he remains loyal.
Never before has such a fascinating
scene as the dance of the butterfly
girl on the dinner table been depicted
‘on the screen,
MADONNAS AND MEN
Svncosic of Stary.
The Emperor of Rome is seated in
his box in the Roman Amphitheatre,
‘Before him his gladiators have just
engaged in bloody cbmbat for his
amusement, his favorite just danced
‘to please him and now for the crown-
‘ing event of the holiday, the Chris-
tian girls are to be thrown to the
lions. Then the old Soothsayer seeks
‘the car of the Prince, begs him to
‘Postpone the awful sacrifice, the
‘Prince stops the proceedings and lis-
tens to the story. A girl has jilted a
‘young man, not for any sinister pur-
pose but because she had found an-
other she truly loved. Deep into the
jilted one’s heart went the seeds of re-
venge, he worked to make money to
carry out a plot of revenge that was
forming in his mind and later, a
father and a millionaire, he began to
carry it out.
‘The woman who had jilted the man
who was now a millionaire, lived
peacefully with her husband and
young daughter on a lonely farm.
‘And then one day, like a bolt from the
blue, came the blow. The daughter
was stolen, The mother was distract-
ed and soon died of a broken heart.
No clue was left of the daughter's
disappearance except a letter bearing
a New York post-mark. Almost pen-
niless the father could not search
properly for his lost child and then,
in digging a grave for his beloved
wife, he discovered oil that made him
wealthy.
‘This wealth he pledged to the search
for the girl. He went to the big city,
groomed himself like a gentleman and
everywhere he searched. Perhaps she
might be among the girls of the ca-
barets he thought and so went there
and met a famous dancer. This en-
tertainer at the midnight shows lis-
tened to him and his offers of money
and eventually led him to the home
of the millionaire.
Here was the beautiful young coun-
try girl. She was to be forced into
a marriage with the revengeful mil-
lionaire despite the fact that his son
loved the girl and defied his father in
trying to prevent the marriage.
‘As the two are about to be united
in marriage the girl’s father breaks
into the house. After a short terrific
fight the wedding is prevented. Mil-
lionaire and father lose their lives,
‘but the girl, the one who was to be
‘saerificed, is saved and goes to the
arms of the man she loves and who
loves her.
‘The Soothsayer’s story is finished.
‘It has so impressed the Prince that
he defies all Rome and compels them
to stop their unwonted lust for bar-
baric entertainment for the Emperor
has died and the young Prince is the
leader of the people.
Sunday—Monday—Tuesday.
“SHUFFLE ALONG” GOING
STRONG
The “Shuffle Along” show, as was
predicted, is still making New York
sit up and take notice. Herewith fol-
lows a comment on the show by the
dramatic editor of “Life.”
“All the harmory that has been mis-
sing from our musical stage for s0
long has beon given a home at the
Sixty-third St. Theatre, where a com-
pany of Negro singers and dancers
are presenting “Siuffle Along.”
“Every line that is sung except
those in which the company unfortu-
nately take Broadway as a model, re-
solves itself into a rich combination
of heart-rending notes which bring
you back to the days when songs were
written for singing and not for danc-
ing.
“There are a great many dancing
songs in ‘Shuffle Along,’ too, and
much enthusiastic dancing. Never
was a company so enthusiastic. It
seems as if each member had just paid
money for the pleasure of taking part
in the performance. On this basis,
about four million dollars’ worth of
pleasure is extracted from the show
by the cast,—and consequently by the
audience. But there still remains the
old mystery of Negro quartette sing-
ing: why is it that they never sing
enough? why must they ever stop?”
Coleman's Airdome, better known as
the “Iceland” opened this week with
John Be:ringer’s Dixie Girls, twelve
people, and a jazz band. At the open-
ing performance 700 persons attended.
‘After having been closed for five
years, Mr. Coleman has decided to give
the people of Southwest Washington
the best possible attractions in vaude-
villi, and considers himself fortunate
in recuring the services of the Berrin-
ger show.
Hey Girls!
Get Ready. Coming Next
Week.
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COAL COMPANY ORGANIZED
BY LOGAL MEN
There has been organized by the
Colored citizens of Washington, D. C.
‘a coal company known as the Univer-
sal Coal Company, Inc. The officers
of the concern are: James H. Waugh,
| President; S. A. Young, Vice Presi
dent; John R. Williams, Secretary and
‘Dr. 1. G. Smith, Treasurer. On last
‘Saturday the company purchased a
‘splendid piece of property at South
Capitol and K Street where will be
located the yards of the Company.
‘An uptown office will be established
at 1330 You Street, N. W.
While the place purchased was
formerly used for a coal yard the new
‘purchasers intend to make some very
‘distinct improyement before the Uni-
‘versal Coal Company begins to oper-
‘ate there, It is understood that the
purchase price was in the excess of
$30,000.
In order to complete the payment
‘on the site and to begin operations as
‘soon as possible the Universal Coal
Company has launched a campaign
for new members. Meetings are held
at the Y. M. C. A. assembly rooms at
8:30 on Friday evenings of each week.
During these meetings an opportunity
is given the public to become part
owners of the corporation. Stock is
‘sold at $1.00 per share in blocks of
| five.
‘The Washington Tribune is making
rapid strides in circulation in the Dis-
trict. It passed the 4,000 mark last
week. It is winning the confidence and
respect of the independent. thinking
and liberty loving citizens of the Dis-
trict.
LOCAL BOY WINS HONORS
Williamstown, Mass., June 22—
Sterling A. Brown, a member of the
Junior Class of Williams College,
Williamstown, Massachusettes, has
been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa
honorary society, being one of the few
members of his class to receive this
honor in the junior year of the college
course, and the only colored member.
‘The election of Mr. Brown to member-
ship in the society marks him as an
exceptional student since few colored
students have succeeded in attaining
such a distinetion in the junior year
of their college course. Mr. Brown is
the son of Rev. Sterling N. Brown, a
professor of Howard University, and
a graduate of Dunbar High School,
Washington, D. C.
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LARGE CLASS PROMOTED
FROM GRADED SCHOOLS
Four hundred and seventy-eight pu-
pils of the eighth grade of the Dis-
trict schools were awared certificates
at the closing exercises Wednesday,
indicating that they have completed
the elementary course and are entitled
to continue their studies in the high
schools of the District.
The various schools held their own
exercises of songs, speeches and plays.
These figures, the school officials
point out, are indicative of the de-
mands of the children of the District
for higher edtication. This is the
largest number ever sent up from the
eighth grades.
URBAN LEAGUE SENDS MAN
TO HELP SUFFERERS
New York City—The National Ur-
ban League, as following the East St.
Louis riot, has sent a yepresentative
to Tulsa, Oklahoma. in interest of the
formation of an inter-racial committee
which will remain as a permanent ac-
tivity to work for larger opportunity
and a square deal for the Negro along
social lines in Tulsa,
George W. Buckner, Executive Sec-
retary of the St. Louis Urban League,
who immediately after the East St.
Louis riot and for two years there-
after worked as Executive Secretary
for the East St. Louis Urban League,
‘was dispatched immediately after the
‘Tulsa incident to the scene of the riot.
He has reported in part as follows:
“The whole colored area has been
wiped out with only a few homes here
and there remaining—these owned
mostly by white people. Several
thousand have left, and the M.K, & T.
Railroad is offering half fare to all
who wish to leave. ‘Tho situation here
is black beyond description, I am
staying on a cot in the basement of
the Tulsa Hotel. I will stay here until
the situation has been worked out.
In the meantime, I will be working
along heading to an organization. The
city is still guarded and I had to show
my telegrams in order to get a permit
to remain here.”
It is Mr. Buckner’s purpose to in-
augurate a social welfare program in
‘Tulsa which will tend to remove the
causes of friction, enlarge the Negro’s
industrial opportunity and secure for
him a square deal in all phases of com-
munity life.
THEATRES AMUSEMENTS SPORTS
Leroy Gresham, of the team of Martin and Gresham, playing at the Foraker this week.
COLORED ACTOR'S UNION
In a recent letter, received from Henry Drake, president of the Negro Actor's Legion, Cincinnati, Ohio, he proposes to annex the entire membership of the Legion, which is about 500, to the roll of the Colored Actor's Union. The late T. Spencer Finley
Howard
Andrew J. Thomas The
Vincent B. The
Matinees: Tuesday—
Week Monday, J
WEEK BEGINNING
ALL STAR SUPER FEATURE
SUNDAY & MONDAY—Will
the Mounted."
He turned Outlaw to Ca
and Liberty to Get His m
TUESDAY—Douglas MacLea
Track Record—Laugh Re
ture that stands right u
citement.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Special."
A Non-Stop Story well ble
and Daring that Speed
a Minute.
FRIDAY—Shirley Mason in "N
Added Attraction Pathe New
SATURDAY—William Russell
A Romance of an Internati
Added Attraction, Last Epi
SUNDAY SHOW 5:30 and 8:30
Next Week—Miller's Music
DUNBAY
Open daily 1 p.m. Sunda
Program for W
SUNDAY, MON
JUNE 20
The Most Lavish Pro
“Madonna
A story of the Roman Em
“The Bestial Brutality an
in Thrilling Detail.”
“The Most Startling and
While Feature Ever
Wednesday a
Mack Sennett's Su
“Love, Honor
“Love, Honor and Beha
married men. Take
let her see for herse
erous is the lying to
Howard Theatre
Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Company, Proprietor
Vincent B. Thomas, Manager
Matinees: Tuesday—Thursday—Saturday
Friday Monday, June 27th,
WEEK BEGINNING SUNDAY JUNE 26th
ALL STAR SUPER FEATURE PHOTOPLAST
Y & MONDAY—William S. Hart in "O'Man
Mounted."
He turned Outlaw to Catch a Murderer—Risk
and Liberty to Get His man. Then Let him get
Y—Douglas MacLean in "The Home Stre
k Record—Laugh Record—Love Record.
He that stands right up and Yells for Joy
ement.
SDAY & THURSDAY—Wallace Reid "T
".
Stop Story well blended into a Romance
and Daring that Speeds through your blood
Minute.
—Shirley Mason in "Mother Heart."
Attraction Pathe News.
DAY—William Russell in "Colorado Pluck."
ance of an International Mix-Up.
Attraction, Last Episode of "Fantomas."
SHOW 5:30 and 8:30 SUPPER SHOW 6:30
Week—Miller's Musical "The Chocolate Br
UNBAR THEATRE
7th and 8th
a daily 1 p. m. Sunday 3 p. m. 20c admis
gram for Week, June 2
DAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY
JUNE 26, 27, 28
Most Lavish Production of the
Madonnas & Me
Story of the Roman Empire and Today.
The Bestial Brutality and Blood Lust of Rome
in Thrilling Detail."
The Most Startling and Sensational and Mo
While Feature Ever Presented to the Publ
Wednesday and Thursday
Friday Sennett's Super-Comedy D
Love, Honor and Behave
Love, Honor and Behave"—a new dispens
married men. Take your wife, or anybo
let her see for herself how crooked and how
erous is the lying tongue that babbles of r
---
Howard Theatre
Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Company, Props.
Vincent B. Thomas, Manager
WEEK BEGINNING SUNDAY JUNE 26th
ALL STAR SUPER FEATURE PHOTOPLAYS
SUNDAY & MONDAY—William S. Hart in "O'Malley of the Mounted."
He turned Outlaw to Catch a Murderer—Risked Life and Liberty to Get His man. Then Let him go! Why?
TUESDAY—Douglas MacLean in "The Home Stretch."
Track Record—Laugh Record—Love Record. A Picture that stands right up and Yells for Joy and Excitement.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY—Wallace Reid "The Love Special."
A Non-Stop Story well blended into a Romance of Love and Daring that Speeds through your blood a Mile a Minute.
FRIDAY—Shirley Mason in "Mother Heart."
Added Attraction Pathe News.
SATURDAY—William Russell in "Colorado Pluck."
A Romance of an International Mix-Up.
Added Attraction, Last Episode of "Fantomas."
Next Week—Miller's Musical "The Chocolate Brown"
Open daily 1 p. m. Sunday 3 p. m. 20c admission
Program for Week, June 26th
A story of the Roman Empire and Today. "The Bestial Brutality and Blood Lust of Rome Pictured in Thrilling Detail." "The Most Startling and Sensational and Most Worth While Feature Ever Presented to the Public."
"Love, Honor and Behave"—a new dispensation to married men. Take your wife, or anybody's, and let her see for herself how crooked and how treacherous is the lying tongue that babbles of rumors.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Ann Lehr in the
"Truths About Husband
Society Drama Showing Man's Marital Infidelity
Extra Pictures Each Day.
A woman goes blindly into marriage, accepting his face value, and finding that matrimony given her a dishonored check? That's the b of this drama that hits near home!
Truths About Husband
Society Drama Showing Man's Marital Infidelity
Pictures Each Day.
woman goes blindly into marriage, accepting his face value, and finding that matrimony given her a dishonored check? That's the b of this drama that hits near home!
"Truths About Husbands"
Society Drama Showing Man's Marital Infidelity. Extra Pictures Each Day. A woman goes blindly into marriage, accepting a man at his face value, and finding that matrimony has only given her a dishonored check? That's the big theme of this drama that hits near home!
was the treasurer of this organization.
THEATRE NOTES
Mr. J. Sinclair Gibson of the Cincinnati Journal was made an honorary member of the Colored Actor's Union at the meeting of the union last Sunday.
Gresham and Martin, are at the Foraker this week and still going good. They are featuring acts that were written by Mr. Gresham and his wife, Miss Martin. They are using a parody written by Boots Hopes on Mr. Bradford's song success, "That Thing Called Love." Booked by S. H. and S. R.
Russell and Carrol, clever entertainers are playing at the Welcome Theatre this week.
Lankford and White Players, in two new dramatic sketches are appearing at the Blue Mouse this week.
Earl and Lazzo, comedy singing and
Theatre
Theatre Company, Props.
Thomas, Manager
Thursday—Saturday
June 27th, 1921
SUNDAY JUNE 26th
MATURE PHOTOPLAYS
Brian S. Hart in "O'Malley of
Watch a Murderer—Risked Life
man. Then Let him go! Why?
in in "The Home Stretch."
Record—Love Record. A Pic-
p and Yells for Joy and Ex-
Y—Wallace Reid "The Love
ended into a Romance of Love
through your blood a Mile
Mother Heart."
vs.
in "Colorado Pluck."
final Mix-Up.
episode of "Fantomas."
SUPPER SHOW 6:30 to 8:30
Final "The Chocolate Brown"
THEATRE 7th and T Sts.
Week, June 26th
DAY, TUESDAY
6, 27, 28
Production of the Year
Us & Men"
Empire and Today.
Blood Lust of Rome Pictured
Sensational and Most Worth
Presented to the Public."
and Thursday
Super-Comedy Drama
and Behave"
have"—a new dispensation to
your wife, or anybody's, and
of how crooked and how treach-
ague that babbles of rumors.
out Husbands"
Man's Marital Infidelity.
o marriage, accepting a man at
nding that matrimony has only
ed check? That's the big theme
s near home!
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dancing act and Edwards and O'Brien clever musical team are packing them in this week at the Mid-City.
The vaudeville attractions at the Dudley You St. theatre are the Sellmon Trio and Henry Jines, late of Broadway Rastus show and they are getting away nicely.
Eddie Green is in the city this week shooting pictures for the Monumental Motion Pictures Corporation.
Mr. S. H. Dudley is preparing an extensive trip over the country at which time, he will route and reroute many acts on the circuits.
FORAKER AIRDOME
The Foraker management have thrown open the gates of their mammoth airdome, which adjoins the theater. Notwithstanding the humid weather of the past several days, the patrons seemed to enjoy the ripping good bill offered there this week.
DEANWOOD CONTINUES TO WIN
The Deanwood A. C. beat the Bladensburg A. C. Saturday by the score of 16 to 6. Rhuelack of the D. A. C. allowed but 2 scratch hits in the 8 innings he pitched, while the D. A. C. reached Poindexter for 17 hits.
Sunday the D. A. C. defeated a picked team 10 to 2. Posey of the D. A. C. held them to 3 hits, while the D. A. C. got 12 hits.
GIANTS DEFEAT ALL-STARS The Linworth Athletic Club (white) who were to play the Washington Giants last Sunday cancelled their game and were substituted by an All-Star team of the Departmental League. Both teams had plenty to do as the pitches were freely hit. Big Boswell was touched up for seven hits while Harris of the All-Stars allowed the Giants Eighteen hits. The feature of the game was the playing of Mantine who handled himself like a big leaguer. July 2 the Giants play St. Cyprians; July 3, Winston (white); July 4, Mohawks, (white).
Score of the Sunday Game:
ALL STARS Ab R E
Davis, c .6 2 0
V. Harris, 2nd .6 1 0
Ricks, cf .6 2 2
Perry, lf .5 2 1
Mills, rf .5 1 0
Baylor, 3rd .5 1 0
Nickens, ss-p .5 1 0
C. Harris, 1st .5 1 0
J. Harris p .4 0 0
Shannon ss .1 0 0
GIANTS Ab R E
Faxio, lf .5 1 0
Scott, rf .5 3 1
Barber 2nd .5 2 1
Bland 1st .5 2 0
Jake, cf .5 1 0
Boone, 'rd .5 1 0
Mose, c .5 3 0
Mantine, ss .5 2 0
Boswell, p .5 0 0
Taylor, 2nd .0 0 0
Andrews, rf .0 0 0
Score by Innings
2 Base Hits—Mose 2, Mantine, Bland
3, Mills, 2, Otto 2, J. Harris, Jake,
Baylor.
3 Base Hits—Jake.
Stolen Bases—Nickens 2, Scott, Boone.
Hit by Pitcher—Ricks, Scott, C. Harris.
ST CYPRIÅNS DEFEAT GEORGETOWN ATHLETICS
The St. Cyprians club romped over
the Washington Athletics of Georgetown in a well played game by the
score of 11 to 8.
Fox who was called out for duty
in the box was never in danger. Allowing the boys from across the creek
only 8 scattered hts while his team-
mates connected with Monroes slants
16 times, netting them 11 runs.
The feature of the game was a brilliant double play, Bush to Campbell. The batting of Nick Harris, Dorsey and Greenfield for the Saints and Johnson for the visitors also featured. Manager Hager's warriors went on the war path at the opening of the season. With the stella mound work of Fox, Lucas and Butler, aided by the merciless weilding of the mighty war club of their teammates, twelve scalps were attached to their belts.
BRAVES CONTINUE WINNING
STREAK
National Park N. J., June 19th— (Associated News)—Fully 4000 people witnessed the opening Sunday game here today when the Washington Braves a crack colored team of Washington, D. C., defeated the National Park nine in a most exciting game by the score of 13 to 2. Mayor Waters threw out the first ball and presented
Anita Bush and George Alexander, clever singers and dancers opened with a good song number, "All Over Now." Their line of pattern on current topics was snappily put over and well received. Their Hawaiian number was very well done.
Martin and Gresham, favorites here, gave a high class entertainment from start to finish. Leroy Gresham is a mirth-provoker of the first order and he kept the audience in a continuous uproar of laughter with Ben Turpin eyes.
Miss Martin is the possessor of an excellent vojee, which she uses very effectively. Her "Sweet Daddy" number was a winner and with the capable assistance of Mr. Gresham, this number was a distinctive success.
Next Week, Trixie Smith, who has been making records for a well known concern, Essie Whitman and Baby Alice are the attractions scheduled and a record attendance is expected.
his home team with a silver loving cup. Upon being approached by several church delegations who expressed their objection to the opening of Sunday games, Mayor Waters cleared the situation by stating that it was the votes of the people that brought about the Sunday games, and if teams are brought in that play with such order as the Washington colored team, he would never revoke the order permitting Sunday ball.
BIG GAME SUNDAY
There will be a championship baseball game, between St. Cyprians and the Treasury departmental champions, at the American League Park, Sunday afternoon, at 3:00 p.m.
This promises to be one of the best contests that has been seen on the diamond this year. One admission permits you to sit anywhere that is agreeable-to you.
The line-up is as follows:
Treasury: St. Cyprians
Davis, c Henson, 2b
Carroll, ss J. Harris, 1,f
Harris, 2b C. Harris, c,f
Perry, 1, f Greenfield, c
Bland, 1b Dorsey, 3b
Nickens, r, f Bolding, r, f
Scott, c, f Bush, ss
Baylor, 3b Campbell, 1b
Grant, p Barnes, p
A. V. M. Jones, ex-Hampton athlete who begun the season with the Norfolk All-Stars has decided to quit the game for the rest of the season, because of a bad ankle. He is now to entertain the gentler sex with his humorous ways.
Y.M. C.A. NOTES
ROSS WINS CHECKER TOURNA-
MENT AT "Y"
The First Checker Tournament came to a close last Saturday, June 18. The tournament waxed warm in the last days. Killingsworth ran a close second to Ross for the last eight days. Killingsworth ran a close second to end to Ross for eight days. Saturday in his anxiety to overcome the one point lead held by Ross, he went to the home of one Mr. Dodson and pulled him out to the "Y" to play his series. He was successful in scoring eight points on this young man, but much to his dismay Ross appeared on the scene and challenged Dodson for $e$ series and was successful in scoring eight points which gave Ross the one point lead over Killingsworth, which he had held for the last week. The following rating and record of the tournament follows:
Player S. P. P. O. P.
I. N. Ross, Jr. 8 46 18
C. Killingsworth 9 45 27
G. R. F. Key 8 34 30
E. A. Osborne 7 33 23
K. D. Ross 8 32 32
F. Greene 6 29 19
C. I. Cirey 5 20 20
T. V. Burgess 5 17 23
E. A. Thomas 5 8 32
W. Dodson 5 2 40
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This coupon will eititle the holder to a free swim or lesson in the "Y" pool, any day during the week of June 27 to July 2. If you want to swim more than one day, get a coupon for each day.
Hours: Boys 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. each day,
The Theaters You Should Patronize
The "MIDNIGHT"
Announcement
Select "Organdie"
Tuesday, July
MURRAY
CARROLL BOYD'S
INVINCIBLE
ENTREE
An organdie dress is not essential to the wearers of the two prettiest HJAWATES.
Open daily 6 p.m. The Sundays, 3 P. M.
Program for WEEKEND
SUNDAY—Babe Ruth in Six Ruth Roland in "Avenging"
MONDAY—Gladys Walton in Special Comedy.
TUESDAY—Dorothy Dalton in Larry Semon in "His Horse"
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY and Phyllis."
Sunshine Sammy in Snug
FRIDAY—The Most Lavish "Madonnas and Men."
Pathe News.
SATURDAY—Pauline Frede Chas. Hutchinson in "Do
FORAKEE
Open Daily 6 P.
PICTURE AND VAUDEVILLE
Program for WEEKEND
ALL FEMALE
WHITMAN
ELSIE
The "MI-DEAR"
Announce Their
Organdie Frock
Tuesday, June 28, 1914
MURRAY CASINO
BELL BOYD'S INTERNA-
TIVE CIBLES
Pass is not essential t admission. Pre-
the two prettiest organdie dresses.
WATHA
Friday 6 p. m. Thursday, Matine-
M. ADMISSE
m for Week, Jun
Abbe Ruth in Six Reel Feature "W
and in "Avenging Arrow" No.
Ladys Walton in "The Man T
Fedy.
Dorothy Dalton in "The Tceth
mon in "His Home Sweet Home
Y & THURSDAY—Charles Pa-
s."
Sammy in Snub Pollard Come
the Most Lavish Production
of Hus and Men."
News.
Pauline Frederick in "The Slo-
chinson in "Double Adventure"
AKER THE
20c
Open Daily 6 P. M., 20c admiss
FORAKER THEATRE
OPEN AIR PARK
PICTURES
AND
VAUDEVILLE
m for Week, Jun
BELL FEMALE BIR
MITMAN SIST
The "MI-DEARS"
Announce Their
Select "Organdie Frock" Dance
Tuesday, June 28, 1921
MURRAY CASINO
CARROLL BOYD'S INTERNATIONAL
INVINCIBLES
An organdie dress is not essential t admission. Prizes will be given to the wearers of the two prettiest organdie dresses.
Open daily 6 p. m. Thursday, Matinee 1 p. m. Sundays, 3 P. M. ADMISSION 17 CENTS Program for Week, June 26th
SUNDAY—Babe Ruth in Six Reel Feature "Headin Home." Ruth Roland in "Avenging Arrow" No. 3.
MONDAY—Gladys Walton in "The Man Tamer." Special Comedy.
TUESDAY—Dorothy Dalton in "The Teeth of the Tiger." Larry Semon in "His Home Sweet Home."
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY—Charles Ray in "Nineteen and Phyllis." Sunshine Sammy in Snub Pollard Comedy.
FRIDAY—The Most Lavish Production of the Screen "Madonnas and Men." Pathe News.
SATURDAY—Pauline Frederick in "The Slave of Vanity." Chas. Hutchinson in "Double Adventure."
FORAKER THEATRE 20th Near L
FORAKER THEATRE
OPEN AIR PARK
PICTURES
AND
VAUDEVILLE
TRIXIE SMITH
Direct from New York where
SUNDAY—William S. Hart
Joe Ryan in "Purple Rid
MONDAY—Antonio Moreno
TUESDAY—Robertson Cole
George B. Seitz in "Boun
WEDNESDAY & THURSDA
tion of the Screen "Made
FRDAY—Edith Roberts in "Ruth Roland in "The A
SATURDAY—Jack Hoxie in
New York where she has been m
William S. Hart in 'Between Me
in "Purple Riders" No. 13.
Antonio Moreno in "Three Seve
Robertson Cole Production in "Seitz in "Bound and Gagged."
Y & THURSDAY—The Most
the Screen "Madonnas and Men.
th Roberts in "The Fire Cat."
and in "The Avenging Arrow.
Jack Hoxie in "Cyclone Bliss
Direct from New York where she has been making Records
SUNDAY—William S. Hart in 'Between Men."
Joe Ryan in "Purple Riders" No. 13.
MONDAY—Antonio Moreno in "Three Sevens."
TUESDAY—Robertson Cole Production in "Hearts Asleep"
George B. Seitz in "Bound and Gagged."
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY—The Most Lavish Production of the Screen "Madonnas and Men."
FRDAY—Edith Roberts in "The Fire Cat."
Ruth Roland in "The Avenging Arrow" No. 13.
SATURDAY—Jack Hoxie in "Cyclone Bliss."
"Clutches of Hindu" No. 8.
The Howard Theatre,
7th and T Sts.
The Dunbar Theatre,
7th and T Sts.
The Jewel Theatre,
4 1/2 St., S. W.
The S. H. Dudley Theatre
U St., Near 11th.
The Mid-City Theatre,
7th St.
The Hiawatha Theatre,
11th and U St.
Florida Theatre,
15th and H Sts., N. E.
Blue Mouse Theatre,
26th and M Sts.
Foraker Theatre,
20th near L Sts.
DEARS"
The Their
"Frock" Dance
June 28, 1921
CASINO
INTERNATIONAL
BLES
40 CENTS
admission. Prizes will be given
andie dresses.
Sunday, Matinee 1 p. m.
ADMISSION 17 CENTS
Week, June 26th
Del Feature "Headin Home."
Arrow" No. 3.
"The Man Tamer."
"The Teeth of the Tiger."
Sweet Home."
—Charles Ray in "Nineteen
Collard Comedy.
Production of the Screen
In "The Slave of Vanity."
The Adventure."
R THEATRE
20th Near L
20c admission
Week, June 26th
LE BILL
SISTERS
he has been making Records
"Between Men."
"No. 13.
"Three Sevens."
production in "Hearts Asleep"
and Gagged."
—The Most Lavish Produc-
tors and Men."
The Fire Cat."
"Gaging Arrow" No. 13.
welcome Bliss."
THEATRE 11th & U
BABY ALICE
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SOCIETY NEWS
PERRY-WILKERSON WEDDING
On last Saturday evening, June 18, Miss Edna May Wilkerson, a society favorite and Mr. Oliver Hazard Perry, prominent in music circles, were quietly married at the home of the bride by Rev. D. E. Wiseman in the presence of relatives and several hundred friends.
As the chimes in the reception room struck seven and to the soft strains of Mendelsohn's Wedding March, on the arm of her brother, Mr. Harry Wilkerson, descended the bridal stairs and was led to the altar, where the groom, attended by his best man Mr. Edmond Villate and Rev. Wiseman stood in waiting.
The reception room was artistically decorated with massive palms and evergreens. An improvised altar, surrounded by a white roped chancel was erected in one of the rooms and it was within this inclosure that the simple but very touching ceremony was performed.
The bride wore a gown of white lace of exceedingly rare design over pink chiffon with a touch of pink and Harding blue. She carried a huge bouquet of pink roses and asparagus ferns.
Among those present were: Mrs. S. V. Wilkinson, mother of the bride, Mrs. Hattie Dyson, sister of the bride, Miss Barbara Oliver, her aunt of New Haven Conn, and Mr. Harry Wilkinson her brother. The relatives of the groom present were: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Perry, parents of the groom and Mrs. Lutitia Harris, his sister. Others present were Mr. and Mrs. Vincent B. Thomas, Mrs. Mrs. Hortense W. Turner, Miss Valerie Turner, Miss Helen Curtis, Mrs. Ruth Savoy, Mrs. Sytirah Waddell, Madam Houston, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Reeves, Mrs. L. K. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Brooks, Lieut. Dennison, Mrs. F. Dyer, Mrs. Sallie Fisher-Clarke, Mrs. Cora D. Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hawkins, Mrs. Lillian Sylvester, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Herndon, Mr. and Mrs. William Beasley, Mr. and Mrs. Branson, Mr. and Mrs. Abdul Khan, Mr. and Mrs. A. Jasper, Mr. R. Williams, Mr. William Kennon, Mr. Phillip Green, Mr. and Mrs. Mordecal Harris, Miss Pauline Davis, Miss Virginia Ashby, Mr. George W. Hobgood, Miss Grayson.
The bridal party left for Atlantic City and New York and will be "at home" to their friends, Sunday June 26, when they will receive in their handsomely new home, 1753 You St., N. W.
Miss Ruth Dickey left for New York City, where she will be the guest of friends for several days.
Madam Rose, President of the Rose Scientific Beauty Culture was a pleasing visitor this week. She is stopping at the Whtelaw Hotel.
Mrs. Lula H. Alexander, special representative of the Madame C. J. Walker Co., was the guest of Mrs. Beatrice S. Woodland, proprietor of the Enez Beauty Parlor this week.
Mrs F. S. Chism of Carmi, Ill., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. Q. Hanks, of the Trio Beauty Parlor.
Entertains Friends
Mrs. Eleanor B. Robinson of 1439 S Street, N. W., entertained a few personal friends the evening of June 19, in honor of Mesdames: Mary G. Sedgwick, and Genevieve Webster.
LOCAL NOTES
Mr. Fred Cook, who sustained severe injuries when he slipped and fell several days ago while boarding a W. B. and A. electric train, is fast recovering.
The Board of Directors of Crispus Attucks Relief Association met last Wednesday at the residence of Mr. Geo. Walton, chairman, 948 S Street, N.W. The report showed an increase in its membership; also it has increased its endowment to, $200. An
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investigation was made of several candidates.
The Association through its president, William S. Fuller and the hearty cooperation of its officers, have made good with a bank account of over $5000.
The Chairman served the board to a dandy repast which was enjoyed by all present. Among the guests were Messrs. W. Brown, H, Thornton, E Lucas, H. J. Davis and C. H. Turner
The Board of Directors of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Relief Association held their meeting last Friday at the residence of Mr. Hubert F. Taylor, 755 Kenyon St. Several applicants were investigated. The Relief Association will give its annual picnic at Fairmont Heights, some time in July.
Mrs. Ruth Stewart of 717 18th St, N. E., is reported convalescent after a brief illness.
Miss Phelicie Racks will leave the city Saturday, for New York City, to visit her sister, Mrs. J. H. Jarvis.
Miss Marguerite I. Hall, left Sunday for New York City for a short visit, from there she will go on to Chicago.
Miss A. L. Ellis, of New York City, is spending the summer with her brother, Leonard Ellis, on Fairmont St., N. W.
Mr. Garret M. Lewis, Howard Law, '20, now of Brooklyn, N. Y., is visiting this week in Washington. Mr. Lewis recently married Miss Freda Stallings of Madison, N. J. They are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Brown, 223 R Street, N. W. Mr. Lewis received his Masters degree in law at New York University on the 8th and married on the 14th.
Mr. D. A. Dorsey, proprietor of the Dorsey Hotel, Miami, Fla., was a business visitor in the Capital City, this week.
Miss Virginia Clark, of Spokane, Washington, received an appointment in the Congressional Library Tuesday. Miss Clark is the niece of Mrs. Henry E. Baker, of Sherman Avenue.
By Way of Suggestion
Several people are leaving the city for the summer. Others are going home to stay. We would suggest that you have The Washington Tribune accompany you on your trip or to your home, as the case may be. It will be just like a letter from home while you are away, keeping you informed of all the news of the Capital City. One dollar will bring it to you for six months.
Miss Eula Nelson, who has been in the city for three years, as an employee in the Bureau, left Wednesday for her home in Chicago.
Texas Club instals Officers
At the regular meeting of the Texas Club at the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday evening, Mr. Rufus G. Byars was installed President for the ensuing term. The other officers are Vice President, Dr. R. T. Nelson, Secretary, Mrs. Charles Powell; Treasurer, Mrs. R. T. Nelson. A large membership was in attendance and the new President seems to lend inspiration to all present and every one seemed to realize that there are big accomplishments awaiting this club's efforts. Miss Lucille Moore is to give an exhibition dance at the Miner Normal Auditorium, Saturday evening, by the members of the graduating class of the school.
Mr. Will Marion Cook, the famous musician, who organized and carried to Europe that famous "Syncopated Orchestra," and who recently returned from his tour of the Old World was in this city last week on business.
Man Lynched
McCormick, S. C., June 19—Herbert Quarles, who was charged with criminal assault on a white woman of this county, was lynched by a posse of citizens here this afternoon. Following identification by his victim Quarles was forced to climb a tree and was then riddled with bullets.
SOGIETY
BRILLIANT EXERCISES FEATURE CLOSING
(Continued from page 1)
Scholarship awards—Amherst College: William Henry Hastie, valedictorian of class; George Winston Harry, Montague Cobb( conditional). Williams College: Mortimer Grover Weaver. Brown University: Lancoss McKnight, Roscoe Lewis. Hamilton College: Alpheus Booker, Charles Henry Woolford. Syracuse University: Lorraine R. Redmond. Howard University, Junior College—Julian E. Bailey, Gladys B. Peters, Estelle Welch, Myrtle Henry, Edgar B. Clark, James Greene. Howard University Conservatory of Music—Paul Mason, Wayland Rudd. Howard University School of Pharmacy—Maceo Wiseman. Morgan College, Baltimore—Oliver Wilson.
Spanish scholarships, given by the department as the result of a competitive examination: two prizes, $50 each—William E. Hastie, Julia E. Bailey.
Galt prize—Business, first department, Oliver Rogers; second department, Irving Johnson.
Bond prize, Salesmanship, $5—Madeline S. Taylor.
Bond prize, Shorthand; $2—Josephine Timus.
Maj. James E. Walker memorial medal—Charles Drew; honorable mention; Howard Brown.
Note—Honors won during the year. Faculty—
Miss Eva B. Dykes, '10, Ph. D., Radcliffe College.
Miss Georgiana Simpson, Ph. D., Chicago University.
Miss Sadie Moselle, '15, Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania.
Captain Percy Barnes, '17, appointed Research Assistant in Chemistry, Amherst College.
Henry Brown, '17, Awarded Fellowship in Latin, Harvard University for '21 and '22.
Miss Mabel Coleman, '16, awarded Fellowship in English, Howard University, for 1921.
Sterling Brown, '17, Phi Beta Kappa Williams College.
LITTLE TOTS HOLD EXERCISES
On June 13, at the Rose Park Municipal playground, an appreciative and interested audience of over four hundred parents and children was entertained by a delightful program consisting of folk dances, games and a May Pole drill. The program was as follows: Shoe Maker's Dance, Yankee Doodle—Little Tots; A Playlet (Sleeping Beauty), Looby Loo, Mistress Shadedy—Third grade Pupils; Solo Dance (Narcissus)—Mozelle Lowery; May Pole Dance—Sixteen girls; Spanish Dance—Dorothy Cooper; Flower Dance—Sadie Hoeffler, Pauline Lowery, Ada Boyd, and Wilhemena Bruno. Paper costumes were made by the participants of the last four numbers.
On Thursday the Monumental Pictures Corporation, under the direction of Mr. J. Williams Clifford, took moving pictures of the children on the playground.' On Saturday afternoon part of the above program was repeated.
ARMSTRONG HIGH
The address of Dr: Robert R. Moton was the principal attraction of the program of Armstrong High School's graduation exercises, which were held at the Dunbar Auditorium, Wednesday night.
The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Coralie F. Cook, a member of the School Board. Prof. Roecoe C. Bruce, Assistant Superintendent of city schools, presented the scholarships and Major R. R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., presented the diplomas.
Prof. Hugh M. Browne delivered the address to the graduates.
The class officers were: Miss Ruth R. Robinson, president; Norman A. Duncan, vice president; Miss Muriel A. Jackson, secretary; and Miss Orleans M. Bottese, treasurer. The complete list of the graduates appeared in The Tribune of last week. Mr. Leo Wilson won the highest honors of Armstrong this year and was awarded the James E. Walker Medal for his efforts. Dr. Moton said in part: "Negroes residing in Washington, have unusual opportunity to demonstrate that members of the race have the capacity for intelligent and useful citizenship.
"Let me urge you in this connection," Dr. Moton said, "to make it a rigid policy to talk to white people rather than talk about them. Booker Washington used, to say that few men objected to being talked to, but there were fewer still who did not object to being talked about. I some-
Dr. Moton said in part:
times think that we have spent too much time talking about the white people and they, in turn, have talked too much about us. The time has now come when we can and should talk to each other about the things which cause misunderstanding and friction."
ROBERT GOULD SHAW
The Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School, formerly "M Street," held its gradating exercises Wednesday at noon, at the school building. Eighteen students were promoted to Senior High School. Mrs. Coralie F. Cook, one of the members of the School Board of the District, presided. After making timely and helpful remarks, she introduced Dr. Dwight O. W. Holmes, Dean of the School of Education of Howard University, who delivered the principal address. The certificates were awarded by Prof. Roscoe C. Bruce, Assistant Superintendent of the city schools.
Miss Lucy Slowe is the principal of this progressive Junior High, and the fact that her school was designated by Columbia University for its extension work in this City, demonstrates her initiative and ability to do things and that she is alive to the opportunities offered for aggressive educational work. Only one center is allocated to a city by Columbia and Miss Slow secured that one for the Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School. The names of those promoted follows: Robert Brooks, May Dawes, Charles Holland, Walter Jackson, Grace Newman, Sigismund Taylor, Harry Turner, Clifford Campbell, Amaza Smith, Remell Thompson, Corinne Brown, Josephine Harris, William Holland, Wilrow Martin, Roberta Rob-
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Washington District, Southern Aid Society Solo .....Mr. Wm. H. Carter, Jr.
Remarks ..Mr. W. A. Jordan, Asst. Sec., Southern Aid Society
Violin Solo .....Little Julia Grant (8 yrs.)
To each person passing through the offices of the Society, 7th and T Streets, on June 29, 1921, a useful souvenir will be
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inson, Lillian Washington, Lawrence Williams, Dudley Woodard.
MINER NORMAL
An overflow audience greeted the graduates of the Miner Normal Thursday evening, when sixty-four young women received their diplomas, amid the applause of grateful parents and well wishing friends.
Dr. H. Barrett Learned, vice-president of the Board of Education was the presiding officer. The Principal Address was made by Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, member of the school Board.
After discussing the rise of the race and the progress that it has made, Dr. Johnson said: "We must do as others have done before us. We must serve in the hard school of discipline. Nor have we any reason for despondency. There must be that in our character which has never yet been found unequal to any purpose."
In closing he said: "Let us hope that you will realize that full measure of the responsibility which rests on you and that you will think not of your gain alone, but of the service which you will be able to render in and out of the class room, not only for the upbuilding of those children mentally, morally and physically but also in laying a splendid foundation for the development of a great race."
Assistant Superintendent Roscoe C. Bruce made cogent-remarks to the graduates, advising them to let service be their motto and success would attend their efforts.
"Devotion to ideals, in emulation of Charlemagne, who, though himself a barbarian, civilized his people," was also recommended to the class by the speaker.
Mrs. Coralie F. Cook presented the diplomas and Dr. Daniel E. Wiseman
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EXERCISE OF
THE SOUTHERN AID BUILDING
7th and T Streets, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH
M Street, Bet. 15th and 16th, N. W.,
DENESDAY, JUNE 29, 1921, AT 8
PROGRAM
Lesson: 23d Psalm ... Rev. Emory B. S.
Rev. W. D. J.
Miss Janie Green, Columbia Conservator
Addresses ... Messrs. F. Morris Murray
John
Mr. Jas. T. Carter, Pres. & General Coun-
Southern A.
The Wooding
"The Insurance Man" ... Mr. J. L. Doss, S.
Washington District, Southern A.
Mr. Wm. H.
Mr. W. A. Jordan, Asst. Sec., Southern A.
Little Julia Grant (8 yr.
Columbia Conservator
son of Mr. John R. Hawkins ... Dr. Roscoe
Mr. John R. Hawkins, President Prudence
Wooding
ments
The Wooding
Rev. C. M. Tanner, D.
Aid Society of Virginia, Inc.
You and Your Friends
TO THE
GENERAL EXERCISE
OF
BURN AID BUILDING
Streets, N. W.
BINGTON, D. C.
BAN A. M. E. CHURCH
15th and 16th, N. W.,
JANE 29, 1921, AT 8 P. M.
PROGRAM
Rev. Emory B. Smith, D.
Rev. W. D. Jarvis,
Columbia Conservatory of Mssrs. F. Morris Murray and
John W. L.
Pres. & General Counsel,
Southern Aid Soc.
The Wooding Quinn
Mr. J. L. Doss, Supt.,
District, Southern Aid Soc.
Mr. Wm. H. Carter,
Asst. Sec., Southern Aid Soc.
Little Julia Grant (8 yrs.),
Columbia Conservatory of M
Hawkins.
Dr. Roscoe C. Br
Hawkins, President Prudential H
Wooding Quinn
The Wooding Quinn
Rev. C. M. Tanner, D.D., Pa
PROGRAM
B. L. Jordan, Sec., Southern Aid Society,
Master of Ceremonies.
person passing through the offices of the S
streets, on June 29, 1921, a useful souve
WASHINGTON (D. C.) DISTRICT OFFICE
Suite, No. 300, 3rd Floor,
SOUTHERN AID BUILDING
T Sts., N. W., Washington,
J. LACY DOSS, Supt.
Bough the offices of the Society
1921, a useful souvenir will
C.) DISTRICT OFFICE
100, 3rd Floor, From
AID BUILDING,
W., Washington, D. C.
DOSS, Supt.
pronounced the benediction.
The class presented a large bouquet of roses to Principal Eugene A. Clark.
The officers of the class were: President, Eugenia Inez Jackson; Vice President, Audrey Gertestine Delany; Secretary, Rosa Lena Chase and Treasurer, Katie Belle Murphy. The names of the graduates were given in last week's Tribune.
The Birth of America was beautifully portrayed with a pageant, at the community centre of the Garnett-Phelps schools Friday afternoon, by the history classes of the fifth grades of these schools.
There were five classes participating in this entertainment. The community house was filled to overflowing. Miss O. C. Mitchell had charge of the rendering of the program, ably assisted by Miss R. Daley, Miss D. Wilkes, Miss C. Houston, and Miss G. Brooks. This was given primarily to review the work of the history classes for the year.
Miss K. C. Lewis is the principal of these schools and says that she is proud of the fact that her corps of teachers are progressive and able to get away from the beaten paths of school entertainments. The school
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WHAT THE PRESS SAYS ON
PRES, HARDING'S LINCOLN
UNIV. SPEECH AND THE
POLITICAL OUTLOOK
Ra Ue ee OT ec, eee
students of Lincoln University strikes
the press of the country as not having
gone far enough, when he said:
“One of the great difficulties with
popular governments is that the citi-
zenship expects at the hands of the
government that which it should do
for itself, No government can wave a
magic wand and take a race from
bondage to citizenship in half a cen-
tury. All that the government can
do is to afford the opportunity. The
colored race, to come into its own,
must do the great work itself in pre-
paring for that participation.”
The Negro World, New York
“President Wm. McKinley told a
delegation of colored men that the
race problem would be solved in the
hearts and consicences of the Ameri-
can people. President Theadore Roose-
velt said, when the Crum case came
up, that he would not shut the door
of hope in any man’s face because
of his color. President Wm. Taft in
his inaugural address said that he
would not appoint colored men to
office where southern whites objected.
President Woodrow Wilson intimated
to editor Wm, Monroe Trotter and his
delegation that race prejudice was a
fact like the law of gravitation.
“Consequently President Harding’s
address at Lincoln University was re-
garded as significant, as it revealed
his attitude toward the colored citi-
zenship of America, There was no
evasion or straddling in the address.
It was a clear cut statement of fun-
damentla truths. |
“One of the grievances of the Negro
against the United States of America
is that his opportunities are restricted
on the account of his color. In the
Wilson administration a Negro might
be loaded down with the Ph. D., LL.
D., and D. C. L. degree, but he could
not hold any governmental or diplo-
matic position that carried with it a|
lucrative salary and dignity. In the|
civil service colored men and women
passed examinations and were notified
of their appointments. But when they |
showed up they were turned down be-|
cause of color.
“That is to say, the confusion of
political and civil equality with social |
equality, the confusing of equality be-|
fore the law and economic equaliyt|
with social acceptability has made the |
Negro’s color a bar to his advancement |
in the industrial, business and politi-|
cal world.”
The Norfolk Journal and Guide
“What we all expect is that the gov-
ernment shall exercise its authority
and power to correct the evils of mob
law, disfranchisement, unequal distri-
bution of tax funds and unjust dis-
crimination in travel. We do not ex-
pect to be advised by the President to
front the mob, and officers of the law
affiliating with the mob, to defend our
lives and property from mob violence.
That is the business first of
the State, and, failing in the State,
of the Federal Government. ‘That is
what we have Federal Governments
for. The President in effect, advises
Afro-Americans to meet mob law with
mob law. That is awful.
“If Congress has no such power,
why did the President advise in his
inaugural address that Congress might
legislate against mob law and author-
ize the appointment of a Commission
to investigate the whole question of
race relation?”
‘The Philadelphia American
“This advice from our President
was alright, but it did not go far
enough. It is all very well to edu
cate and train the Negro in the moral
and Christian ethics of today. It
makes him law abiding, long suffer-
ing, patient and enduring under many
trying circumstances; but this advice
should go farther. It would be more
effective for the white hoodlum, mur-
derer, incendary and criminal to be
taught Christianity, purity, morality
and nicety. The best elementary les.
son, however to be taught to these
members of the superior race, who
not only violate the statutes of the
State, God and humanity, but who
violate every principle of civilization
would be.leaden bullets from the muz.
ale of a high-powered rifle, when thes
are on their rampage of distruction
Rh ce | WE iN Bee
POLITICAL OUTLOOK
‘The reduction of the southern repre
sentatives to the National Republican
Conventions strikes all of the editors
as being unjust, un-American, and
further, imposing disfranchisement.
Before the National Committee, Mr.
Henry Lincoln Johnson made an im-
passioned plea against the plan to
reduce the Southern delegation to 144.
He said: “The Republican -Party
THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, SATURDAY JUNE 25, 1921
should help us who have helped it
in the past, but apparently you have
not the stamina to meet the real issue
and compel Congress to give us rights.
You can’t camouflage this thing which
you propose in the teeth of the declar-
ations made by President Harding.
‘Why evade the issue which involves a
‘great constitutional questions and re-
sort to the unjust proposal which you
have before you? Do you think that
‘Theadore Roosevelt would have stood
for it? Oh, for the touch of a van-
quished hand and the sound of a voice
that it still.”
‘The Atlanta Independent:
“The Independent does not hesitate
to state that any man or set of mer
who believe or advocate the elimina-
tion of one group of American citi.
zens for the benefit of another on ae-
count of race or color, is no republican
—not any more than a bourbon demo-
erat, The truth of the matey, he be-
longs to the democratic party. And
any national leader, whether he be
chairman or president, who would flirt
with a character of that kind, who
believes in the disfranchisement and
elimination of the Negro from the
party council, his republicanism is
questionable. And when the leaders
of the party so far forget themselves
as to adopt such suicidal policy, the
party is doomed; for every time the
party has received great reverses, it
has been due to the fact that it for-
got its fundamental doctrine of equal
and exact justice to all irrespective of
race.”
Ths Amsterdam News.
“The suffrage in the Southern
States is not going to be settled by
subterfuge and compromise, any more
than the question of slavery was; it
can only be settled by so controlling
the primary election laws so that all
persons entitled to vote shall be able
to do so with no guns or other in-
struments of intimidation at their
heads to prevent them from doing so.
That is the reduction of the whole
question which the Republican party is
called upon to face, and which it does
not want to face.”
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Riots among White and Colored
Americans in Ameriea—Who's to
Blame? ..How to Eliminate Rioting
between said Races perpetually. |
Wash. D. C., June 18, 1921.
To the Editor:
From more than a score of news-
papers I have read causes and opinions
of the Tulsa, Oklahoma riot. I have
carefully read what the Literary Di-
gest has had to say under, “Mob Fury.
and Race Hatred as a National Dan-
ger,” and the Digest’s many quotations
from numerous papers both white and
colored. It is but natural to conceive
that a Colored paper would endeavor
to place the burden—the origin of this
trouble—upon the white race, and it
seems the same as to the white papers,
though natural it imay seem, we are
confronted with diversions for many
of the white papers are outspoken in
placing the fault of this riot-breach
and disgraceful affray upon their kins-
men in Tulsa, Okla.
Most notable in the Digest topic
were found quotatiosn from Texas
papers. An insane person could tell
the hipocricy and lying utterances
“made by these papers—their base
"proclamation and accusation, that the
Negroes were not in their right senses
|—inflamed by violent propaganda
- against whites by Negro radicals of
the North, East and West—coneluding
with direct cause being attributed to
this propaganda from Negroes having
‘been North, to France and with some
‘education, endeavor to bestir hatred
in the hearts of the southern Negro.
| This kind of gospel from Southern
papers has been preached since the
| very dawn of Freedom. It is stale
‘now. Colored people, North, East
South and West, have awakened t
"the fact that they are American citi
‘}zens, but do not receive the treatment
-/as such, The truth is, Colored people
"are tired of making the living on the
“farms for white people of the South
- and then being robbed. They are tired
of having their girls breed illegiti
» mate offspring for white men of the
South, They are tired of being made
citizens when a great conflict breaks
out and then after the victory is won,
"being again discarded and_relegated
| for some Mexican, Italian, Frenchman,
| Japanese, Turk, et al. ‘They are tire¢
| of being jilted, jolted and contemptu-
jously “kicked” and jimerowed from
street and steam cars, cafes and ho-
/tels, theatres and places of amuse
|| ments where they too pay taxes.
| Since the great World’s War, they
| have been awakened—they now real-
|ize the partial and unfair treatment
| by the white man and his laws. They
now see the injustice, the unfairness
| ete., and for Justice and Fairness they
now clamor and fight. \
To eliminate and extinguish Race
Riots, why it is up to the Congress of
the United States. Why-doesn’t Con-
gress pass the Spencer and Madden
and Dyer Bills? Why pigeon-hole
these Bills, if America really and truly
desires to rid herself of this great
evil? Why doesn’t President Harding
urge the passage of these Bills? He
says he believes and intends to see to
it that all American citizens fare and
share alike-as guaranteed by the Con-
stitution of the government of the
United States. Is the Congress of the
United States sincere and just? Does
President Harding mean what he has
said with regards to Colored Ameri-
cans or was he simply jesting and
talking? To pass these Bills beats all
talking. Urging the passage, proves
sincerity. ~
W. THOMAS SODERS
EDITOR R. L. VANN DISCUSSES
RACE COMMISSION IN THE
COMPETITOR
| “The creation of a commission b;
| Congress, with proper power and au-
thority to function freely and inde-
pendently, is easily the biggest and
best beginning the country has ever
_made toward race adjustment,” writes
‘Robert L. Vann in the June number
of The Competitor. Continuing he
says:
“If the commission can successfully
ay the foundation for the creation of
a healthful atmosphere for the culti-
‘vation of a public sentiment it will
have worked the desired consumma-
tion.”
Mr. Vann feels that “the delicate
features to be encountered must be
approached with sanity, courage and
sincerity,” and he states that “the
commission will have ample occasion
to operate in northern as well as
southern states.”
‘The editor of The Competitor gives
us one of the best discussions of the
proposed Inter-Racial Commission
that has appeared thus far.” He closes
his able commenary with this keen
analysis:
“Human improvement all over the
country is the paramount task be-
fore the American people. Our per-
sonal opinions of ourselves carry lit-
tle weight, after all, in the final anal-
ysis. "We are what we are when we
are. Thé Jew is as good as the Gen-
‘tile when he is; the Gentile is no bet-
‘ter than the Jew when he is not; the
colored ‘American is as good as the
white when he is; the southerner is
| as good as the northerner when he is.
|‘These opinions cannot be disturbed by
‘any commission. If the South will di-
vorce herself from the social equality
bugbear, and accept Negro improve-
‘ment as meaning Southern improve-
‘ment, rather than a corressponding
southern impediment, the Commis-
sion can take effective root in the
South and prove itself a moulder of
effective sentiment throughout the
country.”
CHARLES GILPIN WINS
- SPINGARN MEDAL
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 70
Fifth Avenue, New York, today an-
nounced that the Spingarn Medal had
been awarded to Charles Gilpin, the
actor who created the role of Custis
in John Drinkwater’s play, “Abraham
Lincoln,” and the title role in Eugene
O’Neill’s play, “The Emperor Jones.”
The Spingarn Medal is awarded an-
nually “to the man or woman of Afri-
can descent and of American citizen-
ship who shall have made the highest
achievement during the preceding year
in any field of elevated or honorable
human endeavor. The donor of the
medal is J. E. Spingarm, treasurer of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
Mr. Giilpin, whose acheivement as
an actor was acclaimed publicly when
he was chosen by the directors of the
Drama League of New York, as one
of ten guests of honor to be invited to
a dinner in the Hotel McAlpin, was
ranked among the. following stage
people: Lionel Atwill, Gilda Varesi,
Dudley Gigges, Lee Simonson, Mar-
garet Severn, Ben Ami, David Belasco
and Fred Stone. Gilpin and the other
guests were selected by vote of the
Drama League as those who had made
the most distinguished contribution to
the American’stage in 1920.
He is the seventh recipient of the
Spingarm Medal, his predecessors re-
presenting many fields of activity.
The first to receive the medal was E.
E. Just, to-whom it was awarded in
1915 for researches in biology. ‘The
second Spingarn medallist was Colonel
Charles Young, to whom it was award-
ed for his services in organizing the
constabulary of Liberia, The third
was Harry T. Burleigh, composer, for
his excellence in the field of creative
music,
The Committee on Award of the
Spingarn Medal..are ex-President
William Howard Taft, Dr. James H.
Dillard, Dr. John Hope, Bishop John
Hurst, and Oswald Garrison Villard.
The medal is to be presented to Mr.
Gilpin, at the twelfth annual con-
ference of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
ple, in Detroit, on Thursday, June 20.
SEND CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
> DELEGATES TO CONVENTION
The Christian Endeavor Society of
Shiloh Baptist Church is planning to
send several delegates to the World’s
Christian Endeavor Convention which
meets in New York City, July 6 to 11.
The President of the Christian En-
deavor, Mrs. Matilda G. Harris and
her husband will motor to the Metrop-
olis for this meeting. ‘he pastor,
Rev. Dr. Waldron, expects to attend
the Convention and is slated to de-
liver a special address to the Baptist
Ministers’ Union of New York City
before he returns.
During the past two weeks the
Church has been winding up its Fif-
teen Hundred Dollar rally and has had
as its visitors and assistants, the fol-
lowing churches and their. pastors,
namely, Rev. C. M. Tanner -of the
Metropolitan A. M. E. Church; Rev.
M. W. D. Norman of the Metropolitan
Baptist Church; Rev. Howard of the
Zion Baptist Church; and Dr. J. L. S.
Holloman of the Second Baptist
Church.
Mrs. Josephine Carroll Smith fin-
ished up for the season a course in
the ‘Training of Teachers and ex-
amined the various members of the.
Sunday School class. Some of these
members made a splendid record in
the book on Organization, Manage-|
ment and Grading of Sunday Schools.
On Next Sunday June 26, Dr. Wal-
dron will preach at 11 a. m, on the
‘Tulsa Riot” and an offering will be
aken for the stricken people in that
anfortunate city.
‘At night the Woman's Missionary
Cirele will hold a special service in
memory of Lott Carey, the first Mie
sionary to Liberia and the first Presi-
Jent of that Republe. Mrs. M. W.
Waldron, the President, will have
charge of the program; the choir will
vender special music.
PRESIDENT HARDING ENDORSES
N. A. A. C. P. MEETING
New York City—James Weldon
Johnson, Secretary of the National As-
sociation for the Advancement of Col-
ored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New
York, recently made public a letter
he had received from President War-
ren G. Harding m which the President
extended his “greetings and best
wishes” to the twelfth annual con-
ference of the N. A. A. C. P. and
hoped that “the Association may en-
joy a larger and constantly enlarging
usefulness.”
President Harding also said in his
letter to Mr. Johnson that he would “be
glad to be informed of the transac-
tions 6 the convention and to receive
any suggestions from it that may be
helpful in developing a constructive
policy.”
ASK FOR NATIONAL MEMORIAL
BUILDING
‘The National Memorial Association,
have a Bill before Congress for the
erection of a Memorial Building here
in Washington, in commemoration of
the Negro Soldiers and Sailors who
have fought with great valor in all
the wars of the Nation, and who re-
cently won the plaudits of the world
for their bravery in the late War.
‘They have a site in view for the erec-
tion of the proposed memorial build-
ing.
In the scheme for a greater How-
ard University, at a recent conference
between President Durkee of the Uni-
versity, President F. D. Lee, and Fi-
nancial Secretary Jas. H. W. Howard
of the National Memorial Association,
the plan of erecting such a building
on’the grounds of the University was
discussed at length.
President Durkee will take up the
matter with the Trustees of the Uni-
versity at an early date, and President
Lee will take the matter up with the
Advisory Board of the Memorial As-
sociation and the Fine Arts Commit-
tee of Congress.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson, New
York City. -
J. A. Harris, Baltimore, Md.
J. S. White, Chicago, Ill. .
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Brown, Phila-
delphia.
Sergt. H. Dickson, Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Hattie Dickson, Richmond, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Dupree, Chicago.
A. S. Plummer, New York City.
C. R. Howard, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Clio Garcia, New York City.
T. H. DeLoach; Atlanta, Ga.
Thomas W. Hunter, Savannah, Ga.
R. R. Moten, Tuskegee, Ala.
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CLASS NIGHT AT MINOR
NORMAT,
Reprodueing the complete history of
‘Myrtilla Miner Normal School as the
principal exercise for Class Night, at-
tracted a capacity house at the School
Auditorium, Monday night, June 20.
“The Beckoning Heritage” was the
subject of the historical pageant given
by the graduates for class night pro-
gram. The pageant reviewed the his-
tory of the school, showing the yearn-
ings of the slave and free colored peo-
ple for education; Myrtilla Miner as
a maid with a vision; being obedient
to the vision; a scene from 1880 and
one from 1919 were beautifully por-
trayed, ending in a folk dance with
tableau.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
were blended into an interesting-scene
with Mesdames Eugenia Jackson and
Juanita Shaw as clairvoyants. Miss
Elfred Mitchell represented The His-
tory; Miss Marguerite Brown, The
Will; Miss Roger Cole, The Poem;
Miss Thelma Hamilton, The Gifts,
Miss Anabelle Green, The Alphabet;
Mis Edna West, The Journal; Miss
Lillian Tanner, The Oration; Class of
1921 (Juanita Shaw) The Prophecy;
and Miss Vera Purefoy,The Song.
The names of the graduates appear-
ed in The Tribune of last week.
‘IT IS‘SAFER TO TRUST
LIFE INSURANCE THAN
ONE’S-OWN EFFORTS
DARD ¢
J. P. BOND :
Agency Supervisor, District of
Columbia and Virginia
Miss Lula V. Childers, who has
charge of the Musical Department of
Howard University, left Wednesday
for Chicago, where she will spend
the summer.
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The Voice
of the Pack
BY EDISON MARSHALL
(Copyright, 1900, Little, Brown & Company)
SYNOPSIS
PROLOGUE.
In the little town of Gitcheapolis small Dan Failing dreams boyish dreams, tin-tured with melancholy over his supposed musical There, years later he meets Destiny.
BOOK I—REPATRIATION.
CHAPTER L—Warned by his physician that he has not more than six months to live, Falling falls dispondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months. A friendly squirrel practically decides the matter for him. His blood is pioneer blood, and he decides to end his days in the forests of Oregon. Memories of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him
CHAPTER II.—In a large southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennox's son, "Bill," and daughter, "Snowy." He has been involved from "utilization," in the Umpqua divide, and there Falling plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. His extreme weakness in the face of even a slight exertion convinces him that the doctor had made a correct diagnosis of CHAPTER III.—From the first Fainga health shows a marked improvement, and in the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits into the woods life as if he had been born to it. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of intelligence, he owns when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he is a reincarnation of his grandfather, Dan Falling I, whose fame as a woodsman is a household word.
BOOK TWO—THE DEBT.
CHAPTER L—Dan, now thoroughly proficient in woods lore, learns from Lennox that an organized band of outlaws, of which Bert Cranston is the leader, is making trouble in the vicinity. Landry Hildreth, a former member of the gang, has been induced to turn state's evidence. On his way to the city Hildreth is waylaid by Cranston, shot, and left for dead. Cranston, however, overlooked the fact that Hildreth might have documentary evidence on his person, and is satisfied that his enemy will never reach the city to tell what he knows of the operations of the gang.
dreth would have preferred to wait in the hills and possibly to write another letter, but a chill that kept growing at his finger tips forbade it. And all these things combined to stretch his nerves almost to the breaking point as he stole along the moonlit trail under the pines.
A moment before the rush and whir of the grouse flock had dried the roof of his mouth with terror. The tall trees appalled him, the shadows fell upon his spirit. And when he heard this final sound, when he saw the glint that might so easily have been a gun-barrel, his nerves and muscles reacted at once. Not even a fraction of a second intervened. His gun flashed up and a little, angry cylinder of flame darted, as a snake's head darts, from the muzzle.
Hildreth didn't take alm. There wasn't time. The report roared in the darkness; the bullet sang harmlessly and thudded into the earth; and both of them were the last things in the world that Granston had expected. And they were not a moment too soon. Even at that instant, his finger was closing down upon the trigger, Hildreth standing clear and revealed through the sights. The nervous response that few men in the world would be self-disciplined enough to prevent occurred at the same instant that he pressed the trigger. His own fire answered, so near to the other that both of them sounded as one report.
Most hunters can usually tell, even if they cannot see their game fall, whether they have hit or missed. This was one of the few times in his life that Cranston could not have told. He knew that as his finger pressed he had held as accurate a "bread" as at any time in his life. He did not know still another circumstance—that in the moonlight he had overestimated the distance to the clearing, and instead of one hundred yards it was scarcely fifty. He had held rather high. And he looked up, unknowing whether he had succeeded or whether he was face to face with the prospect of a duel to the death in the darkness.
And all he saw was Hildreth, rocking back and forth in the moonlight—a strange picture that he was never entirely to forget. It was a motion that no man could pretend. And he knew he had not missed.
He waited till he saw the form of his enemy rock down, face half-buried in the pine needles. It never even occurred to him to approach to see if he had made a clean kill. He had held on the breast and he had a world of confidence in his great, shocking, big-game rifle. Besides, the rifle fire might attract some hunter in the hills; and there would be time in the morning to return to the body and make certain little investigations that he had in mind. And running back down the trail, he missed the sight of Hildreth dragging his wounded body, like an injured hare, into the shelter of the thickets.
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came out of his brush-covert when the moon rose. It was not his usual rising time. Ordinarily he found his best hunting in the eerie light of the twilight hour; but for certain reasons, his knowledge of which would be extremely difficult to explain, he let this time go by in slumber. Whisperfoot had slept almost since dawn. It is a significant quality in the felines that they simply cannot keep in condition without hours and hours of sleep. In this matter of sleeping, they are in a direct contrast to the wolves, who seemingly never sleep at all, unless it is with one eye open, and in still greater contrast to the king of all beasts, the elephant, who is said to slumber less per night than that great electrical wizard whom all men know and praise.
The great cat came out yawning, as graceful a thing as treads upon the earth. He was almost nine feet long from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, and he weighed as much as many a full-grown man. He stood and yawned insolently, for all the forest world to see. He rather hoped that the chipmunk, staring with beady eyes from his doorway, did see him. He would just as soon that Woof's little son, the bear cub, should see him too. But he wasn't so particular about Woof himself, or the wolf pack whose song had just wakened him. And above all things, he wanted to keep out of the sight of men.
For when all thugs are said and done, there were few bigger cowards in the whole wilderness world than Whisperfoot. A good many people think that Graycoat the coyote could take lessons from him in this respect. But others, knowing how a hunter is brought in occasionally with almost all human resemblance gone from him because a cougar charged in his death agony, think this is unfair to the larger animal. And it is true that a full-grown cougar will sometimes attack horned cattle, something that no American animal cares to do unless he wants a good fight on his paws and of which the very thought would throw Graycoat into a spasm; and there have been even stranger stories, if one could quite believe them. A certain measure of respect must be extended to any animal that will hunt the great bull elk, for to miss the stroke and get caught beneath the churning, lashing, slashing, razor-edged front hoofs is simply painful, painful and without delay. But the difficulty lies in the fact that these things are not done in the ordinary, rational blood of hunting. What an animal does in its death agony, or to protect its young, what great game it follows in the starving times of winter, can be put to neither its debit nor its credit. A coyote will charge when mad. A raccoon will put up a wicked fight when cornered. A hen will peck at the hand that robs her nest. When hunting was fairly good, Whisperfoot avoided the elk and steer almost as punctiously as he avoided men, which is saying very much indeed; and any kind of terrier could usually drive him straight up a tree.
But he did like to pretend to be very great and terrible among the smaller forest creatures. And he was Fear itself to the deer. A human hunter who would kill two deer a week for fifty-two weeks would be called a much uglier name than poacher; but yet this had been Whisperfoot's record, on and off, ever since his second year. Many a great buck wore the scar of the full stroke—after which Whisperfoot had lost his hold. Many a fawn had crouched panting with terror in the thickets at just a tawny light on the gnarled limb of a pine. Many a doe would grow great-eyed and terrified at just his strange, pungent smell on the wind.
He yawned again, and his fangs looked white and abnormally large in the moonlight. His great, green eyes were still clouded and languorous from sleep. Then he began to steal up the ridge toward his hunting grounds. It was a curious thing that he walked straight in the face of the soft wind that came down from the snow fields, and yet there wasn't a weathercock to be seen anywhere. And neither had the chipmunk seen him wet a paw and hold it up, after the approved fashion of holding up a finger. He had a better way of knowing—a chill at the end of his whiskers. The little, breathless night sounds in the brush around him seemed to madden him. They made a song to him, a strange, wild melody that even
nox could not experience. A thousand smells brushed down to him on the wind, more potent than any wine or lust. He began to tremble all over with rapture and excitement. But unlike Cranston's trembling, no wilderness ear was keen enough to hear the leaves rustling beneath him.
CHAPTER II.
Shortly after nine o'clock, Whisper-foot encountered his first herd of deer. But they caught his scent and scattered before he could get up to them. He met Woof, grunting through the underbrush, and he punctillously, but with wretched spirit, left the trail. A fight with Woof the bear was one of the most unpleasant experiences that could be imagined. He had a pair of strong arms of which one embrace of a cougar's body meant death in one long shriek of pain. Of course they didn't fight often. They had entirely opposite interests. The bear was a berry-eater and a honey-grubber, and the cougar cared too much for his own life and beauty to tackle Woof in a hunting way.
A fawn leaped from the thicket in front of him, startled by his sound in the thicket. The truth was, Whisperfoot had made a wholly unjustified misstep on a dry twig, just at the crucial moment. Perhaps it was the fault of Woof, whose presence had driven Whisperfoot from the trail, and perhaps because old age and stiffness was coming upon him. But neither of these facts appeased his anger. He could scarcely suppress a snarl of fury and disappointment.
He continued along the ridge, still stealing, still alert, but his anger increasing with every moment. The fact that he had to leave the trail again to permit still another animal to pass, and a particularly insignificant one too, didn't make him feel any better. This animal had a number of curious stripes along his back, and usually did nothing more desperate than steal eggs and eat bird fledglings. Whisper-foot could have crushed him with one bite, but this was one thing that the great cat, as long as he lived, would never try to do. He got out of the way politely when Stripe-back was still a quarter of a mile away; which was quite a compliment to the little animal's ability to introduce himself. Stripe-back was familiarly known as a skunk.
Shortly after ten, the mountain lion had a remarkably fine chance at a buck. The direction of the wind, the trees, the thickets and the light were all in his favor. It was old Blacktail, wallowing in the salt lick; and Whisperfoot's heart bounded when he detected him. No human hunter could have laid his plans with greater care. He had to cut up the side of the edge, mindful of the wind. Then there was a long dense thicket in which he might approach within fifty feet of the lick, still with the wind in his face. Just beside the lick was another deep thicket, from which he could make his leap.
His body lowered. The tall lashed back and forth, and now it had begun to have a slight vertical motion that frontiersmen have learned to watch for. He placed every paw with consummate grace, and few sets of human nerves have sufficient control over leg muscles to move with such astonishing patience. He scarcely seemed to move at all.
But when scarcely ten feet remained to stalk, a sudden sound pricked through the darkness. It came from afar, but it was no less terrible. It was really two sounds, so close together that they sounded as one. Neither Blacktail nor Whisperfoot had any delusions about them. They recognized them at once, in strange ways under the skin that no man may describe, as the far-off reports of a rifle. Just today Blacktail had seen his doe fall bleeding when this same squand, only louder, spoke from a covert from which Bert Cranston had poached her—and he left the lick in one bound.
Terrified though he was by the rife shot, still Whisperfoot sprang. But the distance was too far. His outstretched paw hummed down four feet behind Blacktall's flank. Then forgetting everything but his anger and disappointment, the great cougar opened his mouth and howled.
The long night was almost done when he got sight of further game. Once a flock of grouse exploded with a roar of wings from a thicket; but they had been wakened by the first whisper of dawn in the wind, and he really had no chance at them. Soon after this, the moon set.
The larger creatures of the forest are almost as helpless in absolute darkness as human befings. It is very well to talk of seeing in the dark, but from the nature of things, even vertical pupils may only respond to light. No owl or bat can see in absolute darkness. It became increasingly likely that Whisperfoot would have to retire to his lair without any meal whatever.
But still he remained, hoping against hope. After a futile fifteen minutes of watching a trail, he heard a doe feeding on a hillside. Its footfall was not so heavy as the sturdy tramp of a buck, and besides, the bucks would be higher on the ridges this time of morning. He began a cautious advance toward it.
For the first fifty yards the hunt was in his favor. He came up wind, and the brush made a perfect cover. But the doe unfortunately was standing a full twenty yards farther, in an open glade. Under ordinary circumstances, Whisperfoot would not have made an attack. A cougar can run swiftly, but a deer is light itself. The big cat would have preferred to linger, a motionless thing in the thickets,
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hoping some other member of the deer herd to which the doe must have belonged would come into his ambush. But the hunt was late, and Whisperfoot was very, very angry. Too many times this night he had missed his kill. In desperation, he leaped from the thicket and charged the deer.
In spite of the preponderant odds against him, the charge was almost a success. He went fully half the distance between them before the deer perceived him. Then she leaped. There seemed to be no interlude of time between the instant that she beheld the dim, tawny figure in the air and in that which her long legs pushed out in a spring. But she didn't leap straight ahead. She knew enough of the cougars to know that the great cat would certainly aim for her head and neck in the same way that a duck-hunter leads a fast-flying duck—hoping to intercept her leap. Even as her feet left the ground she seemed to whirl in the air, and the deadly talons whipped down in vain. Then, cutting back in front, she raced down wind.
It is usually the most unmitigated folly for a cougar to chase a deer against which he has missed his stroke; and it is also quite fatal to his dignity. And whoever doubts for a minute that the larger creatures have no dignity, and that it is not very dear to them, simply knows nothing about the ways of animals. They cling to it to the death. But tonight one disappointment after another had crumbled, as the rains crumble leaves, the last vestige of Whisperfoot's self-control. Snarling in fury, he bounded after the doe.
She was lost to sight at once in the darkness, but for fully thirty yards he raced in her pursuit. If he had stopped to think, it would have been one of the really great surprises of his life to hear the sudden, unmistakable stir and movement of a large, living creature not fifteen feet distant in the thicket.
He didn't stop to think at all. He didn't puzzle on the extreme unlikelihood of a doe halting in her flight from a cougar. It is doubtful whether, in the thickets, he had any perceptions of the creature other than its movements. He was running down wind, so it is certain that he didn't smell it. If he saw it at all, it was just as a shadow, sufficiently large to be that of a deer. It was moving, crawling as Woof the bear sometimes crawled, seemingly to get out of his path. And Whisperfoot leaped straight at it. It was a perfect shot. He landed high on its shoulders. His head lashed down, and the white teeth closed. All the long life of his race he had known that pungent essence that flowed forth. His senses perceived it, a message shot along his nerves to his brain. And then he opened his mouth in a high, far-carrying squal of utter, abject terror.
He sprang a full fifteen feet back into the thickets; then crouched. The hair stood still at his shoulders, his claws were bared; he was prepared to fight to the death. He didn't understand. He only knew the worst single terror of his life. It was not a do that he had attacked in the darkness. It was not Urson the porcupine, or even Wool. It was that imperial master of all things, man himself. Unknowing, he had attacked Landy Linderth, lying wounded from Cranston's bullet beside the trail. Word of the arson ring would never reach the settlements, after all.
And as for Whisperfoot—the terror that choked his heart with blood began to wear off in a little while. The man lay so still in the thickets. Besides, there was a strange, wild smell in the air. Whisperfoot's stroke had gone home so true there had not even been a fight. The darkness began to lift around him, and a strange exultation, a rapture unknown before in all his hunting, began to creep into his wild blood. Then, as a shadow steals, he went creeping back to his dead.
Dan Falling had been studying nature on the high ridges; and he went home by a back trail that led to old Bald mountain. The trail was just a narrow serpent in the brush; and it had not been made by gangs of laborers, working with shovels and picks. Possibly half a dozen white men, in all, had ever walked along it. It was just the path of the wild creatures, worn down by hoof and paw and cushion since the young days of
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In another column of The Tribune, we present a survey made this week by this paper, of the business and professional men and women actually in office, store or shop on this street, which includes Florida Avenue to 5th Street. This survey shows there are 125 places occupied by our men and women in a professional and business capacity. When we realize that these nine blocks of Florida Avenue and U Street run thru a section of the city almost wholly occupied by our own people (being an East and West street, the principal one for business on the north side of G Street) the opportunity for business of various kinds is patent. While there are thirty-five different lines and professions already represented, there are other necessary lines that could be entered with the same likelihood of success as attends the operation of those established.
A shoe store with modern equipment and dependable stock should thrive on U Street. Leather has about gotten back to normal and the price of shoes is adjusting itself. Ten thousand dollars would make a fine showing in a shoe store here.
Furniture is a line that could be successfully established and maintained on U Street. Within walking distance of the eighth Precinct Station on U Street near 9th, there are about 40,000 colored people. Within the District of Columbia there are 109,000.
Just think of a city with a population of that size with one bank, one shoe store, no furniture store, a handful of grocery stores, no hardware stores, no clothing stores, no department stores. Can you realize it? Such is the position and condition of 109,000 with the highest percentage of intelligent colored people in this whole country.
We harp on our being segregated; we magnify our ills; but we seldom ever extol our opportunities, our ability to accomplish, or our determination to enter into the commercial world and prove our metal therein as merchants and financiers.
The principles of leadership in business are not many. They are not hard to grasp. Yet, less than two men in one hundred ever learn them. The two chief reasons for this failure are: first, lack of rounded business experience; second, the difficulty of drawing sound conclusions from the relatively few experiences that any one person can have. Every man who hopes to be a leader in the business world needs special business training apart from the ordinary work of the high schools and colleges. The successful business men of today are those who have fundamental knowledge of business principles and a faculty for the practical application of these principles to daily business life.
The Florida Avenue-U Street section of nine blocks covered by the above mentoned survey, offers the man or men who can develop this leadership a wonderful opportunity to apply their knowledge and ability in more than a dozen lines in which there would be practicially no competition.
Our music stores with musical instruments, records, and sheet music would be an excellent venture on U Street. A hardware store, more groceries, another bank, a steam laundry, a book store, and a department store—all could be established within the nine blocks referred to on this fast growing business street.
Consider the $40,000,000 which we have on deposit in the various banks of this city. Less than a half million would be sufficient to open every business that we have mentioned. How many of the recent graduates of our city schools and of Howard University, could find employment therein? The annual turn over from the investment of a half million dollars in the lines mentioned would run into millions of dollars.
Let us quit protesting orally of our condition but invest our time, means and that into a more tangible protest, which will be more readily considered and quickly heard. Our condition is an economically weak one and we only can remedy it. Train our boys and girls in commercial lines, establish more business enterprises and patronize them and we will find that the world will respect our accomplishments and hear our requests.
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The Field Day exercises of the Uniform Department of the Knights of Pythias held Thursday afternoon, at American League Ball Park, was a distinct success. Several hundred members and friends of various organizations were in attendance.
The principal features of the event were the drill contest, dress parade and a ball game. The dress parade was reviewed by Col. Geo. H. Hunt, 1st Regt. U. R. K. of P.
The drill team contestants were Simon Commandery, Knights Templer, Capt. Al. Dodson, Commanding; Washington Patriarchie, No. 18, G. U. O. of F., Capt., G. Gaines, commanding; Georgetown Patriarchie No. 42, Capt. Ed. Chivers, commanding; and Ancientt Order of Knights of Jerusalem, Capt. G. W. Clark, commanding.
Each drill team gave an excellent exhibition; and in a close contest, the Simon Commandery, K. T. was awarded the coveted prize. The judges were: Capt. S. F. Sewell; 1st Lieut. Richard Banks and 1st Lieut. Charles E. Lane.
In big league style, the Datcher Lodge, F. A. A. M. and the Corinthian Lodge, F. A. A. M. played an exciting game of ball, and the laurels were carried off by the Datcher Lodge to
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The following fraternal musical organizations were in the line of march: Odd Fellows Concert Band, Prof. Elzie Hoffman, Dir; Elk's Military Band, C. E. Blakey, Dir.; and the Fife and Drum Corps of the K. of P.
The following organizations were represented: Knights Templar F. A. A. M., Patriarchs, G. U. O. F., A. O. K. of J., I. B. P. O. E. of W., Auxiliaries to the K. of P. and to Patriarchies.
The Department Staff of the Uniform Department of Knights of Pythias includes: Gen. J. Clay Smith Commanding Officer; Col. O. M. Smith Chief of Staff; Col. Wm. S. Conway Adj. Gen.; Col. Benjamin F. Johnson Q. M. Gen.; Col. John T. Rhines, Judge Advocate Gen.; Col. J. E. White, Chief Sig. Officer; Col. R. J. Henderson, Chief Mustering Officer; Col. A. G. W. Gaines, Surgeon Gen.; Col. George F. Knickerbock, Inspector Gen.; Col. James O. Barber, Chief Engineer; Maj. Wm. E. Ridout, Chaplain; Maj. Eugene Crowder, A. D. C.; Maj. Joseph Young, A. D. C.; Maj. P. G. Smith, A. D. C.; Lieut. Col. Geo. B. Hunt, Commanding 1 Regt.; Capt. J. C. Stewart, Regimental Adjt.; Capt. Thomas F. Harper, Regimental Supply Officer.
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STREET SURVEY SHOWS BIG BUSINESS BOOM
The Washington Tribune recently made a complete survey of the racial business and professional men and women on U Street beginnig on Florida Avenue, at Fifth Street on through to 14th. The survey disclosed the fact that there are 125 offices and business places in these nine blocks.
The 125 places are divided into 35 different lines, with from one to nine establishments in each line. Of the single establishments there is the Industrial Savings Bank; the office of the Prudential Bank, which is in the process of formation; the S. H. Dudley Theatre; the Virginia Hall Laundry; Mme. Blanche, the milliner; the Capitol Haberdashery, the office of the Standard Life Insurance Co; an undertaking establishment; a musical studio; a sign studio: a church; and the Murray Casino.
Running in pairs are two groceries: two jewelers, two lodge halls, two newstands, two manufactories of hair preparations and two chiropodists.
It is remarkable that there are only three pool rooms. Running in threees are florists, conectioneries, photo studios, Notary publics and shoe reairing shops. There happens to be no quartettes. Among the quintettes are printing establishments, soft drink places, lawyers, newspapers and shoe shining parlors. With the real estate dealers, the physicians and drug stores, six is their number. In the lucky seven class there are tonsorial artists and dentists, while hair dressing parlors and the restaurants tie up for eight each.
Only one class reaches nine in number and that is the cleaning and dyeing establishments. Did you think there were that many places on U St., occupied by colored people? Go over the list again and get a line on the class of business and type of professions in these nine blocks. All of these offices and business establishments are conducted by colored people and represent an investment of time, money and brains. In return they are giving employment to a large number of persons, who are not only making a daily living, but getting practical business experience that will enable them to push their own business successfully or branch out into still other lines not here represented.
The Murray Casino building was the last noteworthy one to be erected on this busy street and the proposed Masonic building will add its quota to the improvement and business appearance of the street.
MASS MEETING TO FIGHT MD. JIM CROW CAR LAW
A great mass meeting will be held Sunday afternoon, at the Zion Baptist church, F Street, between 3d and 4 1-2 streets, S. W., in the interest of "Jim Crow car case" won by Frederick U. Brooks and William A. Waller. This case has been appealed by the W. B. and A. company, and will be thoroughly explained by Messrs. Brooks and Waller in this meeting. Among the other speakers that have been asked to address the meeting are Rev. W. J. Howard, pastor of the church; Hon. Aaron P. Prioleau; Hon. J. J. O'Leary, Assistant U. S. District Attorney, J. W. Phoenix, Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, Mr. John E. Bowels, Editor J. Finley Wilson.
Mr. Richards C. Brooks will preside. Free admission and everybody invited to be present. Do not lose what we have gained but hold on to what we have and try to get more. Contributions to assist in fighting
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EXAMS FOR LIEUTENANTS OPEN TO ALL
Three thousand lieutenants are needed for the United States Army, so the War Department announces. Orders from the department, have been issued for an examination to be held August 22, for men to fill these three thousand positions. A committee from the Ministers Alliance held a conference with the Adjutant General of the department recently and were informed that there were no restrictions attached as to race or locality.
Applicants must be between 21 and 30 years of age; commissioned in the Reserve Corps, enlisted men or graduates of schools where military training is given. Young men desiring a commission as second lieutenant in the regular army, should write at once to the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D. C., for blanks and necessary instruction.
Rev. E. W. D. Jones, who was chairman of the committee that waited on the Adjutant General, said: "Young men who are qualified for these positions, should not allow this excellent opportunity to pass. There is all possibility that the McCormick bill may pass the present Congress, providing for four more regiments of colored troops in the regular army and those who take this examination would have the better opportunity for promotion. It is imperative that action be taken at once."
Washington Clergy to be Banquetted The Universal Coal Co. Inc. is to hold a banquet at the Whitelaw Hotel July 1st at 3 p. m. in honor of the Washington clergy. Invitations have been sent out to all the local clergy irrespective of denominations and each minister has been supplied with two extra invitations which may be re-issued to any two of his deacons or trustees. It is expected that this affair will be one of the most important social events ever held in honor of the local clergy. The speakers will be selected from the following: Pres. King of Liberia, Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Attorney Armond Scott, Rev. Ernest Lyons of Baltimore, Md., and Rev. Emory B. Smith.
New Insurance Company Making Rapid Strides
The Federal Insurance Company, said to be the first local race insurance company formed here in the last twenty years, reports that the organization is rapidly growing into public favor.
Stock in this company is being offered for sale to the general public and little or no trouble is being encountered in promoting the proposition.
The persons directly responsible for the organization of this company are all men of wide experience in the insurance business.
Accused of Poisoning Whites
Montgomery, Ala.—Two people, a man and a woman, were lodged in jail at Greenville by sheriff's deputies, charged with poisoning Mrs. J. F. Moore, wife of a white planter living about six miles west of Greenville, in Butler county. They are reported to have purchased poison and placed it in the water bucket of the Moore family.
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Jackson, Miss., June 21—Louis Wimberly, an eighteen-year-old convict was lynched late yesterday afternoon at the gate of the state convict farm in Rankin county, seven miles from this city.
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At the PHYLLIS WHEATLEY
Our excellent service has brought so many friends to our Cafeteria that in order to accommodate them it is necessary to extend the hours. Breakfast 7 to 9. Lunch 12:30 to 1:30 and Dinner 5 to 7:30. Thank you.
MADAME A. W. GROSS Preparation to Straighten and Beautify the Hair. If you will call to this address, we will straighten your hair for 50 cents guaranteed to last for 6 months.
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E. L. CRUMMIE
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Gold Leaf Work a Specialty
1359 "You" St., N. W.
2nd Floor Side Entrance
Suggestions for Wedding
or Graduation Gifts
Diamond Rings, Lavaliers, Bracelet Watch
Dorine Boxes, Ear Rings, I
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GEORGE W. TAYLOR
U at 11th St., N
June Clearan
Education Gifts
Valiwers, Bracelet Watches, Brooches, Mesh Bags,
Boxes, Ear Rings, Ladies' Watches
Community, Rogers & Wallace Silverware
Manicuring Sets; Fine Assortment of Umbrellas
of our divided payment plan, if you desire.
Inspection does not imply buying.
RGE W. TAYLOR, Jeweler
U at 11th St., N. W.
Clearance Sale
Diamond Rings, Lavaliers, Bracelet Watches, Brooches, Mesh Bags,
Dorine Boxes, Ear Rings, Idiies' Watches
Sterling, Community, Rogers & Wallace Silverware
Ivory Toilet and Manicuring Sets; Fine Assortment of Umbrellas
Avail yourself of our divided payment plan, if you desire.
Inspection does not imply buying.
GEORGE W. TAYLOR, Jeweler
U at 11th St., N. W.
June Clearance Sale
YOUR STORE
is planning to enlarge, the carpenter
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1019 U St., N. W.
Negro Records I
10 Inch 85 C
"At Dawning"
"For all Eternity"
"Home Again Blues"
"Blind Man Blues"
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Perdashery and Sales Agency
C. E. HOWARD, Manager
Records Released
Inch 85 Cents
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HEET MUSIC 15¢
We Carry the
Celebrated "Century Edition"
distinctive collection of over 2,000 musical compositions
impiring as varied an assortment of all kinds of music as
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asterpieces of all of the great composers, as well as the
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Moonlight Sonata
Crimson Blushes
Poet and Pessant
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Sextette from Lucia
Star of Hope
William Tall
Gypy Dance
Travista
Under the DoubleEagle
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Capitol Haberdashery and Sales Agency
1019 U St., N. W. C. E. HOWARD, Manager
A distinctive collection of over 2,000 musical compositions comprising as varied an assortment of all kinds of music as could be found in the best musical libraries in the world—masterpieces of all of the great composers, as well as the best of modern music. Think of these for 25G. Each
Come in and see or yourself how you can save money on your sheet music. Ask for catalog, it's Free. Popular and sacred music, Negro compositions, Strings, Instruments, and accessories. W. A. ADAMS MUSIC HOUSE 1911 9th St., N.W., M. Stewart, Mgr.
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FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms
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16 N Street, N. W.
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Garage, $100 per month. Available
Sept. 1, 1921.
Six Room House, Furnace Heat,
Splendid Condition. Price $60.50 per
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FOR SALE
Dressmaking, Tailoring, Cleaning and
Pressing. Present owner desires
retirement. Excellent trade.
TRIBUNE OFFICE
920 U St., N. W.
Square Piano For Sale
in good condition, fine make, will sell
cheap.
Phone N. 2014 6-18-1T
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"The House of Service"
918 U Street, N. W.
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