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The Washington Tribune PARENTS LEAGUE HONORS ATTORNEY PEYTON All the News That's Fit to Print CHURCH SEEKS BETTER FEELING BETWEEN RACES Prominent Men of Both Races Brought Together In Conference OUTLINED PROGRAM Tuesday's Meeting was the First Held by the Committee Enlistment of all churches in a concerted endeavor to stamp out mob violence and lynching in America and the establishment of interracial committees in local communities were included in the program adopted Tuesday by the commission on Negro churches and race relations, created by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Other features of the program are "to provide a central house and meeting place for the churches and for all Christian agencies dealing with the white and colored races," and "to promote mutual confidence and acquaintance, both nationally and locally, between colored and white churches." The meeting Tuesday was the first held by the commission and was called by Dr. Robert Speer, of New York, president of the Federal Council. John J. Eagan, of Atlanta was named as the chairman of the interracial commission leaving a vice chairman to be selected from the colored churches. This conference proved an interesting one. Besides the white members present, including three ladies; there were Bishop Smith of the A. M. E. church! Bishop Clement, of the A. M. E. Zion church; Mr. Tobias, of the Y. M. C. A. headquarters in New York; Prof. John R. Hawkins, Financial Secretary of the A. M. E. church with headquarters in this city; Prof. J. H. Martin, Educational Secretary of the A. M. E. Zion church, with headquarters in St. Louis; Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University; Prof. Isaac Fisher, of Fisk University; Dr. George E. Haynes, of this city and New York. All of these men made short speeches during the conference. Possibly Prof. Hawkins made the keynote speech. He spoke very plainly about the existing relations and conditions and how the colored people felt. He said: This is an age of materialism vs idealism." The best way, in my judgement, to settle things and bring about a more harmonious relation between the races, would be to ask ourselves this question: Is this thing right before God? Are we, the colored people, wrong in asking for the franchise? and for sanitary conditions, for one standard of morals, for an economic wage scale, for equal educational opportunities, for the elimination of the segregated coaches, for justice before the courts and for a square deal? Is it right to tax the Negro and make him share equal military responsibility and yet not permit him to enter into military organizations in peace time? The white man's ignorance of the colored man is one big hindrance to the race. Let the white people eliminate the idea that God made them for the best and the Negro for service. "I consider conditions worse today than they were 20 years ago," said Prof. Hawkins, "What we need most is a number of white men and women brave enough to say that these conditions must stop; and they will stop. The big question is the finding of the men with the moral courage to say stop." Mr. Tobias said that "the American (Continued on page 8) Published Weekly DR. HARRIS ISSUES STATEMENT My attention has been called to the fact that affidavits in the matter of the controversy with the Chapin-Sacks Corporation have been submitted for publication in local colored newspapers. Two of these affidavits bear my signature and official seal and I desire to state that my only connection with these affidavits is that of a Notary Public in and for the District of Columbia; that my services in this connection were requested and that I received the sum of one dollar twenty-five cents fee for such services, to wit. For acknowledging the affidavit of A. A. Chapin in my office $.25. For acknowledging affidavit of FredTreuleben, at his residence, $1.00, and therefore my only connection in this matter was merely to certify that the signatures were affixed in my presence and the contents sworn to before me in said capital. EDW. T. HARRIS July 14, 1921 HOLD MANY IMPORTANT JOBS AT FUSSELL CO. A survey made of the Fussell Ice Cream Company on Wisconsin Avenue, Georgetown, brings out some interesting facts as to the employment of colored men in the plant. The company employs fifty-four men of this number, 18 are colored. The population of this city is divided about one-fourth colored. This number however, at the Fussell plant is one third of the total employees. There are some that have been with the company for a number of years and have worked their way up from porter at $8 a week to $31.50 a week. One of the responsible positions in an ice cream plant is the "mixer." James Gray fills that position with the Fussell Company. He has been with the company for five years. The "brick cutter" is another position of responsibility and it is filled by James Hawkins, who has been there five years. The assistant engineer is a colored man, one George Lee, who has worked his way up. Robert Taylor came to the company as a porter in 1911 at $8.00 per week. He is now in charge of one of the refrigerator trucks and serves a route in Virginia which runs to Fairfax. Mr. Young, the manager of the company told a reporter of The Tribune, that "the people think he is the best ever." His salary is $31.50 per week. Granville Sims is another man in charge of a refrigerator truck and rendering commendable service. His salary is $30.00 per week. He and Mr. Taylor are oldest men in point of service. When Taylor was moved up from the Porter job, Alphonso Carrol took his place. He, too, has been promoted and is now one of the mechanics in the garage. There are three men employed in the garage, a Mr. Foster is a third one. There are two men at the stables, Wm. Washington and Benjamin Wayne. An interesting character employed by the company is Aggie Walker. He has been there, for some time. Unfortunately he received severe burn on his right side when a child which drew his arm and hampers his movements. However, he is employed on the truck with Mr. Taylor and Mr. Young said "that Walker had the best memory of any man he ever saw," notw.thstanding that he cannot read or write. He is industrious and saves his money and can be depended upon at all times. J. H. Borden is the "chef" of the plant. He is responsible for the purchasing and preparing of the food that is served there at noon. Several of these men were former employees of the Chapin-Sacks Company but found conditions such that (Continued on page 8) WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921 ARMY OFFICER FACES COURT MARTIAL MONDAY FIRST PLACE IN CONTEST GOES TO J. F. B., SECOND TO WILLIAM H. WILKERSON Winner Signed Initials Only and Did Not Give Correct Address. Identity Unknown. Much Interest Shown By Public The big essay contest, given by The Tribune, to arouse racial consciousness in business enterprises, which closed the night of July 2; brought out quite a large number of essays. The judges have read them all and rendered their decision. The essay written by "J. F. B." was awarded the first prize. So far The Tribune has not been successful in locating "J. F. B." so we cannot give the correct name of the person, whether man or woman, nor the address. Therefore, we cannot keep our promise to publish a picture of the winner, for we have not found the author of the winning essay. However, we are printing it this week and will award the twenty dollars in gold when the author comes forth with identification. The second prize, a month's pass to any colored theatre in the city, was awarded to William H. Wilkerson, Jr., 778 Irving street, N.W. His essay also appears this week. Out of the many essays in addition to the two receiving prizes, the following were recommended for special worthy mention: Walter E. Tibbs, 500 T street, N.W.; James Robinson, 1119 121st street, N.W.; Solon S. Chavis, Treas. Dept.; W. Thomas Soders, 2352 6th street, N.W.; John S. Agenor, 1107 18th street, N.W.; Miss Vida L. Porter, 1334 V street, N.W.; E. Riven Welch, 5014 Fitch Pl., N.E., Mrs. Naomi Jean Cochran, 1310 G street, N.E.; Theodore S. Botts, Jr., 1334 10th street, N.W.; Miss Agness Murdock, 1019 New Jersey Ave.; Miss Lillian L. Burwell, 720 Kastle Pl., N.E.; M. J. Miles, 208 T street, N.W.; Miss Florence M. Hunt, 411 Florida Ave., N.W.; William S. Burruss, 609 3rd street, N.W.; Miss Adea Woods, 2119 M street, N.W.; James O. Williams, 1737 13th street, N.W.; Joseph A. Smith, 1452 T street, N.W.; Winfield McAbee, 150 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.; Mrs. Ernestine Washington, 948 Florida Ave., N.W.; H. E. Wilson, 608 49th street, N.E.; Salter J. Cockrall, 1310 G street, N.E.; Miss Myrtle A. Chiles, 807 T street, N.W.; Henry C. Nelson, 230 V street, N.W.; Mrs. Anna Buford, 908 S street, N.W.; Miss Eleanora Hebron, 1330 20th street, N.W.; Miss Philis M. Lawson, 527 New Jersey Ave., N.W.; James H. Johnson, 69 Defreses street, N.W.; William A. Bethel, 1755 Oregon Ave., N.W.; Irving Johnson, Sr., 51 Defreses street, N.W.; Frank Kenner, 216 P street, N.W.; and Edward H. Miller, 210 D street, N.W. These honorably mentioned names are sufficient to show the territory covered and the wide range of interest manifested in the contest and the success of colored people in business. That racial consciousness is aroused and waiting for more encouragement and instructive information is manifested in these essays. We consider this one of the most successful contests ever held by a newspaper. It also shows the wide range covered by the circulation of The Tribune and the keen interest manifested in the paper. Much interest was manifested in the contest and many good thoughts were advanced by the writers. So far as we know, this is the first contest of its kind ever held by a race paper. Those who participated in the contest, demonstrated that a new racial spirit is awakening. The contest acted as a trial balloon; to show which way the wind of public opinion is blowing. The results should long be studied by all business and prospective business men and women. Beginning next week we will start publishing some of the more meritorious of the essays, in order to give the public a chance to pass their judgment upon them and also learn the lesson they teach: The following are the prize winning essays; as awarded by the judges: Miss Otelia Cronwell, Prof. David G. Houston and Dr. Dwight O. W. Holmes:— WHY THEATRES OWNED AND OPERATED BY OUR PEOPLE SHOULD BE SUPPORTED (First Prize) By J.F.B. There are many great questions confronting our race that should be considered seriously. Among the great issues, the question of why we should support our own business, enterprises should engage the mind of every thoughtful colored man and woman. Therefore, as a member of the race, I shall discuss briefly a few points on the great question. In the first place, the white theatre proprietors do not need our support. If they needed our support, they would not debar us from such theatres located in the business section of the city: The Leader, Rialto, Hippodrome, Palace, Strand and Grand. Besides, the white theatre owners discriminate against members of our race in such theatres as the Belasco, Columbia, New National, Keith, Poli, and etc. Would members of the opposite race debar us from some of their theatres and discriminate against us in the remainder of them, if they needed our support? Our experiences have taught us that, in general, white people are more respectable to colored people when they want what we have. Would the proprietor of the "Republic" admit us to a theatre of his on Pennsylvania Avenue? The prospects are that he would not. Every colored person should ask himself that question. The colored citizen is not thinking when he supports a white theatre owner who sanctions or tolerates "Jim Crowism." Secondly, the time has come for colored people not only in Washington, but throughout the country, to support those enterprises that will employ our people on equal footing with other people. Thus far, we realize that the white theatres in Washington will not employ our people in positions other than menial in character. Many of our girls are skilled on the piano, but they can not secure a position at the Rialto, Hippodrome or Palace regardless of their qualifications for the position. What must be done in order that our boys and girls may secure positions of honor and worth? We must support enterprises that will employ our boys and girls. Those enterprises that will employ our boys and girls, any where and at any time, are the colored enterprises. Thirdly, we should -realize the wealth in the theatre business. We must stand back of our men in this line of business in order that they (Continued to Pare 8) ORNEY I ARTIAL MONDAY Then general court-martial for the trial of Lieut. Col. James E. Shelley, Quartermaster Corps, on charges growing out of the shooting of Richard Christmas, a hostler at the quartermaster stables on 19th street, will begin Monday morning at 10 o'clock in rooms 3020 and 3022, Munitions buildings, West Potomac Park, according to orders issued. The shooting of Christmas created quite an excitement and much feeling was aroused in the community against his assaulter. At first it was teared that he would die, but he survived and is now on the road to recovery. Lieut. Col. William L. Reed. 34th Infantry, is the trial judge advocate and Capt. Anthony J. Touart, 56th Infantry is his assistant. The prosecution's attorneys have not been announced. Shelley has a large array of counsel on his side. The case promises to be a hard fought one. MASONS TO HOLD A BIG FIELD DAY The big Masonic Field Day at the American League Park Saturday, July 23, promises to be one of interest and enjoyment. The Community Center Band will render the music for the afternoon. There is to be Field Day attractions, baseball game between the Grand Lodge of Maryland and the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia. A grand march of the Allied Nations will be one of the attractions, including a flag raising by the Chapters of the Eastern Star. The Templar Crusaders will appear for the first time in an exhibition drill. The Sir Knights will be present to greet their fair ladies, and under the direction of Right Eminent Grand Commander, Joseph Minor, Simon Commandery No. 1, and Henderson Commandery No. 2, will stage an exhibition drill. A pig race, chicken race, hurdle race and other athletic stunts will lend their attractions. The events will begin at high noon and continue until six o'clock. One general admission will admit to all of the events. N. A. A. C. P. ADJOURNS UNTIL OCTOBER The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at its final meeting Wednesday evening at the 12th Street Branch of the Y. M. C. A., before the adjournment for the summer recess received from Shelby J. Davidson, Colonel of the Drive and the Executive Secretary of the District of Columbia Branch reports as follows: Members of all classes enrolled six thousand four hundred and sixty-seven (6,467), total receipts from all sources amounted to six thousand four hundred twenty-five dollars and seventy-eight cents ($6,425.78). There is still outstanding many pledges and a number of the workers are gathering returns from their officers for future report. The reports of the different committees of the activities during the past year were extremely gratifying in point of results, the work of organizing in the immediate sections have gone forward in such a way as to insure marked success for another year. The adjournment, for the summer has been taken until the second week in October when the branch will reconven READ THE TRIBUNE ```markdown ``` Circulation Books Open To All PRICE 5 CEN PEYTON Purse of $241.50Given Him at Big Meeting Last Monday WIFE GIVEN FLOWERS Many Prominent Citizens Pay Tribute to Him for Services Rendered In recognition of his long services as a member of the board of education Attorney Fountain Peyton was presented with purse of $241.50 Monday night, at a public meeting in his honor by the Parents League, at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church. Mrs. Peyton was presented with a large basket beautifully decorated with flowers. Mrs. F. S. Tanner, the President of the League, presided. Following the opening exercises, Attorney Chas F. Hill was called upon to deliver a speech. Attorney Hill spoke in glowing terms of Attorney Peyton's services rendered on the school board, he said: "Your place still is vacant, W. L. Houston is not a fit representative to take your place." Rev. Jas. L. Pinn followed Attorney Hill and among other things said: "Mr. Peyton's service stands out as the most efficient service of any man that has served us in this capacity." Dr. W. H. Jarvis said: "In March 1919 I predicted that victory would be achieved on our side because our cause is right. We have succeeded. Mr. Pyton: I think you have done a splendid thing and we are proud to congratulate you while you are living. This man has accomplished more for our citizens than any man in the last forty years." "He had convictions," said Rev. C. M. Tanner, "and held to them and with courage he stood for the things which seemed to him to be right. It is a wonderful victory for the cause of right." Dr. H. J. Callis made the presentation speech. He said: "It is my distinguished pleasure to present to you tonight this purse as a token of our appreciation for the service you have rendered the race, to the world and to unborn generations. You stand tonight in the front line of manhood in the District of Columbia." In response by Mr. Peyton he said: "The appreciation of the people for my service as their servant, is my greatest reward. My retirement from the Board, does not signify my retirement from service." "There must be elimination and fumigation before we are thru with this." He made a survey of the period covered by his service and particular did he give the history of the fight against the assistsant superintendant, Mr. Bruce, who resigned in May, to take effect September first. That was the victory of the Parents League with the assistance of Attorney Peyton. The services were quite lengthy and were interspersed with solos. A solo by Mr. Otto Bohanon was well rendered. A worthy tribute was paid Mrs. F. S. Tanner for her untiring efforts as President of the Parents League throut this long fight against Mr. Bruce. "A woman of note and without comparison," was a sentence that characterized her. The League will meet again Monday night at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church. Don't Fail to Read Discrimination,this week's article on the Bureau of Engraving Printing --- Discrimination in Bureau of Engraving is Rank Investigator Continues to Unearth Conditions More Characteristic of a Peonage Farm than of one of the Government Departments 2 DISCRIMINATION In an administration pledged to justice and equality, government employees even those of the Bureau of Engraving, are apt to look for a square deal. But, seemingly, unmindful of the political change, disregarding the policies of the party in power, and unheeding the will of the people, are the many Democratic holdovers and their understrappers, still clinging to their old ideas—discrimination and segregation—like drowning men to a straw. Upon what meat doth, this, our Geevers feed that they have grown so fat—that they can defy the powers that be? It may be that, knowing that they will not be retained, they are trying to do all the injustice they can before they are dismissed. But the Tribune is informed that many are trying to claim civil service status to save themselves. If that is true we only hope that the Civil Service Commission will place them somewhere according to their ability. But as they have practiced or condoned discrimination and segregation they have shown themselves unfit to remain bosses. If they are superannuates, retire them; if not, reduce them. They should be reduced because they have proven inefficient. If they have reached the retirement age, they should be retired; because the Bureau has more than its quota of superannuates. Superannuates We have found that the superannuate bosses who were retained were the ones who had lived closest to the "system." They have waxed fat as they have killed the hopes and aspirations of the lower paid employees. There are, also, superannuates among the employees in general. They are there either because they have served the "system" so well or because they have been so lowly paid all their lives, that even the bosses know they could not save a dollar. To them a pension would be practically nothing. Here we pause to ask, by what method of reasoning did Congress formulate the pension schedule? Men and women who have had to rear families on fifty or sixty dollars per month will receive a paltry thirty dollars per month while the bosses and their high salaried satellites who have exploited the government will receive the maximum of sixty dollars. We hardly think Congress—even a Democratic Congress—meant to harm the poor souls. It is simply that Congress gets its data from the bosses. Why, we can give Congress more real facts in ten minutes than it can get from the bosses in a month. Yes; this is a challenge, if you will Oral Supplements Just as there is no fair and impartial rule in dealing with superannuates, there is the same lack of discipline in nearly everything. There are no consistent rules nor any general application. Some rules are written; others are oral.* The written rules are for everyone; the oral for the blacklisted only. Nearly every written rule has an oral supplement. Thus a written and reads: "No books, magazines, newspapers, or other periodicals shall be read during work hours," etc. It is supplemented by the oral rule or interpretation—"no books" and so on shall be taken into the division although they be for use at lunch hour or recess period. The oral supplements only apply in certain divisions and special cases. They are never uniform. They vary according to the temperament of the bosses. They are merely traps for the unsuspecting. Thus, a single employee is warned not to bring a book into the division although a hundred others might have brought books or papers on the same day. The next day the same hundred plus the one bring in books or papers. None are molested save the one who has been warned—and warned purposely. Against that one they place a charge of violating a rule and if that does not suffice, they still have the technical charge—insubordination. Enforcement of Rules All rules are enforced spasmodically—depending entirely upon the bosses' temper—rather we should say temperament—bosses don't have temper. Today a flagrant violation of a rule is passed unnoticed. Tomorrow a violation of even the spirit of a rule is cause of great concern. Thus wilful THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921 violators, often go unpunished while the victim of circumstances is severely reprimanded or suspended. All this is wrong. Economy and Efficiency But were we to recite wrongs for hours we could not cover the full scope of injustice. Here we witness "the most unkindest cut of all"—July 1st has come and passed. It was the beginning of the fiscal year. How many employees were promoted? How many contended for promotion? Why not? Let the director and assistant director answer. They know it is not that their employees do not deserve more. They know it is not that they do not want more. It is because they have held the bugaboo of dismissal before-them and intimidated them. Yet under such conditions they expect efficiency and economy. There can be efficiency without economy, but there can be no economy without efficiency, therefore, efficiency must come first. But efficiency cannot be had without adequate pay. Adequate pay—high salaries—none of these mean lack of economy but rather are conducive thereto. Economy does not guarantee the saving of a few paltry dollars on the salaries of the underpaid, but rather an equitable return, in labor, for every dollar spent. Working Conditions Relative to low salaries, there might be some extenuating circumstances if working conditions were what they ought to be; but, of course, they are not. On June 24th, the Washington Times carried in bold head lines—"Girls Faint in Fanless U. S. Offices." The article referred to conditions in the Navy Department and Shipping Board. Does the Times not know that in addition to the intense heat referred to in the offices above mentioned that girls in the Bureau, working on machines, must face an additional thirty or forty pounds of steam heat? Does the Times not know that nearly every strip of their clothing is wet with perspiration and that as fast as one faints she is carried to the Sanitary Office while another unfortunate is put to the extreme test? In a discourse on these machines a learned Doctor said: "These machines cost the government thousands of dollars and they must succeed." What a revolutionary idea! So the poor women must pay in flesh and blood for the terrible blunder of spending thousands of dollars for these machines of torture. Deep within their hearts the officials know they cannot force girls to work under such conditions. That is why they are only conscripting girls who are or can be intimidated. Of course, those that refuse are placed on the list of undesirables to be dismissed at a later date. They dare not dismiss them now. They could not stand the investigation that would, in all probability, follow. They know their position is untenable. Is the output of work the only consideration? If so, the Bureau should be turned into a penal institution. Does human health and human life count for nothing? Every girl who contracts a cold or is in any wise affected should, at once, report the matter to their superior and proceed, at once, to collect compensation. If the government fails to provide proper working conditions, it should be made to pay—and pay dearly. What has become of the health department that it has allowed human beings to be subjected to such inhuman conditions? Where is the "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals"? If a dog or cat were chained where these girls are forced to sit, the malefactor would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Are officials to be immune because they torture only human beings? The girls are chained to their positions. They can't resign. They have to work some where; and with thousands of people idle everywhere, they prefer to bear the burden a little longer for the sake of dependants or personal needs—always hoping and trusting that a change will eventually come. An undesirable change is coming to many—dismissal; but we understand it will affect mainly married women. Married Women A thorough canvass is now being made to secure the names of all married women in the government service. The intent is, in itself, plainly discriminatory. Assuming that efficiency and industry are at par in both married and unmarried women, we ask in all fairness, who should be dismissed? We repeat a former assertion that war workers, regardless of marital conditions, should be the first to go. When married women entered the service or were retained in the service after marriage, they entered an agreement with the government that guaranteed employment during good behaviour. They have lived up to their part of the bargain and no law nor subsequent agreement can alter the contract. Many of them have assumed obligations that they cannot meet without their positions. No one works in a job like the Bureau of Engraving offers, just for the love of work. They are there from necessity. Their, the married women's, and their husbands' salaries combined do not amount to a living wage. The war workers accepted their positions knowing the temporary nature and were paid, after six month's service, more than some Bureau employees are paid after thirty years efficient service. After the temporary fat jobs "petered out" they have drifted in the Bureau of Engraving and other low salaried places and the impressionistic bosses hope, with them to supplant the married women and cause the government to violate its contract and, maybe, do them an irreparable harm. Of course, you can count upon the bosses to do the wrong thing. They have been schooled in the "system." They have learned to justify blunders; to condone wrong; to wink at discrimination; to use repressive methods; and to restrict the rights and privileges of their employees. (Continued Next Week) DOINGS AT LINGOLN, MD The following Trustees of Seaton Memorial Church were elected for the ensuing year: John Criddle, Frank W. Holland, Jacob H. Saunders, Harvey Boyers, Secy.; Herman P. Socks, Treas. Mr. Samuel Corruthers was apointed to the Steward Board. Mrs. Lillian Walden and Miss Eva Boliver were elected to represent Seaton Memorial Church at the District Conference and Sunday School Convention of the A. M. E. Church to be held in Anacostia the latter part of this month. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Clark of Franklin Street, entertained the Citizen's Association at their regular monthly meeting. After the business of the association had been disposed of, a dainty repast was served. The next meeting will be held on the first Thursday in August at the home of Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Scott. Miss Alice Morton of Boyton, Va., who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. W. B. Clark, returned to her home on Friday. Word was received here of the death and burial of the sister of Mrs. Geo. W. Anderson in Toronto, Canada. Mrs. Anderson and daughter have been visiting in Toronto for the past month or more. Mrs. Daisy Corruthers returned from the hospital. It is reported that she is not much improved. Mrs. Byrd Gordon of Washington was a guest of Mrs. P. A. Scott on Sunday. GEORGETOWN NOTES --- The Georgetown Patriarchie No. 42, G. U. O. of O. F. were visited by Gen. J. Clay Smith, Cols. Johnson, Conray and Rhines of the staff of Uniformed Rank of Knight of Pythias. In a short complimentary talk, General Smith spoke of the excellent work of the Patriarchie and he also referred to the error in the award of prizes on the occasion of the Field Day exercises June 23 at which time the first prize was awarded to the Knight Templars. The prize of $25 dollars was formally presented to the Georgetown Patriarchie, No. 42, G. U. O. of O. F., at this meeting. The ladies of the Olive Relief association celebrated their fortieth anniversary Tuesday evening at the Ebenezer A. M. E. Church of which Rev. Chas. H. Wesley is pastor. Mrs. Ellen Lee, the only charter member of the association was present. Mrs. O. N. Butler, the chairman of the committee of arrangements was the recipient of many congratulations of friends for the success of the affair. In the drive for 200 members, 144 persons have been enrolled. At the invitation of the president, Mrs. Sarah Goins, everyone retired to the lecture room where refreshments were served. The funeral services of the late Miss Mildred A. Clifford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Clifford, 2447 P Street northwest, were held at St. Augustine church, requiem high mass at 10 o'clock. Several members of the High School Cadet Corps, served as pall-bearers. Many beautiful pieces were sent by friends. Interment at Mt. Olive Cemetery. WHY NOT A COLORED ICE CREAM FACTORY AND ICE PLANT Mr. Editor: If certain white ice cream firms of the city show a disposition to embarrass their colored patrons, when the question of public service arises, no time should be lost in taking up the affair and proceeding to remedy the situation. While the writer is not in position to criticise the other local race journals upon whom the colored people of the District depend for protection in such matters, yet the stand your fearless journal takes upon this issue is very laudable and should receive the support of every loyal man, woman and child affected. Ice cream is a popular commodity, seasonable the year round, can be handled with remarkable success, when those dealing in this highly essential product know the trade. Ice cream making is no secret, but an art that Colored ingenuity can master and apply with magic results. There are over a hundred thousand Colored people in the District. It is hard to estimate how many eat this healthy satisfying luxury, yet there are sufficient grounds to believe a large number do and could be safely counted upon to patronize an enterprise devoted to this purpose. Further argument in this direction seems unnecessary. Does not this issue open up another new avenue of industry for the Colored capitalist? Among the many projects found upon the local Colored business calendar are consolidated interests of most every character, but none listed as: "First Class Ice Cream Factory and Cream Plant operated by Colored Capital." Just such a blow as "The Chapin-Sacks Ice Cream Company" is alleged to have dealt the Colored people a short while ago, proves without doubt that this is the next move and that no time should be wasted in making it. REPORT OF RECEIPTS OF CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC DRIVE A few months ago there was launched in this city, a campaign for a National Negro School of Music under the auspices of the Washington Conservatory of Music and up to the present time much has been done to bring to the attention of the local public the issues of the campaign; at the same time those in charge of the local end have been working diligently in the interest of the movement. Mrs. Harriett Gibbs-Marshall who is promoting the campaign under the auspices of the Washington Conservatory of Music, of which she is the founder and president, is very well pleased with the results of the preliminary campaign in Washington. In appreciation of the inevitable and pertinent demand for public acknowledgement of receipts during a campaign such as this the following report is made of amounts received thus far: Tag Day and Box Collection ..$410.19 Cash Collection Sacred Con- certs, March 6th 81.30 (Signed Pledges $509.00) Reception at Murray Casino, March 9th 120.30 Reception at Murray Casino, April 15th 197.55 Beneft Performances, Republic Theatre, June 6th and 7th 153.50 Mrs. C. Clifford's Tournament. 10.00 Mr. R. R. Burt via Mrs. Vivian Turner 15.00 Paid Pledges: W. H. Houston 50.00 George W. Cook 25.00 Southern Aid Society 25.00 Mabel T. Boardman 10.00 Inez Richardson 10.00 S. L. McLaurin 10.00 W. C. Simmons 10.00 Grace Gibbs-Brown 10.00 Roscoe Wilkes 5.00 L. Mellinger 5.00 Caroline H. Mason 5.00 Mr. Buckner 5.00 R. A. Young 2.00 Total ..... $1,159.84 Previously acknowledged .. $1,000.00 (Mrs. Ida Gibbs-Hunt) Grand Total ..... $2,159.84 It will be noted that a large number of pledges are yet unpaid and that Washington's quota of $10,000 has not been realized but with the assurance that several very substantial out-standing pledges will be paid, and since the campaign has been successfully launched, there is every reason to believe that Washington will go "over the top" next fall. (Signed) JOHN R. WILLIAMS, Campaign Director. FREAK CALF BORN Puryer, Tenn., July 15—Mr. Edward Walker, a progressive farmer of this section, has a freak calf born on his farm a few days ago. It has two heads, two tails and seven legs. Should it live Mr. Walker will place the calf on exhibition. RED CAPS ORGANIZE RELIEF ASSOCIATION The Red Caps of the Washington Terminal Station recently met and organized the "Red Caps Association." This association has as its purpose the relief of its members during time of sickness and distress. The following men were elected officers: C. W. Mitchell, Pres., Daniel C. Hobbs, Vice-Pres., Douglass E. Johnson, Treasurer; Leroy F. Barban, Financial Secy.; August Smith, Recording Secy.; L. N. Jourdan, Gen. Mgr.; Colonel Minor, Chaplan; Walter Sheridan, Serg't-at-Arms; William Jones, Chair. Sick Comm. BIG DRIVE FOR MEMBERS ENDS The termination of one of the most vigorous campaigns ever promoted here in a membership drive by a local organization, will be marked by an entertainment to be held in the parish hall of the John Wesley A. M. E. Z. Church, Monday evening, July 18; at which time the Laborers' Cooperative Society will formally bring their Spring Drive for members to a close with fitting ceremony. A section of the famous Community Center Band of 75 pieces of which Prof. Miller is director, will furnish music on this occasion and a capacity gathering is expected to be present. Preparation for the Fall Membership Drive are already under way. During the vacation period between the ending of this campaign and the beginning of the fall drive, Prof. U. S. M. Maxwell, secretary and treasurer of the society, will prepare his fourth booklet along the lines of sociology, historiography and ethnology. J. E. Thomas is president of the society. Falls from Ladder James Winfield, 44 years old, 1309 Eleventh street, feel from a ladder, while painting a house at Sherman Ave., and Lamont Streets, northwest. He was treated at the Garfield Hospital, where it was found that he was injured about the body and suffered a broken ankle. SOUTHWEST Howard Ross, age 36, who lived at 232 L St., S. W., was drowned at the Bathing Beach Monday evening. His funeral was held from Jezreel Baptist Church 5th and E Sts., S. E. Rev. Green, pastor. He leaves to mourn their loss a father, daughter, four brothers, two sisters and a host of friends. Mrs. Ardelia Tanner, age 35, who resided at 466 L St., S.W., died at her home Tuesday, July 12. Her illness lasted only 2 days. She was buried from Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Arlington, Va., on Thursday, July 14. Rev. Jas. E. Greene, the pastor officiated. She leaves to mourn their loss one brother, two sons, one daughter, and a multitude of friends. Lodge Directory WHEN AND WHERE DOES YOUR LODGE MEET? MASONIC TEMPLE Third Monday Hiram Lodge No. 4. Third Tuesday Pythagoras Lodge No. 9. Third Wednesday Charles Datcher Lodge No. 15. Third Thursday Prince Hall Lodge No. 4. RYTHIAN TEMPLE PYTHIAN TEMPLE Third Monday American Woodmen, D. C. Camp No. 1 Union Tabernacle S. & D. Moses No. 105 Hagar Ftn. G. U. O. T. R. J. C. Ross Lodge K. of P. Third Tuesday Admiral Charles Thomas Co. U. W. V. Magnolia Court O. of C. Fairmount N. I. Morning Star Lodge Veterans of Foreign Wars. Charles Sumner Co. U. R. K. P. Third Wednesday Wade Council St. Luke. Lincoln L. N. I. White Star Lodge No. 75 N. I. Cleopatra Court O. of C. Orme Council of St. Luke Chas. Summer K. of P. Third Thursday Fenith Court O. of C. Dunbar D. O. H. Keystone F. A. A. Y. M. St. John's G. L. F. A. A. M. Syracuse 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. ODD FELLOWS Meeting at 1606 M St., N. W. Third Monday 1,333 Mount Olive 2,361 A. K. Manning 3,857 Corinthian Third Tuesday 891 Union Friendship 1,819 Social Third Wednesday 1,343 Free Grace 1,880 Western Star 1,477 Green Mountain Third Thursday 1,602 Henry Jarvis, Sr. 2,362 Golden Reef Fourth Friday 1,437 J. McCrummill 9,607 Thomas H. Wright Meeting at 1,409 28th St., N.W. Third Tuesday 1,376 Columbia Third Wednesday 892 Potomac Union Fourth Friday 1,965 Union Light Eat Where You Get Good Food and Service DETROIT CAFE Furnished Rooms 33 H St., N, E. Phone Main 1055 Home Cooking Quick Service Mrs. A. Banks Robinson, Prop. For the Best Beauty Work Call at Patrick's Beauty Room Register now for summer class in beauty culture. complete course in Beauty Culture taught. For particulars ring North 6614-J. Res. 403 Fla. Ave., N. W. Dr. O. F. N. Madden CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN 1727 7th St., N. W. Chiropractic Treatment Removes the Cause of Disease Consultation and first treatment free. Hours: 1 to 6 P.M.and by appointment If Medicine has Failed, Come In and Try the Famous Drugless Spinal Therapist and Electric Treatment. DR. MARY E. LOGAN 1623 11th STREET, N. W. Hours from 12 to 5 P.M. The Meria Baking Co. Hot Rolls—Special SUNDAY DELIVERY Home Made Pies and Cakes Ice Cream Soft Drinks GEO. B. NICHOLSON, Mgr. 905-7 You St., N. W. Phone N. 7154 Phone North 6554-W JOHN M. MURRAY Paper Hanger and Interior Decorator 920 U Street, N. W. Mullen's Transfer and Storage Co. FURNITURE PIANOS BAGGAGE PACKED, MOVED AND STORED Long Distance Hauling 2018 Ninth St., N. W. Phone N. 2979-J Have You Liberty Bonds? HAVE YOU LIBERTY BONDS Don't sell them below their face value. Write for the attractive offer that is now being made by the STANDARD INVESTMENT CO. Dept. T, 1916% 14th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Here's Your Chance To Become A Movie Star Tribune-Florentine Film Popularity Contest To the Young Lady receiving the Highest Number of Votes cast during the contest, July 2nd to Midnight July 30th, The Florentine Film Corp. of Wash., D. C., will give a prominent part in their coming production, which is to be filmed during August in and around Washington Music Forum By Wellington A. Adams National Musical Convention The National Association of Negro Musicians will hold their annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn., July 26th to 28th. According to reports a big time is anticipated, both musically and socially, and quite a few musicians of repute are expected to attend. At least one good result, if no more should accrue from this gathering in the grouping together of the northern and southern extremes of musical knowledge and perspicacity. The cultural influences of the more northerly group is needed among the southernly, and vice versa, the ambitious and hospitable spirit of the southernly, is needed among the northern group. Altogether, it bespeaks much for the general musical uplift of the race. The Official Organ Among the important objectives of the organization is that of establishing a national headquarters and of sponsoring an official organ by the national body. Both are constructive suggestions advanced by the president and are worthy of incorporation by the convention. The president, Henry L. Grant, is editing at present "The Negro Musician," as an official organ, at his own expense. It is a splendid journal, well edited and contains very interesting musical matter bearing upon musical activities along several lines. Its title page is an attractive feature each month. Our Local Branch The Washington branch of this association holds membership, we believe in the national body but it is as near dying a natural death as anything we've ever seen that's mortal. The meetings, so to speak, are like "wet chips" piled upon a few dying embers with no apparent effort to revive the flames (if ever really kindled) of co-operative musical effort. Why such distressing local inactivity and disinterestedness at the capital city of the greatest nation on earth, with the largest group of cultured colored citizens on either continent? Again we ask—WHY? Where are they of musical preponderance and portentous talent? The local president has exhausted her patience in a Contest Open To All A vote is all that is necessary to enter a person. Any votes sent in will be credited to the person designated. Each coupon appearing in The Tribune will be good for 10 votes. If accompanied by a year's subscription, payable monthly in advance, it will be good for 50 votes. The first month's payment of 25 cents must be made before subscription votes will be counted. The standing will appear each week in this paper. vain effort to forestall the inevitable . it seems. Several reasons for non-interest have been advanced. We presume however, the most plausible reason assigned is lack of coherency due to the conflicting elements of "society," which may or may not be true. There are several musical groups, all claiming musicianship to some degree: "Public School," "Howard," "Professional," "Amateur," "Choir," "Club," "Band and Orchestra," and the "Twoby-Four" (whatever is meant) group. Among those several groups there is no visible sign of co-ordination and no present prospect of it, although we shall work to that end. But how shall we get this heterogenous mass of conflicting tendencies together, in part or wholly, is certainly beyond our comprehension. Unless there is mutual consideration collectively for the welfare of all concerned, there can never come unity of action and purpose. After all perhaps, the main difficulty lies in the fact that each group, individually, places a higher premium upon their "modus operandi" than the other would concede in the premises. Damnant quod non intelligent. Cubono? May we add that, musicians of whatever reputation or influence should seek to uplift their fellow musicians of lesser opportunity and talent, and, they of lesser capacity and ability should seek alliance with those of superior qualification and attainments in a spirit of mutual amity, which alleviates much of the existing lethargy in local music circles. We hope the local branches will be represented at the Nashville convention. YOUTH DROWNS Stricken with a fainting spell while swimming in the 'Anacostia river, a short distance from the bank at the foot of Half street southwest, Raymond White, 23 years old, suddenly disapeared beneath the water late Tuesday afternoon and was drowned before aid could be reached. The body was recovered by the Harbor Precinct police and removed to the morgue. GIRLS! The Door of Opportunity is Open to You Through the THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921 ADDITIONAL THEATER NEWS DREAM IS FILMED FOR MOTION PICTURE A novel opening has been arranged for the Corinne Griffith production, "What's Your Reputation Worth?" which will be shown at the Dunbar theatre on Wednesday and Thursday. It is allegorical and one of the best representations of a dream ever shown pictures, or upon the spoken stage. It is truly a dream, made of the stuff dreams are composed of. It represents the heroine in a mystical palace of a sort realized only in a dream. It is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sets ever constructed for a photoplay. Weird lighting effects, strange costumes and unusual action characterize the scene. This scene is perhaps one of the most costly to be used in a picture and is shown but a small fraction of a minute. It is little more than a flash, and yet it makes a lasting impression upon the spectator. The action gives an explanation of the cause of dreams. In the dream scene a bell is shown ringing in the belfry. The tolling of this bell ends the romance through which the heroine is passing and she awakens. The cause of the dream ending and the bell that the girl hears in her semiconscious state is one in the hand of the landlady of a third-rate boarding house who is calling her boarders to breakfast. The contrast is marked and makes a pleasing effect. The story is one of unusual interest and filled with dramatic incidents. The pleasing little love story is interwoven with the plot and many picturesque and scenic backgrounds enhance the value of this unusual photodrama. PAGAN LOVE The Dunbar Theatre next Friday and Saturday will present the latest Hodkinson release, "Pagan Love," and according to the management the patrons of this theatre have a picture in store for them that is decidedly worth while. It is the first independent production of Hugo Ballin, who has for some years been prominently connected with the Goldwyn forces as Art Director and director of pictures, and is an adaptation of "The Honorable Gentleman," by Achmed Abdullah, which recently ran serially in Pictorial Review. The story revolves around Yu-Ch'ing, "the honorable gentleman," a young Chinaman of culture and character, who is sent to America as an emissary to spread the doctrines of Republican China. In New York he meets a beautiful blind girl and between them a rare friendship springs up which results in their engagement. Yu-Ch'ing is called away and while he is gone a college friend of his performs an operation on the blind girl's eyes which proves entirely successful. Returning, Yu-Ch'ing goes to her home, and she, thinking him still away is intensely frightened by the ugly appearance of this strange Chinaman. She shows her fear. He, having sworn never to cause her sorrow, thinks that the only way to preserve her illusion is to poison her; but later he is made to realize that her happiness lies with the young doctor who restored her sight, and he returns to his native China, where, heartbroken, he commits honourable suicide, having first sent a letter which paves the way for the marriage of the two whom he has left behind. Togo Yamamoto is cast as Yu-Ch'ing, Mabel Ballin as the blind heroine, and Rocklife Fellows as the doctor who restores her sight. Nellie Billmore, stage favorite for fifteen years, and Charlie Fang, probably the best known Chinaman in motion pictures, are also cast in prominent parts. JACKIE COOGAN IN JACKIE COOGAN IN NEW PLAY "Peck's Bad Boy," starring Jackie Coogan, the six-year-old screen actor, will fill a brief engagement of two days at the Dunbar Theatre next Monday and Tuesday. It is the first picture that Jackie has done since Charlie Chaplin discovered him and produced "The Kid." His work in that feature appealed to Irving Lesser as especially fitting him for the title role in "Peck's Bad Boy," and, after making arrangements with Warner Brothers, the continuity was prepared especially for Jackie and the picture produced. Critics in New York, where "Peck's Bad Boy" was recently given its initial presentation, have described the production as an epic of boyhood No Special Qualifications TRIBUNE FLORENTINE FILM CO. POPULARITY CONTEST NON-TRANSFERABLE days. The picture is released by Associated First National. In producing "Peck's Bad Boy" Mr. Lesser took every step possible to enhance the quality of the film. The supporting cast given Jackie Coogan exceptionally strong, and the directions and settings have been highly commended. After the actual filming was completed Mr. Lesser procured the services of Irvin S. Cobb, the well known humorist, to write the subtitles, and the complete result has been accepted by the New York newspaper critics as one of the best comedies that has reached the screen in years. Among those who will be seen in the cast with Jackie are Doris May, Wheeler Oakman, James Corrigan, Lillian Leighton, Raymond Hatton, Charles Hatton and Baby Gloria Wood. During this engagement at Dunbar, special rates for children will prevail from 1 to 6 p. m. Children will be admitted for 15 cents. Man Killed in Court Vicksburg, Miss., July 4 — George Deal, weighing over 200 pounds, was shot and killed right in the court room here. Deal resented rough treatment by the officers which was the cause of the fight. He was in court charged with the alleged murder of his brother-in-law. DIES ON BIRTHDAY Nathaniel Jackson, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel and Eliza Jackson, of 1513 T street, N. W., died Thursday morning after an illness of several days. Master Jackson was a popular student of the Dunbar High School, and also was a Tribune newsboy. His loss will be mourned by his many friends. The funeral services were held Saturday from the residence. A beautiful wreath was sent to the be-reaved family by President Harding. Mr. Jackson, the boy's father, has been an employee of the White House since President Taft's administration. Members of the Cadet Company acted as pall-bearers. ORGANIZE "FAIAHEUL FEW" Madame M. W. Richmond, teacher in the Johnson School for Beauty Culture called some of her students and a few friends together and organized a club, calling themselves "The Faithful Few." The following officers were GIRLS! elected: Mme. M. W. Richmond, President; Mrs. F. Saunders, Vice President; Miss J. E. Corbins, Recording Secretary; Mr. Wm. H. Terry, Financial Secretary; Mrs. J. Porter, Treasurer; Miss Anna Daves, Chaplain and Miss Marie Kenney, Organist. They are planning to give their first midsummer lawn fete and auto ride, Monday July the 18th, at the school, 1331 Q Street, N.W. Following the fete and auto ride there will be a dance. This is their first entertainment for the season and no pains are to be spared in making this a successful affair. GUESTS AT WHITELAW Orville Turner, Toledo, O. Russell R. Gray, Columbus, O. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. E. Rich, Philadelphia. R. L. Coston, Boston. B. Williams, New York. Dr. George W. V. Bell, New York. Prof. W. H. Holtzclaw, Utica Institute, Miss. Rev. G. H. Houston and wife, Jacksonville, Fla. George Thompson, Baltimore. P. D. White, Elmira, N. Y. Mrs. R. G. Holtzclaw, Utica Institute, Miss. Mrs. T. M. Black, Utica Institute Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Arden Bryant, New York. R. H. Jones, Memphis, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Parsons, Harrisburg, Pa. George D. Gray, Jacksonville, Fla. Wallace Jones, Springfield, Mass. Rev. S. J. Johnson, Datona, Fla. William C. Milburn, Boston. Prof. Isaac Fisher, Nashville, Tenn. Miss Lena B. Rice, Charleston, W. Va. Mrs. D. J. Dewitt, Meadville, N. Y. Prof. T. C. Erwin, Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. R. Grayson, Round Hill Va. Paul M. Roberson, St. Louis, Mo. J. E. Cissell, Pittsburg. J. C. Anderson, New York. W. E. Dickson, New York. J. H. Tillivan, Pittsburgh. Robert Johnson, Wilmington, Del. Willie Crowder, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Stone, Merrifield, Va. Mrs. Albert E. Smith, New York. C. W. Ward, New York. W. H. Byrd, New York THEATRES AMUSEMENTS SPORTS do? These are a few of the situations in "Straight Is The Way." A cosmopolitan production which will be shown for three days on our screen beginning Wednesday. A picture that you will be filled with hearty laughter. On Saturday Ethel Clayton, the beautiful and popular Paramount Star will be seen in her latest picture "Sham." This is a charming satire in the high art of "gentle grafting" which is often indulged in by residents of the larger cities who are long on pedigree but short on cash. Miss Clayton's role in this unusual picture delights her admirers, while her support includes Theodore Roberts, Sylvia Ashton, and such favorites. Continuous performances from 6:30 to 11:30 daily. BRINGING TO WASHINGTON THE LATEST "The Orientals" J. H. MATTHEWS G. H. TUCKER Presents THE PACIFIC COAST SENSATION IN INGTON THE LATEST orientals" G. H. TUCKER ents EAST SENSATION Red Moon Dances Elmer Snowden's Melody Five—8 to 12 WATCH OUR SYSTEM FOR KEEPING COOL ADMISSION 45 CENTS Howard Theatre Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Company, Props. Vincent B. Thomas, Manager Week Sunday, July 17th, 1921 Howard Theatre Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Company, Props. Vincent B. Thomas, Manager Week Sunday, July 17th, 1921 ALL STAR SUPER FEATURES—CONTINUOUS SHOW 6:30 to 11. ADMISSION 11 cents. Saturday and Sunday Reserved Seat 17 cents. SUNDAY, MONDAY & TUESDAY—Claire Windsor and Mona Lisa in "What's Worth While." A Louis Weber Production. The story of a Girl who fell in love with a man she had never seen, and when they met—watch her learn some new things about life. Added Attraction—Comedy. Fox News. Mutt and Jeff Cartoon. WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY—"Straight is the Way." A Cosmopolitan Production with Matt Moore and Gladys Leslie. The man was a Human Wolf. Reared in a Great City's Den of Crime. It is a tale of the greatest battle on earth. The good against the bad in a Human Heart. You'll want to see which side won! Added Attraction—Pethe News. Sunshine Comedy. SATURDAY—Ethel Clayton in "Sham." A Dashing Romance that tears off society's mask. And finds the heart-beat under the Furs and Silks. Added Attraction—2nd Episode of "The Yellow Arm." Coming Sunday July 24, "THE WOMAN GOD CHANGED" Added Attraction—2nd Episode of "The Yellow Arm." Coming Sunday July 24, "THE WOMAN GOD CHANGED" episode of "The Yellow Arm." WOMAN GOD CHANGED" DUNBAR THEATRE 7th and T Sts. Open daily 1 p. m. Sunday 3 p. m. 20c admission Program for Week, July 17 SUNDAY SUNDAY UNIVERSAL SPECIAL ATTRACTION GRACE DARMOND IN "Beautiful Gambler" KINOGRAMS AL CHRISTIE COMEDY "Beautiful Gambler" KINOGRAMS AL CHRISTIE COMEDY MONDAY and TUESDAY JACKIE COOGAN IN SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTIONS Children during Matinee with Coupon 15 cents Wednesday and Thursday CORINNE GRIFFITH IN "What's Your Reputation Worth' Toonerville Comedy,—"Meeting all Trains." FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MABEL BALLIN AND ROCKCLIFFE FELLOWES IN "Pagan Love" A CHINESE MELODRAMA. PATHE NEWS putation Worth" "Meeting all Trains." O SATURDAY KCLIFFE FELLOWES IN Love" MA. PATHE NEWS "What's Your Reputation Worth" 4 "WHAT'S WORTH WHILE" THE HOWARD THEATRE Commencing next Sunday Lois Weber's newest production "What's Worth While" will be shown for three days at this theatre. This is one of the finest pictures ever presented at our theatre and it will interest every film fan. The supporting company headed by beautiful Claire Windsor is exceptionally brilliant and the direction is highly artistic. Do you consult Ouija, either in earnest or fun? Would you believe the little board if it should spell out for you the location of a buried treasure? And then if a burglar should try to steal your wealth—What would you THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921 Sport Comments and Opinions JACK JOHNSON Well, Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion, erstwhile globe trotter, and bull fighter is now a free man. Free to fight and roam again. Jack has been singing "the home sickness blues" for some time, which proves that after all, the call of the home is stronger than the call of the wilds. We are glad that Jack is out of the penitentiary. He was not any more guilty of the crime charged against him than every other prize fighter. The regrettable part of it was, that the authorities tried to make an example of him solely because he was colored. We believe in justice being given alike to all. Perhaps Jack has learned more in the last seven years than in any other period of his life, but we wonder if he has learned the real lesson, the lesson of RACE LOYALTY? We are sorry to write that he has not been 100 per cent loyal and true. While we grant that he has a perfect right according to all just laws to select his mate, had he once stopped and reflected, there would have been no doubt as to who his wife should have been. After the Jeffries fight he had a golden opportunity to advance the race not only in the pugilistic world, but in the commercial as well. He was then in the eyes of the public in a way that no other race man has ever been. He had a chance to create an everlasting impression for good; but it is sad to say, he did not measure up to the needs of the hour; he missed his one big chance to become an immortal hero. After his first white wife committed suicide, he forever killed his popularity among the women of our race. Instead of Johnson looking among them for a wife, he again ignored them; but little did he know then it would be to his utter sorrow, for this was the real beginning of his downfall. No longer could a 100 per cent Negro look with favor on his actions; he proved conclusively by that act, that he did not appreciate being a member of the race, in short, he repudiated his birthright. Again history records, "For the want of principle, a man was lost." Jack has confirmed in every respect, the usual opinion held by the white man of the Negro. His actions has cost the race dearly. His downfall was manufactured for him right on State Street in Chicago. This street has certainly contributed its share of obstacles to the progress of the race; many strong men have gone to their doom beneath the shadows of the dim lights of its midnight resorts. It was from these places that Jack received most of his advice. It was here that most of his friends dwelled. Will it be to this same street that he will return? Since he is now out and free to roam, he will soon answer. While he is being acclaimed by many people, it would do him well to ask, "What have I done to deserve this?" "Should I not be apologizing to them rather than accepting their hospitality?" He is now 43 years old; away past the mark of usefulness in the arena. It is claimed that he will attempt to do the miraculous thing of "coming back." As to his ability to do this, no one knows; but according to the rumors, he will soon test himself in a fight with big Harry Wills. If he were as anxious to come back to the race, we would have a lot more interest in the affair; but viewing it in the light of racial good, it will be better for him to settle down somewhere away from the lime light of publicity. His act is over; the curtain has been drawn; so let his part of the show end. Jack's life should be a lesson to all men regardless of the sphere in which they attain their popularity—no man can ever get too big for his race. He can never rise without carrying it up with him; and if he falls, he drags it down with him. As Jack's opportunity has passed, so let him pass. Well, Jack Johnson, former head trotter, and bull fighter is now a again. Jack has been singing "the which proves that after all, the call of the wilds. We are glad that Jack is out of more guilty of the crime charged by fighter. The regrettable part of it make an example of him solely by in justice being given alike to all. Perhaps Jack has learned more other period of his life, but we son, the lesson of RACE LOYALTY has not been 100 per cent loyal and a perfect right according to all justice once stopped and reflected, there was his wife should have been. After the Jeffries fight he had a race not only in the pugilistic world ever been. He had a chance to go good; but it is sad to say, he did a hour; he missed his one big chance. After his first white wife common popularity among the women of our among them for a wife, he again in then it would be to his utter sorrow of his downfall. No longer could a on his actions; he proved conclusive preciate being a member of the race right. Again history records, "For lost." Jack has confirmed in every res white man of the Negro. His act downfall was manufactured for him. This street has certainly contributedress of the race; many strong men the shadows of the dim lights of these places that Jack received most of his friends dwelled. Will will return? Since he is now out air. While he is being acclaimed by to ask, "What have I done to desigzing to them rather than accepting He is now 43 years old; away p arena. It is claimed that he will atta "coming back." As to his ability to ing to the rumors, he will soon test Wills. If he were as anxious to con a lot more interest in the affair; be good, it will be better for him to on the lime light of publicity. His act so let his part of the show end. Jack's life should be a lesson to which they attain their popularity—race. He can never rise without care he drags it down with him. As Ja him pass. PLAN WORLD'S TOUR FOR JACK JOHNSON New York, July 11.—Jack Johnson's term of imprisonment at Fort Lavenworth has ended and once more "Lil' Arthur" is free to tread his native heath minus the ball and chain. Of his plans for the future it was learned, today from Elmer Tenley, his manager, that ere many months have e-alpsed the ex-champion will be the feature of his own vaudeville show. A world's tour covering a period of two years has been arranged for the dusky battler. Now that "Lil' Arthur" has shed his prison garb he is planning once more to don the fighting togs. Several bouts have been arranged for the near future. Following a mill scheduled for Havana in October, Johnson will set sail for London, where the world-tour venture will get under way. The ex-champion will surround himself with a troupe made up of six variety turns, included among which, it is said, will be James Thornton, the famous monologist. Johnson will do much the same act as when last seen in vaudeville about six years ago, that is, a routine consisting of boxing stunts, feats of strength and ball room dancing. Following the London engagement a short tour of the continent has been planned. At the completion of the continental engagement "Lil' Arthur" and his troupe will sail for Australia, with a tour of South Africa, China and Japan to follow. So far as could be learned Johnson will not show in this country. John Martin, manager of the Hanover Park, at Meriden, Comm., will accompany the ex-champion in the capacity of business manager, it was learned. Several attempts have been made to secure Johnson for the theatrical projects planned to show in the States. Gus Hill, the burlesque and road manager, last year made an effort to secure the dusky boxer's signature to a contract calling for his appearance as the featured member of an all-colored minstrel show which Hill planned to produce. It is said that several flattering offers have also been made "Lil' Arthur" to appear in pictures. Jack Johnson will make his first appearance before the public on July 26 at Hanover Park, Meriden, Conn. JOHNSON heavyweight champion, erstwhile globe free man. Free to fight and roam home sickness blues" for some time, all of the home is stronger than the one the penitentiary. He was not any against him than every other prize it was, that the authorities tried to because he was colored. We believe in the last seven years than in any wonder if he has learned the real les-ly? We are sorry to write that he is true. While we grant that he has just laws to select his mate, had he would have been no doubt as to who has golden opportunity to advance the game, but in the commercial as well. He can a way that no other race man has create an everlasting impression for not measure up to the needs of the nation to become an immortal hero. He must suicide, he forever killed his race. Instead of Johnson looking ignored them; but little did he know, for this was the real beginning of 100 per cent Negro look with favor by that act, that he did not ap-pear, in short, he repudiated his birth-ness the want of principle, a man was suspect, the usual opinion held by therons has cost the race dearly. His right on State Street in Chicago. His share of obstacles to the pro-gram have gone to their doom beneath its midnight resorts. It was from most of his advice. It was here that it be to this same street that he did free to roam, he will soon answer. Many people, it would do him well serve this?" "Should I not be apologizing their hospitality?" Iast the mark of usefulness in the attempt to do the miraculous thing of do this, no one knows; but accord- himself in a fight with big Harry one back to the race, we would have not viewing it in the light of racial settle down somewhere away from us over; the curtain has been drawn; all men regardless of the sphere in no man can ever get too big for his lying it up with him; and if he falls, Jack's opportunity has passed, so let where he will undertake the role of umpire for a baseball match. Johnson will receive $2,000 for the afternoon's work. ATHLETICS SHOW CLASS IN GAME WITH BLACK SOCKS The Baltimore Black Sox, Champions of the South, found in the Washington Athletics a tougher game than they bargained for, barely taking the long end of an eight to five score at the American League Park last Saturday. An unusual feature of the game was the scoring of all the home boys' runs when two were out. Another, the absence of chances for "Bobbie" Dean the Athletics' crack short stop. The wildness of "Scripp" Lee and Smith, the opening pitchers, caused undue scoring. "Scripp" passed Ford, Smith and Hall in the first-filling the bases; Ford scoring when Ridgley forced Hall at second. Further damage was stopped when Lee fanned Harestone. The Washington boys started when Wilson beat out an infield tap, stole second when "Dick" Fells and Dean walked. Wilson was caught between third and home, "Dick" taking third and Dean second on the put out, Fells stealing home and Dean third on the double steal. Dean scored on Payne's single to right who was later caught trying to steal second. After Haristone popped to "Ben" Fells in the fourth, singles by Meale, Thomas, Ford and Brown and a double by C. Smith accounted for the Sox's three runs in the fourth. The seventh was the Black Sox's big inning. Ford opened with what would have been a double, but missed touching first base. "Scrapy" Brown walked; taking third on W. Smith's smashing double, Hill was intentionally passed filling the bases. "Scrapy," scored on Lee's wild pitch; then Ridgley was intentionally passed, again filling the bases. Harristone forced Smith at the plate; singles by Meade and Thomas sent three more runs across. That was the last of the Sox's scoring as Slade was their master in the eighth and ninth, retiring them in order. "Scrappy" Brown stopped the home boys in the fourth by two bare hand stops of C. Fell's and Dean's hot liners and throwing them out at first, when-off balance. Payne walked to open the fifth and was caught at second when Lee failed to connect on the hit an drun play. Lee and Stewart Balt. B. B. walked and scored on Ben Fell's double being left on Johnson's infield out. 1 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0—8 Wash. Ath— 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0—5 Runs—Ford, Brown, Hall, Ridgley, Haristone, Lee, Meade, Thomas, C. C. Smith, Stewart, B. Fells, C. Fells, Dean, Errors—Lee. Two-base hits— B. Fells, Wilson, W. Smith, C. Smith. Stolen bases—B. Fells, Wilson, C. Fells, Dean, Ridgley. Bases on Balls, off Smith 6; Lee 7. Struck out by Smith 3; Logan 4; Lee 5. Wild pitch— Lee 2. Passed ball—Payne. Hits off Smith (7 ins.) 4; Logan (2 ins.) 1; Lee (7 ins.) 10; Slade (2 ins.) 0. The Athletics final score came in the eighth when B. Fells walked, stole second and third, scoring on Wilson's double left, who died trying to stretch it into a triple. In the fifth when Hall attempted to steal second "Bucksie" threw his bat in front of Tom Payne and was called out for interference. Players Ab. H. P.O. A. Ford lf 4 1 1 0 Brown, ss 4 1 4 3 W. Smith 1b 4 1 11 1 Hall, cf 2 1 1 0 Ridgley, 2b 4 0 0 3 Haristone, rf 5 0 0 0 Meade, 3b 4 2 2 2 Thomas, c 4 3 8 4 C. Smith, p 3 1 0 1 Logan, p 1 0 0 1 Totals 35 10 27 15 Wash. Athletics Players Ab. H. P.O. A. Stewart, 2b 2 1 2 4 B. Fells, 3b 3 1 2 2 Johnson, rf 4 0 0 0 Wilson, 1b 4 2 10 4 C. Fells, cf 3 0 1 0 Dean, ss 3 0 1 1 Montgomery, lf 3 0 3 1 Payne, c 2 1 8 0 Lee, p 2 0 0 5 Slade, p 0 0 0 1 *Barner 1 0 0 0 Totals 27 5 27 18 ST. CYPRIANS PLAY GIANTS NEXT SUNDAY Again the St. Cyprians will take a try at the Washington Giants, Sunday at Union League Park. The St. Cyprians are a spunky lot and think that with Fox doing the slab work they can give the Giants the same dose they gave the Washington Athletics. Saturday at Union Park the St. Cyprians play the Deanwood team and the Giants play in Baltimore. DEANWOOD DEFEATS LEDROIT TIGERS The Deanwood A. C. Defeated the Ledroit Tigers Sunday by the score of 9 to 12. Saturday, the 16th, at Union League Park they will play the fast St. Cyprians. Game called at 4 p.m. On Sunday the 17th the D. A. C. will meet the Washington Athletics at the American League Park A good game is expected. Totals ..... 27 5 27 18 *Batted for Montgomery in 9th Sports and Theater Notes Continued on Page 5 The Howard Theatre, 7th and T Sts. The Dunbar Theatre, 7th and T Sts. The Jewel Theatre, 4½ 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. The Theaters You Should Patronize HIAWATHA THEATRE 11th & U Open daily 6 p.m. Thursday, Matinee 1 p.m. Program for Week, July 17th SUNDAY—Goldwyn Production: "North Wind's Malice." Ruth Roland in "Avenging Arrow" No. 6. MONDAY—Edyth Roberts in "Thunder Island." Franklin Farnum in "Vanishing Trails" No. 3. TUESDAY—Cristy Cabawne's Super Production, "The Stealers." Larry Semon in "Dew Drop Inn." WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY—James Oliver Curwood Story, "Kazan." Snub Pollard Comedy. FRIDAY—Alice Calhoun in "Princess Jones." Pathe News. SATURDAY—Short Subject Day. Comedy—Western Drama—Chas. Hutchinson in "Double Adventure" No. 9. FORAKER THEATRE 20th Near L FORAKER THEATRE OPEN AIR PARK PICTURES AND VAUDEVILLE LOGALS All News intended for should be addressed to the So- Name and Address should be a articles will be accepted. No charges whatever will sonal News, but the Editors Same. Do not write on both sid siring Pictures or Special W with the Office, 920 U St., N North 6554-W. ended for Publication on this page to the Society Editor and the Sender's should be signed to same. No unsigned accepted. However will be made for Social and Per-Editors reserve the Right to Re-Edit on both sides of the paper. Anyone de-Special Writ-Ups should communicate O U St., N. W. Murray Bldg. Phone All News intended for Publication on this page should be addressed to the Society Editor and the Sender's Name and Address should be signed to same. No unsigned articles will be accepted. No charges whatever will be made for Social and Personal News, but the Editors reserve the Right to Re-Edit Same. Do not write on both sides of the paper. Anyone desiring Pictures or Special-Writ-Ups should communicate with the Office, 920 U St., N. W. Murray Bldg. Phone North 6554-W. The Reverend S. W. Boacote, D.D. of Kansas City, Mo. will preach at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, third and Eye streets, N. W. Sunday July 17, at 11 a.m. The public is cordially invited to hear this great Gospel Preacher. Rev. W. H. Jernagin, D. D., Pastor Rev. Wm. B. Marsh, Act. Pastor. The New York Academy of Designing, Dressmaking, and Millinery is making special rates for Summer courses. Days and Night Classes—1915 Seventh St., —adv. The Crosby Studio is offering special summer rates for High Grade Photos. Absolute satisfaction assured. Moceo Richards, 22 years old, of 1818 seventh street northwest, was struck by a postal truck at north Capitol and G streets Friday afternoon about one o'clock. Richards suffered internal injuries by being struck in the left side and thrown about six feet in the air. The truck was driven by Levi Smithers who lives at 704 Third street northwest. Richards is a mechanic for the Geographical Society and had left his car to 'go across the street on business when struck by the postal truck which he alleges was racing with another truck down G street. After striking Richards, the truck veered to the right and ran into an automobile parked near the corner of the street. Tuskegee Representative Here Mr. J. H. Palmer, traveling representative of Tuskegee Institute, in the interest of Graduates, was in the city this week in the interest of his work. While here he called on a large number of graduates and reports the general condition among them throughout the country as being fine. Mrs. Harry W. Wade, 1213 S street, N. W., will be at home informally every Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 p. m., in honor of her sister, Mrs. Wilbur C. Gordon, of Los Angeles, California. Dr. Gordon will arrive about the first of August for a three weeks visit, after which they will leave for Louisville, Ky., to attend the National Medical Association, at which meeting the Doctor is to read a paper. WELL KNOWN WOMAN PASSES AWAY Mrs. Mary Matilda Younger, aged 59, passed away Thursday July 7 at her late residence, 1326 You street, northwest. Her daughter Mrs. Caroline E. Berry was at her bedside when the end came. The funeral services were held from St. Augustine Church, Monday, where the requiem high mass was administered by Rev. Father' O'Connor. Those left to mourn their loss are Mr. George L. Younger, her husband; George A. Younger, John S. Younger, sons, Mrs. Caroline E. Berry and Mrs. Marguerite O. Brannon, daughters and four grandchildren. Beautiful oral pieces were sent by friends from Springfield, Mass. and New York City. Dr. W. C. Brown, former pastor of John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church and at present pastor of Fleet Street A. M. E. Zion Church, Brooklyn N. Y., was a welcome visitor to the city this week. Dr. Brown has a host of friends in Washington who are always glad to see him. He is a strong candidate for the bishopric. His life and previous successes assure him of that episcopal crown. Dr. Roscoe C. Brown has returned to the city after attending the Inter-State Dental Society's Convention at Buckroe Beach, Virginia. 'The Mary Campbell Circle of the A. M. E. preachers wives, met in their regular monthly meeting at the Phillis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. Thursday afternoon. After the meeting ad- LOCAL NOTES 1915 7th Street, N. W. Mrs. Wilbur C. Gordon THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921 journed, they were entertained in the Cafeteria by Mrs. M. C. Beckett. The Phillis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. is sadly in need of a safe for its valuables and money. They would appreciate this as a gift from some well wishing friend. A medium size office safe would serve them admirably. Who will volunteer to present the Y. W. C. A. with a safe? National Nurses Conference will meet at the Y. W. C. A. the 16-19 of August. Mrs. V. E. Diggs, of Norfolk Va., is spending the month in the Capital city and is stopping at the Y. W. C. A. Mrs. C. E. Howard spent a few days last week at the beautiful country home of Mrs. J. H. Foster. Maiss Cora Grisby, one of the clerks of the Capitol Sales Agency, is spending the summer with her mother, Mrs Emma Grisby, in Atlantic City. Mr. Fred D. McCracken, formerly City Manager of Truxton, Va. spent the week in the city prospecting for a location for a substantial business. He left Friday, with Mrs. McCracken for their home in St. Paul, Minn. He will return the latter part of August. Dr. Carrie J. Sutton left Monday for Richmond, Va., accompanied by her aunt, Miss Mary Sutton, who underwent an operation at Freedmen's Hospital. After a three weeks' stay in Richmond they will leave for Dr. Sutton's home in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. William Stevenson, general secretary of the 12th street branch Y. M. D. A. is spending a fortnight at Storer College, Harper's Ferry, where the Y is holding its summer school. Mr. Lawrence L. Whaley, business secretary of the 12th street branch Y. M. C. A. will leave Sunday for a week's vacation at Harper's Ferry, attending the Y summer school. Mrs. Whaley will accompany him. Mr. Charles W. Childs of Selma, Alabama, spent a week in the city with his son William Child and daughter, Lillian. Mr. Childs is a brother of Mr. James F. Child and Mrs. William Hasty of this city. He said that his stay was a most pleasant one and he regretted that he could not stay longer. Mr. Child returned to Norfolk, where he joined his wife and sick daughter, Mrs. D. F. White, who was carried on to Alabama with them. Dorothy Edith, five months old infant of the late Mrs. Majore Griffith Evans, who was shot to death by her husband, Henry Evans, on Saturday May 28, died Monday, at the late home of her mother on S Street, N. W. She was buried Friday evening. She leaves a little brother about two years of age. Rev. A. C. Garner, former Pastor of Plymoth Congregation, and now of New York, was in the city for two days this week. He reports everything as all right in his new field. He came here as the guest of Plymouth Church Sunday School, which paid all of his expenses. Mrs. Robert Alexander, of Richmond, Va. has joined her husband, who is foreman in the printing division of Howard University. Prof. and Mrs. W. H. Holtzclaw of Utica Institute, Miss. were visitors in the Capital City for the week end. Prof. Holtzclaw is President of the school there. Prof. Isaac Fisher, of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., was one of the speakers at the Inter-racial Council meeting Tuesday, in the Woodward building, this city. Mr. T. C. Erwin, President of the new Commercial Bank of Richmond, Va., was a business visitor this week. The Washington Tribune is making the most remarkable progress of any colored paper in the history of colored journalism. It has a larger circulation in Washington, than ALL the other papers combined. It is truly the peoples paper. Read it and see why. Rev. C. H. Houston and wife of Jacksonville, Fla., were week end visitors in the city. Rev. S. J. Johnson of Datona, Fla. spent Tuesday and Wednesday in the city. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Parsons of Harrisburg, Pa., were visitors here this week. Dr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Wilson returned Tuesday from an extended trip thru New York and Pennsylvania. They were guests of Mrs. Lelia Walker-Wilson at Villa "Lewaro" at Irving-on-the-Hudson. Mrs. C. M. Banton and her little boy, Clarence, Jr. left Sunday for Brewster, N. Y. for the summer. The financial department of the A. M. E. Church located at the corner of 14th and Q Streets, with Prof. John R. Hawkins as Secretary, is improving the building by having two plate glass windows placed in the north side of the building, improving the light and ventilation. SOCIETY NEWS Mrs. James Moses entertained on Wednesday evening with an informal dancing party, at her residence, 2404 Shannon Place, S.E., to honor Mrs. Charles Johnson. Mrs. Johnson left Thursday morning to visit her husband, Sgt. Charles Johnson, M. T. C., at Camp Berning Georgia and from there will go to Junction City, Kansas to visit friends. She will return this fall. Miss Myrtle Johnson of Leavenworth, Kansas, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Manolo Henderson of Anacostia was among the guests. Others were: Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Tate, Mr. and Mrs. A. Tate, Mr. and Mrs. Manola Henderson, and Mrs. Briggman. All enjoyed a pleasant evening. RECORD ATTENDANCE AT DUNBAR THEATRE No! There was no midnight show at the Dunbar Theatre last Wednesday night. The vast throngs of people that you saw emerging from this picture house about 12:45 were patrons whom the management favored by giving an extra show. It is a foregone conclusion, that the Dunbar theatre management will have to arrange immediately for a return engagement of Allen Holubar's superfeature, "Man, Woman, Marriage" in which Dorothy Phillips occupies the center of the screen. Sunday, the day of the initial showing of this picture, found the Dunbar attaches severely taxed, but earnest striving to render the best possible service to several hundred enthusiastic patrons who waited so patiently. Monday drew another immense throng of "movie bugs," all bent on seeing that spell-binding nine-reel feature or "bust." The picture seemed to extend or offer a special appeal to the feminine tastes, but included in the great gathering were many persons of the stronger sex. Tuesday, the last day, offered the most trying test of one's patience. There were solid lines of eager picture fans extending from the main entrance around to Sixth and Florida avenue and as soon as the management were able to clear the house they were again greeted with another huge mass of humanity that extended, this time, from the entrance around T St. to the alley in the rear. These lines were not only double file, but in many places, they had formed squads and platoons, which as they neared the entrance were ordered into single file formation by the genial "Rufus" who was kept continuously on the go in an effort to keep the good cheer of the waiting mobs. "MAN, WOMAN, MARRIAGE will be shown at this theatre the week of July 24. OLD ASTOR MANSION PURCHASED BY ASSOCIATION PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July-The acquisition of the "Willing Mansions," once the home of the late John Jacob Astor, by the United Order of Business Promoters, marks another achievement for the progressive business men of this city. The "Willing Mansions" located at 509-11 Broad street, contains eighty-four spacious and elegantly furnished rooms and is regarded as one of the finest of the old historic buildings in Philadelphia. The United Order of Business Promoters is a unique organization of this city. It is made up of professional, business and laboring people, who have united to promote all kinds of legitimate business by assisting with capital and business counsel to its members. It was founded by Dr. W. H. Moses, who is the President and Dr. W. R. Ashburn, Secretary and General Manager. COMING EVENTS National Teachers Association, Oklahoma City, August 3, 4, 5. National Negro Business League, Atlanta, Ga., August 17, 18, 19. National Medical Association, Louisville, Ky., August 23, 24, 25. Saturday July, 16 Band-Concert, White House, 3:30 p.m. Barbecue Columbia Lodge of Elks, Suburban Gardens. Alamacs Dance, Murray Casino. Sunday July, 17 Industrial Club Conducts Vespers at Y. W. C. A. Swimming at Dunbar Pool for men from 4 to 7. Monday July, 18 MASONIC ADMISSION Honor T Due, The unexpected suc the Southern Aid Socio highly pleasing to the We planned that the staff and getting the ness. But the large v that we have selected a lic was already inform opportunity to insure We thank both the Hus us a share of their ins Supt. J. Lacy Doss a been ably assisted, in t ing special Home Offi West, Jno. E. Hall, Jr G. E. Booker, L. H. C. Honor To Whom Due, And We The unexpected success attained by the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. highly pleasing to the management. We planned that the month of July staff and getting the public acquaintance. But the large volume of business that we have selected a very able set was already informed of our liberal opportunity to insure with us. The We thank both the Hustling Staff and as a share of their insurance business. Supt. J. Lacy Doss and Asst. Supt. been ably assisted, in the training of special Home Office representatives West, Jno. E. Hall, Jr., Thos. J. Roberts, E. Booker, L. H. Carter, W. H. S. Honor To Whom Honor Is Due, And While Living The unexpected success attained by the Washington District Staff, of the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., during the 1st month's operation is highly pleasing to the management. We planned that the month of June should be spent in developing the staff and getting the public acquainted with our method of doing business. But the large volume of business written during the month shows that we have selected a very able set of representatives, and that the public was already informed of our liberal policy and was simply waiting the opportunity to insure with us. The Washington District is a success. We thank both the Hustling Staff and those of the citizens who have given us a share of their insurance business. Supt. J. Lacy Doss and Asst. Supts. T. A. Foy and W. W. Booker have been ably assisted, in the training of the Washington staff, by the following special Home Office representatives: Messrs. W. R. Allen, Jas. O. West, Jno. E. Hall, Jr., Thos. J. Roberts, J. Sherman Lee, W. P. Yancey, G. E. Booker, L. H. Carter, W. H. Stokes, Lee Jackson and T. W. Bryan. The Agency Staff is as follows:— Mrs. E. L. D. Bryan M. E. Collier, J. J. Ja T. Gray, C. M. Jackso D. Whiting and Miss The Sou Mrs. E. L. D. Bryan, C. E. Bryan, M. E. Collier, J. J. James, W. T. D. Gray, C. M. Jackson, G. B. Jones D. Whiting and Miss Florence A. J The Southern Mrs. E. L. D. Bryan, C. E. Bryan, H. A. Burton, W. H. Carter, Jr., Miss M. E. Collier, J. J. James, W. T. Dixon, J. E. Eubanks, S. Franklin, G. T. Gray, C. M. Jackson, G. B. Jones, W. H. Olden, Mrs. D. E. Welch, A. D. Whiting and Miss Florence A. Johnson, clerk and stenographer. The Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc. WASHINGTON (D.C.) DISTRICT OFFICE Office Suite, No. 300, 3rd Floor, Front SOUTHERN AID BUILDING, 7th & T Sts., N. W., Washington, D. C. Class in Automotive Mechanics, beg- ginning, Y. M. C. A. Orientals Dance, Murray Casino. Ministers Alliance Picnic, Glemdale, Md. Tuesday July, 19 Swimming, Dunbar Pool, Girls, 12:45 to 1:45; boys from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. Country Dance, “Mi-Dears” Murray Casino. Thursday July 21 Girl Reserves Picnic, Suburban Gard- dens. Epicureans Dance, Murray Casin. Swimming, Dunbar Pool, girls, 3 to 4 p. m. Boys from 4 to 5:30; women from 7 to 9 p. m.; men from 9 to 10:30. Friday July, 22 Miller's Community Band, Smithso- nian Grounds. NIC FIELD BASE BAR AN March of All AT T American L 7th and Florida MUSIC BY COMMUNITY C Saturday, Jul Gates Open 11 A.M. Events To Whom H And While success attained by the Washington society of Va., Inc., during the 1st the management. the month of June should be spee the public acquainted with our m the volume of business written duri and a very able set of representativ armed of our liberal policy and wa are with us. The Washington Dr Hustling Staff and those of the citi insurance business. us and Asst. Supts. T. A. Foy and in the training of the Washington Office representatives: Messrs. V Jr., Thos. J. Roberts, J. Sherman Carter, W. H. Stokes, Lee Jackson American League Park 7th and Florida Avenue, N.W. MUSIC BY COMMUNITY CENTER BAND—65 PIECES Saturday, July 23rd, 1921 Gates Open 11 A.M. Events begin promptly at 12 o'clock 50 CENTS an, C. E. Bryan, H. A. Burton, W. James, W. T. Dixon, J. E. Euba kson, G. B. Jones, W. H. Olden, M ss Florence A. Johnson, clerk an uthern Aid 5 Swimming, Dunbar Pool, for girls, 12:45 to 1:45; for boys, 1:45 to 2:45 p. m. Saturday, July, 23 Alamac Dance, Murray Casino. Masonic Field Day, American League Park. AFTER THE GAME BEAT IT OVER TO Wilson & Bernard's 1906 7th St., N. W. Sandwiches and Soft Drinks of all Kinds 6 PRESIDENT KING VISITS ROOSEVELT'S GRAVE President King of Liberia, who has been in this country for the past four months, on the Fourth, placed a wreath upon the grave of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt in the cemetery at Oyster Bay. During his Administration, President Roosevelt was interested in the Republic of Liberia and received a commission from that country in 1908. He also arranged for an American commission to visit Liberia in 1909, but retired before the details were completed, leaving the matter to President Taft, who sent the commission within six weeks after he was inaugurated. Keeping in mind Col. Roosevelt's interest in the little Republic, President King paid his tribute to the memory of the Great American. The members of his commission accompanied him to Oyster Bay. WHEN SOJOURNER TRUTH VISITED LINCOLN WHEN SOJOURNER TRUTH VISITED LINCOLN (W. H. A. Moore—the Associated Negro Press) "It was 8 o'clock in the morning when I called upon President Lincoln and found him seated at his desk. My friend said to him: 'This is Sojourner Truth, who came all the way from Michigan to see you.' He then arose, gave me his hand, made a bow and said: 'I am pleased to see you.' I said to him: Mr. President, when you first took your seat, I feared you would be torn to pieces, for I likened you unto Daniel, who was thrown into the lion's den, and if the lions did not tear you into pieces I know it was God who had saved you. I said if He spared me I would see you before the four years expired. He has done so, I am here to see you for myself. "He then congratulated me on having been spared. I then said: I appreciate you, for you are the best President who has ever taken the seat. He then replied: 'Doubtless, you refer to my having emancipated the slaves in my proclamation?' I then said: Thank God that you were the instrument selected by Him and the people to do it. I told him I had never heard of him before he was talked of for President. He smilingly replied, 'I had heard of you many times before that.' I then asked to see the Bible which had been given him by the colored people of Baltimore. He dispatched a messenger, who soon returned, bringing with him a silver-mounted walnut box containing the Bible. This was placed upon the table, by the side of which I was sitting. The President, standing by the table, turned the leaves and showed me the engravings which were richly ornamented with gold. The covers bear a large plate of gold representing a slave with the shackles falling from him in a cotton field, stretching out his hand in gratitude to President Lincoln, for the freedom of his race. At the feet of the freedman there is a scroll bearing upon its face the word 'Emancipation' in large letters. On the reverse cover is another gold plate containing the following inscription: "To Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, the friend of universal liberty, by the loyal colored people of Baltimore, as a token of respect and gratitude, Baltimore, July 4, 1864." "The entire agair cost $5,800. After I had looked it over, I said how wonderful that the Colored People have given a Bible to the head of the government, and that the government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to read it. He replied: 'It is indeed most wonderful.' I am proud to say I was never treated with more kindness and cordiality than was shown me by that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln, by the Grace of God, President of the United States for four more years. He then took my little book, and with the same hand that signed the death warrant of slavery, he wrote: "For Aunty Sojourner Truth, Oct. 29, 1864. A. Lincoln." SUMMER COURSES ON AT DUNBAR Dunbar High School Civic Center opened for its summer season Saturday with a program of activities ranging from rhythmic dancing to swimming. Miss Anita Turner executive secretary of the center, will have charge of its operation. One of the features of the summer's activities will be a special nutrition clinic to be conducted by Miss Martella M. York, school nurse, assisted by Dr. Joseph Murphy, supervising medical inspector of the schools, and Mrs. Ernest Grant. Several prominent physicians have signified their willingness THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. SATURDAY. JULY 16. 1921 to make the necessary examinations of children who enroll in the nutrition class. Children who attend the clinic will be weighed each week and a chart, indicating their improvement in health, will be kept. Any underweight or anemic child is invited to attend the class, which will meet each Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The swimming pool at Dunbar will be open for the use of children on Thursdays from 3 to 5:30 o'clock. Two additional periods for children will be added in the near future. Men will be allowed the use of the pool Sundays from 4 to 7 p. m., and women may use the pool on Thursdays from 7 to 9 p. m. The swimming instructors will be Mr. M. Grant Lucas and Miss Ethel Skinker. Rhythmic dancing classes for children and adults will be organized. The children's class will meet Thursdays at 7:30 p. m., while the adults' class will meet at 8:30 p. m., on the same days. A coaching class for children will be organized and taught by Miss Payne. Children who have passed in school, and are not eligible for the summer vacation schools, are invited to attend the class. The tennis courts at Dunbar will be used throughout the summer by two clubs. It is planned to form a children's orchestra at the center. Children with instruments are requested to join the orchestra. THE VALUE OF SUMMER The summer schools opened Tuesday for a six-weeks' course. Let every parent see that the child who has been backward or neglectful the past school year, attend regularly and make the necessary average for promotion for the coming term. All parties concerned lose when a child fails to make its grade and has to repeat the next term. The Government loses the money required to pay salaries for the second term; the parent loses money spent for food and clothes for the second term in the same grade and sometimes loses interest in the child's education; the child loses the valuable time necessary for repeating, loses aspiration, often becoming discouraged, humiliated and gives up. The teacher loses interest in constant repeaters. The summer schools then are excellent opportunity classes where the child that has been retarded for causes, often not its own, can make the promotion for the coming term. This often will be the incentive necessary to strive for accomplishment and thereby determine to continue its advancement and may be a help in the habit of concentration and industry. VOICE OF JAPAN RAISED AGAINST AMERICAN LYNCHERS VOICE OF JAPAN RAISED AGAINST AMERICAN LYNCHERS Japanese condemnation of American lynchings has been received in the form of a four column editorial in the Asian Review, May-June number, published in Tokyo, Japan. "Americans vociferously claim to be the champions of justice and humanity," says the editorial, "yet they do not hesitate to trample upon these very principles and perpetrate the foulest deed ever conceived." The crime referred to is the burning alive at the stake, of Henry Lowery, at Nodena, Arkansas, on January 26, 1921. The matter quoted by the Asian Review was press publicity matter sent out to the foreign press of the world by the New York Office of the N. A. A. C. P. "It is an indefible stain," the editorial continues, "on the name of America that in this enlightened age such crimes should take place publicly and the offenders go unpunished. It goes to demonstrate the utter callousness of hearts of the American public. Lynching is possible in the United States because the spirit of America is in favor of it. If this were not true, this foul crime would never have gone to its present proportions nor would any of the more than three thousand lynchings during the past thirty-two years have taken place." The editorial concludes by saying that creation of a strong public opinion throughout the world will be necessary "In order to bring sufficient pressure to bear on the American government to adopt effective measures at once so as to make it impossible for the American mobs to resort to these barbarous excesses." PREAGHER KIDNAPPED Miami, Fla. July 2—Rev. H. H. Higgs, a prominent pastor of one of the churches in Cocoanut Grove, a suburb of this city, was kidnapped by a bunch of whites because of an alleged sermon by him demanding equality before the law. He was taken from his home in an automobile. A report went out that Rev. Higg's flock was arming, whereupon, police reserves, American Legion men et al were called out. The preacher returned to his home on foot unharmed; then the village regained its normal status. WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT There seems to be a general misgiving toward the appointment of Ex-President Taft as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The St. Louis Argus:—"We are unalterably opposed to Mr. Taft occupying such a high place in the nation's affairs. Too much and too serious responsibilities goes with the office of the Supreme Justice, the court of the last resort of the land. "We can hardly believe President Harding will appoint him. He was not fit for a cabinet officer according to President Harding's choice, and he certainly is not fit for the Supreme bench according to our judgement." The Chicago Whip:—"The black man is in a quandary as to what to expect from this gentleman. If he predicates his expectations upon the past actions of Mr. Taft very little can be hoped for. The new Chief Justice is one of the most dangerous enemies that the black man has in this country. He believes, in the very roots of his mentality, that the black man is inferior and unfit and for this reason will shape his decisions from a mind that is already made up and convinced." The Savannah Tribune:—"Paramount from the Negro's angle is the question of his future, his career as head of the supreme judicial body of the land. Much more of legal controversy affecting Negro rights in America shall come before that court in the future than has come before it in the past; and we are much concerned what his influence, beyond that of his peculiar position, shall be with that court. In the past that court has been everything that unimpeachable judicial character could make it; and its decisions have met with universal approval and sanction." St. Louis Argus: "No one seems to doubt or question Mr. Taft's ability as an able jurist, but we do doubt whether he is big enough (not avoir-dupois) to deal justly and fair with those questions affecting the rights of the Negroes as American citizens. He has shown his unfitness for the high official position by his catering to the Lily-whiteism of the South. He has been quoted as saying, that President Harding should not appoint Negroes to Federal positions in the South, where there was opposition on the part of the whites of the community. This we consider a betrayal of those who have been loyal and for many years had faith in the Republican party. So, in the face of such facts, the Negroes of America cannot but look upon Taft's appointment to the highest judicial office of the land, with suspicion and fear." The New York News:—"We say these things because we do not believe that the President was unmindful of the weak and vacillating position which Taft as President took on the status of the colored American. He knows that he took a dangerous step backward unwarranted, unnecessary and un-American when Taft in his first mesasage to Congress declared that he would not fly in the face of Southern sentiment in appointing colored men to office in the South. Taft knew then that he was thereby inviting hostile Southern race sentiment to defeat the accredited representatives of the race in office. No one knows better than President Harding as did President Taft that the best way to increase race prejudice is to recognize and compromise with it. No one is better acquainted with the wicked and wily ways of Southern statecraft and its diabolical treachery to the Republic better than these distinguished statesmen. President Harding knows the sad and bitter losses which the black race and the Republican party suffered by reason of this same cowardice and compromise upon the part of President Taft." WRECKED AUTO WHILE HACKING While doing a taxi business on the 4th of July with an alleged stolen machine, Frederick Acwith, 18 years old, completely demolished a machine, said by the police, to be the property of Adam Weschler, white, a local auctioneer. Acwith claims that he was forced off the roadway by another machine, causing him to collide with a telegraph pole. He immediately left the scene and was arrested the following day when he returned to the scene to recover some of his personal belongings. TWO GREAT SINS ASSAILED BY REV. J. MILTON WALDRON New York, July 14—Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D.D., president of The National Gospel Workers Aid Society, and pastor of The Shiloh Baptist Church ("Strangers' Home") of Washington, D.C., appeared before the executive session of the Board of Trustees of the International C. E. Convention, now meeting in this city, and presented a memorial, by request of numerous Societies holding membership in that body, against the sins of Race-prejudice and Race-hatred, which prevail to an alarming extent among all sects of Christians in this country. To a reporter of this paper Dr. Waldron said: "I am not at liberty to state what took place in the executive session of the Board, but as one who has been charged with the special duty of helping to arouse the followers of Jesus Christ everywhere in America against the enormity and viciousness of Race-prejudice and Race-hatred, I may be permitted to say that there are no sins among professing Christians in this country to-day that are more popular and more damning in their effects upon those, both in the Churches and out, than these twin children of the Devil, Race-prejudice and Race-hatred. "Most ministers and Church leaders are not only possessed of these evil spirits, but they themselves are unwilling to regard them as sins, while others condone these evils and object to anyone 'speaking out in meetin' about them. "Why man, the Word of God is full of instances and commands against Race-prejudice and Race-hatred. One of the earliest examples in the Bible of God's displeasure at this sin is recorded in Numbers Chapter 12 wherein God smote Miriam, the sister of Moses, with leprosy because she murmured against Moses for having married an Ethiopian woman, that is a black woman. "Jesus Christ Himself would not be received into many churches in this country if He came to them in the flesh, for He was a man of mixed blood—at least two of his human ancestors were descended from Ham of whom have sprang most of the black and darker races of the world, and the Saviour whom the Christians of America profess to believe in and to worship taught his followers in the gospel of Matthew: 'One is your Master, even Christ and all ye are brethren'—but this command does not go when most white Christians begin to have any kind of dealings with colored or black Christians in this Christian (?) country. "James, one of the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ when brought face to face with Race-prejudice did not side step the issue but said in Chapter two: "My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory, with respect of persons" "If ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well": "But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors." "If these injunctions of Christ and His apostles were honestly taught and faithfully followed, the Christian churches everywhere would break the bonds that bind them to Satan, self and sin and would line up on the side of the Prince of Peace, and do much to stem the mighty tide of lawlessness, revolution, greed and bloodshed that is fast sweeping church and nation on to death and destruction." AFRICAN WOMEN SEEK RIGHT VERSION OF MODERN CHRISTIANITY In a recent letter to the Editor of the Philadelphia Ledger the present day Christianity of the whites was assailed by two African women. The letter in part follows: To the Editor of the Public Ledger: Sir—Two African women have appeared in America this year and are now touring this country in the interest of a new kind of education for African womanhood. They incidentally have brought with them a manner of thinking that is so admirable and constructive that all Americans may well learn from it. Mrs. CaseyHayford and her gifted niece, Miss Kathleen Easmon, have the ability to see the eternal-woman question in a right way and to state it so that it is of value to all womanhood, and in particular to African womanhood. Mrs. Hayford said lately at an informal social gathering of ladies in Philadelphia: "We African women are beginning to see that we have the wrong type of education forced upon us. Its standard is 'Everything that the white European does is right and everything that the black African does is wrong.' Now, we women believe this must be changed. It is a false and evil philosophy and as ruinous to whites as to blacks." Miss Easmon in citing her views said that Africans cannot understand why the white races of the world teach one thing as Christianity and practice another in their relations to colored peoples. Prejudice puzzles them. The African is very critical of strangers, but does not naturally hate them. We believe also in thoroughgoing Christianity, not white Christianity (nor, for that matter, black Christianity nor any other sort of racially selfish kind), but Christianity pure and simple. As a minister of the Christian gospel, I want to re-echo this last statement of these splendid women. WILLIAM LLOYD IMES. Philadelphia, July 10, 1921. 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BOOK I—REPRESENTATION CHAPTER L—Warned by his physician that he has not more than six months to live, Falling sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should sit those six months to come, 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 frontierman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennox's son, "Bill," and daughter, "Snowbird." Their abode is many miles from the city, but they have a place 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 Faings 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 "nerve" he saves Lennox's life and his sons; they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox learns the carnation of his grandfather, Dan Falling I, whose fame as a woodman is a household word. BOOK TWO—THE DEBT. CHAPTER I. D—Dan, now thoroughly proficient in woods lore, learns from Lenox 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 overlooks 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. CHAPTER II. A cougar, on a personal hunting expedition, finds Hildreth in a thicket, where he had crawled after being shot by Cranston. The cougar finishes Cranston's work, and in striking down man becomes a forest outlaw. Failing, on his way home from a visit to "Snowbird" lookout station, comes upon Cranston in the act of starting a forest fire. The men quarrel and fight. Failing is no match for the fallen, falls away from death only by the intervention of "Snowbird," who drives the outlaw from his victim by threatening him with a revolver. He brought himself back to earth and tried ag in to remember. If course, the twight had fallen. It had been late after noon when he had cut the tree. His hand stole along his body; and then, for the first time, a hideous sickness came upon him. His hand was warm and wet when he brought it up. The other hand he couldn't stretch at all. The forest was silent around him, except a bird calling somewhere near the house—a full voice, rich and clear, and it seemed to him that it had a quality of distress. Then he recognized it. It was the voice of his own daughter, Snowbird, calling for him. He tried to answer her. It was only a whisper, at first. Yet she was coming nearer; and her own voice sounded louder. "Here, Snowbird," he called again. She heard him then: he could tell by the startled tone of her reply. The next instant she was at his side, her tears dropping on his face. With a tremendous effort of will he recalled his speeding faculties. "I don't think I'm badly hurt," he told her very quietly. "A few ribs broken—and a leg. But we'll have to winter on the Divide, Snowbird mine." "What does it matter, if you live?" she cried. She crawled along the pine needles beside him, and tore his shirt from his breast. He was rapidly sinking into unconsciousness. The thing she dreaded most—that his back might be broken—was evidently not true. There were, as he said, broken ribs and evidently one severe fracture of the leg bone. Whether he had sustained internal injuries that would end his life before the morning, she had no way of knowing. At this point, the problem of saving her father's life fell wholly into her hands. His broken body could not be carried over the mountain road to physicians in the valleys. They must be transported to the ranch. It would take them a full day to make the trip, even if she could get word to them at once; and twenty-four hours without medical attention would probably cost her father his life. The nearest telephone was at the ranger station, twelve miles distant over a mountain trail. The telephone line to Bald mountain, four miles off, had been disconnected when the rains had ended the peril of the forest fire. It all depended upon her. Bill was driving cattle into the valleys, and he and his men had in use all the horses on the ranch with one exception. The remaining horse had been ridden by Dan to some distant marshes, and as Dan would shoot until sunset, that meant he would not return until ten o'clock. There was no road for a car to the ranger station, only a rough steep trail, and she remembered, with THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921 a sinking heart, that one of hill's missions in the valley was to procure a new lighting system. By no conceivable possibility could she drive down that mountain road in the darkness. But she was somewhat relieved by the thought that in all probability she could walk twelve miles across the mountains to the ranger station in much less time than she could drive, by automobile, seventy miles down to the ranches at the foothills about the valley. Besides, she remembered with a gladdening heart that Richards, one of the rangers, had been a student at a medical college and had taken a position with the forest service to regain his health. She would cross the ridge to the station, phone for a doctor in the valleys, and would return on horseback with Richards for such first aid as he could give. The only problem that remained was that of getting her father into the house. He was stirring a little now. Evidently consciousness was returning to him. And then she thanked heaven for the few simple lessons in first aid that her father had taught her in the days before carelessness had come upon him. One of his lessons had been that of carrying an unconscious human form—a method by which even a woman may carry, for a short distance, a heavy man. It was approximately the method used in carrying wounded in No Man's Land: the body thrown over the 'shoulders, one arm through the fork of the legs to the wounded man's hand. Her father was not a particularly heavy man, and she was an exceptionally strong young woman. She knew at once that this problem was solved. The hardest part was lifting him to her shoulders. Only by calling upon her last ounce of strength, and tugging upward with her arms, was she able to do it. But it was fairly easy, in her desperation, to carry him down the hill. What rest she got she took by leaning against a tree, the limp body still across her shoulders. It was a distance of one hundred yards in all. No muscles but those trained by the outdoors, no lungs except those made strong by the mountain air, could have stood that test. She laid him on his own bed, on the lower floor, and set his broken limbs the best she could. She covered him up with thick, fleecy blankets, and set a bottle of whiskey beside the bed. Then she wrote a note to Dan and fastened it upon one of the interior doors. She drew on her hob-naked boots—needed sorely for the steep climb—and pocketed her pistol. She thrust a handful of jerked venison into the pocket of her coat and lighted the lantern. The forest night had fallen, soft and vibrant and tremulous, over the heads of the dark trees when she started out. CHAPTER IV Snowbird felt very glad of her intimate, accurate knowledge of the whole region of the Divide. In her infancy the winding trails had been her playground, and long ago she had acquired the mountainneer's sixth sense for traversing them at night. She had need of that knowledge now. She slipped into her free, swinging stride; and the last beams from the windows of the house were soon lost in the pines behind her. It was one of those silent, breathless nights with which no mountainneer is entirely unacquainted, and for a long time the only sound she could hear was her own soft tramp in the pine needles. The trees themselves were motionless. That peculiar sound, not greatly different from that of running water which the wind often makes in the pine tops, was entirely lacking. Not that she could be deceived by it—as stories tell that certain tenderfeet, dying of thirst in the barren hills, have been. But she always liked the sound; and she missed it especially tonight. She felt that if she would stop to listen, there would be many faint sounds in the thickets—those little hushed noises that the wild things make to remind night-wanderers of their presence. But she did not in the least care to hear these sounds. They do not tend toward peace of mind on a long walk over the ridges. The wilderness began at once. Whatever influence toward civilization her father's house had brought to the wilds chopped off as beneath a blade in the first fringe of pines. This is altogether characteristic of the Oregon forests. They are much too big and too old to be tamed in any large degree by the presence of one house. No one knew this fact better than Lennox himself who, in a hard winter of four years before, had looked out of his window to find the wolf pack ranged in a hungry circle about his house. Within two hundred yards after she had passed through her father's door, she was perfectly aware that the wild was stirring and throbbing with life about her. At first she tried very hard to think of other things. But the attempt wasn't entirely a success. And before she had covered the first of the twelve miles, the sounds that from the first had been knocking at the door of her consciousness began to make an entrance. If a person lies still long enough, he can usually hear his heart beating and the flow of his blood in his arteries. Any sound, no matter how falt, will make itself heard at last. It was this way with a very peculiar noise that crept up through the silence from the trail behind her. She wouldn't give it any beet at first. But in a very little while indeed, it grew so insistent that she could no longer disregard it. Some living creature was trotting alone on the trail behind, trotting up proximate, the same distance between them. Foregoing any attempt to ignore it, she set her cool young mind to thinking what manner of beast it might be. Its step was not greatly different from that of a large dog—except possibly a dog would have made slightly more noise. Yet she couldn't even be sure of this basic premise, because this animal, whatever it might be, had at first seemingly moved with utmost caution, but now took less care with its step than is customary with the wild denizens of the woods. A wolf, for instance, can simply drift when it wishes, and the silence of a cougar is a name. Yet unless her pursuer were a dog, which seemed entirely unlikely, it was certainly one of these two. She would have liked very much to believe the step was that of Old Wool the bear, suddenly curious as to what this dim light of hers might be; but couldn't bring herself to accept the lie. Woof, except when wounded or cornered, is the most amable creature in the Oregon woods, and it would give her almost a sense of security to have him waddling along behind her. The wolves and cougar, remembering the arms of Woof, would not be nearly so curious. But unfortunately, the black bear had never done such a thing in the memory of man, and if he had, he would have made six times as much noise. He can go fairly softly when he is stalking, but when he is obliged to trot—as he would be obliged to do to keep up with a swift-walking human figure—he cracks twigs like a rolling log. She had the impression that the animal behind had been passing like smoke at first, but wasn't taking the trouble to do it now. The sound was a soft pat-pat on the trail—sometimes entirely obliterated but always recurring when she began to believe that she had only fancied its presence. Sometimes a twig, rain-soaked though it was, cracked beneath a heavy foot, and again and again she heard the brush crushing and rustling as something passed through. Sometimes, when the trail was covered with soft pine needles, it was practically indistinguishable. The animal was approximately one hundred feet behind. It wasn't a wolf, she thought. The wolves ran in packs this season, and except in winter were more afraid of human beings than any other living creature. It wasn't a lynx—one of those curiosity-devoured little fellines that will mew all day on a trail and never dare come near. It was much too large for a lynx. The feet fell too solidly. There were no dogs in the mountains to follow at heel; and she had no desire whatever to meet Shag, the faithful hybrid that used to be her guardian in the hills. For Shag had gone to his well-deserved rest several seasons before. Two other possibilities remained. One was that this follower was a human being, the other that it was a cougar. Ordinarily a human being is much more potentially dangerous to a woman in the hills at night than a cougar. A cougar is an abject coward and some men are not. But Snowbird felt herself entirely capable of handling any human foes. They would have no advantage over her; they would have no purpose in killing from ambush; and she trusted to her own marksmanship implicitly. While it is an extremely difficult thing to shoot at a cougar leaping from the thicket, a tall man standing on a trail presents an easy target. Besides, she had a vague sense of discomfort that if this animal were a cougar, he wasn't acting true to form. He was altogether too bold. The animal on the trail behind her was taking no care at all to go silently. He was simply pit-patting along, wholly at his ease. He acted as if the fear that men have instilled in his breed was somehow missing. And that is why she instinctively tried to hurry on the trail. The step kept pace. For a long mile, up a barren ridge, she heard every step it made. Then, as the brush closed deeper around her, she couldn't hear it at all. She hurried on, straining to the silence. No, the sound was stopped. Could it be that the animal, fearful at last, had turned from her trail? And then for the first time a gasp that was not greatly different from a de- J. M. O'Connor She Heard the Steps Again. sparing sob caught at her throat. She heard the steps again, and they were in the thickets just beside her. Two hours before Snowbird had left the house, on her long tramp to the ranger station, Dan had started home. He hadn't shot until sunset, as he had planned. He rode one of Lennox's cattle ponies, the only piece of horse-flesh that Bill had not taken to the valleys when he had driven down the live stock. She was a pretty bay, a spirited, high-bred mare that could whip about on her hind legs at the touch of the rein on her neck. She made good time along the trail. And an hour before sunset he passed the only human habitation between the marsh and Lennox's house—the cabin that had been recently occupied by Landy Hildeth. He glanced at the place as he passed and saw that it was deserted. No smell of wood smoke remained in the air. Evidently Landy had gone down to the settlements with his precious testimony in regard to the arson ring. Yet it was curious that no word had been heard of him. As far as Dan knew, neither the courts nor the forest service had taken action. He hurried on, four miles farther. The trail entered the heavy thickets, and he had to ride slowly. It was as wild a section as could be found on the whole Divide. And just as he came to a little cleared space, three strange, dark birds flung up on wide-spreading wings. He knew them at once. All mountaineers come to know them before their day are done. They were the buzzard, the followers of the dead. And what they were doing in the thicket just beside the trail, Dan did not dare to think. Of course they might be feeding on the body of a deer, mortally wounded by some hunter. He resolved to ride by without investigating. He glanced up. The buzzards were hovering in the sky, evidently waiting for him to pass. Then, mostly to relieve a curious sense of discomfort in his own mind, he stopped his horse and dismounted. The twilight had started to fall, and already its first grayness had begun to soften the harder lines of forest and hill. And after his first glance at the curious white heap beside the trail, he was extremely glad that it had. But there was no chance to mistake the thing. The elements and much more terrible agents had each wrought their change, yet there was grisly evidence in plenty to show what had occurred. Dan didn't doubt for an instant but that it was the skeleton of Landy Hildreth. He forced himself to go nearer. The buzzards were almost done, and one white bone from the shoulder gave unmistakable evidence of the passage of a bullet. What had happened thereafter, he could only guess. He got back quickly on his horse. He understood, now, why nothing had been heard of the evidence that Landy Hildreth was to turn over to the courts as to the activities of the arson ring. Some one—probably Bert Cranston himself—had been waiting on the trail. Others had come thereafter. And his lips set in his resolve to let this murder measure in the debt he had to pay Cranston. The Lennox house seemed very silent when, almost an hour later, he turned his horse into the corral. He had rather hoped that Snowbird would be at the door to meet him. The darkness had just fallen, and all the lamps were lighted. He strode into the living room, warming his hands an instant beside the fireplace. The fire needed fuel. It had evidently been neglected for nearly an hour. Then he called Snowbird. His voice echoed in the silent room, unanswered. He called again, then went to look for her. At the door of the dining room he found the note that she had left for him. It told, very simply and plainly, that her father lay injured in his bed, and he was to remain and do what he could for him. She had gone for help to the ranger station. He leaped through the rooms to Lennox's door, then went in on tiptep. And the first thing he saw when he opened the door was the grizzled man's gray face on the pillow. "You're home early, Dan." he said. "How many did you get?" It was entirely characteristic. Shaggy old Wooof is too proud to howl over the wounds that lay him low, and this gray old bear on the bed had partaken of his spirit. "Good Lord." Dan answered. "How badly are you hurt?" "Not so bad but that I'm sorry that Snowbird has gone drifting twelve miles over the hills for help. It's dark as pitch." And it was. Dan could scarcely make out the outline of the somber ridges against the sky. They talked on, and their subject was whether Dan should remain to take care of Lennox, or whether he should attempt to overtake Snowbird with the horse. Of course the girl had ordered him to stay. Lennox, on the other hand, said that Dan could not help him in the least, and desired him to follow the girl. "I'm not often anxious about her," he said slowly. "But it is a long walk through the wildest part of the Divide. Some way—I can't bar accidents tonight. I don't like to think of her on those mountains alone." And remembering what had lain beside the trail, Dan felt the same. He had heard, long ago, that any animal that once tasted human flesh loses its fear of men and is never to be trusted again. Some wild animal that still hunted the ridges had, in the last month, done just that thing. He left the room and walked softly to the The night lay silent and mysterious over the Divide. He stood listening, "he girl had started only an hour before, and it was unlikely that she could have traversed more than two miles of the steep trail in that time. Although the horse ordinally did not climb a hill more swiftly than a human being, he didn't doubt but that he could overtake her before she went three miles farther. But where lay his duty—with the injured man in the house or with the daughter on her errand of mercy in the darkness? Then the matter was decided for him. So faint that it only whispered at the dim, outer frontiers of hearing, a sound came prickling through the darkness. Only his months of listening to the faint sounds of the forest, and the incredible silence of the night enabled him to hear it at all. But he knew what it was, the report of a pistol. Snowbird met an enemy in the darkness. He called once to Lennox, snatched the shotgun that still stood where he had placed it in the corner of the room, and hastened to the corral. The mare whickered plaintively when he took her from her food. When Snowbird first heard the step in the thickets beside her, she halted bravely and held her lantern high. She understood at last. The very extremity of the beams found a reflection in two very curious circles of greenish fire: a fire that was old upon the world before man ever rubbed two sticks together to strike a flame. Of course the dim rays had simply been reflected on the eyes of some great beast of prey. She identified it at once. Only the eyes of the fellines, with vertical pupils, have this identical greenish glare. The eyes of the wolves glow in the darkness, but the circles are usually bright points. Of course it was a cougar. She didn't cry out again. Realizing at last the reality of her peril, her long training in the mountains came to her aid. That did not mean she was not truly and terribly afraid. The beast was hunting her. She couldn't doubt this fact. Curiosity might make a lion follow her, but it would never beget such a wild light of madness in his eyes as this she had just seen. She simply clamped down all her moral strength on her rising hysteria and looked her situation in the face. Her hand flew instinctively to her side, and the pistol leaped in the lantern light. 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The echoes roared back, unbelievably loud in the silence, and abruptly died; and the only sound was a rustling of leaves as the cougar crouched. She sobbed once, then hurried on. She was afraid to listen at first. She wanted to believe that her pistol fire would frighten the animal from her trail. She knew, under ordinary conditions, that it would. If he still followed, it could mean but one thing—that some unheard-of incident had occurred to destroy his fear of men. It would mean that he had knowingly set upon her trail and was hunting her with all the age-old remorselessness that is the code of the mountains. For a little while all was silence. Then out of the hush the thickets suddenly crashed and shook on the opposite side of the trail. She fired blindly into the thicket. Then she caught herself with a sob. But two shells remained in her pistol, and they must be saved for the test. Whisperfoot the cougar, remembering the lessons of his youth, turned from the trail when he had first heard Snowbird's step. He had crouched and let her pass. She was walking into the wind; and as she was at the closest point a message had blown back to him. The hair went straight on his shoulders and along his spine. His blood, running cold an instant before from fear, made a great leap in his veins. A picture came in his dark mind: the chase for a deer when the moon had set, the stir of a living thing that broke twigs in the thickets, and the leap he had made. There had been blood, that night—the wildness and the madness and the exultation of the kill. Of course there had been terror first, but the terror had soon departed and left something lying warm and still in the thickets. It was the same game that walked his trail in front—game that died easily and yet, in a vague way he did not understand, the noblest game of all. It was living flesh, to tear with talon and fang. All his training, all the instincts imbued in him by a thousand generations of cougars who knew this greatest fear, were simply obliterated by the sudden violence of his hunting-madness. He had tasted this blood once, and it could never be forgotten. The flame leaped in his eyes. And then he began the stalk. A cougar, trying to creep silently on its game, does not move quickly. It simply steals, as a serpent steals through the grass. Whisperfoot stalked for a period of five minutes, to learn that the prey was farther away from him at every step. He trotted forward until he came close, and again he stalked. Again he found, after a few minutes of silent creeping through the thickets, that he had lost distance. Evidently this game did not feed slowly, like the deer. It was to be a chase, then. Again he trotted within one hundred feet of the girl. Three times more he tried to stalk before he finally gave it up altogether. This game was like the porcupine—simply to be chased down and taken. And in the case of all animals that hunt their game by overtaking it, there was no longer any occasion for going silent. The thing to do was to come close and spring from the trail behind. Though the fear was mostly gone, the cougar retained enough of that caution that most wild animals exhibit when hunting a new game so that he didn't attempt to strike Snowbird down at once. But as the chase went on, his passion grew upon him. Ever he crept nearer. And at last he sprang full into the thickets beside her. (Continued Next Week) Mr. Leonard G. Hyman of the Office of Public Debt, who has been attending the Brunel College of Art and Photography, New York, has returned to the city. Fortune Teller T FOR YOU? Spendthrift habits, wasted earn- ings, get-rich-quick speculations lead finally to poverty and want WHEN YOU ARE TOO OLD ORK? 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Wh do we know about our city, particularly one is of the opinion that we should know more that it would make for racial solidarity if we knew the full status of our 114,633 this great Capital City. The dominant one is to be constructive in all ways posse shall present from time to time instructing with some factor of our life that it is any and what kind of businesses have we? Various professions? How many schools, schools, charitable institutions, nurses, police department employees have we in proportion to Are we living up to our opportunities here? With the highest percentage of educated this country, are we using this powerful all other cities in economic advancement? Are pertinent questions that should vitally en of Washington. What are we doing to improve our status, to serve humanity? According to latest police census of Washington there are 455,438 people living in this city, of which 114,632 are colored and 370,796 are white. How much do we know about our city, particularly our group? The Tribune is of the opinion that we should know more about ourselves; that it would make for racial solidarity and appreciation if we knew the full status of our 114,632 people inhabiting this great Capital City. The dominant policy of the Tribune is to be constructive in all ways possible. To this end we shall present from time to time instructive information dealing with some factor of our life that makes for progress. How many and what kind of businesses have we? How many are in the various professions? How many schools, churches, playgrounds, charitable institutions, nurses, policemen, firemen, Government employees have we in proportion to our population? Are we living up to our opportunities here in Washington? With the highest percentage of educated people of any city in this country, are we using this powerful advantage in leading all other cities in economic advancement? These are pertinent questions that should vitally concern every citizen of Washington. What are we doing as individuals to improve our status, to serve humanity? DISCRIMINATION IN WASHINGTON FAVORS COLORED GOLFER East Potomac golf course will in the futur the exclusive use of colored players from of the day each Tuesday, Col. C. O. Day. three-hole course in West Potomac Park "The East Potomac golf course will in the future be reserved for the exclusive use of colored players from 3 o'clock to the end of the day each Tuesday, Col. C. O. Sherrill stated today. "The three-hole course in West Potomac Park will be reserved for the exclusive use of colored players from 12 o'clock noon until the end of the day each Wednesday. "During these periods no white players will be allowed on these courses." The above article appeared in a daily paper this week and is the latest pronouncement of racial segregation and discrimination in the Capital City. It is an evidence of the growing Southern sentiment that has pervaded the Capital and permeated every phase of welfare and recreational life of the colored citizens of the City. This golf segregation is starting just like everything else has started, by setting aside certain hours or days for colored people. It will end up with complete denial of the privilege. Fifteen years ago all the citizens of the city bathed at the same beach. Today there is a fine sanitary beach at Tidal Basin but no one of color is permitted to enter the beach. In baseball, there was the time when everybody played together on the same diamonds and often with mixed teams. Today, diamond number 8 is the only one on which colored men can play baseball. Segregated, sure thing, and within sight of the White House. Tennis a favored game among all classes of people in the city, has been put under the ban of discrimination and colored people can only use a court on the Monument grounds on Wednesdays. Even in the great sing given on the Ellipse Friday, June the 3d, distinct lines separated the colored from the white children on this Government's own property, where the President of the United States was given an ovation by the children of the City. While all of this discrimination is being practiced in the Capital of the United States, there is not one word in the organic law of this country that condones, sanctions or permits it. It is done by the brazen so called Christian (?) egotists who are forever proclaiming their "superiority" and proceed to demonstrate it by forcing a weaker and more humble people to accept their "wise and Christian" judgment as to what these people are to have and where they are to go, regardless of their desires in the matter. - If a sanitary bathing beach is necessary for 300,000 people of this city, then by what process of reasoning can Col. C. O. Sherrill arrive at the conclusion that 100,000 other people do not need the same facilities? If they need it—and they do—then by what law does he withhold from this 100,000 the privilege of bathing in the Tidal Basin? Who gives him the authority to say that the East Potomac golf course will in the future be reserved for the EXCLUSIVE use of colored players from 3 o'clock to the end of the day each Tuesday? Discrimination, rank discrimination ordered by Col. C. O. Sherrill, an official of the great United States Government. These conditions have been brought about by the supposed leaders of Washington acquiescing in segregation until it became the custom. Take this case of golf. There will be some "Uncle Toms" who will go over and play golf during the exclusive hours for colored people. Washington needs men with iron in their blood, determination in their hearts and racial consciousness sufficiently developed to distinguish between discrimination and a little money. If their positions are such that they cannot express themselves then that disqualifies them as leaders; for any man who surrenders his moral conviction for his job is not worthy of leadership. The Tribune takes the position that we would rather not have a bathing beach if we must have a special bill to authorize an exclusive beach for colored people. Just like this designation of the golf course. Do you get that—"exclusive use of colorful players"? Those links should remain there until doomsday before any race man who appreciates his race should be caught playing there. The welfare of the race is far more important than the position that any one person may hold under this government. And when men are willing to surrender their racial welfare for personal aggrandizement, their power for good in the race ceases. Our people are alive to the fact that the "Uncle Toms" are more of a hindrance than a help to the progress of this race, and the sooner they are eliminated the better it will be. Much of this discrimination that has become the custom here was brought about by these "Uncle Toms." What will you do about it? Are you filling a position of such nature that your hands are tied or have you the moral courage of your convictions and are you willing to play the hero part and lend your moral support to eliminate this Southern inroad discrimination and humiliation? The Tribune is asking every citizen—What will you do about your welfare here? FIRST PLACE IN CONTEST GOES TO J. F. B. (Continued from Page 1) may be able to get possession of some of the wealth therein. If we do not, the white men are going to monopolize the theatre business and absorb all the wealth therein. We must support our business men in order that they may become strong. Our race needs what the Jews have already, men of wealth, like the Kanns, Sacks, Goldenbergs, Hechts, Garfinkles, and Lansburgs. We must as a race do more hard thinking. We must awake to the fact that the white theatre proprietors do not need our support. If they did, they would not treat us as they do. We need among us, strong and wealthy business men who are able to compete with business men of other races. Business men among us who are in the position to employ our boys and girls in any section of the country. Until we as a race meet these conditions, we will continue to suffer what all dependent and fondling people endure. (Second Prize) By Wm. H. Wilkerson. Jr. The predominant and outstanding features relevant to the title are racial. Race pride, race advancement, racial strength, race confidence, race solidarity, and racial opportunity all contribute their sane, vital, and omnipotent arguments on this burning subject. The very title of this essay brands it as a racial matter. And, since that is so, the first—and by far the strongest—reason why we should support our own theatres is pride in our race. And pride in our race should mean that we will give every ounce of our support—financial, moral and argumentative—to our own business enterprises and thereby help them to succeed and expand. Our slogan should be "Our Race First, Others Afterwards." In other words do our duty to our own; then any overflow business we could—with self-consciousness that we had done our duty to our race—let the white theatre have. But never the white theatre first. For then it becomes a joke upon ourselves. To have our theatres succeed—and they can, and will, if we all give careful thought always as to where we spend our money—means race advancement. For, each successful Negro enterprise gives that many more opportunities for members of our race to be employed by others of our group, and not have to work for the white man with his overbearing, hateful air of superiority. It displays to the world that we know our strength and how to use it; that we are not weaklings. By supporting our theatres the financial strength of the race is enhanced. The money is kept within the race, to be used by our business men in promoting other—and larger—enterprises. With this financial strength comes confidence in ourselves and in our race. It awakens us to our worth and business ability, and shows to the world our solidarity; also inspiring the rank and file of us to invest in new ventures by our people. Whereas, failures of our businesses bring about doubts and fears as to the success or failure of any proposition and of the business foresight and ability of the race. The white theatre does not offer us the opportunity to invest our money in the stock of the concern; this stock is held entirely by white men. It is a case of our giving all and getting nothing in return. We can buy stock in our own theatres, thereby sharing in the profits. This is a vital reason for supporting our theatres. When we attend the white theatres we are aiding our enemies—aiding those who really hate us—encouraging them to further hurt us, at the same time, giving our own theatres a stab in the back. Also, we are encouraging other white men to open more theatres for our people, to the detriment of our own, with its attendant loss of revenue and a possible going to the wall. By all means support our own theatres, and do not let the white exploit us. CHURCH SEEKS BETTER FEELING BETWEEN RACES (Continued from Page 1) Christianity was only a factional message." Again he said: "We can not have a pure Democracy with mental reservations." "Generally," Mr. Tobias said "when the white people think of doing anything for welfare, educa- tion, civic welfare etc., they only think of the Negro as after that. He is not taken in to the first consideration at all." "The Negro," said he, "cannot remain in contact with all of these things and not become a part of them." Bishop Smith suggested that we call an armistice and hold conferences and get a better understanding of all conditions and work from that forward. Mrs. Luke Johnson, of Georgia, made an interesting speech, telling of her efforts to secure better relation between the colored and white women of the south. She told of the meetings they had had in Memphis and Atlanta. She said: "The colored women of the south held the keynote to the situation." In speaking of Mrs. Booker T. Washington she said: "To know her is to respect her." "We, the women of the South" said Mrs. Johnson, "intend to go to the root of this evil and show what the gospel can do." J. A. G. LuValle, of the Tribune was present and was introduced by the chairman. He said: "After listening to all that has been said, there is one fundamental starting point to answer the question of what can the church do in this relation. I would have the white church to know first, that the colored man has lost confidence in the white man's religion. First re-establish confidence with the colored people and all these other suggestions will work out themselves." HOLD MANY IMPORTANT JOBS AT FUSSELL CO. Continued from Page 1 they left, those that were not let out, and secured positions with the Fussell Company. Not a single complaint was heard from a colored employee of the Fussell Company. They all say that Mr. Young is a fine man to work with and ever shows the spirit of consideration and human kindness. We had heard a number of persons about the city say that "Fussell's cream is really better than the other cream we get here at the stores." Upon inquiry at the factory we found that there is no law here which specifies the percentage of "butter fat" that must enter into the formula for ice cream; but Mr. Young inform us, while showing us the laboratory, that their cream would not vary more than 1-10 of one per cent from 10 per cent butter fat. Since the quality of ice cream depends largely upon the percentage of butter fat, you have the answer as to why "Fussell's" seems better than the rest. Last week we gave the names of some of the druggists who had the nerve to stand up for human consideration of the race and its rights, by kicking "Velvet Kind" out because of the discrimination in April on the Ellipse by the Company that makes that brand of ice cream. This week we are adding the names of The Ross Pharmacy, 10th and R Streets, N.W.; Pride's Pharmacy, 28th and P streets, N.W.; Pope's Drug Store, 1309 H St. N. E.; Water's Confectionery, 28th and Dunbarton streets, N. 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