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Illustrated FEATURE SECTION Washington Tribune BORN Tuckahoe, Md. Feb. 9. 1817 DIED Anacostia, D.C. Feb. 20. 1895 ABOLITIONIST DIPLOMAT What the Race Owes to Frederick Douglass FIRST PRIZE, $10 Miss Ruth D. Anderson 2828 Erato Street New Orleans, La. HE American Negro's social heritage is greatly enriched by such noble and exemplary lives as that of Frederick Douglass. As part proof that we are worthy heirs to HE American Negro's social heritage is greatly enriched by such noble and exemplary lives as that of Frederick Douglass. As part proof that we are worthy heirs to this social heritage we owe to this great leader a realization of what he stood for and a willingness to let this realization encourage us to contemplate visions in the pursuit of which bleeding feet will not count. Frederick Douglas was an eloquent lecturer and revealer of truth who always dared to stand for the right. He was not repelled or even stunned by persecution or humiliation. We owe it to him to incarnate in our lives his virtues. What great men devise little men at least may copy. We cannot be martys for freedom from slavery; but we can sponsor political and social freedom, which has not yet been attained; or we can advocate the abortion of some evil of national or racial significance. We owe it to Frederick Douglass to remain true to our own people and to exhaust our reservoirs of ideas for their welfare. We owe it to this great man to let his life be a galvanizing force in our lives which impels us to action. His was a time of beginnings for the race, ours is a time ripe for accomplishment. It is no tribute for us merely to review his life and works; but it is a tribute and is our debt to him to take his life as an example, to look into the future, and to mount seemingly insurmountable barriers, proving ourselves martyrs for social, political, economic and educational freedom. To hereby produce men and women whose worth will be recognized by the community, state, or even the country is our debt to Frederick Douglass—the debt of a race. SECOND PRIZE, $7 Mrs. Gertrude C. Hopkins 178 West 137th Street New York City For every Negro to exemplify the life of Frederick Douglass would be the greatest tribute an appreciative race could bestow upon the memory of this immortal statesman. To fight for a cause, as he fought; to be as uncompromising in the fight for right, as he was; to be as true, honest, sincere, whole-hearted in the fight against racial oppression, as he was—are the only ways to pay our debt of gratitude to one who suffered and dared, that we might enjoy privileges made possible by his many sacrifices. Let us consider five items that we will place in the debit column of our ledger in our account with Mr. Douglass. We owe it to him to— 1. Become better educated ourselves, and sacrifice to better educate our children; 2. Influence the ignorant and rowdy of our race, teach them the value of pride in self, pride in conduct, pride in race; 3. Refrain from the use of the word "nigger" and reprimand those who habitually use the word; 4. Be uncompromising with jim-crowism, avoiding all places where seargation is practiced; 5. Deport ourselves as good citizens should, demanding, expecting and accepting nothing less than what is due law-abiding citizens. To wipe out these items we observe that Education will eliminate ignorance and rowdyism; the elimination of these two attributes would eradicate our habit of race belittlement, thus giving to us a deeper sense of pride; pride in one's self begets respect; respect demands consideration—fair-play—from others; fair-play offers equality of opportunity; opportunity means the open door to freedom and happiness. To aspire to and attain freedom and happiness in the fullest sense of the words was the dearest dream of Frederick Douglass. We must carry on in his name—for that is a duty we owe to his memory. THIRD PRIZE, $5 John W. Douglas 26 Thomas Street Clean, Wholesome and Refreshing DIED Anacostia, D.C. Feb. 20, 1895 PLOMAT Douglass Newark, New Jersey The progress made by the Negro in the past sixty-six years is attributable largely to the pioneer efforts of Frederick Douglass. This is our debt to him. First, the story of his life refutes the theories of Negro inferiority. His natural abilities were far greater than many who claimed to be his superiors. He towered above those who attempted to belittle him. He was a great orator in an age when oratory was in flower; he was an able writer at a time when America boasted of its literary excellence; born in the depressing environment of slavery, he lifted himself by the sheer force of an indomitable personality to the heights of success. But this success is not measured so much by what Douglass did for himself as by what he accomplished for his race. Himself a fugitive slave, he fought the system with all the power of his fiery eloquence and trenchant pen. He early became connected with that staunch trivirrate (Continued on page 11) ```markdown ``` Race Actress Attains Fame Mother Objected to Her Stage Career at First By EDWARD G. PERRY A. Evelyn Ellis. She is the female star of "Porgy," the Theater Guild production, playing the part of Bess. S A member of a dramatic club when she was in her teens, Evelyn Ellis played the piano and made the off-stage noises. She did these things, being too shy to appear in any of the plays. One day a fellow-member asked her to appear in a classical play that was being produced by one of the Harlem theaters. the plays. One day a fellow-member asked her to appear in a classical play that was being produced by one of the Harlem theaters. She told him she could not say lines. He informed her they would have no lines to say, since they were to be used as pages and attendants. They were to pay fifteen dollars per week, and the play would run two weeks. Miss Ellis was buying a coat-suit and hat to match, on which she had paid down. The money for this work would help her to get these things sooner than she had expected. Miss Ellis' mother, Mrs. Marie Carter, had hopes of her daughter being a school teacher. In high school, and later at the formally normal department of Hunter College, New York City, her rating was always very high. Having been born in Boston, and reared in Albany, N. Y., during her early childhood, one can easily understand her mother's objections to her daughter appearing on the stage. But fate has its way, and she again appeared in a play as a maid. Later she appeared in several sketches with Frank Wilson, now playing the title role in the Theater Guild's play "Porgy." Then came her association with the Lafayette Stock Players, first doing small parts, and then ingenue roles Miss Ellis is proud of her early connection with this group of players and often speaks with the greatest gratitude of those older actors who helped her to acquire a knowledge of the stage which no dramatic school can teach. For the stage is one profession —Aframerican Fables The Parable of Misguided Genius By G. V. GARVIN ONCE upon a time there was a lad with pronounced peculiarities who early in life bore all the earmarks of being a whiz on the piano. When a small child he had a habit of crawling up on the stool and whanging out discords with a zest that caused his parents a severe pain in the head, but also instilled them with an idea that their darling one was destined to make Paderewski look to his laurels. When anyone would interrupt him in the midst of these manifestations he would squelch and begin throwing things; all of which was the necessity. The old chance to of the fan with variety the lad expretation a kid got clue the family of him doi heads. We bootleggers majors and About t A with experience the master. Charles Gilpin, whose fame was won as the Emperor in "The Emperor Jones," asked her to appear with him in Nan Bagby Stephen's play "Roseanne," in which Rose McClendon was to play the title role. The following is a quotation from a review of the play in the New York Sun, which shows she proved herself an artist, according to the standards of Broadway criticism, long before some of her later acclaimed contemporaries: "But that the ideal condition is racial identity in combination with histrionic ability was conclusively demonstrated by Evelyn Ellis, who played superbly the part of Leola, Roseanne's loving and timid little sister who falls a victim to the preacher's lust. No shade of feeling was lost by Miss Ellis, and if the rest of the company had reached the level of her performance this all-Negro production of 'Roseanne' would have been all we had hoped." In the Spring of 1927 E. H. Culberson's "Goat Alley" was produced at the Princess Theater, New York, with Miss Ellis making her formal bow to Broadway in the leading role. The morning following the opening of the play she saw the following headline on the theatrical page of the New York American: "Fame at Last for Miss Ellis," and the review in part: "Opportunity comes seldom, but it was opportunity which knocked at the door of Evelyn Ellis, leading woman of E. H. Culberson's 'Goat Alley' at the Princess Theater. Miss Ellis, long the leading woman of the Lafayette Players in Harlem, gives a gripping picture of tragic Lucy Belle in 'Goat Alley.'" When the Theater Guild of New York was casting "Porgy," Dorothy and Dubose Heyward's play, the character Bess, which is the leading woman's part in the play, was given Miss Ellis. Since the opening night of the play some of the leading dramatic critics in the country have sald her interpretation of the character is done with depth and understanding, intense grace, a sense of artistic proportion that prevents the character from being overdone, as "Lulu Belle" was overdone by Lenora Ulric, and with one magic moment at the wake, when her strong, commanding voice rises above the crooning into a "happy spiritual," furnishes one of the really great electrical thrills in contemporary drama. She has been married, and divorced on a mutual agreement. Social life has very little that attracts her, so most of her leisure hours are spent at home, where she is devoted to her mother and stepfather. Being pretty, her admirers are many, and poets are one of the types of men she attracts most, for they have written many verses about and to her. Incidentally she loves to read poetry, and many moments are spent with her favorites—Helne, Oscar Wilde, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. She has great confidence in the ability of the young Negro, and often discusses his problems, defending his viewpoints. Although she is a very delicate person, she gives all of her strength to her work as an actress. Each day sees her star beaming brighter, throwing a pleasant ray for others who follow. which was indicative of eccentricity, the necessary attribute of genius. The old folks gave the youth every chance to develop his talent. Plenty of the family income was expended with various pedagogs who taught the lad expression, technique, interpretation and what have you. The kid got clever with the ivories, and the family began to entertain visions of him doing his lay-out before royal heads, Wall street aces, and big bootleggers. The lad really knew his majors and minors. About the time of his reaching ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION man was white, the other was brown. Claude Amos, manager of the store, said to the Negro, "Why are you leaving us 'Gene?' You've been with us now about four years. Haven't we treated you right?" Eugene Horner replied, "Mr. Amos you have treated me fine. The reason I'm leaving is I want to go into business for myself." This resolution, made almost twelve years ago, decided whether E. G. Horner, now successful furniture and hardware dealer at Boulder, Colo., would always be a tool for the other man, or whether he would launch out for himself to sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish. For many years before that resolution was made, Eugene Horner had travelled in disappointing circles that led to nowhere. At the age of twelve years he moved with his parents from the town of his birth, Saline, Louisiana, into the state of Arkansas on a small farm a few miles north of Little Rock. Christmas day, 1898, at the age of 21, he was married to Elizabeth Nicholson at Jacksonville, Ark., where he began life on his own account as a railroad section hand. For the next twenty years he almost outdid Ulysses in discovering new "cities of men and manners, climates. . . ." Oklahoma, Colorado, California, Kansas, New Mexico, are some of the states in which he tried to solve the age-old riddle of "in what place and what way shall I succeed?" Colorado answered for him. He had already worked as farm laborer, railroad section hand, roundhouse helper, janitor and warehouse man in a furniture store. It was in the last named capacity that Eugene Horner found himself and decided to become a merchant. voting age, he was struck with the idea that while he was good and getting better fast, he never was going to cause any great furor in the realm of classical jingles. The discovery didn't tend to cause him any peace of mind in view of the fact that he wanted to cash in on all that study, and he also found himself developing quite a longing for a certain Miss whose chief stock in trade seemed to be thinking up new ways to spend somebody's, dough. He realized that to put across both of these ideas he would have to hook up with some scheme that paid big and with uninterrupted regularity. It was while he was cogitating on this problem that the world conceived an idea that it wanted to dance. Jazz broke out all over it like bubonic plague in Asia. Hitherto staid feet got to twitching whenever they came in contact with any strain played in four-four tempo, and the saxophone became as well known an instrument as the safety razor. People began to judge time by the nights on which there was to be a big stomp somewhere within an Eugene Horner Took a Circle Route to Success Doing Good Business in Colorado Town By HERBERT HENEGAN CLOSETS Eugene Horner and his store. WO MEN were talking quietly one Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1917 in the warehouse of Amos & Co.'s furniture and hardware store at Rockyford, Colorado. One "After I had Co. four years that I knew ground up, I came to me, for the other make some for OUTDID ULYSSES I "After I had been with Amos & Co. four years," he related, "I knew that I knew the business from the ground up. One day the thought came to me, "I am making money for the other fellow; why can't I make some for myself?" Right away I began to look out for a suitable location for I was determined to go for myself. I was tired of punching the other man's clock! "A man who lived in Albuquerque, N. M., learned that I wanted to open up a business and he was eager for me to look his town over. When I arrived at his establishment I found him gambling with some friends, and that discovery killed my plans for locating there. He had hinted at a partnership but I learned early in life that gambling, women, booze and business will never mix. "On coming to Boulder, Colo., I liked things from the start. I bought out an old German who operated a general repair shop, for $165. A few years later I bought the building in which my store is located and also purchased a home here," he concluded. ONLY NEGRO MERCHANT Eugene Horner is the only Negro merchant in Boulder and ninety-five per cent of his trade comes from the whites. He has a good rating with Dunn and Bradstreet. His store, located in the business district on Pearl street, is a two-story brick structure 25x150. He was reluctant to discuss finance, however he said that last year was dull and he made $2,000. He paid $164 in taxes on all property. His home on Water street is worth $3,500 and he values his merchandise and building at $16,000. Both the home and the business places are adequately protected by insurance. He is a $32° Mason and is the father of six children. "E. G. HORNER, FURNITURE AND HARDWARE," to the average Boulderite is just another store, but to the proprietor, that legend signifies the fulfillment of a dream and the realization of a vision of a man who had faith in himself. available distance. The aged and the adolescent spent long hours at getting the low-down on the fox trot and other pedal movements pertaining to things terpsichore. Charleston contests grabbed off more limelight than the carryings-on of the president, and the Twelfth Street Rag became the national anthem. Anybody that couldn't shuffle a mean hoof was about as popular at a social clustering as a Grand Kleagle in a synagogue. It was then that the key thumping boy hied himself over to an adjoining city and studied the secret of hot left hand harmony. Upon mastering this, he gathered unto himself several other young men who were short on Beethoven and Wagner, but who were correspondingly long on Berlin and Handy, and moulded together about as torrid an outfit as ever dispensed perfect rhythm and syncopation. This gang of melodians set sail to please the hoofing hosts, and the job they made of it was reminiscent of Caesar's return from Gaul. The lad hobnobbed with the upper crust, gave interviews, knocked down piles of jack, grabbed off the girl and set the old folks for life. He was considered the greatest find of the century. IF THE HIGHWAY IS CLOSED, TRY A DETOUR. CHATS About BOOKS By GEORGE S. SCHUYLER SCARLET SISTER MARY. By Julia Peterkin. Published by Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind. $2.50. Mrs. Peterkin's book will be of absorbing interest to its readers whether or not they know anything about the black folk on plantations in the remote sections of South Carolina. It is such good literature that you expect the characters to step right 570 Julia Peterkin from the pages at any time. The author has pictured this side of life understandingly and accurately, without patronage or caricature. Her Negroes are not clowns and brutes but merely human beings caught in the meshes of fate and environment. Having lived the greater part of her life on the plantation of which she writes, the author knows intimately the people about her, their trials, tribulations and triumphs. In "Scarlet Sister Mary" Mrs. Peterkin seems to have surpassed in excellence both her "Green Thursday" and "Black April." Briefly the story is that of a young Negro girl, Mary, an orphan, ignorant and unlettered, like the rest of the Negroes on the plantation. She marries a gay black fellow, July, against the will and advice of her guardians, old Maum Hannah and crippled Budda Ben. The couple live happily for a time, but soon July tires of the restriction of matrimony and runs off with a black vamp named Cinder, leaving Mary to shift for herself as best she can, with a babe, Unex. in arms. Mary is much upset by July's persidy, but she bravely readjusts herself after a profitable visit to the local voodoo man, and starts anew to get the most pleasure, illicit and otherwise, out of life. After fifteen years, we find her perfectly at ease, surrounded by almost a dozen children of numerous fathers. Then July returns. He begs Mary to take him back but she refuses and sends him away. The story ends with Mary again being accepted by the Christians of the community who had previously ousted her from the church because of her way of life. A GREAT SLAVE MUTINY How many Negroes know that a group of slaves en route from Africa for the West Indies once revolted, selzed the slave ship and tried to return to Africa. Well, it happened and it is an interesting story. In the summer of 1839, the crew of the slaver, Amistad, went ashore on the African coast and kidnapped some Negroes from Lenboko in the Mendi Country, near Liberia. They were taken to Havana where fifty-three of them were purchased by Jose Rulz and Pedro Montes, and were re-embarked on the Amistad for Guanajah, Porto Principe. On the fifth night out, the slaves rose under the leadership of Joseph Cinquez, killed the captain (Continued on Page 11) STRUGGLING HEARTS February 9, 1929 ZOLA, a beautiful cabaret dancer, seeks to save David Conway, a country town youth, from the machinations of Big Ott, a gang leader. David, in prison, thinks that Zola is responsible for his arrest, but from some mysterious motive of chivalry decides to suffer the consequences of the crime, which may lead to the gallows. Because he thinks Zola may interfere with his plans, Big Ott has her kid-naped by the Chocolate Kid, an aviator, and taken to The Nest, a cabin in the woods owned by Anson Bledsoe, a hypocritical young sheik of David's home town and one of David's bitterest enemies. Zola escapes from the cabin and after a perilous trip through the forest hides in the underbrush, awaiting the night to cross the open fields, where The Chocolate Kid has landed his airplane that morning, guided by a fire. While she is in hiding Big Ott and young Barry Dwane, a weakling who is in his power, stand near her hiding place. Barry sees her and leads Big Ott away. Then he returns and signals her to go to the blaze when night falls. She does and the Chocolate Kid helps her to his plane, telling her if she will not help David he will stand by her. She learns David has been indicted and— CHAPTER 6 S the great plane rose with a roar Zola's heart missed a beat and the blood pounded in her ears. So, David was dicted. That meant that Big Ott's plan was work- S the great plane rose with a roar Zola's heart missed a beat and the blood pounded in her ears. So, David was dicted. That meant that Big Ott's plan was working. Well, it would mean greater danger for her to interfere now. But in spite of everything she must go on with her efforts to help the boy who had gotten himself into this grave difficulty for her sake, even though he was not aware of it. Not only must she outwit Big Ott now, she must align herself against the Chocolate Kid and Barry. Her small, round chin grew strangely hard and firm and her red lips tightened. There was grim purpose in her eyes. In the blackness just preceding dawn Zola found herself again at the end of Searcy boulevard, climbing into a low, black car. But this time only Barry was her companion, an openly friendly Barry now, without the repressive presence of Big Ott. Behind and above them they heard the whirr of the Chocolate Kid's big plane as he took off to circle around and above the town back to the other side, where he would house his plane in its hangar before joining them again. "You see, you'll be perfectly safe in the Kid's apartment, Zola. The gang will never dream of your being there after he has kidnapped you for Big Ott, all you got to do is lay low. Of course I hope they won't be able to hang the croaking of old Fredmann onto him, but—you ain't got no call to get yourself in bad with Big Ott's gang an' that's what trying to save him will do for you. It has already, you see." The boy spoke matter-of-factly, assured of the common sense point of view of what he said. But the golden skinned woman at his side did not answer him. Her eyes were quiet and steadfast, though. A LUXURIOUS APARTMENT The luxurious apartment that the Chocolate Kid maintained was located near the outskirts of the big city, only a few blocks from the flying field and far from the haunts of the underworld that he contacted only in a business way. Here, in the protecting safety of a super-respectable neighborhood Zola found herself comparatively free to carry out her plans. With the friendly admonition to keep well within the confines of her hiding place, although making it plain that otherwise her freedom was unrestricted, the Chocolate Kid went about his own affairs. Left alone Zola began immediately to plan her course of action. Without delay she took stock of her resources. Fortunately her small black purse still contained the whole of her inconsiderable two weeks' salary that she had received two days earlier. She smiled contentedly as she counted it. At least she would have funds to maintain herself until she could formulate her plans. The rattle and bang of the elevated just outside her window brought a sudden light to her eyes. She looked out and her expression cleared and seemed to focus with relief. "His mother!" she breathed the word almost revently and there was a sudden gladness in her voice, "she will know what to do. I will go to her." With feverish eagerness she began to collect her few belongings. There were two dresses that Barry had brought to replace the torn and beadragged garments in which she had escaped, another small red hat and A "Silently Nancy Conway shot the bolt inside just as a hand turned the knob outside" by CORA BALL MOTEN a neat new coat. Hurriedly bundling one of the dresses and the change of underclothing into a small, compact bundle, she donned the other and, settling the becoming hat firmly on her raven's wing hair, threw the coat about her shoulders and let herself quietly out of the apartment. Outside of the city the elevated glided smoothly into the long stretch of the level surban lines railway that connected the small towns for miles around by electrified service with the great metropolis. Zola settled "Silently Nancy Conway shot the knob herself comfortably beside the window. She breathed a long sigh of relief. Her mind galloped ahead of her to the home of the boy and to the unknown mother whose heart she knew must be so weary with sorrow. A FAINT GLEAM OF HOPE Nancy Conway saw the top of the little red hat through the leaves of the great tree just outside David's old room. She laid aside the tiny baby shoes that she had been fondling. Her eyes were wet with tears. Hurriedly she brushed a brown, wrinkled hand across them and went down to the door. The big iron knocker had dropped against the oaken panels of the door a second time before she got to the bottom of the long, narrow stairway. When she opened it the golden woman standing there was half turning away, a look of intense disappointment on her face. As the gentle, dark eyes of Nancy Conway met the soft brown ones of the stranger they both smiled—Zola with relief, the older woman with a quick rush of friendliness. "Come in," she said. Zola entered. She followed David's mother into the high-celled front room and sat down on the old-fashioned sofa beside her. For a moment the two women regarded each other, then, with a little rush of breath, Zola spoke: "I have come about David, Mrs. Conway. I know you are his mother; they told me at the house on the corner where to find you, and your eyes, that are so like David's eyes, tell me the rest." At the quick flush and the sudden draining of color from Nancy Conway's wrinkled cheeks when she mentioned her son Zola placed her hand over the brown wrinkled ones in a gesture of help and sympathy. The elder woman did not speak, but her eyes pleaded. "I think I know a way to help him. I know he is not guilty." She spoke in a hasty attempt to assure the mother of some hope in what she knew was her dark hour. Her words brought a sudden brightness into the tired face. "Thank God, oh, thank God! I knew my baby could not have done this awful thing." The expression of faith from the dancer had released the flood gates of her own agony of desire to believe. The word of sym- --- ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION pathetic desire to help was the one thing that could have come to her in this time of loneliness which could bring comfort and some measure of peace. A PLAN "He did not do it, Mrs. Conway; I know he did not do it. But the man who did it is powerful and merciless. He will stop at nothing to shift this dreadful crime of his to David's shoulders and—unless God Himself helps us he will succeed. But I have a plan—a plan that you, his mother, must help me carry out." She paused and looked at the older woman. "What is it? What can I do? Oh, I would do anything, anything," her voice was strained with eagerness. bolt inside just as a hand turned the outside" She bent forward, every nerve taut with repressed emotions, probing anxiously into the dark eyes of the beautiful woman who still held her hands in a warm clasp. "First, we must see the prosecutor. It is necessary that I see him, but—it is dangerous for me to make the attempt alone. Should I try to go to his office alone I would never reach it. The man who is responsible for David's trouble would hesitate at nothing. He has already had me kid-naped and my life is not safe if he finds me before I have given my knowledge into the keeping of some person in authority. He knows that I can endanger his plans. He knows also that David—David—is very—dear to me." David's mother looked up quickly. Her keen old eyes scanned the flushed face and down dropped golden lids understandingly. This time her gnarled old hand was the one to slip comfortingly over the slender, smoothly golden one. It closed with a tender meaning in its clasp and held for a moment warmly as they sat silently understanding each other. "What shall I do, my dear?" there was the 'finality of complete acquiescence in the old woman's tones. "First, let me stay here in hiding until the time of the trial. Second, give me pen and paper that I may make a record of the things I know, and, third, keep all knowledge of my presence here from David. Now--you must go in and make an appointment with the prosecutor for me, take the letter that I shall write to him, but do not tell him where I am--yet. He, too, may be under the domination of the powerful gang controlled by the man who is persecuting David. Even the law is not free from the sinister influence of this evil force. We must move carefully and surely if we would make sure of our own safety and David's final vindication. MRS. CONWAY AGREES MRS. CONWAY AGREES As the girl spoke Nancy Conway's face became grave with apprehensive consideration. Then, when she had finished, there was the steady, purposeful light of one who had arrived at some momentous decision in her eyes. "My dear," she said, and her voice was calm and (Continued on Page 19) Columbia A SNAKE don't die until the sun goes down! A man won't never die when he's got these hot, naughty "Jet Black Snake Blues" a croonin' in his ears. Then, when you're all het up, turn to the other side of the record and start the fireworks all over again by playing that sizzling sister hit, "Beating Me Blues." Buy this record today and start boiling. 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He gathered his tools, 4 ham- mer, nails, the wheels of a baby ear- viage and a box. e Of these things Russell fashioned for himself a wagon with two-small wheels in front and two large ones in the back. By pushing the large back wheels, Russell could roll him- self where he pleased. He went to the fields in his little wagon and picked cotton along with his brother. He fed the chickens and did his share of the light chores of the truck garden. In the few months after the cot- ton picking season, he rolled him- self down to the school at White Oak chapel. He learned rapidly, and although he couldn't play baseball, che could play marbles, ‘ He was busy all the days, and would liave been very ‘happy: ‘if he could. only. have. helped more, - He was a big boy-now, fifteen years old, and at fifteen Chown county boys are doing.the work of men. and earning pay of ‘nen. o Russell, for all his ambition, could only do the small chores of the small boy. He began to look around. A GOOD BREAK At last fate gave him a break. He went to St. Vincent's hospital, Vir- ginia, and there the doctor ordered a brace from Baltimore. The doctor February 9, 1929 ee strapped the braces around his weak back and slipped crutches under his arms, and miracle of miracles, Rus- sell could walk. Now Russell went about his work just_as any normal boy, The state paid his tuition and Russell went to A. & T: college, Greensboro, N. C. There. he was given h13' cholce ‘of trades. All his life Russell had longed to walk, he had seen his playmates run- ning past on fying feet as he erawled about. Is it any wonder that Russell chose to make shoes? He learned to make shoes and to repair them’ neatly. f His trade finished he came to Baltimore at nineteen years of age, (Continued on page 10.) Your Handwriting Reveals Your Possibilities!! Pay Lennastr . February 9, 1929 Your Name Your By M. N. BUN NO. 1—LABOR LEADER HAVE you ever stopped and wondered how some men and women become successful in life? Have you ever thought that possibly you too could do something worth while? If you have, then look very closely at this signature. It has some very important secrets that you will find interesting. Mr. Lancaster is the general secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and is a very successful man. He is widely known, but his signature as it is written here tells us some very important facts about Mr. Lancaster and why he has made a success. In the first place, Mr. Lancaster does everything that he undertakes with all the ability that he has. He puts his very best into his work. He is enthusiastic and ambitious and not afraid to go ahead. He thinks quickly and is not afraid of responsibility. He is very determined about everything that he does. 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Mr. MacCreaigh devotes much space to this politico-economic side of the Abyssinians' troubles. The country is rich in natural resources and has a population of ten million. Consequently it is looked upon with covetious eyes by the aforementioned powers who are secretly scheming to partition the country between. The author also tells much of his experience in hunting wild game, and devotes an entire chapter to the position of women in Abyssinia, which is certainly an eye-opener. It seems that the women in this black empire are quite as free, if not more so, than their sisters in the United States. Certainly the marriage and divorce laws are much more intelligent. Religion plays an important part in Abyssinian life, the land being the oldest Christian nation in the world today, and its church of greater antiquity than the Catholic church, with colorful rites and ceremonies that surpass those of Rome. Altogether this book is well worth the reading. 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