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Illustrated FEATURE SECTION Washington Tribune U. S. Thompson, former husband of the late "Flo" Mills. How dashing! Ooh! My, my my! This cute little chorine, Florence Wilson, is one of the reasons for the Negro migration to Harlem. Billie Cain. Such beauty! Those eyes! And how! STRUGGLING HEARTS Billie Cain. Such beauty! Chocolate Kid's apartment building, is confronted by him. Mutual fear and surprise bring out the fact that the Kid is also in hiding. He thinks Ott has double-crossed him and tells Zola that it was the gangster's intention to have double-crossed her and Barry. They hear a commotion at the foot of the elevator shaft. Now go on with the story— HE elevator stopped with a lurch. The door was shot back angrily and the most nondescript individual stepped out that the Chocolate Kid had seen in many a day. It was old John Belling, but what a different person to the forlorn old wreck that had been given his freedom from the city bastile a few days earlier. John Belling was drunk. He --- Interesting, Entertaining and Instructive BEN DAVIS, JR. Feature Editor WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE: Big Ott, gang leader and crook, has killed a man in a bank robbery. David Conway, a country youth, is in prison charged with the crime. Zola, beautiful and mysterious cabaret dancer with whom Big Ott is enamored, seeks to save David. Ott has her kidnapped by the Chocolate Kid, an aviator. Taken to The Nest, a cabin in the forest owned by Anson Bledsoe, hypocritical townman and enemy of David's, she escapes. Barry Dwane, a young, good-hearted weakling under the domination of Ott, lends her aid. The Chocolate Kid, who kidnapped her, returns and helps her, with the warning that she must no longer try to help David. She ignores the warning. Going to David's home, she meets his mother, with whom she enters into a plot to try to save the son. While hidden in the room that had been David's she spills Ott and Bledsoe in close conversation. She shadows them and learns that they contemplate robbing the village bank. She notifies the marshal by phone. In an attempt to save Barry Dwane, who is left as a lookout, she herself arrested. Barry helps her escape. Big Ott is arrested. Bledsoe is wounded, but escapes unknown to the marshal. In the city jail Ott meets an old derelict. He confides in him and bribes him, by engineering his freedom through political sources, to communicate with the Chocolate Kid. Zola, disguised as a scruw woman in the HE elevator stopped with a lurch. The door was shot back angrily and the most nondescript individual stepped out that the Chocolate Kid had seen in many a day. It Section 2—Saturday, March 23, 1929 showed it in the fearful and wonderful array of vari-colored apparel that he had bought with some of the money that had come to him as advance payment for the service Ott had asked of him. The screaming yellow of his youthful brogans shouted loud curses at the vivid green of his collegiate hat, while in between the huge checks of his extremely wide and baggy suit seemed to be having a party all their own. The elevator boy did not wait to make any explanations, but with a snort of contempt sent his car whizzing upward. BELLING TALKS Old John looked around, blinking owlishly. He espied the Kid, "I ain't no bum!" he shouted belligerently, "I gotta 'pointment to meet young Misser Dwane right here in this 'partment, Mr. Barry Dwane." He drew himself up and spoke with impressive earnestness. The Chocolate Kid's keen eyes lighted for a moment, but he kept them carefully fixed on the ludic- (Continued on next page) Clean, Wholesome and Refreshing A man in a plaid coat holds a cane and covers his face with his hand, while another man stands behind him, wearing a suit and holding a cane. STRUGGLING HEARTS (Continued from Page 1) rously dignified old man as he spoke. "Mr. Dwane doesn't live in these apartments, but," his voice was placative and quietly courteous, "maybe I'll be able to help you if you care to explain to me just what the nature of your business with him is." The Chocolate Kid knew that a drunken man would never be able to weigh the nature of such a question if his suspicions as to the questioner were allayed. Gain a drunkard's confidence while he is in his cups and you may have his secrets for the asking. He was not mistaken. "I know he don't live here. Never said he lived here, did I?" The belligerent note crept again into the high, quavering old voice. "It's the other feller lives here, Chocolate Kid, that's his name. Misser Dwane's goin' to introduce me to the Chocolate Kid. I got a message for the Chocolate Kid." He lowered his voice with the elaborate caution that is so ludicrously ineffective when attempted by one under the influence of drink. "It's a secret; I gotta tell it to the Chocolate Kid himself. The big guy paid me an', even if I don't like him, I gotta play fair. I always play fair, I do. Always did, that's why I'm where I am today. But I gotta play fair. I gotta tell this Chocolate Kid what the big guy asked me to. That's why this Dwane feller said he'd meet me here an' take me to this Kid. Wouldn't tell him. Won't tell nobody but the Chocolate Kid." As he rambled on garrulously Zola drew nearer, pretending always to be working. (Continued on Page 11) FROM FARM T. Edward Virgini not a quick attention that vous interest his eyes met one to the wilderment. taped again at one, a wear- wood-natured he saw the slipped away its place. I you, Choc- till over town he left a trail city-nine cent own both sides help him if before he can clothes will completely just natu- rughed. But bed bewilder- Kid's face he looked around. her pails, her to of men. In her shape- thing to re- of the beau- new and be- red entirely from him- have helped d. His eyes the face of John Belling but the mes- ce of Barry but the boy's MESSAGE Chocolate Kid w," he said a deaf per- cell open. His city was lu- alled. for your is a lot, but The Chocolate Kid shot a quick flash of surprised attention that gradually grew into serious interest at the old man. Then his eyes met Zola's. There sped from one to the other a look of utter bewilderment. Then the elevator stopped again at the floor and Barry Dwane, a wearied look on his weak, good-natured face, stepped out. When he saw the group his look of worry slipped away and left one of relief in its place. "Thank Mike, he found you, Chocolate. I been wanderin' all over town lookin' for this bozo. He left a trail of four dollar and ninety-nine cent purchases all up and down both sides of yokel row. Heaven help him if it ever rains on him before he can reach cover. Them trick clothes will fold up and silently and completely as them Arab's tents and just naturally steal away." He laughed. But at the look of surprised bewilderment on the Chocolate Kid's face he sobered suddenly and looked around. Zola was bending over her pails, her back turned to the group of men. In the voluminous folds of her shapeless dress There was nothing to remind the young fellow of the beautiful dancer whom he knew and believed to have disappeared entirely from the city to hide even from himself, who would gladly have helped her in any way he could. His eyes came again to rest on the face of the younger man. Old John Belling was maundering on about the message. Even the presence of Barry had not stopped him. But the boy's next words did. BELLING DELIVERS MESSAGE "Why, this is the Chocolate Kid you're talkin' to, fellow," he said loudly as one speaks to a deaf person. The old man's mouth fell open. His look of amazed incredulity was ludicrous. The Chocolate Kid smiled. "Well, I'll say this for your frien'," he said, "he talks a lot, but he don't tell his secrets to amount to anything. Come on in my rooms." The aviator's voice was interested. "I'd like to know just what the big idea is." Discreetly and unobtrusively, Zola had moved along the hall and disappeared down a side corridor. The Kid led the way into his luxurious apartment. "He said Big Ott give him a message for you," it was Barry who opened the conversation. "I got the orders from Slippery to help him find you. Slippery said it come down from the big boss that they let him out on orders from higher up. They're keepin' Ott in till after election. The reformers is hard on their trail and this is a sop. Ott won't trust nobody much. I guess the old guy's pretty easy and he needs dough, anybody can see that. I didn't want to let the bunch know where you hung out, so I pretended I had a friend out here who would tell me where to find you. I didn't know this bozo would get lit and --- ZOLA OVERHEARS broadcast the fact that he was huntin' you." He said the last apologetically. "Aw, that's all right, Barry." With a wave of the hand the aviator turned to the old man, who, now that he had found his man,' seemed none too certain of the message he had to give him. THE "KID" SPEAKS "Well, friend, I'm the Chocolate Kid. What you got to say?" The old fellow shot a curiously so- bered glance at the man before he spoke. "Say," he said, "is this Big Ott got anything to do with hurtin' any women folks with his plans?" (Continued on Page 11) FROM FARMHAND T. Edward Hill Is Only N Virginia Legislature; Sponsored M FROM FARMHAND TO LEGISLATOR T. Edward Hill Is Only Negro Member of West Virginia Legislature; Has Drafted and ITHIN the last decade and a half the house of delegates of the state of West Virginia has had seven Negro members. They are H. H. Railey of Huntington, John V. Coleman of Carbondale, J. M. Ellis of Oak Hill, T. G. Nutter, attorney-at-law, Charleston; Harry Capehart, attorney-at-law, Keystone; Howard Harper, Keystone, now deceased, and T. [Name] [Name] T. Edward Hill, West Virginia Legislator Edward Hill of McDowell county and Charleston. Mr. Hill was chosen in the fall elections of last year and consequently took his seat when the House convened on the 6th of January. factor in West Virginia ginning in 1912, he four consecutive time trict delegate to the national convention. In a member of the M Negro members of the House of Delegates of West Virginia have never failed to leave their mark in the state legislative sessions by securing the passage of laws of benefit to the Negro race, and therefore to the whole commonwealth. While the Negro population of West Virginia is small, it possesses an unique sagacity in political acumen which has engineered many local triumphs in state politics. One may summarize it as a skillful and purposeful manipulation of the balance of voting power under efficient organization of capable leaders. T. Edward Hill represents this type of leader. Born in Henry county, Virginia, near the town of Martinsville, in 1883, he early learned self --- W ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION Learn to Draw Easily The Magic Power of a Few Lines a Leaf A Made into a Stork Joy Jr. reliance in labor on farm, in tobacco factory, in railroad construction and coal mining. Formal education was received in the public schools of Henry county and in Washington, D.C. Diligence and efficiency brought him in 1911 to part ownership and management at Keystone, W. Va., of the "MeDowell Times," in association with M. T. Whittico. Since that time he has been a potent and developing [Image of a man with round glasses and a dark suit]. factor in West Virginia politics. Beginning in 1912, he was elected for four consecutive times alternate district delegate to the Republican national convention. In 1916 he became a member of the McDowell county Republican executive committee, serving as its secretary until 1920. He cured experience from four years' service as president of the Colored McDowell Republican organization, from one year's clerkship in the office of the secretary of state, from observation as a representative of the press in every session of the legislature from 1909 to 1921. In four successive legislatures he was assistant bill editor, and finally printing clerk of the state senate. His influence was felt in the legislature, therefore, long before he was elevated to membership in that body. Every law enacted for the advancement of the interests of the Negro population in West Virginia since 1909 has profited from his aid. Housework takesless effort when you feel fit tasting tonic has benefited women for more than 50 years. During that time thousands have testified to the help they have received. If you are feeling run-down, tired-out and lacking in pep, why not start taking St. Joseph's G. F. P.? You can get the big dollar bottle at your dealer. St.Joseph's G.F.P. The Woman's Tonic It was Mr. Hill who drafted the legislative act which created the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics, a form of state social service which has been copied by the state of Michigan and has attracted attention elsewhere. As its first director for six years (1921-27) Mr. Hill compiled interesting reports of economic health and general living conditions of the Negro population of the state. In the present legislature Mr. Hill is a member of the finance committee and leader of the strong McDowell county delegation. Two bills sponsored by him have already been enacted into law. One, an amendment of a bill drafted by him in 1927, which provides state aid for continuous education of Negro students of high school rank in communities not providing high schools for colored students. The original law gives state money grants for the professional education of Negro students outside of the state, in such fields as cannot be offered in the State College for Negroes at Institute. A second bill, passing without a dissenting vote, makes the state college unique among the seventeen Negro land grant colleges of America, in that, in addition to changing the name from the West Virginia Collegiate institute to the West Virginia State college, provision is made for the gradual introduction of professional and graduate schools. The legislative committee on education had indefinitely shelved a bill which provided for the maintenance of schools or the payment of transportation for Negro children in com- St. Joseph's G.F.P. ALCOHOL 20% CONTENTS 100Z St. Joseph's G.F.P. ALCOHOL 20 PERCENT CONTENTS 91.1 OZ DIRECTIONS munities where they number less than ten. Mr. Hill forced this bill out for reconsideration. 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Repeating Dreams Are Warnings, Says Dream Expert March 23, 1929 by Julia Jerome WE have a rather unusual request from the city of Nashville this week: "My Dear Mrs. Jerome: I have been married three years. I love my husband very much and our home life is most pleasant. I vowed when I married I would never have any children because hearing them ages a woman so, and because children on the whole are so ungrateful that they leave home as soon as they cease to be a burden and could start being a pleasure, so that it hardly seems worth the trouble to have them. Yet I find myself longing for a baby. I really don't understand myself at all. Please advise me. PERPLEXED." Your longing is natural and logical. Go ahead and act upon it. It is exactly this longing which will prevent birth control from ever being a menace. Our statesmen would not get all riled over the birth control possibility if they could see into a woman's heart. A happily married woman always wants babies. 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Most women I know suffer with their teeth and falling hair during or after pregnancy. This is because they did not have enough lime and iron in their bodies to supply both themselves and the new life they carry. If you will eliminate pastries and candy from your diet and fried food, and eat, instead, honey and raisins and dates and fresh fruits and vegetables and raw milk and lightly broiled meat, you will have no trouble either with your teeth, hair or digestion. Take exercise in the open air and sleep with your windows open and cut out the stimulants, and I promise you you will not lose in health, but gain. And as for your children being ungrateful later on, they won't if you raise them right. If you and your husband are considerate and honorable in your home your children will reflect the same qualities and do you credit. Is Are Warnings, am Expert but they never seem to get dry enough to take down. 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Mr. Balanta, under a Guggenheim Fellowship, trained a number of Africans to sing the spirituals, and recently gave a recital at Lagos, Nigeria, under the patronage of Sir Graame Thomson, governor of that country. A feature of the program was the playing of African melodies on a specially built organ, which employs seventeen tones to the octave. Mr. Balanta has discovered that the native music requires seventeen tones for its accurate presentation. Mr. Balanta is a graduate of the Fourah Bay College in Freetown, and studied music while holding a clerical position under the British government. About five years ago he visited America, and, aided by George Foster Peabody, who has long been interested in Negro education in America, he collected Negro melodies in Southern states and published them in a book, entitled "St. Helena Spirituals." Upon completion of this work he was granted the fellowship for research in native African music. In comparing the spiritual with the African folksong, Mr. Balanta points out that both are sung in harmony, whereas all other folksongs, except those of Hungary, are expressed in unison. This form of the spiritual is expressed by a leader and a chorus as in the African folksong. These facts, according to Mr. Balanta, show that the African, on being transplanted into another environment, preserved the same means of musical expression to which he had been accustomed in his native land. The spiritual, although conceived and expressed as in any African folksong, is of a higher order, and is said to prove the Negro's musical talent to be highly developed in his new environment. ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION though based upon primitive rhythms, has advanced to its present stage of development largely through the spirit of Christianity. "Christianity," he says, "is the force that has breathed life into the innate musical talent of the African in his new environment. At the psychic moment there was at hand the precise religion for the condition into which he had been thrust. Far from his native land and customs, despised by those among whom he lived, experiencing on the auction block the pangs of separation from his loved ones, knowing the hard taskmaster, feeling the lash, the Negro seized Christianity—the religion of compensations in the life to come for the ills suffered in the present existence; the religion which implied the hope that in the next world there would be a reversal of condi- tions, of rich man and poor man, of proud and weak, of master and slave. The result was a body of songs voicing all the cardinal virtues of Christianity — patience, forbearance, love, faith and hope — through a necessarily modified form of primitive African music. The Negro took complete refuge in Christianity and the spirituals were literally forged of sorrow in the heat of religious fervor. They exhibited, moreover, a reversion to the simple principles of primitive communal Christianity. "It is not possible to estimate the sustaining influence that the story of the trials and tribulations of the Jews, as related in the Old Testament, exerted upon the Negro. The story at once caught and fired the imagination of the Negro bards, and they sang—sang their hungry listeners into a firm faith that as God saved Daniel in the lions' den, so would He preserve them; as God delivered Israel out of bondage in Egypt, so would He deliver them. How much this firm faith had to do with the Negro's physical and spiritual survival of two and a half centuries of slavery cannot be known. "Thus it was by sheer spiritual forces that the African chants were changed into the spirituals; that upon the fundamental throb of African rhythms were reared those reaches of melody that rise above earth and soar into the pure ethereal blue. And this is the miracle of the creation of the spirituals." 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She fs torn between the advantages and disadvantages of both races. Some of her closest rel- atives are unmistakably colored and there are situations where she must choose between them and the pre- carious though uninhibited life of a “passer.” Having a distince Nordic appearance, she suffers more insults when in company with her dark- skinned brethren than when she “crosses the line.” Yet when she finally abandons her Negro associa- tions new and different problems confront her. The fact that she is colored looms very large in her con- science and causes her at times a frightful uneasiness. The author has depicted in bold and frank language how the problem of color can tear at the very heart- strings of family life. In spite of the daring point of view from which the story is narrated, there is nothing sordid in its method or its subject matter. It is not often one finds in a novel- ist aceuracy as well as fluency of imagination. While making a suffi- cient allowance for picturesque and graphic deseription, Miss Fauset has not written with a purely exagger- ated and extravagant style. Her character delineations are worthy of the highest commendations. < This novel will command the in- terest of the sophisticated as weil as the unsophisticated reader. From beginning to end it compels an ab- sorbing interest ‘Egypt and extended the sway of Moslem arms farther south than they had been extended by previous Sultans. Artful trickery and mas- terful military seience enabled him to overcome all obstacles. He was unserupuleus, daring, flagrant and treacherous in bis dealings with oth- ers. On July Ist, 1277, he died a broken man after a reigm of unpar- alleled pillaging and plundering, ~ His apeecessor was Kala’un, also a Mameluke, who drove the last whites out of Syria and north Africa. This ruler established the supremacy of Egyptian commerce of Syria and North Africa. It was he who began the custom of issuing passports to merchants enabling them to travel as far as India and China. Those who did net profess the Moslem faith were- persecuted and often beheaded. ‘Yet Kala’un was exceedingly public- spirited in that he established a hos- pital for the relief of the poor and needy. After a very powerful and ‘successful reign he’ died November ‘10th, 1290, Other Sultans followed him, contimuing the prestige and power of the Empire until well into ‘the 4th century. However, every kingdom reaches. its height, after ‘which time it begins to decline. ‘Rome and Athens flourished. but for @ short time, when corruption and degeneracy caused their downfall. ‘This great black kingdom met its downfall through the reign of cor- rupt and frresofute rulers. It became ‘the prey and vassal of stronger na- c= whieh took advantage of its deciine. 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GARWIN Astounding Discovery Lightens Skin 7 to 10 Shades NCE upon a time there lived a O lady : @ wide-awake, up-and- burg, who had missed @ big share of the fun to be had in life ‘The omission had been chiefly due to @ disposition inimical to fraterniza- tion, but this fact did not prevent her from looking out om the rest on the world with a keen desire to throw myriads of monkey~wrenclies Into the machinery of any scheffie launched with the intention of creating and perpetuating whoopee, She disliked any form of jollity whatever; ana she always carried around some kind of a wet blanket to squelch the flames of joy. Her coming into an atmos- phere of revelry had the identical jettent on the participants as a late ‘spring frost om fruit blossoms, She was a member of the local board of Cinema Censorship, the W. C. T. U. the Anti-Tobacco League, and every other outfit she knew of whose efforts I ek Aah a Mn he Ree a ee aay ee 8 Fae est Eases aeons Oimtenendmetee wor ae : tts —_— Addr a 5 Cty rf Were calculated te curb the pleasures ‘ond indulgences of her fellow-ctts- zens. And to make matters doubly ‘disagreeable, she had. the kale and prestige to make a definite go of thts crusading -hokum, Altogether she was a perfect prune—even to the wrinkles. Whenever she heard a little jaxs ——— Beauty mare Be tes a ‘le ee ne | Humania Hair CoD 5. 1° Eset 8. j 5 ——— she went off is:to a frenzy resembling an epileptic fit and raised Od Nick to the top rung. She had been known to tie a can.to a servant because she had caught him whistling “The Stars and Stripes Ferever.” Two-four time acted on her nervous system like a rag of crimson has done on that of a bull. Dancing she considered acrime in the sittme category as that of-mur- der-in the first degree. 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His beloved mother fell ill, and the Duke of Orleans discharged him for neglecting his work. Dumas had been devoting most of his time to play-writing. But rehearsals went on with Dumas spending every moment he could spare at his mother's bedside. Then an idea struck him. He wanted to show the Duke just what kind of man he had discharged, and wrote him asking him to attend the opening of the play. THE DUKE The Duke replied that he was giving a Royal party that night and it was impossible. Dumas suggested that he bring the party along. The Duke replied that they would be at dinner at that hour. Dumas, not to be beaten, suggested that the Duke advance his dinner by one hour, while the theater set back its opening one hour. The Duke made other objections, but Dumas finally won. The Duke appeared with all his guests. The play was an instant success on its own merits. From that moment Dumas' name, then unknown, was on everyone's lips. He got a large sum of money for the rights. With this money he did two things typical of him. Seeking out Devriolane, his old tormentor, he flourished a great sheaf of banknotes in his face, and then remembering his old days of hunger, and promising himself not to go hungry again, he went to a leading restaurant and bought meal tickets to last for a whole year. Then of all things: the restaurant failed a few weeks later. But Dumas was a made man. After writing some 50 more plays he took to novel writing, his works becoming so popular that the characters were discussed alike in cafes and the salons of the great as if they were real persons. King and princes sought his favor. At the height of his career he occupied the place in the public eye that was held by Napoleon. Prince Napoleon, the latter's nephew, thought it an honor to be with him, and invited him as special guest on a tour of Italy. It would be impossible to give even a summary of his rich and wonderful life in an article many times this length. In addition to writing books he fought in the Revolution of 1830, with distinction, and was a victor in two duels. A giant in size he possessed force of muscle and brain to match. He wrote tirelessly and for sheer love of it. One of his best books was written on a wager. Dumas said that he would do it in three days. But he finished it in 66 hours, including time for eating and sleeping. Full of gaiety and wit he simply filled the air with good humor wherever he went. When writing he would laugh uproariously with the characters of the story, splashing about in sheer joy, as a bird taking its bath. As to his gaiety he wrote himself: "I carry it with me wherever I go. I don't know how it is but it is so." There was an atmosphere of good nature around him that became proverbial. Dumas earned millions of dollars, and he spent it, and gave it away like water. 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