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The Washington bee., 1910-03-12

colored people to his theatre, and
the colored correspondent of the
indianapolis World endeavored
to make an excuse for him. In
this same article the Fairy
Land" moving picture show
was referred to as having a
" Jim Crow" entrance. The Bee
had no reference to the theatre
at the corner of 10Th and L Sts.,
northwest, under the supervision
of Mr.. Luke Karney. This Jim
Crow theatre on 7th street, be-
tween L and NJ streets, north
west. You will know it by the
two entrances, one for colored
people and the other for white
people, it is known as the Hap
py Land theatre. Stand in front
/ of the theatre and watch the Jim
Crow Negro enter Happy Land
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ham, n. c.

Ildili5 N \.
Durham, Jan. 25.-At a meeting of
the stockholders and directors of the
Mechanics and Farmers Bank here
the Negro banking organization,
John Merrick, vice president, was
chosen to succeed R. P. Fitzgerald,
resigned on account of i'll health.
This institution, manned by Negro
men without particle of help from
the whites, has done million dollars
worth of business the past year, and
its place in the Colored colony has be-
come fixed. 1t has one of the young
er men at its head now. Fitzgerald
is the richest North Carolina Negro,
but Merrick has risen from the bar
Der shop to the livest business man
of his race here, and is the second
richest man in his race here. The
Negroes have magnificent block
here and both insurance companies,
financed in part by the bank, are
dealing deeply in real estate.
In The Nashville Globe of Febru-
ary 18th, there will appear the most
complete Directory of Negro Banks
ever attempted by any newspaper in
the country. 1t will even surpass the
splendid researches of the several
Bankers Registers. These statistics
are being compiled by Mr.. Henry A.
Boyd, manager of The Nashville
Globe, who has made a thorough
study of Negro banks. In this ar
ticle, he ventures the assertion that
there are sixty (6o) Negro banks
and institutions doing banking bust
ness in the United States. He gives
the name, state and city in which fif-
ty-two Of them are located; and also
gives the names of these different
institutions in their alphabetical or
der by states with the authorized
capital of each bank.
| MIR. Boyd says that four of these
banks in different parts of the coun-
try have 100000 of capital each
nine of them have$5o,oo ;one, $35,-
600; twenty-one, $4,000, and seven
teen, $4,000.
He further states that a careful es-
innate shows total of $I,62o,ooo as
the authorized capital upon which
these fifty (5o) odd Negro banks are
doing business, and that when the re-
turns are all in, they will show 4
clearance, on money handled, of about
| $2o,ooo,ooo for 1900.
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business man. He went there from New
York and took a hand in mining and
timber and made good. There Is
sturdy New England stock in Miss
Converse, too-on her family tree is
the name of oliver Wendell Holmes.
1t ali happened just because Miss
Converse fell in love and played model
for her fiance, painter prince-Efia-
toum Bey, son Of Russian nobleman
and a French countess, who adopted
Egypt as their country, where Efia-
toum Pasha is one of its foremost
men.
When she was 1s Miss Converse left
Eau Claire and went abroad with
some cousins to study. She stayed in
Paris several years, studying French
and music, and hoping that perhaps
some day she might go into grand
opera. Then she went to England,
and at Cambridge she met EfHatoum
Bey, who had been to the varsity
there and rowed in one of the crews.
He had taken up painting-and he fell
in love with Miss Converse.
They became engaged And what
could be prettier on canvas than the
fiancee's shell pink skin and her dusky
black hair and her eyes that are some
times black and sometimes blue and
sometimes gray? And those arms, SO
exquisitely modelled
Well, George Story, the artist. saw
the throat and arms and shoulders at
a reception at the American en-
bassy.
Just one sitting" he begged of the
beautiful American girl, and when she
told her fiance of this he said: Its a
very great honor from such a gaiptar
by all means pose for him"
They got along famously, and one
day Mr.. Story ventured to suggest
that Mr.. Abbey might want her for
some Of his next pictures. Miss Con-
verse laughed merrily-the idea that
such an artist, one of the two Ameri-
cans in the Royal Academy, should
want to paint her!
why, there are plenty of other
girls who will do quite as weH," she
went on, protesting.
And now we get to the point where
the pretty American girl was asked to ]
wear Queen Alexandra's coronation
robes. Miss Converse called on Mr..
Abbey. AS she tells it:
He smiled and Just looked at me
hard, hard, for about a minute. Then
he asked me If / would mind taking
of my glove, that he might see my
hand. said, Yes, I'll do it, and
then-why, he just said that If my
arms were Ike that he'd most GER
tainIy want me for a very important
picture he was painting.
"And that very day put on Queen
Alexandra's robes and he began te
paint me in the picture"
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
JAMES L. NORRIS

The death of Mr.. James L.
Norris takes from this city and
the Democratic party one of the
ablest lawyers in the country,
and a Democrat of national rep
utation. Mr.. Norris, although a
Democrat was a man who was
loved and appreciated by the
people irrespective of color or
condition. He was an active and
broad minded man in the affairs
of life. His death came like a
thunder bolt upon the communi-
ty in which he was so much
bOnored and respected.
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
HELM DEFEATED

Helfn of Alabama, who became
prominent in a street car escapade
some time ago introduced a Jim
Crow car bill in the House of Rep
resentatives some time ago met
with a defeat by the members from
St. Louis, Mo. There has never been
a colored American charged with an
offence like that one Helm was
charged with and not prosecuted
Helms should be a basis for Jim
Crowism in this city so far as re-
spectacle colored women are CON
cerned.
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
IOHN NJ. LANGSTON

There was one man in this
country, whose memory should
not be forgotten by the young
colored American, and that man
is the late John Mercer Langs-
ton. Mr.. Langston was an un-
selfish American. He devoted
most of his time in life in as
sisting the young struggling
colored man There never was
time in the career of Mr..
Langston that he got toe busy
to assist his fellow man. It is
true that he had several sons,
but, there was never a time that
he assisted one to get an Office.
The young American owes a
debt of gratitude to Mr.. Langs-
ton. Why is it that a monument
has not been erected by the
young men to his memory? Is
the young man too ungrateful
What has become of those young
men who were elevated by this
dead statesman? Let there be a
monument erected to his mem
ory.
IATbo ,,,;I1 e+or+ ~
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
GODS LAMBS (?) RFFUSE TO
EAT

Denver, Colo, March 4.-There is
something like 5000 delegates here
from all parts of the country for the
purpose of a laymen's missionary
movement On Thursday night they
were to have a great banquet, and
sixty Negroes accepted invitations,
and when this news spread over the
iown the white walters Union de-
clared boycott. Rev. A. P. Jones,
a white Congregational minister, and
Rev. L. T. Thorn, a white Baptist
preacher, in reviewing the situation
in a secret session, called by the
likes" decided the white
walters did right. Before things
went further the colored citizens of
Denver marched down to the con-
vention headquarters with 200 col
ored walters and they were told that
there could be no charges, as the
contract could not be changed out of
the 3o8 colored delegates. Two hun
dred and eight left the town
Mr.. I. T. Perkins, of Kansas, was
heard to say, "To hell with your
Christian religion" and left the city.
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS

If the Postal Savings Bank
Bill is enacted into law we can
not now conceive of the benefic-
ent effect these banks will have
upon our race in the South.
These banks will become the
depositors of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars of Negroes that
would not have found its way in
to either state or national banks.
It will help to their forming hab-
its of saving. The Bee hopes it
will become a law.
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP

s~@zEszzzz-zszzE -
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
The national leadership of DR..
Booker T. Washington is ac-
knowledged by the race. That's
a fact. No other man of the race
is in his class, except one. That's
another TACT. The average col
ored man who aspires to leader
ship is either a theorist or selfish
or both. DR.. Washington is
neither. He is a construCtiOnist
and that too in its broadest sense
And no man is or could be more
devoid of selhshness. His lead
ership is not the fruit of pCliti-
cal efforts, nor will it depend up
on political parties for preserva-
ton. The colored Americans of
this country believe in him, and
trust him as implicitly as the
whites believed in and trusted
Lincoln. And even more so, for
the immortal Lincoln had a
large contingent of his people to
disagree with him, while those
who disagree with DR.. Wash
ingtOn constitute such a ridicu-
lous few that you can only see
them through magnifyer
Where is there a COlOred man
today who has accomplished as
much or nearly as much as
Booker Washington? Yes, one
man, DR.. Shepard. And DR..
Washington is modest-all great
men are. He IS not interested in
himself only in so far as self has
a bearing on race progress. He
is simply interested in his peo-
pie - tremendously interested,
so much so that no man gives
near so much OF his time, his
talents and his money to furth-
er the interests of his people as
he does. Not only is DR.. Wash
ington's leadership acknowledge
ed by the race, but the whites
see in him the elements of lead
ership that compels their recog-
milton OF him as one of the very
ablest and most useful of Amer
iCa's great men. Recognition by
Presidents does not make him
great, nor advance him. This
recognition, when it does come,
comes logically to him as a man
who has earned it, and not as a
man who seeks it. By following
this leader the race will ulti-
mately come into its own. And
that the colored men are follow
ing him is shown all through the
South and the North. d.
There are two great men from
the South, DR.. James E. Shep-
ard and Prof. Booker 7. Wash
ington. The former is becoming
to be as great as DR.. Washing
ton. 1t will not be long before
Durham, N. c. will be as great
as Tuskegee. The colored
Americans throughout the Unit
ed States believe in DR.. Shepard
as well as the whites believe in
him. When colored men like
these two can produce something
then they will have a following.
The recent extended tour of DR..
Shepard through the North, and
West a few weeks ago was an
evidence of the esteem in which
he is held by all classes of Amer
lean citizens.
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rate street cars for white and Negro
passengers"
You do not mention in so many
words your own persistent activity
in the defat of that unfair measure,
but that fact is perfectly we'll known
to me, and l thank you for it.
In these strange times when op-
presSive and unjust measures are so
prevalent and so discouraging to the
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
Dear Mr.. Turner:

Dear Mr.. Turner:
I enclose herewith copy of a bill
which was before the Committee
on the District of Columbia of the
House of Representatives of which
I am a member and we failed to
pass it yesterday, and I hope this
will end the Jim Crow matter for
this session anyway
Trusting that you and your friends
will not hesitate to command me
whenever I can be of service. I
beg to remain, with my very best
wishes to you always.
Yours faithfully,
H. NJ. Coudrey.
Mr.. Turner's reply to Representa-
tive Coudrey was as follows:
Dear Mr.. Coudrey:
I have had the honor to receive
your letter of date February "a, 1910,
in the defeat of that unfair measure,
the defeat by the Committee on the
District of Columbia of the House
of Representatives, of which you are
a member, of H. R. Bill 1925, en-
titled "a bill providing that the
street car companies of the District
of Columbia shall provide a sepa-
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
THE "TIM CROW"

Heahin of Alabama wanted to
establish "Jim Crow" cars in
this city if he could. Some time
ago Heahin was charged with
having shot a Negro and carry
ing concealed weapons. Neither
case has been tried. Why has
the United States and the at
torney for the District of Colum-
bia failed to bring this man to
the bar of justice? Is Heafin
one of the individuals to be i'm
muned because he is a member
of Congress-? The Bee is of the
opinion that Mr.. Heafin ought
to be tried.
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
HAPPY LAND

The Bee stated last week,
among other things that Mayer,
the manager of the Casino Thea
tire stated that he didn't admit
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
SECRETARY JORDAN'S NOTE

SECKE AKN JOKDAN > NOIE
DR.. CASTOR, president of the Mis-
souri, Baptist Convention, urged all
Missouri Baptists to observe the 4th
Sunday in February as Bouey Me
mortal day.
Brother Jordan: "Wife and l will
give $Ioo on the passage money to
bring home from Africa, Jno. D. and
Edward H. Bouey, the younger sons
of our departed missionary. We will
collect the money for their educa-
ton. w. r. Pettiford, Birmingham
Ala.
Who will join the DR.. and his
wife in this good act? 1t will take
$40 for two tickets from Sierra Le-
one to New York. However we may
have neglected DR.. Bouey while he
lived, he is now where sickness, Sor-
row, pain and death are felt and fear
ed no more. If anything earthly could
heighten his JOY among the blood
washed throng, it would be to know
that We paid the debts he left in At
rica that might reflect upon his name
as missionary, and that we helped
his boys. Who knows but what one
or both of these boys may return to
Africa to make glorious the work
of their sainted father? Join DIR.
Pettiford and his wife in bringing
them back home and in giving them
a chance.
The Foreign Mission exercise held
by our schools from year to year,
in many cases, is all the information
young Baptists have on the great sub
iect of world wide missions. The
Student Volunteer Movement reaches
the white colleges of all denomina-
tionS, the Laymen's Missionary
Movement which has stirred all
Chrisendom as nothing else attempted
heretofore has ever done, do not
reach our churches. Every Baptist
pastor and leader who has any re-
spect for his obligation as a Baptist,
any love for Jesus his Saviour, who
hopes to see God, his Father and
Maker, and who has any respect for
the Word of God, cannot be careless
about having some kind of exercise
in his church that will heighten the
interest of the Baptist Army, young
and old. in giving the Gospel to be-
nighted Africa.
Programs for Easter, or Foreign
Mission Rally Day, March 27th, are
now ready for mailing. Are you 60
ing to observe the day? If so, write
us.
L. G. Jordan,
Cor. Sec, Foreign Mission Board,
Louisville, KY.
NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS
The Washington bee., 1910-03-12
TO WHOM SUCCESS IS
DUE

If to one man, more than an
other, the success of the Tues
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NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS
As Reported by the National Negro
Business League-Negro Bank a
Success-Big Business - Nash
vile Globe Bank Directory VIII
Appear February IS.
The following interesting informa-
ton appeared recently in the Daily
News ((white), Greensboro, n. c.,
from its staff correspondent in Dur
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-11
PARDON SCANDAL GROWS.

The pardon scandal is growing.
Hardly a week passes that evidence
does not accumulate showing the
enormity of its shame 1t ramifies the
entire political structure, it clogs the
wheels of justice and makes of the
law which should be. supreme and
have the reverence and respect of all,
a veritable by word and reproach.
Commenting on a recent case in point
the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle makes
these observations:
THE reports Of the decisions of the
Supreme Court, rendered Saturday,
show a confirmation of the sentence
of the lower court in the case of one
]. w Benson convicted of murder.
This is the same Benson who only
few years ago received a sentence OF
five years for the murder of negro,
but was pardoned by the Governor
two years ago Thus man loses his
life, the State is taxed with costs on
account of this pardon.
"One Ed Jordan only few years
ago was given a life sentence In the
State prison for numbering an officer,
while in the discharge of his official
duties. He plays the crazy game in
small way, but sufficient to be trans
ferred to the insane asylum, and after
a few months probation, he is re-
turned to his home. There was great
opposition to his pardon, near rela-
.ivcs refusing to ask 1t, so the crazy
stunt was taken, and in few months
ed Thomson, whose life had been
threatened before his release from
prison. falls victim to the murder
Jus hand of Jordan. and again a
amily is left without head, and the I
State must again be burdened with !
he cost of the prosecution of the
murderer So the pardon attorneys
ire kept busy and the pardon wheel
,oes round and round, and the people
,av the cost"
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PATRONAGE WINS AGAIN.

When the final show down came and
the issue was squarely made between
the insurgents and the regulars in the
House of Representatives, but one of
the insurgents, Poindexter, of Wash
ing, had the courage to vote against
the orders of Taft and the House ma
chine The boasted strength of the
insurgent movement fell from twenty
five to one and Speaker Cannon smiled
as serenelv as though the bogus issue
of Cannonism had never darkened the
political horison.
With one exception every Republf-
can member who had but a few short
weeks before declared independence
of the House machine meekly surren-
dered and the rules committee is now
as powerful as 1t ever was In the palm
lest days of Gar Reed Patronage
proved mightier than principle; post
office jobs for hungry constituents
were more potent persuaders than de-
votion to the common interest
1t would have been surprising, little
less than miraculous had there been
any other result of the war upon Can
non. When President Taft promul-
gated his patronage order and gave
the insurgents to understand that un-
less they gave unquestioned obedience
to the President and followed like
meek lambs the orders of the House
machine they need expects no favor
from the executive the end or the In
surrection was in sight. Republican
statesmen can no more subsist without
the spells OF Office than the Republican
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/ it did not approve in order to defeat
! the enactment o. an income tax law
The people are beginning to realize
that they have been hoodwinked on
the income tax. It's submission as an
amendment to the constitution was
merely a clever dodge to effectually
shelve it. The predatory interests
can safely count on controlling the
Legislatures of more than one-fourth
Of the States necessary to encompass
it's defeat
Some of the objections raised by
the pretended friends of the income
tax show plainly the character of the
opposition that it must encounter.
Gov. Hughes, of New York, bases his
opposition on the ground that under
the proposed amendment county, city
and state bonds would incur an addi-
tional burden of taxation. Although
protesting friendship for the income
tax, the Governor suggests changes in
the form of the amendment which, If
made. would insure it's defeat. His
hypocracy and double dealing were
made the subject of scathing remarks
by Congressman Hull and although
severe the criticism of the Tennessee
member was just and deserved.
There is no good reason why the
income of the bondholder should be
exempt from an income tax. The
very class whom Gov. Hughes would
protect from the tax are those most
able to bear it's burdens. It is more
than probable the New York Cover
nor's suggestion Is but the outline OF
a sinister scheme to render the tax
odious even among those who had
been it's most sincere supporters, for
t is hardly probable that they would
approve it's enactment IL the exemp-
ions proposed were made.
The Republican party is no more
sincere in it's advocacy of an income
AK than 1t is in its professions OF
ariff reform. The amendment was
merely an emergency measure to
helve a problem that was calculat-
ID to cause the party embarrassment
It the polls.
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party could win victories without the
contributions Of the favored interests
which through localized robbery profit
at the expense of the people. The
Republican party is the party Of
spoils: a magnificent organization, the
most compact. orderly and best drilled
that the world ever saw, It could not
live through a single election without
a share of the plumber which the pred
atory interests annually levy upon the
American public by virtue of Republl-
can tariff laws
For twenty years alleged students
of American politics have predicted
an early dissolution of the Republican
party. It's demise has been announced
time and again. Less than month
ago these same wiseacres saw in the
Pinchot- Ballinger row and the tempo
rary check on the Speakers power
multiplied evidences of complete
disruption of the grand old party
The old-timers knew better: they had
been the witnesses of similar scenes
under the Grant, the Garfield, the Ar
thur and the Harrison administrations.
They knew that it was "all sound and
fury signifying nothing"
The Republican party may, as has
been the fate of all human organiza-
lions, run amuck and be numbered
with the things that have been, but 1t
will never split upon the rock of prin-
ciple. When the party is rent in twain
it will be over a division of the spoils
and not through differences of opinion
matters of conviction and
public policy
The insurgents probably believed
that thew were sincere; they doubt
less relied upon the Akron speech of
Candidate Taft when he preached the
oftiest political sentiments ever ut
tered by a candidate of that party, the
Roosevelt not excepted But
.hev have found that there is vast
difference between Candidate Taft
as moral and political
independent thinker, and
American first, then partisan-and
President Taft, the titular head OF the
machine. a stand-patter,
candidate for re-elec-
ion. protectionist and common pa
ronage distributing politician. They
ound that It was the same old party
II spoils and privilege and graft and
raud: the party has not changed. To
live II their allegiance they must do
he will of the bosses; to refuse them
obedience was to make of themselves
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Archbishop Ireland says that the
high prices for the necessaries of life
have been caused by the extravaganza
of the American housewife. Not bay-
ing a wife the reverend Archbishop
does not know what he is talking
about. Beautiful, bewiching, noble
and angelic as they are the American
women are not quite perfect but the
charge that they are responsible for
waste in the dining room is an I'M.
warranted reflection upon them. We
have yet to know our first women who
would not actually suffer the pangs OF
huger before they would indulge their
appetites were it not forMthe "men
folks" Let there be an exodus Of
men from Columbia and every cook
stove In the city would become as cold
and cheerless as the North pole.