The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-07-14

Sehnn1al Exposition project still
Thompson's National News Bureau.
Washington, D. c., July 13-Tis
midsummer at the nations capital,
and the usual sensations have given
away to the all-absorbing problem Of
Keeping cool. Those who have the
price are seeking ozone in the shady
retreats amid the mountains of
ne1ghDoring commonwealth or at
the festive seaside, and some who
have not the aforesaid are borrowing
1T and going anyhow. Others claim
and not without some show Of
loglc-that home is, after all, the
pest summer resort, and are spending
the heated term here, surrounded
by the comforts to which they have
Deen accustomed, and at the usual
moderate outlay Of the coin of the
realm. Next to getting what one
wants in this world, the happiest
circumstance is to want what one
gets. Nevertheless, it is the fashion
IN Washington to go away some
"here I'm summer, and if you do not
you are up against" an explanation
as to why you have SO previously out
ragged the conventionalities Of polite
society. So, fcllow-mortals, 20, if Won
can; stay, if you have the nerve.
end Of the moral vineyard. This
week the folks of the Atlantic sea-
board are attending the Hampton
Annual Conference, where .tubercu-
los1s, sanitation and race journalism
are to hold the boards for an extern
ded discussion. On the 18th will
come the Elks, who will browse here
for four days, with True Rcformers
Hall as the chief herding place. The
town Will move on New York en-
masse August 16 to 10, to attend the
meeting Of the National Negro Busi-
ness League, with it's bankers, press,
bar and undertakers' annexes as an
added attraction. Before that, how
ever, the Independent Political
heaeuers VIII camp out at Atlantic
City, and break ground for the fall
congressional campaign. Beginning
on the 23rd the National Medical As
sociation will hold forth in this CITY.
and the preparations to entertain this
body are on scale that for mag
nli1cence and elaboration of detail
have never been excelled in the
national capital. In September the
b. M. c., will be held at Baltim ore,
and the fact that a spirited contest
Is on for four Of the principal offices
within the gift Of the Odd Fellows,
give assurance that the attendance
will break all previous records. The
Good Samaritans come to Alexandria
In September, and the slumbers of
that ancient burg will give place to
the provcrbial Virginia glad hand"
These are not all, but will be enough
to hold most Of us for a while.
Jack johnson and JIM Jeffries
have been on every tongue since the
4th of July. The spotlight that had
been lowering about Beverly and
Oyster Bay was switched by popular
assent, and the switch is still turned
toward fistiana instead Of statecraft.
washington was the scene Of num-
Der Of disgraCeful riots, and feeling
mas run high among both races. The
general feeling is that there would
nave been no trouble had Jeffries
been the winner Of the fight at Reno.
In the opinion Of the clearer-thinking
element the white people should
Sports" and taken their medicine
like little men, instead Of raising a
hoWl and getting ugly over the de-
feat Of their erstwhile champion. The
race issue was forced into the
equation by Jeffries and his hackers,
they are getting no<sympathy at the
hands Of the fair-minded press or
public. Those who believe in a
square DEAL, regardless Of race or
color, make no "bones' Of declaring
that the whites should not have been
such poor losers-if they must play
the game, play it on the level, and
not whine If they get the worst Of
game which they went into with their
eyes wide open. The preachers,