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The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25

a Booker T. Washington Memor-
ial Fund to perpetuate the work
of the Tuskegee Institute, and ex.
pressing their desire to honor his
memory by contributing to such a
fund.
The sentiment expressed in all
these letters is that the most per.
manent and enduring monument
which can be erected to the men,
ory of DR.. Washington is to make
secure the work which he founded
and for which he gave the first
fruits of his time and energy.
At meeting of the Investment
Fund Committee of the Board of
Trustees which was held here in
New York City, November Both, to
consider the best and most practi-
cal ways of conserving this inter-
est and directing it in way to be
most satisfactory to the colored
people, it was unanimously agreed
to appoint Mr. Emmett j. Scott,
Secretary of the Tuskegee Insti-
stitute, director of special cam
paign which will be conducted
among the colored people of the
United States. Mr.. Scott, who
was for eighteen years DIR. Wash
ington's confidential secretary and
intimate friend, enjoys in fullest
measure the confidence of the pub
lie, and it is safe to predict that
Mr.. Washington's thousands of
friends througout the country will
give this effort their sympathetic
support and cooperation.
In order to have unified effort on
the part of the colored people and
in order to avoid any division of
interest in this movement, it is
hoped and urged that all organiza.
tions planning a similar effort
among the colored people will com,
municate at once with Mr.. Scott
at Tuskegee Institute and will de-
fer any action in a national way
until the Board of Trustees makes
announcement of its plans.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
COLORED PEOPLE TO
HONOR MEMORY OF
DIR. WASHINGTON

New York, December 1O.-In
the midst of the grief and sorrow
which overwhelmed the country
following the death of the races
wise counsellor and faithful friend,
DR.. Booker T. Washington, no
more fitting tribute to his memory
has been offered than the hun
dreds of letters which have been
sent to Tuskegee Institute and
to various members of the
Board of Trustees by admiring
colored friends urging that cam
paign be at once launched to raise
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25

Washington, d. c., Dec. To-
No sooner than the present Con-
gress convened last Monday than
certain Southern members began
to talk about measures to curb the
Negro. The recent decision of the
United States Supreme Court de-
claring grandfather clauses" in
valid has scared some Southern
members and they have night.
mares nightly as they dream of the
possibility of large number of
colored men voting and thus en-
dangering their legislative careers
which they are now enjoying, be-
cause their States have robbed the
Negro of the right TO vote. Re-
preventative Vinson, of Georgia.
staunch supported of President
Wilson, leads the vanguard of
those who would discriminate
against the Negro by introducing
"Jim Grow" car bill for the Dis
trict of Columbia The measure,
he AYERS, will be vigorously pushed.
1t provides that within four months
after enactment by Congress and
the approval of the President sep.
arate and distinct accommodations
for white and colored accommoda-
tions for white and colored passen-
gers must be furnished "by every
transportation company, firm and
person operating cars, vessels or
vehicles of any character within
the District of Columbia for the
conveyance of passengers.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
THE CRISIS MISTAKE.

(From the Iowa State Bystander.)
The December number of the Cri-
sis, monthly magazine published un-
der the auspices of the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People in New York, made an
unwarranted attack upon the life
work and aim of the late DR.. Booker
T. Washington by it's editor, Mr.. Du-
Bois in an editorial ON the death of
Dr. Washington. He says, after pay
ing some complimentaries: "On the
other hand, there can be no doubt of
Mr. Washington's shortcomings. He
never adequately grasped the growing
bonds of politics and industry" +.
On the other hand, in stern justice,
we must lay on the soul of this man
heavy responsibility for the consum-
nation of Negro disfranchisement,
the decline of the Negro college and
public school and the firmer estab-
lishment of color caste in the land"
We think that at this time, when
the race and the civilized world are
in mourning for our country's loss
was not the proper time to hash up
the shortcomings of any mans life.
1t was indeed the most untimely occa-
sion to mention the faults in him,
even though he did not fully agree to
his doctrine. 1t is indeed narrow in
any man, much less unbecoming a
great editor and a great magazine,
who is anxious to become leader of
our race. Mr. Dubois, you are too
small a man and too narrow a man
to be the leader of the American Ne
gro. Mr.. Washington was not pol
itician in the sense that you speak of
him. Neither was he antagonistic
against colleges and public schools.
His own life and actions negative that
fact, in that he always secured the
college graduates as teachers in his
school, and he gave his own children
the higher or collegiate education.
After all, the editor of the Crisis can
not stop the praises and good words
DR.. Washington is entitled to re-
ceive.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
SAN DIEGO NEWS.
Especial to Colorado statesman.)

Especial to Colorado Statesman.)
San Diego, Cal.
The Friday Club met at the home
of Mrs. G. Hodge, 1920 Newton ave-
nue.. 1t being entertaining day, Mrs.
Hodge served a delicious lunch. The
invited guests were Mrs. M. Short of
Henderson, Ky, and Mrs. Wheeler of
San Diego. Mrs. Hodges little grand
son, John William Price, Jr., received
a handsome sterling silver spoon from
the members of the Friday Club. Mrs.
Price, formerly Miss Florence Hodge,
who is a member OF the Friday Club,
and society girl of the younger set,
with her many charms and sweet
voice, captured Mr.. John William
Price, who persuaded her to change
her name. 1t has been often said that
the voice of Mrs. Price equals that Of
Nine. SchumannHeink.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
PRAISE OR BLAME-WHIcH?

(From the Baltimore Commonwealth
DIR. Dubois tribute to DIR. Washing
ton, the late lamented leader, would
have been received with better grace
when the nation and his friends
were bowed in grief-had he confined
his cogitation to praise rather thaa
to blame. This is no time for criti-
cism. Millions differ with DR.. Du-
Bois, if the AfroAmerican Ledger
quotes him correctly, in the justice
and fairness Of the charges, by which
the dead man is made responsible for
1.-The consummation of Negro disfran.
chisement, the decline of the Negro
college and public schools, and the
firmer establishment of color caste
in the land" There can be no get
ting together when leaders like DR.
Dubois persist in waving the bloody
shirt and in marring the solemnity OF
an incident which has called forth
universal grief.
We are glad that this noted critic
has made no mistake in his public
policies" and that he possesses nc
shortcomings. We rejoice in the fact
that this critic adequately grasps the
trowing bond of politics and industryi
that he understands the deeper foun
dations of human training, and that
his understanding of the foundation
between white and black is not one
of caste.
Washington has built his monu
ment mot Tuskegee, as represented
in brick and mortar-but Tuskegee as
repres ented in the gratitude of 5000
gradua tes, and the admiration and
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
BURNS SELF TO
DEATH BEFORE LOVER

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 15.-
Spurned by the man she loved and
eager to prove her affection for him
Reba Smith, 23 years old, of 1906
Naudain street, poured a large
quantity of kerosene over her head
and body, applied match, began
chanting a love song and rushed
into the room in her home where
her lover sat, a living torch. Con-
tinuing her song and apparently
unaffected by the flames which
enveloped her entire body, the girl
made an effort to embrace the man
with whom she had quarreled on.
ly a few minutes before. He, how
ever terrified by the scene, ran
screaming from the house into the
home of a neighbor, where he
gasped what had occurred and then
fell fainting to the floor
The song of the woman soon be-
came a shrek and she attempted
to run from the house in the at
tempt to follow her lover. By this
time, however, the flames had con-
sumed her clothing and had infict-
ed terrible burns ON her entire
body. In the doorway of the Nau.
dain street house she swayed from
side to side and, while a score of
persons stood panic. stricken on
the pavement, dropped in smold-
ering heap to the doorstep.
1t was into the home of John
Brown, 1908 Naudain street, that
the lover, who is Willis Cannon,
30 years old, of 1915 Lombard
street, fled when he beheld his
crazed sweetheart in flames, and
Brown and Charles Waters, of ITO
South Fifteenth street, who was
passing by, finally ran to the side
of the dying woman and succeeded
in beating out what was left of the
smoldering flames. They then
carried her to the Polytechnic Hos
pital, which is less than so feet
distant, but there the physicians
declered the woman was beyond
all medical aid. She died while
they tore the charred garments
from her tortured body.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
from the Georgia Baptist, Augusta,

from the Georgia Baptist, Augusta,
DR.. Dubois Is a man of great lit
erary talents and attainments and
when that Is said of him about all
has been said.
He aspires' to Negro leadership,
when he has not single qualification
to fit him for it.
He seems to spend most of his time
bewailing the fact that he was not
born white, and "cussing" out the
white people in his magazine because
they refuse to recognize him as
white.
In all of the comments that were
made anent the death of Mr.. Wash
ington, it was left to DR.. Dubois to
sound the only discordant note. DR.
Dubois wants to elevate the race, but
he wants to do it with gloves on his
hands and with fifty-foot pole.
But it is waste of space and la
Dor to discuss DR.. Dubois, for he is
absolutely without influence and fol
lowing within the race or without it
for that matter.
All he has ever done for anybody
in his life, he did 1t for Dubois, and
it is only a question Of time before he
will run completely out. His kind
always do.
If Fisk University and Harvard turn
out many more such products as Du
Bois, why it will be powerful argu
ment against the higher education oi
the Negro.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25

Washington, d. O., Dec. 10
Bishop Alexander Walters was
here Monday. comforting with
prominent democrats. He was at
the White House short time, pre-
sumably to urge that a colored
man be appointed Recorder of
Deeds in order to try to stem the
tide of seeding Negro democrats.
While the prelate has urged at all
times the claims of Negro demo-
Gratis for political perferment, the
only presidential appointments
they have recured were the naming
of DR.. George w. Buckner as min,
lister to Liberia and the recent ap-
pointment OF James l.. Curtis as
the latter's successor
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25

Chicago, 1ll-At the Chicago
Examiner Theatrical Benefit pre-
sented at George M. Cohan's
Grand Opera House Friday after
noon, December 10, by the stars
of the leading plays and vaudeville
acts now playing in Chicago,
among whom arc some OF the
most noted stars on the American
stage, Bert A. Williams had the
distinction of being the only one
besides Leon Enrol who appeared
in two separate and distinct acts.
Mr.. Williams appeared first with
Leon Enrol in the bellboy scene
from "Zeigfeld Follies" and re-
spectively from "Ziegfeld Follies'
and "Androcles aud the Lion
The Lion Fight" was billed as
the greatest spectacle since the
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25

Greetings

following advertising various herein
abored assidcusy bring their respective firms
pubcs and the almost Unreasonable
attending their efforts columns
their wishing them extraordinary ho
improvement business Messrs c. A. Tarbel
Clothing j. E. Rice of the Josns Dry Goods
Co.; G. Goods Jno l.. Hunter
of the T. Lewis Son Dry Goods Co.. M. Walker of the
Ribbon Store; A Ball of the KnightCampbeH Mu
Connolly of the Denver Gas Electric Co.. F. w.
Mountain States Telephone Telegraph John
D. Crockery Co., j. j. Jacobs of the o. p
Miss Edith the Daniels
& others having contrib
very being the city
choice moderate prices, the
willingness always please the public
of business the in the
dealing satfsfac
business wish them prosperity
in their sphere and bountu
vest for Christmastde. MERRY CHRISTMAS PROSPER
NEW YEAR.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
RACE NE S
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

burning of Rome" The benefit
was to raise Christmas fund for
the Chicago poor. Mr.. Williams
has therefore helped to put food
into the mouths of thousands of
hungry men, women and children,
to place cloths on their backs, and,
most of all. to add brightness to
their dull lives.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
WE. B. Dubois
Criticised by
NegroPres<

veneration of nation. These should
succintly vindicate the dead from the
aspersions of the living.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25

Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Dec.
IA Mrs. Adella Hunt Logan,
wife of Warren Logan, teasurer
and acting principal of this school
died Saturday, December 10, after
an illness that lasted more than a
year. She is survived by Mr..
Logan, five children, Warren A
Logan, SOD, being assistant sec
retary of the colored Y. M. G. A.
New York City, two sisters and a
brother Funeral services were
held in the schoolcbapel
The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25

Raleigh, N. O., Dec. 14-Al.
though a white woman testified
without reservation that Garland
Hinton, Jr., resident of this city
and student at Shaw University
had committed criminal assault
upon her, jury of twelve white
men quickly gave verdict of not
guilty. The woman alleged that
the assault was committed between
II and l o'clock at night, but Hin
toms witnesses not only established
the fact that he was at home in the
bed, but it was also brought out
that he was of good character,
while the woman's character was
shown to be bad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-19
STATE To CONDEMN
THE TOLL BRIDGES
Senate Bill Passed by the Lower
Branch With Only Three Votes
in the Negative

Legislation to enable the State ia
condemn toll bridges on main high
ways on the same plan as it may on
denim toll roads was passed in the
House last night with only 8 votes in
the negative. 1t has already passed
the Senate.
The Senate bill authorizing cities to
regulate jitneys was dropped from the
calendar after fruitless efforts to post
pone.
Among Senate bills passed finally:
Regulating Easements in first class
cities.
Authorizing cities to make appro-
priations to libraries.
Authorizing counties to build trunk
sewers.
Regulating proceedings in equity.
Authorizing county controllers to an
point solicitors in counties having be-
tween $4,000 TO 100000 population.
increasing salary of chief of the
department of Mines to $1,000 and
increasing salary of deputy chief.
senate bills allowing cemetery or
CARNATIONS to make assessments on lot
owners for upkeep of property and
regulating claims against boroughs
were dropped from the calendar.
When the DILL increasing salaries of
attaches of the Legislature and regu-
lating their election came up motions
were made to drop the bill from the
calendar. but there was so much con-
fusion that Mr.. Flynn, Who was pre-
siding, ordered members to take their
seats and stop throwing paper. The
bill was stricken from the calendar.
h House passed the bill prohibit
ing presumption of party m after
primaries and increasing requirements
on signatures and postponed other
election bills.
BY : vote OF SO noes to 4s ayes the
House defeated h Senate bill restrict
ing enlistment of State policemen tn
residents of Pennsylvania for one wear
or more.
The bill providing for publication of
a State synopsis of election laws was
passed. ~
The Senate bills limiting time to be-
gin actions in trespass and false i'm
prisonment to one year and conspiracy
10 three years and prohibiting sale of
air rifles. etc, to persons under IA
years were dropped from the calendar.
Mr.. Dell. Huntington. made the point
that the latter confiicted with the hunt
ers' license law.
The Philadelphia port appropriation
bill was amended to carry $4,000 in.
stead OF S250.O00 and the Senate bill
carrying 500, 900 for purchase M
Delaware river toll bridges was
dropped, New Jersey not having taken
action. The $4,000 appropriation for
the Delaware River Navigation Com
mission also was dropped.
The State College appropriation, bill
was recalled from the Governor and
Will be increased from 5000, 900 to
81. 900. 900. "
After an attack by Mr.. ShowaIter
Union. against the policy of building
monuments the House dropped the hin
for a State park at the point where
washington crossed the Delaware.
The resolution proposing a consti-
tutional amendment to permit the
State to borrow s50,000.000 for roads
was postponed in the House earIv this
morning after an attempt by Demo-
cratic members to drop 1t had been
defeated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-19
CUNNINGHAM ON
ROAD PROSPECTS
Discusses the Outlook For High
way Improvement With People
From Lancaster County

State Highway Commissioners Gun
ningham told a delegation from Lam
caster county that it had been def
nitely decided hat the amount of
money available for maintenance and
repair of State highways during the
next two years would be Sc, 900, 900.
He called their attention to the fact
that this would make 1t impossible for
the State to do any construction work,
as 5000, 900 a yea would be barely
sufficient to maintain the ten thousand
miles of highways comprising the
Sproul system.
The Lancaster delegation sought to
have the road from Lancaster to
Ephrata reconstructed. The delegation
was headed by Senators Gerberich and
Homsher, of Lancaster, and by Rep
resentatives Hoffman. Rhoads and
Hibshman. Others in the delegation
were G.. NJ Wechter. C. +. Steiner and
H. E. Romig, all of Akron, and Charles
NJ. Reiling. chairman of the good roads
committee of the Lancaster Automo-
bile Club and representing also the
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-19
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM AT
JOHANNESBURG HIGH SCHOOL
Special to The Telegraph

Mechanicsburg. Pa, May IAN
nouncement of the program for the
annual commencement of the Mechan-
icsburg high school is made as follows:
Friday evening, May %, junior recep-
ton to the seniors in the high school
auditorium; Sunday morning, May so.
at 1890 o'clock, annual sermon to the
senior class in the First United Breth-
rem Church by the Rev. Fl. Hall Sharp,
pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church;
Monday afternoon, junior exercises on
the lawn of the high school building;
Tuesday evening, senior class day exer-
cises in Franklin Hall; Wednesday
evening. commencement exercises in
Franklin Hall; Thursday evening, the
annual business meeting and banquet
of the high school alumni in the high
school auditorium.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-19
ACTIVITIES IN THE LEGISLATURE
MAYORS MAY RUN TO
SUCCEED SELVES
House Passed the Catlin Bill,
Which Is Different From An
other Now Pending

The Catlin Senate bill to permit
mayors of third class cities TO succeed
themselves was passed finally in the
House at the afternoon session after a
battle between the representatives of
the third class cities. 1t was attacked
as subversive of long established Gus
tom, but h point was mad that
councilmen succeed themselves and
mayors should have the same privi-
lege.
The House also passed the Senate
bill amending the party government
act so that state committees shall elect
the national committeeman, the vote
being 149 to ~.
An effort to reconsider the defeat of
the bill for a constitutional convention
was defeated and the bills to protect
bullfrogs and tadpoles were killed on
second reading. The House then pro-
ceeded TO work on the third reading
calendar, passing over twenty Senate
bills.
Objections were made to the Senate
bill regulating collection of county,
school and poor taxes by the city treas
urers of third class cities by Mr.. Ram
sey, Delaware, who contended that IL
made two classes of cities. Mr.. Glenn,
Nenango, declared il would be a con.
v~enience to cities having less than
$4,000 population because the treas
urers of such municipalities would col
lect all taxes. Mr.. Ramsey objected
again n the bill was stricken from
the calendar.
The House defeated the Senate bills
increasing salaries of heads of the
State police n reducing State tax on
corporations which pay a mercantile
tax. The resolution authorizing the
State Board OF Education to report on
the desirability OF erecting q building
for the education department OF the
State government was amended BIZ cut
ting out requirement that the building
shall be q memorial 10 the founders of
the public school system. 1t then
passed.
The second class city police pension
fund bill was passed. 1t requires one-
half of l per cent. of taxes to be APP
p~ropriated to the fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-19
GOVERNOR GIVES
HANDSOME DINNER
Newspaper Correspondents Guests
of the Executive at a "Plain
Talk" Function

Governor Brumbaugh was host last
night to the legislative correspondents
at a beautifully appointed dinner at
the Executive Mansion. The dinner
is a biennial affair and the Governor
usually gets some straight talk" on
State affairs. Last night was no eX-
ception.
The decorations of the dinner were
roses and daisies arranged in three
large plaques with a border of yellow
roses and yellow daisies. The bouton-
nieres were gardenias.
The Governor asked the newspaper
men to urge the people of the State
to see Pennsylvania first and to visit
its mountains and valleys before going
to other lands and climes.
Those present were l.. r. Goshorn,
Pittsburgh Dispatch; w. p. Gallagher,
Wilkes-Barre Record; A. Boyd Hamil-
ton. Harrisburg Telegraph and Asso-
ciated Press; John II. R~eitinger, Phila-
delphia, Associated Press; w. r.. Doug
las, Tri-State News Service; John r.
Ball, Pittsburgh Post and Sun; Frank
Bell, Harrisburg. general correspond
emit; George J. Brennan, Philadelphia
Inquirer; +. J.. Byrne. Philadelphia
Public Ledger; Walter j. Christy,
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times; Walter OAR
iington, Philadelphia North American;
Lee Ellmaker, Philadelphia Press;
Robert r. Free. Harrisburg Star-Inde-
pendent; Edwin NJ. Giles. Philadel-
phia Star: f. J. Hart. Scranton Times;
George +. Holmes. Philadelphia North
American; Thomas NJ. JoneS. Harris
burg Star-Independent: Franklin l..
Knight. Philadelphia Bulletin; James
Fl. Lambert. Jr.. Philadelphia Tele-
graph: +. w. MacGrif. Harrisburg,
United Press; Joseph y. Mackrell,
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph: Willis
Geist Newbold. Harrisburg, general
correspondent: Roswell Phillips. Scran-
ton News: Saul Rubinow, Scranton Re-
publican; Lee Solomon. Philadelphia
Record; Gus NJ. Steinmetz. Harrisburg,
International News Service; Edmund