Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-04-09


ored people made by Professor VIII
liam Starr Myers OF Princeton unfver.
sity, in a lecture al the Academy OF
Music on February 81, several leaders
OF that race met At Washington ana
formed committee to conduct cam
paign against defam ,rs of their race
there. The campaign will be carried
on by ministers, lawyers, physicians
and business men, as well as by all
the associations of colored people in
Brooklyn.
The statement which aroused the
indignation of the colored people was
that in which Professor Myers said:
"a Young Mems Christian association
leader of the South said he estimated
that 9s per cent of Negro men in some
localities of the South are immoral.
and that the percentage of the immor'
atty of the Negro women was as
great" He is also reported to have
said that "the ballot and whisky are
the two great curses of the race. The
Negro race is not merely an inferior
race; it is backward race. Even the
educated Negro is nothing but a
grown-up child"
As a consequence of this. the col
ored people are determined to dis
prove what Professor Myers said. The
Citizens club and the Carleton
branch OF the Y. NJ. C. A., as we'll as
other organizations of colored peo-
pie, will act together in this matter.
The first move will be to hold a
mass meeting at the Academy of Mu.
sic, at which prominent colored people
will speak. The people in charge will
also try to obtain as speakers one or
two white men of influence to uphold
their side of the case.
The program committee in charge
of the arrangements for the meeting
is headed by Rev. DR.. A. P. Coles. R.
M. Merony, superintendent Of the Carl.
ton branch, Y. NJ. c. A., is secretary.
Before going actively into direct oppo'
sition to Professor Myers, Secretary
Merony was Instructed to write to
Professor Myers and have him confirm
the statements he made, as reported
in the newspapers the day after he lee.
tured. Among those who were pres
emit at the meeting we're Rev. W. M.
Moss, G. F. Miller, w. H. Jones, w. A.
Lee and George e. Wibecan, president
OF the Citizens club, vi
Rev. DR.. s. Parkes Cadman of the
Central Congregational church and
Park Commissioner Raymond v. In.
gersoll have already signified their in
tention to address the mass meeting
for the colored people, if possible.
n White men and colored men alike
are being fed daily at the dinners
which the Ebenezer Baptist church In
Chicago, one of the largest churches
with congregation Of colored people
in the city, is providing for those whom
winter and war depression in bust.
ness have thrown out OF work. In fact
the whites outnumber the blacks by
four to one at the hour of the free
meal served five days week by the
women of the church, according to
those in charge. The dinners, which
are substantial and we'll cooked, cost
the church about $40 day to feed
about $50 men. This is service which
the church tries to give for one month
out Of every year, says the pastor
Rev. John F. Thomas. Last year 1852
white men and 1902 colored men, in
all, were fed. One of the white
churches of the city which carries on
a similar work bars colored men from
its charity: but Rev. Mr.. Thomas com,
mittee of women welcome anyone who
is penniless and hungry, regardless OF
color, creed or race.
The erection of a monument to the
memory of Lucius .Harkum, colored,
who for 81 years was a nurse at Freed,
mems hospital, was proposed by Rev:
Simon P. w. Drew at funeral services
at the Cosmopolitan (colored) Baptist
church, Washington. Interment was
at Harmony cemetery.
In his sermon Doctor Drew said 1t
was proposed to have nationwide
campaign, and when funds have been
obtained to erect q monument in
front of the hospital. Tribute was
paid to the nurse by Doctor Drew
who characterized him as one of the
four great characters of the Civil war
Others who spoke were DR.. D. 3
Wiseman, DR.. T. A. johnson, Rev. P
P. Samuel, Rev. J. N. Beaman, Rev
Charles H. Parker. Rev. A. Barton and
Rev. John Davis. 5E ;5st}
The custom has been started In
some western cities of printing the
maiden name of woman after tina,
of her husband In the directory. ~.
.> "A few are geniuses. Others inheri,
their bad manners and their disagree
able dispositions. s..a t...,
The Sarino ( Ontario) Canadian say.
that Thomas Collins Of the first con
lcession Of Biddulph township, who /.
ninety-nine and one-half years old, ha,
just commenced taking music les
sons" #.3. III. 81 4. +
Much Of the best wallpaper 10 mad
In part from leather waste. RI
A century ago only 800 species Of 81
chids were known, and these very i'm
perfectly. Now the latest authorit.
gives the number Of known species u