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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
CHAMPAIGN

Rev. S. T. Clanton conducted
the funeral of Mr.. John Willis,
which was largely attended
Mr.. B. F. Crushion and Rev. j.
Rivers, and Mrs. II. } Wells were
among the representatives at the
Wood River Association which
met in Danville.
Mrs. Dennis Breckenridge and
daughter, Lucille, have returned
from Kentucky, where they have
been visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. Ida Martin has returned
home from Chicago where she has
been visiting relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Bosty and
daughter, Ada, have returned
from Murphysboro, where they
have been visiting for fifteen days
with the former s mother
The Two Households of Ruth
presented Mrs. f. II. Dean, G. D.
w. r., a beautiful locket as a to-
ken of appreciation.
Miss Woodrof, of Little Rock,
Ark, has returned to her home
in Arkansas after visiting Mrs.
Fannie Owens Of this city
Mrs. S. n. Nickels attended the
Wood River Association last
Tuesday in Danville.
Mrs. Evelyn Bassit, of Rock
Island, Mrs. Florence Cook, of
Quincy, We're among the represen-
tatives at the State Federation,
which was held at the A. NJ +.
church last week.
Miss lula Garter entertained
the Ideal Embroidery Club last
Wednesday afternoon. A deli
cate luncheon was served.
Mrs. f. T. Dean, president of
State Women S Convention, is at
tending the National Baptist Con
vention as representative in Sa-
vanah, Ga.
Don't forget to see Mrs, E. T.
Dean and get the Forum
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
AN ANTI GOSSIP LEAGUE

A disgusted citizen of Oak Park
is urging the organization OF an
anti-gossip league in that city.
The women of the town, declares
this man, whose identity for OBJ
vious reasons is not disclosed,
have acquired the small talk habit.
They cant discuss anything but
their neighbors affairs.
An anti-gossip league in Oak
Park, and Springfield, too, for
that matter, would be fine thing.
But the disgusted gentleman is
wrong in wanting it confined en-
tirely to women.
Some of the choicest gossip can
be heard in barber shops, bar
rooms, pool rooms and other
places where men congregate
Any anti-gossip organization
should admit men to membership
Chicago Tribune.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
HOW HIGH FINANCE SEES
A PRESENT DAY CRAZE

New York, N. Y.-John H. Da-
Wis and Company, bankers, 10
Wall St, New York, in their fl
nancial circular issued regularly,
discuss the present day tendency
to regulate by law nearly every
liberty of the individual. These
bankers say;
1t never has been our practice
to discuss in these circulars sub
jects not generally recognized as
having direct bearing upon the
financial and industrial situation.
At this time, however, we find
good reason to depart from this
rule for the purpose of pointing
out the dangerous and evil possi-
bilities of the present craze that is
disturbing economic and political
conditions in so many parts of the
country.
There is a great mass of avail
able testimony that goes to show
that in most American communi-
ties where prohibition has been
put in force, its chief efforts have
been to drive liquor from the open
to cover, to make law breakers of
the people and to displace the
milder harmless beverages with
spirits less bulky but more power
ful and destructive to morals and
health. There are prohibition To-
calities in amazing number where
the quantity of alcoholic liquors
imported is proportionately far in
excess of the consumption in
places where the traffic is quite
free.
1T is in these states that pro
hibition is supposed to be most
necessary, by reason of the ex-
tensive negro population, and yet
it is the testimony of many of the
most reputable southern news
papers, backed by various court
records, that marked increase in
crime has followed closely upon
the adoption OF anti-liquor laws,
attributable directly to the immed-
late development of illicit traffic.
In such localities, as everywhere
in dry territory, the closing of the
openly conducted shop and bar
has meant the multiplication of
the secret still, the prompt ap-
pearance of the "bootlegger"
and the opening of the illegal den
with all its vicious features. 1t
is the admission of many employ
Lers of labor, especially in mining,
numbering and kindred industries,
that whereas prohibition seemed
desirable before it was enforced,
its result has been increased
drunkenness and greater loss of
efficiency, this by reason of the use
of secretly purchased and quickly
consumed liquor of far greater
Supplying and poisoning power
when the traffic was open.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
GREATEST LOCAL GAME
OF THE SEASON
Peoria VS.. S. Nationals, Sunday
and Monday, Sept. 8 and 4, at
T. C.'s Park.

Two Of the finest baseball
games of the season were wit
messed at the T. G. park Sunday
and Monday, Sept. 3 and 4, be-
tween Chas. Freeman S Bohemian
Giants, Of Peoria, and the Ma
tionals, the cleverest aggregation
we have had with us this year.
Peoria borrowed three of our stars
Wallace, Jones and Poston-
and two men from St Louis
Keys aud Webster.
Sunday Peoria's battery was
Keys and Webster; Nationals,
Ferrell and Ford. The game was
beautiful, errors were few. Lynch
used good head work and every
player did well. The Nationals
did pretty work, and the sable
sons were ready for the onslaught.
Wallace, Lynch, Lonnie Jones and
Poston lead in the batting Keys
struck out nine men, while Ferrell
struck out ten. Score 4 to 2 for
Peoria. Mondays game was still
more exciting. The size of the
crowds seemed about equal to the
day previous-about 800. The
colored boys showed their super
iority at every stage of the game.
Poston was in the box and pitched
an errorless game. Lynch hit a
three-baser Lonnie Jones two and
Wallace two. Wallace and Web
ster both made sensational run
ming catches creditable to profes-
sionals. Rabbit is some short
stop. Webster has few superiors
behind the bat and Il. Jones never
retrogrades. The Bohemians never
allowed the Nationals to score but
once, the fourth inning, when on
an error by Peoria, they touched
home plate twice.
The whole game was good from
start to finish.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

The candidacy of George E.
Keys, a Springfield young man, is
meeting with favor over the State
and the encouragement he is re-
ceiving throughout the State and
in Chicago is very gratifying to
his friends here. Mr.. Keys is a
young man of sterling qualities
and has been staunch, hard
working Republican for his party
ever since he reached manhood.
He is making countless friends
over the State and no candidate
has a larger number of colored
friends than Mr.. Keys, especially
the younger element whom he has
had occasion to meet and become
acquainted with. We recommend
him to the voters throughout the
State in the highest terms.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
BRINGING NEGRO LABoRERs
Pennsylvania Railroad Officials
Seek Men in the South for Un-
skilled Work.

Philadelphia, Pa.-More thar
5000 negroes from Georgia and
other southern states have been
brought to this city within the
past few weeks by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad officials in an effort
to solve the labor problem. Two
thousand men arrived last week
and are being subjected to the
physical examination required by
the rules of the road. Most of
them will be put to work on the
Pennsylvania grain elevator at
Girard FONT.
Agents of the railroad have
been at work in various southern
cities more than a month and all
have had trouble with the authori-
ties, most of which is cleared up,
according to officials of the road
here. These agents have been hir-
ing negroes ranging in age from
sixteen to sixty years for unskilled
work, Offering from 1.50 to 500
a day.
The railroad has discovered that
it will not end labor shortage
merely to import enough men for
the immediate need. In the first
batch brought from the south
about month ago, 200 or 300 men
secured through southern employ
ment agencies, quit their jobs
within a few weeks. These men
were employed on improvement
and construction work within a
radius of ten miles of Philadel-
phia, and according to the railroad
officials, left to accept jobs with
contractors or around munitions
plants. 1t is hoped that the others
now being brought in will realize
the great opportunity being given
them and that they will "stay on
the job instead of quitting as
soon as they get a little money
ahead.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
HUGHES MAKING SWEEP TO
DIXIE"

Justice Hughes, republican can
didate for president, spoke in
Nashville, Tenn, on Labor Day
and dared to express his honest
convictions in the very mouth Of
the lion.
lie shows by this that he is a
man of courage and that he is not
sectional-he is not afraid to ex-
press himself, even ON the sa-
cred' soil of the home of Jas. X.
Polk, Carmack and other men
whose fire-eating" regulations
have scared men from the land Of
the morning glories and the
sweet magnolias,
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
7 M III IN
ECHOES FROM THE GAMES

Lynch S headwork and director
ship in Sunday s game were great.
Poston showed himself to be a
ball player of ote-he knows
what to do with a ball when he
gets it-so does Lynch.
Keys showed superiority over
Ferrell in the box, but Ferrell s
men showed a little superiority
over Peoria in the field and es-
pecially in running and stealing,
Lonnie Jones holds the cards on
batting and safe hits.
Peoria S first baseman may be
said to be "a bird"
Wallace always gets results.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
MRS. J. P. ROBERTS
CRITICALLY ILL

Mrs. j. P. Roberts, late Of 1907
f. Capitol Ave, who has been i'll
since Christmas, and who has been
at her mothers, Mrs. Franklin,
at Grenada, Miss, for the past
two months, is critically i'll at this
date (Sept. A. and her husband,
j. p. Roberts, was wired for last
Monday. He left Immediately for
her bedside. Her many friends
here hope that recovery is prob
able
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
A NATION OF MODS
AND LYNCHERS

Five negroes lynched by a
mob in Florida, E" are the small
hearlines in the daily papers of
last Sunday. The account occu-
pies only one and one-half inch
space, single column wide. There
were two women and three men.
They were in Jail, it was easy to
arrest them. They were taken
early in the morning from the jail,
at Newberry, and hanged by the
mob. The blood of five negroes
not being sufficient to safe their
thirst the deputy sheriffs hunted
around and found another negroe
and shot and killed him, making
six all told. What crime did they
commit. None. They were mere
ly accused of aiding a negroe to
escape whom it was thought
killed white man. A constable
had also been killed, but whether
he killed himself or was killed by
white man is question and
merely a question in the absence
of any evidence to the contrary,
Notwithstanding. If during the
present European war a subma
rine had sunk vessel and
drowned five or six Americans the
nation would blaze with indigna-
ton, but a Georgia, Texas or Flor
ida mob may hang, shoot, burn
or put in any way to death ten
times five negro American citi-
zens and the papers will make no
comment, give the scantiest space
and most obscure corner in the
journal to the mention of such
news.
You cannot cloak shame and
outrage with silence. 1t will out,
murder will out. 1t will be the
knocking that Macbeth heard, it
hammers upon the American
heart, it is the laying up of wrath
which, when it comes, will show
an awful score and tally-mark for
the American nation to settle.
against the day of judgment
Apathy and silence cannot ignore
it, rocks and mountains cannot
hide it. This lynching will be the
damned spot that will not wash
out" on the escutcheon of the ma
tion.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
says, "lynching is essentially and
peculiarly an American institu-
ton" True history places the
stigma of lynching upon the peo-
pie Of the United States of Amer
lea. No other nation listing itself
among the civilized, or uncivilized
nations, is so addicted or so
cursed The frequency of lynch
ing and the enjoyment it brings
to some communities makes it a
pastime.
Who is the most diabolieal saw
age, the Sumatran who eats men
deceased or the American who
burns men alive and gloats over
their agonies while they are burn
ingY
The horrors Of these American
lynchings are indescribable and
are now swelling into such pro-
portions that the United States
government needs lay its hands on
the crime and stop it.
Under our federal constitution
all citizens are guaranteed life,
liberty and property, and, it fur
ther pledges, that no state can de
prive any one of these rights with.
out due process of law.
Those six lynched the other day
in Florida were given no process
of law. They We're murdered
without conviction, without law
and without authority. The law
was trampled into the dust and
the lives of women and men were
made brutal sacrifice to the rea
sonless and relentless race preiu
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
EDITOR WHEELER
OF QUINCY JOURNAL Is
DEAD.

Editor Wheeler, of the Quincy
Illinois Journal, one of the leading
Democratic Journals, is dead. Mr.
Wheeler was one of the foremost
editors of the State, and the lead
ing Democrats. His history is
spectacular.
Miss Hortense Jackson has re-
turned from a pleasant visit, with
friends, in Galesburg, Illinois.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

dices of white savages. Congress
can do something and the nation
need do something to stop it. We
will protest, we shall insist on
appropriate legislation being
passed by Congress to carry out
the provisions of the constitution
giving every man, woman and
child the protection of life.-St
Louis Argus.
All, my brothers, you are right
We endorse every word you say
You have fred straight at the
bull s eye-you hit the bull-the
sound reverberates round the
globe.
Yes, something must be done tC
abate and stop this curse. 1t must
be done soon, If there is not a
stop put to such atrocious crimes
it will require more than 125, ,00C
raw soldiers to patrol our western
! frontier.
Rome shall perish, write that
word,
In the blood that she has split;
Perish hopeless and abhorred,
Deep in ruin as in guilt
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
FULL NEGRO TICKET

The Lincoln Republican League
of Tennessee, of which r. R.
Church, Jr., is president, put out
an entire ticket composed of col
ored men of the tenth congress
sional district.
Wayman Wilkerson, undertaken
and banker, was nominated for
Congress. B. M. Roddy, cashier,
Solvent Savings Bank & Trust Co,
and II. NJ. Bomar, a prominent
lawyer, were nominated for the
two members of the senate, while
B. V. Burchett, of Covington, was
given the place of fortorial sena-
tor from Shelby and Upton
counties.
The following named men will
make the race for the legislature
T. II. Hayes, undertaken and
banker; j. B. Willis, real estate
broker; A. E. Clouston, planter
N. F. Clowers, merchant; j. I
Settle, attorney at law; o. W
Williams, merchant; Ed. Lewis
contractor; G. w. Atkins, state
agent, Standard Life Insurance
Company.
The nominating committee whC
brought in the above names con
sisted of F. M. Nesbitt, DR. U. S
Walton, Price Gailbreath, G. w
Cooper and Rev. II. L. Starks.
R. R. Church, Jr., the fathel
of the ticket, was made campaign
manager.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
Mr.. Chas. FAINT, of Mt. Pulaski,
H., was in the city Sunday.
ANNUAL TOUR OF
UNIVERSITY SINGERS

Will appear here at Masonic
Hall, Sept. 27, under management
of DIR. S. A. Ware.
This will be rare treat. These
singers have an international rep
utation. DIR. Ware recommends
them in the highest. The admis-
sion fee will be 35 cents.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
RACE WINS INJUNCTION IN
SEGREGATION
Another Effort to Humiliate the
Race Squelched in Virginia
Pending Decision of United
States Supreme Court.

In the United States Circuit
Court, at Norfolk, Judge Waddill
this morning granted Robert G.
Griffin temporary injunction
against the city of Newport News,
restraining the municipality from
enforcing the race segregation or
dinance.
The action grows out of the re
cent decision of Police Justice
Robinson who gave large num-
ber of colored people brought be-
fore him, thirty days to move out
OF a certain section of the city,
they having been charged with
violating the terms of the segre-
CATION ordinance, which prohibits
colored people from living within
certain areas defined in the law
The injunction was secured by
Attorneys Thomas Newsome and
w. r. Walker, acting for r. G.
Griffin, colored, a citizen of York
town, who owns certain property
in the east end, described in the
injunction as lots Gas and CAT,
block S5.
The Petition.
The complainant sets forth in
his petition that he has erected
building the upstairs of which he
rents to colored tenants for $50
per month.
He further cites the ordinance
and asserts in his allegation that
the law is unconstitutional. He
further alleges that there is now
pending before the United States
Supreme Court a suit involving
the identical question complained
of here, a decision of which will
settle the matter for all the states
in the Union.
He concludes by saying that he
is advised and so alleges that an
irreparable injury will be done
him by the enforcement of the or
dina..ee above mentioned and will
be a virtual confscation of his
property by the city of Newport
News without any compensation
whatever.
Is Temporary.
The injunction as granted is
temporary in its nature and is re-
turnable in September. AT that
time the case will be taken up on
its merits and the court will de-
eide whether the injunction shall
be made permanent pending the
decision of the United States Su-
preme Court.
A United States deputy marshal
came here this afternoon and
served the injunction papers upon
Mayor Semmes and several other
city officials.
The case of the city will be
looked after by City Attorney
Massie.
(Newport News Times-Herald,
Aug. IL, 1876
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
FAIR STREET CAR
PLANS COMPLETED
Utility Company Will Maintain a
Fast Schedule on Loop 1.-The.

Arrspgements for street car
service for Illinois State Fair pa
irons have been completed.
A. d. Mackie, general manager
of the Consolidated Railway Com
pany, announced plans to care for
the throngs today.
Cars will be run ON the fair
ground loop 20 seconds apart.
There will be "a cars on the lopo
when the rush is on, making 155
ears an hour around the loop.
Normal capacity of the equip
ment will be $4,000 people an hour.
In a rush the ears will be able to
handle 10000 people an hour.
The cars will go out on Ninth
street and return from North
Grand avenue on Seventh street
line.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

The Bohemian Giants, of Peoria
will again cross bats with the Ma
tionals, here tomorrow. "Ah ha"
there will be hot time in the old
park.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
NEW YORK STREET CAR MEN
GO ON STRIKE.
Now that the railroad

Now that the railroad strike
is settled by force, the New York
street car strike is on. Shall Con-
gress pass a special Act satisfactor-
Y to thenl
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

Mr.. Marion Rhodes, of w.
Laurel street, has been indisposed
for several weeks and is not much
improved His daughter is here
from Tacoma, Washington, but
will return to the west soon on ac-
count Of this climate being against
her health.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

Miss Ethelynda Michem, of
Oklahoma City, Okla, was a guest
at Camp Butler, Sept 4, 5, and 9th
with Miss Halle Ford.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

The soldiers are arriving, reg
iment by regiment. As soon as they
are all safely, back at their respect
i've mobilization points. Villa will
be heard from.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

Bruce Ford and Bill Wormley
spent a whole week in Peoria-
that s long time in Peoria, boys.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

w. 2. Hennengton, Jr., of Chi
cago, was in the city this week to
attend the funeral of his sister,
Miss Daisy.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

He that hath not an automobile,
shall strive, in season and out, to
get one.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09
Other Lines, Too

Cars running up to Monroe
street in the down town district
will take 80 minutes to make the
loop and those looping back on
Washington street will make the
loop in 30 minutes. Extra service
will be placed on all other city
lines as it is needed to care for the
crowds.
Loop service will be maintained
at might just the same as in the
day time. Cars will be provided
to carry crowds out to the fair
grounds for the evening program
early in the evening and will wait
on the sidings ON Eleventh street
to bring the crowds back to town
after the entertainment Is over.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-09-09

T. R. Thompson, Jr., of Peoria
was in the city Sunday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
MANY CLUBS ARE BOUGHT.
Baseball Franchises Change Hands
Frequently In Recent Years

Many changes have come in the own
ership of major league bali clubs dur
ing the last few years. Since along in
1911 and 1912 there have been eight
changes of ownership in the sixteen
clubs, and before the year is out there
may be at least two and probably three
others.
The Red SoX We're sold to Joe Ian
min by the McAleer interests in 1912.
Phil Ball and Charles WeeghInan Sc
cured the Browns and Cubs this win
ter. Death brought about ownership
changes in the Giants and Senator's a
few years ago. The Yanks We're sold
to Rupert and Huston last winter.
The acquisition of the Braves by Jim
Gaffney was only recent one, and
William Baker became owner of the
Phillies about three years ago. Now
the Braves have been sold again to
Percy uaughton and others.
/ The Giants probably will be sold, the
/ Cleveland American club is on the
market. and the Cardinals also may be
| disposed of by the present owners.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
SIGNS FOR TEN YEARS.
CorneIPs Veteran Athletic Trainer
Takes Lonq Contract

Cornell's veteran athletic trainer.
Jack Moakley, has signed new con-
tract to coach the track and cross
country teams of the big university
for period Of ten years. Monkeys
present contract with Cornell will ex-
pire at the conclusion of the intercol-
IeGiate championship meet, which will
take place on May % and % next, and
the new arrangement will go into eff
feet Immediately after the champion
ships have been decided.
Trainer Moakley came to Cornell
seventeen years ago, and under his SUI
pervision Cornell has won six intercol-
legiate track meets and fourteen an
nual cross country meets. Since the
opening of Schoellkopf field and Bacon
practice hall two years ago the mum
Der of men out for track work has ex-
4 actly doubled.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
RUTLAND $4,000 FREE-FoR-ALL.
Other Features for the 1916 Harness
Racing Program Announced.

RUTLAND, Feb. 90. = Announce
ment is made by the management of
the Rutland fair of the tentative race
program for 1916. 1t includes a $1,000
free-for-all and the possibility of four
81 900 stake races. Two of the latter,
at least, are a certainty.
There is also the possibility of other
fairs in the circuit offering two $1,000
stake purses.
The Rutland $500 free-for-all will
be an early closing event, II entries,
Mt least, must qualify before April /,
when the list closes. The money is to
be divided into six parts, $1,000;
second $500; third, $500; fourth, $500;
fifth, 500 and sixth, 800.