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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-30


uv)s \. wilsoa. one OF sumtsr's best
hnewn tsAchesH had the closing ex-
srctoes of the winn schooi and O
haskst picnic (which did not look at
al Hike war tir,ss) at Pocalla springs.
Ths exercises were 20 good that Miss
wilaen and pupils deserve praise. but
then any school could be proud Of Miss
y Wibon a teacher. Fortunate In
lssd - the child who attends the
'Winn school.
e win be remembered that they
dtd NOT take part, In the Field Day
, oneeciees. on account Of the illness Of
NJ wnson's mother.
yoliowing b the program. sevsra!
Dof the rscitstions were patriotic. the
soess we're too. and as the entire
school wore small flags II was q pa
triotfc day:
'.Amsrica"-l3y school.
"A welcoms''--oertruds Jackson.
Little Boy Biue"-School.
when Adam, Was q Boy"-w. c.
Sims.
"Rock-a-Bys Baby"--Annis May
Haksr.
Little 0ifssn''-Truesdsl Moselsy.
''rhs childrsq's Hour''-snd and
eth Grades. ~
speecn Masser Chnriton AT
H'nssn'
he Hubert Jackson.
Little BrotherS'-Jim I'd Sims.
work and Flay'--lst and End
0radsa ~ fF
Tho Little Brother"-Marius Coop
er.
Sword Of Robt. Lee."--5th and
7th Grades.
Her Losic"---Ora jackson.
"If Were You"-cari Baker.
srhs Hirss Snowfalr-4th and sth
oradsa.
"Charse M I.h,h, prlsaaa.Arch,.
Idol.
The Party'--Jennie LOO IaoI
.Tlttle Orphant Arr,e"-r,ea.e M
ssma
"oreat Things"-A. w. Mose,ey.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-30
LOANS FOR BOND BUYERS.
Federal Reserve Banks Working Oh
Plan to Sell Liberty Bonds on In
stallment Plan.

Washington, May 2G.--All the fed
eral reserve banks are working on q
loan issue of memorandum certificates
in ten dollar denominations to pros
pective purchasers of small amounts
Of liberty bonds to enable them TO
pay for the bonds by installments.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-30

First Grade-Hope williams.
Third Grade--John Frank vii.
liams. '
Fifth 0rade--James Brown. vii.
liam Brown. Clarence Hair. Marguer.
its Hair.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-30

Iialr-cussins was once . crime in
France. "a
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
PLAN SEA JITNEYS
FOR THE u. S. NAVY

Washington, March 10.-In an effort
to devise means to augment or enlarge
the construction of wooden ships-sea
jitneys-for the American marine, the
leading wooden ship builders of the
country will confer on Wednesday next,
with the federal shipping board.
During the present situation the
shipping board is anxious to rush 10
completion all ships now under con
struction and at the same time find
out how well prepared the ship build
ers are to increase their tonnage.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
LINER ADRIATIC IN
NEW YORK HARBOR

New York, March 10.-Bringing s20
Americans, the White Star liner Ad-
Ratio steamed int9 New York harbor
tonight, having successfully passed
through the submarine zone twice since
the German order of indiscriminate
sinkings.
One hundred and eight of the Amer
leans were steerage passengers, strand
ed horsemen, being sent home.
The ship met with extremely rough
weather. Several OF the passengers
said they wore life belts constantly
until they became so uncomfortable
they had to be removed.
Mrs. Vernon Castle. returning from
a visit with her husband. said Vernon
has been decorated with the Croix de
Guerre by the French army for bring
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

ing down two German airmen behind
the French lines in November.
Captain Takashima, who was com
the Japanese steamship
chinto Maru. sunk in the Mediterran-
can on Jan. "a. was aboard the Ad-
Ratio. He said his crew was given
plenty Of time to take TO the boats.
Clifford N. Carver. who went to
Europe with Colonel E. M. House,
close personal friend of the president,
recently, returned on the Adriatic. He
has been attached to the American en-
bassy at Berlin but denied he was, on
government business.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
GERMAN DEFENSES
TAKEN BY BRITISH

London, March 10.-Irles and neigh
boring German defenses, four miles
west of Bapaume, were captured by
the British today in a massed assault
which carried them forward on a three
mile front, General Sir Douglas Haig
reported tonight.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
PROFESSOR NEARING ASKED TO
RECONSIDER RESIGNATION,

Toledo %, March 1O.--Members of
the faculty of Toledo university this
evening adopted resolution asking
Professor Scott nearing to reconsider
his resignation. Nearing rendered his
resignation to the board of trustees
following a series of violent attacks
against him for alleged Unreasonable
statements"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
PRESIDENT ABLE TO
SIT UP IN HIS BED

Washington, March 10.-President
Wilson was permitted to sit up in bed
today for the first time since Wednes-
day noon.
His grip attack is practically gone,
1t was stated, and he was allowed by
Dr. Grayson to do little work.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
GENERAL MURGulA TO TAKE
UPTHE PURSUIT OF WILL

Ell Paso. Tex, March 1o.-General
Murguia, Carranza commander in the
north. telegraphed Juarez military
headquarters today that he was leav-
ing Rosario, Durango, with 1000 gov
eminent troops to take up the pursuit
of Villa. The bandit leader is known
to be in the state of Durango.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
FETzER DEFEATS MERRIAM BY 8,
COURT DECIDES.
Judge Scully's Ruling is Final-Fight
on Petition Today.

William R. Fetzer won the republican
nomination in the seventh ward over
Alderman Charles E. Merriam by three
votes. The official figures are: Fetzer,
6,052; Merriam, 6,049.
This was the final ruling of County
Judge Scully Thursday after he had
passed on a number of ballots objected
to by the lawyers for both sides at the
recent recount and a number of spoiled
and rejected ballots returned by the
judges and clerks of the primary.
In disposing of all the disputed bal
lots the judge gave two to Alderman
Merriam and none to Fetzer, reducing
Fetzer's lead from five, the figure es-
tablished by the recount, down to three.
Ruling is Final.
Under the primary law there is no
appeal from Judge Scully's decision.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
u. S. NEWSPAPER LAWS

Below is the law in regard to news
papers:
First Subscribers who do not give
express notice to the contrary are con-
sidered as wishing to continue their
subscription.
Second-If the subscriber orders dis
continuance of periodical the publisher
may continue to send the same until ar
rears are paid.
Third-If a subscriber neglects or re-
fuses to take the periodicals from the
post office to which they have been di-
rected, he is held responsible till he
has settled his bill and ordered the
paper discontinued.
Fourth-If the subscriber moves to
other places without informing the pub
Usher and the paper is sent to the for
mer direction, they are held responsible.
Fifth-The courts have decided that
refusing or removing or leaving them
uncalled for is a prima facie evidence
of intentional fraud.
Sixth-Any person who receives a
newspaper and makes use of it, whether
he has ordered it or not, is held in the
law to be a subscriber.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
BOTH OF THEM b CEIVED
HEARTY APPLAUSE AND MANY
ENCORES Mr.. T. THEODORE
TAYLOR ACCOMPANIED MISS
ROBERTS ON THE PIANO.

Wednesday evening Miss Maude j..
Roberts and Prof. Roy Wilfred Tibbs,
instructor of music at the Howard Uni
versity, Washington, D. c., who has
studied abroad, gave by far the finest
and the most brilliant recital at the
Abraham Lincoln Center that it has
been our extreme pleasure to attend for
some time past, and between four and
five hundred of the most highly eul-
tured Afro-Americans in this city were
in evidence and seemingly greatly en-
ioyed such an extraordinary rare must
cal treat.
1t is far beyond our ability to give
expression to any sentiments in the way
of praising Prof. Tibbs, for he needs
none, for he is in a class almost by him
self and he was at his very best on
Wednesday evening for he fairly made
or caused the piano to talk as lit were)
as he swiftly and at times almost noise
lessly ran his fingers over the keys,
plainly indicating that he is an expert
pianist.
With our limited education along mu-
steal lines it would be the height of
folly on our part to attempt to state
which of his selections were the best
and all that we can safely say on that
point is that they all sounded good to
us and our only regret was that he did
not play something that was real ia
miliar to our ears and then we would
have felt more at home while listening
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

American Negro, Thomas Peters, Eh'
had served under Sir Henry Clinton II
the British army in America, vas
offered free passage and land in sisrs
Leone and sailed in 1892 with 1l9O Ne
groes to Africa where he found tns
chief White men in control so lntOn
Gated that he soon died of delnun
tremens.
1 shall touch lightly upon the IL
rican slave trade in a later letter, u!
intention being not to dwell at leng'A
upon the crimes and misfOrtunes Oh 'n'
past, but upon our duty as CathOhcs "
the Negro of the present whose spun
ual needs appeal to me greatly. ..
May the interest of the Ca'nOD'
clergy in my race be increased to SUE
an extent that a priest from every q"
church will, in the near future DC =
signed the exclusive duty OF eonVei'~'
the Colored people of their 'aii'-
parishes.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

the same authority afirms, chad some
knowledge of the movements in the
Suydam and in Africa. In literature
we have many illusions: the mulatto
king, Feirifs, was one of Wolfram Won
Eschembaeh IS heroes; Prester John fur
nished endless lore; Othello, the war
rior and the black king, represented by
medieval art as among the three wise
men, and the various black Virgin
Marys all show legendary knowledge
of what African civilization was at
that time doing. It is a curious COM
mentary on modern prejudice that most
of this splendid history of civilization
and uplift is unknown today and men
confidently assert that Negroes have no
history" =
In speaking of the culture of Yoruba,
one of the three city groups of west
Africa, with its city democracy, its ele-
waited religious ideas, its finely organ
lied industry and its nobler art, Du
Bots tells us, "This center that spread
and welded such great influence was
replaced by fierce and bloody tyranny
that developed into wholesale murder. I"
He asks, "What was it that changed
the character of the west coast of At
rica from such culture as Yoruba con-
tanned to the orgies of war and blood
sacrifice which we read of later in these
landsf" And he replies, "There can
be but one answer-the slave trade.
Not simply the sale of men, but an or
ganized traffic of such proportions and
widely organized ramifeations as to
turn the attention and energies of men
from nearly all other industries, encour-
age war and concentrate this traffic in
precisely that part of Africa farthest
from the Mediterranean lines of trade.
From the middle of the fifteenth to the
last half of the nineteenth centuries,
the American slave trade conferred in
Guinea and devastated the coast NOR
ally, socially and physically. Euro
pean rum and fire arms were traded
Tor human beings, and it was not until
1877 that any measures were taken to
counterfeit this terribfseourge." An
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP
LEAGUE

DR.. n. Krishna, of India, will deliver
an address before the Negro Fellowship
League Sunday, March 18th, at 4
o'clock, at the reading room, 3OG5 State
street. You are cordially invited to
hear this East Indian philosopher de-
liver his address on lager, the great
poet of his country.
Last Sunday DR.. E. A. White, presi-
dent of Walden University, Nashville,
Tennessee, addressed a crowded house
The gospel choir of st. Mark IS NJ. E.
church, led by DR.. Robinson, furnished
delightful music. The inspiration of
the meeting was most delightful.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
Maxine a Victoria Cross

Ever since the Victoria cross =.
instituted by Queen Victoria a.
end Of the Crimean war the maNne :,
the medals has been in the nan'0
the same firm. The ordinary meuA
made from a steel die. being stAmp ..
and completed in the same proes..
But the metal from which the slc." :,
crosses are made is so hard tna. .S
die would stand 1t without OreAA -.
It is well known that the first 60 ~,
were made from captured Russ- .n
guns. but now the materials corae I uS
guns taken from the Chinese m
an order for the cross is sent a sOpf1
Of the metal. IL
First a rough cast Of the ur.S
made, and this has to be nleo, - tbs
and chased. The chasing occup@ .p,
attention of a skilled artisan fOf - ..,n,
hours. The bar Is a separate .-ds.
and is also chased The auln At
are most careful to see tnaI ~ are
the metal is wasted. It is noss ' ars
fully served out, and If any Is i %
from one lot of crosses Il Ii SSs.,.sS
before a fresh supply car 10
London Globe.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
THE ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB

The Alpha Suffrage Club will hold its
regular fort-nightly meeting at the Y.
w. C. A, 1924 Rhodes avenue, Wednes-
day evening, March 81. An interesting
program along suffrage lines is prom
Used. A symposium on "What we can
do to redeem the second ward" will be
led by Mrs. 1. B. W. Barnett. Repre-
sentatives from our churches, clubs, So
cial centers, Sunday-schools, literary
societies are urged to be present and
take part in the discussion. DR.. Fannie
Emanuel, president. Mrs. J. E. Hughes,
secretary.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

to his high art piano playing.
Prof. Tibbs and Miss Robert. l.,
received hearty applause at the eoDsr
sion of their various numbers and man,
encores and it was very hard fo, -
audience to drink in enough of fb.;.
singing and playing which they eniov.,
to the full. T. Theodore Taylor seea.,
panied her on the piano.
Miss Roberts from time to time IN,
ing her singing was presented with fan,
or five armsful of American bs,r,,
roses and other lovely flowers, shown,
that she is held in the highest estas"
by the best people residing in Cbie,o,
The program rendered was as fOllOV,.
C'era una volta un principe On Guar
any)-Gomes, Miss Roberts; soD,,
Appassionata Beethoven AllegrO ,,
sal, Andante con motto, Allegro ma M,
troppo, Mr.. Tibbs; GAY Pierrot Ruk
ner),. (b) The Rain is Falling on II.
Flowers (Hadley), (e) Inter Nos NIa
Fadyen), (d) All Love but a Day n.
quest) (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach,, (e) Els
tasy (RummeD, Miss Roberts; (a) Nigbt
Campbell Tipton), (b) Morning Camp
bell Tipton), (e) Seherzo CBalakirev),
Mr.. Tibbs; (a) Der Nussbaum (Sehu.
mann), (b) Die Lotosblume (Sehu.
NANNY, -(e) Du Dist vie cine Bluns
(Sehumann) (d) Chere Mutt (Bacheet,
(e) Les Meilleur Moment des Amour
(request) (Herman Devries), (H Ts
Yenx irene Rabey), Miss Roberts; The
Bird Sermon (Liszt), La CampanaIh
(Paganini-Liszt), Mr.. Tibbs; (a) An
Alone in the Night (Les Peeheurs ds
Perles)-Bizet, (b) Who Knows (dedi,
Gated to Miss Roberts)-NOr Douglas
Composer at piano., Miss Roberts.
In our humble opinion Miss Roberts
who possesses very rich, soft and very
pleasing strong soprano voice, which
she easily and fully controls while run
ming the musical scale, was at her best
in Rummel's Ecstasy and TIES Yen1.
Rene Rabey, those were her two master
or high water mark or star songs ii
which her highly and well trained rch
and soft soprano voice was shown to is
best advantage. All in all, Miss Rob
erts has a very bright future in the
] musical world.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

The national league on urban condi-
tions among the Negroes has opened up
head quarters in this city at 3719 South
State street, with T. Arnold Hill acting
as executive secretary. DR.. Robert E.
Park, for some time connected with the
Chicago University, is the president of
the Chicago branch. The other officers
are composed of some of the leading
White and Colored leading citizens in
this city.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
CHIPS

Mrs. E. AzaIia Hackley gave her first
Negro folk song festival at Albaugh IS
Theater, Baltimore, Md, last evening.
The choruses consisted of two hundred
voices. Only compositions of Colored
composers were sung. The affair was
for the benefit of the Y. NJ. c. A. of
that city and it goes without saying
that it was largely attended and in
every way a grand success.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

Judge Sheridan E. Fry has long since
proven himself to be one of the best
and most painstaking judges Of the Mu-
nicipal Court, and the voters residing in
this city and county would be highly
honoring themselves by assisting to ele-
vate him to the Superior Court bench at
the judicial election this coming No.
vember.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

1t was exclusively announced in these
columns several weeks ago that Hon.
John E. Owens would make a crack
candidate for mayor of Chicago in 1919,
and many of the politicians are loud in
declaring that he is one of the most
popular men. in Chicago and that they
are ready and willing to help to boost
him into the mayors chair in the city
hall.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
How Wheat Came to Earth.

A classic account Of the distribution
Of wheat over the primeval world
shows that Ceres, having taught her
favorite, Triptolemus, the art Of agri-
culture and the science of breadmak-
ing, gave him her chariot, a celestial
vehicle, and that In 1t he travelled night
and day, distributing this valuable
bread grain among all nations Of the
earth.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

Monday, April 9th, Appomattox Day.
Program: Address, Adjutant General
Frank S. Dickson. Banquet to men,
beers, $1.00 per plate. Please inform
secretary by April 1st. Col J. H.
Johnson, president; B. F. Mitchem, cor
responding secretary.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17
DoINGS AT THE APPoMATToX
CLUB

Sunday afternoon, March 25th, at
p. m. the Civic and Public Affairs
Committee will meet in the parlors of
the Appomattox Club, 3441 South Wa
bash avenue, meeting in the interest of
strangers in this city from the south.
B. F. Moseley, chairman. DIR. S. C.
Dickerson will furnish the musical pro-
gram for that occasion.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

Prof. Tibbs was at His Best and Miss
Roberts, who Received Four or Five
Armsful Of American Beauty. Roses
and Other Flowers, Never Sang so
Sweetly Before.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

Washington
contributor
Tribune Angeles California and to the Td1ngs
Of
graduate University
Washington School of Philan
thropy and she is honort to n
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

THE RoBERTs-TIBBs RECITAL AT
THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN CEN
TER WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY
BRILLIANT AFFAIR OR MUS1-
CAL TREAT.
The broad ax., 1917-03-17

Nyling head, In the Farce islands, d
q sheer precipice piling up 1900 feet In
height
Evening star., 1917-03-18
CAMPFIRE GIRLS AID
IN CARE OF WAR ORPHANS
Four Ways Provided to Help Wild
ows of French and Belgian
Soldiers.

Many of the members of the Camp
fire Girls are acting mothers by
proxy of French and Belgian babies.
according to an announcement sent out
from the organization headquarters in
New York. This statement says that
four different ways have been offered
to them for helping Ia support baby.
The first was by The American Girls
Aid in New York. which offered them
the opportunity to-be godmother for
S6 a month. The second opportunity
came through the Orphelinat des
Armees, which has committees III every
part of France and In many states of
the Union. The third way is by send
ing baby kits. second hand clothes or
materials not made up to Europe
through the British war relief or the
Belgian relief commission. The fourth
way is TO help a baby locally by help
ing a mother support her owh baby
which woulG otherwise go int" an IN
stitution because of lack OF funds. or
to take special interest in a baby in
some institution by making its clothing
or otherwise.
Evening star., 1917-03-18
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

The National Association of Portrait
Painters annual exhibition is now on
view in the special exhibition room of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art. This col
lection. comprising thirty-seven paint
ings by well known artists. was assem-
bled in New York early in the winter.
and is now on a circuit of the leading
art museums of the country.
The National Association of Portrait
Painters is an artists organization
formed primarily to promote interest in
portrait painting, and with the purpose
of giving it's members opportunity for
display. The pictures exhibited and sent
out on circuit are not chosen by jury
or especially invited. but are contributed
by the artist members at their own dis
cretion and choice Obviously. a painter
wishes to be as well represented in such
a display as possible. but. oddly enough,
artists are not always the best judges of
their own works.
Portrait painting is perhaps the most
difficult and the most significant of all
the arts. dealing with personalities, and
at its best interpreting something more
than mere external appearance. To man
there is nothing so interesting as man,
human kinShip being one of the funda-
reason portrait well painted does not
have to be a likeness of a beautiful per-
son to possess interest or even charm;
but also for the same reason portrait
Ill painted is perhaps the more distress
ing. Success or failure rests with the
artist. and is not most often dependent
so much upon craftsmanship or technical
skill as upon power of conception and
inherent ability. A little man or woman
one who is little mentally and spirit
ually-cannot produce a great work of
art.
1t is encouraging to find SO many
really interesting and excellent works
in this current exhibition set forth by
the National Association of Portrait
Painters, particularly in this day. when
art ideals seem to have become so
greatly confused.
Irving r. Wiles shows a very charm
Ing portrait of young woman in pro-
file. suavely painted, pleasing in color,
refined and elegant, yet possessing
certain dignif1ed reserve: not Il work
which astounds by technical achieve
Ynent, but one which satisfies and full 4
fills something more than the require
ments of art. Mr.. Wiles also has con-
tributed an excellent Self-portrait, fine
both as a likeness and Characterization
From Lydia Field Ernmet. to whom
the popular prize of the Corcoran Gal
lery's biennial exhibition was voted,
has come a portrait of a lady. peculiar
ly well painted, with much feeling and
Evening star., 1917-03-18

likes and dislikes? l consider all this
hysteria about the coming of spring
nothing more than sentimental twad-
die"
You can't make me believe that,
AS if dear girl like you could help
loving that first robin, and the lilacs
and"
She rippled in with the high-art
laughter they teach at society schools
abroad and which our own young
persons catch on to.
81 see there's no use trying to tease
you. Why. of course, the spring is
perfectly dear. I'm just longing for
glimpse of yellow crocus-and the
teen-weeny new sparrows."
The young man chuckied in turn.
but. all the same. he gave her a sort
of weighed-in-th balance look
And the woman behind. who was
lettering along the gravel path hunt
ing for right sappy green shoots and
lumpy buds. remarked unto herself
for, of course, she didn't say it loud
Evening star., 1917-03-18
REPAIRING LOCAL CRAFT.
Work at Alexandria Preliminary to
Greater River Activity.

To be fitted with a new shaft and to
have other work done to her in prepa-
ration for the busy summer season. the
tug Walter F. Meade of the Columbia
Granite and Dredging Company fleet
will go to Alexandria this afternoon to
haul out on the marine railway there.
Tug T. G. Herbert of the Smoot feet
which has been out on the railway for
several days being overhauled, has
completed repairs and will be put over
board this afternoon or tomorrow. She
will resume service towing sand and
gravel laden lighters from digging
grounds opposite Alexandria to this
city.
To have her hull under water cleaned.
repaired and painted. the schooner Sill
yer Star. belonging to w. A. Wimsatt
of this city, has gone to Alexandria to
haul out on the railway. The vessel will
be ready to resume service in the COM
ing week.
The pile-driving machine Of the Dor
sey & Miller Company of this city
has been taken to Alexandria for her
hull to be rebuilt.
Work of overhauling the machinery
and house of the Potomac and Chesa :
peake line steamer Wakefield is in
progress.