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recuperating from recent Illness The
regular soprano, Mrs. Bertha Hansen
Gottsman and bass, Mr.. Charles F. Rob-
erts, will be in their places, with Mrs.
William Hamilton Bayly as organist and
director.
On Good Friday evening at s O'Clock the
choir of st. Paurs Episcopal Church.
Twenty-third street northwest, under the
direction of NOVEL; s. Ferris, will render
THE Crucifixion," by Sir John Stainer.
The solos will be sustained by Mr.. Mil
ton C. White, bass; C. Risdon Allen,
tenor. and Master Robert Pollman. So
prano.
Mrs. Zell Weaver Oatley, Mrs. Robert
Fatt and Mr.. ]. Walter Humphrey have
all resigned from the board Of managers
of the Washington Oratorio Society. Mrs.
Fatt in addition to being member of
the board was secretary of the So
ciety.
The Evening Choir of the Church of
the Covenant will give Stainer's "cruci-
fixion" Friday evening next The solo
parts will be sustained by Richard p.
Backings tenor; y Walter Humphrey.
bass. and Wheeler Wilson, bass. Mr..
sydney, Lloyd wrightson win conduct
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take is prognosticated. and In state sf-
fairs they will be conspicuous during the
summer.
Drain on the public treasury. so long
prophesied, will bring about new phases
OF taxation that may arouse grave oppo-
sition, astrologers declare.
Food scarcity will become an actual
menace in the United tSates before an
other year has passed. Il Is foretold, and
government measures to conserve sup
plies will be taken.
Venus Is I'm a place read as promising
many banquets and social entertainments
during the coming summer. when ex-
tnemes In wealth and poverty win be
strongly contrasted by rather sensational
events.
Hotels and restaurants continue under
sway believed to be most prosperous.
but there Is likely to be a sudden change
for the worse. owing TO legislation or
government regulation intended to pre-
vent waste. ...-.. -
Persons whose birth date IL is to have
a happy omen for the year. They should
prosper in love and business. The young
will court or marry.
Children born ON thus DAY are likely TO
be atcivc and persevering, but fond of
change and company. These subjects of
Aries usually succeed.
0nU1In
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Song (GeibeD: Hallelujah, Christ is Risen
(Simper); soprano solo, 1 Know That Ny
Redeemer Liveth QdandeD, Mrs. Geo. a.
Miller.
Evening service: Choir anthems: Why
Seek Ye? (Simper), Life's Glitering Morn
(Ashford); tenor solo, Christ is Risen
Today (BischofD. Mr.. Ralph Cady; violin
solo, Mr.. Walter Silber. Incidental solos
in the anthems sung by Mrs. T. r. Pirtle
Mrs. ]. H. Gibson and Miss Estelle Wilde.
Joseph Harrison, organist and director.
Adolph Werner, Russian tenor. will give
a recital before the members and friends
Of the Anthony League on Thursday even
ing. April 5. at 2oo7 Columbia road north
west.
Ad addition to the faculty of Studio
Hall School. during the last week. is
Miss Meta Craig, Of BIS o street north
west. Miss Craig is the soloist OF the
Church Of the Covenant. and Will have
charge of the vocal teaching department
at Studio Hall. -.
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MUSIC And MUSICIANS

The choir Of All Saints Church, Chevy
Chase, will give the cantata, "The Mes
sage From the Cross. by w. C. Mac
Farlane at o'clock this evening. They
will be assisted by Mrs. Swami, Mrs.
Clayton and DR.. Bellinger, violins; Mr..
McBurnie, viola; DR.. Swami and Mr..
Smith, cellos, and Mrs. Grace d. Jackson,
piano.
At the Church of the Covenant this aft
ernoon the music will be given by the
Triple Quartet and In the evening by the
Evening Choir Of 100 voices. with Double
Quartet and four additional soloists, both
services being under the direction Of Mr..
Sydney Lloyd Wnghtson. with Mr.. Har-
vey Murray at the organ. The follow
ing are the music numbers.
Afternoon-Come. Weary Pilgrims,
Come. Tozier. Incidental solo,. Mr.. Back
fng) Contralto solo. Jerusalem, Parker.
Cdiss Jacobs) By the Waters of Baby
lon. Stoughton. Incidental solos, Miss
Jacobs and Mr.. Backing.) Give Ear to
Ny Words o Lord. Rogers. Incidental
solos Miss Craig and Mr.. Humphrey
nssnmS-orEan prelude. Mediation,
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and Mr.. Harvey Murray will be at the
organ
Miss Meta Craig, we'll known in mus
ical circles in this city. will give her
first recital to her pupils and their friends
at Studio Hall since becoming a member
of the faculty of that school. this even
ing.
The quartet of Calvary Baptist Church
Miss Mabel Roberts, soprano; Mrs. Will
liam, T. Reed, contralto; Mr.. Richard P.
Backing, tenor: Mr.. T. A Donaldson.
bass; Mr.. Louis A. Potte, jr., organist
and director-with the Sunday school
chorus, will render Maunder's From Oil
vet to Calvary next Sunday at the evening
service. Mr.. Potter will play for a pre-
lude to the service, the largo. from the
New World symphony. by Dvorak, and
a postlude. the Funeral March, by
Chopin. At the morning service Mr..
Donaldson will sing "The Palms." and
the quartet will render Parker's "Jer-
rusalm'' and the third chorus from the
Seven Last Words" by Mercandante.
The following program will be rem.
dered at the Ninth Street Christian
Church. Sunday, April s: Morning serv-
Ice: Choir anthems, Easter Triumph
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HOROSCOPE.
Sunday, April L, 1917.

Good and Ill are balanced IN the in
nuences of the stars today. According to
astrolegy Mars and Venus are in benefc
aspect, while Jupiter is strongly adverse
and Neptune uncertain.
1t Is time for all merchants and the
heads OF large commercial enterprises to
be exceedingly wary.
Bankers brokers and investors are
warned to be cautious. for extraordinary
trade conditions are foreshadoved.
Again the military appears to be much
in the public mind and penefits for army
officers are indicated.
The signs read as foretelling activity on
the part of troops also give warning OF
grave scandals. Food comes under a sway
making for fraud and adulteration.
II Is a most propitious rule for women.
who will come into new prominence in
public affairs, the seers -prophesy.
Love affairs are we'll guided under this
planetary government. which encourages
romance and causes unusual initiative on
the part Of women as well as men.
E0ciancw- m whatever woman undnp-
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Z The free ends of a new English de-
tachable rim for automobile wheels over
lap and can be drawn together with a
jack to permit . tire to be easily re-
moved.
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''The stars incline. but do not compel
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THE SELECT MEMORIAL COM
M1TTEE.
Concluded from page 1.)

Springfield for political effect or polit-
ical advertisement they would have
encircled their names in the hearts of
the twelve million Colored people scat
tered throughout this country for the
next one thousand years.
Rev. w D. Cook, a few Of his mem
bers and friends as an evidence of
good faith on their part that they
were interested in the Colored people
at East st. Louis raised twenty-five
dollars to aid one of the families who
came to this city from East st. Louis
which was much more than what was
accomplished by any other body or
set of men in that direction it must
also be said to the everlasting credit
of the Colored people residing in st.
Louis, Mo-, that they raised over four
hundred dollars for the relief of the
Colored people at East st. Louis and
otherwise administered to their wants
and comforts and their actions should
cause the members of the select or the
self constituted socalled memorial COM
mittee to fall away back in the rear
and take a long sit down.
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associations were formed in South
Carolina, Tennessee, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Wy
oming, Florida, Oklahoma, New Mex
leo, Arizona and Kentucky. The ma
chinery of all these organizations is
now made available for Red Cross use.
This is a particularly valuable asset,
it is pointed out, in view of the fact
that these associations are well or
ganized and run on a thoroughly bust
ness basis. Nearly 800 city and county
associations employ paid secretaries
and stats.
The National Association has for
nearly 10 years been cooperating with
the American Red Cross in the sale of
Red Cross Christmas seals for the sup
port of anti-tuberculosis work. Over
1O4, 100000 of these seals was sold in
1916.
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DEATH OF MISS PEARL MERE
DITH AT GLENDALE, CALIFoR.
MA. HER REMAINS WERE
BROUGHT TO THIS CITY FOR
BURIAL.

Last week, Miss Pearl Meredith of
the far-famed Meredith sisters, after
an illness lasting almost one wear.
passed away at Glendale, California.
Her sister, Miss Carrie Meredith, her
co-wOrker on the stage, who became
extremely celebrated singing the song
"Hiawatha' was with her at the
time of her death.
Her other sister, Mrs. Lottie Mere
dith Cooper, had just returned to her
home in East Orange, N. j. after
spending eleven months in California
at the bedside of her sick sister. The
remains were conveyed to this city for
burial and on Sunday evening the flu.
neral services were held at the home
of her other sister, Mrs. Edward Odom,
1888 Forest avenue. Mrs. Cooper an.
rived from her eastern home in time
to attend the services. Rev. Moses
Jackson ofieiated. Her remains were
eremated and deposited in Graeeland
cemetery.
The three remaining sisters have the
sympathy of a large circle of friends,
over the great loss which they have
sustained in the death of their sister.
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Before the mob had ended its work
of killing law-abiding Colored men,
women and children at East st. Louis,
ILL.,, 1 had fully decided to accompany
Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett to that city.
For, as a matter of fact, so few
members of our race feel such out
RACES keenly enough to pitch into the
fight and help bear the burdens of our
oppressed ones, not alone with money
and verbal utterances, but with the su-
preme sacrifice, our personal services;
thereby showing their oppressors that
we do care for our own and are willing
to offer up the highest and best in US,
in defense of their rights.
Since the Red Cross nursing organi-
zation excludes from membership Col
ored nurses and anticipating the in
creased racial antipathy that follows
such outbreaks, 1 decided to 60 to East
st. Louis with Mrs. Barnett, help her
in any way possible to fix the respon-
sibility for such inhuman, illegal acts
and give my professional services, if
needed, to the sick and injured refu-
gees.
Before and after reaching East St.
Louis, for the first time in my life, 1
began to fully realize how bitterly
cruel was race hatred. Men who said
they were soldiers, sat just across from
US on our way to st. Louis; were brag-
ging in loud, profane voices about the
accomplishments of the mob and bit
terly denouncing the militia for pro-
tecting "Niggers. /" Then one stopped
over and muttered either 'I did moi"
or "I, would not" 1 could not tell
which.
I have an extract from the Post Dis
patch of St. Louis of which Carlos F.
Hurd, the man who has given such un-
biased, widespread publicity to the af-
fair, is a reporter, which reads as fol
lows:
"An intoxicated soldier returning
to East. st. Louis from st. Louis on the
back platform of street car to-day
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WILL NOT SPEAK OF LOYALTY.
Washington Minister Says Loyalty and
Red Cross Tabooed.

Washington, Special. - Explaining
his reason for failure to speak of the
Red Cross or of loyalty to the United
States, DR.. F. j. Grimke, of the 18th
Street Presbyterian Church, made the
following statement from his pulpit:
"When the United States govern
ment shows proper appreciation of
the services of the Negro, who has new
er failed in every crisis of its his
tory to do his whole duty, to shed
his blood freely in its behalf; and
when the Red Cross ceases to discrim-
mate against Colored nurses and physi-
clans out of Difference to the Negro
hating sentiment of the South, then, and
not till then, will be heard on either
subject. I hope have some little self
respect left, enough, at least not to al
low myself to be insulted, and to ae-
quiesce in it. No. I have not spoken,
and it is not my purpose to speak"
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any subject of public interest to the
community, or present any complaints
relating to health or community mat
tiers and involving the public service.
There will be due announcement
made through the local and daily
papers and from the pulpits of the
churches throughout the city of the
meetings in each locality. These no.
tices will announce the school at which
the meeting is to be held on the 26th
in your district and will give the pro-
gram arranged.
This public health movement is a
war time activity. There is great need
for arousing public interest in all mat
tiers affecting public comfort and safe
ty. In other words, we at home must
do our bit as well as those who go
to the front. The field of work is as
broad as the city itself and the char
acter Of the work to be done is such
as to enlist the interest and active
support of every good, loyal citizen.
Dark, dirty and poorly ventilated
rooms are consumption factories.
Shun them.
Uncle Sam cannot use men for SOL
diers who have defective teeth or
faulty vision. These defects are also
a serious handicap in any calling.
If you eat plain, wholesome food
and in moderation, you will always be
on good terms with your stomach.
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WAR TIME WORK.

The Chicago Public Health Associa-
ton, which was launched at meeting
held at the La Sale Hotel some weeks
ago, has not completed its organiza-
ton and is practically ready to begin
its city wide work for conserving and
promoting health conditions in Chi
cago.
At the Hotel La Sale meeting,
which was presided over by Health
Commissioner Robertson, and at which
were present representatives from
many of the civic bodies of Chicago,
including the organized church bodies,
Professor A. I. Kendall was elected
president of the organization. An ad-
visory committee was also chosen,
made up of prominent men and women
in the various religious, civic and med
ical bodies of the city. From this COM
mittee was selected an organization
committee, and as a result of its
labors the city has been divided into
IL districts corresponding with the
II districts into which the city has
been divided by the Department of
Health for its medical work.
Arrangements have been made for
holding monthly meetings in each of
the districts named at a centrally 10
Gated public school. The first of these
meetings will be held Thursday, July
18th, to which the people are cordially
and earnestly invited. It is the pur-
pose at these meetings to have one
paper Of an educational character on
some important health subject pre-
sented by a member Of the Department
of Health, the same paper to be read
at all of the meetings. There will also
be second paper, which 1t is ex-
pected will be contributed by some
one selected by the members Of the
local association. This program viii
be varied by. illustrated lectures and
short discussions Of the papers pre-
scented. 1t Is also planned to have
these meetings as a sort Of a public
forum, where any citizen may discuss
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SHERIFF BLOCKS BLACKS EXC.
DUS.
Shreveport Official Active In Assisting
White Planters.

Shreveport, La, Special-In their
efforts to check the migration of Col
ored labor to the North and East
planters of this section are being ae.
lively assisted by Sheriff T. R. Hughes
and Police Chief J. ]. Gray, who late
ly blocked plans for the expectation
of about 200 Colored men to Pitts
burgh, Pa. Fred Rankin Stier, who
said he was a special agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, assisted by a
local agency, recruited the men, who
were boarding coaches when the Off
GERS arrived, and warned the agent that
if they shipped the blacks they would
be arrested under the Louisiana law
the enticing of labor away.
Stier abandoned his plans, and the
Colored men returned home.
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STAY GRANTED CAMPBELL.
Judge Carter Orders Execution De-
layed Until Court Passes on Ap-
peal

Chief Justice Carter of the Illinois
Supreme Court Monday granted a mo-
ton for a writ of supersedeas to stay
the execution of "Chicken Joe"
Campbell, the Negro condemned to be
hanged on Friday for the murder of
Mrs. Odette B. Allen, wife of former
Warden Allen of the Joliet Peniten-
tiary.
The stay order will be effective un-
til the upper court has passed on the
appeal from the sentence convicting
Campbell.
Mrs. Aliens body was found in her
apartments in the warden's quarters in
the Joliet prison on a burning bed.
Suspicion was directed against Camp
bell, a convict, who had access to the
warden's quarters.
Mr.. F. L. Barnett, attorney for
"Chicken Joe" Campbell, left this
city Monday evening for Springfield,
III. to file the brief and the record Of
the case with Hon. Charles W. Vail,
chief clerk of the Supreme Court of
Illinois.
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value to many other properties and en-
ployment to many persons.

Washington, D. C-The Anti-Saloon
League of America, which has conduct.
ed a persistent lobby in the Capitol fol
years, will be investigated. Its lead.
ers will be called to tell where they
get their money and about their meth.
DDS of campaigning.
The forcing to the front of the
"bone-dry" proposition at a time
when the country demands action on
important war measures has focused
attention on the activities of the
leagues representatives in Washing.
ton. These men, known by every Con-
gresham in Washington, are:
The Leagues Representatives.
The Rev. DR.. James Cannon, Jr., of
Richmond, Va; DR.. Arthur J. Barton,
of Waco, Tex; Wayne B. Wheeler,
Columbus, O., and the Rev. Edwin C.
Dinwiddie, of Washington.
These men form what is known as
the "National Legislative Committee
of the Anti-Saloon League of Amer
ica." They are to be seen in the
Marble Room of the Senate, on the
very threshold of the chamber, consult
ing with Senators while bills are being
considered.
They threaten Congressman with
back-fre movements if the latter do
not come to the scratch on all import
ant anti-liquor matters. While other
lobbyists dodge about the Capital try
ing to keep their presence a secret ex
cept to a few, the anti-saloon worker
goes into equally the Senator's pri-
vate rooms or to public places to give
him orders. Not one word has a single
one of them spoken against the bar
barities of East st. Louis, or other
portions of the country and they are
Ministers of the Gospel, but murder,
rapine, and gross discrimination has no
part in their program while they are
Il" Smelling the woods"
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NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.
Brief Bits of News and Comments
on Men and Measures.
DRY" sPECT STRIKING
CHILL TO NEW WORKERS G.
URING POSSIBLE LOSSES.

New York, N. Y.-Various gentle
men who thought they favored prohi-
bition are not so sure of it now. They
think that what they favor is temper
ance. With many other New Workers
a horrible scare has been thrown into
them by the possibility, if not proba-
bility, of bone-dry legislation. They
did not know what this meant in a
business way to New York until sud
denly they were confronted by the
facts through the action of Congress.
Real estate men predict a frightful
slump in real estate in the metropolis
if we have national prohibition. They
predict, too, great difficulty in fashion
ing a budget that will stand the test.
Retail merchants fear heavy contrac-
ton in business. Hotel men are dole
full and the theatrical people say it
means little short of disaster to many
of their enterprises.
No part of the country would be hit
so hard by prohibition as New York. The
floating population of the city is esti-
mated variously at from 200, 900 to 300,-
900 persons. The variety of entertain
ment the city offers is great attraction.
Men and women who are inclined to be
strait-laced at home unbend in New
York. They want to see the sights of
the great city, its lively resorts, its
colorful slides, its bright lights. For
the few days they are in the city they
are willing to be unconventional.
Women are eager to visit places they
have read about or heard about. Men
too. They may be cheese-paring at
home, but they are inclined to splurge
in New York. This floating population
brings hundreds of millions of dollars
to New York annually, which flows
through innumerable channels, those of
hotel, restaurant, saloon, theatre, mil
linery shop, dry goods emporium and
the vast multitude of establishments
that dot the city and make up its
many-sided life and which in turn give
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'oFFE RS $500 ORGANIZATIONS
FOR RED CROSS USE.
National tuberculosis Association and
Its Subsidiaries Ready for War Re
lief Work.

New York, July The National
Association for the Study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis, which is already
cooperating with the Council of Ma
tional Defense in an effort to suppress
tuberculosis in the army, has offered
its services to the American Red Cross,
to aid in any possible way in carrying
on its work.
The Red Cross, in organizing its war
relief is confronted with the task of
co-ordinating the health and philan-
thropic activities throughout the coun-
try. The National tuberculosis Asso-
citation has the, machinery already or
ganized for this purpose in every state
in the Union, in the form of bodies of
trained workers thoroughly conversant
with the conditions with which the
Red Cross must deal, This machinery
is freely offered for the organizing and
promoting of local Red Cross cam
paigns or in promoting Red Cross work
in any other form that may be deter
mined.
There are now anti-tuberculosis or
CARNATIONS in every state in the coun-
try. These, with country, city and
other local associations, now number
l,5OO organizations affiliated in the Ma.
tional Association. The organization
of state associations was completed
this last year. During that time, state
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Side Lights Or Shadows On
The Recent Race Riots at
East St. Louis, Illinois.
By Mrs. Dolores Johnson Farrow, R. N.

boastfully exhibited clips of cartridges
to the conductor and a passenger, who
happened to be Post Dispatch report
er, and said that he fired IL of them
during the riots. Il must have hit
something he said. He was asked
what he was shooting at. 'Niggers, of
course he said. Il can't see anything
but black targets He had bottle of
whiskey in his pocket"
While in East st. Louis in a CONVEX
sation with a soldier who said he was
from Springfield, ILL.,, though in more
conservative way, showed all too plain
ly that his sentiments were with the
mob and that the fight for democracy
and justice to all had not been his rea-
son for DOMINIC the khaki.
While viewing the ruins of 'Black
Valley" and studying the apathetie
faces of the White and the sad dis
couraged faces of black passersby, 1
began to think of the pitiful, heroic eff
forts that Negroes are making all over
the country to become desirable, useful
citizens and that such barbarous, saw
age methods as are used by his much
Wanted superiors to foil his attempts
would prove futile.
That the lives of those of our race
which have been taken so wantonly
have not been sacrificed in vain; in
stead the consciences of the good peo-
pie all over the land will be aroused
that Negroes, too, will make higher,
frmer resolves and a new and power
full impetus will be given them.
1 hope because of the East st. Louis
orgy, every Negro the world over will
become an active member of the N. A.
A. c. p, the Negro Fellowship League,
and other similar institutions for the
good of the race.
Before closing I want to thank those
Post Office employees and their wives
who betrayed the expenses incurred by
my trip to East st. Louis. 1t was a
complete surprise to me, for which
express my sincere appreciation.
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DIR. LOUIE UssELMANN STILL
RUNS THE FINEST JEwELRY
STORE ON SOUTH STATE
STREET.

DR.. Louie Usselmann, the up-to-date
and progressive jeweler at $3.50 s.
State street, has one of the best and
the most extensive establishments OF
its kind on the south side. The Col
ored people for many miles around him
always greatly delight to trade at his
store, for they always receive good
treatment, and can always buy the best
jewelry, including watches, diamond
rings and 80 on for the least money.