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Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
CO[ORED MAN IS CANDIDATE FOR
COUNTY CLERK OF A[EMEDA Co.
State Reasons Why He Should Be Elected To Office AMI
Gives Out Some Valuable Information Z

Oakland Sunshine
ical member
not coored man in Arizona aspiring to anything political
norshp the capitol this REAL NEWS item for
this section Mr. Marshall the gentleman referred and he has
following candidacy
OF
highs
believe with
should all the rights privileges guaranteed by the constitutional
country ha
had fair chance the economic and industrial development the Nao
that the his
believe annd
be Ignorant OF the fact that too worthy and patriotic citizens are
inalnable
right thinking tina
Whit
black alf
ing Stamps aid the Red If this and is then should
in
ruler of the Nation with ide
loyal American citizen contend at have right to aspire for oc
within The
think straight
uniy
promised in
railroad
be looked
regardless oTcreed n
shall
ask no special ao because Negro but simple justice because
politician
the path his
forever breaking his hold gube public
fight but the fight all
black Democracy
the
tending
Americans swelling the line
pies held dear
will never return We shall have only the of the costly
the altar
freedom in order that that they should
rights as by the the Constitution the greatest Republ
in the world"
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
SHOULD NEGRO SCHOOLS BE CUT

Just why are Negro schools cut
when others are permitted to go the
full length has always been as clear
as mud to us. 1t does seem that the
fellow who is most in need of a thing
ought to at least have as much as the
other. Be that as it may the Negfo
is a citizen. and as such is entitled
to the same benefits that any other
citizen receives. Suppose the poorer
class of white people were given short
school terms, while the wealthy class
enjoyed the full term. of eight or
nine months, there would go up a
mighty howl. and justly so, for are
they not all citizens?
The trouble with the Negro is that
he has contented himself with a half
loaf when he might have gotten a
whole loaf. The Negro is no less a
citizen than the foreigner who comes
to our shores, and yet the foreigner
reaps these same benefits that the Ne
gro is deprived. We ask in all seri-
BUSINESS, is it fair? Perhaps we do
not pay as much taxes, directly as
our more fortunate white brother, it is
infinitely better that all citizens, re-
gardless of races or creeds. be educat-
ed even though burden is saddled
upon the State and county in so doing.
In fact this is not really a burden, for
in the final analysis, it is transformed
into an asset far more valuable than
any investment that otherwise might
be made. An educated citizenry is the
basis upon which all progress must
rest, and this includes the Negro.
Therefore, he should contend for what
is justly his until he gets it. If he
fails he should try again. 1t is bet
ter to have tried and failed than never
to have tried at all. In other words
"Just keep on keeping on
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
NEGRO ASPIRES To HIGH PLACE IN POLITICS
ARE WOMEN PHYSICALLY FIT2

Women are now being urged to take
the place of men as farm laborers.
Are they strong enough to do the
work." is the question often raised.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley answers it in
the the current Good Housekeeping.
He says in part:
Women are not physically capable
of doing much of the hard work chat
men do. This fact is too selfevident
to warrant any opposition to its truth
fulness. Women are six inches short
er than men, they weigh fifty pounds
less. Therefore in so far as mere
brute power is concerned, 1t takes
three women to equal two men. The
only difficulty, then, that we would en-
counter in filing the places of the
men at war issfn finding three women
for each two men. To my mind that
is not particularly difficult. There
are of course, limitations which can
not be disregarded, and these we
must obesrve. In so far as skill is
concerned to all kinds of labor, / be
lieve that women acquire it as rapid
ly as men There is no question of
the fact that, in so far as actual ac-
complishment is possible, men are
better suited to do heavy work than
women but women can do it and do
it we'll When it comes to the endur-
ance of hardships and fatigue, woman
is quite mans equal, in fact | think
she is less complaining under stress
than man. Her muscles are not so
large as those of man, but they are
quite as flexible and enduring in their
efforts. Hence, in my opinion, there is
no industry in the country whose
doors should not be wide open to
women"
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
R. v. THOMPSON SAYS
PHOENIX TRIBUNE IS
A BRIGHT JOURNAL


The following letter was received
by Helen Harper Vance from R. w.
Thompson. of Washington, D. c.. for
merly conductor of Thompson's News
Bureau, but now an assistant in the
office of Mr.. Emmett j. Scott:
Il received the Tribune and read it
with great enjoyment. 1t is one of the
brightest papers in the country, and
has indeed placed Phoenix, Arizona. on
the map as far as colored people are
concerned.
"Mr. Smith sends the Tribune to our
office regularly-that is the office of
Mr. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant
to the Secretary of War. | am with
him in the war department and have
been since May 9Th Nice work, but
there is lot of it and il never ends. I
am on publicity among other things,
and we keep the papers full of dope
about the Negro and the war"
RICHARD w. THOMPSON.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
FIRST NEGRO BACHELOR
OF MUSIC AT HAMPTON
A Composer, Student of the Piano,
Chorus Teacher and Philosopher

In the amazing new interest which
the war has brought to music as
community asset, the Negro is not be-
ing lost sight of.
And this is as it should be. No peo-
pie love music as a mere expression
of everyday life as does the Negro.
He sings because he can't help him
self. And his heart and soul are be-
hind the practice.
Nathaniel Dett, of Hampton
Down in Virginia, at Hampton, there
is a Negro who thinks differently of
his race with respect to music. He is
a director of vocal music at Hampton
Institute, and his name is Dett.
Among other things, he is the COM
poser of in the Bottoms Listen to
the Lambs 'I'll Never Turn Back
No more" and Weeping Mary"
This is highly curt way to sum up
a man who has already accomplished
very considerable deaf in music.
NdlNdnitl Dell lS IL OdHduldli ny
birth. curiously enough; but a 1908
graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of
Music, which institution gave him his
degree os Bachelor of Music for his
original compositions He was the
first Negro in America to receive such
a degree, it is worth noting. He stud
led the piano. However, it is as
teacher of the voice that he has ex-
erted his widest influence.
A Philosophy of Negro Music
Men of this stamp thoroughly edu-
Gated in their art, are the real forces
behind the current movement to make
something solid and established out
of the old plantation melodies of slave
days; the "Spirituals," as we have now
grown to call them. Mr. Dett knows
the full Importance of the old folk
tunes. Nor is he one who believes in
letting them remain in their primitive
form. He wishes to. see them devel-
oped and utilized, as the composers
in other lands have taken their races
primitive folk-tunes and elaborated
them into conscious art forms.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
HOW TO MAKE YOUR
DREAMS COME TRUE
(Ry C. T. M.)

Have you ever INDUCED in day
dreams? What fascinating castles
in the air they were, the ones you
built that drowsy summer afternoon
out in the old hammock under the
trees! Or was it that snowy eve
ming after the matinee, and you cud-
died down close to the fire on a heap
of soft cushions, big, CHEEKY, wide
awake fire that seemed to talk to you
through its roarings and cracklings,
and deep down in its reddest embers
all the gorgeous palaces and temples
of your dreams opened their fairy
gates to you. Perhaps you were
scolded afterwards for wasting your
time, but you didn't mind very much,
because the glamor of paradise was
still about you and the music of it
still rioted in your heart There was
no one there to tell you that you
hadn't been wasting time, that the
imagination you had been using is
one of the greatest constructive forces
in all this great world, and that
nothing ever happened, Mo career was
ever made, no accomplishment ever
completed that had not first been
dreaped about.
1t has ceased to be a novelty this
idea that the great force that builds
and evolves and controls everything
is the power of thought. There is
difference, however. between the
thought you were employing in your
air castles and the constructive
thought. 1t is just the difference be-
tween passive and positive attitudes
of mind. 1t is the directed, focused
thought that builds, that changes the
picture phantoms of your dreams into
real, material, embodied facts. The
passive thought, that merely pictures
a vague and hopeless wish, one tina.
is resigned almost before it is made.
has no power of attraction, no force
with which to influence its gratifica-
tion. Let us suppose that for some
purpose you need money To sit
down and despondently think how
badly you need it. how hopeless is
any idea of obtaining it or even to
vaguely dream of what you would do
with it if you did have it, will do
you no good whatever Instead, you
adopt some such attitude of mind as
this: 81 need this money 1t is just
and right that l should have it, There
is plenty of money in the world. plenty
for everyone. A need was never Gre
ated that was not meant to be pro-
vided for. This money is mine; l
know it will come to me-" Such a
mental attitude. by its resolution and
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
FUND STARTED To
STOP LYNCH|NG

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. August A.
Announcement was made today by
publishers of the San Antonio Express
of the establishment of fund totaling
100000 to be maintained for five
years to combat and punish lynching
and mob violence within the bounds
of continental United States.
In announcing the fund it is said a
reward of $1OO will be paid to each
person directly responsible for arrest
and subsequent conviction of any per-
son or persons instrumental in arous-
ing a mob to commit lynching or par
ticipating in the lynching itself when
the victim is white.
A reward of $1,000 is provided under
similar conditions when the victim of
the lynching is Negro. The offer ap-
plies both to officers of the law and
private citizens of any state.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
SUBJECT
To Be DISCUSSED At
NEGRO BUSINESS MEET

Tuskegee Institute ALA feature
of the nineteenth annual session Of
the National Negro Business League,
which will meet in Atlantic City, N.
j., August 81, % and %, will be an
address on advertising by St Elmo
Massengale, president of the Massen-
gale Advertising Agency of Atlanta,
Ga. Mr.. Massengale is one of the
best informed men in America on ad-
vertising and kindred subjects Few
white men in the South have better
grasp of the problems of race relation
ships from business viewpoint and
his message will be one of especial
significance to the business and news
paper men of the race
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
PRESIDENT WILSON
APPROVESNEWAG AGE
IS TO 45
Congress Asked 70 Pass Bill in Time
to Make September the Day
for Registration

The new administration man-power
bill. extending the selective service act
to all men between the ages of Is and
as, inclusive, and authorizing the Pres
ident to call such persons into mill
tary service ain sequence of ages and
at such times" as he may prescribe,
was introduced Monday in both houses
of Congress.
The governments plan is to place
an army of at least 100000 in
France The war department does not
wish to draw any men from the de-
ferred classes in the present registra-
tion, and there win be only 100000
left in Class 1 after September 1.
Between the ages of S2 and As Gen.
Crowder estimated there are 10,02S,-
973 males, but taking into considera-
tion those married or who would be
subject to deferred classification be-
cause of physical conditions or other
reasons, he estimates the met effect
ives" at 601.2S6. Between 1S and 20
he estimates the number 3,717,671,. of
which the met electives" would total
1897 ,6O9
Married Men Not Wanted
It is not intended to disrupt domes-
tic conditions of the country by draft
ing married men with dependents into
the army. Only single men are de-
sired The new bill also provides a
wider scope for industrial exemptions.
1t is believed that all the man power
required can be secured from Glass l.,
after the new registration.
Draft registrants in Glass include
the following: Single men without de-
pendents; married men, with or with
out children, or fathers who habitu-
ally fail to support dependents; mar
ried men with or without children de-
pendent on wife for support: married
men, with or without children, or
father of motherless children not use
fully engaged and whose family is
supported by income independent of
their labor; unskilled and not neces-
sary farm laborers; unskilled or not
necessary industrial laborers; regis
trants who waive deferred classified
ton; registrants who fail to send in
questionnaires and all registrants not
included in any other division.
The new bill has been approved by
President Wilson and Secretary Baker
and it is hoped to have it passed in
time for naming September as reg
istration day. 1t will be 80 days later
before the first draft contingent is
called.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
NEGRO IS PATRIOT
PAR-EXCELLENCE

Return either with your shield or
en- tl" was theexhortation of a Spar
tan mother to her son on his depart
ure for the field of battle, and this in
substance is what the Negro mothers
are saying to their sons as they leave
for the various training camps, where
they will prepare themselves for the
mighty conflict across the sea.
With cheerful hearts and smiling
faces they go to give their all for
their country. No higher price can be
paid for liberty than the giving OF
ones life for his countrys sake. And
so, too, there can be no truer patriot
The Negroes patriotism is not on
trial He has stood the acid test on
many a battle field and when the
curtain again Ifses on a new world
when this great holocaust of blood
has ceased, and world Democracy
reigns supreme, unprejudiced history
will record the fact that the Negro
played no inconsiderable part in the
transformation
What is the feeling of the Negro
in regards to the War;" is a question
that is frequently asked. To such
question we would say that in spite
of the fact tha Negroes are lynched
and burned at the stake they will
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17

The Rev. James E. Gregg. principal
of Hampton Institute. in laying the
cornerstone of the first Kennedy Dor
mitory for girls at Hampton, stated
that the. estimated cost of the build
ing is $4,000.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
THE NERGO STANDS
LIKE A STONE

The Negro like stone once stood
Beneath the flag to protect it;
Like the Saviors scripture says,
By the builders was rejected.
But is now the corner stone,
On which security much depends
And for universal freedom they
Are called to arms again.
A cause for which our mothers prayed
With bended knees uron the ground
The freedom which our God intended
Would have international bound.
If enduring hardness makes a soldier,
The Negro is ready prepared for war,
And will prove themselves a Samson
With bone from a beasts jaw.
On the day Of registration
Is a fact that We we'll know,
When the question was asked, "Will
YOU,
Gladly answered 1--WE will 60"
AS they sail across the ocean,
To win the fight for liberty,
Hoping when the war is ended
Every race and nation will be free.
We will first go seek old Kaiser
Who has become all nations foe
Wen say, old Satan, get behind us,
For unto victory we must CO.
Now when the awful fight is ended,
And we bring the victory home,
Pay us not in gold or silver,
But let us wear the victor's palm.
IN. M. Reaves, Webster, Fla.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17
TAKES THIS TO
WIN THE WA

Our boys are at war
And we should not be still;
But be up and doing. i
For they are at Kaiser Bill.
AS long as Old Glory waves over
land,
Let us all lend a hand;
For We know the Negroes motto is
To stand up and be man.
Ethiopia shall strech forth her hs
to God,
Let us all watch and pray.
And follow the way Jesus trod, e
And this will help win the war.
Now don't eat so much sugar 1
flour.
But eat good corn bread bal
brown;
For it takes all this for our boys
To bring old Kaiser down.
Fight on, boys, be courageous, "a
trust in the Lord;
For He's a battle AK in time of bal
And war horse in the time of warl
Our boys are somewhere like a sna|
They are just teasing him along;
But after awhile viii break the ii
And bring old Kaiser down. ~
Let us pray an American prayer
That our boys will return home,
For we will celebrate that day,
They brought old Kaiser down.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17

The grand officers of the Arkansas
United Brothers of Friendship are:
Lew Hedspeth, Little Rock grand
master; J. H. Hammond. Little Rock,
grand secretary; G. s. Winston, Fort
Smith, grand treasurer. Endowment
Board: Lee Headspeth, w. w. Jones,
Ferd Havis Fl. M. Thomas and M. B.
Luster
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17

The National Association of Teach.
ers in Colored Schools will hold its
fifteenth annual session at Harper's
Ferry July S1-August 8. The program.
which has been issued by President
Clark Of the Southern University, Ba-
ton Rouge, La. and associates, pres
ents wide grasp and modern view
of education.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17

never bow to the wiles of the propa-
gandist. The Negro is not hyphen-
ate, he is American to the manner
born. And Kipling pays this fitting
tribute:
"If blood be the price of liberty,
If blood be the price of liberty,
If blood be the price of liberty,
Lord, God, he's paid in full"
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17

A special meeting of the Conn
sion of the Centennial Movement
the M. E. Church was held at Si
Street Church, Baltimore, July
for the purpose of raising money
educate the $50 900 coIored peopI
the denomination.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17

Washington, D. c.. is to have new
100000 apartment house for Neg
roes Ground was recently broken.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17

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Phoenix tribune., 1918-08-17

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
RAILROAD RUMELES
Railroad Decision Affects
Shopmen on Many Lines


Men employed as shop hands by
the railroads of the United States,
who have been fighting for an eight
hour work day, will benefit undor
decision handed down in Scranton
by George e. Mcclure, supervisor
of equipment, on the staff of Di-
rector General of Railroads w. G..
McAdoo. The decision is made in
the case brought by the 1000 shop
employees of the Lackawanna Rail-
road. but will apply to all railroad
shop employees.
SEop employees of the Lacka-
wanna. who have been working ten
hours a day. raised the contention
that under the ruling of the federal
labor commission they were to have
an eight-hour day. This was de-
nled by officials of the company, who
insisted that the basis was ten
hours. the real question at issue be-
lnS whether the men should be paid
.ime or time and half for the two
After hearing the evidence, Mr.,
Mcclure rendered a decision in ia
vor of the men and made it retrac-
1--WE from January l last, also an
nouncing that the decision would
apply to every railroad in the coun-
try.
Under Mr.. McGuire's decision the
men get time and a half for every
thlns over eight hours a day. This
means that skilled mechanics who
worked ten hours a day will receive
about fifty-five cents day back pay
and unskilled men proportionate
sums, and that in the future eight
hours will be the basic day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

2,S05 on the final day. Allegheny,
Lehieh, Cambria, Cumberland, Dau-
phin, Franklin, Fulton. Greene, War
rem. Washington. Mexican and parts
of Lackawanna will furnish most of
the men on the last day. while the
Pittsburghers will be scattered over
four days
The traju schedules run as fol-
lows: July 26. Harrisburg, No. 1.
81; No. 2. 90; No. 3, So; Dauphin.
No. 1, A; No. 2, so; Cumberland
No. 1. 80: No. 2. 108: Franklin, No.
l., As; No. 2. Al; Fulton, 81; July
"a. Perry II; Snyder. 76: July 25,
Miflin, 21; July %, Union, 80.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
Monster Locomotive
Makes Love to Hun
Prisoner; Fined SIS

London-For making love to the
enemy Miss Florence Mayor, 23, a
member of the Woman's Army Aux
iliary corps, was fined $25.
Evidence showed that while en-
ployed near an internment camp at
Sheffield, she sent a love letter to
German prisoner, who enclosed his
reply in a matchbox, which he left
near water pipe, reading: TO
my unknown darling"
Her explanation that she was en-
gagged to British soldier did not
soften the judges heart.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
"HUNT HIM UP" IS
-

Camp Dodge, Ia.-An Alabama
"darkey'' stationed here believes in
letting the "other fellow" do the
work.
Too lazy to write the address on
a suitcase he was sending to a
friend down in Alabam," he wrote:
John Ascheman, Hunt him up"
Uncle Sam, however, in the person
of the postmaster at Des Moines, re-
fused to hunt him up and is hold
ing the suitcase.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
Prisoner Buried on
Day He's Set Free

Columbus, Ohio-Of seventy-two
penitentiary prisoners whose releases
were ordered by the Board of Glenn
ency, twenty-nine of them will locate
outside Ohio. This is in line with
the board policy of expecting nom
residents of the state to go home
and begin life there anew when
paroled.
There would have been seventy
three paroles. Prisoner John Neemet
was to have been paroled. He died
suddenly in the prison hospital and
was buried on the day when free
dom would have been given him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

Use McNeifs Pain Exterminator-Ad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

- - = NAf
the 25th and
tEK<E=sE,@z9
VS.. :
kStraiinI'
paired, you
glasses-at
s required
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

The entertainment committee of
the Friendship and Cooperative
Club will meet next week to plan
for the monthly meeting July 25.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
NEW ENGINEERS
ON LOCAL LINES
Engineers and Firemen Are
Getting Good Training;
Reading Is Busy

Railroad engineers and firemen
are getting thorough training in
all classes of engines. Just row
there is a great variety of makes
or both the Reading and Penusy.
The Reading Company is doing great
work in building engines. Many of
these locomotives are in service on
the Pennsylvania Railroad ana other
lines.
Monster Locomotive
Engine 1906. the first of the lot
of twenty-five Mallet locomotives,
has reached Reading. 1t was built
at the Baldwin plant. This locomo-
tive weighs 100000 pounds. 1t is
equipped with an electric headlight
and all other lights used about the
big machine. 1t has the standard
stokers, steam revers and all mod
crn improvements. These locomo-
tivcs are to be used -on the heavy
gra des. AS soon as this order is iilled
by Baldwins, fifty consolidated en-
sines will follow, to be employed in
the coal and freight trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

The Reading Company is paying
dues of all members of relief as
socIation during war duty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

The Reading Railway Company is
asking for bids for one-story stone
brick station at Kimberton on the
Pickering Valley branch. 1t is to be
22 by IS feet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

The Order of Railway Telegraph
ers. signal men and agents on the
Reading system have or are about
to join the Order of the Railway
Telegraphers, an organization that is
recognized by the Federation of
Labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

Railroad employees of the Pennsy
and Reading in Harrisburg are stor-
ing up wood for the winter.