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The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-22

pride goeth before fall" is tru-
ism that is proven daily, but never
more forcibly than in the case of the
returned negro soldier who boosted
of his mighty deeds in battle only to
be arrested shortly afteryard as an
escaped convict.-St. Pete Times.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-22
NOTICE TO HOUSEWIVES

Housewives, remember that on Sat
urday of this week you can buy any
thing you wa7t at the Red Cross
Rummage sale, from home-cooked ar
ticles to squawking chickens and gut
nea pigs-and, of course, there will be
clother and the like, as well--every-
thing you want
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-22
Americans
Got z Huns
Mon. Night

Washington, May 22.-General Per
shing today reported the details of the
patrol raid Monday night in which the
Americans captured two German pris-
oners. There were no casualties on
the American side.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-22
Three Lost When
Rockefeller Was
Torpedoed May Is

Washington, May 22.-Three men
were lost when the American tanker
William Rockefeller was torpedoed in
European waters on May IS, the navy
department has announced. Eleven
officers and 81 men were landed unin.
jured.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-22
CasualtyList Today

Washington, May 22.-The casualty
list today contained 4S names. K Tiled
in action, 3; died of wounds, 2; died
of disease, 2; wounded severely, 38;
wounded slightly, 8. Private Charlie
C. Eyer, of Spartanburg, S. G. was
among the severely wounded.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-22
SAVYY THE MONK2

A theatrical journal announces that
a dramatized version Of Darwin's Cor
igin of the Species" is to be produced
in London this summer.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-22
Entered at the postoffice at Tarpon
Springs, Fla. as second class matter.
EAT CORN
Af7 SAVE (s{Rl.
49, WHEAT ~

Who said it was a long lane that
had no turns and slick crook that
never gets caught?
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-22

Take so much blood that COW
gives two quarts. less milk per day. q
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14

the army. Protestant ministers may
also find it desirable to get in touch
with the ederal Council of Churches,
1112 Woodward building, Washing
ton, D. C.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
BLACK SOLDIER URGES YOUNG
MEN AND OTHER MEMBERS Of
RACE TO CONTINUE LOYAL

is it his fault of being mixed race
of people. He was some centuries
ago sold to people Of the white race
as slaves, and was under bondage for
two hundred years or more before he
received his freedom This is a great
thing to think of, knowing that the
Almighty created all men equal and
gave to all portion of the globe. The
black man was brought from his own
country and was forced to hew down
the forests Of America and heap up
measures for his MASTER who held
over him cruel hand of prejudice
that still and forever will exist for
him. But out of all unfriendly treat
ment the black man has been loyal, to
the Stars and Stripes He fought for
his masters liberty in the great
struggle; the black man was the first
to spill his blood to secure liberty
for the white man Though his race
remained in slavery. In 1898, when
lulCdlS MtlG ny lOlClEAl lOCB
the black man at once offered him
self as a sacrifice for his country.
He is now en- route to defend the
country against Germany. So l will
plead to you: Continue to be loyal
and generous race. Think not of the
past, and work out in yourself a high
standard of life The entire nation
can see your loyal and generous ef-
forts for your country. You have
never deceived nor betrayed it. So I
will say unto you: Be men! and do
your bit, and in the meantime you will
be race of races. Then you can look
backward over the progress of the
race and say to the old men of the
colored race: l honor you for what
you have done. To the middle-aged
men, | honor you for what you are
doing, and to the young men. honor
you for what you are going to do.
CLEO p. SHERRILL,
Corp. Co B, 912 Bbr. Bon, N A. &
A. E. F.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
.COMM|TTEEASKS MCADOO
TO SUSPEND jim CROW
LAWS AS WAR MEASURE

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The execu-
tive committee of the National Race
Congress has prepared a petition ask
ing Director General McAdoo for the
suspension of the Jim Crow" laws as
a war measure. and will take up the
matter officially with him soon. Ar
rangements are being made for a
great meeting of the Race Congress
in this city October / by the Rev. H.
]. Calls, chairman of the executive
This will be the anti
lynching session of the Congress, and
steps will be taken in keeping with
the spirit of the recent message of
the President in denunciation of mob
violence. Churches, societies, labor
organizations and other groups in the
race are expected to send delegates.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
OVER 100000
tCOLORED MEN DRAFTED
SINCE WAR BEGAN
Emmett J. Scott of the War Depart
mcnt Gives Out Some Interesting
Figures at Session of National Me-
gro Business League-Forty Chap
ains in the Army.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. jim his pa
triotic address on winning the War,
Emmett ]. Scott, special assistant to
the Secretary of War, aroused great
enthusiasm at the session of the Ma
tional Negro Business League, held
here last week. when he gave statis-
tics showing that more than 100000
American Negroes have been drafted
to help make the world safe for de-
mocracy.
Mr.. Scott in his report called atten-
ton to the fact that in the first regis
tration 737626 Negroes were regis
tered out of total of 9,5S6,508; that
IS to say, 1863 per cent of the total
registration of June S. 1917. was com
posed of Negro registrants,
The total number of colored men
allied by the Provost Marshal Gen
RAILS office up to and including July
Is, 1918, was 227,541, while the total
number called to August s. 1918, was
81, 1903.
He spoke in detail of what the col
ored people of the country are doing
to help win the war. mentioning among
other things that some forty colored
chaplains are now serving in the Ma
tional Army along with one thousand
colored officers who have beeH com.
missioned as captains, first and Sec
ond lieutenants in the United States
army and in the Medical Reserve
Corps.
Two divisions of Negro troops are
now in France with eight combat regi
ments to be trained in various canton
ments in the country.
Mr. Scott referred to the authorize
lion by the War Department of the
| colored Red Cross nurses and spoke Of
the opportunities that are being pro
vided for the technical training CT col
ored men in many institutions of learn
ing.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF
WISCONSIN TRIES TO
BAR NEGRO BALLOT
Governor Of Wisconsin Believes That
Ignorant Blacks Should Be Denied
Right to Vote, But Says
Nothing About Ignorant
Whites.
lwIsconsln State Journal

In his Decoration Day address at
Baraboo, Governor Philip declared
that the ignorant negro should not
be permitted to vote, that he favored
literacy test on all negroes who de-
sire to exercise the citizens right OF
franchise. The governor, declaring
that the negro does not know how to
use the abbot intelligently, said:
when the negro advances in educa-
tion (if he ever shalD to the point
where he possesses those qualifica-
tions that every American voter
should possess, he will be in a position
to demand his rights and get them"
Observe the modifying parentheti
cal remark, "if he ever shall" Appar-
emily the governor doubts it, Let his
doubt stand without comment, but let
us ask the governor why he limits
the literacy test to the negro. To do
so is race discrimination; it is the
reputation of the life labor of Abra-
ham Lincoln. And yet Governor
Philip asks the voters of Wisconsin
to recognize him as a Republican.
There is wisdom in the demand for
literacy test for those who seek to
vote. We agree with the governor
that it is a physical impossibility for
the ignorant to vote intelligently We
/ believe in literacy test But we do
not believe in nteracy test against
any single class, no matter how you
class them, by race, by color, by
creed or property claim. If he is to
apply the literacy test either here or
in Mississippi. let him apply it to ev-
erybody who would seek to exercise
! the rights of American citizenship.
be he black OF white or some sunburnt
shade in between-let him give the
ballot to every American who can
pass the literacy test, whether that
American be man or woman. 1t is the
votes of the intelligent Americans we
want. but not the vote of one race or
of one sex.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
UNITED STATES ARMY
WANTS WAR CHAPlA|NS
FOR C0[ORED TROOPS

WASHINGTON, L. C.-There is
great need in the army for chaplains
for colored troops. and a statement
authorized by the war department is
to the effect that chaplain is needed
for every 1900 officers and men. The
army wants a special kind of chaplain
sturdy, outstanding. brotherly men
between the ages of 81 and As years,
who care a great deal more about the
welfare of soldiers than about distinc-
tions and creeds. So far it has been
the most difficult to secure proper
number of colored chaplains for col
ored troops.
At the army chaplain school at
Zachary Taylor number of men are
now receiving training. which is prac-
tical and intensive. To get into this
school the candidate. if Protestant,
must have the approval of commit
tee of the Federal Council of Church
of Christ in America, 1112 Woodward
building. Washington, D. c. Then he
must pass physical test of the local
draft board. While at school he re-
ceives free subsistence.
When he has completed the course
successfully, he is allowed mileage
home at the rate of 1-2 cents a mile;
and when he is appointed he takes
the rank and pay Of first lieutenant
Of the national army $4,000 a year,
and $4,000 abroad. A new class began
August 23.
1t would not be amiss for some of
the churches to release ministers for
the period of the war. The tragic
thing SO far with reference to colored
chaplains is that it has been impossi-
BILE out of the hundreds of applica-
tions to get enough men to meet the
educational and other requirements
of the service.
Any minister desiring additional in
formation as to the Training School
for Chaplains or wishing an appoint
ment as chaplain should communicate
directly with the adjutant general of
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
Southern White Man Says Every Time
Lynchlng Occurs in U. S. 1t Is More
HurtfuI to Allies Than Loss of
Brigade of Soldiers.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-The following
letter written by Frank Wynne, a
prominent white attorney of Merigold,
Miss, recently appeared in the Com
mercial Appeal. in which he took a
strong stand against the barbarous
practice of lynching. Merigold is
only about three miles south of Mound
Bayou, the pioneer negro city. The
letter follows:
have just finished reading your
editorial, "Lynchings Most Helpful to
the Prussians." You are right. Your
statement, I'VE have got to stop this
lynching business in the United
States" is entirely correct.
Again you say, Every lynching in
the United States is more hurtful to
the allied cause than the loss of bri-
gade of soldiers" There can be no
doubt but to some extent this is true,
and we here, in counties of the size
and population of Bolivar can espec-
tally appreciate the danger lurking in
the lynching evil. You speak of the
Osceola meeting and what the ne
groes did there--I can say that here
in and around Merigold we have OF.
ganized twelve war savings societies
among the negroes-and you will have
to admit that if Mississippi, and es.
pecially the delta, is going to raise its
quota of the war savings money asked
by the government, that it is abso.
lutely necessary to enlist the negro to
the last man of them. These societies
have not only organized, but / can
substantiate the fact that every mem
Der is an active worker and buyer of
the stamps. Our town here is one OF
the smallest in the county, the last
census giving us 242 people, yet the
postoffice reports show Merigold to
be leading the country by good mar
gin in the sale of war savings stamps.
| can assign as cause for this mag
nificent showing nothing else than the
great interest which the negro has
taken in the forwarding of every inter
est in this county.
Again, on last Saturday, we had a
mass meeting here for the negroes
At this meeting l. T. Montgomery OF
Mound Bayou made an excellent ad
lldress to the members of his race. He
| was followed by distinguished law
yer of this county, and nowhere in
the talk of this lawyer was there a
single reference to the loyalty of the
negro. AS a result of this mass meet
ing over 800 negroes that evening do.
nated-not literally, but practically
all that they had or could raise, and
promised more. Immediately after
the speaking, the negroes, on one of
the largest and finest plantations in
the south, through their white man
ager. asked that they be furnished
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
BLACK RACE URGED To REMAIN Loyal
.COlORED WOMEN ARE
BARRED FROM CAR
CLEANERS UNION
Oakland. Calf. Sunshine }

Women car cleaners employed by
the railroad administration in the
Southern Pacific coach yards in Oak
land have organized a union which
will be known as the Oakland Wom-
ems Branch of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Carmen. A meeting was
held week ago for preliminary or
ganization, and the branch has been
placed on a permanent basis. There
are now about 80 women working in
the yard, and the new organization
boasts the largest number of these in
its membership. The women's scale
up to August l was 30 ga cents an
hour, the same as the mems scale. The
women expect a share in the raise to
Continued on page A.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14

Editors Note: The following ar
ticle was written by a member of our
race-a soldier who is now on the fir
ing line We think it a remarkable
document, coming as ii does from a
man who himself needs encourage
ment)
Following is the article
To the young men of the colored
population of the United States,
wish to call your attention to the
ceaseless thoughts of the young men
Of the present age; but | must first
say that | am proud of those who
are now and have been for over fifty
years striving to reach a heaven. You
are living in an age of progress, an
age of realities, where We can develop
our forces to the measure of our pow
however great it may be. We are
blessed with many privileges of men
tai. moral and physical Development.
It is true that the progress of the col
ored race was made through oppres-
sion and hard struggle, but ever re-
member that "the darker the night
the brighter the star" Taking this
under consideration, we must be men
that stand for liberty and the best of
patriotism. We look through the vale
of time past and discover many un-
constitutional facts. We look again
at the great prejudice that continues
TO exist against US by the people of
the opposite race, but you must real
ize that out of our oppression and
hard struggle we are gaining strength.
Therefore, will say unto you, be not
discouraged. Continue to advance.
Bend to the oar, though the tide be
against you. 1t is true that the whole
world seems to knock you. but think
not of yourselves as an unfit character,
neither man without a country. 1t is
not the black mans fault of being an
-birthed citizen, and neither
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
GEORGIA DRAFTED MEN
BENEFITED BY TRAINING

WASHINGTON. D. C.-Col. Henry
Lincoln Johnston of Atlanta is visiting
his family, who reside here. Mrs.
Georgia Douglas Johnson, his wife,
has issued a volume of soulful verse
and is considered literary woman.
In commenting upon the fact that
Georgia will furnish some 5000 col
ored draftees to the army, Col. John
son said: "If you could see the col
ored draftees transformed from a
slouching, Indifferent, hat-in-hand fell
low from the swamp region into a
smart-looking, khaki dressed, upstand-
ing soldier of Uncle Sam, who would
not take his hat off even to the Gov
ernor, you would say, just as | do to
General Crowder, "Take as many as
you want, General.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
HOT SPRINGS ARK.
IS IDEAL PLACE
SAYS REPORTER
BY Matte A. Perkins.

HE sendeth the spring into the val
leys, which run among the hills" So
sang the Psalmist ,enumerating the
blessings of the Lord, bestowed upon
man, and throughout all time, Of
which we have record, men have
found strength and healing in the
waters yelling from the earth. Each
spring in the earlier world had its own
presiding god or goddess to whom was
built an altar or temple.
DeSoto sailed from Spain in 1888
for America, to take up the quest Of
Ponce DeLeon, who 26 years before
had made fruitless search for the
Fountain of Youth. landing on the
west coast of Florida. He. with his
band of gallant men. proceeded in a
northwesterly direction and in 1541
crossed the Mississippi river, the dis
covery of (which is credited to him.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14

ATLANTIC CITY, N. speaking
here at the nineteenth annual session
Of the National Negro Business
League, DR.. R. R. Motion, principal of
Tuskegee Institute and chairman of
the executive committee, issued a
clear-cut, logical call to his race in
constructive after-the-war economic
program.
DIR. Motion said in part:
1The economic struggle which is to
follow the conclusion of peace will
be second only to the great war which
is now in progress in Europe. With
the end of bloodshed and strategy on
the battlefield we may expect to see
the world engulfed in new grapple
for economic ascendency. Strategy
on the battlefield will give place to
strategy in the market place. 1t is
well for us to ask the question now:
After the war-what? Already steps
are being taken to re-educate partially
disabled soldiers so that they may
engage in technical work This is go
ing to mean multiplying of the ex-
igencies of the situation, and we may
expect to see factories of all sorts
turning out products at prices greatly
reduced over the present scale.
America is already looking ahead
and planning to meet this great new
crisis, and the best brains of America
are even now being mobilized in
gigantic effort to protect the interests
of the American people. Germany
and her allies and the other European
countries are likewise looking ahead
to see a mighty economic deadlock
throughout the world for many years
after the war
Just how the negro of America
will be placed in the great readjust-
ment we do not know, but it is idle
Continued on Page a
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
'''LYNCHING WORSE THAN PRISSIAN|M
AND AIDS THE CAUSE OF GERMANY
SAYS SOUTHERN ATTORNEY

with speakers for a meeting which
was to be held at one of their
churches in the neighborhood, and the
manager made this statement at the
time: Every negro has promised
to give to the Red Cross, and want
to say that in case there be any
who hasn't the ready mony that l will
advance the money and charge it to
him."
1t has been my experience in this
community that all on earth that the
negro is asking us to do is to educate
him up to just what the government
expects of him as a citizen. AS to the
loyalty of the negro, it is not sur
passed by any other people in the
whole country He will enlist, he
doesn't hesitate when called in the
draft, he donates his money, he buys
bonds when able and almost to a man
in this community is a buyer of the
war savings stamps. And the only
thing he asks is What do you want
us to do?"
Now, isn't it hard for the white man
in this county and throughout the
south, who are engaged in educating
the negro as to the war and the things
that go with it, if they are to be met
every day by statements in the news
papers that in Georgia, in Tennessee
and in other sections of the country
they have been pulling off barbarous
lynchings? Can man conscien-
tiously speak of the law in this coun-
try, the democratic principles of this
government the gigantic fight to pre-
/ serve liberty. when on the very pages
that describe the heroic fighting in
Europe that this law of justice may
be lasting one, there appears de-
scription of the lynching of some me-
gro?
Just as sure as the south is to do
her part in this war, the negro has to
be educated up to point where he
will thoroughly understand what the
war is about, why he is being called
upon to take up arms under the doaft
law, why it is necessary that he buy
war savings stamps in order that the
war may be financed, and why it is
absolutely necessary that he donate
his money to the Red Cross in order
that humanity may be served
Can you build up in the negro a
sense of security and lawfulness with
the newspapers full of news about
lynchings? We go out among them
and tell them of the many acts of
barbarism of the Prusisans, yet our
papers show that we also violate the
law "Lynching is savagery and
lynching is anarchy, and goes hand
in hand with the Hun"
Let's stop all this law violation:
let's avoid doing the things that we
accuse the Prussians of doing, and
then when we go out among the ne
groes of our community we will go
with clean hands. and not be held up
to the ridiculous position of preaching
one thing and doing another.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
NEGRO MUST LOOK AHEAD
SAYS DR.. R. R. MOTION

President of Tuskegee Normal and
Industrial School Urges All Ne
groes to Plan Ahead and Sup
port Worthy Enterprises
Among the Race.
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14
PHILADELPHIA RIOT
GIVEN ANOTHER. AIRING

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-As an after
math of the race riots which resulted
in the death of four men three weeks
ago in the vicinity of Twenty-sixth
and federal streets, Robert Ramsey, a
white policeman, was held without
bail, pending the action of the coro-
ner, when arraigned before Magistrate
Pennock at City Hail. He was held
following the mysterious shooting of
Riley Bullock who was slain on the
steps of Tweptieth and Federal streets
police station on July 29.
The hearing of Mrs. Adelia White
Bond on a charge of assault and bat
terry with intent to kill has been in
definitely postponed by counsel for
both sides, who appeared before the
magistrate and agreed to the continu-
ance. Mrs. Band, who is attached to
the probation court. was arrested on
warrant sworn out by Joseph Kelly
(white), who was shot during the re-
cent race riot in the southern part OF
the city.
Sailors and marines who partici-
pate in race riots will hereafter be
~ H-,its of the navy yard
at League Island. The ruling to this
effect was given out in a statement
made Monday at the office of the
was said agents of the department of
Justice. After an investigation by
them it was said they had discovered
that crowd of men in uniform
started the riots that resulted in the
injury of score of people, including
whites and blacks, at Strawberry Man
sion last week. District Attorney
Kane said he would cooperate in ev-
cry way with the city police in an eff
fort to stamp out the conditions that
exist in the southern section of the
city, where the earlier riots occurred
Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-14

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