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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-01

story. A strange light came into
her eyes. rs the mention of his
fathers misfortune seemed recall
something she had heard her faith
e7 alluda 10 in the pas.
Il must see papa" she breathed
ezcitedly. &c not 60 away until
return"
She reentered the room a few
minutes later with her father who
stepped forward briskly and CRASH
ed with warmth the hand of the
EewiIdered Ross
Mr.. Ross" he said. my dauvh-
ter has told me OF voc. It is a
great relief 10 my mind to meet
the son of a man whom greatly
misiudged. It was TO save his en-
bezzling partner from prosecution
that your father beggared himself.
I hid not learn this until after his
death; sought for him, could not
find him, and placed the money he
paid me in an investment which
has made large gains. and which
1 planned should revert to his
heirs. Ethel" and his ewes rested
tenderly upon his daughter, ARE
you sure OF your mind?'
ooh. papa" bTeathed Ethel. al
den Ross Is the only man in the
world l shall ever loVe!"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-01
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-01

r. If Old Hi Cost is really in the toboggan,
grease it well.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
Chicago and the Effect Of Aps
preaching Prohibition.
(By The Associated Negro Press.)

(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Chicago, Ill. April Chicago,
with her 5000 saloons. good, bad
and Indifferent, big and little, million
dollar and Joint" with July 1st
less than three months away. Is
grumbling and growing, In many
places, hurrahing and singing spalms
inbothers, but all looking forward
to that last day in June.
What is so rare as a day in
June?" asked by the poet, will be an
swered by the thirsty-throated on
June Both, 1919. That will be the
rarest day in their dear young lives,
for, regardless of legal claim OF
threat, good luck or magic turn, ii
Is difficult to find many people here
who do not believe absolutely that
the curtain will go down on the
various forms of poy water, Mid
night, June 3Jth. One of the sad
features connected with the event
is the fact that it will be exactly on
the stroke Of twelve. and not the ac-
customed enc a. M, when all the
fun will stop. For after twelve mid
night, June goth, it will be July
first. ...
There are more saloons to the
square inch in Chicago than In any
other American city. 1t is common
to see, in some localities, saloons oc-
cupying all four corners of the street
What will become of this property
it is difficult 70 say.
There are perhaps about 200 sa-
looms run by Negroes, or run for
them by whites, employing all Negro
help. Some Of these places on the
South side, are indeed, luxurious In
appointment, and the capital inves-
ted in them viii be greatly deprecist.
ed, even though it Is the intention
Of some of the proprietors to make
OF them Sahara Deserts"
Church people, reformers and so
cial workers are bUsying themselves
IL finding a way t. provide subSti-
iutes for the saloon. 1t Is stated
that the moving picture shows will
receive great hoost, and il is the
intention to form a large number
Of community clubs. some in the
places of the saloon, and have all oi
the god things connected with thu
saloon, except the quaff with a kicI
In vt.
Saloon patrons argue. that after
all, the oil centers OF activity have
been more than drink troughs. they
have literally been the poor mans
club" Pay checks have haen casheG
for the worlingmen after bankinf
hours, and many other favors pro
Hled and extended that even tn,
good church people have failed t
think about. :.
The idea of nationwide strik,
is scoffed at, because it is believed
that the government will take such az
emphatic stand in the matter tha
,, it will be shown without a doubt tina
Uncle Sam is the biggest duck In th'
pond. after all.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
COL. ROSCOE CONK-
LIN SIMMONS BACK
FROM over THERE

(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Chicago, ILL.,, April 17.-Roscoe
Conklin Simmons, orator and jour
nalist has returned home from an
extended trip at the Peace Confer
ence ia Paris, where he went as
Special Foreign Representative of tie
Chicago Defendcl. In a statement
for the Associated Negro Press he
said:
What I saw, / saT, and what I
heard remembered, and just as l
saw or heard viii speak. Our SCI
diers, black and white. were the
hravest that fought in that terrible
war, and our statesmen are stupid
as any that ever sat at table Of
diplomacy. Much OF the glory our
bpYs won is being daily lost BY the
fingers crossed-tag-on-you' barn
stormers in charge of our business.
The poor American people, being the
bravest, are the goats of the day.
No blunder has cost us as dearly, in
all our history, as that madf when
Theodore Roosevelt was not pei
mitt I'd tc go to France. either DUR
ing This war OF Immediately after
the armistics was signed. Roosese selt,
dead, is the standard American in
France.
Tie American Negro has reason
to hold his head up and ask his
goverr ment, what now, is he to be
free or continue to tread the wine
press while everybody else enjoys the
nectar?" Against oads that even
slaves ought to have been spared,
our boys taught warriors how to fight
and Christians how to die. They won
the hearts of France in the face Of
the words Of even many Of their
white commanders that they amt
nothing but niggers.' They taught
white American fortihide while white
America held classes In nerve stretch
ing. I'll say that today and not
tomorrow is the time when our
thoughts should turn to liberty. We
have got to save tho American white
man from himself"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
4,5OO Skilled Negro LabOTeTs
IN NeWpOTI NeTs ship
Building Company.

Hampton, Va, April 17-There are
4,50O CoIored men working III the
Newport News Ship Building CDm-
pany. This is the largest force Of
skilled Colored meh aud the highest
paid group of Colorod msn WORKING
anywhere in industry. The ship
building plant Is memorial to Coils
z. Huntington, who showed himself
friend to Hampton Institute and the
Race.
The shipya1d in Newport News Is
a testimonial of Mr.. X. Huntington's
belief in the Colored man as an I'M
dustrial workera man who would
be successful. Mr.. Huntington was
told by many that it would be inn
possible to build ships with Colcrcd
labor. The ships now being built,
however, are the equal to any built
in the world.
Some OF the Colored men who are
working here have been with the
! company twenty-five years or more.
Ten or more are on the retired list,
and are receiving one-third Of their
regular pay.The successful Colored
shipyard' workers have built their
own homes, supported their churches,
and have helped one OF the bert
Colored sections In the south.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
PHILADELPHIA HOLDS
DETERMINATION MEETING
IN INTEREST OF JUSTICE. EDU.
CATION AND TRUE
DEMOCRACY.
lpy The Associated Negro Preas.l

(By The Associated Negro Press)
Philadelphia, Pa, April 17.-Fol-
lowing on the heels of the remark
able Unity Mass meeting recently
held here. Philadelphia has set another
example for other cities of the ma
ton in another public gathering In
the interest Of education. justice and
true democracy.
Philadelphia is quivering with de-
termination like the approach of a
gigantic earthquake. "If this was
the Cradle of Liberty once" said
one leader, then it must be once
again. Our nation must mete out
equal and exact justice or be held
up before the world with ridicule
and scorn."
in the calmest spirit and manner pre-
scented the mockery Of equality of OPP
portunity given the black American
citizens in this great democracy, at
meeting held in the joint interest
OF Fiske University and the Arm
strong Association, of Philadelphia,
in the Academy of music. Isaac Fish
er, editor of the Fisk University
News, declared that If this country
attempts to build two types of civili-
,zation it will have trouble and in
evitably destroy itself as Russia has
destroyed itself.
How Bolsheyism be destroyedT'
he asked. by building kind Of ci-
viIization that links the white man
and black man together in every
thing that uplifts mankind. Democ-
racy means that men unequal in en-
dowments shall have equal opp0rtuni-
ty to develop what they have"
Rev. DIR. Charles A. Tinley, pastor
of Calvary Methodist Episcopal
church, one of the largest congrega-
tions in the world, asked:
Can you expect Negro boy to
reach the height Of a white boy
without his ladder?"
sIt is 9. lnockery in a democracy
he continued, ito ask of me all the
responsibilities to pay my debts
keep my family and educate them
and then close the door leading to
employment. We have to pay more
rent to live in the same sort oi
houses that white people do, and
get little less for doing the same
kind of work white people do.
w don't throw bombs and as
sassinate rulers If we don't get jus
tice. We wait for it, and we are
bigger than the people who use the
other methods.
1--WE want a chance to become In
the full sense OF American citizens
to live on a street where it is health
Ter, If we are able to pay the rem
or buy, and go to rent without hay'
ing a sign tackled on the door: mig
ger, you get away from here IL
"a hours"
There were several hundred whit,
people in the audience, and tn,
meeting was presided over by United
States District Attorney Kane, VIII,
declared the immediate need of Civ
ing attention to the problems of jus
tice and opportunity confronting tn,
American Colored people.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
More Scandal in Washington
Schools.
(By The Associated Negro Press J

(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Washington, d. c., April IT,
Washington public school, always
the center OF turmoil and contro-
versy, have added new chapter
to the long list of sensations, in the
recent trial of a white man whose
artistic taste" required the use of
beautiful young high school girls to
pose for him in the nude.
1t has been brought out in court
proceedings that this artistic gentle
mar" was aided and abetted not only
by the white aristocracy Of the capi-
tai city, but, also. by two or more
Colored teachers.
So indignant have the parents be-
come over the trend Of events. thst
they met at Metropolitan, A. M. r..
church and formed an organization
which will meet weekly, and take
an active part in bettering conditions.
The temporary officers are Mrs. +.
8. Tanner. president; Mrs. Erma
Amso. secretary.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
NATIONWIDE IN
ENCE EXPECTED
TO Arrange Program for Re-
adjusting Industry. Negro
Labor to Play Conspicuous
Part.

Chicago, ILL.,, April 17.-That there
is a determination to really "Get
Somewhere. In the new conditions
arising out Of the results of the
World War" is strongly evident
from the discussion relative to the
big industrial parley to be held in
Chicago OF New York on return of
President Wilson.
here that there must be no "parley'
of the magnitude suggested without
representative of the Negro group be-
ing present and taking All active
part in the deliberations.
The information was sent out from
washington during the week that
President Wilson upon his return
to this country, will issue a call for
an industrial conference, the pur-
pose of which will be TO enable, cap
ital, labor and the government to
join hands in an amicable program
for readjusting industry. 1t Is TO
be held late in May, or early in
June, If possible.
ut pIcb1QcllJ udo allCtiuy ICCClNCu
the suggestion in report from
Washington and is understood to ia
yor it The report suggests clari-
flcation Of the industrial situation by
the two following moves on the part
of the chief executives:
/. A calling - IN industrial con.
ference, or paritaHient. % devise 3
constructive program TO meet the
peace needs Of the eountry's bust
ness life.
2. Reaffirmation of the authority
of the war labor board as cooper.
ative tribunal Of Justice during the
transitory period, or until the in
dustrial conference conclusions arr
put into effect.
1t is pointed out that the personne
of no such conference would bt
complete without the presence o.
representative Negroes. During tn,
last three years the Negroes of thu
country have been most importan
asset to the Industrial world. Will,
there is a temporary scarcity of worl
in some quarters in the North, wher'
more than 100000 Negroes have mi
grated, there is a demand for labol
in the South. While Southerners ar
making all sorts of inducements Il
start flow of migration back South
not two per cent Of those who hav,
come North have returned, or hav
the inclination to do so.
The American Federation of LaSo
is seeking to organize the Negro il
avenues of employment both Nortl
and South, and while some look OF
the motives with suspicion, others ar
accepting the plan as the creates
opportunity for Industrial justice.
That the American Negro will neve
again be reduced to the limited line
Of enr loyment in which he was hel'
prior % the war, is being atteste,
by both whites and Race leader
everywhere.
One leading Negro business man re
marked with reference to the pro
posed conferences: "If we are NO
officially invited, hundreds of us VII
be tlore anyhow to lind out tn
reason why"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
California Negroes Interested in
Japanese Question.
(By the Associated Negro Prcns)

(By The Associated Negro Prcss)
Sacramento, Calf, April 17.-rhat
the Japanese question is giving Pres
ident Wilson, and his co-workers
deep concern, is quiet manifest in
the recent cablegram sent by SEC
retary Lansing 10 the Secretary of
the California Senate
The Negroes of California are deep
ly concerned in this racial subject,
because it is very evident that it is
one of the whites against the darker
people, and so delicate has the mat
ter become that President greatly
fears even any suggestion of inter-
ference at tGis time The sentence
in Secretary Lansing's cablegram
which states that "There are other
problems which would make such
action very embarrassing" is thought
in some measure to have reference
to the domestic racial problems in
the United States.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
.FREEDNEN'S AID SOCIETY
VOWS TO SUPPRESS LYKCH|NG
MEMORIALlzES CONGRESS TO PASS FEDERAL Law TO DEAL
WITH THIS COURSE. DECLARE STATE LEGISLATION
INADEQUATE. EXPECT WILSON'S SUPPORT.

The Feedmen's Aid Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was or
ganized In 1866. Its purpose is the
Christian education Of the Negro. 1t
has theological seminary at Atlanta
Georgia, for the training Of Colored
ministers; q medical college at Nash
vile, Tennessee, where 800 young
men and few young women are
being trained as physicians, pharma-
cists, dentists, and nurses; and in
addition it has eighteen other insti-
tutions for the training Of teachers,
Industrial and other Christian leaders
for service among the Negro people.
These centers of Christian education
are open to the people of all de-
nominations or no denomination.
In the fifty-two years of its work,
1t has sent from these schools min
listers, physicians, teachers, and in
dustrial leaders numbering over 200,-
900. This service has cost more than
ten millions of dollars. Today II
has twenty schools, 334 teachers, and
5,702 students. The annual budget
amounts to over half a million dol
lars. .-.....-
Its Board of Managers are made up
Of the following well known and
widely influential men Of the country:
Bishops: william f. Anderson,
Cincinnati, Ohio; William A. Quayle,
st. Louis, Mo-; Frank M. Bristol
Chattanooga, Tenn; Francis ]. Nc
Connell, Denver, Colo; Frederick d.
Leete, Atlanta, Ca; Wilbur P. Thirk-
ield, New Orleans. La; Joseph c.
Hartzell, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ministers: Henry G.. Jennings, e
c. Wareing, VI +. Brown, Albert J.
Mast, w. H. Wehrly. w. B. Slutz
d. Lee Altman, John H. Race, =. r
Overley, Herbert Scott. c. =. Schenk
Laymen:--R. b. McRAry, Lewis N
Catch, III. Garrison, Chas. HON
meyer, e. C. Harley, Harlan G. West
e. r. Graham. G.. F. Coffin, Geo. D.
Webb, G. L. Swain.
There are two Corresponding Sec
retaries, Doctors p. J. Maveety and
Garland Penn, and the headquarters
Of the Society are in The Methodist
Book Concern Building, Cincinath
Ohio. .....-.
The institutions of this Society con-
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19

that the whites be replaced with
Colored principals, was considered,
and finally turned down by the local
Board of Education.
The board passed the following
resolution: Resolved, that the board
has heard with interest the petition
of the Colored citizens for Colored
principals, supervisors and special
teachers for the Colored schools, but
at the present time there are no
vacancies in these positions, aud the
board is unwilling to remove from
the schools a number of faithful
principals, supervisors and special
teachers"
One citizen remarked: Can you
beat that"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19

tributed to the winning Of the war
fifteen hundred Of its graduates and
students. One-half of all the ply
sicians, dentists, and pharmacists
among the Negro troops were grad
yates of Meharry Medical. Some at
tanned the high rank Of Majors and
Captains, and the remaining medical
graduates, to say nothing of others
from the literary departments of the
institutions, were first and second
lieutenants.
This great Society now feels that
its contribution to winning the war
for democracy warrants it in going
further to cooperate with leaders
North and South in ridding fair Am
erica of the blot of mob-violence and
disrespect for law. Accordingly, the
following Memorial to the Congress
Of the United States was recently
adopted:
To the Congress of the United States:
A Memorial
The Board of Managers of the
Freedmen's Aid Society of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church hereby earnest
ly memorializes the Senate and the
House Of Representatives Of the Unit
ed States to pass a federal law for
the suppression of lynching, we be-
ing thoroughly convinced that this
brutality cannot be hindered by
State legislation, and as thoroughly
convinced that 1t can be stopped by
federal legislation and the holding
of each locality in which lynchine
occurs to a community responsible
for the doings- OF It's anonymous citi-
zens. We further believe that today
is the day Of days for such legisla-
| ton, inasmuch as the Negro race
which has been the most frequent
lobject OF lynching. has made re.
cord for bravery and efficiency and
patriotism ON the battlefield and al
home, so as to make their conduci
righteous demand that the rights
belonging to an American citizeI
shall be accorded them in full meas
ure. ......
This memorial was unanimously
adopted by the Board of Managers o.
the Freedmen's Aid Society at it,
Continued on page ~.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
WILSON A SOCIALIST SAYS SENA.
TOR BAILEY.
Democratic Leader Laments Present
Tendencies in Administration and
Urges Defeat.
BY Smell Smith

Washington, April 17.-In de-
termined and fQrceful attack, Joseph
w. Bailey, OF Texas, former Senator
and leader of his party in the House,
repudiates present tendencies of the
Democratic Administration and de-
clares that President Wilson has
strong socialistic leanings.
TN the hope that the Democrats
who sought no Office would perceive
the danger o. what was being done,
end compel ell Democratic office boi-
ders to renew their devotion to the
real principles of the party, I have
refrained from making any public
protest" he says, 'but instead of the
Democratic masses disciplining the
Democratic leaders, the body OF the
party is becoming tainted with isms,
and Democratic principles, as taught
by our fathers, will be entirely dis
carded unless something is done to
arrest and reverse the present tell
dency.
"DO you suppose for one moment
that we can influence the people now
in power? The President has pre-
scribed the real Democrats of the
country, and excluded them from all
conferences with him. though he
takes into his cloI est confidence semi
Socialists and Socialists. Consider
his cabinet Some Of them are
downright Socialists, and not one Of
them can fairly be called Democrat
according to any definition Of De.
mocracy which we have heretofore
accepted.
with a few honorable exceptions
every man holding an important po
litical office under this Administra;
ton utilizes every opportunity to dis
credit all men who adhere firmly 4
the fundamentals OF a representative
Demo cracy. They stigmatize ever
man who believes in a faithful OBJ
servance of the Constitution as 9
'reactionary' and denounce those who
defend the rights Of private propert,
as subssrvient to the interest How
then can any man who believes in ths
principles Of the Democractjc party
vote for such men? II we beld cleo
them to Office, we hare no right K
complain ut the manner in which the,
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
APRIL q TO Be HOLIDAY
FOR THE CELEBRATION
BIG FREE BARBECUE AND BASKET PICNIC At FAIR PARK.
STREET PARADE ATT ONE O'CLOCK ELABORATE Pro-
GRAM ARRANGED FOR AFTERNOON

Monday at high noon all Dali
las will have assembled on
some street for the purpose Of
viewing the largest line Of
Colored soldiers the citizens Of
Dallas have Iever Witnessed.
Soldiers from every nook Of
the county have been asked to
participate in these festivities
and have sanctioned the move
ments by their acceptance.
The line of march will form
at Pythian Temple and will
move BY orders Of First Lieu
tenant Percival L. Everett and
aids, General John L. Jones of
Uniform Rank and j.. w. d.
Welch, Marchal Of the day.
The procession is scheduled
to move promptly at 1890 ac-
cording to plans Of committee
and will be headed by plat
OF mounted policemen fol-
lowed by Uniform Rank.
knights Of Pythlas. Bands, sol
diers and sailors In uniform
and will proceed west on Elm
to Lamar south on Lamar to
Main, east on Main to Expo
sition and to Fair grounds,
where the following notables
are to deliver brief addresses:
Mayor Frank W. Wozencraft,
Hon. r. o. 4 knight, Hon. R.
B. Allen, Mr.. Coulter and Mr..
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
SOUTHERN SEN-
T|MENT IN THE
CAPITAL CITY.
(By The Aasociated Negro press.l

(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Atlanta, Ca. April 17-That the
white south is willing to back to the
limit the Negro wlo continues to
bow and scrape" when he sees
white person. it attested BY recent
occurrence in Washington, d. c.,
which is having its sequel here
William s. Poster, a Negro school
teacher OF Carroll County, was in
Washington recently, and aboard a
street car, crowded. got up and gave
his seat to white woman when she
entered bowling low and tipping his
hat. For this act, Lester was ridi-
culed severely by another Negro,
whereupon Lester jumped on the
other man and gave hin thrashing.
For the act of assault Lester was ar
rested, and when the whites OF this
section heard of it. they bagan a
defense fund for his release, and the
teacher was finally permitted to re-
turn here on probation.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-19
An Endowment for MehaTTy In
Sight.
(By The A. sociated Negro Press.l

(By The Associated Negro Press.l
New York, April 1.-THE Carnegie
Foundation and the General Educa-
tion Board of the Methodist Epis-
copal church have offered separate
gifts of $150,O00, 100000 in all, to
Meharry Medical College or Nash
vile, Tenn. on condition that the
Freedman's Aid Society of the Metho-
dist Episcopei church and the trus-
tees and friends of the college raise
an additional 100000 for an en-
dowment.
Meharry College. which last year
had an enrolment of 449 students,
is the largest medical. dental and
pharmaceutical college for Negroes
in the world. Two-hnndred-fifty OF
its graduates served in the medical
service of the United States Army
during the war.