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Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22
MILLIONS FOR ROAD BuILDlHa

washington. D. C.-The Depart
ment OF Agriculture is planning the
expidenture Of the 9275,OO0.Ooo
granted it by Congress to improve
and construct rural post roads
throughout the country. This will he
apportioned among States on the
basis OF area. population, and
mileage Of rural delivery and star
mail routes. An additional $4,000.
OOo will be distributed by the
Department to construct or improve
roads or trails in national parks
and forests.
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22
WHY PEOPLE BUY RAT-SNAp
IN PREFERENCE TO RAT
POISON

ID RAT-SNAP absolutely kills
rats and mice. (2) What it doesn't
XIII 1t scares away. 90 Rats killed
with RAT-SNAP leave no smell
they dry up inside. (4) Made in
cakes, no mixing with other food.
(0 Cats or dogs won't touch if
Three sizes, 25c. Soc, $1.Oo. Sold
and guaranteed by Jackson County
Hardware Co.
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22

Mrs. D. D. Hooper. Mrs. Collins.
Mr. Golay, Misses Annie 10 Hooner
and Hlx Wilson and Mack Hooper
spent last Friday and Saturday at
Tuckaseigee, the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lambert Hooper.
Mrs. S. H. Phillips. Of Asheyille
spent several days here this week
with her brother. w. L. Henson.
Otis Self was here this wsek
from Asheville,
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22
TO CLEAN OFF GRAVEYARD

The people of that section are
invited to gather at the Old Field
Cemetery near Beta on Thursday
August e for the purpose of clean
ing off the graveyard. Everybody
come and bring lunches.
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22
Community Interest
QBY JOHN e.. RpA,.,,rp>

Qualla Graded School Commune
ty Club acquitted themselves well.
The music was appropriate. All
seem to join in these old patriotic
and spiritual songs.
Misses Winnie Martin. Auderv
Bird. Hazel Battle and teacher. Me-
0ulre, recited and acted "A Mother 3
Lltany," Suppose" The Lost Vio-
lin" and "A Niger Sermon" Mrs.
Z. P. Shelton had certainly seen
that a we'll prepared program was
gwen out. We owe much to the
faithful performers.
A call was made to raise money
to have the lamps trimmed and
filled with oil. it came in so fast
that we very shortly had to stop;
the collection.
At OIivet the following program
was renderad: Besides singing, TO
eether," by Mr.. Lowell Hipps;" Help
One Another" by Miss Evelyn Camp
bell; Is the Farmer Profteer?" by
by Mr.. D. U. Owen; Fairs" by Mr..
=. I. Cooper; Who is responsible
for the high cost of living" Mr.. C.
A. Campbell; etc.
A committee for raising money
IN Qualla township was elected.
These are they: Miss Dorcas Sher-
rill. Mrs. c. P. Shelton and Messrs.
Jno. N. Lambert, R. C. Howell, Glen
Ferguson and C. M. Martin.
| predict that four Community
Fairs well prepared by Teachers,
Farmers. Merchants, Demonstrators
and friends of education, and those
in favor of giving the rising eener-
alton chance, will do more for
the moral as well as the physical
and intellectual growth than any
thing Jackson has yet seen, There
These are Township Fairs. No
teacher can afford to miss this op-.
portunity of putting lasting enthus-
iasm and inspiration into the life of
his school.
My friends, where the people are
becoming the most interested,
phones have started and are about
to be built. Education is at a high
tide and church work, including
Sunday school. is the most promis-
ing.
May every minister, church men,
Der. business man, farmer, farmers
wife and children and, in fact, all
get behind these four township Fairs
and see that every one puts forth
his best efforts.
Suggestions for Fairs:
1. Live Stock.
2. Home Science work.
3. Vegetables.
4. Literary Contests.
S. Athletics.
6. Best horse rider.
7. Marching of Schools.
8. Songs, etc., etc., etc.
AS the County Agent is compell-
ed to be in Raleigh looking after
the interests of Jackson county.
may all the Secretaries or ones ap-
pointed at meetings report to paper,
for the Jackson County Journal is
willing and anxious to build up
Jackson County.
DON'T KEEP POISON I'M YOIIp
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22

MIR. and Mrs. Thad Strange, OF
Union, S. c., are visiting MIR. and
Mrs. Duff Monteith. Mr.. Strange is
a former student of Sylvia Collegiate
Institute,
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22
STATE AND Co. COUNCIL

Chapel Hill, Aug. 20th-With let
tiers going out from Governor Bick-
EFT to the County Commissioners
from Dr.. E. c. Brooks, Superintend-
ent of Public instruction, to the ed
ucational forces, from R. F. Beasley,
Commissioner of Public Welfare, to
the County Welfare Officers, and
from DR.. W. S. Rankin of the State
Board of Health, Frank Page, Chair
man Of the Road Commission, to
their respective clientele, urging
their attendance upon the State and
County Council to be held at the
University OF North Carolina. be-
ginning September 18th and lasting
for six days, with Governor Beckett
Presiding, the Conference is begin
ming to assume a State wide signif-
canoe and importance.
The Association of County Com
missioners of North Carolina in
session at Wrightsville Beach last
week gave its hearty approval and
support to this Conference of North
Carolina officials and public spirited
citizens upon these questions of
absorbing interest and concern to
the entire State in designating Off
cial delegates to attend as its rep
resentatives. More than a thous-
and official guests have been invit-
ed. while the entire Conference will
be open to anyone desiring to at.
tend. Requests for reservations of
quarters are already being received
by the University authorities and
prospects for large attendance
are exceedingly bright.
The program is being rapidly
completed and will be ready for
announcement in a few days. The
Conference will take tn e form
of daily successive conferences di-
rected by the State Departments of
Education and Health, and the
Highway. Tax and Public Welfare
Commissions, together with repre-
sentatives of the County Commits
sioners anu other county officers.
The purpose of the Conference is to
unity the work of the State and
County Officers and boards and
particularly to discuss the impor-
tant legislation passed by the re-
cent General Assembly in reference
to schools. health. public welfare,
highway construction and taxation.
On the five nights of the Conference
distinguished speakers from other
States will address the gathering.
J. Van Davis is visiting relatives
in Jackson County.-Mrs. Newell
Wards two little girls, of Sylvia, are
visiting relatives here.-Jack Piercy
has returned from Sylvia, where he
has been working for some time
Andrews Tri- County News.
Rev. w. N. Cook left Wednesday
evening to attend the Tennessee
River Baptist Association. which
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22
WHY l PUT UP WITH RATS FOR
YEARS." WRITES N. WINSOR.

John Sutton took four of his sons
and Charlie and Raleigh Warren to
the Asheville Farm School Tuesday
J. E. Kirk has returned to his
home in Albemarle, after a visit to
his daughter, Mrs. John R. Jones.
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22
SURPLUS SUGAR SOLD
FOR DOMESTIC NEEDS

Washington, D. C.-Transfer of
approximately 35,O00,O00 pounds of
sugar to the Sugar Equalization
Board for domestic consumption has
been announced by the War Depart
ment. This amount represents the
surplus army supply at this time
and is in addition to 100000
transferred to the board early in
July. The War Department will
receive 8.79 cents per pound, the
cost price of the sugar. The transfer
was made with the stipulation that
none of it should be sold for ex-
port.
All details of establishing a price
and the ALLEGATION and distribution
of the sugar will be handled by the
Sugar Equalization Board, a branch
Of the Food Administration. To ex-
pedite distribution in those COM
munities where a sugar shortage
exists the board has ARRANGED to
make this surplus available through
three central committees. Needs of
mid-Western communities will be
filled by the Food Administration s
Sugar Distribution Committee in
Chicago. The Louisiana Sugar
Committee with Offices in New
Orleans, will distribute through the
South. The Eastern or New York
committee is the American Re-
finers' Committee, New York City.
WHY PUT UP WITH RATS FOR
YEARS" WRITES N. WINSOR,
FARMER.
Years ago bought some rat
poison, which nearly killed our fine
watch dog. 1t so scared us that we
suffered a long time with rats until
my neighbor told me about RAT
SNAP. That's the sure rat killer
and a safe one" Three sizes, 25c.,
SOC, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed
by Jackson County Hardware Co.
John Sutton took four of his sons
and Charlie and Raleigh Warren to
the Asheville Farm School Tuesday
J. E. Kirk has returned to his
home in Alhomorlo oftor q visit +o
Jackson County journal., 1919-08-22
DON'T KEEP POISON IN YOUR
BLOOD.

When the kidneys are doing their
work they eliminate from the cir
culation waste products that poison
the blood if permitted to remain in
the system. Foley Kidney Pills
help the kidneys, remove the pois-
ons that cause aches and pains,
stiff joints, sore muscles, lame back,
rheumatic pains. Sold everywhere.
adv.
W. Burch Davis. of the Tucka-
seegee Bank, is attending the Bank
ers' Association of North Carolina
at Winstan-Salem.
Miss Hattie Florence Ensley ar
rived Wednesday from Akron, Ohio
where she has spent the last sever
al months.
Wib Fisher, who has been over.
seas with the Marines for the past
year, has been discharged and is at
thome at Dillsboro.
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proof nor reason in the pretence that
negroes were planning a massacre"
These riots may be divided into sew
eral different categories: Attempts
to overawe negroes, attempts to drive
out negro workers, attempts to punich
crime, attempts to keep down negro
wages.
The Washington riot was the old
type of Southern riot, such as took
place in Wilmington, N. c., and At
lanta, Ca; the real underlying cause
Is the fact that too many negroes are
forging beyond the place In which the
community thinks they ought to stay;
they are evidencing too much pros
perity; they are showing new indie
pendence in manner and expression
they are accommodating property.
Time and again throughout the
South this kind of riot has been de-
liberately staged in order to show
negroes that they must not advance
too far or too quickly. This general
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twenty EIGHT Clashes" in which num-
bers were beaten and wounded.
In other words, there have been this
year in the United States forty out
breaks in which nearly a hundred
persons have been killed and several
hundred injured, in addition to the
fifty lynChed,
In only one of these outbreaks has
It even been alleged that the trouble
was started by negro. and in that
case. Elaine. Ark. thers 10 neithsS
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and to be subjected to insult at the
hands of train crews on railroads,
boats and street cars.
Standardization Negro children
are not being educated as they should
be. They are not under ordinary cir
cumstances being given in the South
a chance to learn to read and write.
They are disseminated against in the
distribution of school funds.
A report of the United States Blu
reau of Education shows that less
than half the negro children are In
public schools; that the average
length of the school term is less than
Ave months; that most of the school
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buildings are "wretched"; that there
is little supervision or effort to i'm
prove the schools; that as one State
superintendent frankly writes, There
has never been any serious attempt
in this State to offer adequate educa-
tional facilities for the negro race"
Fifth-GeuerdI DiSd biHtieS. Above
and beyond the crime of lynching the
illegal disfranchisement. the insulting
"Jim Grow" cars and the enforced ig-
norance is the fact that, particularly
in the South and to some extent in
the North, a persistent attempt is be-
ing made to judge men by their color
and not by their character; to estab-
caste, and to base shat establishment
on law and custom as far as possible,
and, finally, upon brute force.
The Revolt of the Negro.
Is it really necessary for the De-
partment of Justice Of the United
States or for anybody who is not a
natural born fool to be surprised that
colored people are coming more and
more vigorously to object to these
things and to strive against them in
every possible way?
Indeed. there could be no more I'M
answerable proof of the inferiority of
the negro race than silent acquies-
cence in this situation.
They do object to their present
status in America They bitterly re-
sent their disabilities and sufferings.
And there is only one way to appease
them. and that Is to stop lynching, to
give them the vote on the same terms
that other people vote. to abolish
Jim Crow" cars. to educate negro
children and to make character and
not color the basis of treatment.
1t Is our duty to protest, and our
conception OF our duty has without
doubt been quickened and made real
by the world war. Everybody has
bean set to thinking b. this important
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ARMED Of 47t 1850 US g's sSE5 on l7F

into their pre- war status or to keep
them in their present thraldom. It
is not a matter of leaders: it is not
a matter Of Indictment; it is a great
ground swell. and the nation must
heed II.
Instead, however, of needing It the
nation Is allowing old race propaganda
Of the Bourbon South to throw dust
In its eyes.
During the war fhers was the
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which continually treated them with
discrimination. Literally we had to
fight for the right to fight. 49,,
In France our boys were faced by
widespread propaganda to transport
to that country the worst anti-negro
prejudice of this land. Atthe instiga-
ton OF Americans a military order was
sent to all French officers, saying:
I'VE must prevent the rise of any
pronounced degree of intimacy be-
tween French officers and black Off
GERS. We may be courteous and
amiable with these last, but we cannot
deal with them on the same plane as
with the white American officers
without deeply wounding the latter.
Wemust not eat with them, must not
shake hands or seek to talk or meet
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12ZW.WZZWZZWZW1ZZ
OMAHA Moo TRYING TO ENTER cOuRTG
HOUSE,.

! teen States of the United States the
vast majority of the negroes, includ-
ing even men 81 years of age, who
are able to read and write, are dis
franchised
This Acknowledgement is brought
about by the unjust administration of
intricate and unfair suffrage laws.
passed with the sole and openly stated
Intention of getting rid of the negro
, vote. So far as the State for it's own
protection seeks to get rid of igno-
rance or crime in it's electorate the
negro has absolutely no protest so
long as the laws are impartially ad-
ministered; but when colored men of
intelligence and property are not al
! lowed to have a voice in their own
government, are systematically taxed
without representation, are subjected
| to discriminatory laws and insulting
officials, are deprived of working eff
fectively for the social uplift OF their
own people because of this policy OF
| acknowledgements; and when in addi-
| ton men of the type of Vardaman,
Byrnes and Ragsdale actually sit in
Congress and vilify and traduce the
negro on basis of representation
founded on stolen negro votes is
there not cause for discomfort
Third-The Jim Croi1" cars
A Mississippi Incident.
I can express the kind of thing that
We are subjected to best by quoting
from the jackson, Miss, Clarion
Ledger of September 80:
IAN affair happening in Jackson. or
rather close to Jackson. Sunday, that
has attracted some little attention is
the alleged taking of Drummond Leon
| ard, Yazoo City negro. from the Y.
: and NJ. V. train by white men and the
! administering TO him of a rather
| sound thrashing.
According TO the story Leonard,
well to do Yazoo City barber,
desired to send his two daughters to
! school at Atlanta. For the purpose
he wanted sleeping car accommoda-
tions and attempted to reserve them
in Yazoo City, where the agent in
formed him he would, If a sleeper was
desired. do well to engage a drawing
room, in order that the children would
not come into contact with other pas
sengers.
According to the story, Leonard
came to jackson Sunday afternoon
and asked for his sleeper tickets,
which the agent refused to sell him.
He is said to have then become indig-
nant and to have cited the law to the
effect that the agent could not refuse
to sell bin. He later Is said to have
obtained drawing room and placed
his daughters on the A. and V. train.
Leonard took the Y. and M. ".
train to Yazoo City. and when the
train reached Annie. short distance
from Jackson, he is said to have been
taken Off by some white men of this
city, carried into the woods and.
thrashed; after the whipping he was
told to run, and is said made good
time obeying orders.
"A conversation with a. gentleman
at Yazoo City revealed that Leonard
returned to his home yesterday morn
ing, that his shop had been closed all
day and the impression prevailed he
had left the city for good"
We are continually throughout the
South compelled to pay (rst class
fares for third class aocomrnodatious
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REsT 0E RE PlGTGRE, rNvAS TOO CHASTITY


than men, then, IL our experience in
the war had not left us quickened and
fired, rubbing our eyes and asking In
clearer and clearer accents, Where
do we come in?"
This arousing of the American
negro world is not confined simply
to the black soldiers who went to
France; 1t is permeating all classes
of negroes-those who fought, those
who stood ready to fight. those who
stood ready to help effectively in war
work throughout the land, those who
worked at their humble duties while
the world vent mad.
No thoughtful observer can for a
moment live among colored people to-
day without feeling that 1t is abso-
lutely impossible either to put them
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with them outside of the requirements
of military sarvice."
In addition to this. by. word OF
mouth, the most terrible rumors con-
corning black folk were spread among
the civilized population by numbers OF
white troops. Small wonder that black
soldiers returning from France are in
love with the French and bitterly re-
sentful Of the treatment OF their own
countrymen.
But matters did not stop here.
The sun., 1919-10-12

March II. Memphis. one killed.
April IS. Mullin, Ca. seven killed.
Maybe. Charleston, S. c., one killed.
May 10, sylvester Ga. one killed.
July 6. Dublin, Ga. two killed.
July 10, Longview, Tex, four killed.
July 1928. Washington, six killed
July 27-August /. Chicago SO killed.
August 29. Okmulgee, Okla. one
killed.
August 80, Knoxville. Tenn. seven
killed
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Since the war series of riots have
taken place. list of these riots dur
ing 1919 in which persons have been
killed Is as follows
February 8, Blakely, Ca, four killed
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Du Bots Bames Old Expressions for More Than Bokev Activity
Discomfort Leading to Lynchlng and RosDeares War Quick
ened the Black Soldiers Resentment and the Feeling Extends
White Race-Views of Other Educators and Clergymen

shameful discrimination of the draft
when colored men were called upon to
defend the country which insulted
them as 1t insulted no other part of
the nation in its very calling and
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September 2S, Omaha, Neb.. three
killed.
October 1, Elaine, Ark, sixteen
killed.
In addition to these there were
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PeOnaEe I'm the West.

oortsn~sS on Seventh Pogo
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Each educated coIored man is an
ambassador TO civilization. The
colored race knows that it is NOT an
exceptionally brilliant or clever
people but every one of them who
keeps decent and honorable does a
little to beat opposition down.
H. G. Wells.
THE SUNDAY SUN offers the
views of prominent coIored clergy
men and educators, including w. E.
Burghardt Du Bots. Phi. D., secretary
of the Society for Advancement of
Colored People and editor of "The
Crisis" on the influence of the
treatment of coIored soldiers in
France as one of the contributing
causes of the present race riots. The
latter writer, who holds doctors
degree from Harvard University. is
recognized since the death of
Booker T. Washington as the lead
ing factor in the race question. He
leads a crusade which aims to i'm
pregnate his race with ideals of
honest labor and patience and which
shall determine the negro'S civil and
political status not by the color of
his skin but by his worth as a man.
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catastrophe. Worldwide question Of
ethics, Of government, Of human rela-
tions have been brought home to
masses of people who never thought
of them before. We would be less
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By W. E. BURGHARDT DU BoIs.

Avn, A.. az.is 80 +ha Irnitad
'''o p'op'e
States lost their sense OF
humor? 1t would certainly
seem so when ono reads the morning
nan.- a,a - .h,. .ho oarsos ~
''' Nc '"1e
eiScoE'ent among l2'ooo'oOo American
citizens Of negro descent are in all
probability due 10 the fact that they
arc hair ,,a,,,, oo,.o. -, tho pus-
sian nnis, 49, "a r. ,bo Irnited
state. Danart,r'ont - Justice 10 Going
10 Ioo,, ,bpaa III, 49, ~ roattert
We hao,, ell Iauo tor SOME year
baer $50, I'm ~ J-,,,tah Co.
Dar,r,,y,Ie. - 60 -, 80
several MATTE Tho, touch ~s We
p bava heon nnaS,o 80 saourn anv.hina
excent e,,osi,,a as,,,an, - aoo,ara
lions ~ ,aa,. -
And vot oon.t -" a. ,b,, .h..
We reso-d ne n''is % $500, 80
oppressIon annro ,u >. ~ son. . aD,
to and live 'ee ma" Cd" 'o's Su0i"i'
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-11-29
THE PACIFIC COAST
FEARS JAP 8IRTHRATE

san Francisco, Noy sT The ''yeslow
psril" which Callfogn ans talk about
ls not as most eeos@e imagine the
fear OF aggression Nv Japan AIS much
a. apprehension of q japanese porn
latson within the ss5e 4 Los An
geles publisher lgillnr wlh writer
III FMrd's International Weekly. hen
NO japanese sactlon ct that City,
pointed out thousands OF japanese
children future AMERICAN citizens
because of thcIr birth here. Each
Iapansse Family ha baby a year" he
said. Each American tamily-meli.
nothing bke that. of course Their
bisth rate is steady. and a. top-noieh.
ours Il low and declining Actual
statistics show that unless there Is
charge in the birsh rate OF one or che
othcr race. the American born Ja an
.ese in California VII oUsnumber and
ouivote the whites of California in 20
years
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-11-29
WHEN Is CIDER IN
'KICKY' CONDITION?

Topeka. Kan, Nov. - While
federal authorities and courts are
struggling with the problems OF
..75 per cent beer, the pure food
division of the State Department
of Health is having busy season
establishing the legality or illegal
ity Of plain, old fashioned Kansas
elder. This beng the season
when the apple juice product is
being handled in large quantities
the question of how much I" kick
it is supposed TO obtain and still
not be classed as contraband, is
especially pertinent. The state
chemists both of the state labora-
tory and the food laboratories at
the Kansas State Agricultural
College and the University Of
Kansas, where many samples OF
foods and beverages are analyzed,
are having a rush season.
The results Of these analyses as
indicated in the late issue of the
Bulletin. official organ of the
state health department show that
scores OF these samples contain as
high as six percent alcohol. Any
Quantity of alcohol in cider is
Illegal, and cider with 8 per cent
alcohol is recognized as highly
samples are sent in by county at
sorneys and Others who express
the opinion that the cider is of too
ancient Il vintage. and that the
sale of it constitutes violation TO