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The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-10

"HE United States has for long
time been the only advanced ma
= ton whose government has toll
Grated lynching, and in the last thirty
wears 1924 persons have been killed
by lynching mobs, according to Il re-
port Just issued by the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, entitled Thirty Years of
Lynching.'
For the thirty years period from
1889 through 1918, the North has had
219 victims, the South 2,S34 the West
III; and Alaska and other localities 10.
Georgia leads in this unholy as
cendancy with 1856 Victims says the
report, followed closely by Mississip-
nj with 373 victims, Texas with 333,
Louisiana with 313, Alabama with
.T6. Arkansas with 214, Tennessee
with 1876. Florida with 17S and Ken
lucky with 169.
Fifty colored women and eleven
white women We're lynched in four
teen states. Thirteen of the fourteen
states in which women fell victims to
nobs were southern states, Nebraska
being the only state outside the South
which lynched women. The North ana
West together have lynched twenty
one persons during the last five
years period, whereas during the same
time 3O4 persons We're lynched in the
South
In speaking of President Wilson's
nppeal TO state governors and other
civil officers to prevent the disgrace
full evil'' of lynching, the report says:
.Despite President Wilson's earnest
nppeal. made under such eXtraordin-
ary circumstances, lynchings contin-
ued during the remaining period OF the
war with unabated fury. SiXty-three
Negroes; five of them women, ana
four white men fell victims to mob
ruthlessness during 1918 and in no case
was any member of the mobs convict
edin any court and in only two IN
stances were trials held. In both OF
these instances the mob members were
acquitted"
OF the crimes with which the VIC
tins of lynching mobs have peeh
charged, the report says:
sIt is to be remembered that the al
legged offenses given are pretty loose
descriptions of the crimes charseu
against the mob victims, where actuai
crime was committed. OF the whites
lvnched nearly 46 per cent were ac-
cused of murder; little more thah
1S per cent were accused of what nave
been classified as miscellaneous
crimes. /. e., all crimes not otherwlse
classified; 17.4 per cent were sald 10
have committed crimes against prop
erty; 81 per cent crimes against the
person. other than rape, ATTACKS upon
women" and murder; while S.4 per
cent were accused of rape and "at-
tacks upon women"
"Among colored victims 35.S per
cent were accused of murder; 2S.4 per
cent of rape and "attacks upon Woih-
en-" 40 per cent of rape and "a per
cent of ATTACKS upon womeno; l'.o
per cent of crimes against the person
other than those already mentioneu
and against property; II per cent We're
charged with miscellaneous crimes ana
in SO per cent of cases no crime at all
was charged.
st is apparent that lynchings OF Ne
60
groes for other causes thah the so-
called zone crime" have for the whole
period been large majority OF all
The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-10
TY COBB BRUTALLY ASSAULTS
WOMAN
Ball Player Kicks Chambermaid Down
Flight of Steps.

Detroit. Mich, May 2.-One of the
most brutal assaults ever reported in
this city occurred u few days ago in
the Ponchartrain hotel, one of the lead
ing resorts of the city, when Tyrus
Raymond Cobb, baseball player on
the Detroit American League team,
kicked Mrs. Ada Morris, employed as
chambermaid, down flight of steps.
Cobb, before finishing his attack by
kicking the woman down the stairs,
times and injured her to such an ex-
tent that she is now confined to her
home in serious condition. The at
tending physician stated to Defender
representative that Mrs. Norris will be
unable to leave her bed for several
weeks She is internally injured.
Kicked Down Stairs.
The trouble arose when Cobb asked
the woman from what state did she
hail from. The woman stated she was
from Pennsylvania. Cobb replied:
"There never was Il Niger like you
from Pennsylvania" Mrs. Norris OBJ
jected to this remark. Cobb forthwith
plunged into the woman. showering
blows upon her head and body. She
attempted to fight back, but was over
powered. 1t is claimed that after beat
ing her he dragged her to the hallway
and kicked her down the stairs. At 10
O'Clock the following morning relatives
of the woman went to the police court
to obtain II warrant for Cobb's arrest.
The bailiff stated that it was "impos-
sible" for Cobb to commit such an act
and that a warrant could not be OBJ
tanned at that hour.
Story is Suppressed.
Every effort has been made by au-
thorities connected with the Detroit
Baseball Club to keep the story of
Cobb's brutality suppressed. Not a
white daily newspaper carried the
story although Cobb is one of the best
known characters in this city. A meet
ing was held recently at the Biltmore
hotel and a committee was appointed
to see that Cobb was brought before
the bar of justice. Funds have been
collected to employ attorneys to bring
damage suit against the ball player.
This is not the first time Cobb has in
fIicted injuries upon women of our
race. 1t is claimed that while he was
a member of the Augusta (Ga) ball
club of the South Atlantic League his
conduct at the ball park was the occn-
sion for several unpleasant happen
ings.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-10
cHuRcHMEN ASK CONGRESS r
ANTI-LYNcHING LAW

Cleveland, May Ga resolution peti-
tioning congress to enact a federal
anti-lynching law was unanimously
adopted by the federal council of the
Churches of Christ in America, at the
opening of the three-day convention to-
day. The Christian Reform Church in
North America and the Church of God
in the United tSates We're elected to
the council.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-10

nied there were any American troops
in Winchester. The war office later
announced that the Americans We're
soldiers who had Deen serving in the
British army and wore awaiting repa-
triation. A court-martial has been Or
dered.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-10
SAVING THE NEGRO FOR THE
SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY
ORGANIZATION FOR "ADVANcE-
MENT" OF coLoRED PEOPLE
LED BY WILSON PLUG
GERS.

~ FFICERED by Democrats and so
1 cialists who are cheek by towi
- with an administration dOminat-
ed by southern Democratic leaders, an
organization known as the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People seems to be busily en-
gagged throughout the country in saw
ing the Negro vote for the Socialist
Democracy The very wrongs commit
ted against Negroes, especially in the
matter of lynching, are being used by
this organization to work up support
for the elements which commit them.
The propaganda work of this organi-
Zation is being carried on in northern
states and, under careful camouflage,
is calculated to split the Negro vote in
behalf of the Democratic-Socialis
combination for which the administra-
ton stands.
At Work in Ohio.
Mary White Ovington, chairman of
the board of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, IL Socialist and Wilson supporter,
has recently been at work in Ohio. 1t
was recently announced that through
the efforts of the Socialist-Democratic
controlled association colered wom
ems Republican club at Columbus had
become an independent political
league" the alleged grievance being
the failure of the Ohio Legislature to
pass an "equal rights bill" This is
said to be typical of much of the work
being carried on by agents of the as
sociation throughout the country. OF
course it is doing nothing south of the
Ohio in Democratic states, where the
Negro is counted as IL basis for COM
putting Democratic seats in Congress
and the electoral college, but not on
election day. Agitation of this kind
in the old slave states dominated by
the Dixie Democracy would be CON
sidered good ground for Il lynching
bee
Messrs. Story and Willard, leaders of
this organization to save the Negro
for Democracy and Socialism, are Will
son Democrats, as is National Secre-
tary Shillady. William English Wall
ing and Miss Ovington are Wilson So
cialists. While their political compat-
riots south of the Ohio use the Negro
for lynching purposes and in many To-
calities turn a shot gun on him If he
approaches the polls, they work the
northern side of the river with COM
plants that the Republicans will not
make the Dixie Democracy behave.
Meanwhile they blow loudly the horn
of wisconsin, which reserves all its
sympathy for the colored prOletariat
for the export trade-MeXico, the
PHILIPPINES and other distant parts.
Delegations representing the labor un-
ions, the women's political organiza-
tions and other elements have had
hearing at the Paris Peace Confer
ence, but delegations representing the
politically disinherited American Ne
gro have been unable to get within
hailing distance of the great apostles
of export democracy.
How About Dixie.
Just how much pleased southern
The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-10
LYNCHING RECORD
- - FOR THIRTY YEARS

lynchings and that for the past five
years less than one in five of the
colored victims have been accused OF
rape or attacks upon women"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK
DECEMBER AND MAY.
BY DOROTHY DIX,
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

A woman who is fair and forty asks
my advice about marrying a youth who
is 20 years her junior, and wh1, she as
sures me, loves her for hersalf alone,
and Is entirely uninfluencsd by her
ample fortune.
Personally, my opinion Is that Young
husbands are toe, much trouble, They
are not worth thu price one has to pay
for them.
Granting the right of syesy m to
indulge her own taste il m~atrtriony--
no matter how bizarre-still. Il lady
wedding a man 20 years her .iunio" is
always a spectacle of such rash and
reckless daring that 1t is bound to
challenge the attention of the %louyhttal.
She takes upon her poor, stopped,
middle-aged shoulders all of thu multi
tudinous burdens Of matrinlony that or.
binary women have to oeAf, and then
some. She adds plus TO all the doubts
and difficulties Of the husband prob
lem.
To begin with, II is mucn easier, as
&aerybody knows, to catch a husban nd
MAN 1t Is to keep him after you get
him. These are animals YOU can net er
be sure that you nave thoroughly do
mesticated until after they are dead.
Men belong to this genus, and ladies'
past 40 seldom have the nat .sntic ler-
sonality, the alertness of movement and
the gay spirits that fit them to be hus-
band tanners,
If the wife who undertakes to keep
a husband fascinated with her ana
nailed to his w fireside. has her job
| cut on for her, even when time fight
on her side, the woman who has ~
years arrayed against her has a task
that makes the labors Of Hercules look
like child's play.
Aside from the task OF keeping the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06
WHO'S TO BLAME
ETHEL LLOYD PATTERSON.

that Is unfortunately common enough,
She a caused these two young people
to meet In that very time In their lives
that the great mother Of the race has
designed as her mating season. She
had caused these two healthy young
animals with their quivering Joy of life
TO set eyes upon each other and then
had turned her back upon them with
a smile, h knew they would not ask
OF heart, or soul or brain-she knew
that strong young limbs and clear,
laughing young eyes would ~be-enough
for her purpose. And so the two poor
little pawns had been moved on the
board to suit her fancy. Yet, p~itifully
enough, it was they who now must
pay the reckoning.
"Are-are you suffering much, dearTf
Mrs. Mason had asked Estrelda on the
day after she had told the girl he sad
news. Wouldn't 1t help you to talk
about 1t, grille? Don't shut 1t all up
In your W heart!"
"Oh-I'm all right" she answered
eyasively, She arose from her place
and stood looking out Of the window
fore her. Down II came Arthur Parker,
He walked slowly and did not turn his
head toward the Smithers home. Es-
treldA's father practically had forbid
den him to call on his daughter again.
But the passing youth was conscious Of
forgetful of the husband who some-
where across a whole wide world was
suffering In a strange hospital. Estrel-
da's glance followed him-lingering, un-
consciously warm, Some quick intui-
ton made Freddie's mother say:
That's q nice looking young aan
Does he live in Mapleviile, dearf
Yes said Estrelda slowly. He
He Is handsome; isn't her He--hed
make two of--Freddie-"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06
Just a Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John G. Quinius, the
Sunshine Man.

0 my God, my Father! hear,
And help me to believe;
Weak and weary | draw near;
Thy child, o God, receive.
! so oft have gone astray:
To the perfect Guide / flee;
Tho& wilt turn me not away, p
Tiny love Is pledged to me.
Hymns of the SptMt.
oh, child, hast thou fallen? Arise,
n go, with childlike trust, to thy
Father, like the prodigal son, and
humbly say, with heart and mouth,
Father, | have sinned against heaven,
and before Thee, and am no more
worthy to be called Thy son; make me
as n of Thy hired servants And
what will thy heavenly Father do but
what that father did in the parable?
Aasuredly He will not change His es-
sence, which is love, for the sake OF
thy ~misdoings, Is 1t not His own pre-
cious treasure, and a small thing with
Him to forgive thee thy ~trespasses, II
thou believe in Him? for His hand is
rot shortened that 1t cannot make thee
~ to be saved.-John Tauler from Daily
Strength. '
Dayton, Ohio.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06
TwiceToldTale
Q, 1909.

When q Frisco engine plunged down
a 20-foot embankment near the bridge
approach Ed G. Nelson, engine foreman,
and win Acklen, fireman. were killed
instantly.
Word was received by the local
agency of the Anheuser- Busch Brewing
company that Adolphus Busch, st.
Louis millionaire and brewer. was dying
at his villa near Mainz. Germany.
Solomon vendig, aged SO years, prom
inent man and one Of the oldest mer-
chants In Memphis, died at his horne,
238 Washington avenue. He had corne
to the city from Bavaria In 1857.
Fifteen passengers on a Peabody ave-
nue. street car who had paid their fares
with the expectation Of being carried
home held an Indignation meeting when
the cars crew dumped them at the car
barns.
j. Lytle Byrd was in the Shelby
county prison on charges OF murder. He
was apprehended in Colorado.
Holding that the indictment found in
Davidson county against Pr, Garland
w. Hill, Of Memphis, wa defective. and
that char1es were without foundation,
Judge Galloway ordered the absolute
discharge of the doctor. The indict-
mont returned charged bigamy.
Dan j. Reder was appointed receiver
for the corporation OF Lenox. the popu-
lar and prosperous suburb OF Memphis,
which on Sept, / was to become q part
OF the city.
New orleans beat Memphis by 1.-The
count Of 8 to Q, when Edward Keiber,
OF the Chicks, gave nine passes and hit
two Pelicans; thus stacking II run
ners on first base. He was hit for six
safe drives and Maxwell for the visitors
gave but four bingles.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06
CHAPTER No. t7t,
1.-TWO Of Freddie"
Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)

Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper S~yndicate.)
So Mrs. Mason and Estrelda talked
little Of Freddie's injury. Indeed, on
the very evening when Mrs. Mason had
arrived in Mapleville to tell Estrelda
that probably her husband had lost the
use OF one arm in the war. that young
woman had made practically no COM
mhnt upon the news. She had sat be-
side her mother-in-law on the couch In
the living room and had stared before
her silently. And
zone never knows" thought Mrs. Ma
son, sometimes these inarticulate peo-
pie suffer deeply. She may ever be
suffering more because she seems 50
unable to express her feelings"
Alast-the truth Of 1t was Estrelda
tnd no feelings; or to put 1t a little
differently she had no feelings Of SYM
nj hers who had left her side to fight
FIR HIS country. Nor must she be too
greatly blamed for this. To be sure
he had been Influenced strongly In
her marriage with Freddie Mason by
her desires to maxi a good match"
to leave Mapleville and 60 to New York
to live. But also Estrelda nnquestion-
bly, had been strongly attracted to
freddie, In her way she had been
had been drawn to her, To go even
further 1t wou'd not be an exaggera-
ton to add that before Freddie had
left Estrelda to go to war he had been
"a hea rtiIv tired OF her too as she had
been tired Of him. The long and the
short OF IL was that nature had played
a trick on them both; a trick Of hers
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06
z5l THE NEWS SCTMITAR 14N7 Gown
MAGAZINE FEATURES
8VNcLENlGGIYX q
BEDTIME STORH
UNCLE WIGGnY AND THE CHERRY PIE.

along and tell Nurse lane not to bother
waiting around to make one
Uncle Wiggily was just going to hop
along with Jillie when a voice called to
him:
wait a minute!'
thinking 1t might be the Skeezlcks, try
ing TO fool him. why should l wait
when I can't find any cherriesY"
Because / am q cherry tree" was the
answered. I'm a cherry tree-the same
N where Jillie caught her paw. It
helped her out II I could. But I'm glad
you did, and, since you were SO kind,
! am going to give YOU some cherries.
But how can you when there are
none on your b~ranches?" asked the
bunny. You are q cherry tree, | can
see. that, and once you had cherries. but
now they are ell gone"
more late ones said the kind tree,
Then 1t shivered and shook and
squeezed itself, and, surely enough, out
came some nice, red cherries, Uncle
Wiggily picked them, and put them in
his pocket to take to Nurse Jane after
he had given Jillie some
Then all OF g sudden, just as the
bunny was going to hop home, along
cane the bad old Pipsisewah.
"Oh, Ho! This time / have caught
you, Uncle Wiggily!" cried the unpleas-
ant chap. He was Just going to make
a grab for the bunny, to bite his
souse, when the cherry tree cried;
Stand back a little, Uncle Wiggilyl
I'll fix this P~ipsisewah!'
Uncle WigEily and Jillie hoped
back from under the tree, close against
which the Pip stood. And then, sud
denly, til branches and twigs Of the
cherry tree began lashing about, like
whips, and they whipped the Pipsisewah
80 hard that he cried:
Wow! Wow! Wow" three times,
iust like that, and away he ran, not
hurting Uncle Wigglly at all. The
cherry tree had whipped him off.
well what kind OF a cherry tree are
you anyway, that can make fruit coraS
whenever you wish, and can also spank
bad Pipsisewahs?" asked the bunny.
What kind Of a tree are YOU, my good
friend?"
"Oh, I am a wild cherry tree" raj
the answer, as the wind seemed 70 Augh
through the branches. II arm q little
wild, you know, and you never can tell
what a wild cherry tree will do. But
I'll always be your friend, Uncle Wig
gily."
The bunny said he was glad OF that.
He hurried home with the wild cher
ries, which 500 became tame, after
Nurse Jane put them in a pie, and
Jillie Longtail had some for her supper.
And IL the ice cream doesn't stay out
in the u so long WITH h lollypops
that 1t turns into custard pudding, I'll
tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and
! Susie's party.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06

moon rise over the water In damp
places. We begin to appreciate the
point of view OF the Orientals, who hire
other people to do their dancing for
them.
Nor do these burdens end the load that
the elderly wife Of a. boy husband vol
unfairly shoulders. She has to be eter-
nally explaining why she did It. The
reason ordinary husband and wife mar
rted each other Is a conundrum so deep
and inscrutible to the onlooter that he
gives II up without awarding a guess.
But when an apparently sane and SEN
sible middle -aFed m turns cradle
snatcher, and kidnaps a boy for a hns-
band, II piques the popular curiosity.
II is a psychological problem that
every beholder tries to solve and no.
body ever does solve 1t, 70 1t is con-
~tinually put up to the bride to answer
upon her nerves.
Certainly the middle-aged woman who
marries a young boy pays a high price
for her pet, and there is Only one kind
OF woman who should Undertake sucn
a foolhardv speculation. and that Is a
woman who has 10 jealo ~ In her
system, who possesses a 'arge fund Of
hprror, and who has a deep and web
filled pocketbook on which she has o
death clutch. 4
A woman who expects to get any zap
piness u Of euch a marriage must be
able to see her boy husband dancing ard
chatting. and plaping loya games. with
pretty yourg girls. without being torn
into shreads hy the gre ~. eyed mon.
ster. and wondering II he is not con
trasting her embonpoirt with their slim
meas, hNr staAd maftsr 81 fact converse
ton with thNSE chatter. her rniddlc-aged
hea1 mess with their high spirits,
She must be able to smile instead of
gnash her teeth when aeoF,e mista Ike
her husband for her son. Aboye all,
she must have enough sense to keep
her monev In her own hands and to
~reaiize that her chief charm IS a golden
| one, ard that her husband Will never
| grow tirnd OF her as long as sh3 is the
source from which al blessings flow.
For It is most curious that boys never
fall III love with ~impecunious ladies', or
mary women old enough to be their
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06
Copyright, 1918, by Mcclure News
paper RFndicate).
BY hoWAwW r.. GARIS.

~FNfhh%a A
Do you know what I feel IKE tn
DAY, Nurse Jane?' asked the rabbit
senIisman Of his muskrat lady house
keeper n morning.
No. Uncle Wlgsily. I don't know
answered Miss Fuzzy Wuzsy. "But
what 90 you feel like p she asked. iust
as might a blacked-up man in a min
Il feel like cherry pie" answered
S SnGis h Wlggtly; DO you suppose,
went out and picked the cherries that
you could make me a cherry pie 80
Whys of course, l could,' answered
III muskrat lady housekeeper Of the
hollow stump bungalow. But where
car YOU get cherries now?" -
b.ya 70 l9ok fer them and perhers
gentleman. SO. putting on his tain
SILK hat and taking his red, white and
blue striped rheumatism crutch down
OF the ~phonogTaph. Uncle Wigsily
Over the fields and through the woods
ne hopped, thinking OF cherry pies, and
how. good they were, when, an OF a
s'ddsn. the bunny rabbit gentleman
q q voice crying:
',,t'h, please help mel Oh, won't scTne-
body please help me?"
Why, yes, I'll be glad to help you!'
Atu CnSlS WlkBlyI HlOSI kinuiy. mat
is, ! will If you aren't the bad Pipsise-
wah, or the Skuddlemagoon!"
Oh I'm only a little mousie girl"
was the answer, land one Of my paws
Is caught in the roots Of this tree.
Please help me get loosel''
why. Of course l wiIl!" cried jolly
Uncle Wiggily. In two hops and part
OF another one he stood beside a big
tree, near where he had been taking a
little rest in the shade. And there,
caught fast in the twisted tree roots,
was Jillie Longtaii, the mousie girl,
sister Of Jollie, the boy mouse.
Just a moment, Jillie! Ill help you
out!' said the bunny rabbit. Then, with
his red, white and blue striped rheu-
matism crutch he lifted up on the roots
that held Jilie's paw fast, and soon the
little mousie girl could scamper about
as she pleased.
How did you happen to get caught,
Jillie?' asked Uncle Wiggily,
"Oh, l was u in the woods. looking
for some cheese cake, and ! didn't see
the hole between tHM tree roots until
i stepped in and was held fast" an
swered the mousie girl. But what are
YOU doing here, Uncle Wiggfly?" she
' asked.
~ am looking for some cherries 80
Nurse Jane can make me a cherry pie"
answered the bunny. But, I am sorry
to say, l find 1t is too late for cherries.
There are none to be had, and I shall
have to go without my pie. ] must hop
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06

noted as an orator
and as a recognized
authority on consti-
tutional law.
A vigorous OPP
ponent Of the league
OF nations plan,
right now he Is de-
handing that his
party take 81 stand
upon the question,
Conditions, not par
ties nor party or
g~anizations, make
Issues. reasons Be-
rah. This issue, he
says. Is vital to all
that Americans hold
dear, and II tho Re-
. u b party
should refuse to
take a stand on II
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-06

mothers, unless mothers anne is good
on q check.
Nor should the object. Ro-
nance Is a gift that the gods bcStow
only on the young. When we grow
old we have to buy It. And II Is Up 10
the middle aged woman to decide II the
brand she buys with her young hus-
band Is worth the price.