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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-23
Negro Rural Schools Are I'm
proving. Jeanes Fund Helps.

Hampton. Va, Oct 21.-That Ne
gro education throughout the South
Is receiving more careful considera-
ton from state department of edu-
cation and leading white peonIe as
Wen as from the Colored people them
serves, shown in the report that
mas recently been issued by DR.. James
Hardy Dillard,l Of Charlottesville, va.
VINO Is president of the Jeanes and
Slater Boards. DR.. billiards. state
ment follows:
THE Jeanes Fund, for the inn
provement of Negro Rural Schools.
eo-operated. during the session end,
ing June 80. 1870, with public school
ssuperlntendents in 213 counties in Ii
The 221 supervising teachers. paid
party by the countries and partly
rnr'I rnrough the Jeane's Fund. visited
country schools, making in all 1854
visits and raising for purposes Of
school Improvement 1855, ,09S.2S. The
totaI amount of salary paid to the
supervising teachers was S95,O42.2S,
oI Whicn the public school authorities
s50,534.35
"The business of these travelling
teachers, working under the direction
or the country Superintendent, is to
nelp ana encourage the rural teach
ers; TO Introduce into the small coun-
try schools simple home Industries:
20 70 give talks and lessons on sanlta-
Improvement of school houses and
sschooL grounds; and to organize clubs
for the betterment of the school and
the neighborhood. There are at least
81 coupties doing this work that are
not in the Jeanes list"
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France was represented by NJ. Ross
mer; Great Britain by Walsh and
Hungary by Kard Radek and Bella
Kun, the famous leader.
This is the first time in history
oriental nations were represented at
an information communist meeting. 1t
is obvious that the aim of the Rus
sian bclsheviki now is to rouse the
nations of the East, regardless of
creed or cclor, against white civiliza-
ton.
M. zinoviev opened the meeting in
theater with q speech in which he
compared communism with Christian
ity in early times. The representatives
of many and varied races who were
enemies until yesterday were now
friends. he said. to fight capitalism,
their only enemy. He attacked the
second international or Bolshevist
Convention for favoring colonial
policy which admitted that the white
had the right to rule the Colored
races. The third or Moscow, interna-
tional. he said. recognizes that both
whites and blacks are human beings
but the whites, being more advanced
must make ~ clear that the Colored
people have the same rights as them
selves.
M. zinoviev protested against Great
Britain's using Colored soldiers for
the suppression of rising nations
seeking freedom. The capitalist coun-
tries, he said. were keeping the Col
ored nations in ignorance in order
TO exploit them and forcing racial en-
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NAAC.P. SECRETARY STTRS RO-
CHESTER AUDIENCE WITH BRILLIANT
SPEECH ON IMPORTANCE TO ALL AM
ERICA OF COLOR QUESTION. SAYS
FREEDOM OF WHITES WILL FINALLY
BE DEGRADED BY DISCRIMINATION.

Rochester. IN. Y. Chronicle) Oct.
21.--'Some day either they will cease
to burn men in Texas and Mississippi
or they will burn them in New York.
Some day either they will not burn
black men or they will burn white
men"
BY this statement and dozens sim
iiiarly trenchant the claim that the
question Of the future OF the Negro
In America is one that concerns white
men nearly as vitality as Negroes, and
Negroes of the North as vitality as
those. Of the South, was vividly ex-
pounded by William Pickens Sec
retary OF the National Association for
and one Of the foremost minds in
the Colored race. in an address which
he delivered last evening in the First
Baptist Church on 'Tnter-racial Co
operation"
There. is not a place in the United
people really are free" Mr.. Pickens
declared, and II the freedom of the
black man suffer. the freedom,
of the white man is sure to be de-
graded"
Both Rhees Have Duties.
He began by saying that there can
more than one race takes part in IT,
and he piled upon this precedent af-
ter precedent for hand-in-hand pro-
gress by the black and white peoples
Of America, and then built a struct-
ure of agreement to show that the
white American should offer a help
ing hand TO the Black American for ihs
own sake IL not for the Negroes. Af-
ter ALL he maintained, the apparent
differences of the composite parts OF
the human race are insignificant when
placed beside their immortal like
ness.
What raises the devi1 in the world"
he. said 'fs that the other fellow
thinks he Is all right and that I am
all wrong. But If I feel the moral
there is little bit of truth in what
have to say, there is where the
possibility of negotiation begins.
Now, black man." he interrogated,
"if you were in the white mans
place, are you sure that you would
has been? II you had faced the OPP
portunities and temptations that he
has for the last three hundred years,
are you sure that you would have
done better? II you were a people
conscious of its superiority-when I
say superiority / mean superiority OF
power through educational and fl
nancial advantages--are you sure that
you would have let the other race
up gently and with smile?
How Would White Man Aeff
Now. white man. II you were in
the historical and social position of
the black man. would you have been
any better? Would you have had
the patience and contentment that the
black man has shown? II any other
race-say the Japanese--had held
you in subsection and servitude for
three hundred years. and IL that race,
often by insinuation and sometimes
by direct challenge. had called you
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Rich Druggist Bequeathes
Money to Negro Friend.

Knoxville. Tenn, Oct. 21--The re-
suit OF contest which went be-
fore the state supreme court in this
city last week. in which Miss A. e.
Colgan, white nurse, seeks to Sc
cure the payment of $4,000. as pro-
vided for to be paid according to
will Of Q. j. Stout rich white drug
gist Of Jellico. other provisions Of the
will were made public. Among the
provisions appear the following:
81 viii and beqneath to u. B. John
son. colored. of Jellico. Tenn, the
sum Of one thousand dollars cash in
consideration Of his kind, loving and
faithful attention to me and my per-
sonal interests and my beloved dog
Buddy at all times Of the day or
Il will and bequeatn to my exc
cutor, in trust. the sum of two thou
sand dollars cash to be by him in
vested and the interest or profits OF
said sum TO be by him paid to said
10. B. Johnson for the care and sup
port Of my faithful dog and friend,
Buddy during the life of my said
dog. At the death of said Buddy
stout said sum of $1,000 TO be di-
vided equally between said Jake Bew-
ley and Miss Annie Elizabeth COL
gan"
Justice N. /. Bachman. out of court
said the latter provisions OF the will
show what love a man can bear for
his dog to wish to see Ii provided
for until its death and to reward the
Negro for his painstaking care of the
animal.
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half a man. would you concede that
you were inferior to him by natureY
The newspapers have abused the
mind Of America about the colored
people.
you cannot keep Colored men out
Of your trade unions and then pre-
vent them from working as strike-
breakers You know. the black man
40 A. a. iess wi,,inG Iud 70 earn sE more money and
COIorcd Man Good Soldier.
Mr.. Pickens paid tribute to the
part that the Colored American played
N the European war. He said that
When suspicion IurlSed everywhere and
trustworthy men were sought to work
IN munition plants, powder mills and
other hazardous places. the black
race was the best badge OF trust and
confidence 2 man could have. He told
OF the part played by Colored regi-
ments and individuals with the AM
erican army in France and OF the
a colored man made a good soldier he
could not be trained as an officer.
Mr.. Pickens himself assisted in found
ing training camp which turned
out some fifteen hundred Colored
when we wanted to make the
black man an American soldier, we
gave him an American soldiers train
ing. so we do not want to make the
black man white man now, but
an American citizen. and there Is no
way we can make him so other than
zen.
Every fool knows that IL the COL
ored soldier gave way on the field
or battle II would have meant ca
lamity for the American arm, but
i takes a wise man to see that when.
the black citizenry gives way. to the
II means calamity for the American
Negro Keeps standard Up.
'Black people and white people
should look hopefully on the growing
capacity for living peacefully and
usefully and profitably that has been
displayed by the Colored race. There
Is no doubt that the two races must
continue to live here together, and
they should and must live in sympa-
thy and cooperation. It Is false
must advance at the expense Of an
other part.
The blacks OF this country do not
show a tendency to lower the stand
ards OF living as the orientals are
said to do. The Negro is a good and
eheerful ei spender. There is dread
the, orientals win lower the standards
or living by living cheaply. while the
white man on the Atlantic Coast COM
plains because the Colored people
want want and are getting what the white
You cannot make two civilizations
for two peoples on the same soil,
Ihey viii tend to become uniform.
lou on cannot be half brave and hair
Tree today any more than you could
III the time or Abraham Lincoln"
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will as he proceeded.
The candidate dealt with state and
national issues to the complete satis-
faction of his hearers.
Mobocracy will not cease until 1t
becomes a federal law, cases may then
be transferred from one district to
another. He also emphasized the fact
that change in conditions are COM
ing.
He depicted a graphic sketch of the
Negroes chivalry and courage in the
late world war and the great sac
rifiee he made TO make this country
a decent place in which to live and
that he now must enjoy some of the
fruit of his labor.
The Lily White Republicans all
over the south endeavored to freeze
out the Negro and prevent his par
ticipation in the council of the party.
This action he says was met with
stern opposition by members of the
race. Emerging from under this yoke,
of opposition fresh with a victory of
the world war perched on his brow
Black and Tan organizations were or
ganized everywhere i'm the south.
The result OF which the big Job
now held by Henry Lincoln Johnson
Of Georgia was made possible and
II was the first time in history Of
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-23
DR. JESSE WASHINGTON, BLACK AND TAN CANDIDATE
FOR SUPERVISOR OF EDUCATION SPEAKS TO HUGE
CROWD.

Dallas, Texas. Oct. 21.-Pursuant to
call the local Harding Capers Club
held one of the most enthusiastic rail-
lies of it's career, Thursday night in
Grand Court Room of Pythian Tenn
pie.
Hundreds of Dallas citizens made
up the large audience that greeted
DR.. Jesse Washington. President Gau-
daloupe College. seguin. Texas, and
a nominee for State superintendent
of Public Instrrctions on the Black
and Tan State Ticket.
At the hour designated chairman
Jones of the Harding and Capers-for-
Governor club introduced Mr.. Chas. r.
Graggs of this city a life long
friend of DR.. Jesse Washington to in
troduce the distinguished visitor. Mr..
Graggs in a befitting manner un-
folded a manuscript on which he de.
picted the life of the able scholar and
educator from early manhood until
the present In conclusion he was
loudly cheered.
Under a shower OF applause DR..
Washington arose and greeted the
large audience in his usual way. He
was according to his masterful de-
livery on the occasion running true
to form and swayed his audience at
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-23
OVER 1000 WHITE And COLORED PEO-
PIE OF OKLAHOMA CITY MEET AND
RAISE FUNDS FOR MAN FALSELY AC-
CUSSED, WHOSE HOUSE WAS BURNED
BY MOB. CROWDS ARM And GUARD
JAIL WHERE MAN WAS HELD in Gus
TODY.

Okmulgee, okla. Oct 21-(SpeciaI)
AT meeting attended by over 500
whites and Negroes, a sum totaling
over $500.00. was raised by the cliff
zens and paid into the hands OF Joe
Atkinson, Negro, who was falsely
accused of raping a white woman
in this city. Hoodlums went into the
white section where Anderson lived
and burned the home in which Ak
kinson lived. Effects worth six or
seven hundred dollars were destroyed
by these lawless mobists. who were
not willing to wait for the truth
which showed that the innocent man
had nothing to do with the alleged
crime.
over one thousand Negroes armed
themselves in and about Okmulgee
and at one time there was n serious
9dlhieuity on the part Of the cooler
heads 20 avoid general race clash.
Rumor has It. that the mayor Of
the city and one Of the policemen
were disarmed by Negroes after they
had had taken into custody an armed
from the organized black men.
4 throng Of black men searched the
jail to make sure that the Negro was
not confined there. After the white
mob formed and the sheriff of the
county brought Atkinson through the
Colored section and exhibited him, on
his way TO Muskogee, so that the
Negroes might know that he was
safe.
In Muskogee. the white women who
were alleged to have been raped,
stated in positive terms that he was
not the man. This. however, could not
return to the black man his home and
the priceless treasures OF his home
that had been destroyed; neither
could IL remove from his soul and
spirit, the anguish and brutal scars
that had been branded there by the
cowardly vipers who composed the
MOB +. M. Carter. a white lawyer of
Okmulgee, was the chairman of the
meeting where the fund was raised
to reimburse Atkinson
Last Friday night, the city was
thrown into great excitement when
the report went the rounds that &
Negro had assaulted a white woman
on West 18th Street. In the attempt
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to assault, the culprit lost his cap.
tie and a bottle Of glycerine, The
woman says she can identify her as
sallant. Saturday morning, blood
which led to the house of a Colored
man by the name of Joe Atkinson.
lad feeling had been brewing and
mob violence intimated Joe Atkinson,
VINO Is barber in the employment of
Shepherd and Co, on East 5th Street,
was found shaving a man when the
officers arrested him In the mean
time meeting was held in the office
of Lawyer d. J. Wallace and Stephen:
resolutions were adopted and deplor-
ing the wave of lawlessness and pied-
ging the support of the Colored citi-
zens in assisting the authorities in
this matter. Same was published in
the Saturday eveping papers of the
Ere this, the mob numbered many
hundreds around the court house
lawn, demanded that the prisoner be
released TO them. But Sheriff Tucker
told them in plain words that there
would be no lynching in OI<muIgee
County committee searched the
Jail, the prisoner had been spirited
away. Meanwhile. the Colored citi-
zens armed themselves in self-defence
determined effort of the leading Col
ored and white citizens, the oficers.
likewise. that serious trouble was
averted.
A mass meeting was held Sunday
evening at o'clock at the Court
House. Men of both races attended.
at which meeting plans were devised
by which lawlessness and attacks up-
on women could be checked THE
business men of the city, white and
Colored. took part
Saturday night. only hairs
Dreadth avoided a clash between the
races The house and contents of Joe
20 hhdklnson was burned Saturday night
party who assaulted the woman.
Monday morning. at Muskogee. the
two white women who were assaulted
recently in this city. declared that
Joe Adkinson did not assault them.
INFLATED. his home burned and his
life all but taken.
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mites to aid their own selfish aims.
The fact that they did not UNDER
stand communist principles was i'm
material in NJ ZInoviev's opinion.
NJ Zinoviev urged the oriental dele
gates on, returning home to preach to
the people the aims of the commun-
lists. who do not desire to fight only
Great Britain and France but to
wage holy war on all capitalistic
countries. With this object in view
the bolsheviki were ready to help the
discontented nations.
When photographs were produced
showing the bodies of Colored ma
tives killed by Gen. Dyer in India
the delegates rose and shouted: Curse
the Britishi Let the curse be heard in
London and Parisl. Let all know that
sacred war will soon deliver the
East of its enemiesF
NJ. Radek told the audience that
the outside world would be terrified
when II learned that the people Of the
East had united to fight Great Bri-
tain, France and the United States,
which Nikolai Lenin had called big
thieves" The Americans present ex-
planned that the American working
men were dissatisfied with present
conditions. American capitalists, they
said, were trying to unite to prevent
conflagration, but would not be
able to defeat the proletariat. This
would give equal rights to the Me-
groes and prevent the United States
from Intervening in the East
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the party Perry Howard of Missis-
sippi and Bob Church Of Tennessee
and likewise credited. His discourse
was strong and convincing and the
climax was one of the strongest and
and most forceful appeals (for CO.
operation OF black men and women
voters) ever heard here on an oc-
casion Of this kind. On the applause
that followed the ending was deafen-
ing.
Prof. N. Dudley Of Houston was
introduced and made a Interesting
talk. He said every one loves freed
ON and liberty and says the Negro
must have IL or die trying to get il.
other visitors introduced and made
interesting talks were:
Mr.. Winn. Revs. n. II. Smith and
c. w. Abingdon. Both ministers prom
ised their entire support Of the Black
and Tan ticket.
Hon. II. capers. nominee for Cover
nor on the Black and Tan ticket was
on the rostrum.
Another meeting will be held next
Thursday night at Pythian Temple.
Republican speakers will visit a num-
Der of churches every night next
week.
Get Black and Tan button and
wear Il.
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where color prejudice burns a line of
blackness where else is all that is
The. same omnipotent One who said
let there be light breathed life into
black and white alike. He, too, prom
ised a paradise to those who keep
the faith, without designating race
or color He permits the forms OF
whites to decay beneath six feet of
earth exactly as he permits the life
less forms of blacks to decay.
The end of all mankind is, the same.
black or white. The hell for the
wicked has no separate compartments
for whites and blacks, and Heavens
rewards are for ali who do the right.
In France. as long as "The Marseil-
lais' is sung; as long as our tri-
color flag unfurls itself TO the breeze,
Liberty and Justice will not distin-
guish between white and black
For the American black soldiers
helped save France from the despoil-
ing. fiendish Hun, France says:
Here's rosemary-thats for remem-
berance.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-23
Juvenile Court Of Florida
Has Twice as Many White
as COlored.


Jacksonville. Fla. Oct. 21.LThe iu-
venile court OF Duvai county handled
sixty-nine children during the month
of September. this report in 1919. but
"a slight decrease from the report OF
August. 1920. It was commented upon
in the office that during the last
month there. We're just twice as many
white children in court as Negroes.
OF the sixty-nine cases handled
last month, fifty-two were handled
as delinquent and seventeen as de-
ored. 55 boys AMI IA girls, according
to report Of J. G. Lanier. probation
Judge Guthrie made the following
commitment orders in the cases:
Twenty-one placed on probation, S
TO Children's Home Society, to Boys
Home, to the Army of Rescue ana
Religion, TO the Florida Industrial
School for Girls. 13 to relatives / to
individuals. cases pending Anal or
der and dismissed.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-23
Texas Has Unique Fire In
surance Company Owned by
Negroes.

San Antonio, Texas. oct 21.--To
Texas belongs the unique distinction
Of having the first actually operating
Fire Insurance owned and controlled
by Negroes. It is the. Western Mu-
tual Fire Insurance, whose home Of
fices are in San Antonio and which
has branch Offices both In Dallas and
Houston.
This company chartered in 1919,
wrote its first policy on December
Is. 1919, and since that time has
grown to the point that It now has
more than $1.000.O00 of insurance In
force and employs 100 agents in
Texas.
ating under the supervision of the
commissioner of Banking and In
surance of the State OF Texas recip-
rocatlng with the Midwest Fire In
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aid him in the event of another as-
sault, which was not made. Before
leaving for Johnson City the mob
SHOT up the old town promiscuously.
frightening women and children all
most into nervous spasms.
I'm all this lowless proceeding
James Livingstone. the jailer stands
out as the brave. faithful officer, as
q. true here. AS such he deserves the
sincere thanks OF the citizens of the
state. of Tennessee. for by his brave
act he saved them from the shame,
from disgrace, from the crime of a
public, spectacular lynching."
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LEAPS OUT OF WINDOW TAKING
POLICEMAN ALONG.

Baltimore, Nd. Oct. 2I.-When Pa
trolman George ]. Wells went to 34O7
Talbot street, to arrest. Carey Gross
zl4 East Twenty-third street, for dis
turbing the peace, Gross leaped from
the window
Wells seized the man, but Gross had
gathered too much momentum, and
patrolman and man crashed through
the window together. Wells did not
loose his grip on the man and took
where he was given a hearing be
fore Magistrate Stamford, charged
with throwing the officer out of the
window.
Gross pleaded that he had not
thrown Wells out, but that the pa
rolmen just followed him through"
Gross was held for a further hear
ing October TO-
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-23
COlOred Races Of Orient Pro-
test Against Methods Of
Whites.
(By A. N. P.)


Constantinople. Turkey. Oct 21.-
The Bolshevists of Russia who ad-
vocate a doctrine OF equality of races
have just concluded a meeting held
at Baku, Azerbaijan. There ideas
seem to have attracted the interest of
many of the oriental and Colored
races of the Eastern Hemisphere.
"Civilized democracy must teach the
oriental Colored nations how to em-
ploy arms to kill white animals COM
fortably seated in London, Paris and
New York" This is a significant pas
sage in speech made by M. Zino-
view, bolshevist leader from Mos
cow
According to a writer on the for
eign staff of the Chicago Daily News,
nearly all the Asiatic nations. as we'll
as the western countries, were repre-
sented at the meeting which began
September 1. Americans present were
John Reed and Edward Scott while
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surance Underwriters OF Illinois and
in reinsurance relations with w. L.
Pettibone Company of New York.
Its ability to care for the larger
policies is thus assured and its pro-
gress has been startling.
Its president. A. X. Leonard on a
recent visit to Dallas, signified his
intention Of extending his agencies
TO Oklahoma and Louisiana beginning
with the first Of the New Year
The officers of the company are A.
X. Leonard. president; W. II. Leonard,
vice. president. G, H. Long, secretary
treasurer; Jos. c. Wlmberly, counsel:
Langston Branch. End vice-preaident;
j. H Dixon, agency supervisors: w
II. Holloway. district uperintendent;
r. d. Evans, general attorney