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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-11
FIRST GRAND LODGE OF
LOYAL FRIENDS IS HELD.
J. H. Hunt is Reelected
Grand Master. Will Meet in
DenisOn Next Year.

The first state Grand Lodge and
Palace, of the Loyal Friends of Amer
lea, convened August, "a to 27, at
the Loyal Friends of America hall,
Tuesday August Gath, at 400 p. m.
Grand Master J. w. Hunt, sounded
the gavel. which called to order the
first session of the Loyal Friends of
America, this was a preliminary ses-
sion, for the purpose of appointing
a committee on rule and a committee
on credentials. after the appointment
of these committees, the session adj
journed. All comrades were instructed
to be present at Mt. Rose Baptist
church at $3.50 p. NJ, where the open
ing program vas to be rendered, bu,
owing to heavy down pour of rain
this program was not carried out.
Wednesday morning at 900 o'clock
the machinery of the Grand Lodge
and Palace was set in motion. all
Grand Officers. and a number of del
egates from various parts of the
state being present the Grand Master
declared the session opened. Reports
of committees were read, and the
regular routine of business was car
led out The Grand Lodge and Pal
ace then adjourned for dinner
Wednesday night ct $3.50 the Grand
Annual Sermon was preached at
Rev. H. Campbell, State Grand Bish-
op of Fort Worth, Texas.
The afternoon session was called
at 400 +. NJ, after the opening OF
the evening session. Grand Master
]. w. Hunt, made sor,e remarks
touching on the work that the order
had accomplished in the short space
of eleven months; sfter which, Com
rades r. c. Clark of Fort Worth,
Mrs. w. II. Maxey of Waco f.. c.
Cooper Of Greenville, and n number of
others made some very interesting
remarks. Mr.. Henry Burch of Dallas
a blind man, was introduced by the
Grand Master he made some very
timely remarks and presented flowers
to the Grand Master. and the Grand
.odge and Palace. The Grand Lodge
and Palace called on Prof. Il. c. Coop
or to respond to Mr.. Burch. which he
Continued on page eight.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-11
Newport News viii Have Ne
gro High School.

Newport News, Va. sent "a new
Colored High School has heen as
sured the Golored people of this city
by the local school board. The school
viii be housed in n separate build
ing with a colored principal and corps
Of teachers A. r. Williams. secretary
OF tho loca Colored Y NJ G. A.. hos
school.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-11
St. Louis Elects Negro Ward
Committeeman.

st. Louis, Mo-. Sept. 9.-The Repub
licans of the Seventeenth Ward elected
Ernest Patillo, Negro ward COM
mitteeman last Saturday in the place
uf Frank NJ Slater. white man who
Years 1t is rumored that the Farm
er-Labor Party in the Twelfth Dis
trict intend to nominate a Negro to
oppose Congressman Dyer the pro sent
member from the district
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-11
Alabama Pythians Held An
nual Session.
,Assoelated N gre rross. }

Birmingham, Ala Sept. The Ne
gro KniGhts of Pythias of this state
held their Thirty-third annual ses-
sion last week ut the Pythtian Temple
The public exercises were held III thu
Sixteenth street Baptist Church and
the principal addresses of the week
we're made by Supreme Chancellor S
w. Green of New Orleans and Grand
Chancellor r. A. Blount. The Grand
Court of Calanthe held its meetings
at the Sards Baptist Church
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-11
Mississippi Baptists Close
State Convention.
(Assoclnted NEGRO Press.

scooba, Miss. Sept. 9.-The Negro
State Association closed its annual
convention last Sunday with Impress
i've ceremonies Hundreds Of dele
gates were in attendance from all
sections OF the State, DIR. w. X.
Johnson OF Oklahoma and several
white baptist ministers were present
and made stirring addresses.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-11
Doctors Association Closes
Atlanta Meeting.
LAssneiated Negro Press

Atlanta. Ca, Sept 9.-The National
Medical Association held its Twenty
second Annual session on August q.
20, 26, 81. A large representation
from every section of the United
Sthtes IS expected. The local com
mittee made expensive preparations
for the. reception of the physicians ana
visitors to the meeting.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-03-29
In the Spring Time
Any fool knows enough to carry
an umbrella when it rains, but

the wise man is
he who carries
tone when it is
only cloudy.
Any man will
send for a doctor
when he gets
bedfast, but the
wiser one is he
W ho adopt t s
proper measures
before his ills
Americus times-recorder., 1920-03-29

and subtract words results
If that isn't clear to YOU here's example Boreore Working
which
the of the principal cities the United States with
add
petu
Americus times-recorder., 1920-03-29

become serious. During hard
winter or the following spring one
feels rundown, tired out, weak
and nervous. Probably you have
suffered from a cold, the Grip or
flu, which has left you thin, weak
and pale. This is the time to put
your system in order. 1t is time
for house-cleaning.
A good, old-fashioned Alternative
and temperance tonic is one made
of wild roots and barks, without
the use of alcohol, and called DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
in tablet or liquid form. This is
natures tonic, which restores the
tone of the stomach, activity of
the liver and steadiness to the
nerves, Strengthening the whole
system. First put up by DR.. Pierce
over so years ago, now procurable
at any drug store; or send 10 cents
to DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel,
Buffalo, N. Y, for trial package.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22
TAX REFORM COMES NEXT.

AS soon as congress assemblies, in
December discussion will begin as to
changing the outrageous war taxes
upon corporations and personal in.
comes. It has been discovered by ac-
tual practice that the tax upon oorpo-
ration profits 10 passed on Is the
consumer In the price Of goods multi
Piled several times while surfaces
which amount to conhscation Of large
incomes drive capital out OF mucc
needed industry into tax free public
bonds. Experience in England affords
Us an object lesson.
Attic the war burden there Is
many times moro severe than ours
and the taH upon incomes under
$4,000 necessarily much greater in
order to pay their war debt our tax
upon large incomes is needlessIy
much larger than the rate in England
upon the same class Of incomes. The
most that England takes away from
Incomes of the Henry Ford and John
d. class is 80 per cent and then all
pBofts made outside Of the taxpayers
regular business, that is his invest
ment profits. are exempt while our
maximum rate is 70 per cent and it
hits all income from whatever source:
In England the normal tax upon all
taxable incomes Is 80 per cent. Our
normal rate is I per cent and per
cent. The surtax added upon large
incomes in England rises to 30 per
cent while ours rises to IS per cent.
Thus In England the largest income
pays at rate double that Of the low
est income while in this country the
largest income is taxed at rate
seventeen times as severe as the
smallest income.
It II right and just that in any
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22

had killed. After endless travels
over land and sea, arrived In
dreadful place called New York, and
was shortly sold to this show and put
into q cage with these other
wretches and ever since we have
been a spectacle to crowds of people
day after day. have no words
with which to tell you, sir goat, how
we hate this life."
The snarl with which he said these
last words was SO fierce that it made
Billy fairly shiver.
Without waiting for a reply. the
big wolf went on:
My companions are no less un-
happy than am, tho there is little
In common between us as we have
been collected from all over. There
is no quarter OF the globe In which
branches OF our family do not exist.
We never stop trying to find a way
to get out and II we ever do, we will
make some of these cruel people who
have come here to look at us with
never a thought Of pity for our for
lorn condition. wish they had stayed
at home. There is that little rosy
checked. brown-eyed boy with his
mother. He's aboVt 8 years old.
guess. just the right age to be tender
eating. How I'd like to.fet my jams
into his throat
The old wolf smiled wickediy as
he said it. &
lwho was the boy? Billy soon
saw.J f5
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22

scheme Of taxation the taxpayer
should pay in proportion % his abil-
ity but the principle OF q higher rate
OF taxes upon large incomes Is as
unjust a. tho our levy upon real
property were made at ono rate when
q man owned one house or ono farm
and then were assessed ct . higher
millase rate IL he happened to- own
two farms or two houses. Such .
scheme OF taxing real property would
have no more disastrous effect upon
business and property values than the
aurtax has had In driving rich men
out Of productive enterprise and into
idle investment in public bonds.
The war II over. Il was . world
war and history has shown us that
wars OF major magnitude never occur
more than once in nfty years. Our
war debt should be spread out over
q period Of fifty years and the tax
burden should be reduced to q rate
which will pay the bill in fifty annual
installments. Excess profits taxes on
corporations should be abolished and
q gross sales tax substituted. It
would raise enough revenue without
permitting 20 much prodteerinS in
prices. Surfaces on large incomes
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22
Ripping Rhymes
Bv WALT MASON
BY WALT MASON
THE SPEED FlENDs


lizzie painted
DALE bitter they're
peslentia They
rhyrne,a ndja
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22
3 II11Iy|! ~! ID 81! l,K!!EER!J ~
/FRANcES TRGdO Monroe

To set the attention Of the ami
mails In the cage was easier said
than done. Billy found. for every one
OF the group OF prisoners was rest.
lessly pacing up and down. evidently
looking for some way to get out.
It was q minute or two before
Billy was able to catch the eye Of
one OF them. for they seemed never
to look at any one, afraid to. in fact.
At length the largest, who seemed
holder than the rest, caught sight Of
Billy Whiskers and was so surprised
that he stopped short to take another
look. AS this was the chance Bully
had been waiting for. he quickly Inn
proved II.
How are your" said he. do you
mind telling mo the name of your
interesting and lively family? I am
stranger here and want to learn all
1 can. AS You see, I am an animal
myself and have none but the friend
Hest feeling for all our race"
This polite speech won for Billy an
answer. as he felt sure It would.
How do you do" snapped the
Gagged beast. I'm most unhappy.
We are wolves. /. myself. came from
the boundless steppes of faraway
Russia where and my people for
hundreds OF years have been wont
to roam wild and free and far. We
are all robbers and live by plumber
ing farmers. When quite young, I
grew SO bold that was finally cap
tured alive while eating sheep /
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22
FORGET supta-nAH STUFF.

Tho discharge Of Freem' Conway
as secretary Of the Cedar Rapids
commercial club because q faction Of
the club want = super-man at .
super salary. for secretary is but q
manifestation Of division OF senti-
ment that exists in every commercial
club. There is in every town group
who think that all that is necessary
to build up town Is to pay salary
enough for q booster secretary and
thereby obtain . master mind who
viii cloud the LANDSCAPE with smoke
stacks by some magic power.
at can't be did" as the boys will
say and IS It could there 10 large
question whether It would be best
for the town. Cedar Rapids today
H. about 5000 times better a. q city
In which to live than Chicago, New
York or PittsburS. Cedar Rapids
should be content with \ wholesome
normal and clean growth. When
ever any Of its own citizens or their
friends and acQuaintances have a
project worth while Cedar Rapids
should get behind It and boost but all
the while the leading business men
OF Cedar Rapids should be working
to make their town a better town in
which to live. Size in population and
smoke stacks will not make Cedar
Rapids a. DISTINGUISHED as It now is
II quality IL lost In the growth.
Furthermore substantial, sound in
dustries do not follow the beck Of
commercial clubs. They just grow.
A super-man as secretary could not
bring the kind Of industries that q
town should desire. Tho business
men OF Cedar Rapids themselves
must organise them. put their own
money into them ana wait until they
grow. This 10 too slow 4 process
for the patience Of restless, aggres-
sive spirits but It 10 tho only process
that will build up q town. Forget
the unprecedented. super-man secre-
tary idea, boys. There is nothing In
It and besidesta GOOD, clean town
like Cedar Rapids is far better
town than any great city belching
smoke from thousand stacks and
swarming with millions Of poorly
housed. foreign born, illiterate, UNI
Americanized tenement dwelling
operatives.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22

carry theirS accounts. Until tho
American people can invest In city
and industrial bonds Of Europe an
offsotting amount there must be
tight money In America. A balance
of trade Is not the Joy that it appears
to be for 1t amounts to big BUSH
ness on credit to customers who can't
pay when due. Note settlements
must follow.
Included In the general inventory
OF army supplies in France. which
were sold to that government by the
United States at less than one-fourth
its appraised value, we're 21.290, 1913
pounds Of sugar. This sale was ne
gotiated at q time when the sugar
shortage In this country was acute.
After this sugar was sold to France
the United States shipped to its ar
my in Germany 10,552.000 additional
pounds of this product, which was
allotted by the sugar equalization
board from the very meagre supply
available to the general public. The
democrats were still taking care OF
the cane growers OF the south.
49,
1.-THE president wrecked his own
league" says VIM. II. Taft. "He
wrecked it with Article X. Of which
he is the author. The League of En-
force Peace, of which was chair
man, had no article x in its PROPOSE
ton. The stubbornness OF the presi-
dent in refusing to accept indorse-
ment by the senate Of the league
covenant without article x defeated
the treaty. Now Mr.. Cox has swal-
lowed article x and declares as chier
executive he will not approve the
league without 1t. With Mr.. Cox we
shall get no league. for even II the
democrats elected every senatorial
which they have in the
field. they would not have enough TO
carry the league without reserva-
tons"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22

Of Virginia. In. the Arctic regions il
gives place to the Arctic fox, which
most OF the season is white.
2.-What European bird CORE.
spends to our robin?
The European bird that CORE.
spends to our robin Is the blackbird
lin size. form. flight, manners, note,
call. there is hardly an appreciable
difference. The bird starts up with
the same Asrt OF the wings. and calls
out in the same jocund, salutatory
way, as he hastens of. The nest. OF
coarse mortar In the fork Of tree,
or in an outbuilding, or In the side OF
q wall. is also the same.
Shame the three most precious
resources Of life.
II were to name the three most
precious resosrces OF life, I should
say books, friends. and nature; and
the greatest Of these, at least the
most constant and always on hand
IL nature. Nature we have always:
with us. an inexhaustible storehouse
OF that which moves the heart, APP
reals to the mind. and fires the imag-
lnation-health to the body. q slim
illus to the intellect. and joy to the
soul.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22
SLEEPING DOCS DON'T BITE
BY FLORIAN SLAPPEY
Az Told to OcTAVUS ROY COHEN

brother Slappy," commented Law
yer Evans Chew irritably. "Ev'y time
you opens yo' mouth-nothin' comes
out!"
Florian Slappey grinned amiably.
"You says!"
"Yeh! I says an also repeats.
What you amt got Is no brains"
Eyes. the same" persisted F1orian,
II understands as much bout this
heah leg Of nations as what you does
same bein' nothin' a TALL"
COR even less'n that!"
"You say 1t, Lawyer Chew. This
question has gotten SO bad that it
has done stopped bein' question an
has become campaign issue. An I
reemahks. lawyer Chew, that it is
suttinly the bestest III OF campaign
issue I ever did see."
How Gomez"
'ThIsaway: Ev'ybody has said so
many things 'bouten Brother Will
sons leg of nations that ev'ybody
else has fo'got which said which an
so ev'ybody en- say ev'ybody else
said sumthin' wrong 'bouten 1t, an
ey'ybody is gwine be right when they
does same"
"How you, come to talk sech fool
ishment, Brother Slappy! Amt the
.demmicrats como out flat In favor OF
the leg. an amt the republicans
sag'in it?"
"shucks, Lawyer Chew; you Is the
unobservinest man.. All the demmi-
Gratis has done is to say they agrees
with ev'ything they agrees with an
that the republicans is all wrong. On
'tother hand the republicans says
that the demmicrats Is favorin' the
leg Of nations onti'ly, which same
they amt. on account the republicans
figgers that the leg Of nations Amt so
ve'y popular as 1t might be, an by
sayin' Same the demmicrats is gwine
lose votes"
"But ifn the demmicrets says they
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22
WHAT THE DEMOCRATS COST.

WHAT THE DEMOCRATS COST.
ISioux City Journal
In August, 1919, c. w. Hare. fed
eral director Of sales, went to Europe
and took with him. in the language
Of the war department, ITO develop
foreign markets for certain surplus
stocks" lists OF immense quantities
Of surplus clothing material, includ-
ing the following:
Cotton piece goods. 60,ooo.o0o
yards.
\ Wool piece goods. 36,00o,000 yards.
Summer drawers. 100000 pairs.
Sumer undershirts. 19,932,474.
Winter drawers, 7,464.o22 pairs.
Winter undershirts, 5,os5,493.
Cotton stockings, 100000 pairs.
Light wool stockings, 5,4ss,4o0
pairs
Heavy wool stockings, 100000
pairs.
These supplies were sold in
Europe. BY keeping them out Of the
American market the manufacturers
who had made enormous profits out
of the contracts with the, govern
ment were able to hold up the prices
OF their new products and, by keep
ing the market skimped, create such
a scarcity that people were forced to
pay whatever price was asked In or
der to get clothing. Had the army
surplus supplies been sold directly
to the people or put on the retail
market; in competition with the
manufacturers products the cost of
clothing and other commodities
would have come down year ago
instead of this time. The excessive
prices paid by the people during the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22
WHO rs 10 BLAME?

lWebster City Internationally
There are forty-two nations In the
league" declared Mike Healy in his
address here few evenings ago.
And who are out?" he asked. rus
STA, Turkey, Mexico and the United
States. Fine company for US to be
in" he sarcastically rejoined.
And pray whose fault is it that we
are not in the league? Didn't thirty
Ave republicans and twenty three
democratic senator's vote to go in?
Would not the league covenant have
been ratified with reservations had
the democrats in the senate given 1t
as much support as the republicans
did? The republicans gave it more
than two-thirds of their votes, but
hest Of the man in he white house,
who was so insisent upon having his
own way that he chose to see the
United States stay out along with
Russia. Turkey and Mexico.
William Howard Taft, a consistent
and abiding friend of the league, lays
the responsibility for this countrys
action upon President Wilson, and so
does Herbert Hoover, a man whom
a large number of democrats favored
as the democratic nominee for presi--
dent only a few months ago.
II Cox is elected president there is
no hope Of this country joining the
league unless he's follows the course
suggested by Senator Harding, name-A
ly: Take into consideration the judgA
ment OF the senate and work out
some plan that can secure the nee
essary two-thirds majority. It is
doubtful If Mr.. Cox would do that,
because he says his mind is one with
Mr.. Wilson and that he will carry
out the Wilson pledges, meaning, we
presume. Wilson's pledges to Europe.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-22
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Fort Dodse Messenger thinks
that sgt is time that this country
adopted q definite immigration
policy, backed up by laws ana
machinery to enforce 1t. which VIII
allow it to pick and choose its future
residents OF alien birth. We would
welcome all of the right maternal
material of which future Americans
can be nodded; but those VINO are
undesirable from the American point
Of view must be excluded. The United
States must serve notice on the wor'a
that it will not be made dumping
ground"
Unless challenged the Grinnell
REGISTERS discovery will have 70
stand when it declares that, All
things considered. as place to live
to do business, to educate our chill
dren and to develop the highest type
of manhoQ5 and womanhood, Grlnheh
is the best town in the best state IN
the best country In the world!
The Webster City Freeman-Tri
une remarks that, zone provision OF
the railroad bill that democratic par
tisans are not saying much about
when talking to audiences contain.
ing trainmen is the one that provides
that wages shall not be reduced IN
side of two years from the hrst OF
last September"
The Sioux City Journal remarks
that "That sentiment is in vivid con-
trast with that expressed by Presl-
dent Wilson when he spoke to the
italian populace and announced that
If governments failed or refused 10
come into his proposed league OF ma
tons the people would take charge
Of their governments and do so. me
president would call down France for
suggesting the possibility OF a ne"
league to a presidential candidate.
but he defied the ethics Of interna-
tlonal obligations and appealed to
private citizens in Italy not only
concerning the course of the nation
In entering the league of nations, but
he even went SO far as TO suggest the
overthrow Of government If it failed
or refused"
The Webster City Freeman-J Jour
nal naively remarks; "If any republi-
can wants to vote the ticket straight
all that is necessary is to put cross
in the circle at the head Of the re-
publican ticket. That is the easiest
and safest thing to do. OF course
there will be q lot of democrats, who
insist they always vote for the best
men, who will vote for Senator Cum
minis, and Hon. N. E. Kendall and
they will have to put a cross in the
square before the names Of Mr.
Cummins and Mr.. Kendall"