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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-06
U. S. AvIatOrs Held BY Mexleans

q. S, AVIatoTs F1eIu by WeNICahs
McAnen, Texas.-Two army aviators
-Lieuts. e. F. Davis and G. f. Grimes,
carrying a military message from Fort
Brown, Texas, to Nogales, Ariz.-were
forced to make a landing in Mex
leo, thirty miles south of Zapata, Tex
as, and are being held by Mexicans.
According to a message received here
from the aviators they have been
promised their freedom. Lieutenants
Davis and Grimes. who are attached
to the air station here. were carrying
a message, duplicate of that which was
sent from Fort Brown to Nogales.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-06
"star" Criminal Ends His Career

"Star" Criminal Ends His Career
Ossining, N. >Y.-Gordon Fawcett
Handy, murderer, bank robber and
train bandoit, whose crime record
reached from coast to coast and cul-
minated in the murder of two Brook
lyn bank employees in December,
1918, was electrocuted in Sing Sing
prison. Handy maintained to the
last the iron composure which marked
his demeanor from the hour of his
arrest in Tacoma, Wash, last June.
He refused the offer of the Protestant
and Roman Catholic chaplains to ac-
company him to the chair.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-06
Miniature Stills Seized In Raids

Miniature Stills Seized In Raids
New York. one-gallon "kitch-
en- still" is the newest anti-prohibi-
con contrivance to make its appear
ance in New York, according to J. ].
Shevlin, prohibition enforcement Off
Ger. He declared that manufacturer
who had been identified, carried on
thriving business in the sale of the
device at Sc apiece. In raids through
out the city many of the miniature
stills were seized. This was the first
intimation the agents had of the plan
to install Matchmaking apparatus in
homes on wide scale.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-06
Airplanes To Race N. Y. To Nome

AIrpIaneS o Race IN y TO 'NUUHS
New York.-Tentative plans for
transcontinental air race this year be-
tween New York and Nome, Alaska,
distance of 4,S70 miles, have been
announced in New York by the Amer
lean Flying club, which is co-operat-
ing with the training and operations
group of the army air service in the
project. The proposed race will be
held under the same rules and han
dicap plans as the race between New
York and San Francisco last year.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-06
Increase OF 10000 In Sank Resources

Increase OF I,UUUYo IN bahK MOSQUITOES
Washington ecentralization of
the country's banking resources and
widespread distribution of wealth, in
dictated by an increase in banking re-
sources of one thousand per cent
or more in sixteen states since 1899,
is shown by a comparison of present
bank resources with conditions TWEEN
~ years ago, issued by John Shelton
Williams, comptroller of the currency.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-06
Bill To Double West Points Size

Bit TO IOupIE WEST TUIfIL OIZS
Washington.-A bill of sweeping ma
tion-wide military importance was in
troduced by Senator Harris of Georgia
recently. In word it provides for
doubling the student personnel at the
West Point Military academy, there
by doubling the annual output of the
young officers. 1t provides that the
same method Of appointment as at
present be retained, each representa-.
tive in the house having four annual
appointments instead of two, and each
senator having four from the state al
large instead of two.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-06
21o Men Tried For Kidnapping People

Tombstone. riz.-Announeement by
the prosecution that dismissal OF the
charges against three defendants be-
cause of absence of witnesses was be-
ing considered, was followed by alb
rupt adjournment of court in the trial
of 2lO men charged with kidnapping in
connection with the deporting of l.lS6
striking copper miners and their sym
nathizers at Bisbee. Ariz., in 1917. The
prosecution requested time until the
next session OF court to decide the
question.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
PINEY WOODS GROUP
IN DES MONIES
\ AMERICAN COOPERATIVE ia
INVESTMENT COMPANY HOLDS
ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting Of the American
Cooperative Investment company was
held at Union Congregational church
Friday night, June 18. The reports of
the secretary Of the company and the;
manager of the store were read, which
showed that the gross receipts for the
nine months were $4,000 with 7S shares
represented
The following directors were elected:
w. H. Humburd, Littleton Bowles, l.. }.
Shelton, Jas. G. Brown, Jas. B. Morris,
VIM. Warfeld and E. Tracy Blagburn.
At a meeting of the directors board
tie following officers were elected to
serve one year, President, E. Tracy
Blagburn; vice president, L. j. Shelton;
treasurer, VIM. Warfeld; secretary, Jas
G.. Browne; attorney, Jas B. Morris;
store manager, j. G. Browne The audi
ting committee is composed of j. B.
Morris, w. H. Humbard and Littleton
Bowles.~
At this meeting it was voted to lease
from Messrs. Shelton and Blagburn
rooms known as 1904 Center, in the
building being erected at Twelfth and
Center streets for Messrs. Shelton and
Blagburn.
It is hoped the store will be able to
move into it's new location not later than
August 10.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
INCREASING THE NEGRO,Ss
WANTS 3sgsSs5s

The Manufacturers Record one & of
the most influential publications. in the
south, has, in a recent number, not
able editorial on the Negro &a
The writer classes with the carpet
bagger, who injured the Negro by fiat
terry, the native politician who would
injure him by assailing him. The "cap-
italization of race preiudice' is as
strongly condemned as the impossible
folly of "social equality.' From these
preliminaries the editor passed to a
powerful argument for Negro develop
mcnt, citing as a common sense move in
this direction the recent action of the
Pine Bluff (Ark.) champ<r ii commerce.
The article continues:
EWhere wants are few labor is para
lyzed. When you put before the Negro
the hope Of acquiring theHconveniences
4of modern life, you touch his nerve OF
industry and put9:a power behind his
hoe that never was there before.
''The prosperity of the south is
wrapped up in the prosperity of the
Negro. Not by millions, but by billions,
will the wealth Of the south be increas-
ed when the Negro demands, not hut,
but a house; not cot, but bed; not
rags, but store clothes. :.
When you increase the demands of
millions of citizens there is but one
way in which they can satisfy those de-
mands, and that is by work.
'|Why should there be objection
to the Negro s owning land? There is
nothing so likely to make him good
citizen, nothing more certain to make
him d public asset. .,,l s I@
.,sThe wise man gives even his horse
u square deal Where whites do not
give fair treatment to Negroes they do
tie Negroes harm, but they do far
more harm to themselves.
"The Negro has begun to think. That
q little learning in some cases makes
the individual an irritation to all who
come in contact with him is true; but
patience is a virtue that works many
miracles.
"What the people out in Pine Bluff
are trying to do is to get rid of race
trouble by the common-sense method OF
giving the Negro a square deal, by
a, ousing in him the passion of acqulsl-
tion, by giving him something to work
for, by convincing him that the whites
are not jealous Of his prosperity, but
welcome it.
"That is not only practical religion,
lut it is practical economics. The shift
lcysncss of the Negro has cost the
south hundreds Of millions of dollars.
The chambers of commerce in the
south can do no better or more endur-
iry work than to follow the example
set by the chamber in Pine Bluff, for In
cn-oppration will be found a solution OF
al the race troubles that exist. There
is no solution at all in legislative for
mllas.'
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
REPORTS iAYTIAN AFFAIRS
ARE IN BAD CONDITION
Says Haytians Have Great Desire for
More Contact With American
Negro vs.

New York, N. Y, June 25.-''I found
| conditions in Haiti on account of tho
American military occupation even
| worse than in the PHILIPPINES during the
| subjugation of those islands; but with
| the concerted effort of the American
Negro they can be bettered.'
This was the summing upof a state
ment made by James Weldon Johnson,
| field secretary of the national associa
| tion for the advancement of colored
people, to our correspondent. Mr.. john
son has just returned from a trip to
Haiti, where he spent six weeks investi-
| behalf of the N. A. A. G. p. Mr.. John
| sen will write a series of articles touch
ing on conditions and opportunities in
Haiti.
"I made a comprehensive study of
the political and economic stuation,'.'
said Mr.. Johnson, "and the course of
the next few weeks, I shall make pub
lie the facts which I have collected
through series of articles and through
public addresses. =,
Mr.. johnson continued, 81 found
that their social life was that of most
cultured people. 1 looked into their
education and found them making ef-
fort to educate themselves and their chill
dren. I found their cities well built
and we'll kept and among the people
desire for good government which was
not gratiied by the American admins
tration.
"The Haitians expressed warm de-
sire for closer relations with the colored
people of the United states. They arc
conscious of their growth and have a
pride in their race. They look with in
tcrest upon the development of the
spirit of the civic self-cOnsciousness OF
the America Negro and are tremendous
ly interested in any movements among
the colored people of the United States
which they can adapt and adopt for
their own proper Development In the
of cooperation can be worked out for
same way they feel that closer spirit
the mutual advancement of the same
race in the two countries and they feel
that this must take the form of con-
crete cooperation expressed by means
OF a congress of meeting of minds or
the leaders Of the race both in the Unit
ed States and in Haiti. The Haitian
people would be happy to have men OF
their own race, business men, take ad-
vantage of the splendid opportunities
for capital and labor now being gobbled
What Mr.. johnson will have to say
up by Others
on the subject of Haiti be most en-
tightening to the readers Of his articles
and will undoubtedly overturn many OF
the current misconceptions about this
much misunderstood and little appre-
ciated country.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
NATIONAL. REPUBLICAN,
CONVENTION AIMS BLOW
AT SOUTHERN LILY WHITES

Chicago, June 25.-As the result of
the hearing on contests for delegations
which the republican national commit,
tee decided the committee adopted a
resolution which was defined by it's
author as ga warning to the south, -
though it was made general in itssappli-
cation. IN -y ii,
Charles B. Warren, committeeman
from Michigan, moved that in future
no delegations should be seated if elect
ed at conventions held in hotels and
other places in the south from which
Negroes were barred. The reference to
the south was objected to by several
committeemen and Mr.. Warren amend
ed his motion to make the rule apply
generally. The motion, was unanimous,
ly adopted, follows:
"In view of, the fact that at this
session of the national committee and
at preceding sessions and preceding ma
tional conventions it has appeared that
ic some states meetings of republicans
have been called in places where it was
the custom and practice to deny access
to colored people, the national commit
tee gives notice, through its chairman
to all organizations Of the republican
party that practice must not be fol
lowed in the future IA any state con
vention or in any district convention. -
This action, if adhered to, wmill do
away with voluntary "lily white' fac
tions organizing in the south.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
BILL TO CREATE
COLORED COMMISSIONS
Delaware Congressman Asks for $780,
900 for Race Industrial
Commission

Washington, d. c., June 25.-Repre-
sentative Caleb r. Layton of Delaware
has introduced bill in the house of
epresentatiyes which would create a
Negro industrial commission to consist
of five members of whom at least three
shall be colored.,
According to the bill, which is house
resolution, IA 4,092, members of the COM
mission shall be appointed by the presi-
dent for years and Shall receive a salary
of not more than $4,000 per year.
The commission will be allowed
100000 a year for expenses, which
would include clerical hire, said fund to
be appropriated each year by congress.
Quarters for the commission shall be
provided by the secretary of the inte-
rior in one of the government office
buildings.
According to Representative Layton
the duties of the industrial commission
will be to study the labor problem Of
the Negro, to encourage thrift and in
dustry among the race, to consider all
questions pertaining to the cutcreu ,tir,n
that might be reported to the commits
sion by any department of the United
States government and to report proper
solution; to investigate and regulate la
Dor conditions and to, stamp out boil
shevism.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Layton
is somewhat similar to the one intro
duced by Senator Selden P. Spencer in
the senate last week.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
WALKER MFG. CO., TO HOLD
CONVENTION IN CLEVELAND

The certified agents Of the Madam G.
J. Walker Mfg. Co., will meet in their
annua1 convention which "onv"nes in
Cleveland, O., August 12-14 for the
purpose of setting rorth plans for a
substantial increase Of business for the
coming year.
a unique feature connected with this
convention is the contest opened by the
ton is the contest opened by the publ
publicity department Of the home Office,
90 North West sSt, indianapolis, which
provides free trip to the convention
for the ten best articles Of 500 words
or GLOW T succeeded as an agent OF
the Madam G. J. Walker co. The
contest, which is being managed by a
contest editor at the home office is open
from June l to July 25 inclusive.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
NEGRO CORPORATION
BUYS PROPERTY VALUED


Atlanta, Ca, June 25.-Announce-
ment is made through the Office of Ben
Jamln ID. Watkins and Co., of the pur-
chase fthe United Investment corpor-
alton, colored real estate company,
with headquarters in, Atlanta, of the
property at 45-17 Auburn avenue.
The property is located in the heart
CT Atlanta s business district, being
two and half blocks from Five Points
and one and one-half blocks from
Peachtree street.
The structure is a three e-story one
modern and substantial with pressed
brick front, and inside furnishings of
mahogany; the second and third floors
are so arranged as to make them ideal
for the office purposes. j. B. Long,
president of the corporation, states that
the building is to be Immediately i'm
proved and such changes effected that
will convert it into a splendid office
building. Such a building is in demand
to accommodate the increasing number
of colored business and professional
men, many of whom are now without
adequate office facilities and some of
them unable to secure offices at all.
The United Investment corporation
is new business venture on the part
W tlc ColoIcu cltlHcHS OIL Allanla. IL
was promoted last year and had the
personal endorsement of Governor Dor
scy and several of Atlanta s strongest
business men.
The organization already. owns a sub
division on Chestnut street, has ac
quired rights to several hundred thous
and feet of timber and has installed
its own sawmill and other machinery
for producing material with which to
erect modest homes at such cost as
will afford their people an opportunity
to secure them.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
EIGHT GRADUATES FROM
DES MOINES HIGH SCHOOLS
Tits WEAR,

At the commencement exercises of the
three hi gh schools which were held June
10 eight young men and women of the
race received diplomas. North High
heads the List: with five in the persons
OF Bernice Cary, Agnes Drew, Herman
May, Curtis Morton and Compton
Chapman. West High comes second with
Edith Williams and Henry Bacon, while
Mary Woods was graduated from East
High.
While there should be two or three
times this number to graduate from our
high schools every year, we are justly
proud of this number of young people
who are preparing themselves for cred
liable places in the world
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
Y. w. G. A. NOTES.

Miss Frances M. Banks, the new sec
Eretary Of the Tenth street Y branch
comes from the "Athens of the South. -
Nashville, Tenn. Miss Banks is grad
uate of Fish university and has given
some years in teaching in the city public
schools of her home town. She has done
social settlement work at the Bethle-
hem home of Nashville and has engaged
in playground work for several sum-
mers. She comes well prepared for her
new duties. She is thoroughly interested
in young women and girls and hoped
to accomplish much with them.
Miss Banks will be very pleased to
have schairmen Of the various committees
members of the association, girls of the
reserve corps, and any interested friends
stop in at the center at any time and
ma Ike themselves known to her.
! The&tB G. u, club of the Tenth
street branch is giving musicale on
Monday evening, June % in the audi
torium Of the central Y. w. G. A. on
the corner of Ninth and High streets.
The4purpose of the entertainment is to
increase the camp funds of the young
women of the B. G. U. Therefore small
]admissiossfke Of 25 cents is being asked.
Some ofsfhe city's best musical talent
Will appear OH tHe PIOSIdHl. IL ID HoPou
that the public will patronize the enter
tainment generously because of the
young women s effort to give musical
treat and the primary object-the rails
ing of camp funds.
Beginning with Monday, June % all
girl reserve corps will hold their meet
ings at the center at the regular hours,
until further notice.
On Wednesday night of each week,
the. gymnasium of the central Y is open
to all members and friends of the Tenth
street branch from 8 to 8 o'clock. 1t
is hoped that the young women will keep
this in mind and aail themselves of this
splendid opportunity for fun and physi-
cal recreation.
The educational committee is having
a called meeting on Tuesday night, June
20 at 8 'clock.-Mrs. Geo. H. Mason,
chairman.
Monday night June % is the regular
meeting Of the membership committee.
All girls and women keep in mind our
camping period at Lake Okoboji from
August 28 to September 6.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
NEGRO CATHOLIC NUN
CEPUES IN WEARS

Baltimore, Nd, June 25.-Onc col
OF ed Catholic sister, Mary Bonavcnture
Leo celebrated the iftieth anniversary
Of her novitiatc, and nine others their
silver jubilee at the mother house OF
the Oblatc sisters or Providence on
Thursday, May 27. Cardinal Gibbons
and other notables were there.
The nine who have spent quarter OF
a century as nuns are Mother Mary
Julian Bcekans, Mother Mary Eliza
beth, Domain, Mother Mary Petra, Bos-
ton, Sisters Mary Anthony Braxton,
Mary Dolores Swami, Mary Irene Jack
son, Mary Joanna Osborne, Mary Ger
ard Morris and Mary Lowrence Aztec.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
KENTUCKY WOMAN GIVES
MANNED SERVANT $4,000

Lexington, KY, JuneE 23.-Char1cs
Coates, a colored man, without hands,
who lives in Danville, 80 miles south OF
this city, awoke yesterday to find him
self rich man. He received $4,000
legacy.
Twenty years ago, while employed by
a. "white gentleman as COATES des-
cribes him, Charley's hands were cut
off in cutting box A daughter Of the
Negro's employer sympathized with the
boy at the time of the accident, which
she never forgot She died recently in
Bowling Green, KY, and her will be-
queathed $4,000 to Coates. His wife
says Charley will buy a bungalow, get
an automobile and enjoy life.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
KELLY MILLER WILL
GO ON SUMMER TOUR

Washington, D. G., june 25.-Prof.
Kelly Miller of Howard university will
start upon a lecture tour about the mid
die of June. He will lecture in the
principal cities of Ohio, Indiana, Hi
nois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colo
RADIO, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Washing
ton, Oregon, California, New Mexico,
Arizona and Oklahoma. This itinerary
covers eight thousand miles and will
consume more than two months. Edu-
cational and sociological topics will be
discussed and the professor will make
a careful observation Of racial condi-
tons.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
Il enjoyed themselves there. We plan
great out of doors sport for the boys
this summer. ~
Respectfully yours,
E. G. ROBINSON,
Executive Secretary.
HARLEM LIBRARY TO
T..+ HAVE CoLORED WORKERS

New York City.-Theo authorities Of
the New York Public Library have at
last consented to more adequately ad-
just the library to the needs Of this
community by employing persons who
are particularly adapted to the situa-
tion in Harlem. -. s-.. ..<- 4. d
The first step in adjusting the library
in order that it may more efficiently
meet the needs or the community was
taken in the appointment of Miss: Err
nestine Rose as head librarian, who viii
hae colored workers assisting her. 'ss',Ss:@
'PINEY WOODS GROUP .
IN DEs MONIES
Principal and Mrs. Laurence G. Jones
and boys, Turner Harris and Laurence g..
Jones, Jr, arrived in Des Moines last
week accompanied by Francis Jackson
the children 8 nurse. Miss Este1la
Oatis, one Of the schools stenographers,
and sextct which win tour Iowa This
summer.
They will furnish music for Dra>e
community week, will sing before the
Chamber Of Commerce and dated for
many special meetings aside from their
regular tour.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
MARCH 600 MILES.
Twenty-FOurth Infantry and White
Cavalry Unit on IrOI.y t1ike.

Ell Paso, Tex, June 25.-Carrying
standard field equipment, che machine
gun company of the Twenty fourth in
fantry which has becl. .ere two months
in training at Fort Bliss finished the
course and started on a hike of one
hundred thirty-two miles to Columbus.
From Columbus the troop, which is ac
companied by a unit of the Twelfth
cavalry will hike four hundred seven
ty-fve miles further on to Del Rio.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
WHITE MAN ASSAULTS
COLORED GIRL-GETS
LITE SENTENCE;

Bristol, Tcnn.-Chas. Noe, white -
years old, was sentenced to ire imprl,
scnment by Judge Vines, IN Crlmlhai
court at Bloustville, Tenn, afrer
Jury had found him guilty OF state
terry .offense against l2-year-old Negro
girl The jury's verdict was accom-
nonied bv A. recommendation for com
mutation Of the death penalty.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
LAURENCE JONES
ADDRESSES BIENNIAL,

Laurence G. Jones was invited to
speak at the biennial this week, was
escorted to the platform by one of the
ladies from Missouri and given an ova-
ton when he had finished his plea for
a more human consideration of the race.
He will speak at the Roadside Settle
ment tonight for Miss Flora Dunlap.