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The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
SOME THINGS NEGROES WANT.

a message from Virginia Negroes: ::
First-We want equal accommodate
tions in public carriages. We now
pay first-class fares and are forced TO
accept third-cass accommodations. ON
railroad and street cars the quarters
assigned to us are Inadequate for the
numbers and are poorly kept No
provision is made on steam cars Tor
sleeping-car or dining-car accommoda-
tions. At only few of the railroad
stations are provisions made for feed
ing the Negro travelling public. The
toilets at most of the stations are
poorly kept and on some of the trains
there is only one toilet for both men
and women. We deeply feel the hui
initiation that the ".Jim Crow Car law"
and segregation bring upon the Negro
race and urge the white people to
abolish it.
Second-Negroes want justice in the
proper distribution of advantages in
their living quarters in both city and
country. Wherever we live in large
numbers the streets generally are not
paved; the section is not adequately
lighted or policed; sewage is not pro-
vided, and there are negligence and
Indifference in the general improve
ments.
Third-We want equality of wages
i'm the economic life of the state. We
feel keenly the injustice of discrimi-
nation in pay for the same work done
If a Negro bricklayer does the same
work Just as satisfactorily as a white
man, he in all justice deserves the
same pay. This holds true in domes-
tic service in the trades, on the farm,
in the profession of teaching, and
everywhere else.
Fourth-We want the same provi-,
sion made for the education of our
children as is made for white child
rem; we want just distribution of
public school funds; equal high school
advantages lin curriculum and equip
ment; compulsory school law just as
binding upon Negro children as upon
white children, and opportunities pro-
vided by the state for college training
for Negro youth.-Southern Work
man.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
THE PRESS BEARS ITS SUFFER-
INGS ALONE.


IN every hand when dissatisfac-
ton arises among the individ-
~ uals, any body of men or en-
ployes in general, there seems to ap-
pear on the scene an alternative which
either allays their suffering or offers
a redress for the wrongs done them,
but when it comes to the press, the
newspaperman, the proprietor of the
paper, they seem to be left alone out
in the cold to bear the heavy weight,
the extra load put on them whether it
comes from the government or any
other agency. Now the price of print
paper has been going up up, up dur
ing and. since the war, and when we
bring our cause to the public for Il
raise in the price of subscription, or
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
CITIZENS DEFENSE FUND COM.
MISSION ORGANIZED.

Several days ago leading Negroes
| from all parts of the state of Arkansas
assembled in the city of Little Rock
and organized the Citizens Defense
Fund Commission. The personnel of
the commission is as follows:
DR.. ]. G. Thornton, Chairman ]. II.
McConico. Secretary: DIR. III. w.
Suggs, treasurer; Rev. ~. p. Robinson
and Rev. r. NJ. Caver.
The object for which this commits
sion was created is to raise funds to
conduct the defense of the eighty
seven Negroes convicted in connection
with the recent race trouble in Phillips
county, Arkansas. The men COM
posing this commission are well es-
tablished citizens of wide acquain-
tance and represent the very highest
type of spiritual, professional and bust
ness activity.
Twelve of the Negroes convicted in
connection with the Phillips county
trouble have been sentenced TO die in
the electric chair and seventy-five to
serve sentences in the Arkansas peni-
tentiary ranging from five to twenty
one years.
Negroes throughout the state and
nation feel that these Negroes should
be given full opportunity to prove
their guilt or innocence and in view OF
that fact counsel have been employed
to fight the cases to the end. few
days ago Il motion was filed in the
Phillips County Circuit Court for "A
new trial. The motion was over ruled.
On January 9th an appeal was taken
to the Arkansas Supreme Court for n
new trial Every effort will be made
TO defend the rights of these Negroes
both in the state and federal courts.
To fight these cases through the
courts will require n large sum OF
money, and the Citizens Defense
Fund Commission is now calling upon
Negroes throughout the country to
contribute to this fund. The Negroes
in every community are requested to
make contributions through some well
established organization like the
church, club, benevolent, civic associa-
tions, etc, or send contributions di-
rect to the secretary, J. III. McConico,
Box 112, Little Rock, Ark.
In this matter the race must act and
act at once. Contributions should be
made and remitted promptly in order
that the progress of the defense be
not handicapped for lack of funds.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24

job printing, the idea is viewed with
so much of alarm. Quite a number
of daily and weekly newspapers have
gone under, yet we try to keep above
the tide, at the same time assuring you
that in the several years of our eX-
istence in the field we have never
had an experience as this. We trust
therefore that our patrons will bear
with us, measuring up to the necessity
which compels an increase, the same
to be announced later, and which we
will gladly remove as soon as the cir
cumStanceS warrant.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
MOB RULE IN AMERICA.
Workman.

If democracy means anything, i
means the freedom of the people peace
ably to assemble and to discuss with
out restraint any subject upon which
they choose to deliberate.
The first duty of the government is
to protect every citizen in the exercise
of the fundamental rights guaranteed
under the constitution.
The constitution provides:
Congress shall make no law re
specting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise there
of or abridging the freedom of speech
or of the press; or the right OF the
people peaceabIy to assemble, and to
petition the government for redress
of grievances"
The real enemies of the government
are the men who are attempting TO pre-
vent exercise of these rights. They
are striking at the roots of democracy
and over-turning the constitution.
We need Legislation in this country
making it crime for any individual
or any organization to interfere with
the exercise of the rights OF free
speech, free press and free assemblage.
New laws are particularly needed
for the guidance of men in public Of
flee.
MAYORS, governors and federal Off
cials who took Il solemn oath to pre-
serve. protect and defend the constitu-
ton have violated that oath by deny
ing to the people their fundamental
liberties.
The press is filled with praise for
these men, who have betrayed their
public trust, but the people in good
time will demand an accounting.
The country has of late been treated
with the spectacle of small mobs OF re-
turned soldiers breaking up lawful
meetings of their fellow citizens.
These men took the oath to defend
tbe constitution. They were sent
abroad TO make the world safe for
democracy" Under wise leadership,
the rank and file of patriotic service
men will discourage this lawless ele-
ment who are destroying democracy in
Their own land.
There is no room in this country for
any man or any organization OF men
who seek to substitute for the law the
methods of force and to establish mob
rule in America.-La Follette's Maga-
zine.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
MAYOR KEEPS HIS PROMISE TO
coLoRED PEOPLE.
Three colored Candidates for Public
office Were Slated and Elected on
Republican Ticket.

Coatesville, Pa, Jan. 6.-The fact is
not generally known that a recent cleo
tion held here three colored men were
elected to office, viz: A colored real
estate assessor, an alderman and IL
constable. This, too, happened in a
city that sometime ago was diSgraced
by a lynching. For which a large ma
jority of its people now deeply regret.
Much credit is due to DIR. William A.
Credit for recent results. He came
here some months ago and had a con-
ference with our Mayor, and got him
to promise that he would place the
name of three colored men on the
ticket with himself, and he kept his
word
The Mayor also promised to improve
the streets where our people reside.
This he will also do. All of which
prove that what is really needed in
every city is wise leadership. The rest
vii be found to be comparatively easy.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24

met in France who had never seen
Negro "Y'' worker, and had not re-
ceived service from any 'Y" worker.
These seventy-five secretaries served
with the fighting units and with the
troops in the service of supplies and in
leave areas. The fighting units of Ne
gro soldiers were the 92d and 93d Di-
visions, the latter comprising four
regiments brigaded with the French.
1t was in these units that the secre-
taries won well-deserved praise for
faithful service and unfaltering cour-
age The airplane raids, lombard
ments from enemy guns, and bursting
gas shells did not slacken their ardor
to follow the men wherever they went
This work was well summed up, in
a talk given to Negro secretaries at Il
banquet in Paris by Mr.. e. c. Carter,
head of the Y. II. c. A. overseas, who
said: NO group of secretaries has
been more successful nor has any
work been on Il higher level. l have
been impressed most by your spirit.
Sometimes you have met with difficult
ties and have been insulted by work
ers with the red triangle on their
arms, but in it all you have shown the
spirit of the Great Master.
Workman.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
STATISTICS SHOW BIRTH DE-
CREASE.

Columbus, S. c., Jan. 15.-Negro
births in South Carolina during the
first ten months of 1919 show Il de-
crease of 2,064 as compared with the
same period of time for 1918, accord
ing to the annual report of the bureau
of vital statistics, now being made up.
White births show an increase of 2l9
over the figures for 1918.
The decrease in the Negro birth rate
is accounted for by c. w. Miller, chief
clerk of the Vital Statistics Bureau, on
the theory that large numbers of
Negroes have left the state in the past
two years, and when the census for
1920 is taken it will be found that the
Negro population has been largely
overestimated."
The Negro migration from South
Carolina to Northern and Central
Western cities in the early part of the
year was widely commented upon, but
as they left as rule in small bodies
the extent of the movement may not
have been fully realized. The decrease
in the number of births in Il single
year of more than 1000 caused much
comment at the health office.
The Negro births for 1918 totaled
1882. The total for 1919 was 15,463.
The white births for the same two
years were 14,T93 and 15,012 res
pectively.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
NEGRO "Y" WORKERS OVERSEAS

' OF the large group of ''Y" workers
who went overseas, eighty-four were
Negroes, and twenty-three of these
were women, only three of whom were
in France during the actual fighting;
not until months after the armistice
were other Negro women sent over
seas. There were never more than
seventy-five Negro "Y' secretaries in
France at any one time, and they were
scattered among nearly 100000 Negro
troops Many times Negro men were
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
CHAIRMAN OF The REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE PAYS HIGHEST TRIBUTE To
VALUE OF WOMEN IN PARTY ORGANIZATION
Will Hay Has Unaerable Newly Enfranchsed Voters
and Believes Women Unfaingy Be Aligned With Repub
cn Party in Its Efforts Toward Law and Order
and Progressive and Stable Government

MI Republican National Committee,
1vA in his speech at the recent Chl-
cago conference, paid fitting tribute
to the value of women in party organ
izations. Among other things he sald !:
.sThere are two natural inquiries
from women new in politics: tlrst'
What does the Republican party OF
fer the women? Second, What does
the Republican party stand for?
'"The Republican party offers the
women everything we offer the men.
The Republican women in the country
constitute one-half of the party's mem
bership. In many states this has long
been so. In the presidential campaign
of 1920 it is my very earnest hope ana
well-founded judgment that it shall be
so everywhere. The Republican wom-
en- come into the party activity, not as
women, but as voters, entitled to par
ticipate, and participating just as other
voters.
"Within the Republican party there
Is and must be full political self-deter-
mination. 1t is entirely up TO the
party membership to say what the
party's purpose shall be, what IFS poi
icies shall become. This fundamental
ly is what we offer the women-the
chance to express themselves.
81 would rather a woman join with
our opponents than belong to no party.
One of the first truths most import
ant for this large group of new voters
+o raa,;ze is that their efforts for right
things in government can be made ell
fectiye only through organization.
.In all our efforts the best brains
and beorts in the country are neceS-
sary. Women are able to cohtripu'e
and owe to the situation the pecuiiar
ability which is theirs. We trust the
women voters in this country TO heip
the Republican party carry out lts
determination to require that the
HIGHEST standards of health be main
tanned and enforced; that there is Il
proper compulsory school education ;
that we have proper Limitation IN the
bours of work for women in employ
ment where standing is required and
that there be an eight-hour day :;
that there is proper prohibition OF
child labor and that there shall be
adopted as speedily as possible every
practical principle which can further
humanize industry.
II know the women, in their first
80
national expression of the power OF
franchise, will show their innate and
continuing reverence for that on when
rests the safety of the holiest things
in life-law and order and progressive,
stable government.
Remember, Republican women
there are no yesterdays in our politics
We do not care how any one voted IN
1912. 1916 or 1918, nor his reason for
so doing All who are engaged in the
great work that is before us are en-
titled TO the same consideration, the
one who has not always voted with us
and the one who has always voted
with us. because perchance, he may
not have had any reason for doing
otherwise. Politics is matter of as
similation and not of elimination"
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
NEGRO YOUTH SENTENCED TO
STATE REFoRMAToRY.

Colorado Springs, Jan. 19.-Richard
Washington, a colored youth of this
city who recently made police history
here by looting Il safe, stealing two
automobiles and breaking Jail, was
sentenced to an indeterminate sentence
in the reformatory at Buena Vista to-
day by Judge Arthur Cornforth of the
District Court Washington pleaded
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
RACE NEWS S.';s,s' S.t;sss s.s,ss. sss~

guilty to charges of grand larceny. He
escaped from the city Jail by prying
steel bars off a ventilating shaft. He
was arrested at La Junta after fleeing
south by way of Pueblo, where he was
fired on by posse.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24

SCOTT'S OFFICIAL HISTORY OF
THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE
WORLD WAR. THE COLORADO
STATESMAN, EXCLUSIVE AGENTS,
Room %, 1924 Curtis St, Denver, Colo.
L. o. Box 116.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
EDITOR HOWARD PASSES AWAY.

Indianapolis, Ind. QleciprOcal News
Service) Mr.. J. d. Howard, editor of
the Indianapolis Ledger, died at %
Thursday morning. His death came at
the end of Il prolonged illness and
caused deep sorrow among the citi-
zens of this city, and from the eX-
pressions that have come it caused the
same kind of feeling throughout the
nation.
Mr.. Howard was prominent factor
in the affairs of Indianapolis. He
was a member of the leading Organi-
cations of the city and state, as well
as the National Negro Press Associa-
tion.
A special message was wired to the
secretary of the National Negro Press
Association at Nashville, Tennessee,
the day of his death. Arrangements
for the funeral are under way, and a
number of out of town visitors are ex-
pected.
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-21

that body he is listened to. And when
he speaks on question, he is always
thoroly prepared He may be inter
rupted in his address once or hun
dred times, but he always has rea-
dy answer to all questions. Other
senators may seek to corner him,
but they never succeed OF course,
they are very courteous in asking
their questions, and the answer is
always prompt and full, and their
courtesy saves them from embarrass-
ment. They receive the information
asked for or they receive the reply,
II am coming to that further on
He always prepares himself by an
exhaustive study of his subject be-
fore speaking upon it, and the sena-
ate knows 1t. He proves his points
by telling them the law and how it
worked in other instances or in 9th
err nations. He tells just when and
where certain similar things have
been done and how it turned out
and the reasons for such results. He
cites these examples from all manner
of places in the life of nations for
two thousand years, and one Won
ders how a man in one lifetime
could keep up with his duties and
study the history of so many other
nations and master their history
and apply the fundamentals to our
problems day by day. ~'
Senator Borah is member of
the foreign relations committee, and
as such he deals with international
problems and world troubles. With
his grasp of history he comprehends
as few men do the effect of the pro-
posed league of nations. In those
matters he is far ahead of the aver
age statesman, and it is doubtful if
the public will appreciate him in
his own generation.
1t is being said that he was deter
mined to have Johnson for president,
and that he was sorely disappointed
at the failure to nominate him. If
the truth were known, he was prob
ably fighting to deadlock the forces
that were seeking to nominate
league of nations man, and when
Wood and Lowden and the other
money-spending league of nations
candidates were tied in deadlock and
the nomination went to Harding,
who was not of that kind, Borah was
probably glad at heart tho defeated
in his apparent purpose to nominate
his colleague, who is against the
league. Certain it is that Borah was
opposed to men buying their nomi-
nation, and Harding's nomination
came as Borah said nomination
ought to come, without fee and with
out price.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-21
HOW THE WEST FAILS
POLITICALLY
By MRS. TREGO
PART I.

A good many of our Idaho people
criticise Senator Borah because he
does not take more active part in
the conduct of state affairs, that he
is a part of our federal government
rather than of the state government.
He is part of the national legisla-
tive body, and it deals with national
and worldwide problems.
We have our state officials and
state legislative body to deal with
state affairs, and it would not be
proper for either to NEEDLE with the
other. Only the persons intimately
associated with either department
can be expected to have full knowl-
edge of it's affairs. State officials
studying state affairs could not be
expected to have broad knowledge
of national matters like senator
with all his opportunities of studying
such things in his associations with
other national characters at Wash
ington And the national charac-
ter living at Washington studying
national problems could not be ex-
pected to have an intimate knowl-
edge of the problems of single
state
Our Idaho men who criticise Sena-
tor Borah for spending so much of
his time in the east and in the larg-
er centers of population rather than
in Idaho, forget that he has other
problems than those of his own state
to study. If he merely studied his
own state and it's needs he would
not be qualified to do his part in
national and world problems. Any
one who will read the Congressional
Record from day to day and from
month will observe that Senator
month to month will observe that
Senator Borah is one of the big men
of the senate. When he addresses
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-07-26

Entertained All Dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Park were
hosts to a beautiful dinner Sunday i'll
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-07-26

honor of the Misses Ifby, of Alaba-
ma, the house guests Of Mrs Carl
Park, and Mrs. Everett Witt and Mr..
Neville Witt, of Cynthiana. Covers
were laid for Mr.. and Mrs. Waller
Park, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Park, Mr..
end Mrs. John Park, Mr.. and Mrs.
Strother Park, Mr.. and Mrs. B. u.
Mckinney, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Q.
Park, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Park, Mrs
John White, Mrs. II. j. Million, Mrs
Belle Parsons, Weatherfold, Texas;
Misses Issie and Ray Million, Mr.. G.
Million ard Mr.. Fred Fielder.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-07-26

Davis left Monday for a two weeks
visit to their aunt, Mrs. C. E. Henry,
in Louisville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Q. Park en-
tertained at dinner Monday in honor
If Mr.. d. Watts and Mrs. Watts, of
Palm Beach, Fla.
Miss Cleo Dixon, the efficient book
keeper at the Daily Register office,
spent the weekend with her friend,
Mrs. Witt. in Irvine.
Mrs. A. r. Baker, of Noblesville,
ind, has joined Mrs. Donelson All
nan for visit to Mrs. James H. All
nan, on East Walnut street.
Mrs. Hanley Nippert and little
laughter, Margaret, Cincinnati, are
listing formers parents Mr.. and
Mrs. J. D. Dykes, at Riverview hotel,
'ivine.
Tuesday afternoon Miss Margaret
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-07-26

For two years previous to the
time lebegan taking Tanlac, | liv-
ed principally on a raw-egg diet.
During this time I was laid up in
a hospital for FIVE months and
practically flA hope was held out
Tor my recovery. | don't suppose
iany man had a worse case Of
stomach trouble than I-did, in TACT
they said could not live.
"Tanlac did not seem to help me
inuch at first. and ] had almost
made up my mind to give il up.
but il [ had given it up ii woul5l
| have been the mistake OF ny Lille
stuck to it Tor a lair test and am
thankful that / did for after fin
Iishing my fourth bottle, my appe-
tite>waS better and | noticed my
self improving.
This encouraged me to keep on
taking it and in two months l was
able to eat 4 good square meal
and digest it as good as anybody.
Then it wasn't long until / cot so
II could go back to my work and
lat the same time | had finished
my last bottle. found | had ac-
tually gained A pounds in weight
7 TO look at me today no one
would ever take me to he the
same man | was when / began
taking Tanlac'
The above remarkable State.
nent was made recent yby John
II. Packer. we'll known electrical
engineer OF Liberty. Mo.
Tanlac is sold in Richmond BY
Stockton and Son: in College Elili
by Ginter Brothers.; III Bcrca by
Wclch Department Stores. salt
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-07-26

weeks at the Conservatory OF Music.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Higgins, Mem
phis, are guests of the latter's moth
Ell, Mrs. S. @. Royce, at Boonesboro
Nj. Joe Keller, of Mt. Sterling, was
with friends here Sunday, en- route
to Crab Orchard for a ten days stay
Miss Mary Timoney. has returned
10 her home in Danville, having at
tended the summer term at the Nor
NAL
The Winchester Sun says: "Mrs
Nettie Ballard is in Mt. Sterling, the
guest of her sister, Miss Sue SERVE
ner."
Miss Zerelda Baxter has returned
from a delightful two weeks sta.
with friends in Paris, Winchester and
Lexington.
Misses Nancy Belle and Mary Eller
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-07-26

Azbill will De the guest of honor at
e tea given by Misses Emma and
Anna Williams at their home in Lex
ington.
DR.. Curtis f. Burnam arrived from
Baltimore Sunday, being called by the
serious illness of his mother, Mrs. A.
X. Burnam. Mr.. George Burnam is
expected from New Orleans today.