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The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07

ing place throughout the world. The
darker peoples and the white peoples
of the world are meeting face to face,
and the issue is whether or not the
principles of Jesus Christ are power
full enough to adjust the conflict of ra-
cial interests.
We, here in America, white and
black, have the greatest opportunity
of any people on the face of the earth
not by talk, or by beautiful speech ;
not only by word of mouth, but by eX-
ample of the way we work out our
cooperation in community and church
and school and economic life-to dem
onstrate to the world that the power of
Jesus Christ can solve these problems
and to send forth from America black
men and women to Africa with that
experience.
And, by the way, the Negro denom-
nations are now putting into their
budgets in the Interchurch millions of
dollars. The Baptist denominations
alone have put in $2,OO0,OOO for foreign
mission work to Africa and the islands
of the sea where colored people go and
Hive. (Applause) ---------------
They can carry more than money
They can carry this message to the
darker peoples of the wOrld-that the
white race of America hasChristianity
enough and democracy enough to give
them places as men, as citizens, and as
cooperating brethren in the work of
bringing the world to Jesus Christ, and
making not only this country the land
of the free and the home of the brave,
but making that ideal triumphant in
the kingdoms of the world. prolonged
applause.l
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07

obtaining employment; desire the
same wages for the same work; the
same school facilities for their child
ren; the same opportunity for the
young people to acquire trades, and
education in the professions; whole
some housing conditions; hospital fa-
cilities, in fact, they want no discrimi-
nation whatever, because of differ
ence of color They believe "A mans
man no matter what his color and
he should be treated as such.
IF the twelve million Negroes in
America are to give brain-labor, hand
labor and heart-labor to this civiliza-
ton of ours, they must be given the
tools of achievement and share the re-
ward of co-workers They ask moth
ing of us which is not fair and just,
and they should he treated fairly and
justly by their white fellow-citizens
Why not?
Too many of us, in judging the Ne
gro, 'fix the eye inexorably upon some
actrocious or unjustifiable act of
single individual. Is this the way to
Judge race? The tribunal of history
dc~5&-not condemn Christianity be
cause some of its adherents were
criminals, nor the Puritans because
some of them burned witches.
Democracy can only be preserved
by citizens as jealous of the rights OF
others as of their own. There cannot
exist two codes of law in IL Republic,
one for high and one for low. a mis-
taken notion exists in the minds of
many of our people, that Negroes
want social equality with the whites.
They do not. They are satisfied with
their own society; with colored young
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
TEN-cENT STORES IN LIBERIA.
Native African Student in Yale Theo
logical School to Start Business.

Three native Africans, in Des
Moines to attend the student volun-
teer convention, We're speakers mt an
African conference in st. Paul's Afri-
can Methodist church.
The Rev. Isaac Steady, Jr., student
in the theological school of Yale Uni
versity, declared that Africa needed
Negro business enterprises as well as
churches and that he already had
plans under way for the opening of II
5 and 10-cent store when he returns
to his home at Sierra Leone Liberia,
which lie says is town of 100000
people, $4,000 Negroes and 5000
whites.
Africa needs expert farmers, Will
liam Masumma OF Capetown, South
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
WILLIAM ANTHINSUE
ON RACE ADJUSTMENT

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 1G.-William
Anthiusue (white), in II statement To
the Associated Negro Press, has some
very partinent things to say on Race
adjustment" and he has very wisely
arranged for the people of his group
to learn his opinion. He says:
what colored people want is to
have the same chance to live happy,
healthy, useful, successful lives as
white people They wish not to be
Disseminated against in the matter q
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
MEN LEAVE TO BRING BACK
WRIGLEY SHIP.

Headed by First Steward Edward
Wicks, IL number of men are leaving
the city for New York to return to
the Pacific coast on board the new
ship of the chewing gum magnate,
Wrigley. The men go by rail and the
palatial new liner which Mr. Wrigley
has purchased will bring them back
by way of the Panama Canal. This
new vessel is said to be the finest
making Southern California ports, be-
ing four times the size of the Cabrillo,
now being used for the Cataline Is
land traffic The men who go to take
berths on the vessel will be part of
the crew which Mr.. Wrigley will use
upon his new ship. They sing the
praises of the millionaire chewing gum
manufacturer in no uncertain terms,
crediting him with disposition of
fairness and willingness to employ
people of the race to quite an extent.
New Age, Los Angeles.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
SETTLE ESTATE OF OIL BROKER

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 23.-A sensa-
ton was caused in local courts here
when Marshall & Marshall, attorneys
for the Denistion relatives, asked for
postponement of the Denistion-
Brooks estate case, and announced
they would seek settlement out of
court. The amount involved in the
7 suit is SS7, ,000 that sum being left to
Mrs. Cora Nelson Brooks by VIM. A.
Denistion (white), Pittsburg million
aire, retired oil broker and member of
the Chicago Stock Exchange, who
died in December 1918.
Gets Liberty Bonds.
About two days before Denistion ex-
pired he called in Il justice of the
peace, his lawyer and one witness, and
executed transfer of $4,000 in
bonds and securities to Mrs. Cora Nell
son Brooks, who was adopted in the
Denistion home by the deceased at the
age of years, and to whom he felt
everlastingly grateful for faithful
services rendered him during his ser
ious illness.
Makes Woman Gift.
Denistion also gave Mrs. Brooks IL
large sum of money in bills before his
death, and when relatives of the de-
ceased learned this they sought the
advice of attorneys to regain posses
sion of the money. 1t developed that
Denstion made will in which equal
division of his real estate was an
nounced, giving Mrs. Brooks One-third
and cutting his sister and niece off
with 81 each.
Competency Questioned.
The question involved in the case
was the competency of the deceased
broker to transact business at the
81 bn N fap nf rho
Liberty bonds and made the verbal
gift of cash and jewelry to Mrs.
Brooks, who was not of his race nor
his relative.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
MAY PASS ANTI-LYNcHING BILL

The National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People, 40 Fifth
Avenue, New York, announces that the
judiciary committee of the House of
Representatives is considering three
bills which would make lynching a fed
eral offense.
Capt. Arthur Il. Spingarm and James
Weldon Johnson, representing the as
sociation, as well as William Monroe
Trotter of the Equal Rights League,
argued for the bill at a hearing in
Washington on Jan. 20.
Colored Americans throughout the
United States are urged TO write to
Andrew ]. Volstead, chairman of the
House judiciary committee in Wash
ingtOn, d. c., endorsing the proposed
legislation.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
COMMUNITY SING AT TOPEKA.

The second annual Community Sing
was given Friday night, January ~,
1920, ut the city auditorium. The
"Sing" was decided success both
musically and financially; about 1000
persons attended. The idea of II Com
munity Sing, novel with colored peo-
pie of Kansas, was brought forth by
Prof G.. X. Bridgeforth, president OF
the Kansas Industrial and Education
al Institute, late in the year of 1919,
when the first sing was given as an
experiment.
The chorus was composed of people
from the colored churches of Topeka
and the music department of the Kan
sas Industrial and Educational 1nsti-
tute About 200 voices make up the
chorus, and the orchestra was com
posed of thirteen pieces. Pipe organ
accompaniment was played by Prof
X. G.. Jackson of Western University
Solo parts was taken by Miss Cora l..
Boulder, director of music ut the Kan
sas Institute, and Mrs. II. G.. Jackson
of Kansas City, Kan. Prof. X. G
Jackson was conductor.
The second annual Community Sing
demonstrated the desirability of Ne
gro folk song, which the audience re-
ceived favorably. The first sing was
an experiment, but the second was ii
known fact and many looked forward
to the event. The whole affair was
arranged by colored people and speaks
n great deal for the future poSsibil-
tiles of the colored man in music.
Plans for the next sing are being
worked out, and it is hoped that the
sing will reach statewide recognition
next year. Mr.. Jackson, the conduc-
tor, has hopes of bringing notable col
ored singers and soloists to assist in
the third annual Community Sing.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
SAYS POOR SCHOOLS DROVE
RACE NORTH.

Richmond, Va, Jan. 23.-School
teachers here will present a petition
to the General Assembly calling the
attention to the Legislature to the
small salaries received by them. Stress
is laid on the need aof better salaries
by the educators, who termed their
present remuneration as "ridiculously
low as compared to that of the
whites. The petition states that dur
ing the past five years approximately
100000 colored people left Virginia
for the North and West Poor school
facilities were mentioned in causing
the exodus.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07

! EGROES are. feeling a new
\ consciousness of being one
. hundred per cent American
(Applause), in spite of the
, Y newspaper headlines to the
,,.,,+,,,.,, 1'bax, fool that thpV
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
NEGROES PROTEST SEDlTIoN
BILL

The National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People today All
nounced that its representative would
appear in Washington at the hearing
on the Graham sedition bill to protest
against the enactment of it,
The following statement was issue1
today by the Association:
"One of the provisions of the bill is
designed to exclude from the mails Nc
gro publications protesting against the
flagrans injustices to which the race
is subjected. Liberty-loving colored cit
izens, us well as white, are urged to see
to it that this bill does not become Il
law"
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
RACE NEWS S.tiss'1 S.tisa. s,.'s.. r's"

Africa, told the conference. Masum-
ma is taking course in agriculture
at the University of Minnesota, from
which he will graduate I'm 1920.
The third speaker was young At
rican girl, Amanda Mason, who is
student in Wilberforce University, the
leading school of the African Metho-
dist church at Wilberforce, o. She
made strong appeal for American
Negroes of character and education
to come to Africa to teach their breth-
ren anything and everything that
tends toward civilization.-Des Moines
Register
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07
Elephants indispensable.

It is said that Slams teak forests
could not be worked without the as
sistance of elephants, rs hauling ma
chimes could not be used in the mac
cessible places where teak trees grow
One elephant can handle from fifty to
seventy logs in season.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, born
February, 1917; died Feb. ., 1893.
Noted American anti-slavery agitator
and journalist, who fearlessly came
forward at the opportune moment and
propagated n doctrine the result of
which led to the adoption of measures
to abolish slavery, and immortalized
his name among the sons of earth. His
1O3rd anniversary in conjunction with
that of the illustrious character, Abra-
ham Lincoln, will be celebrated next
Thursday evening at Shorter A. Nj. f..
Church. A great program and ban
quet under the auspices of the Denver
Colored Civic Association. a rare and
rich treat in store for those who at
tend this dual celebration.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07

NI hundred per cent American
(Applause), in spite of the
II newspaper headlines to the
contrary. They feel that they
have a contribution to make to Amer
lea and to the world, and they ask for
the opportunities and the facilities for
the development to make those contri-
buttons.
They have economic contributions to
make. as they have made in the United
States. They have helped the South to
change from swamps to cotton fields
and to blossom like rose. They have
helped to build our railroads. bridge
our rivers and tunnel our mountains.
And yet today they are asking, ana
a part of our progfamsis to bring the
church behind that natural desire, that
they may have an opportunity to get
work (the facilities through the
churches, if you please) to find work,
to hold their work, and TO be trained
for their work the same as other
Americans. They wish opportunities
for living conditions with housing and
neighborhood facilities just like other
Americans, both in the rural districts
and in urban centers.
The housing conditions in every one
of our large cities, North and South,
where Negroes live, are rift with the
lack of sewage, with the absence of IA
cilities for garbage collection. or FIRE
protection, of police protection. wee
and crime, from their own group anu
that imposed upon them from the white
world without are to be found. There
are red light districts imposed within
or near the Negro neighborhoods Ne
groes ask that these housing and neigh
borhood conditions be changed. Ana
they believe that the church ana the
Christian conscience of America Will
see that they are changed. (Applause.)
They ask that in the rural districts
the church be the means to bring to
the conscience of the landlord ana
plantation owner the question of hous-
ing and living conditions for those who
toll upon the land.
The Negro needs health. Particular
ly is there need of provision for med
ical service; for physicians, hospitals
and nursing service. There is need OF
educational propaganda both from pup
lie health authorities and from hos
pitfalls supported by the Christian
church. ooo
When you remember that for 10000,
600 people there are today in America
only about ten hospitals that can De
calledin any way adequate (and three
of those are outside of the South where
the great bulk of the population Isl )
when YOU remember that the Negro
pbvsicians today in practically every
city. North and South, and in every ru-
ral district where there is n generai
hospital, public or private, cannot ioi-
low his Negro patient into the hospitai
To give him treatment, you see we are
face to face with thing that cries OUT
to American conscience. Ana health 10
a matter that concerns all the people
Disease and death draw no color lines
Again the Negro has something 10
contribute in the life of America in
that good feeling and good humor tha'
makes America happy place in when
to live. The leading comedian OF the
American stage today is II Negro
Bert Williams A great many OF the
popular airs contributed to American
music were written by Negroes, ana
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07

men marrying colored girls; with the
companionship of their own race in
their own homes: with the building up
of their social Institutions; they are
as sensitive in the presence of inap-
propriate situations as white people
are, and are just as adverse to forcing
themselves upon people who do not
desire their presence.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, born Feb. II,
1909: died April 10, 1868; Sixteenth
President of the United States, whose
memory lives in the hearts of Ameri-
cans as well as other nations as IL
champion of liberty, lover of human
ity and martyr for the cause of
Truth, Justice and Right His 111th
anniversary will be celebrated at
Shorter A. NJ. T.. Church next Thursday
evening with great program and
banquet under the auspices of the Den
yer Colored Civic Association.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-01-20
Trial of Socialist
Assemblymcn to Open
in New York Today

~ Assr,ir'ei w.
ALBANY, y. y, Jan, ls.--pccks
wore cleared toniphj Tor the trial
of the five suspended socialist as
scmh.ymcu. which will begin tomor-
row before the assembly Judiciary
committee. On the eve OF the ais.
hearing. Attorney General Newton,
counsel Tor the prosecution. an
nounccd he had engaged as assistant
counsel. former supreme Court
Justice Arthur y sutherland, of
Rochester. and Elon r Brown, OF
Wa'c-town. In making his an
nounccmcdt. MI Newton said that
Martin ". ilillcton, whom he NAM
ed last week I oaid IN presenting
evidence 90 the committee, might ha
forced tn Withdraw before the trial
is concluded. as MIR. itt,lcton hHS
been retained as chief counsel hy
United Siat.H senator Truman H.
Nrwherry. of Mchiran, Whose cicc'
ton has resulted In charrvs OF
fraud
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-01-20
NOGALEs DOCTOR 4
/. TEsT|F|Es BEFORE
MEXICAN HEARING
DEsC Rii,ts MANY OtTRAGES
iiE HAS WITNESS
ED

~ AstHelnieHl irfst
SAN ANTONIO. January H.
After describing one outrage after
another which he claimed 10 havo
Witnessed. Or. Jim Hunter, an AM
crlcan physician of Nogales told tho
senate subcommittee investigating
the Mexican sitcatlon today he never
had known of a Mexican being pun-
lshcd for KILLING an American In Mex
leo There has been no safety for
American Hfe or property In Mckee
since 1910" he said. adding II have
known a lot of MeNica.s In that time.
and | do not know onc---and ! know
Carranya whose oath would no
ccpt
nr. Hunter was one OF the Amer
leans at Cuadalaiara when the AM
orleans occupied Vera Cruz. Hts ac-
count OF the Tight OF the Americans
was accepted Az additional evidence
Of the higher regard helf by Mex
leans fo rihe british and German for
cign Representatives, II was tho
British consul who afforded protcc.
lion tn the Americans at Guadalaia-
"a and on the war 10 the coast and
German clerk at another town who
,ffcced the immediate release OF
Americans hcl dbv Mexican soldiers
by declaring hlsmclt German cons
sular officer
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-01-20
1000 INFLUENZA
CASES IN CHICAGO
IN PAST 48 HOURS
HEALTH DEPARTMENT ISSUES
APPEAL FOR 10000
NtRSt.S
FIFTY DEATHS REPORTED
Death Rate l. Extremely Small
Compared With Last Years
observation-disclosures Checked
In Training Camps.
ny Associated Press.

ny Associated Press
CHICAGO. Jan. Chicago's
health department was swampcd
with appeals for nurses today 10
combat the spread of influenza and
pneumonia of which more than two
thousand eases have been reported
IN the last ~ hours. with fifty
deaths Health department officials
declared the city needed at least
10000 nurses to handle the situa.
ton properly
Relief Measures Instituted
Six hundred nurses, operating
from oigat dispensarics today beyai.
survey of the city to aid in relief
measures.
Since ? O'Clock this morning. 500
new cases OF Influenza were reported
10 the board Of health with ten deaths
and new pneumonia cases numbered
100 with sixteen deaths.
Death Rate Small
Health department officials point
cd out that the death rate has been
extremely small rs compared with
last years epidemic.
The disease has been checked ut
Camp Grant, Rockford. Ills. and 1T
the Great Lakes naval training sta.
tion. To-day only 90 new eases were
reported al Great Lakes. rs compur-
cd with u previous daily average oi
nhou, 100.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-01-20
Radical Labor
Law in Germany
Passes Assembly

~ Associated Press
BERLIN, sunday, Jan. iS.-1ho
shops councils builders law, ether
wise known as the Exploitation law.
one of the most radical pieces OF
economic legislation since the war,
was passed by the national assembly
today after five days acriminOus de-
bate
The measure affects all places
whore more than five men or women
are employed excepting newspapers
Ia which business councils are nor
permitted to dictate. The five or
more employees elect stewart who
will confer with the employer on
the relations Wit hthe workers ana
the general conduct OF the business.
The number OF stewards varies pro-
portionally to the size OF the staff.
who now will be- given the privilege
of attending directors meeting,
whore they will be active voters al
though not shareholders.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-01-20
Nation i,n~rillcd


n, Associated "rcs
NEW ORLEANS, ranuary IL
napust ministers ct New orleans to
day went On record as uualieuhl'
opposed To church unionism " They
adopted resolutions designating tn
inicr.church world movement as on
tun Nv self designated men az an
enormous expense. The ministers
charged that these men seek to sun
,ltizc tho press Tor their propaganda
and termed this process blatant ai-
lrontcry OF a man-madc superchuren
program unique In the history 81
Christianity"
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-01-20
DEPORTED REDS
ARE WELCOMED
BY B0LSHEv|K|
JNDEsii,ABIfS HEADED ny
BERkM,> AND GOLDMAN
ENTER SOVIET NATION
GREETED WITH CHEERS
Emma Goldman Declares She viii
Return Ia America Sumo bay
viii Write Ter 1. =. Pub
LEGATIONS


by Associated Press.
TERlJOkl. Finnish-Russian Dor.
der, January la.--Thc unduslrab l,
aliens headed by Alexander Bcrk.
man aud Emma Goldman. dopOrtcd
from the United States. entered 50.
wet Russia at two o'clock this aft.
crnoon. They received an enthus.
iastic welcome.
Assisted Across River
The deporiccs. laden with suit
cases. aud boxes. tru-god taruugn
the deep snow Laughing aud singing
revolutionary songs as they neared
the burior Hearty cheers wera
raised by the Russians waiting for
them on the other side of the frozen
Systcrbak river which separates thu
Finnish and Bolshoyiki lines. Will
ing hands helped them scramble up
the steep banks aud amid the ruins
OF the war wrecked town OF Bielo.
Osirov. overlooking the stream. thu
BolshoyiN gave the cNles voclfcr.
ous greetings stirred up frenzy Oi
enthusiasm and delight among the
new corners.
Greeted by lIapi
They dropped their luggage. whip.
ped off their caps as a military band
played the lolshevik anthem and,
cheering wildly, broke open their
boxes of food and cigarettes brought
from the Buford. distributing them
lavishly among the crowd.
An amusing sight was Bolshevi.
XII officer waving a can of Americar
pork and beans, rs he gave orders "a
the sa1diCrs \ mounted hrigadier
commanded the troops. which in
cludcd boys. who appeared tn he
sCarcel whore than twelve years oi
age Emma Goldman and AleNandcl
perkman we're the last u cross ~,
river. waiting until the others were
safely over
G,vNii Nomrni IN Her life
This is the greatest moment oI
my lite" exclaimed Miss Goldman "a
rhe Associated Press. After thirty
five years Of absence I am returning
20 Russia with feeling OF awe,
am glad to leave America. hut I love
the American people and expect u
return there some day"
Discussing her plans, she said Sho
would continue to write Tor Amer
lean publications.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-01-20
COURT WILL TEST
PROHIBITION LAW

WASHINGTON. January l9.-Thc
supreme cou-. today decided to pass
en- the validity of both the federal
prohibition amendment. which be-
came operative las, saturday. aud
the act prescribing the manner oi
its enforcement
The courts decision will he rcnd'
cred ON proceedings which are To he
instituted hy the state OF Rhode Is.
land. which has given permission to-
day to brink an original suit. Sol.
icitor General King Of the govern
ment. announced tha the immediate
~ would file a motion asking for dis
mlssal OF the Rhode Island case ON
the ground that the court lacked
Jurisdiction