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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
PRES. CENSURE LYNCHIvG
Urges Congress
10 Stamp Out
Bardaric Stain

Washington, D. c., April 12.-Speak-
ing before congress Tuesday President
Warren 6. Harding, made public the
high points of his administrative pro-.
gram. After outlining the foreign pol
icy Of the new administration, which
occasioned no little surprise among
some and cause pleasure and satisfac-
tion to the majority of the people OF
tie country, President Harding spoke on
domestic problems. Among other things
he said:
Somewhat related to the forego-
ing human problems is the race
question. Congress ought to wipe
the stain Of barbaric lynching from
the banners Of free and orderly
representative democracy. We face
the fact that many millions of peo-
pie of African descent are num-
bered among our population and
that in number Of states they con-
stitute a very large proportion Of
the total population. 1t is unneces-
sary to recount the difficult is Incl
dent to this condition, nor to en-
phasize the fact that it is condi-
ton which cannot be removed.
There has been suggestion, how
ever, that some Of it's difficulties
might be ameliorated by humane
and enlightened consideration O.:
it, study Of it's many aspects and
an effort to formulate, If not q pol
icy, at least a national attutinde Of
mind calculated to bring about the
most satisfactory possible adjust
ment Of relations between the
races, and Of each race to the ma
tional life. One proposal is the
creation Of a commission embracing
representatives Of both races to
study and report on the entire sub
ject. The proposal has real merit
! am convinced that in mutual toll
erance, understanding, charity,
recognition Of the interdependence
Ct the races, and the maintenance
Of the rights of citizenship, lies the
road to righteous adjustment. =
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
Mccormick For
Federal Inquiry
To End Lynching

Washington, D. c., April 12.J
Backed by the strong recommends
ton Of President Harding in his
first message, Senator Mccormick
Illinois, introduced today joint
resolution creating commission to
devise more adequate methods of
preventing Negro lynchings and
mob violence.
The, commission would be en-
powered to conduct A general in
quiry into the subject of lynchings
and mob violence, including the
number Of lynchings within the last
twenty years and the causes there
of.
It also would be directed to "con-
slider and report its conclusions
with respect to the adequacy of the
means how employed for the pre-
vention of lynchings and mob yio-
lence and the remedies available
for the avoidance. Z
The resolution is similar to the
one introduced by Mr.. Mccormick
at the last session. It would require
the commission to make it's report
not later than Jan. /, 1922. 1t car
ries an appropriation Of 100000.
President Harding, in his adj
dress today, called on congress to
wipe the stain Of barbaric lynching
from the banners of a free and or
derly, representative democracy. I"
The message declared the proposal
to create commission on lynching
had "real merit. -
Following the introduction Of the
Mccormick resolution the race
question came up in another form
when Senator Harrison, Missis-
sippi, introduced a "Jim Grow
Law for the District of Columbia.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
Riot Leaders To
Die In The
...> Moose

Chicago, March 29.-Grover G..
Redding and Oscar McGavick, Ne
groes, convicted leaders Of the
Abyssinian riots Of last June, were
today sentenced to be hanged on
April o. The sentences came aft
er Judge George Kersten had over
ruled motions for new trials. Attor-
neys for the men indicated there
would be no appeal.
The men are found guilty OF the
murder of Robert L. Rose, Of Phil
adelphia, sailor stationed at the
Great Lakes naval training station,
who was shot when he rushed to the
defense Of the United States flag,
which was being burned as a part
Of the ritual Of the Abys-
sinians. ss.4
Redding who has been fleming
insanity, turned his back on the
Judge when the latter pronounced
sentence.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
Georgia Grand Jury al
50 Indicts Sons Of
Convicted Plantation
Owner

Monticello, Ga, April 11.-In-
dictments were returned here today
by Jasper county grand jury
against John S. Williams, his three
sons, Huland, Marvin and Leroy,
and Clyde Manning, his Negro farm
boss, who accused Williams OF in
citing the murders.
Eight indictments were found
against Williams, charging the
murder of farmhands, whose bodies
were recently found buried in pas
lures on his farm or were dragged
from nearby rivers. Eight indict-
ments also were returned against
Clyde Manning for the same kill
ings. !.
Huland Williams was indicted
for the killing Of the Negro named
ssBlack Strap" The jury will
continue tomorrow investigation Of
the recent lynching Of Eugene
Hamilton. The investigation was
begun this morning and Superior
Judge Parks, in charging the jur-
ors. declared that unless the law
acted to check these cold-blooded
murders and outrages / firmly be-
lieve God Almighty will soon take
the situation in hand Judge
Parks had prayer said in court
before instructing the jury.
"LawIessness in this section has
now reached the, point where it will
cause us to be Stunned unless we
check it, Judge Parks said. "We
will soon reach the stage where no
capital will come here and help us
develope our great natural re-
sources.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
Peonage Murder
Bishop Wallace
To Speak here
Sundau

DR.. p. A. Wallace Of New York
City, and Bishop Of the Eighth
Episcopal district Of the A. M. e.
Zion church will arrive in Des
Moines tomorrow to be in attend
ance at the annual district confer
ence of that denomination, which
opened four days session Thurs
day morning. The conference is
being held at Kyle's Temple,
South East Eighteenth and Scott
streets, Rev. E. S. Hardge, pastor
and presided over by presiding eld-
er, DR.. w. E. Shaw.
DR.: Wallace will speak Sunday
aftenuoon at 3 o'clock at Kyles
Temple and the citizens Of Des
Moines should avail themselves Of
the opportunity Of hearing this
gifted minister. H t.s.e.s -..s
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14

The Arkansas riots of 1919 and
the burning at stake in January of
this year Of Henry Lowry, are laid
to the same cause and it is stated in
the telegram that the practice of
peonage is widespread in southern
state, especially in the Mississippi
Delta region. 1t is called the great
est cause of unrest next to lynch
ing. ~.
In the telegram to the governor
of Georgia, he is callei upon not
only to exercise his full power to
bring the offenders in the present
cases to justice, but to proceed
against the widespread system of
debt slavery which prevails in his
ST afp - 49, ss-1|s.s.. E,t n #r
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14

New York City-200, one assistant
principal and one principal, two high
school teachers, two evening high school
teachers, three public school lecturers
and one supervisor of music.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-75 teachers, one
high school teacher and several special
teachers.
Boston, Mass.-One principal, several
teachers.
Cleveland, Ohio-Fifty teachers, one
high school teacher.
Buffalo, N. Y.-Several teachers.
Detroit, Mich.---Thirty teachers.
Chicago, III. - Approximately 15(
teachers.
st. Paul, Minn.-Two teachers.
Jersey City, N. J.-Several teachers
The next meeting of the executive
committee will be held Monday vening
May 2, 1921. at the Y. w. G. A. Center
'7Sa Tenth street.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION
O. e. s, IN COUNCIL BLUFFS

Mrs. s. Joe Brown, Grand Matron of
the Electa Grand Chapter Of the Order
Of Eastern Star, made her Official visit
to the Star of Bethlehem Chapter No.
Is last Saturday evening at which t:ine
she approved the plans being made for
the entertainment of the fourteenth an
nual session of Electa grant chapter
in that city June 21st to 23rd inclusive.
Mrs. Susie Robinson is worthy matron
and Mrs. Abner Stewart, 623 W. st
Broadway is chairman Of the committee
which is making elaborate preparations
for the event. The grand matron re-
quests that all present and past officers
who expect to attend shall have their
names in Mrs. Abner's hands not later
than May 18th in order that suitable
stopping places may be arranged 9or
all. sE.5 .''
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
Startling Facts
Concerning Con-
dihons at State
Prison +.
The The Associated Press.

(The The Associated Press
Jefferson City, Mo-, March &c.
There are five times as many Ne.
gro criminals in Missouri as there
should be, according to report OF
the state Negro industrial commits.
sion, prepared by r. S. Cobb, execu
tive secretary, which now is in pro.
cess Of preparation. The report is
based on statistics collected at the
state prison here and shows, among
other things that Of the 2,171 pris.
oners confined in that institution
at the end of 1920, 1853 were Ne
groes. T." r." ,.
All things being equal, the report
sets out, the ratio of Negro prison
ers to white should be about 16 to
/, or a total of 1876 prisoners. Thir-
ty-five of the sixty-five women pris-
oners are Negroes and the ratio
should be three Negroes to five
white women, based on population,
Cobb declares.
More than 600 Of the 763 male
Negroes confined in the prison are
from the large cities and popula-
ton centers and Cobb points with
this evidence that the Negro in the
rural and agricultural districts is
not q criminal. The percentage
from hamlets and villages is 1O.2
per cent, the report will show.
Says Record Alarms.
This record is alarming the re-
port concludes. "But it is not more
alarming than will be the re-
suits Of surveys of health and liv-
ing conditions Of Negroes which
rev are being complied. It is evi.
dent that it is up to the Negro race
group to begin at once to improve
conditions
The Negro industrial commission
is lobbying for senate bill No. 547
which would provide for separate
reformatory for Negro boys be-
cause, they say, records show that
reformative influences are impos-
sible under present conditions.
The result of a survey of the
Boonville reformatory made last
November by Myrtle Foster Cook,
a member Of the commission, is in
cluded in the report. This report
charges that twenty-nine tradesare
being taught to white boys in the
institution but that none of the
Negro boy inmates are being taught
a trade except casual instruction
in brickmaking.'' 5
Race Prejudice Factor.
'Twelve Negro boys operate the
laundry and do all Of this kind Of
work for the entire institution, :"
the report states, adding, "they
never get into a classroom and
spend their time loafng when not
at work. - -,. ~.
Race prejudice bars the Ne gro
boys from the trades classrooms
and from mixed gangs of employees,
the survey declares.
Two classes Of. Negro boys are
taught in each class and each class
lasting half day. A little arith-
metic and reading and some spell
ing and writing is taught but no
grammar or other subjects, the re-
port charges. ~
All OF these reasons are advanced
as arguments in favor Of a separate
institution for Negroes. -.-
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
Ma. A. c. P. Informs
Nation of The Practice
OF Peonage thrOught
out the South

The National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People, 10
Fifth avenue, New York, today
made public kilograms sent to Pres
ident Harding and Governor Dor
sey Of Georgia in which the state
n4erit is made that the murderer Of
eleven Negroes on the Williams
plantation in Georgia does not con-
stitute an isolated case of peonage
in the south but that a number Of
cases have been called to the atten-
ton Of the department Of justice in
recent years.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
Arkansas Jury
Fails to Con
uict Negro

Little Rock, Ark, April 1.-THE
jury in the case Of Emanuel West,
a Negro charged with assaulting a
white woman, was discharged to-
day after failing to reach an agree
ment.
The jury, which had in it's per-
sonnel three Protestant ministers, a
Catholic priest and former COVER
nor, stood seven for conviction and
five for acquittal, it was stated.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
Z. News from the
Associated Press.

Dr..I. Garland Penn, of Cincin-
natl, secretary of the board Of edu-
cation for Negroes, (formerly the
Freedman's Aid Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, spent
a day in Washington recently, in
close conference with number of
gentlemen on very important top
les. During his stay DR.. Penn as
sisted in entertaining President
King Of Liberia, in Cincinnati dur
ing his former visit here. DIR. Penn
was granted an interview by Pres
ldent King, during his stay in
Washington. The president spoke
very highly of Bishop Mathew W.
Clair, of the Methodist Episcopal
church Of Liberia.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14

Des Moines, Iowa, April 12-The
monthly meeting of the Negro Business
league Of this city met at the Commun-
ity Center. After the reports of the
various committees were heard. j.
Frank Blagburn recited his experience
at the druggists convention last week.
He added that they were trying to edu-
cate the druggists to do the thing that
the only placard on the walls of the In
International Cash Register says
tsTHINK. . More Negro business en-
terprises go to the wall for lack of
applied thought than any other thing.
The Grocery Problems as discussed
by the merchants and other members
seemed to center around the one thing
"a cheap jew or white man can put
rotten goods into the hands of col.
ored customers easier than the colored
strc eryman can the best of goods. .
The president urged greater co-opera
| tion between the merchants in this way
they should not only be benefited per
sonally. but, would be educating the
| Negro to execute his duty by trading
with colored people. He also urged
the colored groceryman to equip them
selves to deliver goods to any part Of
the city.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
DES MONIES BRANCH OF
THE N A. A. c. p ACT

THE N. "A. "A. ~. z. AS44V1
In accordance with plans announced
some weeks ago, the Des Moines Branch
Of the National Association for the Ad-
yancement of Colored People is making
big effort to reach it's quota of 1000
members in the nationwide drive for a
quarter million members, launched re-
GENTLY by the National Association. The
local campaign which is being directed
bv Mrs. Ebert r. Hall, vice president
of the local chapter, will close June 70,
The day before the convening of the an
uual conference at Detroit. Committee
chajrmen end executive board members
have pledged themselves to secure a
certain nnmber of applications. Prizes
will be awarded the succt ssful workers.
At u recent meeting of the Exuctive
IOard iE1puYtant business matters were
discussed. Several communications
were read from the national Office. In
response to request from the national
secretary, the local president, DR.. j. A.
Jefferson, was instructed to send tele-
gram to Pres. Harding uring that
Negro be appointed register OF the
United States treasury, an office always
held by Negro prior to the democrauc
administration Of Woodrow Wilson. A
protest has been filed by the white EN-
ployes of the treasury department.
against the appointment of colored
man for the place. The president also
was instructed to communicate with the
State Housing Commissioner relative
to housing conditions on Pelton avenue.
The Board voted to request the with
drawal of the name Of the Des MONIES
E-anch Of the N. "A. A. G. p, which
r-as signed to resolutions presented at
the Trotter meeting recently held at
st. Paul's A. NJ. e. church, on account
Of the fact that the action was un-
authorized.
Papers were put in circulation, petit
tioning the president of the United
States to exercise the power OF execu-
tive elemency and pardon the members
of the Twenty fourth United States IN
fantry now serving life and long term
sentences in the federal prison at Leav-
enworth, Kansas, convicted in connec-
ton with the riots at Houston, Texas
in August, 1917.
Elbert r. Hall, chairman of the edu'
eational committee reported visits by
DR.. T. L. Griffith and DR.. G. S. Med
bury, members of his committee, to 9
/ number Of schools and Parent Teachers
associations of different institutions
Mr. Hall also reported the following
facts concerning Negro teachers in the
/ mixed or democratic schools of the nortt
as a result Of result of a recent inves
hgation he made:
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
SHERIFF MAKES MOB
zEPIITIES: SAVES PR1SONER

Tampa, Fla, April The quick wit
of Sheriff John Logan Of Polk county
saved from lynching Wilmer Collins, a
Negro yesterday. .,
Collins, who was .arrected on charge
of having attacked six white women
was being taken to the Barlow county
Jail by the sheriff and three deputies.
Just outside lakeland, crowd OF 100
men surrounded the party's automobile.
Facing the mob, Sheriff Logan de-
clared: "I know every man among
you. I swear each and every one of
you in as a deputy sheriff. 1t is your
duty no VITO escort, with us, this prison
er to the Jail at Barlow. -
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
NEGRO LYNCHED.

Brandon, Miss, April Sandy
Thompson, Negro, who shot and
killed b. r.. Dobson, a planter near
here Friday, was ,lynchea near
Langford, during The night. The
body was found today swinging
from the limbs Of a tree.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
MORE PEoNAaE ARRESTS

Athens, Ca, April Earl White
and Ed White, brothers, waived prelim-
mary examinations before United
States Commissioner Cornett today on
charge of violation Of the federal peon-
age law and were held under $4,000
bonds. . =. .... d .,- .. v,
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14

=, The Honorable James Weldon
johnson, executive secretary Of the
n. A. A c.. P. has informed The
Associated Negro Press for publ
cation that he will accept the chal-
lenge Of the Honorable Eye Wit
ness, staff writer of the Chicago
Tribune, to discuss and debate the
subject in Chicago, "Have their
been atrocities in Haiti?' Affirm
ative, Mr.. johnson negative, Eve
Witness. There is only one condi-
ton that Mr. johnson imposes, the
people Of Chicago must get a place
large enough to hold all the people.
who wish to hear, Chicagoans get
busy. That discussion will make
great copy.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14

Things are different in Washing
ton. During the recent packers
hearing in the department of labor,
a representative Of the Associated
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
|Inez zMcWhother
at White House
Former Co1ored Cook Of Hardings at
Marion Presents Some Cakes the
President Likes

Marion Presents Some Cakes the
President Likes.
Washington, D. c., March 25.-While
number Of Office seekers drumIned
their heels at the White House execu-
tive Offices today waiting to see George
B. Christian, jr., secretary to the presi-
dent, Negress, carrying a paper pack
pered something to him with the result
Mr.. Christian g Office. ....
Hello, Inez,' said Mr.. Christian.
"What can do for you?''
~ want to see the president and
give him this,' and mex McWhorter,
the Harding's cook in Marion, whose
Clipped beef and waff1es received al
most as much publicity as the republi-
can presidential candidate himself,
showed Mr.. Christian the contents of
her package. When the Hardings came
to the White House, Inez was engaged
as cook in the Washington home of U.
s. Grant, jr.
A few moments later Inez, broad
smile on her face, was stopped by a
newspaper man as she was leaving the
executive offices. .... -..
"Did you see the president?" she
was asked. -"
"Yas, / saw the president and gave
him sumfin he hasn t had since he was
in Marion,' Inez replied. "I made
some little cakes for him, the kind he
likes, with English walnuts on top, and
he took um from me 'th his own hand.
The president he's jes' the
"FWho is yous' Inez broke off, peering
into the face Of her questioner. lis you
one of those men who writes for the
newspapers? Cause if 20 is, yo write
down that they ain It no change in Mr..
Hardin him bein pres dent, he's JUS
the same as he ever was 49,
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14

Negro Press was "sitting in with
other newspaper representatives in
the secretary Of labor's outer office.
There is colored messenger in the
room. A clerk was busy signing
letters Without looking UP he
said: "Charley, if you think Of it,
kindly put some ink in the well to-
morrow Then instinctively rails
ing his head, he discovered that the
dark shadow was none other
than the A. N. P. representative.
His apologies were profuse, with a
very Teddened face for back
ground.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-04-14
SEVEN BYSTANDER-APR 7 q
CLAUDE M'KAY, AFRICAN
POET MADE CO-EDrTO

New York, April 1.-For the first
time in history, ability and literary
worth among our people have been re.
cognzed by a white magazine. The
Liberator; published at 1873 West Thir.
teenth street, this city, is first to come
to this realization. 1t has added to us
editorial staff Claude Mckay, the At
rican poet, whose book, stSpring in
New Hampshire and Other Poems,
was recently published in England. OF
him, the Westminster Gazette said:
HIt is an honor to our language that
it should have been chosen as a vehicle
by an African poet for such passionate
exhortation to his own people,
In commenting on the addition Of Mr.
Mckay to the Liberator <taff, Max
Eastman, editor, says: "We will con.
tent ourselves with assuring the read
er that it is calculated to produce the
highest editorial efficiency.''
+ Mr.. Mckay has been in America fol
number of years, but because of the
established color prejudice has been lit
tie known to the public. He first at
tracted the attention of literary critic:
when his writings were carefully re
viewed by Frank Harris (white), edo
tor Of Pearson 's MagHzine. CRITICS
have deplored the fact that through
prejudice alone America has snubbet
such literary find.
| The 1iberator styles itself, Amer
!has or rs staff, Max Eastman. Floyt
ica's foremost radical monthly, an
,DeIl and robert Minor. It has advo
Gates socialism.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-05-28

business sagacity and that he has
enlarged upon former methods In ex-
banding the enterprise to the two-acre
floor space it now occupies - $4,000
square feet. The Holthausen. stores
are a credit to the present manage
ment and an honor to their founder.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-05-28
Crazy Dance
By 3 Musketeers

Announcements are out for "crazy
dance" at Carney Hall, Greenwood,
June 3, gotten up by those three in
imitables Messrs. Arthur Rooney, Joe
Marini and Nick Mahoney, the royal
fun-makers for the borough of Cliff
side Park these many years past and
who recently broke into the humorous
columns of the New York Evening
Post and Evening Globe. The an
nouncement says, among other pleas
antries:
Folks are requested to appear in
costume. Nothing sane will be toler-
ated, as Mr.. Smith will object Yum |!
Yum! Wear raincoat with ice
skates, bathing suit with an over
coat, rubber boots and a straw hat, an
evening gown with snOwshoes, mid
dy blouse with boomers. Use your
Imagination until ii hurts.
Among those who will attend will
be Marie" and she will wear as few
wells as possible; 2. J. Carney will
wear coat of sunburn with ear
muffs; Hazel, the pride of West Point,
will appear in the role of Bertha, the
Bartender's Daughter; Nick Maho-
ney and Joe Marini will come as Haig
& Haig; Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rollins
will come as Roscoe Arbuckle and
Thela Bara; If it Is warm night
Stewart COxhead will come as Paul
Swan; Arthur Rooney, CARRIED in a
delicate gown Of old rose, will sing
After You're Gone, Then saSrle .at,
efoNd wifi ap3ear 'e@% svIiI act s'iss
crazy as ever, so be prepared to go the
limit.