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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-11

a lynching was TO be effected was
about to he confirmed fought with
great desperation and courage.
Within short while the Negroes
were outnumbered by the whites and
they began retreat which carried
them to the north side of the Frisco
Railroad tracks where they made a
stand SO valiant and death dealing
Chief Of the local police for soldiers
help In the meantime the casualties
We're mounting up with the odds in
favor of the Colored combatants. 1t
was near midnight when the militia
arrived on the scene. This turned the
tide Of battle to the whites again.
The Negroes retreated. Then 1t was
that when the white hoodums be-
gan to apply the torch to the BUSH
ness concerns of the Colored people
located along Greenwood Avenue.
Prominent Negroes Killed.
It was but short step from the
business section to the better resi-
Dental section in this locality. Here
death defending their homes from the
torch bearing mob. DR.. A. c. Jack
son, the leading Colored physician of
the city, was killed on his doorsteps
and his well appointed home touched
by the torch and totally destroyed by
the fire that followed. The same fate
befell Wesley Williams, the wealth
thiest Negro in Tulsa and the owner
of the Dreamland Theater, al 80 des-
troyed by fire. Williams was reputed
to be worth more than 100000, DR..
John Wayne died fighting protecting
his home which was destroyed by
fire. John Wheeler, one of the OLDEST
employees at the First National, was
killed by a stray bullet while on his
way to the bank Wednesday morning.
No Colored man in Tulsa was more
highly respected than John Wheeler.
He had been in the employ of the
First National for a long number OF
wears and was one OF the familiar
and popular figures Of the city. He
was buried with signal honors. the
officials of the bank attending in a
body.
Thousands Made Homeless.
The fires Spread Whites applied the
torch while the militia busied itself
with the disarming and arresting OF
such Negroes who were unlucky
enough to fall into their hands. In a
short period of time great host OF
defenseless women and children were
being driven heller SHELTER by the I'M
feeling mob or made prisoners by the
militia and police. The new Mt. Zion
Baptist Church. recently built at Q
cost of SS5, 900 was partially destroyed
by fire. 1t was dedicated on the 10th
of last April and is said to be the
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-11
TULSA QUIET AFTER LAST WEEKS
RIOTING.

Tulsa. Oklahoma, June 16.-Tulsa
lies stricken almost unto deeth The
city is literally in sackoloth and ASH
es and IL seems like a veritable mir
acle that II has escaped complete de-
struction. Whatever II enjoyed in the
matter of thrift. enterprise and a
fair name has been, for the moment
at least, destroyed by wanton fiend-
ikh mob, actuated hv jealousy and
race hatred, which soHLht TO wipe out
the Negroes and their section of the
city.
whole Truth Not Told.
But little Of the real truth has
ing the whole, horrible affair. The
out to be nothing. The boy is yet in
iaii but the girl has disappeared and
the rape charge is about to fall to
the ground.
1t Is true that shortly after the ar
rest of the young Colored man a small
number of Negro men gathered in the
vicinity of the Jail. Tulsa Negroes
had decided that no lynching should
take place in Tulsa without a blood
sacrifice to prevent IT. Rumors had
reached the Colored section that a
lynching would be attempted by the
whites. When the Colored men arrived
in the vicinity of the jail they found
a number of white men who inn
media tely assumed hostile attitude to-
ward the Colored men. II was not long
before trouble was started and the
riot got well under way. The Ne
groes fearing that their suspicious that
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-11
THE LESSON FROM THE TULSA
RIOT.

hNOls
THIS rs THE LAW of the white
race. And that without regard for the
Mason & Dixon Line:
Whenever a black brute attacks a
white woman, he invites death for
himself and for other members of his
race.
This is the law which has been
written in letters of fire at Tulsa
That is the law which runs from
the Rio Grande to where Maine touch
es the Canadian border and far be-
yond.
The cause of the Tulsa tragedy?
Not the superficial but the abiding
cause?
Why camouflage?
The cause is that the Negro must
not even touch the hem of a white
woman's garment save in utter re-
spect.
Nor shall Negroes attempt to rescue
suspected ravisher unless they are
prepared to Withstand the wrath of
the whites showered down pitilessly
on their heads.
Nor can all the societies of the
North that would establish social
equality between the races advance
so much as one step in that direction.
Already certain mischievous So
clety that exists remote from the race
problem has been responsible for
Southern race tragedies. So long as
1t exists and continues to stir the
Negro to vile dreams impossible of
consumation, so long will the Negro
suffer bitter penalties from this i'll di-
rected dreaming.
The riot at Tulsa is deeply re-
grettable.
But it is not thing to be charged
to the South.
Those of the North who ahold up
their hands in holy horror are Phar-
isees. For wherever the Negro at
tempts to overstep the bounds pre-
scribed for him by an immutable law
there he will meet his doom. North
or South. East or West, the law is
the same.
Wise Negroes know this Wise Me-
groes counsel against any effort to
overturn the statutes of unchanging
nature. We have such Negroes in Dali
las May their. tribe increase. For
they are the real friends of their own
kind.
The lesson from the Tulsa catastro-
phe, though not the lesson that ig-
norant wise men" may deduce, is
simply this:
When the Negro keeps his place, all
Is well for him. He will find the
white man of the South his sincere
friend. When he attempts to leap
from that place into the white mans
home, the leap will ever be fatal.
Dallas Times Herald.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-11
NEWS BRIEFS.
(By \. N. P.J

Chicago, ILL.,, June 9.-Two Negroes
were arrested recently, after a chase
in which several shots were fired
after they had been recognized by
Mrs. Anna Osborn, Colored, 1858
Langley avenue, as the men who
snatched her purse at 18th street and
Cottage Grove avenue on April 10.
Macon, Ga, June Am insane wo-
man, stripped Of all clothing, ap-
peared last Wednesday night on the
campus of the Central City College,
Negro institution, and fired one of
the frame buildings, which was
burned with a loss of 100000. The
woman was arrested.
Washington, D. c., June 9.-Senator
Mccormick will introduce an amend
ment to the army appropriation bill
providing for the designation on June
Il, 1922, of five additional regiments
in the regular army to be made up
OF Negro troops.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-11
NEGRO PRIVATE INJURED BY En-
FLOODING DYNAMITE.
lRv A N. IA

Little Rock, Ark, June Byron
Carr, 20 years old, private at Camp
Pike. was dangerously hurt when
five sticks of dynamite with which
he was preparing 10 dynamite fish
in creek near Conway exploded
Carr held three OF the sticks in his
hands When they exploded. The con-
cussion set off the remaining stick
and the boys body was was blown
thirty feet. Car was brought to Little
Rock and taken to the base hospital
at Camp Pike. A Negro witness Of
ibe tragedy. VINO was standing near.
escaped with few scratches.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-11
CHICAGO PASTOR INDICATED Try
CONGREGATION.
(By A. N. Pr


Chicago, June 16.-Standing in the
pulpit of the large A. NJ. e. Bethel
Schurch on the morning of Sunday
May ~, Dr. s. L. Brit received the
three thousand people who had crowd
ed the. edifice for the express pur-
pose of adopting set of resolutions
which set forth their confidence in
nm nm as man and their. high regard
for him as the pastor of the church
rms section of the church followed
quickly on the heels of an ungrounded
report that had been circulated to the
erect that Dr. Brit had been arrest
ed for carrying concealed weapons.
Efforts to get at he bottom reason
for the unwarranteG report and con-
sequent gossip that gained consider
able currency throughout the city be-
fore an investigation brought it to
sudden stop failed to completely as
certain the oring although consider
able has been brought to light which
sheds light on the probable cause. The
Oxford, one Of Chicago's prominent
physicians, and read as follows
Chicago, ILL.,, May 90, 1921.
Whereas, false and sensational
story was circulated by gossip and
published in soma of the Colored news
papers of this city to the effect that
Rev, s. L. Brit, pastor Of Bethel
church, had been arrested upon a
charge of carrying concealed weapons
and that the police officers who had
accosted him on the street had found
a pair of Brass Knucks" in his pock-
ct, and,
Whereas, saio statement in the light
of facts revealed. is undisputably false,
malicious and without foundation. be-
ing apparently circulated and given
out by agencies actuated by motives
of envy, or else desiring to injure the
cause of Christ as represented in the
welfare and progress of Bethel A. NJ.
+ church. and,
Whereas, such reports Being I'M
just are humiliating and insulting not
alone to the pastor but to every mem
Der of our church and the bost of
of Cnristian men and women who wor-
ship here. be it.
Continued on Page y
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-11
NEW ORLEANS NEGRO RETAIL
BUSINf IS INCREASES.
(By A. N. P.)

New Orleans. La, June 9.--New
Orleans retail trade for April. meas
ured in dollar vo ume, was 17-3 per
cent less than the same month last
year. and the city's trade for the
first four months of this year was
jnly 40 per cent less than for the
ia-ae neriod i 1920 according to the
Monthly business Review just issued
nv the Federal Reserve Bank for
Ire Sixth District. Considering price
changes larger volume Of goods is
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-11
WHAT THREE EDITORS OF DAILY PAPERS SAY
ABOUT THE TULSA TRAGEDY.

The following comments on the Tnl-
sa tragedy are worthy Of note for tie
differing sentiments expressed by their
authors:
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Continued on Page y
Evening journal., 1921-12-29

There are skirts included whose former
prices were nearly double that of tomorrow,
and no skirt which does not offer most attrac-
tive savings. There Velours, Plaids
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
BIRD THAT LOCKS ITS MES!
Central American Wren Takes Par
ticuIar Care That Its Eggs Shall
Not Be Harmed.

In Central America arc mnng
strange birds with stranger habits, hut
probably none is more interesting than
little brown wren which may be
seen along the roadSideS or on fences.
This little bird, about the size of
canary, builds a nest out of all pro-
portion to its apparent needs. He Sc
lects small tree with horizontal
branches growing close together.
Across two of the branches he lays
sticks fastened together with tough
fiber until a platform about six feet
long by two feet wide is constructed.
On the end of this. platform nearest
the tree trunk he then builds huge
domc-shaped nest foot or so high,
with thick sides of interviewer thorns.
A covered passageway is then made
from the nest to the end of the plat
form in as crooked a manner As pos
sible. Across the outer end as well as
at short intervals along the inside Of
this tunnel are placed cunning little
fences of thorns. with just enough
space for the owners to pass through.
On going out this opening is closed
by the owner by placing thorns across
the gateway, and thus the safety Of
eggs or young is assured.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
lJse for Fire.kiIIed Timber.

Prejudice exists in certain quarters
against the use Of timber cut from
dead trees, and some purchase speci'
fcations insist that only timber cuf
from live trees will be acceptable. AS
a matter of fact when sound dead trees
are sawed into lumber and the wealth
cred or charred outside is cut away.
there is no method known to the Unit
ed States forest products laboratory
by which the. lumber can be diStin-
guished from that cut from live trees
except that the lumber from dead trees
may be partly seasoned when sawed
All the information available at the
laboratory indicates that timber en-
from insect,or fire-killed trees is just
as good for. any structural purpose as
that cut from live trees of similar
quality. providing the wood has not
been subsequently injured by decay
or further insect attack:
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
LAUGHED At SEAL
"HeII-Diver" Refused to Figure
on Pursuer's Menu.
Curious Speed Contest Reported by
Nature Student, Who Witnessed
the Incident, on Maine Coast

Seals are quick Of movement, and
anyone who has ever watched them
f>eding cannot but marvel at the speed
With which they dart about in the
water and the apparent ease with
which they are able 10 overtake their
prey, says a Bulletin of the American
Game Protective association, and like
wise there are few duck hunters who
have not had the opportunity OF Wit
Messing the speed of the grehe, COM
monty known as the hell-divcr. He
can easily protect himself by diving
and swimming under water, and light
ming is slow as compared with the
speed with which a hell-diver sub
merges when he sees the flash a. gun
headed in his direction"
Which of the two is quicker IN the
water becomes nice question, to the
discussion Of which Arthur l.. Penni-
man contributes the story of cou-
test he witnessed on the Maine coast
in the Penobscot bay region. between
seal and a pied-billed grebe, when
each contestant was apparently doing
his best, 1.-The seal looking for his
supper and the hell-diver intent on
seeing that he didn't make up me
menu."
''While we were engaged in studying
the habits of fish hawk Mr.. Pennl-
man writes, "our attention was at
tracted by great commotion IL the
water off shore. From our blind we
could see that the splashing was
caused by a seal performing the most
curious antics in his attempts to eaten
a bird which we later identified as
pied-billed grebe.
'8The seal made rapid progress. por-
spoising in and out of the water IN
quick diving leaps and was fast over
hauling the bird, which was swimming
frantically to escape his purSuer but'
however, made no attempt TO fly. AZ
ter straight-away race of some fifty
yards or more, it seemed as II the
chase was over, as both bird and seal
disappeared in the same splash as the
seal struck the water When the
splash subsided we saw that the grebe
had cleverly lodged ito one side and
after twisting and turning quickly
around very SMALL circuit to elude
the SEAL he headed straight for shore.
"The bird now began to use its
wings, and. skittering rapidly over the
water, soon distanced the seal which
continued the chase until within ~
feet of the beach, where the, water
was no more than knee deep.
"There he sat with his shoulders out
of the water, watching the Srebe as
the latter ran along the edge of the
shore. Then, as though he hated to
give up his meal, he slowly pursued
the bird on a parallel course in the
water, paying not the slightest atten-
ton to the men on the beach until he
was frightened off by our Intervention
in the contest" .....
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
Developing Guatemala.

President Herrera Of Guatemala, has
undertaken to interest foreign capital
in the development Of some l3.ooo
square miles of uneXploited territory
in Guatemala which still awaits 9he
hand of the pioneer and the invader
10 transform it into productive fields.
AS the first step he has created a new
department of agriculture with a min-
lister in his cabinet and has appointed
AS head of this department Antonio
3ouscayol.
Both the president and the new min
lister have devoted the main part OF
tneir lives to agricultural development
and are therefore keeniy interested in
providing encouragement to the farm
ers and planters. Beth realize foreign
investment must be encouraged to ac-
complish this end and believe that
such aid must be expected as re-
suit of diffusion of the knowledge that
Guatemala has a safe and sane govern
ment, is fit place to live in and has
much territory as yet undeve!oped.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14

know how to drive and that there is
no possible way for an accident to be-
fall them, but it is coming to some
one, and it may be you. The Herald
and News will continue to remind
you of the danger. We can not stop
the speeding. We wish we could. We
feel that we might be able to save the
life of some little child who is inno-
Gently riding in the car feeling safe
in the protecting care of its mother
or guardian, but, alas, too often right
in the mouth of danger. What about
the motor cycle policeman to patrol
the roads. May be if danger signal
were placed at such places as this
crossing at either approach * would
help. But nothing will save the speed
lust from himself and accident is in
evitable.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14

for one-half cash, the balance pay
able in one year, to be secured by the
bond of the purchaser. and mortgage
of the premises, with interest from
day of sale, payable annually, all
that lot or parcel of land situate in
the County of Newberry. State of
South Carolina, containing eleven
acres, more or less, and bounded by
the lands of NJ. NJ. Buford, formerly
e. P. Lake, George Leonhirth, and
the Columbia and Greenville Rail-
road, now the Southern Railroad.
The same being tract Of land
conveyed by Silas Johnstone, Master,
by deed on December - 1890, and
recorded j in the Registers Office of
Newberry County, in book No. s., at
page No. 745, to Mabel G. Chisholm.
Upon the failure or refusal of the
purchaser within ten days to comply
with the terms o.: such sale, the Mas
ter will resell the said premises on
the next convenient sale day at the
risk of the defaulting bidder, and up
on the same terms and conditions, at
the risk of the former purchaser.
JAMES D. QUATTLEBAUM,
Master for Newberry County.
June IA, 1921. ''.'t
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
PROTEST MADE AGAINST
MAKING STREETS NARROW

Mr.. Editor: / want to make plea
for wider streets. l don't want to be
knocker, yet l think that there are
times when the citizens ought to
speak out, and now is the time to do
so, as we are spending more money
on our streets making Improvements,
and l want to express my opinion. 1t
it is worth nothing am sure council
will pay no attention to what say,
and will not become offended.
1t is this: I am notz in favor Of
narrowing our streets .;New5erry is
noted for it's narrow streets and yet
council is making Main street and
Friend street from to feet narrow
er than they are, throwing away this
land where it is needed so badly. The
strios on each side Of the paving that
is being laid is not help to the side
walks nor to the streets and will only
be a place for weeds to grow. Why
this waste of land when tits so much
needed?
Take Friend street. one of the main
streets of the city, going to the de-
pot, cotton yard and to both freight
depots. This is very narrow street.
And council is making it 4 feet mar
rover than before. Why? This street
is mess, botch. Here is what |
want!to say, that we have made a
strong plea for paving on Boundary
street, but if council is going to cut
the streets narrower, please, on,
please, let us alone. We would rather
live on wide dirt street than on a
narrow paved street, We will wa,
and perhaps council will wake up and
go and see some other towns that
are trying to widen their streets and
not narrow thems N hate to say this
but after while~it will be too late.
J. H. Wicker.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
A Man OF Brains
Eychanpe

Exchange
William Jennings Bryan, as his ira
ducers say, may be ''sap head, "a
mollycoddle," "a scheming pollti-
cian," but his broad and deep under
standing is generally conceded. Com
menting on the proposal that the
United States cancel all debts due US
by the allied nations, the great COM
moner recently made striking OBJ
servation.
England, it is generally SAID and
understood, proposed the cancella-
ton of these debts, but said nothing
of wiping off the ledger debts owed
her by other allied nations-Japan,
France, Belgium, Italy and others.
British statesmen realize that they
have a choice to make: to pay the
American debt and lag behind in their
naval construction program or to be
rid of it and build the mightiest ar
mada ahoat. Both England cannot
do on it's present revenues.
Mr.. Bryan proposes that the ten
billions Britain owed US be cancelled
provided Great Britain agree to dis
arm. AS he says, it would be foolish
for US to hand over this staggering
sum to another nation to be used in
building a fleet to dominate the seas.
Our national security demands that
SO long as Great Britain and its ally,
japan. are working with feverlsh
haste on naval programs that we
strengthen and amplify our sea for
ces. A nation with great colonial
possessions and with commercial in
terests scattered throughout the
world, Great Britain has no intention
of reducing her already superior ma
Wv. To remit Great Rri1aln:s 5 debt
would mean that we would be COM
PEELED to expend like sum on our
navy to offset the accretions to the
British fleet. If the American peo-
pie must spend billions for sea fight
ing apparatus, the Stars and Stripes
and not the British jack will float
from the mastheads.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
Task for Chemists.

The technical chemists of the world
are asked to solve :: very tempting
puZZle. They are told that if they can
only discover how TO get it ont. there
is to he had from Jerusalem artichokeS
a substance which can be turned into
q sugar SWeetcr than cane sugar.
The yield per acre Of artirhokeS would
be higher than the yield of beet sugar
per acre Of beet and higher than the
average WELD OF cane sugar per acre
OF cane. Truly an alluring bait. and
an opportunity to make the land flow,
# not with honey. at any rate With
something not unlike it.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
Barn DESTROYED by Fire

Fire destroyed johnson d Nc
Crackin's Hutchinson barn Monday
morning at 1890 o'clock. 1t is sup
posed the fire started by the exhaust
from tractor in the nall Of the barn.
Another barn, corn crib and gear
house near by were also consumed in
the flames, with 200 bushels corn, be-
tween four and 5000 bundles fodder,
5000 bushels oats, harvester and
tools, cntailing a total loss of about
$4,000, with only $500 insurance
on barn.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
= No Two snowflakes Alike.

For So years Wilson Alwyn Hentley
of Jericho, VT, has been studying
snowflakes. In that time he has made
$500 photoaicrographs of Snowflakes
and has found that no two Of them
are exactly alike. AS a result Of his
exhaustive study he firmly believes
that the snowflake is the most exquis-
ite example Of natures art.
His photographs have been intro
duced into several universities. and
have also won a niche in the arts and
sc:enreS. as we'll as being used for
designs in aircraft shops and for
jewelry designing.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-14
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PARDON

Notice is hereby given That appli-
cation for the pardon of Sam Mills
will be made to his Excellency r. A.
Cooper, Governor of South Carolina,
and to the State Board of Pardons.
The said Sam Mills plead guilty at
the March, 1921, term Of Court OF
General Sessions for Newberry coun-
tv. South Carolina, and was sentenced
to serve one year, all of said sentence
to be suspended during good behavior
after service of three months and up
on rayment of the sum of Four Hun
dred $4,000 Dollars.
Respectfully,
SAM MILLS, Petitioner.
By Emma Mills, wife of Petitioner.
6-14-2tp.