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The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
OVER A MILLION
DOLLARS APPRO-
PRIAT ED B Y
WEST VIRGINIA
LEGISLATURE r E
FOR N E G r o
AGENCIES AND
INSTITUTIONS.

~HARI ESTON, w. VA, May q
Over a million dollars, or, to be
- exact, S1,206, ,216.46 was the total
of the appropriations made by the
West Virginia Legislature before its
adjournment last week, for the crea-
tion and support during the next two
fiscal years, beginning July 1st next,
of Negro agencies and institutions, ed
ucational. eleemosynary and correc-
five. OF this amount Approximately
one-third goes to the West Virginia
Collegiate Institute, which receives for
salaries, buildings and current and oth-
or expenses S455, ,272 46. For the same
PURPOSES the Bluefield Colored Insti-
tute has placed to its credit Sl33,644'
and Storer College, private school,
$4,000.
The newly created institutions Jared
equally as well, the hospital for insane
getting S15O,OOO for buildings and land
and $4,000 for current general eX-
Denses. The industrial school for boys
was allowed S15O,OO0 for buildings and
land, and a similar home for girls. 500,
900. Including the insurance derived
from the burning of the Colored Or
phans' Home, that institution is to re-
ceive for rebuilding $4,000, the tu-
berculosis sanitarium gets S52,30o ana
the deaf and blind school $4,000
Other appropriations We're: Bureau
of Newro Welfare and Statistics, ST.
200; supervisor of Negro schools, So
400; advisory council to the State
Board of Education, 5000.
The state has already bought 600
acre farm of rich bottom land as site
for the hospital for the insane, and ne
gotiations are pending for location
for the deaf and blind school. The
erection of buildings for both these es-
Establishments probably will be begun in
the near future. Sites for the school
for incorrigible boys and the home for
wayward girls are to be selected by
the advisory council. cooperating with
the State Board of Control. When
these are completed the state will have
eight institutions for and under the
of Negroes.
J. C. GILMER.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
ku kLUx WARN WHITE
EDITOR TO HALT ATTACK

Columbus, Ca, May ct has be-
come dangerous in Georgia for white
editor to attack the Ku KluN Klan.
This became known when Thomas w
Loyless, editor of the Columbus En-
quirer-Sun. wrote an article in the New
York Herald denouncing the order as
an unnecessary institution. The fol-
lowing day he received special deliv-
cry letter from Atlanta which stated:
"I.eave New York newspaper troubles
with X. X. X alone. Dead men tell no
tales"
The letter was turned over to Hoop
er Alexander, q. S. district attorney Mt
Atlanta, for Investigation. Loyless was
at one time editor of the CHRONICLE,
Augusta, Ga, paper whose policy
prohibited the word ''Mr. or Mrs" be-
ing used when applying to members of
our race.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
MRS. GRACE MURPHY MADE
POLIcEWOMAN IN DETROIT

Detroit, Mich. May 6.-The record
made by Mrs. Grace w. Murphy dur
ing the World war as IA member of the
Red Cross has resulted in her appoint
ment as the first policewOman in the
state of Michigan. Mrs. Murphy was
president of Red Cross division here
She had the personal Endorsement OF
Forester B. Washington and many
other prominent social and political
leaders here. Mrs. Murphy has been
active in club life, being a member of
the Detroit Civic Club and member
of the executive committee of the
Harding -Groesbeck Republican Club.
Several cities now have policewom-
en-. The most active is Mrs. Grace
Wilson of Chicago, who is now consid-
cred veteran in the police service.
Her work covers a wider range than
ordinarily given policewomen by large
municipalities. She has solved several
murder cases and arrested criminals
with long records.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
FIRST MOB TO FACE A JURY
UNDER THE NEW GEORGIA LAW

Camilla. Ga. April 25.-Nine indict-
ments have been returned by the coun-
ty grand jury in connection with the
lynching last January of Jim Roland.
colored, said to be the first of such
findings in the state under what is
known as the .'mob violence act" The
charges are murder and mob violence,
and all of the indicted men, except two.
have been arrested and released on
$4,000 bond, to be tried next week.
Roland was shot and killed by mob
after he had shot and seriously injured
Jason Harrell of Grady county. Wit
nesses testified before the grand jury,
it is stated, that Harrell was making
some colored men dance, and that
when Roland came along Harrell tried
to make him dance also. Roland, IL
was testified, refused to dance, where
upon both pulled their pistols and be-
gan firing, Harrell falling badly
wounded.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
coLoRED POPULATION TO
PURCHASE PLEASURE PARK

New York. April 25.-The Swanee
Recreation Grounds, Inc.," is the name
of a colored corporation, capitalized at
100000, which has been organized TO
purchase a fourteen-acre seaside hotel
and park that constitutes complete
summer resort. 1t is reported that the
corporation will take title to the prop
erty before May 1.
The name selected for the new re-
sort is "Joyland Beach" Besides the
usual hotel and picnic facilities, the
company intends to grant concessions
to members of the race for devices and
features that are strictly clean and
whose operators are responsible. The
office of the company is at 2340 Sew
enth avenue, New York.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
NEGROES TO CONTROL FIRST
NATIONAL BANK.

Chicago, May 9.-The First National
Bank TO be controlled by Negroes-The
Douglas National Bank of Chicago
today received its charter from the
comptroller of the currency at Wash
ington. Only one white man, the chair
man of the board of directors, is con-
nected with the bank in any capacity.
Stock in the institution, which opens
with 100000 in capital and $4,000 in
surplus, is to be sold exclusively TO
Chicago Negroes.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
Purchasing Negro Debts.

At the end of the year the Negro
NAV decide that he could do better In
some other locality and want to move
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14

He and the landlord make settle
ment. The Negroes part of the crop is
worth so much. The good boOkkeep-
ing landlords account against the Ne
gro is always considerably more, new
ertheless. If some other landlord likes
the Negro's style of work well enough
to pay the excess account he can have
the Negro starting the latter in with
good sized beginning of debt ut the
first of the year. Frequently the buy
ing landlord bargains secretly with the
selling landlord, securing sort of
split in the excess account charged
against the Negro.
Some years ago, soon after the en-
actment of the federal anti-peonage
statute, some land owners in Florida,
were convicted under that law, and at
tention was attracted from all sections
of the country. People living in far
parts of this country were shocked out
of their satisfied state of mind about
this being a land wholly free; but they
recovered from their shock with the
comforting belief that the new slav-
cry had been deservingly wiped out
at one blow by the paternal federal
government. 1t was not so and still is
not so.
Bought Prison Release.
I knew three brothers in my home
H.. Do nrieb T n,tiC-
lana, who spent thousands of dollars
to save themselves from terms in fed
eral prison about fourteen years ago.
Two of them were left in poverty as
result and the son of the third in
herited the plantation of his father,
and a year ago-I personally saw and
know the exact truth of this statement
he was holding Negroes in practical
bondage on the strength of watered ac-
counts in the same old way.
Little less than year ago friend
of mine was threatened with death at
Caldwell, Burleson county, Texas, for
daring to raise his voice against the
shameful system of peonage along the
Brazos river in that section. I lived
for several years in Texas and knew
that the standard system of peonage
as .practiced generally in the South is
prevalent throughout the cotton sec
tions of Texas wherever Negroes are
permitted residence-they are not al
lowed to live in various portions of the
state.
1t would seem that what Is needed
to bring about abolition of great evils
I'm this country is not new laws al
ways for we more often have those in
sufficient quantity, but a wholesome,
indignant public opinion aroused to
such point that slow, unaggressive
federal agents are spurred out of their
sleepiness and forced to go aggressive
ly and consistently about their duties
of finding infractions of the laws they
have sworn to actively enforce. If the
federal officers in the South should
use the same initiative in running
down violations of the anti-peOnage
laws as prohibition enforcement Off
GERS use in enforcing the Eighteenth
amendment, peonage in this good land
would beat John Barleycorn Into. final
oblivion.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
N. A. A. C.. P. WIRES
MISSOURI GOV
ERNOR OF BOWL
IN C. C. r E E n
LYNCHING.
JAMES w. JOHNSON SAYS 1T ADDS
WEIGHT TO DEMAND FOR
FEDERAL ANTI-LYNCH LAW.

The National Association for the Ad-
yancement of Colored People, 20, Fifth
avenue, New York, today made public
n telegram to the governor of Missouri
urging that the entire power of the
state be exerted to bring to trial and to
convict the murderers who lynched IL
Negro, Roy Hammonds, at Bowling
Green, on April %.
The telegram, which was signed by
James Weldon Johnson, secretary of
the National Association for the Ad-
yancement of Colored People, states
that this conspicuous failure on the
part of state authorities to protect
their prisoner. following Immediately
upon the terrible disclosures of peon-
age and murder in Georgia, could only
add weight to the growing demand for
a federal law to stamp out lynching in
the South.
The telegram is as follows:
"April 30, 1921.
ssIIon. HYDE, Governor of Missouri,
jefferson City, Mo-:
"NatiOnal Association for Advance
ment of Colored People, representing
12,OOOOOO Negroes in the United
States, urges that the entire power of
the state of Missouri be exerted to cap
ture,, try and convict the murderers
who according to press reports hanged
Roy Hammonds at Bowling Green on
April %. Such a conspicuous failure
of state officials to protect their pris-
Oner from mob, coming close upon
the shocking disclosures of peonage
and murder in Georgia only adds
weight to the demand for federal ac-
tion on lynching in the South
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS
-cOLORED MAN ELECTED
ALDERMAN IN FLORIDA.

Palatlka, Fla, April.-E. f. NottaSe,
colored, was elected alderman from
the sixth ward in the municipal cleo
ton here, defeating C. f. Porter,
white man. The election of NottaSe
places two colored men on the council,
the other member also being from the
sixth ward, district populated almost
entirely by Negroes.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
(By ]. D. Sayers, Native of Louisiana,
in New York Evening Post.)

T HAT condition of peonage
worse than the old chattel slav-
cry exists to this day III the
South is not very well known in the
North and is surprisingly ignored in
the South itself.
The writer is native of Louisiana,
reared in an outlying agricultural sec
tion where the Negro population is
three to every one of the whites. HaN-
ing grown up with the peonage sys-
ten, l naturally became familiar WIN
If ms few men could who might go
there from the North or even from
Southern cities to study the conditions.
Very recent visits and close obserVa-
ton, purposely made, convince me tlaI
conditions of peonage are nearly as
common and as much condoned III my
home state and generally throughout
the cotton raising sections OF the whole
South as during my childhood, over
twenty years ago.
How Peonage Starts.
Practically all the Negroes either
work for wages or work on "shares
that is, the owner furnishes the Negro
and his family land, animals ana toois
with which to work and the tenant
gives the landlord half his crop Tor the
use of the land work, animals ana
fools AS soon as the young Negro
marries he begins working Tor some
land owners under these conditions. he
never has enough cash ahead TO puy
evarvthjnp in the way of food ana
,lo+bino that he and his family need :;
therefore he must go to the landloru
for these things. The landlord either
has a plantation store or has arrange
ments made with the nearby village
o. small town store to credit the Ne
gro and charge the account TO the iaiio-
lord In the majority of cases the Ne
gro is uneducated and unable to Keep
an accurate account of what he buys
He simplv trusts the landlord. Even
If he has an education and keeps an
account. he is not permitted TO coih-
marc his books with those kept Dy the
landlord. The account as kept by the
lottar is the one the settlement Is
based on at the end of the year when
the crop is sold.
IF the Negro has bought five Dacon
middlings for 40 cents pound ne Is
charged up with fifteen or so, and at
q much higher prise than the regular
Store nrice. He may have bought a
barrel of flour but he must pay for
two or three at extortionate prices. he
NAV have pIowed in rocky fields bare
footed to save having to buy more
than one pair of shoes, but he finds at
the end of the year his memory mas
ployed n trick and he has really, ac-
cordine to the store account, enjoyed
the luxury of two pair or three pairs
of healthy priced shoes. His wife may
have gone through the year with two
cheap calico dresses and find in De-
cember that she has, in fact, dressed
quite sumptuously during the year
according to the infallible store record.
Purchasing Negro Debts
At the end of the year the Negro
NAV decide that he could do better in
some other locality and want to move,
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
CIVIL RIGHTS BILL BEATEN IN
PENNSYLVANIA.

Harrisburg, Pa.-The fight for an
s'Euual Rights" law, which has had the
entire state in a turmoil for the past
month, ended in gloom this week when
the Asbury bill. which had been intro
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
PEONAGE IN LOUISIANA
FOR TWENTY YEARS

Writer in New Evening Himself Native OF Louisiana
and Thoroughly familiar With Conditions There Calls Atten
on to Debt Bondage Unfortunate and Ignorant
Negroes Complete of Creditors Under Same Status
That in Georgia
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-16
Garbage On Top OldDusty Ashes
 Down And Out

Down with ashes! Hurrah for gar bage! The winter snows are gone, the furnace fires are running low and the Board of Health is preparing to change the system of garbage co11ec- ton. The two wheeled cart is a de- fusion and a snare- pr. w. H. Coons says so. He knows, because he has made a careful investigation. Half the time of the men and the cart and of the horse that pulls it is wasted in trips to and from the garbage reduc- ton plant.
 The old system calls for 36 horses and 35 men. The new, requires IS horses and twenty men. Some trail CTS will be diverted from ash disposal, and six new ones will be acquired. A Packard truck will also be diverted
 The city will be divided into four sections. Monday, all garbage west of Park avenue will be collected; Tuesday, from Park avenue to the Pequonnock river; Wednesday, the entire East Side. Second collections begin on Thursday and it's the same plan over again.
 Daily collections will be made in the business sections. The new plan will probably go into effect April L Due notice will be given. A small Dodge truck will be used for collec- tiOns in the sparsely settled districts The IT cumbersome two wheeler carts will be retired, and held for emer- gencies. Collections of ashes will continue as usual, on the reduced scale of the smaller quantity pro- duced.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-16
S9O9 VERDICT IS AWARDED
 TO HAWKINS

Robert Hawkins, Bridgeport, was awarded $909 this morning in a. case that was started yesterday in Superior court, against the Garford Trucking Co. The jury was about an hour reaching a decision. and the verdict was rendered at 11:O5 this morning.
 The case against the New Haven concern was the outcome of an ac- cident that occurred on Sept 15,~'1ast near GraSmere, when it was alleged that a zig gag course being taken by the truck caused a collision, in which the Hawkins car was badly damaged. The amount of the claim was $2,00O.
 At 11:05 this morning Judge John E. keeler started taking testimony in the case of Adam Spanner vs. Max Nadine This is another automobile case in which the plaintiff alleges that on July last, while carefully operating a Maxwell machine on Lau- rel avenue, a rapidly moving and recklessly driven car, operated by Nadine, came suddenly from Iranis- tan avenue, and without making eff forts to slow down it is said that Ma line crashed his car into the Spanner machine. The amount of damages asked is S1,2OO.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-16
KR0NSTADT MUTINY
 SOON TO COLLAPSE
 ASSERTS TROTZKY
Copyright, 1921. by the Int News
 

Copyright, 1921. by the Int News
 Service.)
 Moscow-By Wireless to Berlin '"Fhe Kronstadt mutiny vii soon have collapsed regardless of the fact that the mutineers possess heavy artil- 1ery," declared Leon Trotzky, Peoples commissar for war in the Russian Soviet government, who arrived home today from the "Petrograd front" where he has been directing the oper- ations of Red troops against the rebels.
 Trotzky was in front of General Staff headquarters on his way to con- fer with generals of the army when he was interviewed for the Interna- tional News Service. This is the first interview Trotzky has given out since the uprising occurred at Kronstadt cabinet, it is of the utmost import ance.
 Trotzky said:
 Ut is impossible to understand the Kronsstadt event unless taken in con- junction with our internal and eXter- nal situation. Our economic situa- tfon after six and ope-half years of war is well known. We have pub liSf4ed frank statistical statement. We do not consider it necessary to con- ceal our actual conditions from our workers, from our country or from our friends and our enemies in other countries.
 Quite naturally those parties which, two or three times before gave demonstration of their bankruptcy, should try to revive themselves by exploiting conditions of the present moment of the workers revolution
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-16
DAYLIGHT LAW EFFECTIVEFOR
 FIVE MONTHS

Bridgeport's daylight saving sched- ule will be reduced from seven to five months duration The action is in keeping with the new decision of New York City officials and the New Ha- ven road to shorten the period of sun saving. A report recommending the adoption of an amendment to the city time in Bridgeport will be made at the meeting of the Board of Alder men next Monday night by Alderman Ralph T. Beers. chairman of the committee on ordinance.
 Announcement last night that day light saving would be effective in New York from April "A to Septem- Der 25 was closely followed by similar action on the part of the New York, comply with the new time limit of the two important factors, members of the ordinance committee reached a. tentative agreement to follow in the steps of New York and the railroad to avoid confusion and to secure a satisfactory adjustment of time stan dards throughout Connecticut and New England.
 The local action is entirely depend ent, however, on the fate of the anti daylight saving bill before the State Senate at Hartford today. The meas ure provides for the restriction to standard time of al departments and municipalities of the state. It passed the House without a dissenting vote, and advices from the legislature re- port that great pressure has been brought to bear to insure the passage of the bill which would nullify the legality of daylight saving in every city, town or community in Connec- ticut-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-16

Describing. himself as "an auction ger of opportunity to do good,' Rt. Rev. John G. Murray, Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford, so eloquently pushed his wares before an audience of workers in the campaign which is to commence March 17th for relief in Ireland and other sympathizers with the cause that a response of S10,475 was rolled up to form what the Bishop denominated "A challenge of good will to every city in Connec- ticut and a demonstration of sympa- thy for the women and children of Ireland of which Bridgeport may we'll be proud" The total was made up of 131 individual Scuscriptions rang ing from $25 to $500 and, one co1r- tribution from an organization, that of $500, from MacSwiney Council, American Association for the Recog- total included a s100 subscription
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-16
BAVARIA WILL DEFY BERLIN
 AND ALLIES

Berlin.-Bavaria is determined to defy both the Berlin government and the allies on the question of deInob- ilizng the Elinwohnehwehr, it was declared by Minister-President Won Kahr in an address to the Bavarian Lantag, according to a Munich dis patch to the Taeglische Rundshau to- day.
 ''If half of the Germans supported orderly government as well as do the members of the Orgesch, Germany would be much better off, said the Bavarian statesman.
 Dr. Won Kahr alleged that French influence was at work ito bring about secession of Bavaria from the Ger man Confederation and that Mon archists were supporting the move ment, hoping for a union with Aus tria.
 The Bavarian courts now have the alleged roya1ist plots under investiga- ton, said Dr. Won Kahr. He said that it has been shown that the royalist plot was partly directed against the Orgesch because it opposed a return of the monarchy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-16
BOYS PLACED
 ON PROBATION

Two boys who were recently placed on probation by the Juvenile court, were arrested this morning by Detect i've Sergeant Edward Wheeler, charged with stealing clothes, two pairs of rubber boots, two life preservers and quantity of eggs from an oyster sloop owned by Captain John Robin son, of Morris Cove. New Haven. Both youn gsters were sent to the State Re form school. A third boy, who was also arrested in connection with the theft, was given another chance by the court.
 It is alleged that the youngsters secured a rowboat about 4 o'clock yesterday morning and rowed out to the sloop which was anchored in the local harbor. No one was on the boat at the time, and the boys wrenched a lock from the cabin door in order to secure their booty. One pair of boots which the youngsters sold for 75 cents was recovered to- day, as was also the rest of the cloth ing. The boys said that they ate two of the eggs and 7oombarded each other with che rest.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-16
Strong Protest Against Law
 On Jitneys

Vigorous protests were made against the proposed legislation providing Public Utilities control of jitneys at a mass meeting in the State street Casino last night Proposed bills that are charged with legislating the iitneys out of existence were minute ly considered and discussed by Sean Conway and Samuel Iavitt, the prin- cipa1 speakers. Resolutions were adopted endorsing jitneys as "a pub lie need" and protesting against bills intended to deprive the public of jitneys as a means of transportation"
 The measure in question was before the Senate at Hartford yesterday where it was ordered tabled for the calendar, thereby insuring a delay in probable action until tomorrow at least. Senator Delaney. chairman of the Judiciary committee is op- posed to the measure and is reported preparing amendments to restrict the proposed rigid control of the buses.
 Advices from the state capitol to- day indicates that favorable reports will be made by the committee on railroads on several bills tending to solve the transportation problem. The protess,d bill making a jitney com mon carrier under Public Utilities Jurisdiction is among the measures, as we'll as the measure permitting the trolley companies to operate bus lines and to abandon non-paylnS lines.