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HAMPTON WILL GRANT COL
LEGE DEGREES

Hampton, Va.-Hampton Institute
in its present organization offers pro-
grams of studies in four schools OF
normal and college grade and in two
schools of secondary grade.
For the completion of the Agricul-
tural School standard, four-year col
iege course (thirty-six months),
Hampton Institute will grant the de-
gree of bachelor of science in agri-
cultural education and for the COM
pletion of the Normal School stand
ard, fOur-year college course, it will
grant the degree of bachelor of arts
in education.
Appropriate diplomas will be award
ed to students who complete all other
courses.
Warren K. Blodgett, director of the
Agricultural School, says: The aim
of the college course is to give young
men an opportunity to develop within
themselves industry, intellectual pow
er, initiative, and ideals to fit them
selves to meet the problems of pres
ent-day rural life. Today the teacher
of agriculture and the county farm
demonstration agent have strong in
huence on the development of rural
life. This course aims to prepare a
man to become an agricultural teach
er, a rural school principal, or a coun-
ty farm-demonstration agent. 1t also
offers a broad scientific and technical
education for one who wishes to farm
in modern, progressive way.
at is not a course in one special
branch of technical agriculture or sci
ence. More than one-half Of the work
is not in strictly agricultural sub
jects, but is IN such subjects as Eng
The broad ax., 1922-05-27
CoLoRED BOY, IS, TORTURED
AND BURNED BY GEORGIa 5

Davisboro, Ga.-Charles Atkir.
colored, one OF four taken into Gu So
here in connection with the kiln O..
Mrs. Elizabeth Kitchens, 20, Wa,
burned at the stake. The Tyr x
occurred at the scene of the n...-.
and followed an alleged confession.
The boy was tortured over a slow FIRE
for fifteen minutes and then, shrieking
with pain, was questioned concerning
his accomplices. Atkins was said to
have implicated another colored boy,
but to have exonerated his own
brother.
Members of the mob, comprising
nearly 1900 people, then raised the
body again, fastened it to a pine tree
with trace chains and relighted the
FIRE. More than 200 shots were fred
into the charred body. Then the mob
started out on a search for the alleged
accomplice.
Mrs. Kitchens, who served as a rur-
al mail carrier, was robbed and muir
dered about four miles from Davis
boro.
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HEALTH WORK IS THE THING

Evidence of the real value of health
work is shown by recent mortality
figures in the April bulletin of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany. This company has more than
100000 colored policy-holders in its
industrial department in almost every
state of the Union.
I'm 1911, the mortality of colored
policy-holders was Us per 1000. In
1921, the provisional death rate OF
these insured Negroes had declined
to 1872 per 1000, which represents a
drop of Is per cent in this period"
This decline is most marked in the
death rate from tuberculosis, pneuJ
monia, heart disease, Bright's disease,
malaria, typhoid fever, and pellagra.
This improvement is traceable to the
better economic status during the war
period, and to increased development
of health activities of public author
tiles, social agencies, and also the in
surance companies managed by col
ored people.
1t should be remembered that in
surance policy-holders reach a certain
standard of health otherwise they
would have been rejected by the in
surance companies. Therefore, the
mortality figures are lower among
them than the normal. The changes
in rates however, would naturally be
in the same direction in both policy
holders and non-policy-holders, since
the same environmental influences are
at work on both. 1t is safe to assume
therefore that the general mortality
rate for the colored population has
declined in the ten year period.
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lish and social science, including eco
Monies. The plan is to prepare agri-
cultural teachers through a broad
acquaintance with the whole rural
life problem"
Director Blodgett and his associates
have arranged courses in six subject
groups-English, social sciences, sci
ence. mathematics, physics and rural
engineering. agriculture and agricul-
tural education.
The Agricultural School equipment
at Hampton Institute now includes
an agricultural library and study
room with more than $50 of the new
est reference books and a number Of
scientific and farm magazines: the
Whipple Farm OF 20 acres with mod
ern dairy barn, creamery, green
houses, horse barn, poultry plant, and
poultry-breeding station, and horti-
cultural department devoted to grow
ing vegetables and fruits; the She'll
banks Farm OF $50 acres, easily ac-
cesSible to agricultural classes. with a
dairy herd of ninety Holstein and
Guernsey COWS, two pure-bred bulls,
three silos, twenty-eight horses and
mules, tractors and modern farm
machinery, and over $50 pure-bred
Duroc-Jersey and Berkshire hogs.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27
EYEsIGHT IS PRECIOUS

Who that hath lost his sight would
not give a million dollars, if he had
so much money, to have his vision re-
stored? And yet, much of the blind
ness in this country is due to ignor-
ance and neglect.
Many people whose sight is poor
and who have ailing eyes neglect to
have them given proper medical at
tention until it is too late for medical
skill to save them from becoming
blind. 1t happens not infrequently
that eye trouble is not in the eye it.
self, but is due to other ailments.
And again poor eyesight may be the
cause of illness in other parts of the
body. AS is well known many head
aches are due to eyestrain and in all
such cases a physician or the oculist
should be consulted without delay.
But most important of all, perhaps,
is the proper care and conservation
of the eyes. This in brief means that
we should avoid overtaxing the eyes
and that we should not work, read or
study in a poor or improperly ar
ranged light. Another important
point to be remembered is that the
light, whether natural or artificial,
should not be bright, dazzling or glar-
ing. In fact too much light is as
harmful as too little.
Proper care of the eyes means that
they should not be overtaxed; that
they should not be used in a dim or
failing light, nor subjected to a con-,
tinuous glare, and that, when they be-
tome painful, or seem to be weak,
Watery or inhamed, a skilled physi-
ian should be consulted without de-
ay.
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PROMINENT MASONS MET AT
ST. PAUL, MIMI.

The first of last week a special
Pullman sleeper filled with Scottish
Rite Masons left the c. & w. de-
pot headed for ST. Paul, Mimi, to at
tend the annual session of the Su-
preme Council OF the Northern
Jurisdiction. DR.. Sumner A. Furniss
the NJ. P. S. G. Commander and other
officers were with the Chicago dele
cation OF p members. They returned
Thursday morning and report a very
grand session. Twelve Sublime
Princes from Chicago were elevated
to the 33rd degree. Many new reg
ulations were adopted. Western Con-
sistory of Chicago is the largest Con-
sistory in the Jurisdiction. A new
home is to be erected in Philadelphia,
Pa, in the near future; plans having
been perfected for the same at St.
Paul session. Western Consistory
will celebrate Pentecost day, June 4th
at one of the churches of this city,
and many of the new Inspectors Gen
erals will be seen for the first time.
Sir Knight James E. Bish, who is
one of the biggest masons in the
United States, attended the sessions
OF the Supreme Council of the North
ern Jurisdiction.
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>OL. WHITE JACK Upper, THE
LEADING LIGHT COLORED RE.
PUBLICAN BOSS OF THE SECOND
WARD, AND HIS HIGHLY ACCOM-
PLISEIED WIFE, MRS. STELLA TIP
PER, HAVE BOTH BEEN SERVING
ON THE CITY HALL PAYROLL AT
THE SAME TIME.

There are mighty few colored men
in this city who are as smooth as Col
White Jack Upper, who is the light
coloreo Republican leader of the col
ored folks in the Second Ward.
Col Upper first started out about
eight or ten years ago to rake in big
bunch of real easy money and to fool
or hoodwink the colored people by
throwing salt and black pepper in their
eyes.
At that time he was the prime
mover in starting a big grocery store
on State Street, near 36th. 1t was a
stock company affair and Col. Upper
and his associates sold thousands of
dollars worth of stock. After run
ming the grocery store for a short
time she closed down tighter than a
steel trap and the suckers who put
up ten dollars per share for their
stock came out at the small end of
the horn. But some of the boys con-
tend that in the final windup of the
big one hundred thousand dollar gro
Gerry store that Co. Upper was wise
enough to feather his own nest.
Not so long after that time, Col.
Upper unsuccessfully engaged in the
tea and coffee business; then he
branched out in the real estate bust
ness, and later on he became one of
the high officials of the Douglas
League which spread out all over this
city and the money rolled into its
Golfers for dues from its. thousands of
members residing in all parts of this
city.
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LILY WHITES IN ORLANDO,
FLORIDA

Another attempt to form a Lilly
White" Republican Party in Florida i:
being made here by the circulation Of
petitions, on which is printed Dec.
laration of Principles" The new
party is to be known as the hide
pendent Republican Party of Florida.
The preamble to the Declaration
reads as follows:
Whereas, the basic theory of our
government is predicated upon the
existence of two or more active politi-
cal parties, each differing from the
other only in the ways and means for
securing the greatest good to the
greatest number of people, and
Whereas, the present political con-
ditions IN Florida render il impossible
for the existing political parties to
function in the manner intended by
the trainers of the Constitution, and
Whereas, ii is believed that these
conditions can be remedied through
the formation of an Independent Re
publican Party. which, while adhering
to the great principles of Republican
ism and eoneeding to all people their
fnll rights under the Constitution, viii
declare its unaiterable opposition to
the election, or selection. of any per-
son to public Office or, position of
public trust, IN the State of Florida,
who is not white American citizen
After these "whereases" follows the
therefore that the undersigned vot-
ers associate themselves 70 form the
Independent Repubiczn Party Of
Florida.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27

The latter part of February, or the
FIRST of March, 1919, the old Eighth
Regiment of Illinois returned home
to this city from the battlehelds of
France and as inc parade in its honor
wended its way north on Michigan
Avenue, and while it was passing the
reviewing stand in front of the Chi
cago Art Institute, Col. White Jack
Upper rushed to the front of the Col
ored Citizens Committee and as if
passed the reviewing stand he re-
moved his hat and waved IT at Mayor
William Hale Thompson as much as
to say: Behold me, for 1 tote the
votes Of all the colored people in Chi
cago around in my big hip pocket
Col. Upper has for some years had
hungry taste for easy money and
for a long time he has been on the
City Hall payroll drawing down well
onto two hundred dollars per month
and practically doing nothing to earn
it, his salary coming out OF the pock-
cts of all the small taxpayers residing
in Chicago.
Col. Upper has not been content to
pull in all the easy money he possibr,
can from the small taxpayers bur IN
until recently Mrs. Stella Upper his
highly accomplished wife, has also
been engaged in signing her name to
the City Hall payroll and she has
been pulling down $1.32O per year in
dead easy money which has come out
OF the pockets of the small white and
colored taxpayers.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27
TWO LYNcHED IN TEXAS;
TOTAL IS 8 IN TWO WEEKS

Houston, Tex.-Two colored men,
one 90 and the other Is years old.
were lynched in Texas towns for at
tacks on young white girls, making
eight lynched for the crime in the last
two weeks in this state and Arkansas.
Nose Boiler, 90, was hanged by
mob OF 500 near Alleyton. Joe Win
tiers was burned at the stake in the
court house yard at Conroe, while
thousands of persons, including women
and children, looked on. He admitted
assaulting IA year old girl.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27
FROM PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA

Petersburg, Va.-All Petersburg as
we'll as the surrounding counties in
Virginia are making great and elab-
crate preparations for the coming of
the commencement exercises of the
various schools and institutions as
well as the annual and biennial meet
ings of the Alumni Associations of
the Institutions. Special preparations
are under way at the V. N. &I.I.
for the commencement exercises to he
held on Friday afternoon, June 9. The
address before the graduates will be
delivered by DR.. Robert R. Motion.
president of the Tuskegee Normal &
Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
The greatest meeting in the history
of the Alumni Association of the
school is to take place on June 8 and
9 at the school NJ. T. Bailey of Chi
eago has served for Is years as presi-
dent of the association.
Among the many interesting fea-
lures on the program viii be the I'M
yelling of bronze tablet by the asso-
citation to the memory of the late
James Hugho Johnston, president, on
Thursday morning at 1890.
Among those to speak before the
association meeting win be Mrs. Ora
BroWn-Stokes of Richmond, Va;
Hon. Arthur G. Froe, recorder of
deeds, Washington, D. c.; Hon. John
I. Oatmeal, Justice of Peace, Wash
ington Courthouse. Ohio: Mrs. Susie
The broad ax., 1922-05-27

Zoning is not retroactive. Only
time can wipe OUT the mistakes Of
the past caused by negIecting to plan
the eity's growth
Zoning, to the joy of the child, sub
stitutes green grass for the roofs and
cement paving.
Zoning demonstrates in rapidly de-
veloping areas the economic advsn-
tage Of preserving open spaces for the
future.
Zoning works both ways; it con-
serves the good in civic growth and
restrains the bad.
Zoning prevents the evils of con-
gestion in the crowded old portions
OF cities from projecting themselves
into the newer and more remote quar-
tiers as these are built up.
Zoning recognizes the evils of to-
day and avoids repeating them to-
morrow.
Zoning, in a city growing up with
out planning, affords starting point
for the arrangement Of terminals, for
the design of streets, for suitable
provision for recreation and for other
elements of city planning.
Until coming came, the new parts
of city, under uniform building laws,
became as congested as the old; now
with graded requirements, the new
demonstrates to every observer that
the old crowded parts are not ut to
live in.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27

What do you contribute to your
community that will help to make il
a desirable place in which to livei
To what extent do you help to make
and keep it clean, tidy and attractive
and do you cooperate with your
neighbors in every movement that
has for its purpose, the betterment OF
neighborhood conditions? Get in
touch with the spirit of the times and
do your part in making your COM
munity a better place to live in this
year than it was last.
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address at the Metropolitan Commun-
ity Church, Wendell Phillips High
School-subject, Race Adjustment
the Need of the Hour"-was the
honored and distinguished guest of the
ball
While in this city, Mr.. Wibecan was
the house guest of Mr.. and Mrs. ,Har-
vey A. Watkins, 1857 South Michigan
Avenue.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27
THE FoRTY-FIRsT ANNIvER-
sARY EXERCISES OF THE
TUsKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA
BAMA

The writer has been honored with
an invitation by the officials of the
Tuskegee Institute. Alabama, to at
tend the Forty-frst Anniversary exer-
cises Of that far famed institution
which began on Monday, May Fl, and
eontinued each day mp until Thursday
evening. Nay IS
Dr. Hamilton Holt of New York
City preached the commencement ser
mon aud President John N. Candy,
Virginia Normal and industrial Insti-
sute, Petersburg. Va, delivered the
annual commencement address.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27
THE ANNUAL BALL GIVEN BY
THE ELKS WAS LARGELY
ATTENDED

Monday evening the Elks of Chi
cago gave their annual ball at the
Eighth Regiment Armory'. and it was
largely attended by the cream of Elk.
dom, both ladies and gentlemen. Hon
George E. Wibecan of Brooklyn, n.
Y, Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks
Of the World, who delivered the main
The broad ax., 1922-05-27
LYNCH YOUTH IN GEORGIA;
AGED WOMAN HIS VICTIM

Macon, Calm benson, 20, col
ored, convicted and sentenced to hang
on a charge of having attacked IS
year-old woman last January, was
taken from the jail at Irvington, Ga,
by a mob and lynched, according to
reports reaching here.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27

V. Pollard, V. n. & l. l.: DR.. s. A
Brown, Petersburg; and NJ. T. Bailey,
president.
The broad ax., 1922-05-27
HON. JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH

One of the Head Wheel Horses of the City Council from the
18th Ward Who May Be Induced by His Many Friends to
Enter the Race for City Treasurer of Chicago IN 1928.
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CHIPS

Mrs. David NJ. Manson, 4422 Vim
eennes Avenue, continues to make
preparations to spend pleasant ex-
tended vacation at Idlewild, Mich,
this summer.
Mrs James H. johnson, $3.50
Prairie Avenue, is working very hard
to make the Memorial Tree Celebra-
ton on Giles Avenue, south of 35th
Street, a huge success.
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Battered as Second-Class Matter, Aug
q. 1902. At the Post Office at Chicago,
IN Under Act of March 8, 1879.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-09
News of Fifty Years Ago

tE'rnm the Richmond Dispatch. May O. 1871
The Governor yesterday appointed the fol-
lowing board Of visitors to the University Of
Virginia William j. Robertson. of Chariottes
Vile; Micajah Woods OF charlottesville: Moses
Walton OF Woodstock: Thomas Smith. Of
Warrenton: T.. Il. Montague. of Middlcscx: Il
II Baker, Of Norfolk; K. u. i!crkcly. Of Farm
vile: Il. q. H. Kean Of Lynchburg; Joseph
7. Campbell Of Abingdon.
Captain Charles VI. Wallace having resigned
his position as junior second lieutenant in the
Richmond Light Infantry Blues, Mr. Thomas.
H. Blankenship has been elected to MI the
vacancy.
Information was received here yesterday by
telegraph OF the unexpected death OF Rev. y.
NJ poindcXtcr. ID d, one Of the most nrom-
ucnt and distinG uishcd ministers OF tho South
crn Baptist Convention. lie died in Orange
county, near Gordorsvllle day before yes
tcrday afternoon after very brief illness.
The Governor has appointed the following
gentlemen TO compose the State Board of
Health and Vital statistics: J. ORATOR: cabcil
George floss, Lewis i. Joyncs. I.andon Il; Eu-
wards John l.. Cabcli. -. NJ Fauntcroy and
John VI. Lawson.
Married. on the 25th Of April. tho First
Presbyterian church. by Rcv. y l.. Preston.
James T.. sheppard and Mary y. Anderson All
Of Richmond.
cilcd TO nominate their candidates by pri-
mary election to be- heid on the 23rd. The
primary IL tho thing and hereafter should
have primary elections In Richmond.
There exciting game OF baseball
ia Lexington yesterday between the Monticello
club OF tho University OF Virginia and the
Shoo-Fiy club OF Washington and Lee Uni
vcrsity Monticello won by score of q To
90
Colonel Johns. Mosby was visitor TO Prcsi-
d"nt Grant yesterday. He spent quite while
at the Waite House.
General Mahono will sOon have work com
Tncnced on the Cumberland Gap Railroad
j.. q Bowden has becn appointed assistant
Internal rovanue assessor for the Third vir-
glnia District.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-09
The lticlmond-Toauo Link

T HE disappointment and chagrln ocea :
l stoned by the General Assemby's fall
uro 10 authorize houd issue for high way
construction woro fult kconly by supporters
OF "a smuo,h-pavcd road from the capital
city to tho seashore" This project, fore.
Swallowing fruitful Development for MI I'M
portuut part OF tho Stoto--noroasod pros
rurty Tor ali OF tho State--was given Il NO.
we're blow: the confident expectation that
within two years or loss Richmond and tho
port cities would he connected by u modern
highway was suddenly obscurcd by doubt
and misgiviug W!th the prospect Of ade-
Quate financial aid shut OF. no ono could
say that the road would be completed within
five years, or al even longer period.
But the determined and forward looking
advocates OF this great highway refuse to
admit that the door 10 action has boem
closed. They believe that practical means
OF averting a collapse or prolonged delay
lies in anticipation of an ALLEGATION by the
State, that the communities most directly
interested Richmond Norfolk, Newport
News. Williamsburg. Hampton-may wisely
and safely unite in underwriting the prof.
ect. Williamsburg has taken the lead in
approving this proposal. Approximately
half million dollars, it is said. will be
required TO complete the highway--that IS,
to construct the link from Toano TO Rich
mond
That Richmond will be prepared to par
ticipate III this loan should go without say
ing. The advantage to this city OF having
the road to the sea completed is so obvious
aS 10 make discussion of the point unneces
sary And ltichmond'S enthusiasm for any
pragJi al means OF Fastening the work
should be especially keen because OF the
fact that it is the link nearest Richmond
which will remain unfinished un;il funds
have been provided. williamsburg and
Newport News are about to be connected by
finished concrete road result or the
completion OF the strip lying between Will
liamsburg and Lee Hall.
Richmond will lose heavily by every days
deferment OF this great undertaking. Rich
mond money could not be advanced more
probably for any purpose than that here
proposed That it may be necessary TO wait
two years. or nearly two years. for the com
pletion of this highway is itself an un-
pleasant prospect; the possibility OF having
to wait twice that period is one which Rich
mond cannot afford seriously to contem-
plate.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-09
Coil Mount Described

simplicity and smci.ncv of ,b,
honoyconb typo OF tuuor ,.r u.o with
'"o""" 'uh" sets has madc this form
OF 'nduc'ahc" extremely popular. Tho
editor han noticed shat recently a
weiI-known Richmond firm nlaccd
thoHe coils on tho mnrko, unu,uu,cI
mounting Tor the coils Is easily
r"do by tho average amateur or
movies" tn" principal neccsslty I'm
ihin mounting In TO allow tn. seuar,,
NON bctw""h the coils 10 DC varied
QUICKLY ana easily Tho rrst opern
ton liz 10 get TWO quarter incl,
brass rods from u hardwar. ar mo-.
Ton store. about eight iAch.a Inry
Snr emf co rat-e 1o0z rho,,id
threaded fer about thrce-Quar,.r. ~,
an Inch; the other end IS smooth.J
or preferably rounded off Make :,
BASS about ten inches ~ four n,
neatly as possible and an inch from
one end fasten piece about thr..
inches By two iuchcs FOR the rods
me holes should he bored AN inch
ana quarter apart both as near thu.
Top OF the support as convenient for
me rods which should he parallel
TO The base II the mounting
f"' nUt and wauhey on the
!hfehdel cnd OF each rod az FAR az
t"eY VIII screw on and insert I'm thu
holes fastening securely yy!th another
hnt ana washer. care should H..
'"heh TO see that the rods are ox :
aciIy parallel to tho base. NeSt on,
win coping saw from wood tn.
.Aac' thickness OF the coils. disks
20 III tightly inside them. They
should be shcllackcd and tho bol.,
n"'ed accurate FOR the rode. making
Them Just the size to permit, OF cagv
movement
ON c"ch Side OF these holes scrcw
hh'"'i brass screws into the wood
t!Eht!y and solder the wire from ~.
con- 10 them. Flexible leads pho,id
be holdcrcd on TOP OF these and l.I
|" binding posts located q, sueh
p."'"s %" The base as suit mo con-
stfHcior The position Of tho COTS,
liz % ticklcr; t2J primary. ana a,
secondary.