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The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-29
AGED coLoRED MAN BEATEN
AND MIsTREATED BY COLORADO
RANGER AT TRINIDAD, ~

On Thursday night, July 20, H. S.
Hickson, aged 7j, a highly respected
citizen Of Trinidad, was called from a
crowd and under the pretext of an ar
rest was brutally beaten over the head
with a siX-shooter by one Corporal
Chase, a member of the Colorado State
Rangers. According to many reliable
witnesses and from reports of the af-
fair taken from the daily Trinidad pa
pers, it was one of the most cowardly
and unprovoked assaults ever perpe-
trated upon an American citizen.
The matter was presented to Col. P.
J. Hamrock head of the Rangers, and
strong demand made by the citizens
of Trinidad and by the Denver Branch
of the n. A. A. C. P, that Chase be
summarily dismissed from the service.
He is manifestly unfit to be trusted
with authority and disgraces the uni
form he wears as member of the
Rangers.
Col Hamrock's letter on the matter
is as follows:
July %, 1929.
George w. Gross, President, Denver
Branch, n. A. A. C. P, Capitol Bldg,
Denver, Colo.
My Dear Sir:
1 have before me the letter written
you by the Rev. J. W. Wright of Trim
idad, reciting the facts concerning
very unfortunate and needless assault
upon one H. S. Hickson, an aged col
ored man, on the night of July Goth,
by member of the Colorado State
Rangers.
This matter had been previously pre-
Sented to me and l had already taken
steps to properly reprimand the of
Tending Ranger for what appears to
me an utter lack of judgment and an
unwarranted abuse of authority. 1 feel
that you need no assurance from me
that l would neither countenance nor
tolerate unfair discrimination nor mis-
treatment of any person because of
race or color and, while in this in
stance a very serious mistake has been
made, 1 am certain that sincere regret
is felt on all sides and there will be no
repetition of such an offense
l remain,
Yours very truly,
p. ]. HAAIROCK,
Adjutant General of Colorado"
Copy
The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-29
SPECIAL NOTICE TO NINE. c.
J. WALKER AGENTS
EVERYWHERE.

The Sixth Annual Convention
of Madam C. j. Walkers Agents,
which will meet at Baltimore,
Md, Aug. 18th to 18th inclusive,
promises to be the largest and
best convention thus far held by
this large group of business
women. important legislation,
scientific lectures and demon
strations are on the program,
and the Baltimore Union of
Nine. C. J. Walker Agents has
left nothing undone in its de-
termination to royalty e2tertain
the delegates and friends. Ev-
cry Walker agent is urged to at
tend and to communicate with
Mrs. Alice c. Burnett, National
representative of the Company,
who has established headquar-
ters at 1906 Druid Hill avenue,
Baltimore, Md, or get in touch
with her at that address imme-
diately upon arrival in Balti-
more.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-29
DISCUSSING LEADERS

right TO aspire TO Office a1lu 10 Iolu
the same when so elected.
They claim the right to accOmmoda-
tions on d on-discriminating basis
with any other citizen in this country,
regardless of race, color or previous
condition of servitude. They believe
that people holding license from the
public should serve the public, all the
public, cOlored folks included. If the
issue should come between Africa and
the United States of America, this
class of colored people, Americans
would owe allegiance to the country
in which they were actually born. This
is the line of cleavage between these
two elements.
The trouble has been that the Ne
groes, who belong to the Du Bois camp
have been trying to do business in the
Garvey camp and the people of the
other types have found themselves in
the Henry Lincoln Johnson camp
Sometimes the Garvey type of Negro
has found himself in the Du Bois
camp. Whenever this has taken place,
Il howl has been the result, which has
emphasized a dissatisfaction which is
in a measure was limited.
Then comes another type of Negro,
who belong to the Robert Russa Mo
ton camp. They represent the class of
colored people, who are in a great
measure servile in their attributes and
habits. They believe in being helped
by white folks and they tell about the
helpless condition of colored people
and the need for money to help them.
They champion industrial education
and the interest of the southerners in
general and the northerners in partic-
ular with the idea that better servants
can be obtained by the use of the in
dustrial system and that the southern
section will be benefited by the more
skilled class of colored people, who
have learned how to serve. They de-
light in preparing statistics as to the
progress of colored folks along these
particular lines and as result secure
private donations and public donations
to aid the cause.
They secured a virtual army of
workers on salaries to do this work,
and they keep phflanthropic white peo-
pie Informed as to the improvement in
home life and industrial energies in all
parts of this great land of ours. Mil
lions of dollars are available for this
purpose and ever since Gen. s. C.
Armstrong outlined the plan and left
a black disciple in the person of DIR.
Booker 7. Washington, this work has
prospered. Those who do not sub
scribe to the Robert Russa Motion type
of leadership have no cause for COM
plaint. There are hundreds of thous-
ands of colored people, who can ad-
vance intellectually no further than
the standard, this distinguished leader
has set.
Let his alone. The work is needed
The small proportion of the other
class can seek their own leaders and
| accomplish wonders along their par
ticular lines.-The Richmond Planet.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-29
OBLIGATORY EXERCISES OF THE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ME-
MORTAL HOME.

A souvenir program of the dedica-
tory exercises of the Frederick Doug
lass Memorial Home reached the office
of the COLORADO STATESMAN this
week, together with an invitation to
attend the same. We take this means
of expressing our grateful appreciation
of the honor thus conferred by the Ma
tional Association of Colored Women,
The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-29
Haitian Girl Held in
Peonage Released

Altida Suppiice Haitian girl under
10 years of age, has been returned to
her home after being held for more
than year in virtual peonage in
Washington, d. c., through the efforts
of the District of Columbia Branch of
the n. a. A. C. p, according to an
nouncement here today. The girl was
brought to the United States in 1921
by the wife of captain in the Marine
Corps on a promise of SO month in
wages and home. Although the girl
was forced to do all sorts of menial
tasks. she never received more than 50
for any months work and at the end
of most months she was told that she
had nothing due her as her wages had
been expended for clothes. These the
marine officers wife purchased for the
girl, declaring that the cost was al
ways in excess of wages due in order
that the girl might remain perpetually
in debt.
Becoming dissatisfied, the girl ran
away but was caught and returned TO
her EMPLOYERS. Later she ran away
again and this time the case was re-
ported to Shelby j. Davidson, eXecu-
tive secretary of the District of Co.
lumbia Branch of the n. A. A. G. Z.
In company. with Prof Metz Lochard
of Howard University, who acted as
interpreter, Mr.. and Mrs. William PICK
ems. who happened to be in Washing
ton at the time, Mr.. Davidson called
on NJ Arthur Bailly-Blanchard, Haitian
minister to the United States. The
Haitian minister at first seemed dis
inclined to take any action in the mat
ter, but upon the delegations insist
ence he consented to take the matter
up by talking with the wife of the ma
rine. She denied the charges, although
competent witnesses proved the truth
of what the girl had charged. 1t was
discovered during the interview that
she had asked the Washington police
TO arrest the girl and return her.
When it was found that this had
been done, the Board of children's
Guardians was requested to take
charge of the girl until she could be
returned to her home. This was done
while at the same time steps were tax
en- through the United States Immigra-
ton Bureau to arrange to have the girl
,.,+,,r,,,.l +o Jaiti on the first steamer,
Both of these steps proved successful
and the girl has been returned to her
parents in Haiti, from whom she had
been taken by the marine and his wife
without the knowledge and consent of
the parents. The successful conclusion
of this case circumvents bold attempt
to hold a person in peonage in the ma
tional capital.
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half smiling. Her world was small
one, Of minor domestic difficulties. Of
not unfriendly gossip, Of occasional
money problems, Investments and what
not. lie had seen her hands tremble
over matter Of poorly served dinner.
So he went into the house, closed the
terrace window and followed her to the
library. When she closed the door he
recognized her old tactics when the
servants were in question.
"WellY" he inquired. II suppose
Then he saw her face. "Sorry, mother.
What's the trouble?'
"Wallie, I saw Dick Livingstone in
Chicago"
During August Dick had labored in
the alfalfa fields Of Central Washington.
n harvest hand or working stiff
among other migratory agricultural
workers. Among them. but not entirely
Of them. Recruited from the lowest
levels as men grade. gathered in at Il
slave market on the coast. herded in
bunk houses alive with vermin: fully but
badly fed, Overfowing with blasphemy
and filled with sullen hate for those
above them in the social scale, the
'stiffs" regarded him with dlstrust
from the start.
In the beginning he accepted their
sneers with q degree Of philosophy. His
physical condition was poor. At night
he achcd intolerably, collapsing into his
wooden bunk to sleep the dreamless
sleep of utter exhaustion. There were
times when he felt that 1t would be
better to return at once to Norada and
surrender, for that he must do so
eventually he never doubted. It was
as well, perhaps. that he had 10 time
for brooding. but he gained sleep at the
cost Of superhuman exertion all day.
A feeling of unreality began to OBJ
sess him, SO that at times he felt like
a ghost walking among sweating men,
like II resurrection into life, but with
to sink down to the level Of the others,
to unite himself again with the crowd.
to feel again the touch of elbows. the
sensation of fellowship. The primal in
stinct of the herd asserted itself. the
need of human companionship of any
sort.
But he failed miserably, as Jud Clark
could never have failed. lie could not
drink with them. He could not sink to
their level of degradation. Their oaths
and Obscenity sickened and disgusted
him, and their talk Of women drove
him into the fresh air.
The fact that he could not longer
drink himself into a stupor puzzled him.
Bad whisky circulated freely among the
hay stacks and bunk houses where the
harvest hands were Quartcred, and at
ruinous prices. The men clubbed to-
gether to buy 1t, and he put in his
share, only to find that it not only
sickened him. but that he had a mental
inhibition against it.
They called him the Dude" and put
into it gradually all the class hatred of
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"Give It to somebody else, joe" he
"I'm quitting"
1.-THE hell you are WhcnY'
"I'd like to check out tonight
His going was without comment.
They had never fully accepted him, and
comings and goings without notice in
the camp were common. He rolled up
his bedding, his change Of undergnr-
ments inside It, and took the road that
night. =,
The railroad was ten miles away, and
he made the distance easily. He walked
between wire fences, behind which
horses moved restlessly as he passed
and cattle slept around n water hole,
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WHO'S WHO IN TIE STORY

NJ DAyID LIVINGSTONE. chief phystcSdr
x HGverjp. q small totOn. Oentd! but 0lu0,
Ms.s Beloved NspheV Wtth
aUcY. hts sister. beloved bv everybody n
ar. DICK LIVINGSTONE. .tn ,oho.e mem;
FL, Sos,s ddv 10 90 back TO- Ncygda. ~ child
fooX home N order fo BRIDGE ths cnp:
ia 4 1wIi of CttalMy ard Y boyssh LOOKING
"a dctjw1 In spite Of hts thirty veoye ono
S~otsss(ondi career. He 70 IN Iove tossh
s,yzl86TR wHEELER. q wholesome 0srt'
t.rho loves MIN Very sSncere'u.
BEVERLY CARLYsLE. gcfress. toho: ter
yorv. Tsr husband. LWcas. hgd been shot
~ Icatk as aDas 0enerally believed. ~
ssS,fair Jud clark. q rich young nron g0ons ~.
sSSS"j, SrS /, ,sas believed hs perished N t'!s
PRED GREGORY. ney.r,ss nes,s ,rs SreshSSy' S',n ard I'd
,nrys sAssETT. ne,cspapern,dn: tghc
sv.Sso.efs that Dick LtV!n0stcns - Jud
TiSyk. His desire Is to clear fhsn0s ap.
yrNA. Eiteabsshs sister. a" eSfrdoo0o"'
voun1 tDUc ,.,.
wnHp wMks HAEsEIs&. HsfESItiss&s sySseSl %|ss
vssGmiIs vssGmni 9s'eSsXY Eyre. a rich. yorth ,eho.s 90:
Etsabsth. 10Th ,ohon he 10 snmts".
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But he had moment, too, when sur
render seemed TO him not strength but
weakness, where it's sheer supineness,
its easy solution to his problem revolted
him, where he clenched his fist and
looked at 1t, and lonsed for the right
to fight his way out.
When smoke began to issue from the
cook house chimney he stirred, rose and
went back. He ate no breakfast, and
the men, seeing his squared jaw and
set face, let him alone. He worked
with the strength Of three men that day,
but that night. when the foreman
offered him a job as PAGER, with double
wages, he refused It.
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and as he walked he faced a situation
which all day he had labored like three
men to evade.
lie was going out Of life. 1t did not
much matter whether it was to be be-
hind bars or to pay the ultimate price.
The shadow that lay over him was that
he was leaving forever David and oil
that he stood for, and n woman. And
the woman was not Elizabeth.
lie cursed himself in the dark for a
fool and madman he cursed the in
fatuation which rose like n demoniac
possession from his early life. When
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that failed he tried to kill IL by remem-
bering the passage of time. the loathing
she must have nursed all these years.
He summoned the image Of Elizabeth to
his aid to find it eclipsed by something
infinitely more real and vital. Beverly
in her dressing room, grotesque and yet
lovely in her makeup: Beverly on the
mountain trail, in her boyish riding
clothes. Beverly.
Probably at that stage of his recovery
his mind had reacted more quickly than
his emotions. And by that strange
faculty by which an idea often becomes
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stronger in memory than in it, ofiet9
production he found himself IN ~
than his earlier one for her. It wito4
out the memory, even the thought -
Elizabeth, md left him victim Of IT.
associated emotions. Bitter Jealousy
racked him, remorse and profound
grief. The ten miles Of road to the
railroad became ten miles Of torture, q
increasing domination of the impulse b
20 to her. and of final surrender.
- -
To be continued tomorrow
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To be continued tomorrow
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-06
new HAND TAKES
HELM OF KIWANIS
Retiring President, j. Lewis Ellis,
Surrenders Gavel To DR..
sfsa Carl Minor

The new officers of the Americas
Kiwanis club were inducted into of
flee at today's luncheon of the club,
the first of the new year, }. Lewis
Ellis. who was the first president,
surrendering the gavei to Dr. Carl
w Minor, Mr.. Ellis made splendid
talk in giving up his office, review
ing the work and achievements OF
the club, especially in the develop
ment of real brotherhood, SINCE 1t was
founded in March, 1920.
DR.. Minor paid fine tribute to the
organizations in accepting the badge
of office, declaring that his residence
N Amerieus had been made bright
by his connection with the KiWanls
club and that next to being the pas
TOR of q. church, whitr he would rather
Be than anything in the world' ne
would rather be the president Of the
Kiwanis lub than have any other hon
or that could be given him.
The retirin& president was present.
ed with a handsome watch cham
bearing Kiwanis emblem charm.
The club voted to make January
90 meeting a ladies night affair, and
celebrate the seventh anniversary OF
the chartering of the first Kiwartls
club at that TIME, in conjunction with
the nearly 700 other clubs through
out the United States and Canada,
General Walter A. Harris, of Macon,
new district governor of Kiwanis, has
been invited to be the CLUBS guest
Cor the occasion.
The club also decided to make the
second meeting in February a rural
good fellowship meeting, and on that
occasion each member will have
farmer living outside of AMerlcus as
his guest.
Miss Melva Clark sang two late
songs for the pleasure of the club
today.
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ter, Dorothy, are spending the week
very pleasantly with her father, Mr..
Prince Kidd, of Schley county.
j. H. Dupree spent Monday as the
guest of A. B. Parker.
Mrs. j. W. Holley and Mr.. and
Mrs. Emmett Allison visited Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. H. Guest Wednesday night.
Cleveland Dupree and Arthur Oar
den visited relatives at Leslie Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. ]. Dupree and lit
tie Misses Sara and Nettie Dupree
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs
J. B. HolIey.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-06

noon, Dec. 2S, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. l.. Brown. The parlor
and living room were beautifully
adorned with vases of narcissi and
pot plants. Roses and lacy ferns
were placed in the reception hall,
while in the dining room the Christ
mas idea was carried out with decor
atoms of red and green. Rock was
played at two tables, while Peter Cod
die, Old Maid and other games were
also played. At the conclusion of
the games, the guests, about forty in
number, were invited into the din
| ingNroom, where they were served a
salad course with fruits and hot
chocolate.
Misses Annie Lee and lila p. and
Henry, Rufus and Joe Davis were
guests of their brother, Tom Davis
of Friendship, Tuesday.
Roy Smith, of near Buena Vista
were recent visitors of relatives here
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Glover, OF
| Americas We're guests of their par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Glover
Wednesday night.
Mrs. A. B. Parker and Mrs, G. F.
Parker and little daughter, Madre
Lorraine, spent Wednesday after
noon with Mrs. J. w. Holley and
| Mrs. Emmett Allison.
| Mrs. J. s. Glover visited Mrs. j
B. Holley Tuesday afternoon.
| Mrs T. L WMnn and hahu dauQh-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-06
STATE OF GEORGIA,

Sumter County.
Before me came Lee Hudson, cash
Ter Bank of Commerce, who being
duly sworn, says that the above and
foregoing statement is true condi-
ition of said bank, as shown by :. the
books of file in said bank.
LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 9Th day of January, 1922.
W. c.. WRIGHT, N. P, S. Co., Ga.
(Seal.)
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-,......,-,.$161,223.5O
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Sumter County.

> n [ OF TEUKGIA,
Sumter County.
Before me came w. T. Anderson,
cashier of The Bank of Leslie, who
being duly sworn, says that the above
and foregoing statement is true
condition of said bank, as shown by
the books of file in said bank.
w. T. ANDERSON.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me, this 9Th day of January, 1923.
j. @. JONES, j. P,
(Seal.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-06
CONCORD

Mrs. c. J. Dupree and Mrs. A. l.. :,
Brown We're joint hostesses to the
Epworth League Wednesday after
New Britain herald., 1922-10-16

Politicians are nothing new. The ancient Chinese symbols for mouth and vapor are used together to rep resent words.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-16
HERO WAS ALONE
 DURING FIGHTING
in Battle At Tetuan Ran Out Into Field Excited, All By
 Himself, aud Gets Medal

New Orleans La, Oct. 16.-Gettins along happily in the Spanish foreign legion in Morocco was a matter of getting used to Spanish cooking, ac- cording to z. B. kassad of New Or
 leans, a veteran of the A. E, F.. who enlisted in the Spanish army here a year ago and saw fighting on the Nor ocean front,
 kassad. who recently returned, was awarded a Spanish military cross for bravery. He described the incident for which it was awarded as ''an accident"
 At Tetuan," he said, our regi- ment charged up a long hill to the position Of the Moors at the top. was running low and shooting and was just about to the top when the Moors broke from cover and l saw that l was all alone.
 Did you see that crazy Amer can?' an officer yelled to another am he rushed up to me, patted me on the back and said Good boy. wait right here. Pretty soon a general came along and pinned this cross on me Honestly, l didn't know l was alone out there in front until after the bat tie was all over.'
New Britain herald., 1922-10-16
SEES CLOSER TRADE
 RELATIONS IN JAPAN
Washington Conference PaVes Way for More Cordial Feeling

Tokio. Oct. 16.-C, H. Huston. as sistant secretary of commerce, who i, making a world tour on the U. s. S Mojave in the interest of American trade, in discussing his visit to Japar said:
 Any opinion I might express or Japanese affairs and conditions must be more or less promised upon i'm pressions hurriedly obtained. Some things, however, are patent on their face.
 The Washington conference re- acted favorably upon the Japanese people at large and it has paved the way for a more cordial commercial relation. Business men in both coun- tries have been responsible for mis. understandings in the past,
 Trade balances have been running against Japan for many months and the best informed are not hopeful that an early change for the better is like ly. This means that her purchasin. power in the United States cannot be increased and may have to be curtailed.
 Chances For More Business
 Other countries are making pains taking efforts to acquaint the Japan csc industries with the technical ma chinery and labor saving devices they have to sell. l have found some of our people here abreast Of the times but more business could be done if our people gave more study to condi- tions. The world war has impressed Japan that nations are not entirely self-contained and that Japan should take advantage of present conditions and join hands with America on permanent friendly and mutually ad- basis.
 "Japan's factories are handicapped by practices and customs brought down from the feudal era. and with some less efficiency than is found in