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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-10-27

F1fteenth district
adams, Fulton, Henry. Knox and
Schuyler counties)
Edward J. King (Rep). Gales
burg.
Sixteenth District
(Bureau, Marshall, Peoria, Putnam,
Stark and Tazewell counties)
Jesse Black, Jr. (Dem.). Pekin.
Seventeenth District
(Ford, Livingston, Logan, Mclean
and Woodford counties)
Frank H. Funk (Rep.). Blooming
ton.
Eighteenth District
CLARK, Cumberland, Edgar, Iroquois,
Kankakee and Vermillion counties)
a. B. Dennis (Dem,) Danville.
William p. Holiday (Rep).
Georgetown.
Twentieth District
Drown. Calhoun, Cass, Greene,
Jersey. Mason, Menard Morgan,
Pike and Scott counties)
Henry T. Rainey (Dem.). Carroll
ton.
Guy L. Shaw (Rep). Beardstown
Twentyhrst District
christian, Macoupin, Montgomery
and Sangamon counties)
Loren f. Wheeler (Rep.), Spring
field.
J. Earl Major (Dem.). Hillsboro.
Twentythird District
(C1inton, Crawford, Effingham,
Fayette, Jasper, Jefferson, Lawrence,
Marion, Richland and Wabash)
Z. B. Brooks (Rep.). Newton,
William w. Arnold (Dem.). Robin
son.
Twentyfourth District
(Clay, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton,
Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope,
Saline, Wayne and White counties)
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-10-27

Every automobile owner should be
interested in the defeat of the brewers
amendment.
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But Enforcement Must Be
Freed From Politics
TOO MANY VIOLATORS
GOING UNFINISHED
Comparison Shows Chicago Lagging
Behind Others
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR is URGED

On october ZUtn. the report OF an IN
yestigation of the District Attorneys Of
flee in Chicago by Special Attorney Cen
erals Maj. Edgar B. Tolman and John R.
Montgomery was made public. In ad-
dition to their findings the investigators
made recommendations, one of which
reads:
q. There can be no real enforcement
of the laws of the United States unless
the office of the United States attorney be
entirely freed from the possibility of po-
]itical control, This principle has been
universally accepted in regard to judicial
appointments, but its application to the
office of the United States attorney is at
least equally important. He is the only
person directly charged with the prose-
cution of offenders.
Unless he marshals and presents the
evidence the judge cannot act. If he
is under obligation to any political fac
1ion or leader, those who are in re-
bellion against law will find some way
TO secure immunity from punishment.
Law Could be Enforced
''Every law of the United States
could be enforced to-day if politics could
be divorced from law enforcement.
These observations are, of course, fa-
miiar to you, and our justification for
incorporating them into this report is
the fact that as the head OF the depart
,nent of justice and adviser to the Presi-
dent in appointments to that department
YOU now have under consideration the
matter of the appointment of successor
TO the present United States attorney on
the expiration of his term.
May we not suggest that you con-
sey these considerations to the Presi-
dent as of special Importance in the
present circumstances?
Other Recommendations
The other recommendations of the in
yestigators were:
''There is no remedy for lawlessness
at all comparable to a prompt and ener-
getic prosecution of those who are ac-
cused of crime. We therefore recon-
. mend:
81. That there be appointed a spe-
cial prosecutor of recognized ability
and independence who would press to
trial promptly certain of the pending
cases and complaints which we would
designate.
"2. We approve the recommendation
of the examiners for a thorough re-or-
ganization of the Office and their sug
gestions as to the adoption OF more
efficient and complete methods of the
preparation of cases and of the keeping
of records and files.
''3. We recommend that the United
States attorney be held responsible for
the selection of his assistants and for
their subsequent official conduct.
Statistics on Enforcement
As "a part of their report the inves-
tigators presented the following statis-
tics.
"said report shows Up. 10 that dur
ing a period of two and a half years
! 7S4 of the eases where the defendants
had been held by the commissioners to
the grand jury, had not been presented to
the grand jury or otherwise prosecuted.
Said report contains the following table
of such cases:
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Totals .........56 $50 224 7S4
"This report also shows that during
the fiscal year 1921, more than one-third
of the Prohibition cases in which the
defendants had been held to the grand
jury, after hearing before the United
States commissioners, were not followed
up or further prosecuted.
"These three subjects - no bills,
nolles and cases not followed up, pre-
sent cumulative evidence of failure to
enforce the law. The 975 cases in which
the commissioners found prima facie evil
dence of guilt, the United States attor-
ney's Office failed to secure indictments.
In 7s4 of the same class of cases no eff
fort was made to procure indictments.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-09-30

the late Booker t. Washington
has said he hoped to live to see the
time when Education would be as
free as sunshine and air and then
proceed to define this kind of educa-
ton as follows Heads of families
should have more regard for the life
of the home. Men would not provide
such commodities as stove wood and
drinking water; but like the Egyp-
tian taskmaker of old, required their
wives to cook the meal, cut the wood
and fetch the water in many cases
where large acres were owned by
Negro farmers who had no home,
their children packed together In one
room without the ordinary necess-
tiles of decent life; harboring
places of disease and immortality. AS
a race we need he said TO initiate all
that was moral, decent and uplifting
in the white race. He would advise
that it was impossible to get church
and school to do that which the
home had failed TO do; the home inn
press going with the child forever.
On the health question, he had found
it necessary to screen the home from
flies and mosquitoes and to erect
sanitary toilet; but the daily or
frequent bath was indispensable. In
the enumeration of the above, he was
showing the kind of education DR..
Washington had outlined, in whose
portals old and young could enter
for instruction and live the life the
Creator had designed for his children
black and white alike This kind OF
education was all the more needed
since the farmer and farm folks
gonerly we're depended upon for the
food products of life; and this
responsibility would be out Of place
where health and home conditions
were lacking. This kind of education
he said, was the handmade of religion
for religion only meant doing The
thing that was right, both for bod.
and Soul
BY G. G. Daniel. Co. Act
Thomasville. Alabama.
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UNIVERSAL PEACE CONGRESS- TO
DISCUSS RACE QUESTION.

New York, N. Y. Sept 2S--The
Nationa Association for the Advence-
ment of Colored People announced
today through its Secretary, James
Weldon Johnson, the receipt of a
letter from Mr. Golay. General Secre-
tary OF the International Bureau Of
Peace, with headquarters at Berns,
Switzerland, stating that the organi-
zation at its Twenty-Second Congress
held in london, July 1929, adopted
the following resolutions.
"The International Bureau of Peace
is asked to put on the Agenda OF
the next International Peace Congress
the question of the relations of the
white and colored races"
Mr.. Golay in his letter furthur
states that the Bureau was directed
to communicate this resolution "a
the governments of the world, TO the
delegates to the Assembly of the
League of Nations, and TO all insti-
tutions interested in the question
The letter concludes with request
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People tc
provide the Bureau with documents
and information that will enable 1t tt
obtain adequate information regard
ing the question to be discussed
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steps, when extraditEon proceedings
were begun, TO have him released.
When this failed, and he was carried
to Upper Marlboro. Nd. the District
OF Columbia Branch, advised by the
Prince George County Btanch. was
instrumental in Interesting the States
Attorney, Mr. Kline, From inform
alton furnished BY the Chairman Of
the Legal Committee, Mi. James A..
Cobb, Mr.. Kline took up the matter
On invitation Of the States Attor-
ney. Mr.. Cobb appeared at the first
hearing in May, reviewed the evil
dence with the States Attorneys
office and was called in consultation
when final reports were made by
Maryland detectives and was success
full In convincing them that evidence
was lacking to further hold Keller.
In the last conference with Justice
Of Peace, j. A. Joyce and the States
Attorney, Mr.. Cobb was advised Of
the discharge of the prisoner and
was asked TO give assurances that
when Keller was discharged he would
not become charge upon the State.
Mr.. Cobb assented to the proposition.
Funds were furnished by the Dis
trict Of Columbia Branch for the
transportation Of Keller to his home
in Sumerville. S. C. Accompanied by
Mr.. Shelby j. Davidson. Executive
Secretary of the District of Columbia
Branch, and Mr.. j. A. G. LuValle OF
the Washington Tribune. Mr.. Cobb
appeared at the Court House located
at Mt, Rainier, Md. and after form
alities attending the release. received
Keller in the name Of the NJ A. A.
C. P. AT the adjournment Of Court
accompanied by the Sheriff. and his
deputy on either side of the car,
Keller was brought into the District
of Columbia and sent home the fol-
lowing morning with his brother who
had been summoned for the purpose
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FRIENDS ARE ANXIOUS TO HE'LL
NEGRO RACE.
Appeal is made to improve Education
OF COlOred People.
SESSION CLOSES

Richmond, Ind, Sept 2S.-The clos
ing session of the Five Years Meet
ing dealt mainly with the American
Friends and the American Negro"
L. Hollingsworth Wood, of New
York resident of the Urban League,
in his address, declared that the aid
of the American Quakers is being
sought in the cause Of the negro.
America owes great debt to the
negro" he said, Rice, sugar and to-
bacco are Utterly poured into our
warehouses by their labor, and yet
this economic use is comparatively
small: Four hundred thousand negroes
were with the colors in war, some
thing Americans should remember. /"
Harlow Lindley, of Earlham Col
lege, dealt with the negro problem
more specifically He pleaded espe-
cially for the increased educational
advantages, which should inclule a
large degree of vocational training,
as well as academic, especially gar
dening and farming for the boys and
household economies for the girls,
with particular attention TO the
teachers. No chain he said. lis
stronger than the weakest link, and
it is for us to determine largely the
chains strength The case must be
pleaded before the court of public
opinion, and we are our brothers
Keepers, whether he be in Indiana,
Arkansas, Asia or Africa" Messages
Of appreciation from Irish American
Friends were received gy the meeting.
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FARM AGENTS MAKE EXTENSIVE
TOUR

Mobile, Ala, Sept 16.-T. NJ. Camp
bell U. S. Field Agent for Negro
Extension Work in Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
and Oklahoma, headquarters at
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, in COM
pany with Harry Sims, State Agent
for Negro Men in Alabama and C. NJ.
Kynette, State Club Agent for Negro
Boys have been making a tour OF
inspection recently visiting Conecuh
County, holding meetings on Sept,
18th at Nichburg and Nymph
districts, where there are large settle
ments owned by Negroes. On the 18th
they visited Mobile County speaking
at the Rosenwald schoolhouse at
Grand Bay in the. afternoon and at
night at Plateau Training School or
invitation of Prof. /. t. Whitley.
Principal On the 18th, Clarke County
was visited, the meeting being held
at the Mt. Zion BaptiNt Church, near
Grove Hill where an audience
representative farmers and members
W Home Demonstration Clubs atten-
ded The white County AGENT and
Health Officer of the Dist1icC attended
and spoke on saving the soil and
health measures, respectively. Wilcox
and Dallas Counties were also visited
with similar meetings. The Local
Demonstration Agents called the
farm folk together at these meetings.
Prof Campbell who was first Negro
Demonstration Agent unS sr the aus
pices OF The u. s. Department of
, Agriculture led the various audi
ences in singing Negro melodies like
ooh What a Song the Angels Sung"
"Gie Me That ole Time Religion"
Swing low sweet Chariot. He made
heart-to-heart talk to his folk on
the necessity Of just coming together
so as to understand one another. He
said this coming together of rual
folks was all the more necessary
since they had not the facilities
for such a purpose as town and city
folks had. II was necessary that thew
understood each other and advised
the adoption of slogan similar to
that used in part Of the West where
the people lived so far apart from
each other att one ti-re: Cot ncnrain-
tod with your nnighSor: Won nnirht
like himl He dwelt ION selfishness
"a q cause OF the risunSarsta nding
between Individuals as welI DC races
and gave INSTANCES IN raaI Hfa chow
ing how common trouhlas bring
neonle together. He remarked that
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N. A. A. G. p. BRANCHES SECURE
RELEASE OF INNOCENT MAN.

Marlboro, Md, Sept. 28.--After more
than a year of seking information and
investigating the murder of Mrs.
Weber whose body was found in
Maryland, Joseph Keller, a colored
man, charged with the commission
OF the crime, was on Friday Sept. g.,
1922, released from the custody of
the Maryland authorities, the evil
dence thus far found not warranting
his detention longer.
Credit is due TO the Prince George
County Branch of the N. A. A. C. p,
as well as to the cooperation of the
District of Columbia Branch, for the
favorable outcome of this celebrated
case.
From the time of the arrest the
Prince George. County Branch used
every means to keep in touch with
the case as 1t progressed, while the
Washington Branch during his incar-
ceration in the District of Columbia,
observed closely the third degree
process as 1t was used to force q
confession from Keller and instituted
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DYER Bib. MAY NOT BE C0NSID
Erred THIS TERM.

Washington, Z. c., Sept-The
DYER ANTI LYNCHINC BILL, If
not beaten in an open vote by the
senate, is more than likely to be
lost in an upper house pigeon hole.
There is snail chance of its being
considered for vote at this session
of Congress. The national Legislature
will adjourn on the 23rd Of September
IL the tentative plans of the bodies
are carried out. This will preclude
consideration of the Dyer measure
at this session
Leading colcred political leaders
have pleaded in vain with the lead
ers of Senate concerning the passage
of the measure. National representa-
tives Of Negro organizations have
received the pledges of most of the
big men in Congress that they favor
the passage of the bill. Senaror Lodge
is amoung that number. Senator
Johnson of California, prior to the
California primaried, express his
belief in It also In fact. most of the
prominent leaders on the Republic
side of the Senate have declared their
intention TO support the measure
when 1t came M for vote.
Time alone will tell whether these
avowals are more bunk" or not.
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Many prominent colored men affect
! to believe that if the bill is not
passed at this session that good
long night is in prospect before it
will be adopted for the national
statues. 1t is pointed out that the
Negro Press, through it's national
organization, has practically threat
ened to take off its coat and go
right in for the defeat of every
Republican statesman who shows a
hand against the adoption of this
bit of anti-lynching legislation.
The Senate's alibi is to be found in
the following statement of Senator
who does not desire his name to be
mentioned at this time. He says:
Republican leaders in the Senate
have practically agreed not to bring
up the Dyer anti-lynching bill at
this session of congress because of
the threat of Southern Democrats
to conduct a prolonged fillibuster
against it. While the Dyer Bill was
on the program, agreed upon a short
time ago by the Republican steering
committee of the Senate. for action
at this session, its elimination has
been found necessary by consuming
desire of the Republican leaders to
adjourn Congress early so as to get
out in the fall campaign. So deter
mined are the Democratic Senators
in their opposition that they have
threatened to prevent any adjourn
ment if the Dyer bill is pressed.
It is agreed on every hand that
the anti-lynching bill is one of the
most irritating pieces of legislation
which has ever been before Congress.
1t was introduced in the house in
keeping with clause in the Repub-
lican platform. 1t passed the House
after a spirited debate and has, been
kicked about the Senate for some
time Democratic Senator'S charge
it is NEARLY bid for the cclored
votes of the. country. 1t was reported
to the Senate on July 20, by Senator
Shortridge, California, acting chair
man of the judiciary committee.
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convention:
ANY organization based on a
definition of Americanism which ex-
cludes certain races or religions
must develop prejudices or antagon-
isms toward persons of those
religions or races, and any organi-
cation which proposed and processes
to back up the law by secret methoda
and whose membership is not known
must inevitably encourage, both
against its own membership and
amOung outsiders, the taking Of the
iaw into ones own hands and ulti-
mately the use of such an organi-
cation for purposes of private revenge
The resolution asked that the
church place itself on record as
Looked with adherence upon all
forms of mob violence, as constitut-
ing not only a menace to law and
order and endangering the very
existence of government itself as
contrary to the revealed word of God
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lance in his hitting.
SKI Knocked Down.

Soon after the start of round three,
Carpenter dropped Sikh with a stiff
right. The Negro stayed down for
the count of five. Jumping to his
feet he smaclSed Georges on the, jaw
with a right that floored the cham
pion. Georges was up at the count
of the three.
In the fourth round, Sikh began to
get to Georges. He planted swift left
and right to the face. Carpenter
came out of muss with his lips
split and bleeding. They spared, and
Georges right eye and then split open
his cheek. Carpenter went to mis- corr
ner tired.
Round five found Sikh leading in
the attack. He dived in headfirst,
forcing Carpenter to the ropes. They
threatened to disqualify both men
buttlng with their heads.
Carpenter rushed bllndly at Sikh
at the opening of the sixth and final
round. Sikh met the rush head on.
Carpenter dropped to the floor. The
referee did not start a count. He lay
stretched on the canvas fully twenty
seconds, however, before his seconds
finally swarmed into the ring and
carried him to his chair.
Amidst the shouts of the crowd the
referee announced that Sikh had trip
ped Carpenter and that the latter
would be given a rest of three min
utes in which to recuperate. At the
end of this time, however, Georges
was still practically unconscious and
unable to resume.
with this word from Descamps,
Sikh was declared disqualified and
Carpenter the winner by the referee.
Then came the judges. Carpenter
was rushed from the ringside to his
declared
be under the care of his physician
and admittance was refused. Several
sporting writer's, including personal
| friends of Descamps, found the fiery
manager of the dethroned champion
but reported getting nothing more
than thorough cussing for their
| trouble. Descamps was purple with
rage and bound for the Carpenter
/ apartment.
/ Carpenter did not recover con-
/ sclousness for three hours. The sur
! geon who was hurriedly. summoned
| to the Carpenter apartment reported
! that the Frenchman's jaw was brok-
| en- and that he had dislocated wrist
and two broken fingers.
After visiting Carpenter at his
apartment sunday night. Francois Des-
camps his manager said to the
Georges is broken-hearted. He is
very weak. All l can say is that II
/ was Skis smashing blow in the
third round. which floored Georges
! that decided the match Georges was
covered.
I'VE have no complaint to make as
| to the conduct of the match"
Sikh, seen after the fight, said:
Georges can hit hard, but today
| | hit harder.
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GARVEY'S DELEGATES APPEAR
BEFORE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Genera, Sept.-A contingent of
colored people representing Marcus
A. Garvey, "provisio liable President
of Africa, appeared before the
League of Nations today and demand
ed that it grant to the colored of
the world mandate for South Africa
The spokesman of the party were
Jean Joseph Adam, a Haytian, and
Lee Van Sheriff., of New York. They
declared that the Colored would
demonstrate their ability to run a
government If the League granted
them authority to do so.
The New York spokesman said
that the delegation was acting unler
the athority of the United Negro
Congress, recently held in that City.
The League secretariat acknowledge
ed RECEIPT of the petition
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GREAT INTEREST IN STUDY
BOOKS ON THE NEGRO In
AMERICA.

A report Just made public by DR..
Gilbert .. LeSolrd, Conference anu
Promotion Secretary of the Mission
airy Education Movement OF the
United States and Canada, gives
some interesting facts regarding the
remarkable interest in tie st,.,.y
books dealing with the Negro in
America, prepared and published
Jointly by the Missionary Education
Movement and the Council OF Women
for Home Missions.
DR.. LeSOurd's report shows that
the first edition Of $4,000 copies of
THE TREND OF THE RACES by
DR.. George e. Haynes has been sold
out and second edition of $4,000 is
now being run off the press. This
shows remarkable interest in race
relations, as the season of greatest
use of the study books does not
come until later in the year and
the total sales of the corresponding
book last year was only $4,000 One
Of the striking features about THE
TREND OF THE RACES has been a
large demand for it from the general
reading public quite Independent of
the Home Mission Study Courses Of
the Churches, for which the book
was mainly prepared
The same interest is shown in the
alternate book, IN THE VANGUARD
OF A RACE by Mrs. l.. H. Hammond,
Already this year the first edition
of $4,000 copies of IN THE VAN
GUARD OF A RACE has been ex-
hausted and q second clifton of 10,
600 is now on the press, although
the total sale of the corresponding
hook last year reachd only $4,000.
This truly remarkable volume of
biographies of Negroes who have
achieved is meeting with universal
favor amoung people of all classes
and both races.