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The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
MOTION DISCUSSES
RACE PROBLEM IN
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Tuskegee Head Writes Interest
ing Article on "Status Of the
Negro in America"
WORLDS EAGERNESS FOR
FACTS CAUSES WRITING
Conservatives Believe MOtOn's
Prestige Will Be Improved
By This Piece of Work.
ASSOCIATED Negro Press)

New York City, n. Y, June 30
The May number of CURRENT HIS
TORY contains an Interesting and in
structive article from the pen of Pin
cipal Robert r. Motion. entitled, Sta
tus of the Negro In America"
The article, has created good i'm
preston among the Intelligent people
of Gotham. 1t is optimistic in tone
and contains deal of information
that is enlightening to friend and foe
alike of the Negro in the land.
"This country, both North and
South, is ready and willing. as never
before, to get more definite informa-
ton regarding the Negro problem
and to know something of the Ne
gro's own thoughts regarding this
problem. Requests for literature on
the subject come to us daily from al
sections of the civilized world. The
reason for this unusual eagerness for
facts is obvious, America, and in fact
the whole civilized world is thinking
today, more than ever, in terms OF
justice and human understanding
this in spite of riots, mob outbreaks,
labor unrest, and other disturbing
and sometimes discouraging condi-
ton" is the reason this distinguished
educator advances as good reasons
FOR his discussion OF the Negroes Stat
us in this country.
The Negro Church, The Negro
School, The Tuskegee Negro Confer
ence, The Negro Business League,
The Freedmen's Aid Bureau, The
American Missionary Society, Pro-
gress in Southern Education. and The
Inter-Racial Commission are among
the topics discussed.
The writer lays considerable stress
on the work of the Inter-Racial Coal-
missions in the South, holding that
they are performing very great ser
vice in the cause of human progress.
Conservative Negroes declare that DR..
Motion has improved his position as
a leader of the race through the
writing of this article.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
CITIZENS BLAME
POLICEMAN FOR
SIXTH AVE. FRAY
Signed Statement Says There is
Race Harmony on the
North Side.
WHITES AND NEGROES
BOTH AGREE ON FACTS
Policeman Was Totally in Wrong
Youth Acted i'm elf-defense
the Petition States.

Several Minneapolis citizens living
near Sixth and Lyndale avenues No,
where a policeman had trouble Tues
day night of last week attempting
to arrest Negro on a disorderly
conduct charge, signed statement
last week in which they took excep-
ton to the version of the happening
given in a police report. They laid
the blame for the disturbance upon
Patrolman George McNamee. The
statement is signed by both white and
colored residents of the district who
witnessed the entire affair.
The following signed statement ap-
peared in an issue of the Minneapolis
Tribune last Friday:
1--WE are writing to ask you to cor
rect the account of race clash on n.
Sixth avenue. This account appeared
in the morning, noon and evening
editions of your paper Wednesday,
June 21. The fundamental facts of
the case were erroneous, the whole
account exaggerated. Such accounts
as this only cause friction and agi-
tation which eventually eliminate in
race riots in which innocent as well
as guilty suffer. This affair was quite
uncalled for. There are eyewitness
es who can refute the statements
which you made. 1t is not quite fair
to members of either race if this is
not corrected. The Negro and white
citizens live in comparative harmony
in this locality.
"The trouble took place on Aldrich
and Sixth avenue. A colored boy was
sitting. on a railing outside of the
drug store, talking to friend, when
an officer of the law approached him,
asked him what he was doing here.
The boy answered, sitting here
talking He then asked the boy
where he worked and when he an
swered on the East side, the officer
cursed him in brusque manner. The
boy got down off the rail, the officer
hit him with his club. The boy
told him not to do this and then he
grabbed the boy by the collar, at
tacking him, they fell to the ground.
Then the officer drew his revolver.
When the boy saw this he became
frightened and grabbed the officers
hand with the gun just in time to
avoid being shot. The officer of the
law, however, fired four shots. The
boy took the gun away from him
then and jumped up. The boy back
ed away and when the officer, realiz-
ing that he had little chance without
his gun, disappeared around the cor
ner. The boy then ran down Aldrich
avenue.
During this whole affair there
were hardly over a dozen people col
lected, and not over two hundred col
lected afterward. There has been no
racial disturbance. Below are names
of prominent citizens of both races
who are willing to verify the above
statements. An officer of the law
should feel it his personal RESPONSE
bility to keep all disturbances down
and not let himself be the instrument
of agitation.
"Signed, white: A. Rosenfield, L.
H. Greene, Ed. Johnson, Oscar Clark,
B. B. Berry. Colored: Emile Moses,
Henry Gahan, Lottie Downy, Mile
Ully, John Watkins, J. l.. Collins, H.
w. Vance, Jesse Smith,"
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
BOWLER'S PARK WILL BE
SCENE OF HOLIDAY PICNIC

Most elaborate arrangements are
now being completed for the first
public picnic to be held on the Fourth
of July in the Twin Cities for num-
Der of years.
Bowler's Park, while unknown to
some people, is located ~ miles out
Sixth Ave. No., Minneapolis. Ar
rangements have been made with the
Brown Bus Company to run busess
to and from the picnic grounds regu-
larly every half hour. Buses will
run from Sixth Avenue North and
Lyndale avenue, beginning at IL p.
M.
The Twin City Amusement Club
has spared nothing in the way to
make the affair a most pleasant one.
Moore's orchestra will furnish music
for the occasion.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
Baltimore Ku K.
Klar1 Increases by
Over1OOOQ Week
(Associated Negro Press)

Baltimore, Md, June 30.-The Ku
Klux Klan is increasing its member
ship in this State between 500 and
1000 members a week. At least
this is the declaration of DR.. p. Bayne
Johnston of this city who is one of
the two Baltimore Kleagles. Or.
Johnston admits the main efforts of
the Klan are to be directed against
Negroes and Roman Catholics. He
also declares that the organization is
to enter actively into politics and by
that means obtain a formidable wea-
pom for the advancement of its prin-
ciples throughout the country. 1T
is any means to the end" is the way
the Kleagle Doctor puts it.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
Soap-Dic> Used
To Gamble With
In Prison Cell

Philadelphia, Pa, June 3d.
Nathaniel Nelson and Edward
Prattis, who were arrested for
stealing a bolt of silk shirt
goods from haberdashery and
held in Jail in default of a $500
bail, were unable to restrain
their enthusiasm in game OF
early morning "seven come ele-
ven" crap game Wednesday and
awakened the turnkey. who
quickly unlocked the door of
the cell and confiscated the dice.
The men had made the dice
from some hard soap which was
also made by them while they
were in Moyamensing prison
awaiting the outcome of fur
ther hearing of their case. No
further charge will be preferred
against them.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
Mason Head Denies
Sympathy For KIan
Massachusetts, Lodge Says State
ments are False that They
SympathiZe with Klan.
ASSOCIATED Negro Press)

Boston. Mass. June 30.-The an
nouncements of prominent Ku Kiux
Klan officials that Masonic sympathy
and support had been offered that or
ganization by Bay State Masonic au-
thorities have been branded false and
malicious by Grand Master Prince of
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
"to protect the fair reputation of
Freemasonry from being spotted by
any connection, official or otherwise,
with such an organization as the Ku
Kiux Klan." Mr.. Prince has issued
a circular to all members of the Ma
sonic Fraternity in the country to
disavow and protest any relationships
being maintained by the branches of
the sacred order" with the Klan.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01

At meeting held at Little Pill
gram ont -the-hill Tuesday evening a
number of members of the church or
ganized club to be known as Gideon
Crusaders. Thirty-five members were
enrolled. The membership of the
club consists of men only. The next
meeting will be held Monday even
ing, July 10. New members are in
vited. A. w. Jordan, President. G.
d. Howard, Secretary.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
STATE FEDERATED CLUBS
HOLD ANNUAL MEETING

The Minnesota State Federation OF
Colored Women's Clubs convened
Wednesday morning for three day
session at Little Pilgrim on-the-Hill
with Mrs. Susan B. Evans presiding.
Reports of the work of various
committees have been very interest
ing and much new legislation trans
acted. Election of officers took place
yesterday. Nearly so delegates from
throughout the state attended the
session.
{Note: A complete report of the
meeting will be PUBLISHED next week.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
Colored Miners Stay Out of
Grueson1e Illinois Nine War

the coiored people in the state be for
it to remain, whatever that might
chance to mean. No one knows what
is the extent of the actual death list.
1t may 0e fifty, 1t may more than
hundred. 1t is a sickening and dis
gusting spectacle that can, with good
reason, be placed side by side with
Armenia and Russia. 1t does not
now seem likely that colored men
will be foolish enough to be drawn
into the war. Mob law has gone un-
checked so long that the country is
reaping the consequences.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE
TO CONVENE IN BOSTON
(Associated Negro Press)

Boston, Mass, June 30,-The 18th
Annual Meeting of the National Ed
ual Rights League will convene in
this city Friday, July 7th. Sen. Hen
ry Cabbot Lodge is numbered among
the speakers invited to address the
convention. other speakers will be
the Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom. the
Hon. William H. Lewis, the Hon.
Moorfield Storey. James Weldon
johnson, and William Monroe Trot-
ter.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
White texan Tells STORY
or LYNCH|NCS IN K|Rv|N
All COl0red Show
Has Big Start at
Broadway House
(Associated Negro Press)

New York City, n. Y, June 80
Henry Haumell's "All Negro Show"
opened at the Lafayette on the night
of the 18th of June and has been
playing to capacity houses since that
date. The Offering was Business
Before Pleasure" and it is splendid
ly given by an entire cast. 1t looks
to be in for long run. Leonard
Kennedy, P. A. MacDougal. and Net
tie Starks are carrying the burden
of the performance.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
(Associated Negro Press)

Herrin, ILL.,, June 30.-Women
mocking, men chuckling, and child
rem laughing at the mutilated bodies
of slain miners are among the list of
the shocking details of the miners
war now blighting the fair name Of
this section of the State of Illinois.
Up to this date no colored miners
have been drawn into active partici-
patton in this awful drama Of car
mage and death, although there are
many in the state. 1t is a white
mans affair" and right glad should
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01
Borah Still Fights
for Withdrawal of
Troops sfom Haiti
ASSOCIATED Negro Press)

Washington, ID. c., June 3O.-Sen-
ator Borah is continuing his fight for
the withdrawal of American troops
from the Island of Haiti. The doughty
Senator from Idaho declares that the
American occupation is a distinct vio-
lation of a weaker peoples rights and
the United States government should
hold itself above such wilful and pet
ty situations as has marked its occu-
patton of the island up to this date.
1t is said that his fight is a losing
one.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01

DR.. II. Pickner Jones of Pittsburgh
Pa. will arrive in the city about the
18th of July to spend his vacation
with his wife at their home, 779 Car
roll avenue,
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01

The moonlight boat excursion Civ
en- by Frederick Douglas lodge and
Household of Ruth, Monday evening
was a very enjoyable affair. Moore's
orchestra furnished the music in a
pleasing manner.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Lannie Jackson, 500
st. Anthony avenue, entertained at
dinner on last Sunday afternoon.
The guests were: Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Rhodes and Mrs. and Mrs. James
Brooks.
The northwestern bulletin., 1922-07-01

Miss Louise Jackson of Wilber-
force College is in the city as the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. John Hick-
man, 706 st. Anthony avenue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26

ing the trudgeon and the crawl, Mr..
uhl raised massive hand against It.
Swimming is all right" said Mr..
Ihl. Swimming is very good. But
no daughter Of min" will ever swim in
public exhibitions.
However, under coaXing lasting sew
"ral months he finally yielded
Eleanor then went to practice three
times II week in the pool of the First
Regiment Armory. Almost at once she
won race fer novices. The following
spring she captured another and the
last rampant Of her fathers prejudice.
y lew years later, without murmur,
he let her 60 to Antwerp with the
womcn's Olympic team.
Miss lhl is now twenty. n fact to be
cleaned only after devious questioning.
She stands about as tall as an average
man, but the lines of her figure have
the heroic grace of Juno's. For one so
large she walks with II swift step, en-
traordinarily resilient. Her skin, though
obviously very white to begin with. has
been burned by the sun TO the approx
mate color of shellbark nut. Her eyes
are very clear, very blue and very
gtraghtly set. Her forehead is broad
err tEan most persons. Her hair, be-
cause she wears 1t so tightly, suggests
jute, but its hue Is the same as the
hair Of the traditional Aphrodite. When
she smiles, her teeth show white and
square and precisely spaced.
She will answer questions in a sim
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26
Eleanor Began to Slcin,
in Griffith Park Lake

That was pretty much the case, too,
with Eleanor. She was becoming. next
to her brother. the best swimmer in
town at the time when the last of the
Grundys was conceding that competitive
swimming for women might be very
good thing.
Her first swimming was done in the
lake at Griffith Park. 'Dogsic," Of
course, but efficient. Here. however,
the career came pretty nearly stopping,
for when friendly athlete who had
been watching her progress in the lake
wanted her to spend the winter learn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26

and in the great business of which
there were almost as many opportuni-
ties for girls as for boys. If girls
chose to stay out and to play with
dolls, that was their affair.
Later, she confesses, she revised this
viewpoint a little, and began ardently
to wish that she had been born a boy
and to try to surpass what handicap
the accident of femininity had put upon
her. She strove constantly to beat the
boys at their own games baseball.
rowing. skating and so on.
Her mother died when she was still
little girl and a grandmother came
10 knCp house for them. Eleanor
learned to sew little but not to cook.
She confesscs now she cannot even sue
ressfully make toast. and repeats n saw
bv her grandmother that the technique
of boiling potatoes is beyond her.
Eleanor passed out Of this period
without too deep regret. She did not
abandon sports. but specialized her
sphere in them. When she played bas-
ketball it was with girls and when .ne
entered swimming races it was against
girls and women. The girls she had
left to their dolls in the beginning Se-
came her intimatoS. and when she went
10 dances and met her old ulaymates
it was on n new ground fenced b.: many
rituals.
At high school she was one OF the
forwards of her basketball team for
three years. and in those three years
the team held the championship Of the
county. Sh" rescued the Gill's swim
uGn- championship for Lan>downc High
School from any possible doubt, for A.
long rs she remained there.
Miss Chl was barely OUT. Of high
school when she was chosen for the
women's Olympic team. and taken to
Antwerp. Soon after the team arrived
there she was taken seriously sick with
tonsilitis and sent to n hospital. 1t
began to appear that she would miss
tho races. Nevertheless. at the time
set she appeared aud won the 800
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26
boy Brings Championship
Into the UhL Familu

such is the family Of Uhls, with
whom the Middle Atlantic swimming
championship has been more or less
dynastlc since 1918, when Raymond
thI' then a siXteen-year old school
ooy' took it at the indoor meet in
the West Philadelphia Y. NJ. C. A.
The glory is more or less incl
dental, and even somewhat acci-
dental. That is to say that it is not
championship but swimming itself
mat concerns the UhIs. Not to swim
because it gets you into a race and
you win 1t, and somebody gives you
cup and somebody else puts your
name in the paper, but to swim be-
'ause-wcll, because swimming is
Such blooming good thing, such
perfect justification for having
arms and legs and lungs.
When William ]. Y. Uhl, the father,
was Young man living In downtown
'"''ad"lphla, It was his habit when
'"' NIGHTS were hot or when he was
''n"rWlNc moved, to walk along the
oohk Of the Delaware. When he found
d'"ent spot he would slip off his
''o'IIIl'g, jump in and swim the river
haIf dozen times or so. Then he
would dress and 90 home feeling better.
ne never entered any races. Prob
"oN II never occurred to him to do so.
~ was pretty much the same with
ERNEST th" oldest boy. lie learned to
'"l"' almost as soon as he learned to
n"'"' ana pursued each in pretty much
tue same fashion. lie liked to walk,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26
Women in Politics
Meets Her DisapprOUaI

The. OlympiCs, of course. have been
so far the peak Of Miss THIS swim
ming career. She has won since then
n good many raccS-but what may be
called. perhaps, her life ashore 10
growing rapidly. She has become presi.
dent of the local chapter of the Daugh-
terS of Columbus, Catholic organiza-
tion. and one of the bookkecpers in the
lanSdowne Title Savings Fund and
Trust Company. She would like to
have become. she says. physical di-
rector in some young ladies' seminary,
but not at the cost Of her amateur
standing. However. there is almost AZ
much appeal in banking. and there are
no such things as amateur banking con.
tests TO worry one.
About Miss thl, it is curious and
worth remark that she does not at all
believe in the modern young woman.
She is sincerely rejoiced over the re.
turn OF long skirts. She does not ap.
prove of women in politics. and doubts
very much If she will ever cast n vote.
Let the men run the country and the
women run the men,
Women in athletics are something
else again. Surely, she thinks, women
have as much right to swim and to
run as TO walk and ride horses. Let
them golf. too. if they want to: let
them drive cars. and go into the pro-
fessions. But in the nature Of things
line must be drawn somewhere. So
why not draw it in politics?
Ernest, the Youngest thl is gem
OF taciturnity in this taciturn family.
What may have been his feelings at
Pittman few weeks since. when he
beat George +. Pawling. of the great
Philadelphia Swimming Club. by one
fifth of second in furlong race for
the Middle States championship. is n
matter of mystery. Somewhat Younger
he is even more difficult Of approach
than his sister.
Ernest entered tho Middle Atlantic
championship races at the command Of
his father. and under his own protest
that he would be unable to finish the
'''''"''''' Ai' Iidt lIlIh'I up SWIMMING
like his brothers and sisters at Griffith
Park. but his practice lad been mostly
dcSuItory and without training.
lie continued swimming in the re-
mnrkahle form hr has hit upon this
year. and won tho 100 yard outdoor
Middle Atlanti" free style champions
ship. which was he'd in the open air
pool Of 'hc Germantown Boys Club. at
- West Penn street, August -.
The youthful blond haired norman,
who has swept everything in the way Of
opposition out of his path so far this
season. defeated n field of fourteen
starters and lifted the crown from the
head of Al Burman, star swimmer Of
the llyg"in Swimming club, Of Atlantic
city. Burman won the title when lie
d"i"nt"d. among others, Charley Crown
over the pride Of Girard College. in the
utuinr match at the Ambassador Swim.
ming Clubs pool SIX months ago.
Ed Hard". Of the Wilmington Y NJ.
{. A.. finished second to TN. while
Milton Il. NuSs, formerly Of Girard
'oIl"g" and now Of the Germantown
Boys club, was third Buruun pulled
up t" III" finish lin" in fourth place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26
Ernest Uhl proudly displaying
some of trophies he won

pie, straightforward sufficient manner,
out VIII not on any account supply in.
formation Of her own accord. She
frankly dislikos publicity, or as she
chooses to call 1t ''notoriety." She
grows dubious when surrounded by
intorviewers.
1t is hard to transcribe Miss Till.
hard to make it plain that she suggests
not stolidity but solidity; that she is not
wanting imagination, but merely the
vicarious imagination of scdentary in.
dividuaIs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26
Peaks in the Swimming
Record of Raymond UhL

19Ij-Interscho1nstic champion
shin at Pittsburgh al age Of fifteen.
1916-Defcdted John Knight
.Shyrock in Middle Atlantic fifty
yard race. Time-26 80 seconds.
I9I6-Won Sdckett cup at Ldfdy-
cite IO0- yard course, setting record
time of 60 10 seconds.
19I7-Beatcn by Gilbert Tomlin-
son for same cup, regaining il bp
corcring opponents time Of 63 -
seconds.
I9IT-.Ao gain tcon Middle A ldn'ic
championship.
191S-Won Middle Atlantic
championship a third time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26
She Found Girls Boreson,e
So Played With the Bous

To expand: When Miss Uhl was
little girl she never played with other
little girls. She played with her
brothers, and with the boys they played
with. 1t was not that she dislikcd or
despiscd little girls, but that she found
them boresomc. They were tame. There
were no swift bold movements to the
things they did. They were concerned
with dolls and Eleanor could never
thrill over doll. They were like pic
ture books, such poor substitutes for
actuality. At best one could only
weave romanccs about them, and why
do that with life so full Of its own
romance? The world was an infantils
republic. In which the best and most
earnest players governed, in which there
VA no line ofAclanvano hotvsen uaxaa
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26
Bushel of Medals. .Huny
cups Among Their TroDhies

Among them the THIS have won cIoss
to bu>h"i Of mo,laIs and mara cnns,'
than they can find room for. and ,h.,
single proof to- tho stranger tbot ,bov
hay" felt definite emotion about II i,f
that tn" top of rh" piano in the purlor
is covered with ru..,,I, ,A,.,
cups.
,rn 80, - -, ''',,"S concerts In
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26


Conversation for it's own sake
distresses them.
Philosophy appalls them.
Pedantry finds them impregnable.
They dislike Charlie Chaplin.
They profoundly pity women who
eat candy between meals, girls who
fear to 60 in the water, children
afraid to climb trees, and young
men who make a haunt Of pool
rooms.
They admire Tom Mix, great SOL
dicrs, musicians, football heroes.
directors Of musical comedy chor-
uses and their own competitors.
They are fond of arithmetic and
of business.
Drama leaves them cold and thew
say So.
They have never cut verses from
magazine and pasted them in
Scrapbooks. They have never looked
at the moon and made three wishes
lhey have never had themselves
psychoanlyzed. They have never
wanted to be emperors, anthropolo
gIsts, celebrated chefs, cartooniss.,
social leaders or foreign mission
aries.