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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-09-30
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT MEETING
PUT MINISTERS ON RECORD AS FAY
ORING IJNIFICATION. NASHVILLE CON-
VENTTON HOLDS MEMORIAL.

New York, N Y, Sept 2S.-Local
Negro Baptist ministers, 1t wa slearn-
ed are trying to bring together two
factions of Negro Baptists in this
country. having been prompted by
the death of the Rev, r. II. Boyd OF
Nashville, Tenn, and that of the Rev.
Re-. 5du( .".MHpMH NH NH FRlF
Il. c. Morris of Helena, Ark, the two
most prominent members of the de-
nomination whose personal differences
brought about a split among 3,000,-
900 Negro Baptists seven years ago,
The leaders OF the rival bodies,
known as the National Baptist Con-
vention incorporated and the Nation
al Baptist Convention, unincorporated
died within two weeks. The Rev.
Boyd died Aug. 23, and the Rev. DR..
Morris, Sept. 4.
At the weekly meeting of the Ne
gro Baptist Ministers Conference 1850
lutions were adopted putting minis
ters of the conference on record as
taking the initiative toward unifying
the convention.
The Rev George H. Sims, President
of the Colored Daptists Convention of
the State OF New York. the Rev. A.
Clayton Powell pastor Of the Abyss
sinian Baptist Church, the Rev. w.
w. Brown, pastor of the Metropoli-
tan Baptist church. the Rev. William
Hayes, pastor of Mount Oliyet Bap-
fist church, the Rev. J. d. Bushnell,
pastor of Walker Memorial Baptist
Church and the Rev II. Arthur Book
er. pastor of St Paul Baptist church
are among local ministrs to favor the
unification idea.
Negro Baptists split into rival camps
at the Chicago convention, the Rev.
Il. c. Morris and and the Rev. r. H.
Boyd disagreeing over the control and
management of the National Baptist
Publishing Company at Nashville. do
minated by Rev. Boyd. The concern
published most of the literature for
Negro Baptists Of the country
Impressive Ceremonies mt Greenwood
Park for Late DIR. II. ii. Boyd.
Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 2S-Impres-
sive memorial services in honor of the
late DR.. r. H. Boyd of Nashville Bap-
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fist Publishing Board, were held Sat
to the burial of the distinguished lead
err by members of the Baptists con-
vention which has been in session
here. In addition to the local delega-
ton, the delegates from other sec
lions of the country attending the
national convention assembled at Ry-
man auditorium at ii o'clock and
went to the park to participate in the
services, following which they march
ed in a body to the Ibnrying ground
where the burial rites were observed.
The ceremonies We're in charge of
DR.. b. d. Coins of Arkansas. while
committee composed of j. w. Winn.
Robert Wells. II. B. Southern and p.
H. Westbrooks was in charge of ar
engagements The following program
was carried out:
Opening song. Dr. w. b. Burrell of
Louisiana; scripture reading, DR.. l..
Hawthorne of Alabama; Invocation.
DR.. J. p. Robinson of Arkansas: song
by the chorus: biography by Or. c.
H. Clark of Illinois. DR. Boyd as a
preacher, by DR.. j, Z Wood of Ken
lucky; DR.. Boyd as a business man.
by DR.. J. n. Hill of Tennessee DR..
Boyd as Il Christian stateman and a
defender of the faith. by DR. c. C. C.
Phillips of Illinois; DR.. Boyd as a
counsellor, by DR. II. r. Carter of
Georgia, DIR. Boyd as denominational
man. by DR.. S S. Jones of Oklahoma
DR.. j. H. Frank of Kentucky; DR..
Boyd as a citizen by Dr. G. b. Tay-
lor of Tennessee: DR. Boyd as a pas
tor by DIR. J. II. Winn of Texas; re-
marks by President Jones: sermon by
DR.. A. A. Lucas of Texas: closing
song.
At Friday nights session of the
convention DIR. E. p. Jones, presi-
dent, made his annual address. He
has long been a leader in educa-
tional matters and in religious work
and the convention unanimously voted
for his reelection The entire Off
cial personnel. with but one exception
was reelected, Tie new officer is Dr.
+. H. Cook of Columbia, Ohio. who was
elected first vice-president to succeed
DR.. j. e. Wood of Danville, Ky.
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Insurance Men Of Nation Meet in Atlanta.
MISSOURI REPUBLICANS
GET GOLD BRICK.

st. Louis Mo-. Sept. 2S.-It costs
something to be a Negro In the last
session Of the State Legislature. when
the gold brick was handed the Colored
turned out to ibe no appropriation for
Lincoln University. law was pro-
posed providing for Rural Inspector
for Negro schools, 1t was under
stood the law provided that the salary
was to be $4,000 per annum. the
same as is paid for white inspec-
tors At that time the State Sup
erintendent of Public Schools, Sam A.
Baker. now a candidate for election
for q term of four years, let it be
known that there were no funds avail
able for such an officers pay. Pres
sure was brought to bear, however,
and Pres. c.. G.. Williams of Boon
Vile was given the position. Rumors
have been persistent that Williams
was not being paid 2,400 per like the
people have evinced their appreciation
of the fact that such place was Gre
ated. A glance at the Official Manual
Of the State for the years 1921-1922
shows that the white inspectors, high
school and rural. five in number, all
but Mr.. Williams. the Negro rural
inspector Is credited with receiving
S1,S75. This is what Bakers office
is doing toward making the Negro
place INFERIOR, anu MS Is a part VI
the program of the last two years
which was commended at the Spring
field Republican Convention and
and which the voters are asked to en-
dorse the November, Someone is ask
ing good deal
A certain very influential Negro
leader in finance has been, so we are
informed keeping the trail hot to
his honor, the Mayors office attemp-
ting to rake some political chest
nuts out of the fire This person does
not have TO Deepen on politics for a
living, has a competence. yet 1t seems
he likes the emolument If he can get
one for the sake of some imaginary
prestige he imagines it will give
him.
!, He Is said to frequently use his
large car to ride influential ~ Col
ored politicians about seeking to get
this fat appointment which has yet
to show on the political horizon. The
question uppermost in peoples mind
is what he would do with a real
representative place If he was offered
one.
G. o. II. Promises Much.
Two years ago the Democratic
platform included plank in substance
much the same as the one adopted
by the Republicans at Springfield this
year. The G. o. P. leaders gave us
to understand we could rest secure
in the sbehef that would do the righi
CONTINUED on Page 81
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ST. LOUISAN'S SONGS TO
TO BE PUBLISHED BY DAM
ROSCH.

St Louis. Mo. Sept. 21.-J. Gerald
Tyler. director of music at Sumner
High SCHOOL, returned few days ago
from New York where he submitted
to Walter Damrosch, conductor OF the
New York symphony Orchestra, a
collection Of his work for inclusion
in a book OF childrens songs which
is being complied under the direction
Of the New York leader
Several OF these songs have been
accepted, one in particular having
impressed Dalarosch when Tyler play
tiled Christmas Bells" and Is mus
ical setting Of l.ongfellow's poem of
that name. When Damrosch heard
it. he turned to the men who are
collaborating with him in the publi-
cation of the book and said, 1--WE will
accept this song without alteration"
Another of Tyler's songs which will
be in the book is Song of the Sea"
Tyler thus far has done nothing
in the way OF Negro folk music.
Music in the characteristic Ne
gro idiom appeals to me-" he said
but as j was not born in the South
am not SO familiar with 1t as
might be. For time, there was a
great demand from publishers for
music of this type, and ! was asked
the inspiration, ! could not bring
myself to grind out songs in the Ne
gro idiom merely as commercial
proposition.
Tyler has developed type of kim
dergarten music that is based both
on songs and dance One of these
songs is Little 30 Peep" sung TO
a quick melody. This is followed by
a short. lively dance measure, and
then the theme of the song returns
Another song of similar type Is
II Had Little Poney," A children's
song of a more serious vein is his
setting of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little
Star" A group OF these songs is
now being published by an eastern
house.
"Magnificnnt" In E-MInOr.
OF music OF the heavier type, he
has written a 'Magnificat" in E-minor
which has been published and now
is used by some choirs and he also
has written a cantata, "Tubal Cain"
for baritone voice and chorus
Tyler was born in Columbus. Ohio,
forty years ago, and was the first OF
his race to graduate from Oberlin
College. Oberlin, Ohio. For his grad
uating theme he wrote piano som
alta in E-minor which has never been
published. After leaving Oberlin, he
studied voice under Herbert Wither-
spoon in New York and piano under
Prof. Ernest ~ Kroeger of st. Louis
For ten years he has been teaching
music in the st. Louis schools.
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DR.. MOTEN TO ADDRESS
SCOTTISH MEETING.

Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Sept U.s.
DR.. Robert r. Motion, has been in
yited TO attend and address the Scot
fish Churches Missionary Congress,
which will be in session at st. An
drews Hall. Glasgow, Scotland. Oc-
tober / TIL nth, 18th, 1871, and 2Oth.
Or. Motion will sail early In October
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SON OF FAMOUS JOURNALIST
INJURED.

Wy N = T y
Chicago. Sept 2S.-Charles Stewart
Jr.. the son az Charles Stewart, the
famous CORE pondent, was seriously
injured when run down by a. auto
mobile while performing hir duties
recently He is improving under the
care Of his neither at a locsl hospital
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on Africa in Transformation" deaI-
ing particularly with problems and
Of the African race; he
will address the assemhlage at the
afternoon session or the same date
on methods Of Missionary Service"
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
\ marshes i, shess'sshA ana the CONSEQUENT M ns.ar


i marshes rshes'sha ana the CONSEQUENT a. nssaar.
ing Of the sun baked ground there
came an outbreak of influenza in its
most virulent form. 1t spread east
and west. presumably because rail.
ways and caravan routes led in those
directions: hence the designation
Russian.
There is a we'll grounded belief
that Chinese Turkestan is the point
of origin from which the influenza
spreads, but this has not been estab-
lished as fact. The material fact
is that means of quarantine against
influenza has not been discovered. But
the disease would be more accurately
described as of Chinese or Turkestan
origin than otherwise, according to
our present knowledge.
Influenza is the most deadly cpl
demic disease that has visited the
United States. virulent or pandemic
outbreaks of influenza occur at in
tervals OF about a generation.
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
Evolution.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
There is still a link to time beyond
mankind's recalling:
There is still a menace when the
night is deep and stark,
And a brooding racial memory, unreal
soning. appalling
The vague old helpless horror of TIE
dark behind the dark.
A red sun sinking swiftly past the wide
morasses steaming,
A cave mouth black and yawnlng in
the lurid afterglow
With gnawed bones on the runway, and
a fieck OF flrelight cleaning
And that was hearth and home to US
million years ago.
People Of the Outer Dark--hairy, ape
like. savage.
Shrinking through the shadowed
swamps companied by our fears.
Gaining gear by violence. winning mates
by ravage---
Even so we lived and loved a thou
sand thousand years.
Preyed upon by fiercer beasts-creeping
things and flying.
Toothed and taloned monsters of the
prehistoric slime
Yet we bore a little light. dim but never
dying,
And we won the right to rule before
the dawn of Time
For we bore a little light--vaster brutes
have pershed.
Vanished utterly from earth; only
man lives on
BY the favor of the faith he has kept
and cherished
In the God who led him through the
darkness to the dawn.
G. 7. DAYIa.
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
Pillory's Victories.

III winning two $4,000 turf prizes
with a three-year- OF his own
breeding in the first six weeks OF the
racing season RIcHARD T. WILSON,
Jr.. has established a record.
When Pillory finished short head
In front of Hea in the Preakness
there was a disposition to attribute
superiority to Admiral GRAYsoN's
colt, which was overhauling the Will
SON candidate at the finish, but Pill
lory's victory over Snob II. and Hea
in the Belmont Stakes last Saturday
was so clean cut that there can be
no question as to the superiority of
Pillory, especially as the Belmont is
test Of mile and three furlongs,
quarter Of mile longer than the
distance of the Preakness.
Mr.. WILSON bred not only Pillory
but his dam. Hester Prynne, having
mated Witchcraft with Disguise in
securing the well named mare which
has foaled two good performers. Pill
lory and Dimmesdale, both of whose
names are singularly appropriate.
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
EDISON GETS DECREE
FROM RUTGERS TODAY
Will Be Made Doctor Of
Science at Commencement.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HrsALp.
New BRUNSWICK, N. j., June Ia
Thomas A. Edison will be honored by
Rutgers College tomorrow morning at
its 156th annual commencement with
the degree Of doctor of science in recog-
milton Of his achievements in the cause
OF civilization. The degree will be con-
ferred by DR.. william II. 8. Dcmarest.
president OF the college. A number Of
other honorary degrees and seventeen
graduate and l05 undergraduate degrees
are to be conferred. The exercises will
be held in the Rivoli Theater and are
open to the public
The program will be preceded by an
academic procession from Queens cam
pus to the theater. The exercises will
be followed by the alumni collation. In
the Balantyne gymnasium. at which Mr..
Edison will speak.
The class day exercises were held In
the Kirkpatrick chapel and on the
Queens campus at o'clock this after
noon.
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
Ballads on the Fence.
st. PauPs Early Importance in the
Retail Music Business.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Permit
me to concur In w. G. Stephens's state
ment that "the iron fence Of st. Pauls
churchyard was decorated by long lines
Of songs" and to add that ~. N" is
the one mistaken.
lie says. at least have never seen
any on this fence" neither have thou
sands of others. The iron fences Of st.
Pauls and Trinity's churchyards, the
fence of the City Hospital--then on the
west side OF Broadway opposite Pearl
street--and the iron fence around the
church triangle lot bounded by Park
row, Beekman and Nassau streets, were
feStooned with strings OF one cent songs.
the venders many of them, attracting
buyers by parading In front of their
strings singing their favorite songs as
the songs should be sung.
At, night was heard the appeal Buy
my hot corn of the women who util-
lied the churchyard's coping as shelves
for pans, tubs and pals holding steam
ing hot corn"
st. Pauls fence coping was also used
by Indian squaws. who pitifully asked
passersby to 'Plaze buy a pair ov mock
esins from a poor Ingine widder." The
squaws (?) came across the street from
Barnum's Museum. then exhibiting
Billy Bowiegs. the Florida Seminole,
and chiefs" II. NJ.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. June 0.
The New York herald., 1922-06-13

--TvTWTr----- TIUT
billion gallons of gas in them every
wear. The conscientious motorist
shudders as he thinks how he is
draining the national supply. The
optimist figures that when the petro-
leum is gone something will be ready
to take its place, perhaps a method
Of drawing power from the air. The
day may come when man may extract
motor power from the ether, but at
the present moment the entrance Of
the lowly corncob as potential
source of power is relief.
Another huge American industry
may be dawning. Looking ahead to
1860, ii is easy to imagine Jabez
Bloog. the Corncob King, giving a
billion dollars to the University of
Oklahoma. And our export trade.
Those nations that hitherto have
scorned to eat our corn will so in
for it headlong. The world will come
to know the solid qualities of flint
and dent and the rare sweetness
of Country Gentleman, Metropolitan
and Golden Bantam.
Home, James, and step on the cob
juice!
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
Rise of the Humble Corncob.

According to the Department Of
Agriculture. its chemists have prac-
tically solved the problem Of turning
the most useless American product
into the most rapidly disappearing
American product. That is, they
have made corncobs into motor fuel.
The name OF the liquid is furfural, a
chemical hitherto prepared by the
dfstillation of bran, sugar or wood.
1t will explode under normal motor
conditions, the Department explains,
but IL is not suited to the present
type OF automobile carburetor That
objection is a trifle, for the Yankee
i1lachiuist will quickly turn out q
carburetor capable Of vaporizing any
thing that is volatile enough to mix
with air.
The oil sharps say that within
twenty years-some make it ten
years-there will be no more Ameri-
can petroleum and that thereafter
this country will be compelled to rely
on Mexico, Colombia and other south
ern sources. The corncob is to save
our wells from going altogether dry
20 soon. The corncob supply, OF
course, is unlimited. Two or three
hundred billion cobs are burned OF
plowed under in the United States
every year. The corncob has beer
puzzle since. as the historians say
the dawn of time. Nobody has ever
made anything more useful than Q
pipe from it, and even this country
OF great smoking can't use five oil
six hundred billion Missouri meer.
schaums a year.
motor cars, Is burning nearly five
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
Old Glory.
lis 145th Birthday VIII Find 1t as
Young as Ever.


To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Our ma
tional banner will attain the venerable
age OF 145 years on Wednesday, June
IA. Despite its more than sevenscore
years Old Glory still waves in the
breeze with all the freshness and brisk
ness of perpetual and perennial youth.
Our national banner! Displayed on
Flag Day from Atlantic to Pacific. from
Alaska to the Philippines. upon that
day 1t waves over mansion and cottage,
over city and country. High above
crowded streets. over titanic skyscraper
and far below over tiny home ii exults
in the gale or flutters languidly in
the zephyr. Millions and millions OF
loyal citizens salute II, millions and mil
lions of citizens revere It.
Flag Of our Republic, whose domain
and population have vastly changed
since the Continental Congress OF l777,
Old Glory Is still Old Glory. II dis
plays the same thirteen stripes. alter
nate red and white, and a union of
stars. white in a blue field. representing
new constellation. But to-day that
union contains forty-eight stars repre-
senting forty-eight States. from Della
ware to New Mexico. Red white and
blue, our glorious national banner waves
bright and beautiful in June's sun
shine "O'er the land Of the free and the
home of the bravei"
CHARLES MEYERS HoLMEs.
NEWTON, Mass, June IL.
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
Art Treasures From England.
Purchases Made by Americans in the
Last Two Years.
From the Manchester Guardson.

From the Manchester GudrdtCn.
The extent to which America con-
tinues to draw from Europe It's art and
literary treasures is shown In the pur-
chases made In the last twenty-eight
months In London alone.
am informed that the total value
of these acquisitions during that time is
nearly 100000 This indicates that
despite the recent trade slump in Amer
lea it's collectors are able to bid high
for the treasures they seek. In 1920
these purchases In London amounted
to s10,10s,231 at the normal rate OF
exchange, on which the official calcula-
tions are made. Last year there was
drop, but even so the acquisitions
made in the British capital were valued
at s6.395,464
The figures for the first four months
of this year are we'll over those of last
year. although they do not. / under
stand include Gainsborough's Blue
Boy" nor, of course. the purchases just
made by Americans at the Burdett-
Coutts sale. AS June Is one of the
heaviest buying months for American
purchasers Of art treasures II Ia likely
that this years total will be well over
that for 1921.
II is interesting that the possessors
OF many of the finest private art col
lectons and libraries In America are
giving genuine students greater facili-
ties than used to be the case to see
theft treasures, and in some cases things
which have long been hidden in Euro
pean collections are now quite accessi-
Bile to students In AmericA.
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
Where Influenza Starts.

Investigation concerning the possi-
BILE difference between the Spanish
and the Russian influenza has led
to the conclusion that no material
difference exists. except that the lat
ter epidemic occurred in 1S90-91 and
the former in 1918.
The influenza of 1s90-91 was pan.
demic. 1t was called Russian because
its appearance in Russia first became
a matter Of worldwide concern. But
the outbreak did not begin in Russia;
ii was first noted in Bckhara, part
of Russian Turkestan. The plague of
1918 was described as Spanish with
out better reason.
The summer Of 1889 in Bokhara
had been exceedingly. hot and dry, a
season Of fierce, dust laden winds
Then followed hard winter, and
excessive rain in the spring con-
verted much OF the country into
marsh land.
With the drying up Of the
The New York herald., 1922-06-13
TUESDAY. JUNE 1s. 1922.
Old Stuff!

Everybody knows what the City
Hall gang will say about the report
of the Meyer investigating commit
tee, made public yesterday.
The gang will say that it is old
stuff, ancient history. And it is.
The voters knew before the last
election that the machinery of the
Department of Markets had been
made vehicle for the collection OF
graz" 1t knew all about the mar
ket man who said For money l got
hogay."
The public knew then that EDDIE
HUGHES, bosom friend of HYLAN S
Police Commissioner, made fortune
policing the city piers.
The public knew then that police in
spectors were playing the stock mar
ket and buying apartment houses as
If. their salaries were $4,000 a year
instead of $4,000.
The public knew then that one
Special Deputy Police Commissioner
loaned" a $4,000 motor car to Police
Commissioner ENRIGHT.
The public knew then that another
Special Deputy not only gave motor
car to ENRIeHT but paid him $4,000
as profit" on a deal in Morton Pete
"a deal in which ENRIGHT never put
upca penny of margin.
The public knew then all the scan
dsls of the dock contracts, the build
ing contracts and the license con-
tracts.
There isn't an important thing ir
the Meyer report that the public die
not know before the 1921 election.
But in spite of this fact there were
hundreds of thousands OF voters in
the city of New York to whom the
carfare bogey was more terrifying
than the exposure Of the Hylan ad-
ministration's sins Of commission
and omission.
Through all the dirt a five cent
piece seemed to be shining. II was the
emblem Of Hylanism. Mayor HYLAN
would protect the Peepul against ths
wicked transportation barons!
That was why HYLAN won.
Now, Of course, a great many o.
the men and women who voted fol
HYLAN understand that his five cent
fare was a myth. They know thai
there is no real five cent fare, as
HYLAN talks of five cent fares
throughout the city. They know that
HYLAN and his crew in the Board Of
Estimate are trying to prevent the
Transit Commission from putting
through a complete transportation
system.
To these people who are beginning
to understand HYLAN the Meyer re
port may be ancient history but 1t is
bitter history. 1t reminds them thai
they gave something for nothing. The
FIVE cent piece that seemed to shine
through the dirt has disappeared.
But the dirt sticks.