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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28

Call Authorities, Press and Pull
pit to Crusade on
Lynching

Mobile, Ala, April 26.-Plans for
an aggressive South-wide campaign
againt lynching were formulated here
last week by the Womens' Missionary
Council of the M. E. church, South,
which went on record in unmeasured
condemnation of mob = violence and
called upon the authorities, the pull
pit, the press and all good people to
unite for it's suppression. The fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted by
unanimous vote:
eWhereas, the defeat of the Dyer
Anti-Lynching bill has thrown back
upon each state the whole RESPONSE
bility for removing this hideous
crime; therefore,
"Be it resolved: That the Woman's
Missionary Council of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, in annual
session at Mobile, Ala, April ALL,
1923, do now demand of the authori-
ties of the several states that they
make good their claim of the right
of local self lf-government by proving
their competency to abolish mob vio-
lence and lynching.
"That as citizens we assume our
responsibility for the protection of
human life and hereby call upon all
the people of all the states, upon the
pulpit and the press, to join against
these barbarious practices"
A plan was adopted for ealisting,
in an Intelligent, systematic anti
iynching campaign, the 5000 local or
ganizations affiliated with the Coun-
ell, which have an aggregate member
ship of nearly 100000 of the SoutRs
most influential women. The plan
provides for study of lynching on
the part of each local society, for the
effort to secure in each state such
special legislation on this subject as
rlay be needed, for vigilance in the
prevention of mob violence, for ac-
tive cooperation with officials IN
bringing the members of mobs to
justice, and for sustained effort to
develop in each community a spirit
of good will that will make such
crimes impossible. Inpursuit Of these
ends, the societies will seek the CO..
operation of all other religious and
civic groups. The Council pledged
to the campaign both moral and fl
nancial support. Mrs. Luke Johnson,
who is director of Woman's Work in
the Southern Commission on Inter-
racial Cooperation, was reelected
chairman of the Councils Commission
on Race Relations.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
ST. PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH

Services last Sunday were we'll at
tended and profitable to all. The
sixty day rally got under full sway.
The rally is made interesting by the
two new clubs, the Reds and Blues,
who are in competition against each
other. .........-,.
The newly organized forum has
met the approval of the public as the
meetings have been well attended
and many compliments have been re-
ceiyed on the rendition of the short
and spicy programs. Last Sunday
Mr.. Roy Wilkins made very in
structive and enlightening talk on
Economic aspects of the race prob
lem" which was enjoyed by all who
heard him.
The attraction of next Sundays
program is a debate, Resolved, that
the Negroes conduct justifies jim
crowism." DR.. o. M. Waller and
Joseph Carr are on the Affirmative,
while Otis Woodard and Harry Davis
are on the negative.
The following Sunday the main
topic will be taken care of by Lawyer
Geo. w. Hamilton, Jr., who will speak
| on "Negro leadership
The forum programs always con
sist of the discussion of some sub
4 1ject that is uplifting and beneficia
to our race. Literary and musica
numbers are also given. The forum
meeting is at $3.50 every Sunda.
Iafternoon.
/ Everyone is cordially invited to at
ttend other services of the day. Sun
day school at $50 A. M. Preachin,
lat II. A. M. and p. M. B. Y. T
u. at $50 P. M. Rev. Z. j. Carr
tpastor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
HEAVY MIGRATION
TO NORTH ALARMS
FARMERS IN SOUTH
Survey Shows Large Numbers
Have Left Farms Since
September
$4,000 OUT Of GEORGIA
Jackson (Miss.) Daily Says Con-
ditions on Plantations
Need Improvement
lCrusader Seryicel

Washington, April 26.-Approxi-
mately $4,000, or 1870 of colored farm
Lands, or laborers i'm Georgia, have
moved North in the. past twelve
months. Since September of last
year 22,75O colored farmers have left
South Carolina constituting loss of
about 3 per cent OF the colored popu-
lation of the farms. These figures
were made public tonight by the De-
partment of Agriculture following a
special survey of Southern farming
districts ito check up the reported gen.
eral movement of colored farmers to
northern industrial centers. The sit
uation in Georgia is said to be more
serious than generally realized.
High Wages Cause.
High industrial wages is given as
the chief reason for the migration
of colored people from the South to
The North. Boll-wevil conditions last
years which made cotton growing un-
profitable for several colored farmers,
unrest among returning troops who
experienced more attractive living
conditions away from the South dur
ing and after the war, lynching, in
equality of treatment and breakdown
of contract labor system are given as
contributary causes The movement
of colored farm laborers from Florida
is estimated at 2 per cent of the pop
ulation of this class. Alabama has
lost 31a per cent of her total colored
farm population. Figures from Ar
kansas show a loss of $1,000 or about
3 per cent. The movement from Ken
lucky has been very. small and from
Missouri and North Carolina and Ok
lahoma no movement is reported.
Louisiana has lost about 1 per cent
Of her colered farms labor, and since
April z, 1922, Tennessee reports a
loss of 4,50O colored farmers. In
Texas the farm labor situation is not
so serious as in the Eastern cotton
states. The movement in Georgia and
certain other states goes on although
crops for the present season have
been started. A. large abandonment
of acreage is reported and labor
shortage is expected to be a major
factor in limiting acreage this season
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
MRS. FRANCES ALLEN
DIES VERY SUDDENLY
St. Paul Citizen for Many
Years Succumbs to Short
Illness

Mrs. Francis N. Allen, SGT Aurora
avenue, died Thursday morning after
a short illness of two days from acute
indigestion.
The funeral will be held Monday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock from the resi-
dence and at 2:30 from st. James A.
M. e. church. Simpson and Wills
have charge of the funeral arrange
ments. Interment will be at Oakland
cemetery.
Mrs. Allen was born in Nashville,
Tenn, and came to St. Paul in 1887.
A few years later she married Oliver
H. Allen who survives. She is also
survived by a mother, sister and two
nephews.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
KHAN ORDERS PASTOR
TO LEAVE NEW YORK

New York, April Is (K. N. F. Serv-
icel.-The Rev. C. II. Haaskarl, white,
pastor of Christ Lutheran church,
Ridgefeld Park, N. j., near here, re-
ceived letter last Wednesday, pur-
porting to come from the Bergen
county headquarters of the Ku Klux
Klan in which the clergyman was or
dered to leave the town within forty
eight hours. The pastor refused to
leave and is determined to force the
matter to showdown.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28

Rheinhart in Berlin and who was in
strumental in fostering the Moscow
Art group in America, the Ethioian
players have been developed.
The Ethiopian Art Theatre is COM
posed of GROUP of twenty-five color
ed performers gathered from all sec
tions of the world, who have a re-
pertoire of half dozen plays some
Evf.wsiefi have never been attempted
in the history of American theatri-
Gals. L .r.-rs .s. .s.~... p
The company is headed by Evelyn
Preer and Sidney Kirkpatrick. The
first International tour begins in New
York during the month of May, pro-
badly at the Frazee. A preliminary
engagement will be opened at the
Arlington Theatre in Boston, start
ing the week of April 80 The list
of plays to be given by this group is
as follows:
"Salome", preceded by 1.-THE Chip
Woman's Fortune" a colored folk
lore comedy; George, an express
ionist play from the German, in
twenty-five scenes; "The Follies Of
Scapin", a slap-stick comedy by Mol
aere, played with slap-sticks as writ
ten by this noted French author;
"The Comedy of Errors" by Shake
speare, played "a la Jazz" with a
jazz band, "The Tanning of Shrew,"
and one other ito be decided upon.
When the company opens, the bill
for , the first two weeks will be
"Salome", and will be changed weekly
thereafter. "Salome" is playing the
week of April 23rd, at the Lafayette
Theatre in the colored section of New
York City.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28

BILLY" Williams, who during the
last 20 years has shaken the hands
of many potentates, ambassadors,
kings representatives and high &C.
clesiastics, was reappointed as mes
senger by Gov. Preus late yesterday.
Billy probably is one of the best
known semi-public men in the state.
He first was appointed to his pres
ent position by Gov. John A. johnson
in 1904 and was sent up to the new
Capitol to get the executive vaults
ready for the advent of the new gov
ernor in January, 1905. This really
was before the new building was
completed.
Since that time the genial smile of
the messenger has greeted thousands
of prominent men and women, not to
mention mere officeholders within
the building. He has never held any
other job, and, according to state
men and politicians, he never will, if
future governors know their business.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
CONGRESSMAN DYER TO
SPEAK HERE MAY rs

The condition of the colored people
in the South, the activities of the Ku
Klux Klan and the Dyer bill are some
of the topics to be discussed by Rep
resentative Leonidas C. Dyer, father
of the Dyer anti-lynching bill, in his
speech in St. Paul, May 25.
Congressman Dyer, who comes on
a tour arranged and paid for by the
National Association for the> Ad-
vancement of Colored People, will
speak at Pilgrim Baptist church at
8 p. NJ" e. ~~v~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
Rainstate and Convert Your
Government insurance

Every ex-service man who has al
lowed his government insurance to
lapse should reinstate it Immediately.
No one can afford to be without pro-
lection when the United States stands
ready to provide it so cheaply.
We wish to give few reasons why
every ex-service man should carry
government insurance. i
l.. 1t is his duty to protect his
family. What would be the financial
condition Of your family if you were
to die tonight =? Would they be "well
fixed" or dependent on relatives or
charity? Certainly life insurance is
one of the best ways for man to
protect his family's future comfort.
2. 1t is one of the best ways to
accumulate an estate to leave your
family. As soon as the first pre-
MUM is paid you have an estate, in
case you die, equal to the face OF
your policy.
3. You need it in case you your
self should become totally and per-
manently disabled. Think for min
ute the situation you would be in il
you never could do another days
work.
4. Insurance money received from
the government is free from income
tax payments and all other forms Of
taxation.
S. It is also free from claims OF
creditors. It cannot sbe taken to sat;
lisfy court judgments.
6. Your policy is free from all re
fstrictions as to place of residence
travel or oceupationa1 risks.
X Regular policies share in the di
vidends from year to year, as may b.
derived from interest on investment
and mortality savings.
You should consider converting
into regular government policies
Ordinary life, 20 payment life, 8
payment life, 20 year endowment, 3
Iyear endowment, and endowment ma
turing at age of 62.
For full information write to
Id. Hibbard. District Manager, u, s
Veterans Bureau, Keith-P Plaza Bldg
| Minneapolis, MINI.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
N. Y. URBAN LEAGUE
-. MOVES IT'S OFFICE

New York, April 26 (K. N. F. Serv-
ice).-The New York Urban League,
branch of the nationa Organization
of the same name, will on May l,
move its headquarters from 1908
Seventh avenue, to the Community
House of the Abyssinian Baptist
church, of which Rev. A: Clayton
Powell, is pastor. James II. Hubert
is secretary of the local organization.
It is to this organization that new
comers from the South are directed
upon their arrival in the city.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
MANAGER ATTACK
ED BY DISCHARGED ACTOR

New York, April 26 (K. N. F. Serv-
ice) Samuel Craig, colored stage
manager of the Lafayette theater
here, was shot at several times by
James Bailey, an actor he had dis
charged some time ago, following a
matinee Performance in the theater
last week.
Bailey was arrested Immediately
after the attempted attack and is now
in Jail awaiting trial charged with
felonious assault and carrying q con-
|cealed weapon.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
SHERIFF ANDJUDGE
BOTH DRUNK, SAYS
= = .-r..a-
PEONAGE WITNESS
Judge Sentenced Men to Flog-
ging Camps While Drunk,
Man Testifies
BAR LAWYERS FROM COURT
Deputies Picked Migrants From
Freight Trains for $50
a Head
(Crusader Service.)

Tallahassee, Fla, April 26.-Testi-
flying before the legislative commit
tee inquiring into the death of Mar
tin Tabert in a convict camp, Jerry
M. Poppell, former jailor at Leon
county declared Sheriff J. r. Jones
had instructed him and other deputies
to "get busy, for this means money
to me-" The instructions were given
the witness said, after the sheriff had
signed a contract to lease prisoners
to the Putnam Lumber Co. for $50 a
head. Poppell said he was jailer for
twenty years and was discharged
after serving two years under Sheriff
Jones because he complained OF
sbrutal treatment of prisoners con-
fined in the jail" He said the sheriff
instructed him to persuade all pris-
oners to plead guilty. "Tell them If
they demand trial they will get six
months and if they plead guilty they
will get only three month" the for
mer jailer said he was instructed.
Got Drunk.
Poppell also said he. County Judge
B. F. Willis, the sheriff and all the
deputies got drunk frequently. He
was asked why Judge Willis was
available for impromptu night trials.
"He was around the court house
good deal and with his demijohn," he
replied. Poppell said after the Put
nam company contract was made four
to ten prisoners were brought to the
Jail daily, charged with riding freight
trains and vagrancy. All freight
trains were met and as fast as the
train crew could kick hoboes off we
would pick them up" he said. Pop
pell said he received a salary of $50
a month and witness fees, the latter
COMPENSATION bringing an exclama-
ton from Chairman Stokes. He re-
iterated, however, he received wit
ness fees and never attended court
nor was summoned to attend. If
the prisoners paid their fines, he ex-
planned he got dollar for every one
arranged, but if they took imprison-
ment, the county had to compensate
him, and therefore he received only
81 for the court day.
Kept Lawyers Out.
"When you arrested a man riding
on a freight train, what would you
tell him 2" asked Senator Stokes. ~
would tell him to plead guilty. Sher-
iff Jones' instructions were to keep
them away from lawyers. We knew
no jury would ever convict them. 1t
got pretty bad and it hurt me SO
sometimes when I would get fellow
I would slip Davis Erred H. Davis,
an attorney tip and he would ap-
pear for the defendant" said Poppell:
"Why did you do that?" Because
thought it was wrong, and after ]
heard of the way the prisoners were
being treated at the Putnam camp ]
decided to help as many as l could
Some of them on being returned from
the Putnam camp to the jail would
show me their lashed backs" he said
The witness said Charley White, a
colored man, suspected Of burglary
was whipped by two deputy sheriffs
to make him confess. Another col
ored man, accused of stealing a set.
ting hen, was whipped, Poppell said
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
JACK JOHNSON FINED
So IN TRAFFIC COURT

New York, April 26 (K. N. F. Serv-
ice) jackson Johnson, former heavy
weight champion of the world, was
fined 81 in Traffic court here last
Wednesday for failing to keep to the
right, when driving his car at Fifty
ninth street and Central Park.
Johnson's countenance plainly
showed that he had visions of another
iail term. He explained to the judge
that he had just received a cable
gram from Havana confirming guar
anty Of $4,000 to fight Farmer
Lodge in that city on May 6.
The ex-champion smiled one Of his
old time smiles when the judge let
his down with a So fine.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
CATHOLICS BUILDING
COLORED NURSERY

New York, April 26 Ok. N. F. Serv-
ice).-A feature of the building pro-
gram of the Catholic Charities of New
York, is an addition in the parish OF
st. Aloysius of a day nursery for
colered children. This new instltu-
tion is to be known as st. Benedicts
Dady Nursery and will have accom-
modations for 100 children.
The conduct of the nursery will be
in charge of community of colored
sisters who have been brought here
from the South for the purpose. Rev.
Thomas O'Keefe is pastor of the
church.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH

Everyone is invited" to attend our
services. Sunday school at 10 A. M.
Preaching at II A. M. and 8 P. M.
Christian Endeavor at $3.50 P. M.
Rev. H. L. P. Jones, pastor. |
On. Wednesday, evening, May 9, at
8 o'clock, the pupils of Prof. w. A.
Weir will give musical recital. The
program is under the auspices of the
Ushers Board. M. Love, chairman;
Lloyd Davis, secretary. Admission
25 cents. A beautiful wrist watch
and a radio set are to be given to the
first two persons who sell the largest
number of tickets. "
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
Wants Report.

Wants Report.
Z The foregoing statement does not
include $465.00 paid to the Steam
ship Company for the passages of
the South African brethren who at
tended the last General Conference,
nor over $500 expended for their
sustentation while here.
It is quite likely that Bishop Ver-
non will deny this statement, but we
have the vouchers signed by him, al
SO by Rev. Cow. It is just one
week today that we. sent him 5000,
as shown in the statement for the
South African work. Add the total
amount sent to him to the eight
thousand or nine thousand dollars
he received from me at the Bishops
Council in June, 1920, and the
amounts received from his immedi-
ate field by him for two years, to-
falling, at least, about eighteen thous-
and dollars, and let him report in de-
tail what he has done with the above
lamounts and / think he will make
quite creditable showing
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
BENEFIT A SUCCESS

New York, April % OK. N. F. Serv-
ice) The midnight show at the
Renaissance theater last Thursday
night for the benefit of the Howard
University Medical School, was a de-
cided success. The Eliza" company
and other artists and performers do
mated their services.
DR.. Murray Of the alumnae asso-
citation presided.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
VERNON CHARGES
'''SMoKE SCREEN"
BECKETT REPLIES
Bishop, in Answer, Asks for Ac-
y counting of $4,000 in
-. African Funds
DETAILSAMouNTS PAID OVER
Threatens Big Expose of ''Other
Matters" in Letter to
Follow
(Courier SerVicel

BROOKLYN, N. Y, April 26.-
"Bishop Vernon is not fooling any
body; at least, he will not succeed in
fooling me. I know him we'll. This
smoke screen and scuttlefish, tactics
that Bishop Vernon hasthrown out
is camoufiage. His main object is to
account for his failure to do any
constructive work in South Africa"
declared Bishop w. w. Beckett, head
of the Mississippi Conference of the
A. M. E. Church, in his singing re-
ply to the charges of his co-worker,
Bishop w. T. Vernon, that he had
unlawfully withheld $4,000 of the
money appropriated for mission
work in South Africa. In the Of
fetal organ of the connection, the
Mississippi leader not only flays the
formera government official for his
attack, but threatens to expose two
"other matters" in "Big Bertha"
statement to be issued later. The
statement follows in part:
Bishop w. T. Vernon has been
writing in the church papers about
me not turning over to him five
thousand dollars that was appropri-
ated by the Women's Home and For
eign Missionary Society at their
Dallas, Tex, meeting, toward erect
ing a representative church in Cape
Town, South Africa.
Turned Over $4,000.
have nver thought it worth
while to reply to Bishop Vernon's in
nuedos, knowing that he is natural
ly' .fatuous. turned over to him
at the Bishops Council held in June,
1920, at Wilberforce, directly after
the General Conference of that year,
aboutI or nearly nine thousand dol
lars-the balance of the monies
turned over to me by Bishop j. Al
bert Johnson when I succeeded him
in that field in 1916.
When the Missionary Board met
the following year after the General
Conference in 1921, Bishop Yer
non had written every member of
the board, complaining in his gen.
eral tympanitic, ~epiphytic manner.
The whole matter was discussed in
the board. 1 suggested that the So
ciety proceed to raise the balance, Of
the money at once, and that when
the full amount necessary had been
raised to deposit the same in the
Standard Bank of South Africa to
their own credit, secure an architect
and builder in Cape Town, through
Bishop Vernon, and begin work.
Bishop Vernon stated in his article
that he has not received any money
from the, Missionary Departmnt
since he has been assigned to the
South African work. We insert the
following statement of money sent
to his work by the Missionary De-
partmsnt, with dates and respective
amounts.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
MEMORIAL
SERVICES ON SUNDAY

A memorial service for the late J.
H. Loomis and J. @. Adams, pioneer
settlers of st. Paul, will be held by
the st. Paul branch of the N. A. A.
C. P. Sunday, April 20, at Pilgrim
on-the-Hin, Grotto and West Central
avenues. Hon. Daniel Lawler and O.
C. Hall will be the speakers. Music
will be in charge of A. v. Hall. The
hour is A P. M.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-04-28
Ethiopian Art 7heater Bringing
More Dark Stars To BroabUay
Company Twenty-Five COlOred Players viii Attempt Oscar
Wildes "Salomes and Shakespeare on Great White
xWay-Evelyn Preer Heads Company

NEW YORK, April 26-(K. N, Fl.
Service) Dark clouds are moving to-
ward Broadway. What is destined
to become theatrical triumph as
the Russian vogue is predicted for
the Ethiopian Art Theatre. Under
the direction of Raymond O'NeiL a
white man who worked with Max
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-18
HOME BUILDERS CASE REVERSED
25EACLE SCOUTS IN BISMARCK ON
JOURNEY TO YELL L0WSTONE PARK AS
REWARD FOR WINNING HIGH RANK

their departure being delayed be-
cause Of necessary repairs to one Of
the trucks.
The trip was made possible by
the Kiwanis club of Fargo, and ID
n reward to the Scouts for their ef-
forts in achieving the Eagle rank,
An Eagle Scout must pass the fol-
lowing tests: first aid, life-saving
personal health. public health. cook
ing, camping. bird study, path find
ing, pioneering, athletics or physi-
cal development, with ten additional
tests selected either by the local or
district Scout Council.
The boys are travelling in trucks
obtained from the highway commits
sion, the trucks being Of the sur
plus war property.
The Bismarck boys who Joined
the party were Bruce and Glenn
Wallace and Art Nathan. John
LIGHTHOUSE. member of the Fargo
trip, whose parents moved here re.
Gently, was to join the party but an
injury to his knee prevented him
from doing so. The boys are in
charge Of Scout Master Wastrom.