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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
Prohibition Brings Million To
Native Rum Runner In Bahamas
PRELIMINARY TALK
GIVEN CHEST WORKERS

Preliminary instructions and gen
eral information were given 40 cap.
tains and workers of divisions G OF
the Community Chest drive at Little
Pilgrim church, Thursday, September
20.
Speakers included C. Whit. Pfeiffer
secretary of the Chest, S. E. Hall,
division commander, and E. A. Carter,
secretary of the Urban league. These
speakers stressed the fact that colored
organizations. were receiving direct
appropriations from the Chest and
that colored people were receiving aid
from white organization in the Chest.
The necessity of subscribing the
Chest quota for the benefit of all
citizens was urged.
Speakers will be sent to the
churches and other organizations be-
fore the campaign October 1922.
The final meeting will be a dinner at
the Athletic club for all workers and
captains on October IL.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
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voice near Betty's ear, and she felt
tug and heard a rustling sound,
which turned her completely over, she
was so astonished.
The silk quilt seemed to have lifted
from the bed, and all the bits of gayly
flowered silks and the plain ones as
we'll were old-fashioned gowns-the
styles were in the days of hoopskirts
One flowered silk gown that seemed
to be more aristocratic than the 9th.
ers was rustling with indignation
ITO think am called old-fashioned
when I was brought over from France
for my lady to wear at the big ball
I am the latest style from abroad"
"Was, my dear-was," said SHIN
mering gown of silver and blue that
changed as it moved and the candle
light fell upon it. Betty thought she
blew out the light, but as she turned
her eyes from the beautiful dresses
she saw it lighted, standing on the ole
dressing-table.
The soft, silvery blue dress tried
to smooth matters over. "Why should
we get angry because we are called
old-fashioned?" it said.
"You were very beautiful that night
of the big ball, and your flowers are
as bright as the night you danced the
minuet."
This seemed to calm the floweret
dress, and it sighed as It said:
"Oh, that was a wonderful dance
I wonder what became Of the spine
that made such wonderful music tha
nightr
Here" was the reply which seemed
| to come from the foot Of the bed. I'm
here, friends, but sadly changed.
am really new-fashioned-not th'
beautiful spinet of the old days, bu
| made into a new and shining desk
All, that I, too, might be called old
| fashioned with the rest Of you!"
Betty saw all the gowns hurry t.
| the footboard and look over. q
"What is the matter with you?
they asked. "You have lost"
"Yes," interrupted the spinet desk
81 have lost my soul-the things tina
made me beautiful-and no longer cal
I make sweet music. I must be for
ever silent" ../..--
Betty laughed right out loud, l
looked so funny, and then to her SUI
prise she saw the sun peeking II
through the shutters. She sat up an,
| rubbed her eyes. The black borde
Of the beautiful silk quilt was on tn
floor at one side Of the bed. Sh
pulled 1t up and laughed at her dream
and Just then a tap sounded on th
door and Aunt Polly's smiling fac
appeared to Betty's ''Come In"
CO by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
ReaLtor Threatens
Residents With
Colored Neighbors
Colored People Resent Implied
Insult; Whites Had Refus-
ed Garage Permit

Newark, N. j., Sept. PIX. N. F.
ervice)-There is a sinking implica-
ton in the announcement Of Michael
Eaton, a white real estate operator of
68 Sussex avenue, East Orange, that
he will rent the former Dickerson
estate, at Al Broad street to colored
people, because other white residents
in the vicinity objected to the build
ing of garages on the Dickerson
property. The climax was reached
last week when Easton stated that the
estate would be rented to colored peo-
pie believing that this would bring
the neighbors to terms.
"If that doesn't bring some of those
people up there to terms" he said,
81 will put up a twenty-story apart
ment house and rent every apartment
to colored people. They talk about
running a neighborhood; I'll show
them thing or two about ruination." !"
Colored people here feel keenly
this insult because; it implies that
colored people are more detrimental
to real estate values than any one
else.
The trouble started when Easton
took title to the property. He said
his plans were to utilize the rear of
the al" shaped land for a row of up
to-date garages. When he sought
permission for their construction the
residents protested and refused to let
the garages go up, declaring that
they would ruin the neighborhood.
This balked, Easton had a sign
printed and posted on the property
reading: "THIS PROPERTY FOR
SALE OR TO RENT, COLORED
PEOPLE ONLY. APPLY EASTON
SUSSEX AVE. EAST ORANGE"
The sign was torn to tatters but
Easton stated that he would post an
other as soon as he could have one
painted.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
ASSOCIATEDPRESS
CORRECTS dance
HALL RAID STORY
Regional Secretary of N. A. A.
C. p. Secures Correction of
Examiner Story
NO DANCE HALL IN TOWN
Trouble Found to Be Between
COlOred Camps of Track
LabOrers

Following an Investigation by
Morris Lewis, Regional Secretary Of
the National Association for the Ad.
vancement of Colored People at Chi.
cago of an alleged riot ON July 80 al
Worth, ILL.,, when, it was charged
Colored men appeared at a commun-
ity dance hall and snatched white wo-
men from their partners before being
driven off by the police, the Associat-
ed Press issued a refutation of the
story as follows: r
"Chicago, August 23-Morris Lewis
Regional Secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, denied today the re-
port made by Chicago newspaper
July 80, of an alleged raid on COM
munity dance hall in Worth, Illinois.
"No such raid occurred" said Mr..
Lewis. "In the first place, there is
no community dance hall in Worth.
There are some 75 colored laborers
there. The story had it's origin in an
attempt by several colored laborers
to hold up the commissary of the COM
pany for, which they wsse working.
Four or five men were arrested. That
is the whole story"
What was virtually a correction of
this same story was released by the
Associated Press, August 16 and was
printed in the St. Paul Dispatch for
that date on the front page.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
Bahaman Native Logger Now
Owns Palatial Home, Rides in
Expensive Automobile; Pro-
hibition Has Brought Pros
perity to Islands.

LONDON, Sept, 18.-The amazing
prosperity which has come to the Ba
hamas as result of the liquor traf
fic between Nassau and the United
States is the topic of the fifth article
in the "bootlegging series" by H. De.
Winton Wigley, in the London Daily
News.
Fortunes of hundreds of rum rum
ners have been built up with incred,
ible speed, while the revenue of the
government has increased by leaps
and bounds. He instances one case
of poor mulatto who specialized in
rye whisky, for which there is an
enormous demand in America"
The mulatto is now a millionaire,
living in palatial home, driving an
expensive car and living high.
Another man scraped up enough
money to buy small ocean going
boat to smuggle liquor to Rum Row.
He soon founded regal fortune.
Hundreds of others have amassed
so much money as rum runners that
CHSy dIC HOW dUlS " live III dlluSIlCS,
own luxurious homes, yachts and au-
tos.
AS result of this unparalleled
prosperity, Nassau has a new mag
nifcient hotel built by an American
concern, which was loaned $780,
900 by the Bahaman government.
Many mansions are being built, cleo
trio lighting systems installed, new
water supply completed, new roads
constructed and the harbor deepened.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
RUSSIANS R|DICULE
j. S. FOR LYNCH|NG
Cartoons Liken Lynching Bees
to Cannibal Roasting Parties
in Jungle

In an interesting article on how
the Russian people regard America
which appears in The New Republic
of September 10, Arthur Ruhl, fam
GUS author and newspaper corres-
pondent, tells of the effect upon the
Russian people of news regarding
lynchings and mob violence in the
United States. p.
"a Moscow comic paper last sum-
mer published on its front page a
cartoon consisting of two. pictures in
parallel columns. One, representing
a group of African cannibals seated
around fire waiting for helmeted
white man to be roasted, was labelled
Tn .Barbarous Africa The other,
representing a Colored man burning
at the stake, surrounded by a mob
of gleeful whites, was labelled I'm
Cultured America This aspect Of
our civilization, which puzzles nearly
all Europeans, is an easy target for
satire and every once in so often
comes a cartoon Of this sort or an edi-
torial on The Brute with a Veneer of
Civilization"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
BETTY'S DREAM

~ on are going to sleep in the
L four-poster I had when 1 was
married." said Aunt Polly, opening the
door to her guest room and holding the
candle so Betty could see, "and this
silk quilt is made from pieces of my
dresses and those of many Of my
friends when we were all young and
danced as gayly as you do, my dear,
though I dare say you think Uncle
Peter and I are too old-fashioned to
ever have danced"
"Oh, no, indeedw answered Betty,
as she looked at the pretty bits of
silk in the quilt. II can almost see
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29

you in this fiowered gown dancing the
minuet. Did Uncle Peter wear a
satin vest?"
HE did, my dear, and the very vest
Is in that drawer-the bottom one.
Look at it, If you like"
Betty was looking at the big bed.
"How ever am to get up therer she
asked. Her nose was on level with
the billowy height.
For answer Aunt Polly drew q
small, two-stepped ladder from under
the frilly ruf1es of the bed.
Goodnight, dear" said Aunt Polly.
BE sure you pull that silk quilt over
you. hope you sleep WELL"
"How can help sleeping in this
wonderful roomful Of old-fashioned
things?" replied Betty.
First, she peeked at the wonderful
satin vest, then she opened the folded
quilt and looked long at the bits of
silks. "Oh, you wonderful old-fash-
ioned things!" she said aloud. How
beautiful you arew
"Old-fashioned, indeedw said q
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29

abode. Not long ago 1 read cur.
ious article by an intelligent Negro
in which he stated that it is easy fol-
very light Negro to pass as white
in the South on account of the fact
that large numbers of southemers
accepted as white have distinct Ne
groid features. Some of the worst
blood of western Europe flows in the
veins of the southern. poor white, now
poor no longer. The original strains,
according to every honest historian,
were extremely corrupt. Philip Alex
ander Bruce, a Virginian of the old
gentry, says in his "The Institutional
History of Virginia in the Seven
teenth Century," that the first native
born generation was largely illegiti-
mate. Zone of the most common
offenses against morality committed
in the lower ranks of life in Virginia
during the seventeenth century," he
says, twas bastardy."
"The mothers (white) of these
Dastards," he continues, "were chief
ly indentured servants, and had be-
longed to the lowest class in their ma
tive country" Fanny Kemble But
ler, writing of the Georgia poor
whites of a century later, described
them as "the most degraded race of
human beings claiming an Anglo
Saxon origin that can be found on
the face of the earth-filthy, lazy, ig-
norant, brutal, proud, penniless saw
ages"
The marks of their origin are still
unpleasantly plentiful. 1t is not by
accident that Negroes of the South
are making faster progress, econom-
ically and culturally, than the mass
es Of the whites. It is not by acci-
dent that the only visible esthetic
activity in the South is wholly in their
hands. No southern composer has
ever written music so good as that OF
half dozen mulatto composers who
might be named. Even in politics the
Negro reveals a curious superiority.
Despite the fact that the race ques-
tion has been the main political con-
Germ of the southern whites for two
generations, to the political excl,l-
sion of everything else, they have
contributed nothing to it's discussion
that has impressed the rest of the
world so deeply and so favorably as
three or four books bxGsouthern Me-
groes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
Upto.Un Sanitary Team,
Defeats Askin Marine

The Uptown Sanitary team defeat
ed the Askine- Marine team of Min
tneapolis, Sunday at Lexington park
by a score of 6 to 4. It was one of
the best games ever seen at Lexington
this season.
George Roach pitching for the Up
towns, had six strike-o outs to his credit
and only one clean hit was made off
him.
The Uptowns and the Askine-
Marine are playing a series of three
games for the colored championship
of the state, they play a double head
er, Sunday, October. z, at Lexington
Park.
About five hundred fans witnessed
the game last Sunday.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
J0HNST0WN, PA.
DEFEATS MAYOR
GEAR. AT POLLS
Mayors Order Proves to be a
Prediction Stunt to Get
Klan Votes
PINCHOT ACTS PROMPTLY
Runs Poor Fifth in Field of
Seven; Mexico Also In
vestigates Order

Clifford Pinchot, Governor of Penn
sylvania, on September 18, wired the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People at Ma
tional Headquarters, SO Fifth Aven-
ue, New York City, pledging that
"the whole power of this common
wealth will be used if necessary to
maintain constitutional rights" and
declaring that he had "wired Mayor
Cauffiel for full statement of facts
and reason for action taken" in the
wholesale deportation of Colored
people from Johnstown, Pa.
Upon being called to account by
Gov. Pinchot, Mayor Caufiel attempt
ed to deny he had ordered all Ne
groes and Mexicans to get out of
town declaring that he had merely
"advised" them to get out in news
paper interview. However, accord
ing to Associated Press dispatches
of September 20, the arbitrary action
of the mayor caused his defeat in the
primaries on September 19. In a
field of seven candidates he ran a
poor fifth. 80 - ~-s
The N. A. A. C. P. announced to-
day that it was determined to push
the case against the mayor to the
fullest extent. The Association has
a trained investigator in Johnstown
who is rapidly gathering evidence
which, it is hoped, will form basis
for impeachment proceedings against
Mayor Caufiel. 1t is felt that this
will be possible especially in view of
the fact that the Mexican Govern
ment through it's Embassy at Wash
ington has joined with the N. A. A.
c. P. in moving against the mayor.
An official note of inquiry was sent
by the Mexican Embassy to the Sec
retary of State of the United States
on September 10, requesting full re-
ports on the alleged deportation of
Mexican citizens from the Pennsyl-
vania steel town. The Embassy fur
ther announced it had instructed the
Mexican Consulate at Philadelphia to
proceed to Johnstown and report. The
Embassy contended the Mayor had
no legal authority to expel peaceful
Mexican residents.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
BANKS SHOW INCREASE

Washington, Sept, 27.-One econo-
mic result of the migration of colored
people northward during the past
year has been the impetus given to
the establishment of banks and the
growth of race bank deposits. Wash
ington, New York, Philadelphia, Chi
cago, and smaller cities are centers of
increased activities in the growth of
colored banks. Messrs. Brown and
Stevens, bank promoters of Philadel-
phia, are now observing their $780,
900 building, erected year ago, do
thriving business; and the Pruden-
tial bank people of Washington, after
a month of business, report splendid
growth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
GOV. WALTON BLOCKS STATURE
South Is As Sterile, Intellectually,
AS Sahara Desert, Says Fl. L. Mencken
World Would Suffer No Loss All the South Were be- Sub
merged Beneath the Sea, Declares Writer; Anglo.
Saxon Strain Not Pronounced in Dixie.
BY H. L. MENCKEN

Nearly the whole of Europe coule
be lost in the South-that stupen.
dous region of fat farms, shoddy cit.
les and paralyzed cerebrums; one
could throw in France, Germany anc
Italy and still have room for the Brit
ish isles. And yet for all its size anc
all IT'S wealth and all the progress
it babbles of, it is almost as sterile
artistically, intellectually, culturally
as the Sahara desert. There are single
acres in Europe that house more first
rate men than all states south of the
Patomac; there are probably more
worthwhile men in some single square
mile north of it in America. If the
whole of the late Confederacy were tt
be engulfed by tidal wave tomorro"
the effect upon the progress of civil
lied men in the world would be but
little greater than that of flood en-
the Yangtse- Kiang. 1t would be i'm
possible in all history to match So
complete a dry-up of civilization as
we see in the south. 1t is, indeed:
amazing to contemplate so vast va
Guilty and emptiness. What is need
ed down there, before the vexations
public problems of the region may
be intelligently approached, is a SUR
vev of the population by competent
ethnologists and anthropologists. The
immigrants of the North have been
studied at. great length. But the older
stocks of the South, and particularly
the dominant poor white trash. have
never been investigated scientifically,
and most of the current, generaliza-
tions about them are probably wrong.
For example, the generalization that
they are purely Anglo-Saxon in
blood. This 1 doubt very seriously.
The chief strain down there is Celtic
rather than Saxon, particularly in the
hill country. French blood, too,
shows itself here and there, and so
does Spanish, and so does German.
The Germans entered from the
northward, by way of the limestone
belt just. east of the Alleghanies.
Again, it is very likely that in some
parts of the South many of the pie
beian whites have considerable Ne
gro blood. Interbreeding under con-
cubinage produced some very light
halfbreeds-. at an early day, and no
doubt appreciable numbers of them
went over into the white race by the
simple process of changing their
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
$4,000 FOR ELKS HOME

A resolution passed at the recent
Elk's Convention at Chicago appro-
priated $4,000 for the first install
ment upon the purchase of the Elk's
National Home, to be located at West
chester, Pennsylvania, "a miles from
Philadelphia. The site covers 104
acres on the historic Brandywine and
will be home for aged Elks and their
wives.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
REV, NJ. A. n. SHAW
BURIED IN BOSTON
Rites Held for Famous Clergy.
man and Race Leader;
Thousands at Bier

Boston, Mass, Sept, %, 1929
With the large 18th Baptist Church
which he had just made clear of debt
and had pastored for "a years filled
to capacity limit and thousands stand
ing in the rain outside held back by
police resolve, sad and sincere honor
was given. the memory of Rev. M. A.
N. Shaw, M. D., todaysby the people
of Eastern Massachusetts, at funer-
al service as large and notable as
Boston has known for a citizen of
color. Never was sorrow and the
sense of personal loss and of race loss
deeper, never more willing testimony
to kindliness, nobility of soul, readl-
ness to use great medical, intellectual
and oratorical ability for individuals
and for his people collectively
The remains reposed in a handsome,
half-couch, solid oak casket. Flowers
from the family covered it, flowers
Law strewn below it, stretched out on
either side on stands fanked by the
clock of Bay State Lodge of Elks to
the left and the large standing cross
from the National Equal Rights
League OF winch >heV. oAdW was tnS
national president on the right. Beau
tiful and magnificent floral tributes
reached across the rostrum tier back
of tier with floral open bible from
the 18th Baptist Church on the right
and one from the Order of Tents on
the left of the aisle space left for
those officiating to reach the chancel
rail.
Rev. Shaw left to mourn for him q
devoted wife, Jessie johnson Shaw
daughter of the late Rev. Harvey
johnson of Baltimore, daughter
Iris, 8 sons, Albert, Harvey, Arthur
an aunt, several cousins, hosts Of
benefited friends and a grateful race
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
Accepts Position On
Kansas City Pape,

Roy Wilkins, who for the past nine
months has been the managing edi-
tor of The Appeal, has accepted a
position on the staff of the Kansas
City (Mo.) Call and will leave the city
Saturday, September 20. Mr.. Will
kins, who is graduate of the Uni
versity of Minnesota in journalism
and sociology, is the nephew of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Williams, 906 Gaul-
tier street.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
PET CAT KILLED

Pete. famous ambulance cat of the
Emergency Hospital, at Washington,
is dead, after the surgeons of that in
stitution had exhausted every means
known to science to save his life, and
Frank Yates, colored ambulance
driver is inconsolable. Pete, who
had answered a thousand hurry calls,
sitting beside his owner and friend,
went down to his death battling with
two vicious Airedales.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
CRUELTY MUST GO

Writing in the Chicago Tribune
Arthur Evans says the "Simon Legree
stuff" will have to be ended in the
south or that section will suffer
Undoubtedly the planters treated
the Negroes unfairly" writes Mr.
Evans, "just as the unprincipled ex-
plot the ignorant and helpless every
where. But they've stopped it. Senti-
ment is strongly against it, and if
they kept it up they couldn't get labor
for their fields"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
Next Dance Giue1 By
Metropolitan Club
Thursday, October 4

The Metropolitan club announces
that its next dance will be held
Thursday evening, October a at the
Coliseum, Lexington and University
avenues.
On all sides is heard the praise of
Little "Bennie's Argentine Red Caps"
the famous dance band that is playing
for all the dances at the Coliseum
this winter.
Mr.. C. L. Ray is president of the
club and DR.. j. R. French is secretary,