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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12
WATERHOUSELS
PUT over FIRE
lamping Scores Chamber
Head at Dinner
By FIELDING LENNON


That L. S. shipping board Of.
ficials and other men In Wash.
ington, ID. C.. had told him
that the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce is controlled by the
private shipping interests OF
Japan and England and that
these interests are attempting to
gain control OF the Seattle har-
bor thru Frank Waterhouse ami
his Clique" were charges made
Saturday night by Col George u.
Lamping In an address at ban
quet given In honor OF the In.
surgent members OF the legisla-
ture ut the Masonic club rooms.
1T would nc good idea for Sea,
tie to send an Independent delegation
TO Washington to find out exactl,
what is the matter with the Chambe
of Commerce here" Lamping said
Ask any OF the shipping board OF
ficials and they win tell you.
Time and again l have had thcs
men come TO me and psk, VIII,
doesn't Seattle clean out that Cham
Der OF Commerco7"
1samping assaiFed all interests tina
are fighting the development of tn
Seattle port and also directed his n,
tack at those members OF the legisla
ture who were responsible for tn
passage OF the law which takes iron
port commissioners the right 4
lease the horbor areas under thei
control.
This port Is your port he sait
1T Is being attacked by those VIII
wish to obtain monetary gain fror
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12
THE PROGRESS or CIVIL.
ZATION


A. A. Denny's COW gets loose
and wsnders up Second ave.
1867, Chickens wander up Sec.
ond ave. 1928.
CaEoe Of Charles G. Terry. APP
preaching AIld point, eapsiEcs
and spills keg Of whisky In bay.
Nov. n. 1851. Five hundred
kegs Of whisky dumped into the
bay. l92o-l925.
First Grand Lottery Of Wash
ington Territory organized by III.
l. Yesier, 1915. Slot machines
stIiI running in cigar stores,
: 1928.
Rev. David Blaine. pioneer
minister. collects $3.50 at first
church services held In Seattle.
Oct. 20. 1858. Local ministers
Try to equal record. 1s53.i9@3.
Down in san Jos, the storekesr
ers report heavy sales OF chewing 70
bacco.
our pitchers must be roundup
Into shape.
Sarnson's strength lay in his halt
but a pitchers strength Is in hi
plug OF tobacco,
Gosh. i0hat hHrler Coz. Ha'
tooald hare madei
Empires. no doubt. get into eond
ton By wiplng their hands on thcI
shirts and splitting on the wife
kitchen floor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12
SHORT STORY
Back 10 the bushes.

City chemist says crcosote Is be-
ing used for favoring moonshine.
Well. creosotc ought to be good for
hoolSsworms.
We hope the fashion experts don't
decree that women's dresses must be
modelled on the gown worn By King
Tut.
Think of winding your wife up In
ESQ yards OF calico ribbonl
King Tut must have got the idea
OF his funeral garb from the
wrapped leggings OF the doughboy
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12
poE,is. voR YOUR ASH CAN

In E1pptiH the carly days,
They hdd-Hot prohibition;
Their sIinniness tras caused
By simple maI-nutriiior.
Noio q Is plain to ererDone.
Professional or lnDmnn.
They must hare boo=cd 10 beat the
band,
Their King ieas "Tu-tank-Hdmen."
Contrib.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12

Business Is looking up for manu-.
facturers OF squirrel cages. The
city council is going to lease 100 one
man cars.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12

The newest. dance has been named
the "Tutankhamen Toddle." No
doubt It will be followed by the
Mummy March and the Egyptian
Earwiggle."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12

DUSSELDORF. March 1e.-Seven
Germans, two believed to be the as.
sassins OF the slain French officers.
Lieut.. Coffin and NJ. jolly, were shot
and killed today by French troops at
Buer, according to dispatches from
that city.
The two Germans suspected OF hav.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12

WEATHER

ToHiohf ard Tursdav. rain. nod
cruic to mesh sosthcastcrlv
tuiHis.
Temperature Last - Hours
Maximum. So Minimum "a
Today noon, 20.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-12

yERDICT FOR THE PROSECUTION
Tho Song OF Love by Charles
yeruehaeren. II grand painting. The
central figure IL woman In red
kfinono. a person who. one hopes, IL her
husband. IL asleep IA bed over In the cor
ner Of the picture. In fact one knows
he's her husband because he IL asleep
Art Note IN New York world.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
KU KLUx KLAN DESCENDED
FROM AFRICA

The Detroit Free Press carried an
editorial recently which is worth wide
distribution 1t is as follows:
1T is matter of common remark
that the Ku Klux Khan furnishes an
outlet for certain human tendencies
that have shown themselves repeat
edly in American history. 1t is per-
haps not so commonly known that
similar organizations begin to appear
at very low stage in development
Of human society, and that ethnolo-
gists have studied secret societies in
the heart of barbarous Africa that
are essentially the same as the Khan.
Among the less advanced Bantus, for
instance, there are societies which
function as governments within the
open and tribal governments. The
members wear masks, just as the
white hooded gentry of this country
do, and hold grewsome ceremonies in
the jungles which are for all the world
like the outdoor mysteries of the Ku
Klux. Their ostensible purpose is to
maintain law and order, but they de-
generate into persecutory and black
mailing gangs. Among the people of
the Pacific islands there are or have
been similar organizations and the
North American and Mexican Indians
also had masked secret fraternities.
But it is curious that the black
African organizations should so close
" resemble the Ku Klux Khan. In
deed the similarity of the two sug-
gests that white men may have OBJ
tanned some of their ideas Of the Khan
from southern Negroes who retained
memories Of African clans just as
they remembered their native myths
and folk stories.
Considering their attitude toward
the Negro, it is safe surnise that
the brethren Of the Khan will not ac-
cept this hypothesis gracefully, but
whether they do or not, one inference
which arises from the widespread ma
ture of their Institutional theories
among low savages cannot be es-
capped The Khan is throwback, as
the breeders say, to primitive an
cestral state. The Khan carries on as
Lit does, for the same reason the mule,
taking after the wild ass of the des-
ert, sometimes has stripes on its legs.
Putting the matter less fguratively,
the Khan is return to methods which
civilization has outgrown as it OUT
grew nose rings and cannibalism.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
ARTILLERY FIRE CAUSES OF
MOST WOUNDS IN WAR
Figures Of Recent Conflict and Civil
War Compared

Washington, D. C-Medical rec
ords Of the A. E. F. indicate that artil-
lery fire was responsible for 20 per
cent of the gunshot wounds. In the
civil war 90 per cent Of the gunshot
wounds were from small arms and
grenades.
The stitistics are based on a study
Of 245,7o0 civil war gunshot wounds
records and 1861 similar A. E. F.
returns. In more than 100000 civil
war cases and in 74,883 world war
cases, however, the nature of the mis-
sil inhicting the wound was not re-
corded.
Wounds resulting from artillery FIRE
in the civil war are classified as 9 per
cent from shell and cannon ball, I"
the "A. E. F. record showing 46 per
cent under the same heading. Under
grape, canister and shrapnel," how
ever, the A. f. F. shows "a per cent
and civil war records less than l per
cent.
The figures are Of interest in con-
nection with the designs for new he'll
NETS for the army. A special study
Of head and neck wounds in the A. E.
F. il now in progress for such light
as it may throw on the question.
The present records merely show
that 81 per cent Of all gunshot wounds
overseas were to the upper extremi-
ties, IS per cent to the head, face and
neck. per cent to the thorax, S per
cent to the backbone and spine and S
per cent to the abdomen and pelvis.
The civil war records follow the same
averages to remarkable degree.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
Member Of the CITY Council from the Old 14h Ward Who VIII
Be Reelected to 1t the New 32nd Ward.

ton, William G. Wilcox, Miss Mamie
Burroughs of Washington and James
Fl. billiard of Charlottesville, Va. The
Officers, including Mr.. Wood Chair
man, DIR. Robert R. Motion as Vice
Chairman, William Fl. Baldwin as
Secretary and A. s. Frissell as Treas
urer, were reelected.
The Executive Secretary Of the
League, Eugene Kinckle Jones, Pre-
scented his Annual Report showing the
establishment of four new branches
of the League, the establishment Of a
new monthly magazine "OPPOR-
TUNITY'', a journal OF Negro life,
surveys of the Negroes Of Hartford
and Of the industrial opportunities OF
the Negroes in Baltimore.
Record Of the work in local com
munities was also presented.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
Member Of the City Council from the Old Third Ward Who
Will Be Reelected to 1t from the New Fourth Ward
SOUTHERN LAW AND ORDER
COMMISSION

A suggestion has been made to the
governors of IS southern states that
they appoint a Southern Law and
Order Commission. The purpose OF
this commission is as follows:
First, to draft model bill for the
prevention of lynching; second, to Sc
cure its passage in each southern
state legislature; third, to create pub
lie consciousness for law and order by
a campaign Of publicity. The sugges-
ton came from the Southern Co
operative League, formerly known as
the Southern Sociological Congress, a
social service organization Of the
South. AS result Of their influence,
the commission has actually been APP
pointed.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
"AFRIcA AND'THE DISCOVERY
OF AMERICA" VOL. II

BY Leo Wiener. Published by
Messrs. lines & Company Philadel
phia, Pa. Price $500 postpaid.
This is the second part of work
TO be completed in three volumes Its
thesis Is new one; that Negroes
from Africa visited America before
Columbus and left their mark here.
This second volume concerns itself
with evidences in America OF African
civilization as seen in the introduce
ton of cotton, tobacco and shell
money
wish that ! might be able clearly
to present Prof. Wiener's argument,
but this is impossible because this
very learned scholar cannot present
it clearly himself. His book is for
experts who can disentangle salient
facts from a mass Of evidence, a mass
that shows learning prodigious in
its scope. Leo Wiener is professor of
Slavic languages at Harvard Univer-
sity; and in his hrst volume, he re-
lated his discovery Of African inhu-
ence in America. While working on
a comparative grammar of American
languages, he came upon number of
words that study told him were corrup-
+;ov,r ~ a doD+a+io ~ words need Nv
the Negroes in Africa, especially by the
Mandingoes. In this second volume he
tells especially of material signs of
African influence. There can be little
doubt that in some things African in
fluence was exerted before Columbus.
Probably the Mandingoes first reached
America in the middle Of the fifteenth
century, with the Portuguese explor-
ers. The Mandingoes were a sturdy
tribe, and if we look on the map we
see that the trip from Western Africa
to Northern South America was not
an impossible one, though it must
have required immense courage to
take it in a canoe. ] remember see
ing in Norway the open boat, like a
large dory. in which the Norseman
is reputed to have made his early
discovery Of North America. At least
the African came over milder waters
That they did come Professor Vie
ner does not doubt He shows us,
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
NEGRO PRISONER IN JOLIET
KILLED FIGHTING GUARD

Edward Douglas, colored, a prisoner
in the state penitentiary at Joliet, was
shot and killed Tuesday while at
lacking one OF the guards. The bull
let which killed him, fired from the
rifle Of another guard standing sixty
feet away, passed through his body
and slightly wounded E. S. Cochrane,
the guard with whom he was fighting
Douglas, who was serving a sentence
OF from three to twenty years imposed
in Cook county for robbery, had the
reputation of being dangerous pris-
oner. Although AZ years old, the rec
ords show that he has been repeatedly
disciplined for infractions Of prison
rules. On number Of occasions he
has been placed in solitary conhne-
ment for fighting with other prisoners
and attacking guards.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
NEVAL H. THOMAS PROTESTS
AGAINST NANNY" STATUE
IN WASHINGTON

Neval H. Thomas, member Of the
Board Of Directors Of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, has written letter
to the Washington Evening Star, pro-
testing against that newspapers edi-
torial endorsement Of the plan to erect
a memorial to "colored mammies" Of
the South in the national capital Mr..
Thomas refers to the plan as a "move-
ment having for its object to keep coll
ored people in their former. state Of
servitude" Mr. Thomas, after point
ing out that the measure is sponsored
BY Senator John Sharp Williams Of
Mississippi, continues:
"We are glad that the white race
appreciates the divine virtues of truth
and loyalty which the black nanny
had, and has in abundance, but it over
looks the other divine virtue that is
here, divine love for her offspring.
She bore her sufferings in patience be-
cause she believed that through them
Americas conscience would quicken
and give her children and her chill
dren's children the justice they 50
richly deserve. Ny own beloved
mother was one Of those unfortunates
who had the flower of her youth spent
in slave cabin, and / know the heart
of slave mother, its intense longing
for better things for her children.
Every black nanny who looks
down from Heaven today upon this
disordered world delights to see her
beautiful daughters and granddaugh-
tiers aspiring and attaining unto the
beautiful and the true in spite Of their
handicaps which the Southern spirit,
which proposes this monument,
throws around them She loves to
see them reading the best in literature,
filing positions of usefulness, taking
honors at the best universities in the
land, and reigning over cultured
homes. not as old nanny but as
dutiful wife and tender mother
so if the South has such deep
gratitude for the virtues Of this de-
voted group from which it reaped vast
riches, let It remove the numberless
barriers It has gone out Of. its way to
throw up against the progress Of the
noble Negro womanhood who sprang
from these 'mammies'. Democracy is
the monument which the 'colored
nanny wants erected to her, and not
marble shaft, which at best win be
but 4 symbol Of our servitude to re-
mind white and black alike that the
mental callings are our place in the
scheme of things
TO the above we say Amenl Amenl
Editor.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
BOOK CHAT, BY MARY WHITE
OVINGTON, CHAIRMAN, BOARD
OFDIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD-
VANCEMENT OF COLORED PEG
PIE.

among other things, two pictures, one
Of an African another of an Indian
stockade. There is indeed an extraor-
binary similarity between the two.
One is reminded of the interesting
chapters in Brawley's Social History
Of the Negro" concerning the close
association of Negro and Indian in
this country. Wiener has great
deal to say about tobacco, relating
the story of nicotine from very
ancient days to the sixteenth century.
Ii was brought by the Arabs to the
Negroes and they in turn brought it
to the Indians, possibly century
before Americas so-called discovery"
At first tobacco was used only by the
priests in their rites. In the wam-
pun with which the Indians first
traded with the Americans, we again
see an African origin. And lest the
African become too pulled up with
pride at this precedence we would
note that Prof. Wiener finds that he
got his civilization from the Arabs,
those marvellous folk who have been
consistently maligned by the Chris
tians through the centuries to today.
| have spoken Of the learning evil
denced in this book. | counted in
the word index references to II Eu-
ropean and Asiatic languages, to 10
American and SO African dialects, and
then stopped, not through, only tired.
One Of my friends, who is historian,
tells me that it is dangerous to base
historical research on seeming SINH
larity of language and that Wiener is
looked upon as somewhat hasty in so
doing He answers this criticism in
his preface where he speaks Of archeo-
logists who insist upon denying all
but the archaeological evidence and
shower upon an objective investiga-
tor veritable deluge of abuse" We
are sympathetic with the objective
investigator" and trust that the Man
dingoes did bring good things to this
continent, when they came here of
their own free will. When the evil
dence is more complete it will be an
interesting story for colored children,
that Of these brave black sailors who
dared to cross the Atlantic and who
carried thither cotton and tobacco
that their descendants, later unwilling
ly dragged here, were to plow and
reap.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17

person whose predjudices have been
fostered there have been many real
Americans who have accepted the
challenge to our traditions of justice
and fair-play and have become aroused
to throw their influence with the con-
structive forces.
THE result has been an increased
interest in and support Of the Urban
League movement and like situation
of the other forces for cooperation,
such as the Commission on Inter
racial Relations which is becoming SO
important an influence in the South,
and the activities Of the Federal Coun-
eli Of Churches Of Christ in America. I"
As material evidence of this increas-
cd interest, the Urban League an
nounced that four new cities had or
gained affiliated groups in 1922 and
that the income Of the national organi-
zation had increased $4,000 to total
of $43,486.
Announcement was also made that
friends Of the late Mrs. Harry Plotz,
who died III Paris last spring. had
raised 100000 which had been given
to the National Urban League for the
establishment of the Ella Sachs Plotz
Fund, the income from which is to be
devoted ito the development and train
ing Of some Negro man or woman
especially fitted for social and civic
service in the community" Mrs.
Plotz, who was daughter Of Samuel
Sachs, was an active member of the
Urban League Board and Trustee
If Fisk University.
Irving S. MerrelI, President Of the
Merrell-Soule Company Of Syracuse,
and a trustee of Tuskegee Institute,
and c. c. Spaulding, secretary-treas-
urer Of the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company, the largest
Negro insurance company, were elect
ed to the Executive Board, and among
those reelected for term of three
years were Felix Adler, Mrs. julius
Rosenwald, Mrs Booker II Washing
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
PROPAGANDA IN NEGRO
CHURCHES

Robert Whitaker, California radi-
cal pastor, is the head of a Fellow
ship group and is following a policy
of what he calls peaceful penetra-
ton" He has been preaching from
the pulpits Of Negro and Japanese
churches Of Seattle, Wash, as well as
in white churches, his message stress
ing the necessity of world brother
hood in the church, emphasizing on
the economic as against the dogmatic
aspects Of religion and bringing the
church into closer relation with the
problems Of labor.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
EX-SLAVE, "a, WILLS CABIN TO
WHITE FRIEND

Fayetteville, N. C.-Because "Mr.
Willie never failed him when he
needed help, William J. McAIister OF
Fayetteville. "a, ex-slave, who died
last Saturday, made William Fuller of
New York, general counsel of the
the American Tobacco Company, sole
heir to his estate. small cabin and
its furnishings. it was learned when
McAlister's will was found.
MY wife, now deceased. belonged
to his (Mr. Fuller's) father and
mother" read McAlister's will.
When / needed advice Mr.. Willie
never failed me- He may not need
my little home. I pray, but he viii
know better what to do with II than
I, and ! want to show my apprecia-
ton for what ne has done for me-"
Mr. Fuller formerly lived in Fay
ettevilIe.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
RECEIVES $4,000 GIFT AT
ANNUAL MEETING

Steady increase in the forces making
FOR cooperation between the Negro
and white races was emphasized by
L. Hollingsworth Wood, Chairman of
the National Urban League, at its
eleventh annual meeting in the Rus
sell Sage Foundation Building We'd
nesday afternoon. He reported that
the year 1922 had been the most inn
portant in the history of the Urban
League movement which started with
small group in New York spending
$500 in 1910 and has grown to a
national movement with branches in
more than forty cities spending more
than S25O0OO a year.
"The greatest handicap to better
inter-racial relations has been the in
difference Of the great mass Of whites
and this indifference has been due
largely to the limited knowledge by
the whites of Negroes, said Mr.
Wood. "The last few years have
shown new and significant change
which has come about through the
great migration Of Negroes from the
South into the industrial centers Of
the East and Middle West and
through the attention which has been
brought to inter-racial relations by
the exposition of Ku Klux activities,
by the Congressional debates on the
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, by the pub
lie discussion Of President LowelPs
attempt to scrap one of Harvard's
most precious traditions and by sim
liar incidents in which the Negro has
fgurel in the news.
These incidents have made the
great contribution Of focusing atten-
ton on this matter and for every
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
TO HOLD MEETING

The Virginia Society will meet IN
its regular monthly meeting on
Wednesday evening, Feb. 2lst, at 5o5S
S. State St. Election Of officers TO
be followed by program Every
Virginian IS asked to be out and to
bring a friend. M. T. Bailey IS presi-
dent. ]. B. Street, vice-president.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
VISITORS IN SUBURBS

There were several visitors from
the city in Morgan Park all day last
Sunday visiting with their friends,
among whom were Mr.. and Mrs.
John Schafer, Mesdames Ella M.
Blanton and Mary Duncan, who Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. johnson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Benton and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bedford Roberts.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
MUCH IMPROVED

Mrs. Sarah r. Benton, 1881 w.
l0oth Place, Morgan Park, is much
improved and as soon as the weather
permits viii Be able to be out after
being confined 70 the house and hos
pital for fourteen weeks.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT

Under the care Of DR.. u. G. Daley,
Mrs. Louise Ki1lion Of 3l42 Calumet
Ave, is improving after being dan
gerously i'll for several weeks and
being under the care of several other
doctors and specialists.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
AT ST. LUKE's

Mrs. Martha Henderson Of 1O84O
Glenroy Ave, i at St. Like Hospital
where she is TO undergo an operation
in short time.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-02-17
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