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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
DEMAND IMPERATIVE

The demand for nationwide con
ference is imperative. This conference
should not be fostered by any one of
eanization. but every type of agency or
interest now at work should unite up
on II call to consider "The State or the
Race" Political movements such as
the N. A. a. c. p. the Equal Rights
League, the Lincoln League. the Race
Congress; religious bodies like the Net
ional Baptist Convention. the African
Methodist Episcopal. the A. NJ. e. H..
the G. NJ. E.. and the NJ r. churches
as well as those of smaller numbers :;
moral and social agencies such as the
Y. M. G. A, the Y w. G. A business
and economic agencies like the Busi
ness League, the Urban League; educa
tional associations, fraternal organiza.
tions, the Federation of Women's clubs
the Press Association and all well es-
tablisred movements of wide ramifica
tion should be represented. The time
has come for all to pull together. If we
continue to pull apart, we will pull to
pieces. The whole is greater than any
of its parts. The members Of the BODY
can never cooperate properly unless
they become consciously subordinated
to the welfare Of the body as a whole.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
THE TIME RIPE.

The time is fully ripe for race con-
ference to deliberate upon the serious
phases of the problem, and as far as
practicable. to formulate a platform OF
principles and a program of programs
Of procedure.
The Negro group has special ana
peculiar interests and relations infin-
itely more serious and vital than anV
other subordinate element into which
our population is divided The pecu-
liar problems of the foreigner are tenn
pOrary and limited TO one generation.
The Jew is isolated only in religious
and semi-Tciigious relations of his own
making and preference. The Catholic
mode OF worship.
Tire Negro alone is separated from,
The rest OF the nGtiOn by the whole
diameter OF social difference which en-
tails Che regulation oil all OF the essen
M ipimacie5 OF litc This regime IS
Imnosed upon a,m. ;ic didn't make and
nc cannot Wr.Ec H. Special and syC-i
ir racial int -sts require as though,
.ul and a"-Wise dllibegatiOu as the Con
css gives To- tie 9iair- OF the Nation.
A-c yet today We tdVe no adequats Or
competent body to give our issues coua
itelrvusivG and StateSmanlike consider
alton. = present the various interest
and activities AT work in the field are
ahgCrbHG IN their own objectiycs AMI
ere wholly without efficient coOrdina-
zion or union Of aim and purpose. Tie
waste and friction are ineXcusable.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
KU KLUX IN WALES TERRORIZES
NEGROES AND CHINESE.
(Crusader News Service }

Cardiff, Wales, Jan. 4.-The Ku FJnx
XIan has crossed the Atlantic Oce1n
and has organized a klan here fl ON
among American residents and Bit
ish exponents of anglo-saxon unity and
world domination blythe anglo saxon
breed.
One Of the first acts of the lrcaI
liIan was to whip a Chinese found go.
ing with white woman They also
warned Negroes and Chinese to leave
this city. Most of the Negroes here ere
natives Of Africa and these have all or
ganized to resist the terroristic meth.
oGS OF the khan. Most of the West In.
dams here are Joining with the Af,i.
cans in measures for self-defense
shoula Ku Kluxism force the issue.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
ALABAMA FARMERS LOSE HOGS
HOT WEATHER CAUSE.

Huntsville. Ala. Jan. 3.-It is esti
mated that seventy-five per cent of the
hogs lost by Alabama farmers is due
to the changeable weather conditions
Three Negro planters living in north.
ern Alabama have lost over one hun
dred head due to these conditions. The
farmers claim that warm weather
seems to have a bad effect on the
swine. The changing condition Of the
weather seems to kill off the hogs us
though infected with some kind Of a
plague. Just what the trouble is can
not be fathomed by them. Government:
aid is being sought to determine tire
trouble.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
The AMERICAN nation RDD TO LYG DANGER SAYS REPORT ACTIVITIES DURING YEAR 1922
CHURCHES GAIN 9SG,0GO
MEMBERS IN 1922.

g 1922 was a banner year for
Is the larger denominations Of
as Christian churches in the U. S.
ss The figures for the year show
IS an increase in membership,
g money contributions and influ-
Sc ence. The membership reached
IS 100000 additions, an increase
~ Of 245,00O over 1921. The
- smaller churches stood still or
ss actually lost, while steady in
IS crea1es occurred in the larger
Sc ones.
ss Churches showing the greatest
ss increases are the Roman Cath
SIS olic, Methodist, Baptist, Presby-
s's terian. Lutheran, Episcopal and
;s Congregational. The actual
- membership of the Christian
IS churches in this country is now
sG 43,12O.000. These members
Sc contributed s550.008,000 to the
- churches. OF this, $40, 100000
ss was spent in foreign lands.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
ILLINOIS VILLAGE MARSHAL Is
WOUNDED IN GUN BATTLE.


Colp. Ill, Jan. 2.-Charles Baker
Negro Village Marshal here was fatal
ly wounded in pistol battle here last
Sunday. night when he attempted to
place bandit under arrest. The ban-
dit Melvin Bush. was finally appre-
hended by the Marion police and lodg-
ed in jail.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
KELLY MILLER.
Howard University.
MUST DEPEND UPON SELF.

Rev A S. Thomas. d. d. has been
w but is much improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. walter r. Davis
spent The holidays here
Mr.. c Walter Whiting. PrincinoI
OF the High School montgomery. "
va. spent the holidays here. the guest
OF his father, Mr.. r. w. whiting.
Mr.. Joseph r. Randolph was in the
c,ty rom December 24th to the 29th,
visiting Lis mother. Mrs. Martha
Reed, of 10 II. Jackson street. He
left for his home, South Norwalk,
Conn, after very pleasant time
with friends and relatives
Mr. ID. j. Farrar, General Contrac-
tor has improved to such an extent un-
der the treatment of Dr. William II.
hughes as to be able to visit friends.
lie hopes soon to be able to resume his
business activities.
Attorney Joseph r. Pollard.
known too as "the Senator" has been
confined to his home for more than q
week. He is under the treatment of DR..
.. h. II. Bowser and has had severe
attack OF the gout. He has improved
10 such an extent as to be able to be
out again.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
REAL JAZZ IN AFRICA.
(Crusader News Service.l
Principal

VCTUSdUtT NtWS otTVICt.D
New York, Jan. 4.-Chief Sakabona
Sonki lately arrived from the Trans.
vaaL says real jazz IS to be found only
in Africa and described an African
jazz dance witn 5000 tribesmen bound
ing about in a big ring with the lead
ing ballet female of the village doins
her stuff In the middle. Music is sup
piled by twenty tom toms q dozen or
so ga-gomas,, ladder with tuned
rungs and few manispartis.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
MAN VICTIM or HOLDUP, DIES
IN HOSPITAL.
fprcston Now s.ryiccl

.. preston News S'rvicc1
Woittsburgh, Pa. January 5-Henry
Walker aged % years died last Mon
day in the West Penn Hospital here
after lie had been taken from q hoard
ing house operated by Mrs. Anna
Chandler in Spring Way.
After the death Of Walker and wheu
his hody was taEen to The moreue, il
was reported that he had been attacN-
ed by holdup men and beaten i'm Penn
avenue near the police station on
Christmas night
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
Joseph r.
Major General Jones Here.

Major General Jones. of the Uni
form Rank of the great American
Woodmen, left the city today. after
spending four days with the local
Woodmen. A bali was given in his
honor at Johnson's Auditorium on
Tuesday night. He organized a lady
company while here and made last
ing impression on the members Of
the order.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
EGYPTIAN PATRIOT SHOOTS
BRITISH OFFICIAL.
CRUSADER News Service }

Cairo Egypt, Jan. 4.-The four
teenth attack on British officials IL
Egypt during the past three months
took place today, when DR.. Newly Rob
son of the law school here was shot
dead by an Egyptian patriot while rid
ing a bicycle through the streets. 1t is
believed the shooting was a political
one.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
PE0NACE CASES CARRIED TO SUPREME COURT
lncessant Fight Along the Race Line, for
Civil Rights and Liberties.

NEW YORK, December 29.-The
American Nation is reused to the
horror and danger of lynching mob
ism as it has never been before, ac-
cording to the 1922 Annual Report
of the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People, 20
Fifth Avenue, New York, of which
the following summary was made
public today:
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06
IN THE SOUTH

In the South, where ten years ago
only few solitary individuals dared
oppose lynching and where the crime
was commonly condoned by influen-
tial newspapers. public officials and
ministers of the Gospel, there is now
widespread opposition to mob muir
der. The opponents of ]ynching now
include such powerful organs as the
Atlanta Constitution, the Greensboro
N. G. Daily News, the Macon, Ga.
Telegraph, the Houston, Texas Post
and the San Antonio, Texas Express.
Powerful groups of white women
in Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, Ten
pessee and Texas have publicly re-
pudiated the lynching mob as pro
tector of womanhood," and such
courageous men as the Rev. Dr.. M.
Ashby-Jones OF Atlanta, Governor
John M. Parker of Louisiana and
Ex-Governor Hugh M. Dorsey or
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. 81
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06

1t may be just as we'll to anticipate
the objection that several such abor
tive attempts have been made before.
While no one of these efforts has been
permanent each endeavor has left =
residuum of lasting good. The race TO
day has more maturity and sound
judgment than ever before. Many will
recall the effort Of Mr.. Joel r. Spii
garn ut race conference at his Sum
mer home If an alien 70 the groui,
saw the necessity OF formulating a
common program surely we must heed
the self call to conference.
MUST DEPEND UPON SELF.
The Negro can no longer look to the
white man for intimate advice and di-
rection. No one outside of a group
can regulate the intimate procedure
for the inside. The white philanthrop-
lists have done good part The people
who must be helped forever are not
worthy Of being helped at all. Self ex-
preston on part Of the Negro will ell.
courage our white friends to extenG
the necessary assistance. But they can
not be expected to carry him on their
shoulders any further. The Negro
feEo eforth must walk with his own
legs. The white man can only furnish
him ii crutch.
Lyncbing and lawlessness of which
the Negro is the chief victim, tn. ,hi:t
OF population, congestion in cities ami
the acute situation resulting there
from, the moral aloofness and relig.
lous indifference of the abducted class
es the downward moral tendency of
IN" times in which our young people
aIc being carried away, the necessity
for cooperation in business and trade.
tie growing apathy of the white race
aad the need for concerted endeavor
to stem the tide all unite in demand.
ing the proposed conference at an earIv
date. The situation calls loudly for the
REQUISITE race craftsmanship. Will il
he' forthcoming?
Lo, have made the suggestion ana
invite correspondence and suggestion.
"AIl who are in favor Signify by
s,ying a."
(Signed)
KELLY MILLER.
Howard University.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-06

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Evening star., 1923-03-11

saw several men and women whose
positions in life had long been the
envy of others. Did the fact that
the owner Of. the home and his asso-
ciates moved in select circles make
any difference to the officers? It did
not. They proceeded just as II they
had been directed to raid one of the
commonest dumps in the city.
Neither did frantic appeals amount
to anything. The crowd was made
to feel the heavy hand of the law,
and it is safe bet to make that
there will be no more Carvings
on" in this particular domicile.
X y n X
r IEUT. DAVIS has been called
l. hard as nails" by those who
have watched his work. He does not
hesitate to go after any one: the big
ger the better or, as he says, it af-
fords an example to others. Sergt.
McQuade is the sort Of a man that
one would like to have by his side
when a scrap is imminent-a good
clean but hard fighter Harry Brewer
is Of like character and a man who
knows his business. Ruby, who CO.
operates with the squad, has been Of
material assistance to the local men
and many arrests have resulted from
his antts9taaos- r.. .-.5
Evening star., 1923-03-11

1aboring at % cents a. day, and have
talked with all classes who are earn
ing barely enough for their food and
cannot purchase new clothes.
Real estate here in Berlin is being
sold for song, and valuable indus
trial properties are being Deddled out
to the capitalists of other countries.
The intellectuals, by which I mean
Students professors and scientists.
are so reduced that the future of
Germany as one of the great forces
in advanced thought is in danger
and the moral condition of all seems
to be on the downgrade.
All this has taken place within
less than year and the situation
promises to grow worse and worse
unless something can be done to give
basis upon which sound business
can be planned for the future. Not
only this, but the same fate may
come upon France, and it is sure that
If the franc once starts on the to-
boggan slide of the mark that coun-
try will go the same way. If it does.
the savings Of the thrifty French
peasants will disappear in a. night.
and no one can foretell the results.
They will affect the whole world and
the pocketbook and welfare of every
man, woman and child in our country.
1t Is to describe this situation that
I have come into Germany. The re
suits Of my investigations will be
told in plain language in my letters
to follow.
Copyright 1923 Carpenters World Travels
Evening star., 1923-03-11

a suddenness that is startling. There
is a thoroughness about their method
that would warm the cookies of the
heart Of any efficiency expera
When they enter a place that they
have determined to raid they take
their positions as agreed upon and
there il very little chance of any one
in the structure being able to mako
his or. her getaway. Generally the
ones that have been caught make no
move in the direction of a possible
escape, for the members Of the vice
SQUAD are not men to be fooled with.
They have their own ideas OF what is
to be done II any one starts a rough
house, and it is not conducive to
health or happiness to try to fool
these men. They are there for a spe-
cific purpose and. no matter what may
happen, they carry out their inten-
tions. You cannot coax them, they
cannot be bribed, neither can they be
intimidated, for they know that their
actions, all within the law. will be
upheld not only by their superior
officers but also by the Commission
ers. ..-
A case TN point: Some time ago
not very long either. the squad raided
the home OF a citizen who stood rath-
er high in the community and when
thA. odanarA- emta1ed ths home thAX
Evening star., 1923-03-11
CHEAP MONEY.

T TETIL the war began Germany
~ was producing enough grain to
last her ten months Of the year. She
now claims she can raise grain for
only eight months and food for only
two-thirds of her people. If this is
SO, she has o00o0,O00 stomachs
which will have to be fed from the
outside. But she was spoon-feeding
half this number before the war. o
that the number is not so great as it
seems.
Germany has long since changed
from an agricultural TO an industrial
nation, and. s i'll Great Britain, the
profits of her factories. shipping and
foreign investments must pay the
bill. She is now peppered with up
to-date factories in which millions
are working at less wage per
month than an American machinist
gets in one day. Her shipping is fast
coming back OH the ocean. and 1T is
said that her profiteers have planted
hundreds Of millions of dollars in for
eign banks and other investments.
awaiting the stabilization of the
mark to use them at home.
AS to matters of transportation,
Evening star., 1923-03-11

Contrary to the general belief.
women do not play a very important
part in the work of the vice squad.
There are two reasons, the first be-
ing that they are adapted only to a
very limited extent to the character
of the work, and the other that sope
of 1t is nto the kind of labor that the
department cares to force upon MEM
bers of the fair sex. In case of ener-
gency any member of the local police
force can be called upon to assist the
squad, but this is seldom done for the
reason that the character OF the work
is such that specially trained officers
are necessary. 1t is totally unlike
any other police work and a man
must not only show special aptitude
for this form of police activity but he
must also be one who can do without
sleep and be willing to forego all
amusements and give up all thoughts
Of q happy home life.
That there Is real need for the
vice squad in the city of Washington
can best be realized, after one talks
with Lieut. Davis, who has no illu-
sions. He is cold, practical man,
who views conditions as they ara and
does not mince words in his descrip-
ton of existing conditions, for. as he
aeidA - 80.
Evening star., 1923-03-11

while Washington is not the worst
city in the world there exists here
today a condition that is far more
serious than the average citizen ap-
preciates. Why, every day we are
getting on track of law violators, and
if the public could follow us around
the clock, they would see that vice
in many forms does exist in this city
There is vice here of the most de-
praved character. 1t is not confined
to any one class of citizens. We have
made arrests that would shock the
community if they took the time to
read the papers and followed the
cases to the end.
What is the greatest menace"
That is a question that can hardly
be answered, for they are all a
menace. Every sort of vice is menace
to a community. We have people
who are immoral, some are un-,
moral, we have gamblers, bootleggers
dope flends, women of loose morals,s
to phrase it so that it can be printed.
we have people who parade under the,
guise Of respectability, but who are
not unlike those who lived in the
days of Sodom and Gomorrah, sup
posedly respectable people who are
on a par with those of the worst
centers in Europe or in the big cities
lContinuad on Seventh Pa4o,A :.
Evening star., 1923-03-11

it still runs the interest will be re-
dlced from s120 to less than two
and one-haIf cents. II the govern
ment 10 paying YOU pension of
$500 per year you will get that
amount in paper, but when you turn
1t into goods it will be worth only
10 cents. II you are widow and
your husband has left a $4,000 life
insurance policy which you can cash
in today the insurance company will
give you the money, but it's gold pur-
chasing value will be no more than
two dollars. 1t is the same with
eery kind Of investment. All the
solid accumulations Of the past which
have not been put into machinery
or material properties have gone up
in smoke, and all rented buildings
have been practically given over to
the tenants by the socialistic gov
ernment.
This means that men who before
the war, were worth millions now
have to work for their bread.
know Of business managers who a
short time ago had salaries from
$1,000 to $4,000 a year, and who are
now getting s1o month. hear of
baronesses and countesses who are
feeding upon their jewels which have
come down as heirlooms and Of girls
who to buy food are selling the
clothes and linen they have saved
for their dowries l have gone
through factories where tens OF
thousands of expert workmen are
Evening star., 1923-03-11

Germany has the advantage over
northern part is level plain and
practically the whole of it is a gentle
slope. toward the Baltic. Railroads
can be cheaply built and cheaply run.
The country now has enough roads
to make thirteen solid trunk lines
from Boston to San Francisco, and
the passenger and freight rates are
lower than in any other part off Eu-
rope. One can travel clear across Ger
many for less than two dollars, and
the taxi to the station often costs
more than a trip of two hundred
miles on the railroad.
The slopes are such that the coun-
try has vast net Of interior water
ways. 1t has three navigable rivers
which are connected by SO many
canals that if you could make a great
subway through the center of the
would not be as long as these water
ways upon which freight is carried.
have no figures for the present,
but in 1913 more than one hundred
million tons of goods were carried
on the rivers and inland canals Of
Germany. More than one-half of
this amount was made up Of domestic
manufactures. do not know the
wages paid on the interior water
ways, but those Of the seamen who
handle the big ocean ships are so
low that in making trip from HAM
burg to Calcutta the sailors found
their total wage for the voyage was
not enough to allow one to hire a
ftaAmnanr 70 take him OF, shore and
Evening star., 1923-03-11

nrira te estate at Friedrichsruhe, near
Hamburg. l had the honor of meet
ing him there and talking with him
on his seventy birthday, and
= few days later saw the boy kaiser
review the great Germann army at
Tcmpelhofcr Field, near Berlin. He
may have had visions of world con-
quest at that time. II was in 1902
That I came back again. to find the
country in the hands of a military
aristocracy built up by the emperor,
i'll which every one had to step aside
for the soldier and officer, and it was
not safe to laugh aloud at the kaiser
for fear of going to prison. I then
had my son with me, and wrote up
the American commercial invasion,
going through the factories and
studying the industries of the people
from one end of the country to the
other. Among other establishments
] visited that of the krupps, which
was making cannon and munitions,
preparing, as it were, for the war of
u dozen years later.
Nine more years elapsed, and on
the edge of 1911 found myself with
my wife and daughter at a great mu
sical festival in Munich, from where
we went up the Rhine and travelled
about here and there. At that time
the military forces were even more in
evidence, and had I been a modern
Daniel ] might have been able to
read the handwriting which was then
on the wall. Now, in 1928, two-score
years after my first visit. I am again
ON the ground. The sun OF the
A. aiser has risen and set, and the en-
VIA which bad lts posAssstouA In
Evening star., 1923-03-11

WITH a country and a plant like
w this, it seems impossible that
the owners could be financially
ruined but that is the actual con-
dition Of the Germans of today. They
number more than sixty millions and
/ venture over fifty-nine millions
have lost practically every cent of
their savings. This includes invest
ments in all sorts of gilt-edged
securities and all municipal and gov
ernment bonds. II includes stocks of
all kinds and even pensions and life
insurance policies. In order to get
the actual value of any such invest
ment you must divide it by five thou
sand and the result will give you
what it is worth today. If you own
a per cent mortgage of $4,000 the
mort rtgagee can satisfy it by the pay
ment of 40 cents gold value. and if.