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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
COMMUNISTS TO
FIGHT ALL COLOR
Discrimination
Third Internationale Adopts
Thesis on Race Question
in United States
Fight TO LIFT UNION BAN
American Branch Of Party to
Act Against Discrimina-
ton Here

Especial to the Crusader Service.)
MOSCOW, Feb. THE following
excerpts from the thesis on the
Negro Question unanimously ad-
opted by the Fourth Congress of the
Third International which has just
closed its sessions here has caused a
sensation in the capitalist countries
of Europe where considerable fear is
expressed that the active advocacy of
the Negro Cause by the Communist
parties of the world will give cour-
age~and inspiration to the growing
movement for a free African and
universal Negro liberation.
The Thesis said in part:
"The sinews, blood and tears of
the freed" Negro helped to build
American capitalism, and when, hav-
ing become world power, America
was inevitably dragged into the world
war, the American Negro was de-
clared the equal of the white man
to kill, and to be killed for "democ-
racy:" Four hundred thousand col
ored workers were drafted into the
American army and segregated into
Jim Grow" regiments. Fresh from
the terrible sacrifices of war the re-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03

New York, Feb. 2.-Over the long
distance telephone from Washington,
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas,
who introduced the Federal Marriage
and Divorce bill in the Senate today
gave assurance to the National Asso-
citation for the Advance of Colored
People, 20 Fifth Avenue, New York,
that the clause prohibiting intermar-
riage of colored and white people
would be removed from the bill.
Senator Capper authorized the fol-
lowing statement to be made:
Senator Capper has stated to
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie that while he is in entire
sympathy with the general pur-
noses of the bill he did not draft
it and is not responsible for any
of its provisions. He said that
he introduced the bill at the re-
quest of the General, Federation
of Women's Clubs. Senator Cap
per added that the bill would re-
main in committee at least year
and gave assurance that he will
endeavor to see that when the bill
is reported out, it will contain
no provisions that will be object
able to the. colored people of
the country"
Senator Cappers statement fol-
lowed telegraphic, telephone and
written protests sent to him immed-
lately upon the publication Of the
news that the Federal Marriage and
Divorce bill contained provisions pro-
hibiting the intermarriage of white
and colored people.
The grounds of opposition to the
anti-intermarriage clause were stated
as follows in. a telegram sent to the
Senator by James Weldon Johnson,
Secretary:
'Colored people Of America
will not hesitate to oppose with
all their power the enactment
of any such prohibition, not be-
cause colored people advocate or
desire, intermarriage with whites,
but because such a law would
sweep away the legal recourse
and remedy which the colored
woman still has against the lust
of white men in those states
where there are no anti-inter-
marriage laws.
"To enact this law is not to
stop intermixture but to set the
stamp of federal approval upon
concubinage, bastardy and the
degradation of the colored wo-
man. deprived by it's provisions
of the protection of the institu-
ton of matrimony." .-...
Before Senator Capper's assurance
was obtained, the Association tele-
~raphed to Miss Halle @. Brown,
President Of the National Associa-
ton of Colored Women, urging her
organization to protest at once to
Senator Capper against the anti-in-,
termarriage clause of the bill.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
GIVING CHARITY TO NEWSPAP.
ERS

In addition to the good things in
the message of Mr.. Melvin Chisum
at the banquet of the Business
League there were some that did not
flatter the intelligence of the assem-
bled business men.
He asked them to believe that
white business concerns make up the
deficits of failing white dailies by
contracting for several pages of
"charity' advertising, that they think
so much of the services of the paper
as an advertisement that they virtu-
ally substitute it for the sake of the
indirect benefit that they reap. We
can imagine this to be true in only
two circumstances: where the daily
is the only one in the city, or where
the publisher has been or can be used
to promote the selfish interests of
the advertiser. Obviously in these
two cases it would be to the adyan-
tage of advertisers to substitute the
paper. But to ask the hard-headed
business and professional men of the
Twin Cities to believe that big bust
ness houses, as general rule, write
off the deficit of daily papers in
charity advertising is taxing their
credulity too greatly.
He followed this assertion with
and admonition to the colored bust
ness men to do likewise. THE AP-
PEAL is unalterably opposed =, to
such policy. The colored news
paper is business, not q charity
proposition, with a commodity to sell
and service to render. If colored
business men of the twin cities will
realize the value of advertising and
pay the market rate for space, THE
APPEAL will ask nothing more.
Just as the manufacturer calculates
his coat and sets price on his pro-
duct that will allow him reason
able profit, SO the newspaper man
sets a price on his advertising space
that will allow reasonable return
on his business. We want no charity |
and no support, if by that term is
meant the carrying of newspaper
on the shoulders Of business men for
loves sake. A fair price for a fair
service Is Al he newspaperman
asks.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03

The Christianity of white folk is
manifest in devious and mysterious
ways. The standards of the lowly
Nazarene are adhered to as long as
they do not conflict with good bust
ness principles-and the treatment of
colored folk. Comes now Pat Harri-
son, senator from Mississippi, pictur-
ing in an impassioned paragraph the
shame that his defendants will feel
when they see that prayer was not
Incorporated IN the Journal of the
Senate. They may bow their heads
in shame but it will be shame at the
thought that the Christianity of their
ancestors could rise in righteous in
sistence on routine prayer and close
it's eyes TO heather orgies of Missis-
sippians on black folk.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03

that the word Negro will be spelled
with a capital N; that 4 the word
Negroes" will be discarded; and
that orders will be given to mention
race only where such mention would
be applied to other races.
The Toledo Branch of the N. A. A.
C. p, worked through a committee
consisting of Rev. P. A. Nichols,
B. H. Fisher, and Albertus Brown.
This committee called on the editors
of the Toledo Blade, the Toledo
Times, and the Toledo News Bee,
leaving with each editor a written
memorandum, with suggestions for
lettering relations between the races.
The suggestions have been adopted
by the three dailies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03

eral action could not be taken to dis
courage the exodus of colored people
from the state. It was averred that
the colored people were leaving in
such numbers as seriously to inter
fere with the labor supply on the
and in the mills. Of
course the Federal Government. is
without authority in the premises.
The Atlanta Constitution, the lead
ing daily Of Georgia, has for some
time past been raging at the barbar-
ism which runs riot in the state and
which is manifested in a fiendish
treatment Of the colored man. An
instance is cited by the Constitution
in q recent editorial: Two men were
driving an automobile and the mach
inc became mired. They dragged an
aged colored man from his bed, to
which he was confined with influen-
"a, to help them out, and becoming
enraged at his inability to be of ma
terial service, they shot him in the
head, sliced his body to pieces and
threw them into pool of slush. This
appears to be an example of barbar-
ity of frequent occurrence in the
state. It is nice example to set for
Mexico, or Turkey, whose inhuman-
tiles we have criticized so frequently.
If anyone treated mule like that he
would probably at least be fined
even in Georgia-but the perpetrators
of this outrage appear to have gone
scot Free '---r-.-'--'------'''-- -'
The downfall of Spain came about
largely because of the inhuman treat
ment of the Moriscos and the Jews,
the former being the agriculturists,
the latter the financiers of the EN-
bireL Religious intolerance culmin-
ated in their expulsion, when the de-
cline of Spain became swift and GER
tain. Georgia has not attempted to
expel the colored man from her con-
fines. On the contrary she is get
ting pretty nervous because he is
leaving voluntarily. He is going
North and West. In Georgia he
must labor from II to Is hours q
day at low wages, he is denied the
ballot, although he is counted to
swell Congressional representation;
he has no standing in the courts
when in controversy with the white
man; lynch law is his tribunal; and
while the state rigidly enforces its
game laws it is always, open season
for shooting, knitting, or burning him.
Georgian interests are very much
peeved because northern and western
interests are coaxing away the col
ored people. The North and the
West have an answer for them, and
the world has it's opinion Of the
State of Georgia. which is uncom-
plimentary and which reflects on the
entire country.-Exchange.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03

turned Negro soldier was met with
race prosecutions, lynchings, muir
ders, disfranchisement, discrimina-
ton and segregation. He fought
back, but for asserting his mankind
he paid dearly. Persecution of the
Negro became more widespread and
intense than before the war, until he
had learned to keep his place"
The postwar industrialisation of the
Negro in the North and the spirit
of revolt engendered by postwar
prosecutions and brutalities spirit
caused which suppressed flames into
action when a Tulsa or other I'M
human outrage cries aloud for pro-
test and places the American Negro,
especially of the North, in the van
guard of the African struggle against
oppression.
Communists Hail New Spirit. }
sit is with intense pride that the
Communist international sees the ex-
plotted Negro workers resist the at
lacks of the exploiter, for the enemy
of his race and the enemy of the
white workers is one Of the same
Capitalism and Imperialism. The
International struggle of the Negro
race is a struggle against Capitalism
and Imperialism. It is on the basis
Of this struggle that the World Me-.
gro movement be organized. In AM
erica, as the centre of Negro culture
and the capitalization Of Negro
protest; in Africa, the reservoir Of
human labor for the further devel-
opment Of Capitalism; in Central
America, COSTA Rica, Guatemala,
Colombia, Nicaragua and other Sin
Repubics) where Amer
lean Imperialism dominates, in Porto
Ricai Haiti, Santo Domingo and
other islands washed by the waters
of the Caribbean, where the brutal
treatment of our black has aroused
the protest of the conscious Negro
and the revolutionary white workers
everywhere; in South Africa and
the Congo, where the growing in
naturalization of the Negro popula-
lion of world calital is stirring the
native populations into an active OPP
position to imperialism.
international Will Support.
Il. The Fourth Congress recor-
1izes the necessity Of supporting ev-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
FRATERNITY APPOINTS
-. DIR. HILL TO POST

DR.. L. Raymond Hill, 303 Court
Block, has been appointed a repres-
entative of the grand basileus of the
Amega Psi Phi Fraternity in the
central district comprising Ohio, Ind
lama, Illinois, Kentuck. Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
DIR. His work will consist of gen.
eral supervision and advice to Sthe
chapters of the fraternity in his dis
trict into five districts is the result
of action at the last grand con
ciave held in Philadelphia at Christ
mas time. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
S. ED. HALL HEADS -
DECORATION COMMITTEE

s. Edward Hall, membert of the
mayors advisory committee, has
been appointed chairman of the De-
coration committee in charge of the
Auditorium for the celebration of St.
PauPs birthday, March 3, according
to an announcement from the MAYORS
office Wednesday. The committee
will have entire charge of the decora-
ton of the buildings exterior and in
terror. :
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03

cry form of Negro movement which
tends to undermine or weaken Cap
italism or liberalism or to impede
its further penetration.
"2. The Communist international
will fight for race equality of the
Negro with the white people, for
equal wages and political and social
rights.
Fight To Lift Union Ban
SO. The Communist international
will exert every effort to compel the
trade unions to admit Negro workers
to membership or, where the nomin-
81 right to join exists, to agitate for
special campaign to draw them In
to the unions; failing in this, it will
organize the Negro into unions of
their own and specially apply the
United Front tactic to compel admis-
sion. +g~-E.s 70
"a. The Communist International
will take immediate steps to hold a
general Negro Conference or Con-
gress in Moscow.
United Labor Front.
"Now, comrades, l want merely to
add word on the Negro question.
On the clause dealing with the me
gro workers and the trade unions.
In the American Federation of Labor
Negroes are nominally admitted to
membership in most of the unions.
But there is absolutely no effort made
except in extremely few cases to
draw the Negroes into the trade un-
ions. In the United States we have
party instruments whereby we can
bring pressure to bear upon the Am
erican Federation of Labor to admit
the Negro workers. We must enter
into definite campaign to, accom-
plish this thing"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
PRICE CUT

Beginning February LIST,
the subscription price to
THE APPEAL will be re-
duced from $40 to $500
per year. This is one of
the first steps toward maxi
ing the paper the largest
as well as the Oldest and
most dependable in the
Northwest.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
the SIN or SILENCE

10 sin BY silsncs when We should
protest makes towards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pre-
test. Had no voice been raised against
Injustice. ignorance and lust, the In
quisit'on yet would serve the law. and
guiIIotinss decide our lsast dlsputss.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again 70 right the wrongs of
many. ELLA wheeler WIleex.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
DARK ACES

Some time ago representatives of
industrial and agricultural interests
in Georgia sought the aid and advice
Of the secretary of Commerce in
Washington to ascertain If some fed
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
Toledo Dai|ies Agree
To Capitalize NEGRO"

Activity of the Toledo Branch. of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People has re-
suited in pledges by the editors of
the three white dailies of Toledo, O.,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03

were attained, including the follow.
ing: --.-.-..
A $125,O00 high school addition
new school, and the Improvement
of others, in Louisville; q 100000
high school in Lexington; enlarge.
ment of high school at Richmond;
new buildings at Mayfield, jackson
La Grange and other points; partici.
sues in Bowling Green, Ownesboro
and Middlesboro; and additional
teachers and increased salaries in
certain places. .-.
The Director was asked by the
State Superintendent of Education to
outline q program for the betterment
of the Negro school system of the
State, and suggested the appointment
of colored supervisor, the raising
of the State Normal to college grade,
and the establishment Of a new State
Normal. This program was accept
ed. the first two steps have already
been taken, and the third is conf
IDENTIFY expected next year.
The Director was asked to assist
also in locating the eight colored
summer Normals and was requested
to address them all on the subject Of
interracial cooperation. He has taken
the same message TO the principal
white colleges of the State and has
been heard sympathetically every
where. Some of these great schools
have courses in interracial relations
and plans are under way to put such
courses in others.
Aids Playground.
Better Playground facilities have
been secured in Louisville, Mayfield
and Jackson and plans are under
way for municipal swimming pool
in Louisville. Legal aid has been ex-
tended in certain cases, privilege Of
membership in the Strawberry As
ISOLATION has been secured for the
Negroes Of Warren County, vigor-
Gus Health Week campaign was con-
Quoted, reaching 10000 people, and
one tense situation which threatened
mob violence was cleared up.
In addition to the State Interrac-
lal Commission, there are about sew
enty county Quantities in Kentucky
most of them functioning effective
" The method is that of frank con-
ference and sympathetic cooperation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03
THE NEW APPEAL

TIME brings changes and new ideas,
L new needs to be filled. A.--
FORnearly forty years THE APPEAL
l. has been in the vanguard of progress
in this community, ever motivated by the
belief that service to the people is above
every other consideration. 49,.
NOW the paper is in state of tram
l. sition. 1t is broadening its vision,
taking on new life, becoming in truth a
new APPEAL. - =.
rOME in and tell the new APPEAL
- how it can serve you better.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-03

5MMMmM NuMh
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13
Postman and Bill
Collectors Compete

Tho advantages Of having Uncle
Sam ar your banker. with his poe,
men as his advertising agents viii
be drmohstraied Wednesday OF ,hl.
week to all thrifty persons in seat.
tie who receive mail.
with every dun. winding Up with
please remit Immediately or soon.
er " possible" Will come a pam,
phio, advising you 10 deposit your
extra Jack IN the postal ravlugs Dc.
partmcnt
Bill collectors will be- followed
Into your home by a polite postman.
advising sou to place your money
in The handa OF the government.
rather than waste Il In riotous lis.
ing. Your conscience and tho Ap.
pearnneo Of the mail man and the
collector must hs your guide.
Postal Savings Week opens Mon
day and every poatmau will dis.
tribute literature setting forth the
advantages Of maintaining a postal
savings account, according to Post.
master G. NJ. Perkins.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13
After Stomach Pulng
Fails, AlVita Re-
stores Health

A Long Beach -woman, after SUI.
fering for 40 years with nervous
Indigestion, and using n stomach
pump with little avail for 20 years.
reports almost immediate relief after
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Having suffered for 40 years
with what the doctors termed merry.
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for the past 20 years, just wanted
to tell you that after using your
Alvita Tea and Tablets for two
weeks am entirely relieved OF this
trouble-and cannot recommend
your products too highly to suffer.
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Mrs. Mary A. Linton, 937 Califor.
MIA St, Long Beach. Calf.
Alvita In the recent scientific dis.
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simulated. Al1ta rs prepared In
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is a rich storehouse of the vital min.
cral salts and vltaminos. No mat.
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try this tonic OF nature now. A
dollar buys box OF Alvlta tablets
at any drug Observation-Disclosures.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13
MEXICO MAKES
.STRICTER RULE,

~ result nf The recent attempt
OF Tho Y. $ immigration authorities
TO spirit leper past tiYe Mexican
officials on the border. tho Mexican
department, Of foreign affairs has
adyiHed all It's consular officers and
diplomatic agents that hereafter ait
Immigration inspectors OF Mexico
VIII demand proof Of nationality
from all immigrants.
Advises 10 this effect were 70.
celycd At local cansulat offices Mon.
day with the suggestion that trans
pofta'ion companies 10 informed OF
ilw ruling that they may sell tick.
cts only 10 immigrants furnishing
lfEal proof % their nationality.
JoFp LARA. tho lcpcr convic, fom
The Mcneil island penitsnilnry. whose
case has assumed an international
aspect Is attn Ia a Loo Angeles hos.
p'ial following thr refusal Of Mex.
lean authorities 10 receive him after
Tho attempt % the q 4 officials 10
got Fid o. him became known.
Lin. while NATIVE %. Mexico
had ios' his si,iSenship thru pro
'rac'ed residence in this country
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13
Campfire News

/ CAMP FIRE GIRLS
one Of tho most beautiful Council
Fires ever presented az Camp Bculth,
came last Friday night. when Miss
Rowe Wright. Of Now York city.
WAS guest Of the Camp Fire Girls al
their summer camp on VaHhon IL.
land. Just az the sun was sinking
over the snow capped peaks OF the
Olympica the maldena Of sealth filed
slowly into the circle about tho fire.
Here the impressive ceremony wna
given
Seven girls representing the seven
laws Of the Camp Fire, came one by
one into the circle b0arlnE a torch.
and explained the meaning OF one
Of the laws Mlns Wight then spoke
Ga the girls on Treasure Boxes.
A. fitting close 10 the ceremonial
Miss Ruth Brown. camp director.
awarded the Bcaith honofs 20 tho
campers. Those receiving special
honom are. Best all around athlete.
Florence Dix. boht count book. Kath,
crime lilnckiey. best bead band.
peggy Stanley. best volunteer sery.
Ice. Margory 0Dnthnm. Martha Hnr
rin. Vesia Bowen. Madclyno NcKin.
Icy. smiling thru. Evelyn Kinyie.
from senior camp. ana Phyllis Yer
non; most courteous Eid. Beryi de
Glasgow. senior camp. and Fritzie
swanstrom. junior camp. most
thoughtful girl. Madclyn Mckinley.
hest swimmer. Betty HHmson. senior
camp, and Frances Moser. junior
camp, best diver. Katherine Hinck.
Icy distinction In baseball. Hernia
broome. rowing. Marguerite Ward.
senior camp and Madelyn Mckinley.
junior
Those who were awarded Junior
Woholo are Martha Harris. Gertrude
HoDtsehi. Betty Kennedy. Betty Itei.
Ter, Peggy Stanley. Louise Caldwell.
Betty King, Louise Powell, Mary
Jones. Emma Addatto. Alice Icnlor
Eleanor AoVay. Phyllis Vernon.
Emily Hays. Fritzie swhnsirom. and
Mndelyn Mckinley.
Good camper armhandA were re.
eeived BY Aileen waiteradorph. Eva
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13

well as dining tables or the bearers
OF a tiny rose bud vase.
The table in the picture Is Of ma
hogany. without scarf TO hinder
the clear reflection OF the blue CHI
nese jar In its waved surface.
The three framed pictures in the
photograph are landscape paintings.
with wide gilt frames oifsettlng
the strong colors and bold lines Of
the subjects
An important part Of this setting
which does not show in the picture
is n portable reading lamp.
Write 20 Marian Moore, care Of.
this newspaper. for advice or lnfor-
nation about home furnishing or
decorating. sending stamped ad-
dressed envelope for reply.)
Question: What color Of wicker
furniture should get to place in
room with brown walnut furniture?
Is Il used the year around7-Mrs.
McC.
Answer: Brown, old Ivory, or tan.
Certainly, use II the year round.
Question: What should | place
on my sun porch 10 use as an
emergency bedf-G. r. ].
Answer: An upholstered swing,
or couch hammock. Tie the corner
to the frame which supports II, TO
anchor against swinging, and Il
makes a fine bed.
Copyright. American Homes Bureau.