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The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
Negro Supervisor
For Balti. Schools

Baltimore, Md, June 2S.-A move
ment is on foot to have a co1ored SUI
pervisor appointed with Jurisdiction
over all colored schools. Mayor Jack
son called attention this week to let
ter from Carl Murphy, editor of the
"Afro-American," presenting the opin-
ion of the colored people In the mat
ter. A white supervisor now has
charge. Mr.. Murphy told the mayor,
"Colored people are in the dark as to
what the school board is doing and are
never called into consultation"
Mr.. Murphy also asked that the city
make provision for trade school to
provide, he said, 'for the hundreds of
colored boys and girls who drop out of
school each year because they do not
want an academic high school train
ing He asked further for the eXten-
sion of the elementary school system
'to provide for some 1,S00 colored
school children who are in forty half
time classes at present"
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
Mitchell Resigns
AS Pythian Head
Banker Und er Sentence
Says "He's Coming
Back Though"

Petersburg, Va, June 2S.-John Nit
chell, Jr., grand chancellor of the
Pythians of Virginia, resigned his of
flee at the state meeting last week.
Mr.. Mitchell is under a sentence for
three years, pending an appeal on
charges growing out of the receiver
ship of the Mechanics Bank.
Attorney William Reed of Ports
mouth, was elected TO fill his place un-
der orders of the State Insurance De-
partment into whose hands the affairs
of the Pythians have been placed since
the loss of it's funds in the bank fail
ure.
Mr.. Mitchell, resigning, issued the
following statement
mo sooner than the receivership of
the Grand Lodge of Virginia is ended,
1 will be the Grand Chancellor again,
and furthermore the Grand Lodge of
Virginia will NOT ACCEPT the propo-
sition of the Supreme Lodge offered
by Supreme Chancellor Green
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
Topeka, Kan, White
Newspaper Endors-
es N. A. A. C. P. Pro-
test

An editorial published in the Topeka
Daily Capital of June 10, 1923, en-
dorses a protest by the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People against the showing in
Kansas of ''The Birth of a Nation
film. Commenting upon the Associa-
tion's telegram to Governor Davis of
Kansas urging him to prevent the film
being shown, the Topeka Daily Capital
said:
"An Encourager of Race Hatred"
Not only state and local, but nation
al action has been taken by the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People against the
new attempt to show a vicious South
ern race film, THE Birth of Nation
in Kansas. In Governor Capper's and
Governor Aliens terms permission to
show this picture in the state was re-
fused. When the Association heard of
the appeal for an exhibition of the film
to Governor Davis it telegraphed the
governor urging that you continue the
splendid example of former governors
of Kansas in forbidding exhibition of
this film, capitalizing and spreading as
it does vicious racial prejudices which
should have no part in American life
"It is difficult to see any purpose to
be served by the revived attempt to
show this picture. There are no con-
ditions in Kansas warranting 1T. The
picture is biased as history and sec
tional in it's appeal. 1t can not claim
art as it's motive, for propaganda
sticks out all over it. Evil can easily
come of it in its power of stimulating
passion, and this is a sufficient obJec-
ton against any picture to which 1t ap-
plies. The Birth of a Nation has been
kept out of Kansas for reasons as
strong today as any time in the last
five years."
The Topeka Daily Capital is pub
lished of Senator Arthur Capper, who
is member of the Board of Directors
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colorado People.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
Ordained Catholic
Priest
Father Joseph John to Cele-
brate First Solemn Mass
Next Sunday

New York, June 21.-With Bishop
John J. Collins, S. J., formerly Bishop
of Jamaica, West Indies. and now sta
toned at Fordham University, officiat-
ing the Rev. Joseph John, Negro, was
ordained n priest of the Catholic
Church yesterday morning in the
Church of st. Benedict the Moor, Fiji
ty-third street near Ninth avenue. Fa-
ther John is the sixth priest of his race
to be ordained in this country.
On the altar with Bishop Collins,
during the ordination ceremony, were
st. Agnes Church, this city; the Very
Rev. Ignatius Lissner, superior of the
Lyons, France, African Missionary Fa-
Tiers, to which congregation the new
priest will be attached, and the Revs.
James OMahoney, Bernard ]. Quinn,
Thomas O'Keefe, Timothy J. Stanley
and John F. Curran.
Father John, who is Il native of
Grenada, B. W. l., was educated at st.
Joseph's College, Baltimore; Laval
University, Quebec, and with the At
rican Missionary Fathers in Holland.
and Carthage, Africa. Poor health
forced him to give up his studies in
Carthage and seek n more favorable
climate. Hence ii was that he came to
North America to complete his studies
The new priest has brother, Il
Dominican friar, in France, and a sis
ter nun in Trinidad. He will cele-
brate his first solemn mass next Sun
day morning in the Church of st. Ben
edict the Moor. The sermon on that
occasion will be preached by Mgr John
Il. Burke, national head of Negro Cath
olic Missions. He will remain in this
city short time and then proceed to
the South to do missionary work
among the Negroes.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
Arkansas Supreme Court Frees Negro
Poems
Poems

the grave of Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
the black poet.
They climbed the summit of the lit
tie hill to pause by the rough granite
rock with its bronze tablet which
marks the last resting place of one OF
Americas sweetest singers. Today
was celebrated the fifty-first anniver-
sary of the poets birth.
As he requested, the grave with its
wreaths and flowers is near to "de
noises in de road because it is in full
view of one of the cemetary entrances.
Mrs. Matilda Dunbar, the poets
mother, announced today that she had
Joined with the city in inviting the
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to make
pilgrimage to the poets old home
stead here at Christmas during its
sessions in Columbus.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
J. Finley Wilson En-
dOrsed for Re-elec-
ton Salisbury, Md,
June y, 1923

To the Members of the Tri-State AS
sociation, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia:
Whereas, the Grand Exalted ]. Fin
ley Wilson has given to Elkdom its
greatest administration in its history,
having organized over sixty new lodges
and twenty-five thousand new mem
bers, among which are the members of
the famous Ninth U. S. Cavalry, the
greatest soldiers the world has ever
produced thereby enlisting their BRAY
cry and manhood for the good of the
great order as well as for the race;
And, Whereas, he has invaded terri
tory hitherto known as no mans land,
including Georgia, Tennessee, Arllan-
sas. Texas, Alabama and Louisiana, the
very home of the Ku Klux Klan;
And Whereas, he has caused a great
revival of enthusiasm throughout the
entire realms of colored Elkdom, hav-
ing even gone from the confines of this
country and set the banner of the or
der to wave over the islands of the
seas and upon the Dominion of Can
ada;
And Whereas, he has labored most
faithfully for the good of the order in
general never firing day or night, even
to the extent of carrying on after be-
coming painfully and dangerously hurt
while upon mission for the order, ig-
nOring his own welfare, thereby risk
ing his life, after having been warned
by his physicians that he should imme-
diateIy confine himself to his bed for
thereby that he loved the grand old or
der even better than his own life;
And. Whereas, it is the purpose of
this convention to promote the good of
Elkdom;
Be it Resolved. that this Tri-State
Association and Convention l. b. P. O.
T.. W. go on record as unanimously en-
dorsing the administration of the pres
ent Grand Exalted Ruler and hereby
further instruct the delegates attend
ing the next session of the Grand
Lodge of I. b. P. o. f. w. at Chicago
in August, 1923. to vote first. last and
always for the reelection of the great
est Grand Exalted Ruler Elkdom has
ever known, in the person of J. Finley
Wilson.
And be it further Resolved, that a
;nI 1,n tI n
general press and to be duly entered
upon the records of the proceedings of
this meeting.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
Negroes Leave
Harding Meeting
Would Not Be
Segregated

st. Louis, June 25.-Such terms as
Outrageous" shameful ''dirty"
We're used by the Negroes of st. Louis
the other night as they were voluntar-
lily leaving the Coliseum before the
Harding meeting, which they had gone
groes left rather than to be forced to
sit in the 'buzzard roost"
Negroes to Third Floor!"
Large numbers of colored people had
arrived early, anxious to hear what
the President had to say on his $4,000
mile trip. AS they arrived, they were
greeted with "On to the third floor ~
by the ushers. Whenever Negro
stopped to ask the reason for the seq
regation, he was told by police that
unless he went to the peanut gallery,
he would be put out Neither police
ner the ushers would vouchsafe to say
from whom they had received their in.
structions.
Negroes Leave Immediately
AS the colored people arrived and
were informed where they were to sit,
they left. According to reliable infor-
nation from a few persons who stayed
only twenty-three Negroes remained,
these, it is thought, being newcomers
from the South who have not yet
caught the spirit of the colored st.
Louisan.
There is general opinion among
the colored people that, although it is
difficult to lay hands on any one per-
son as the guilty party, the mayors S
committee is responsible.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
Man 1O4, Born Slave,
to Be Seen i'm the
Movies

Los Angeles, Calf, June 2S.-Things
are beginning to break pretty soft for
John Currie, who says he was born
slave in Atlanta, Ga, in 1919, and is
therefore 104 years old, when he re-
ceived and accepted an opportunity to
embark upon career as a motion pic
ture actor. His part, however. is TO
be that of slave and it is thought
that he will possibly better portray
that part than any person available.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07

~HE six Negro poems who have
been awaiting retrial for more
than two years, accused of par
ticipation in the ract rioting in Elaine
county, Arkansas, in October, 1919,
were freed today by the Arkansas
State Supreme Court, the news being
sent by telegraph to the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, 20 Fifth avenue, New
York, which organization has led in
the fight to save the lives of these
men.
The rioting arose over the organiza-
ton by colored share-croppers of a
legal aid society through which they
planned to take action through the
courts to end vicious economic exploit
alton. In order to prevent such court
action the rumor was spread that
these Negroes had organized to massa-
ere white people and seize their land.
| Mobs poured into Arkansas and killed
| in three days more than go Negroes
| Seventy-nine others We're arrested,
death, while sixty-seven others were
sentenced to long prison terms, all
the convictions occurring within three
days while the court room was
thronged with a mob that threatened
death to any juror who voted for an
acquittal. The Advancement Associa-
ton employed lawyers, appealed for
funds and has fought the cases for
than $4,000.
In February the United States Su-
preme Court reversed the Arkansas
Federal Court in six of these cases,
and the decision of today frees the 9th
er six men. The cases in the Federal
Supreme Court were argued by Moor
field Storey of Boston, former presl-
dent of the American Bar Association,
and now President of the \. \. \. G. L.
James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of
the Advancement Association, in com
menting on the decision today, said:
"The decision freeing these men
marks the beginning of the end of the
greatest case of its kind in the history
of America. Back of lynching and all
the more obvious forms of race preju-
dice lies the fundamental cause of
much of race antagonism in this cOun-
try and that is the desire to exploit
Negroes in the South. One of the
primary causes of the monumental mi
grafton going on today from the South
ern States is the ardent wish of Ne
groes to escape such exploitation I'M
der the share-cropping and peonage
systems of the South from which white
and colored farmers alike suffer. The
successful conclusion of the Arkansas
cases is powerful blow at these in
iquitous systems and marks mile
stone in the fight for justice in Amer
lea without regard to color or race.
Great credit belongs to Mr.. Storey
and to Mr.. Scipio A. Jones, colored
attorney of Little Rock, who has con-
Quoted the defense of these men from
the inception of these cases"
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
NEGRO JOCKEY RIDES
BANADUR TO VICTORY

Paris, July 1.-Bahadur, French
bred horse, owned by Leon Mantacheff,
a Russian, and ridden by the veteran
colored American jockey, WINFIELD of
Kentucky, today won the President of
the French Republic stakes of 100000
francs mt the closing of the metropoli-
tan racing season mt st. Cloud. Bahia
dur paid his hackers ii to l.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
$4,000 NEGROES HAVE LEFT
SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE
NOVEMBER

Clemson, College, S. c., June 25.-
Fifty thousand Negroes have left for
ty-one counties in South Carolina since
November 1, with consequent aban,
donment of thousand of farms and
crops. according to survey conducted
by the extension service of Clemson
College.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
DU BOIS IS PRAISER
OF SEGREGATION

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 6.-ln
- this city, early scene of his la
l. bors. DIR. w. E. b. Dubois, we'll
known author, is fallen idol.
Before a large, cultured and deter
mined audience of progressive race
men and women assembled in Wesley
Church. Dr. Dubois came out HAT
footed for segregation and rule OF jim
Grow.
"We have segregated hospitals, sep
arate churches, race lodges, insurance
companies advertising racial 1dentlty'
our own undertakers, and finally
graveyards where only our blood Is
hurled" declared the critic OF Booker
r.. Washington, "and l, therefore, sio-
ry in separate schools"
The audience acted as if the flre de-
nortment had turned the ice water
hose upon it.
DIR. Dubois had been advertised TO
sneak against segregation, and partic-
ularly against the effort to make the
Cheyney school Jim Grow retreat.
The speaker took the other route
One of his utterances that cold-wa-
tered his listeners was TINS: otop
fighting Cheyney and Hill; let thehi
alone We must hang to segregation
to save our race"
Hill is principal of Cheyney, when
citizens of the state claim is jim
Crow school, and which they are op-
posing.
For an utterance less unpatrlotic
than that Booker T. Washington was
read out of the society of Respectable
men by DR.. Dubois.
AS the author went along his audl-
ence could see that his opposition TO
Booker t. Washington in the LIE tlihe
of the great leader was built on Jeal-
ousy.
DIR. Dubois, who boasts of his Har-
ward degree, is really product OF FISK
University, class of 'SS.
81 am proud of Jim Grow schools
declared the champion" because my
daughter is product of one
Likewise DR.. Dubois, although ne
never owned it until recently
The speaker was handled without
gloves and with large hands py D.
Francis Lee, Rev. VIM. Lloyd lmes'
ATTORNEY G. Edward Dickerson, Dr.
J. Wesley Bailey and Rhoda Triton.
Each speaker expressed surprise that
DR.. Dubois, supposed champion OIL
eoual rights and identical opportunl-
ties for our children, could fall from
grace with so much ease and seif-sat-
iSfaction. 90
The audience refused to respond 10
the Invitation to join the National AS
sociation for the Advancement OF Col-
ored People, and the collection piate
looked like pauper's oath when tne
offering was called for
His magazine, Editor Dubols salI, ,I5,
is a segregated proposition, anu Will
continue to be so. .,o,.
PhiIadelphians might call IN other
noted leaders to sound the tocsiIl
when big ideas are to be pressed put
it will be long time before tnis CITY
Dins its faith again to Dubois.
To the statement of the speaker tnat
his views were inherited from ms
grandfather one of the speakers salu
he would like to meet the grandfather
of a man who had so many views OH
one matter.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
Wreath Laid on
Dunbar's Grave

LET me settle when my shOuldahs
draps dey load
Nigh enough to hyear de noises in de
road;
Flu ink de las long res
Gwine to soothe my sperrit bes'
When Is layin 'mong de t'ings 1 allus
knowed."
Dayton, Ohio, June 27-Many per
sons visited beautiful Woodlawn Gene
terry here today to lay a flower upon
The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
DYER ON WET TOUR

Washington, June 2S,-Congress-
man L. G. Dyer, after winding up his
tour of the West in behalf of the anti
lynching bill, will soon begin a tour
of the East for dry law notifications.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-24
LESS WATER, HIGHER RATES

Perth Amboy has a great deal
of sympathy for the neighboring
towns and cities thai are up against
the water problem. AS IL to add in
suit to injury, the several water
companies that have attempted to
furnish water to these places, after
forcing the people to go through
the summer with a supply so meagre
that there was hardly enough water
to drink let alone to water lawns
and flush streets, + now attempt
ing to increase the rate, On what
ground they justify the demand for
a higher rate is hard to imagine;
surely 1t cannot be because of i'm
proved service.
Some of these people in neighbor-
Ing towns have been inclined to
stick up their noses at Perth Am
boy water, but Perth Amboy Is not
worrying. Perhaps the water here
Is a little d~iscolored once in a while
on account of the iron in 1t, but 1t
is pure and wholesome, and that
is the main thing. At least we
have not known what a water fam
Inc means in recent years, and the
rate is as low, comparatively, as
anywhere in the state.
Perth Amboy owns her own water
system and is proud of it. Not only
has Perth Amboy water for her W
use, but she has offered to sell to
nearby places at the same reason
able rate that is paid here, but the
other places prefer to go without
and pay an increased rate In the
bargain. Perth Amboy should
worry.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-24

of such politicians as verdon.
1t stands to reason that should
Johnson become the Republican
nominee and get elected, Verdon
would be the influential man in New
Jersey. 1t would be hard to imagine
O. greater calamity for New Jersey
Republicans. But that is just an
indication of what a calamity 1t
would be for the entire country If
Johnson should be victorious. At a
time when the people arc enjoying
the greatest prosperity in the his
tory of the country, when they have
more money to spend than aver be-
fore, and when there is every indi-
cation that the good times will con-
tinue, the voter will think twice be-
fore casting a ballot for Hiram
Johnson who thinks he has a remedy
for all the nations Ills.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-24
SAFETY. GATES NECESSARY

When the Philadelphia g. Reading
railroad has seen fit to place safety
gates at the crossing of st. Georges
road just north of Woodbridge. there
ought to be no hesitancy in insist
ing that the Pennsylvania railroad
place safety gates at the two cross
ings mentioned by the Board of
Freeholders at their meeting Thurs
day afternoon. Freebooter Quacken-
bush is to be commended for his
attitude on the matter. and 1t is
creditable to the freeholders as a
body that the Perth Amboy mans
opinion prevailed after the matter
had been thoroughly discussed.
The two crossings in question are
on the old Camden &c Amboy divi-
sion, one at Old Bridge and the
other at East Spotswood. There
have been numerous accidents at
both crossings, particularly the n
at East Spotswood. The crossing at
Old Bridge is extensively used, espe-
cially in summer, as it is on one
of the direct routes to the coast re-
sorts leading through New Bruins
wick to Matawan. The State High
way Commission has practically
agreed to help pave this road all
the way through to Matawan next
year so as to have 1t serve as a
relief to the main shore highway
through Perth Amboy.
Trains are run much more fire.
quently on the Camden e Amboy
line than on the Philadelphia &c
Reading branch leading into Port
Eeading. In an age like this when
the object is to abolish all grade
crossings possible, the least to be
expected is that safety gates will
be maintained at all heavily used
crossings. The freeholders should
push this matter with the Pennsyl-
and carry 1t to the Public
Utility Commission, If necessary.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-24
ADMITTING THE IMMIGRANTS

It Is announced by the labor de-
partment at Washington that Presi-
dent Coolidge has authorized that
all immigrants who have arrived in
his country in excess of the quota
allotments will be considered upon
their individual merits and may be
admitted under certain conditions.
The action emphasizes the need of
an adjustment OF the immigration
laws as they now stand. With the
labor shortage here so acute, and
with so many a~ble-bodied men out
of work on the other side of the
Atlantic, it seems a pity tina: there
cannot be some readjustment where
by the demands here can be sat
isfed without doing the American
laboror an injustice.
AS the law stands today, the ad-
Mission of immigrants into this coun-
try is limited to a certain ratio
of the number that is already here
from the country from which the
new immigrant comes. But this In
cludes men, women and children,
old and young. 1t follows, there
fore, that when an immigrant comes
over with his wife and children, and
perhaps his aged parents besides,
! there is only one worker to arrive
| With the possible six or eight that
the family re~resents.
It would be a mistake to brow
the gates wide open and permit
ANYBODY and everybody 70 come IN
as used to be the case. American
laws. customs and ideals would
soon be swamped and the very thing
that has made this country so al
tractive would be destroyed. But
America has lots of room for the
honest worker, and the fact that he
brings his family along with min
ought not to mean that for every
woman and child or aged person
admitted, a legitimate worker Is
barred. Unless something is done
soon to permit more honest labor
to come in, America is going TO SUI
fer and her prosperity will d.
brought to an end because of a lael
of men to meet the demand TO
help.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-24
JOHNSON IN NEW JERSEY

Hiram Johnson, having announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for President, is losing
no time getting his organization per-
fected. and starting his campaign
Johnson is a whirlwind when he gets
under way. and his demagogic tao
tics on the stump win a great many
unthinking people. He will be heard
IN New Jersey before very long and
will doubtless attract the usual
crowds, but If those who hear him
will go home and easo out with
themselves the things they hear him
say. they may not vote for him. after
all. when the presidential primaries
are held.
One significant thing about john
sons campaign in New Jersey Is the
fact that the man n charge, appar-
emily, is none other than William T.
Verdon, of Hoboken. Verdon is the
tvrical Hudson county poHuclan
only he is on the Republican side
of H.. fence, and the Republicans
know what that means in Hudson
county these days. 1t is interesting
to note that in the last election there
were two polls in Jersey City where
several hundred votes were cast, ye'
there was not a single Republican
ballot found in the boxes. Thai
shows what Republicanism means II
Hudson county under the Leadership