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Milford chronicle., 1923-04-13

De are. The membership
iany nds arranged to pay
aspect V the aged granger and
citizen on that date. Soon after
st autos arrived, Mr.. Wilson
ted that something unusual was
hing. Regardless of his year, he
eady and heartily greeted each
i at the door with a vigorous
bake.
pastor, Rev spry. made some
pirate remarks and there was
I'm of vocal music preceding
Tx of Mr.. Wilson in response to
any expressions of good will Mr..
n INDUCED in some retrospective
hts of forty years ago and gave
easons for organizing Midland
ge and enumerated the charter
Ders-all of whom are now mem
they being all dead-With one
btion, Mrs. R. S. Johnston and
elf.
advised that. Changers should be
ipt in action in business as well
lagrange work-for after all use
Use of time is the great important
t. He advised that no offense
Id be given or taken at or during
discussions-fo it is only through
ussions that broadening views on
Subject can be made effective. The
brity should always Tule, thereby
Ting their success or allure as ex-
ives. A strong minoi y is safe
I'd in all matters, eitl r public or |
rate, but it is a mistaE for a min
y to be obstructive a. refuse to |
operate for success witt the major
for advancement.
lie said that the grange had advo-
ed rural delivery of maiP' forty
IFS ago-but the cities seemed to be
only point considered for many
hrs. It was only after his middle
hrs of life that this splendid advan-
&c for farmers came to be a fact. 1t
not conceivable that any person Of
lnd mind, would not sanction the
olishment of the rural delivery of
bill. What was good enough for the
ople seventy years ago would not be
lerated as service today; and, it
.ould not be.
He spoke of Woman Suffrage and
zeal Option and proclaimed them
tn the greatest blessing for human :
of the past hundred years. He said !
at every citizen should shoulder the
sponsibility resting on each man and
imam, by helping personally to On =
rec the Volstead Act, by giving in i
rmation and discouraging those vino i
ignore its enforcement.
hen it becomes general we will get
,ar from the degrading effect Of
the great curse con- n
nting us now. =,
others present spoke Of grange af- +,
rs os of more recent years, among II
Use were George w. Hatfield, c. R. !,
hes, H. M. Short, J. T. Wagamon, Fl
l others. Nh
)ne of the interesting parts was a /,
)er which was prepared and read by :,
IS Bertha c. Johnston, on the his :
y Of Midland Grange, which was \,
lcational and interestingly told.
he evening closed with sumptu- s ss
service of ice cream and cake a. a.
al rights being observed even in -
J part Of the responsibility, as the ~
les furnished the cakes and the al
1 the ice cream. w
t late hour the guests left after =
ressing their congratulations to
and Mrs. Wilson and hoping they
: have many more happy returns
heir birthday anniversaries.
Milford chronicle., 1923-04-13

You can't always tell whether a
man is rich because he is stingy or
stingy because he is rich.
Milford chronicle., 1923-04-13

i 1921,
bpears,
bic to-
If Fire
la con-
Re loss
review
lreau-
ste ex-
in the
b it be-
individ-
he ma
ear, the
~, was
elaware
,511,664,
farming
18th the
Is indi-
in only
stomary,
sor unre-
Uninsured
abulation
Board es-
be twenty
Stoves,
Pipes"
share of
,911. Fol-
rom Com
Matches
attributed
to smoke,
st in 1921
r than 25
ol houses, |
100000. APP
have been,
macadam
ltenance of
a score of
Of money
Fo-fold pur-
ons and at
lxes.
J sund1y in
h the main
Irgotten. All
was auto
{ for a time.
which, of
creased levy
lders. The
ng the many
lifted in the
hich must be
expense, too,
erything else,
oVershadow-
lcial burden,
q the injuries
pany with the
ware had to
e that at least .
and property =
are and know =
ed, and not to :
" of public in =
-tion Of fire, is =
" one who has =
interests and :,
Milford chronicle., 1923-04-13
A SURPRISE

was the eigh-
Fersary of Ma
b is a charter
ange of Sussex
Milford chronicle., 1923-04-13

8-astoe winter tour Of
IN4eerfanean Sea and the countries
rounding that wonderful part Of the
earth. His letter is brief in its descrip-
tive points. He is accompanied by his
wife and they will arrive back in the
United States some time in April.-Edi-
tor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
BRYAN NOW DECLARES
FOR White SUPREMACY
Commoner Changes Views to
Fit Mood of New Neighbors
in Florida

Washington.-Mr. Bryan left Ne
braska for Nebraska's good and has
been living in Florida during the past
ten years. He wanted to be elected
Senator in the last shake up in
Florida but he failed to connect. The
Boston Christian Science Monitors
Washington correspondent reports
Mr.. Bryan as follows:
He argued that the Jeffersonian
doctrine about all men being created
free and equal could not be literally
interpreted or enforced where there
is manifest inferiority as between
one racial civilization and another.
Amid such conditions, the superior
civilization, he said, would and must
be the ascendant factor. AS such as
cendancy has prevailed in the South,
Mr.. Bryan pointed out, it had made
for justice for the black under laws,
which, even If fashioned by whites,
protected blacks and their rights in
full measure. -
"Mr. Bryan told how that for a
decade he had seen those laws at
work. They had convinced him no
other system was possible. Men and
women of the north who lightly held
the south's way of meeting its race
problem to be reprehensible, speedily
would realize the unwisdom Of such
criticism, once they had, as he had
had, direct contact with the real
thing Mr.. Bryan declared Dixie's
method is immeasureably preferable
to the theoristic doctrines Of Massa-
chusetts or the experiment Of Illinois,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
CUTS DOWN POSTAL H0LDUPs
Post Office Department Has Reduced
Losses; From $3,2se.o17 70 $24,56S
In Two Yeara

Washington.-Losses to the govern
ment through mail bandits In major
mall robberies have been materially
reduced by the, relentless warfare
waged by the Post Office department.
They have aggregated only $24653
for the last nine months. compared
with $1,129,368 for the year ending
March 81. Two years ago $8,856. .4W
was stolen from the mails, OF which
$3,286O17 was recovered, leaving q
net loss Of $3,O60,8 800.
There were no major train holdups
or major mail-truck holdups In which
the outlaws made their escape with
loot In the last nine months. One
major robbery Of q post Office station
and two major robberies Of postal
messengers or mall carriers involved
ZOO. Of which $54, ,647 was recov-
cred. leaving net loss Of $24,65S.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
GARVEY MUST PAY BILL
OF $I,7OO FOR JAZZ

New York, Mar. Jazz must be
paid for, jury in the City Court de-
cided yesterday in the case Of William
Isles, colored, against the Universal
Negro Improvement Association and
the African Communities League.
On behalf Of eighteen fellow dis
pensers of syncopated harmony, Isles
sued for $1,700 due the Black Star
Line Band for providing the above
mentioned harmony at association
meetings in Liberty Hall.
The band severed relations with the
association last fall. It has been
playing every night for meetings in
Liberty Hall, but objected when asked
to play at a Democratic meeting in
The same place nothing against the
Democrats, just o case Of not believ-
ing in overtime work without over
time wages,
But when that matter was settled
by the bands disbanding, there was
still some $1,700 in wages due. The
Jury took twenty-five minutes to an
rounce 9 verdict Of $1,739.57 for the
plaintiff. 8 ],
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
INSURANCE COMPANY
EXPANDS ON COAST

Houston, Texas, Mar. 19.-(Pacific
News Bureau) The American Mutu-
al Benefit Association, one of the
largest and most successful colored or
ganizations in Texas, and whose head
uarters are in this city; has recently
established its second branch Office in
California.
Several months ago the American
Mutual invaded the Pacific Coast and
opened up Southern California head
quarters in Los Angeles. under the
supervision of Treasurer w. B. Cogle,
and Manager Mormon Houston. En-
couraged by their success in Southern
California. a. branch Office for the
headquarters of Northern California
has been opened in Oakland with
Presly Winfield formerly OF the
california Voice" as District Super
intendent. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
P|CKENS CLEARS
UP HE'LL ARTICLE
Author Say Important Words
Were Omitted, Giving
False Impression

New York-In a statement made
public last week, DR.. William Pickens
points out to the critics of his article
on religion in the February Messen-
ger magazine that he has been mis-
quoted. The statement says:
Our fathers used to say: "A false
report can travel 40 leagues while the
true report is pulling it's boots on"
The writer of this editorial said
recently and incidentally among
other things, that Intelligent. people
do not believe in a material hell, a
material heaven, OF universal bodily
resurrection. The reporters of these
words. perhaps to 'boil down" (or
to boil overj things, dropped the
ily," and reported: "Pickens says
That is just as if we would say:
fellow would report: "Pickens says
there is no moon"
Most of the intelligent and all of
the younger preachers we know, say
also that these things are not mater
ial, but that they are spiritual. So
that we did not regard ourself as
giving out any new information.
In the last 20 years we have heard,
we suppose, thousands Of ministers
use these terms, and none of the in
telligent ones yer spoke of a fire.
and-brimstone hell or golden
streeted heaven, except as figures of
speech.
People will learn by and by that
it is risky to comment on any i'm
portant report, unless we first verify
the exactness of the report. To leave
out an important qualifying word Of
a proposition, is to change the propo-
sition, is to make another proposition.
And the Germans say: lilies are like
snowballs-the further one rolls them,
the bigger they grow" ..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
FAKE SOLICITOR GETS
FOUR MONTHS IN JAIL

New York, Mar. 23.-Ralph Nor
ton. who pleaded guilty to collecting
funds under false pretenses, alleging
himself to be an agent for the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People, the Lincoln
Hospital of New York and other in
stitutions, has been sentenced to jail
for four months by Judge John p.
Kellogg in the criminal session of the
Superior Court in Bridgeport, Con-
necticut.
Reports of Morton's activities in
Connecticut, New York State and
New England came to the Advance
ment Association, which sent warn
ing to its branches in that territory,
obtaining evidence which was used to
bring about the conviction.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
MEASURE BANS
WEARINCMA
BEFORE PUBLIC
Sponsor Myrtle Cain is Prom
ised Passage i'm Senate Un-
der Suspension of Rules
TWO DISSENTING VOTES
Wis. Senate Passes Similar
Measure Without Any
Opposition

Representatives Myrtle Cain,
author of the bill aimed at the
Ku Klux K1an, prohibiting the
wearing of masks or other
regalia on property within the
view of the public, dragged the
measure before the House Tues
day and had it passed under a
suspension of the rules. The
vote was Sc to 2.
The two members voting against
it were Representatives G. A. K. An
derson and Lewis Duemke.
Representatives Cain explained to
the House members that she did not
have companion bill in the Senate,
and that she had been promised it's
passage in the upper branch under a
of the rules if she could
get it there within a few days.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
"Y" NOTES

Vesper services at the "Y'' Center
are growing with popularity, and the
audience on last Sunday was treated
to a most interesting lecture by DIR.
Earl Weber. The services Sunday,
March 25 offer a continuation of these
health talks by DIR. Weber, and the
public is cordially invited to join the
regular attendance. .....
The Tri-Mu Girls will hold a paper
sale on April H.. and ask that if
there are any old papers in your attic,
for you to call the Center and they
will be glad to send someone foI
them. p { ..z...-4
The dress-making and millinery
classes are holding many profitable
evenings, both from an educational
viewpoint and from pure pleasure
Mrs. George Mundell is instructor in
dress making and the class meets
Wednesday at 7:30. Mrs. Edith Pear
mon is teacher Of Millinery, and her
class meets Tuesday at the same
hour. You are invited to join these
classes and may receive information
at the Center. -. s.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
ANTI.KLAN BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
DYER Presented Cane
By Philippine Colony

80 New York. Mar. 23.-Representa-
tive Leonidas c. Dyer of Missouri,
who introduced the Dyer Anti-Lynch-
ing Bill in the House of Representa-
tives has written to the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New
York City, telling how, on a recent
visit to the Philippine Islands, he was
presented with. beautiful cane by
colored citizens. resident in Manila in
recognition of his services in behalf
of the Anti-Lynching Bill. His letter
says:
During my recent visit to the
Orient and while at Manila, P. l., l
was waited upon by a committee of
colored citizens of the United States,
resident in Manila, who presented to
me a very beautiful cane.
81 thought you might be interested
in this. 1t was very much appreci-
ated by me. >.1-
"Yours very truly,
IL. C. DYER"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
WISCONSIN SOLONS
BAN MASK IN PUBLIC

Madison, Wis.,, March 21.-Withcut
opposition the Wisconsin senate to-
day engrossed a committee on state
affairs bill making it a misdemeanor
for any person to appear in public
wearing a mask or other parapher-
malta to conceal his identity. Viola
tion of the proposed statute would
be punishable by a fine of $1,000 or
Imprisonment for six months.
This measure, aimed at the Ku
Klux Klan, is a composite of bills in
troduced into the senate by individual
members.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
Pson Case Decision
GTatifies Marshall

New York, Mar. 23.-Louis Mar
shall, one of the best known lawyers
of New York, member Of 8 state con-
stitutionaik eonyentiens. who was
counsel for Leo Frank before the
United States Supreme Court, has
written letter acclaiming the N. A.
A. C. P. victory in the Arkansas cases
as a great achievement in constitu-
tional law, and enclosing 500 for the
work of the Association. Mr.. Mar
shalPs letter is in part as follows:
81 am in receipt of yours of the 9th
instant with enclosed copy of the
opinion of the Supreme Court Of the
United States in Moore v. Dempsey,
which is exceedinglyss gratifying to
me, especially in view of the fact that
it has given the Supreme Court an
to adopt the principle for
which l contended in Frank v. Mag
nun, 237 u. S. -309, and which was
advocated in the dissenting opinion
rendered in that case by Justice
Holmes and Hughes. T.. ~. .s-~
l. am returning the opinion to you
with a check to the order of your
Association for 500 as hank-offer-
ing"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
WIDE INTEREST IN.
RACE CONFERENCE.
Six Organizations to Complete
Preliminary Meeting in:
New York Today
(Crusader Service)

New York, March 23.-Announce-
ment of a preliminary conference Of
six of the leading race organizations
for the purpose Of issuing call and
drawing up the atenda. for general
United Front Conference has ELECTED
considerable and enthusiastic COM
ment from the press of the country.
There are many Indications, too, that
the masses have been stirred to their
depths by this move on the part Of
their leaders for united action and a
common front against enemies of the
Race.
The preliminary conference was
called by the National Equal Rights
League and Prof. Kelly Miller, act
ing Independently of each other at
first, but later cooperating and COM
bining their calls. The preliminary
conference will be participated in by
the National Equal Rights League,
The African Blood Brotherhood, the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, the Ma
tional Race Congress, and the Inter-
national Uplift League and Prof.
Kelly Miller as one of the callers.
The meetings will be held today and
tomorrow in the Lafayette Building.
The sessions will be from 10 to II
mornings, and from 2 to after
moons. - T.. .~.... =,
The conference itself will be fol-
lowed by mass meeting tonight. at
Rev. Martins Church, 124 West 136th
Street, under the auspices of the Ma
tional Equal Rights League, whose
president, DR.. Shaw, Of Boston, will
be in New York early this week to
conclude arrangements for this public
meeting. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
LIGHTsHIP WARNS BY RADIO
New Vessel for Nantucket Shoals Has
Novel Fog Signal Device %
Warn Mariners.

Washington.-N Nantucke shoals, ozl
the Massachusetts south coast, one Of
the most important lightship stations
In the world. and the point where many
hn incoming traveller gets his first
glimpse OF America, win be marked
within few months by the last word
In light signals.
One Of tha new lightships under con
struction at Bath. Me-, VIII replace the
present ship on Nantucket south shoals.
It will have q radio fog signal TO warn
ships which pass, will be equipped with
electric signal lights and win have an
oscillator In place Of submarine bell
for use during fogs. The new vessel
win be fully equipped for radio com
munication.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
PREDICTS COLORED
RACES Will RULE
Man Who Prophesied World
War Sees More and Greater
Conflicts
CRUSADER Servicel

Berlin, March 23.-The "interna-
tional brotherhood" dream of we'll
meaning Socialists and pacifists, is
still far off. Wrong holds the world
enthralled and there can be no peace.
World peace is not to come until the
blinded civilized nations bleed them
selves white, and then the world will
be dominated by the virile colored
races. - -. =
There will be another generation of
wars, in which the United States will
be repeatedly involved
These are the prophecies Of Anton
Johanson. the aged peasant seer,
whose prophetic warning that "Bel-
gium would become a nail in Ger
many's coffin and whose urgings
against the great war which he fore
saw caused so much talk in court cir
cles between 1907 and s914, but were
DR.. Drander, the former Kaiser's
chief chaplain, became greatly inter
ested in the peasant prophet and in
troduced him at that time to more
than a dozen university professors,
writers and specialists in occult
science. ..-. ..--
Amazing FulfilIments
Johanson insisted that ''The Voice"
instructed him to warn ruling sover-.
eigns, especially the Kaiser, of i'm
pending danger against going to war.
Details of his visions, as related at
that time, were amazingly fulfilled,
and that fact is creating intense in
terest in his latest prophecies. -
He predicts that America is to be
involved in five big wars within tl(
next thirty years. Some of those will
be civil wars and one will be a COM
plication with Canada.
He says that about 1925, war will
break out between England and
India, beginning with a rising in
Northern India. The English will be
driven into the sea and 2500O, 600
persons will perish in that war. De-
cisive battles will be fought at Cal
cutta and Delhi. IS -.
Franco-Spanish War. ~z
Egypt and other African colonies
will follow the example Of India in
a series of uprisings. 1zs
In 1880 France and Spain will be
involved in a war.
Germany will be torn with internal
dissensions and conflicting revolution
ary currents until 1853 before the
country settles down and becomes
quiet again. =
Johanson forecasts a French Rus
sian alliance, and says that in the
Summer Of 1853 France will invade
Norway and Russia win invade Swed-
en-, ending in the capitulation Of the
Scandinavian peninsula.
Frances victories will be largely
due to enormous air fleets, in which
there will be surprising developments.
The prophets visions picture great
revolutionary movements throughout
the world. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
INDIANS ON WARPATH
SHOCK STAID GOTHAM
CRUSADER Service)

New York, March 23.-Three
Iroquois Indians got more firewater
than was good for them yesterday
afternoon, went on the war path and
descended with whoops worthy Of
their ancestors upon the corner Of
Myrtle Avenue and Bridge Street,
two blocks from the heart Of the
shopping district. BY the time the
police reserves arrived one Of the
busiest corners in the borough was q
wilderness in which no white man
was to be seen save two bruised and
battered patrolmen in . gutter.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-03-24
STORM TAKES TOLL
OF COLORED DEAD.
IN MISSISSIPPI.
Hundreds Of Cabins Wrecked
and Town of Savage Raced
By Tornado
CABINS HURLED INTO RIVER
Damage Estimated at $3.50, 900;
18 Dead, Is Hurt Say
Reports
CABINS HURLED INTO RIVER
CRUSADER Service)

Memphis, Tenn, Mar. 20.-Eigh-
teen dead, approximately 100 injured
and property damage estimated at
100000 to 100000 made up the
known toll tonight Of a tornado which
swept seven Delta counties in North
ern Mississippi last night, demolished
one village, Savage, and left trail
of property damage and dead and
MANNED in dozen or more towns and
farming settlements Several hun
dred were homeless. ="
Dwellings Into River.
= Of the known dead, nine lost their
lives when the storm battered the
remnants of the town of Savage
badly damaged two months ago by a
tornado-into bits, and carried half a
dozen dwellings, into Coldwater River.
Five colored people were killed
there. Several whites also lost their
lives. --. ~" q. -.
Six others lost their lives when
their cabins were wrecked near Lam
bert, and one colored child and woman
were killed at Walnut Lake.
OF the injured, about fifteen were
reported seriously hurss. Ten cSiored
people are among the seriously in
iured.
The storm. a whirling wind which
swept in from the Southwest, in it's
rush Northeastward tore paths
through the towns Of Olive Branch,
Holly Springs. Sardis, fernando and
Phillip, after levelling the village of
Savage and wrecking dozen or more
farming settlements and. .hamlets.
Holly Springs Hit.
Savage was tonight a mass Of
splintered wreckage.
At Sardis a dozen buildings were
wrecked and the front Of hotel was
smashed. - ~. e.. --.. 49,.
At Holly Springs the MeDermott
Hotel and the Frisco railroad station
was damaged.
Half dozen buildings were
wrecked at fernando and at Walnut
Lake the storm took its heaviest toll
on the plantation of L. G. Cannon,
where nearly q score Of cabins were
swept from their foundations and the
plantation dwelling was damaged.
Wire communication with the af-
fected area was still crippled tonight
and only meagre reports had been re-
ceived from inland villages in the path
Of the tornado. II.
Moving in path less than a mile
wide, the storm swept farming settle
ments about Lambert and struck next
with its full force at Savage, on Cold
water River, literally obliterating the
village. The only buildings standing
there were a portion Of the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley Railroad station
and a section house.
Last nights storm was the second
within a week in the Central Missis-
sippi Valley, q tornado on Sunday
wrecking the villages Of Pinson and
Leanburg, Tenn, IS miles east of
Memphis, and taking toll of II lives.
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