The northwestern bulletin., 1923-11-10
SHORT CUTS
(Lincoln Service)


Henry Ford proposes to return his
war profits made of the government.
That's good! II the consciences Of
other profiteering gate-lifters. foster
ed by Democratic ineficiency, worked
the same way, the public debt could
be refunded without strain.
First prize for the best essay, Sc
lected from the hundreds submitted
from the District of Columbia, offered
by the Firestone Tire Company, was
won by Cortez Peters, Dunbar high
school student In the Business De-
partment. Peters also won the Un-
derwood gold medal.
John w. Purcell and H. R. Craw-
ford, colored police officers in Wash
ington. are in critical condition, and
George Ludley, also colored, is dead,
as result of a pistol battle in an
alley. Just before his death Ludley
denied that he made the shots that
brought the officers down.
Chauncey /. Filley. last of the
Abolitionist Mohicans and an original
Republican, died recently in st. Louis
at the age of SO. He was the Civil
War mayor Of the Missouri metrop-
oils, an early advocate of emancipa-
tion and refused to observe an old
Missouri law prohibiting the educa-
tion of Negroes.
Joseph S. Meyers, State Labor
Commissioner of Texas. says that Of
the 43,S11 persons shipped from the
State to Northern industries, only 244
were colored. From the same source
comes the information that a large
portion of the cotton in Texas will
be lost If pickers are not obtained.
Seems that the two situations founder
between Scyila and Charybdis.
Some of w. e. d. Stokes colored
witnesses, testifying in his divorce
trial in New York, became so familiar
with the existing verities that they
had no compunctions about not
speaking them. Consequently the
aged millionaire was forced to take
the stand to contradict his own wit
nesses. 1t might have been better
had Stokes carried on a more fire.
quent system Of rehearsals. From
the bitterness with which the case is
being fought, it would not be sur
prising IL some of the witnesses at
tended trial of their own at some
future date.
Joseph Perkins Slaughter, alleged
slayer of Policeman John w. Purcell,
in Washington, was captured near
that city. last week.
w. S. Dusernick, a Virginian, stu
dent at Harvard, is accused of paying
his way through college by profit
able side line of bootlegging.
At Bakersville, N. c., II leading
citizens" were indicted for unlawful
assembly in connection with recent
violence in forcing colored people to
leave that vicinity.
Ruanda, the country of giants,
covering an area in Africa larger than
the State of Connecticut, has been
ceded to Belgium by Great Britain
Fred d. McCracken, prominent
realtor of st. Paul, was refused ser
vice in leading department store in
that city and the colored people have
boycotted the establishment in repri-
sal.
Eric Waldrond, brilliant young
magazine writer, bearing a commits
sion from several New York publica-
tions, attended the recent national
meeting of the Urban League at
Kansas City, Mo-, with a view to
studying socioiogists in the formation
of conclusions on the race problem.
A series of articles are anticipated
that will be truly enlightening.
Confessing that she stole watch
and chain from a colored chef, to re-
turn to her old home at Roanoke,
Va. Lula Wade, colored maid at
White Plains, N. Y, was provided
with purse by the Grand Jury Of
Westchester County, who refused to
indict her and started her on her