davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-05
GREENSBORO GUEST HONOREE

Mrs. R. W. Beck entertained SIX tables of bridge and rock at the COun- try club Wednesday afternoon honor ing her house guest, Mrs. Gilbert Mil Ter, of Greensboro. Mrs. Frank New ton made top score and received box of hand made handkerchiefs, Mrs. Clarence Jackson was given the booby, basket of candy. The hOnoree was given a vanity case.
 After the games the hostess was as sisted by Mrs. J. l.. Ellis and Mrs. Will Hopkins in serving a delicious salad course.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-09
HOW'S THIS1

HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
do what we claim for it-rid your system
Of Catarrh or Deafness caused by
Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE con-
sists of an Ointment which Quickly
Relieves the catarrhal Inflammation, and
the Internal Medicine. Tonic, which
acts through the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces, thus assisting to restore nor
NAL conditions.
Sold by druggists for over 40 Years.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. o.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-09

Linking again the ancient with the
modern, on August 81 Masonic lodges
will pay homage to the memory of
Jonathan Belcher, Colonial Governor
Of Massachusetts, New Hampshire
and New Jersey, who died on that
date in 1757., He was made Mason
in London in 17O4 and so far as is
known is the earliest Master Mason
resident in America.
One Of the most famous living A.
mericans is the wizard Of Santa Rosa,
Luther Burbank, whose successful ex-
periments with fruits and flowers
have given him an international repu-
tation and placed him in the forefront
of creative geniuses.
Luther Burbank became Mason
in Santa Rosa Lodge No. 81 in Cali
fornia, August 10, 1921 land although
he did not affiliate with the fraternity
until late in life he is making up in
interest and appreciation for the long
delay.
Lafayette
Lafayette arrived in New York on
August 10, 1924, for the purpose OF
making Masonic tour of the United
States. He was received with great
enthusiasm by several Grand bodies
and was recipient of considerable at.
tention from his fraternal brethren
throughout the nation.
Walter SCOTS connection with the
Masonic craft is remembered on the
18th, his birthday. He was born in
1771.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-09
STOCKTON NEWS

Rev. and Mrs. Essell Thomas, OF
Laurel, Del, spent part OF. this week
with Miss Florence Marshall.
Rev. James Robinson Of Ocean City
spent part of this week with friends
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Neidham and
little daughter, of Elizabeth City, N.
c., spent part of this week here with
Mrs Needham's parents, Rev. and
Mrs. Woodell.
Mrs. Thomas Wharton left last
week for visit with friends in Penn
sylvania.
Mr.. Otis Jones and family are
spending some time here with Mr..
and Mrs. Hartlie Jones.
Rev. WoodeH and son, John, left on
Monday for his vacation in Raleigh,
North Carolina.
The M. P. Sunday School, with
friends, picnicked at the Bay Wednes-
day.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Pollitt have re-
turned home after two weeks with
Mrs. Pollitt's parents in Harrington,
Del.
Mr.. Levin Houston has returned
home after spending several weeks
camping near Baltimore.
Miss Florence Marshall, Of Balti-
more lis spending her vacation here
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Marshall.
Mr.. Victor johnson and Miss Ha-
eel johnson of Norfolk have returned
after a visit here with their parents.
Miss Gladys Bromley is home after
stay of several weeks with friends
at Oak Bluffs, Mass.
Misses Mary Parker and Elizabeth
Taylor have returned home after sew
eral weeks visit with friends in Bel
mar and Carbonate.
Mrs. C. P. Hudson is out again af-
ter being confined to her home by
reason of illness.
Rev. Mr.. Mitchell of the P. E.
Church has formed club among the
Young people here to be known as
"The Young Peoples Club" unde-
nominational and devoted to religious,
social and educational purpose. Pres,
Markus Baylis; vice-pres., Cecilia
Houston; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Sue
Bromley. The first meeting was held
last Friday at the Bay. About sixty
were there to indulge in the sports of
bathing, etc. A supper of different
eats and a wienie roast ending up the
fun. The next meeting will be held
at the home Of Misses Ida and Sue
Bromley and the subject for discus
sion "The Effect of the 18th Amend
ment on the Country" Chairman, Mr..
Bernard Powell.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
Third Annual Race Relations Sunday
February 9Th So Designated by Fed
eral Council of Churches; Univer-
sal Observance Urged

The Federal Council of Churches,
through its Commission on the
Church and Race Relations, has des-
ignated February 8. 1925, as Race
Relations Sunday, and is asking that
the Churches Of America dedicate it
to the promotion Of mutual under
standing and good will between the
races. The interchange Of puIpits be-
tween white and colored pastors and
speakers, visitation of the churches of
the other race, special sermons and
addresses on race relations, studies Of
Negro achievement, poetry and music,
and the singing Of Negro spirituals
are some Of the suggestions offered
for the observance of the day. DIR.
George E. Haynes, secretary Of the
Commission, has prepared a twelve
page pamphlet suggesting programs,
themes and hymns appropriate to the
occasion. Copies Of this pamphlet
may be had for FIVE cents each from
the Federal Council of Churches, los
East 22nd Street, New York.
Race Relations Sunday was first OBJ
served in 1928 and more widely in 1924
Good results were reported. 1t is
hoped that the third observance Of the
day in both colored and white
churches will be more general than
ever before. To this end the Com
mission requests the cooperation Of
all the pastors and other religious
leaders.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
BONDED WHISKEY NOTHING
BUT CoLORED WATER

Pittsburgh.-Arrested As one Of the
men who swindIed Charles Berger our
of $l,sss. Milton Dalton. aged Al. a
Negro, was held for court when ar
ranged a. w. Mosley. aged IS, Ne
gro, is being held a material witness.
Berger testified he met Dalton and
two white men and they offered him
barrel of pre-war bonded whiskey
for $1,000. Berger said the sample
given him was the best he had tasted
since the nation went dry.
He said he ordered FIVE barrels and
paid sl,3ss on account They were
delivered to a stable. The barrels ali
contained colored water. Detectives
Kaiser and Marshall. who arrested
MosIey and Dalton, are seeking the
two white men.
It seems that colored men are get
ting as sharp or as tricky as white
men.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
AUTO TOOK LIVES OF 226Oo.
HURT $4,000 IN 1928
Caused 100000, 600 Loss-Hoov.

Caused s6oO,OOO.oOO Loss-Hoover
Washington. d. C-AutomobiIe &C.
cidents which result fatally are be-
coming more numerous than anv
any other kind Of accidents which erd
in death.
Speeding and violation rules Of the
road were the greatest contributing
factors in accidents where the motor
list was at fault
Pedestrians caused almost as many
automobile accidents as motorists in
case where pedestrians are killed.
In 1928 the loss from traffic acci-
dents was $1,000 human lives. $4,000
serious personal INJURIES, and an eco
nomic loss Of 100000, OOO-an increase
Of so per cent in the last seven years.
Its Report to Safety Body
These statements are excerpts from
the report Of the statistics committee
of the national conference on street
and highway safety made public yes
terday BY the committee chairman
Secretary Of Commerce Herbert
]
Hoover
AFTER thorough survey Of the field
of traffic accident statistics the com
mittee finds as an outstanding feature
that there is an almost total lack of
systematic effort to obtain accurate
and complete data regarding traffic
accidents, their types and causes and
methods of prevention" the report
says.
Submits Recommendation
The committee then submits series
of recommendations to be presented
to the national conference on street
and highway which meets in Wash
ington Dec. IS, 10 and II. They are
as follows;
\ Statistics regarding street and rail
way accidents are so vital to any COM
prehensive understanding and treat
ment Of the safety problem that their
collection and analysis in every state
and community is essential.
Where such statistics do not exist.
statutes should be passed in every
state to require their collection and
analysis.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
KHAN TIES MADE CHALLENGE
BASIS IN PICKING JURY

Oklahoma City, OKLA Jew. 4
Catholic, or a Negro, when on trial,
must be permitted to question pros
pective jurors with regard to afilia-
tons with the Ku Kiux Khan accord
ing TO an opinion handed down last
Saturday by the criminal court of
appeals.
Because District Judge B. B.
Wheeler Of Muskogee would not per-
NIT attorneys for Alex johnson, Ne
gro, to question prospective jurors on
this point. Johnson's conviction on a
charge Of stealing live stock was or
dered set aside BY the appeals court
and the case retired.
Associate Justice E. S. Bessey who
wrote the opinion. held that the I'M.
partial trial BY jury, guaranteed BY til.
constitution, is impossible where !
jury is composed Of partisans witt
fixed notions Of what should be don,
with the accused on account of III.
race or religious beliefs"
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
TEXAS WOMAN NEAR HER
18TH BIRTHDAY; TELLS
OF SLAVE DAYS
Happiest Event in Her Life Was
Granting of Freedom
sold Down River"

San Antonio, Tex.-Altho.ug II
Aunt" Clara Stanley will celebrate
her 115th birthday anniversary this
week, she is still able to putter
around the house and do lot Of work
in day. The aged woman is colored
and was born in slavery. She expert
enced many Of the severest hardships
Of bondage up through her middle age.
She was born the property Of Col.
Gabe Smith on his plantation seven
miles from Frankfort KY, in 1909.
Here she spent her girlhood at vari-
Gus chores. When her master died
she moved with the family to Mis-
souri,, where she was put to work in
the cornfelds because Of dispute
with her young mistress.
From Missouri she was sent down
the Mississippi to be sold at auction
in New Orleans. It was there that
she made her first acquaintance with
the lash. And it was there she was
sold to Hardy Hill, who put her to
work on his cotton plantation.
When Hill died she became the In
herited property Of his nephew, Isaac
Hardy, and he took her to Galveston.
He died short time later, leaving her
$500 and freedom papers. An un-
scrupulous white man, however OBJ
tanned possession Of both and she was
forced to become a cook on various
plantations until the emancipation
proclamation became effective. After
being freed she came to San Antonio
and was employed as domestic until
her hundred and sixth year.
The happiest and most important
event in her life whose children
grandchildren are so numerous thai
they have lost the count was her de-
livery from the bonds Of slavery.
Such prayin' and such singin' a.
went on that nineteenth Of June |
never seen in all my days" Aunt
Clara said
Nor do the advances made by civ
ilization during her life's span impress
her She has attended but one picture
show and that one was in church.
Members CT the congregation often
take her motoring, but she finds these
excursions mild in comparison to her
experiences aboard Mississippi stern
wheeler and in the stage coaches Of
an old day.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
BASED UPON HISTORY


Throughout the world there are
born every year. millions Of human
beings. By reason Of heredity, en-
vironment diversified nationalities and
varied types Of civilization these mil
lions represent every possible degree
of physical, intellectual and moral
conditions. From the depths Of
squalor, aggregation, ignorance and
moral perversion up through all the
variant grades which characterize the
many differences in human develop
ment-all the weak, the mediocre, the
common average and those Of excep-
tional ability and power-are required
to meet the conditions which are in
volved in the problems Of life. This
has always been so and is true today.
This limitless human diversity is
one Of the self-evident reasons why
Socialism of Communism can never
form a common state on international
leveling. Established customs, habits
Of living, the thought, feeling and
points of view of races and peoples
differing from each other in every
conceivable way names solidarity
the widest Of dreams.
The illiterate, the physically and
morally deficient have never dwe1t to-
gether in harmony with, nor can they
reduce the higher types Of mankind
to common level. Leadership has
always been acquired BY those who
have developed serength sufficient to
govern. Only through education is
there hope of elevating these groups
Or moIding opinions to higher stand
ards.
The rule of the proletariat or of a
communistic commonwealth are the
cries that cannot be reconciled with
the underlying laws which govern hu-
man relationships. The leaders OF
these revolutionary movements know
this. They know that those most
easily influenced are the maIcontents
in every walk Of life. No type of Tex
ploitation" is SO vicious as that which
inhames devolution by melting hatred
and promising all power to masses
least capable Of exercising it. Nor is
i their objective.
II is simply an appeal for the over
throw Of existing order based upon
the sel6shness Of possession. It's FIRST
step is chaos and then the domination
Of the few with power to take control.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
INDUSTRY TO BE EMPHASIZED
AT URBAN LEAGUES
CONFERENCE
A National Industrial Program to be
Announced


One Of the principal subjects for
discussion at the Annual Urban
League Conference in Cleveland, Ohio,
beginning Tuesday next, December
End, will be THE NEGRO IN IN
DUSTRY. This is considered most
important BY the officials Of the
League in view Of the recent reports
of the speeding up Of those industries
which Negroes have entered most
largely during the recent migration
period.
Several representatives Of the United
States Department Of Labor as well
as the Urban League specialists on
industry will participate in the dis
cussion. Secretary James ]. Davis of
the United States Labor Department
accepted an invitation to be present
some months ago as we'll as Karl Phil
lips, Commissioner Of Cancellation.
Personnel workers from the Pitts
burgh Steel District and representa-
tives of the largest northern Ohio
plants will discuss the efficiency and
increasing opportunity Of Negro work
ers.
The National Urban League is about
to launch National Industrial Pro-
gram which will seek to standardize
its local employment service, develop
better relations between white and
coIored workers, and establish more
personnel activities in the plants
where Negroes are employed in large
numbers.
Round table discussions on this and
other problems faced by the League
will be the order of the day in the
morning and afternoon sessions and
at the evening sessions such persons
as Miss Jane Adams, Mrs Mary Nc
Leod Bethune, l.. Hollingsworth
Wood, James J. Davis, James Weldon
johnson. Eugene Kinckle Jones and
Professor Herbert Adolphus Miller OF
Ohio State University will speak.
The officers Of the Cleveland Negro
Welfare Association cleveland Urban
League), 2s54 East 10th Street. who
will entertain the Conference are DR..
10. a. Taylor. President; Rev. r. o,
Blanchard, Chairman, and William r.
Corners. Executive Secretary
"A full account Of the proceedings
viii be contained in the January issue
of Opportunity magazine, Charles
is. johnson, Editor.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
BISHOPS GAINES AND HURST
IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AS
SYST BISHOP CHAPPELLE

Columbia, s. C.-Bishop w. D.
ChappeIle, Presiding Bishop Of the
"A. M. E. Church in South Carolina,
has been afflicted for several months
with a threatened failure of his voice.
On this account he is not able to do
the necessary talking which is incident
to the presiding over the session of
the large annual conference in South
Carolina. He has called in two other
eminent Bishops to assist him. Bish-
op John Hurst of Florida and Bishop
A. L. Gaines of Louisiana will aid
Bishop Chappelle There are FIVE con-
ferences in the state, which meet at
Marion, Lancaster, Elloree, Water
boro and Clinton, 5. c. The African
Methodists have nearly one hundred
thousand members in South Carolina.
The state ranks next to Georgia in
membership. They operate Allen Uni
versity in this city, which has prop
erty easily worth a million dollars,
and practically ali paid for. 1t was
under Bishop Chappelle's leadership
that this great work was accom-
plished. He was born in the state
sixty-seven years ago; was educated
at Allen University and became presi-
dent of the same. He was a general
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
SEARS RoEBUcK STOP SELL
ING FIREARMS

For the protection Of the public,
Sears, Roebuck & Co. have taken the
lead among mail order houses
throughout the country and discon-
tinued the sale Of every form of fire.
arms.
The announcement was made BY
Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the
board.
Superintendent Of police and many
newspapers have urged stopping the
sale of revolvers. pistols. and other
firearms as the most effective means
OF decreasing crime BY taking away
the tools Of murder from bandits and
gangsters, Mr.. Rosenwald said.
eve feel that il stopping absolute
" the sale Of firearms we are doing
something for the protection Of the
public.
Back IN 1916 our company began
TO limit the sale Of revolvers and pis-
tolls to those entitled to use them
such as sheriffs, police officers. gam,
wardens, express and bank messen-
gers and officers of the National
Guard.
"And we required that evidence 81
purchasers right to have firearms b,
furnished with each order.
Disseminating altogether the sale
Of firearms j. based on our desire t.
protect our good name and maintain
public good will.
Eve feel that the moral side OF al
public questions is the right side, no
only because we want to be right, but
because it is good business as we'll"
If Sears Roebuck & Co. which
claims to be the largest mail order
house in the world, can get alons
without selling deadly firearms. i
does seem to US that the owners D
the greatest weekly newspaper in til,
world could follow suit and refrain
from advertising all kinds Of revolver,
through its columns and not make 1
directly possible for its millions D
readers to secure guns so easily
thereby enabling the bad or the tough
colored men to rake in the revolver.
at one moments notice and shoot law
abiding citizens down in cold blood
Editor
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
WHITES RUNNING GIRLS
England Urged to Provide Home for
Her Half-Breed Children

Bulawayo, Rhodesia, Africa, Oct. 20
Forty Bantu delegates of various
parts Of the colonies attending a ma
tive conference here asked the gov
eminent in resolution to stop white
Europeans from running their native
girls.
I'VE would not mind Europeans
marrying our native girls" says the
resolution. "but we complain Of the
creation Of the new nation known az
half castles under the present system
in which white Europeans ruin our
girls and then desert them.
I'VE are in need Of financial assist
ance for the hundreds Of fatherless
children left on our hands"
Other Demands
The government was asked to pro
vide facilities for higher education to
provide native uries for native cases,
permit natives to be recognized in the
professions of doctors, ministers and
teachers; grant full ballot to civilized
Bantus; abolish the system BY which
civilized Bantus have to get a police
pass before they can move around in
the country freely; prohibit the brew
ing Of native beer, but permit the sale
of brandy.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
HISTORIC SLAVE MART TO
PASS
Reminder Of Days Before Civil War
Is Doomed BY Court Order
ABoLIsH -coURT pAY-

Lexington. KY. Nov. 20 (speeiaI)
-aCourt Day" the last link that
bound modern Lexington to the days
Of a century and a half ago, Is
doomed. County Judge E. H. Doak
has ordered stopped the sale Of live
stock, junk, household goods and
every other sort OF article and goods
in the city's public square.
The custom had obtained since
soon after Lexington was founded,
long before Kentucky was a State.
The appellation court day" was de-
rived from the fact that in earlier days
one day a month was set aside for
farmers to come to town and sell
their products at auction. Lexington
for this purpose granted @Cheapside, "
named for the famed old London
Cheapside, and ever since on every
second Monday in the month such
sales have been held.
Farmers, hucksters-in the days be-
fore the war. slave owners. too
brought to the heart Of Lexington
every imaginable class Of property.
Cheapside was reserved by Fayette
County as its property as Lexington
city grew around it. So this city has
the unusual spectacle Of possessing in
its center a spot Of ground city
block long and about two-thirds as
wide over which city authorities have
absolutely no control
The piece Of ground, now surround
ed by tall buildings, and on every day
save the second Monday cluttered up
with automobiles. has been for nearly
a century bone of contention be-
tween the city and county The place
il just west Of the county courthouse
There are offered horses and cattle.
chickens and eggs, old stoves and
household furniture. ancient clothing,
odds and ends Of every nature-any-
thing that might be wanted BY the
non-possessor more than he or she
who possessed il. The last slave ever
sold in Kentucky, went under the
hammer on Cheapside: king Solo
man, surname unknown, was once
sold there at public auction although
a white man to Negro woman be-
cause he was classed as vagrant
Some years after that Solomon" re-
deemed himself-he become hero OF
the cholera epidemic here in 1883
and now his body rests under an i'm
posing memorial in the Lexington
Cemetery.
Several years ago, feeling between
the town and county became intense
over proposal to block the use Of
Cheapside for court days Then Il
was discovered the city had no right
to interfere, and then the county judge
notified the recalcitrants that If the
hight on court day continued he would
build new county jail on the city's
public square. This quoted the trou-
bles for 2 time, but finally, in re-
spouse to public demand, most sales
OF stock were held few blocks away.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
DARKER RACES INCREASE
FASTER THAN WHITES.
STATES BIOLOGIST

New York. N. Y.-can the tropics
be eolonized by whites? Are inter-
racial problems solvable7 These ques-
tions were asked and answered by
Professor ]. w. Gregory, the distin-
guished geologist and geographer Of
Glasgow University. At the meeting u
the British Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Science says a special
correspondence from Toronto 70 aThe
Christian Science Monitor"
Professor Gregory states that The
eoiored races are increasing far more
rapidly than the whites, and that tb-
authority q the Caucasian Is steadily
declining.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29

officer. being secretary Of the Sunday
School Union. 1900 to 1908, and was
elected Bishop in 1912. He Is regard
ed as one Of the ablest Of the races
Bishops.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
IMPROVING IN VIRGINIA

i NJ Webs, widely known in fra
ternal circles in Chicago and president
OF The Wells Book Concern, $40 In
diana ave, who went to Virginia sew
eral weeks ago to regain his health, i
improving somewhat at Portsmouth
Va, at the home Of his daughter.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29
TO SPEND THANKSGIVING
HERE

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest SaddIer Of
Newark. N. J., the son and daughter
in-law Of Mrs. Mary Freeman, s224
5 State e., are to spend Thanksgiving
in the city with their mother and
other friends.
The broad ax., 1924-11-29

The time is not far distant when this
truth, brilliantly illustrated BY the
atrocities which Socialism has in
fIicted upon the Russian people, will
become universally recognized.