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Evening star., 1924-05-16

Jud Tunkins says there's no such
thing as being Independent of your
fellow men. Whether home is happy
or not now depends largely on what
you're able to get over the radio.
Evening star., 1924-05-16
Change Due,

Twill bathing suits be longer next
SUMNER
"I don't see why they shouldn't, ~
replied Miss Cayenne. 1.-THE short ones
have become 50 common as to create
no interest
Evening star., 1924-05-16

Now an then" said Uncle, Eben.
you'll find a man who manages to
keep mp a home jes' by sympathizin'
with his wife cause she has to work
50 hard~
Evening star., 1924-05-16

Q. OF whom was it said that he
came through the cemetery" to the
presidency?-H. e. D.
A. Peter Dunno wrote thus of
Theodore Roosevelt
Evening star., 1924-05-16

o. What was the meaning Of
"Oom'' PAUL. M. C.
A. The word "Oom" as applied to
Paul Kruger. ia tous President OF the
Transvaal, is a dutch word meaning
H.uncle'
Evening star., 1924-05-16

Tomorrow: Senator Thomas j. Walsh.
Copyright, 1924, IN United States and Great
Britain by North America Newspaper Anie nee.
All rights reserved.l
Evening star., 1924-05-16

a. Polished plate glass varies in
thickness. 1t can be made as thin
as one eighth of an inch, or as thick
plate glass in general use is from,
three-sixteenths to five-siXteenths OF
an inch thick
Evening star., 1924-05-16

Q. Why were X-rays so called
Y. r.
A. Roentgen rays were called =
rays by their discoVerer on account
of their enigmatical character.
Evening star., 1924-05-16

0. Who owns and operates wire
less station WILL? i think it oper-
ates on a wave length of about 300
Evening star., 1924-05-16

possible to talk from New York to
San Francisco by long distance?-
i.
Evening star., 1924-05-16

Q. Must a second class post office
have city and rural delivery?-R. p. A.
A. The grade of a post Office is de-
termined by it's gross receipts. The
post Office at Smackover, Ark, for in
stance, is an office of the second class,
but has neither rural carriers nor city
HeIivarv
Evening star., 1924-05-16

Q. Where is the petrified forest ou'
west?-N. o. L.
A. The petrified forest Of Arizona
IS IN the eastern section of tina
state and contains 25,625 acres.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09
Y. w. G. A. NOTES.

When one speaks Of the Young Wo'
mems Christian Association, thel
thought expressed is almost invariably
of the 'Y' in her immediate community
or of some particular Association
which she has perhaps visited. But one
should think of the Y. w. G. A. as al
world wide movement for it is indeed
the largest woman's movement in the
world 1t links up every civilized coun'
try and it's insignia, the Blue TIL
angle" is found in every continent Civ
ing to girls and women an opportunity
to live an abundant life The standards
of the Association are the same for all
girls and women regardless Of race or
creed.
In every Association tire is organic
ed a World Fellowship Committee
whose work is to interpret the needs
and life Of the girls and women of for
eign countries thereby creating sentI !
ment and thought of the Association as
movement that unites all women in |
to one sisterhood. The Phyllis Wheat |
lev Branch has recently formed new
World Fellowship Committee with Mrs.
Lillian E. Harper as its chairman. Mrs.
Harper assisted by a group of members
and friends sold calendar Of days TO
assist in raising the fund for the sup
port of Miss Harriet Smith, General
Secretary at Chengtu, China. The
Branch wishes to express its thanks tot
the following ladies who assisted Mrs
Harper, Mesdames jamie Hayes. Mollie
Cephas Peachy PoindeXter, Carrie
Deans, Ida Charity, Mabel Winston, |
Sallie Nicholas and Miss Elena Bslle.
Miss Anna H. Thompson, matron al
the ''Y' who has been i'll for several
weeks at her home in Durham, n. c.. is !
improving nicely.
Miss Laura H. McFall, Branch Secre'
tary, left on August 4th for months
vacation. She will spend the same at
Rock Hill and Charleston. S. G.
Mrs J. r. Mayne and Miss Hazel E,
Tyler will have charge of the work at
the Branch during the secretaries alb
scence.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09
By THE CAMERAMAN."

selves and of their children. They realizing that their
husbands fathers and brothers have higher percentage OF
inclusion than any other male force in the 95neveylOO
persons who work with their hands, and they know that
sequeny they should carry that large percentage Of in
terest and inclusion into national questions.
More colored will go the polls this year than
before determined 10 have wide sway the naming of those
candidates VIII, shall direct government and affairs
Colored women have crep the industrial processes They
interested wages and hours Of work No longer they
satisfied with bds eye view Of their counhys affairs They
want the right along with other mothers and sisters %
taste of one hundred per cent Americanism
Miss Halle O Brown, wonderful organizer and executive
that she has moulded the members of the National Asocia
ton Of Coored Women into compact unit Of women. who
sticking together pushing forward the aims Of their As
ISOLATION Practical efficiency and full knowledge Of the
ideals Of American citizenship have formed large part of her
working creed. Watch the women They are together
They wide awake They intelligent In many nstan-
they blazing trails Of endeavor which men have
shed at time and time again Let's hurry up before they
have passed Better yet lets join hands with them
unbreakable grip.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09
HAVING; NOTED FIFTY SEVEN" DIFFERENT

HAVING NOTED "FIFTY-SEVE.N" DIFFERENT
varieties Of estimates of the number Of Negro voters, who will
be in the ballot line this November and having noted the dis
paragng differences the estimates OF the political stascans
who have outgueed the guesers their quest tor hsues
which do not e we decided after consulting fortme-tellef
who could rece the Constitution backwards 10 put our es
mates upon record. ,
We knew of course that there accurate Thoroughly
reliable data covering this subject and when remembered
that some years ago ambitious sshcans sought to give
the lie t. the figures the u S. Census Bureau which, along
with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has the most
reliable statistics machinery the y. s. A. we felt bit
rocky about making entry the to tabulate the
number of Negro voters We knew however. that fairly
cate estimates could scientifically produced by using the
Census figures for l92Oas basis and by calcuahng tor the
fouyear increase 1920 1924 the percentage OF increase
that obtained in each State for the period 1910 to $780, al
lowing of course somewhat higher rate of increase for certain
industrial States whose Negro population has been sweed by
the migration The increase caused by mgrahon together
with the natural increase Negro population each year. gives
fair basis upon which to make scientific esjmatons.
Upon this theory we busted off adding machine and
percentage calculator and after mbbmg grape JUICE
ground" out the following results:
The total number of qualified Negro voters in the
United States under constitutional requirements 5.olO
OOO which total includes those in the grandfather states
where is as hard for BROTHER to get to the ballot
box as is for the devil to drink holy water In eight
cen important States in which Negro do need
password in order to enter the voting BOOTH the es-
mated numbers Of their voting representatives fol-
lows: California, $4,000; Connecticut, 5000; Della
ware, 1880; Illinois, 10000; Indiana, 2l,500;
Kansas $1,000; Kentucky, 800; Maryland. 49,
souri, 10 00O New Jersey. $4,000; New York. ILL.,
600; Ohio l65 000; Oklahoma, 1910; Pennsylvania.
229,5OO; Tennessee 247800; and West Virginia,
$4,000: Thus endeth the lesson.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09

HON. SAMUEL J. GOMPERS. PRESIDENT OF
the American Federation of Labor just quoted as having
declared that we a. F. of L. shall commit ourselves to no
political party parsans party and you can bet your
palm beach against pair of secondhand overa that
the entire padup membership Of the Federation viii stand by
President Gompeis in his declaration made at Atlantic City,
We point this ou because this leadership Already myr
lad of our Leaders have made dozen preliminary decaa
TONS representing the handful Of followers Of each and the
masses standing by waiting to which leader taken
the seriously by the white folks which time Here's
Me" chorus will sound FORTH That time, however is not
going to be week. by any the week after
This is not leadership; it is misleadershp" Conferences
have been many but have been few Confidence
has been loudly talked about but emnence- imaginary
kndas made it take the count Diligence has been need
ed aid progress and unity and Understandings but negligence
chlorofomed it. Favor put it all over Faith.
But Mr. Gompers the leader Of his than three mil
lion members and they're going to follow him. With all the
workers have it that could swell that A.
F. of L. membership and patake Of its advantages There
must be some way to do it. And there must be way
whereby we can pick our Leadership" rather than have It
thrust upon US Then MIR. Gompers," whoever he is
going be- speak for us. knowing that he's with and
we re with him.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09
ELECTING R. NATHANIEL DETT, DIRECTOR

ELECTING R. NATHANIEL DETT, DIRECTOR
of Music Hampton Institute and coposerpanist Of
abilities the President of their organization the members Of
the National Association of Negro Musicians Adjourned their
Cleveland Convention and scattered themselves back among
their respective fields of endeavor full of enthusiasm and carry
ing the banner Of harmony and perfection in organization
Without referring detailed way, to the history of Negro
music and Negro musicians, it safe to say that mteacal
relations have been happier this field than in any other
wherein artists professional and social contact Fur
thermoe the musicians themselves and the products of their
training and abilities became conspicuous in contrast to what
took place in other spheres Of art industry, etc.
For instance witness the of Harry Burlelgh
William H. Tyers deceased, James Reese Europe, deceased
Clarence Cameron White. Roland Hayes, Hazel Harrison
Will Marion Cook and dozens of other Negro artists who
equally conspicuous.
In the New York Hppodrome two winters ago, Little
Mother OMne" sung by John MacCormick the feature
of the evening, and the erd cadenzas of the musical pens Of
Cook Tyers and Vodey have made many white musician
scratch his head effort to interpret their strains tnefy
Going back few years further, we recall the fctonless
manner in which the New Amsterdam Musical Organization
of New York. organized and conducted and
Der the fond affection in which Prof. Walter Craig and mis-
famous orchestra Of mixed musicians held for years
Little Old New York.
These are examples of the gladstone spirit Of music and
what it can accomplish Little Alabama Coon days are no
longer popular and the Blues melodies soon turn green with
continued use But the spirit Of real music is substantial
quasi-tangble of the race, which outstanding The
movatons which produce business and organization
harmony the Negroes musical world will bring forth organi
cation and unity every other racial world of endeavor
The National Association of Negro Musicians has fine
example, which every other craft art and industry would do
well to follow in form; for, as Shakespeare said, IF
music be the food Of love- play on and love what
ualy going to make the world safe for everybody.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09

longer to recover from the Ethiopian
exodus as after the days of Reconstruc-
ton. It's economic fabric has been TORN
and it requires people to mend 1t. Tnat
mending will be slow for the Simple
reason that the male element OF repro
duction are largely old men.
EXODUS STRESSES A MORAL
AND TELLS A TALE.
The exodus stresses far-reachlng
moral and tells a tale of more than pas
sing notice. Whereas the Negro used to
be a citizen of the South, he Is now q
citizen of the nation.
Last week travelled in Western Penn
sylvania in several counties among
more than a score of towns and villag'
es where many of our colored protners
may be seen in new places.
The moral concerns itself with reap
ing where we have not sown!- This He
brew finds its counterpart worded IN
plain English of the King, in the ques
ton:
CAN WE GAIN SOMETHING
FOR NOTHING?
1t seems to be a fragrant contradlc'
ton of Gods ruling on compensation.
Although the South seems to have got
ten two and one-half centuries or Tree
service, yet such costly expenses as
the exodus of our group from Dixie re-
emphasizes that besides heavenly grace
and mercy, we must obtain by the
sweat of the brow.
THE WHITE SOUTH PAYS.
While it persecutes and Expresses
others it limits and keeps down Itself
Today no southerner, no matter no"
we'll qualified can become President
of the United States. 1t wildly recalls
the statement of Booker T. Washington
that you can't hold somebody down in
the mud unless you get down there
with him.
MIGRATION HELPS EXPLAIN
BIBLE.
Seeing how the Ethiopian exodus has
affected the South we can more readily
appreciate how it was that Mr.. Pha
roah's heart was hardened and so siren
uously refused to allow Moses to de-
part with the Children of Abraham. 1t
is easier to believe that 1t required
half dozen plaques, the death OF the
first born and a tunnel through the
Red Sea to change his mind. He realiz
ed that with his Jewish poems gone,
his knights of the Nile and high COM
manders of legions would have to tao
kle the drowned valleys with crooked
he have anfogTagainststb etaoin shrdq
sticks for sustenance.
No more would he have hun
dred thousand slaves to build pyramids
erect sphinxes and otherwise gratlfy
the rapacious lusts and wanton wnlms
of the masters of Luxor.
In additions the migration throws
light upon certain modern efforts. IL
shows how difficult it will be for Sir
Marcus Garvey to effect his magnirl'
cent exodus to Africa. opine that IT
will require at least a dozen plaques
death of the first born, economic
paralysis, and what son of CURIOSITY
would not like to see a gale mighty
enough to make a Red Sea out OF the
huge Atlantic that we might consum'
mate the greatest exodus of all time.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09

returned to the South, land of my
nativity after an absence of five years
There 1 saw a chastised section OF the
nation. In the migration a heavy
thumb has fallen upon Dixie as the
exodus of the Jews that swept over
the Egypt land of the Pharoahs.
The Civil War and the exodus are
the heaviest blows that ever staggered
the South. This violent shifting of the
population is writing page in the ann
ais of American history, that thous'
and years from now students of history
will read with as much interest as We
today read of the struggle between pie
biars and patricians in ancient Rome.
1t is truly a mass landslide OF humans.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09

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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09

COMES NOW THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
of Coored Women, under the leadership Of Miss Halle O.
Brown of Wiberorce, Ohio, competent subordinate oGca
and enthusiastic body Of delegates from than twenty
States which opened its Annual Convention at Chicago. Ill.,
on August 3. 1924.
This year the event will take on different hue from that Of
any previous year. In the first place. Americas colored
men are thinking never before. They thinking of them
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09
(By 10. X. Wells, President A. F.
of N. S.-Negro Youth Movement
distributed by Preston News)

NOTE:-Mr. Wells tells in this
article what he observed on his three
thousand mile trip which included sew
eral of the southern states. Some time
ago he announced that he would give
the readers the benefit Of his views
about the effects of migration and its
effects on those who remained in the
South.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09
HAVE BETTER HAIR
EVERYBODY LIKES TO LOOK THEIR BEST

WELL ROO M e D
HAIR ADDS a GREAT
DEAL TO PERSONAL
APPEARANCE. BY
USING FORD'S HAIR
POMADEAN DFoRD'S
HAIR STRAlGhTEN-
ING AND SHAMPOO
COMBS. STUBBORN.
HARSH, SNARLY q
UNRUlY HAIR BE.
CON ES SOFTER r,
GTR AIGHTER. MORE
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09
HOW DO WE MIGRATE?

The why of migration, cussed and
discussed in Volumes, is no more IN
teresting than how.
AS / have seen it, the direction
which the exodus takes today is almost
the same that individuals took before
Migration Days. AS a rule the migrants
90 to the states lying directly north Of
them. Thus, Georgians, Caroliniaas
and Virginians have gone to Pennsy!-
vania, New York and Ohio. While Mis-
sissippians, Arkansans and Tennessee
ans have located in Missouri, Illinois
and Indiana.
They go to these states by TOWNSHIP.
One may go into certain small indus
trial towns and find almost all of the
migrants from one southern city or
one southern locality. Very little crisis
crossing has occurred as coloerd North
Carolina moved to Pennsylvania. or
Arkansas to Indiana. 1t has so happen
ed that, now one travelling among the
new groups from industrial Chicago to
New York. is literally going from Texas
east to the Georgia seacoast.
In smaller but similar degree a
double shifting has taken place. Arkan
sas may be taken as typical case. AS
the colored brother vacates this state
or cities in this state, his place is to
some extent filled especially in the city
by those from more southern regions
or from rural sections.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-09

some extent 11lleu eSptSldlly III liS Si@y
by those from more southern regions
or from rural sections.
THE RURAL SOUTH SUFFERS.
While no section of the South has
escaped the painful penalty inflicted
by the greatest exodus of modern
times, the farming South is the hardest
sufferer. This Ethiopian trek cost
Dixie multi-millions.
The loss has been double one, for
millions already made and millions
which would have been gained from
our group are gone forever and a da,.
Farm property has woefully depreciat'
ed. In Alabama and Tennessee l saw
hundreds of farms as cropless and as
deserted as the last days Of Pompeii,
If land can be rented at all it barely
brings, one third its former price. Here
in is seemingly the disruption of the
white mans evil share-crop and peon
system.
Whereas, formerly, to my own knowl-
edge, the Negro share-cropper was al
lowed by the merchant only meat, meal
and molasses; today they are eager to
find labor and are willing to provide
better fare and will furnish them Nth
mules and money without security.
This is, indeed, miraculous change
and that hitch man in the purse,
striketh not trash but the solar-plexus
which produceth change. indeed.
There is more serious side to these
changes for the white merchant and
plantation owner were not the only
ones whose wealth has been affected.
HAS THE NEGRO IN THE
SOUTH LOST WEALTH?
Even as Billy Sunday says, Chickens
come home to roost, this question comes
home to us. The general loss of wealth
has taken it's toll from the Golfers of
the Negro as from all others. Indeed,
believe, that the Negro land owner and
renteN has been harder struck by the
migration than any other element of
the South.
The few laborers remaining go to the
white merchants and planters. who
have more capital and hence are more
able to attract tenants and share-crop-
pers to their farms. 1t is, therefore. a
frequent spectacle to see hundreds OF
our peoples farms growing up with
weeds and the little cabin ssilent ano
peopleless.
Usually the old men and women are
the only ones remaining and the same
conditions prevail as though the young
men had gone to war instead of the
steel mills, factories,b and other indus
tries of the North. The changes
wrought are greater than those war
would produce. The young workers
seem to be gone for good AS a welfare
worker the writer has been associated
with the migrants in certain great in
dustrial center. In the spring saw a
few of the young workers return to aid
the folks back home. By far. however
the bulk of them remain North and
farms in Dixie are still cropless and
property decreases in value. and Ne
gro wealth there has lessened.
SHOULD NEGROES SELL
THEIR LAND?
Should our people sell out their landi
At the present I would say, No, for
three reasons:
1. Selling now. since the price is SO
low, amounts to giving it away
2. Until the immigration policy OF
our country is definitely settled it is
wise to keep finger upon that which
we have worked a half century to &C.
quire.
g. 1t always pays people to have a
solid footing in the soil.
WILL TAKE SOUTH LONG
TO RECOVER
1t will take the South as long or
The Omaha morning bee., 1924-05-02

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wemsn -. siflsInr - rfnilfienef n
~. at. iss nuui question iptiaiss.
fefnsal snd lHfnfniai hAAs wsssa fHfi
tn. ntsf he eternal sht -
msdams msksur
"a =. hlasnhsmeas fef wemsn -
ify - Improve ~ nature shouts lie
rate IVAN
HHnt men .hsts their fares. he
saunr ihins whn uses net touch
Z bflfht In s,lek anleils answers.
That's different. protests The
nan.
why alffefsni9 You msn think
that YOU shave and wsAr clean col
lars and bright efavnis 20 please your.
selves. snd W. women try 10 keep our
youth and beauty 20 please sou, too. ="
III. vigorous npholder u The equality
of ses asserts.
We'll, whether YOU women are so
charming to attract men. or merely
10 give yourselves the assurance thnt
comes from being well.groomed, does
not matter. The fact that yon are
such charners and 40 attractive II
the thing"
This statement from the handsome
and tactful young man usually ends
tho debate. and every woman present
secretly decided that for aueh man
she would gladly be charming always.
Origin Of NaqnilIage.
One might well say that the art OF
maquIllage IL as old as thu world.
The author OF the Book of Enoc as.
sures us that. before the delng-, the
Angel Azallel taught women the rudi-
ment of this subtle art.
True, the women Of Asia and Africa
--Assyrians and Jews OF Palestine.
and Egyptians Of the times OF the
pharaohs--had for centuries made up
their eyes. History attributes tho in.
vention OF blanc and of rouge 10 the
women OF Greece and OF Rome.
Ovid himself in some Of his books
gives secrets Of the makeup Of the
Roman women.
II il considered in France that the
first book on maqulllage was publish
ed in 1852 by Michael Nostrada mus.
No copy OF this book can be found to-
day.
La Mode du Maqulllsge" was in.
trodueed in France by the Italians
attached 10 the court OF Catherine de
Medieis. But It's general use did not
start until the earlier part of the 17tb
century. Since then France has ae-
aiiired and kept the supremacy IN the
preparation Of cosmetics that make
them more beautiful and preserve the
beauty no generously given to them
by nature.
Modern Perfumery.
Gone In the day when. In 1918. the
chevalIer de Jancourt warned women