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Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11
COOLIDGE AGAIN IS
ASKED TO STATE VIEWS
ON KU KLUX KLAN


The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored~ People, 50
Fifth Avenue, New York City, today
made public letter just sent to
President Coolidge, renewing the re-
quest of colored people that he make
an unequivocal statement on the Ku
Klux Klan, removing it as an issue
from politics. The letter, signed by
James Weldon johnson, Secretary
of the Advancement Association,
states that "colored people, breaking
their historical allegiance to the Re-
publican party, are prepared to vote
against Klan candidates by whatever
party nominated"
The present letter renews a request
made May 29 last, for a statement
on the Klan by President Coolidge, to
which the President failed to reply.
The letter in full is as follows:
my dear Mr. President:
81 beg leave to call to your
attention once again that thousands
OF colored citizens are still looking
for a public statement from you speci-
fically disavowing for the Republi-
can party the support and endor Sc.
ment of the Ku Klux Klan To
previous request for such a state
ment sent to you on May 29 of this
year no reply was received. To
telegram sent June 6, Mr.. Slemp re-
piled that it came during the clos
ing days of the session of Congress
when every moment of your time was
occupied and that he hoped to call
the message to your attention at an
early date. No further reply has
been received.
"As we said in our previous letter,
the issue involved transcends a mere
few votes in the coming election.
although on the basis of the Klan
issue, we are informed, colored peo.
pie, breaking their historical allegi-
ance to the Republican party, are
prepared to vote against Klan candi-
dates by whatever party nominated.
1t is not, however, from the point
of view of vote-getting that a re-
pudiation of the Klan should come
from the Republican party. That
reputation should be made clear
land decisive on the basis of the
Klan's hypocrisy and the violence,
! disorder and the race and religious
hatred known to be an inevitable
product of the organization and ac-
tivity of that body.
1--WE now feel still greater war
rant in asking for some such state
ment from you, in view of the fact
that both the other principal candi-
dates, Mr.. John W. Davis for the
Democrats and Mr.. Robert M. La
Toilette for the third party, have de-
clared themselves unequivocally and
Enthusiastically on this issue, both of
them naming the Ku Klux Klan, so
! that there could be no flavor OF
evasion about their utterances To
take the Klan out of politics as an
issue, there is necessary only
statement from you as leader of the
Republican party. 1t is this state
ment which the National Association
'or the Advancement of Colored
People again respectfully asks you
to make"
Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11

Here From Colorado
Mrs. J. w. Thompson of La Junta,
Colo, is recent arrival and is stay
ing at the residence of Mrs. c. A.
Gilmore. 425 E. Washington st.
/. + +
Down From Prescott
Mrs. Alex White, her little son
and sister are recent arrivals from
Prescott. They plan to spend the
winter here and have engaged apart
ments on East jefferson sereet.
Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11
New Pastor Coming

The Rev. R. H. Harbert of the
Kansas Conference has been assigned
to the local A NJ E. church by Bish-
op A. ]. Carey. He comes well re-
commended and it is hoped that he
will do a great work in Phoenix.
Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11

COLORED BAPTISTS
HOLD CONVENTION
in CITY Of PHOENIX
Thursday before the fourth Lords
Day in September. the Salt River
Valley Missionary Baptist District
association convened with Antioch
Baptist church in this city and held
an interesting four day session The
Rev. J. H. Whatley, Moderator of the
association presided and Ministers
and delegates were present from all
parts of Arizona.
On the opening day, A R. Smith
publisher of the Tribune, delivered
an address to the assembly, as also
did other visitors. The organization
has outlined a great work for this
district and success IS the ultimate
goal Following is the program of
the four day session:
PROGRAM
OF The
Salt River Valley Missionary Baptist
District Association
Which Convened with the Antioch
Baptist Church
REV. S. M. MAssY, PASTOR
Phoenix, Arizona
Thursday before the 4th Sunday in
September, 1924
Open at $3.50 a. m. Messages from
Mesa Calvary Baptist Church.
Remarks from Moderator Appoint
ment Of Committees.
11:00 a. m.-Introductional Sermon
by Rev Atkinson of Ajo, Ariz.;
Alternate. Rev. w w. Curtis
200 p m.-Reassembled. Praise
Service by Messengers from Shiloh
Reports of Committees.
300 D. m.-Informal Council, con-
Quoted by the Missionary.
$3.50 p. m.-Subject, What shall we
do to Revive our District?
Lead by the Missionary.
Collection and Adjournment.
1880 p. m.-Praise Service con-
Quoted by Messengers from Ajo
Q.A h
Rev. J. H. Payton; Alternate. A.
Richard.
SECOND DAY-MoRNINe SESSION
300 a. m.-Devotion, Antioch.
$3.50 a. m.-Reading of Minutes.
10000 a. m.-Bible Lesson, Subject:
"Sanctifieation. When and by Whom
conducted by Rev. Payton.
11:00 a. m.-Sermon by Rev. K. D.
Anderson; Alternate, Rev. Rainey.
200 p. m.-Installation
$3.50 p. m.-Program by Home Mis-
sion Women.
500 p. m.-Educational Sermon by
Rev. A. Richard; Alternate, Rev. P.
P. Mellon.
Collection and Adjournment.
THIRD DAY-MoRNING SESSION
900 a. m.-House turned over to
the women.
$3.50 a. m.-Remarks by the Presi-
dent
11;00 a. m.-Sermon by Rev. Boyd.
Collection and Adjournment.
EVENING SESSION
1880 p. m-Praise Service, Ser
vice by Ajo.
Sermon by Rev. P. P Mellon. Col
lection and Adjournment
FOURTH DAY SESSION
$50. a. m.-Model Sunday School,
conducted by Deacon Jackson.
11:00 a. m.-Sermon by Rev. ]. H.
Whatley, Moderator.
800 p. manual Memorial Ser
mon by Rev. S. M. Massey.
Collection and Adjournment.
1880 p. m.-Paper by Miss Priscilla
Stewart of Globe Subject, Woman
and her Mission"
$3.50 p. m.-Sermon by Rev c. ].
Johnson, Summerton, Arizona
Collection and Adjournment.
Committee:
REV. S. M MASSEY,
REV. M. BOYD,
REV. X. D. JACKSON,
DEACON FLOYD,
REV. ]. H. PAXTON,
REV. ]. H. WHATLEY,
Moderator
REV, ]. H. PAXTON,
Clerk
Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11

Over From Glendale
Mr.. M. H. Henderson, prosperous
rancher of Glendale, was a Sunday
visitor in Phoenix.
Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11
Here From Superior

Here FROM superior
Mr.. Julius H. Miller, prominent
business man of Superior, was a
visitor in Phoenix this week. He
came over in his reliable OldsmobiIe
touring car.
Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11

Home From Hospital
Miss Pamalee MeCutcheon, 1915
East Jefferson street, who recently
underwent an operation at the Book
er T. Washington Hospital, has been
removed to her home and is now
doing fine.
Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11
A SQUARE DEAL

This government is based
upon the fundamental idea
that each man, no matter
what lis occupation, his race.
or MS rengious belief, is en-
titled GO De treated on nis
worth as a man, and neither
favored nor Disseminated
against because of any acci-
dent in his position.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Phoenix tribune., 1924-10-11
A STRONG CHARACTER

Race prejudice is bound to
give way before the influ-
ence of character, education
and wealth. These are ne
cessary to the growth of our
race. Without wealth there
can be no leisure, without
leisure there can be no
thought, and without thought
s,o 20 can be no progress
.HI a, T. Washington.
Evening star., 1924-11-23

East and the Mediterranean of the
British warships and their concentra
ton in the North Sea a few years be-
fore the World War.
AngIO-American Cooperation.
II is even more, this Singapore dec-
sion, il is proclamation of the sober
Judgment of the British government,
just come to power by a tremendous
majority in the House OF Commons,
that the situation in the Pacific is so
disturbing that Britain must undertake
new and enormous burdens. And it con-
stltutes an amusing indication of the
fashion in which the British are adopt
ing in Asia that principle of security
which they have rejected in Europe for,
after all, the bulwark of Singapore is
no more than the naval equivalent of
the Rhine barrier on land
But in the japanese mind British
poiicy VIII not be separated from Ameri-
can, and Anglo Saxon "encercIement"
VIII seem as real as did that other zen
cerciement' to German eyes To say
tnat as a consequence war is inevitable
or even probable is to exaggerate unrea-
sohably; what one must perceive, how
ever. Is that the British action has
| made bad situation measurably
worse, and that. although obviously we
nave no connection with the decision or
| with any British policy, our position
| IN the Pacific will be affected and
| American-Japanese relations influenced,
! moreover, the very conditions seem to
make inevitable a growing community
OF interest and even of action of Amer
lca and Britain in the Pacific
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-11-23
Leaders in Society
Support Gard Party

Mrs. Mark Potter, chairman of pa
troneSseS for the Humane Educat ton
Society benefit card party to be given
at Wardman Park Hotel, December 2.
has enlisted the interest of a number
Of important women who are spon-
Soring the event.
Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of
the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court. heads the list. and associa ted
with her are MS. Curtis D. Wilbur
Mrs. Harlan F. Stone. Nine Eken-
Sren, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs
Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs. Breck-
inridse Long, Mrs. George ID. Hope
Mrs. Stephen Il. Elkins. Mrs. William
l.. Radcliffe, Mrs. Cary r Grayson.
Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Mrs. Jo-
seph Letter, Mrs. Edwin ID. Parker
Mrs. Bernard +. Jones, Mrs. Gist
Blair. Mrs. Hayne Ellis. Mrs. Horace
Duryee Wheeler, Mrs. Peyton Gordon,
Mrs. Paul 5. Pearsall, Mrs. John Love
land. Mrs. Alfred Pembroke Thorn
Mrs. Alfred NJ. Read, Mrs. Charles A
Williamson. Mrs. Charles V Wheeler
Mrs. Charles Douglass. Mrs. Howard
+. Strine, MrS. Robert 6. Wilson, Mrs
T. st. T.. Gaiilard. Mrs. Burton Kim
berly, Mrs. Peter. 4. Drury. Mrs w. j.
&. Agnew, Mrs. Edgar K. Clark, Mrs
Stephenson Scott. Mrs. William F.
benHlS- STS. w llllam W neeler, Mrs.
Thomas w. Givens, Mrs Edgar r.
Brown, Mrs. T. G. Long, Mrs. John w.
Price, Mrs. Howard l.. Hodgkips, Mrs
H. l.. Rust, Mrs. William W. Spaid,
Mrs. Joseph Tumulty, Mrs. Robert N
Harper, Mrs. Edwin c. Brandenburg,
Mrs. W. p. Collins, Mrs. c. A Hawley,
Mrs. e. J. Brennan, Mrs. William f.
Chamberlain, Mrs. j. B. Campbell,
Mrs, d. C. Shea, Mrs. Thomas W. Gill
mer. Mrs George w. Elliot, Mrs. Eu-
gene jacobson, Judge Mary O'Toole,
Miss Agnes Miller, Mrs. W W. Me-
elaine. Mrs. Frederick Il. Cox. Mrs.
Carl Mueller, Mrs: Byrd Robinson.
Mrs. John l. Cassedy, Mrs. Horace C.
Chandlee, Mrs. John Briar, Mrs
Franklin King, Mrs. Clyde B. Aitchi-
son. Mrs. S. A. Moeller Mrs George
Eastment. Mrs. Jeter Pri.chard, Mrs
NJ. Atherton Marr, Mrs. VI. Y. Sulli-
van. Mrs. c. H: Maftingly Mrs. Rob-
ert J. Bates, Mrs. Mcpherson Crichton
and Mrs. Marshall T, Farra.
Evening star., 1924-11-23

Miss Helen Sweeley. Miss Eleanor
Ichwarzmann, Miss Elizabeth Hoy.
Iiss Eunice Bruin, Miss Mary Louise
Ntchcson. Miss Jane Norford, Miss
Mary Louise Pendleton. Mr.. Garland
March of Harrsonburg, Va, Mr.. Ed
ward Quinn of Washington. Mr.. Mel
rin Tesh. MIR. Walter Varney, Mr..
william Petersilia, Mr.. Hugh Schafer,
:Ir. Edward German, Mr.. McKnew
titcheson. Mr.. William Pendleton and
AIr. James Harding.
urned from visit to her aunts, Mrs.
John Marshall and Miss Purvis, in
Mobile, Ala.
Miss Mary Lloyd is the guest Of her
brother, Mr.. Gardner Lloyd. in New
York City.
Miss Inez Moore was hostess for
he bridge club of which she is d
member Tuesday afternoon, at her
nome on Prince street.
Miss Ella Rose Smoot, who has
been for several weeks at Craig Heal
ng Springs Va is the guest of her
cousin, Judge James French at his
nome in PRINCETON. w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Edwin Ora ha m
have returned flom their wedG NJ
"trip and are staying temporarily with
The formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert NJ. Graham. in Rosemont, un-
til their new home in Oakcrest is
completed.
Miss Jeannette Cochran has re-
Eurned from visits to Miss Mary
Strange Morgan. in Raleigh. y. c..
and TO Miss Emily Carter, in Ash
land, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Padgett OF
Fairfax spent the week end with rela
tives in Alexa ndria.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Swetman have
returned from visit to friends in
Burke, Va.
Evening star., 1924-11-23

ing. Labor believed that while Sim
gapore might be protection in war
it would be, In itself, cause of war.
1t accepted the view that security
was to be had not by fortification,
but by international understanding.
1t applied to the British empire the
doctrine in the case OF Japan that
Britain had been trying to impose on
France with respect to Germany ever
since the close of the war.
Now the bearing of this whole af-
fair upon the United States is quite
obvious. Our relations with Japan
are, on the whole, wors,e than the
British, because our recent immigra-
tion law has produced contemporary
crisis. But at the bottom the rela-
tions are the same, for we have only
again affirmed a policy which Canada
and Australia not only affirm, but
country And the upshot Of this pol
icy is to bar Japanese immigration to
America and to Australia.
How 1t Looks to Japan.
1t follows. then. that to the Japa
nese the situation must seem to be
that an Anglo combination
bars japanese immigration as we'll as
political expansion and bars immi-
grafton on the intolerable basis of
racial inferiority. And just as the
enactment of our immigration law
aroused japanese protest and resent
ment. so the revival of the project
Of Singapore must have an immedi-
ate and similar effect. Moreover. one
must appreciate in this country that
the two things will not be taken sepa-
rately in Japan, but be accepted as
related circumstances in an Anglo
Saxon purpose.
Japan, then, must regard both the
United States and Great Britain with
profound resentment and even hatred.
The feeling has it's origin in the pro-
foundest of human sentiments, for our
respective policies will seem based
upon the assertion of doctrine Of
racial inferiority. But to this are
added all the circumstances which eX-
plain the German state of mind with
respect to the neighboring countries
in the years leading up to the World
War, for the policy based upon race
Evening star., 1924-11-23

nevertheless operates to bar Japa-
nese political expansion, just as Ger
man expansion was barred before the
World War.
But 1t follows, inescapably, that
British and American policy in the
Far East will be drawn together. The
Washington conference in itself was
the first authentic sign of this trans
formation. The dropping of the An
glo-Japanese alliance, which was the
largest political circumstance of this
conference. was to the British mind,
and to the minds of Canada and Aus
tralia even more, the substitution of
an American for a Japanese associa-
ton. partnership in fact, although
not in contract.
Would Draw British In.
In the happily remote possibility of
an American Japanese war tomorrow,
1T would be inevitable that the Brit
ish should come in, for any japanese
success. however limited, would i'm
mediately endanger Australia and
Canada. The Japanese conquest of
the Philippines, which could not be
prevented by US, would carry Japan
long way on the road to Australia.
The Japanese conquest of Hawaii
would carry threat to Vancouver
as instant as to San Francisco.
Nor is it less obvious that a war be-
tween Japan and Britain would make
American neutrality enormously diff
cult, because the war would be the re-
suit of British adherence to the same
policy we follow, and British defeat
would leave a victorious Japan face to
face with the other nation processing
the same principles. A japanese victory
under the circumstances would hardly
be less menacing TO US than a German
victory over France would have been
for Britain in 1914.
1t follows, then, logically. that the
British decision to resume the Singa-
pore project mails new step toward
possible collision in the Pacific, Just as
our own immigration law may prove
an earlier milestone. 1t is a British
recognition of the fact that adherence
to the policy of A white Australia
and white Canada may lead TO war
with Japan. 1t is as significant in its
way the withdrawal from the Far
Evening star., 1924-11-23
Continued from First Page.>

One may not wisely. venture to
estimate what the relative Importance
CT the contributing causes to the World
War actually were, yet lsventure the
assertion that no single element was
more important than this German
conviction, and 1t was conviction,
that the. world was in conspiracy and
even in partnership to deny to Ger
many what all the other nations were
actually acquiring or had already ac-
auired. namely broad field for the
placing Of their surplus populations
and for the eXtens on of their trade.
OF course, 1t is just as plain that
the basis OF the encircling policy, so
far as it was a deliberate policy, was
the menace OF German expansion.
France had already. been mutilated in
1870, Russia had far more recently
seen har SerN al'v restrained from
expansion and Serb lands returned to
the 1urk or turned ever to the
Austrian. Britain felt the growing
threat of the German fleet. To say
which was cause and which effect
may be. on the whole, as d fficult as to
decide the precedence of the hen and
the egg. Yet what IS vita now is to
perceive that the consequence of GER
tain facts he'd feen the creation of a
state of mind which fatally threaten
ed word peace andA' the END con-
sributed perhaps d"cisively to the
causing Cf the Wor War.
Like situation Ia Pacific.
Now we have growing up in the
Pacific a situation which is manifest
" comparable to that n Europe two
decades ago. wi h this added cause for
disuuiet that to national and COM
nercial rivalries there is added the
clement Of passion growing directly
out of the circumstance that the two
great nations which are most con-
spicuouslv in the pathway of Japa-
Evening star., 1924-11-23

history--indeed one may almost say
that the period opened with the
Washington conference, which ed
the close of the Anglo-Japanese al
lance, which had been the outstand-
Ing circumstance in the Far East for
two-thirds OF generation. In a
sense it may prove as important as
the reversal of British policy IN 1914
which led directly to the Anglo
French entente.
In theory, fleet or a fortress, at
all events a naval base, is detail in
domestic politics and a circumstance
in national defense. In fact. how
ever, a fleet or naval base represents
an attitude toward another nation.
Neither forts nor ships are built in
space, and there can be no disguise Of
the fact that Singapore Is construct
ed against Japan: that is to say, it
represents the conscious purpose of
the constructors to guard against a
danger which Is Japan. 1t is an off,
cial and final evidence that the Brit
ish government, under pressure from
the dominions, Australia primarily, Is
taking enormously expensive steps,
warranted only because of some
grave peril. is erecting a bulwark
only in case of Japanese aggression.
Suspicious of Japanese Purpose.
If there were no suspicion of Japa-
nese purpose there could be no ex-
cuse or reason for the British, given
their domestic situation, their high
taxation and their staggering debt. to
sink millions and perhaps hundreds
of millions of pounds sterling in the
singapore project But If there is
this suspicion, then IL is an evidence
of a dangerous situation in the world
it is proof that despite all that has
happened and all that has been hoped
since the close of the World War.
peace is still too insecure for nations
to rely Upon internationa agreement
and League of Nations methods.
II was the recognition of these
facts which led Labor to discontinue
the Singapore project during it's brief
stay in Office. Labor regarded the
policy of fertilization a Singapore as
the sort of threat to Japan which
would provoke resentment and lead
to the exacerbation of Japanese feel
Evening star., 1924-11-23
British Base at Singapore
Direct Challenge to Japan

nese expansion base their policy upon
doctrine which to the Japanese
mind is one of racial superiority.
+ Now, when all is said and done. no
such element was. involved in the
German case. The German was free
to settle not alone in British colonies,
but in Britain and even in France.
IL he was unpopular in the latter ma
tion If was for political reasons, not
racial. and this unpopularity did not
find any EXPRESSION in prohibitive
legislation. AS German patriot the
Teuton of the first years of the cur
rent century might resent British,
French and Russian foreign policies.
but as German individual he had
no cause for personal resentment.
No government official at the gateway
of any country. stood waiting to re-
ject him because he had been born
German.
Aroused German Passion.
Nevertheless. the conviction in the
German mind that the British, the
French, the Russians, and remotely
the Americans were determined to
prevent his expansion and that the
three frs named were actually allied
to restrict his legitimate growth
aroused in him an emotion and pas
SION without whtch, / tnlnk, II iS Sd e
to say there would have been no
Word War. And | am not. it must
o. understood. seeking to assert that
here was any Justification for the
German point of view, or indeed that
il was entirely without warrant.
What is signifi ant is the state OF
sact without regard to the warrant.
or that state of fact, however un-
sustained by the realities. was a
dominant factor in the tragedy which
came in 1914.
The decision of the British govern
ment to resume the construction OF
the Singapore base must, then. be ac-
,.epted as opening period i'll worfd
Evening star., 1924-11-23
Maryland Society
To Meet Thursday

The Maryland Society met Thurs
day evening at the Washington Club,
Seventeenth and X streets northwest
when the president of the club,
Representative Millard e. Tydings,
gave a short address of welcome
and. was congratulated, in the name
of the society. by Mr.. John Ritchie,
jr., upon his reelection to Congress.
After several hours of music and a
talk by Mr.. j. v. Morgan, the his
torian Of the society, the meeting
closed to again meet Thursday, De-
cember Is, at s o'clock pm, az the
washington Club -s--.e..5e.-ss.--
Evening star., 1924-11-23
G. w. u. Alumni To Meet
At Luncheon Saturday

The monthly luncheon of the George
Washington University Alumni Asso-
citation will be held at 1890 o'clock
SATURDAY, November -, at the
La Fayette Hotel. Dr. Frank Horna-
day. senior vice president of the as
sociation, will preside, in the absence
of Gilbert L Hall. president. A good
entertainment will be provided and
everybody should be away within an
hour. All George Washington Uni
versity graduates are urged to attend
and bring guests.
Evening star., 1924-11-23
Gives Party To Celebrate
Dist Birth Anniversar,

Mrs. Joseph n. Strobel of IFS
Quincy place northeast gave a party
last week to celebrate the 21st
birthday anniversary of her sis
ter. Miss Margaret Turner. The rooms
of the home were decorated with au-
tumn leaves and flowers. In the COM
pany of guests were Miss Clemens,
Miss Williams, Miss Thelma Brook,
Miss Ayres, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Bevis,
Mrs. Turner. Mr.. Carpenter, Mrs.
Rothwell and daughter. Mr.. Rubel,
Mr.. John Hoffman, Mrs. e. Bowers and
Mr.. Roy Carpenter.
Evening star., 1924-11-23
English Dish of Meat.

Cut into 1-inch dice a pound or
lean, round steak, and place in
creased baking dish or casserole
Make batter by mixing ] pint of
milk with l we'll beaten egg, and
adding Il cupful of -four sifted with
y teaspoonfu1 of salt and l tea
spoonful of baking powder. Beat the
WhoIe with beater for seyera!
minutes, pour over the meat in the
dish and bake for an hour with
gradually increasing heat. Serve =.
once