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A LANDMARK PASSES.

Staggering along under financial defcien-
cies, it is reported that the famous Lincoln
Hospital, originally founded in New York
City nearly eighty years ago for the exclusive
enterment of Negro patients, is soon to close
its doors. On the spacious triangle at 141st
Street and Southern Boulevard, the Lincoln
Hospital has administered comfort to the
shocking pains of the afflicted, both white and
black, for many, many years. We cannot
, repress disconsoate sigh at the passing of
Lincoln, for within its walls, so Mother says
we first saw the light of day. Eighteen years
later, we adorned one of Linco1n's cots, in old
ward eight, for nearly three months.
Significant in the history of Lincoln Hos
pital is the fact that for many years its entire
nursing staff has been composed of splendid
Negro women. who have entered the field of
health service. we'll trained and full of the
sacrificing spirit of Lincoln Hospital. The
New York State requirements, always high,
exacted from the nurse trainees technical
training in chemistry and other difficult sub
jects in addition to the regular nursing cur
riculae. Long before Freedmen's Hospital,
of Washington, and Provident Hospital, of
Chicago, had reached their present excellent
standing, Lincoln Hospital was turning Out
Negro nurses as efficient as any nurses in the
and Aside from Mrs. Adah P Thoms, a
national figure in the profession. we recall
high Communications which have been paid to
such graduates as Miss Anna Papino, now Of
Florida; Miss Ausley, of Atlanta Ga. /; Miss
Della NJ. Sandusky, of Kentucky; Miss Bessie
V. Brown, of Wilmington, Del. and many
of their associates who blazed the trail in eS-
pert nursing for nurses who were to follow
in later years from other struggling hospitals.
Alas, though, it is said that 'some sort OF
politics is behind the prospective closing of
Lincoln Hospital, which should be rightfully
taken over by the city of New York. And
we believe that if the right steps are taken
through Mayor Hylan and the New York
administration, the famous institution may not
pass away. If the Democratic administration
of the city of New York has any heart at all,
here is a chance to prove it.
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BIRMINGHAM STEEL
FESTIVAL.
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On May 2, hundreds of Negro iron and
steel workers in the Birmingham steel district
held their May Day Festical. 1t was not a
day of bomb-throwing, agitation and unrest
Rather, it was day of peace and thanksgiving
fostered and promoted in behalf of the hum
bic steel workers, who having given of their
h,st efforts to their employers were deserving
of a recreative celebration which memoria1ized
their honest endeavors, and which bespoke the
commentator of those steel interests which
realize the worth of Negro labor and in rec
ognizing it are willing to take step forward
in promoting its comfort and contentment
American labor is the most efficient labor in
the world and the American steel workers, of
dark hue, at Birmingham, are as efficient as
any similar group in the good old U. S. A.
There IS much cause for rejoicing that at
least sons, of the American employer inter-
ests, s,rrh as Judge E. H. Ca,v and George
Gordon Crawford, of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron R. R. Co., who made this Mays festival
of the Birmingham Negro steel workers
reality are realizing that bird in hand, when
treated civilly. is worth two in the bush and
accordingly, took it upon themselves to cele-
bratc the work attainments of the black men
who puddle and refine the melting contents
of the steel furnaces 1t would be good
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-05-16

: than the whites desire to crowd them
out of the areas set aside for their
homes, but there are certain classes
in both races whose activities need
curbing and it is for these that the
segregation ordinance was passed and
for whom now it should be enforced
to us specific instances where colored
activities need curbing. Tell us of a
single section either in the east or in
the west end, where officious colored
people have invaded the privacy of a
white settlement. AS a matter of
fact, well TODD colored people have
purchased property and improved 1T
and at this writing there is not a
single residential street in all Rich
mond. where colored people reside,
thas has been concreted. The SAM
tary conditions are the worst. They
have only modern conditions in To-
calities. where white people have
sold their holdings to locate in finely
Yaved sections with residences that
rival any of similar size and con-
rtruction in this country.
The newspapers are not suited for
discussion of this subject. To talk
about reyiying a segregation law is
to advertise Richmond as being anti
Negro and to drive colored people,
who are here to northern and west
ern climes and to cause those, who
are away, to stay away or migrate
to some other state than Old Virginia.
We know that God rules in the
affairs of men and these temporary
to race prejudice cannot re-
suit otherwise than in harm. Negroes
and white folks and white folks and
Negroes have been living together,
eating together, walking and sleeping
,ogether for the last two hundred
years and We take it that those, who
are complaining, their parents and
their fore-parents never owned
Negro and never knew the value of
one.
Fer Gods sake. let us have peace.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-05-16
"A WORD ABOUT SEGREGATION,

WE SINCERELY REGRET that
the influential Richmond Times
Dispatch. in its issue of the 18th inst
should have thrown the weight of
IFS influence on the side of a class
Of White people, in this community,
which permits selfish interests to
outweigh a movement for the general
good. Just as the Interracial Move
meAJ IS exercising it's greatest effecs
toward cultiyating a friendly rela
tionsbip between the races, it gives
out alleged information to the effect
that industrious colored people are
increasing the friction by forcing
themselves 10 neighborhQods occupied
by white people,
is this 4 fa,t? For our part, we
nave 3A'y to ask that the distin'
Gus" ed editorial writer spread
zap of the city of Richmond before
him and mark every block occupied
by white people and every one occu-
pied by colored ones. For miles, a
new settlement has been laid OIL In
the West End and no attempt has
been made by colored people to en-
croach upon any of this territory.
In fact, colored landowners have
sold out their holdings to their white
ne;ghbors. Just when the time came
that colored people must be excluded
from white localities, deponent say
eth not.
Certainly white people, who need
oclored labor desire that it be OBJ
tanned in their Immediate neighbor-
hood 1t is only the white folks
who fear that they may be considered
On equality with Negro that com
plain most about his being in their
neighborhood or in close proximity
Real estate agents and land-sharks
have been prospecting upon vacant
areas OF land and have been endeav'
oring to get the poorer white classes
TO purchase homes there. The know
ledge that Negro settlements exist in
the Immediate neighborhood may
have had tendency to check sales
The Times-Dispatch generously
throws this sop to the whale" wher
it says:
There is no reason to believe
chat the better class Of Negroes, OF
whom Richmond may well be proud
has any desire to encroach on the
white residential districts, any more
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-05-16

OF the sixty or more persons on board
the steamer, Including Captain How.
ard T. Fenton, grizzled veteran Of
the river, who had commanded the
Inflated vessel.
And another report says.
Mayor Rollette Payne and Thorn
as A. Allen today announced they
intended to start movement to OBJ
tain Carnegie hero medal for Tom
Lee, Negro, who saved many lives
when the steamer M. E. Norman sank
south of Memphis yesterday.
Lee, 40-year-old Negro, who leaped
into the limelight in a few hours
after the sinking Of the steamer
Norman late Friday today called on
Mayor Payne. of Memphis, to explain
his part in the rescue work. Dressed
in blue over2lls and with a short
jumper as coat. Tom was admit
ted to the Mayors private office.
Il guess I didn't do any more than
anybody else would have done in
my place., he told the Mavor. Il
had passed up on the Arkansas side
OF the Norman as she was making
Coahoma Bend. She was all right
when I passed her. l don't know
what caused me to keep looking back
at the boat, but l did and once
thought saw her fitting. When 1
looked again she was leaning way
over on one side.
L turned my boat around. 1 guess
! was quarter Of mile up the
river from her when l started, but
she was under water when l got
here. Then | got man out. He
was turning loose his hold on
piece of timber. so l got him under
the arms and pulled him in. Then
I picked .up two or three little chill
dren. | took them to sand bar
short distance away, and gave them
some matches and told them to build
fire out of driftwood. l kept going
and coming until I had saved every
body saw In the river Then l
went to the sand bar and built
fire"
There are numberless instances
where other colored men have been
active in the saving of the lives OF
white people and many white fam
lily can testify of the tenderness ex-
ercised around the bedside of some
loved member of a white family. AS
for recompense, it was not asked TOT
or expected.
Some time and some how, change
Will take place and due recognition
will be accorded one of the humblest
and most faithful races of people
upon the face of the globe. The
stirrers of strife amongst both races
will be sent to the rear and our God
will "wipe all the tears from our
eyes,.
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thing if such policies were enluated by GER
tain other American employers who think OF
themselves first and their work forces last.
Some American ideals could be made over
into realities if all American employers would
sincerely adopt the America First policy
and apply it indiscriminately to all American
citizens. -..-z
Sizzling steelA been an easy element for
Negro labor to- overcome, and there is no
reason to believe that in any other industry
the Negro worker would not be as much 1T
home as he is in the steel mills. But it takes
more than mere work to produce a good
worker. 1t takes sympathy, encouragement,
recreation and pure heart. Then there must
be added fulsome opportunities such as Amer
lean employers sing and PROV about but walk
by without speaking on the industrial path
way. If the word morale" ever meant any,
thing, it does in this modern day of industrial
seIhst1ness. In the factory or in the field,
color cannot BE- cturned into labory by-pro
ducts; and if American employers would take
the world by the horns and say: American
labor, white and black, is going to receive the
full benefits of Our capital investment" the
world would soon forget, nor would it even
care, that handful of employers at one time
tried to keep the bars up against Negro labor.
The consuming world would look at the re-
suits and be satisfied. Cannot all American
employers adopt that policy, NOW?
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-05-16
UNMUSICAL MOMENTS.

William Shakespeare, the great English
Bard-of Avon, well knew of human frailtles
when he wrote of '"The man that hath No
music in his SOUL and had the gifted poet
been present at the Washington Auditorium
on May 9Th and witnessed the voluntary de-
parture from the All-American Music Festival
of the International Council of Women, of
two hundred Negro singers of indispensable
vocal accomplishments. he probably would
have been inspired to add the gentier sex to
his description of unmus;cal monents.
There were present, on The evening of the
departure, the Richmond Treble Clef Club,
the Howard University singers, the Hampton
Institute Choir, the famous Atnphion Glee
Club. and such individual musical stars as
DR.. Nathaniel Dett, noted composer, Miss
Lulu We're Childers, Prof. Roy Tibbs, pianist
extraordinary, and Prof. J. Henry Lewis, of
natiooa fame-in all two hundred of the
sweetest singers and artists of which America
can boast. Their swelling threats and smooth
tones could have stirred the hearts of the
international women who were present, with
absorbing musical descriptions Of America.
But, alas, the festival of music was rudely
interrupted by the Gathering bones of the
skeleton in the closet. For one reason or
another, or, as one of the white managers said,
"because of her training. Negro devotees OF
musical art, Who braved the downtown
Washington theatrical section to hear the
chants OF my people were Jim-crowed in
the Washington Auditorium. In other words
the polly of blending voices but not blending
bodies was the order of the night for such
of the Race as had sufficient mental strength
to listen, but not to look The spectacle of
personi6ed segregation of their people was
quite humliating to the Negro artists. AS
one of them said, it turned his musical soul
inside out and he felt like a "Motherless
Child.
Amid such environment. the 200 Negro
singers were quite unable to sing international
songs. and as in Robin Hood. of old, with
one backstep they departed in body from
the on rat All-American Musical Festival. Com
were Dett, Tibbs, and the the Negro voices
and a siler ce reigned as deep as that of Tara's
harp The festival proceeded sadly and ur-
mlsically The musical diet that was lief!
over for the remaining white listeners was not
Incompatible to a vegetable diet for an iron
and steel worker Most significant of all.
however, was the fact that the Negro artists
decided for themselves in union-like style that
art, the great CONSIDER of men land sometimes
women, too) should be left free, unalloyed
with race hatred, unscorched by the fires of
segregation, and unattired by the mantle of
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load When the final count was
taken he had rescued perhaps thirty
of the sixty or more persons on board
the steamer, Including Captain How.
ard T. Fenton, grizzled veteran Of
the river who had commanded the
Inflated vessel.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-05-16
RHODE ISLAND KEEPS STEP.
deception.

In his dissenting opinion in the Civil Rights
Cases (1S75) argued before the United States
Supreme Court during the late seventies, Mr..
Justice Harlan said: property does become
clothed with public interest when used in
manner to make it of public consequence and
affect the community at large. When, there
fore, one devotes his property to use in
which the public has an interest, he in effect,
grants to the public an interest in that use, and
must submit to be controlled by the public
for the common good, to the extent of the
interest he has created. He may withdraw
his grant by disseminating the use, but, so long
as he maintains the use, he must submit to
the control
Despite the judicial overruling OF the Civil
Rights cases by the U. S. Supreme Court,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-05-16

JUST AS SOME Negro-hater is
endeavoring TO create antipathy and
hatred towards the Negroes Of this
country, some individual member Of
that race does something that tends
to benefit his people and to call at
tention to the sterling qualities In
herent in this race of people. Full
blooded southerners of the ante-bel-
!um type never forget this fact and
they never tire of relating anecdotes
illustrative Of this popularity in the
black people Of this section of our
National Domain.
We were impressed with this fact,
when we read the account of the
sinking Of United States vessel In
the Mississippi River. The white
people, who were saved by the in
trepidity and bravery of this Negro
are loud in their praises of his CON
duct. They did not then and Will
not now raise any question as to
whether he occupies a seat next to
them in a public hall or whether ne
is found munching his humble repas'
in dining room, where they, too
are enjoying their evening meal.
Twenty-three lives were lost in this
disaster. The first report from
Memphis, Tennessee reads:
From out of the swamps OF Ar
kansas came the hero of the disaster
"a big black Negro man-Tom Lea
On his broad shoulders and the
motor boat of his employers a.
Helena, Ark, fell the burden of life
saving.
Lea went about his work a!
method;cally Ias any of the silent
men who made up the bulk of the
parry. He loaded his boat with vic
tins of the disaster, took then
ashore and went back for another
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DO YOU KNOW THEN?

Germantown, Pa, May 4, 1872 o.
I desire to know the name of the
man. who owned Charles Henry
Brown, who had a sister named
Charlotte Davis. She was the mother
of D. Webster Davis, who was we'll
known there.
Send information to SARAH
BROWN, widow of Charles Henry
Brown, 131 w. Price St.. German
town. Pa
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MOMENTS.
2-RHODE ISLAND KEEPS STEP
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AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Goodwill Baptist Church, 41O
n. Monroe street is new unit to the
Rar.iet Church. with very broad
rrorram. Rev. W. Z. Bali, pa 1tor
nv tes the public and his manV
friends to worship Sunday, May
18th. 1880 A. M. and $3.50 P. M.
Communion, First Sundays, P. M :.
Sunday school, $3.50 P. M. Speclal
music. All are invited.
REV. W. B. BALL, Pastor
F. BALL, Clerk.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-17
BERLIN ACTORS WAR
 ON THEIR MANAGERS
Hundreds Agree not to Enter Con tracts With Managers stipu-
 lating Maximum Salary.

Rerln, Auril 17, - A group of about 100 prominent actors and singcrs of the Berlin stage have signed an agreement not to enter into contract with any theater whose management adheres to plan recently framed by the man agerial association, which divides all actors and singers into four cate gories and stipulates the maximum salary which those in each category shall receive.
 Stage folk say they will not be arbitrarily branded as first. second, third and fourth class, according 10 the whim of managers, and insist that it Is an insult to the profess sion 10 try to rob actors of all in- dividuality and herd them together as if they were merchandise.
 When the managers announced their new plan they explained that many artists were demanding such high salaries it was impossible for them to meet their terms without increasing the price of seats to a point where the public would re- fuse to pay.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-17
MANILA CHANGED
 MUCH IN S6 YEARS
Old Scadog Comments on Changes for Better after First Appear
 ance There Since 1889.

Manila. April r. -- Captain John Bradshaw Of the steamship Bel genland which is carrying some 800 eXcursionis,s around the world, re- called his previous visit to the Phil ippines S6 years ago, when he tied up his big ship here recently to what he said was one of the finest piers in the world.
 "Thirty-six years ago" said Cap tain Bradshaw, "I put into lloilo with shipload of sick men, and we buried them all but three. All but'three, and one of the three was myself, Fever and ague took them off. I'll wager you have but little of that nowadays, everything looks so clean.
 You know it's a very strange thing, From here we are going 10 Batavia. There 3S years ago the Javanese had me all tied up to tree ready to send me into Kingdom Come. But I got away.
 The Philippines look very diff forent to me, very different, indeed. The last time I was here with the old Cambay a 1000 ton ship. and now have 2TO0O ton ship, There's q great difference"
New Britain herald., 1925-04-17
PAPE ROBBINS AVE.
 ROAD BILL PASSES
House of Reps. Votes to Reim,
 purse NeWinSton
Special to the Hornldl

Hartford. April 17,-ReprcsentN- tive Elmer W. Pape of Newington in an interview with q Herald reporter today explained his road bill which on the surface appears to be a fall ure. Pape's original bill called for an appropriation from the state for the payment of Robins avenue re- pairing was killed by the house of representatives in Hartford, but a substitute bill was passed by the lower branch which means practi- cally the same thing. The substitute reads ''reimhursing the town of Newington for construction of a state aid road" The road in question, runs from the Elm Hill school along Robins avenue to the state aid road on Main street, Newington. Mr, Papc explained that the bill passed carries an appropriation of about S1S.000 and it will come up for action in the senate next week. The passing Of the substitute bill is a
New Britain herald., 1925-04-17
Some Reasons For the Victor Health Offices
 Wonderful Success

feel Ng jl They i. Victor tv their condition and advise what be done them.
 putting patients 10 Victor Health office makes horouga eXanlna5n Xlay al attending When they of reatmen They administered by efficient hdats under the Of experienced phyc1N$ crate modem eQupm Of scientific physi-i and appI ances for special treatment of this particular
 Year after year hundreds of wealthy Americans v }ur health al Of Here Hartford Victor Health developed which closely without such The Health small hnnel
 The Victor Health Office helped others hr2- who suffered leyed the ailments which successfully Methods
 An entire building S5 Washington Street Hartford Conn, is exclusively sick tat and women are taken care Of in separate dp2rsn and individual provided men attendants for men and women attendants for the
 No matter how severe your illness of how long stand Od stubborn often ronded readily Victor Methods ty 
 Vixen for consultation will receive pains aknG pfySIcaI blood pressure and chemical analysis and the huoFoscopc Niay cX2ninIn
New Britain herald., 1925-04-17
:NTSEERS DRAW
 TiLN STARS IRE
.lbberneck Wagons Leave No
 Privacy for Movie Idols

Beverly Hills. Cal, April It. Motion picture stars who live in this Los Angeles suburb, in common with others of their profession, are not averse to publicity, but when the "rubbsr-neck" wagons exceeded what is locally regarded as the limit they promptly called upon the po- lice for help.
 The trouble started with the sightseeing auto busses. The ad vertising slogan personally con- ducted visits 10 the homes of mo- tion-picture stars proved lure the operators, found, that seldom failed 10 get a load of passengers out of a downtown hotel lobby in Los Angeles.
 Arriving in Beverly Hills they parked in front of some film favor ite's home, and the chap who was barking through the mogaphone would say something like this:
 Here we have the residence of the sheba Of the movies The lady in white sitting on the verandah is her sister. The gentleman sitting on the left Is her fourth husband" All of which was embarrassing and annoying 10 the objects of attention. The sightseers even got bolder and would venture into the private grounds surrounding the homes.
 So the residents got together and confded their troubles to the chief of police. The numbering busscs may still travel the streets Of Bey- rrlv Hills. but they arc mot with the order to keep moving.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-17
FISHERMEN SEEK JOBS
 AS LONDON FIREMEN
Large Numbers Of Them Apply for Jobs after Each Rig Fire in
 English Metropolis,

London, April IT, Just why fishermen want to become London tlremen is difficult 10 explain, but 1t is recorded at the headquarters of the London fire brigade that the majority of their recruits are drawn from the sea.
 It is said thas a flremar's life seems to have q fascinat,vn TOT men used to hard and exciting work on a trawler, and after any big Lon don fire there is always an increase in the number of applications for admission 10 the brigade.
 Soafaring candidates make the best fircmcn, because they are ac- customed 10 turn out in all kinds of weather and 10 do any job at moments notice. Also they are used to strict discipline.