Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-03-28

leaders much OF the business of real property
transactions has been taken out of tile hands
Of unscrupulcus white dealers, who hereto
fore reaped harvest from illy-advised Negro
clients; and home ownership in Washington
has grown by leaps and bounds, safeguarded
BY race capital and race advise and frequently
reinanced by race mortgage and guaranty
companies In this connection, the Universal
Development Company with holdings of
$4,000 in choice business property such as
stores and garages, on Washington's most
prominent streets, has taken conspicuous
place in business development.
Twenty-seven drug stores and approximate
~ forty registered pharmacists compound
prescriptions and dispense toilet articles to
thousands of customers who no longer spend
needless carfare to and from the downtown
white section for pharmaceutical goods. Hab-
erdasheries and shoe stores are plentiful and
milliners and dressmakers work endless hours
on beautiful hats and gowns.
Four busy local presses grind out inform
ing local news, and two great out OF town
papers, the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chi
caeo Defender have added their busy activities
to the dissemination Of national news. From
cobbng to the manufacture of ice cream and
choice sweets. the Negro merchant is kept
busy Thriving cafeterias and restaurants
serve tasty viands to the hungry folks, local
nd transient and race cab services, to say
nothing of privately-owned cars and all the
wav from Fords to Rolls-Royces, convey busy
folk from hotel to bank, from theatre to home.
Employment is being given to thousands OF
trained youth, and professional life in Wash
ington is surging with success, from sanltar-
irlrn to home bedside and from office to court.
Optimism is running the ganlut of business
progress in Washington, and the city has
taken a firm place among the great cities OF
the country in which race consciousness per-
vades our group to the extent OF bringing up
and do;ne-rnaking internal currents of Sue
cess in finance, in the interchange OF abilities
and in the substantial plane of genuine race
advancement. March on, Washington
E MONEY! PRESTIGE! POWER!
a prominent race member of the Republi-
can party and officeholder under the Harding
Coolidge Administration, for whose Official
SCALP fiftv-seven different varieties of the
BRETHREN have been clamoring, not
because they are able to put greater efficiency
into the incumbent's office, but simply because
they want Jobs musingly said to us as we
dashed off movie" last week: Money,
PRESTIGE. and Power are three much sought
acquisitions, any one of which is liable to
cause a BROTHER to run off the track at
any time. And if he ever acquires all three
of them at the same time, Hell and Maria
he is apt to attempt to do stunts which would
make am East Indian magician look like
piker".
cts lust like this, continued our aniab!e
Republican disciple. as he ficked some cigar
ashes off his Prince Albert coat: Political
economists say that money is medium OF
exchange Webster gives two meanings to
prestige. one being weight or influence, force
or charm; and the other being delusion IL
fusion, trick or charm. And Powerl Well,
anybody who has read a srnattering OF history
or lived in Georgia or Florida, Knows what
power is. The result is simple. Mere efti-
cheney is a small potato when put up as
sct-off against an army of insistents, all OF
whom are willing to exchange money, Unfit
ence, and force, or any one of them, for the
chance to perform an illusion upon the long
suffering public.
There's Jim Jones, who is easily worth a
quarter of million but he's willing to give
it four years discount just to sign his name