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recalled the invitations for bridge
this afternoon.
Mrs. Richardson, wife of Capt. J. o.
Richardson. u. S. N, has been called
to Paris, Tex, by the serious illness
of her father, Mr.. Frank II. Senet.
Mrs. Laurence j. Fowler of Tudor
Hall entertained at luncheon today in
honor of Miss Ada Duncan Gosnell
of Kansas City, Mo. Other guests in
cluded Mrs. Samuel II Marks, Mrs
Evening star., 1925-03-26

Royal e. Corwin, Mrs. Ernest A..
THOMAS and Miss Julia Platt.
Miss Gosnell is spending a month
cluded Mrs. Samuel III. Marks, Mrs.
of Thirteenth street before returning
to her home in Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Landis entertained
at a small dinner at their home on
Sixteenth street last evening for Mr..
Eugene Martin, who left this morn
ing for New York City, where he will be
for an indefinite period. The guests
were DR. and Mrs. NJ. A. Mitchell of
Baltimore, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Joyce. jr; Mr.. and Mrs. John Curtis,
jr.; Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Morris. Mrs.
Henry Lamar, Mrs. Emily Byrd, Miss
Virginia Sheldon, Miss Lois Heady
Miss Janice Draper, Miss Elizabeth
Morrison, Lieut.. J. Morrison, Mr.
John Byrn, jr.: Mr.. Henry Morgan.
Mr.. Edward Bascomb, Lieut.. King and
Mr.. Samuel Browning.
Miss Carolynne Martin, daughter of
Mrs, Stanton E. Martin, entertained
at bridge tea in her home yesterday
for her house guest Miss Mildred
Armstrong of Dallas. Tex. The guests
included Mrs. Lee Lands, Mrs. Henry
Lamar. Miss Janet Martin, Miss Lea
trice Evans. Miss Anna Craig Hill
DuTn, MISS marie van Ness MISS BECK
ham, Miss Dorothy Brooks, Miss Mary
Alice Jones. Miss Young, Miss Janice
Draper Miss Helen Thompson, Miss
Emily Byrd, Mrs. Reginald Stewart,
Mrs. Edgar Glenn, Miss Virginia Shell
don, Mrs. Joyce. Mrs. Fitzmsury, Mrs.
George Hays Mrs. Harry Clendenin,
Miss Dorothy Morgan, Miss Henrietta
King, Miss Beatrice Wayne and Miss
Davine Wayne, Miss Ellen Hart, Miss
Catherine Caldwell and Miss Eliza
beth Morrison.
Additional guests were asked for
tea, when Miss Martin was assisted by
the Misses Wayne, Miss Hart and Mr.
Lamar, the last named presiding at
the tea table.
Kentucky Society Party
Tonight for New Senator.
Senator and Mrs. Frederic NJ. Sack
n nf tn ha m 10.
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guests to the reception given by the
Minister of Egypt and Nine. Yousry.

Miss Barine Drake will entertain a
small company at dinner this evening
preceding the reception to be given
by the Minister of Egypt and Nine.
Yousry.
Col. and Mrs, Herbert Crosby have
as their guest in their quarters at
Washington Barracks Mrs. Kemp
Pittman Of California Mrs Crosby
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Kentucky Society Party
Tonight for New Senator.
Senator and Mrs. Frederic NJ. Sack
EFT of Kentucky are to be the guests
OF honor at the monthly meeting of
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Continued on Ninth Page.)
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
WHITE CITIZENS OF LYNCH
BURG, VA. UNDERWRITE NE
GRO GIRLS SEMINARY TO
BE LOCATED IN THAT CITY
preston News Service)

Lynchburg, Va, Sept l7-At a con-
ference in this city Of the officials and
leaders for Lynchburg and its Cham
Der Of Commerce, Secretary I. Gar
land Penn, Cincinnati, Ohio, outlined
the plans Of the Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Society Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church for the establish
ment Of Seminary for Negro women
At some point in the South, prefer
ably Lynchburg.
AS an inducement to locate the
Seminary here, the City Council and
Chamber Of Commerce agreed to
guarantees valued at $4,000.
Five years ago the Society at its
National Council in Detroit, Mich,
agreed upon Lynchburg. AS the city
and business interests are now ready
to make good its guarantees, it is
expected that the National Council at
its meeting in the First Methodist
Episcopal Church. Pasadena. Calf, in
October, will reafirm the action taken
in Detroit.
The Seminary is to be select col
lege for Negro girls offering degrees
and open to students from any sec
ton Of the United States. Its main
support will come from the Woman's
Home Missionary Society which is
the organization Of leading white and
colored women from the Methodist
Episcopal Church. This organization
had an income last year Of over two
million dollars.
Concerning the guarantees made by
the business interests Of Lynchburg,
Secretary Penn, said on leaving the
city for Cincinnati, that it was an
other evidence of the growing in
terest of white leaders in the South
in the higher education of the Negro
and another step in promoting more
cordial and friendly inter-race rela-
tionships. The Seminary is to be
known as the Carrie Barge Seminary
after Miss Carrie Barge, a noted and
Consecrated white woman and official
Of the Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety, living in Delaware, Ohio.
One hundred thousand dollars will
be expended on the first unit and the
institution is expected to. open for the
scholastic year 1862. Already stu
dents have applied for entrance and
are on the waiting list, a. far away
As Arizona.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
TO HAVE MEETING

Hon. VIM. Herbert Fields, national
grand master of A. U. K. & D. of A..
in company with Dr. Geo. M. Cathrell,
national grand secretary treasurer,
both Of St. Louis, Mo, will be in the
city Sunday, Sept 10th, for the pur
pose Of organizing a committee at
Bailey's Hall, 1888 S. State ST., which
committee is to put over the 10Th an
nual session and national encampment
to be held in Chicago in August, 1926.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
But The Greatest Of These IS
America

Greece with her intellectual culture,
her ethnic religion, and her love Or
the beautiful did not produce a Scion
who was sufficiently interested in the
individual citizen to vote a law pur-
porting TO protect the widow, care
tor the orphan, reform the wayward,
educate the masses and erect eleemosy-
nary societies for those whom the
hand Of misfortune had thrown upon
the bounty Of society.
The Institutes Of Justinian contain
ed no "proviso" for the moral and
social welfare Of the individual, and
the ignorant slave, the morally in
The broad ax., 1925-09-19

sane, hhe inhrm, the decrepid. all were
privileged to take care Of themselves
as best they could. The State had no
interest in their welfare; the indivi-
dual existed for the benefit of the
State and the State for the benefit Of
the few.
But with Christianity came a new
social order, and orphanages. asylums,
hospitals, homes, reformatories, etc,
trace their origin to the Christian re-
ligion Christianity i responsible for
the new social order. She has revers-
ed State DEGREES. and Statutory En-
actments,' and the individual as today
an integral part Of the State.
Yesterday 4 Borgia received the tiara
and Savonarola was martyred, Paul
decapitated and a Nero perched on the
Seven Hills Of Rome; the Christ was
crucihed, and an Augustus won the
empire; Jeanne dare was cremated
and Charles became King Of France.
Today the State exists, not because
it is greater than the people, but in
order to serve the people the State
has its 'raison d etre," and this serv-
ice to the individual "est Ia base sine
qua nom of the States, yea, of the
Nations existence.
America has in many respects
caught the vision of what sovereign
State ought to be. Athens was great
in the days Of Pericles; Rome was
mighty in the time OF the Caesars,
but America with her charities, Amer
lea with her vast educational, indus
trial and reformatory systems Of in
dividual and social welfare, IS BY far
the greater than either the Greece Of
King Philip, or the city Of which
It was said, Augustus found it brick,
and he lett II marble"
Illinois Queen Of States
In making our estimate Of the AZ
States in the Union, we are cognizant
Of the fact that the other Az are
measuring up the standard of useful
ness, industry, moral reform, etc.
Special mention should, however, be
made of Illinois as the Queen of
States, and the great work which this
State Queen is prosecuting with I'M
relenting fervor. Her eleemosynarv
institutions, her reformatories, and
her other branches of human endeavor
cannot be too highly commended.
The Geneva State Training School
for Girls is but one Of the States
many activities for the welfare Of the
social order.
BY thy rivers gently flowing, Illi-
nois, Illinois,
Ger thy prairies verdant growing,
Illinois, Illinois,
Comes an echo On the breeze.
Rustling through the leafy threes.
And it's mellow tones are these,
Illinois, Illinois"
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
GIRL SLASHED, STABBED AND
SHOT, ADMIRER ARRESTED
preston News Servicel


Richmond, Va, Sept. A. - Miss
Alma Hayes. p, was stabbed and
slashed on the shoulders and arms as
well as cut on the throat by her beau,
Eugene Cheatham, according to the
police, last Thursday night. Cheatham,
it is alleged, cut her throat, stabbed
her right shoulder, shot her through
the same shoulder and then shot her
in the mouth, according to notations
made at St. Philips Hospital, where
Miss Hayes was taken at $50 o'clock
last Thursday night. The attempted
massacre and scalping expedition took
place, according to reports, near
Cheatham's home, the wielder Of the
knife and pistol having been arrested
shortly afterwards by Third Station
officers.
Love i the only motive assigned
for the violence with which the
Lothario expressed his regard for the
girl The poor girl may die.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19

cises the IS per cent colored and the
IS per cent white know no color
line, nor is this line drawn in the day
school, but beyond these two features
religious and educational writer
is not cognizant Of the fact that the
girl-inmates Of the Geneva Training
School have any social intercourse.
The religious service at Geneva is
conducted. generally, BY a white
clergyman, not, however, to the ex-
clusion of ministers Of our race. From
information secured BY the writer,
none OF the ministers Of our group,
seemingly, ever think Of visiting the
girls Of that school. Such would,
doubtless, involve some sacrifice and
inconvenience Oh Sunday (not every
Sunday. but our girls would, some
times. like to hear the gospel preached
By one Of our own. In this way all
concerned would doubtless realize the
truth proclaimed nearly $500 years
ago by Malachi, the prophet: Have
we not all one Father, has not one
God created u.s." The writer has
promised to preach for the Geneva
girls some time in the near future.
Colored preachers, says Mrs. Mercer,
would be welcome.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
RETURNS HOME

Hon. Luther H. Foster, treasurer
and business manager Of The Virginia
Normal State College, Petersburg,
Va, has. returned to the school fol-
lowing several weeks Of study at the
University Of Chicago where he took
up several special subjects.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19

These September morns are wit
Messing the annual event Of the open
ing Of school. More Negro children,
middIers. grown-ups and elderly folks
viii cross some class room door sill
during the twenty-four hour day of the
1886 school period than ever be-
fore. This prophecy applies to en-
trants all the way from the little red
school house on the hill to the great
universities Of the world. just yester-
day a Negro physician. whom we in
terviewed. had abandoned his prac-
tice III South Carolina and was en-
route to the University Of Edinburgh
where he will study intricate surgery
for several years. His place in South
Carolina will be rapidly filed BY some
youthful graduate Of Howard, Me-
harry, or some outstanding northern
university. And as John P. Davis,
the Bates College orator, returns from
his European triumphs as a debator,
dozens Of other youth with latent tall
ent viii begin the slow course Of
preparation for the battle Of brains a
decade hence, which will doubtless I'M
fold even a greater proportion of Ne
gro scholars fit for world recognition.
What should the interracial transit
ton from ignorance to knowledge
mean to the world at large and to the
Negro group entity7 To the former
It should mean that this dark tenth
content viii not. cannot permanently
be denied a mans place in Art, Sci
ence. History, Music, and Religion,
a well As il the trades and indus
tries. "A President Of the United
States once said Of a down-trodden
group: These people have by force
and ability pushed their heads and
shoulders through the tough top
crust; and I will not Be party to
any movement to keep them down
Or make their way more dificult Let
them riser
TO the Negro, the past decades
demonstrations Of educational efici-
ency mean confidence, seIf-reliance,
independence, and the ultimate eman-
cipation from bigotry. They mean
a greater sympathy for the weak
nesses of the conra-group, and
a stronger determination to help that
group purge itself Of the alloy Of race
hatred. The school bell is ringing
for the ambitious Negro ali the way
from the humble trade school to the
operating room where a Caesarian
section IS being performed. And while
this harbinger OF Knowledge IS silent
for the Negro At West Point and An
napoIis, the other schools are grind
ing out graduates who are swelling
the mighty ranks whose numbers are
pledged to the pleasurable duty Of
throwing off ballast and making
Negro education, yea, Negro life, uni-
versally acknowledged, respected, and
acclaimed = one 81 the chief corner
stones of the builders Of American de-
mocracy and civilization.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
COLUMBIAN BRIEFS

Colored lawyers Of Virginia have or
gained a state bar association.
Building trade wages are at the high
est peak they have ever been.
In our present stage Of development,
constructive work-and lots Of its
the crying need.
During the past two years 81 cor
porations have been organized by
West Virginia colored business men.
Forty years ago there were forty
divorces for every one hundred mar
riages in Japan. Now there are only
ten.
The making Of beautiful furniture
from mahogany is rapidly becoming
one OF the crafts OF West Africa.
Beans are an important staple food
and the average yearly crop is worth
Ss0oOO,oOO to the farmers of the
United States.
The American public spent $780,
100000 last year for carbonated bever-
ages and some Of this income reached
colored owners Of bottling works.
The Liberian Government proposes
to establish telephone communication
between Monrovia and Cape Palmas
and the intervening coastal towns.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
OPENS FALL TERM

The Enterprise Institute, 5l4 AIdine
Square, Of which Rev ]. w. Nc
Daniels IS president, has opened its
fall term with q splendid enrolment.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19

In speaking Of the moving OF nm
actress London newspaper says that
she had deserted hotel life for an
apoitment America for fiat-in
Chelsea
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
IN CRY

Mr- and Mrs. William Rice III Des
MONIES, IA, are visiting III the city
stopping with friends At 1924 Cottage
Grove Ave.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19

Strikes seldom do anyone much
coed, and where Negroes are involve
Cd, that group usually suffers the
greatest hardships Of the vexatious
turmoil between Capital and Labor.
This latter truth is due to the fact
that Negro labor has only its head
The broad ax., 1925-09-19

-1f*-- 1870 49, y ~t~-A-~-AN ~ ~~AAA 'NA1--l
advancement, supplemented BY the
necessities Of a happy life and con
tented populace for those without Is
well u those within
With Klansmen as pallbearers. says
the white press, the funeral Or Samuel
Obrey 4 West Virginia Negro miner,
was recently conducted at Roderheld,
near WEIGH. The report continues BY
saying that as the coffin was placed
in a hearse to be taken to the Gene
terry, a Ku Klux Khan meeting, held
in rooms over the undertaking estab-
lishment was dismissed Noting the
absence Of mourners, several Klans-
men boarded the hearse, while others
fell in behind and marched to the
cemetery, where they lifted the coffin
from the hearse and lowered it into
the ground. Each Klansman stood
in silence while the funeral rites we're
concluded.
Just prior to this epocha1 event a
Klan preacher, during its Washington,
D. G. festival, had advocated a Jim
Crow car law for the District Of Col
unlbia, and few days later, to the
writer's personal knowledge, distaste
for local Negroes had been manifested
in the vicinity Of local Khan meet
ing. All Of which points the fingers
Of curiosity at the multifarious acts Of
an organization which is 50 outspok-
en- in its ideal What, pray, Is the
motive Of the Khan when it tenders
a purse to a Negro church or desig-
mates pallbearers for attendance at a
Negro funeral? Is it the attitude Of
throwing a dog bone, or is it to try
to veneer the true aims Of this mod
ern knighthood organization?
In case of the latter, the announce
ments of the Khan literature too plain
" bespeak their estimate of a large
proportion of our American constitu-
ency; and if it is the former, church
purses and sympathies for the dead
might more consistently be rendered
to those whose idealistic alliances are
more in harmony with the Khan than
those Of their colored brethren.
Altogether, the queer capers Of the
Khan indicate that realizing its axis
is supporting naught but lost world,
it is swimming hither and thither
searching for straws BY which its
crown might Be preserved for a few
months longer; for it was long ago
evident that the modern world has no
permanent place for such curious an
omaly, and that the last two-thirds 81
its titulat-@Here yesterday, here to-
day, here tomorrow may soon Be
wiped out And when the time for
those obsequies arrives, wen gladly
furnish some Of the pallbearers, leav-
ing similar honor to the Jews, Cath
olics, and aliens.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
"Au Revoire

After the informal exercises, we
took leave Of our hostesses. The girls
manifested marked signs of emotion,
and the breasts Of many heaved heavy
signs, while their tear dimmed eyes
told the story most eloquently Of the
deep impression made upon them By
the visit Of the Golden Circle Of
Kings Daughters and Sons.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
Recreation at Geneva

The recreation program varies with
the alternating seasons. A ball game
was the out-of-door sport on the aft
ernoon Of the 2lst ultimo.
The Mission Of the Kings Daughters
Especially to cheer the sometimes
lonely life Of the colored girl, even
though the State provides the com
forts and conveniences necessary to
their moral, intellectual and physical
welfare, the Kings Daughters and
Sons undertook the voyage to Geneva.
The members Of the Committee in
their sympathetic and winning manner
encouraged the girls to obedience to
their matrons whom they call BY the
affectionate and endearing name
Mother" They were given to feel
that they are not miscreants who were
being punished, but young girls in
training to become the women and
wives OF tomorrow; these girls were
told that the opportunity to fashion
themselves into noble characters, so
that on leaving their training school
they would be better equipped, NOR
ally, intellectually and physically, to
cope with life's difficult problems, is
now theirs, that the Lord in His Di-
vine Providence has thus ordered
things for their welfare. They were
also exhorted to a life Of prayer and
faith in God. Positive proof was given
them to the effect that they are
thought Of and appreciated, despite the
intervening distance between Chicago
and Geneva, as was evidenced BY the
periodical tracts and other literature
brought them BY their visitors, as well
as by the prayers offered on their be-
half by one Of the visiting ministers.
Luncheon and Departure
Time with us was rather precious;
we therefore devoted this precious
time to visiting Hope" and Willow"
Cottages, and at both of these resi-
dences were given hearty reception
by both Mother" matrons and girls.
We, however, luncheoned in style at
Hope" Cottage, and the most refresh
ing menu that any city hostess could
serve without notice was placed be-
fore us, or we were placed before the
menu. Despite the latitude, and
longitude, and meridianal and equa-
torial distances, and minus the least
coercion--the long ride having done
its work Of preparing an appetite
we were tabled, and after the Rev.
Schonlberger had "rendu grace" (said
grace, with travellers zest we par
took most unstintingly Of the appetiz-
ing ''viandes.' while converse with
the matrons, in the form or queries
and rejoinders enriched the happy
hour through which ran happy sense
Of wit and humor, and which made
the time to be 50 delightfully."- profit
able, charitably and missionarild
spent and enjoyed by visited and vis-
itors.
The broad ax., 1925-09-19

The weary ploughman homeward
wends his way;
Leaving the world to darkness and
to me-
(From Gray's Elegy)
Now that the Elks, the Eagles. the
Masons and the Knights have wendell
their way homeward, where they may
face, at least, temporary shortage
Of bread, butter and coal, which were
prematurely exchanged for excursion
tickets. gasoline, and circular Good
year rubber. the fraternal brethren
may well, in these few months which
precede the homecoming Of Mr.. Win
ter and his hearty children, Snow, Ice
and Cold. take inventory 81 their
stock and see whats what and why.
La the first place, bought brother
hood is somewhat like asbestos. which
gets red hot in minute and cooIs
just As quickly. The social hour, when
a brother would swim the English
channel for his brother yields over
night to the cold undeniable necessity
Of helping out with the rent or taking
care Of the insurance collector. The
huzzahs Of Camp Meetin' are sup
planted BY not few ''jolts9 which are
barren Of fine fellowship So previous
" prevalent.
In other words, we are slightly in
clined to be pessiInistic over the ex-
pended gusto, pomp, and energy. to
say nothing Of the dollars and dimes.
all Of which might have been diverted
to great human brotherhood or to
Education, Industry, or Science. The
humble writer thinks-and he is both
a Nod Fellow and a 4NeIkp-thzt
.traternaI gatherings should first prom
ulgate some great constructive project
having its aim racial endeavor and
welfare, rather than magnetic so-
cial session, following which there are
naught but embers 81 what might
9have been
The ElEs announce The establish
ment Of bureau 81 Education u fos-
ter and promote educational far;i;tias
Of the Race. This project. # con
suHmated' viii bloom into concrete
results Of far-reachinr worth. Similar
efforts along lines Of business. race
fellowship, land development, and the
like, we think. would 90 much 10 fade
the darkness which enshrouds 4 strue-
Cling race. FraternaIisrn. II seems
to rs, means more thar the lodge room
The broad ax., 1925-09-19
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