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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12

B. Addison CephaS, JrD
After the many thousand VISITORS
attending me Elks' Convention have
left the city, Richmod society is calm
ing down TO it's regular fail and win
Ter ac 'ivities. Many large events
have been planned for the coming
session
On last Tuesday the beautiful East
Leigh Street home of DR.. and Mrs.
= Ferguson was a scene of gaiety when
heir daughter, Miss Irma Ferguson
entertained several of Richmond's
popular members of society at a card
party and repast Among those
rVesent were Misses Dorothy John
sJon Marion and Thelma Cephas and
6rs. ] P billiard and Edward Bas-
sett and MesSrs. B T. Bradshaw,
j. r. Golden and ] T. Carter, Jr.
After paying cards delightful menu
was served Dancing was INDUCED in
until the wee wee hours of the morn
Miss Ferguson leaves for Oberiin
next Sunday to resume her studies
in music.
On Wednesday, September 2.
Richmond society turned out in full
to witness the beautiful marriage of
Miss Rosa Beard, prominent in the
Younger circ'es, Ito Mr.. Henry T.
Stepteau. Of Roanoke. Va. The mar
riage was sosemnized at the beauti-
full suburban home of the BRIDES
parents Mr., and Mrs. John Beard.
T1s house was beautifully decorated
with Gu, flowers and the lawn APP
peared tot be huge fairy garden,
bedecked with glimmering lanterns
and beautiful women with marvellous
gowns The bride and groom will
live in Roanoke, Va.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
Next Week
DANGER IN COLD,BUT-
BCOTLEGGERS LOOK OUT! =

II 10 upon this human chareooer'
istic that he bases his plans - catch.
bootleggsrs.
when bootlesgsr IL double
crossed ~ another bootisSrr-and
this oftsn happsns-the bootleGgsr
wants rsvsngs. So he goes to q pro.
hib<t,on agent and tells on the other
fellow" says Ewing.
Ewing U a quiet estir4ng sort Of a
man. a coatrAa b The character OF
an individual one would expect TO-
And At the head Of q large group Of
law enforcement agents.
But he knows the ways Of the.
bootlcgger and he knows human
nature.
It Is because Of these oualifica.'
tons that he was given the task Of
cleaning up one Of the wetAeet spots
In the country. Il 10 said. =
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12

TEOWLEDGE . the says of
IN humanity Ats>a nron5h MS
many Year ssps7e"ss ss pas
tor OF a chTSrs . ~ Sp.sp own or
Hillsboro, O., o AN ssg. F.. +.
Ewing cRLce r--"isaxsrs
Ewing o4s '.--n named by General
Lincoln C, Andrews as prohibition
chief OF the largest area in the
United States. Fits headquarters
will be IN Chicago. and he will be in
charge OF the drinking capacities OF
some ten million No.s,ead and ar
Eols,ead threats In Illinois. soC1 :.
ern Wisconsin and Indiana.
While a preacher Ewing learned
that folk. engaged In crime. seldom
applied the honor code to their asso-
Citations with one another.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
EDWIN BARCLAY, LIBERIAN
SECRETARY, In THE U. S.
Mission Is a Secret-Rubber In
terests Developing Liberia =
Homeland Problem Again Up for
Discussion.

WASHINGTON.-With the ar
rival of Edwin Barclay on the
steamer Paris, in New York, specu-
lation is rife in official circles in
Washington as to the purpose of
DR.. Barclays visit in his official
capacity as Liberian Secretary of
State.
After being accorded diplomatic
courtesies by the representatives
of American State Department, the
Honorable Mr.. Barclay was also
welcomed by DR.. Lyons of Balti-
more, who is the Liberian consul
general in the United States.
There has been some trouble be-
tween the French authorities and
the natives in the Zinta section on
the frontier and Secretary Barclay
has just come from Paris, France.
1t will be remembered that the
American Congress some time ago
turned down a five million dollar
loan for Liberia after it had been
approved by the executive depart
ment Of the U. S. government.
1t is understood that some of the
mammoth rubber companies of
America are planning a deal with
the Liberian government in ex-
change for much-needed rights and
privileges in order that America
may break the British corner Of
the raw rubber supply.
The arrival of official recresen-
tatives of the Liberian Republic
always revives interest in the rela-
tions of the African Homeland to
the tremendous Race population
here in the U. S. 1t will be re-
membered that representative Of
the Homeland lately spoke strongly
against Garvey's idea.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
AMERICAS ENEMY-FAT.
A SHOpT.H BULL.
A ROOF TS THE EARTH.
l0-POUND BABY?-WRONG.

What is more dangerous than
ocean travel, riding on railroads,
or flying in an airplaue?
The answer, given by Mr.. john
son, of the National Life Insur-
ance Company, is FAT.
Fat kills Americans more rapidly
than anything else. Fatty degen-
Grafton of the heart kills many.
Fat accumulates on middle-aged
business men, and that kills them
before their time.
In old age especially fat is dan
gerous. And in old age it is most
difficult to get rid of dangerous fat.
The heart won't stand exercise
that might take the fat off. The
feeble will cannot control diet.
The safest place in the world as
regards accidents is the cabin of a
big steamship on the ocean.
Next in safety comes railroad
train, and before long the flying
machine will be safer than either.
The man in greatest danger is
the fat man past middle age, eat
ing heartily and hurriedly when
ne is tired. Don't insure him.
Good news for little automobile
owners. Gasoline prices are
slashed all over the country. es-
terday, in Eastern territory, Che
cut was three cents a gallon. In
the Middle West many buy gas
under ID cents. 1t makes a big
difference to those that count the
cost of living and motoring.
1t means nothing to the big men;
they don't care what gasoline
costs. And many of them, owning
oil stocks, feel rather sad. A three
cent cut in gas may mean SSt
drop in oil stocks.
A short-horn bull was sold il
tie Argentine Republic yesterda!
far $50, 900, record price for tina
breed. The real record is the
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
price paid in this country b3 the
Carnation Farn,s Company for q
Holsteiu bull-@102,000.

HolSteiu bull-(lUL,VVu.
These price4 ahow what can be
done by breeding among animals;
You can get }arfsctly good bull
for $40. But :, little change In
the shape OF the animal, pro.
duced by a 91tful selection OF
the mysteriY9k chromosomes
makes big difference.
Students of ertenics think care.
full breeding SM produce eq;Sl
Improvement in human beings,
They are mistaken.
Learned men including church
men, once tauaA that there was
a root to this sasth, solid, held up
BY its own strength and called
the sky. :,
When Calico denied it and said
the earth was sound ball wh!rl-
isa around the IN, he had to get
down ON his kneea saying that he
"retracted, abjUed and abhorred
his false teachinrs"-which hsp-
pened to be pesfSctly true.
The idea of solid sky above
us, with stars plAnted in it hare
and there, faded ont. But now the
radio experts of Re Navy say the
earth actually ha4 "roof" Of an
other kind. 1t e1sts, presumably,
where our thin atmosphere melts
away into the ether, an iopized
region in the hig cher levels Of the
atmosphere" the scientists call 1t.
The "imponderable ether" so
dense that solid steel in conpari-
son is like a coarse fish net, GER
tainly does enclose our earth and
it's thin atmosphere.
Radio waves such as we use may
be able to travel outside that at
mosphere. If so, science will find
some other wave that will take
messages to other planets.
If lisht-producing waves can
travel from Cllc sui w Vic col va
men will find some wave that will
carry information from the earth
to the sun and beyond.
Learn, proud parents, that the
much praised "ten-pcund boy ba-
oy" isn't the thing at all. The av-
erage normal boy baby weighs tn
pounds at birth.
One learned Italian has written
a book to prove that women, by
special diet, can and should keep
the unborn child from becoming toe
fat for it's own sake and for the
mothers sake.
We have lot to learn about
taking care of children before the!
are born, including the science o.
saving them from piling on fat
that makes birth more difficult ant
is lost right after birth.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12

AGENTS-20O Race Articles.
Hair Preparations, bleaches, per-
fumes, extracts, medicine. Biggest
race line in America, make $3.50
weekly. Free samples, case and
catalogue. TYSON & CO., Box
A, Paris, Tenn.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12

WANTED-Position in Office of some
Negro Establishment, by young
man with two years of college train
ing. Good references can be given.
Address 40 Remsen Avenue, New
Brunswick, N. ].
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12

our Race in the South and in the
United States with its schools, its
colleges, its certain civil officials,
IS freedom and it's power at the
polls, looks about with pride at a
country which has done so much
to minimize oppression and ignor-
aace. Granted there are certain
prejudices still existing against our
color yet, we are not alone, and
peoples of other creeds and colors,
make the same complaint"
Through Presidents like Lin
cola and Roosevelt, through the
work of or own great leaders like
Washington, Motion and Fuller, the
Race in North America has grad
ually come to stand on the higher
grounds Of citizenship and intel
lectu2.ity."
"In the South we find new
schools ard colleges springing up
20 MT t.-c demand for more edu-
cation and better education for our
Race. Here il Memphis, for in
stance, We are just completing a
monster, modern, completely
equipped high school, a model Of
secondar.-- education under the per-
sonal direction of Prof. Hamilton,
a scholar ard musician, Of far
more than local reputation. In
Memphis, for instance, long before
the art Of instrumental music was
developed along band lines in our
white schools, Prof. Hamilton had
organized a splendid boys brass
band at Kortrecht High"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
New Schools in South

CT know it is unpopular to take
this view, but when l look back at
the five reasons in the preamble to
Liberals Declaration of Independ-
ence find five major reasons at
that time (1e47) for further i'm
migration from the U! S. to
Africa: Exclusive from civil Of
fices; exception from participa-
ton in Government taxation with
out consideration; determinations
without avenues of improvements;
contribution without protection"
CHOW seventy-five years after
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12

These are but a few of the secrets
which were known to ancient Afri
can masons and if they could know
that modern pale skinned men claim
10 have them they would turn over
in their graves and laugh Ancient
masonry sleeps It's monuments alone
speak and their speech is the speech
IF silence
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
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THE WONDERS OF AFRICAN PEOPLES
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SOME SECRETS OF ARR CAN MASONRY

the orientacion of their buildings
mean to them and row to set them
SO perfect that there is not the error
of a1 inch? How did they make
stone doors that moved to touch
as light as a feather and hide secret
chambers so that none could find
hem except those who made them?
Whae were their secrets of making
co o~s that retained, their brightness
af'er five thousand years?
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
SOCIETY NOTES

(By Coleridge D Davis and :.
B. Addison Cephas, JrO
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12
Opposes Garvey Idea

During Secretary Barclays visit
Inter-Racial News Service cor
respondents have been instructed
by Ramsey Ray, general manager,
to interview Race notables in va
rious sections in regard to the
actual status O.; our Group in each
portion of the United States.
In a conversation, Madame Ma
ME Hightower, the famous Beauty
Culturist and originator Of the
Golden Brown Preparations, had
this to say:)
Il am vefy happy Of course to
welcome Secretary Barclay both
because of his distinguished posi-
ton in a friendly government and
because Of his noble ancestry.
have not forgotten that another
Barclay served as President OF our
African Homeland il the ea:'ly
years of the present century and
that the Barclay family has fur
nished Secretary of State at an
other period besides at the pres
emit"
Like the Philippines, for mu-
tually good reasons Liberia should
remain the good and true friend of
America at all times. Trade Com
merce, Finance, all these things
alone will dictate such a course,
even if it wee not an imperative
obligation based on the past his
tory of Liberia and its settlement
by the American Colonization So
ciety, just little over 100 years
ago."
81 think that the relations of the
people of our Race to both the gov
eminent and natives of Liberia
must be one of helpfulness, friend
illness and cordial cooperation. By
careful study and by constant de-
velopment It should be possible i'm
time to develop the vast, the al
most unknown interior of the
Homeland to a land of health and
prosperity. Like the Alaska of
fifty years ago, Liberia means to
most of US sort of a d-eamland,
a wilderness rather than a grip
ping, actual, living reality with
magnificent potentialities. Bat
when one looks back through de-
velopment of our Race, particu-
larly here in the South the last
quarter of century, it is impos-
sible and almost foolhardy to sug-
gest leaving this land of wealth
and health for the uncertainty of
the primitive"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-09-12

A short-hom bull was sold in
tho Argentine Republic yesterday
fnr $4,000, record price for that
iced. The real record is the
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-02-20
HEAVY SHOWS
CAUSE DAMAGE

The heavy weight of the water
soaked snow has caused considerable
damage recently. Mrs. w. f. Bott-
cher had two cattle killed and an
other crippled by roof crashing
down. More than twenty head were
caught, and it was fortunate that
more were not killed.
The roof of the hall at Hill City
was smashed, entailing a heavy loss
to the owner, Mrs. Koontz.
The Bert Rands warehouse just
west Of the elevator, was demolished
last Friday night and the shed used
for horses at the Fairfield school
house went down Friday.
There are probably many others,
which have not been reported to the
Courier. The long continued rain
has made the snow exceptionally
heavy. Camas County Courier.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-02-20

A village that was started with g
good plan and has realized it is Pat
terson, California. This village and
a colony of irrigated farms, occupy
+ ing $4,000 acres, were planned in
1910 Roads leading to the village
were strategically located and plant
ed with trees and shrubs. The viii
lage itself has eight streets radiating
from a civic center where the pub
lie buildings are located. In the
last four years the residents of the
village have built a public library, a
community club house, a concrete
swimming pool, and grammar
school, and have provided an auto
mobile park.
A town dump at Lewisburg, Pa,
has become a scenic asset, through
the activities of women, who formed
civic club, launched civic improve
ment propaganda, and accumulated
funds for an Improvement program
Formerly the first impression visi-
tor got on arriving and the last one
he took away with him on leaving
was one of squalor, because the town
dump lay across the main approach
to the village. To-day the land
where the dump stood is the proper
ty of the civic club. Old shacks have
been removed from it and refuse
cleared away. 1t has been leveled
and planted to grass, flowers, and
trees. 1t is spanned by gravel walks
and surrounded by ornamental light
ing standards. Now the visitor en-
tiers the village through green and
smiling park.
Many other examples of effective
village planning have been noted by
the departments investigators. Yet
the idea that village planning is as
necessary as city planning has taxi
en- root in comparatively few places.
1t has not the pressure behind it
that brings results in crowded cities
where congestion makes radical |
compulsory. The Govern
ment points out, however, that viii
lage planning often means great saw
ings to the community; hat it is
never 90 early nor too late to begin
it; and that the expense is almost
never prohibitiye and is seldom a
serious handicap.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-02-20
SUNDAY SERVICES AT THE
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

HOO a. Worship Sermon
topic, Jesus Temptation and Ours.
Special music by the choir.
Evening, 1880. The Sunday Even
ing fraternity. Bring a brother.
Special music. Sermon, A Wonder
full Dream Realized.
$50, Christian Endeavor, Edgar
Pierce, leader. Topic, Friendliness
as Expressed Through Industrial
Missions.
Sunday school at 1900 noon. Gold
en- text of the Bible class, Thou shalt
love they neighbor as thyself. Adults
invited.
Tuesday evening, the monthly
teachers meeting will be held with
Miss Emma Bunk.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-02-20

post show cheaper transportation
according to zones and weight OF
package. From Portland the old ex-
press rate on 20 pounds was 1852,
the new rate will be $1.16. On 100
pounds the old rate from the same
point was $5.05, the new rate will
be $3.50. From New York City the
old rate on rs pounds was 1915, the
new rate will be $2.34; on 100
pounds old rate was $11.57, new
rate $3.50.
AS compared with parcel post from
the same points the latter shows
from Portland s1.O3 on rs pounds,
$4.06 on one hundred pounds; New
York $500 on rs pounds, $1,000 on
100 pounds. Closer points such as
Salt Lake City, the rate by express
are reduced on 20 pounds from $1.02
to 80 cents; on 100 pounds from
$3.05 to sails; from the same point
parcel post rates are 81 cents on 25
pounds and $2.OS on 100 pounds,
with Denver, Omaha, ST. Louis, Gin
cinnatti and other intermediate
points in proportion according to dis
lance and weight shipment.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-02-20
THE HOME TOWN

Some folks leave home for money
And some leave home for fame,
Some seek skies always sunny,
And some depart in shame.
| care not what the reason,
Men travel east or west,
Or what the month or season
The home town is the best.
The home town is the glad town
Where something real abides,
Ills not the money-mad town
That all its spirit hides.
Though strangers scott and fiout it
And even jeer its name,
1t has a charm about it
No other town can claim.
The home town skies are bluer
Than skies that stretch away,
The home town riend seems truer
And kinder through the day,
And whether glum or CHEEKY,
Light hearted or depressed,
For struggle fit or weary,
l like the home town best.
Let him who will go wander
To distant towns to live,
OF some things l am fonder
Than all they have to give.
The gold of distant places
Could not repay me quite
For thoe familiar faces
That keep the home town bright.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-02-20
GOOD FUTURE FOR
THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

Nineteen twenty4four is now his,
tory and has passed into oblivion
But, we are face to face with an.
other year that is pregnant with pos
sibilities.
Can we tear the mysterious veil
of the future aside for moment and
foretell what the new year has to
offer?
Surely the giant dairy industry,
with an income of over two billion
dollars, is the gateway of unlimited
opportunities. Despite the fact that
this industry ranks fourth in size
in he country, it is in many respects
in its swaddling clothes. for only a
small percentage of the farmers of
the country appreciate the profit pro-
ducing possibilities in herd of good
grade or purebred cows.
On the other hand, only a small
percentage of the people In the coun-
try fully appreciate the economy and
the health giving quality of pure
dairy products.
In fact, in whatever direction we
care to gaze, we find encouraging
signs. and while most of us will have
to work for what we get, the OPP
portunity for profitable activity will
not be lacking and no man is in a
more favored position than the man
in the dairy industry.
Several years of prosperous times
are ahead of him. He can go ahead
with needed improvements breed
ing better producing cows, increas-
ing his acreage of alfalfa so he can
raise all the feed they can consume,
for small eater is only small pro-
Queer in the milk pail, the public
needs his product and will generously
reward him or supplying it.
He will prosper most, who is pre-
pairing the best.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-02-20

price that the store man asked fol
them. About the first of May, 1865
there was a big fire that made things
a little different. We then moved
to Placeryille where we ran a board.
ing house that following summer
Then we went down on ranch
known now as the Anderson ranch,
and we lived there for eight years,
then father sold it to Anderson. My
mother died at the 12-mile house
near the old Harris toll gate and
was buried in the Horseshoe Bend
graveyard.
We then went to Wood river and
in 1881 my father died. / was mar
ried in HALEY in 1899. l had drift
ed around before that, doing no good
for myself nor anybody else.
My father subscribed for the Boise
Statesman when it was first pub
Iished in 1864. We have been TAX
ing it nearly ever since until this
winter. l now live in Mountain
Home. My old lady and have raised
seven children, -four girls and three
boys. We are both on the shady
side of 100 so l guess we have run
our race, l feel as though l were go
ing down the home stretch. l was
born in Putnam county, Missouri, in
1860 and my wife was born in
Douglas, County, Oregon in 1870
Yours truly,
A. B. WELLS.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-02-20
WRITES OF THE
PIONEER DAYS

A. B. Wells, of this city is the au-
thor of the following article which
appeared in last Sundays issue Of
the Boise Statesman:
Mountain Home, January 2, 1925
To the Editor of The Statesman.
After reading the Sunday States
man and seeing sketches in it of old
timers 1 don't know whether 1 would
be classed ais an old timer or not. My
folks left Putnam county, Missouri in
the spring of 1854 with an OK train
of so wagons. We came up through
Iowa where we were joined by band
of rs more wogans, making 1875 wa
CONS, oxen, horses, mules, and COW
teams. We had a good captain, named
Hatfield. Passing through the dan
gerous parts of the country, he would
have the wagons drawn up in cir
Gle at night, then put four men on
to guard the stock till midnight,
then four more till daylight
We had several little spats with
the Indians and white men mixed
with the Indians, the latter being
worse than the Indians.
We got across the country with
out much loss, but we suffered many
hardships. We were six months on
the road. We landed where Boise
City is now the last of September
There were just few log houses and
the "'city dads as we call them now,
offered a man with family lot
free if he would build home on it.
My father pitched his tent and
staked his seven yoke of OK teams
where the Overland building now
stands, so / have heard him tell many |
times. Part of our train went on to
Oregon. The separation WAS a try
ing one for the train crew, friends
and relatives, many realizing that
hey would probably never see each
,ther again.
There were so many people in the
hamlet that there was not much
work to support a family. There
we're u OF us and my father took
like up to Bannock, now Idaho City
lie found things booming up there
nd he starting back Immediately a
DOT, running down all the hills. We
moved up there at once. There were
hree big boys in he family and they
lade $40 day cutting and haul
ng wood on sled and shoveling
now.
We paid $50 a sack for -four, 25 ;
ents pound for beans and 80 cents
IF potatoes. Coffee, sugar and all
Their knicknacks were just any old