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Pocahontas star herald., 1925-02-12
MahaIie Ballard

Wife of James Ballard. died Jan.
26, after an illness Of only a few short
hours. Age 81. TIE remains were
laid to rest in the New Hope cemetery.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev G.. W. Million.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-02-12

Few of us are gifted with the vision
necessary To see opportunities that lie
nearest at hand. And when the editor
SAYS few Of Us. he includes himself
along with most Of his friends. An
excellent illustration Of this is a story
told by Professor Agassiz, and rptold
time and again by a famous lecturer.
There was once a man who owned
"A farm in Pennsylvania who became
dissatisfied with farming. This was in
the early days Of the oil business, and
50 he applied himself to all the aspects
Of the then new and promising indus
try. He learned how petroleum was
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-02-12
CARD OF THANKS

We wish 10 thank the good people
OF our community for the Kindness
ana sympathy shown US at the death
OF the dear wife and mother. Signed.
James Ballard. George Ballard, Al
bert Ballard, Carl Ballard. w. II. Riggs
and wife, Jesse Hulyey and wife.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-02-12

Parents who desire their children to
make more rapid progress In the
schools. might wen ask themselves the
following questions:
1. Have We become personally as
quainted with our ehildren's teaehersg
A few kindly attentions give quite a
hft TO the teacher who is struggling
with a roomful OF restless youngsters.
Sometimes she can tell the home
folks things they need to know about
their angelic offspring.
: Are We cooperating with school
discipline? Do we frequently let the
children stay mp late at night. thus
depicting their energyg DO we encour-
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-02-12

BY the way we haven't noticed any
publicity ON the taxes paid here by
mail order houses that a few Randolph
county citizens seem SO willing to sup
port
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-02-12
The Editors Eye

II congress decides to spend less
money in the future, we Will all he
able to spend a little more.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-02-12

The Quiuiue That Does Not Afiset The Head
Because cf It's tonic and laxative effect, LAXA-
TTvE BR0Mo QUININE Crablets) can be taken
Is she head. EW. GROVES sianarRre On box. ~
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-02-12

A good story teller is almost as rare
as day in midsummer these days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31
By Richard B. Moore

and other crimes Of the sort In Russia
and challenge them to do the same
In America. And as Patrick Henry
said,"If this be treason, make the
most Of It,"
We Want Equality.
All we want is future; all we
want is equality in. every respect.
Once and for all the American Ne
gro Labor Congress repudiates what
has been said by Booker Washington
in speech he made in the South.
He said I'm all things purely material
we are united but in all things social
we are going to be separate"
Demand Right To Live.
That is simply an eruption Of the
slave ulcer.
We are now demanding the rights
Of living, nothing more, nothing less.
Let me close with this remark,
countrymen. we sue for simple justice
at your hands. Naught else viii have,
nor less will take, and we know that
the only way that those rights can be
assured is IN that union of white and
black workers, which eventually viii
rule not only America, (this is the
last country in which it will be SEEM,
but the whole world
am going to quote those wonder
full words Of the man who was Jew,
who driven by the oppression which
his race suffered investigated the
causes Of that analysed
the structure of the social system and
discovered its driving forces and the
solution for it's evil-there, it Is writ
ten on that sign on the wall, the
challenging utterance Of that greatest
thinker of the 18th century-Karl
Marx-"W Workers of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but your
chains, but you have whole world
to gain.''
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

white IL you realize the significance
Of this movement call upon syou
now to give your challenge to those
forces that would kill and destroy
this Union, blu rallying to the cause
am going to set the example myself.
am poor young man. l am only
making twenty-five dollars a week as
an elevator operator in New York.
| am an intelligent young man, you
can see by my talk that l have intel
ligence; but because / refuse to sell
out my interest to my superiors, l
prefer to struggle with them, if neces-
sary to die with them, rather than to
aid by one little word or deed of mine
the internal program of lynching and
terrorism
Going To Fight.
l am going to fight; Out of my
slender means-and have quite
some demands upon them, / am go
ing to give five dollars to the Amer
lean Negro Labor Congress. l am
going to challenge every single one
of you to match it. Stand up and
talk turkey. want every man and
every woman in this movement who
values freedom and true liberty to
have a place to work in harmony.
Stand up where you are-the ushers
will take your collections. The forces
against us are mighty and they are
not going to leave stone unturned
to crush us. You remember during
the war when you gave until it hurt
liberty bonds. I am challenging
you now to give until it hurts.
| wonder if the press which under
took to brand this cause as Bolshevik,
will go to the trouble to publish the
truth about this cause, those whom
they brand as Red and Communists.
During the war it was pro-German,
well, this much know that the Boil
sheviks of Russia stopped lynching
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31
Call for Working Class Unity

against itself cannot stand" When
Lincoln said that he was uttering a
truth. Chattel slavery was destroyed
The house is again divided, and say
that the house can not stand.
The Class Struggle.
You can not build up wealth on one
hand and poverty and suffering on
the other and expect the house to
last; there must be conflict there
must be a struggle between these two
extremes; between capital on the one
hand and the oppressed workers on
the other, determining who shall rule,
and when that time comes, you white
workers are not going to be able to
win unless you begin now to unite
with the Negro workers.
Raps Pan Handlers.
want to say to the Negro pan
handlers who are here, it is you who
are willing to sell the Negro people
for mess of pottage. | want to be
able to say that the Negro race can
only achieve another step in the
march toward emancipation by unit
ing with the enlightened white work
ers in the struggle.
You paid Negro agents who have
been posing before the Negro masses
as leaders, who have been selling out
to politicians have caused the condi-
ton of the Negro masses to grow
worse each year.
Movement from Below.
The converting of the Negro Labor
Congress means that there will be a
movement from below; a movement
Uses up out of the hearts of its peo-
lie. You represent the voice of the
group today. 1t may be small voice
The Abolitionists were small voices
when they began, but a mighty move
ment grew out of it.
l challenge you, whether black or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

The popular songs to the contrary,
hundreds of thousands of Nd,tso work
ers do NOT want to be ii ....ss =
where slavery sffll oeAsts. 5si9osas
Today in the Southern States, where
four-ffths of the twelve million Me-
groes in this country live, constitu-
tional amendments restrict their right
to the ballot. Tax tests, property
tests, educational tests, understand
ing and character clauses and the
famous grandfather clause, all keep
the Negro working man and woman
from the polls. In hundreds of cities
where legal requirements are fulfill
led, it would be risking his life for a
Negro to approach the polls. In other
cities insults and inconvenience are
placed in the Negro workers way
prevent him from exercising rights
of citizenship.
Jim crowism Even in Schools
Race segregation, prevalent to a de-
gree turnout the country, in the South
ern States reaches unthinkable forms.
In the trains, laws require seats,
compartments and coaches for whites
and Negroes. With the exception of
Missouri, all the Southern States have
laws separating the races in street
cars. This separation extends to re-
sidential districts, parks, restaurants,
theaters, etc.
To such an extent do these Jim
Crow laws operate that we have a
case of three white passengers enter
ing car marked "for whites only
in Mississippi. finding two Negro pas
sengers In the car and suing the
company for damages because the
conductor would not remove" the
Negroes and being awarded $500 each
in compensation for the INJURY" by
the Mississippi courtsI
Twenty-Five states requires separa-
ton of races in the public schools.
According to the Census Reports
Of 1920 (for the whole country, only
53.5 per cent Of Negro children bet
ween the ages of $40 inclusive, were
enrolled n school.
Though the Negro comprises one
tenth of the population of the country
reports for the same year show the
Negroes as s7.s per cent of the Il
llterates.
These facts are not SO surprising
when to the economic causes that
drive Negro children into the factory
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31
Negroes Are Still Slaves

and on the farm at an early age, are
added the lack of schools turnout the
South. The percentage Of dollars
spent yearly for education on a white
and Negro child vary to as high as
IA ctoi;S dollars In. louisiana where
Negro illiteracy runs to 1856 per cent.
To these barbarities practiced on
the Negro must be added 20S lyn-
chings in the last five years.
Whether these numbers rise or fall,
economic conditions take a steady
toll of lives of Negro workers. Where
in 1922 for whites the death rate per
1000 was 12.1 per cent, for Negroes
it was 20.5. Capitalism steps harder
on the Negroe worker.
Disease Outcome Of Prosecutions
Disease ravages the race. Death from
tuberculosis and syphilis, according
to the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company, Figures for whole country
reach startling figures. The numbers
for the last disease show a mortality
of 1877 per hundred thousand, in COM
parison with only 10.5 for whites.
Other diseases take heavier toll
among Negro workers than among
the white. White persons live nearly
seven years longer according to
figures of the same concern which
include all classes.
The bureau of census for one Sec
ton, notes that I'm % or 80 per cent
of the 81 cities with the registration
by color the deaths outnumber the
births among the colored people. In
an article on Negro Migration, Chas.
S. Johnson says Of the Negro death
rate in the South: THE Negro death
rate during the period of slavery was
about the same as that of the white.
Beginning with their independence
90, this death rate increased steadi-
ly up to about ten years ago in spite
of the increase in education and some
measure Of health training. The Ne
gro population has increased at a rate
nearly normal. During the last decade
we were surprised and shocked to
learn that the rate of the increase
has fallen off about so per cent.
Making allowances for certain errors
In enumeration, there is still room
for some concern in these figures.
This does not mean that fewer child
rem are being born in the congested
district Of the South, but that actual
ly more Of them are dying.
a.. Out of every hundred thousand
Negro male children born alive, $500
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

The following is a stenographic re-
port of the speech made by Richard
B. Moore. delegate to the American
Negro Labor Congress, from the Ethi-
opian Students League of New York
City at the opening session, Sunday
evening, Oct. 25, in the Metropolitan
Community Center, S11S Giles Ave.
DROTHER Chairman and Fellow
- Workers:
| deem it high honor to be pres
ent on this occasion. We are witness
ing the emergence of a class that is
destined to play a significant role in
the further emancipation of Negro
people and also the down trodden
white workers of America.
The Slave System.
You remember half century ago
when great system of oppression
ruled in America, when men were
bought and sold, there appeared upon
the scene that great advocate of the
race, Frederick Douglass. In him the
slave became vocal. When he was
aroused, and when he bestirred him
cself, the institution was weakened,
and overthrown Tonight we are wit
Messing again the emergence of this
race. There are many of the hire
lings of the press present. They call
ed the abolitionists all the foul names
they could think of in their day They
called John Brown, Frederick Dou-
glass and even Abraham Lincoln, al
tho he was not a thoro going aboli-
ZIONIST, they called them everything
they could think of to brand them and
discourage them; and now they are
calling us names, and by that talk,
we know that the cause we are pro-
noting is fair one. Well may the
hirelings of the capitalist press with
their inunendoes say that this is to
arouse the Negro workers of the
country to the true conditions that
surround them; it is to arouse the
white workers to the true conditions
surrounding them also.
white OidNcS.
May tell you that there are white
slaves in America likewise? 1t is true
) enough that white workers do not al
ways, recognize their true interests,
but they will be driven to realize it.
Let me tell you now, and let me tell
you reporters who are here to spread
the tidings of this congress to the
world, that the condition of the work
ers is fast becoming a condition of
chattel slavery like that of sixty years
ago.
Must Unite.
You will only be able to free your
selves from that condition by lining
up solidly as one man with the Negro
workers of America And let me tell
you that the Negro group is despised,
burned. Disseminated against, treated
as dogs, yet, when the North and the
South were locked in a death strug
gle, it was the Negro worker who de-
cided that struggle, who brot victory
20 the Union Army. And / tell you
that there is a great crisis. coming,
for as Lincoln said, "A house divided
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

boys, and 1921 more girls"
Twenty-nine states in this country
makes intermarriage illegal, sa.
Peonage In the South
Peonage still exists in the South.
The plantation system is not eradi-
Gated sixty-two years after release
from chattel slave.
In the South as whole, three out
of every four Negro farmers are to-
nants and the number is increasing
rapidly. Wages of farm workers range
from 81 to SO per day and more and
more the Negro worker, predominant
ly agricultural, is being driven into
the cities-and into the North, where
he is ever becoming a more important
factor.
The South is still the home of the
most oppressed worker in America -
the home of slavery. VIM. F. Dunno
in his article Negroes In American
Industry" in March issue of the Work
ers Monthly, painted this bitterly true
picture:
THE slave south is not dead and
slavery has not been abolished. 1t
lives in song and story, it lives in
every community where there are
black and white human beings, it lives
in the agricultural region of the south,
it exists in the industrial feudalism Of
the lumber and turpentine camps Of
the south, it lives in the southern nom
union coal fields, it lives in the Co
lumns Of the capitalist press of both
north and south and the prejudice and
strife among the workers is fed and
infiamed like a gangrenous wound by
this filth that it exudes."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

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more Negro boys die before they
reach the age of one year than white
boys, and S,2SI more girls"
Twenty-nine states in this country
makes intermarriage illegal. .a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31
By WALT cARMoN

The popular songs to the contrary,
of thousands of Ne,tso york
ers do NOT want to be ii .4..ss e.
where siaxefa sdnheNsts. 5eINas8a .
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-31
Gold Camp to
Be Discontinued

to the major leagues. A quarter of
century ago Marysville had popula-
ton of 1900.
Petition of the Northern Pacific rail-
way to remove its tracks from Helena
to Marysville, relegates to the back
woods what is left of the one-time IA
nous town and again it is to become a
stage coach town, fifteen and one-half
miles from railroad.
Left When Mines Worked Out.
Years ago the Great Northern, which
lost the race for a terminus within
the city and ended it's line just outside
the boundary. abandoned Marysville
and gradually. as the mines worked
out, the surviving line limited its serv-
ice until, during the last year. u train
operated only when there was an ac-
emulation of freight for its haul.
Truly ghost city, with a handful of
shacks and tumbled foundations left of
its once busting business district. scat
tered. weather-beaten houses outlining
its residence section. possibly fifty or
sixty families claiming it as home.
Marysville indicates its past glory only
to the imaginative.
The famous Drum Lummon mine.
chief source of its wealth. is still being
worked sufficiently, it is said, TO pay
wages to a handful Of men; some other
of the older mines are operated on the
same scale and there are numerous
prospects whose owners enthusiastically
forecast a renewed activity in the old
camp.
Nevertheless the Montana railroad
commission, after an exhaustive inves-
tigation. has pricked the bubble of hope
and has given its consent to the aban-
Comment of the railroad.
Made Eastern MiIIionaires.
The Drum Lummon mine. discovery
of Thomas Cruise alone is said to have
produced $67,00OOO00 worth of gold.
Cruise sold the mine to London syn
dicate for S1,600,O00 when the vein
had just been scratched. The new
operators hOneycombed the surface of
the hill and. so the story goes, made
millionaires in Boston, Helena and
New York, as well as in England.
Many other mines paralleled its
development, and, from one of these.
the Penobscot, Nate Vestal brought
down to Helena what was then the
largest bar Of gold in the world, valued
at $4,000.
What is said to have been one of
the first concentrators ever constructed
on a commercial scale was built below
the Drum Lummon to work the tail
ings of the famous mine. The ruins of
the giant plant still mark the road
to the city.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-31
Ancient Indian Cemetery
Found by Californians

Santa Barbara, Cal.-An ancient In
dian graveyard, believed to antedate
the California mission period. was dis
covered recently near Purissima mis-
sion in the Santa Ynez valley. near
here. by Don Meadows and Ray Cru
we'll Of Orange, Cal. research workers.
A number of prehistoric specimens. in
Guiding several Indian skeletons.
skulls. beads and arrowheads were
obtained.
The burial plot, once the happy
hunting grounds" of the bronzed war
rior of the West, was situated in the
center of what was large bean patch.
which, up to the time of the discovery.
completely obliterated all trace of the
important find.
According to Mr.. Meadows, they dug
through three different layers of
graves. each from three to four feet
in depth. 1t is possible there are
other graves below. he said.
The braves were buried in sitting
posture with the knees crooked be;
Meath the chin. OF forty skeletons
which were unearthed every one was
found facing the west-toward the
setting sun.
Above each grave, as sort of par
tition between it and the one above.
was found a limestone slab several
inches thick.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-31
Indians See Prophecies Full.
6lled-8OO Head Loosed
in Alberta.

Calgary, Alberta.-The buffalo have
returned 10 the north country. The
prophecy Of the oldest Indians, re-
peated from generation to generation
has been fulfilled. legend has ma
terialjzed.
Samuel Hearne reported that the
nOribland of Canada was full Of buff
falO $50 years ago. Then they disap-
peared. and for many decades the In
diaDs awaited in vain for fulfillment OF
the promise made by their medicine
men that they would return.
That the buffalo, when they did come
back, arrived in modern steel scows,
flowed by snorting river steamboat,
wsijeTed not whit to the new genera
fiOD of Indians who have chung to the
truth OF the old medicine mems lie
gend.
As the rays of a setting sun Slated
0ui across the waters of the Slave
river, in northern Alberta, bathing as
pen bluffs and wild meadow in pink
sDleDd0r, 200 young prairie buffalo
from the federal government reserve
al Wainwright were unloaded from
river scows and were turned loose in
the woods and grassland of the sub
arctic.
1000 Head to Be Shipped.
These animals are the vanguard of
1000 head which will be shipped dur
ing the summer and autumn from
Wainwright, where the government
herd has outgrown the preserve orig
inally set apart for it. They are be-
ing sent to mingle with the wood
bison, different animal altogether.
but q species with which 1t is hoped
that the erstwhile "monarchs Of the
plains" will mingle in amity.
None of the wood bison was in sight,
when the young buffalo, with massive
heads lowered and believing furiously,
charged into their new domain as they
were liberated from the scows.
One of the moot points in connection
with the shipment of buffalo to the
north and one upon which the success
Of the experiment depends Isl whether
the smaller prairie animals will be
able to fraternize with the wood bison
or whether they will be forced to fight
for existence against large numbers of
larger and stronger animals
II had been Hoped that one or more
herds of the wood bison would be in
the 0ffing when the prairie habitants
arrived, i'm order that their reactions
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-31
RICH HOME AWAITS SOME
POOR GIRL IA YEARS OLD

CUISINE with liveried chauffeur and
foOtman.
Mr.. Browning is already the foster
father. of two girls. Marjorie Gloria
and Dorothy Sunshine Browning. After
he divorced his wife in Paris last year
it was agreed that Marjorie was to
stay with Mrs. Browning while he re-
tanned Dorothy. He wants another
girl principally to grow up as play
mate to Dorothy, who was lifted into
the lap Of luxury six years ago.
Children of the poor, Mr.. Browning
believes. are healthier and do better
in world affairs than children of the
rich. Dorothy's companion will be
taken into his home on trial for a
month or six weeks.
Dorothy has turned out to be per-
feet prize" Mr.. Browning said. Il got
so lonesome for her recently that |
dropped all business and travelled up
to the private camp in northern Yer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-31
New York Millionaire Would Adopt
Girl to Share Wealth-Examines
Many Candidates.

New York.-Some Cinderella in
place of a prince for husband, is go
ing to have all the advantages that
riches can give in return for love of an
adopted father.
Edward K. Browning, wealthy real
estate operator, has advertised for a
pretty, refined girl about IA years old
to be brought up as his own child with
every opportunity, education. travel.
kindness, care and love-"
His Office has been flooded with APP
plications. After he sees and talks
with prospective daughters they have
Cinderella treat whether they meet
with his approval or not. In place of
coach and four horses that turn into
mice they uru sent home in big linn
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-31
Marysville, Mont, Deserted
by Railroad When Mines
Peter Out.

Helena, Mont.-Marysville. Mont. to
be wiped off the railroad map within
a few weeks. as it has been erased
from record in its other activities,
once was the goal Of race between
two great railway systems and in the
thirty-odd years of its life was the
source of metals valued at not less
than $100000,000.
The town, incidentally, produced a
baseball team with record of defeat
ing all Pacific coast league clubs of
its day and of sending several players