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MR.. AND MRS. H. A. WATKINS
ENTERTAINED MANY OF
THEIR FRIENDS ON NEW
YEARS EVENING
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to eat and drink at all times; there
was hot dogs, ham sandwiches, choice
sweet cakes, candy, and SO on. There
was 20 gallons of punch in sight;
there was one large carboy with a
spigot in the end of it which con-
tanned some kind of a strong, dark
liquid and it was full of kick and
everybody was urged to drink to the
fill and every drink would rush right
down to the end of your big toenail
and cause you to feel like dancing,
talking loud, turning red in the face
and carrying on to beat the band.
One large drawing room on the
second floor was devoted to card play
ing on the part of those who did not
care to dance and join in the other
festivities of the evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Watkins, their faces
covered all over with smiles, were
everywhere at one time in looking
after the pleasure of their hosts of
warm friends who were in evidence at
their grandest social affair.
The Phalanx Orchestra furnished
the reception and dance music and
while the dancing was in full swing
the lights were turned off every ten
or fifteen minutes so as to give the
gentlemen dancers plenty of time to
squeeze the hands real tight OF their
lady partners in the dark.
At 3 a. m, when the orchestra
played the soft strains Of Home,
Sweet Home" the merry jewellers re-
luctantly babe their host and hostess
good night" Many were heard to
say, Eve just don't want to 60 home
now" Everyone present went away
feeling that this truly was the very
best party of the holiday season, be-
cause Of the friendly, cordial, jovial
atmosphere pervading this beautiful
home.
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TO HOLD BIG INITIATION

Fl. Dearborn Lodge, No. "a, /. B. P.
0. E. W., with James c. Martin as
exalted ruler, and with a membership
Of 1000, is preparing to hold one Of
the largest limitations ever held by the
lodge, on next Saturday evening, Janu-
airy End, at the Eighth Regiment Ar
mory, at which time 500 new mem
bers are to be made. Following the
initiation, luncheon will be served to
all by committee from the Armory.
Many visitors and grand officers from
New York, Washington, California
and Atlanta, Ga, are expected to ar
rive in the city in time to take part in
the program.
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WASHINGTON JUDGE MAKES
EXAMPLE OF NON-PERMIT
DRIVER
preston News Service)

Washington, D. c., Dec. 3l.-Elmer
Cox, charged with operating his auto
mobile without a drivers permit, was
given the first maximum penalty ever
melted out for the offense, when Judge
Hit ordered Cox upon conviction to
serve one year in jail and pay fine of
$500.
The prosecution showed the court
that Cox had approximately 40 arrests
against his record and that his oper-
ator's permit had been revoked some
time ago and never had been re-issued.
Cox was also fined 500 by the judge
for reckless driving, and ordered to
serve 90 days if the fine is not paid.
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WHITE WOMAN, WIFE OF NE
GRO, TRIES TO COMMIT
SUICIDE
preston News Service)

Philadelphia. Pa.-Beautiful Mar
garet Gray (white), aged % years
the wife Of John Gray, became So
depressed on Christmas day because
she was the victim of ostracism by
colored and white relatives and friends
that she attempted suicide Christmas
day by swallowing poison.
Mrs. Gray was found by her hus-
band, who caused her to be removed
to St Joseph's Hospital. A note was
found in which she expressed despond-
ency because she had not been remem-
bered on Christmas day by her rela-
tives or friends.
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I LARGELY ATTENDED MEETING OF
THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF
COLORED WOMEN
By MRS. ELVIE L. STEWART

The date, Thursday, December 81,
1925, will 60 down in club history as
the one which marks the organization
of the Central Association of Colored
Women from delegates of ten states,
at St. Mark M. E. Church, 5Oth street
and Wabash avenue.
Ten wears ago the Northwestern
Federation of Colored Women was
organized in this same church and at
the organization of the Central Asso-
citation there were present fourteen
persons who were present and assisted
in the organization of the Northwest
ern Federation, accordingly history re-
peats itself.
Promptly at $50 a. m. the meeting
was called to order and temporary
organization was perfected with Mrs.
T. G.. Macon, chairman, and Mrs. L.
B. Fouse Of Kentucky, secretary. The
chairman stated the object of the meet
ing and committee consisting OF one
representative from each of the ten
states present was sent out to draft
a suitable constitution and bylaws
for the government Of the associa-
ton. This committee reported and the
result of their deliberation was adopted
first by items, then as whole and
the convention then voted to go into
permanent organization. The chair
man then appointed the following
nominating committee: Mesdames Sal
lie w. Stewart, Indiana, chairman;
Clara Montgomery, Wisconsin,; Ella
Steward, Ohio; t. J. Nevin, Kansas;
Margaret Williams, Michigan; Mamie
Reed, Illinois; Maud Woods, Iowa; M.
E. Steward, Kentucky.
The committees report was as fol-
lows and was elected by unanimous
vote in each instance, thus setting a
precedent for club history in this sec
ton:
Honorary president, Mrs. ]. S. Por-
ter, Illinois; president, Mrs. Minnie
Scott, Ohio; 1st vice-president, Mrs.
Lillian Jones Brown, Indiana; I'd vice
president, Mrs. Beatrice Childs, Kan
sas; 1st recording secretary, Mrs. Sa-
vonia Carson, Michigan; I'd recording
secretary, Mrs. Matte Bryan, Mime
sofa; corresponding secretary, Miss Ar
SANTA Williams, Missouri; treasurer,
Mrs. Tabitha Anderson, Kentucky;
chaplain, Mrs. Clara Webster, Indiana
parliamentarian, Mrs. Mamie Reed
Illinois; statistician, Mrs. Clara Mont
gomery, Wisconsin; historian, Mrs. S.
Joe Brown, Iowa; chairman executive
board, Mrs. T. G. Macon, Illinois.
Following the election the officers
were installed by Mrs. Sallie W.
Stewart, 1st vice-president of the Ma
tional Association of Colored Women s
Clubs. The former motto of the North
western Federation, mo creed but
Christ, no law but love-" was adopted
as the motto of the Central Associa-
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ing. but not ACTING. Why not pat
tern after Durham and Chicago.
The Conductors ''Valet"

The Conductors ''Valet"
get my hat, WILL" said the con-
ductor as Will spread newspaper
over the seat upon which he tenderly
placed his chiefs valise and brief case.
And" continued the conductor, look
over those orders and see whether
number eleven will be on the siding
waiting for us.
"Yessir," answered the valet, with a
happy smile, as he picked up yellow
lantern and started for the door to re-
turn few moments later with the
conductors rain-coat and head-gear.
Number 'levens there now" said
Will, as he reached for the cord and
gave three vigorous signals to the en-
gineer.
Thereafter, Will was a very busy
man. He swept up the floor; ar
ranged the conductors tickets and
papers; interpreted orders to his chief;
admonished others nearby to keep out
of his chiefs way; called stations,
packed axle boxes, and, as we neared
the end of our journey, VIII tenderly
brushed off the conductors overcoat
before assisting in putting it on his
amiable boss, who was very busy do
ing nothing.
Will was some busy man. He
seemed to be handling four jobs IN
one: Assistant conductor, valet, brake
man and porter. Lest we forget, the
scene was on a Jim Crow coach, down
South. Wills munihcent salary is
probably so or 90 bucks per month;
and with the exception OF collecting
tickets he seemed to be running the
train. AT least, he was holding down
his lob, and two-thirds of the con-
ductor's and the brakemen's. On the
basis of equity Wills salary ought to
be about $500 per month; but, OF
course, that's an impossibility. We
don't know whether all the Wills
doing three-in-one work on Jim Crow
trains ever heard of the Railway
Labor Board or the Interstate Com
merce Commission; but we do hope
that within the next decade they may
Be given mans classification by the
southern railway lines. They are all
honest, energetic men, who are diplo-
matte enough to allow themselves to
be exploited by the INSCRIPTIONS
southern rail lines. They can't do any
better just now; but some day, some
how, they'll rise along with this dark
tenth Of America, to full positions OF
justice and equity.
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ton and the slogan adopted was DE
pendable and on time"
The heads of the different depart
ments Of the association were then
appointed, as follows:
Education, Mrs. c. L. Hamilton.
Illinois; Social Service, Mrs. Sallie w.
Stewart, Indiana; Fine Arts, Mrs. A.
J. Bouldin, Kansas; Labor, Mrs Ida
Holly, Wisconsin; business, Mrs. Ella
P. Seward, Ohio; economics, Mrs.
Margaret Williams, Michigan; creden-
tia1s, Mrs. Ida Postle, Michigan:
finance, Mrs. Maud Woods, Iowa:
legislation, Mrs. Eva Monroe, Illinois;
constitution revision, Mrs. Chas.
French, Kansas; transportation, Mrs.
L. B. Fouse, Kentucky; publicity, Mrs.
]. S. Porter, Illinois; junior fedora
tons, Mrs A. w. Western, Ken
lucky.
OCNCldi liltlldllOHS NSiO NAtNHhNu u
the Central Association for their next
biennial meeting, which will be held
December %, 90 and 80, 1927, but St.
Louis was unanimously selected as
the place of next meeting.
January |, 1926, as fitting climax
to such successful organization, the
visiting delegates were entertained by
the club women of the Chicago and
Northern District Federation of Col
ored Women's Clubs at the residence
Of Mrs. Hattie King Hill, 4807 Cham
plain avenue, from to p. m. This
beautiful and spacious residence was
beautifully decorated in keeping with
the Yule-tide season; the favors were
green and red and the colors Of the re-
freshments served the same. Fifty
three delegates from ten states were
present and assisted in the organiza-
ton and all returned to their respective
homes voting Chicago club women
gracious and hospitable hostesses.
Following was the attendance by
states: Ohio, Mesdames Della Fields,
Minnie Scott, Estelle Davis, Hattie
Moss, Mary c. Bates, Ella P. Stew
ard; Indiana, Sallie w. Stewart, Lii
liam J. Brown, Matte Jenkins, Medora
Powell, Clara Webster, Estella Carter,
Ella M. White; Minnesota, Matte E.
Bryan; Missouri, Misses Arsania Viii
liams, Alma Buckner, Mesdames Mil
dred Brown, T. J. Nevins; Kansas,
Beatrice Childs, Sarah Malone, Chas.
French, L. Jean James, A. J. Bouldin,
Amelia Tolbert; Illinois, Irene Coins,
| Victoria Clay Roland, Carrie L. Ham
ilton, Georgia Morton, Mamie Reed,
Azalia Carter, Eva Monroe, Laura
Townsend, I. G. Macon; Wisconsin,
Clara Montgomery, Ida Holly, Ethel
B. Conwell; Michigan, Margaret Viii
liams, Kate Johnson, Ida Postle, Sa-
vonia Carson, Grace Simms, Miss Meta
Pelham, Miss Cleo Haley; Iowa, Joe
Brown, Maud Woods; Kentucky, T.
L. Anderson, M. E. Steward, L. B.
Fouse, A. w. Western, F. R. Owens.
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in February 10, 1926, had they lived.
This fact is regarded as substantiation
of the age of Cheatham.
WHITE CO-DEFENDANTS OF
HON. WALTER L. COHEN
ACQUITTED
preston News Service)

New Orleans, La, Dec. 31.-Acquit-
tai for the remaining FIVE individuals
tried with Hon. Walter L. Cohen,
Collector Of Customs at the Port Of
New Orleans, and a number of other
defendants last week in Federal Court
on charges of conspiracy to violate the
Federal Prohibition law, was an
nounced Monday in United States
District Court. The FIVE acquitted
were former, Police Sergeant Joseph
Conrad, former Patrolman Paul Gil
more, Fred Haab, Salvatore Cusimano
and Joseph Thompson.
The broad ax., 1926-01-02
AFRICAN MUSICAL INSTRU.
MENTS BARRED BY CUBAN
PRESIDENT
preston News Service)

Havana, Dec. 31.-Playing of the
tambor, or tom-tom, or other musical
instruments of African character, with
singing and contorted dancing have
been prohibited by presidential decree.
President Machado's decree says this
class of music and the "rumba" are
contrary to the good customs and
public order of Cuba.
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cOUDENHOvE'S my AFRICAN
NEIGHBORS" re L L S OF
GOOD AND BAD TRAITS OF
NEGRO IN HIS NATIVE LAND
By William r. Langfeld
Preston News Service)

(PreStOn news OSl"iSSJ
In reading my African Neighbors,
one i impressed with the carefulness
and detail of Hans Coudenhove's OBJ
servation. 1t seems scarcely possible
that ANYTHING which occurred within
his view escaped his watchful eye
Coudenhove passed many years IN
remote and little known Nyasaland, sell
dom enjoying the companionship OF
other whites. Here he dwelt in prac-
teal isolation for u years. He is
equally interested in his human and
his animal neighbors, and is equally
concerned with their actions and their
processes of thought, for he attributes
the latter to the lower orders as well
as to man.
The reader will find in my African
Neighbors" a work of absorbing and
engrossing material Unless he be
both naturalist and sociologist, there
will Be related facts which will add
much to his knowledge and upset
many Of his ideas, particularly in re-
gard to the Negro in his native sur
roundings. The African Negro pos
sesses a mentality Unexpectedly de-
veloped in many aspects, but to us in
credibly absurd and stupid in others.
He is gifted with a decided aesthetic
taste in his dancing and singing, his
personal decoration, his craftsmanship
in wood carving, sculpture and other
wise. Many instances of exhibition OF
these faculties would appear beautiful
to us, although many others would
seem equally ugly. The natives have
little conception Of cleanliness or sani
tation in their habits or surroundings.
They will eat with relish food that we
think disgusting and even impossible
The native doctors have knowledge of
certain remedies unknown to civilized
man.
intellectually and emotionally the
Africans present decided contrasts.
Their feelings of grief, gratitude and
love are often easily aroused. but
brief, though filial, affection is apt to
be touchingly permanent in certain
tribes. They have no sense of kind
ness toward animals. The natives are
gifted linguists and equally gifted liars
Their shrewdness and accuracy in
Judging a white mans motives are sur
prising, and they consider themselves
his equal, kept in subordinate state
only because of his magic or firearms.
They are reticent, but have a far
greater capacity for thought than they
are usually credited with. They prefer
the British to other nations because
the British interfere least with their
customs.
Women do most of the work and are
good housewives and mothers. Cou-
denhove relates the dramatic tale Of a
woman who is forced to choose be-
tween sacrificing mother or child to
the onslaught of lion.
These and other characteristics
Coudenhove relates and describes with
many entertaining incidents and cpl
sodes, which give his pages all the in
terest Of work Of fiction. Indeed, his
book is largely narrative.
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GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE
FOR WRITING NOTE TO
WHITE WOMAN
preston News Service)

Danville, Va, Dec 31.-John Jack
son was given ninety-day suspended
Jail sentence Tuesday for writing a
note to young white woman EN-
ployee in the School6eld Mills, and
which was considered insulting by her.
He insisted that he meant no harm.
The suspension holds for two years
pending his good behavior. The court
held there was nothing offensive in the
letter but that the practice was bad.
The broad ax., 1926-01-02
TIGER FLOW ERS WANTS
FIGHT FOR TITLE

New York, Dec. 30.-(PNS)-Tiger
Flowers may be the next opponent of
the worlds light-heavyweight cham
pion, Paul Berlenbach, despite the fact
that he lost a 1O-round decision to
Mike McTigue in Madison Square
Garden Wednesday night. Referee
Eddie Purdy, it develops, voted that
Flowers had won, while the two
judges favored McTigue, and so Ber-
lenbach, who agreed to meet the win
ner, has decided to wait until he is sure
Of himself before signing final articles.
The broad ax., 1926-01-02

Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, 4935
Champ1ain avenue, has been for the
past week the highly honored guest at
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va,
where she is filling several singing en-
gagements in that section of the
country.
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COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
By THE CAMERAlNAN

jetsam of a struggling race. They
must be saved to useful service. The
Human Service League has taken the
first step. Let's help put it over.
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preston News Service)

/. Watch Quit A. +. of L.
2. Human Service League.
8. The Presiding Alderman.
4. The Chicago" Of the South.
S. The Conductors "Valet."
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-21

was overwhelmed by storm Of
of voices. 1t makes a fellow feel
good, you know, to let out his pent-up
emotions that way along with every
body else It's the "one big family"
feeling that makes you imagine you
are part of the show" And when
ones diaphram is exercised 1t affects
the rest of the body like tonic. The
box office advantage of this is that,
no matter how bad the movie is,
singing puts the spectator into such a
good mood that he enjoys it anyway,
and comes again.
The words flashed on the screen for
the audience to sing are silly enough
to make even a moron blush. One
doesn't begin to glimpse the inanity of
our popular" songs until he sees
them in enlarged letters with all their
COOS and gurgles. There's HAS She
Got Byes?" and Where Did You Get
Those Eyes?" and Pretty Baby" and
Stars Are the Windows of Heaven"
to say nothing about Horses, Horses,
Horses, Horses - The tunes of
the pied piper never called forth as
many rats as this melody does horses,
)nly the horses are just the same,
ust horses, horses, horses.
c. W.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-21
Movies and Singing

The motion pictures have stolen an
other march on the church. First,
you remember, they took away the
churchs audience (oh, that was long
time ago.; then they went in for SER
mons almost every scenario has a
nice, maudlin commercialized moral
somewhere about it,, and next they
acquired the pipe organ. Now, 10 and
behold, they have developed a whole
chorus of little cherubims and sera-
phims-yeah, the picture house has
got choir--and don't mean maybe.
The new movie community choir
is one of the best business PROPOSE
tons built upon the efficiency science
of group psychology Singing always
did play large part in keeping people
tied up to religion; or, rather, it
binds people more closely to each
other and in so doing delivers a whole
tied-together group over to whatever
cause happens to furnish the song. AT
present the movie cause is no cause at
all except box Office receipts.
And does the audience sing? At
the Oriental the other night they
made the chandeliers shake and the
windows rattle: the organist had to
luck his head and stop playing; he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-21
To a Certain Rich
Young Man
BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS

That you should, robed in purple, look
with scorn
Upon the men that labor. pass them
by
Deemins yourself a creature better
born
And heir to all the sunshine In tho
sky,
Is absolutely funny; your old man
Wore overaIIs and sweated for his
bread;
Grew rich thru HANDS in ways not
nice to scan,
Which you would tain forget, now he
is dead.
Which you would fain forget, now he
is dead.
But we have not forgotten how he
rose
And lifted you unto your eminence,
Feeding upon our miseries and woes,
And growing weather. at our ex-
pense:
o lord it while you may, you snobbish
pup;
The HANDS can tear you down that
raised you upl
New Britain herald., 1926-12-01

During the recent Red Gross Drive, the Girls clubs co-operated with the local chapter of the Red Cross by soliciting throughout the offices.
 In general the response was quite enthusiastic. The total sub- scribed up to Monday noon was about $500. There are still some returns to be made.
 At the Hardware and Steel Plant, the girls whe served on the com- mittee were: Helena s. Stahl, Mar garet V. Odenwaldt, Irene North,
New Britain herald., 1926-12-01

sentative Dyer of Missouri. to draft measure embodying the follow ing recommendations:
 That the federal act to, enforce the eighteenth amendment Is here by modified SO that the same shall not prohibit the manufacture. sales, transportation. importation or ex- portation of beverages which are not in fact intoxicating as determin- ed in accordance with the laws of the respective states"
 Hill said he would recommend to the committee adoption of the fol- lowing program:
 Endorsement of the principle of modification as contained in the view expressed in, the New York and Illinois referenda.
 Decide shortly after the opening of the session whether to bring up the question of modification in this congress or the next, and,
 Tn view of the fact that I shall not be a member of the next house, elect a vice-chairman who in all probability will be tho chairman in the next house." (Hill was defeat ed in an attempt to capture the re- publican senatorial nomination in Maryland
 The vote on the New York and Illinois prohibition referenda, he said, showed 8 national desire for within the constitution which will substitute temperance for the present disastrous situation"
New Britain herald., 1926-12-01
INSURANCE co. YINS
Need Not Pay Losses Under Policy Which Covered Hamden House Destroyed By Explosion.

New Haven, Dec. 1 R,-A verdict for the Agricultural Insurance con- pany of Watertown, N. Y., was ren- dered yesterday by Judge Isaac Wolfe, in civil superior court in a suit growing out of an explosion which entirely demolished a house and resulted in the death of a man from burns.
 The house in Hamden. insured by Harry Cohen, In the Agricultural Insurance company and later trans- ferred to his brother Barnett, was destroyed by an explosion July 10, 1925, only the stone walls of the cellar remaining. It was rented by a man named Donovan. In the basement were found two 50-gallon stills, a cooling vat and steam boiler. In the explosion Catello Conte received burns from which he later died.
 Cohen sued the company for the amounts of insurance on house and furniture, but the decision of the court against him was based upon the finding khat proof of loss was not submitted within the required time and that waiver had not been filed.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-01
HILL WILL START
 DRIVE ON 'DRYS'
Maryland Congressman to Open
 Fight Immediately

Washington. Dec. i @ - Shortly after the bang of the speakers gav- el sets the house of representatives vibrating formally for business Monday. Representative John Phil lip Hill of Maryland, chairman of the unofficial committee on modifi- cation of the Volstead act plans to begin marshalling his forces for a new offensive against the dry law.
 Upon his return to the capitol. he announced that a subcommittee of the unofficial group had been at work during the summer recess drafting bill which, when intro- duced. is expected to carry the en- dorsement of every wet member in congress.
 Hill said the first thing for the committee to determine would be whether to introduce the proposed bill at the approaching session or hold it over until the converting of the new congress in which. he con- tends. the wet bloc will have . ma terially increased membership as result of the November elections.
 "Once the bill Is introduced" he asserted. 1t will be pressed by every parliamentary means until brought to the floor of the house, where a record vote may be ob- tained."
 At its last meeting before the summer recess, he said, the full committee instructed the sub-com- mittee, which is headed by Repre-
New Britain herald., 1926-12-01

estate of David Stevenson, founder of the brewery. he increased the Ie- gacies of the heirs greatly and be. came president. He was founder and one time president of the Mutual Bank of New York city. At one time he was very active in Empire State politics.
 He had owned and ridden himself . number of famous horses. includ- ing Governor Hill, Audubon Boy. and Wilteen and his eState include ed a riding track used by the Green- wich Riding association and the Westchester and Fairfield Counties Hounds. He was a member of the republican club of New York. tho Yacht club and the Green wich Country club.
 He is survived by his widow and two daughters. Mrs. L. W. Mertz, of Portchester end Mrs. Ralph Crow of Rye. N. Y.