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ley and Gadsen, guards; Clark and
Oliver, halfbacks. But the hearts Of
the Morehouse contingent have been
gladdened by the expected return of
w. d. Mann, center and Wallace
Dago, fullback, varsity men of 1925.
All the squad from the 1926 season,
with the exception of those who grad
uated, are expected to return and in
addition, a number of new men who
are coming with fair regulations and
may be counted upon to give their OPP
ponent much opposition. Prof. B. T.
Harvey will be back after a years
leave of absence and assisted by Mr..
t. t. Robinson, will whip the Tiger
squad in shape for the longest and
hardest schedule ever attempted by the
Morehouse College team. The follow
ing schedule is announced for the sea-
son:
Schedule
Oct /, Morris Brown University,
Atlanta, Ga.
Oct. 8, Allen University, Columbia,
S. {.
Oct. IS, Howard University, at home.
Oct. p, Alabama State Normal, at
home.
Oct. 20, Clark University, Atlanta,
Ga.
No. ). Atlanta University, at home.
Nov. IL, Tenn. "A. & /. State Col
lege, at home.
Nov 19, Tuskegee Institute, at
home.
Nov. Is, Lane College, Jackson,
Tenn.
Dec. 3, Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn
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Justice Dawns in Alabama

Alabama seems to be really waking
up to many of the atrocious and semi.
savage conditions existing within her
borders. Not only have there been
recent Investigations into the foggings
there, of both whites and blacks, but
now we learn that Solicitor Jim Davis,
(white) of Jefferson County, will ask
Federal aid to suppress injustices
against the Negroes in that state. The
very recent activity of the Ku Klux
Khan in Alabama, which banished a
Negro from the state and even es-
corted him across the boundary line,
has at last aroused the ire Of South
ern Gentleman" Mr.. Davis declares
this act to be Clearly violation of the
Federal Constitution" in that the Con-
stitutional rights of the Negro have
been violated
The cowardice Of the Kan, and its
brutality in furnishing defenseless
Negro and his wife for the alleged"
offense Of allowing a white man and
woman to spend nights together in his
cabin, has justly been condemned by
this intrepid Nordic.
Unfortunately, the morale of the Ku
Klux Klan is too fimsy to punish the
real culprits, because they happen to
be members of their own race. 1t is
to Be hoped that Mr.. Davis dauntless
courage will awaken a response in the
conscience Of other Alabama Anglo
Saxons; that he may not have to stand
alone in his fight for justice. AS the
poet Holland said, God, give US mem"
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white costume just such as ia the
envy and admiration of all who be-
hold. White faille is the chosen me-
dunn for this ravishing model with
a wealth Of snowy fox fur. A bright
red heel on a white kid pump and
smart petit-point embroidered bag
are the chic accessories which en-
nance this lovely costume.
The return to favor Of the separate
white fox neckpiece is registered this
season in the smart sets book Of
style. Even il one should perchance
neglect to wear ones white coat
ones white fox boa, neverl White
fox, women have learned, Is too fat
teringly becoming to be omitted from
the picture. And the way to wear It
Is to trail IL across the back Of ones
shoulders, fastening It, OH so daintily
at the front, so that 1t does not en-
cumber the throat. With the colorful
sheer summary frocks, there's nothing
more enhancing In the way OF an ac-
cessory, than a snow-whlte fur neck
piece.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
(@. 1897. by Western Newspaper Union.l
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XXTOMEN Of fashion are indulging
w in the luxury Of aK-white this
summer. One has only to count up
the cleaners bills at the end Of q
white season" to agree that 1t Is no
misnOmer to refer to the all-white cos
tune as luxury.
Somehow both madam and made
mOiselle appear at their most charm
ing, clad in pure white. Not only is
the allurement Of all-white due to its
becomingness, but its immaculate
daintiness ever bears the appeal of
the exquisite. So 1t is that the vogue
for white is with us, particularly so
these late midsummer days.
White coats posed over white
frOcks, topped with chic white felt
hats, such Is fashions favorite en-
semble. Coats range from the SIM
plest tailored types Of wife flannel,
also the knitted kind, to most elegant
modes, the latter frequently cuffed
and collared with white fox.
Meet, II you please, in the picture,
Gertrude Olmstead, the youthful film
actress, who is Of the newer genera
ton OF stars, wearing an adorable all
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MOREHOUSE PREPARES FOR
GRID SEASON

Atlanta, Ga.-On September 1o, the
! football candidates Of Morehouse Col
lege will report for training. The
first week, practice sessions will be
held morning and afternoon, until the
beginning of the school term. The en-
tire first week will be devoted to work
in fundamentals and signal practice,
with possibly the first scrimmage on
Saturday, Septembr "a.
The athletic authorities have an
nounced a schedule OF ten games.
extending from the opening game on
October !, with Morris Brown Uni
versity, to December 3, with Fisk
University at Nashville, Tenn. The
following teams will be met on sue
cessive Saturdays: Morris Brown Uni
versity, Allen University, Howard
University, Alabama State Normal,
Clark University, Tennessee "A. & l..
State College, Tuskegee Institute, Lane
College and Fisk University. The
Howard game on October IS, at At
lanta, Ga, stands out as the inter
sectional game Of the south for the
coming season. This will mark the
third meeting of the Howard Bisons
and Morehouse Tigers. For the first
time the Howard team meets More
house on the red clay hill, and the
Tiger is determined to twist the tail Of
the Bison.
Great preparations are being made
for the Howard game in
Atlanta. Application for special rates
to the Southeastern Passenger Asso-
citation, from states of Georgia, South
Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Ten
nessee, has been made by the athletic
authorities of Morehouse College Fur
Their notice Of the decision will Be given
later.
Other outstanding games of the
home schedule are: Alabama State,
October p; Atlanta University, No
vember s; Tennessee "A. & I. State
College, November II, and finally
Tuskegee Institute, on November l9.
Each one promises to Be thrilling az
fair, as all their opponents with the
exception Of Tennessee State, defeated
Morehouse on foreign fields last year.
The Tennessee game ended in a dead
lock as 0 to O. With their backs to
the wall, the Tigers are determined
this year to retrieve lost ground in
their own back yard.
Among the men from last years
team, who will be missing when the
roll is called on September 19, are
Archer, Dezon and Starr, ends; Doc
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Americas Human Wealth" History
tells US that about $3.50 in coin Of
the realm was the money value placed
upon abfe-bodied male slaves in Baby
Ion, in 400 B. c, and this same price
obtained also among the Israelites and
Athenians at that period. In Rome,
the Eternal City, where slaves far out
numbered freemen, during the same
era, higher price was set upon these
animals.
During the slavery period in Amer
lea, a healthy Negro male slave
brought as much as $500 or s., 500,
although $1,000 was about the stand
ard price for very good slave. There
IS a legend, handed down by "old
mammies" of Charleston, S. c., of a
beautiful quadroon girl, once placed on
the auction block in that city, during
ante-bellum days, who was run I'D to
$4,000 by two rivals (young scions 81
wealthy southern faniilies). The loser
SO the tale goes, unable to bid over
$4,000, in a fit of rage at losing the
girl, stabbed the winner. Thus run.
meth the legend.
Today, the life Of an able-bodied
Negro in the south is worth only the
value which particular public opinion
places upon it at a particular time and
place. Manumition seems TO have de,
creased the Negroes value from one
viewpoint, at least-that Of the selfish
oppressor. AS the white mans prop.
erty and his means of income the Ne.
gro was truly worth his weight in gold
but as a freedman, the south sees
him only of value to himself. Indeed
the beam and the mote in the eyes Of
the oppressor prevent his seeing that
by improving and protecting the eco
nomic, educational, and political status
Of the Negro, he is indirectly helping
himself and his country.
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found in the hidden mountain para
disc of Abyssinia. near the Akobo
River, are dusly, but sculpturally SUI
perb."
He asserts that artists are satiated
with the beauty Of European women
and must look into the iungles and
deserts Of Africa for the perfect female
form. when l saw the daughters Of
Chief Choran," Yourienvitch said, "I
realized that I had found the most
beautifully formed women in the world |;
women with forms uncontaminated by
the barbarisms of fashion. They in
spired me to create, or rather to re-
create, the sculptural art of the an
GENTS"
Yourienvitch is now preparing
models Of these wonderful female fig
ures for the next Paris Salon, where
these dusky daughters Of the Nile,
done in clay, will be viewed BY thou
sands Of civilized Nordic visitors from
all parts Of the globe
What a conglomeration this life
really is. In one town, Negro woman
rescues a white man from probable
death, at the risk Of her own life. She
receives the just praise of the whole
Nordic community. In another town
a Negro man is held for grand jury or
5000 bond, because he catches white
woman when she stumbles. The charge
against him is OBTAINING a (white)
woman"
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CHARLIE SIMMONS RUN DOWN
BY TRUCK; KILLED
INSTANTLY
preston News Servicel

Dunn, N. c., Sept. 2.-Charlie Sim
mons, aged p years, was instantly
killed Thursday night when he was run
down by a heavy loaded truck on the
public highway near Spring Branch
Church in Sampson county. Simmons
neck was broken when the front wheel
Of the truck loaded with lumber passed
over him.
Simmons was riding on the truck
and jumped off and ran in front of the
truck to catch a faster moving vehicle.
He fell directly in front of the truck.
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Go South. Young Worker!

Under the orderly and scientific d.
rection of Forester B. Washington.
AM, social science expert, and, above
all, a young man of zeal, sterling
character and unquenchable initiative,
the Atlanta School Of Social Work
holds itself out TO the future as one of
the south's leading social service insti-
tutes, and training center where our
youth may put their enthusiasm and
education into the melting pot of So
cial endeavor, from whence they may
emerge baptized in ethics and under
standing, SO necessary in the approach
10 newer and finer social emancipa-
ton
Il plan to make this school prac-
teal laboratory for turning out real
leaders in social work." says Mr..
Washington, whose past efforts and
success speak far more loudly than
does he, himself.
Washington is a veritable pioneer in
solving social problems by the use of
modern methods. His handiwork and
past services speak eloquently for him
in such seething centers as Detroit,
Chicago, New York and Philadelphia,
where he frequently transformed inter-
racial discord into mutual respect and
substituted understanding and Chris
tan faith for suspicion and fear.
Atlanta is the New York" of the
South. It's influence reaches out into
sections OF Dixieland where the har-
vest is great but the workers few.
From Atlanta a mighty beam of So
cial light and wisdom could be made
to shine throughout the South, lessen
ing racial antipathies and blending the
good that lies within the two races.
To the young woman or the young
man with commensurate college prep
aration, who essays to secure special
training and the opportunity to serve
the race, the Atlanta School for Social
Work, under Forester B. Washing
ton, offers a chance seldom found any
where. And it is to be hoped that the
new era of approach to social and
interracial good will, which the South
Is now feeling, will bring about thirst
for knowledge and advantage, both Of
which may be easily acquired by earn
est students at the Atlanta School Of
Social Work.
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preston News Service)

Fraternity of Fraternities''
I'm a Mason, I'm an Eagle, I'm an
Elk, I'm Knight;
Boom, Boom)-Pm ragged but
rightW
Now that convention season is about
over. and the fraternal hoofs, horns,
swords, plumes and epaulets Of the
6fty-seven or more varieties Of race
fraternities are vending their weary
way homeward, with empty gas
tanks. thin purses and an appetite
which yearns heartily for some good
I'D homemade corn bread and home
cooked country bacon, together with a
payday which will partially take care
az the bills which the delegates didn't
have time to pay before leaving home
our mind reverts to both the menaces
and the promises which annual fra
ternalistic camp meetings have for the
brother and the race.
There's no use Of talking; this race
Of ours sure is strong on the go-to-
church, go-to-convention movement.
They have the go-to-school, go-to-
college, go-to-work campaign pushed
clear off the map; and our annual con-
tribution to the railroads and the gas
oline stations would make Booker T.
Washington, were he alive today,
think that the endowments to Tuske-
gee and Hampton institutes compare
merely with the tips" which conven-
ton delegates hand out on the way TO
not from-the meeting place.
What unanimity of good opinion
there is about the virtues Of annual
conclaves. What a store Of energy
and finance they exact from the group,
"A quantity which would endow a
university, capitalize gigantic laun-
dry, build half a dozen old folks
homes, and educate and maintain fifty
per cent of all our widows and or
phans
Could not some Of this potential
force and finance be diverted into some
substantial projects which would sur
vive the tumult and shouting of the
convention season?
# this is an unreasonable hope, then
could not the idea of the late Joseph
l. Jones of Cincinnati, Ohio, who
made small fortune manufacturing
regalia for the fraternal brethren, be
put into effect? Jones asserted that
there should be. a Fraternity Of Fra
ternities," composed Of quota-member-
ship from each of our leading orders. He
believed that such a body could meet
each year, consider. the problems of
each unit, and construct a national pro-
gram which would bring honor and
assistance to the various orders and to
the race as whole. Jones believed
that such plan would conserve the
intra-racial bankroll, by doing away
with a deal Of reckless convention
The broad ax., 1927-09-03
Bell Ringing

The expression ringing a change
is derived from bell ringing. Change
ringing was not known until the be-
ginning Of the Seventeenth century
The art made rapid progress, and
rings Of bells increased from or 3
to 10 or Il. with II bells. 479,O01, 900
changes can be rung.
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BACK FROM VACATION

Mrs. Hattie S. Claybrook, 1920
Langley avenue, has just returned
from a months vacation spent with
friends in Winnipeg, Canada, and Min
neapolis, Mimi. Many functions were
given to honor Mrs. Claybrook during
her visit and she is delightfully."- pleased
with her stay.
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IMPROVING

Morgan Park, the beautiful suburb
between 103rd and 10th street. where
thousands Of members Of the race are
located, is rapidly increasing in value
and beauty.
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Meaning or "AIaskao

The territory ceded by Russia In
1867 had been known up to that time
as Russian America. II was called
Alaska by William Ell. Seward. our
secretary Of state. this being cor
ruption Of the Aleut word alakshak
or alayeksa, meaning great country
or continent.
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time squandering, and that universal
good will and real fraternal growth
would inure to the credit of each racial
fraternal unit and to Americas COM
ponent Negro population.
So do we think.
Charity and the Church
Believe it or not, a Negro registered
nurse in Virginia, who recently COM
pleted an assignment in a Catholic
hospital Of Norfolk, remarked to the
writer that she was glad when the
service was over. at was hard. hard
work" she said, adding that Catholic
hospitals do so much charity work Z"
a large part of which, she admitted
was among the needy Negroes Of Nor
folk.
The humaneness Of the nurse is not
10 be criticised. She looked. first If
course, at the physical strain in the
Catholic hospital, which had not been
common to the other channels Of
health-nursing work at which she had
been employed.
Signihcant to us, however, is the
bare but laudable truth that the Church
OF Rome is, indeed, performing such a
great service Of Charity among our
group, the country over.
We recan vIvidIy a three-months'
period spent, more than twenty wears
ago, upon bed Of sickness at Lincoln
Hospital, New York. We recall the
kindly visit, twice week of veneer
able Catholic priest, who, though
sensing that we were of the Protestant
faith, was eager to administer to our
spiritual wants.
We have observed the Catholic SIS
tiers in Detroit and elsewhere carry
forward helpful contacts and assistance
in behalf Of our people, waiting not
upon formalities, the ethics Of religious
faiths, the cutting Of red tape, or the
functioning Of public agencies, in order
to do then the things which needed
to be done
It is equally true, in other fields of
need, that the organization of the Holy
Catholic church is the first in time
and the first in effect, to give aid to
the suffering and care for the dying.
1t has been a boon to the Negro,
particularly, in sections where segre-
CATION exists and public services func-
ton, first, upon the basis of color, that
the Catholic church has had an or
ganization and an intention, which
waited neither upon religion nor color
to bring succor to those in need.
Whatever may be said Of the Church
of Rome, and regardless Of the un-
necessary fear that She seeks to usurp
the functions Of the State, the bare fact
remains that she has aided the state in
public good Samaritanism, and upon
the basis of charitable equality for all
concerned, from time immemorial even
until now.
Is Negro Valuation Decreasing?
The most valuable animal outside
Of menagerie is an American human"
says Edward A. Woods, of the Equit-
able Lie Company. in his book,
The broad ax., 1927-09-03
Differs In Meaning

mag" the VOID used by use to de
scribe a horse or a fault-fnding WON
an. means to the natives Of parts Of
India q snake god.
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COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
By THE CAMERAMAN

Fraternity of Fraternities"
Charity and the Church
Is Negro Valuation Decreasing7
GO South, Young Workerl
Colorgrams
Justice Dawns in Alabama
The broad ax., 1927-09-03
Giren Scientifc Crorpn

Both philosophy and mathematics
have been termed "the queen Of SCI
ences" by various writer's.
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Colorgran1s

Colorgrams
Serge Yourienvitch, author-sculptor,
after eight months travel in Africa,
has returned to civilization with photo
graphs and clay models Of what he
declares to be "the finest female forms
IN the world" He says: "The women
The broad ax., 1927-09-03

Is Negro Valuation Decreasing?
THE most valuable animal outside
Of menagerie is an American human"
says Edward A. Woods, of the Equit-
able Life Company, in his book,
The broad ax., 1927-09-03

time squandering, and that universal
good will and real fraternal growth
would inure to the credit of each racial
fraternal unit and to Americas COM
ponent Negro population.
So do we think.
Evening star., 1927-11-11
axes 80 wears" he told visitors.

takes so years." he told visitors.
Then came reports that divorce
was imminent and last Summer he
came West in an automobile, writing
for various magzines on conditions in
the territory he traversed. He arrived
here July 81 last and remained three
months to establish his residence as
required by the law recently amended
from A six.months' minimum.
Vanderbilt spent most of his time on
dude ranches in the vicinity of Reno
and Pyramid Lake. lie continued to
write of Western life. lie accepted
several invitations to address clubs.
His divorce complaint was brief. 1t
charged mental cruelty. alleging his
wife offered no announcement in his
publishing enterprises and that this
caused him to become unhappy and
discontented. He said she insisted he
abandon his chosen career for line of
endeavor permitting more attention to
social affairs
Mrs. Vanderbilts cross complaint
alleged he deserted her more than two
years ago.
Evening star., 1927-11-11
VANDERBILT CHARGES HIS WIFE
DISCOURAGED HIM IN CAREER
Opposed His Newspaper
Work Because 1t Cut Into
Social Activities.
Former Rachael LIttleton
Files Cross-Suit, AlIeg-
ing Desertion.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RENO. New. November 11.-Charg-
ing that his wife discouraged his news
paper activities because little time re-
mained for social affairs, Cornelius
Vanderbilt. jr., who lost a fortune III
tabloid publication ventures mas nieo
suit here for a divorce.
Scarcely had the complaint been en-
tered in District Court yesterday be
fore attorneys for Mrs. Vanderbilt
filed a roSs-complaint charging de-
sertion, No mention was made or a
financial settlement.
Attorneys for Mrs. Vanderbilt 1ndi-
Gated they would file dispositions later
to support the charge of desertlon, ana
that they expected no contest In ob'
tanning a decree of divorce for her.
Married i'm 1920.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, the former Rachel
Littleton of Chattanooga, Tenn, and
a half sister of Martin w: Llttleton,
prominent New York lawyer, was
married to Vanderbilt in April, 1920.
The wedding found members of New
YorIl's most exclusive society min
Cling with doughboy pals of Wander
b]lG, VINO served dS d. plINdtS llA thC
9th Division in France.
Although Vanderbilt had large for
tune in his own name, he continued
newspaper work, which he entered
shortly after his discharge from the
Army. Tiring of writing for others,
he established a tabloid newspaper in
Los Angeles in 1923 to become one
of the Youngest publishers in the
metropolitan field. He then started
tabloids in San Francisco and in
Miami, Fla.
Pressed for funds early in 1926, and
refused further aid from his father,
he decided to suspend publication of
the San Francisco tabloid. Restric-
tons also We're placed on the Los An
geles and Miami papers. but these,
too. failed to show a profit, and re-
ceivership was ordered for all the
tabloids.
Announcing he would attempt to
pay all his creditors, Vanderbilt re-
tired some of his obligations with
what remained of his inheritance and
Evening star., 1927-11-11

chairman Of Pomona Oranges COM
mittee on the Farmers Market. DIR.
Symons said that business men or
Southwest Washington were making
a strong fight to have the market To-
Gated along the water front. lie ne
lieyed that a large majority or the
peOple who use the market favor It's
being situated north of PENNSYLVANIA
avenue. DR.. SymOns asked all inter
estcd to sign petitions for the Ecking-
ton site and forward them to his com
mittee. A committee was named 10
present resolutions to tho Maryland
State Grange and to the States rep
reSentatiVeS in Congress urging them
to support the movement to get the
market for the Eckington section.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fl. Blandford,
jr. of Rrandywine, DIR. II. j. Patter-
son OF College Park, director of the
Maryland Experiment Station. and
Mrs. Alexander Guide of Chillum were
chosen to represent Pomona Grange
at the annual meeting of the Prince
Georges County Community Council,
to he held November % at Upper
Marlboro The delegates were direct
ed to tell the council Pomona Grange 8
attitude on the Farmers Market.
Other features included recitations by
A. Wolfe of Townshend, Mrs. Charles
S. Early, wife of the county sheriff of
Brandywine, and Miss Frances GruVer
of Chillum; a solo by Mrs. Gilbert An
derson of Bra ndvwine, and vocal
duet by Mrs. Anderson and JOSEPH ii.
Rlandford. jr. Gearv Epp1ey, over
seer, presided in the absence of }.
Enos Ray. master.