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Evening star., 1927-09-27
LOWER TAXES ASKED
BY MID-CITY CITIZENS
Association Urges Reduced Rate
and Larger Government Contribu-
tions to Capitals Upkeep.

THE Mid.City Citizens Association,
at its regular meeting last night. in the
Thomson School, formally went on
record in favor Of a reduction in the
tax rate and more liberal contribu-
tion from Congress toward the ex-
penses of the District.
The organization also voted strong
opposition against any reduction In
appropriations for the public schools.
Maj. Edwin b. Hesse. superintendent
OF police, was commended for his
recent efforts to improve the traffic
situation here by ordering wholesale
arrests in fragrant traffic violations.
As means of further improving con.
ditions, the association argued for the
extension OF the traffic lighting sys-
tenn in the downtown section.
President A. j. Driscoll, who pre-
sided, informed the meeting that For
mer Engineer Commissioner Bell had
given assurance that work on the
widening of Thirteenth street would
not be undertaken until residents af-
fected had an opportunity to present
their views to Congress.
The Board Of Education, in letter
to the association, stated that $1,575
had been allotted for the improve
ments of the grounds at Business
High School and that these improve
ments would so forward soon. The
association had expressed interest in
this project.
Elroy Harkey and James Ryan were
admitted to membership.
Evening star., 1927-09-27

Of the rights already have been Sc
cured and it was stated that If any
of the remaining property owners re.
fused to grant rights the land will be
sought through condemnation pro-
ceedings. A resolution was adopted
thanking the committee for it's work.
J. Enos Ray and Irwin Owings are
the other members.
Otway B. ZantZinger, jr., OF the
publicity Committee reported that
10000 pamphlets setting forth the ad.
vantages of Hyattsville and neigh
boring towns as desirable places for
residences and business had been
printed. They were placed in the
hands of the publicity committee, of
which William Moore is chairman, for
distribution. Moore reported progress
as to publicity.
Upon request of Thomas n. Mohler
the chamber indorsed the plan to have
the Tuxedo road from the River road
to the Beaver Dam Golf Club perma-
nently repaired. The stretch is three
fourths of mile.
1t was announced that the next
regular meeting, scheduled October
"a, had been postponed until; October
81, when the October booster banquet
would be held following the meeting.
Gov. Albert c. Ritchie has accepted
an invitation to attend and Senator
Millard E. Tydings of Maryland,
Senator Smith Brookhart of Iowa and
Representative Stephen w. Gambrill
of the fifth Maryland congressional
district will be invited.
DIR. i. K. Atherton, chairman; George
Evening star., 1927-09-27
HIGH SCHOOLS GROW.
Increase of 762 Pupils Enrolled
at Opening Today.

Washington's five principal high
schools opened today with 762 more
pupils enrolled than last year at this
time, it was announced at the Frank
lin School. Assistant Supt. of Schools
Stephen T.. Kramer today will make a
tour of the schools to inspect the pos
sibilty Of congestion.
Every one of the five schools have
increase. Eastern High School. with
a supposed maximum capacity of 1900
pupils, has 1867, as compared with
1,770 this time last year
The enrolment of the other four
high schools stoday follow: Business,
1,210, as compared with 1884 last
year; Western, 1,456, as impaired
with 1,1S4; Central. 2,765, as compared
with 2,737, and Mckinley, 1856, as
compared with PIG.
Evening star., 1927-09-27
Try This Before
Making Engine Repairs

Check the ignition and look the spark
plugs over whenever the engine falls
short of the fine performance that it
once had.
Many times expensive repair bills are
incurred and it is afterward found that
all that was needed was a new set of
spark plugs. This because all spark
plugs in time deteriorate and need to be
replaced.
When you buy spark plugs. be sure
to insist on AC-the make on which
Lindbergh. Chamberlin. Byrd and other
great flyers staked their lives-and you
will be sure of perfect spark plug per-
formance.
Your dealer has the right type and
size for your engine-ASK HIM-Adver-
tisement.
Evening star., 1927-09-27
FIVE SHOT IN FIGHT
AFTER RUM ARREST
Charlotte, N. c., Battle Follows At
tempt by Friends to Rescue
Prisoner.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., September 81.
Two rural policemen were shot, one
perhaps fatally. and three other men
wounded in battle in the outskirts
of Charlotte early yesterday when
friends of a man arrested on liquor
charge attempted to rescue him.
Henry Moseley, rural policeman,
was shot through the body and per-
haps fatally wounded. Lathey Fes-
perman. rural policeman, was struck
in the head.
Charles Padgett. accused of selling
liquor, was shot and seriously
wounded.
r. Padgett and "Red" Newman
were shot and wounded. but escaped
and are being sought by police.
Henry Fesperman, chief of rural
police, said that his men reported to
him that they arrested Charles
Padgett on a liquor charge, and at
his request took him to the home of
Frank Jones, whose wife is a sister
Of Padgett, to get money for a bond
While waiting for the necessary
money to be provided r. Padgett and
Newman entered the house and start
ed shooting in an effort TO rescue
Charles Padgett
Evening star., 1927-09-27
EDUCATIONAL.

SPANISH TAUGHT BY AN ELDERLY
native gentleman at schools pupils homes or
Call or phone Columbia
Evening star., 1927-09-27
WILL DISCUSS TRIANGLE.
Fine Arts Body to Consider Fed
eral Building Program.

Members of the National Com
mission of Fine Arts, including a new
member, Ferrucio Vitale of New York
are to meet in New York tomorrow to
go over plans for construction of Cow
ernment buildings in the triangle with
the architects. The Department of
Commerce Building and the structure
to house the Bureau of Internal Rev
enue will be the first buildings to be
considered. Mr.. Vitale, who succeeds
to the post of landscape architect
member of the commission, succeeding
James l.. Greenleaf, whose term has
expired, is a landscape architect of
note in New York.
Evening star., 1927-09-27
Abbottsford School for Girls

Boarding and day school for girls.
kindergarten, intermediate and pre-
paratOry. Music and Art. Progress
sive methods.
Boys in day school. Kindergarten
thru fifth grade.)
2201 Massachusetts, Ave. Decatur 116l
Address Principal for CatalOuge
Evening star., 1927-09-27

n. Bowen and DR.. S. NJ. Mcmillan, the
committee, which has arranged past
banquets so successfully, was again
named to take charge.
Sixteen new members were voted
into the chamber last night, bringing
the roster to 1855. Those admitted last
night were L. M. Walden, DIR. Charles
H. Naylor, Maury H. Brown, Walter
Evening star., 1927-09-27
British Admiral to Visit U. S.

BOSTON, September 81 R.-Gov.
Fuller yesterday was notified by Ed
ward F. Gray, British consul general
here, of the impending visit to Boston
of Admiral Sir Walter Cowan, COM
mander-in-chief of the American and
West Indies naval station at Bermuda.
He will arrive on October 10, with two
mand-the Calcutta and the Cairo
and will remain for four days.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
PLUCKY GIRL LANDS FILM
FLAMMER IN JAIL
preston News Servicel

Goldsboro, N. C., April "a
plucky girl stood at the corner Of
Center and Walnut streets Tuesday
for FIVE hours waiting for Charley
Clayton, flim-ham game worker, who
had collected three dollars from her in
advance promising her nice easy job,
consisting chiefly Of being dressed up
and holding silver tray at the en-
trance Of fine establishment here, to
receive the cards of fashionable guests.
The pay was to be $40 week. He
stated that he was butler to this high
toned family and had been told to find
suitable girl for this place. Clayton
went off to get his car to carry her
there but did not come back. The girl
got suspicious and told the police.
Now the m-fammer is in jail.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
HON. JAMES w. BREEN
Recently Appointed First Corporation Counsel
the City of Chicago.
SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE ELECTS MAT
THEWS MEMBER

San Francisco.-Assistant U. S. At
torney- General, William Clarence Mat
thews, who is now in charge of a
riparian case involving rights in Cali
fornia, has been honored by the San
Francisco Chamber Of Commerce with
membership. This is a signal honor
for the former Boston attorney and
70 the Federal work which he is SO
ably supervising at this time. 1t dem
onstrates that East is West. so far as
the San Francisco Commerce body is
concerned.
+. In a courteous letter to Attorney
Matthews, Mr. Clay Miller, President
Of the Chamber Of Commerce, said:
1T is our sincere desire that you as a
member Of the organization will use
the service which is ready for you and
that your own organization will inter
est itself in the work Of the commu-
nifty through the San Francisco
Chamber Of Commerce. which we be-
lieve offers the most effective field for
individual effort. We hope that we
may see the members OF your staff
frequently in the Offices Of the Cham
Der Of Commerce for data and Stats
tics which are available here and which
will be of benefit to you.
Enclosed you will find your mem
bership card and engrossed certificate
will Be sent to you under separate
cover. You will receive our monthly
magazine and also the weekly bulletin
which We trust will be beneficial and
interesting to you. Please bear in mind
that the San Francisco Chamber Of
Commerce is your Chamber Of Com
merce, ready to serve you and to
serve commercial San Francisco faith
fully"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
TESTIMONIAL DINNER FOR
MRS. IDA B. WELLS-BAR-
NETT, MAY BIRD

The Ida B. Wells Woman's Club
will give testimonial dinner to its
founder Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
at the Wabash Avenue Y. NJ G. A.,
Tuesday evening, May 3rd, at 7:3O
O'Clock. Plates, $l.25. Mrs. Leila
Johnson. 43lS Prairie avenue, is chair
man Of the committee in charge OF the
dinner and asks that all reservations
be sent TO her by May End Al
friends who wish to show appreciation
Of Mrs. Barnett's work for the race
and for club women, are cordially IN
vited to be present.
Mrs. Emma ]. Andrews, President.
Mrs. Leila Johnson, 43lS Prairie Ave-
Chairwoman Committee
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
MAN IMPOSING ON LODGE
MEMBERS, AVERRED
preston News Service)

(Preston News ServIce)
Pittsburgh, Pa, April 22.-According
to James R. Williams, Grand Master
OF the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge.
F. and A. NJ, warning sho1d be given
10 Masons and other fraternals in
Pennsylvania, New York and other
northeastern states regarding a man
giving his name as L. L. Lowe Mr..
Williams says that the man sometimes
Gains to come from Atlanta, Ga, and
d other times from Pittsburgh, and
various other places. He travels in an
automobile accompanied by his wife
ano two small children. He is said to
nave successfully feeced number of
INDIVIDUALS and lodges in the northern
part OF Pennsylvania.
According to Mr.. Williams, the
M 5 story is concerning a check he
'isnes cashed or endorsed at a local
p'iiN' This ruse, Mr.. Williams says,
nss worked successfully in Meade
'uis' Erie, and in other Pennsylvania
!. %"ns' The man is light in complexion.
Ou' forty years old and about FIVE
~. q. I'VE inches tall. His wife and
'uren are dark complexioned.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
Negro Health Needs Democracy

Negro health ought not to be any
different from the health of any other
American who lives, labors and loves
as a peer, along with his fellow men.
Yet, statisticians spend sleepless nights
figuring out the Negroes chance to
reach three score and ten years before
shutting off this mortal coil His
chances, they say, are poor. He is
too often the victim Of a premature
demise. Choice insurance policies are
withheld from him because of his sus-
ceptibility to i'll health. He is different,
they say, from other peoples Of Amer
lea.
We are ready to admit that facts
usually smash theories to smithereens
and that, hence, Negro health is not
as good as it ought to be; and yet,
what are the causes Of the Negro high
death rate? Is the Negro weakIing:
No, no! If anything. he is the harder
when facing exposure What, then, is
the cause of Negro Ill health?
1t is the uneven life which he is
forced to live under the fear on the
part Of the contemporary racial group
that some sunny day he might become
dominating and dangerous.
He comes into the world under eco
nomic stress, with few Of the habiIia-
ments Of infant necessity. He enters
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
MISS ADAMS. KANSAS CITY
SCHOOL TEACHER, BURIED
APRIL 9
preston News Service)

Kansas City, Kan, April 22-Miss
S. Evenne Adams, youngest daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Adams, Of
Kansas City, Kansas, departed this
life at her home, ga Franklin avenue,
Kansas City, Kansas, and was buried
in the same city Saturday, April 9.
Miss Adams was a graduate OF
Summer High School, Kansas City,
Kansas, a student at Crane Junior
College, Chicago, and a graduate OF
WiIberforce University AT the time
of her death she was engaged as a
teacher in the public schools Of this
city.
Rev. Adams is author Of Arrows,
supplied BY Preston News Service.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
Another Champion

Through the instrumentality of L. G.
Southland, Attorney Of Spartansburg,
5. O., the Supreme Court Of that state
has reversed conviction for murder az
Jim Davis, who shot and killed white
road gang foreman. who had come to
his house for the expressed purpose OF
removing Mr.. Davis two daughters. "A
new trial will be arranged for this man
by Mr. Southland, whom we remember
as the fearless lawyer, who risked his
life few months ago in defending the
Lowman family. Should Mr.. Southland
again be successful in clearing his
client, let us hope that the mob's thirst
for blood and vengeance has been suf-
hciently satiated on the Lowmans.
In Attorney Southland our group
has found another champion. Let Us
then pay tribute where tribute is due
and surely it is due this worthy man.
L seems that God is still giving us
the men-"the Time Demands" with
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith
and willing hands;
Men whom the lust Of Office does
not kill:
Men whom the spoiIs Of Office cannot
buy;
Men who possess opinions and a
will;
Men who have honor; men who viii
not lie;
Men who can stand before a dema-
gogue
And dam his treaeherous Batteries
without winIing;
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
Moses Long Fast

In the Book of Exodus 1t is record
ed that Moses during his interview
with God on Mount Sinai, where he
recorded the Ten Commandments on
tables Of stone. tasted 40 days and
nights. His abstention, however, was
from both food and drink.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
By THE CAMERAMAN

pressure. his parents are pressed IOr
ways and means to supply him with
the necessities Of life. His home is
down at the end of the street, far away
from public utilities and other bless
ings. from which he is often restricted.
His education is frequently scanty and
Discriminatory administered through
foolish state laws which insist that the
Negro should be treated differently
from anyone else in America.
Thus, the physique and the mind are
hampered from cradle to grave. Could
it be expected that Negro health
should hold its own under such stress
The open door of democracy will do
more for Negro health in a decade
than ten thousand conferences will do
in as many years, unless the confer
ences list Democracy, first, as the fac
tor which they intend to remedy
The Negro in Recent Literature
Negroes and Negro life continue to
serve as most interesting field for
literary inspiration, among the Nor
dies. With BLACK April" Mrs. Peter
kin has again given the public a book
which is the result of her intimate
knowledge of the habits and customs
of the southern backwoods Negro.
This book, like her "Green Thursday, .
is truly a romance of the soil and the
southland.
Mrs. Peterkin has done in these two
books what Thomas Hardy did in his
Under the Greenwood Tree" and
Far From the Maddening Crowd
Piquant and interesting, each authors
book breathes of the fields, the woods
and the freshly plowed lands. They
are peopled with sons and daughters
Of the soil-in one case white-in the
other black
We may call BLACK April an Epic
in prose, dealing with the incidents
that center around its dusky hero,
April; while Green Thursday" is
more like a pastoral poem that
breathes of the simplicity of the back
woods life among Negroes in the
south.
Perhaps Of greater Importance to
the reading public, than either OF
these two books, depicting the Negro
in fiction are the two recent books on
the Negro. as an important factor in
American life. "The Negro in Amer
lean Life" by Jerome Dowd, Profess
sor of Sociology in the University OF
Oklahoma, is a study of the Negro,
dealing especially with his rise since
the Civil War. A brief background,
treating of his life in Africa and the
West Indies. and his importation into
North America, is given in the intro
duction. The author has given his
subject years of serious study and
treats it in a clear and scholarly fash
ion, free from prejudice and bias. This
book is OF particular interest to the
student Of sociology. The American
Race Problem" by F. B. Reuter-, Uni
versity of Iowa, is a sociological study
of the American Negro, not as a race
but as population group. Among
other things the author tries to show
that scientific investigation, up to the
present, does not prove the inherent
mental inferiority Of the Negro, nor
does it afford sufficient ground for
denying it.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

Through the efforts Of chauncey
Townsend. editor Of the Arizona
Times. two Of the three white dailies
in Tucson, Arizona. are using cap
tal IN" in spelling Negro in their
publications. One Of the papers-Ihe
Daily Observation-Disclosures to comply
And bitterly complains that a Negro
IS attempting to control its news col
umns.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

"SkaEki" IL q Russian word which
may be translated best, perhaps, by
wonder tales" They are q combina-
ton Of fairy tales and mythology with
an interminRling Of Christian doc
trine. "Shaxki" 10 the plural form,
''shazka" being the singular.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
FiUe Points of Success

An enthusiastic Topeka pOultryman
observed that to make a success In
such work a man must possess Eve
qualifications: First. desire second. pa
tience: third. determination fourth.
management. and fifth. work like a
s0n-Of-R-gun.-Cappe Weekly.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

The falcon known as the kite IN
remarkable for its power for remain
ing In midair without apparent motion
Of its wings. This popularity seems
to have suggested the name OF tho
boys favorite toy. the kite.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

The so-called seven fellies o.
science. are the quadrature OF tna
circle. the duplication Of the cube. tri-
aectIon Of the angle. perpetual mo-
tfon transmutatlon Of metals, nxa-
tion OF mercury and the elixir Of ira
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
!. DR.. Buffers Virginia Grafton
2. Negro Health Needs Democracy
3. The Negro in Recent Literature
4. Another Champion
DR.. Buffers Virginia Grafton

Or. Buffers Virginia Grafton
Whether conscious or not of the
significance Of his words and senti-
ments to the dark tenth part OF Amer
ica's population, DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president Of Columbia Univer-
sity, New York, in his address last
Wednesday at the University of Nir-
ginia. said enough in two terse para
graphs to cause not only Virginia, but
the entire group Of southern states
men and the whole Negro people of
America to consider again and again
that pet" theory that the tail should
wag the dog" or that each state (of
the SOUTH should become an abso-
lutte state monarchy.
DR.. Butler said: "Only if the people
of America make their democratic in
stitutions EFFICIENT can this Ma
ton ward off the ABSOLUTE
STATE as the basis Of government,
and life, with the consequent loss Of
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES"
Further Dr. Butler stated: "The
moment the state becomes absolute
somebody must be absolute. We have
gotten through with monarchies; we
have gotten through with the tyran-
mes OF majorities. And if we are to
resist, in our democracy, in its per-
petuation, enrichment and develop
ment-if we are to resist the return
Of the doctrine of the absolute state
under the guise of efficiency we can
only do it by making ourselves. our
democracy, as efficient while retaining
our civil and individual liberty"
Thus spoke DR.. Butler in the heart
Of West Virginia, avowedly one of the
capitals" Of absolute state sovereign
ty.
This column does not wish 70 i'm
pose upon its readers too MANY reco1-
iections Of phases of states rights: vet
we say, earnestly, that the doctrine Of
states rights, of absolute state SOW
ereignty, and Of the "tvrannies Of
maJorities" is the greatest menace
which the Negro is today facing in
America. The suppression OF indi-
vidual liberty grows out of state SOW
ereignty. Look at educational faciI-
itIes, police protection. health utilities.
the ballot, transportation, housing.
etc, as influences of Negro life and
you will see that due to municipal
ordinances and state legislation. abb
solute citizenship to the Negro is
largely encircled by the state
The dual citizenship OF everyone in
the two democratic sovereignties-th
United States and the State in which
residence is claimed or asserted-is
proving to be more than a technical
cloture for the Negro It is a civic
utility which needs to be brought out
into the sunlight Of Liberty Is not
the whole greater than any of its
parts? If states continue to resist the
parenthood Of the United States, they
may continue to resist their associa-
ton, each with the other And this
is just what is happening where states
rights reign supreme
DR.. Buffers theory OF Government
should mean much to the Negroes Of
America His Virginia address should
be made the subject Of a special lee
ture in every school and university in
the United States, white. colored. and
mixed.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

On February %. 1899. the express
business first started. The first express
package carrier was William Freder-
lex Harnden Of Boston. Mass. In his
first trip from Boston to New York no
carried hut few packages.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23
The Object Of Education

The entire object Of true education
is TO make people not merely do the
right things, but enjoy the right things
not merely industrious, but to love
Industry-not merely pure, but to love
purity-nOt merely just, but to hunger
and thirst after justice.-John Ruskin.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

After their messenger dog had been
seriously burned while carrying orders
from one sector to another during q
forest fire, comments the Dearborn In
dependent, California forest rangers
made an asbestos coat for him.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

Another thing a Thoughtful MaA
learns, after q while, In that no can't
be on either side Of any great moral
question without being I'm bad corn
pany to a considerable extent-Ohio
State Journal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

Bolter-why didn't you hire Q
lawyer to look after your caseF
Barnard-Oh. I thought that IL I
won I'd like to make a little some
thing out OF It myself
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

according to recent travellers in AZ
Soodoo and witchcraft are not
~ IN South Africa. Zulu warriors
sad to still go through these
strange rites.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-23

Tall men, sun-crowned, who live
above the fog
In public duty and in private
thinking"