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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
STATUS OF NEGRO IN U. S.
SETTLED DECLARES
DIR. PENN
preston News service)

N AOolOAA NCWo DSA WIZ
st. Paul, MINI, April l5.-In adj
dresses delivered at Minot and Fargo
N. D., and here, to large audiences Of
white Methodists, Secretary |. Gar
land Penn, Of Cincinnati, o., repre-
senting the Board of Education of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, said that
"Many questions involving the status
Of Negroes in the United States and
their possibilities, had been settled"
The present day questions were rec
ognition of racial rights and privileges
on the basis of progress made; the
protection of life and property thus
visualizing in acceptance and practice,
the amendments to the constitution
and recent United States Supreme
Court decisions thereon; equal educa-
tional opportunities; the right to earn
a living anywhere in any honest and
legitimate way; justice in the courts;
proper housing and sanitation; and a
cessation of exploitation of Negroes
in excessive rentals, North and South,
because many of them were weak and
could not help themselves.
He told how education had helped
not only the Negro, but was con-
tribution to the progress of all, as the
Negro was now an asset instead of a
liability. He quoted the Manufactur-
ers Record, of Baltimore, Md, in sup
port of his position, as follows:
Negroes have been no negligible
or inconsequential labor element in
this country. Negro labor supplies
one-seventh of all workers in this
country. Negroes operate million
farms. one-fourth of which they own
themselves. One-third of all iron and
steel workers and one-tenth of all rail-
way workers are Negroes. The &C
cumulated wealth of Negroes increased
from $20,0O0,000 in 1886 to $780,
600 in 1920. In 1922, 523 Negroes re-
ceived B.A. degrees and 20 the degree
of MA. from American colleges and
universities"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
Governor Smith and Dixieland

The genial Governor Of the Empire
c,.teD is apparently girding his loins
:. .orrall the Dixie delegation to the
nsmocratic National Convention next
....r when a standard-bearer Of pres
dental proportions is TO be selected
j declare open warfare upon whom
aver the Republican party selects.
Two potent decIensions, Catholicism
and Prohibition, hover DER the
brow Of the genial "Al" Smith, which
are of tremendous moment to Dixie
land. which is avowedly Protestant,
Drv and Anti-Negro. Yet, Dixie is
veritably suffering for leadership, and
the type Of leadership which Governor
aAr' has admittedly exhibited in New
York State is sufficiently demonstra-
rive TO make the South realize that it
wouldn't Be entirely in contravention
10 democratic political Hoyle TO get
behind Smith and deliver to him
whole-hearted support.
Catholicism, though! Gracious, how
offensive it would be to the Ku Klux
Khan Did not Senator Heflin bring
ont this glaring truth when he so Wig
orously accused the Knights of Co
umbus of endeavoring to foment war
with Mexico?
And Prohibition! Did not Dixieland
take the lead in putting King Alcohol
into solitary confinement, all because,
as It said, it was necessary to keep
whiskey away from Negroes.
When, then, would it profit Dixie
land to send Smith to Washington,
reeking, ab initio, with such despotic
evils" as Catholicism and Anti-Pro-
niDIiOl S6llllIllCulS!
And yet, reasons Dixie: "A good
man and true is Governor Smith. Per-
haps he would not try to quell the Ku
Klux Khan, or force his Knights Of
Columbus into our Protestant BALI
wicks. Nor, through him would the
Pope hope to WELD much influence,
where states rights are as firmly in
tenched as they are in Dixieland."
Eureka" utters Dixieland. Lets
not be adamant as to Catholicism and
Anti Prohibition. What we need most
of all to convince US that our prospec-
tive Governor Candidate meets our test
is his unqualified approval, not of our
allegiance to the Eighteenth Amend
ment; nor of our evasion of the Four
tenth and Fifteenth Amendments, but
rather Of our knowledge, (believe it
or mott that we know, best of all,
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE NE
GRO"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
Atheism, Anarchisn,
Insanity, Suicide

In the course Of a brilliant sermon,
recently delivered by the Rev. Henry
Hugh Proctor, pastor of the Nazarene
congregational Church, Of Brooklyn,
n y he emphasized the freedom
which the Race enjoys from Atheism
and anarchism. II am happy to say"
preached Dr. Proctor, that the Negro
race has not yet produced an atheist
or an anarchist Fortunately, the col
ored race is incorrigibly religious and
Inc church holds unique place in his
life"
Yea, verify, these and not few
otner adjuncts of civilization have
been cautiously eschewed by the Ne
gro OF both the so-called new and the
older types. Figures plainly show that
insanity among the brethren is de-
Geasingly low as compared with that
" me Nordics. 1t is peculiarly true that
sven amid the commission of crime,
negroes do not display the vein of in
sanity SO necessary in the contra
group 70 justify or excuse the plot and
us consummation.
Similarity, in a recent statement Of
ue Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pSny' which carries thousands of dol
ais in Negro insurance, it is revealed
aat the suicidal rates for the past
ai'sen years among its WHITE poll
Hy holders are at least alarming. The
s@lstics quoted plainly show the
asnd Of suicides of WHITE PER-
SUNS; but reveal a ZERO as to any
suicide wave among its Negro policy
holders.
after all, it would seem that the
po''-war Negro has rejected, along
4" MS many acceptances, many of
Is debit items of the white mans
lzatlOn. 1t is really remarkable
u an ex-slaved race could exercise
"a discriminating taste amid a whirl-
sO0l life chiseled by the superior"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
BARD AND FLEMING GRANTED
STAY OF EXECUTION
preston News, Service)

Louisville, KY, April l4-Stays of
execution to May IS were granted Ma
than Bard and Bunyan Fleming by
Governor Fields Thursday after Fed
eral District Judge Dawson here
granted them a writ Of habeas corpus.
The men were to have been hanged
Friday at MadisonviIle on the convic-
ton Of an attack on a 16-year-old girl.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16

According to the latest edition OF
the Negro Year Book, published at
Tuskegee, and edited by DR.. Monroe
N. Work there are "a Negro banks in
the United States conductedIy entirely
by and for Negroes.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
colnrfnl News--Guide
By THE CAMERAMAN

cOlorful News-Guide
Governor Smith and Dixieland
Atheism, Anarchism, Insanity,
Suicide
! Strange Bedfellows
4 What Can a Poor Girl Do2
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
Aaron Malone

And SO Mr.. Malone has tried to kill
himself. If it was absolutely neces-
sarv that he test out the hardness Of
the sidewalk, it is too bad that he did
not start this very impressive labora-
tory work before he asked the court
70 give him one-half Of his wife's BUSH
ness. AS far as am concerned I think
that Aaron has chosen very happy
and inexpensive method Of settling
his difficulties with Mrs. Malone
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
Or Hammond

A woman recently related that her
husband always quoted Shakespeare
ut breakfast Bacon at that hour IN
far more suitable.-London Opinion.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16

In villages of the Black Sea region
the husbands do all the gossiping. it is
said, while the women folk labor in
the fields.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16

The Mexicans have a superstition
that whoever partakes Of food thar
has been gnawed by rats win be false
~ accused OF wrongdoIng
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16

funds. clothes and books, together
with 4 vacation which hubby cannot
finance because there is no hubby
We ask, in sympathy, what can a poor
girl dor
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
Maryland Keeps aJames Crow

The "Free State Of Maryland" has
decided-in legislature assembled-to
keep its Jim Grow railroad law. The
bill got through the Judiciary Com
mittee but its sponsors were forced
by one man-to abandon the bill when
Il cot to the floor. / know some
thing Of this sort Of Jim Crow in
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16
DR.. Grirnke Surprises Me

DR.. Grimke Surprises Me
| am surprised that DR.. Francis
Grimke of the Fifteenth Street Pres
byterian Church, Washington, has
taken issue with Clarence barrow and
has seen fit to write pamphlet setting
forth his views against For surely Dr.
Grimke must know that the things
which Mr.. barrow says to Negroes
are true And Dr. Grimke, with his
keen mind, is surely able to distinguish
between the religion of most of our
preachers and the religion of Jesus.
And will DR. Grimke deny that Ne
groes need to be told just the things
that Mr.. barrow is saying to them?
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-16

Maryland having run into it in my
younger and less discreet days. The
conductor threatened to throw" me
off and | moved quietly to the place
assigned. They were the days when
l believed there was probability Of
civilization penetrating America. Since
then | have learned better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
BaIdWin'S Speech

There is a sardonic note In Pre-
mier Baldwin's argument that Eng
land should break with Russia.
He proved that Russian agents
stole documents from England by
citing Russian documents which
English agents stole.
He then proves that Russia is try
ing to undermine the civilized world
without citing any documents at all
and leaves it to be inferred that she
would succeed except for such meas
ures as he is advocating.
The startling feature of his atti-
tude and the attitude OF all those
who think likewise. is utter lack of
confidence in people who are sup
posed to be intelligent enough to
run great nations.
Mr.. Baldwin and his crowd would
have us believe that all that stands
in the way of a world revolution is
the embargoes and inhibitions that
have been placed on Russai propa-
ganda. and that If this propaganda
were allowed anything like free cir,
culation, England. the United States,
France, Italy. Germany and other
civilized countries would blow up
over night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
Really Aid Reds

It is not necessary to syppathize
with Soviet Russia or the doctrine
OF Communism to realize that such
an attitude does more than anything
else to keep them going.
AS a matter of common sense. Mr..
Baldwin and his crowd are furnish
ing the best possible alibi for COM
munist leaders.
So long as England, the United
States and other great governments
make it difficult for Russia to do
business with the outside world, the
communist leaders can tell the Rus.
sian people that it is not commun-
ism that fills the land with poverty.
but the boycott of capitalist nations.
If the bars were let down and
Russian trade freed from arbitrary
restrictions the Russian people
would soon learn that the outside
world is not to blame for their diff
ficulties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
Loan Not Gifts

The proposition should not be re-
garded as one of charity or paternal-
ISM
No one expects the Government
of tho United States to authorize a
great donation in behalf of the flood
sufferers or do for them what ii
would be unwilling to do for any
considerable number of people
suffering from a similar misfortune.
What they need and what the
Government should grant, is a liberal
extension Of credit-an adequate
fund that can be loaned on long
terms and be amortized with easy
payments.
Because Of the long time it will
take to collect and study the
necessary data, a special session of
Congress is hardly desirable to con-
slider the matter Of flood control, but
a special session seems imperative
to provide the money and means that
are needed to rehahilitate desolated
territory which is larger than many
States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Having noted the disparaging arti-
cles relative to our city government,
l feel in justice to the administra-
ton the papers should publish the
good it performs as well.
am one whose home was de-
stroyed. at 319 y. Temple Ave, dur
ing the storm of Wednesday the 18th
and the efficient method in which
the police and firemen handled the
complicated situation is something
any city might we'll be proud Of. To-
day. three days after the destroying
elements had passed, the streets are
Cleaned and everything is in order,
and save for the wrecked dwellings,
the area looks as wei as it did before
the storm.
AS a salesman, covering the east
and central west, I have an oppor-
tunity to observe other cities and my
opinion is, that to load all of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
Wisecracking Wayne Wheeler

This newspaper tries to be fair toward per-
sous with whose views it does not agree. 1t seeks
indeed, to be generous opponent. But, as readers
no doubt have discerned for themselves, it some
times allows it's distaste for certain people to be
revealed And it might well confess that it finds
it hard to like Wayne B. Wheeler.
In Mondays paper you read the story told by
the attorney general of Indiana. This Official
elected with the aid of the AntSaloon League
related that his three children desperately ill with
typhoid and pneumonia, had whisky prescribed for
them by the physician who was endeavoring to save
their lives. And that he knowingly violated In
dianas bone dry law, which he is sworn to enforce
in order to get the whisky. He now suggests that
Indiana's rigid law be modified to make law-break-
ing unnecessary in such emergencies.
Wayne b. Wheeler, active director of the Anti
Saloon League, makes this comment:
'Indiana's prohibition policy for four years has
been against the of medicinal whisky. Health
and morality conditions in the State have been ex-
cellent except with the attorney general"
But quite apart from that fact, do you under
stand why Wayne B. Wheeler willing to make a
wisecrack concerning the plight of the Indiana
attorney geperal-and father-isnt the sort Of per-
1t is easy to love?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26

The contract, South DEALER one
No Trump. The play to the first
trick; West, Spade g. North, Spade
Ace; East, Spade s; South, Spade
4. On trick 2. the play should be:
North Heart 2; East, Heart 3;
South, Heart Queen; West, Heart d,
Declarer, forced to win the first
trick in Dummy, can count two
Spade tricks. four diamonds, two
Hearts, IL West have the King of
Hearts. three If East have it and
the finesse be taken twice. Or
dinarly with eight an effort would
be made to establish the Clubs; but
that would lose three Club tricks;
after losing the first Club trick, the
adverse Spades would be established
and game would be lost. Game can
only be made il the Heart fincsse
succeed, and IL it be tried twice. So
on trick 2 Dummy should lead a
small Heart and, II the fnesse
succeed, it should be repeated when
Dummy gets in again as he readily
can do with the Jack Of Diamonds,
Today's Hand
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
Unjust Law

1t is all right to cry for absolute
obedience Of the law, but first let
the law be just.
When the law says that a man
should permit his wife or children
to die for no reason in the world. ex-
cept that a certain kind of medicine
is forbidden, the law is manifestly
unjust.
The point in this Indiana case is
that the Governor and Attorney
General were forced to make a
choice which does not square with
Constitutional liberty. good law or
common sense.
There is no moral or ethical
ground for creating a situation in
which citizens are compelled to
stand idle while their loved ones
die, or violate their duty to the
Government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
Law and Justice
BY Dexter NJ. Keeezer

man and his wife had joint savings bank pass
book The contract with the bank provided funds
could be withdrawn by either party on presentation
of the book The couple separated and the wife kept
the pass book. The husband then went to the bank
asserted that the pass book been lost and induced
lie bank to Issue new one. With this pass book he
withdrew the money in the joint account. Later the
wife appeared with the Original book and advised
that the account had been closed She the bank
Tor the amount OF the deposit, claiming that she
entitled to it the holder Of the original pass book
which had never been lost The bank contended that
had acted in good faith in paying the money to the
husband after his claim that the book had been lost
that 1t should not be required to pay similar
to the wife whose grievance against her husband
and not the bank
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision The Court of Appeals of
Maryland decided that the wife could recover the
amount of the deposit The reason that she held
the original book which had been lost and
the bank could have found this the time is
sued, a. book to her husband if it had made a
careful inquiry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
A Good Time for a Showdown

Today is the day Great Britain is scheduled to
break with Russia.
Following Scotland Yards unprecedented raid
on Soviet house fortnight ago in London, Premier
Stanley Baldwin has taken the step forecast at the
time by this newspaper.
That is to say, instead of waiting for Moscow
to get its dander up and sever diplomatic relations
with London London itself has taken the initiative
and told the Muscovites to clear out.
Premier Baldwin's indictment is about seri-
GUS as one government could make against another
He charges that under the cloak of diplomatic i'm
munity Russian agents have been acting as military
spies, fomenting revolution among British subjects
and stirring up trouble among the armed forces Of
the nation
If Russia is really guilty as charged we sincerely
hope Premier Baldwin proves his case. We are
great believers in the doctrine of sefdetermination
of peoples and that goes for the British much
for ourselves or the Nicaraguans the Chinese.
Russia has no business meddng in
affairs or in Brain's affairs, than have to NEEDLE
in hers, or in Chna's Mexcos. If she is med
ding, Premier Baldwin can do mankind fine serv
ice by putting all his cards the table and exposing
the whole kit and kerboodle
It is high time in fact, thatIsomebody should do
this Wanting the truth, all the world has had on
that the "reds" are seeking to stir up a world
luton And that is not enough. 1T is the fashion
nowadays to say the reds back of every form
Of public disorder from civil war to caricatures of
teacher on kindergarten blackboards 1t is not
enough for born reactionares and dehards just to
say "The reds did it." The world wants proof.
1t is no gentle blow Britain is dealing Moscow
And developments may prove it was quite deserved
But for the present-until Premier Baldwin clears
up the situation with additional details, we not
entirely escape the feeling that he may have been
pushed into by conservative extremists in the hope
of dealing backhand blow at the laborites, often
accused of being too friendly with Russia That and
the knowledge that Britain and Russia danger
ously at cross purposes in China.
At all events would be an excellent time for
showdown on the much mooted question of Rus
sian intrigue abroad
If Russia is the menace we are told she is we
ought to know it. Perhaps Premier Baldwin can
make us peril.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
The Silent Governor

Most disappointing to the people of this State
must he the continued silence Of the Governor IN
regard to the letter sent to him by the attorney
general of this State.
Very significant facts were stated in that letter.
verv serious if true and serious If they are
not true.
ATTORNEY General Gilliom stated in as simple
language as could be used that
The Governor Inquired whether 1t was
possible for him to obtain whisky Tor MS SICK
wife as prescribed by her physician
He said, "You and | procured whisky from
friends who had It for just such emergencies
In their own households"
Ha asked that the laws of this State be changed
So that under the most strict control men VINO 90
80 wish n become violators of the law could fol
,ou +ba advice of physicians without breaking the
law.
rbosa who Mace the lives Of their loved ones
n +ha hands of physicians do not stop to argue
about the remedies
Esnec,allv is this true when it is apparent that
death is near. on
Thew employ physicians because they have con
hdence in their judgment and their SKILL lhey WISH
to comply with their advice
E,+her the statement of Mr.. Glliom that the
Governor obtained whisky as he courageousiy anu
MAINLY admits that he did in violation OF inc law
is true or it is not
70 he did obtain it, then it might seem that the
Governor would state the facts relate the clrcun'
stances and give as is his duty and his privilege
his hest advice as to what the law should De-
# NAV be taken as certain that Mr. Gilliom did
not misstate the facts. His record Tor trutn Is
sufficient to insure belief
II that be true the silence OF the Governor Oe'
comes unexplainable-or inexcusabe.
No one will claim that the Governor OF THIS
state has any rights or privileges that should not
belong to the most humble citizen.
IF II be admitted that in even very few cases
II Is necessary to procure whisky to save human
life and that such case existed in the family OF
the Governor, then the cause of proh1olton ltsel
demands the change asked by Mr. Glll1om'
Fer unless physicians able to obtain ana
prescribe real whisky in such emergencies 'nose
who need it must obtain it from bootleggers and
rum runners.
That creates the temptation for those violators
who bring it from the border If they get real WHISKY
It condemns the sick and desperate to polsons IL
they turn to the concoctors Of poisons Whlch are
sold in violation of the law
How long should the man who brought the
whisky that saved the life of the wife OF the Gov
ernor remain in State prison.
There has been legitimate whisky in In
diana since the Legislature passed the Wright law
How long should the man who gave him this
whisky be imprisoned for keeping that whisky, II
he had kept it for period of years?
1t would seem to the ordinary citizen that the
State needs some word Of advice from the Gov
ernor some statement as to the truth OF the 1acIs
on which the Gilliom letter was based, some sug-
gestion as to what should be done with law that
makes 1t a crime to save life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
Fords to Go?

Henry Ford turned out his fifteen
millionth car on Wednesday. Ru-
mors persist that it will be the last
of it's kind and that Model ct" will
be abandoned.
The Ford car has become almost
Institutional not only in this coun-
try, but in many others.
One instinctively associates II with
the motor age. 1t was a product of
invention and innovation, however,
and must expect to succumb to the
same elements of progress that
brought it into being.
Henry Fords cars and fortune
prove nothing so wildly as that.
We live in an era dominated by
change and improvement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-26
Floods Fury

Another levee breaks on the Missis-
sippi and $4,000 more flee for their
lives.
The number of, homeless is now
100000 and 100000 acres of sugar
cane must be added to the vast
amount of cotton and forage crops
already lost.
Putting aside the idea that the
Federal Government must provide a
comprehensive plan of flood control.
this disaster has become so great
that no other agency can provide the
immediate relief which is needed.
IT will not only take hundreds Of
dollars to set these people on their
feet, but what is more imperative,
it will take organized and efficient
work