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OUR TASK.

oppression, prescription in Justice and the like, we go
forth armed to combat AM to conquer:
We stand first of all for law enforcement, as this
is absolutely necessary for permanent enjoyment OF
our rights and liberties. We shall advocate state and
national policies essential to the development and
growth of the moral, indus trial and economic life OF
our people, and aid in est abIishing their business
stability and nlotiVatng social progress Our nterpre-
taOn of the duties of an editor u.s. that regardless
of race or group connections, his first allegiance is
to the State. Our primary duty is to America and
seCOndary to the Race. This is predCated upon the
undeniabI9 fact that all of us are Americans first.
VIE shall advocate that the Virginia Negro make
his contribution to the rem arabe progress our State
is making in order that we may share in the prosper
Ity that is increasingly becoming VTgnia'S. The pc.
CaI arena must be enter ed and the contests staged
therein should be partiCpa ted in by new and enIght
ened Negro, to the end that our State may have the
benefit OF the potency of an interested Gtzenry:
At home here in Richmond the complications are
such that complete policy cannot be stated in one
issue: First OF all, we dedicate The Planet to the
great task of welding this C0ng0merate mass of COL
of83 folk nto unit Whenit comes to working for the
welfare of the group: RChmOnd8 greatest drawback
has 6c90 the seeming prejudice Of one group against
any Increment inaugurated by any other group. It is
impossible to oct the combined strength Of all groups
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-01-11

behind any movement. This is traceabIe directly to
the inability of our leaders to coordinate. Two recent
mergers here of banks and ministers conferences
are silver Innings of cooper alton upon clouds of eaI
ouSy and CIannishness.
Local questions to be treated include such prob
lens as our recreation pro gram and the functions OF
our CharaCter.buiding agencies Is there movement
to force Negroes from Ger tain Jobs heretofore con-
sdefed his? The matter of principals in our schools
is in the public eye and Sh oud be carefully thought
out.
In our editorial tool chest will be found no handy
hammer for the beIaborng of our white citizens every
time there appears some element ready to stir up ra
CaI ani10Stes. We know that there is an ever grow
ing number Of whites who are determined to aid us to
have and hold place in the American sun, and we
believe that we should meet them halfway in solving
this problem of the races by constant use of logic
and reason.
Finally, we hope and work for a great America,
stretching between wave washed shores Of the two
oceans and from Canada to the Gulf geographically,
but whose righteous influence, knowing no physical
bounds, win reach every corner of this terrestrial
Globe. NE vision these boundaries filled with happy
and Contented folk of every color and race working
tremendously for peace, tranquility and the em0Iu-
nentS that are the blessings of Righteousness. Our
task is to aid in bringing his 10 pass.
Roscoe C. Mitchell
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year, even in rainy seasons. New York
CITY looks ahead to the time when 1t
must draw its water from Lake
Ontario, three hundred miles away,
Philadelphia already has to go into
New York state for water. Inland
cities, on fresh-water lakes and rivers,
are more fortunate, but the pollution
of streams b.. sewage is increasing:
Eventually sewage will be disposed
of everywhere in reduction plants and
sooner or later science will find way
to purify sea-water for drinking pur-
poses and so make a water famine
in seacoast towns impossible.
SPECIALISTS
know a farmer who is perhaps the
greatest authority on potatoes in the
world. He grows nothing else; raises
them in Maine in Summer and in
Florida in Winter. He is getting rich.
know another farmer who has
abandoned every other crop to raise
gladiolus. He is getting rich. One
man in Maine speeializes in pheasants
and makes several thousand year on
fifty acres. know half dozen farms
where nothing is raised but silver
foxes. They make money. Some years
ago | met woman in Ohio who was
earning a very good income raising
skunks for their fur. know another
man who grows only violets.
have never known specialist who
made money If he gave any attention
to anything but his speciality. | have
never known one to fail if he had the
essential requirements CT industry,
common sense, craftsmanship and SUI
hcieut capital to carry on until his spe-
cialty made good.
DRIVERS
Automobiles kill more people IL
America than any other single source
Of accidents, far more than are killed
by railroads. The cause Of accidents
is usually inexpert driving. We have
Interpreted individual liberty to mean
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DanviIle Notes

bride away. Their presents were
beautiful. A splendid reception fol-
lowed.
The pageant presented by Mrs. P.
w. Price Christmas night at High
Street Baptist Church was a grand
affair and has been the topic of dis
cussion ever since. Our ladies looked
beautiful and the angelic chorus was
superb.
Messrs. F. L. Mccoy, W. H. Will
son, T. D. Parham and L. w. Will
hottie, of Durham, N. c., were pleas
ing visitors in our city and witnessed
the pageant.
Miss Beatrice Owens, of Philadel-
phia, and Miss Adell Owens, of
Washington, D. c., spent the Christ
mas holidays with their parents, MIR.
and Mrs. Alexander Owens. The
special family dinner was held on
Sunday and the following persons
were dinner guests: Rev. and Mrs.
]. c. Melton and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. B. Gausney and son, Mrs.
w. S. Gausney and son, and Mrs.
P. M. B. Hodge.
Miss Kathryn Winston, one of the
members of the faculty of Shaw
University, Raleigh, spent the holt
days with her parents, DR.. and Mrs.
A. L. Winston. She had as her guest
for the holidays Miss Gwendolyn
Charon, who is also a member of
the faculty. They had a wonderful
time.
Misses Patsy Duke and Sarah F.
OVERLY, of Union University, Rich
mond, and Mr.. Victor Burton, of
Hampton Institute, spent the holi-
days with their parents.
Mrs. V. P. Fuller, Mrs. P. M. B.
Hodge and Miss Mamie Guerrant,
three lifelong friends and vets, cele-
brated their annual meeting January
End at the residence of Miss Guer-
rant. Refreshments of the season
were served.
Miss Fannie Scott, of Lynchburg,
Va, was the guest of Mrs. Lenore
S. John, 329 North Union Street,
during the holidays.
Prof. w. F. Grasty, one of the
veteran educators of the city, is in
Providence Hospital, South Main
Street, where he underwent an op-
Grafton. At this writing he is said
to be doing nicely.
Mr.. P. H. boswell is somewhat
indisposed and confined to his room
for while.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-01-11
NEW YORK

NEW IONN
Visitors to New York think that
b inhabitants HIVE a gay life, II no.
q wild ore. They are wrong. The
saye,y and wildness IS mostly staged
Tor out-of-town visito-s, thres hrn-
bred thousand Of then in own very
day. The average bedtime Of the real
New Yorker is nearsr 9 o'clock than
midnight When New Workers go to
the theaier they buy cheap seats in
the balcony; ee.-ot-town folks pay
the exorsitant prices in the pit. Very
few New Workers would know where
TO find a night club or how to get into
a speakeasy. they live n New York
because thev Gun make more money
there, but only by working harder
Than they did in the small towns they
came iron. To get ahead they have
to live regular lives. They bring thei!
snall-town habits with tlI:nA and hi
more than two thousanG churches
every Sunday.
WATER
The droughts III he Northwest and
the Northeast in 1923 have made COM
munities of every size turn serious
attention to the problem Vi water
supply. AS population increases and
people crowd into towns, the problem
becomes more serious from year to
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-01-11
Editor j. Thomas
Newsome's 7 ribute

and Infinitely more profitable to this
race had he devoted himself exclus.
lively to the Richmond Planet. The
virility of his utterances, his whole
hearted love of justice, his scorn of
sham and hypocrisy, his wide know
ledge of men and measures and his
fearlesness under all conditions made
him the ideal editor whose newspaper
was for a long time the mouthpiece
for the Negro people in Virginia and
other states. Indeed it can be said
of the Richmond Planet, at the peak
of its popularity about thirty years
ago, that it was indeed a terror to
evil-doers.
But Mr. Mitchell loved he fraerni-
les, particularly the Knights of
Pythias, at whose head as Grand
Chancellor he remained for number
OF years. Somewhat Czar-like in his
rulings, he made bitter enemies who
fought him year by year, some open
ly and others by intrigue until finally
he fell from his high place in that
order. And yet the remarkable thing
about it is that he could have held his
popularity so at the head of fra
ternal order. 1t is almost as easy to
perform the labors of Hercules as
it is to remain popular for consid-
cradle time at the chad of secret
orders. This has been demonstrated
in so many instances as to neeI no
confirmation here. Ben Davis, of
Georgia, can bear witnes sto the pre-
seriousness of leadership in fraternal
matters. So can Finley Wilson of
the Elks, and Supreme Chancellor
Green of the Knights of Pythias.
But John Mitchell was called upon
to suffer other humiliations in his lat
ter years. Indicted in the CITY of
Richmond, convicted after a bitter
conflict in which the young Common
wealth's Attorney referred to the fact
that he had dared to run for Cover
nor of the State of Virginia, with un-
bowed head, John Mitchell carried
his case to the Supreme Court of the
State of Virginia, where his convic-
ton was set aside.
His property, accumulated during
a long life of industry and frugality
was swept away from him by an
order of the court, Nothing daunted
he continued to publish the Rich
mond Planet and although his edi-
torials lost some of their virility in
his closing years, John Mitchell
nevertheless wrote with understand
ing and power.
Not waiting for the courts to act
when John Mitchell was first indicted,
Col. Matt n. Lewis, the founder of
this paper, in an editorial deplored
his Arrest and expressed in his opinion
that John Mitchell was guilty of no
crime. This writer shares in that
opinion and rejoices in the fact of
his friendship for John Mitchell
which is coeval with the life of the
present editor of the The Newport
News Star.
A strong man with deep convic-
tions, welding a pen that was some
times vitrioic, uncompromising and
unbending, it were inevitable that
John Mitchell should have bitter enc
mics, and these he did have in con.
siderable numbers. And yet there i;
not Negro man, woman or child ir
Virginia that is not the direct benefi
ciary of the work and sacrifice:
which John Mitchell made in pioneer
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-01-11
A FAIL IEzMlJ--Se,lslsFTAiN

On the third day of the present
month John Mitchell, Jr., the veteran
editor of the Richmond Planet, de-
parted the ranks of busy life and
Joined the ''innumerable caravan"
His had been a distinguished career,
his name being a familiar one in prac-
tically every Negro home in Vir-
ginia. From his boyhood he had
been a militant figure in the public
affairs of this State. He was born
leader of men, notable warrior
wherever a battle waged that en-
listed hR interest,
Although he probably will be best
embered as a newspaper man, yet
will retain a fixed place in the his
go of his race in Virginia because
If MS activities in politics and in the
fraternal affairs of our leople.
IS a newspaper man, John Mitch
I'll, Jr., was a unique character. Be-
ginning his paper when Negro pub
lcations were curiositieS, he forced
the public to take notice of the Rich
monl Planet by the fearlessness of
his editorials, and by the publication
in So :ial form of articles bearing upon
any notable happening in which he
thought an injustice had been done
she Negro. He was in the beginning
as at the close of his newspaper
csrerr-acareer ending only with his
1eath-his best reporter as well as
editor. The story of many of the
laosr thrilling events that have taken
p.ace in Virginia in the last forty
years was covered" by John Mitchell
ia the Richmond Planet, having been
personally reported by him. In fact
IhAfles of the Richmond Planet will
+ found invaluable to the future his
t5rians who would record the high
points affecting the Negro race d"r-
ing the last forty-five years both in
he nation and in the State of Viz
ia.
Of John Mitchelps turbulent life
~ umes coulde be written. His chief
aracteristic was his indomitable
c, urage. Few Negroes have ever
lived that battled in the open for the
Negroes rights as did John Mitchell.
Lynch Law Must Go" was his
Carthage est delenda Tor over thirty
years. Taking his life practically in
his own hands, he would arm himself
with only a pencil and pad and visit
ne scene of the most sensational
happenings involving the Negro and
on his return to Richmond print his
observations in the Richmond Planet
over his own signature.
Where courage and deep convic-
ons were needed John Mitchell, Jr.,
lever hid his personality, behind the
editorial "we," but over his own sig
nature he hurled his thunderbolts
against wickedness- in high places
with an abandon sometimes border
ing on recklessness. H glorified in a
ght. He neither CAV quarters nor
aSked for any in return. He was in
capable e surrender. Beaten to the
ground he always rose again more
determined than when he fell.
1t was a distinct loss to the Negro
race when he divided his great powers
and capacities between newspaper
writing and fraternal leadership. 1t
had been better for him personally
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the right Of anyone to drive car
whether he is competent or not.
Massachusetts has stiffened its tests
for drivers, so that now it is impos-
sible in Bay State to get a license TO
drive a car unless one really kno.'
how to drive And that means a l1t
more than merely how to shift gears
and apply the brakes; it means appre-
citation of the fact that there are other
cars on the road as well as pedes-
rians.
Some day nobody will be allowed to
drive car in any state who has not
some sense of responsibility to others.
ANTIQUES
Almost any old piece of furniture.
china, glass or junk, if 1t is battered
enough, can be sold somewhere as an
antique" | attended several country
auctions in New England last sum
mer and saw absurd prices paid for
trash to which most folks would not
give house-room. Yet among them
there was always piece or two which
was real bargain. I bid on Sierra
ton table, which might have been
fifty years old or hundred and fifty.
but which was of value to me tecar'e
it would fit my dining room vas
beautiful in design and sturdy III : IL
struction. and modern table ea:'a!ly
good would cost more than So [
stopped bidding at Sl75 and the '"5 e
went to dealer who bid s. more
Just before Christmas. rlHnr,' g
through The artique furniture dep IT.
raent Of New Yorl; store in search
Of good mirror al LaTgain, :. "
this Identical table / i;ed the price.
Nineteen uundral dollars, SAID tie
salcswonIan.
As time goes o,i. old furniture iaE"s
On increased value, provided ii is Il
designed, well built aud ii goc@ -
dition. The things tha; o"T g :
mothers threw away are tretf'ii
day. Tomorrow much II The :a> at
we discard may be pricr!-sa,
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II YOU WERE HERE

II YOU WERE HERE
BY Philip Bomke Marston
o Love, if you were here
This dreary, weary day
If your lips, warm and dear,
Found some sweet word to say
Then hardly would seem drear
These skies of wintry gray.
I.'t you are far away
Glow far from me, my dear2
What cheer can warm the day?
Ny heart is chill with fear,
p.-.c~d trough with swift di5nay;
Il thought has tnrDcd life sere.
II yo;i, from {. way,
SO i'd CON- non back, my dear;
T. No more iu:ght lay
Ny : I'd on you're, nor hear
That Yoice, row sad, now gay,
Caress my listening ear;
If you, from far away.
Should come no more, my dear
Then with what dire dismay
Year joined to hostile year
Would frown, if should stay
Where memories mock and jeerl
But would come away
To dwell with you. my dear:
Through unknown worlds to stray
Or sleep; nor hope, nor fear,
Nor dream. beneath the clay
OF all our days that were.
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DO YOU KNOW HIM?

1 desire to know the whereabouts
of my son, William Warren, who left
Richmond about four weeks ago. He
was sick in Washington. He has a
cousin, Joe Robinson, in New York.
Any information concerning him
will be thankfully received by his
mother, 81 Glencar Avenue, New
Rochelle, N. Y. This inquiry was
sent to Chief r. B. Jordan.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-01-11

1t is with keen sense of our responsibility to the
American public in general and the COIored race in
particular that we take up the implements OF the
Journalist and begin the or eat task of Illuminating
the people upon matters that affect the general wei
fare In this complex civil izati0n, the art of living
Is onu In its acquiring and time is fleeing, making Il
more difficult than ever to clearly perceive the pro-
per paths TO tread, the RIG hit songs to sing, truthful
verites to utter, the best acts to perform the atru
jstic battles to fight and the most excellent life to
live. About the only prede ernined course seems to
be the right God to serve.
Nineteen hundred and thirty promises TO continue
the GREAT strides naugwat9d by its contemporary
wears of the century, and progress in science social
Justice. meChanizaton of industry, and acquisition of
knowledge by The masses will parade through these
365 DAYS wearing seven Ie ague boots. 1t is during
such times as these that The Planet is to endeavor
10 do its part in educating the fox by presenting
an editorial page worthy Of trailing its pages Of the
past, when our ind0mtabla Editor Numbered in de-
tense always of The right.
We shall endeavor to resent constructive inter-
pretatonS of the events they pass US by warn Of
impending dangers, and attic for the right. When
the strong Cypress the weak we shall be found with
the weak; when predatory wealth fares forth against
the poor, we line up with the poor; when mans in
humanity 10 man shows it hydTa-head9d self inraCo
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days for the good Of the Negro peo-
pie.
In the last three years three great
leaders of the Negro race have fallen,
all newspaper men: Col. Matt N.
Lewis, Timothy Thomas Fortune and
John Mitchell, Jr.
A notable triumvirate, the like of
whom it will be a long time before
we shall see again.
The Newport News Star.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-07-12

Alaska will become a full fledged state with congression- al representatives voting with in a period of ten years after the Pacific Yukon Alaska Highway is completed.
 This was the prediction made by Ernest Walker Sawyer, ass istant secretary of the interior, in one of the addresses made by him during his recent visit to Hazelton, B. C., in connect ion with the recent Canadian American auto tour in the in- terest of the big highway pro- ject.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-07-12
You're There With a Crosley Radio. See them at the Nugget Shop.

The Moose lodge, with GUS tomary alertness toward any project beneficial to children, has decided to convert the two large building lots in Stewart belonging to the lodge into a children's playground and has appropriated $50 for equip ment.
 Members of the order headed by Dictator Noel M. Traversy further improved the swim ming pool in the Moose picnic ground north of Hyder this week by draining and cleaning out the pool and installing a new gate to control the water supply.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-07-12
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To Nels Olsen, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns:
 You are hereby notified that the un- derSigned have expended the sum of One Hundred f$100.00) Dollars during each of the fiscal years ending July 1, 1927 and July 1, 1929, in labor and improvements upon each of the fol- lowing described lode mining claims situated in the Salmon River Valley, Hyder Mining District. Territory of Alaska, as will appear by Proofs of Labor for each of said years filed for record in the office of the Recorder for said Hyder Mining and recording district at Hyder, Alaska; said claims being described and designated as fol lows:
 Butte No. 1, Butte No. 2, Butte No. 3, Butte No. 4, and Butte Extension. in order to hold said claims under the provisions of Section 2324 of the Re vised Statutes of the United States and the laws of the Territory of Alas ka concerning annual assessment work on mining claims; such expendi- lures of $100.00 upon each of said min ng claims for each of said years being the amount required to hold the same during said years.
 And you are further notified that if within ninety days after the complet- ion of the publication of this notice for the period required by law you fail or refuse to contribute to the un- dersigned, your co-owners, your pro portion of such expenditures, as a CO owner, your interest in said mining claims and each of them will become the property of the undersigned, your co-owners, under the provisions of said Section 2324, U. s. Revised Stat utes.
 Dated at Hyder, Alaska, this 18th day of May, 1930.
 c. w. Peterson
 Cora McEachern Publish May A. 31; June T, IA. 21, 2S; July 5, 12, 19, 26; Aug. 2, g, 16, 23, 1880.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-07-12
Yael RozenStain
 Co-owner.

Publish July F, 19, 26; Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23. 30: Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27; Oct. 4, II, 1930.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-07-12
No Alaska Appointments to
 Be Made Until Fall

No appointments of federal officials for Alaska will be made until next fall, according to Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Repub- lican National Committeeman for Alaska, who spent several months in Washington recent ly conferring with federal au- thorities on Alaskan matters. He assigned no reason for de- lay in the appointments other than press of business before the senate, according to the Juneau Empire
 There are six major offices to be filled in Alaska by the pres ident, all under the Depart ment of Justice. Four of these are United States Marshals and two federal District Judg- es. The terms of the U. 5. Marshals in all four divisions have expired and the present incumbents, Albert White, of the First; Chas. D. Jones, Sec ond; Harvey Sullivan, Third and Linn B. Smith, Fourth, are 'holding over pending reap pointment or until successors are named and qualified. Fed eral Judges G. J. Lomen, Sec ond division, and Cecil H. Clegg, Fourth, division, are al- so holding over under the same category.