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Colored Homes In
North Are Crowded

CONTINUED from pare l.
new areas available TO the colored
people. what happens, according to
the committee, is constant doubling
Up.
Forty per cent of the eolored and
Mexican ene-family households IN
Chicago, for example, were found to
he takng in dodgers in 1925.
The density of eolored population,
according TO the committee, was
twice rs great as the total in Ghiea-
go. and nearly five times as great
in Philadelphia.
In New York City. where popila-
i ton density is in a measure eompen-
stated by high buildings the total
density for the city vas 223. while
tie colored density was $50 per
lacre. although eolored people have
comparatively few apartments high
enough to require elevators.
Nor only do the colored people IN
the large Northern cities have to live
IN oYer-erowded and below-standard
dwellings,. but they have also. the
committee reports. to pay excessive
rentals. considerably higher amount
han is paid by white families who
preceded them. or who are living in
5 If the limitation of available dwell
> lngs for this element of the popula-
ion" In support of this statement
3 he committee presents figures IN a
: number of cities The average rem
Y tai per room for housing of low
income groups in New York is S6 81
d whereas for colored people 1t Is
+ 1850.
e On The question of deficiencies in
: sanitation in the south, the report
. states. This is illustrated by a
], summary of the findings of a study
@ of housing in Richmond, Nirglnla
by Richmond newspaper. TINS
- showed that at least half OF th'
:. = dwellings, are in various stages OF di
= lapidation: that less than one of eV
!" cry eight houses has plumbing Ia
H. rilities inside the house; that pu
9 one in three has water connection
:. inside the house. and that Ii pc
Ell cent have neither kitchen nor bat
room. Similar reports are quote
at from other Southern cities
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OAKLAND, Calif.-Leslie wild
cat" Carter, Seattle colored llght-
weight was an easy victim for fidel
La Barba. Los Angeles Italian boxer
at the municipal auditorium Wednes-
day night. La Barba dropped Carter
with left hook to the law in the
first minute of the fight. When Car
ter arose at the count of nine La
Barba dropped him again with a right
swing. Referee Irwin stopped the
FIGHT as Carter was hoplessly beaten.
The scheduled ten round fight lasted
exactly one minute and forty-SH
seconds. Carter weighed 134 and
La Barba 1919.
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Colored Basket Tossers
Continue Losing Streak

Colored teams in the Inter City
Church League have vet to score a
victory over their white opponents.
The First A.M.E. Church team lost
their game Saturday night al the
Y. M. c. A. to the Emanuel Lutheran
team 33 to 27. The Grace Presby-
teran team went down to defeat
Monday night at Garfield High
School 40 to 10.
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with a young lady Tor quite a long I
time.
She is about the same age as my
self. and | care greatly for her.
| have told her 50, but ! have not
mentioned marriage to her.
| am not in a position to enter
into marriage at this time. nor will
| be for at least three years.
| would like to have your advice.
r. A. B. C.
Economie conditions being what
they are, doubt if the young wom-
an would expect to have you propose
an immediate marriage.
But | do feel confident that she
would be glad to know just what po-
sition she occupies in your life, and
what your hopes are for the future.
Ask her if she will be your bride,
and tell her that owing to conditions
il will be impossible to have an early
wedding, but that just as soon as
conditions improve, you hope the
marriage will take place.
| think that you may not have as
long to wait as you now fear.
Since she has been satisfied to
keep company with you for "a long
time" it seems safe to assume thai
she will be willing to keep company
for a while longer; but she will fine
: it much pleasanter waiting If she
!, knows that your intentions are Sc
|, rious.
DISTRESSED i would sugges
+ YOU have a party at your home, an
e invite him to attend. If he care
), about you at all, that will open tn
o way for other invitations to folloN
! from him. 1t is possible that he wa
n piqued on account of your refusa
IS to step out with him, but | doub
% very much if it was because you hav
other boy friends.
IT GLOOMY-An occupied mind
the best medicine anyone can sut
gest for you. | advise you to plune
he into some sort of congenial worl
10 and forget your sorrow.
"a DUMB-BELLE - Don't waste ar
fl tears on him. Apparently he ism
p worth it. Your chances are Just
err good now as they were before yd
ed gave your promise to him. Yf
n should consider that you have had
O. very lucky break in finding him o.
up before it was too late. If m.
OF can't be true to his promised bird
ps it's safe to assume that he cam
ee be true to his wife.
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Continued from page i
of African aliens has come to this
country in the lest fifty years.
Workers INDECENT
But this is only a beginning The
Negro slave say these two wise
problem solvers. was well fed and
we'll housed and well caeed for. In
dolence and shiftlessness are the re
suits Of his new liberty. The ineffi-
cheney of Negro labor is due partly
/ to his improvident reeklessness. and
partly to his newly acquired free
dom.
While boys and girls hide their
faces in shame ard forced silence
this vile book goes en- to reoite other
and even more untruthful a
about their people.
superstitution
"The Nepro's ignorance and su-
pestition," they say in another pof'
ton of the chapter. fare proven
bal. while his nneleanliiess eNaets
terrible toll. His imagination ant
childish love of story telling offer
lead to an almost unconscious exag
geration and untruthfnlness.'
Crime
| Crime among Negroes is given TIN
same one-sided presentation. Will
t not one word is said about the man
t crimes against Negroes. The Sont
} is praised for "fixingr the Negro
e place in society and for illegal
i keeping him without the ballot.
5 Near the close of their prejudice
r, ,hanta,. 4baea. two white professors {
: social science claim to have com
e across certain leases where a pc
manent family life hardly exists
among our people. In brief, blat
folk. according to these authors, a
wholly hestial and uneivilized.
In the meantime an arroga
board of education does as 1t pleast
and refuses to listen to the bla'
one-tenth of the citv's popuiatio
d. This board is elected by a desi
It. mated group of Phladeiphia judg'
lei They are beyond the direct pow
er of voters.
,s- Other influences, however, are
err work at this time among groups
he whites to curb the mower and arr
NJ eanee of the citv's educational hea
La and it is with these that sensi
int Philadelphians hope to work to c
he the city's spreading jim crow syst
an of schools and to Danish such q
cd books as Burch and Patterso
six "Problems of American Democrac
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Ellensburg, Wash:

Mira. NJ. KobeFEaDhs FNepoItsF
Rev. N. Branch preached at Second
Baptist Church last Sunday.-Mrs.
Alice Phillips was hostess for a party
Tuesday night honoring the birth an
niyersary Of Mrs. Belle Powers
Miss Beatrice Smith was service maid
FRIDAY for the fashion show at the
Kriedel Store.-Stontiel Barnett re-
turned from Seattle last week.-Co-
steHo Boyd of Yakima was visitor
here Sunday.-F'red Hollons left for
Pasadena, Calf, to pass the winter.
Mrs. Evelyn Evans is confined by
Illness,
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Dear Miss White q am wom-
an 25 years old and have been gong
with young man for four years.
He never says anything about get
ting married, yet know he loves me.
His mother and father are dead.
| So he lives with his sisters and they
wait on him hand and foot.
Do you think that is why he hasn't
mentioned marriageT He Is a good,
clean, steady fellow and | know he
would make a good husband.
seThere is another young man who
likes me and who would do more
for me than the first one, but he
drinks a little, and does not stick
to job long. Do you think !
should give them both up, or wait
until No. l wakes up?
DISGUSTED.
, 1t seems to me that you have
known the young man long enough
so that you might ask him what his
+; plans are for the future.
I'll admit that now is rather poo
$ time to mention marriage to an!
: young man, but girl at your ag'
Y cant wait forever, and every yea
|, finds your chances in the matrimo
J. NAL market growing less and less.
). 1t may be possible. that the ide
d of waiting on a wife does not appea
t to him when he has sisters who ar
It willing to wait upon him, but 20
= ought to know more about that tina
IS | do.
e wouldn't consider the othe
: young man in the light of a futur
Y husband under any circumstance
> and | have an idea that a man VIII
II drinks, even though it be but iii
10 tle," would not do more for you tina
5. a young man who had control of h
n head at all times and who sticks
=. ae his position. ~
u, If No. isn't serious, then | thir
D. you'd better find yourself new j
of boy friends.
WRONG ROAD-It seems to n
that the best thing for you to I
would be to try to get positit
ho in some other city; and after "
me shake the dust of your old town o
your shoes forget about what ha
II, neneQ lnere anu SldfJ III All Nv
-. again. It was unfortunate indie
t az that he should have represented hi,
NJ self as being a single man, but SUI
ugs ly that was nothing you could ht
"a and since you feel that Won cam
VA, a,5 stand to have the small-town gossi
~. Nv talking about you every time they S
a ~ you, the best thing to do may be
;a. go where they won't see you. |
Nv: I've not believe they really do condel
I've lou, however, and if you will OF
e. e lock at it in tie light they do. /
i AZ sure you would feel better.
seo DEAR MISS WHITE: have be
o'e reader of your articles for so
:. time and think you give very 20
- advice.
a an 81 have been keeping comps
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Negroes Ignorant

Continued from page u
f African aliens has come to thi
n,,rt,,. In Ia lnsf fifft Nnars
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having the opportunity to return. Then
last Summer l went back for the first
time in all those years I expected to
find a tremendous change. Customs
people. habitations. means of livelihood
life Itself. 1 was sure, would be en-
tirely different Instead, it was like
stepping back into my boyhood. The
world had stood still.
And If my great grandfather, who
first came here looking Tor gold, should
come back, he would find no greater
/ change than 1 did.
Native moUntainecrs seldom leave
| home unless it is to emigrate to other
mountainous sections. Sometimes a
young man goes TO the river bottoms
To pick cottom and stays to work after
the cotton is gathered. But nearly
| always these boys come back. l re-
member one year when several families
moved in train of wagons overland
to Texas. where they found rich soil
and profitable farming; but one by one
they drifted back to our community,
where the problem of living has been
solved long ago.
AS / have said, it was the search FOR
education tina. caused me 10 leave the
mountains. When I was growing up
the people there were opposed to the
free schools. Somehow they did not
understand the system. II was seldom
| that school tax was voted in our dis
trict Hence, to have a free school we
| had to wait until the accumula ton of
| State tax per capita amounted to as
much as $50. This hired a teacher for
| two months. Sometimes a teacher
would come through the country and
teach a subscription school at 81
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month a scholar Not much Of this
was paid in money. One man would
pay him In molasses, another in corn
and another would give him a ham.
Once my mother gave a teacher a cou-
pie of pairs Of homeknit wool socks.
This paid for my tuition for month.
School In "Meetin' House."
Our chool was held in the "Meetin'
House" long log house fronting the
big road, which served as the religious,
educational and social center of the en-
tire neighborhood. Near the back door
was a rostrum with desk that an
SWered for a pulpit. In front Of this
was a long boxed bench, not unlike the
casing of coffin This was known as
the mourners' bench in times of the
big meetin'." In front of the mourn
ers' bench was a small table where our
preacher presided.
The benches, made of undreSsed lum-
Der, were nailed to sawed blocks. There
were no back rests and there were no
desks in front. In addition to the front
and back DOORS the house was further
lighted and ventilated by means of large
cracks between the logs of the wall.
spit through for those who chewed and
dipped and wanted to deviate from the
usual manner of splitting on the floor.
earned little money picking cotton
in the lowlands and sold horse and
some cattle that my father had given
me. This Melted me enough to spend a
year in Little Rock, where could at
tend school. Little Rock was consid-
cred long way from home, owing TO
the road conditions and the mode Of
| travel, and my folks hated to see ms
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Two John Washingtons in Early
Virginia History Confuse Genealogy

documents. The first was a marriage
contract dated "the 18th of September,
1885," between John Washington and
Mary Fford. widow" which was filed
in Surrey County. The contract also
revealed that Mrs. Fford previously had
been the widow Blunt"
Richard Surry Washington.
Another document, an assignment Of
land by Thomas Blunt. who was de-
scribed in the marriage contract as
some Of We Mary" ito my brother.
Richard Washington" fixes the fact
that Richard Washington was the son
of John washington of Surry.
Richards will reveals that he had q
daughter, Elizabeth, who married Samp-
son Lanfer, whose will names his seven
children. His fourth son, also named
Sampson, married Elizabeth Chamber
lin, and their daughter, Winnifred,
married Col. Drury Ledbetter.
Lanier Wed to Ledbetter.
In an article in the New York Genoa
logical and Biographical Record Of jan
uary, 1916. Mr.. Violet wrote:
THE exhibit shows one line Of the
Washington-Lan ancestry as estab-
lished by the report of Mr.. Nelson, down
to and including the marriage of VIM
nifred Lanier to Col. Drury Ledbetter.
The records of my family q. e., the
Violet family showing this connection
have always been complete, so there
was no necessity for Mr.. Nelson to pur-
sue his investigation beyond that point.
"One of the children of Col. Drury
and Winnifred Oanier) Ledbetter was
Susan Washington Ledbetter. She
married Maj. Thomas Martin of Alber,
marie County. Va, distinguished ON.
Ger Of the Revolution"
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Hundreds of Americans Of several
we'll known and aristocratic families be-
lieved, until comparatively recently, that
they were the descendants Of John Wash
ington, great grandfather of George
Washington.
1t was not known, at least not with
any degree of certainty, that this John
Washington, who settled in Westmore-
land County, Va, in 1857, had a con-
temporary of the same name who was
in Surry County, Va, as early as 1858.
Until Atwood Violet. member of the
New York Genealogical and Biographi-
cal Society. directed research into the
subject, 1t had been thought that Eliza
beth Washington. daughter of John
Washington of Westmoreland, had mar
ried Thomas Lanier, with the result that
the Laniers, and related families, were
connected with the branch of the
Washington family, of which George
Washington was a member.
Laniers Of Surry Branch.
Research has proved through docu-
mentary evidence that the Elizabeth
Washington who married Lanier was
not the daughter of John Washington
of WeStmoreland, but the granddaugh-
ter of John Washington of Surry. The
former also had a daughter, but she
never married. Moreover. Elizabeth of
the Sufry family did not marry Thomas
Lanier, but Sampson Lanier
Thomas Forsythe Nelson, a genealo-
gist, Of Washington was engaged by
Mr.. .Vt0lett. himself a descendant of the
Lanier family, and by "a very promi-
nent resident of New York City bearing
the Lanier name" to conduct the re-
search.
He based his findings on q numhsr Of
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leave. My father advised me to take
the money and invest in some land near
home. He seemed to think that had
sufficient education and he wanted to
see me own a home and farm while I
was still young.
Returns After 40 Years.
fully intended to return the next
year, take out homestead and try to
teach school. But after one year had
passed wanted to keep on until fin
tshed college. And before knew it the
years had started slipping by.
Then, after 40 years away, my
thoughts turned again to the simple life
Of my boyhood. And went home to
find the world Of the mountaineers just
where I had left 1t.
My niece. and her husband, with
whom am living in the moutainS, have
built the same kind Of house my par
ents had when was boy. The big
house." one large room, Is built of logs
and hoored with split logs with the fiat
side up. 1t is rooted with boards, and
the overhead jofstS are made from IN
barked poles. There is no loft, but
some boards are placed across these
joiSts, on which are stored apples, pea
nuts and sacks of cotton. Sticks hold
ing rings of dried pumpkins are hung
up. extending from one joist to another.
The kitchen is q smaller house of one
room, standing out in the yard, facing
the back door of the big house. There
Is long bench against the wall of the
kitchen. with the dining table in front
Of It, The other seats for the table are
supplied with chairs brought from the
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statesmanlike gesture aimed at O new
coordination of world needs.
The President never claimed political
sophistication. Nor did the American
people elect him as a politician. Poll
tics, 1t is true, Is complementary to
statecraft a proper, essential tool,
worthily employed. But there are many
millions Of sound American citizens who
not only understand Mr.. Hoover's lin
itation in politics, but see themselves as
sharing 1t.
Like Average Citizen.
He is closer in thought and attitude
TO the average non-political citizens of
well developed intelligence than many
Presidents who enjoyed a reputed pop
ularity." If the public does not know
that, 1t Is because Of the confusion of
voices raised by politics-politics which
quite accurately fails to recognize in
Hoover 100 per cent reflection of
itself
In this President Hoover is as old
fashioned as the millions whose polit-
ical skill is either amateur or negligible /;
all Of these still entertain wholesome
patriotism to which politics is, or should
be, distinctly subordinate mentally they
draw line beyond which politics be-
comes shabby and obviously honest.
The condition is not peculiar to one
party, but as the present is a Republic
an administration the matter may be
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SESSION NOTABLE FOR TEST
OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
Troubles Of Robinson Following Demo
cratic Pledge to Cooperate With Presi-
dent HOOver-Senate Deliberations.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

.HIS session of Congress is close
enough to its end to permit a
partial review. The only respect
III in which the review can be i'm
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CONTINUED on Fourth Page.(
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Resentment in Ranks.

The promise by the seven Democratic
leaders TO cooperate with the Repubh-
can President was hardly dry on the
newspapers that printed 1t before any
one Close to the situation in Washing
ton was well aware that the promise
was resented by many Of the rank and
ale of the Democrats within Congress.
me press and other expressions Of pub
lie oririon were 80 enthusiastic in APP
rIause for the generosity Of the gesture
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T TERBERT HOOVER is the SYM
boil Of a great transition. The
Nation is only beginning to
Il read between the lines and
sense the significance of the
man and his term of Office; of what
he has done, what he has left undone
and what he has tried to do.
Here In Washington, with ones nose
pressed against the front window Of
public business, there is confusion
worse COMPOUNDED. The story of the
last 90 months is distorted by the eyes
of tragedy which see everything through
the glasses of economic depression; the
personality of the man in the White
House has become as obscure as the
strangely negative clothes and dismal
necktie in which he sweeps business
90 swiftly through the executive office.
Faint or loud, the voices in conflict
are heard speaking Of deadlocks. party
perils, balance of power; of mischievous
politics, of no politics at all; of waver-
ing, diminishing authority; of every
thing and anything that expresses the
chaos of mind which seeks to fit new
condition to an old and seedy formula.
Yet, somewhere in all this there is a
story of almost two years Of service.
There they are, the months stretching
from March 4. 1929 And there is the
man, his desk clean of papers, his
speech prompt, his brain quick, logical,
penetrating. The photographers have
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"A YOT so many miles from Hot
N Springs, Ark, you will see a
| sign in the road saying, Road
4 passable to observation-disclosures
able beyond" IF you have a
small car that can climb steep hills,
ford streams and make its way between
trees and boulderS, you will find your
self in a world as strange and different
from the world you left as If YOU had
journeyed to the furthermost parts of
the earth.
This was my home, and the home of
my people for many generations. My
father told me that his grandfather
came here on a gold hunting expedition
after the Battle of New orleans and
liked 1t enough to stay, though he
found no gold Here / was corn and
reared. Here I attended such schools
as were held IN that part of the Ozarks.
Here I stayed until was more than 20
years old.
Then I went away in search of bet
ter education. At first l intended TO
return after year and settle down TO
the life OF my people. But year after
year passed, and before ] knew it had
become entangled in the mesh Of civil
ization.
Forty years psssed-without my once
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done him the disservice Of smoothing
out those lines which, directly you see
his face, betray the instructive geniality
of the man; a spontaneous affability
which halts elf-consciously when fac
ing a heterogeneous group, but expands
richly in personal face-to-face conyer-
sation.
Naturally Timid.
His natural timd.ties are numerous
and obvious. His deep senSitiyeness is
written on him. And. withal, a faint
but perceptible intolerance. or at least
Impotence, with something unnamed
but to be guessed at.
He is the second transitional Presi-
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the word. There are only chartered in
dividuals and tiny groups that make
temporary coagulations. There Is no
Considerable group Of Senators who re-
gard themselves as having a continuing
responsibility for operating the United
States as o goinG concern.