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INTERESTS OF
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JOHN P. DAVIS
COLLEGE LEADEI
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A Student At Bates Colleg
Of Washington, D. C.
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-~y ONE OE THE 8 LEADER
He i?\One of Four Chosen t
Represent Bates Colleger on
' the International Debat^
: ? ing Tour ^
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(By The Associated NegrQ?_Prcss.)
?? Philadelphia, Par,?May?John ?i
DaVi?,~of Washington, D. C., .studei
at Bates College has been chosen :3
? DR. A. P. DUNBAR
" ~ .Rounder of the Mutual and Relief
' " v ^Association.
? The"'lamented Dr. ,A. P. Dimba
built a monument for himself, hi
family and his_ race when ho, with
small Kroup.. of n^eu, established i
his-humu uii Barnwell street, the Mn
trial Relief Association erf South Ca
T ? rolina. Prom the little office in hi
^rhome and a. -few--agents?" Dr. Dunba
^ lived t.n see the company reproaont
ed in every county with a ft
?= - hustling agents and an office force to
some of the best of Columbia's cler
ical forces. ?
Ho planned and had erected th
Homo Office on Taylor Street, wher
the . of- the Company is di
| "reeled todayf
(' represent Bates College on the In
of feuF?men and is the first colore
student to be so honored. This~grou;
???represents the American Univer
* t j?ity Union, Bates Colleges being cho
" W sen as the institution to represen
\ the United States this year.
* Among the institutions to be de
bated on this tour are Oxford. Cam
bridge, Manchester, Sheffield, Liver
pool, Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh
_ 1? St. Andrewsr which is tho oldest Scot
- tish University and others probabl:
including Dublin, Aberdeen and Lon
don University. The party sailed 01
the Sunntria-fn/m"Boston on May 1C
Young Davis has, had a remarkabl
f srholastic and debating record. H
was graduated at the Dunbar Hi?l
School, Washington, D. G.? where h
wan prominent in debabtig and dram
atics. lie entered Bates College ii
September. 11*22, beinir ..winner of th<
Freshman Declinations, as well \
Captain of the debating team, fie wa
electeTI member of the Varsity De
bate Squad. lie has strong journal
. _ istic tendencies, and was associate!
?editor of "Bates Student."
I During his. junior car he dcbatei
Cambridge^ University in Lewlston
Maine, and was / elected editor o
"Bates Student," and the allied pub
lications. The Bates Garnet, literary
magazine, Rates Bobcat, humorous
He was.assistant in English, secretary
of the debating cuuncil, and debater
~ Colgate University and the Univcrsit;
of Pennsylvania. Aside from this h<
was a member of the governing
board of Bntes Y. M. C. A., coach o
Gerjnan plays,-coach of English plays
and Coach of play production?IIo ii
president-elect of the Bates Debatlnf
' Council. v . . ,
A s an aii-roupd college student
Davis is affiliated with the Press Cluli
English Players, Spoffold Liferarj
Club, Der Deutscher Verein (Germai
Club) Phil_H?lIonic (Greek Club) De
bating Council, Outing and Politi*
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I Added to this he ranks among- th<
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HOLDFAST
^~ ON RACE ISSUE
e Segregation Issue At Inter:
national Womens' Council
S CHORUS REFUSED TO SING
o Its Positon was Explained by Miss
7 Hallie 0* Brown, and bm- ~
phasized by Mrs. Mary
?- McLeod Bethune
(By The Assofciated Negro Press.)
AYashingtoni D. C., May?Matters of
it peculiar coneern to Colored America
became the center of inteiest at llie"
quinquennial convention of the Internationni
Council of -women, ~wh~pn the"
'.segregation -issued- protuded-itself at
the opening of the conference, alleged
to he absolutely free from intoler?
unco of race- Uhwriinirmt.inn was j
charged . by Colored women tenders
""in T. wo specific l nstaiiccs: f hc~issuance~
of invitations to a reception at jthe_
' White House, and in the seating of
Negro patrons at an -entertainment
--atr which a chorus of 150 XegrO voices
~ were to sing. The chorus refused to
go on. "Iter position, was explained
by~-~Miss?HaBie??liroun, one-time
president Of the National Association
__sjx "wuiulxuj?? omen >; nuim, and oni-j
? phasized by Mrsr Mary MtrLeod Be- J
~ thune, present president ol the
ional Association' ?aml principal of
Daytona-Cookman Institute at Daytona,
Florida.
- The action of?the Colored-delegates
in restraining t"he chorus from part_
iciputing in -the- music festival was a
r distinct surprise to the council. It
- j was net-until after the program had |
a ! been started that it was realized that I
11 the colored singers were not to per- j
r" form. Miss Brown made the announ-j
^ cemthrtT" Later, an understanding got
s out that the chorus would sing for
r the benefit of the foreign delegates .
'""at the Howard Theatre, but this plant
tvas also . discarded because of the i
* principal involved.
Colored delegates- to . the"* council,
whose members came from all over
e the world, although Americans are"
~ predominant this year due to its
-1 meeting in this country, have also, in.,,
? -sisted-that-they be-not ignored in res.
poet to-the receptftJfTLat the White
^ Mouse. cIainiing~tRat they havo j?aj4^
p serts of all delegates.
ult' is-tmrd to- imagine a greater"
. insult to. the colored people of the
t world," declared Mrs. Bethune.' "To
segregate the colored patrons of the
_ festival wai a disgrace to the Tinited
_ States iri the. .presence- of- these wor
_ men from all pifrts nf the world. It
! was a deliberate violation, .of-the-con^_
stitution of the International Council.
That organization is based upon ab.
solute racial antPreligious tolerance.
a That is. the idea which, I presume,,
i. the majority^ of its members all over
e the world are working for. We have
p"TTOt heard the last of this. The forn
eign delegates, to whom American ,
e segregation of colored people is a
_ strange, incomprehensible thing, are
n very angry over it."
"The American Federation of Col-1
s4ored Women will withdraw from the
i~ International Council. We have paid ~
7 our dues. : We have complied with all,
_ the requirements. Our fight is not |
] with the council^ This" matter will ,
? be fought out in the council itself.?j
~t the "impression that our jubilee sing=-t
f ers acted on the spur of the moment j
_ when they refused to appear last j
Y night. Due \Varning was given by j
i. this organization a* week ago that j
Y this was exactly what would ^happenj
i-f there waft iray attempt at seg^e-;
y- gation." 1
r The ancient Musselman regarded
f music with intense delight. So strong
t- was this pleasure that it often seema__ed
a sin to .the qirtuouo uono of the)
* Prophet.
The first street lighting on record l
f were ordered to place candles in front" (
i of their houses.
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3..~. Milliona oi-fiwh were tfcpftwn ow-the--1
beach near Waller's Bay, ..South Af- I
3 rica, recently, by a volcanic -oruptkut- <
near the sea. . r j
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NEGRO MUSIC
PLEASES WHITES
Excites Whites With Music <
WANT CONCERT REPEATED 1
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i ne Concert was Held at the J
Fair Grounds Auditorium?
___The. Chbrus was Comt
' posed of 75 Voices (By
The Associated Negro Press.)
Hugo, Okla., May?An event in the
May Day celebrations was the gath- ^
erihfr-hf hundreds of people of both-races,
in the Fair (Irounds^^Auditorium 1
voices, under the direction of Prof. II. |
B. P. Johnson, whose success in bringing~The'
two rariTr Together fnr nnn. _
certs of -this sort is unprecedented. *
? This, concert was advertised to be
held?in the- First Baptist Church, [white,
the Rev. W. H. Tollivqr, pastor, 11
[but so. great was the interest' that *
white citi/on* took tho iftitiiitivp in, J
Liirranging for the alfair to be held '5
at the Fair Crounds.
For five?consecutive days, the IIu- **
go 1 )aily Times carried a sjiecial ad- f
vance story about the big musical 1
program. It is noteworthy.'too, that
the lirst of tho.^b tU'lll'luK annealed'otr ^
the last page of this paper while the ^
last Was given "head" and "sub- ?
head" ort'the front page.
?At?the?dnsc?of?the?concert?the- c
while people, who constituted two
thirds of the audience, voted unani- ,s
mously anion# themselves, that pastor "
J. W. Carter of the colored Baptist ^
Church be requested to have the en- ,n
tertainment -repeated a week later. _L
The reuuest was granted.
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The Weelfs Editorial:
COLORED PRESS. t<
(From TfcQ.Palmetto Leader, Colum- n
bia, S. May 2, 1025.) ' '1
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THE 7\NNUAL REPORT OF h
THE N. A. A. C. P. ?
* TVe have received a ropy nf tba--^
A'nnual Report of the National As-Itj,
trrdurnit Bunple.?The report fui llie ^
past year "shows"that this Associa-1
-lion- is-^wcompHshing worth While"**
Work out of srH proportion to the (
comparatively small sum of money
that has been at its command. Taking
. in cunsularation- 4he scope'of the' "p
W?Ek- undertaken and?what -it- means?
to the Colored race of this country in
its fijrht just for the ordinary "rights ti
and privileges of an ^American cTtir~A
zen, the small amount of money con- sc
tributod -to^this?Arsaoemtton .tsr ar ro* G
flection upon the twelve million col- 1 i
orcd people .of America. The color- bi
ed .people have societies of all kinds, S
organized f^r various purposes, mil-TM
lionw-'-of dollars are collected and tit
spent, but there is not one existing, tl
today th^t means as much or is doing aj
anything comparable- to the work of It
the N. A. A. C. P., in its efforts to
make American citizenship mean som- m
aching real to ti large pnrt of it.i__u.itrve?horn
population.?Mr;?Jamts j It
Wcldon Johnson, the Secretary of w
this Association, directs the work of 111
this organization with an earnest- 4fC
ness, a breadth of vision and a com-icr
prehension of the conditions standing; hi
in the path of the colojred people that Ir
is seldom found in one charged with w
making a- program and working ititv
out. Every intelligent colored citizen 'y<
in particular shduld spread the work I w
(>T The+ Association.' None can du- sof
without thanking God that such an of
organization exists, even though the of
necessity of such an Association iniot
America, devoted to the kind of work ( in
in which it i* engaged, is a reflection sc
on ft coufTtrv th&t boasts of its fme-jtii
jam, justice and democracy. The re- ly
port'gives a succinct account of the ht
fight waged against residential ae- kc
grcgation. lynching, an analysis of ti<
the proposed Federal Educfitlon Bttl, 'oc
the fight of the colored people for
livil rights, their achievements in art be
and their relations with labor. The 7h
work of this Association challenges "ftE
bhe -stlpport of every colored citizen in
America. It means something, it ca
a doing something. ly
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FRlf>AY; MAY 16, 1925.
lAJtt
NEGROES WIN
CARNEGlErMEB&fci
One In Maryland, The Othei
In Pennsylvania
DEEDS OF SELF SACRIFICE
Robert J. Royal Rescued Alber
E. Roby from a Cave-in in a
Mine, After-Being Para-'
lvzed by Fallinpr Slate
(By-Iho Associated Negro Press.)
? Pittsburgh;?Par, May-?Robert J
ioym, Umontown, Pa., and VVitlian:
v. Cagle, Baltimore, Md,, wtre anong
those included in the latest uyard
of Gamcgh; Hern Medals. Ttiej
>oth res^tsFAyhrte mgn from- danger,
>ert K. Roby from a cave-in in a mine,
iVhifo Boby, and Roytri"tvere clearing
t mine entry, which had' been blocked
>y tails, a large chunk of slate fell,
inking Royal on the baclt^ temporirily
paralyzing his legs, and also
ailing oh Roby, breaking his legs
inu pinning him to the ground. Bnyil
crawled fourteen feet to a point in
ne entry which hud "been protected
>y timbering. -Upon calling to Roby
rml learning that b" w.'it injured and
triable to move, Royal crawled to
Roby with--considerable?effort and
icld it. lip, using hi* loft olhnw wnd
drearm as braces, while- Roby movd
from under it. Small pieces of
late fell, but "there was no futher
avc-in. -Roby and Royal then crnw2d
to safety, _and-Royaf*-draggcd himelf
into tsTmine car and drove a horse
itched to the car two thousand feet
or help. He was disabled seven
rionths and Roby nine months from
heir injuries. ..
William -IV. Caghy-a^-eftulker. resued
Roy C. Binbrink, white, gas co.manuary
of this "year. Binhrint- nn.
sred a manhole, six feet deeo and ql16st
immediately was overcome _ by
luminaiiug gas, . which, wars-leaking
ro'fri a broken main. Cagle lowered
imself into-;the hole and lifted Binrink
and pulled him out. Cagle,
ireling the gas affecting him, then
TC top reached into the hole and
rew him out..
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WHITE PRESS.
From The Newark, N. J., Evening
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CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE
OR^NEGRO PROGRESSING.
There has come a notable diminu<hi
in the crime of lynching. The
nnual Report of the National Asiciatiori
for the Advancement of!
ofarcd People gives thrr~ftgTires telng
the story. Last year there were
ily sixteen Jynchings in the-tlnLted
tates, as against twenty-eight in
J21 and sixty-five ih For t)ie ,
lirty years prior to-ifttp the av3r-1
Te-number of lynchings per year was J
During the jtast year the governent
took up the cases of'fifty-five
embers uf the Twenty-fourth UlllTi
States Infantry sent to LetlVOnorth
for life or for long terms in
>17 as a result of rioting at IIous n,
Tex., during the war, for which
ime nin.et.ceii of their fellows were
by ^the military authorities,
i every case the terms of these men
ere reduced after an investigation,
L'nnh. *1 ?- ? 1 '
?vuvm were ruicaseu last;
>ar, and the last, of these prisoners I
ill be given freedon in 1028.
a member of the National -Guard j
' Alabama who was ctmvieted-wf sec-4
id degree- murder for participating
a .lynching and wus sentenced toj
rve eighteen years in the peniten-1
try. In many cases, of attempted,
netting it is recorded thai' sheriffs!
ive removed their prisoners'for safef
:e"ping, and in others the local Na-]
inal Guard^pnit has been ordereil^
it by the Governor.
Perhaps- race prejudice has not
en altered in any dagran jn thn pmOrl
e years, but it is apparent from the i
rurt's that tlm Negro Is gelling morn the
way of justice than, was the
se when mob violence Was frequentin
evidence. ^
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NEGROES IN I
GREAT CAMPAIGN
r Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
Is Goal In First Drive
I WAMT, XWENTY MILLIONS
^ -Immense?Project?will Occupy
Five City Blocks--The City
-?Has Been Divided Into ?Districts
for this Drive
(By The A ssnri.'ltod Vugm Prim )?
New York, N. Y., May?L.enoiT'Ave!
nue in "this city is known wherever
j tropqlilafi1 existence. It will atways.
' | be cherished hs a TradHiotV with the'
'; Kacc for what it has stood for in the
'; matter?of -progress. It is a symbol
i of great. froodi.m?Few?there are, .
'Ihowever, who htfrvo hno>*wfhftt gam a
'name Lenox, hasrclaim to even greater
significance with the world at large
and the -Negro in particular. .j.
In -1872, Hames Lenox sought- to
place an old colored woman Jin "a
to learn that NONE would receive
her. This prompT hint to - establish
-rund nrnvidu- for
t ijtum vctitattcu?U|i
the Presbyterian. Hospital whose most
: prominent tradition is inscribed upon
| the curnui' sluhe. It mads. "Without (regard
to-race, creed gr color." For
I more than fifty years, a history of
(unbroken fidelity to that tradition has
[ been recorded.T J """* : 1
! Now that famed hospital is to beconsolidated
"with the Medical' depart,
nVent of Columbia University, and ']
;the world's most complete center of 1
'medical science, research, training and i
.treatment is*lo be achieved by" asso- i
dating in the big character and cm-' c
inentT standing.
The. immense project will occupy, t
-five city blocks. " i
- - The city has been divided into dis- 1
tricts mid May'"37" an" intensive drive ji
for part of the twenty milliops re-jt
quired was begun. Five hundred It
thousand dollars is the goal sot for;c
this first-driw*. - "rt
In the territory north of 125th St'.yjt
. ar>(i. south. n.f the Polo grounds, ia be-[l
ing handled by a number of colored 4
. Jiieii.?Juluu- II. Nail, -a -t-y-pieal bbsi- i i
; m'.vs in.in;Dr.. milfto a druggistiAYai- jt
-tet- White,- a -social wo r k e r f?lie a 1
Booth, a dentist; and I)r.-Allen Graves C
working with Dr. Louis T. Wright,1
and the surgeon general of the' Dea- j
cons, are the men who are working,(
jn the drive. ^ |V
opportunity' announces \
content winners
(Hv The Associated Negro Dress.)- New
York, jN, Y.,May?Before an un-j11
preeedente'd assemblage of white andj?
Negro writys, numbering 350, the
nrix.es in Opportunity's first literary i contest
were awarded) Friday night, j1.John
Matheus, Institute, W. Ya., p
Zora Neele Huston. Jacksonville, Fla.; ;v.
fand Eric Walrond, New York, were j"
first, second and third prizeswinmers, s
respectively, in the short story_ Co 11-4'J
test. i-'
"Langston Huches. an^l Tnnntpr. P n
Cullen won first and second prizes ina
the poetry contest, and shared the,'2
thirJ prize. _?.
C. D. Lipscomb, Warren A. ALc- L
Donald and Jean Ray, were ^vmners
plays. w.-!- . J?
G. A. Steward, Fidelia Ripley and;"
J. C. Stubbs, caXrlcd off" the honors ,n
in the narratives of personal expert-|?
fences. ' ~~ : U
There were 732 entries in the five
divisions of Opportunity's contest.
t he most consistent placer among'a
the entries was Zora Neale. Hurston. t>!
At the close of the meeting, it was-"
anpoupged that ft check for $500.OP
uiiu uei'ii receivea ironi. Ua^per ?iol- a
stein, colored merchant, of Harlem,in- j
ive genius among Negroes, to insure ^
the eontcat far the -nuxt ycar:?It Was ^
also announced that a lover of "poetry n
hwlr volwrrtwrerMity diiublfi- tlfe poetry ' a
awards for the ensuing yea*. and
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fl>en \\ ood is to give technical crit- j
?fe/ x r , ?? 1 icisra
to Negri* writers in the dield of n
poetry through OPPORTUNITY. |
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NEGRO SAVES
THIRTY-FIVE LIVES ?
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Tom Lea, Proves. Himself A
;r... ... Real Hero ~~~
THE NORMAN __CAPSlZtS
It Happened on the MTssIssIppr
River, off- From Memphis,
Tennessee-Lea was Pass- ~ 7
ing in a Motor Boat
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The A*srrrfated Xegro. Press/)'
?1 Memphis, Ttam.r . May?Kxtraordi.?
nary 'daring "and resourcefulness on
llie_part. of Tnm I.ea, a Plttr
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MR. J AS. H. GOODE
General Mnnatror. Mutual Relief Association
of South Carolina.
_ Ml Jas. H. Goode has been, with the
Mutual Relief since its infancy. He
worked*under the founder, Dr. Dunbar
ind has studied every phase of the
frork, which makc^ hirri a" most efff- r_
ricnt maaacerr'-'- - <?~ ? *
_HnriiiK-Mr. Goodc-'s administration
he-Company has hud a remarkable
growth. From.^a -few agents they^
biuvmi to a vreniendous business
with 100 agents and a_ staff of ' 1
lorks in the Home Office kept busy ~ f
en hours a day to keep .lip with the *
laily routine made so pn account of
he volume of business sent in from
he field. 'Few men in the Ftatp ' ?
luve made a vetord-U? equal that of~
Barnes H. Goode, who with his ingenluslnrss,
mat heips^^nnln^peoplfr?as ??
nee and anniversary last week. They
rave paid out'over" $1,000,000 in beneLts
and have- a surplus^ of $40,000
notwithstanding the fact that the
Hompany^ had less than?$lr capital
vhen foundct^ 20 years ago.
loyee of the Tennessee Construction
Company, was responsible for the
living the livo^-of?white persons^
i-hcn the government?steamer Nor-"
nan capsized in the Mississippi river,
ff here, with four known?dead and??
iiis.sing amounting to fourteen.
The \<>i;man sank as - it' was re
urning from Cow IslflncLwiih a party
f engineers here attending the conention
of the Mid-South Association ??
f Engineers, was moving along ~ u
monthly, according Ato survivors, when
suddenly bey an rocking from side.
) side. This continued perhaps five ~
liqules, when it careened far over
nd failed to recover. Three minutes
iter the vessel was virtually gone
rom sight? 7~"
At the time the barman capsized??
,ea happened along in a motor boat,
Tic passangors on the ill-fated vcs- ?
el had scarcely had time to adjust
fe reservers before those who had
ot jumped into the river, were thrown
ver-board and Lea found them all
ould make life-saving rafts.
He carefully maneuvered his boat
mong^the people in the water,-re<w
iiing the women first and carrying
'it hi nutioro ~ "
Capt. Fonton of the Norman said
ItCHVAtd: ~ "Many
rmore would have perished
tEe fact that Tom Lea, a
legro, came along in a boat. Lea.
>ved the dives of at least 35 persona. _
lajor Canolly, myself, and two other *
?en,were the farthest down the rivey
fid "the last persona rescued. ?Lea?:?^
inded all of us on a .sandftar."^ _
W'. W. DeBcnard, a Chicago engieer
and editor, tells of^the providen- .
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