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?^ Saturday-, April 11, 192^,'
"Life, liberty and the pursuits,
of happiness" sound so well, but
stand up, all you colored Ameri-'
cans, who enjoy ? these three
thinffg at nnp ?nr> tViP sattip tiryiP
in the "land of the free and
home of the brave."
, r * * ? : r |
If "hooch" joints and "number
??playing" are not suppressed in
? in Harlem, it wilhnot-be theYanlt
of The. J^ew York Age.. That
excellent wcgftlyls atill hammering
away at them, with some
seeming results too. ' = ...?^
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The conferences of the fl^g?ho?dist- hurch
and thp TSTnthnriio*
Church South continue to vote
on thfe plan of unification. The
?conferences of the fprmer vote
favorably while those of the lat
? ter vote against it.?NOf therewill
be no unification. The colored
brother stands, in the way
and the religion of Christ is hot
? yet strong enough. Some.-dav,
? perhaps, but not yet.
* * *
- -- When Judge J. H. Tiernan of
New York told a colored prison"
. er, "If this had happened in your
Vinrnso ofofn Tr;?
wbhla: have been burned at the
stake," heKdid not realize thatJiewas
stirring up a hornet's nest.
?-?Since then the Judge has been
busy giving an explanation that
Hops riot pypTfiin, nf jimt what V>f>
^.^ends too toy!hvestigate the in
cidentr-^-1?? '' I
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One Dr. Plecker of Virginia is
out, to. make a name for himself.
Being just ordinary 4n his pro-!
fession he has pounced upon the
idea that he can attain notoriety
hyLpraving.the-HegrcLthe lowest
of the human family hardly in
4""Capable of improvement by even
OrTiinotinn n*"5 1 ' ""
vuuv.atiun anu contact. i fie deluded
doctor however, is barking
up the wrong tree.?The- Americans
who stand out most emi.nently
a?e those whose motto is
: and has been "all men up and
. none down." '' y
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The City newspapers of last
Sunday carried quite a write-up
" ? ; of the manner in which Edward
Davi^, taken in connection with
the murder of Air-. Simgna, was
- forcecTYo go through the supposed
actions of the killing. The
story was entertaining to the
readers but it's an experience
that Edward Davis will n^ver;
? . Ifor&et. His whole conduct however
was that of an innocent'
man. The widow of the mur
dered n\a.h is only nno r>f a
She refused to say that Davis
was^the murderer even though
he appeared to be about the same
size.?
O
DISCRIMINATORY LAWS.
Nothing is right that is not
done right is-confinod to no par.
ticular kind ? of action. And it
i cairiesjwithit .the. idea, th&t unless
the motived are high the results
irv th? and will Kn ?
?tfc*wI flirt .
Mnrp IflWfl of a repressive kind.
directed at the discouragement
of a particular group of citizen*^
have been enacted in America!
: m-tha-past^Afty-^ears than in-'
~ T all the countries of Europe "151
any one hundred years. And
-? - sometimes the proponents of
. 1 \ . . v**' s ' ^ - ... . . ?
' 1 j. . -. ~^ ^s~y. ,,_ ^ _
petards." Take for an instance
the law passed by Congress
shortly Uftyr Jack Juliiisun juiti1
Jim Jeffries the land ofT
dreams. Awlful indeed, said the
little minds, for a big black brui^
ser to treat a large white bruiser
frn anrh za^marmgail Something
must be done, and "done" it was. j
The great TAmdrican uongress *
had nothing more important toi
do than to solemnly^enact that;
pictures of such contests?musU
not be shipped from one State;
into another-Congress, you know
is composed of white represent-;
atives of white citizens. The
"colored brother hasn't a lopk in-'
3 ever mind about fighting to proes.
Since 1770 "taxation-will
out representation'* ceased to bq
"tyranny.'7 Well, later on jacK
Johnson passed out of the arena.
Only'white bruisers held sway,.i
[hut the law stood in the way of'
exhibiting the-pietures in statesntbpr
than whpyp thp fights take
place. Along comes Mr. Car-j
.pentier, the heroic Frenchman,'
and Mr. Dempsey who, while not
so heroic during wars is mighty
with his fists. Mr. Dempsey
"hnocked the Frenchman cold and
thought tTTe""FighT"of the Cen-[
jtury" was too good, and the
[money possibilities too great not
to exhibit the pictures bf it in
the States. They did." -They j
"werearrested indicted and nned
a total of $23,501 by the Federal
"Judge, before whom they were
tried. / The Judge said he wasa
little ftuzzled. The Govern- [
ment was not iniured. nn nno
was hurt but as the law said it
ought not be doner he just had
to line them for violating that
law. The law "was directed at
Colored America, but has played
havoc with white America.
Nothing is l ight-that io not dono
right and with right motives,'
bottomed on sound moAls. You
can't hurt your neighbor without
hurting yourself.
{
The "Half-Pint Bootleggers." J,
Mrs. Mabel W.- Willebrandt,
Assistant LJ, S. Attorney Gen
lorcement, testifying lpst week
; before the Senate Committee investigating
the Internal Revenue.
Bureau, said,- "One" of the. main
- Obstacle to adequate cWforccment
of the law, was the crowding
bootlegging operators are not
reached by the investigators,Trackdriverrs
a n d 'half^pint' bootleggers
are haled into Court,
buLidie source of their supply is!
not given the minor offenders."
Everyoile who has'given any at-j
tent ion" to the liquor situation
recognizes %t* ohce that Mrs. Willebrandt
has correctly-sized up:
the situation. The Federal diserated
into nothing more than,
police court?the majority of
cases therein being men and women
charged with havirig from
a- half pint to a few-gallons of
"shine." 'Selilom /t/wvg mtk
on trial the men who manufact-l
ures the stutL-dn the wholesale
scale. And if attention is given
to what one hears sometimes
M th much detail?lathere's a
rrie&u>n." From the results one
would think that the prohibition
law is directed absolutely - and
exclusively against tire- drink*
dag e? liquor instead of its manufacture,
selling and transport- \
ing. While the -Federal offieersare
bad enough in this particular,
municipal officers go their
even one better. Many men and1
Women have been arrested, hal-:
^ed.into police courts and'fined
for just having around them a
bottle or a glass that has an odor j
resembling liquor, Others havp
been fined on the word of an
officer that a coca cola bottle
..what he said was liquor, judging
by the smell. People who donot
care for the liquor business and
a good thing would Be more ^n-i
thusiastic about the enforcement
of the law, were a little more
THE PALWETIH
fairness, decency,"honesty andlof
common sense put in its enforce- th
mnnf hy +hr> nffinora TTnfU thpnjw
indifference if not resentment is
will be all that will be gotten. Jc
Mrs. "VVillebrandt is right. Too 01
much attention is given the in
"half-pint bootlegger" to the ex- N
elusion of the wholesale opera- P<
tors; ; of
I Man's Humanity to gJaj
Animals 1
BY JEAN JEW.' ||th
1 Man's inhumanity to man er
makes countless thousands g*
mourn, but anything less than fh
humaneness ^toward-^aninval^ is ili
riot of common occurence and a*
when seen, it stira the wrath of j trii
man. ; " 1- ?- in,
Drawing a conclusion from the sa
comparison, is it a human vir- K]
t.iiw?instinct, a pseudo-sincerity
or a fundamental lack in man=_|to
kind? 1
?Within the? four sides of this^ni
country man resents- an insult!ha
and even on more slight provoc-er
ation kills. He goes before the!ai1
tribunal of justice, pleads self- i
defenserand when the staid-eklipe
minister off he-law pronounces j T.
him "free" in accordance \vith co
the findirigs of the jury, he re-..
ceives congratulations from^tjie or
court officials, --pictures -from-CQ.
pretty girls thousands of milesSw*
away, and kisses fanciful old-Ou
Solomon-would not refuse. 7^(
If a bowlegged bulldog causes *a1
you to make a mile in 40 seconds
flat and at the end of the fifth
miln tron 1- * ?- ? 1 1 1 rt* '
unit y \ju o w ctt mm OI1C Oil tfie leit al1
cheek in self defense,' if the law *s
officer doesn't.get - you, some ^
member of a^sdeiety for the pre- ,an
volition of; cruelty to Nero, fido, bo
rovfc'r, wizzy-wizzy or oootsie- W1
wootsie, will forthwith haul you b?
into court. And wnen Hid fine Fc
is imposed upon you, if the mob ^ii
doesn't got you aftor your-exit,_H<
you will at least find no sympa-;01'
.thATtfl t rye
There are some dogs around ha
jny_way that do me the fortune J?*
of unsolicited entertainment the S1(
Avnoie nign.t?turor ~Bnt?poke w
yotarrbreiri' .out tho windo in mi
protest and no one would jnSurejltc
it at a cent. And what is more^
breed more quadrupedic bother- ;1S
ation and'fulluw their masters m
into the woods as rabbit or coon W
dogs while the masters themsel- :e(^
ves scent 4he hare or the eooh. i fe'
" It is now proposed that ~isi
? rpy
eon rap in "humane treatmegLof
animals'J be Instituted in thfij^
country's public school system. J * "
Apparently, the easiest thing]
to do, in the treatment of ani-!
mals, is to be kind to them. Butj
tne bonco of-Time will turn car-! 0
tilagino'us before man wilLireatI ?
his fellow gentle as the easiest ^sei
wfty out. - i. sti
And if the expediency of Mi
schooling youth in the hayri Pi
things still holds, the education-! TF
trf system is Mill minus-a--V6r-y":hQ
necessary courser ~ jtei
"What is man that thou art m<
mindful of him .....thou hast no
made him a little lower than the ye
angels.'N And Shakespeare gives ed
us his opinion?"What a piece^e
of work ia- man, how noble in
son, how infinite in faculty, in;in
forth and moving how express 'as
ana anrmrHDie, hi action how like ve
an angel."? "~~r ???_?^
" fcow I am not saying that'ha
fflrokuspt'die was drunk-when he inj
thus?spakey but if- the animaLhy
societies can force man to live su
up to those compliments by ex- ne
perimenting with kindness upon nh
animals, we can but say, let ov
your efforts be ad infinitum. !an
After all, animals are good e(*
things upon which to experiment ^
and if it^ suits them why should- as
n't it suit us. ra
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T. THOMAS FORTUNE, 68 wJ
, YEARS, AND WALKING
INFORMATION BUR- 7 m<
"ETAtT 1
-~2ptaise from Sir Rupert- is
praise indeed.**" In New York ed
in the office of the Negro World, th;
- ?' - i
JLEADfflt ?? ?
-which he is now editor, I ha
te great pleasure of a long tal
LU4,XJ?bsBm Soctuhe,?-wb
he? -No history of the Negr
lurnalism can be written with
it his name taking first ran
the story. Founder of th
ew York .Age he, with Jerom
sterson, under the firm nam
Fortune and Peterson, mad
powerful instrument for goo
it of that well known public
ion at a time whenracial jour
Uism was looked upon with
nail degree of rnneprn T
iose days the classes, not th
asses, read. Edward E. Coop
introduced a hew^day^fTNj
o journalism when he mad
e Indiananolis -Ei-oomon ?
t * *. wiimii
nM.riii.wi newspaper. Picture
e the universal language o
ankind, Cooper, withdraw
me taken over by the eterna
n'oxes, George L? father and
wood, son, went to Washing
riband established the Color
American." "Booker T. Wash
gton,. more than any man w<
ive produced, unless it be Fred
ick Douglass^knewlJthe vain
id power of the printed word
r. Washington, cultivated clos
rsonal friendship with editors
Thomas Fortune was his.rea
nfidente.
When I first became an edit
some years ago;' a letter o
mmp.ndfltion framJMr Fnrtim
is one of the prize records o
r struggling but hopeful of
ie." snortiy after the~Assoc
ted Negro Press was establish
TVT- r?x
, ami. ruitune wrote a_.com
mt of praise ori'tKe standan
d necessity of the service tha
still used as a'tablet of inspir
ion. There- has never beei
ything of the syncophant a
ut Mr. Fortune. He hag al
iys had a good word to say a
ut the new members of thi
mirth Estate.?To?talk?will
m is an education in itself
> js rich in experience and men
ies of great, contacts. Fo:
HT5~his editorial utterance!
,ve-been quoted by great dail
5 of the country. Today, be
les his work on the" Negr<
or Id, he writesfor-the-Tattlej
agazirie, and is one of the ed
trial wrlters of the TustTy
med Norfolk Journal ant
lide. Mr. Eprtune is ~68 ant
vigorous in his desires t<
ep on writing. He is neithei
jalthy rior penniless. Color
editors could well afford t<
g that this nestor of journal
n never . iknows want 1
lom&s Fortune bore the bur
h iTr lliu Pi|j 1 'I in Ilia
e day.
"JERSEY JUSTICE" TOO
FAST
By The Associated Negro Press)
Trentony N. J.f ~April?i-Sobe;
gond-thought on. the circum
ances of the attack made upoi
rs. Laura Fisher, wife of i
itch Neck Farmer, by Josepl
lompson, a 19 year-old coloret
yTfa?h-hand7"lafe Friday" al
rnoon, and on the swift .justict
2ted out to Thompson, who ii
w serving a term from 9 to 15
ars in fi-r!v>or<-.
wvvvw lUUXly lldO LI Cci L
doubt in the minds of lawyer!
ditious handling of the~ cas<
the courts will not work ou
a miscarriage of justice in e
lit of the death of Mrs. Fisher
Thompson believing that hi
d killed the woman and fear
i that hb would be overtakei
' his pursuers and lynehed
rrrendered at a farm housi
ar Lawrenceville about mid
?ht~Tuesday. nHe was turne<
er to the county authoritie!
d the following morningr enter
a plea of guilty in Merce:
>urk te a eharge ofatrbciouj
suit and battery and attemp
pe. He was sentence by Judg<
1. -ii i "
uranaii 19 tne maximum term
lich also includes a fine o;
,000, and was Immediately re
Dve to the State prison to be
1 his sentence. ?
The belief was freely express
at the State House Fridaj
at the Mercer County author
ma \'i ?|! ! \ iTTi ilHM 11' 11 m**' 11 '' ' *" *
d I Despise Not Thelbay of
o Small Things.
o ;r" " ^
t7 Mr. Editor:?While eittlhg
k down thinking of the power that
e is in little things, I am impresse
to write that there is great
e strength in small things and as
e it has been said by some one
d'that some of the best things are
i- in small packages. 7
We don't know of anything
a that is great and did*nt have a
n! small beginning.?The medical
e ; scholars is sounding their alarm
?- beware of the disease gerjns
f-"that gets in the body, and finds
Q lodging and continue to mult?
n ply until it destroy^ the human
g: system and luba llic. liumon be
f ing. of life. One has said it
v scarcely can be discerned by a
ei miprnafnpp And yph ran also see
il that there is power for good or
L hacLin small things. The dew
drops from the heavens waters
-the vegetation and causes it to
-'grow. It produces moat for the
e eater,. vitality and strength. In
- fact the beating rains do but lite
tie good it4s?the calm rains
1. that fall softly which does vege
etation the most good.r' Little
L bubbles of water that continues
hhbble makes a spring. A
spring makes a creek, a creek
- makes ?> river and the river
f makes the seas. In speaking of
^[the?worka of rVistianitv. I
f must "begin upon the things
- that is uppermost iiT my mind.
-'The children of Israel and the
- j chosen people of God had a be
Uginning from one man named
i! Abraham, who was a friend-iof
tiGod and now they have multi-1
plied to countless millions and
1! yet &<11 that is in Israel is not
-1 df Israel, showing that they had
-ja small beginning and yet God
-.made them a great nation.
a; Christianity on earth had a
1|umall boginning, it started .with
twelve, one was a demon, but
Ut grew to a hundred and twenty
five hundred and to three
3 thousand and fiva. hundred,
- and j. to-day there are countless
millions. "Part of the host has
^crossed the flood now." Com^
rjing a little closer hoiiKsT^TFthe
"lQld_Eio_neer3_ in_fche .ante helium
-j period had despised-the day- or
^ismall .things, they would not
i jhave ^accomplished anythiiig. _
5 First Calvary was established
rl some fifty or moro-ygar s _&go_by.
-'old father Sanders Johnson,
51 from a room to a stable and is
- Inow a beautiful structure with
' t ??' - *
- xtuiiui ?u? in Heaven - and Hunr.
- dreds on?garth. Zion was es?
tabiishori?some?fifty or more
years a>go by old father Darby,
from a hut to a wooden building
and from a wooden building
_ to a gigantic brick -building.
Bethel from a room with a
f . hfal huddled around t
- a wooden structure and now a
I beautiful brick building and'
i greater Bethel. Time will not
II permit, and space is too limited
1 |to mention the great things that
- jstarfTrom small "things. I knew
3{of a man that came from the roc3
;ky regions of Fairfield county
2 who was brought up fatherless
-' and began his ministerial career
3! in 1903, though rebuked and de^Hspisedy-thougk-baffled
and buffs
ed. gatherings arfaithful fewrhe
t organized in 1904 what is known
L.-liti?H' hfld onwnfl
3 acceptance of Thompson's plea
- of guilty to an assult charge
i without awaiting the outcome
, of his victim's iniuijes. Thru
*4heir actions^ it is maintained,
- the way has been definitely closi
ed against the prosecution for
i muaer in tne event that the wo
man dies.
r Physicians at St. Francis Hosi
pital, where Mrs. Fisher is contained,
expressed doubts as to her
i recovery. It was reported that
, the woman ha9 been in a semiP
conscious condition since the at
tack,?~ -t?-?-?
- "Jersey Justice" which i s
- known in this?state?for its
- speedy action against persons or
r color was proved to have been to
^ "U?P in this ease, ?
? ?? X
Saturday, April 11, 1925.
as Second Nazareth Baptist
church from an. old store house
to a bush harbor and a barrel for
a pulpit and a* ditch for a pool.
^gurthatr-samo man has baptiz
;ted over 2000, and hundreds have
, gone to Heaven, we trust, doubt- - ?
, less some have gone to ?. While
r hundreds are rryin g behold the
i Lamb of God who talfeth away
!. the sins of the world.Then he
established another church,
which is Macedonia* church, be;
ginning in a hut, now agreat
I hnildiny.""-Desdise" not the day
i of small things. Brethren, there
[TiTa continual cry in the army:
i "Bring up the rear." As long as
r W6~ remember that David rame
[ from the sheep-cote, Peter and
_ frr>m the fish creek and
; snma nf 11a frn,T^ f.he ditches, the
, farms, the turpentine firms and
rocK. quarnes: ? :?,
" Sometimes~we did not hsvfe e-^ nough
to eat, with brogai^ shoes )
and jean pants. Brethren despise
not-the_day_ofj3mall things.
I Oh ! yes some olus now are picking
our places to preach, -when
they used to be glad to preach in
- log cabrns. I'm like the apost^ ?
le Paul. I am debtor to the
learned and unlearned and may
I add to the poor and to the rich,
to the small churches and to the
large churches. Jenkins Orphphanage
started with one - man
: with the zeal-of God in his heart
and today he has^SiOt only established
great buildings" but ~
: great prineiples into the hearts-^?
of thousands that will live thru'
out eternity. ?? ?
Small are the offerings we can make,Yet
thou hast taught us Lord;
If 'given for the Saviors sake, "
They lose not their reward.
7 REV: R. M. MYERS.
f: "fteETO
Troon At Wpst. Point
Celebrates
(Bv /The Associated Jiegro Press.)
West Point, N. Y., April?Exercises
were recently held here
celebrating the eighteenth anniversar-v
of the Colored Calvary
Troop composed of two Jnindred?- ;
which had_been-hei^slnce 1907.
4>rrEmmett J. Scott, Secretary-,^
treasurer of HowardUniversity
nnH spppiftl assistant to the See^^B
War, was the principal speakerJ^J
of the^troop anll told tjf the
htirig nf snmp of its members inV
the World War. Ferdinand (&. ^
iijr J - -? ?
iviorton, rsiew York Civil Service T '
Commissioner was present also. ^
TO MAKE TUS&EGEE DRIVE ?
J7 NEGROE
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Apr.
Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal?
Qt the Tuskegee JNormal and Industrial
Institute, upon his return
to the Institute recently,
[announced that allfrive had been
launched in New York CitY to
raise $50,000 among the members
of our race, for the Hamp^
tonTTuskegee Endowment Fund
Campaign and that Watt-Terry,
leading realtor of New York
City and o? the race had been selected
as chairman of the locak?
Associated with Mr. Terry are
some of the leading business and
profoocional men and women of theTcity.
Dr. Moton expressed his be
lief that the Committee would
receive a hearty response among
the citizens of New York and
that the quota would be oversubscribed.
At the initial meetl'nir
Onnrt-'l!-'- - 1
< ?>> abvuiuiii^ to reports COm~ *
ing from New York, scores of
men and women interested in
Negroieducation not only sub- j
scribed but enrolled as workers. '
According to announcement ?,
made by Frank P. Chisholm, j|
Pield SecW&fy oftKe Tuakegee^i
Normal and Industrial Institute,
the Negro citizens of New Haven
Connecticut 1 eceiitly contributed
more than seven hundred dol- " -j
lars toward the Hamptbn-Tuske- J
[gee Endowment Fund Campaign. J