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VOL. 11?No. 13.
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APRIL 11TH
THRU 17TH
""Kindness, justice
mercy and love*
American Vliimane ' Education
.Society of Boston Calls Americans
To Carry out Program ?
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apriiTTi,Humane sunday
Colleges ami Sc'IhmjIs Juin Nation
* 1 Wide Movement?President
Coolidgfc "Gives Approval
5 fhce at the Xuthunil He:uh|uai teis tff?
the American Humane Education Soi
ciety, at 14iO-Lonp:\vood Ave., in this
^ citvr IV I'Vuiwis II. Rowley. the ores
J? ident js so anxious and willing to plantT
seeds so prolific for good?free "seeds"
L in the form of humane'ikerature that
| ' the society has mailed and is still
P? 'mailing out to all persons wishing iV
thousands of pieces of literature, telling
about "National Humane-Week"
April 11 thru the 17th.
~ Men and women tn every \valk of
life have sent fin calls to-the National
society for- ltierature;{ in every case
- somethingrJaas- been sdnt. The demands
have been so great this year
- that ""Guy Richardson, the > executive
secretary, has had to engage an extra
force in the main mailing rooms.
The "Be Kind to Anjmals Spirt" will
be observed in every Statje in the Un
ion- - '
President Coolidge in a letter to
' Rowley, the president of the Nation
al Humane Society, writes among
< .other things:- .
^, m-. 1 t-? rr i
near ur. uowtey:- ?. ; ' - *.
Accept my thanks fdi^ybur note
which brings to my attentiaon the
fact that "Be Kind to Aninnils Week"
??h to be ohiievvml-thia year. I anv
glad to learn that the celebration of
this week is becoming more am! mute
an 'affair of national concern and interest.
The cause lis one which tho~
roughly desemts iill the conyidcratfeft ??that
can possibly be given to it, and I
hope that this.year's will be the most
^ ivtili?spprendi and general observance
that has yet beeh held.. v
Most sinc^hWy youfs,
. ( signed)'' Calvin Coolidge.
> -~^SnndayT*35jthil 11th, is. "Humane
Sunday," and in thousands of Churches
it will" be observed when ministers
in thr pitv IS AVfil as the rural churches
arc caHinjrtmHftetr peotd? u> preai li
"a special sermon 'on the be. kind to
animals, spirit. Monday, April 12th
thru the-?17th will find- thousands nf
: teachers Tnrd ' college?professors cal
-Ting upofi their students to take part
in the week, ^
In many of the colleger there have
been organized Junior American Hu*
wane Societies,. and . in the graded
and high schools, Bands of Mercies
v have been organized by the field work"
ers of the Boston Societies. Encouraging
reports have Been reaching Boston
for two months oY the activities
?8..fi..tjp3 among the
students in' American colleges. The
movement, among the students has
fc>een nation-Avide, . and many of the
leading colleges are taking part, this
year.
Humane education has come to stay.
Any person can become a member of
the society by taking a simple pledge
living creatures, and try to protect"!
them from cruel usage. . _.-j
^ *' The sdSlety was founded by George
}/ ' T. Angell of Boston, who said among
' other things in his life time, that "the"
greatest coward- is -he who I treats
with cruelty an? helpless living thing"
. He taughe and preached kindness, jus-]
tice, mercy and love for human beings
as well as animals,
the Society^ employs a number of j
fc, - " -Sz
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NATIONS
A VENERA1
SUCCUMBS AFTER_?
FALL INTO FIRE
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i Wife Of Late Postmaster At
Florence Seriously Burned
-?^Buried in Charleston
WIFE OF HON. J. R. WILSON
TIip Funeral. Services Were
. Held Here?Interment At
? Charleston. S. C.
Florcjet', April 2.?Mrs.. J. R. Wil,
^Wilson - at one 1 time postmaster al
, iRorenceT was burned to death hor<
yesterday, falling iqto the fije. Fun
"eral" services \V6P6 Tll'lli time in-Jljt
M. E. Church, she, was buried al
Charleston.
! She leaves the following children:
_Ur. Roscoo Wilson of Marion, Mrs,
Evelyn Wilson Stevenson, ' Florenct
and Dr. Hubert Wilson of Georgia,
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Johnson And Gordon
Triumph
I - Boston, Mass, April 3.?J. Rosa
; mond-Johnsoiv-and- Taylor Gordon, -h
;the third of their series of Boston re
citals of Negro Spirituals, in the Cop
'ley Theatre before a capacity audi
| ence, scored a triumph which n\ovet
I the reviewer of the Boston Globe t<
m." r unt hiisimt ir rnwniW.
I "The Bo'ston Globe's reviewer, writ
'ing of their joint recital,, said in part
"Their performance like all trulj
great ones is based- on verity and i
[definite relationship to an intangible
.underground-stream that exists the
"universe and that as a rule we?"prefei
to leave untapped?I
When emotion is so sleeping,' l?g
pniiii'i' As'thar felt "g?d imparted b>
these men it is. therefore, better pert
haps to leave it there and not -to at'tempt
analysis. Still less is it dasirable
to place their performance on the
table affiLtake trxrefn
!tion to a vocal flaw here, an ovious
chord or modulation there, an occasional
nul Luu charming embellishment
as of 'Steal Away to Jesus.'
J Listening, one felt that Mr. Gordon
'anil Mi. Johnson-y<?nlly thought that
it was they who stood in the need of
prayer, but the listener was equally
sure that he himself Was the onei Hurnor"That
has appeared in some of the
-flpiritualu war, \? ipeit~ffwi'y by nrftagd
of dewprr srntiment in tHeTr~singing'.
j After an evening more spiritual
than many church services, more dramatic
than many plays, more truly
musical than most concerts, it would
b<^surprising if there were anyone in
the audinece who is not no,w eager for
1 the speedy return of these artists."
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field workers, among those located in
{he Sout hare: James D. ^Urtonv Haririson,
Tenn.; Mrs; KafKenfie "Weather^
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-bee, Atlanta, Ga.; F. Rivers Barnwell,
Fort Worth, Texas; MisT Blanc he Firr^e^^JRichmond^^^^a^^^rn^^a^Ter
Ark, Va. and Seymour CorVolI, Gre0n'
ville, S. C.
I It is the aim and object of the society
to carry hymane education into every
American home and school. It
| has sponsored national laws in con'gfress
and the many state law-making
bodies -throughout the country. The
Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury, distinguished
I Boston attorney, is the General Counselor
for the Socity. '
1 - Everybody everywhere is asfiTed to
remember "Be Kind tjo Animals Week"
April_J2 thru th?~ 17th, and April 11,
which is "National Humane Sunday."
I The preachers are to preach it, the
teachers are to teach it, the press is
to publish it. The slogan this year is
"Kindness to Every Living Creature."
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COLUMBIA, S. C., SAT
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BLEWOMAN
JAMES P. BRO
mITST HAVE PASS fi
OR FACE ARREST i
*i Davtona Beach, Florida, Negroes
- Protest Discriminating Ordinance
Of City ' 1
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lYDDrnn UOUgj IfA8a>.i
Colored Citizens Ask Relief,
J?"Not As a Favor, But As A
Right as Aiiieiiean Citizens?t.r
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New_Yory, April 2?Colored citi-!
. ^zens of Daytona Beach, Florida,, have
'Hint to iIn* \'.itipni^l Annociation fori
t the Advancement of Colored People,'
!a copy of a petition submitted to the,
members of the local city commission,
asking the lawmakers .of Halifax (
' County Lo 'relieve tl>e- colored pOOpl?^
of the necessity'toffarrying-a pass or
facing arrest if they are out after dark
[ The petition sent to the N. A. A. C<*
P/ recites:
"For a number of years there has
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jhcen a city ordinance,.in force across
"j the river" ill what was previously.
known as Daytona Beach, prohibiting .
" 1 the free movement of colored citizens
after nightfall. , By the" provisons "of""1
this ordinance, no colored person from!
* jthis side of the"river'can go across the J
> J bridge to Daytona Beach, and no one 1
Ln " si(fr. ran come to this ,]
"J side without' a pass ' issued by the !
' j bridge- keeper. Further than this,
^colorOcl jieople SThployed in families ^
1! and hotels'm the other side have been (
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I arrested and fined for^ being on the,5
L.street at niirht. :. V . . -Thnmm i
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and women working on the other side ;1
'are wholly deprived of pleasure and 1
recreation by this un-American and
WiwhonT-H-nf regulation. Their churches t
their lodges, their social outlets areTT
' all on this side. They ?canriot come v
to theni without either the humiliation r
Lof getting, a.-pass, or the fear of ar- k
rest" if they fail, to do so. 'The en- G
forced deprivation of recreation is af- J
fecting the temper and efficiency of a N
PI..1!)1. "f ntVir.i-n-i.-n ^Vinnrful ?tnd effi- S
cient workers." ? C
The oolored citizens ask relief from P
~ this condition "not as a-favor hut as I1
-our right,as American citizens." b
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Dr. Alvin LeRoy Locke *
Soeak^ at A. & T. College i,
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Greensboro, N. (J., March 31.?3pe- ti
cial. Today at the tegular chapel serv- A
ices, Dr. Alvin LeRoye Locke, former g
professor of philosophy, Howard Uni- s
versity, Washington, D. C., in a short E
but in9rpiring lecture, addressed the p
studnet body of A". & T: College. c
The speaker has sefcVgd his race in .f
many capacities as aschplar,. lectu.-'ci
ror and author. Dr. Locke is a gradu- g
ate erf Harvard and~X)xford Universi- tl
nics ami is also a member of the
" Graduate-Sehoel-of--the- University of jn
Berlin, Germany. He was graduated jtl
From TTarvffnT with tfift 'dhgfPPff of'pbachelor
of arts, master of arts and ?
doctor of philosophy. ~~ w
Dr. Locke is the only American Ne- G
gro who has ever won the Rhodes a
I Scholarship which entitled him the cl
1 privilege to study at CJxforxI TJniver- IT
sity, England. The speaker is an au- a
;|thor of international fame. His lat- tl
est productionT^'The New Negro" has -w
'attracted world-wide favorable com- tl
' mcnts. ? - a;
Dr. Locke, in his address, described ir
:the circumstances of the Negro and h
urged the students to snatch a moral b
[victory from the situation. He fur- a
jther advised the youths to catch th$
youth movement, and follow in the I
footsteps of Jessie Faussett, Walter si
Whit* and Roland W. Hayes)
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PASSE
URDAY APRIL 10, 1926.
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PLEADS N1
OF FLOREP
CKINCVTON JR
MONUMENT TO ^
NEGRO SOLDIERS
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This Is An Answer To Bullard's
Slander Of Negro Soldiers- ?
_i Declares Hamilton Fish
ASKS?CITIZENS SUPPORT
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Congressman Fish Writes N. A.
A.-L'. B. To Urge Colored
~ Citizens To Suppurt Bill ?
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-?:? - -ts: <
New York, April 2?Declaring that
Lite moiiuilieill IJlumi.M'i'l ?.-> Sn nunntml ~
in France to the colored American <
soldiers who \ver.e attached to the j
French Army during the World War,,
constituted the hcst^possihlp answer_i
to the . slanderous attack on . the re- (
cord of colored soldiers published by j
General Robert Lee Bullard, Congress- <
man Hamilton Hamilton Fish, Jr., who (
is fighlfhg "for tile monumrmt in Corr- i
gress, has" written the N. A. A. C. P. ]
urging all colored citizens to support ]
his bill. The "letter" written by Con- t
pressman Fish to the N, A. A. C., P.
ia as follows) - 1_ a
"I am pleased to inform -you that'
H. R. 9694 introduced by me aythoriz- i
ng the erection of a monument in (
France?to^ commemorate the_ valiant.}
>>H'Vir55 Of ttlL' 9 J I'd Divi.siun at a eo.it
>f not to exceed $150,000, was. reported '
favorably by the Committee on For- ^
jign Affairs of the House of Representatives
on March 17. The bill as' (
eported includes-all four-'regiments-of s
hat Division: th^ 39th, 370th, 371st
md" 372nd, ' t
There is plenty of time to have this v
)ill enacted into the law if the' colored f
icople throttghoat-America will onl.v.._^
I'rlte to their Sena tuts and Congress-.?
nenjarging them to get busy and heln u
iy requesting the Republican leaders,
hnh a a Lon<?v.Tirth,~ ohrrTtlson,
the Majority Leader, \Yj
iam Wood, Chairman of the Congress _\
ional Committee; Martin Madden, j
Chairman of the Committee on Appro- t,
riations and ^Bertram Snell, Chairnan
of the Committee on Rules, to ]
ring the bill up immediately for eon- ?-,
ideration, and a vote in the House of ,
tepresentatives. The bill will pass'n,
y. a'big majority if the Republican
iad e r s ^ w i U ^ p e r m^t U^^to come toa^rj
liny rcn)i?r thnt the colored people of
imeriea are in earnest and want Con ress
to commemorate the valiant
ervices of their sons in the 93rd "
)ivision, many of whom paid.' the su- K
rerne sacrifice. ' The?casualties in- m
luding the dead and wounded in these,h
our regments amounted t oforty per I(
ent. Three out of four of these Re-. M
intents had their flags decorated with w
ne French war cross. > 01
The 399th was a volunteer Kcgi- ^
tent from New York^-the 3?0th, nno- 51
ner volunteer Regiment from Chica- A
ut iim jim wai a uihjllu. itujufi^
iont "from the South, and the"372nd
1*3 composed of one batallion from ,t<
hio; one from Washington, D. C., L
nd separate companies from Massa? d;
Kusetts, Connecticut and Maryland.
It' seems to me that it is the duty of <<
11 colored people who are- -proud of t<
le heroic conduct of these Regiments b<
a-4he- battlefields of prance to show
ic members of Congress thtrt they
re united in wanting this bill passed hi
nmediately and thereby 'not only do M
onor to these courageous soldiers, ic
ut by an Act of Congress, wipe out W
most unjust discrimination. Jw
As an officer in the 369th Infantry, M
would consider myself derelict in my ti
icr?d duty to those who paid the su-,ei
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HUMAN
EGRQ INS
ICE PASSES
DIES AT 19
^STUDENT OF
STATE COLLEGE
The Only Sop Of Mr. and .Mrs.
James I\ Brocki.ngton, of
Georgetown, S. C.
ft AS i.QVKl) BX 1'KIKNI.IS
Passed Away Tuesday March
30th, &3ft o'clock I\ M.
? At His Home
Georgetown. April *>.?A dampness
wept over our little City Tuesday,
March 30th, about 3:.'J0 p.* m;, "when
leath ' ovcrfTTTTtc imio .lain--., 'Thi- unly
son of Mr. and Mr.*. James B. Brockinptonr
Ile was li? years of ape and was a
Vminor iluido:i! wf rh" Slate
rolk'pe at Oranpeburp, but heine in
poor healthsv a*- unable to return the
past .year.. - A few weeks '-apro,he-..jvas
operated on at the Wuvtrloy Ilospi:al,
Columbia,. T hitrydny-Marchx251h
tiis failjefc brought him-huii\e where
he'Tastcd oni" a fei.v flats before the"
Mid came.
His inany.friends visited his bedside
iftd t-poke?comforting -ws.rd- to' hint.
At pr m. Wednesday, a host of
riends assombied.'al Bc^Jtcl A. M. E,
1'hurch to pay their last respects to
citicov"IIi 1? ft with <ii. tin. .buugi.;: '
That we are-all going, to die, the
Quntr as well as the old." ' ' . .
The body was laid to rest in Bethel's
kmVtery. Many beautiful lloral de!?ivs
dbcoraUHl- IvU grave.
I.et each of.us live so that when our
inie upon -thi-s-rtdd earth has, expired
ve shall be able tu meet our Piloti
ace tu__face. ''When we havd crossed
ho bar.'' - -- - ?- - l.in-k?
dame* will 'he greatly mhea d
y us all, but We hope to meet him a-ain
bye and bye jji-h^trvcrT.""
lo.^f=Mrf=
antes B. Brockington, father;__Mrs".
lagOf^ Brocktng)I' Jgot4ior; -Mi'ss
emjie Brockington, Mrs. Millie BtirMrs.
Charity Ilemmingway and
fiss Flossie Rut-lodge, ""sisters; Mrs.
>. A. Clayvjlle. aur.t and a host of
tends-. '
We extend to the bereaved family
ur heart-felt sympathy.
"pviis Mavor Welcomes
X- A. A". C. I>. Meet i
Now York, April -Si-?=^VhAt. if .one
f" the most sFarTltfTg evidences of
rowth. in cooperation between white
ih! colored people in Southern-States
as come to the N.4A, A. C. r. in the
'tin. of a lettpr .'from .11. p., Jacl^sonr
fay or of El Paso, Texas, in which he
eh'omcs William Piekens, Field Soetarv
of the X. A. A. C. P. to the 1
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"f. William-Piekens. Fit-M Sec. Jv.?Ar-lon?
Siir '
" 1 am advised that you are coming- i
> our Cit y to deliver an address at .
iherty Hall on the afternoon of Sun-.'
ty, April 18. "|i
As the Mayor of El Paso, I desire I
* extend to'you a cordial weleome-and t
To.-w, tv.l i ^ 1 "
- ,..i.i iiuxiiu^ acre wni 1
? an ausjuciuos one. * i .1
11. r. Jackson,-Mayor.
"On t he ?}u aking"tour which takes '
ini to 111 Paso. Mr. Pickens will visit <
issouri, Arkansas, Texas. Ne\t' Mex-*
o and the Pacific Coast States of
'ashingtoti ami Oregon, returning by i
ay of Montana. South Dakota, ItYwa, t
[innesota, returning to Chicago in
me for the Annual Spring Conferice*in
that City of the N. A. A. C. P.
ext J line. '
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,S29,(U 5.K5.1?In New Insurance
Issued in 1925. Smashing AH
' ..Previous Records
112 OFFICES IN 26 STATES ~
In 1921 They Opened 35 New
I Offices And W rote ^2S.1'>S.9 i 1 _
Of New Insurance * ^T~
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Washington, 1). April I'.:?A comparison
of the condensed statements
of the business operations of Negro
11 i - uini ice col r,j11- h~TT^7STTr?rtrrTTr?
'h-'* t hi Nritinnid 'frvj.e.fi'' "Tltfe Tnsu
ranee .Company, with gem ral ot Vices' at ?
Wn^hii.j|, 1)."T*.. is ti.e country's
biggest c<?3?Tn?rrirts;uranc^edtn pap'y'.
The Washington re; vi ? r.tntive 'of ?
Negro big business, continued in 1':'25
the previously unprecedented strides
made in li?24, in which year the company
onerod ihit l\-iiu'1 i.y.r tram h
otlices an<i wrote S-A.loft.U44 <>f new
.insurance.-.. It closed lp^l- with a to.
tal field org^nizatiou of i'V branches
and a large increase-in all jTha'ses~of
its h i l<Tn r> ^ -i Rui too" 1777... nrr- n
u us already
?t.i.*r ri *.oi in 1 coverage ? r
increased to 11'2 branch othces, far
and away the greatest 'livid orghai-Eation
of Negro insurance history. And
Isaw o'.her advances e iual!y' notable.
-In new insurance written. I(j2o
regisiered a gain over the-impressive.
ecurd of 1P24 amounting to more than mmm
1 ^ *>! >%
S .51 tTT nTrc^^TP^SPrrrrnTT^^ftT^TWTr1 i euLh'.a. ?
new height* ofrvd constitute, a.-truly
amazing achievements- .
In premum jnc.ome," lb25 made a gain
of over $500.00u. The ' com- "
pane's. legal i'eserye on ..ivlk4es was.
raised _to the ' comfortable sum of
-?a 1J7.{> k>,OU;?the item--of- n?.l estate
owned jumped from $102.t?2S.00 to
J-^LL2^-Ttlaiu: uiirri the total, assets are - _
f. IW OWE $1 .nUO.ppUAIU. e ,... :
A sfl-p of l*M'-re;@hgjmmrram-i' ttr ?' **ihe
-Rrtce,-from- thofrvt yndydm?of--Ne- ???gro
bu^ngss^" prosngeT^tvas the ac- ")
puircnnnt?by the' NatN iThr Blouifit"""of ?-???
a large parcel of ground on U Street. ,
near' Fourteenth Street. Northwest,
the center of Negro business activity
in the National Capitol. i n which. site
the company is making plans to erect, .
a magnilicient new Iloi^e U:hcc Building
to be a landmaik and sign post
of Negro commercial progress na
:ii nally.
Those advances, though epochal, are I
:ho outcome of a progressive policy ...
ex?.emling t'ac-W?-4?*v?mwi^?ihm~J~ ? ?
pear.', fiuring which?liino?the hmad
foundations ' of permanent prosperity
tnd security have- been carefully laid. . ' ' "f?
In the growth which l'.'ilo recorded,
hereforo, therejs nothing of the impermanent
of the spectacular. Atnnzng
though those "figures .may be'iMioy
'he ^cumulative result of long and?
toady! planning, the fuitibp of y!'ar<i
>f eanservative upbuilding, and cotw .
'i^'1 sprviw to the Race
'wtunate in-that its matfagement has
nu-hani'ed ever since it- foundation
ri 1898. -The name of Sanniel Wilson
Rutherford, founder, still leads the
oster of its officials. Mr. Rutherford,
n the capacity of Secretary and Genenil
Manager, is still the guiding genlis
of the Company, ably seconded by
pis -son,""Robert?IT?Rutht-ifoi-d. who '
las hfild the chair of President for tTicT \
jast six1 years or more. and the sound- * *f
"ICA:-1 of whor^C c\C?Utl\C fllnlUJ IS 0
leuced most eloquently in the returns
ve have been Enumerating. .
The possession, among our racial
isscts, of institutions like the Naionaj
Benefit and its sister companies ,
s 'a matter for general congratulation.
As they grow in resources and .
n annual business so grows opportu-,
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