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L-w : 'v, ' > 1 = Slight To Asks W\ VQI? IT-^NO 1_ jUTHl DAUGHTER OF. OUR DR. WILKINSON Miss Lula Love Wilkinson, Youngest Daughter, Pres.?R. S. Wilkinson, State Col. WINS HIGHEST HONORS ^ Farewell Message Was Paper of ?? Merit, and Showed Thought In"ItsF Preparation. -# McGhec News Service':?Miss Lula Love Wilkinson, youngest daughter of President R. S. Wilkinson, State College graduated from Drew Seminary, Carmel, N. Y., June 8th, ? as valedictorian of her_class. - Speaking of the occasion, The Putman Coun ty Courier said: "Miss Lula Love^Vilkinson delivered her farewell message. It was a paper of merit, showed that thought and care had been given its preparation while the delivery : equally iiieritorious."" Miss Wilkin: on's standing as head* of her class " -p;"i"Ae" for the jbost record in French. Dutlfig the stay of~~Miss Wilkinson """""at D''cWr*^ie has ' led'Tier class^ sesi-and won the friendship of her classmates and much high praise from member s-o'n the faculty. For her ex? ecptional ability and high average she was chosen valedictory from a class of more than fifty. ?jy-^-L^Sho in the first girl of the race to ?^ htfvc this distinction from Drew. .Miss Wilkinson will enter Oberlin College, her father's alma mater, next fall. Wife _ _.r. . - . ' |Mt. Hounds Trail Barefoot Man To Home of Brother, But He IsojsUill at Large Kansas City, Mo., June 24?Mrs. Emma Owens, 38, who has been living with Wesley Hurse, 36, at 2427 (^ampbell Street, was murdered by Hurse Saturday morning about 4 a. m. rri 1 > _ i j : . i . iTitrttt?mi woman a neaa was nearly severed from her. body by a razor. The thud of her fall to"thc. floor awakened two of her daughters who live with her. Mrs. Owens recently separated from her husbapd. Hurse left tbe razor on the ice box near the back door, took off his hlnndy riothip.fr nnd flpd in bfa ii^n^ wear and bayefeet. Hounds placed on his trail led first to the railroad tracks and then tcylhe home of Hurse's brother, James; 2022 Euclid. Up to yesterday, however, Hur^e was still at large. No o^e seems to know what led to the killing. Miss Bertha Lee Beane, 15, arid Mrs. Willa Mott, 22, who is also separated from her husband, are the.two daughters who lived with their mother. They were awakened by her fall in the hallway between thei*r bedrooms. The dying woman was evi/ dently on her way to get them to help her. Their screams aroused the neighborhood. Raymond, a small son of Mrs. Mott, who lives with his mother \ at the Campbell street address. The other two daughters of Mrs. Owens are Alice Lee, 19, 1711 Michigan and Aifa Xdkinson, 23, Bryant, Texas. Mrs. Octavia Clark, 1725 Charldtte, - 4 is a sister of the dead woman. The Hurse home is in Jefferson, ^^"t^axas. Mrs. Owens had lived in Kansas City for severPyears find at the Campfell street address for two years. The funeral was held yesterday from Fflgftd fth I p Baptl at - Church where M rs. Owens was a?member. . . | ' | ' \ / | " Negro Off 900 Di reedonn n ggg I j? LOS T>PI ANGELES OlVt COLORED WO ,100,000 COLORED WOMEN ORGANIZE Pletle eTheir Support at IHp 17fh Annual* Conference of N. A.? A. C. P. aL Chicago, III. MRS. ADDIE HUNTON, PRES. ( j This Is No Doubt the Real Be- J irinninfr of ihp Clnh Mnvo. I " ~? -{- - pient Among Colored Women ! Chicago, June 24?Mrs. Addie W. Hunton, of Brooklyn, N. Y., President I of the Empire State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, tonight assorted bfefore the 17th Annual Confeienee of the N. A. A. C. P. that ,throughout the country were organized to protect the citizenship and eWil rights of the Negro-in America and would onthusiastically ^ support^^thej > ing waged by the National Association for the "Advancement of Colored .People. ; . "... <? } "When Anwxlc&n slavery ceased." i ; said,. Mrs.- Hunton,. "nearly two mil-' ; Ton colored women were thrown out! ! into a civilization not only hostile for' r"he mdSl Jlfil'l, out in wnicn tney were 1 also the most misreprese^ted-Jand i most misunderstood factor. " . . "As a matter of self-preservation .these women iristinctively realized the, value of organization and almost at once, they" began to form societies i for mutual benefit and protection^ _This~was^-no doubt the real beginning of the club movement among colored " women," although "it- was" almost 30 years later that the National Association of Colored Women was formed and began a real unifying of women's interests. "Now there are. more than 100,000 ( intelligent women of vision so systematically organized that it begins with the local club, penetrates through ] State, section and nation into thei1 great International Council of Women. "It is. only reasonable to expect that the National Association for the Ad1 vancement of Colored People, the outstanding organization doing effective :j work on issues affecting the Negro in America, should have?behind it the I' % ; full force and" power Of the largest organized group. ?pf colored women in he world '""""m Km . demonstrated their desire to support the National Association for the Ad V vopcement of Colored People, but- the ' time is now ripe, we believe for a positive affirmation of their readiness to stand behind the Association in a more united way than ever before. "Jtfary B. Talbert, the late President of the National Association of Colored "Women, held her torch aloft against lynching and the women in every part of the United States lighted their torches from her's and there was such light thrown upon that horrible crime that the nation knew it in shnme. This worthy effort of Mary B. Tal- i bert has left, its challenge for us. Knowing the spirit and heart of colI *, , ored .womanhood, I predict that segre1 gation, disfranchisement and the other evilfr which nullify the rjghts of col^ ored citizens will receive their sever, est defeat when the womanhood of the race enthusiastically organizes its . next crusade JoJieip-ihe A. A. C.... P. in its fight for rea^itizenship for -Trtt colored American*". leers Has rive Fc 1 ? , I And Si JultUK J \ *> J ' , - COLUMBIA, S. C., SAr :,ARS 1'Hl iMF.N Wll .l. PR WHITE OFFICERS I ARE DISCHARGED Houston Whites Refuse'to Walk 1 ? In Squad With Follow Offi -eers; Are Fired LEFT THE FORMATION, Ttprnusp Nntrrn Offippre YVprp ' Plated In Rear of Squad. Officers Sfep out, Walk Alone^ Houston. Tex? June 23?-3" white traffic officeVs were discharged from - *,Hj T ** ' vHU ?V> uHD . REV. SAMUEL B. WALLACE . Rev. Samuel R. Wallace, a pi-oduct of Columbia anil Sidney Park Church, will begin his ' map crural ministry at Sidney Park C. M. E. Church, Sunday, ] July Jth, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Rev. ( Wallace will alsp deliver his first address at Epworth League service at fi p. m. Rev. Wallace is well-known in this j City and is loved by all who know him. lie has gained many friends since his arrival. He. is a man of standing quality, and is seconcPto none throughout the C. M. E. Church. Rev. Wallace comes highly reccommended from Philadelphia where he has successfully pastored for the past 5 .years, and his work there was and is along'tvith the best in the C. M. E? Connection. All officers of the different Boards (of this -Church) are asked to assemble at the Church at 10:30 Sunday morning. All pastors who are not in their pulpits, all the dmsiness mreTr oP L he City and all visiting friends are asked to come out and witness oiir services-. A good program is promised for the ^ League at 6 p. m. The publlic is cor- ^ lially invited to attend. ' c he Houston Police Department, Sa- a iurday, after having refused to walk a from the police station to their beats on Preston and Main Streets with a company of officers which contained * two colored policemen. The colored officers went on duty at 3 p. m., and it was customary for the officers to form a line at the police ^ station and wallc^to where they dis- 1 band and go to their respective beats, a According. to chief ot police Good- -5 son who discharged the men, the 3 ii traffic policemen refused to walk with r the company oh account of the colored ^ officers, who were placed in the rear t position.?Instead of keeping in ill* line the three officers stepped out of F the formation and walked alone. ftl .9 : y Cost Thr >r Disi upport TURDAY, JULY 3, 1926. 0 QTECT RACESOUNDS GAVEL FOR C.I TI ZEN S H LPMillion Dollar Funrfv To Frght. Jim Ciow and Disfranchise* .. V LAST VESITGES SLAVERY \ It Is Possihlf* nnH Fonsihlo Fnr American Negroes to Raise This Million Dollar Fund Chicago, June 28-^A million dollar fund to fight segregation, Jim Crow and disfranchisement, "the last vestiges of slavery," was launched yesterday afternoon in the Auditorium Theatre-at g'Tnass meeting or the Kational Association for the Adypjtoement of Colored People, now -holding its 17th Annual Conference here: The fund was launched riming nn tidrlroagt>y the...Secretajty-of-tho A^hoxrtetioftr James Weldon Johnson of New York, ex-U. S. Consul to Nicaragua and Yenequela, writer and editor of corrr-pi'ations -of -Negro ppetry and Spirituals. ."What American Negroes need and what we propose to begin raising now" declared Mr. Johnson, "is a fund of one million dollars to fight segregation, Jim Crow and disfranchiisiement, these being the last vestiges of slavery. ^ - ?.? "Suih a fund will be a demonstration of the mass power which-the Negro intends to use and wAl serve nd-^ tice upon the country of the Negro's dctermination to i.euure and maintain every tunciamental right which should be his in common with other Americans. "It is possible and- feasible for American Negrpes to raise this million dollar fund. The race has the money and can give. -'The demonstration was recently given in the quick raising of a Legal Defense Fund of more than $70,000. "The American Negro asks no allowances, for what may be his short onilngs or- his lapses. But he does lcmand equality of treatment. Ignorant white men have rights; povery-stricken white men have rights; uid even/white criminals have cerain rights; and these rights belong o them/tegardless of their condition. kVe intend to see that unhappily ciriumst^nced black Americans have the samcy* guarantees and opportunities as inhappily circanistanced white Ameri:aps. ''We shall, moreover, use this powSt to snpish the practices which alow .the most ur4?C*>pt white person o travel under- fircf elooo ??,1;i:- ? - iwrv V1UOO LVyilUILU/n^ Chile the neatest colored person must ravel Jim Crow; that allow the most gnorant white citizens to vote and >ar the most intelligent black citizen; hat allow a white man charged with rime to be tried by a court of law ind a black one to be burned by a mob it the stake." Fudge Cobb Sworn In Washington, D. C., June 23?James i. Cobb, formerly- connected with the aw department of Howard University ir?d special assistant to the United n Monday morning as judge of the nunicipal court. Judge George C. lukam of that court administtered he oath. t!ildge Cobb succeeds the late Judgk tobert E. Terrelb Many friends of' he new judge tvjere present. ?L*:.. ee Cops T ranchis For Ne? . i CONTEST S CITIZENSHIP i : h: THE NEGRO A j- GIFTED ARTIST ~ -The Negro As a Race "Has Alays Exhibited Peculiar Ar- 1 r tistic Ability, Says Da Bois I : " 4 -L-i? ' *" !0 HAS BEEN HANDICAPPED, I The Religion apd Art of Bla?k i Men Lona Known in Ethinnin And Egypt _ r< -1 , . ftl Chicago, June 29?Asserting that ^ iheart and creative ability of the Ne-j ^ gro race-, manifest throughout history, : r* was now coming to-expression in A- ja' mciica. Dr. W.JE. F)n %>'?, FHitnr 1__ 4>f The Crisis Magazine, speaking at | the closing mass meeting tonight of! ^ Ithe 17th'Annual CajSjftrence of the Na- ^ lional AssociatTolp^or the Advance- ^ mgnt ot Uaforet* l-'Oople. urged ,free-^himn ajid si^pport lor' Negro artists. Dr.. Du Bois said: "It-has beeha /! truism tliat American?JCegroes are , ^ gifted irr music, but It isr not widely $ recognized that' the Negro -as a race has always exhibited peculiar artis-1 1 lie ability. The great sphinx at Gizeh r( has the face of a Negro The rrli?.,? gion and art of black men has long n >ecry -known in Ethopia andEgypt. u Further than this, in black Africa, in-ttrtr great valley of the Congo and 01 on the West Coast," artisans and ar-.^lists havclabored for thousands of Wiar-s to express beauty in form and ^ong." " ~ . J] "The si-ive trr?,ln -n"inh =&* ort and kilL this natural artist ternfterament, but .slowly it surged for- ? ward again. First, in the music which : became the only Negro folk song, ni and then in the_xlance, and finally in ^ nil V (Inv it has pnmn t/-> ? ^ ..J vwi.iv KV HIV/IC c*i in IIIUIC articulate 'expression through the spokeYi and written worth. "What now are the helps and crite* 'a of these new beginings? First, of all, art must fcave freedom. It must not be hampered, on the one hand, by ,K the preconceptions of the white audi- '1f once and it's desire for^ silly and- lewd 1 ^ j"entertainmcnt., And">6n ~cftw?r han&, it must not -be shackled by_the sensitiveness and natjural recoil of black folk from the past and from ' their caricature at the hands .of ^ whites. * The Negro artist noitf hnvn frnn ill! lorn to wander where he will, por- m' tray what he yyill, interpret whatever he may see according to the great conorts of beauty which the world ^ through long experience has laid down. \] "Next to this, the artist must have support. The American Negro as a race and in accordance with his numbers does not regd books. does not t support periodicals, does not buy pic- re 'urea. All this we must learn to do. of \\r., ...wl.t e c-_ ??w wu^uv nave iuui ui iivu ma^a- \vr ?ines with a circulation of a hundred ve thousand each: our weekly newspa- on pOrs ought to be quadrupuled in circulation we ought to have a^half doz- all <n dailies; and above all, twelve mil- no lion people ought regularly to buy be wo million books a yc^r, and draw- 0f ings and paintings and musical com- wl positions in proportion. Only in this su way can we give to the world p new Sa Negro American art. t loj "Such an art being fre'6 and having adequate support has an astonishing- pe ty fertile" field before if:::::tragedy Sucfi ,co! as the modern world has seldom sur- to passed, comedy of exquisite depth pa and appftal, new and unusual beauty <^f Pericles and the 15th Century had setrrely finer tppeftl to souls." 'u< -- -j V " - i i n? i i ? , Jl heir Jobs ement fro Arfcr 9. ' ' ' . . ? : : .. A 5c \ COPY 7 RECORD iABY CONTEST BREAKS RECORD laby Hudson Raised SI 06. Gloria, ?. Roberts Raised $311, Ruth - - Fowler $292 lEPORT $4,050:55 RAISED, ther Baby Contests Recently . Completed, Foretells Banner Year for Baby Contests ??1" y New York, June P5 Telf graphic???-? sports to the N. A. A. C. P. state ~ V* 4 iat- all?records foi-N,A,A, C. P.? aby Contests have been broken in os Angeles where the Branch has lised a total of $4,050.55 in-one such ^ Tair. ' ' . .~.;r The telegram, addressed to Wil- _ am ^ic!cehs,~FTeTd Secretary of the ? Association by Mr?. M. D. Scott, hairman of'tlie Loso Angeles Baby onte.st, reads as follows:-. Hudson Daby, $100. Gloria Rub- ~ Ls, ?311. Ruth Fowler, $20^ Alonlarion Kaufman, $216.- Lulu Green, 177. Woodley Lewis, 615G. Total, . 1,050.55.. rr The first three babies also broke ;cords for individual totals in Baby ontcsts. Besides Mrs. Scoit- tVm icmbers of the contest committee" ere Dr. Vada J. Sommerville, Secreirry;'Mrs. Simuil Johnson, Asst. Se-. etary; Mrs. T; A.. Cole Treasurer; [rs. Ruth Fowler, Program "Com mitie; Mrs. Mamie V. White, Publicity. Other baby contests recently comIcted include: Needles, Calif., total )1 75, Mrs_J, A. Oiegury, Chairman; ~ rr_ !rs". Otis- Neal, Secretary.- Santa afbara, $92.20; Dayton, O., $370.25, xs. L. W. Hathcock, Chairman; Lia, O., $355.11, Mrs. Rosetta Chavous, hairman; Williamsport, Pa., $82.?81; ary, West Va., $191.97, Mrs. Memlis T. Garrison, Chairman, Chairman ** inneapolis, Itityn., $-100; St. Paul, inp,, $150.00. Mr. Pickens also wires from Sioux alls, South"Dakota, that a, record in ; sr capita contributions through a >pular baby contest has been set by e Sioux Falls Branch of the N. A. . C. P. The telegram reads as folws: intiy * *=-eororetf propter hero btifr? bies' contest? brought $1$9 "or move an $2 for each "of colored populan.; "Rain all day long but big audiee of whfitas in cjfy^ qqH !?iim wn" ' eeting. rEGREGATION ISSTE FACES EGROES IN MONICLAIR, N. J. Div-\V. G. Alexander, President of he National Medical Association,! ports to the N. A. A. C. R the rise segregation in Montclair, N. J., tore suit has been brought to prent the sale of property to a coled man. A eroiin of Mnntolo^ ? > ! ? - w r ...V.ivviaii Willi*; pcopiu, eged to have signed an agreement t to sell or leae to Negroes,. have gun legal proceedings against one their number, Harold D. Speer, , ? 10 recently sold a house which was< bsequently occupied by the J. E. dler Realty, Mr. jSadler, it is aired being colored.Mr. Sadler reported that the prorty had been sold to a New Ynrlc ? lored man whose name he declined ^ divulge. "He added," the news, per report says, "that he knew no- 4 ing^of the action started by the jeetors and that so far as he knew... 1 _ would, ^consummate the Rale * tkjh has not been entirely compla?~ ..... _ "iifiiiriiiiT"