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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. . .
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,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.
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-{- - 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
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; 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*".
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COLUMBIA, S. C., SAr
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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
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. 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
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TURDAY, JULY 3, 1926.
0
QTECT RACESOUNDS
GAVEL FOR
C.I TI ZEN S H LPMillion
Dollar Funrfv To Frght.
Jim Ciow and Disfranchise*
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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.
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"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.
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ranchis
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CONTEST
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THE NEGRO A
j- GIFTED ARTIST ~
-The Negro As a Race "Has Alays
Exhibited Peculiar Ar- 1 r
tistic Ability, Says Da Bois I
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HAS BEEN HANDICAPPED,
I The Religion apd Art of Bla?k
i Men Lona Known in Ethinnin
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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/-> ? ^
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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
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??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<
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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
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New York, June P5 Telf graphic???-?
sports to the N. A. A. C. P. state
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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?~ ..... _
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