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THE TRIE
A BRftxiANT " . I
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i^cjuku rui^i
v In The Chicago Daly Tribune Of
_* July 6th Appeared A Poem
To This Poet of Color
Article In the "Line O' Type Or
Two" Column Originated By
The Late Bert Lester Taylor
In- the famous column, "A Line O'
Type-or--Two^in the--Chicago Daily
Tribune of July 6th, appeared a poem
to Countee Cullen, the brilliant Negro
poet. Thisacolumn was originated |
' by the llate Bert Leston Taylor and
was the first of the famous columns of
- modern newspaperdom. The poem of
the famous column reads:TO
COUNTEE CULLEN
It matters not if yourIHuh Is'dark
As the. midnight jtmgle track,
T~ thrill to the^"beat Tjf-ttre "song you
^ing
Feeline the torture and ract
That sundered the souls of your brother
slaves
For hundreds of dead years back, '
Under the march of your musical lines
I hear the wind in the-jungle pines
And the drone of the tom-tom's beat
With ebon savages under the_sun
In the' shimmering tropic heat.
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Chance gave you the soul of a mingt.ro)
fair
? Housed in ..a blackamoor's friTme,
With your heart tuned high to the
. upper air .
, Though a scion of scorn and shame,
Refusing an outcast's usual lot .
And turning it into fame!
l_r?The Faun.
White Girl and Colored
Husband Held for Theft
Phlt&deTpTiIaj PaT^fA colored man
and his white wife, Robert and Helen
Rockingham of New York, were arJ
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> icoicu acre wnen tney attempted to
cash a traveler's check, said to be one
"of 1$ for a' total oi SlOlbfl ru- 1
cently from the New York office of the
American Railway Express Company.
At a hearing before Magistrate Hoi
land in the. Central Police Court, th?
i couple was held on $2,500 ball each
for. a further hearing. ,
Seymour Carroll Visits
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North Carolina
Charlotte, N. C., July 14.?Seymour
Carroll,_fleld secTetary of the American
Humane Education, Society of
Boston, was here this week for two
days at the headquarters of the, Duke's
Funds. Mr. Carroll giving no reason
for his visit to Charlotte at this time.
While here friends motored him out
to Johnson C. Smith University where
he talked about the "Be kind to ani
mals spirit" in the college, stating that
most every leading college in the
South is following in the spirit of the
Boston Society that calls for fair play
and justice for: all. Maintaining his
silence he left the following morningr-for.?his
home in Columbia, S. C.
by?
* Dr. B. A. Everette Goes
\ : . < " -7?:
Olt Extensive Tour /
Dr. and Mrs. B. "Everette . and
/children will leave July 20th for
Chicago, where he will take a special
course. From there they will visit
Los Angelea and San Francisco, Calif.,
Portland, Oregon, Salt Lake City, U^jl.tah,
Denver, Colorado and St. Louis
ahd>Attend the Sesqul-Cnetennial and
National Medical Assn. at Philadelphi*
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JUNE PU
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FIGHT
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TRICKED BY AN
ADVERTISEMENH
Advertisejs For Girl to Assis
Wife In Caring For Baby
Attacks Responders
ONE GIRL 12, OTHER 1
Placed Under Heavy Guard A
Precaution Against Threat?
V ened Mob Violence
New Lexington, Ohio, July 9.?Cai
Brooks, a white rapist, of Basil, Ohi<
was arrested here Monday and place
in 'jail, under heavy guard, charge
with criminhlly assaulting two littl
girls, .one a 12 year-ord whft e~gfrlan
the other a 15 year-old colored girl.
According to Sherriff McNabb, wh
made the arrest, Brooks had advei
tised in a Columbus paper for a gii
to assist -his- w.ife in caring for
small baby. Edith, Cramlit, 12, c
South Columbus, answered the advei
tisement. Brooks is said to have calle
for the girl \a^t Friday in his aut<
mobile. He dr<?ve her into the wood
ntnyr Sh^w'ttee anl .attacked her. A3
ter keeping the child in the woods a
nightf Brooks a dollar ah
tojd her to go home.
Brooks is said to have repeated thi
criminal and fiendish procedure Sal
urday with Pearl Robinson, a littl
colored girl, who answered his adver
tisement. . ----- . .
Brook is 38?years-old and is mai
Sheriff McNab placed a heavy guar
around the jail as a precaution a
gainst mob violence which was threat
ened.' ~ %
I The Man The Woi
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| By MRS. CORA GETt
% ? ?- Continued
from last week
Secondly, the world calls for a ma
who ha* courage to say no, though th
world says yes.
The greater part of courage that i
needed by man today is not a heroi
kind, courage is needed in every da
ttffc as well as on historic fields o
battle. Man needs courage to be hor
est, courage'to speak the truth, cou
rage to resist temptations and courag
to be what he really is.
You must have an object in viev
a purpose' in life. A man without
purpose is like a ship without a rud
der. Once you get an object in vie:
set your teeth firm and hang on; hav
courage to say as Christ: "Get the
Satan behind me." I know it take
a strong man to stand up in the mida
of trials and temptations and' sa
no, and it is impossible to <lo it yn
less you season your life work wit
the practices and principles of Cheis
tianity, have faith and cash your .fait
in at Heaven's bank and get powe
Don't floats with the current. A chi
can do that but a man ought hav
courage to stem the tide when neces
sary.
V Public sentiment is beginnning t
measure a man not so much by hi
courage, but by what he does with il
Put manhood inito the world as a spi
ritual force to moldr purify and elc
vate.
. The world is calling for a man wh
konws how to treat his fellow mar
It is the dictate of wisdom to develo
friendship to teach unity not to soi
seed of bitterness for you can onl
reap the whirlwind of destruction.
Mdn will be wiser when he finds hi
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'.-GIRLS ART
UNHAPPY WITH
p - JAP HUSBAND
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t Sacrifices' Life When Girl Begs
Freedom After Father Interferes
5 BODY IN GAS-FILLED ROOM
s Dead Apparently 10 Days?Letter
Found on Body Tells of
Barrier BetweeiuTwo
rl Evansville, Ind.,?William Idi, 22,
), Japanese waiter, sacrificed his life
d that his bride might bfe happy. His
d body wgs found in a gas-filled room
e here. He had been dead apparently
tT ten days* it
Two weeks ago, Idi with Gladys
t?-JIines, 19 year old, crossed the Ohio
> river to Henderson, Ky. There they
rl applied for a Carriage license. When
a the clerk was about to issue the li?f
cense, the girl fearful of her father's
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-...mm. vimiiKcu uci ilium ann iom
id ihe clerk she _was only 1,9. The li>_
cense \yas refused.
Is A few days later, however, the
f- pair married,' A fcWr foiin<? in the
11 dead man's pockets tqMg^ragjs==t?le
4- :of the barrartie t we enthe Japanese
and his white sweetheart,
s' * "If you don't give me $100 to get
> the niarri_age annulled," it said, "111
e kill myself. Father said if71 niar _
ried a Japanese, Jjg^wbuld send both
'of us tc^jail. I don't want you to go
-to jail, sweetheart, and would die by
--'inches if- I had to go." ^"^".7d
The annullment was granted by
the Japanese himself and the gas
- wrote out t,he decree.
.. - ?St. Louis '(Mo.) Argus.
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rid Calls For To-day |
IERS, Georgetown, S. C.
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friends of whatever locality or whatever
faith of whatever rank, and pour
into their open bosoms.the full m'ease
ure of your confidence. Cultivate a
Jove for justice as an example1 for
your neighbors; ally yourself with the
~ best men in ?he community or State
wherever you live and command the
? admiration of all fair-minded men.
^ The World calls for a man, who
will fire no blank cartridges, but will
e pour hot shot into every form of evil
The world is not as king is he rich or
r> has he This or that faculty, but it
n * ~ *
I does cry out in tones which echo
v through the avenues, of life: "Is he
e a man?" Over the door of every pro-*
e fession the world has written in
8 large letters: "Wantedr a man." Diagones
sought with a lantern at noon
y,
f time for ^ perfect, honest man and
h sought in vain. In'the market place
i- he cried: "Hear me, 0, ye men," and
h when the crowd had" gathered, he
r looked arpund scornfully and said:
""I- called for me men, not pygmies."
have broken ^away from the dead
? things of the past and like Napolean
8 before the Alpine heights that stood
.* like impregnable barriers before him,
cried: "There shall be no Alps."
Men! do you realize who you are?
o Wake up Sampson, ere the Phillis>
tines pounce in upon you. Rise to
p your feet, look your God in the face
iV v '* ' '
for He has charged you solemnly to
y BE A MAN.
5" ? "To be ConqfrnprNfflrt Ws&r
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"URDAY, JULY it 1926.
OEM TO
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ESTATE
STRIKES WOMAN
. WITH HIS FIST
Zula Field's, 13, Colored, Shot
And Fatally .Wounded. Ot ho
Ross Dickson, 20
LUMBER YARD FOREMAN
Dickson and-"Others Were On
Sidewalk Shooting Dice When
Woman Attempted to Pass
Memphis, Tenn.?Zula Fields, 19,
colored, shot and~fatally wounded Otho
Ross Dickson, 20, lumber yard
foreman, white man who insulted her
mother, Mrs. "Delta Fields "when shiT
attempted to pass them on a sider
walk where they were shooting dice.
Dickson struck ?the mother with his
fist when she resented the insult.
When she returned home and told her
1 daughter of the incident the girl pro
| cured a pistol, went to the mill and
shot her mother's assaultor. She also
wounded another white, Robert
Ellis, 24. The* girl fl^d after the
shooting and was- not captured.
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|N. A. A. C. P. Publishes
Full Text of Chicago
Address To Country
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? New York?The " Nation.^4 Association
for flie Advancement of Colored
People today made public the
address to the American people, adopted
at the 17th Annual Conference in
Chicago. The address states,., thatthe
problem of residential segregation
is the foremost issue affecting
race relations, denounces segregation
of colored employees in the government
departments^ in Washington,
urges complete independence of party
allegiance on the pari Af I'Ulbrud
voters, and urges that .white labor7recognize
its community of interest
with colored labor.
The nddres in full is as follows:?The?pressing
problem before im
this year is that of residential segregation.
?There 'is widespread determination
to enforce a ghetto in
the United States in spite of the
clear letter of the law and the decision
of the courts. We have been
fighting this tendency for. years and
despite the temporary delay involved
in the latest decision of the Supreme
Court, we ^e already continuing 'this
fight. The court has not yet passed
upon the essential point and that is
as to whether it is gootL public policy
in a great democracy to divide and
classify against segregation is a fundamental
fight for democracy among
all people in this country.
For a long tiroe._.the. Southern
States of the United States have defied
democratic -gwvern'ment in this
land, i ney lorm an oligarchy where
the political power is held by a small
minority of the qualified voters and
by a minority which does not represent
the best intelligence of their own
section. This condition has been pcrmitted
by the silent acquiescence of
the North and by a series of evasive
and unconstitutional laws and practices.
The most outrageous of-these
laws were the so-called "Grandfather
Clauses." Through the cooperation
of this Association these*laws
were finally declard unconstitutional
by TtroSupreme Court. There still
remain however, the laws and??custorrts
which support the White Primary.
The White Primary is ah at*
tempt to substitute a?single politiContinued
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ASSAULTED
TERRORIZE WOMEN
ON STREET CAR
1 4?' =? Street
Car, Scene of Much Rowdyism;
Conductor Refused- 1
To Interfere
TWO WOMEN MANHANDLED
Crowd alights After Breaking
Lights, and Windows, Doing
Much Damage To Car '
St. Louis, Mo.?About eleven o'|
clock oivthe night of July 5th, a num,
ber of white rowdies boarded the Kirk
I wuuu-r L-rguson car at namona fark
' iin St. Louis county, assaulted two
J colored women, Mrs. Theresa Canada
[and Mrs; Joella Bell of 3453 Laclede
| ?ve. The two colored women were reI
turning from Kinloch, Missouri, where
j they had been to visit relatives and
! were sitting" in . the same seat, when-|
a crowd of about thirty whites, men
. and women, boarded the car ath Ramona..
Park. t The men of the" party
' immediately began to sneer at the
! Negroes in the car and pulled out-the
ptigTitg; ''Iff ffrfgr ~6tt t:^-^he1r^nurm>er"
' on their shoulders so "that^frc cuilST
Unscrew the bulbs, in the car. They
thbn assaulted Mrs. Canada and Mrs."
Bell, struck and beat them and called
them vile names and hurled indecent
epithets at them. Both women were
roughly ^handled and considerably
bruised.--8$^. Canada's face and jaws
were injured. * ?r~>
This" rowdy "Condhct was Tcept tTp '
until thejcar passed Normandy*, The
bunch got off at Pine Lawn, after having
done much damage to the car.
Although repeatedly asked for help,
the conductor made no effort to stop :
the rowdies or to protect the women,
ana Mrs. Canada says that the con*:""
ductor grinned at them' when they left
the car at Wellston. Some of the
rowdies had also got off at Wellston
and proceeded t6 throw- /ocks into
thf Hudfimitinl car whlt'li tliu womun and
other Negroes boarded at that
point.
Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Canada have retained
Attorney Geo. L. Vaughn and
-will file suit against the street railway.
' ?The Argus.
"Farmer" Hall Makes
Strong Plea^for Better
Farming
Greensboro, N. C. July 13?"Farmer"
L. F. Hall, district agent of
Smith-Lever work among Negroes of
North Carolina, in an address before
the student body of A. & T. College
summer session, made a strong plea
in behalf of farming and farnn life
"Farmer" Hall spoke from practical
experiences and observations and
lurnisnen aaxa ana statistics which
have been gathered from actual conditions.
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"Farmer" Hall declared.that if the
farm is lifted up, all things will bo drawn
unto it. He also presented
several factors which are means of
lifting uji the farmers. "The farmer"
said the speaker, " must learn to
translate 1iis profit into a higher
standard of living and must not look
upon himself as an inferior part of society."
District Agent Hall recommended
that the farmer must have soil, soil
that is fertile, efficient labor, good
seed, dlpltal, innate desire for rignteou^
living and intelligence sufficient
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GASEPENPING ?
? SINCE 1923 ^ ~
When Julia Burdeaux Died In
?1923vShe left $169 Estate
2 Undertakers Claim It _V|.
NEPHEW WAS RULED OUT
I Money Was Given to Hart, The
- Undertaker, who Happened
^ To Be The Administrator
Memphis, Tenn.?-When Julia Burdeaux
died in 1923, she left an estate
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of $169. Two undertakers claimed the
money,- W. A. Hart of Beale Avuene
arrd^amwell and Spencer7 A third
claimant was Ed Collins, who presented
himself as a nephew.
Collins was ruled out and the undertakers
went to court with their"
fight over the deceased woman's monkey.
Barnwell claimed the monev was
due them for funeral expenses. *3uC"-v
Hart declared the body was taken
from him by writ after he had prepared
it for burial. ..Hart "happened to
be the administrator of the estate so *
off for hit. bill which anioUhted to just
$1G9 for services rendered. Judge
Guthrie,alio wed his actions were legal. ..."
Norfolk Branch N? A. A.
C.P. Fights Segrega-?
tion Ordinance
According to announcement made
today by the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
the Norfolk Branch of the 'Associa'ion
llnuugh 1tS Pfl'Kld^hf. Attorney
David H. Edwards, is opposing-an ordinance
designed to segregate Negroes
The case* was argued recently befoYe " . 7
he Norfolk Courts.
The teat ease ai'osfr whin Hainui'l
Costen moved into a house at the
corner of Maple and Majestic Avenues.
White neighbors swore out a
warrant against Costen in protest against
his presence in the house at the
above adress. Judge Spindle heard
argument made by" the attorneys.
John B. Gentry and J." Lewis Broudy.
appeared for the City of Norfolk,
while Mr. Edwards appeared for Mr.
Costen. The City_attorneys conten- . J..
ded that the Norfolk ordinance in /
some essentials is different from the o t
Louisville ordinance which the .-Supreme
Court declared unconstitutional
In 1917. Their contention was
based upon the fact that the Nor- /
folk ordinance is an exact copy of the
New Orleans ordinance which is now
pending in the United States Supreme
Court, having been carried there by
he New Orleans Branch of the N. A.
A. C. P. The contention is based upon
the decision that the ordinance
does not deny ownership, but simply
bars a Negro property owner from
occupying his property or renting it
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to Negroes.
?Mr. Edwards, on the -other hand,
argued that the denial of the right of
effectually a restriction of property
rights and that the provision giving
citizens the power to waflte the effect
of the ordinance by their'signatures
was an improper grant of legislative
power. j
Judge Spindle toc^k the case under
advisement" and then notified attorneys
that they could file briefs, se
ting July 15th as the date of the. next ?
hairing, , ?