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V *. . ?? Nation* RACE NE I I I ? -?- VOL". III. -NO- 22. v* ' -f, - :?, ; . ' " i ,i. , '. - - -X- 1 '; ' IN MISSISSIPPI FLOOD AREA: ' [* ' ? ' Wa'lcr WhiU?t Assistant Secretary of N. A- A. C. P. Investi- 1 i? at es' for. Associat ion RED (ROSS ACJOVE] Some Negroes Thought Their *hidi4*w-4?elonircd to Whitej * : - Ltind Owners New York, May 27?Nepjroes held ? ? m ihi'!':ij;'!' i*i the Mississippi flood :;reu_ainU prevented from leaving com rent :;:tiraj camps without the consent ?>t" iheir landlords, also attempts to, charei; NV'i'ro tenants with the-flood' relic.!' administered to them, are re-! "fu?*U'd* Iiv Walter, White, Assistant! Secretary yf the National AssoOia-.i iiei1'for,the Advancement of Colored"! Too pie. (lif Filth Avetiue. who has r?,?turned from ,a.,trtur including Mem pirn1., <faeks<jn, Vicksburjr, New Or io. n.-/ a':<i <>thpoints, in the flood Ml'fa. . . - *. ' 1 A!,-. White reports instances of NV. r< c cscaf ioii' refugee camps and j>ri.*"ci rwru'- to U'n- without food, shel-: . . . * I- .? tor and dotping. rather-than?to he rci mod to-- the plantations from ?- r rndv tv doo.1 had <iriVeil Ttfeiil. Ml'. White' released the following' sattc-! _ ..nfont lo<Iav at the otTices orf the NaA t it lial- Association lor thef. Advance* : irn iit- of Colored People: "In response ,tn~coniplamts_ul" peon;i;re-. in the 11 Ississippi flood- area. -I i Washington, D.. C.?Mr. S. W. Ruth erford, Secretary-Manager, of the National Benefit Life Insurance Co., ~ of Washington, with headquarters lie re a t-the National Capital received telegraphic* advice yesterday to the ?~ t (Tect thai the effort to embarrass the situation with re.spect_.to the acquisition rtf the Sandard Life Insurance Company in Atlanta, has VroyecT fledge Humphries "presiding, to" whom application was made for the appointment of-a receiver and for an injunction and other legal prohibi-? tions, not only vacated the temporary uent l > that territory and .in my tour veiled Memphis. Vicksburg, Jackson,' .. :^o\v Orlc.Mi-- ami platen in theilooiicil ictrion. At Memphis, I talked! w.ilh !>r. W illiam R. Redden, Chief i AlevUc'aI-X)tl':cvir-?for-the .Red- Cross in-j the I'Moo ! Area. Th*. Redden author- [ ized me to quote as follows: J The Red Gross emphatically disap-1 proves..of. any attempts to use this] 'dVaster'by .landlords further to en-; shvve?Negro tenant farmers^ and share croppers.. Aid i? given directly' to ihe individual-suH'orer, It would he an interc-ting prohlton t'd see that ;rtfempts hy landlords and others* to charge relief against tenants are checked when such relief is given to refugees after they b^ve returned to j their homes.?' . .A -? 1?J T~ marry refugee cantpsy however,: '''' ,V(hTo(V''arc released only to 'their'] landlords and are sent hack to the plantation from which ithey |came'. This fact, was confirmed to me by General Cui'tis T. Green, Commanding Gtlicer at Vicksburg of the Mis-." slssippi National Guard : troops who 1 are keeping older in the area cohering registration from parts of Sun-.. flower, Boiiver, Yazoo,- Warren and Holmes Counties and all of Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington and Humphreys .r'niint ips. (ieneral flreen told ino -lliiU?plantation immerr, tmmw t(n tho~amps topick out 'their, Negroes' anil that labor agents arefrom the tamps 'no man beiWjj "permitted to talk to any other hut his own Negroes.' ?. "The extent of virtual imprison*. merit of Negro flood sufferers, to prevent escape from the plantation areas is attested in a despatch from Cleveland Mississippi published in the Viyksburg Evening Post of May NATIONAL BENEFIT ___ , ? ?- ; ' C; si Funei WSPAPER ' " 1 - ' .-'-gggl?l, . . .. , i ..." . .T" 7^ *"T r"~ 3?-in which it 4* slated: ~> I ] A meeting fo the executive coin- _ m it tee of the Citizens' Relief. Committee was held jointly withJ^C.Ale- _ Cross relief wi.rk here. The lrat'Vr .of par: jes, un eriny r >?a nie?range of the <U*/ta section not overt'owed, coming to Cleveland with the view aTfil purpose, wf .being. permitted?to- -remove families from the ^aoip *aud ' place.- them on their- own plantations was thoroughly discussed and con? sidcred, with the result that the mat- ' tor of releasing families or individuals to parties other- than to the one wiht whom they have previtiosly ' ontiaetfd for the ..vtmV; ttio placed in the hands of V. \V. Thomas. Air. Thinortft was instrueled try the Com.Tnittee not to- release any family or'* persons?front tht, eainp ' except 'on written consent of the landlord from whose plantation the laborers caino'. or on the personal request or au?hori -/tition of thr^4andlor?h*: :? ? "At a number of'ramps I was told of , Negroes eluding guards "and escaping, preferring Mb forego food, shelter, clothing and medical atfoplion rathev than go hack t<> the plantations l'r< in which the flood \\ at m ' had driven the in.~ At some of .the . camps Negroes ' we re being la lan out. by industrial firms, being-, chock-'.' ed out of the camps and .checked in again when vheirlahors "were i in is he'd .Most of these men had no oh; Miction to working,, even though no1 paid, bpt .they objected to the. beating, cursing and kicking, they had. to end ure7 fhere a re "also iTunier'jjus mstances...of brutality in the. treat- '? meat of Negroes forced to'work on . the levees under the guns of soldiers and?even?white civilians! TTi iiui,. places, notabjy Greenville atid N.oaG?1 Landing, Negroes' were; thus .,con-. 1 -svaa-pt-eil?among them .befog-ntr-inr-nr? ' arfce agent, and they' were kept 'at" ;\vofk even when if was plain the le"Vee would break; When the bleak cairn;, this insurance agent told: .me ~1 he saw some forty, or fifty Negroes swept away by the waters; presumably to death. Ht, managed to fight f ' his way hack to the levee, lie is a graduate of Tuskegee, married, with a child and entirely trustworthy, and reputable. He injured his foot in the break of the levee but was" pat to ' wopk on the levee at Greenville, he- -j 1 ing allowd to obtain t'atmont for j hisr injury only when that levee cave | ' way two (rays rater. ?"In conclusion I will give one more J I authorized quotation 'from Dr. Red-;1 den, showing the conditions prevalent i | in the delta: Some of the Negroes did not even.1 know that their own bodies belong-, j ed to them, when wemiuitlil'Ut-w* j cinato tlieni they, said .hat it jcouJ^L.. rju- ?onu uiuy <nu'r uieir plantation; bosses jtfavc their permission. When some of "these plantation owners oh-' jected we had to tell them- 'Kithei ^ | vou will pormit or wo u iirf stop relief;' "In my talk with responsible heads | of the Red Cross I was impressed with their 'attitude of fairness and impartiality hut of course individual subordinates in domtr" the work do not ^always act in accordance with the,1 expressed spirit of the Rial Cross. ' The attention of the central admin- ' ist ration is beinpr called to the. oom-i* plaints'' V . r^.. - . -.i RETAINS STANDARD ?7~ ?. ' ' i injunction, hut went further and en-' joined the group, heading his move- j ! ment from further embarrassing: the I efforts to reclaim Standard?l.il'e and , ycstor? it to its own pristine .priory' I in the Negro Business VVorld. The , -Company is now in a position to eon-1 Standard policy holders, more than' twelve thousand of whom have al-| ready_signifieiL in writing their tie-r i-si re to be reinsured. TT . Thoughtful Negroes throughout the country received with a "sigh of' relief the news last March to the ef-l (Continued dn Page Eight) j s ' ' . ... ral ^)ire S TO HAV . '. ' ' . ' ' tV . ,s. (..-SA'i'i'Ki 1 w,* -j u. wmtmmtm ??^ t ; , ...? . - * V ?4?. - i-r ? -r-1 DISTINCT i-HH.'s!) A&HEV - ' ; "**' ' ' . ^ ~ / i ' V ?' ' *r,y ^ *; >' ( ,?ViA l.i irft*s* ! :*., ' < * ;K..v ' w'yj. A.-lk-villo lli'tho .ch'x.l i :,oi . " \\ i*l I knowir 'If .1-- bI.i.ili, I. '* :,t. , ! '. ' 1 S?Htt Ttr list ii'if! if :i nl 'h-.i\tircn !>on>>il! .VI f . H u ...jvlii-ro hi>. X. T-oi-fn-t?:Vfr^. rr,.>1 li'.i l\AI?/h?r\\v!l 'TtrnT" ~ .< : i f It 'i. ~ ~ . " ;>!' . t . :1.; ' r.-, Ai, I I 11 is- I i\W >lm{l . i I ' I ??!* A i t <>l lit-y . J ii:; . A. .iri-J-T. ?'( )_>i *Ai ,\'( 'vM KNT. ~At -?^? . . . a .i - i . r,!.. v. . jj. f}~ "TiTniual cuiii\a1- ,-v Loo * i ,}>< -.'t'.ii.ary dej>j;riJ-.; A* . i'. (iii.ly 'tlie -j viais .1 '! :al vnr I mail. a'nd . Lf. .i-. vi't! wi''. : \ . 1?. ] '. -:fs a lieu'- (>v;t t?viy. i 40. "Til i ~~~ 1! I! minted I'r. ;itl i V_ a'.- l'>Vi:lln-'llt.S in i:'i' i lui'-, o|f .Ji.vnisv ;u?l y;, ; i> .si-lioo! >ddnV/me exer-' : -e, -cwj: '? *.<! V; ilii, Hh' w.mmtny'* i,.., 'i h was won H>. ?>-' XV-mi)K4,4,. . -tr.-.:: .'n" led hv <'it f- On .iJji- A.l',.:* ,I). _vt_ C1k.ii - /. . iv.to. T!i- ?: ij^ny ha.!- already;" C iv-"n rw<y ?v-fs 1 ho year: ioy i1' - L-:>.]!. and tli'o ("am Ills l>.a II 1 4-izv Yi^V-v v . v.'r !-.s ' l?riv- ' ri::t tV'uil J tte?li>: I'll!* dai 1 tic lust <it liie?I ii i:. * <. Lit u t n-ilii.- th K,. X els en and I,, li, Mender1.-!.ti, i'< J.'i|i<-rly of lilt' A. K, , ' I-'., and an ??fTst"t -from Oak Ridji'u ,V^' Military ird iiut.c \vciv jadf&'s. At die, fit Si Hi ('a- t i,>t'.t, short talks '*y tveid mat! Ly I-'ro. id'ent Ilhiford and 'I1'1 Colonel Sny'tli v. t mnniantlant at Oak RidjrOi !>:>h : peakevs- I onnnewled ('l< , ht. cadets for their excellent sTlowintf j xnd cinplvisi'/.ed importance of i military tiaininfc. . < j The annual 'rhetorical contest was "'t' M'i,| l'riday evo,iin,,v, .May U7i Sat- v'1 tn'thty K::'(l the, president j . Kav? his annual reception to the n!J1 senior Ha s. > : hdav afternoon at ?:.JW. r.ov. W.?I,. Knnyuine, pastor of?^ Pirxt Iiapfis; chun-h, South Richmond . ' t>" ViV^'ina de!;vei ed the harm tan roa to - - -- ? ^ ^ * .... <e vn>' n. The irpuinl alunuii reujii(m i'" ' <\ ;t - held Monday. May ;i0 at 10 a.' >? At- .1 u'lLln-jk-"the UfUiaal" class < l:iv - and hi ft the annual . [ music.do. ConuHcnci'inrni exorcises were held '1'nT- (I;iy aftOTftn<m7--Alay-- - ' 11;, at 2:<,0: the 'commencement ad-1 ' lie s,i.oiuA" delivered l>y Dr. Charles' Wesley, Professor of History, How- i ,11C frrd university. ' ' I I e'exhs DAV; .ivnk: i. 1 iviT. ILLE, NrC. i:XYiZi^ ? . : fiu . ''" - .. fcY:-31 v*H'~)W-?-*v*?. . ' '. I 'A>Hi'yi!Ji? J,ur. . L?k .- : t-; i:>- wsil . 's\'tWl:-, !){.? . rtiitei.- i'i < -.** I?;r" jf :it , i ;!% : 4r\ ; - . ^Vi'?V.\.Vs! 'v.*.si V .v w it ,v - ? j t h< X I.-:.'.. . ?! '-'.{j: . ' :M t Tie >riTT' 17"' i I." ~ .; i .\!,VT; :i l.Vl .ltiu.t i,.y. ov < ;,1<I . i4._^ ' l.l. V r ,T- !" 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Tuesday, June 7, ! 1 :i>d A. A!.A-.('las ivltei-Traiuiiij: lid f . I'm-, day. .lnnP"'T7rS':0f< ?\ * !. - Ad 'ss'TnThv Th-:>l^ru- rr .A'P -1. im K. sfnfr: i>: im _(; A titrif-.-day, June s, I j :i") A. _M. isy P.'iy Ty.? i .'? !!?': l>cnt . .Juj~ s R"T)(T_P. d? t';s t o (h<? Ahnnni. A cinlion tf. .1. H. Beck, A. M., (JcoiRV'town rhursday June 'J. 10:0/) A. M.?Con ticenH'tVl Address--Prt;s!d*>nl R. S lkiftson, Ph. D., Orangeburg. ' I . ' ' V ,' W r JT IN CH AF ? ? 1 . . . Ml.Ai; i-AHON ~ ?" 1 : h ' .. '."t7 It.ice i'n? 1 /j'v-;V Tanc :j;1 ... ' St,.. 1 i hp:, AS;St al m ~1T-. r-v~?? -FniivraV1 i>i-' "< . >;; > ;U\l Males' Ac i t } 'iiiititus * i . . .V'": " tilt' jrVt'JlU*:'I ' . . :: ' .. ... (?| : :il I ''IVc- ' - <. J . . ' ' 1 . L v; ':i -- wM t-rtkc Yt\> . . :" 7r.". I.tin. A. X ful l . '-'hi'.- ? Z' i' < !%ul'.f?u .is unatlii.ini.wl :ui i r It is ne i' m- ;# i.nal mwtThjr..; 16 - * ' < '.in* elevation <>t' ' ! Y f-.njinl leases "a "I ' .ii'.-; <!.Ti 'life. au<l .*?? : . ' ?'i LiV.l.iV service io In ' ' < I'll ? " are' /> ', 2 Ncj' ro fit tier ? "i ; a- ?i:r united . .Stifles. .'V ft *"< ' vies .own :T!1 ' !r >\it i-'-i M-a-nni/.f... 'flu :e 'l? r- i'-. !. ;.:: : ta< i ni t-rs of 'V . ?.r c-Y ket 'i' * ?.'< <;j ri illcs.Sj.'s? ' " '?' ' ' . i * : C.!. f ' t pVd'l" '/jis .iiu'!'! intr. ..?I' ' i.. . ;i?a?i.',:.'!), lilitnn,;. the.?? i / j> ?\irsv ^ 'Ociav!c?nt ^ ?-?.i.?* ' A v ^ II* 5 A '* . v'a el;;.. c- mch I iry I J- " . ; ?* e'*vi in <ir;-:tiii '.iirC;?reA'eri-r' ' . '.Vn : -c't. ijit "'I'lui.-c state j ,<. ?llL_;?i n i ' ir ?r.u ii yi'in-^ " : 11 ,i ,UI '"' kii'>w.tt| m' . ".Ye t'. Ji.. -d. Kt'ilinhiic,'!'" .publish- j _ V i? i-il'jr^.i'-i.ii. a^n n ud-U4e<I? IU liu.i. - ' ' ! . , TVe. "tT.t j y t nap jroes til St. el' tlii' S.1 I .111l is < ni .V.s'ivtiil ii : iu .which is eomi . iit;.-~i\- numluTs. 'The ^ _j?ii? J.u_', ..Li:i lia < many: !>'r .n y .ice ";.s r.tiy, Either M i utip "Ft ? ana ;-i '"i"--!i nan ami ' ~ 'it iln.se meetin'&'s _so ii-y rinfi- rhoir . trouhlcs" ' i *}:cJii !?)" means, of w' n ... and .. |?r;u'liei\J applica- ' K'! ? *?1 ' ? ?wd I ' : r v . Ti i\ St llOOI. AXi) R. -ttJ ' V ." ;v:~; .7C: -N vkn I i ()NV ~*u . ? the Board at Bene' i i < U-'rtl of. .May was j * M y t';e'-Yd; er.lliusiajstic and'. . . !e! mad0 it is i i i i< r ;ik. I'vachers and in(ii far-the ''(.'bar- M)v . i i a . _:_*au? .'(n (.iiimit- ' u' * v.\' ; tn.v week to complete ifi. .1 i.e line . U(C.,Tu7 sef' - . ;; ail-;!'!I l et*?H*.' V.) *' ' ' ' ' " 11 l '"'I' Hi tu.rf-1*-' s- . *"*li ISi.-ii* : >.??'fco in i-lo'wintr ] (,1 , X' ri'tii'i"!' ietf'ji conn tier to P' ; "t ie ? ; .?he.*( K.yiw preparti- ' VI ,.' .are e'-rp.r -.rrndr- i'.-.r tfie comfort \ 1 :i*l< . ?- <i1 'he -tl.aei'ates. One' . ! U : . '.v:!! 'Tit- in1. e\'f,ii:s;('yi around w! iii- hiiilitir v.hote historic scenes and j t' I rMTt-\\t Van: Ic &,\\\ 1>t'.soFn7 ;t" i *i'u'. V.1 t; visited and addressedj^ v.y I :i <ai lii. v-tines. last the * i J c lti -'. >. :: !! eri) County Florence -|('"..ny apd the .lor-1 an River of I.ec wl . CVr.njv. [These 'are all lice' mission-. 0 - ~nrv i< i;' ii . Time was iriryh us and | w,. cv n avn-' m la;, lie fori'' each one to _j the came of the Slate Sunday School ,,-i j ami B.' Y.- ih Convention. The s | spiend'd r, <11 and women who com J1 "1 "eo~tln: > Tn (l'es .hniwi'il great-ini I it rest in.the State wo'k. In addition . <?> <"iina1 i1 n; " .M?:eeral pledges for he Wo-J< w < i ? : I'curcd, We had assur- F . - n: .T-lnrtrr* rTtmrbm?at - these" Q . the. Ui-q .lj.hiU Lhe.v w'ill lie at the f^ixenMoffr- ^""h The w rTTvr plans TT'^nning' ^(jis Tr U^_VLi,.uk to visit riiarle-laii. Beaufort and th i. o'.Iter points in the 'coastal regions ft with the hope of adding to the num- fi< 1. ~l>er of j'^ffulnrs who conic to the con- ioi i vent ion each year. wi . . ^ i Meet? tLESTON .... ... -J. , - - 9' . *." ' ' ' V" ' ' . 7. ..." ?.? ' . * n>M' ,' :?rr?: ; ?? . ? . ' t'sr " . ' *. _ . - :; * t 5c A COPY / . ? ; . I! ftBM 'JLA/IV1A? 1 "Tt ; ' T STATE FEDERATION MEET ' s. Wilkin .en, tVesidcnl --of ~ Women's HuBSi Expressed "Desire to Dave Booth EET IN * IIIAKEESTON * -oV:redNc\vsp;ipers Need to bxr Bead More by our People" / Says President , ' i. OruYtgeburg, May 2S.? Mim. Wilkin- 'I * n president of "the . Kederated W ?>? n'..- T'kil s i>1' -Sou'i'h Carolina e\- 1_ r all the leading colored pewspn.pcrs* ' Id-periodicals; of the country at their , 'eting in Charleston, June 11-15, ' '? t'h, "The Colored newspapers," she said, eed to he'read more by our people IT IT tlie re lis" any 111 iag that I eim 7 r~ to, .get them before the reading iMLe I- rertainly do my bit." scph I). McGKec the listener, was ;:<ty to aw|it her otPer and taVce arffe of th,? booth for the papers.- , . will take subscriptions for mapy the leadinu' papers and periodicals the"edu 11 fry? s~F~ At this meetine-r>; 'the Women .of d all the. Ieadinjr Club Womiyi < f e State. Jhis will atl'ord a fertile Id .for newspaper . propaitmula. aii'y leaders^ of the race as have al,idy been announced ivill speak and * _ri"" e .Charleston Women are preparing r the largos^ attendance in. th .his-., r.v of thc> organization when'they., et there June.-14-15-1(5. * ~ ? . XAlvlvIt- VVV.VSH J-NfiTtW-SCHOOL TEACHERS TO DO SUMMER SCHOOI. STUDY. .?r. - -1 - ? 't^ r ? ' ? :?r*?? ;?y, ? Ong. oil the finest indications of [r splendid work-.-dime at Booker ii-tiineton School is seen in the f Errr-of many of the "teiro?Tto^~ to-tfcr; ? tensive summer'^school'"' study inn me of the leading institutions in. o country.. Mmiv of these teachers it--, . 4 '? il <vork for credit' on advance deees. Miss Mary Ray Saxon and iss -Thomasina Thoma^ will contintheir -study at Chicago University iere they have boon working oh .vauL'g degrees fur?JLhe? ? mmcrsv-Mr,. E. N. Stalwor'th will udy tu Northwestern. ME T. ~3TT~ ~? an berry, Misses Ruth E. Butler and . M. Monteith will do special work __ Columbia University Miss Miles to .study at Hampton. Among the teachers, of. the. elc^ etifaVy school, Mis^es. Willie Grant id Carrie Brov.il are" to study at .. orehouse College. Misses Young, , 'i.est- Champion?ami Walker iwii) 11ov at Columbia University. Miss ?.i.i in in (o attend?tV:?jttttI?T. "tit i ensboro. Misses Benson and ? anche' Williams and Mrs. J.. F. Da s are to study at .\l letup-an Stale ormal. Mo^s -Jkwieh,--Lr.- H. Wilims; Susie Williams and 'Mrs, Nance ill pursue their summer .work at ampton Institute. Miss lloovey is. attend Hmvarch U niverstty. M iss hitaker is to stiidy iat the l*mversity _p- . Cincinnati. . : . ; .. . i, I Principal Johnson is well pleased ith the spirijt shown by the teachers vis year. The cooperation shown uses him to believe this to, be the ?enjoyable year of his adminis- ??? n't Tori. GOU*.MIIIANS (iKT KbORlDA ! ... CONTRACT. - ?- ? * ' * Gainesville, Fla., June. 1.:?Th? _B. _ C(mtract)nr Co-> of CohrmTna, K. com postal of Messrs. J. W* Reachn and E. F. Calhoun was awarded e .contract bv the Jones Bros. Con- ?I acTinpTTTo. Wilson, .N. C7T to plaster e City Hospital here today. \ The exterior finish will be in modi d Spanish, and will cover a peril of several weeks to complete the ' ark.'* y. ., ' ji . j|